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Dec. 17, 2009 In a pilot project that could help better manage the planet's strained natural resources, space-age technologies are helping a Washington state community monitor its water availability. NASA satellites and sensors are providing the information needed to make more accurate river flow predictions on a daily basis.
"World leaders are struggling to protect natural resources for future generations," said Jeff Ward, a senior research scientist at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, which is managed by Battelle. "These tools help us sustainably use natural resources while balancing environmental, cultural and economic concerns."
Ward manages a project on behalf of Battelle that is helping to better predict the flow of the Dungeness River, near Sequim, Wash., with data collected by NASA instruments. The project started by creating a new model that predicts river flows in the river's surrounding valley. It then expanded to help other communities in Kansas, Maine, Oregon and Washington state better manage their water and land resources with similar technologies.
The project -- called the North Olympic Peninsula Solutions Network -- is lead by the North Olympic Peninsula Resource Conservation & Development Council and supported by PNNL and others.
Lucien Cox of NASA will present the project's results Dec. 16 at the 2009 fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco.
The project will help regional natural resource managers assess the abundance -- or lack thereof -- of the Dungeness River. The river model was developed to show how NASA technologies like satellites, sensors and computational models could be used to improve short-term stream flow predictions. The river model relies on snowpack and temperature data collected from satellites, as well as real-time snowpack and water data collected by various agencies.
The new Dungeness River model's calculations can tell what kind of flow to expect -- from a trickle to a deluge -- on a daily and monthly basis. Before, resource managers primarily relied on either water levels physically measured at gauges or historical data to predict total expected water volume over two to six months. Neither method provided flow predictions as frequently as the new model.
Having more precise river flow predictions is especially important along the Dungeness River, where the towering Olympic Mountains create a drying rain shadow effect and steep slopes prevent above-ground water reservoirs. Sequim receives just 15 inches of rain annually. Water is so treasured that the agricultural city is home to a 114-year-old festival that celebrates a historic irrigation system.
"Improving the accuracy of stream flow predictions is important to a diverse group of water users, including irrigation-dependent farmers, planners making urban growth decisions and those concerned about salmon survival or water quality," said Clea Rome, North Olympic Peninsula RC&D coordinator. "Stream flow prediction tools can help us avoid a crisis by alerting us before droughts are in full effect, giving us enough notice to adjust water use."
But the practical use of NASA technologies isn't limited just to Sequim or river water. The North Olympic Peninsula Solutions Network is helping four other resource, conservation and development councils tackle their unique problems.
Another resource -- soil -- has the Solomon Valley RC&D in north central Kansas concerned about agricultural tilling and erosion. Striking a balance between agriculture and forestry is critical for the Threshold to Maine RC&D in southwest Maine. The Wy'East RC&D is looking to better manage water supply and demand in north central Oregon. And in Okanogan, Wash., the possibility of water shortages worries the North Central Washington RC&D.
"Space technologies can help us get the best science to the ground, to the decision makers here in the Okanogan Basin," said Samantha Bartling, North Central Washington RC&D coordinator. "We expect it'll help us more precisely predict water availability for a long time to come."
The four councils are working with North Olympic Peninsula Solutions Network leaders to determine how NASA technologies can best address their different challenges.
The project is funded by a $1.6 million grant from NASA. More information can be found at the North Olympic Peninsula Solutions Network website, _URL_
Other project partners include: the Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Services; NRCS National Water and Climate Center; National Association of RC&D Councils; Idaho National Laboratory; Olympic National Park; Clallam County; The Dungeness River Management Team; The Elwha-Morse Management Team; Peninsula College and Pacific Northwest Regional Collaboratory.
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Can removing tattoo cause cancer? – Tattoo Removal Laser Sound
The most frequent reason for a woman to get a tattooed body part is either 'self-expression' (to get a tattoo and feel better about her appearance) or, less often, as an attempt to escape an embarrassing situation (e.g. 'he's always asking if I'm anorexic').
Infectious diseases: HIV/AIDS and Chlamydia
This has been the cause of so many painful scars (from a chlamydia or a venereal disease). A tattooed nipple has caused an infection in the skin (injecting your blood into the nipple causes an infection on the underside of the breast, which makes the tattoo disappear).
It's also well known that people with HIV/AIDS can cause a tattooed penis to disappear after they have been diagnosed with this disease.
There is no proof that a tattooed penis causes infection like this.
There are many different types of infections caused by diseases which most women are usually protected against.
There is an association between getting chlamydia and getting a tattooed penis, however people may be too embarrassed (and/or do not realise how bad the symptoms are) and not ask their healthcare provider about this as they don't want to be embarrassed.
Some women find the experience of having their body tattooed offensive to the penis and that this makes them want to hide the whole thing
Some women consider having their genitals tattooed offensive because the artist puts their own personal branding on them. Some women may find it offensive to have their genitals tattooed because they feel uncomfortable or ashamed of it. A tattoo may be too personal and painful for some women.
Having a tattooing operation also prevents women's fertile periods. Therefore, they often have a problem with pregnancy without being able to conceive. If they are pregnant, the baby could be born with a severe congenital deformity.
The vagina is also known to be more likely to get infected with STDs than most other parts of the body.
A woman with HIV or herpes can get a tattooed penis with little or no warning or indication
Many women with HIV/AIDS also get an erection and have the ink fall on the skin of the penis or their anus. This can cause serious infections when the tattoo is removed.
Some women may even find the experience of having their genitals tattooed offensive to the penis. Some don't
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Basically that is the question - if we have a DVI file can we get on the base on it the original TeX file?
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no, that is not possible. – Herbert Mar 4 '12 at 17:39
It is comparable to the task of decomposing a once baked cake into its ingredients. – Thorsten Donig Nov 11 '12 at 8:42
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The simple answer is no. If you have a dvi and have lost the TeX there are tools such as dvi2tty which will extract the text and some of the paragraph structure, but in general you will have to add the markup back by hand.
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Somewhat alike to disassembling a compiled executable: Yes, technically it can be done - but you will lose much of the information that was contained in the original TeX source.
For example, the DVI contains the text "see also chapter 11.2".
You might be able to turn this into text again, but the information that this was originally written as see also chapter \ref{sec:FooBar} is irrevocably lost.
Since this is the case, I don't think anyone has ever made the effort to write such a DVI-to-text converter, since the usability of such text would be severly limited.
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No, technically it cannot be done. DVI, PDF and postscript contain text arranged on a page according to instructions in a (La)TeX document. You can extract the text, and you can try to guess at commands that would generate a similar page, and you might even guess well. But you'd be doing it by matching the result. If there is a number in the text, for example, you can never know for sure if it was typed literally or came from a TeX counter. Imagine eating a cake and trying to reconstruct the recipe: If you're good you can identify the ingredients and guess a lot about what was done, but the recipe itself is not in the cake.
Despite what some others said, it's not at all like disassembling: Executable code contains the algorithm, and disassembly just translates it to a human-readable language. Going from dvi to LaTeX is more like trying to reconstruct a C program from its output: Reverse engineering is a better term for it.
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PS files would be tremendously difficult to convert back to TeX.
With DVI files I think it would at least be partially possible. Of course all high-level macros and stuff like that would be lost. Compare the task to recovering, e.g., C++ code from a compiled binary file.
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A project to return ancestral remains to one of the earliest sites of Māori settlement in New Zealand is providing a rich source of data for researchers in the Departments of Anthropology, and Anatomy and Structural Biology.
The project involved reburying koiwi tangata (human remains) excavated by Canterbury Museum from the 1930s to the 1960s from Wairau Bar near Blenheim.
A team led by Associate Professor Richard Walter was appointed archaeological consultants for the project, with the Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology's Dr Hallie Buckley co-ordinating biological anthropology analysis of the skeletal remains.
Before the reburial took place in April this year, the archaeology team – comprising members of the Anthropology Department's Southern Pacific Archaeological Research Unit – conducted a detailed survey and excavation at the site.
"Our role was to find the appropriate places for them [koiwi] to be reburied, but, at the same time, to carry out research-based excavation," explains Walter, adding that the aim of the research side of the project is to understand the nature of the Wairau Bar site and the way of life of its inhabitants.
Wairau Bar is regarded as one of the most significant archaeological sites in New Zealand because of the range and amount of materials found there, and its status as one of the earliest known sites of settlement in New Zealand (dating back to the 14th century). It is also important archaeologically because its artefacts provided the first conclusive evidence that New Zealand was settled from East Polynesia.
Walter says early archaeological investigations have shown the site is much larger than previously thought – about 11 or 12 hectares – and was probably only occupied for a short period, maybe for less than a century.
"And it looks like it had a very wide range of specialist activities taking place on the site – a lot of different manufacturing, like ornaments, different types of adzes, fish hooks, those types of things." Buckley's part of the project has involved re-evaluating the skeletal remains before they were returned to Wairau Bar and conducting ongoing research.
Buckley is a senior lecturer in the Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology. She is also a biological anthropologist, focusing on excavating and analysing human skeletal remains from archaeological sites in the Pacific Islands.
There are two levels to the team's research. One is macroscopic work – recording everything visible with the naked eye and studying health and disease from examining the surfaces of bones and teeth. The other is using stable isotopes to study aspects such as diet and migration patterns. Buckley says skeletal remains can tell us much about the people and the way they lived. "Basically, you can, from looking at the skeletal material, tell a story or reconstruct the past." Early results have confirmed the occupants of Wairau Bar were Polynesian, being strong, muscular, and well-built - physical characteristics revealed by the size and shape of the muscle insertions in their bones.
They were also suffering from degenerative diseases such as osteoarthritis, which Buckley says is common among many prehistoric people because of their strenuous lifestyles. And they had poor oral health, with evidence of caries and periodontal disease, probably a reflection of their diets having a sugary and starchy component – again not unusual among prehistoric people. The team has also found evidence of gout, which is consistent with other research on prehistoric Polynesians and is linked to the high incidence of the disease among Māori and Pacific Islanders today.
Regarding diet, archaeological evidence from the faunal remains excavated from the middens suggests the people of Wairau were exploiting a lot of moa, a wide range of forest and sea birds, as well as fish and shellfish. Although there is no direct evidence for the plant component of the diet, it is likely that they also had access to kumara and forest foods, such as karaka berries.
Dietary isotope work is examining the ratios of carbon and nitrogen in bone collagen to provide a quantitative assessment of these different marine and terrestrial sources of food. "So we can look at how much protein people were eating, how much of their diet was made up of terrestrial plant foods – how much they were reliant on horticultural food – and how much on moa and marine sources," says Buckley.
"They were generally a healthy people, but had evidence in their skeletons, bones and teeth which suggests that they had to work very hard to survive."
Isotope analysis of teeth will potentially shed light on migration, addressing the question of whether some of the people buried at Wairau Bar may have spent their childhood somewhere else. "This is potentially very important because the teeth of an adult develop during childhood so, if someone spent their childhood somewhere else, their teeth will reflect the geology of that place. We use strontium isotopes and trace elements, and they come from the groundwater, so basically the food you eat and the water you drink is all reflected in the teeth and the bone."
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Kirthi Devleker, MathWorks
Deep learning is increasingly being incorporated into applications involving signals/time-series data such as voice assistants, digital health, and radar and wireless communications.
In this video, you will learn how you can leverage techniques, such as time-frequency transformations and wavelet scattering networks, and use them in conjunction with convolutional neural networks and recurrent neural networks to build predictive models on signals.
You will also see how MATLAB® can help you with the four steps typically involved in building such applications:
Deep learning continues to gain popularity in signal processing with applications like voice assistants, digital health, radar and wireless communications. With MATLAB, you can easily develop deep learning models and build real-world smart signal processing systems. Let's take a closer look at the four steps involved.
The first step in building a deep learning model is to access and manage your data. Using MATLAB, you can acquire signals from hardware devices from a variety of sources.
You can also generate synthetic signal data via simulation or use data augmentation techniques if you don't have enough data to begin with.
MATLAB simplifies the process of accessing and working with signal data that is either too large to fit in memory or if you have large collections of signal data.
Once the data is collected and ready, it's now time to interpret the signal data and label it. You can quickly visualize and analyze your signals using the Signal Analyzer app as a starting point.
You can label signals with attributes, regions, and points of interest, and use domain-specific tools to label audio signals to prepare your data for training.
Moving on to the next step.
There are two approaches for performing deep learning on signals.
The first approach involves converting signals into time-frequency representations and training custom convolutional neural networks to extract patterns directly from those representations. A time-frequency representation describes how spectral components in signals evolve as a function of time.
This approach enhances the patterns that may not be visible in the original signal.
There are a variety of techniques for generating time-frequency representations from signals and saving it as images, including spectrograms, continuous wavelet transforms or scalograms, and constant-Q transforms.
The second approach involves feeding signals directly into deep networks such as LSTM networks. To make the deep network learn the patterns more quickly, you may need to reduce the signal dimensionality and variability. To do this, you have two options in MATLAB:
You can manually identify and extract features from signals, or
You can automatically extract features using invariant scattering convolutional networks which provide low-variance representations without losing critical information
Once you select the right approach for your signals, the next step is to train the deep networks which can be computationally intensive and take anywhere from hours to days. To help speed this up, MATLAB supports training on single or multiple NVIDIA GPUs on local machines or cloud-based systems. You can also visualize the training process to get a sense of the progress long before it finishes.
Finally, you can automatically generate optimized CUDA code for your signal preprocessing algorithms and deep networks to perform inference on embedded GPUs.
To learn more about our deep learning capabilities, check out mathworks.com. We have a large collection of examples to help get you started with using deep learning for signals.

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Does the Keeling Curve Still Need a Keeling?
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In my long article in Wednesday's paper on the rising level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, I mention that two programs financed by taxpayers conduct measurements at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii and other locales. Some people who read the article may ask themselves: Do we really need two?
In his father's footsteps: Ralph KeelingSandy Huffaker for The New York Times Ralph Keeling
Perhaps surprisingly, one of the people asking that question is Ralph Keeling, who runs the program founded by his father at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
As I reported in the article, Charles David Keeling was the scientist who first developed techniques for making accurate measurements of carbon dioxide. Starting in the late 1950s, he used them to prove that the level was rising because of the combustion of fossil fuels. The resulting graph of rising carbon dioxide levels became known as the Keeling Curve, and it was essentially the start of the modern science of climate change.
By the time Dr. Keeling died in 2005, his son Ralph had already established his own reputation in atmospheric science. Starting as a graduate student at Harvard, he had built the first machine that could take exceedingly accurate measurements of oxygen in the atmosphere. He had joined the Scripps faculty, and it naturally fell to him to take over his father's program.
But the United States government, which has always run the Mauna Loa Observatory, has been operating its own carbon dioxide measurement programs since the early 1970s. So the Scripps program and the government program have run in parallel for more than three decades. Tensions sometimes flared between David Keeling and the government, and he had to fight continual battles to keep from losing his funding.
His son has essentially inherited those same problems: no funding source for the carbon dioxide measurements that lasts beyond a few years and doubt in many people's minds, including his own, about whether they are still needed. In an extended interview at Scripps, in La Jolla, Calif., Ralph Keeling told me that the carbon dioxide program had only partial funding at the moment, from the Energy Department. And he worries about who will continue the program as he grows older.
"At some point, the Keelings need to no longer be associated with the Keeling Curve," he told me.
But Dr. Keeling also said he did not feel that now was the right time to kill the program. Climate science is under intensive scrutiny, with contrarians questioning virtually every aspect of the research. Even though the government and Scripps take their samples from many of the same places, including Mauna Loa, the vital work of calibrating the measurements is performed in separate laboratories, and that means the programs are genuinely independent of each other. So any time the measurement record comes under attack, an alternate version is readily at hand.
One scientist who uses the Scripps record in exactly this way is none other than the man who runs the government's measurement program, Pieter P. Tans. "I have a fair amount of interaction with so-called skeptics," Dr. Tans told me in an interview. "They challenge me and say, 'You have an artifact here, you're not thinking of this, you're doing that wrong.' "
One of his strategies is to point to the Scripps record. "I can say, here's a completely independent program, and here's how it compares," he said. It matches the government record almost exactly, strong proof that the measurements are accurate. Comparisons are also routinely made with measurements taken by other governments.
One might argue that Dr. Tans's agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, ought to finance the Scripps program, which costs something under $1 million a year to run. But NOAA is a small agency that struggles to keep its existing programs going, and Ralph Keeling said he would not feel comfortable seeking money from it because he is convinced that any money he got would come at the expense of his colleagues there. "It would not be a positive outcome," he said.
The situation reflects a larger problem in American science. The premier agencies that allocate funds, like NASA and the National Science Foundation, like to sponsor new projects and leading-edge measurements, but are often reluctant to continue the work for decades after the value of the measurements has been proven.
Ralph Keeling suggests that an act of Congress may be needed to fix this problem, making clear to all agencies that maintaining vital measurements is part of their job. (He has stopped seeking N.S.F funding for the carbon dioxide measurements, but is getting money from that agency at the moment to build a digital archive of some of the information his father gathered in the era before computers.)
Dr. Keeling is entertaining the idea of seeking foundation support for the Scripps program, perhaps at a level sufficient to allow him to hire a deputy to run it day-to-day. We will see how that turns out.
What Dr. Keeling did not say in the interview, but many of his colleagues do say, is that it would be perceived as a loss if he were to withdraw entirely. In his colleagues' view, he has established a record of painstaking measurement that nearly matches his father's legendary exactitude.
I suspect that over the next year, as climate scientists find themselves interrogated by skeptical Republicans who are taking over the House of Representatives, a lot of them are going to be glad that the Keeling Curve, the symbol of their science, still comes bearing the imprimatur of an actual Keeling.
The Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii continuously monitors atmospheric composition. Jonathan Kingston for The New York Times The Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii continuously monitors the composition of the atmosphere.


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Degrees of Lust
yathadarso malena ca
tatha tenedam avrtam
(Bhagavad Gita 03.38)
Translation: As ﬁre is covered by smoke, as a mirror is covered by dust, or as the embryo is covered by the womb, the living entity is similarly covered by different degrees of this lust.
Purport: There are three degrees of covering of the living entity by which his pure consciousness is obscured. This covering is but lust under different manifestations like smoke in the ﬁre, dust on the mirror, and the womb about the embryo. When lust is compared to smoke, it is understood that the ﬁre of the living spark can be a little perceived. In other words, when the living entity exhibits his Krishna consciousness slightly, he may be likened to the ﬁre covered by smoke. Although ﬁre is necessary where there is smoke, there is no overt manifestation of ﬁre in the early stage. This stage is like the beginning of Krishna consciousness. The dust on the mirror refers to a cleansing process of the mirror of the mind by so many spiritual methods. The best process is to chant the holy names of the Lord. The embryo covered by the womb is an analogy illustrating a helpless position, for the child in the womb is so helpless that he cannot even move. This stage of living condition can be compared to that of the trees. The trees are also living entities, but they have been put in such a condition of life by such a great exhibition of lust that they are almost void of all consciousness. The covered mirror is compared to the birds and beasts, and the smoke-covered ﬁre is compared to the human being. In the form of a human being, the living entity may revive a little Krishna consciousness, and, if he makes further development, the ﬁre of spiritual life can be kindled in the human form of life. By careful handling of the smoke in the ﬁre, ﬁre can be made to blaze. Therefore the human form of life is a chance for the living entity to escape the entanglement of material existence. In the human form of life, one can conquer the enemy, lust, by cultivation of Krishna consciousness under able guidance.


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The Thunder Creep (ingame name Ukkoshyypiö) is a ghostly enemy, mainly found floating around The Tower and the Cloudscape. It possesses no attacks of its own, but is constantly surrounded by an always-active Projectile Thunder Field. Like the Hyypiö and Hohtava hyypiö, it will chase the player relentlessly until killed or blocked by terrain.
Behaviour[edit | edit source]
Because this creature is entirely non-aggressive, it will never attack the player. The real danger comes from its innate Thunder Field that constantly surrounds it. Upon being attacked by a projectile from afar, it will reflect it back as a Lightning Bolt. If shot from within the circle, the lightning will strike out from it instead, away from the player. This can be beneficially exploited by the player as a potentially cheap and rapid way to produce lightning bolts, albeit *only* lightning bolts. The usual considerations and risks of using lightning spells still apply, so use carefully.
Combat Tips[edit | edit source]
The Ukkoshyypiö's unique properties require a less conventional approach to defeating it.
 - The most reliable and effective way is to attack it from within the Projectile Thunder Field itself, as only spells that cross the Projectile Thunder Field border will be turned into lightning.
 - You can also kick it, but with your foot's low damage output you'd be at it for quite a while. The Never Skip Leg Day perk makes this a much more viable option.
 - You can suffocate it by drowning it in a powdery substance or terrain.
 - Explosive spells will also work, as long as the projectile is detonated outside of the influence of the thunder field and the explosion is large enough to reach.
 - Dropping/kicking physics entities like rocks, tablets or barrels at it will quickly finish it, and may be the safest option if no other means are available.
 - It is immune to its own lightning, and highly resistant to the explosions from it.
If you lack the means to kill it, however, the safest option is to keep your distance as much as possible.


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Professor Cathy Shrank
More about Cathy
Cathy's research focuses on 16th and early 17th century literature. Her interest in this area dates back to her undergraduate degree at the University of Cambridge. She stayed on at Cambridge to do an MPhil in Renaissance Literature, during which she found a particular enthusiasm for Tudor writing, which she developed during her PhD on 16th century humanism and national identity.
Her publications are mainly on 16th century literature before Shakespeare, a period during which there were less obvious divisions between 'fictional' and 'non-fictional' forms, and the authors on whom she has worked include medical writers such as Thomas Elyot, William Bullein (accused of murdering his patron and patient), and Andrew Borde (a former Carthusian monk, turned physician and sometime spy, who renounced his teetotal vegetarian lifestyle and noisily advocated good English ale, great quantities of red meat, and the remedial power of laughter). The early modern period also inherited Galenic ideas of medicine, whereby both temperament and physical well-being were determined by the regulation of the four bodily humours, the balance of which was influenced by external factors such as diet and climate. The fluid and often almost beleaguered sense of self that results from this understanding of the human mind and body consequently pervades the writing of that period.


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In Part 1, I explained the meaning of the term literary of point of view (POV). I pointed out that:
- Every character in a literary work must have a POV.
- A character's POV is critical for how a literary work turns out.
- Only a small number of possible POVs exist.
- No complete consesus exists among literary scholars on what the POVs are or on how to define each of them. Different scholars disagree with one another.
- I identified the scholarly source I use for defining POVs.
In Part 1, I expressed my intention to explain the ten scholarly POVs I like to use in a series of postings to follow. To see Part 1 now, click here.
In this posting, I'm going to cover the first two of these ten literary POVs: 1) interior monologue, and 2) dramatic monologue.
A monologue a form of dramatic entertainment, a comedic solo, or similar prolonged talk or discourse by a single speaker, especially one dominating or monopolizing a conversation. Or, it's any composition, such as a poem, essay, novel, play, or screenplay in which a single person speaks; or it's a part of a drama in which a single actor speaks alone, as in a soliloquy.
An interior monologue is a special form of monologue arising in the field of literature and in writing generally. It's a monologue that narrates a character's inner thoughts. Hence the word interior.
In any writing in which an interior monologue takes place:
- If an interior monologue is being delivered by an actor on stage who is expressing his thoughts, the actor speaks the words aloud.
- If the speaker or thinker is reacting to his immediate surroundings, his interior dialogue tells the story of what is going on around him.
- If the speaker of thinker's thoughts are memories, the train of thought will review some past events associated with something in the present.
- If the speaker or thinker is mainly reflecting on something, the train of thought does not record the present or recall the past; his train of thought is the story itself.
Stream-of-consciousness writing is one of the most important kinds of interior monologue. The term stream-of-consciousness is borrowed from the filed of psychology, where a stream-of-consciousness is a person's train of thought or a succession of ideas and images constantly moving forward in time.
In stream-of-consciousness writing, a character's thoughts or perceptions are presented as occurring in random form, without regard for logical sequences, syntactic structure, or distinctions between various levels of reality.
Edouard Dujardin is credited with inventing the stream-of-consciousness technique in his 1887 novel, We'll to the Woods No More.
Novels, short stories, poems, or other literary forms may be written using the stream-of-consciousness technique.
Many stories written in the 20th and 21st centuries contain stream-of-consciousness interior monologues, but few of them are told entirely in this way. Two outstanding exceptions are James Joyce's Ulysses and Virginia Wolf's The Waves. The interior dialogue in William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying rotates among the minds of the characters.
A closely related kind of interior monologue appears in moving picture or television writing. In this kind of interior monologue, a character on screen does not appear to speak, although the character's voice is heard on the soundtrack to create the illusion that the audience is hearing the character's thoughts.
A dramatic dialogue is a literary form in which a single character reveals himself and his dramatic situation by addressing a silent auditor at a critical moment.
The character addressing the silent auditor is a particular person telling a particular story to a particular audience for a particular reason. As in real conversation, his speech is spontaneous and unrehearsed.
The silent auditor may be another character who appears in the work or he may not be a specific person at all–he may be the world in general, an abstraction.
Those of us who are overhearing what the character is saying to the silent auditor are eavesdropping. We can determine where the speaker is and to whom he is talking from the references he makes in his monologue.
A dramatic monologue occurs in a theatrical play whenever one character takes over the stage and talks for a long time uninterruptedly. Depending on circumstances, these kinds of monologues can have a variety of dramatic functions. Some of a character's speeches may provide information about what has taken place offstage; others may permit the character to explain himself, reveal himself, or betray himself.
Despite the term drama, many works containing dramatic monologues are not intended for the stage. For instance, many poems are dramatic monologues. Two examples are Browning's My Last Duchess and Marvell's To His Coy Mistress. Joseph Conrad uses this technique in his long short story, The Heart of Darkness. And Albert Camus uses this technique throughout his entire novel, The Fall.
What's next?—Part 3
So far we've briefly explored two of the ten different kinds of literary point of view. Next time, in Part 3, we'll examine two more POVs: letter narration and diary narration. Visit Part 3 now: click here.
Good Reading, Writing, and Theater-Going!
The Muse Of Literature
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[Marjie Bloy, Senior Research Fellow, National University of Singapore has added the following from an early edition of the DNB]
Joseph John Scoles the architect, was born in London on 27 June 1798. He was the son of Matthew Scoles, a joiner, and Elizabeth Sparling. His parents were Roman catholics. Educated at the Roman catholic school at Baddesley Green, Joseph was apprenticed in 1812 for seven years to his kinsman, Joseph Ireland, an architect largely employed by Dr. John Milner (_PHONE_), the Roman Catholic bishop. During his apprenticeship, John Carter (_PHONE_), through Milner's influence, revised his detailed drawings, and he thus had his attention directed at an early period to mediæval ecclesiastical art. Ireland, as was customary at that period, frequently acted as contractor as well as designer, and from 1816 to 1819 Scoles was resident at Hassop Hall, Bakewell, and in Leicester, superintending works for Ireland.
In 1822 Scoles left England in company with Joseph Bonomi the younger for further study, and devoted himself to archæological and architectural research in Rome, Greece, Egypt, and Syria. Henry Parke and T. Catherwood were often his companions. He published in 1829 an engraved Map of Nubia, comprising the country between the first and second cataracts of the Nile, from a survey made in 1824 jointly by him and Parke, and a map of the city of Jerusalem; his plan of the church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem, with his drawings of the Jewish tombs in the valley of Jehoshaphat, was published by Professor Robert Willis in 1849. The plan of the temple of Cadacchio, contributed by Scoles to the supplementary volume of Stuart and Revett, was published without acknowledgment. Two sheets of classic detail, drawn by F. Arundale from sketches by Parke and Scoles in 1823, were published by Augustus W. N. Pugin in 1828. The illustrations to the article 'Catacomb' in the Dictionary of the Architectural Publication Society comprise plans of a catacomb in Alexandria drawn in 1823 by Scoles, Parke, and Catherwood.
Meanwhile in 1826 he returned home and resumed his practice. In 1828 he planned and carried out the building of Gloucester Terrace, Regent's Park, for which John Nash supplied the general elevation. Scoles designed for Lord Calthorpe. These, with some small additions and restorations to Burgh Castle and Blundestone churches, Suffolk, comprised all his work for the established church of England....
Scoles was elected a fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1835, was honorary secretary from May 1846 to May 1856, and vice-president in 1857-8. To the society's proceedings he contributed papers principally on the monuments of Egypt and the Holy Land, the outcome of his early travels. He died on 29 December 1863 at his residence, Crofton Lodge, Hammersmith.
Scoles married, in 1831, Harriott, daughter of Robert Cory of Great Yarmouth. Four sons and eight daughters survived him. There passed to the possession of his son, Augustus Cory Scoles, a watercolour drawing by John Hollins, A.R.A., representing Scoles in the native costume he had adopted when in Syria.
Works for the Roman Catholic Church (no illustrations onthis site)
- St. Mary's Chapel, South Town, Yarmouth (1830)
- St. Peter's Church, Great Yarmouth (1831)
- St. George's Church, Edgbaston
- Our Lady's Church, St. John's Wood (1832)
- St. Peter's Collegiate Church, Stonyhurst, Lancashire (1832)
- St. Ignatius, Preston, Lancashire (1835)
- St. James's, Colchester (1837)
- St. Mary's, Newport, Monmouthshire (1840)
- St. David's, Cardiff (1842)
- St. John's, Islington (1843)
- the Immaculate Conception, Farm Street, London (1844)
- St. Francis Xavier's, Liverpool (1844)
- Church of the Immaculate Conception, Chelmsford (1847)
- Church and presbytery of Great Yarmouth (1848-50)
- Chapel, Ince Hall, Lancashire (1859)
- Holy Cross, St. Helen's, Lancashire (1860)
- London Oratory, Brompton
- Convent, Sidney Street, Brompton
- Chapel, Prior Park College, Bath
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Let $\sigma_p(m,n)$ (resp. $\pi_p(m,n)$) denote the sum of the carries when adding (resp. multiplying) the numbers $m=\sum_{k\ge0}m_kp^k$ and $n=\sum_{k\ge0}n_kp^k$ using base-$p$ arithmetic where $m_k,n_k\in\{0,\dots,p-1\}$ for $k\ge0$. Let $s_p(m)=\sum_{k\ge0}m_k$ be the sum of the base-$p$ digits.
Question 1. Does someone know a reference for the following (cohomological) formulas? $$\sigma_p(m,n)=\frac{s_p(m)+s_p(n)-s_p(m+n)}{p-1},\quad \pi_p(m,n)=\frac{s_p(m)s_p(n)-s_p(mn)}{p-1}.$$
Question 2. Does someone know what $\pi_p(m,n)$ counts (besides the number of carries)?
I will happily type my (short) proofs if there is interest, and there is no obvious reference. A famous result of Kummer says that $\sigma_p(m,n)$ is the exponent of the largest power of $p$ dividing $\binom{m+n}{n}$. (The formula for $\pi_p(m,n)$ arose from a problem in finite geometry.)
Edit: Typo corrected ($\alpha$ changed to $\sigma$). Thanks R. Also, replaced 'number of carries' with'sum of carries' as $c_k>1$ happens, see proof below.
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Where did $\alpha$ come from? – R.. Sep 4 at 4:20
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In their article "Stolarsky's conjecture and the sum of digits of polynomial values"( _URL_ ), Hare, Laishram and Stoll show in Proposition 2.2 that the sum of digits is subadditive and submultiplicative. Although the proposition does not contain the formulae you gave, the proof proceeds by giving your formulae, and then concluding with the remark that the number of carries is non-negative.
Can you explain what these equation have to do with cohomology?
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Thanks Jan-Christoph. Prop 2.2 of the preprint states the formula for $\sigma_p(m,n)$, but not the formula for $\pi_p(m,n)$. (If it did then the proof of $s_p(mn)\le s_p(m)s_p(n)$ would be even shorter.) – Glasby Sep 5 at 1:01
It implicitly does. The displayed formula in their proof has two $\leq$-signs, each of which comes from sub-additivity. If you insert the more precise formula for $\sigma_p(m, n)$ at these places, you get the formula for $\pi_p(m,n)$. – Jan-Christoph Schlage-Puchta Sep 6 at 9:34
I was asked (offline) for a proof of the formula for the sum of the carries $\pi_p(a,b)$ when multiplying $a$ and $b$ in base $p$.
Proof. Multiplying the base-$p$ expansions $a=\sum_{k\ge0}a_kp^k$ and $b=\sum_{k\ge0}b_kp^k$ generates carries $c_0,c_1,\dots$ where $c_k$ is the carry generated by adding multiples of $p^k$. The base-$p$ expansion of the product $ab=\sum_{k\ge0}(ab)_kp^k$ is related to the $a_i$, $b_j$ and $c_k$ via the equations: \begin{align*} (ab)_0&=a_0b_0-pc_0\\ (ab)_1&=a_0b_1+a_1b_0+c_0-pc_1\\ (ab)_2&=a_0b_2+a_1b_1+a_2b_0+c_1-pc_2\\ &\ \vdots \end{align*} where $(ab)_k=\left(\sum_{i+j=k}a_ib_j\right)+c_{k-1}-pc_k$ for $k\ge1$. Adding these equations gives $$ s_p(ab)=\left(\sum_{i\ge0}a_i\right)\left(\sum_{j\ge0}b_j\right) -(p-1)\sum_{k\ge0}c_k=s_p(a)s_p(b)-(p-1)\pi_p(a,b). $$ Rearranging gives the desired formula for $\pi_p(a,b)$. The formula for $\sigma_p(a,b)$ is obtained similarly by adding $(a+b)_0=a_0+b_0-pc_0$ and $(a+b)_k=a_k+b_k+c_{k-1}-pc_k$ for $k\ge1.\ \ \square$
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The Red Sea (also the Erythraean Sea) is a seawater inlet of the Indian Ocean, lying between Africa and Asia. The sea is underlain by the Red Sea Rift which is part of the Great Rift Valley, that stretches across East Africa, it is about 48 km (30 mi) long. It is located in the eastern Serengeti Plains in the Arusha Region not far, about 45 kilometres (28 miles), from Laetoli. The connection to the ocean is in the south through the Bab el Mandeb strait and the Gulf of Aden. To the north lie the Sinai Peninsula, the Gulf of Aqaba, and the Gulf of Suez (leading to the Suez Canal).
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The Leakey family famously searched the Olduvai Gorge (within the Great Rift Valley in Tanzania) and found the fossilised remains of Homo habilis who was time dated to have occupied Olduvai from 1.9 mya. This led to further understanding the origins of the human race. From this area, over thousands of years, some of the early hominids moved away from their place of origin and travelled eastward and northward.
Topography of the Olduvai Gorge area
Map showing distance between Ethiopia and Tanzania
In Ethiopia, the remains of 'Lucy' (the common name of AL 288-1) in several hundred pieces of bone fossils representing 40 percent of the skeleton of a female of the hominin species Australopithecus afarensis. In Ethiopia, the assembly is also known as Dinkinesh, which means "you are marvelous" in the Amharic language. Lucy was discovered in 1974 in Africa, near the village Hadar in the Awash Valley of the Afar Triangle in Ethiopia, by paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.
Researchers are constantly tracing of the migrations within and Out of Africa.
Some early hominids moved to the Sudan and developed cultures, such as those who built around 200 pyramids. Meroe was the capital of the Kingdom of Kush, which was ruled by the Nubian kings. Up to 4,600 years old, the pyramids of Meroe were built in the what's known as Nubian style, marked by steep slopes and small bases.
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Yet other hominids moved across the dry bed of the Red Sea (the northern hemisphere ice age trapping all the water which would later flow and fill this important sea, with its wonderful and flourishing diversity being explored in the last decade – see _URL_
The hominids became adventurers, moving through the Arabian Peninsula into Asia. The climate changed over tens of thousands of years and hominids evolved and adapted, their brains grew with knowledge and experience.
Those who settled in ancient Yemen noted the twice yearly monsoons and developed irrigation systems to exploit these rains as they fell on the mountainous south west. This is where the frankincense tree was cultivated and large oases across this area were cultivated for millennia by the ancient people. There the date palms grew. Camels were first hunted as food, but later domesticated. Urban societies grew into cities until the Peninsula lay between two great powers by the 4th millennium B.C. Egypt to the west and Mesopatamia to the north east.
Some hominids had travelled to the Mediterranean. In 1993 bones of a young girl were discovered in a cave. In 2018, it was reported that an orthodontist has been able to reconstruct the young girl given the moniker of Avgi ('Dawn'), who lived during circa 7000 BC – thus being among the first inhabitants of what is now considered mainland Greece. Corresponding to the end of the Mesolithic Period, Avgi probably resided at the Cave of Theopetra in Thessaly, Central Greece. Theopetra Cave, in the Thessaly region, was first inhabited about 100,000 years ago, according to the Culture Ministry. Stone tools from the Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic periods have been discovered, as well as pottery from the Neolithic period.
Avgi, or Dawn, is believed to be aged between 15 to 18 based on an analysis of her bones and teeth. She has a protruding jaw, thought to be caused by chewing on animal skin to make it into soft leather – a common practice among people of that era – and a scowling expression.
Asked why she looked angry, orthodontics professor Manolis Papagrikorakis, who created a silicone reconstruction of her face from a terracotta mould of her head, joked: "It's not possible for her not to be angry during such an era."
Dawn was possibly anemic and may have suffered from scurvy, the researchers said. Evidence also pointed to hip and joint problems, which may have made it difficult for her to move and may have contributed to her death.
Such evidence gives us an idea of the struggle to survive to adulthood in those days of nomadic hunter gatherers.
Just before 6000 B.C. populations living in the East Mediterranean grew into Mycenaean Minoan cultures which in turn became the forcing ground for the great civilisations of Greece and Rome.
The remains of the once great Greek empire are extensive. Here a place in Sicily dating back to the 5th century BC:
Pictured here The Valle dei Templi map
The Valle dei Templi (Italian pronunciation: [ˈvalle dei ˈtɛmpli]; English: Valley of the Temples; Sicilian: Vaddi di li Tempri) is an archaeological site in Agrigento (ancient Greek Akragas), Sicily, southern Italy. It is one of the most outstanding examples of Greater Greece art and architecture, and is one of the main attractions of Sicily as well as a national monument of Italy. The area was included in the UNESCO World Heritage Site list in 1997. Much of the excavation and restoration of the temples was due to the efforts of archaeologist Domenico Antonio Lo Faso Pietrasanta (1783–1863), who was the Duke of Serradifalco from 1809 through 1812. The archaeological park and landscape of the Valley of the Temples is the largest archaeological site in the world with 1,300 hectares.
This was one of the major Greek-populated settlements of Magna Graecia, during what is termed as the golden age of Greek city-states (circa 5th century BC). The city, famous for its monumental Valle dei Templi (Valley of the Temples), was originally founded in the early 6th century by Greek colonists from Gela (in Sicily), and by the turn of the century, it possibly had a population of more than 100,000 people. And now, archaeologists have found evidence of one of the settlement's eminent civic structures, in the form of a large Hellenistic theater possibly dated from circa 4th century B.C.
In the research, the team thoroughly surveyed the Valley of the Temples, and located the remains of as many as 10 Doric shrines, each dedicated to a Greek god, goddess or hero, such as Juno, Heracles, Demeter and Persephone, Olympic Zeus, Vulcan, Concordia, Aesculapius and so on.
But those hominids who had travelled to colder climes were unable to settle comfortably and had to be content with less sophistication. The Greek historian Ephorus, in the fourth century B.C, claimed there were four great barbarian peoples in the known world: the Libyans in Africa, the Persians in the east, and in Europe the Scythians and the Celts.
When people think of themselves as sophisticated because they have explored knowledge through understanding ancient to the most modern writings, it is a human failing that we may then categorise humans without empathy. We may interpret, inaccurately, and describe the human family as hierarchical pyramids with elite at the pinnacle and lesser beings below. Even worse, we may specify imagined racial differences and provide a sense of 'other' as a threat to the rest, which must be eradicated for the sake of 'the rest' (who are not clearly specified).
That we are one human family is obvious and it is sad that we have built much of our written history on notions of difference which has led us inflict harm on innocents in the name of some belief which has no solid foundation.
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I am currently studying quantum field theory from Srednicki. In class we have covered till chapter 14 and then skipped to IR divergences. So my knowledge of quantum field theory is limited to those sections. I just mentioned it in case it helps you guys to calibrate your responses to my level! Anyways, my question is related to determining vertex factors for any arbitrary interaction. We were introduced to vertex factors in chapter 9. For interacting theories such as: $$\mathcal{L}_I = \frac{g}{3!}\varphi^3$$ and $$\mathcal{L}_I = \frac{\lambda}{4!}\varphi^4$$ the vertex factors are $ig$ and $i\lambda$ respectively. Ignore the sign; I can never remember it. Also, for this discussion it probably won't be a big deal. Anyways, getting back to the main point, I only remember being told that the vertex factors are the ones given above but no one ever told me how they were obtained. Srednicki never formally defined them. I just assumed that you just read off the coefficient from the interacting part. Also, physically I have an intuition for the vertex factor. It represents the strength with which the interactions couple free fields. And when you compute Feynman diagrams more interactions means higher powers of this coupling parameter (or vertex factor).
In some later chapters Srednicki defined this vertex function $V_n(k_1,k_2,\dots,k_n)$; but he only formally talks about it in the context of vertex corrections. For the moment I'm not interested in corrections. I just want to know how you can compute this function for an arbitrary theory (say): $$\mathcal{L}_I = f_n(\varphi,\partial_\mu \varphi)$$ where the subscript $n$ the maximum number of fields and/or their derivatives defined in the function $f_n(\varphi,\partial_\mu \varphi)$. In general the vertex factor will not be just a constant like the two cases above. It will be a function of the incoming and outgoing four-momenta. What recipe should I follow to get that expression?
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Here's a trick I always use: Suppose we have an interaction Lagrangian given by $$ \mathcal{L}_{int} = \frac{\kappa}{3!}\phi^3. $$ The trick is to rewrite $$ \mathrm{i}\times \text{interaction action} $$ in momentum space by introducing the Fourier decomposition of the fields as follows:
$$ \begin{aligned} \mathrm{i}S_{int} &= \mathrm{i}\int\mathrm{d}^4x\, \mathcal{L}_{int} = \mathrm{i} \int\! \mathrm{d}^4x\, \frac{\kappa}{3!} [\phi(x)]^3 \\ &= \mathrm{i} \int\! \mathrm{d}^4x\, \frac{\kappa}{3!} \\ &\hspace{5mm}\times \int\! \frac{\mathrm{d}^4q_1}{(2\pi)^4}\, \mathrm{e}^{-\mathrm{i}q_1\cdot x} \widetilde{\phi}(q_1) \int\! \frac{\mathrm{d}^4q_2}{(2\pi)^4}\, \mathrm{e}^{-\mathrm{i}q_2\cdot x} \widetilde{\phi}(q_2) \int\! \frac{\mathrm{d}^4q_3}{(2\pi)^4}\, \mathrm{e}^{-\mathrm{i}q_3\cdot x} \widetilde{\phi}(q_3) \\ &=\int\!\frac{\mathrm{d}^4q_1\cdots\mathrm{d}^4q_3}{(2\pi\cdots2\pi)^4}\, (2\pi)^4 \delta^{(4)}(q_1+\cdots+q_3)\widetilde{\phi}(q_1)\widetilde{\phi}(q_2)\widetilde{\phi}(q_3)\times\frac{\mathrm{i} \kappa}{3!}. \end{aligned} $$ Thus we can read off the vertex factor: $$\mathrm{i} \kappa / 3!$$ Don't forget to multiply by $3!$ which is the symmetry factor of the diagram. In the end you're simply left with $$\mathrm{i}\kappa.$$
Notice in the above the negative signs in all the exponentials, this means that we are taking all the momenta as incoming with respect to the vertex. That is, if you draw the diagram you must draw momentum arrows pointing towards the vertex: $q_1+q_2+q_3 = 0. $
Another example would be: $$\mathcal{L}_{int}:=g\bar{\psi}\gamma_{\mu}\gamma_{5}(\partial^\mu\phi)\psi,$$ where $g$ is a coupling constant and $\phi$ a scalar. The resulting vertex factor is (can you show this here?): $$V=g(\not{q}_2\gamma_5)_{jk},$$ where $q_2$ is the incoming momentum of $\phi$. $----------------------------------------$ BTW: anyone know a better slash than "\not"?
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That is not true. In general, the vertex function is given by its momentum-dependent corrections to a constant vertex factor. For examples, see eq. 51.38 (Yukawa theory), 62.39 (QED) or 65.27 (scalar QED) in Srednicki.
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Check exercise number 10.4 from Srednicki. We have $\mathcal{L}_1 = \frac{1}{2}g\varphi \partial^\mu \varphi \partial_\mu \varphi$. The vertex factor turns out to be $\frac{1}{2}ig(k_1^2+k_2^2+k_3^2)$ – PhHEP Mar 21 '13 at 20:57
PS: Having completed my 2nd quarter (Part 2) of my QFT class just now, I understand better what you mean by adding momentum-dependent vertex factors as corrections to the constant tree-level ones. Although our class ended at chapter 51. I may not understand the examples from chapters 62 and 65! Thanks for pointing them out to me. – PhHEP Mar 21 '13 at 20:59
The $n$-point vertex is defined to be the 1PI $n$-point function with external lines amputated. So you just need to compute this correlation function and forget about external lines.
Let's see how this works for a $\lambda\phi^n/n!$ interaction at tree level. We get \begin{align*} \langle \prod_{i=1}^{n}\phi(k_i)\rangle=i\lambda \prod_{i=1}^{n}\langle \phi(k_i)\phi(-k_i)\rangle(2\pi)^d\delta^d(\sum_i k_i), \end{align*} and amputating the propagators indeed gives your answer $i\lambda$.
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Thanks for your response. I see how it will be constant for $\lambda \phi^n/n!$ in general. But what about $\partial_\mu \phi$ terms? Please also check my comment on the answer by _USER_ – PhHEP Mar 21 '13 at 20:54
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"If you take this medication, you will reduce your risk of disease by 20%, and 98% of people taking it have no serious side effects."
Sounds good, right? Perhaps not. What if your chance of getting the disease is only one in 1,000 but two people out of every 100 experience a deadly side effect?
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Doctors, nurses, reporters and drug advertisers often talk about risk, though they may not call it that. In fact, they often use other terms that sound logical and understandable such as "chance" or "likelihood" (as in "if you smoke, you will increase your chances of having lung disease"). Alternatively, they may couch the terms in personal experience (as in "I think this medicine will help you; it works for most of my patients"). Or, the message may be even more vague: When a doctor says "I think this therapy will help and I doubt it will cause you any problems," the doctor is really saying he or she hopes it helps because it usually does, but that there is a risk that the medication will cause side effects and/or that it will not work.
Whether or not the word is used, these are all examples of risk, the notion that something might or might not happen and that the likelihood is not zero or 100%. I was taught in medical school to "never say never and never say always," because absolute certainty is so rare.
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Risk is a trickier concept than many people think. It may seem like something to avoid at all costs, but the fact is that while you may be able to choose one risk over another, you cannot always avoid risk altogether. Avoiding one risk may pose other risks. For example, if you have high blood pressure and a doctor prescribes a medication to lower it, there is a risk of side effects from the medication; but by avoiding the risk of having a side effect, you increase the risk that you will have a stroke due to untreated high blood pressure.
Many people view any risk at all as a terrible thing, but it is important to realize that it represents a chance that something will happen, not a certainty. Even when talking about bad outcomes (such as the risk of surgery or the risk of medication side effects), there is often an excellent chance that nothing bad will happen.
Consider this example. For a person suffering chronic arthritis and terrible joint pain for the last two years, symptoms probably will continue unless something changes (such as starting an effective treatment). The risk of side effects from any medication is clearly important, but it must be weighed against the high risk that joint pain will continue. If three out of 100 people taking a high-dose anti-inflammatory medication (such as ibuprofen) develop a stomach ulcer each year (that is, if the yearly risk is 3%), it is important to weigh that against the risk of ongoing pain (which is much higher). And it also means that 97 out of 100 people will not suffer an ulcer as they enjoy the benefits of the medication.
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The other reason risk is confusing is that there are many ways it can be described. People may choose one way to describe risk to emphasize how high it is, while others use another way to express the same risk to downplay it. Remarkably, the same risk can seem quite different depending on how it is expressed.
One of the most common areas of confusion comes with the difference between absolute risk and relative risk. Imagine that you are offered a choice of two medications to reduce your risk of a heart attack:
- Medication A will decrease your risk of heart attack by 20%.
- Medication B reduces your risk from 5% to 4%.
If you think that Medication A sounds better, you are not alone. Relative risk is described, by comparing the new risk with the risk before treatment. Although vitally important, the actual risk with and without the medicine is not mentioned for Medication A. If you thought Medication B sounds less impressive, perhaps it's because knowing that the starting and ending risks are similar that is, knowing the actual, or absolute, risks makes the change seem less dramatic. This is particularly true when overall risk is very low or very high in the first place. Although they provide a more accurate assessment of risk, expressions of absolute risk are often missing from news or ads.
Most of us would think that Medication A is better. But as described, Medication A and B could be the same drug. Reducing a risk of 5 in 100 to 4 in 100 is identical to a 20% relative risk reduction.
So it is not surprising that what you usually read in news reports and see in advertisements are changes in relative risk rather than the more critical number, the absolute risk. The relative risk tends to be the larger and more persuasive number. For the person or advertiser trying to make a dramatic point, most people find it easier to relate to one number (20% risk reduction for medication A) rather than keeping track of the initial risk and how it changes with treatment (5% to 4% for medication B). However, the simplicity of relative risk comes at the cost of incomplete and potentially misleading information. Without knowing where you started, a relative risk reduction of 20% can be nearly meaningless.
Consider one of the most commonly prescribed medications in the world: the birth control pill. For nonsmoking women aged 25 to 29, the risk of death attributed to side effects of the pill is estimated at about 1 in 100,000 and doubles for women who are 30 to 34. If a 33-year-old woman were told she has twice the risk of dying from a birth control pill than a woman under 30, she might incorrectly interpret this as high risk. In fact, even though her risk is slightly higher than for younger women (by 0.001%), she is actually at a very low risk of dying, even lower than the estimated risk of death related to childbirth (10 to 25 per 100,000, also rising with age).
There are, of course, other ways to express risk that shape how it is perceived. Reports of new cases of prostate cancer diagnosed "every three minutes" or the lifetime risk of breast cancer being one in nine, are not very helpful in understanding your own particular risk. Estimating your individual risk by considering factors known to affect it (for example, smoking, which dramatically increases the risk of lung cancer) is a better way to express risk. The generally quoted figure for the risk of getting struck by lightning is 1 in 600,000, but it's much greater if you are holding a metal rod (for instance, a golf club) on a hill during a thunderstorm.
Risk tends to be better understood when broken down by a finite length of time, such as five or 10 years, rather than over one's entire life. Reports of lifetime risk may also include disease that has no bearing on one's overall health, such as a slow-growing prostate tumor that never affects health or longevity (a common scenario among elderly men).
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The Bottom Line
It is important to acknowledge that risk is easy to misunderstand even with accurate and unbiased information. Cynics say statistics can be used to argue any position, and there is some truth to that. But there are some simple measures you can take to get a better handle on risk:
- Acknowledge that risk is a fact of life and often cannot be avoided entirely. In fact, most decisions one makes about how to prevent or treat disease depend on balancing the risks and benefits of the treatment options.
- Look for reports that put the risk in context. One way is to compare one risk to another, more familiar risk. For example, the risk of contracting a rare disease could be compared with being struck by lightning, while a more common condition could be compared with the risk of injury or death in a car accident.
- Ask yourself if the source is objective and seeks only to inform you, or whether there is another goal in mind. Sometimes it's easy: If the source is an advertiser trying to sell you something, the information is more likely to be biased.
- Beware of reports that use lifetime risk or ones that convert the number of cases per year to cases per day or hour. Even if they are technically accurate, they are probably overemphasizing the point.
What matters most is the absolute rather than the relative risk. In my initial example of the drug with a 20% relative risk reduction with no serious side effects in 98% of users, two fewer people out of every 10,000 would get the disease, but 200 would experience a deadly side effect clearly an example of a treatment that is worse than the disease. But it's also an example of how misleading descriptions of risk can be.
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Robert H. Shmerling, M.D. is associate physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and associate professor at Harvard Medical School. He has been a practicing rheumatologist for over 20 years at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He is an active teacher in the Internal Medicine Residency Program, serving as the Robinson Firm Chief. He is also a teacher in the Rheumatology Fellowship Program.


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This article explains how to create and edit a sample KML file using an online editor
Note.pngNote: in order to load a KML file successfully, the generated KML file should be hosted on the same domain as the JavaScript or the results may be unpredictable. Some browsers will automatically prohibit cross-domain access.
For example, if you are hosting at, the final line of the JavaScript to load the KML will need to be:
kml.parseKML("" + "generated_kml_data_file.kml")
and both the KML loading HTML and the generated_kml_data_file.kml should be placed on
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Devices(s): Firefox, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Opera
Platform(s): Web Browser
Dependencies: Nokia Maps API 2.2.1
Keywords: Nokia Maps, JavaScript, KML
Created: jasfox (10 Jan 2012)
Last edited: Oskar Bukolt (16 Jul 2012)
Keyhole Markup Language (KML) is an XML notation for geographic applications. The advantages of using KML are numerous, and have been listed in a previous article. The learning curve for KML is quite steep, requires a thorough understanding of both XML and mapping technologies, and since the reference documentation is written for 3d rather than 2d maps, much of it is irrelevant for simple mapping cases. All this means that some web developers are put off using KML, which is a pity, since KML is a standard data format, and the use of KML would result in the faster porting of a mapping applications to other platforms.
In order to remedy this, it would be useful to have a WYSIWYG point and click KML generator, where a map could be edited on screen, and the resultant KML file generated. The coded example below, attempts to fill this gap as shown.
After the usual Map set up, we need to get a reference to each of the text boxes on the right of the screen. This is done by using document.getElementById()
var lat = document.getElementById("lat");
var lng = document.getElementById("lng");
var waypoints = document.getElementById("waypoints");
var title = document.getElementById("title");
var name = document.getElementById("name");
var description = document.getElementById("description");
var address = document.getElementById("address");
var icon = document.getElementById("icon");
var styleURL = document.getElementById("styleURL");
var lineStyleURL = document.getElementById('lineStyleURL');
Adding Markers
Markers can be added by pressing and holding down the mouse, this is the longpress event. An event handler has been added to the map to cope with this. The associated values such as and come directly from the text boxes defined above.
eventExEl.addListener("longpress", function(evt) {
var markerData = new Object();
markerData.coords = map.pixelToGeo(evt.targetX, evt.targetY);
markerData.title = map.objects.getLength() + 1;
markerData.description = description.value; = name.value;
markerData.address = address.value;
if (icon.value!= ""){
markerData.icon = icon.value;
} else {
markerData.styleURL = styleURL.value;
}, false);
An alternative method of adding a marker is by adding an address. This uses the standard geoCoding service, and picks the first address found on the list. If your address is in the "wrong" format, just try making the address more general for now e.g.try the city only. The handler for geo-coding retrieves most of its information from the text boxes on the right hand side of the screen, but the address comes from the callback function.
var searchManager =;
searchTerm : address.value,
onComplete: onSearchComplete});
 var onSearchComplete = function (data, requestStatus) {
// If the search has finished we can process the results
if (requestStatus == "OK") {
var markerData = new Object();
markerData.coords = data.location.position;
markerData.title = map.objects.getLength() + 1;
markerData.description = description.value; = name.value;
var address = data.location.address;
markerData.address = "";
markerData.address = markerData.address + address.houseNumber + "\n";
markerData.address = markerData.address + address.street + "\n";
markerData.address = markerData.address + address.district + "\n";
markerData.address = markerData.address + + "\n";
markerData.address = markerData.address + address.postalCode + "\n";
markerData.address = markerData.address +;
} else if (requestStatus == "ERROR") {
alert("The search request failed.");
The addMarkers() method actually adds the marker, which itself contains a copy of its own , , & etc. The marker has two events:
 - a click event to display the data in text boxes for editing. This will also display an infobubble if the field is set. A reference is kept on the currentMarker i.e. the last one selected.
 - a drag event to remove the infobubble if a marker is repositioned. All markers are defined as draggable so the user can reposition them as necessary.
function addMarker(markerData) {
var marker;
marker = new, {
text: markerData.title, //small title
draggable: true, //the marker is marked to be draggable
$data: markerData
marker.addListener("click", function(evt) {
title.value =;
description.value =$data.description;
address.value =$data.address;
name.value =$;
styleURL.value =$data.styleURL;
lat.innerHTML =;
lng.innerHTML =;
if ($data.description!= ""){
} else {
currentMarker =;
}, false);
marker.addListener("drag", function(evt) { infoBubbles.removeBubble();}, false);
Editing Marker Data
The editMarker() method, removes the currentMarker and adds another one with the current data from the text fields.
function editMarker() {
var markerData = new Object();
markerData.coords = currentMarker.coordinate;
markerData.title = title.value;
markerData.description = description.value; = name.value;
markerData.address = address.value;
if ( description.value != ""){
infoBubbles.addBubble(markerData.description, markerData.coords );
Adding Polylines
It is impossible to create Polylines without first having some defined waypoints. The waypoints are merely geo.Coordinates, so a button has been added to take the coordinates of the currentMarker and add them to an array. The marker is then removed to "tidy up" the display. When the create line from Waypoints button is pressed, the Polyline is created.
Warning.pngWarning: There is currently no method to delete waypoints or Polylines, this must be done by editing the KML directly.
var currentWaypoints = new Array();
currentWaypoints.push( currentMarker.coordinate);
function createLineFromWaypoints() {
var lineData = new Object();
lineData.lineNo = map.objects.getLength() + 1;
lineData.waypoints = currentWaypoints ;
if( lineStyleURL.value!= ""){
lineData.styleURL = lineStyleURL.value;
color: "#22CA",
width: 5,
$data: lineData
currentWaypoints = new Array();
waypoints.innerHTML = "";
KML Generator
The saveMapObjects() method has been taken from the converting from JavaScript to KML article. All the map Objects currently on screen are iterated through and added as KML equivalents. In order to discourage the use of inline styles, a element has been added. This should refer to a


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Using a Flash Disk is helpful for notebooks that do not have an internal optical disc drive. The USB Recovery Flash Disk Utility requirements include :
- Only one copy of the recovery disk can be created. If you have already created or attempted to make a recovery DVD, do not try to use the Flash Disk Utility.
- The computer must have the original HP configuration, including the recovery partition, with either Vista or Windows 7.
- Recovery disk cannot be created if the original operating system has been changed.
- You cannot use the Flash Disk Utility if the Recovery partition has been removed.
- The USB Flash Disk must have at least 8 GB of free space available.
Because the recovery manager files being created will be used to protect your computer for years to come, you should select a quality Flash Disk product made by a well known manufacturer. Store the recovery disk in a safe place away from the computer.
Download USB Recovery Flash Disk Utility
The utility for creating a recovery image on a USB flash disk is specific to the operating system. To locate and download the correct software click one of the following links to download the HP Recovery Flash Disk Utility for Vista or HP Recovery Flash Disk Utility for Windows 7 softpaq.
When prompted to either save the file to your computer or run the file from the web, select Save and download the softpaq to a convenient location on your hard drive, such as the desktop.
NOTE: Do not select Run during the download. Save the program to your hard drive so you can disconnect from the web and run the disk creation at a time you choose. If you select Run, the disk creation process will start immediately and you cannot use the computer while the recovery disk on the USB Flash Disk is being created.
Run USB Recovery Flash Disk Utility
Creating the recovery disk on an 8GB or larger USB Flash Disk can take 30-60 minutes or more. Do not use the computer for any other activities during the creation process.
You can create the recovery disk by performing the following steps :
CAUTION: This process will involve data loss for anything currently on the USB flash disk as a format will be performed during the creation process.
- Connect the notebook to the proper AC power supply.
- Save and close all other computer programs.
- Insert the 8GB or larger USB Flash Disk in the USB connector.
- Double-click the Flash Disk USB Recovery Flash Disk Utility, which was downloaded earlier, to launch utility.
- When prompted, accept the software user agreement.
- When prompted, select the desired USB Flash Disk.
- Allow the utility to examine the notebook and then create the USB Flash Disk recovery disk.
You should now have a bootable recovery disk on a USB flash disk that can be used to restore your computer to its original factory condition.


Montgomery County Arson Attorneys
Conroe, Texas Arson Defense Attorneys
In Texas, arson is charged as a very serious offense because fires or explosions can result in devastating property damage, serious personal injury and even death. Because of these extreme and potential consequences, the Texas government dedicates enormous resources to investigate these crimes. The State Fire Marshal is the chief investigator in charge of the investigation of arson and suspected arson in the State of Texas. By statutory authority (Texas Government Code), the State Fire Marshal commissions law enforcement officers to act as fire and arson investigators under his supervision.
Arson cases are usually very circumstantial in nature because the start of a fire is seldom seen by independent witnesses. When fires are intentionally started, the motives can be to commit insurance fraud, hate crimes, retaliation, destroy evidence or to cover up other crimes, such as homicide. According to the Texas Department of Public safety, juveniles commit about 25 percent of arson crimes. Like a moth to the flame, youthful and curious firebugs are drawn to the primal and destructive nature of fire.
Arson charges are extremely serious. Individuals convicted of arson are usually sentenced to prison and forced to pay steep fines. To have the best chance of avoiding a conviction, it is important to hire an experienced Conroe property crimes attorney.
Arson Defense Attorney in Montgomery County
If you are under investigation for arson, it is vitally important to consult a lawyer before speaking to law enforcement or arson investigators.
If have been charged with arson in Montgomery County or any of the surrounding counties in Southeast Texas, contact James G. Sullivan and Associates for a free, confidential phone consultation at _PHONE_. James (Jim) Sullivan is an experienced trial lawyer who defends clients accused of property crimes.
Arson Law in Texas
According to Texas Penal Code Sec. 28.02, a person commits arson if he or she starts a fire (regardless of whether the fire continues after ignition) or causes an explosion with intent to destroy or damage:
 1. any vegetation, fence or structure on open-space land; or
 2. any building, habitation or vehicle:
 1. while knowing that it is within the limits of an incorporated city or town;
 2. while knowing that it is insured against damage or destruction;
 3. while knowing that it is subject to a mortgage or other security interest;
 4. while knowing that it is located on property belonging to another;
 5. while knowing that it has property located within in that belongs to another; or
 6. when the person is reckless about whether the burning or explosion will endanger the life of some individual or the safety of the property of another.
In Texas, arson is usually charged as a second degree felony. If the arson caused the bodily injury or death of any person, or if the property intended to be damaged or destroyed was a habitation or place of assembly or worship, the offender can be charged with a first degree felony.
A person can also be charged with arson if he or she recklessly starts a fire or causes an explosion while manufacturing or attempting to manufacture a controlled substance and the fire or explosion damages a building, vehicle, or habitation. This type of arson is usually charged as a state jail felony, however the offender can be charged with a third degree felony if the offense resulted in the death or bodily injury to another.
Controlled Burning Defense
It is a defense to the destruction of damage of any vegetation, fence or structure on open-space land if the fire or explosion was a part of the controlled burning of open-space land.
"Controlled burning" means the burning of unwanted vegetation with the consent of the owner of the property on which the vegetation is located and in such a manner that the fire is controlled and limited to a designated area.
"Open-space land" means real property that is undeveloped for the purpose of human habitation.
Punishment for Arson in Texas
Chapter 12 of the Texas Penal Code lists the felony punishment for arson.
A conviction for a second degree felony is punishable by a prison sentence ranging from two to 20 years and a fine up to $10,000.
A conviction for a first degree felony is punishable by a prison sentence ranging from five to 99 years or life in prison and a fine up to $10,000.
A conviction for a state jail felony is punishable by a state jail sentence ranging from 180 days to two years and a fine of up to $10,000.
Definitions of Terms
Texas Penal Code Sec. 28.01 lists the definitions of arson-related terms.
"Building" means any structure or enclosure intended for use or occupation as a habitation or for some purpose of trade, manufacture, ornament, or use.
"Vehicle" includes any device in, on, or by which any person or property is or may be propelled, moved or drawn in the normal course of commerce or transportation.
James G. Sullivan and Associates | Montgomery County Arson Defense Attorneys
Conroe arson defense lawyer James Sullivan will discuss with you the seriousness of your charge and the various effective defense strategies that are best suited for your particular case. Before you make your plea in court, it is important that you consult a property crimes lawyer in Conroe, Texas. Montgomery County criminal attorney James Sullivan gets proven results.
James Sullivan graduated the Trial Lawyers College founded by Legendary lawyer Gerry. Sullivan has a proven record of defending people from all walks of life, faiths and countries in courts throughout Texas.
Contact James Sullivan & Associates for a free phone consultation at _PHONE_ about your arson charges in Harris County and throughout Texas.


Carnegie Mellon University created the hall in 2003 to call attention to the iconic status of the machines and the university's own work advancing robotics technology. The hall of fame moved to the science center in 2009 and every year inducts new "members," which can be either real robots or characters from TV, movies or other pop culture sources.
In addition to WALL-E, three real robots were honored Tuesday.
They are iRobot's Packbot, which was used to defuse bombs and explored a nuclear power plant after the Japanese tsunami last year; Aidebaran Robotics' NAO, an educational tool; and Big Dog, a four-legged, rough-terrain robot built by Boston Dynamics.


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I have problems using the function TIN(linear) interpolation in Qgis. The program crashes when larger areas is interpolated.
Map properties: vector map, Geometry typ = Point, features in this layer: 523851, EPSG:32633 - WGS 84 / UTM zone 33N, files =.shp
When i divide the map into more layer(like 80 000 points each) and then interpolate them together(by adding more layers in the interpolation meny), it works, except some areas still makes the program crash.
Any idea how to solve this? Or have someone had/have the same problem?
Maybe the problem is: can't handle large files or the algorithm have problems triangulate between some points patterns.


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"I found these two rocks in the sandbox and I think they're from a volcano." Children like to share their special found objects and talk about where they came from and what they might be. "I think this is a dead spider or a something else." They like the way the rock feels, or the ambiguity of shape of the possible spider. Describing these found objects can be a challenge if the child does not have any experience with volcanoes or spiders. Children need outdoor experiences on and with natural materials to become familiar with which materials occur naturally and which are made by people from those natural materials. They need to observe many living organisms to be able to recognize the characteristic shape of a spider. If you don't live near a volcano the child might not be able to compare the found rocks with volcanic rocks. The origin of the rocks might never be known for sure but wondering about where rocks come from could be supported by going on a walk to look for rocks, or taking a field trip to a naturally rocky place. (Visit the "Salt the Sandbox" site for great tips on finding rocks in a suburb without natural outcrops of rock.)
Even older elementary students have much to learn about materials and where they come from. In a column in the December 2012 Science and Children, "Science Shorts: Is Concrete a Rock?", Katie Brkich writes about using place-based education, which begins teaching with the local environment, to teach students how to tell if materials occur naturally or are artificial or altered by humans. Students in grade 4 used "Is It a Rock?", a probe from Uncovering Student Ideas in Science Volume 2, that asks students to explain their thinking, and tell what "rule" or reasoning they used to decide if an object is a rock or not.
Children in preK to grade 2 are also able to explain their thinking. When children come to me asking, "What is this?" about an unknown object, I often ask them, "What could it be?" This prompts them to share their observations and past experiences to explain their ideas. The explanations are often incomplete. When I hear that the gray melange stones (found in our volcano-free region) might be from a volcano, I see no point in bursting the child's bubble by saying, "I doubt it." (I also don't say I agree that it could be from a volcano.) Instead I can use the excitement about finding an interesting rock to encourage the child to look closely at other rocks and become familiar with the variety of textures, colors, and luster of local and rock. We might start a Found Rock Collection and use children's developing literacy skills to label their finds.
Some programs provide a variety of natural materials for students to use in making "projects" (art creations of any kind). In the December 2012 Science and Children Early Years column I write about making a Materials Museum where children write, dictate and draw on a card to describe materials they find or bring from home, or those you provide because you think they are important for the children to explore. Later, after the materials are explored, described and displayed, they can be used for art creations.


on the event in the Garden of
this "truth" about Satan and Eve from the Eden. I want to quote, briefly, from this to
people. I claim that their teaching of what prove to you that men who teach this false
happened in the Garden, between the sodoctrine know that it was taught as one of
called serpent and Eve, is only slightlythe foundation doctrines of ancient
different than most churches teach. Here Babylon. The Mystery Religions of
are two similarities: Babylon taught that Satan seduced Eve.
 Dan Gayman says, on page 25:
1. The angelic supernatural Satan of some
Kingdom-Identity ministers is identical to "Now for those who may feel that the two seedthat of the churches. He is a great and lines, that of the Serpent and that of the woman,
 Eve, cannot be valid because it is a teaching that
powerful angelic being whose life-span is is preserved in the Mystery Religions of Babylon,
thousands of years. He is indestructible, please take note: the Mystery Religions of ancient
omnipresent, omniscient and he has the Babylon have taken nearly every Bible truth,
power to frustrate or to destroy almost all including that of the seedlines, and have corruptof God's plans and to capture almost all of ed this truth to fit their own particular purposes.
 If you would reject the teaching that Satan proGod's creation. Their Satan is identical to duced offspring, if you deny the literal anthe typical Satan of the churches for nouncement of your God in Genesis 3:15, simply
whom we have found no basis in the Old because it is something found in the ancient reliTestament. gions of Babylon, then you must also reject such
 fundamental truths as the virgin birth, the resurrection, the Godhead, astronomy, the Holy Laws of
2. These Kingdom-Identity ministers God and numerous other sound Bible truths
claim that their sexual interpretation of because all of these, and more, have been borrowed
what happened in the Garden is an event and perverted, distorted and corrupted by the
which is different than that taught by the ancient religions of Babylon."
churches. Again, that is not true. Almost
"The two seedlines, the teaching that the Serpent the same "truth" that was taught as the
did father seed, in varying forms, is like many foundation of the Mystery Religions of
other Bible truths inculcated into these pagan religions. This does not lessen the truth of what the
Bible says about the seed line or any other Bible
truth that has been borrowed by the pagan reliMy Bible says no such thing!
 Most seedline preachers, including
 Dan Gayman correctly-says that Gayman, also teach that we were "spirit
pagan religions take Bible truths and corbeings" in heaven prior to coming to earth.
rupt them or pervert them. But, he turns They believe that we had a preexistence
right around and says that Babylon's verwith God, and then we came to earth
sion of the event in the Garden is NOT where we occupy a physical body for a
corrupted, it is NOT perverted. He says it short span of years, and when we die we
is truth. Dan Gayman's teaching, and the go back to heaven to be with God. That is
teaching of other ministers who preach almost identical to the churches' teaching
this "seedline," is not different from Babythat we have an "immortal soul" and we
lon's teaching — it is IDENTICAL! It is can't die. That is, also, the doctrine of the
true that Babylon does take other docancient Babylonian Mysteries, which
trines of the Bible and teach them differtaught that we preexisted in heaven,
ently. I agree with him on that. His error came to earth, and go back to heaven at
is that he does not see that Babylon teachdeath.
es the same as what he teaches. It is not
changed, therefore, he should see that the People have told me that we need
teaching that Satan seduced Eve is a per- "unity" in the Kingdom-Identity moveverted teaching from Babylon. ment. They say I should play down this
 Satan / Eve thing because "we need unity
 I must state that I am not picking on not division." I say this: the division is
Dan Gayman, alone. His teachings are already there. The religion taught by Dan
almost identical to those of possibly ten Gayman and the seedline preachers is not
other men. my religion. It is an entirely-different religion. It has no foundation in the Bible, it
 On another page, Gayman says this: has no foundation in truth, it is a corrupt,
 Babylonian religion. It is not Kingdom
"You will find, upon careful examination, that the Gospel. I claim the Word of God refutes
literal truth of Genesis 3:15 (and by that he means him. I claim the Word of God teaches no
that Satan seduced Eve and produced Cain) has
been a solid building block in the foundation of
 preexistence. I claim the Word of God
Christian theology from the writings of the Old teaches no existence after death until the
Testament, the teachings of Jesus Christ, Himself, blessed hope: the resurrection of the dead.
and the apostles after Him, and by the early And, I claim the Word of God teaches no
church fathers during the first centuries A.D." such wicked, angelic being existed, or ever
 planted a seed in Eve's womb and proHe is saying the doctrine of Satan duced a race of people upon the earth. I
seducing Eve is "a truth" of the claim God Almighty is the sole and only
Babylonian Mysteries, and that this same Creator. He created wicked people for His
"truth" is the foundation of Christianity. purpose. No Devil or Satan ever disrupted
Think what that means and what he, and God's plans.
others like him, have done. They are _______________
telling us that Christianity springs from
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text: In this study, we objectively tracked the duration, frequency, and the preferred practices chosen by novice mindfulness practitioners following a mindfulness meditation (MM) intervention. A sample of 55 mildly stressed participants, aged 50 to 80 years old, underwent an individual 6-week MM intervention and had their guided meditation home practice electronically recorded during the intervention and the 8-week post-intervention period. Participants' psychological well-being was assessed through self-report measures of mindfulness, quality of life, and symptoms of depression and stress. Results evidenced a high adherence to practice, with an average of ~23 minutes per day during the intervention and ~16 minutes per day in the follow-up period. Body scan, sitting meditation, and breathing space were the most popular meditation practices among participants. Our results showed significant alterations in self-reported measures over time, suggesting improvements in stress and overall quality of life. Changes in the self-report measures did not correlate with MM practice time, which suggests that other psychological phenomena, including quality of meditation practice, influence these outcomes.


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PowerPointå¨ is a trademark registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office by Microsoft Corporation. Used by permission.
Standard Lesson Quarterlyå¨ is a richly resourced adult curriculum based on the International Sunday School Lessons (ISSL)/Uniform Series. Reliable Scripture exposition, culturally relevant examples, and timely discussion questions engage students and give the Bible lesson meaning in their everyday lives. Using the KJV or NIVå¨ as a basis for study, students survey the Bible in a six year cycle.
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Granma published a note from Castro to Randy Alonso, moderator of the Mesa Redonda television program. Castro requests that Randy broadcast a statement he made in 2001 in which Castro explained why
The section on labor union rights would provide "a pretext for imperialism to try to divide and fragment workers, create artificial unions, and reduce their political and social power and influence," Castro said in 2001. A section on education would "open the doors to the privatization of teaching, which in the past allowed painful differences and irritating privileges and injustices, including racial discrimination." (AFP Spanish story here.)
Castro asked that the text of his 2001 statement be titled, "History will tell who is right."
Maybe history will also tell us who is in charge.