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TALKERS | September 24, 2013
Nielsen Speaks to Investors About Arbitron Acquisition. Nielsen CEO David Calhoun reiterates he expects the deal for his company to close on the $1.3 billion cash acquisition of radio ratings giant Arbitron by Monday, September 30 after receiving FTC approval on Friday. As had been reported for some time, the holdup was the FTC's scrutiny of "Project Blueprint" in which Arbitron worked with comScore on a cross-platform, out-of-home measurement system for client ESPN. The consent decree planted in this deal means that Nielsen will be required to provide PPM data to the software for eight years going forward. Nielsen chief legal officer James Cuminale says, "The obligation on the part of the licensee is to use the components that we're providing solely for cross-platform service and cross-platform service is defined as the measurement of the audience across many number of platforms including radio, online, tablets and TV, but at the least online and TV." But the relationship between Arbitron and ESPN changes now. As Cuminale states, "We will become a provider of capabilities to a licensee and in the case of ESPN — and assuming it's comScore who is the licensee — comScore will be a party that delivers that service to ESPN. So, there is a difference there. It transforms that relationship as defined in the decree." The bigger picture for Nielsen in explaining why it wanted to acquire Arbitron is, as Calhoun states, it gives them the ability to "blend radio audience data with retail data allowing us to demonstrate ROI for the radio clients in our world and for the advertising clients in our world" and supply more complete data in mixed marketing models. As for Arbitron employees in the aftermath of this deal, there will be job losses as Nielsen has stated it expects to achieve about $20 million in synergies, although David Calhoun says there is nothing that says anything has to be done immediately. "So we're going to do this at a logical and steady pace as we move forward."
Profile: Sun Broadcast Group Talk Show Host Marilu Henner. Most radio programmers and managers know actress, author and healthy lifestyle activist Marilu Henner from her television and movie career starring in such classics as TV's "Taxi" and "Evening Shade" and big screen flicks "Johnny Dangerously" and "L.A. Story." But Henner's experience in hosting a talk show goes back to the mid-1990s when her TV program "Marilu" had its 165-episode run. Henner says she's talk host material because, "I am a talker, I am a listener, and I love sharing information." "Marilu" went off the air because producers said the way to success was tabloid content a la Jerry Springer and Ricki Lake and she didn't want to go that route. Now, Henner describes her philosophy in delivering three hours of content daily for her Sun Broadcast Group produced, nationally syndicated show this way: "I call it 'life through the prism of health.' 'Prism' is kind of a cool word. When you put something through a filter, it is not just a single thing; it grows exponentially so it has many angles to it. I have many points of view. I have collected all this information in my head." There's probably a lot more you didn't know about this teacher, author and actress who's charging into the syndicated radio talk show biz. Read TALKERS managing editor and West Coast bureau chief Mike Kinosian's profile of Marilu Henner here.
Remote Studio 101: $5 Ground Tester Can Save Your Life. "Freedom Feens" talk show co-host Michael W. Dean — nationally distributed by GCN – has been contributing columns to TALKERS on building and maintaining home and remote studios for radio pros who want to do it themselves. In this latest piece, Dean underscores the importance of getting the electric right from the very beginning. "Faulty grounding is more common than you'd think. In many states, a home or office can be sold without requiring ground testing. And many homeowners and businesspeople don't think to test. They should, even where it's not required by law. Compared to the other tests one would do when buying a property (foundations, termites, ground water, radon, etc.) testing for improper grounding of outlets is the cheapest, easiest test you can perform. You can do it yourself. And if you find any problems, hire a qualified electrician to fix things." Read Dean's entire column here.
MEDIA BROKER SPOTLIGHT: Jon Yinger – Broadcast Properties, LLC. In this week's installment of Media Broker Spotlight, Sandi Bergman of RadioTVDeals.com interviews media broker Jon Yinger of Broadcast Properties, LLC located in Eastern Michigan. Like many of the professional media brokers spotlighted in this feature, Miller is extremely friendly to displaced radio personnel looking to go into ownership for themselves as well as first-time buyers. In addition to being a media broker he also owns a group of radio stations under the corporate name, The Christian Broadcasting System, Ltd., and owns and operates CBSat, a satellite network. Yinger says, "Sales prices are still low. There are a lot of great opportunities out there for the savvy buyer. It is a great time to buy." To read the entire installment of Media Broker Spotlight, please click here.
KNX Spotlight to Shine on South Los Angeles. CBS Radio Los Angeles' KNX will devote a daylong string of South Los Angeles-focused special reports, as well as a 10-hour primetime live broadcast on Friday, October 18 as part of its ongoing "On Your Corner" series. The talk outlet will focus on local history, diversity, and stories of South Los Angeles neighborhoods, including Baldwin Hills, Crenshaw, University Park, Watts, and West Adams. Council member Bernard Parks is among the community leaders scheduled to appear. KNX will bring its broadcast operation to the headquarters of The Los Angeles Sentinel, the area's community newspaper. Dick Helton and Vicky Moore will anchor the news (5:00 am – 9:00 am); Frank Mottek hosts "The KNX Business Hour" (1:00 pm – 2:00 pm); and Diane Thompson and Chris Sedens will anchor a five-hour news block, starting at 2:00 pm. The KNX limelight on South Los Angeles is on the eve of one of Southern California's largest family festivals – the eighth annual "Taste of Soul." Talaya Trigueros of KNX smooth AC sibling KTWV "The Wave" will do her show live from the Sentinel alongside KNX from 5:00 am – 9:00 am. "KNX On Your Corner" profiles eight Southern California communities each year. In January, it won a Golden Mike Award in the category of "Best Feature – News" from the Radio & Television News Association of Southern California.
New York Securities Firm Investigating Cumulus-Dial Global Deal. Stating in a press release that it is investigating the board of directors of Dial Global, Faruqi & Faruqi LLC, says it's looking into the board's actions "for potential breaches of fiduciary duties in connection with their conduct related to the sale of the company to Cumulus Media, Inc." The firm says, "Under the terms of the proposed transaction, Dial's stockholders will receive $0.155 for each share of Dial common stock they own. This is despite the fact that Dial has traded as high as $3.40 per share over the past year." Keep in mind that no suit has been filed – this is an investigation – and Faruqi & Faruqi specializes in class action suits.
Southern California Broadcasters Association Begins Sales Classes Tonight. The Southern California Broadcasters Association begins its fall 2013 Radio Sales Training Classes tonight in Los Angeles. SCBA president Thom Callahan states, "We are thrilled with the innovative and interactive series of radio sales training courses that we have planned for new sellers to Southern California Radio this fall." Based on input from SCBA's General Sales Managers Council, the course will focus on a variety of topics taught by industry experts including Mary Beth Garber, EVP radio analysis & insights/KATZ Radio Group (product knowledge); Karl Meyer, EVP/integrated marketing solutions/Entravision Communications (integrated media sales); Jeff Thomas, VP of sales L.A./Clear Channel; Cynthia Gilmore, senior training service consultant, Radio Station Services/Arbitron-Scarborough (selling with numbers); Chet Thompson, general sales manager/870 KRLA (managing everyday business challenges); James Fink, CMO/SVP of sales/Converze Media (getting to decision makers); David Criscitelli, local sales manager/KPWR, (interactive selling skills) and Thom Callahan, president/SCBA (strategic selling and new business development.) KRTH, Los Angeles GSM Amber Perry states, "Our new SCBU sales training courses are a must for any new seller to our business or someone who wants to sharpen their skills or needs a refresher course in selling their radio and digital platforms. As a graduate of these sales training classes, I can tell you it works!"
ObamaCare Defunding/Implementation, Immigration Legislation, Kenya Mall Siege, U.S.-Iran Relations and Emmy Awards Among Top News/Talk Stories Yesterday (9/23). The Republican move to defund the Affordable Care Act before aspects of the law kick in fully; wrangling over the details of the Gang of Eight immigration bill that would grant amnesty to illegal aliens in the U.S.; the ongoing deadly siege of a mall in Nairobi, Kenya; the state of U.S.-Iran relations as the latter's nuclear program continues to raise suspicions; and Sunday's Primetime Emmy Awards were some of the most-talked-about stories on news/talk radio yesterday, according to ongoing research from TALKERS.
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Last year when I was thinking about topics to write about the subject I'm going to speak on today was on that list. It was one of the first things I wanted to speak on but if you have been reading my blogs you know that I've decided to go deeper within, so I haven't been posting blogs as much. Well, a couple of days ago I was privy to be apart of an experience that reminded me about this subject and thought now is as good of a time as any.
First, I want to speak on love. Love should be an integral part of any conversation and I want to start off by saying that when we speak in and with love we have the audacity to not only change lives but to change worlds. Ours and others. Love of course begins with ourselves but when we know the depth and what it truly means to love ourselves, the truth, honesty and purity of that love can then be truly offered to another. Love is what we should offer to those we know but the true innerstanding of love goes even further to extend itself to those we don't know.
Love covers a multitude of foolishness, ignorance, judgement, and anything else that one might consider sinful or just offensive; but it also heals them as well. Mainly because we want the best for everyone around us and if we truly understand that statement we have to innerstand that means EVERYone including those we don't know. That's where the next thing I want to talk about comes in; Wisdom. Wisdom is not saying something wise but placing the action behind the wise words we choose to speak. Wisdom, although a noun takes action by acting upon the knowledge, experience, insight and common sense that it has obtained to build a better world for itself and ultimately for others. We can quote beautifully placed words all day long but if we don't have any action behind them they are just words that don't build worlds. If you believe that you want your world to be different start placing action behind your words and see how the wisdom plays out.
Now, we have all heard someone say something that was misguided, misinformed, incorrect, or could be considered foolishness or ignorant and NOT said a thing. We have all been guilty at not saying something when we should have. Most often we don't say anything because we think it's not our business, our spirit didn't lead us to say anything, we knew we were being judgmental, or we were afraid of the person's reaction. All of these are good reasons when you're not walking in love and wisdom. But when you are walking in love and not that ole' fake kind of love where you "say" you love people but as soon as they are out of earshot you have something to say about them, or what they've said or done, or maybe you even run and tell someone else or post it on Facebook instead of talking to the person themselves. But when you truly 'LOVE' people you can't help but want to help them or want better for them. When you are truly walking in wisdom you know that even if they aren't directly related to you that they still reflect you in some way or another and them not having the best information possible could affect you later down the line. Think it's not true, then you're misinformed. Everything we do or don't do has an influence on everyone else on the planet. We are all connected. If I don't take care of my children and they hurt someone else and then that person hurts someone else or becomes effected by that person who my child originally hurt will later down the line come back and affect me in some way. Another example, if I have information that could help someone else that doesn't have that information their lack of knowledge in that area will affect me some way and most times it is in your taxes that you pay; welfare is one way it comes back to you but there are many other ways that you end up paying for someone else's lack of knowledge if you are truly picking up what I am putting down.
So, to say it's not your business isn't accurate, it is. Now, for many of us who say "My spirit" or "The Spirit" didn't lead me to say anything, that is not an excuse. You're not going to always be 'led' by the Spirit otherwise you wouldn't have to 'do' anything the 'Spirit' would just do it for you. Sometimes it is up to you to do the right thing without having to be 'led' to do it. We have to get out of that childish mentality and begin to grow up and no longer be led by the hand to say something or do something that we know needs to be done or said. Sometimes you are placed in a situation because you have the information to give to someone and if you don't give it to them they will go without until they have to experience something that teaches them that knowledge and usually this is out of pain and suffering or later someone else will have to give it to them. But you don't know if that someone else is you. Sometimes someone has to plant the seed, another comes to water it, and someone else may give it a little sun light so it can grow. You may not feel it so, but it's like having food and someone is hungry, and you decide not to feed them because it's not your place or you weren't 'led' to feed them. People are starving on this planet and I'm not talking physically, but mentally and spiritually and not giving them the necessary mental or spiritual nourishment or guidance that sometimes can only come from someone else is more of a reflection on you than it is on them. Have you ever asked yourself why you were the person with the information was privileged to hear the statement, especially if it seems coincidental because you didn't even know the person. It was because you both were Divinely guided to the place that you both are on that date, day and time. Sometimes we are given situations especially after we say that we want to be placed in situations where we can help others. Help comes in many forms and sometimes it's information that gives the person who doesn't have it the opportunity to get the help they need.
When we use the being led by the Spirit excuse it makes me wonder about the authenticity of our spirit. If you're a Jesus lover and I use this because most people say that they love them some Jesus. And I'm not picking on anyone, I'm using this as an example. Even Jesus said that you will do greater works than he (John 14:12). What if Jesus who sat at the well to tell someone about themselves didn't have the courage or said he wasn't led by the Spirit to do it that day, or it wasn't his business? (John 4:1-19) You can't say "Well, he was Jesus", and YOU who are greater by HIS standards.
I too know what it's like to be afraid to share truth with someone; lacking the courage and saying that I wasn't led because I was unsure of their response. Are they going to come out of a bag on me or are they going to receive what it is that I'm saying. It can be scary but what's even more scary is that person continues to say, think, or believe that what they are saying is accurate because no one cared enough to give them more information is scarier. Earlier I spoke about two things; love and wisdom. Wisdom is having all the information, knowledge and experience and using it. Love allows you to use that wisdom and share it with others so that they don't have to go through some of the pain and suffering that you had to go through to experience and learn it. When we come from a place of love people can feel that. Most often when you lovingly share information with someone else they can hear you but when you're coming from a place of judgment and uncertainty of whether you should say something or not they can feel that too and will not hear anything that you are saying. We cannot truly say that we are wise until using that wisdom we have begun to share it with others effectively because wisdom is effective, shrewd, and profound. It knows the right words to use to gain someone's attention. It knows where they are coming from, where they are heading, and how to help them on to a different path if necessary. It does not come from a place of empty vain words or ego. It shares with love because it knows that love is the purest place to share from. It is the only place that one can truly be heard from.
Now, I'm not saying that someone may not come out of a bag on you because their frequency is low that they can't even hear you but even if they do you know that in wisdom you have given them the information. Whether they come out of a bag or not you have given them more information that they can now make better and more informed choices and decisions with. It is up to them to use it or not.


Two years ago, when the Editorial Board broke longstanding precedent and urged Americans not to vote for Donald Trump, we did so reluctantly and only out of myriad concerns about his fitness for office.
Once voters had spoken, most Americans hoped he was capable of growing into the job. A ship, after all, has only one captain, and all passengers share a stake in his or her success.
The mounting evidence, from people inside the White House itself, that Captain Trump may be erratically steering the nation toward an iceberg is both clarifying and somewhat terrifying.
When the first insider book was published in January — Michael Wolff's best-selling "Fire and Fury" account of a dysfunctional president — it was easier to dismiss because of its typos, misspellings and minor factual errors. Former reality star Omarosa Manigault Newman's tell-all account as a Trump sidekick, "Unhinged," equally suffered from her mercenary image as a slick opportunist.
But then this week came explosive outtakes from Bob Woodward's upcoming book, "Fear," that quoted top administration officials describing a president with a grasp of reality of a "fifth- or sixth-grader" — one who is undisciplined, ill-informed and a "professional liar." Woodward cites what he says is Chief of Staff John Kelly's description of a "Crazytown" West Wing where aides scramble to contain Trump's most dangerous executive impulses.
Within a day, The New York Times published an op-ed from an unnamed senior Trump administration official arguing that, indeed, there is an internal White House "quiet resistance ... choosing to put the country first" and circumvent an "impetuous, adversarial, petty and ineffective" president.
None of this is evidence in a court of law. That level of validity awaits the outcome of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation. But the consistent cascade of curtain-peeling revelations grows harder to ignore and more frightening to contemplate.
And each round of White House denial rings more hollow than the last, particularly given the Trump Twitter rages that so neatly echo the behavioral profile of the man offered by these insider accounts.
Just this week, Trump tweeted that Attorney General Jeff Sessions violated some misguided duty to Trump and the Republican Party by obtaining indictments of two GOP congressman on felony charges. The tweet betrayed a fundamental misunderstanding of the Justice Department's duty to uphold the rule of law.
How and when the Trump administration ends is unknowable at this point. But its current course is looking increasingly unsustainable.
What do you think of our view on the Trump White House?


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Battle on the waterfront: Rep. Velazquez takes on Councilmen Dilan, other Dems
By Aaron Short
Rep. Nydia Velazquez, pictured in 2010, will face opposition in the form of Erik Dilan this fall.
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Brooklynites along the waterfront from Williamsburg to Sunset Park will cast their ballots on June 26 to decide whether 10-term Rep Nydia Velazquez (D–Brooklyn Heights) will retain her seat, or if the sprawling district will go to Councilman Erik Dilan (D–Bushwick), District Leader George Martinez (D–Sunset Park), or economist Dan O'Connor.
Velazquez and Dilan have decades-long careers in public service and have clashed repeatedly on the campaign trail over their records and progressive credentials. Martinez and O'Connor are newcomers hoping to tip the scales in the four-way race.
Here's a brief synopsis to help you in the ballot booth:
Nydia Velazquez
• First Puerto Rican woman elected to the House of Representatives. Took office in 1992.
• Got her start as a special assistant to Rep Ed Towns (D–Fort Greene) in 1983 and served in City Council in 1984.
• Member of the House small business and financial services committees.
• Raised $446,728, but only $122,978 from individual contributors, and has $613,690 to spend, in part from previous fund-raising.
• Age 59, lives in Red Hook
Erik Dilan
• Three-term Councilman, elected in 2001. Former member of city school district 32.
• Chair of council's housing and buildings committee.
• Raised $195,367, including $189,023 from individual contributions, and has $100,792 to spend.
• Age 38, lives in Cypress Hills.
Dan O'Connor
• Political neophyte, consulted with financial institutions in China and worked for an economic think tank in Hong Kong.
• Fluent in Mandarin and Cantonese.
• Raised $56,663, including $55,893 from individual contributions, and has $1,784 to spend.
• Age 33, lives in Manhattan.
George Martinez
• Sunset Park District Leader, Occupy Wall Street organizer, and adjunct political science professor at Pace University.
• Made a hip hop video that has got media attention.
• Has not reported his campaign contributions, but his staff told the press they have budgeted $5,000 for the race.
• Age 38, lives in Sunset Park.
• Velazquez accused Dilan of being too closely tied to Brooklyn Democratic Party Chairman and Assemblyman Vito Lopez (D–Williamsburg), and that Dilan's campaign was entirely Lopez's idea. Dilan countered he has always wanted to run for Congress and that the newly redrawn district gives him a chance to win.
• Dilan appealed to voters in East Williamsburg and Bushwick by arguing that Velazquez opposed the Loft Law, which extends rental protections to hundreds of loft dwellers living in North Brooklyn. Velazquez played up a housing scandal involving Dilan, in which the politician reportedly received a below-market rate apartment from a developer who was a campaign donor.
• Both Velazquez and Dilan have trotted out heavy hitters for their endorsements. Velazquez can count on support from the state's top women leaders, including Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and Rep. Yvette Clarke (D–Prospect Heights), and recently boasted backing from former Mayor Ed Koch and President Barack Obama. Dilan has pointed to support from a number of city and state officials including Lopez, Assemblyman Joe Lentol (D–Greenpoint), Assemblyman Alec Brook-Krasny (D–Sea Gate), Councilman Domenic Recchia (D–Coney Island), and his father, state Sen. Martin Dilan (D–Bushwick).
–Aaron Short
Reach reporter Aaron Short at ashort@cnglocal.com or by calling (718) 260-2547.
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Amelia Court House es un lugar designado por el censo situado en el condado de Amelia, Virginia  (Estados Unidos). Según el censo de 2010 tenía una población de 17.326 habitantes.

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Según el censo de 2010, Amelia Court House tenía una población en la que el 68,9% eran blancos; el 24% afroamericanos; el 0,7% eran indios americanos y nativos de Alaska; el 0,6% eran asiáticos; el 0,0% hawaianos y otros isleños del Pacífico; el 4,5% de otra raza, y el 1,2% a partir de dos o más razas. El 7,2% del total de la población eran hispanos o latinos de cualquier raza.

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June 11, 2015 + + + On Wednesday May 27, the North Sea emergency salvage vessel "Nordic" – powered by MTU Series 8000 – the "Neuwerk" – with its MTU Series 595 engines – and the "Mellum" – with its MTU series 396 engines - approached the stricken fertilizer freighter "Purple Beach" to within 100 meters operating in gas-protected mode. All three ships are equipped with hazardous-atmosphere engines. The cargo ship got into distress 30 kilometers off Helgoland on Monday evening and has since been emitting toxic smoke and gases. Experts have eliminated the risk of explosion and water is now being pumped into the vessel to reduce smoke. Only then will it be possible to tow it away to a safe haven.
The "Nordic" has been in service since 2011. Running at almost 20 knots (a swift 37 kilometers per hour) she can reach any point in the German Bight from her base twelve nautical miles off Norderney within two hours. With a bollard pull of 200 tons, the ship is one of the three most powerful emergency salvage vessels in the world. Powered by twin Series 8000 MTU engines capable of unleashing 17,200 kW, the Nordic is equipped with a hazardous-atmosphere system making it independent of the outside air. This allows her to operate in a hazardous atmosphere for at least eight hours should toxic or explosive gases emanate from a stricken vessel. Both twin propulsion engines – and the 12-cylinder Series 4000 engines dedicated to on-board power supply – are gas-protected.


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REBT in Group Therapy
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Albert Ellis began practicing group therapy with deviant adolescents utilizing a psychoanalytic approach in the early year of 1949 at the New Jersey State Diagnostic Center. For many of the same reasons he criticized individual therapy using psychoanalysis, he had similar views about conducting group therapy with psychoanalysis.
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Indie Detective Adventure "Backbone" Launches Kickstarter Campaign
May 8, 2018 Austin Suther
Anthropomorphic animals, a dystopian Vancouver, and high-quality pixel art are all on display in indie studio EggNut's Kickstarter campaign for Backbone.
Backbone will have players take control of private investigator Howard Lotor, who also happens to be a raccoon. According to the campaign, "His mundane life is interrupted with the appearance of a powerful technology that can blur the lines of conventional order and change society forever."
The game seems to meld both stealth and action, similar to the Arkham series. Although the combat looks clearly different, taking inspiration from side-scrolling beat-em-ups, the game also has you collect evidence and interrogate witnesses. The campaign says that each case will have multiple trails to follow, and it doesn't make every solution clear.
The campaign also says that stealth is a big aspect of the game, tasking you to mask your scent and escape pursuers.
The gritty visuals encapsulate the noir aesthetic. There are dark streets and bright lights, with what seems to be a gritty filter. The game uses the Unreal 4 Engine, so even though the visuals are pixel art, the game has layers in its visuals.
At the time of this writing, the game is well on its way to meeting its funding goal of $49,032. It will release on Windows, Mac and Linux in 2019. If the game meets its stretch goals, it will expand to consoles.
The campaign can be found here.
Tags: Backbone, Detective, Eggnut, kickstarter, Noir, Stealth
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About Austin Suther
I'm Austin Suther. I've been gaming and writing all my life, so I put them both together, and now I write about video games.
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Your body needs some basic things to heal itself and acupuncture can help provide all of them regardless of whether your injury is acute or chronic. So how exactly can sticking a needle in your body help you heal, it seems kind of counter intuitive. Read on to find out!
Without blood flow, your body quite simply cannot heal. Blood flow brings oxygen, nutrients, enzymes and other basic building blocks that make up our cells and our body. When the body is injured, blood flow is required to repair, rebuild and remove damaged tissue to get you back to normal. Insertion of acupuncture needles in to the body cause several reactions. One of those reactions is to build new blood vessels and bring vital nutrients to the area. Acupuncture not only increases blood flow but decreases pain and inflammation.
Without the basic nutrients and building blocks, no amount of blood flow will help your body heal. If you are not ingesting the right nutrients your body will have a hard time healing. This is something you can help with. If you are not digesting properly, the best nutrients in the world are not going to do you any good. This is what acupuncture can help with. If the stomach is not producing strong enough stomach acid, the foods that are eaten are not broken down properly. Thing like protein and gluten need to be broken down before they reach the lower digestive tract and if they are not, they interfere with nutrient absorption (and can cause IBS, Crohn's disease and even auto immune disorders). Acupuncture can help the digestive system work properly and even mitigate things like stress that affect digestion.
The human body runs on bio-electricity. Cells normally function in an environment of -20 to -25 millivolts. To heal and repair, cells require an environment of -50 millivolts. If you read my blog on EARTHING you know that the earth is negatively charged and that when the body is removed or isolated from this charge, the body become positively charged. Not a good environment for healing. Earthing is one way to restore the bodies negative charge. Acupuncture is another. Using electric stimulation devices, negatively charged electrons can be introduced in to the body in either a targeted fashion (directly to the area of injury or dysfunction) or more globally to help the entire body perform better.
Chronic injuries are always due to a deficiency in one or likely all of these areas (especially proper electric charge). After all, if the body had all three of these components, it would heal itself. Acupuncture can help you get all three. Three for one! That sounds like quite a deal. Call today to set up your free 30-minute consultation and we can discuss your individual problem and find the proper solution for you.
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The following information can be found on the Libraries' Course Reserves Services webpage.
So that we can be sure you are able to access reserve readings and other library resources in this course, go to Online Students Use of the Library. This site will guide you to all that Penn State libraries offers you as an online student. It is strongly recommended that you watch the Library Orientation Videos.


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Q: Signing and Encrypting file via GnuPG encryption I'm trying to sign and encrypt a text file via GnuPG encryption from a command line, but I'm getting the following error:

sign+encrypt failed: No secret key

I know very little about GnuPG.  Our client gave me two OpenPGP keys with .asc file extensions.  He said file 1 is to sign the file and file 2 is to encrypt it.
File1.asc (to sign the file) looked something like this:
-----BEGIN PGP PRIVATE KEY BLOCK-----
Version: PGP 7.0.1

(key code here)
-----END PGP PRIVATE KEY BLOCK-----
-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Version: PGP 7.0.1

(key code here)
-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

File2.asc (to encrypt) looked like this:
-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0

(key code here)
-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

I then tried running GnuPG via command line with something like the following:
gpg -r [file ame of encryption key] -s -u [password client gave for signing]  -o DirectoryWhereToOutputFile\sample.pgp -e DirectoryOfSampleFile\SampleFile

What do I need to change to get this to successfully sign and encrypt a file?

A: GnuPG does not use keys as files, you have to import them before and use their key IDs.
gpg --import [private-key]
gpg --import [public-key]

Then, use the key ID of the public key (the one to encrypt for):
gpg -r [key-id] -s -o [output-file] -e [input-file]

If you don't know the IDs, use gpg --list-keys to obtain a list of all known keys. gpg --list-secret-keys will only show those you have the private key for, thus the one you can use for signing.

A: In GnuPG, we generate keypair gpg --gen-key

*

*Encrypt using shared/imported public key - gpg --recipient bob --encrypt filename

*Decrypt using private key - gpg --decrypt sharedMessage.asc
Refer https://linux.101hacks.com/unix/gpg-command-examples/

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Q: Unsetting element in Bash I am trying to iterate through a bash array and unset a value if it does not match a regular expression. The code block doesnt change the array, any ideas?
    for ((q=0; q<{#array[*]}; q++));
    do
        if [[  ${array[q]} =~ .*\.c$ ]]; then
            :
        else unset array[q]
    done

A: You are missing the closing fi for the if statement. However, pattern matching is a little simpler here, and lets you use the != operator to avoid the need for the else clause.
for ((q=0; q<${#array[*]}; q++));
do
    if [[  ${array[q]} != *.c ]]; then
        unset array[q]
    fi
done

A: Your problem is that you keep evaluating ${#array[*]} in the loop condition instead of determining the array size once, beforehand.
In doing so, you end up missing array elements in your loop.[1]
Try this instead:
#!/usr/bin/env bash

array=( foo.c non bar.c other ) # sample input

count=${#array[*]} # determine array size *beforehand*
for (( q=0; q < count; q++)); do
  if [[ ${array[q]} =~ \.c$ ]]; then # note: no need for .* before \.c$
      :
  else
      unset array[q]
  fi
done

printf '%s\n' "${array[@]}" # prints 'foo.c' and 'bar.c'

dancancode's answer shows a more concise approach to assigning the array-element count up front: by incorporating it into the first statement of the loop condition:
for (( q=0, count=${#array[@]}; q < count; ++q ))
However, count is still implicitly declared in script scope (as is q), i.e., not scoped to the for loop.
Note that while unsetting individual array elements is correctly reflected in the element count {#array[*]}, the indices do not change, and you end up with a sparse array.
Thus, when you later enumerate the array, rather than a looping over sequential indices, use:

*

*either: for element in "${array[@]}"; ... - direct element enumeration

*or: for i in ${!array[@]}; do element=${array[i]}; ... - enumeration via list of - potentially non-sequential - indices (${!array[@]}).

Alternatively, you can redefine the sparse array based on a copy of itself to convert it to a non-sparse array (sequential indices starting at 0).
array=( "${array[@]}" ) # convert to sequential indices starting at 0

[1] A demonstration of the problem:
array=( one two three four )
for (( i=0; i < ${#array[@]}; i++)); do
  echo "element: ${array[i]}; element count: ${#array[@]}"
  unset array[i]
done

yields
element: one; element count: 4
element: two; element count: 3

In other words: only the first 2 out of 4 elements were processed, because the diminishing array count (${#array[@]}) in every iteration (due to unsetting elements) leads to premature termination of the loop.
Note the implication: ${#array[@]} always reflects the element count, whether the array is sparse (has non-sequential indices) or not.

A: $array=('1' '2' '3' '4' 'abcd' '5')
$echo "${array[@]}"
1 2 3 4 abcd 5
$cnt=${#array[@]}
$for ((q=0;q<cnt;q++))
do
    if [[ ${array[q]} =~ ^[0-9]$ ]]
    then
        :
    else
        unset array[q]
    fi
done
$ echo "${array[@]}"
1 2 3 4 5

Another shorthand which you can use is like this
cnt=${#array[@]}
for ((q=0;q<cnt;q++))
do
    [[ ${array[q]} =~ ^[0-9]$ ]] || unset array[q]
done

You are also missing fi in if, a syntax error
cnt=${#array[@]}
for ((q=0; q<cnt; q++));
do
    if [[  ${array[q]} =~ .*\.c$ ]]; then
        :
    else
         unset array[q]
    fi
done

Shorthand
cnt=${#array[@]}
for ((q=0; q<cnt; q++));
do
    [[  ${array[q]} =~ .*\.c$ ]] || unset array[q]
done

A: Here's a portion of a larger script:
#!/bin/bash

shopt -s extglob nullglob

prune () { eval "for ((i=0, j=\${#$1[@]}; i<j; i++)); do [[ \${$1[i]} == $2 ]] && unset '$1[i]'; done; $1=(\"\${$1[@]}\")"; }

rpms=(*.rpm)
[[ $rpms ]] || exit 0

prune rpms '@(MQSeries|grafana|influxdb)*'

unset actually works, but it leaves holes in the array.  If you redefine the array to include itself, the holes will go away.


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Q: Suspended (exception IlegalStateException) blackberry 6.0 Following is the code which is showing the above exception on debugging :
Firstly I am trying to call a class HTTPConnection  from the below menu item.
protected MenuItem _SelectDealerItem = new MenuItem("Select Dealer",100,10)
{
    public void run()
    {
        new HTTPConnection();
    }
};

In HTTPConnection Class I am checking the connection type and calling another Class TSelectDealerScreen:
public class HTTPConnection {

ConnectionFactory _factory = new ConnectionFactory();

public HTTPConnection()
{
    int[] _intTransports = {
            TransportInfo.TRANSPORT_TCP_WIFI,
            TransportInfo.TRANSPORT_WAP2,
            TransportInfo.TRANSPORT_TCP_CELLULAR
    };

    for(int i=0;i<_intTransports.length;i++)
    {
        int transport = _intTransports[i];
        if(!TransportInfo.isTransportTypeAvailable(transport)||!TransportInfo.hasSufficientCoverage(transport))
        {
            Arrays.removeAt(_intTransports,i);
        }
    }

    TcpCellularOptions tcpOptions = new TcpCellularOptions();

    if(!TcpCellularOptions.isDefaultAPNSet())
    {
        tcpOptions.setApn("My APN");
        tcpOptions.setTunnelAuthUsername("user");
        tcpOptions.setTunnelAuthPassword("password");
    }

    if(_intTransports.length>0)
    {
        _factory.setPreferredTransportTypes(_intTransports);
    }

    _factory.setTransportTypeOptions(TransportInfo.TRANSPORT_TCP_CELLULAR, tcpOptions);
    _factory.setAttemptsLimit(5);

    Thread t = new Thread(new Runnable()
    {
        public void run()
        {
            ConnectionDescriptor cd = _factory.getConnection("http://excellentrealtors.info/Smart-Trace/get_dealer.php");
            if(cd!=null)
            {
                Connection c = cd.getConnection();
                displayContent(c);
            }
        }
    });
    t.start();
}

private void displayContent(final Connection conn)
{
    UiApplication.getUiApplication().pushScreen(new TSelectDealerScreen(conn));
}
}

In TSelectDealerScreen class i am simply trying to read the stream, but it is showing illegal state exception whenever i try to debug, I am not much familiar to blackberry programming, kindly advice.
public class TSelectDealerScreen extends MainScreen
{
RichTextField _rtfOutput = new RichTextField();

public TSelectDealerScreen(Connection conn)
{
    _rtfOutput.setText("Retrieving Data.Please Wait");
    add(_rtfOutput);
    ContentReaderThread t = new ContentReaderThread(conn);
    t.start();
}

private final class ContentReaderThread extends Thread {

    private Connection _connection;

    ContentReaderThread(Connection conn)
    {
        _connection = conn;
    }

    public void run()
    {
        String result = "";
        OutputStream os = null;
        InputStream is = null;

        try
        {
            OutputConnection outputConn = (OutputConnection)_connection;
            os = outputConn.openOutputStream();
            String getCommand = "GET " + "/" + " HTTP/1.0\r\n\r\n";
            os.write(getCommand.getBytes());
            os.flush();

            // Get InputConnection and read the server's response
            InputConnection inputConn = (InputConnection) _connection;
            is = inputConn.openInputStream();
            byte[] data = net.rim.device.api.io.IOUtilities.streamToBytes(is);
            result = new String(data, "US-ASCII");
            // is.close();
            System.out.print(result);
        }
        catch(Exception e)
        {
            result = "ERROR fetching content: " + e.toString();
        }
        finally
        {
            // Close OutputStream
            if(os != null)
            {
                try
                {
                    os.close();
                }
                catch(IOException e)
                {
                }
            }

            // Close InputStream
            if(is != null)
            {
                try
                {
                    is.close();
                }
                catch(IOException e)
                {
                }
            }
            // Close Connection
            try
            {
                _connection.close();
            }
            catch(IOException ioe)
            {
            }
        }
              // Show the response received from the web server, or an error message
        showContents(result);
    }
}

public void showContents(final String result)
{
    UiApplication.getUiApplication().invokeLater(new Runnable()
    {
        public void run()
        {
            _rtfOutput.setText(result);
        }
    });
}
}

A: In your HTTPConnection class, you do:
Thread t =  new Thread(new Runnable()
{
    public void run()
    {
        ConnectionDescriptor cd =   _factory.getConnection("http://excellentrealtors.info/Smart-Trace/get_dealer.php");
        if(cd!=null)
        {
            Connection c    =   cd.getConnection();
            displayContent(c);
        }
    }
});
t.start();

That runs everything inside run() on a background thread.  But, inside displayContent(c), you do:
UiApplication.getUiApplication().pushScreen(new TSelectDealerScreen(conn));

which is a UI operation.
Trying to modify the UI from a background thread normally causes an IllegalStateException.
I believe you just need to wrap the call to pushScreen() with this:
private void displayContent(final Connection conn) {

    final UiApplication app = UiApplication.getUiApplication();
    app.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
       public void run() {
          // this code is run on the UI thread
          app.pushScreen(new TSelectDealerScreen(conn));
       }
    });
}

Also, if you're an Android developer, and you want help doing normal background/UI thread stuff, you might check out this other answer I wrote on "porting" AsyncTask to BlackBerry Java


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Goodbye Google Play Newsstand: The better reading experience is officially dead in 2022
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Update December 13, 2022 – It looks like at some point between today and when this article was published earlier this year, Google has officially killed off the lurking web view for Google Play Newsstand. Rest in peace, Newsstand, you provided a better reading experience than Google News.
Original Article: "Google Newsstand still exists, offers a better viewing experience on the web than Google News" Published on February 8, 2022 at 10:37 AM EST
Do you remember Google Play Newsstand? Anyone? No, just me? Newsstand was Google's topical news aggregation and digital magazine platform that launched in 2013 before the company decided that no one reads digital magazines and before it decided to dump all of its efforts back into Google News.
Even though it gained machine learning algorithms for its fully personalized reader in 2016, it still failed to meet the company's expectations, and it shut it down shortly afterward. Wait, what's that? Google Newsstand still exists? You're kidding, right? Nope!
Believe it or not, you can still access Google Play Newsstand via the web, and if you're as baffled at this revelation as I was yesterday when I stumbled upon it, then we can now both claim that we're not alone.
Google no longer invests in Newsstand, but for some odd reason, it's left it up and running! Because of this, I took a trip down memory lane and realized something about it along the way. With no significant updates over the past six years, Newsstand offers a much better reading experience than Google News does in 2022, and that's just a shame.
Take, for example, the image comparison below (Drag the handle left and right). Not only does Newsstand have a better, more polished visual layout, but it also features big, beautiful images, a prominent bookmarking icon to save articles for later, and a huge, obvious header section for news sources.
By comparison, Google News places words at the forefront, opting for a tiny, right-aligned image that makes it much slower to identify what the article is about. On top of that, Newsstand has plenty a splash of purple to mix up the monotony compared to the muted, boring design of Google News, weather is much more centered and eye-catching at the top of the homepage, and the "Library" section has gorgeous source icons that makes it feel like you're browsing Google Podcasts or something.
Again, by comparison, Google News shows off "words-first" sources and there's no way to view truncated articles per source in a curated digest like there is in Newsstand. All of this to state that there's just so much that Google News can learn from its past endeavors. Sure, Google News predates Newsstand, but Newsstand itself has plenty to teach the O.G. reader, in my opinion.
I'll leave you with this incredibly appealing video of a scroll through Google Play Newsstand so that you get the general idea of how much more interesting it looks to read the news in the morning compared to the boring and incredibly dull Google News you open each day.
Oh, and when I think about how Google News looks and feels on my phone and how it's become virtually indistinguishable from Google Discover, I'm filled with joy at the image-first approach seen there.
My only question for the News team is this – "Why is the web app so damn boring by comparison?" As a Chromebook owner, I want the same reading experience on my laptop as I have on my phone. Going from images in a card design to reading a crap ton of text is just so excruciating that I pick up my phone and go back to the mobile app or install Flipboard on Chrome OS instead.
Take the best of Newsstand and inject it into Google News. Learn from your past. If you're going to ditch something, at least take its DNA and pay it forward. Make News more visually stimulating and stop being so lazy with your web apps. The web is no longer just a place for static designs and text, so capitalize on modern aesthetics and stop acting like it's 2001.
Until Google ends up shutting down Newsstand completely, (by the way, it's sloppy that they haven't yet done so!) I'm going to continue using it as my primary reader on the web, but that doesn't excuse News from being so ugly.
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Symptoms of Depression
February 18, 2022 • Posted in:
It's a perfectly human experience to feel sad or down at times. But for some people, these feelings go further than everyday sadness. For people who suffer from a depressive disorder, their symptoms severely disrupt their lives. Depression is a lot more serious than sadness, and it requires treatment.
When mental health professionals talk about "depression," they're usually referring to a disorder called Major Depressive Disorder. Here are the officially recognized symptoms of Major Depressive Disorder, along with the symptoms of some other, lesser-known types of depression.
Symptoms of Clinical Depression (Major Depressive Disorder)
Major Depressive Disorder, or MDD, is one of the most common types of depression. It's often referred to as clinical depression. Around 19 million people go through a major depressive episode every year. [1]
To diagnose MDD, mental health clinicians use a book called the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM). According to the most recent edition of the DSM, the symptoms of Major Depressive Disorder are:
Depressed or irritable mood
Diminished interest or loss of pleasure, even in previously pleasurable activities
Significant weight changes or appetite disturbance
Psychomotor agitation or retardation
Feelings of worthlessness or guilt
Inability to concentrate; indecisiveness
Recurrent thoughts of death or suicide
To be diagnosed with depression, a person must have experienced at least five of these symptoms for at least two weeks. The symptoms must not be able to be explained by another reason, like substance use or schizoaffective disorder.
The symptoms must also be significantly detrimental to your life, or cause severe emotional distress, to meet the criteria for depression. For example, perhaps your depression symptoms have caused you to struggle at work or school. Maybe they've caused you to push the people around you away.
But what do these symptoms actually look like in real life? Let's break each of these symptoms down into layman's terms.
1. Depressed or irritable mood
Most people who have depression feel down or sad almost all the time. Everyone gets down in the dumps at times, but for people with depression, this mood almost never goes away. They feel this way almost every minute of the day, usually even when "happy" events are going on around them.
This depressed mood is a common identifying factor of major depressive disorder. A low mood might cause someone to cry a lot more than usual, or to feel hopeless about their future.
Children and teens with depression often present with an irritable, not low, mood. Men with depression also often present with irritability. Irritability might cause depressed people to snap at others or easily lose their temper.
2. Diminished interest or loss of pleasure
Depression robs people of the love and excitement they feel for the activities in their lives.
Take the example of someone who loves music. Before becoming depressed, they loved creating and listening to music, and it brought them a lot of joy. After becoming depressed, the same musical activities may no longer hold any interest for them whatsoever.
In psychological terms, this inability to feel joy or pleasure is called anhedonia. This may be one of the most painful symptoms of depression. The things that used to make you feel happy no longer do, which may bring your mood down even further.
3. Significant weight changes or appetite disturbance
People with depression often experience changes in their eating habits. They may completely lose their appetite, or they might overeat even when they aren't hungry. This often leads to weight changes.
Most often, people with depression gain weight — partly because depression also tends to make people more sedentary. People with atypical depression, however, may lose weight due to a loss of appetite.
Any weight or appetite changes at all are important to pay attention to, especially if they're coupled with other symptoms of depression.
4. Sleep disturbance
Depression and sleep problems are highly linked. Studies show that up to three-fourths of people with depression also suffer from insomnia. [2]
Even if you don't have an actual sleep disorder, problems or changes in sleep are a common symptom of depression. Some people with depression may not be able to fall or stay asleep at night.
Others sleep too much; they suffer from what's known as hypersomnia. They may have a hard time getting out of bed in the morning, or choose to sleep over participating in other activities.
5. Psychomotor agitation or retardation
This symptom means that you move more quickly or more slowly than usual. Depression typically causes people to slow down. You may be moving so slowly (like having slowed speech or walking slowly) that other people around you start to notice.
Other people with depression may have agitated movements. They may feel restless, or like they can't sit still. This is especially true for people who have anxiety on top of their depression. However, "psychomotor retardation," or slowed movement, is more common.
This symptom is especially common in the melancholic subtype of depression.
Research shows that psychomotor retardation is at least partly biological in nature. This symptom is associated with changes in specific regions of the brain, especially the basal ganglia system. [3]
Many people with depression experience fatigue or a loss of energy. If you have depression, you may feel exhausted all the time, even if you're getting enough (or too much) sleep.
Fatigue alone is a characteristic of many different health conditions (both physical and mental), not just depression. Chronic fatigue syndrome can also cause people to feel fatigued with no underlying medical reason. [4] If you're feeling a chronic loss of energy, it's important to see a medical provider so you can know for sure whether depression, or another condition, is causing it.
One big difference between chronic fatigue syndrome and depression is that people with chronic fatigue usually feel upset that their fatigue prevents them from engaging in their hobbies or social activities. People with depression, on the other hand, typically have no interest in these activities.
The sleep problems that often come along with depression can also lead to fatigue. This can trap people with depression in a vicious cycle of sleep deprivation and depression.
7. Feelings of worthlessness or guilt
People with depression tend to have a very low opinion of themselves. They may feel like they are worthless, or that the world would be better off without them.
Often, depression makes it difficult for people to see their own strengths. This is because depression distorts your thoughts. For example, imagine you made a mistake at work. If you don't have depression, you may think something like, "I feel terrible about this mistake, but I know no one's perfect. I do great work, and this one mistake doesn't define me."
If you do have depression, though, you might think something like, "I'm a total failure. I can't do anything right, and I don't even deserve to work here. They should fire me."
This, naturally, can lead people with depression to feel worthless or have low self-esteem.
8. Inability to concentrate
People with depression often struggle with concentration and focus. It may feel like you're always in a daze, unable to truly focus on whatever is right in front of you. Sometimes, this difficulty with concentration is because of other thoughts that are running through your mind. Other times, you may simply feel "out of it."
Research shows that depression literally changes the way you think. Depression affects your brain's executive functioning and cognitive flexibility, which can lead to trouble concentrating and even making decisions. [5]
People with depression may feel "stuck," as if they can't adapt to the world around them. The effects of depression may make them feel like they can't make, focus on, or take steps towards long-term goals.
7. Recurrent thoughts of suicide
Sometimes, people with depression have frequent thoughts about death or suicide (ending their own lives). Although depression isn't the only mental illness that can lead to death by suicide (others include substance use disorder and borderline personality disorder), it's one of the most common ones that do.
2% of people treated for depression on an outpatient basis (and 4% of those treated for depression in an inpatient setting) end up dying by suicide. [6] Most people with depression do not die by suicide, but it's still a risk that we need to take seriously.
Sometimes, suicidal thoughts come with a specific plan, like how or when someone wants to end their life. Other people with depression may have suicidal thoughts or feelings without a plan. For example, they may have thoughts like, "The world would be better off without me," or "I wish I could just sleep forever."
No matter what, suicidal thoughts should always be taken seriously. If you (or a loved one) are thinking about ending your own life, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255, contact your mental health provider, or visit your nearest emergency room.
Other Signs of Depression
On top of the symptoms listed in the DSM, there are other signs that might point towards someone having depression.
Some of the other signs of depression include:
Withdrawing from friends and family: People with depression often push loved ones away.
Substance use: Studies show that many people with depression also use drugs and alcohol. Someone might use substances to try to escape from the emotional pain of depression.
Decreased sex drive: The anhedonia described above often leads people with depression to lose interest in sex or have a decreased libido.
Feeling numb or empty: The "low" mood that comes along with depression can feel like numbness or emptiness. Sometimes, people with depression don't feel "sad." They don't feel anything at all.
Feeling physically sick or achy: If you have aches and pains that don't go away, or feel sick and run down all the time, this could be a sign of depression. See a healthcare provider to rule out other causes.
Again, the only way to know for sure that you're depressed is to see a mental health provider for an assessment and diagnosis. Our intake team at The Center • A Place of HOPE can provide you with a full assessment and point you towards which treatments may be the most effective for you.
Symptoms of Depression Subtypes (Specifiers)
The DSM also recognizes subtypes of depression, which are called "specifiers." If you have certain features on top of the common depression symptoms, then a specifier may be added onto your diagnosis.
Here are some of the specifiers for Major Depressive Disorder that are included in the DSM, as well as their symptoms.
1. With anxious distress
This is a new specifier that is only included in the newest edition of the DSM.
On top of the symptoms of Major Depressive Disorder, additional symptoms of major depression with anxious distress include:
Feelings of nervousness or tension
Difficulty concentrating because of worries
Extreme fear that something terrible is going to happen
Feeling out of control
It's important to note that major depression with anxious distress is not the same thing as having both depression and anxiety. People with the anxious distress subtype of depression still primarily present with symptoms of depression, but have additional features that look like anxiety.
2. With melancholic features
People who have depression with melancholic features feel a deep sense of despondency or emptiness. Their symptoms are worse in the morning, and they tend to wake up earlier than they used to (before they became depressed). Instead of eating more, people with melancholic features may lose their appetite or even start presenting with symptoms of anorexia.
As mentioned before, depression with melancholic features is the type that's most likely to have "psychomotor retardation," or slowed movements.
3. With psychotic features
Psychosis is a mental health symptom that causes people to lose touch with reality. They may start experiencing hallucinations (seeing or hearing things that aren't there) or delusions (having thoughts that aren't based in objective reality).
We usually associate psychosis with psychotic disorders like schizophrenia or delusional disorder. However, depression can sometimes come with psychotic features, as well. Some estimates say that over 10% of people with major depression experience psychotic features. Rates are even higher for people who are hospitalized for depression.
Symptoms of depression with psychotic features include the main symptoms of Major Depressive Disorder. On top of these symptoms, people with psychotic features experience hallucinations, delusions, and slowed movements that may bring the person to a point of stupor.
4. With mixed features
This specifier is given when someone has symptoms of depression mixed with some hypomanic or manic episodes, but doesn't meet the criteria for bipolar disorder.
When we talk about "depression," we're usually talking about Unipolar Depression, or Major Depressive Disorder. However, people with bipolar disorder go through depressive episodes; the difference is that they go through manic episodes as well.
To be diagnosed with depression with mixed features, you must experience some symptoms of a manic episode while you're going through a major depressive episode. These include symptoms like elevated mood, recklessness, and a reduced need for sleep.
5. With atypical features
People with Atypical Depression present with a specific set of symptoms. These include:
Increased appetite and weight gain
Hypersomnia, or sleeping too much
Heaviness in the limbs (arms and legs)
A pattern of having a high sensitivity to personal rejection
People with major depression with atypical features may also experience a temporary lifting of their mood when they receive good news. For example, their depression symptoms might go away when they're about to go on vacation.
It's important to note that the "atypical" in Atypical Depression doesn't mean that this subtype of depression is rare. In fact, this type of depression is quite common, especially in young people.
6. With peripartum onset
This specifier is most commonly known as Postpartum Depression. Although some people have advocated for the creation of a separate diagnosis for Postpartum Depression, for now, it's still considered a subtype of Major Depressive Disorder.
People with Major Depressive Disorder with peripartum onset display the same symptoms as anyone going through Major Depressive Disorder. The difference for this subtype is that depression symptoms come on either during pregnancy or in the month after giving birth.
7. With catatonia
People with "catatonic depression" display characteristics of a catatonic disorder while they're going through a major depressive episode. Symptoms of catatonia include a rigid posture, refusal to eat, or an inability to move or speak.
8. With seasonal pattern
Major depression with seasonal patterns is also often referred to as Seasonal Affective Disorder, or SAD. People with this type of depression experience symptoms of a major depressive episode, but only along with seasonal changes. The depressive episode goes into complete remission when the season ends.
Most people experience symptoms of this type of depression during the cold, dark winter months, but others may experience it during the summer.
9. Chronic depression, or Persistent Depressive Disorder
Lastly, the "chronic" specifier for depression used to be given when someone's depression symptoms have lasted for over two years. Previously, this was also known as dysthymia. People with dysthymia were said to have less intense, but longer-lasting, symptoms.
In the newest edition of the DSM, chronic depression has been given its own diagnosis (separate from Major Depressive Disorder), called Persistent Depressive Disorder. You must have had symptoms of depression for over two years to qualify for this diagnosis.
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[1] https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/major-depression
[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pmc/articles/PMC3181883/
[4] https://www.cdc.gov/me-cfs/index.html
[5] https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/sad-depression-affects-ability-think-201605069551
[6] https://www.hhs.gov/answers/mental-health-and-substance-abuse/does-depression-increase-risk-of-suicide/index.html
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Covid-19 vaccines and power pathologies in Latin America
Pía Riggirozzi
Co-author Belén Herrero
As major clinical trials come to a close, the World Health Organization estimates that 2 billion doses will be needed by 2021. Everything indicates that, once the first vaccines are available, the logic of the market will take precedence. Who goes first?
Nine months into the pandemic, no action has been taken to declare these vaccines a global public good. It is estimated that wealthy nations – with only 13 percent of the world's population – have already pre-acquired half of the world's potential vaccine supply. In addition, the various laboratories involved in manufacturing continue to demand exclusivity and intellectual property protection. This prevents low- and middle-income countries from preparing more quickly to produce and export generic versions.
the debate on health sovereignty in Latin America takes on a central role.
Here the debate on health sovereignty in Latin America takes on a central role. On the one hand, there is the Covid-19 Global Access Fund for Vaccines (Covax initiative), a public-private initiative co-led by the Gavi Alliance for Vaccines (Gavi), the Coalition for the Promotion of Innovations in Epidemic Preparedness (CEPI) and the World Health Organization (WHO). COVAX aims to become a global mechanism for the purchase of vaccines. On the other hand, the coronavirus vaccine produced by Oxford University and AstraZeneca, will be available on a non-profit basis "in perpetuity" to low- and middle-income countries through the COVAX program.
While this may become a global mechanism for vaccine purchase, it does not guarantee sustained equitable access or its relationship to the challenged patent system. Here are two new facts that reposition Latin America in the debate on health sovereignty: one, Argentina and Mexico will be the countries in charge of manufacturing the Oxford-Astra-Zeneca vaccine in Latin America. Second, the President of Costa Rica, Carlos Alvarado, supported by 37 countries, has promoted a proposal within the World Health Assembly for a pool of voluntary licenses for drugs, vaccines and technologies to be freely shared.
At the most critical moment of regional integration, can Argentina and Mexico be pivots in building regional relationships around vaccines as a regional public good in order to address health challenges and their social, political and economic determinants? Can the region become a key player in this new phase of the pandemic in the search for mechanisms to ensure equitable access?
Covid-19 as a mirror of social and health debts in the region
The Covid-19 in Latin America reveals and deepens immediate health challenges in weak, or weakened, states with fragile health systems, as well as medium and long-term challenges related to combating poverty and socio-economic and gender inequality and inequities. It should be remembered that Covid-19 is in addition to epidemics such as dengue fever, the cases of which have exceeded 1.6 million so far this year, mostly in Brazil, Paraguay, Bolivia, Argentina and Colombia. In addition, there are cases of Chikungunya, Zika and Malaria, with Venezuela leading the way since 2017.
Indeed, health crises exacerbate all forms of social injustice manifested in inequalities in access to health services, education, access to social protection, and gender justice. ECLAC has called for the reconstruction of a regional social pact that, at best, promotes a sustainable and inclusive development model, and at worst, mitigates the loss of progress in the fight against poverty and inequality. This is a healthy expression in a context where, until now, the priority has been to encourage individuals to leave in order to contain the expansion of the Covid in most countries.
Unlike in the past decade, there is no common engine but rather a retraction of regionalism associated with the loss of regional leadership.
In fact, the pandemic is breaking out in a region that shows a clear incongruence between, on the one hand, the increase in regional and border problems and, on the other, the decrease in concerted responses. Unlike in the past decade, there is no common engine but rather a retraction of regionalism associated with the loss of regional leadership. In addition, there is a minimalist agenda associated with trade, which explains the absence of solid regional responses to the crisis and, above all, to Covid-19.
There is also tension in political-ideological terms and significant differences among States on how to respond to the international geopolitical context. Even so, the race for a vaccine against Covid also accelerated the race for articulation and agreement in what would strictly be the reconstruction of health sovereignty.
Vaccine as an engine of integration? There is a legacy
A decade ago, UNASUR and Mercosur would have allowed for coordination and cooperation in the face of the health crisis, as well as a joint strategy for the purchase of medicines, including vaccines. It is sufficient to recall common actions in the framework of the H1N1 influenza pandemic, when the ministers of health met in Ecuador and agreed to undertake joint actions to establish mechanisms for the joint negotiation and purchase of the vaccine, aspects that would ensure equitable access, regional production capacity, antivirals and diagnostic kits.
In the area of access to medicines, for example, projects such as the Drug Price Bank were developed, and both UNASUR and MERCOSUR have been driving the joint negotiation of High-Cost Drug Prices. Even, at the global level, the countries of the region defended as a bloc at the World Health Assembly the intellectual property rights on access to medicines. In this context, they denounced the monopoly exercised by pharmaceutical companies, especially in the definition of prices.
Latin America has plenty of experiences and mechanisms to recreate health sovereignty through cooperation. A more effective articulation among regional integration mechanisms could allow for the expansion of the exchange of epidemiological and surveillance data, as well as the adoption of incentives for technological innovation. Strategies for the joint negotiation and purchase of vaccines and treatments for Covid-19 could also benefit greatly if the mechanisms could be developed in an articulated manner.
The vaccine does not erase what the physician and anthropologist Paul Farmer calls the pathologies of power, nor political-ideological differences that weakened regional structures as the basis of common strategies. Nor does it solve problems of trade diversion, much less is it an antidote for governments not to repeat the many discriminatory practices shown during the approach to the pandemic. As an example, policies that exclude refugees and undocumented migrants from access to health services and social protection systems.
The vaccine is a commercial incentive if you will. However, it can also be an incentive to energize a new regional social pact based on synergies between networks of laboratories and regional scientific communities, as well as an articulation of public and private efforts that privileges shared responsibility for universal and equitable access to vaccines as a regional public good, and to health as a universal right.
*Translation from Spanish by Emmanuel Guerisoli
Photo of the President of Peru in Foter.com / CC BY-NC-SA
Professor of International Politics at the University of Southampton (England). PhD in Politics and International Relations from the University of Warwick. Master in International Relations from the University of Miami and FLACSO-Argentina.


Alex del Toro presents his forthcoming single "Somebody To Love", as the artist & DJ hailing from San Sebastian prepares to fully fire up the party season, across his native homeland & beyond.
Consistently innovating, not following, Alex del Toro started his journey during tentative teenage years, combining studies in new & emerging technologies, whilst also putting in place the early building blocks of his musical career. Going onto establish himself as a revered figure across San Sebastian's vibrant & bustling clubbing landscape, Alex would eventually find himself holding a residency at the legendary nightspot Bataplan Disco – an enviable position he held for some five consecutive years.
In 2015, a year which marked the beginning of a new business adventure, Alex del Toro became musical director & resident DJ at 'GU', San Sebastian's premier night life destination & since then, has gone about curating the club's music policy from the ground up & raising the venue's profile higher still. Alex also serves as official DJ at the San Sebastian International Film Festival, where he can be found performing on the red carpet & at the official after show parties.
Subsequently, moving into music production was a natural progression for Alex del Toro & what better way to kick start this next chapter, than with a feel good, dance floor friendly cut. "Somebody To Love" is a record that signals the sound of the summer & with it, Alex's new mission of delivering vibes not only in the DJ box, but also in the studio. Working on the release in collaboration with world renowned artist HEREN, along with Alex Ubago & featuring vocals from NYC's Duane Harden, U.S rising star Cam Daye has also lent his hand on remix duties.
Musically, Alex del Toro is artistic, stylish & playful – finding himself adapting to any given environment & fusing varying styles of music in real time. This cohesion also carries over into "Somebody To Love", with each of the remixes bringing their own take, whilst staying true to the single's unique identity & vibe.
With the Original set for forthcoming release, fans of the remixes from HEREN & Cam Daye will have to wait a little longer – with both set to drop towards the latter part of the year. In the meantime, promotion gets fully underway & global party hotspots & radio airwaves are ready for "Somebody To Love".


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