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Bulbul (2020), dir. Anvita Dutt Guptan.

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Bulbbul(2020)

I love this scene. Sudip treats Bulbul with respect and care, recognizing her intelligence and strength, unlike others who either control or pity her. While their connection is layered with unspoken affection, it is more of a quiet emotional bond rather than a conventional romantic one. He becomes one of the few people in Bulbul’s life who sees her for who she truly is, creating a deep yet tragic relationship. Their relationship contrasts with the toxic dynamics around her, offering her a sense of companionship.

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Supratim Bhattacharjee: Overall winner

Sinking Sundarbans, India, 18 August 2020 A girl stands among the wreckage of what was once her family’s tea shop, which has been swept away by the sea in the Frazerganj area of the Sundarbans. Between 2019 and 2021, the Sundarbans was hit by the cyclones Fani, Bulbul, Amphan and Yaas. Mangrove Photography Awards. Mangrove Action Group

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Bulbul (2020)

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Un studiu recent arata atrofia cerebrala post COVID

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Un studiu recent arata atrofia cerebrala post COVID

Efectele COVID-19 asupra creierului par să se confirme, inclusiv în cazul formelor uşoare de boala COVID insotita de lipsa mirosului.

Virusul COVID-19, patrunzand in organism preponderent prin nas, înainte de a da o boală respiratorie, ar putea afecta creierul. Bulbul olfactiv este o componenta directa a creierului si se afla la doar 2mm de atmosfera terestra. Efectele neurologice ale bolii, desi suspectate încă de la începutul pandemiei, au fost confirmate de cercetări recente, inclusiv în cazul formelor uşoare de COVID-19, informează AFP dupa un comunicat al Agerpres.

Studiul stiintific publicat în revista Natura oferă cele mai solide dovezi de până în prezent

S-a observat „un impact puternic asociat SARS-Cov-2”, virusul aflat la originea pandemiei COVID-19, asupra creierului persoanelor infectate cu luni în urmă, potrivit unui studiu publicat luni în revista Nature. Este vorba despre scaderea masei cerebrale in urma remiterii inflamatiei produsa de invazia virala.

Acest studiu este relevant deoarece oferă cele mai solide dovezi de până în prezent conform cărora COVID-19 are consecinţe pe termen lung asupra creierului, în special asupra „materiei cenuşii”, care include neuronii (corpul celular neuronal).

Ideea nu este nouă. A fost evocată încă de la debutul pandemiei, la începutul anului 2020, numeroşi medici observând tulburări neurologice la pacienţii cu COVID-19, mult mai accentuate decat in cazul altor viroze respiratorii, nelimitate la efectele febrei (hiperpirexismului).

De atunci, multe studii au cercetat efectele nerologice ale COVID. Unele au demonstrat că proporţia tulburărilor cognitive era mai mare la foşti pacienţi diagnosticaţi cu COVID-19. Altele au observat în mod direct creierul pacienţilor şi au constatat anomalii la acest nivel, atat in faza acuta si si ulterior „vindecarii” pacientului.

Cu toate acestea, prima categorie de studii nu a putut demonstra un mecanism direct cauză-efect. În ceea ce priveşte a doua categorie de cercetări, acestea au fost efectuate pe un număr redus de pacienţi, care au suferit în general de forme severe. În unele cazuri, a fost vorba chiar de autopsii efectuate asupra pacienţilor decedaţi, cu examinarea detaliata a tesutului cerebral recoltat post-mortem. Nu se poate face in conditii de siguranta o biopsie din creierul functional al unui om viu.

Studiul publicat recent este mult mai concludent, fiind efectuat pe un număr relativ mare de persoane – câteva sute – şi a vizat starea creierului lor examinat neinvaziv prin RMN.

Când au avut COVID-19, majoritatea acestora nu au fost internaţi, avand o forma tolerabila de boala COVID. Prin urmare, această lucrare oferă o imagine asupra efectelor neurologice ale unei forme uşoare de COVID-19, deci ca si in cazul majorităţii celor infectaţi cu COVID-19.

Pentru fiecare caz studiat, studiul a dispus de un etalon (a putut compara cu datele dinainte de infectare) care datează dinainte de apariţia COVID-19. Cu ocazia unor alte studii, pacienţii fusesera supuşi cu câţiva ani înainte unor analize de imagistică la nivel cerebral (RMN), în cadrul unui demers efectuat în cadrul UK Biobank, o bază de date ce colectează de mai mulţi ani date sanitare în Marea Britanie.

Simţul mirosului are un rol central in identificarea portii de intrare si invaziei

Care sunt rezultatele studiului?

Foştii pacienţi cu COVID-19 au prezentat o micşorare generală a creierului. Infecţia cu coronavirus a avut ca rezultat, câteva luni mai târziu, o pierdere sau o leziune de 0,2% până la 2% a ţesutului cerebral comparativ cu persoanele sănătoase (in fapt aceiasi pacienti cu cateva luni si ani inainte).

„Pentru a ne face o idee cu privire la amploarea acestor efecte, le putem compara cu ceea ce se întâmplă în timpul îmbătrânirii normale: ştim că oamenii pierd în fiecare an între 0,2% şi 0,3% din substanţa cenuşie în regiunile asociate memoriei”, a explicat Gwenaëlle Douaud, cercetătoare principală care a contribuit la acest studiu.

Ar trebui, aşadar, să intrăm în panică şi să ne imaginăm un virus care atacă iremediabil neuronii? Departe de asta, iar studiul nu permite tragerea unor concluzii nici asupra mecanismelor acestor leziuni cerebrale, nici asupra ireversibilităţii lor, notează AFP.

Cercetătorii fac o observaţie crucială, dar care poate fi interpretată în mai multe moduri: după o infecţie cu COVID-19, zonele creierului cele mai afectate sunt cele asociate percepţiei mirosurilor, zone din creier care sunt atribuite functiilor arhaice de baza.

Pierderea mirosului este unul dintre cele mai frecvente simptome ale COVID-19, deoarece bulbul si nervul olfactiv fiind aproape direct expuse ca poarta de intrare, este atacat intai de virus sau, după cum sugerează un studiu recent, si de răspunsul imunitar la infecţie.

Dr Douaud formulează, aşadar, mai multe ipoteze: 1. creierul ar putea fi afectat de o inflamaţie, spre exemplu transmisă de canalul olfactiv, 2. provocată de virusul însuşi sau 3. de reacţia organismului la acesta.

Dar este posibil ca lucrurile să stea şi invers. Şi dacă pierderea mirosului este cea care afecteze creierul? „Ştim că o pierdere de durată a mirosului (…) provoacă o reducere a substanţei cenuşii în regiunile creierului asociate olfacţiei”, a notat Gwenaëlle Douaud, de la Universitatea Oxford.

Acest efect este, însă mai putin probabil, deoarece scaderea in greutate a masei cerebrale este destul de lenta iar afectarea mirosului nu dureaza de obicei mai mult de 2 ani si este relativ reversibila (am intalnit insa si cazuri cu afectare permanenta a mirosului). „Ne putem gândi că odată cu revenirea simţului mirosului, aceste anomalii cerebrale vor deveni mai puţin evidente în timp”, a conchis cercetătoarea.

Nu se discuta nimic despre brain-fog (senzatia de ceata pe creier) post COVID si despre afectarea permanenta a memoriei si intelectului la pacientii cu invazie COVID cerebrala, manifestata prin hiperpirexie (febra foarte inalta, timp indelungat), anosmie si coma. Aceasta este o lipsa a studiului si nu inteleg de ce s-a facut, in contextul in care aceste fenomene exista, sunt cunoscute, mediatizate si efectiv relevante in contextul studiului.

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Puri most ravaged by 4 cyclones in 6 yrs

Bhubaneswar: Puri district bore the maximum brunt of the four cyclones that hit the state in the past six years in terms of damage and destruction of properties. Of the four cyclones in the past six years, ‘Fani’ and ‘Bulbul’ occurred in 2019, while ‘Amphan’ and ‘Yaas’ hit the state in 2020 and 2021, respectively. According to the data shared by the Special Relief Commissioner (SRC), a total of…

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Well, you may be wondering what I am going to tell you today. Today I found an interesting topic to discuss with you, and it is Pycnonotus penicillatus, which is known as the yellow-eared bulbul, an endemic species of Sri Lanka. Below, we can see a drawing of this amazing creature.

The above drawing was done by myself with inspiration I got while doing my studies. As said, this amazing creature can be found only in the Sri Lankan highlands. That means they are endemic to Sri Lanka. Moreover, Sri Lankan bulbul and Ceylon bulbul are some of its alternate names. According to Wikipedia, this species belongs to the bulbul family of passerine birds.

On the other hand, these bird species are primarily found in forests and wooded farmlands. Also, some of them can be found in places such as Horton Plains, Piduruthalagala Peak, Victoria's Park in Nuwara Eliya, etc., which have huge biodiversity and hold remarkable recommendations for major tourist destinations in Sri Lanka.

It has its own physique that we can easily recognize. For example, a distinctive head pattern with yellow tufts behind each eye and white tufts in front of each eye is highly recognizable. As well as its medium-built body and its yellow belly, it can be used as a method of recognizing this bird.

Yellow-eared bulbul usually lays two eggs in a typical clutch, and they build their nests in the shape of an opened cup in bushes. Roots and lichen are some of its common materials while building their own tiny apartment. As well, these birds depend on the nutrition that consists of fruits and insects. Their breeding period will usually occur around February to May and again in August to November.

In 2020, yellow-eared bulbul had been assessed for the IUCN red list of threatened species due to the threats of development of residential and commercial areas, logging and wood harvesting, annual agricultural land usage, and fires.

This bird is represented on the new note of Rs. 5000/= and also on the Sri Lankan postage stamp, which almost costs 10 rupees in Sri Lankan currency.

Well, as living beings, we have the same right to share natural resources, such as land, food, air, water, etc. So, as human beings, "protecting our Mother Nature and those other innocent living creatures like Sri Lankan Bulbul" is one of our main responsibilities.

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The early morning air at Hindhede Nature Park in central Singapore is filled with bird calls. But one birdsong clearly stands out from the rest—the long, gurgling call of the straw-headed bulbul (Pycnonotus zeylanicus). “Whenever I hear its resonant, bubbly song, the forest seems to erupt with life,” says conservationist Ho Hua Chew, one of the first two people to study the species in Singapore.

To the bird’s detriment, its melodic call has made it one of the most sought-after species in the Asian songbird trade. Each year, thousands of birds with pleasing calls are taken from Southeast Asia’s forests to be kept at home for entertainment or to participate in singing competitions, leading to a rapid decline in their wild populations. More than 40 species are severely threatened by the songbird trade.

The straw-headed bulbul’s population across its range in Southeast Asia has been decimated to meet this demand. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) currently lists the bird as critically endangered. The species is believed to be already extinct in Thailand and likely Myanmar, as well as likely extinct on the Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra. The populations in peninsular Malaysia and Indonesian Borneo are also declining rapidly.

The only place to buck the straw-headed bulbul’s declining trend is the city-state of Singapore. The highly urbanized island nation has emerged as an unexpected haven for the species, where the bird’s population is slowly, but steadily, increasing, thanks to over three decades of conservation actions.

Based on the latest estimate, published in 2020, Singapore is home to about 600 straw-headed bulbuls. This constitutes between 23 and 57 percent of the global population of the species, based on the 2018 BirdLife International assessment of fewer than 2,499 individuals. Within the city-state, the straw-headed bulbul population is spread across the 274-square-mile main island, as well as on the 4-square-mile offshore island of Pulau Ubin, where about half of the species’ local population resides. This makes the conservation of Pulau Ubin—a granite quarrying site in the 1970s that is now a nature area—particularly crucial for the survival of the species.

The effort to protect the straw-headed bulbul began more than 30 years ago. The Bird Group of the conservation nonprofit Nature Society Singapore, of which Ho has been an active member since the mid-1980s, led the campaign to protect Pulau Ubin and a few zones on the main island inhabited by the species. In 1990, the society published the Master Plan for the Conservation of Nature in Singapore, which highlighted the need for the conservation of these areas.

Simultaneously, the society campaigned via newspapers and other mass media channels to create public awareness about Singapore’s biodiversity. These advocacy initiatives bore fruit when Pulau Ubin was designated a Nature Area by the authorities in 1993.

Around the same time, an attempt was made by the Nature Society Singapore in partnership with other local organizations, to document all the plant and animal species of the city-state, in the form of the Singapore Red Data Book. The first edition of this book, published in 1994, listed the straw-headed bulbul as “vulnerable,” meaning the population had declined 30 percent or more in over three generations or ten years. According to 2001 estimates, about 76 to 93 of the birds lived on the main island, while the population size on Pulau Ubin was estimated to be at least 64 adult individuals. Continued threats to the species in the form of habitat loss and degradation necessitated its status to be uplisted to “endangered,” in the Red Data Book’s second edition published in 2008, indicative of a population decline of 50 percent or more over three generations or ten years.

Ho’s earliest sighting of the straw-headed bulbul was in 1987 at Pulau Ubin. As part of his master’s thesis, submitted in 2001, Ho studied the Pulau Ubin population and observed something interesting about the bird’s behavior. “It’s a forest edge species,” he says. “It prefers the edges of its habitat rather than the interior.”

This finding provided a ray of hope for the bird’s conservation, as many of Singapore’s forested areas were already fragmented and degraded due to widespread urbanization. “Any effort to conserve the bird does not need an extensive forest area to be set aside for them,” Ho says. “It’s possible for the species to survive in proximity to an urbanized area.” However, too much fragmentation can be harmful, as it deprives the birds of food sources, nesting sites and other resources necessary for their survival.

Unlike in other range countries, the high awareness levels in Singapore, coupled with strict environmental laws, such as the Endangered Species (Import and Export) Act of 2006, means that poaching, trapping and trading of the straw-headed bulbul has not been a major issue there. More habitats of the species on the main island, such as the mangroves of Mandai and Khatib Bongsu, are also being granted protection.

Following three decades of advocacy and awareness programs, in May 2019, the Bird Group of the Nature Society Singapore, together with BirdLife International, organized the very first workshop for the conservation of the straw-headed bulbul. Participants—including the National Parks Board, which is responsible for managing the city’s wildlife and biodiversity—sat together to share existing knowledge and identify the conservation measures required to protect the species in Singapore.

The workshop led to the creation in 2021 of the Straw-Headed Bulbul Working Group, co-led by the National Parks Board and the Nature Society Singapore, and which also includes government agencies, local and international conservation nonprofits, and universities. After two years of consultations and discussions, the working group released the National Species Action Plan, a five-year project. “The plan aims to ensure that the species continues to thrive in Singapore,” says Sophianne Araib, the group director at the National Biodiversity Center of the National Parks Board.

The plan focuses on improving the monitoring and observation of the species, documenting the genetic diversity of the local population, creating awareness about conserving the bird, and working with urban planning authorities to protect habitat. It also intends to monitor the bird shops and bird farms to ensure no straw-headed bulbuls are commercially imported into Singapore.

Ho, who was not directly involved with the Species Action Plan, is enthused by its launch. “It’s a major move by the government to conserve the bird not just in Singapore, but also globally,” he says. Ho believes that if the measures outlined in the Species Action Plan are successful, then straw-headed bulbuls from Singapore could possibly help revive the population in areas where the bird is now either extinct or close to extinction.

In another encouraging development for the conservation of the straw-headed bulbul, in November 2023, the species was added to Appendix I of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, a treaty signed by 184 parties. The petition to add the bird to Appendix I was filed jointly by Singapore, Malaysia and the United States. This appendix lists the most endangered plant and animal species, and being added to it means that any international trade in the bird is prohibited, except for noncommercial purposes like scientific research. This development, Araib says, “reflects Singapore’s commitment and collaboration with regional and international partners in efforts to tackle the global issue of illegal wildlife trade.”

Thanks to the conservation measures spearheaded by this enterprising city-state and its dedicated conservationists, the fate of the species is a bit more secure. “Earlier we could only see the bird in Pulau Ubin or certain parts of Singapore like the Central Catchment Area,” says avid birder and Nature Society Singapore volunteer Betty Shaw. “More recently, when we venture to other parts of the [main] island, we hear the straw-headed bulbul in areas where we really didn’t expect to hear them.”

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IAS Officer Has Led Odisha’s Stellar Disaster Management for 20 Yrs

The coastal state of Odisha has faced the wrath of cyclones almost every year. Over the last two decades, the state has faced numerous devastating cyclones including the Super Cyclone (1999); Phailin (2013); Hudhud (2014); Titli (2018); Fani and Bulbul (2019); Amphan (2020); Yaas, Gulab, Jawad (2021); and Asani (2022). Among these cyclones, the 1999 Super Cyclone ranks among the worst natural…

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IAS Officer Has Led Odisha’s Stellar Disaster Management for 20 Yrs

The coastal state of Odisha has faced the wrath of cyclones almost every year. Over the last two decades, the state has faced numerous devastating cyclones including the Super Cyclone (1999); Phailin (2013); Hudhud (2014); Titli (2018); Fani and Bulbul (2019); Amphan (2020); Yaas, Gulab, Jawad (2021); and Asani (2022). Among these cyclones, the 1999 Super Cyclone ranks among the worst natural…

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Qala Movie Review

In the Qala film, a young playback singer with the name is the leading character. The film story takes place in the early 1940s and 1930S. It is about how their sad past catches up with her as she is getting the hard-won success and makes her fall apart.

Qala Movie OTT Channel

Late Irfan Khan’s Son, Babil Khan, makes his acting in the movie. He has worked on a short film as a cameraman. The movie is a horror-thriller such as Bulbul. It was made by the same team. The OTT platform Netflix first talked about the project a year ago, and it took all the digital rights to the movie.

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The horror movie Qala where the lead role is well-played by Tripti Dimri, whose performance in the movie Bulbul impressed both critics and viewers. Similar individuals who worked on Bulbul are doing the project, and that may debut directly on the Netflix platform. But the individuals who made the OTT channel have not said when it might come out yet.

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Karnesh Sharma’s Clean Slate Filmz is back with Anvitaa Dutt after 2020 Bulbul to continue the initiative of backing women telling women’s stories. The movie gets Tripti Dimri in the front seat with the solid support of debutant Babil Khan and Swastika Mukherjee, son of the Late Irfan Khan.

You will see a fictitious period drama about a playback singer. Qala is an unspoken path and unfamiliar in terms of relations. It goes beyond the obvious things to discover the underlying complexities of a mother-daughter relationship, a rare sight in Hindi movies. The latter has either villainized or overlooked the conflict for the gallery. Also, Qala dares to see the raw, even the ugly inside of seemingly normal relations, with a heart-aching longing and regret at the center.

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Shades of Bulbul in Bulbbul (2020)

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Bulbul cyclone Cyclone Bulbul will trigger heavy rainfall in Odisha on November 9-10 and the government has already put 15 of the state's 30 districts on alert asking them to...

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November 17, 2020 - Gray-headed Bulbul (Brachypodius priocephalus)

Found in southwestern India, these bulbuls live in wet forests of the Western Ghats mountain range. They eat berries, other fruits, and some invertebrates, foraging in pairs or sometimes in small groups and joining mixed-species flocks outside of the breeding season. They build shallow cup-shaped nests from vines and grasses, mosses and bamboo leaves, or fresh leaves in bamboo or shrubs.