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Neuroendocrine evidence of normal hypothalamus-pituitary dopaminergic function in Huntington's disease.
Markianos M, Panas M, Kalfakis N, Hatzimanolis J, Vassilopoulos D.
Journal Article 2010; 31(3): 359-362 PubMed PMID: 20588235 Citation Keywords: Adult, Dopamine:physiology, Female, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Haloperidol:pharmacology, Humans, Huntingtin Protein, Huntington Disease:blood, Hypothalamo-Hypophyseal System:drug effects, Male, Middle Aged, Nerve Tissue Proteins:genetics, Nuclear .
OBJECTIVES: In addition to neuronal loss in striatum and cerebral cortex that characterizes Huntington's disease (HD), hypothalamic atrophy has also been found only in certain areas, probably not including dopaminergic functions.
METHODS: We assessed the reactivity of the hypothalamus-pituitary dopaminergic system by measuring the acute prolactin (PRL) responses to 5 mg i.m. haloperidol in male and female HD patients and in female subjects with expanded CAG repeats in the Huntington gene before disease onset, as well as in a group of healthy males.
RESULTS: The responses of the male patients were similar to those of a group of male healthy volunteers. Females gave higher PRL responses, with no differences in the response patterns of female patients and females at risk for HD. PRL elevations were not related to severity of illness, or to presence of dementia, depression, or psychotic features.
CONCLUSIONS: The results implicate a normal dopaminergic input from hypothalamus to pituitary and preserved pituitary dopamine receptors, indicating that hypothalamic atrophy in HD does not affect mechanisms involved in PRL secretion by haloperidol....
Markianos M, Panas M, Kalfakis N, Hatzimanolis J, Vassilopoulos D.	Neuroendocrine evidence of normal hypothalamus-pituitary dopaminergic function in Huntington's disease. Neuro Endocrinol Lett. 2010 Jan; 31(3): 359-362
Involvement and role of antidepressant drugs of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis and glucocorticoid receptor function.
Nikisch G.
Evaluation Studies 2009; 30(1): 11-16 PubMed PMID: 19300389 Citation Keywords: Antidepressive Agents:pharmacology, Humans, Hypothalamo-Hypophyseal System:drug effects, Mood Disorders:drug therapy, Pituitary-Adrenal System:drug effects, Receptors, Glucocorticoid:physiology, Transcription, Genetic:physiology,.
: Changes in the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis are characteristic of major depression. Because the effects of glucocorticoids are mediated by intracellular receptors including, most notably, the glucocorticoid receptor (GR), several studies have examined the number and/or function of GR's in depressed patients. Review scientific evidences have consistently demonstrated that GR function is impaired in major depression, resulting in reduced GR-mediated negative feedback on the HPA axis and increased production and secretion of corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) in various brain regions postulated to be involved in the causality of major depression. Hyperactivity of HPA axis is the main biochemical change, besides disturbed monoaminergic neurotransmission, observed in the patients suffering from a major depression. High incidence of depression in Cushing's syndrome as well as antidepressant effects of adrenocortical enzyme inhibitors in major depression support hypothesis that hyperactivity of HPA axis may be involved in pathogenesis of depression. Major alterations of the HPA axis that can be reversed by successful antidepressant therapy are often seen in depressed patients. A possible explanation for this is that the antidepressant-induced increase in GR's renders the HPA axis more sensitive to glucocorticoid feedback. This new insight into antidepressant drug action suggests a novel approach to the development of antidepressant drugs....
Nikisch G.	Involvement and role of antidepressant drugs of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis and glucocorticoid receptor function. Neuro Endocrinol Lett. 2009 Mar; 30(1): 11-16
Effects of noradrenaline and serotonin reuptake inhibitors on pituitary-adrenocortical and sympatho-adrenomedullar system of adult rats.
Dronjak S, Spasojevic N, Gavrilovic L, Varagic V.
Comparative Study 2007; 28(5): 614-620 PubMed PMID: 17984940 Citation Keywords: Adrenal Medulla:drug effects, Adrenergic Uptake Inhibitors:pharmacology, Adrenocorticotropic Hormone:blood, Analysis of Variance, Animals, Corticosterone:blood, Epinephrine:blood, Fluoxetine:pharmacology, Hypothalamo-Hypophyseal System:drug effects, Male,.
OBJECTIVE: To estimate the influence of long-term treatment with noradrenergic and serotonergic reuptake inhibitors on activity of pituitary-adrenocortical and sympatho-adrenomedullar systems in animals, we compared the effects of maprotiline (a selective inhibitor of noradrenaline reuptake) and fluxilan (a selective inhibitor of serotonin reuptake) on plasma noradrenaline (NA), adrenaline (A), adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) and corticosterone (CORT) levels in unstressed control and rats exposed to chronic unpredictable mild stress (CUMS).
METHODS: Plasma NA and A were assayed by a radioenzymatic method. Plasma CORT was measured using RIA kits and plasma ACTH by a chemiluminescent method.
RESULTS: CUMS did not affect blood plasma NA, A and ACTH content, but elevated plasma CORT level. Maprotiline elevated plasma NA content both in unstressed control and CUMS group, whereas plasma A remained unchanged. Fluxilan acted significantly increasing plasma NA and A concentrations both in control and CUMS rats. Neither maprotiline nor fluxilan affected plasma ACTH level both in unstressed control and CUMS animals. Plasma CORT level in unstressed control rats remained unchanged after maprotiline and fluxilan treatment, while being significantly decreased in CUMS rats.
CONCLUSION: Chronic treatment of adult rat males with maprotiline, a noradrenaline reuptake inhibitor activated sympathoneural system. On the other hand, fluxilan, a serotonin reuptake inhibitor activated both sympathoneural and adrenomedullar system, whereas both antidepressants desensitized HPA axis. The findings described here suggest that elevated plasma catecholamines my contribute to adverse effects of these drugs on cardiovascular parameters during antidepressant therapy....
Dronjak S, Spasojevic N, Gavrilovic L, Varagic V.	Effects of noradrenaline and serotonin reuptake inhibitors on pituitary-adrenocortical and sympatho-adrenomedullar system of adult rats. Neuro Endocrinol Lett. 2007 Oct; 28(5): 614-620
Reductions in plasma prolactin during acute erythropoietin administration.
Markianos M, Kosmidis M, Sfagos C.
Clinical Trial 2006; 27(3): 355-358 PubMed PMID: 16816832 Citation Keywords: Aged, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis:drug therapy, Analysis of Variance, Dopamine:metabolism, Erythropoietin:metabolism, Female, Humans, Hypothalamo-Hypophyseal System:drug effects, Injections, Intravenous, Male, Middle Aged, Neuroprotective Agents:metabol.
OBJECTIVES: The presence of erythropoietin (EPO) and its receptors in several central nervous system regions indicates additional functions beside its hematopoietic role. Preclinical data suggest that it may slow down the process of neuronal loss, and that EPO may cause dopamine release, and thus influence hormone release, especially prolactin. This possibility has not yet been studied in humans.
METHODS: During a clinical trial on possible protective effects in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), we studied the acute effects of EPO administration on prolactin, the release of which is under tonic inhibition of hypothalamic-pituitary dopaminergic activity. Prolactin as well as EPO levels were estimated in blood samples taken every 30 min over 2 hours after administration of 3000 IU EPO i.v. in seven male and four female patients with ALS.
RESULTS: The baseline PRL levels of the 11 patients were all within normal range (4.5-10.5 ng/ml). EPO administration caused a significant reduction in prolactin levels, maximal at 60 min after administration. Reductions in PRL were not related to EPO dose (IU per kg body weight), or to duration of illness.
CONCLUSIONS: The findings indicate that EPO promotes dopamine release in humans, and is consistent with preclinical data showing that EPO releases dopamine from rat striatal slices. Previous reports showed that dopaminergic neurons express EPO receptors, which exert a facilitating action on dopamine release, and the present data indicate that this may hold true in humans....
Markianos M, Kosmidis M, Sfagos C.	Reductions in plasma prolactin during acute erythropoietin administration. Neuro Endocrinol Lett. 2006 Jun; 27(3): 355-358
Effect of rosiglitazone on early-morning plasma cortisol levels.
Catrina S, Virtanen K, Hällsten K, Lönnqvist F, Nuutila P, Brismar K.
Comment 2005; 26(6): 757-758 PubMed PMID: 16380670 Citation Keywords: Circadian Rhythm:drug effects, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2:blood, Double-Blind Method, Humans, Hydrocortisone:blood, Hypoglycemic Agents:pharmacology, Hypothalamo-Hypophyseal System:drug effects, PPAR gamma:agonists, Pituitary-Adrenal System:drug effects, T.
OBJECTIVES: PPAR-gamma agonists are able to inhibit pituitary tumour development and tumoral hormonal secretion in rodents both in vitro and in vivo. Their use for treatment of Cushing Disease (CD) has been suggested but the clinical experience with the two PPAR-gamma agonists commercially available (rosiglitazone and pioglitazone) was not impressive. Short-time treatment has been proposed to be the cause of unsuccessful results on CD in humans. We report here the effect on early-morning plasma cortisol levels of a long-time treatment with rosiglitazone at the highest approved dose.
METHODS: Because PPAR-gamma receptors are located in normal corticotroph cells we tested in a placebo-controlled study the influence of rosiglitazone on cortisol secretion. The study enrolled 30 newly diagnosed type 2 patients which were assigned to receive either rosiglitazone (8 mg/day) or placebo. Plasma morning cortisol (8.00 a.m.) was measured at the baseline and at the end of the study.
RESULTS: Rosiglitazone vs placebo did not modify the early morning plasma levels of cortisol (13 microg/dl [3-21] vs 11 microg/dl [7-23] [median and range]) after 26 weeks of treatment.
CONCLUSION: The discrepancy between in vitro and animal data on one side and clinical data on the other side warrant further investigations into the mechanisms of action of PPAR-gamma agonists on ACTH secretion before other clinical studies will be conducted....
Catrina S, Virtanen K, Hällsten K, Lönnqvist F, Nuutila P, Brismar K.	Effect of rosiglitazone on early-morning plasma cortisol levels. Neuro Endocrinol Lett. 2005 Dec; 26(6): 757-758
The naloxone test in Klinefelter syndrome.
Wielgos M, Bablok L, Fracki S, Czaplicki M, Marianowski L.
Clinical Trial 2004; 25(6): 438-442 PubMed PMID: 15665807 Citation Keywords: Adult, Estradiol:blood, Follicle Stimulating Hormone:blood, Humans, Hypothalamo-Hypophyseal System:drug effects, Klinefelter Syndrome:blood, Luteinizing Hormone:blood, Male, Naloxone:administration & dosage, Narcotic Antagonists:administration & dosage, P.
UNLABELLED: AIM TO THE STUDY: The investigation of the influence of anti-opioid drug on hypophyseal and gonadal hormones secretion in case of Klinefelter syndrome.
MATERIAL AND METHODS: The naloxone test (0,4 mg iv) was performed in 14 patients with Klinefelter syndrome aged from 19 to 32 and in 12 age matched control subjects with azoospermia and normal spermatogenesis in testicular histology. The plasma levels of FSH, LH, prolactin, testosterone and estradiol were established before and after 30, 60, 60 and 120 minutes respectively, following the drug administration.
RESULTS: Basal FSH, prolactin and estradiol levels were significantly higher whereas basal testosterone was significantly lower in patients with Klinefelter syndrome than in the control group. After the naloxone administration the mean plasma prolactin level decreased significantly (p=0.01) in Klinefelter subjects. The respective diminution in control group was not significant. The levels of FSH and LH as well as testosterone and estradiol did not change during the naloxone test in both Klinefelter and control subjects.
CONCLUSIONS: The naloxone administration in Klinefelter syndrome caused the decrease in plasma prolactin levels but did not affect the plasma level of another hypophyseal and gonadal hormones. The opioid controlled gonadotropin secretion is altered in case of Klinefelter syndrome....
Wielgos M, Bablok L, Fracki S, Czaplicki M, Marianowski L.	The naloxone test in Klinefelter syndrome. Neuro Endocrinol Lett. 2004 Dec; 25(6): 438-442
Impact of a switch from typical to atypical antipsychotic drugs on quality of life and gonadal hormones in male patients with schizophrenia.
Kaneda Y, Kawamura I, Fujii A, Ohmori T.
Clinical Trial 2004; 25(1-2): 135-140 PubMed PMID: 15159697 Citation Keywords: Adult, Analysis of Variance, Antipsychotic Agents:pharmacology, Benzodiazepines:pharmacology, Dibenzothiazepines:pharmacology, Gonadal Steroid Hormones:blood, Humans, Hypothalamo-Hypophyseal System:drug effects, Indoles:pharmacology, Isoindoles, Male, Pit.
OBJECTIVES: We investigated the effects of a switch from typical to atypical antipsychotic drugs (olanzapine, n=8; perospirone, n=9; or quetiapine, n=13) on quality of life and hypothalamo-pituitary-gonadal axis hormones.
METHODS: The subjects were 30 male chronic schizophrenia inpatients. The assessment was done before and after the switch.
RESULTS: After the switch, (i) scores of the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale total and three factors (anxiety-depression, anergia, and thought disturbance) decreased, (ii) the overall severity score of the Drug Induced Extra-Pyramidal Symptoms Scale tended to decrease, (iii) prolactin decreased but gonadal hormones remained unchanged, and (iv) scores on all three subscales (psychosocial, motivation/energy, and symptoms/side effects) in the Japanese version of the Schizophrenia Quality of Life Scale (JSQLS) decreased. However, there were no significant group effects, or time-by-group interactions. In addition, score changes from baseline in psychosocial and motivation/energy subscales in the JSQLS were correlated with those in psychotic symptoms, particularly in the anxiety-depression factor. Moreover, responders had been taking lower doses of typical antipsychotic drugs, and had higher serum estradiol concentrations than non-responders before the switch.
CONCLUSIONS: The study indicated that the switch to atypical antipsychotic drugs was effective in reducing elevated prolactin without affecting the gonadal hormones and in improving quality of life patients who had been treated with typical antipsychotic drugs....
Kaneda Y, Kawamura I, Fujii A, Ohmori T.	Impact of a switch from typical to atypical antipsychotic drugs on quality of life and gonadal hormones in male patients with schizophrenia. Neuro Endocrinol Lett. 2004 Apr; 25(1-2): 135-140
Effects of tandospirone, a serotonin-1A agonist, on the hypothalamo-pituitary-gonadal axis of male patients.
Kaneda Y, Fujii A.
Journal Article 2001; 22(4): 243-247 PubMed PMID: 11524630 Citation Keywords: Adult, Anti-Anxiety Agents:therapeutic use, Anxiety Disorders:drug therapy, Genitalia, Male:drug effects, Gonadotropins:blood, Humans, Hypothalamo-Hypophyseal System:drug effects, Isoindoles, Male, Middle Aged, Piperazines:therapeutic use, Prolactin:blood.
BACKGROUND: Serotonin (5-HT) agonists are reported to affect prolactin (PRL) and gonadotropin secretion. A small study was conducted on male patients with generalized anxiety disorders to investigate the clinical and neuroendocrinological effects of the 5-HT(1A) receptor agonist tandospirone (TDS) on the hypothalamo-pituitary-gonadal (HPG) axis.
METHODS: The subjects for the present study included 11 male outpatients. Informed consent was obtained from all subjects involved in this study. The endocrine studies were done before and during TDS administration. Psychiatric ratings were done using the Japanese version of the Spielberger's State-Trait Anxiety Inventory.
RESULTS: We found that both state- and trait-anxiety scores were significantly reduced by TDS treatment; there was no significant difference in PRL, gonadotropins or testosterone (T) between the patients and normal controls; TDS administration showed significant stimulatory effects on PRL and T; and PRL change between baseline and TDS steady state (DeltaPRL) did not show a significant correlation with improvement in state or trait-anxiety scores.
CONCLUSIONS: Our results indicate that PRL response may not provide a clinical predictor; (2) PRL level may not reflect the level of anxiety, and 5-HT(1A) may have stimulatory effects on PRL. However, further, double-blind evaluation with a larger sample would be needed for clarification of effects of 5-HT(1A) on the HPG axis....
Kaneda Y, Fujii A.	Effects of tandospirone, a serotonin-1A agonist, on the hypothalamo-pituitary-gonadal axis of male patients. Neuro Endocrinol Lett. 2001 Aug; 22(4): 243-247

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On a recent occasion when I was out shooting just for myself I was on a mission to simply shoot some black and white images with one of my vintage 35mm film cameras. I was traveling light and it was the only "real" camera I had with me. I sat down on this park bench to take a break and this seed pod laying on the bench next to me caught my eye. I knew right away that I wanted a color photo of the scene and so the camera in my phone saved the day.
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Discussion 2:00 – 3:00pm
Breathing Space: Contemporary Art from Hong Kong is an exhibition at Asia Society Hong Kong Center that gazes upon and dissects the pressures of living in the fast paced city of Hong Kong, and provides the opportunity to pause, reflect, respond, and possibly challenge the world around us. In the interior gallery and outdoor heritage site, it presents 11 local artists whose work engage with urban experience, current affairs, or shared and personal history. The featured artists in this exclusive Art Central discussion are Adrian Wong, who contemplates how the design and renewal of the Hong Kong's cityscape creates urban restriction and alienation; Andio Lai, who finds inspiration from interpersonal communication, and the relationship between the signifier and the signified; and Magdalen Wong, who deals with protecting the memories of a person, object or place. The conversation between these artists will abridge the themes of each of their works. The conversation will be moderated by Dominique Chan, curator of the exhibition and Head of Gallery and Exhibition at Asia Society Hong Kong Center.
Adrian Wong received his master's degree in research psychology from Stanford University in 2003, followed by an MFA in 2005 from Yale University. Relying heavily on a research based method, his installations, videos, and sculptures draw from varied subjects and explore the intricacies of his relationship to his environment. Based in Hong Kong since 2005, Wong is the co-founder and director of Embassy Projects, an arts consultancy and independent production studio. His recent exhibitions include the traveling exhibition Troglodyte See the Light, A Passion for Creation for the Louis Vuitton Fondation pour la Création, and Hong Kong Eye at the Saatchi Gallery. His work is included in the Uli Sigg Collection (Lucerne), the DSL Collection (Paris), Hong Kong Museum of Art (Hong Kong), M+ Museum Collection (Hong Kong) and a few notable private collections among others.
Magdalen Wong, born in Hong Kong, received her BFA at Maryland Institute College of Art in 2003, and her MFA with a Trustee Merit Scholarship at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2005. Wong had received the Freeman Foundation Asian Artists' Fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center Residency in 2010, and the Asia Pacific Artist Fellowship from the National Museum of Contemporary Art, South Korea, with a residency at the Goyang Art Studio in Seoul in 2011. This spring she participated in a two-month residency at the Fjuk Art Center, Iceland. She had exhibited at Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, The Netherlands; Para/site Art Space, Hong Kong; Spring, Hong Kong; Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids; Gallery 400, Chicago; Outlet Gallery, Brooklyn; Laurence Miller Gallery, NY; and Fresh Window Gallery, Brooklyn.
Andio Lai Chung Man graduated from the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong in 2015, now studying MA in Fine Arts at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Lai is interested in making sound apparatus and media machines, sonic art performances. With the subject matters and medium of musical instrument, apparatus, playing sound and interaction, his major works explore the possible alternatives in media technology and its relative history.
Dominique Chan is Head of Gallery & Exhibition at Asia Society Hong Kong Center, responsible for exhibition programming and on-site art installations. Chan oversaw the opening of the Chantal Miller Gallery in 2012 and since, he has organized a diverse range of traditional and contemporary Asian art, design and photography exhibitions. Chan worked directly with some of today's most important international artists, such as Xu Bing, Yoshitomo Nara, and Shahzia Sikander in presenting their first solo exhibitions in Hong Kong. He is the in-house curator for the Center's exhibitions, including Life is Only One: Yoshitomo Nara (2015), Shen Wei: Dance Strokes (2016), Roaring Guardians: the Mari-Cha Lion with Asian Traditional and Contemporary Art (2017) and Breathing Space: Contemporary Art from Hong Kong (2017). Chan is the recipient of the 2013/14 Hong Kong International Scholarships supported by the HKSAR government through the Hong Kong Arts Development Council to join the Clore Leadership Programme in the United Kingdom and seconded to Tate Modern in London.
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Q: jQuery UI resizable snap to size I have a left-side navigation which is resizable. The default width is 200 and I want the resizer to snap to that width. Currently I have this if-clause which is working fine but I don't know how to snap to that width programmatically.
resize: function (event, ui) {
    if(Math.abs(200 - ui.size.width) <= 20){
        // snap to 200 width
    }
}

Would be great if someone could help me here :)

A: Ok got it working. Simply set the width of the element to 200. It has a tolerance of 15px so if the element is between 185 and 215px it will snap to 200px.
$("#left").resizable({
minWidth: 60,
handles: "e",
resize: function (event, ui) {
    if(Math.abs(200 - ui.size.width) <= 15){
        $("#left").css("width", 200);
    }
}

A: As there : http://jqueryui.com/resizable/#max-min you can use this :
$(function() {
    $( "#left" ).resizable({
      maxWidth: 200,
      minWidth: 20
    });
});

A: How about something like $(ui).width(200); ?
Please note that I have no idea about what is uiin your code so you may have to adapt the jQueryselector.

A: I would check for a width within a range so that the 'snap' happens from either side.
resize: function (event, ui) {
    if(ui.size.width >= 180 && ui.size.width <= 220){
        // snap to 200 width
    }
}

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Sonic Youth – Daydream Nation – Classic Music Review
By altrockchick on September 21, 2020 | 1 Comment
Moving from Sinatra to Sonic Youth is like . . . cue Rod Serling . . . "You are about to enter another dimension. A dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind."
Frank Sinatra has been lauded in many quarters as the greatest American singer of them all; the vocalists on Sonic Youth are no better than the vocalists you'd hear at the karaoke bar. Sinatra worked largely with pre-existing material; songs so familiar that they are known as "standards." I would hazard a guess that the majority of Sinatra's audience wouldn't even recognize Sonic Youth's output as "songs." Sinatra's material remained well within the boundaries of classical tonality; Sonic Youth embraced atonality and dissonance.
Sinatra could have never gotten his head around Kim Gordon's admission in Girl in a Band: "I've never thought of myself as a singer with a good voice, or even as a musician." "Then get your ass off the stage!" Ol' Blue Eyes might have replied. Remember, Sinatra initially thought Elvis and The Beatles represented the destruction of human civilization, and though he warmed to them later, I can't imagine an alternative universe where there's an album called Frank Sinatra Sings Sonic Youth.
Sinatra couldn't read music but could follow a score intuitively and chose to undergo training in vocal technique; I could find no evidence that any member of Sonic Youth received formal (i. e., classical) music training. Oddly enough, the one thing Sonic Youth had in common with classical composers was the feature that has most frequently earned them the label "innovative." The technique is so common in classical music that it sports an Italian moniker: scordatura.
That's what y'all call "alternate tunings."
Some pretty big names produced compositions employing scordatura on the string instruments common to an orchestra: Vivaldi, Haydn, Telemann, Paganini, Saint-Saëns, Mahler, Stravinsky, Bartók, Strauss, Bach, Mozart, Hindemith. Beyond the violin family and orchestral music, lutists and guitarists have been using non-standard tunings for centuries. Alternate tuning was also common in blues, with Skip James famously employing open D minor tuning. Several musicians who preceded Sonic Youth also regularly employed unusual tunings: Curtis Mayfield, Keith Richards, Joni Mitchell . . . just to name a few.
Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo were certainly aware of Joni Mitchell's offbeat tunings, counting themselves among her many admirers. Ranaldo also spent some pre-Sonic Youth time with Glenn Branca, an experimentalist in both theatre and music who made extensive use of noise and alternate tunings (Moore also acknowledges Branca's influence). The fact that they weren't classically-trained worked to their advantage, as classical training would have infused their brains with a right way/wrong way paradigm that might have closed their ears to possibilities outside "acceptable" boundaries. In addition to a slew of alternate tunings that eventually required them to leave room for fifty guitars on the tour bus, they also made frequent use of "prepared guitars," a curious term that doesn't capture the sometimes gruesome manipulation of strings and fretboard by using that territory as a percussion instrument and/or placing various objects on or under the strings to change the instrument's timbre. Thurston Moore explained Sonic Youth's approach to guitar in a 2014 piece in New York Magazine: "It was about creating your own language on the instrument that had all this tradition to it, without denying the tradition. But the technique of the tradition wasn't necessary for you to create."
On top of all that manipulation, Sonic Youth valued noise and distortion. "Extreme noise and dissonance can be an incredibly cleansing thing," wrote Kim Gordon from the perspective of the performer, but such cacophony can be equally therapeutic for the listener. When I'm stressed out, I don't increase my consumption of cigarettes or guzzle bottles of booze—I crank up my guitar and amp, make a lot of fucking noise and feel a better person for it. Noise is a way to express visceral emotions that can't be reached or explained through the left brain path.
So . . . we have all kinds of alternate tunings, some deliberately designed to create dissonance (all available for viewing on The Sonic Youth Tuning Tutorial), guitars tortured and twisted out of shape to form new sounds and . . . a whole lot of noise. As is true with the cookies you bake, opinions on whether or not the recipe works will vary with taste. What I find most engaging about Sonic Youth are the strong motifs created by those guitars, motifs characterized by surprisingly catchy melodies and ear-tingling harmonies. The noise serves three functions: one, to provide contrast to the motifs; two, to use sound in a way that mirrors the emotions we can't put into words; and three, to reflect a simple truth about modern life: it's a noisy experience.
Later when people would ask Thurston or me why Sonic Youth's music was so dissonant, the answer was always the same: our music was realistic, and dynamic, because life was that way, filled with extremes.
. . . The way the band composed songs was pretty much always the same. Thurston or Lee would usually sing the poppy, more melodic things from riffs one of them wrote; I sang the weirder, more abstract things that came out of all of us playing together and rearranging until everything jelled. My voice has always had a fairly limited range, and when you're writing a melody, you tend to write it for your own voice. Lee, on the other hand, usually brought in songs that were complete and ready to go, then we layered dissonance over.
Gordon, Kim. Girl in a Band (p. 91, 145). Dey Street Books. Kindle Edition.
Of course, Sonic Youth formed and developed their signature sound in New York City, the ne plus ultra urban experience, a place renowned for its noise level, eclectic art community and willingness to entertain the extremes. Although New York has produced its share of commercially successful musical artists, when I think "New York rock music," the names that come to mind are the influencers: Velvet Underground, Patti Smith, New York Dolls, The Ramones, Lou Reed, Television, Talking Heads. I don't think it's an accident that most of those names had some form of connection with the visual arts (including fashion). Most people know about the Warhol-Velvet Underground partnership; Patti Smith was a photographer, painter and performance artist before entering the music scene. Sonic Youth formed an equally strong connection to the visual arts community via Kim Gordon's multi-faceted work in the field. "All the artists were really involved with what was going on in the music scene. It was really cross-discipline there, as far as the visual artists and the music went," noted Thurston Moore in the above-mentioned interview. Beyond the obvious manifestation of the connection in their cover art, Sonic Youth was imbued with artistic sensibility from the get-go, and they too would become influencers. Along with the Pixies, they shaped the sound of '90s music and beyond.
Such is the upside of working in New York. The downside is the tendency to become disciples of the New-York-Is-the-Center-of-the Universe sect, which in Sonic Youth manifests itself in lyrics understandable only to those who are part of the New York scene. This myopic parochialism is fortunately limited to a couple of songs on the album; for the most part, the music is interesting enough to hold your attention. Truth is, you'd be hard-pressed to come up with a definitive, universally-accepted interpretation of any Sonic Youth lyrics, as they tend towards the surreal and expressionistic.
Daydream Nation was the album that lifted Sonic Youth out of obscurity into semi-obscurity, garnering just the right amount of attention to qualify them as a musical force without the distracting hoo-hah that comes with identification as the Next Big Thing. It also earned them a major label deal, one of those good news/bad news developments. Better distribution meant more reliable access to a wider audience (Daydream Nation didn't break the US charts) but I think they lost some of their edge on the more popular albums like Goo and Dirty. My favorite period in their chronology is the period that includes the first three albums featuring Steve Shelley on drums: EVOL, Sister and Daydream Nation. Though most of the attention is focused on the guitars and Kim Gordon, Shelley gave them a solid hardcore rhythmic foundation that their earliest efforts lacked, giving their music greater cohesion and reach.
That cohesion is quite obvious in the brilliantly-constructed opener, "Teen Age Riot." The shorter version that most are familiar with makes for a cute little single I suppose, but eliminating the introduction and going straight to the guitar riff also rids the song of its climactic power . . . like starting off a fuck at full thrust without even a "Hello . . . and you are . . . ?"
Foreplay matters, people!
The foreplay in this context consists of a lo-fi, low volume dreamscape where the soundtrack consists of a simple strummed riff of Em-D variants, a few warm-up tosses from Steve Shelley and Kim Gordon speaking in fragments of consciousness as her voice moves across the soundscape . . . "you're it . . . no, you're it . . . say it don't spray it . . . spirit desire . . . we will fall . . . spirit desire . . . " The tentative nature of the music and lyrics gives the impression of musicians in exploration mode, waiting for something to click. As Kim gradually vacates the scene, Steve Shelley cues the end of the guitar riff with a simple skip beat, the chord fades out and WHAM! Spine-tingling distorted fretboard action on Guitar 1! Cymbal crash triggers Guitar 2 to add low harmony! Steve keeps the beat on the sticks as the guitarists battle it out! Crash! One last round of semi-stop time for the guitars then YES! Drive this fucker home, Stevie baby!
Just before Thurston arrives to present the lyrics in his unmelodic but not unpleasant voice, the rhythmic structure changes to a pattern of all-out drive for four measures and a letting-off-the-gas skip beat for two. The contrast has the effect of intensifying the drive, much like a man who varies his fuck pattern with finesse, making the experience all the more exciting (if you're offended by my language in this play-by-play, please note that the tagline for this blog is "music reviews with a touch of erotica" and get over it). None of this would have been possible without a solid and sensitive drummer freeing the guitars to focus on melody and harmony, so extra kudos to Mr. Shelley here and throughout the entire album.
I suggest that listeners interpret Thurston's explanation of the lyrics ("It was actually about appointing J Mascis as our de facto alternative dream president") in the broader context of the times. At that point in American history, voting-age Americans had become smitten with a doddering old fool determined to take American back into its glorious, fictitious past. Given the choice between "Morning in America" and the relatively obscure but superb guitarist and leader of Dinosaur (Jr.), a guy who comes " . . . running in on platform shoes/With Marshall stacks to at least just give us a clue," I would have voted for Mascis in a heartbeat had I not been seven years old at the time. Labeling Mascis as "our de facto alternative dream president" tells us that Thurston was not serious about a third-party campaign but substituted Bob Dylan's nihilism ("Don't follow leaders/Watch the parking meters") for a bit of D. H. Lawrence: "If you make a revolution, make it for fun, don't make it in ghastly seriousness, don't do it in deadly earnest, do it for fun." The opening couplet encourages listeners to treat the general consensus as to what constitutes "reality" with due skepticism, opening the door to new perspectives:
Everybody's talking 'bout the stormy weather
And what's a man to do, well, work out whether it's true
After several verses where Thurston plays out his fantasy, we're treated to an extended reprise of the dominant motifs, featuring cheery little riffs in a G major scale brightened by contrasting tuning (GABDEG for Thurston, GGDDGG for Lee), a more prominent role for Kim Gordon's bass and a combined deluge of rock 'n' roll power. I really wish Thurston would have ended his narrative with the verse immediately following the instrumental passage, as it speaks to the low-quality, low-energy choices we're often forced to make between Politician A and Politician B:
We know it's down
We know it's bound to be loose
Everybody's sound is around it
Everybody wants to be proud to choose
However you choose to interpret the lyrics, "Teen Age Riot" is a thrilling musical experience and a great way to kick off the festivities.
For "Silver Rocket," Thurston changes his tuning to ACCGG#C while Lee complements with the more straightforward AAEEAA. The G# appears to be the sore thumb in the lot, but it's really just a shift from the minor pentatonic to blues scale (the "standard" chords for the song would be Am/F-C/C/Eb), a clue that you can expect something more dissonant than "Teen Age Riot." The song proper is a punk-influenced minor-key rocker marked by strong drive and phallic allusions (the two are hardly mutually exclusive), but the most notable feature of the piece is the bridge. Here's a description lifted from Christopher Robe's scholarly contribution, "Pop Avant-Garde: A Critical Inquiry into the Various Performances of Sonic Youth":
For the most part, "Silver Rocket's" verses sound like a typical rock song. But the bridge begins with all three instruments sustaining the last chord of the verse. One guitar plays erratically, only partially applying pressure to the strings to maintain a chord so that its notes bleed together forming metallic noise. The other guitar maintains strumming the chord and then slides down the fret as the chord dissolves into peripheral noises of scratching strings and chirping noises. The bass holds the same note throughout the bridge. The music remains suspended in time as the instruments explore the musical resonance of this specific chord. No longer concerned with maintaining a rhythm (the drums have stopped and only cymbals accent the discord), the instruments are free to musically branch-out in undirected ways, creating sounds that are unfamiliar to the ear.
I would add that given the strength of the build and the careful attention to dynamics, what may sound like "noise" was definitely hand-crafted and intentional, making for a curiously fascinating experience in sound.
Kim Gordon wrote this about "The Sprawl":
When I wrote the lyrics for "The Sprawl," a song from Daydream, I took on a character, a voice within a song. The whole time I was writing it, I was thinking back on what it felt like being a teenager in Southern California, paralyzed by the still, unending sprawl of L.A., feeling all alone on the sidewalk, the pavement's plainness so dull and ugly it almost made me nauseous, the sun and good weather so assembly-line unchanging it made my whole body tense. The nutmeg headband of smog floating above my hometown reminded me of Fiskadoro, as if L.A. were already surviving its own nuclear fallout.
Gordon, Kim. Girl in a Band (p. 162-3). Dey Street Books. Kindle Edition.
Someone's confused here . . . Kim mentions Denis Johnson's book Fiskadoro; the Wikipedia article on Daydream Nation and NME claim the song was inspired by another Johnson book, The Stars at Noon, AND by William Gibson's Sprawl Trilogy . . . which Kim doesn't mention in her book (though she does mention another Gibson book as the inspiration for the much later song, "Pattern Recognition"). While the lyrics could describe a hundred cities in the USA, the attitude she maintains throughout the song is definitely bad-ass L. A. teenager (who are much more common than the Valley Girls), so I'm going with Kim here.
Her attitude is matched by the angst-laden music: distorted twin guitars alternating between a steady, rush-hour theme and layered darkness in the "Come on down to the store/You can buy some more, more, more" verses. I love how Thurston and Lee give themselves some space to meld the two themes in the instrumental breaks, especially when they shift to the dirge-like passage in the second half of the seven-plus-minutes piece—the chords they create, combining slide, arpeggio and duet harmonies are quite striking.
Kim doesn't leave any clues in her book regarding "'Cross the Breeze," only mentioning it as part of a playlist. I had to laugh at the Wikipedia claim that the song "features some of Gordon's most intense singing." Shit, man, Kim Gordon rarely "sings," and doesn't even come close to forming a melody on "'Cross the Breeze." As noted by Christopher Alexander in a piece on cokemachineglow, "the song is an exercise in tension with no release," and Kim's vocal is designed to contribute to that overwhelming tension. The listener has about thirty seconds of arpeggiated loveliness in the intro before the guitars and drums launch into a high-speed thrash peppered with overpowering cinematic motifs. Adding to the tension is the conflict inherent in the tunings: CCEBGD paired with EEEEF#F#. While a guitarist can choose pretty, euphonious notes in any tuning (as they do in the introduction), this combination encourages a sonic clash. Kim enters here to do her thing, the tension in her voice rising as Thurston and Lee throw in conflicting bits of dissonance. When the thrash returns with its strong motifs, if you feel like your heart is about to explode, join the club—the sensation is exciting but disturbing, yet I feel strangely disappointed when they back off and slow things down in the fade—kinda like how a roller coaster addict might feel when the ride is over and it's closing time at the amusement park. I have no frigging idea what the song is "about," and couldn't care less—the satisfaction comes from the strength of the musical composition.
Lee Ranaldo gives us a sampling of his everyman's voice in "Eric's Trip," allegedly based on a monologue from Warhol's "The Chelsea Girls." Following the first four explorations, this parochial piece comes across as rather conventional in comparison and as such, doesn't grab me in the least. My ears perk up for "Total Trash," in large part because Thurston Moore sounds so much like Lou Reed that I had the urge to go back and check the album credits to see if I missed something. It starts out as a bouncy little number with a smoothly-executed key change for the verses; after two verses, all hell breaks loose for several measures, the headphones filling with blessed distortion and some nice bass runs from Kim. Things really go bonkers in the fade where the dissonance from both guitars becomes more pronounced and the sounds they unleash include reproductions of comb kazoos and fingernails-on-chalkboard. There is enough probable cause here to charge Moore and Ranaldo for assault on their guitars, and as the beat collapses into chaos, you get the sense that you've walked into the musical equivalent of a funhouse where all the mirrors have been smashed to smithereens but still cling to the walls. For some unknown reason, the tempo becomes rather draggy in the last go-round of the lyrics, with Thurston sounding somewhere between depressed and out of gas. Except for the aerodynamic resistance at the end, I rather like the song, and once again, I have no idea what the hell Thurston is talking about.
I have a better idea of what Lee Ranaldo is getting at in "Hey, Joni," and despite the claims of such "trustworthy" sources as Rolling Stone and Pitchfork, Lee confirmed in a 2014 interview that the song has nothing to do with Joni Mitchell.
You'd think that people who get paid to write music reviews would at least have the decency to get their facts straight.
"When we were writing that song, the idea was to re-approach the song 'Hey Joe' from a female perspective," said Lee. Okay, let's run with that. Although the narrative isn't entirely clear (no surprise there), we do know there are two characters: Joni and a male narrator. When the story begins, the narrator is urging Joni to put the past behind her just like he has. The narrator then reminds her of earlier days when both shared "high ideals" and how he helped Joni overcome a serious case of uptightness in the process. "That time in the trees, we broke that vice/We took some steps and now/We can't think twice" describes a seminal event that led to a down period for Joni . . . but we really have no idea what that seminal event was:
Shots ring out from the center of an empty field
Joni's in the tall grass
She's a beautiful mental jukebox
A sailboat explosion
A snap of electric whipcrack
She's not thinking about the future
She's not spinning her wheels
She doesn't think at all about the past
She thinking long and hard
About that high wild sound
And wondering will it last?
Hey Joni, put it all behind you
If Joni followed the pattern of "Hey, Joe," then she shot some two-timin' bastard and somehow got away with it, with only post-traumatic stress syndrome to worry about. In the end, the narrator urges her to forget both past and future, then takes her on a non-linear trip through the years . . . almost like he's trying to erase her memories through hypnotism. What's going on with this guy? Supportive platonic partner? Master manipulator? Willing accomplice to murder? We can ponder the mystery while listening to "Providence," a brief intermission featuring Thurston on lo-fi piano and one-time collaborator Mike Watt on the answering machine . . . but I think "Hey Joni" belongs in the cold case files right next to "McAllister, Billy Joe (Tallahatchie Bridge Incident)." Hats and bra off to Lee for an interesting, provocative story and suitably passion-laden vocal.
Following a perfectly lovely arpeggiated guitar arrangement that bears a passing resemblance to "Dear Prudence" before branching into more interesting territory (using the dissonant tuning featured in "Silver Rocket"), "Candle" then changes gears to a more insistent rhythm tightly executed in 10/4 and 9/4 time. As far as introductions go, it ranks right up there with "Teen Age Riot." Unfortunately, the introduction turns out to be window dressing as the band shifts back to 4/4 time and Thurston delivers a rather lethargic vocal in support of extremely opaque lyrics that may or may not have something to do with drug use (see Emily Langerholc's curriculum notes on Rebel Music Teacher). I can also do without "Rain King," Lee Ranaldo's homage to the obscure Cleveland avant-garde band Pere Ubu.
Kim Gordon returns for "Kissability," almost forty years ahead of her time. The "shocking" revelations about Harvey Weinstein and other Hollywood predators came as no surprise to Kim Gordon, who probably heard about the employment norms practiced in the entertainment industry while growing up in L. A. What's shocking is that the song drew little attention then or now, despite the vivid pictures of objectification and abuse:
Look into my eyes, don't you trust me
Yr so good you could go far
I'll put you in a movie, don't you wanna
You could be a star
You could go far
You've got twistability
You fly hard, don't you wanna
You've got kissability
You could be a star, it ain't hard
Yr driving me crazy, you smell so sick
Yr driving me crazy, give us a kiss
Yr so soft, you make me hard
Here the "Silver Rocket" tuning is deployed to create a thoroughly creepy soundscape that captures the rising fear of the wannabe actress caught in the spider's web. I can't listen to "Kissability" without feeling sick and angry about the abuse, the normalization of the abuse and the years of shoulder-shrugging that accompanied it, so on that level, it's an extremely effective piece of music.
Daydream Nation ends with a three-part trilogy consisting of "A) The Wonder," "B) Hyperstation," and Z) "Eliminator, Jr." The first two sections form a continuous piece using the dissonant tuning combination of GGDDD#D# (Thurston) and GGC#DGG (Lee) and a cornucopia of diverse, often harsh guitar sounds. The third section feels more like a coda where Lee raises the odd C# to a D and the style shifts to Z. Z. Top (no shit). A shorthand description of the lyrics might be "an expressionist view of Manhattan (particularly lower Manhattan) in the late '80s, painted in dark, Pollockian tones." My favorite verse comes at the end of "B) Hyperstation":
Smashed up against a car at 3am
The kids dressed up for basketball
Beat me in my head
There's bum trash in my hall
And my place is ripped
I totaled another amp, I'm callin' in sick
It's an anthem in a vacuum on a hyperstation
Daydreaming days in a daydream nation
Sticking with shorthand, I interpret the closing couplet as a valid psychological response to the sensory overload of New York City: there's too much going on to take it all in. Hence the tendency to zone out, a psychological mechanism that also softens the impact of the uglier side of the city. The effect of the coda—where Kim Gordon unleashes waves of rage at Preppy Killer Robert Chambers—is to remind the listener that no matter how much you'd like to deny its existence, the ugliness is still out there.
I'm going to spare you from a blow-by-blow account of this fourteen-minute piece, but as I listened to the trilogy several times, studying how the unusual harmonies and disparate sounds created by the guitars come together with the Shelley-Gordon rhythm section to produce a well-designed structure anchored by strong motifs, I was struck by how the gestalt had a (gasp!) classical feel to it . . . Then I remembered Beethoven's famous comment: "The guitar is a miniature orchestra in itself."
Ludwig, baby, you had no idea.
Posted in: 1980's	| Tagged: altrockchick, Daydream Nation, female music blogger, Hey Joni, Kim Gordon, Kissability, Lee Ranaldo, music review, prepared guitars, scordatura, Sonic Youth, Steve Shelley, Teenage Riot, The Sprawl, Thurston Moore


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Coding with AMP has a number of undeniable advantages for your ecommerce business. Let's have a look at the top 5 benefits.
Mobile web pages load considerably faster. Imagine the needed website loads like lightning on your mobile device, smartphone or tablet. Your customers won't need to wait irritating three and more seconds when the page appears on the screen. Previous studies showed that most mobile users abandon a site that takes much time (more 3 sec) to load. So, AMP initiative will decrease mobile abandonment rates and boost conversions.
AMP gives an opportunity to improve search engine ranking. In fact, mobile-friendly and fast loading websites get the prime page ranking. As AMP efficiently improves both features, it's very much likely that your AMP-powered site will get better SEO ranking on Google (read also: Key SEO Tips for Any Ecommerce Business).
AMP provides your site with improved CTR. The sites, complied with AMP technology are labeled with a specific symbol 'AMP' and in green. Mobile users can purposefully opt for such a website in order to get the more efficient result. Additionally, Google has started to display the AMP content with large images that also attracts the attention of mobile users.
AMP is an effective support for displaying ads. It can be very helpful for those marketers and business owners who want to boost their revenue by means of showing ads on their web pages. The initiative supports a wide range of ad networks and formats that will help advertisers to improve their ROI on ad spend.
AMP provides efficient analytical solutions. In order to track visitor behavior on websites (visitor counts, new visitors vs. returning, the number of clicks and other actions) you need to choose from 2 tags. Analyzing these factors will help you improve your weak points.
That said, AMP is an efficient technology that can also reduce the load on your server and improve the overall performance, especially if your website has tons of visitors per day. There are a number of well-known publishers supporting AMP: BBC, New York Times, Washington Post, etc. You may try the Google's initiative with Magento 2 templates and join that list of successful websites.
Shopy is an elegant and stylish, tech-savvy and fast loading, sleek-looking and carefully designed Magento theme with AMP initiative built-in. Your commercial website will look perfect on any screen with any resolution and load less than 3 seconds. The theme comes with dozens of pre-made layouts and listing pages allowing you to opt for the most appropriate variant for you. Megamenu will let your website look comprehensive, complex and fully-fledged. Moreover, the template features improved layered navigation that will make your customer's shopping experience more engaging and convenient. Shopy welcomes your customers with a captivating Revolution slider at a glance.
Fashion Slash is a polished-looking and well-structured Magento 2 theme empowered by AMP framework. The theme will come in handy for those who are looking for a light-weight, responsive, catchy and feature-rich foundation for setting up a solid webstore. Thanks to multiple sorting options and various products types, your site will satisfy even the most sophisticated customers making them return to your shop. With effective background options and amazing image slider, you will showcase your products in an efficient manner. In addition to comprehensive documentation and friendly support, you achieve clean and valid code developed in accordance with the latest web trends.
The world has gone mobile, so try to keep up with the times and adjust your web business to modern trends. Using AMP-based Magento templates for your ecommerce venture, the average load time can be reduced up to 85%.
Interested in other ways to optimize a Magento-based site? Check out the article, where we compiled a list of effective methods to speed up your store.


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Element Science Raises $145.6 Million Series C Financing
Money will be used to advance the company's next-generation digital wearable platform.
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Element Science, a health technology company pioneering a next-generation digital wearable platform focused on high-risk cardiovascular patients transitioning from the hospital-to-home, has raised $145.6 million in Series C financing. The funding round, led by Deerfield Healthcare and Qiming Venture Partners USA, includes Cormorant Asset Management and Invus Opportunities, as well as participation from existing investors Third Rock Ventures and Google Ventures. The new funds will enable completion of clinical studies through commercial launch of the company's initial product, the Jewel Patch Wearable Cardioverter Defibrillator (P-WCD), an unobtrusive, low-profile personal defibrillator designed to detect and treat life-threatening arrhythmias in patients with an elevated temporary risk of Sudden Cardiac Death (SCD), a condition for which more than 500,000 patients in the United States are at risk every year.
Element Science has been led since its inception by Uday N. Kumar, M.D., a cardiac electrophysiologist, who serves as faculty at Stanford University's Byers Center for Biodesign and was a former Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Third Rock Ventures as well as the Founder of iRhythm Technologies, a digital healthcare company pioneering the use of wearables in cardiac rhythm monitoring.
"Given Dr. Kumar's background, the Jewel P-WCD was designed with patients and physicians foremost in mind and truly represents a significant advancement in therapeutic digital wearables," said Neil Exter, board member, Element Science and Partner, Third Rock Ventures, an initial investor in the company. "We are excited to have this new group of prominent investors join the Company to help ensure this life-saving therapy reaches patients."
The Jewel P-WCD is the first product to be built on Element's novel Jewel platform, which unites patient-centric human factor engineering and sophisticated machine learning algorithm development principles upon a foundation of rigorous electromechanical medical device development standards.
"Our next-generation digital wearable is a breakthrough in personalized digital healthcare based on years of extensive research and testing. The Jewel platform supports both therapeutic and diagnostic capabilities and is designed for ease of wearability to facilitate high compliance and efficacy," said Dr. Kumar, founder, president and CEO. "Given the broad potential for the Jewel platform to save and improve the lives of patients worldwide, we welcome the strong support of this impressive consortium of investors."
The new funds will also be used to develop a family of digital wearables based on the modular Jewel platform, including solutions that address related unmet needs such as the treatment of SCD in inpatient settings as well as the diagnosis of heart failure exacerbations in recently discharged patients.
"We believe that Element Science's ability to apply principles of data science and patient-centered design holds great potential in disrupting the way these cardiovascular patients are monitored, diagnosed, and treated," said Andrew ElBardissi, M.D., partner, Deerfield Management. "We are delighted to support the company as it works to bring life-saving therapies to patients, while changing the paradigm of treatment in multi-billion dollar global markets."
The Jewel platform has the potential to be easily adapted to a variety of clinical settings and care delivery models. "We see massive opportunities to significantly impact patient health with the proprietary Jewel platform in the U.S. and Europe, as well as large, underserved markets such as China," said Christopher Shen, M.D., managing partner, Qiming Venture Partners USA. "We are excited to partner with Element Science in leading the effort to make this important life-saving technology available for patients globally."
The team at Element Science has deep expertise in wearable patches, user-centered design and advanced algorithms, and a Scientific Advisory Board with leaders including Dr. Robert Harrington, chair of Stanford University's Department of Medicine; Dr. Jeremy Ruskin, founder and Director Emeritus, Massachusetts General Hospital Cardiac Arrhythmia Service; and Dr. Harlan Krumholz, director, Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Yale-New Haven Hospital.
"Given the seriousness of the conditions Element Science is addressing, this important level of funding is needed to support the efforts needed to scale Element Science's manufacturing, quality and clinical infrastructure in the appropriate manner necessary for the next stage of the company's development," said William ("Hank") Kucheman, former CEO of Boston Scientific Corporation and long-standing member of Element Science's Board of Directors. "Everyone at the company is focused on successfully completing our clinical studies and beginning commercialization, and is looking forward to broadly providing these needed solutions to patients to help save lives."
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News	| 24 October 2018 | Story: Christopher Tan, The Straits Times
Dyson to produce electric cars in Singapore
Generic markings for a parking space reserved for electric cars.
Dyson announced yesterday that it will make electric cars at a facility in Singapore.
Dyson is a well-known manufacturer of home appliances.
Its most popular products are its vacuum cleaners and blameless fans.
Dyson said that the Singapore plant will be ready by 2020. But the British company refused to reveal its exact location.
Neither would it say much about the car when quizzed, except that it will be electric, and "very different from anything in existence" today.
Dyson said the two-storey manufacturing facility will be "a highly sophisticated one, using the latest technologies, including robotics and automation".
Almost a year ago, the firm behind the bladeless fan said it had begun working on an electric vehicle.
Dyson said then it had assembled a team of 400 and was committed to spending £2 billion (S$3.6 billion) on the project.
It would not say how much of that investment will be for the Singapore plant.
"Now, Dyson has the opportunity to bring all our technologies together into a battery electric vehicle. Rather than filtering emissions at the exhaust pipe, today we have the ability to solve it at the source."
In a Facebook post yesterday, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said he met Dyson founder James Dyson last month.
"He told me that our expertise in advanced manufacturing, global and regional connectivity, and the quality of our research scientists and engineers all influenced Dyson's decision," PM Lee wrote, noting that the car was expected to launch in 2021.
Dyson said construction of the plant will begin in December, and it will be completed in 2020.
The news took industry players by surprise.
A senior executive with a top German manufacturer said: "There are more than 100 electric carmakers in China, and none of them is a traditional car manufacturer. They buy parts from various suppliers and simply assemble them. This model is not viable. They are exposed to huge cost risks, and they will not have the expertise to deal with after-sales service or safety recalls. That does not mean none will succeed. Geely was a refrigerator maker. But that is just one out of how many?"
Another senior executive with a major listed motor company here said: "They have picked the most expensive place… to build a car."
But Dr Andrew Delios, a professor at the National University of Singapore's Department of Strategy and Policy, said: "It is not expensive to manufacture in Singapore. For high-value-added products with substantial automation, skilled labour and a steady business environment are more important than hourly wage rates."
Dr Nitin Pangarkar, an associate professor in the same department, said: "Cars are far more complex than the usual Dyson products. They lack the brand reputation and the technological expertise, so it is going to be a big challenge for them."
Singapore had a car-assembling industry back in the 1960s. But it ceased by the 1980s, when lower-cost locations emerged.
Some 15 years ago, the Government began looking at reviving the industry.
The Economic Development Board explored the possibility with motor giants such as Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Nissan and General Motors on setting up manufacturing or assembly operations here.
Asked why it was venturing into this highly competitive field, a Dyson spokesman told The Straits Times in September last year that the company came up with a diesel particulate filter system in the 1990s.
But the market was not ready for it then, and the project was halted.
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This foodie holiday means a busy oven. Enjoy these no-cook, slow cooker, and pressure cooker recipes to save you space and time.
Spending time with family is what the holidays are all about — which is difficult to keep in mind when you're juggling a million dishes between your oven and your stove top. Take the stress out of your Thanksgiving feast. Avoid baking, broiling, and roasting, and leave the work to your slow cooker, pressure cooker, and refrigerator.


As Theresa May prepared to take up office as the new British Prime Minister yesterday, speculation surrounding her new Cabinet has mounted with many predicting more roles for women.
Her Conservative party leadership rival Andrea Leadsom has been appointed Environment Secretary while Amber Rudd, former Energy Secretary has now been made Home Secretary with Liz Truss being appointed Justice Secretary and Justine Greening is the new Education Secretary. Current Employment Minister Priti Patel's leading role in the Brexit campaign, has been appointed International Development Secretary.
"It was Theresa who set up the campaign to elect more female MPs to parliament, and she has always believed that there should be more women in prominent government positions," a spokesperson for May has said, adding credible weight to the rumours.
While David Cameron's own Cabinet reshuffles have seen seven women appointed to his final senior team, making up almost a third of the total numbers, it's thought May will want to push this progress forward to create the most gender-balanced Cabinet yet.
Reports from Westminster insiders had suggested also suggested that for the first time, a woman may take up the role of Chancellor of the Exchequer, but this role went to Philip Hammond, a former Foreign Secretary.


In this landmark study, Dr. Abrams retranslates the Biblical account of the Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes and makes an astonishing discovery: Below the surface, deep within the complex subtleties of the original Greek, lies a carefully hidden layer of information. Here, the actual technique of the miracle is revealed in precise detail. The biggest surprise of all is thaIn this landmark study, Dr. Abrams retranslates the Biblical account of the Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes and makes an astonishing discovery: Below the surface, deep within the complex subtleties of the original Greek, lies a carefully hidden layer of information. Here, the actual technique of the miracle is revealed in precise detail. The biggest surprise of all is that the steps of the technique are strikingly compatible with the most advanced self help advice available in recent years. Scholarly and inspiring, this book is essential reading if you need to know how to work a true miracle in your life.


A New Reality: Human Evolution for a Sustainable Future provides a startling, fresh new message of understanding, perspective and hope for today's tense, rapid-fire, kaleidoscopically changing world.
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The first edition of this book was made possible, in part, through the support of the United Nations Population Fund. The revised edition has received the support of private donors to the Arizona Community Foundation Collaborative Fund.
Any author's proceeds from sales of this book will be donated to the Jonas Salk Legacy Foundation and to the World Population and Human Values Fund of the Arizona Community Foundation.
Jonas Salk's wish was that his ideas would continue to be disseminated so that, like a vaccine, they might have the most positive effect on the greatest number of people.
Jonas Salk, who died in 1995, was in the mid-1950s the developer of the first effective vaccine against poliomyelitis. He went on to found and help design the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California, now a renowned center for basic biological research. What few people know is that in the last third of his life, he devoted much of his time and creative energy to the development of an evolutionary philosophy based on biological and natural principles. His wish was that these ideas would have the effect of giving people a scientific basis for hope and provide opportunities to enhance human well-being throughout the world.
The burgeoning world population of humans has commonly been framed in Malthusian terms, emphasizing Darwinism with its brutal selection of the fittest as an inevitable, and perhaps only, consequence of an overcrowded world. Jonas Salk took seriously, throughout his life, the overarching guideline called Tikkun olam (Hebrew: םלוע ןוקית) literally translated as repair of the world, alternatively meaning construction for eternity ). Tikkun olam is a concept in Judaism that has been taken to mean aspiration towards actions and behaviors that are constructive and beneficial. Jonas Salk's better-known life work, development of the polio vaccine that has been a life saver, literally, for millions around the globe, can be regarded as a remarkable exemplar of Tikkun olam. But Jonas Salk's legacy should rightly be broadened beyond even this, because the way he thought about the looming human population problem was to envisage a new era to which humanity could aspire.
In short, as is elegantly unfolded in this book (co-authored by Jonas Salk and his son Jonathan Salk), Jonas Salk envisioned that an inflection point in human population growth—a transition from exponential rapid growth, to slower and, eventually, zero population growth—would also usher in an inflection point in human social behaviors and mores, leading to a much more collaborative ethos and way of doing things. Rather than our latter-day humanity's central focus on competing in order to gain one's own individual betterment and achievements (defining what Salk dubs Epoch A ), individuals would evolve toward ways more attuned to thinking beyond that, through expanding into wider and more generous frames of mind and spirit to encompass the needs, well-being, and attainment of many more, across more societies ( Epoch B ). Through use of simple diagrams and the building up of ideas, the book draws us gently but implacably into this vision.


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In a world that remains dominated by nation-states, what role do stateless nations play? What is the significance of statelessness on nations including Kurdistan, Palestine, Kashmir and Tibet? Are stateless nations – at best – nation-states in making and – at worst – in an alien world where their occupation, suppression and dehumanisation will persist? How do stateless nations negotiate their identity and politics in the contemporary world? These are some of the questions that will be discussed during this seminar.
The event is open to all students and staff at the University of Westminster, as well as members of the public. Email [email protected] to book a place.
Professor Dibyesh Anand is the Head of Politics and International Relations at the University of Westminster. He is the author of monographs Geopolitical Exotica: Tibet in the Western Imagination and Hindu Nationalism in India and the Politics of Fear, and has published on varied topics. He is currently looking at the colonial practices of postcolonial states, with a special focus on India in Kashmir and China in Tibet.
Dr Maria Holt is a Reader in Middle East Politics. She has written widely on gender and conflict in the Middle East and North Africa region. Her book Women and Conflict in the Middle East: Palestinian Refugees and the Response to Violence (I.B. Tauris, 2014) focused on Palestinian refugee women in Lebanon. She has also researched and written about women and Islamic resistance in Palestine and Lebanon.
Dr Nitasha Kaul is a novelist, academic, poet, economist and artist. Her novel Residue (Rainlight, 2014), shortlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize, deals with themes of Kashmiri identity, nation-state borders and absence. Her first book was a scholarly monograph on economics and philosophy titled Imagining Economics Otherwise: Encounters with Identity/Difference (Routledge, 2007). Currently, she teaches in the Department of Politics and International Relations. She continues to write and speak on issues of democracy, political economy, neoliberalism, Kashmir, nationalism in India, populism and Bhutan.
Dr Omer Tekdemir is a Research Associate in Kurdish studies and Associate Lecturer in politics and international relations at the School of History, Politics and International Relations, University of Leicester. His peer-reviewed academic articles have appeared in the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, National Identities and Journal of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, while he regularly writes op-eds for Open Democracy, Conversation UK, Your Middle East and Research Turkey. Dr Tekdemir's research interests include political theory, political economy, discourse analysis, populism, identity, citizenship, conflict, peace building, political Islam and Middle Eastern, Turkish, and Kurdish area studies.
This event is based on the Centre for the Study of Democracy's Post-colonial politics, development and emerging powers research theme. In addition to other issues, this investigates how religion, history, territoriality, political economy, militarisation, democratisation and resistance have contributed to a volatile politics that disconnects states and people. The explicit focus is on engagement with communities and impacting on public debates around these contentious subjects.