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It has been just over two years since the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
(FDA) made public the agency's highly controversial analysis of clinical
trials data linking antidepressant medications with suicide-related events in
children and adolescents. That analysis garnered many supporters as well as
numerous detractors and has generated far more questions than it set out to
Last month, physicians, their patients, family members, and advocates got
another look at the data and the analytic process that led FDA officials to
their conclusions. Tarek Hammad, M.D., Ph.D., who is the senior staff fellow
and safety officer in the FDA's Division of Surveillance, Research, and
Communications Support that led the agency's 2004 analysis, teamed with Thomas
Laughren, M.D., director of the FDA's Division of Psychiatry Products, and
Judith Racoosin, M.D., M.P.H., a medical officer and team leader in the
agency's Division of Neurology Products, in publishing the analysis as a
peer-reviewed report in a major scientific journal.
The article, which appeared in the March Archives of General
Psychiatry, detailed the team's review of individual patient-level data
from 24 clinical trials on the efficacy and safety of nine antidepressants in
4,582 pediatric patients with major depressive disorder.
While the new report is essentially a condensed version of Hammad's
original 131-page analysis of the dataset (Psychiatric News, March 5
and 19, 2004), the tone of the report seems less certain of a direct link
between what Hammad and his colleagues call "suicide related
events" (SREs) and the medications.
The FDA team analyzed patient-level individual records involving
identification of adverse events occurring within the 24 clinical trials that
included one or more of a series of terms related to suicidal thoughts, acts,
or attempts. Each SRE was then reviewed to determine whether the event
described in the record represented an SRE or something else.
A team of suicide experts at Columbia University then categorized all of
the SREs into five subclasses of events: events involving a suicide attempt,
events indicative of imminent suicidal behavior, events involving suicidal
ideation, events involving self-injury with unknown intent, and events
involving some sort of injury but was not classifiable as an SRE because of
insufficient information. (No suicides occurred in any of the 24 clinical
The researchers also analyzed a subset of 17 of the 24 clinical trials in
which a formal depression rating scale involving a specific suicidality
measure was used. They categorized change in suicidality based on any
difference between the suicide-rating item at baseline and any point up to the
end of the clinical trial. Hammad and colleagues used this dataset to
determine "worsening of suicidality" as well as "emergence
of suicidality."
Most of the 24 clinical trials were completed in the latter half of the
1990s and lasted from four to 16 weeks. Sixteen trials involved major
depression, four trials involved obsessive-compulsive disorder, two trials
involved generalized anxiety disorder, and one trial each involved social
anxiety disorder and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.
The analysis identified 109 SREs that occurred within one of the 23
clinical trials conducted by industry and 11 SREs that occurred within the
Treatment of Adolescents With Depression Study (TADS), conducted by the
National Institute of Mental Health.
When the researchers analyzed the occurrence of SREs by specific clinical
trial, they found SREs occurred in 20 of the 24 trials. Risk ratios for an SRE
occurring to a patient taking active medication compared with a patient taking
placebo in individual clinical trials varied widely. The lowest risk ratio
(RR=0.30—meaning those taking a medication were 70 percent less likely
to suffer an SRE compared with those taking placebo) occurred in a trial
involving fluoxetine. The highest risk ratio (RR=10.15—meaning those
taking medication were 10 times, or 1,015 percent, more likely to suffer an
SRE while taking medication compared with those taking placebo) occurred in a
clinical trial involving venlafaxine.
Remarkably, however, the only individual clinical trial with a
statistically significant increased risk of an SRE associated with the active
medication was the TADS trial involving fluoxetine, where patients taking
fluoxetine were 4.62 times more likely to have an SRE than patients taking
With regard to the overall pooled risk of an SRE for each drug (most drugs
were investigated in more than one clinical trial), risk ratios ranged from
drugs associated with no SREs at all (nefazodone and bupropion) to the highest
risk (pooled RR=8.84) associated with venlafaxine (see chart on page 24).
Among the nine drugs, venlafaxine was the only one whose elevated risk reached
statistical significance.
Of note, the meta-analysis of the 17 clinical trials, which included a
standardized measure of change or emergence of suicidality, "revealed no
signal for excess suicidality for drug; that is, the [risk ratio] for
worsening of suicidality was 0.92 and for emergence of suicidality was
0.93." Thus, the researchers were troubled that they could not answer
the question: If the increased risk is not due to new suicidality and it is
not due to a worsening of pre-existing suicidality, then where did the
increased risk come from?
The bottom line for the analysis remains roughly the same as it was two
years ago. Hammad and his coauthors wrote, "[These results] can be
interpreted as indicating that when considering 100 treated patients, we might
expect one to three patients to have an increase in suicidality beyond the
risk that occurs with depression itself, owing to short-term treatment with an
Hammad, Laughren, and Racoosin were careful to emphasize the limitations of
their analysis, most significantly the post-hoc nature of the analysis in
which multiple outcomes and many subanalyses tend to increase the level of
uncertainty of the results. They also cautioned readers about overgeneralizing
the results in these 24 short-term clinical trials to patients in the general
public, who are significantly more likely to be taking these medications for
significantly longer periods of time.
Additionally, Hammad and his coauthors emphasized that the analysis"
cannot provide valid comparisons of the nine drugs studied."
They noted that the data were pooled to increase the statistical power of
the analysis for determining the suicidality risk of the nine antidepressants
as a whole or taken together.
Despite these and a few other noted minor limitations, the FDA team
concluded that "the observed signal of risk for suicidality represents a
consistent finding across trials, with many showing RRs of two or more."
Nonetheless, they cautioned, "an overall interpretation of this finding
and its implications for clinical practice are less clear."
"Suicidality in Pediatric Patients Treated With Antidepressant
Drugs" is posted online at<http://archpsyc.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/63/3/332>.▪
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Like the composition and the lighting was a bonus for you.
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You asked whereabouts in Tuscany was this? To be honest with you off the top of my head I cannot remember. I do know it was shortly after 0600hrs one morning while the mist was still around and the sun just had been up a while before that. I think it was out in the country around a placed called Sienna but if you really want to know I`ll see if I can get some info from my exif data which might place it for me re time and dates as I was moving around the area on that trip.
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I made this jacket from a Burda pattern for my Advanced sewing class at Brigham Young University. The skirt came from a pattern I got from an antique store made in the 1960s. I copied the pattern onto tissue paper to preserve the original and then altered it to make it my size using the "in-seam" method I've learned at my university. They both turned out really well, I think!
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shrivelSyllabification: shriv·el
Pronunciation: /ˈSHrivəl /
verb (shrivels, shriveling, shriveled ; British shrivels, shrivelling, shrivelled)
1Wrinkle and contract or cause to wrinkle and contract, especially due to loss of moisture: [no object]: the flowers simply shriveled up [with object]: a heat wave so intense that it shriveled the grapes in every vineyard
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- Like Bhikhu's right arm, this man's leg was shrivelled up.
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All points considered, apartment costs proven remarkably resistant throughout 2012. The Nationwide building society has reported which costs fell by 1% throughout the year however because the UK suffered its initially double-dip recession because the 1970s, the fall might have been a lot bigger.
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Blue Shield of California originally denied Jeanene Harlick's claim after she sought treatment at a Missouri center that focuses solely on eating disorders.
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Executive Chef, Jason Zygmont, has a lot of experience in some incredible restaurants - both in the south and abroad. He's spent a lot of time in Athens and loves this town. He has a promising career ahead of him.
Mr. Dale came to work at Five & Ten more than ten years ago with no professional cooking under his belt. Well now he's the sweet disposition cheffing up great Mediterranean fare daily at the National. Smart food. Athens adores Peter, as do I.
Chris Luken has been a partner, bean counter and libations boss at the National since it's beginning. He also is a partner in a wonderful local bar in Athens called the Normal Bar. He lives in Athens with his wife and three kids.
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I've known Whitney for a long time, in fact she was my Sous Chef when I headed up the kitchen at Five & Ten. She has come back to the mainland and launched Cinco y Diez in the old Five & Ten space. She cares about her food, is strong on the plate and demonstrates leadership in the kitchen.
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Finally saw a female monarch in my flower bed that is loaded with common milkweed actually laying some eggs. I kinda thought that when the flowers started blooming that they will come. So far I've collected 4 and I thought I'd leave the area so she wasn't so nervous. I have also this Spring released 3 red admirals and have collected 3 more cats of those. I also released a black swallow tail. I have 4 monarchs in chrystalis forn and 2 3rd instars.
This will keep me busy
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The lunisolar calendar, in which months are lunar but years are solar—that is, are brought into line with the course of the Sun—was used in the early civilizations of the whole Middle East, except Egypt, and in Greece. The formula was probably invented in Mesopotamia in the 3rd millennium
. Study of cuneiform tablets found in this region facilitates tracing the development of...
Jewish calendar
Judaism (religion)
Lunisolar structure
The Jewish calendar is lunisolar—i.e., regulated by the positions of both the Moon and the Sun. It consists usually of 12 alternating lunar months of 29 and 30 days each (except for Ḥeshvan and Kislev, which sometimes have either 29 or 30 days) and totals 353, 354, or 355 days per year. The average lunar year (354 days) is adjusted to the solar year...
"lunisolar calendar".
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Growth is painful. Change is painful.But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don't belong.Mandy Hale (via basicsofman)
Since I've been home I've been driving my brother's old car. It's basically a hail-dented cockpit with an engine. When I first drove it yesterday, I didn't like the seats, the clutch, the mirrors, the stereo, the seat belts…
But tonight I drove into the prairie at sunset and back home in the dark, and I loved everything about it. The shape of the shift knob felt right in my hand — better than any car I've driven. The pulsing reverb from the engine wasn't annoying, but a pleasing confirmation. Even the way the whole thing shook when I slowed down to a stop was a little charming.
Only one thing broke this weird little trance: just as I was crossing back into town, the most singularly perfect cricket chirp came through the window. I was driving 60 mph. I was listening to music. I can't even begin to explain the physics of the situation. It's impossible. But I heard this cricket just as clear as if it had been sitting on my shoulder.
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Hello, i have recently experienced a BSOD twice, once whilst playing The Walking Dead game and the other when my PC booted up. I have attached the data from the SF Diagnostic tool and the latest minidump i have of the BSOD. Hope someone could identify the issue.
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Over 10,000 students around the world have trained with The Four Winds Society in the practice of Shamanism and Energy Medicine. Whether you are looking for personal transformation, to become a Practitioner of Shamanic Energy Medicine, or continuing your professional development – Alberto Villoldo and the Four Winds, welcome you to begin your journey.
The Four Winds Society offers
3 complementary learning tracks.
The Light Body School for those seeking
to become Energy Medicine Practitioners.
The Medicine Wheel for those looking for a
condensed, in-depth personal growth curriculum.
The Advanced Journey for students who are ready
to move into an advanced Masters curriculum.
The Four Winds also offers Spiritual Expeditions to Peru and Chile for those who want to steep their journey with adventure at the great power places of the Andes. No matter where you live or what you do, there are opportunities to begin your education with The Four Winds today.
Light Body School: Luminous Healing
& Energy Medicine Certification Courses
The Light Body School, known as the Harvard of neo-shamanism, offers the student the opportunity to become
a certified shamanic energy medicine practitioner. As a certified practitioner you will have the knowledge
and skills to work with clients one-on-one or by phone to create lives filled with health and grace.
- Shamanic Wisdom: South Class - In the South, the first course in the Light Body School, we learn to empower ourselves and bring healing to others. We explore in-depth the concept of the Luminous Energy Field and learn the Illumination process, the core foundational healing practice of shamanic energy medicine By clearing issues stored in the Luminous Energy Field, we learn to shift the energetic programming of what shows up in physical reality.
- West (Extraction) -In the West we are introduced to the shaman's perceptual states, learning to track or "see" phenomena on physical, emotional, mythic and energetic levels. Working with the Luminous Energy Field, we learn the shamanic art of Extraction – how to remove negative energies to free up the flow of light and energy and promote optimal health on the level of the body, emotions and soul.
- North (Soul Retrieval) - In the North, we learn the art of Soul Retrieval, another foundational technique in shamanic healing and energy medicine. Through Soul Retrieval, we can help others to reconnect with parts of themselves that may have been lost through grief or trauma. We learn to help re-write disempowering contracts with life, so others may reclaim and embody their true essence and step fully into a life of grace and abundance.
- East (Life and Death Rites)–In the East, we learn the Great Death Rites and the art of Dying Consciously – being fully aware and awake when we die. By stepping into the shoes of the dying person, we come to understand and fully experience the elements of the dying process so that we may help them step into the Greatest Journey with grace and dignity. The East also teaches us how to empower others to fully live a rich and authentic life in every moment.
- Reading the Signs of Destiny – In Reading the Signs of Destiny, we learn the art of shamanic seeing, fine-tuning our abilities to "see" or perceive the world of energy and spirit, while developing the skills and tools for shamanic tracking and divination. By awakening and strengthening our intuition, we are able to recognize and act upon the signs offered by nature, randomness, and chance events in our lives.
- Walking with Protection in the World – In Walking with Protection, we experience the power and force of intention. We also see and experience what distinguishes a shaman from a sorcerer, and come to understand the high level of integrity and ethics that come with stepping into the role of the shaman. This course also teaches additional practical shamanic extraction techniques and clearing methods, including how to clear homes, spaces and land.
- Working with the Sacred - In Working with the Sacred, we learn to step as shaman beyond the level of the body and mind, and enter the realm of ceremony, the mythic and the soul. This course explores the ancient myths and forces that guide our dreams and our journey through life, and offers valuable tools for working in ceremony to bring healing, transformation and balance to our lives.
- South & West Light Body Fast-Track - Los Lobos – Chile Tailored to those who wish to fast-track their training in Shamanic Energy Medicine, this program offers the opportunity to take the South and West classes in a comprehensive, intensive format led by Dr. Alberto Villoldo at Los Lobos – Chile.
- North & East Light Body Fast-Track - Los Lobos – Chile This unique program will be held at Dr. Villoldo's Sanctuary in Chile, nestled in a coastal mountain range adjoining a World Biosphere Preserve. This training offers the opportunity to take the South and West classes.
Medicine Wheel and Personal Enrichment Courses
The Medicine Wheel is for the student who is looking for in-depth personal transformation. This track offers the full benefit of the Light Body School while focusing specifically on the personal healing instruction of the first three days of each LBS course. You will walk away with the same tools to create your life filled with health and grace without focusing on the client work.
- Medicine Wheel South (Illumination) – In the South, we learn to shed the past the way the Serpent sheds its skin. We come to recognize and release the stories that have shaped our lives, freeing ourselves to step fully into the present moment.
- Medicine Wheel West (Extraction) – In the West, the Way of the Jaguar, we step beyond our karmic and genetic inheritance, honoring the gifts (and releasing the wounds) of our ancestors, journeying beyond death to bring closure to what has been and allowing for a life of our choosing.
- Medicine Wheel North (Soul Retrieval) – In the North, we'll learn to step outside the confines of linear time, reconnecting through ceremony with our origins and ancient memories. We'll learn how to journey to Infinity, the place outside of time and space where all possibility and wisdom exists, to heal the past and chart new destinies.
- Medicine Wheel East (Life and Death Rites) – In the East, the Way of the Eagle, we'll let go of limiting core beliefs and projections and learn to fully manifest our dreams through energy, awareness and intent. We'll move beyond our personal healing work to step into our roles and responsibilities as Earthkeepers and stewards.
- Neuroscience of Enlightenment – The course teaches advanced shamanic techniques that help set the mind free from repetitive behaviors and limiting beliefs, while repairing the brain and body from symptoms of chronic stress and fatigue. Learn how to use food, supplements and shamanic practices to help you, your family and your clients heal from emotional suffering and step into enlightenment.
- Munay-Ki – The Peruvian Q'ero, the shamans of the Andes, have shared the energetic processes (or rites) of the Munay-Ki to help clear our bodies, minds and souls of heavy energies during this challenging time of great change and transformation on the planet. Nine rites are offered in this class; including protection, stimulating intuition, releasing heavy energies from the body and mind, and helping to align our soul with its higher purpose.
The Advanced Journey: Master's Level Certification Courses
The Advanced Journey takes students into the level of Master's training. Whether you are a professional seeking to take your skills to the next level, or you have taken the Medicine Wheel and are looking to deepen your personal practice, these are courses designed for enhanced learning opportunities. Medicine Wheel and are looking to deepen your personal practice, these are courses designed for enhanced learning opportunities.
- Advanced Divination and Seeing – This course in advanced Divination, Tracking and shamanic Seeing helps experienced practitioners to deepen their divination skills and sharpen their focus and intent to facilitate greater healing in themselves and others. Students also learn the art of the medical intuitive – how to read inside a person's body to examine organs, systems, tissues, and to diagnose spiritual disease.
- Advanced Soul and Destiny Retrieval – Deepen your skills in the advanced shamanic healing techniques of Soul Retrieval and Destiny Retrieval to assist others who have been derailed from their destiny by trauma or exceptional challenge. By learning to work in sacred time, in the the realm of the infinite, you can help others to step into their greatest destiny by influencing events outside of linear time.
- Mastery of Time – This powerful experiential training is one of our most popular Master's classes. Here you will learn to work at a place of infinity, consciously creating the time to come as you learn skills to master dream time, sacred time, and linear time. These shamanic techniques and processes will both deepen your personal work and add depth and ease to client work.
- Rites and Initiation – Gain a deeper understanding of the shaman's path of energy and enlightenment by exploring the great initiations of shamanism, including the passages that mark puberty, womanhood, manhood, and our sage years. You will also re-experience the rites of the Medicine Wheel, revisiting each transmission of energy in the traditional language of the Laika.
Spiritual Expeditions
Our Spiritual Expeditions to Peru and Chile are designed to offer unique and exciting adventures in the power places of the Andes. Each trip includes participation in ancient practices and ceremonies while experiencing the beauty and wisdom of the land of the Earthkeepers and the Wisdomholders of our lineage. while experiencing the beauty and wisdom of the land of the Earthkeepers and the Wisdomholders of our lineage.
- Chile – A Women's Medicine Journey - Join Marcela Lobos and Chile's Medicine Women for this extraordinary trip to Chile, where you will pray, dance and discover your feminine power, calling upon the spirits of the earth in ceremony and rites of passage. This intimate journey of sacred healing, clearing and transformation includes the rare opportunity to work directly with the Machi – Chile's Mapuche medicine women – who hold the sacred wisdom and passion of Mother Earth.
- Peru – Amazon One Spirit – Journey to the Amazon Rainforest with Marcela Lobos in a small, invitation-only experiential group to explore the meeting between the sacred jungle medicine and western spiritual disciplines.
- Peru – Amazon Expedition – A unique Amazon tour and expedition as you experience the visions and gifts of the Jungle. Sit in daily ceremony with the Shipibo shamans who hold the ancient healing traditions of Amazonian plant medicine, explore lush tropical Amazon flora and fauna with a native botanist, and experience a journey that will change your life forever. (Four Winds Society students and graduates only.)
- Peru – Via Iluminata – Dr. Alberto Villoldo personally leads this extraordinary spiritual journey and transformational adventure through Peru's Sacred Valley. You'll be welcomed by indigenous medicine men and women, visit sacred places, steep yourself in ancient ceremonies and experience the sights and sounds of one of our planet's most magical countries. Cusco, Machu Picchu, Pumamarca, Ollantaytambo, Moray, Sacsayhuaman… The adventure of a lifetime awaits.
- Peru – Lake Titicaca Expedition - Experience Lake Titicaca, ancient birthplace of the Children of the Sun and the source and origin of the Inka, who were born on the sea on top of the world. Surrounded by the beauty of islands virtually undisturbed since Inkan times, this unforgettable journey includes daily ceremonies and meditations at sacred sites considered among with world's foremost power places.
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Mangal and coastal salt marsh communities in Australasia
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Saenger, P, Specht, MM, Specht, RL & Chapman, VJ 1977, 'Mangal and coastal salt marsh communities in Australasia', in VJ Chapman (ed.), Wet coastal ecosystems, Elsevier Scientific Pub. Co, Amsterdam, pp. 293-345.
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The project aims to take visitors on a walk down the main pier at HarborArts. A response to the place itself, where people are drawn to leave the land and walk out onto the pier — where they can experience the water all around them and view the Boston skyline in a unique and complete panorama.
Boston is full of palpable history. Taking this walk out into the harbor, and thinking about where Boston is now, a city basically put on the map by the worldwide shipping trade, I can almost see the ships coming and going to places all over the world. This way, England, Europe. That way, the Pacific, China. That way, Africa and the Caribbean…
Our usual canonical view of Boston history seems to have a canon of white, Puritan & Revolutionary, homegrown stories. But really we also grew as a city by being widely connected, by traveling and having commerce around the world, and by the efforts, input, ingenuity, prosperity and suffering of many other nations and peoples. This is an effort to document some of that connection.
The surface of the pier is actually weathered cement. I'd originally thought to paint, but reconsidered. Part of the mission of the HarborArts space, and its founder Steve Israel, is to promote awareness of marine ecology. The whole area there is a study in the weathering of manmade items in harsh and changeable weather. In my mind paint is something that would eventually flake off and become pollution in the water. So I turned to dyes and stains- something that would sink into the pier surface and color it, and then gradually become weathered and faded.
This concept worked well with the idea of tattooing as a sailor's art form. Sailors would get tattoos to commemorate important events in their lives or important ideas. That was how the art form started in this country and in England: Sailors learned it from the Pacific Islanders, and from there it spread to the upper classes (quicker than you would think), and throughout our society.
So the idea of the project became: Creating tattoo designs for the pier, that point out the different places and peoples we have been connected to by sea.
These various cultures will be represented by their art motifs from the period of the last 400 years, the time of our connection. Tattoo motifs from some of the peoples who lived, sailed, or landed here, ceramic and fabric motifs from the cultures who sent us wares and ideas over the sea as part of our trade history… with some words of description and compass arrows to show the general direction of their land.
The walk should take visitors on a perceptual journey, orienting is in the world and in history, making people aware of our great interconnectedness in the world.
This could counter the even-now common approach to Boston history which tends to be inwardly focused on the achievements of local, white, men. To do this responsibly, I'm happy to be gaining input and collaboration from other artists and cultural historians of the cultures we're referencing.
According to the owners of the space, the tattoo designs on the pier have been very popular with both workers at the shipyard and with local residents, both from East Boston and those who live at the marina on small ships. Permission has been given by the owners to decorate the whole pier surface. We're installing now, painting most Sunday-Monday-Weds-Friday afternoons, and aim to complete the project by HarborArts Festival on Sept. 20th, 2014.
We have at least 14 tattoo designs planned, with connecting motifs. So far 6 of these have been created or at least sketched out! If we also decorate out into the parking lot, we believe we'll qualify as the World's Largest Tattoo!
- Responding to and capitalizing on the powerful sense of place one feels when there overlooking the harbor and city;
- Taking that great blank canvas and using it to create a more inclusive story for Boston;
- Creating a message of peace and goodwill that everyone can relate to;
- Acknowledging that we're all in this together, and always have been.
- I think the celebration of that is what Boston needs now and what we need as a species.


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Things A Scene Needs
Each character in a scene needs a goal. Obviously the main character's goal is the most important, but every character should be aiming for something, and those goals should be acted on and in doing so affect one another.
This doesn't just refer to the protagonist/antagonist relationship, it should be true of all characters in a scene.
If Jack's goal is to rob a bank and Jerry, the lookout, is starving hungry and wants to find something to eat, then Jerry's goal is just background colour. If, however, Jerry abandons his lookout post to grab a sandwich and Jack ends up getting caught, then the goals all become pertinent to the same story.
It isn't necessary to have the goals be similar or to run together, there are many ways to make them intersect. But if you let characters have inconsequential goals (inconsequential to the story) then although it will be perfectly believable it will be little more than a distraction from the main storyline.
This needs to happen in every scene, even the ones where people are reflecting on events or regrouping. The character must be looking to achieve something specific (although they may not succeed). The more tangible the goal the easier it is to hold the reader's attention. The more you focus on what a character's thinking the harder. It's still possible, and most stories require some pondering, but the longer it goes on, the more difficult to hold on to the attention.
Some writers are very skilled at this kind of interior monologuing where the goal is to figure stuff out by thinking it through. Most writers are not.
If Jane wants to know why Dave left her and so thinks about things he said and what he meant, it will be very hard to raise the level of musing above wallowing self-pity.
If she decides to track down his ex-wife and get answers from her, then it becomes much more interesting.
That's not to say the more metaphysical approach can't be effective if done right, but it's important it understand the balance and where things will be stacked against you.
A common approach is to have a character enter a scene with no clear idea of what he wants and he's just hanging out to see what happens. Him working out what needs to be done is treated as part of the story, and this is obviously something that happens in real life. But the problem with it isn't that it isn't realistic, the problem is that it's usually tedious to read.
It ends up being a long wait on the runway before taking off. And who enjoys sitting on the tarmac waiting for the flight to get going?
Once you know what it is a character wants it's important to give them a plan of action. They need some kind of strategy and to implement it. Waiting to see how things pan out or what the other person's move is first moves the focus off your main character. They in effect become a secondary character in their own story.
Each scene should also create the reason for another. This doesn't mean it spells out what's going to happen or how, but the reader should be aware that there is something more that needs to be addressed.
When a scene feels like it has come to a conclusion and stops like that's the end, even when it isn't, even when it's obvious since there's a big chunk of pages still to read, it kills the flow. That doesn't mean the reader will stop reading, but that momentum you'd built up will dissipate.
You don't necessarily need a cliffhanger or a big revelation at the end of each chapter, but you do need to show the story has places to go. It's not enough to have places the story will be going, you need to make sure the reader is aware if it.
It may seem perfectly feasible to let the reader discover where the story is going and what the character has planned as and when they happen in the story, but the rule of thumb is very simple: If the character knows so should the reader. The goal, the plan, the next step, these are all things the character will be aware of in each scene. And so should the reader.
By the end of the scene the story shouldn't be in the same place it was at the start of the scene. Events have to make the reader feel like things are progressing. They may not go according to plan, or things may actually get worse, but we shouldn't be where we were. If events instigate no change then there's no point in telling the reader about them. It's just more taxiing up and down the runway.
What does your character want? What are they doing to get it? What are the consequences of the attempt?
Those three questions should be answered in each and every scene.
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In many a detective movie, there is a scene where the security truck pulls up in front of the bank. As the guards transfer the cash, the robbers strike. If we happen to be watching such a film and we see what could be a setting for a scene like this, we are entitled to imagine that we know what is coming. But if we are simply strolling down our own high street and we come upon a bank and a truck, our adrenaline need not rise. Don't mistake, today, some factors that could look a bit like trouble... for trouble itself.
They say 'there is no smoke without fire'. But steam can look a lot like smoke. It can billow up in great clouds and then hover over the horizon, giving the casual observer the distinct impression that a great blaze must be causing all this somehow. Only if you are close enough to be able to use your nose will you necessarily be able to distinguish between the two. You may now be looking at a fog but it isn't being caused by a flame. Be willing to consider an innocent explanation for what could too easily be mistaken for a menace.
You didn't get to where you are now by accident. A series of regrettable mistakes have not been made. Wherever you now hold power, it is because someone considers it safe to entrust you with this. Their decision is not dubious. You have got skill and experience. You have art, acumen and ability. You really ought to trust the tricks and techniques that you have so slowly and painstakingly acquired. Your natural instinctive response to a challenge or an opportunity today deserves to be trusted and supported.
Is this an impossible world because it seems to be full of people who keep asking impossible questions? Or is it impossible because, despite the fact that so many people are asking impossible questions, sometimes at least they come across impossible answers, which strangely seem to satisfy them? You may or may not be within your rights to want what you now want but it is not beyond the grounds of probability that you will yet end up having your wish granted anyway. Don't wonder what's wrong, be glad of what's right.
We all know the story about twigs. When separated and placed under pressure, they can each easily snap. When tightly tied into a bundle, they can resist and withstand almost any force. We all understand the allegory. There is some safety in numbers and some protection in working as part of a close-knit team. But it isn't always possible to achieve all that, when one twig can hardly stand the sight of another and individual differences are being exacerbated. Yet now, it seems, there is real potential for mutual support.
None of us find it easy to summon enthusiasm for a plan or a project if we can't really see the point of it. At best we may muster a little energy to show support for someone who is clearly more enamoured with the idea than we are. But ultimately, if we are not persuaded, how can we hope to get engaged? What has been missing from a sensitive situation in your life lately, has been commitment and motivation. Thankfully now, those two elusive and important qualities can finally begin to come rushing back in.
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Perhaps you do not think of yourself as a magician. Perhaps nowhere in your wardrobe is there so much as a single dark blue velvet cloak with embroidered golden stars. When you introduce yourself to strangers and questions arise about your abilities and qualifications, perhaps you never so much as think of describing yourself as a worker of miracles. Yet have there not been some notable past occasions when that might indeed have served as an apt title? It would seem you are soon due to be considered worthy of it again.
When things don't work out as we expect them to, we are not entitled to assume that we must be doing something fundamentally wrong. It may even be that we are completely and utterly correct in the course that we have chosen, and the policy that we are pursuing, and that the only failing is in our inability to fully anticipate every eventual repercussion of a decision we have made. Had we only known what would happen, we might have been deterred. This might have led to a worse outcome. Keep that in mind today.
It isn't always wise to leave things to chance. Some moralists consider this an abrogation of responsibility. They say that we are derelict in our duty when we treat destiny with too much deference. Don't we have an obligation to evaluate our choices and to take what action we can to ensure the best possible outcome? Perhaps we do, if we can feel sure that we know what that outcome would be and sure too, that we actually have some ability to attain it. Things seem to be going in one particular way at the moment. How bad is that?


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When there is Ram in Ramzan and Ali in Dewali. Why do we still fight in the name of religion ?
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Because Islam has a concept called "Kafir". All Kafirs are evil ! and they should be killed.... that is why there is no peaceAnswered by abhishek mathur, 09 Oct '08 12:15 pm
But heart is not thereAnswered by Narayana Raja, 09 Oct '08 06:45 pm
I sincerely wish people like you should be more and more in numbers on this earth to enjoy both "Ram-jan" (Eid) and "Dew-ali" together. Great feeling.Answered by Vijay Shanker, 09 Oct '08 12:42 pm
I think that the only dividing line amongst Hindus and various other Religions is Vegetarianism and non-vegetarianism. But most of the Hindus are also non-veg. and some of the Muslims and other Religious people are Veg. Except this I do not think much difference.Answered by S BHARDWAJ, 09 Oct '08 12:17 pm
You have hit the point. Important is to see similarities and emphasis more and more on them so that acceptance of each other increases in abundance. But it is so unfortunate that I can see few on this forum keep encouraging comparisions of two/three religions and in the way they are always busy to show that their religion is the best and others are bad. And in the process keep spreading venom, obviousely who is going to like that someone is passing derogatory remarks in name of comparision with half knowledge. I don't know what these people are going to achieve out of comparision. The moment one is busy spreading his faith, all marketing propagada starts: Mine is the best, other are worst.Answered by Daredevils, 09 Oct '08 12:17 pm
Those who fight dont know if Ram is in Ramjan or Ali is in Sherawali or Diwali.Answered by Anamika, 09 Oct '08 11:55 am
Khalid, u r absolutely right ! But our religion-managers (priesthood) wont allow us to live in peace. They instigate the dull ones among us to indulge in all kinds of evils in the name God and relgion. Only with us fighting can they become more important and influential !Answered by Shunmugham, 09 Oct '08 11:40 am
A very nice question and thinking dear .But me and u cant help as it is done by some selfish people for their benefitAnswered by krish, 09 Oct '08 10:43 am
If we all learn and practice respecting eachother's faith, I see no issues any problems absolutely.Answered by Raghavendra Presendra Sinha, 09 Oct '08 09:50 am
Dear khalid , i hope it is only the spellings and part of it you are quoting.........they are not similar with what you actually have in mind. did you ever think that isha is there is ishaque and do you know the meaning of isha....... you are great.Answered by rakesh, 09 Oct '08 09:21 am


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Spot-on Jane Lane and Trent Lane from Daria cosplay by *Faulty Frame!
"Talks Slow, Thinks Fast." Here are 28 Daria quotes that suite any situation.
Minimalist posters by =Citron—Vert!
Now I know who it is! This wonderful artist was the person who made all of these and more. Go check out her other stuff on her deviant art profile! :)
Here's a fun chart by ~makani & Simbaga outlining each Harry Potter character's Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® type!
*We agree, we'd never pin Ron as an ENFP.
Character Artwork by Makani
Does anyone else find it strange that, for a website that is usually pretty good about mental health, Tumblr is somewhat obsessed with the Myers-Briggs Test?
Do people like it the way that total skeptics occasionally read horoscopes for shits and giggles?
No one really identifies themselves by the MBTI, right?
Tumblr's also obsessed with absolutes, with defining everything as either Best Thing Ever or Worst Human Ever with no wiggle room for things or people to change, and Myers-Briggs allows for a suitably wide range of combinations that allows everyone to compartmentalize themselves and still be a special snowflake.
Also, seriously? Draco Malfoy as the Strategist/INTJ? If anyone was a strategist in those books it was effin' Dumbledore.
Whoa there horsey. I don't have this alleged agenda of putting people in boxes because I think I know who they are better than they do— that would be idiotic, because Myers-Briggs is entirely based on how people see themselves, not how they're categorized by others. If you take a moment to look at my other charts like this one, you'll notice that the range of characters falling under each personality type is extremely wide, as are the people who repost them and talk about their type.
I don't just assume that all INTJs are conniving, or that all ENFPs are idiots, or that every INTP is just like Hermione. Pointing out people's similarities within a certain type is boring and redundant, and exclusively reserved for shallow things like horoscopes and tarot cards. These charts are meant to comment on the individualized nature of these sorts of psychological tests, and how people of completely different backgrounds and preferences can share things in common with characters that are, in reality, wildly different from them in an endless variety of ways.
By the way, I'm an ENFP, and I'm almost nothing like Ron. ;)
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I've been at work all day but just saw this gathering outside the Civic Centre.
I'll have to look at what's happened when I get home.
Could someone please explain to me why someone would buy a Blackberry and then copy the stuff in it onto a paper notepad?
Well, I'm off to the 4th Circle, but what about those people who think they're using Windows Double-Glazing Edition or that they don't need to plug their router in - because it's wireless!?!
HT to: No Cats on the Blog: http://72dotsperinch.blogspot.com/2010/02/dantes-internet.html
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This is pretty interesting in a geeky sort of way!
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Redemption through His Blood
"In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace" (Ephesians 1:7, NASB95)
If you've been following these devotionals, you know that I have argued that the personal pronouns "we" and "us" are a reference to God's chosen nation, Israel. So, Paul's word that "we have redemption through His blood" is specifically to the Jew. While the theological truth is valid for Jew and Gentile, the word Redemption has a specifically Jewish connection. The word literally means "separated by ransom." The ransom is "His blood" and was paid to the Law, to which the Jewish sinner was indebted because of law-breaking. In a sense, when we get a speeding ticket, we purchase our freedom from the law by paying a ransom to the law. The payment required by the Law of God was blood.
Why is this redemption specifically Jewish? Because the Jew was the only person under the jurisdiction of the Law. The Jew was ransomed, the Gentile was purchased (Acts 20:28), and both by the blood of Christ. Hebrews 9:13 says that the death of Jesus Christ was "for the redemption of the transgressions that were committed under the first covenant." The only people on earth committing sins under the first covenant were those who were under that covenant: the Jews. But Gentiles are also in need of justification. Prior to the death of Christ they were "without hope in the world" because the first covenant was not for them. Christ redeemed the Jew and purchased the Gentile, through His blood. Both the Jew and the Gentile, if saved, can rejoice in the fountain filled with blood.
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Is it OK to Hate a Terrorist?
- Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Terrorism is often practiced by political organizations to further their objectives. It is practiced by both right-wing and left-wing political parties, nationalistic groups, religious groups, revolutionaries, and ruling governments.
Consider that one person's freedom fighter might well be another person's terrorist. Soldiers in the American revolutionary war were considered to be heroes for American liberty while concurrently considered to be terrorists by the British government.
Allow me to share some personal thoughts about the potential use of terrorism in America. I've felt somewhat threatened by recent developments that scare me. I will use these only for illustrations to show that terrorism has many definitions--some strike closer to home than others.
Some recent revelations are disquieting to me. They make me afraid (terror). When I read that Homeland Security has bought up over 2.5 BILLION bullets, I wonder why? Who needs that many bullets? Police officers don't have enough bullets to train. Police departments are bartering with each other for bullets. The reason given for the purchases is to be prepared for "civil unrest." We are talking here about the US government possibly targeting citizens who potentially disagree with official government policies. By the way, what good is it to win the "gun control issue" when there are no bullets to be had--perhaps a sneaky way to negate the gun control issue.
The Benghazi fiasco looks to me like the government actually lied several weeks before the last election in order to allow our president a better chance to win. It is plausible deniability to communicate that an anti-Muslim biased American film could be the reason for destroying an American embassy, and the Americans within, with AK-47s and RPGs. It took several weeks for the truth come out. The attack was an Al Qaeda terrorist attack from the start. By the time the truth was known, the presidential election was all but over. We hear that the "talking points" were changed at the last moment to reflect a mob out of control and not a terrorist attack in order to put the administration in a better light. Not being able to trust the highest levels of government scares (terrorizes) me.
There is no doubt now that the IRS targeted for extra scrutiny conservative groups which held different views than the current administration--even questioning some groups concerning what they prayed about in their prayers.
It's currently alleged that the administration is threatening prosecution while spying on A.P. reporters. This threatens freedom of the press and freedom of speech, and speaks of governmental control over what we think and say.
Consider the implications for our Constitution and Bill of Rights (the first ten amendments to the Constitution). In my personal view three of our Bill of Rights are currently under fire. The trends are frightening to me.
First Amendment: Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, the right to petition the U.S. government for redress of grievances.
Second Amendment: The right to keep and bear arms.
Tenth Amendment: Powers not granted to the Federal Government by the constitution, nor prohibited to the States are reserved to the States or the people.
I've tried to show that terrorism takes many forms from individual acts to nations with nasty agendas. But, let's deal with terrorism in what we might consider its most common form. The one which most of us have little trouble recognizing.
For our purposes, we will define terrorism as the use of violence and/or coercion, intended to create fear (terror); for the purpose of gaining publicity for a group, cause, or an individual, which are often perpetrated for religious, political or ideological goals; and that deliberately target or disregard the safety of non-combatants.
We are talking about the bombers of the Boston Marathon, Timothy McVey and the federal office building in Oklahoma, the KKK, and the 9-11 airplane bombers, and so forth. These all are acts of violence for political purposes. Let's also include those who walk into kindergarten classes and kill twenty preschoolers at a time or who enter a crowded movie theater and mow down eighteen innocent people with an AK-47.
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