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A deserter from the culture wars and no big fan of Justice Antonin Scalia, I nevertheless was struck by the derision he was able (and, doubtless, delighted) to provoke a few days ago by asserting, in a much ballyhooed New York Magazine interview, his belief that the Devil is real. No less provocatively, another famous interviewee, Pope Francis, in his homily for today's Mass, warns his hearers not to be naïve about this, and to be on guard.
Some things are true, even if Justice Scalia says them.
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I hope you are right. When someone who is so wrong about anything else believes in the devil it shakes my faith in it.
Boy oh boy, this is a tough one. First, I agree completely with what I believe are Tom's suggestions about Scalia.
It seems to me the notions and the realities of God are the one indisputable locus of absolute. Otherwise what are we talking about when we talk about God? The mystery is ours not God's. It is not possible to talk reasonably or usefully about such a God in the context of the Judeo/Christian bible without the convinction all things emanated from God. If God is the absolute that notion works. What does not work is the notion God divined mere mortals required a devil. It seems to me both reason and compassion provide more than adequate proof we mere mortals are quite capable of driving on the wrong side of the road without the assistance of near absolute evil whispering in our ear. Not to mention the fact associating the word "near" with the reality of "absolute" is more than a little confusing. But that is what we are taught to believe. Satan is not merely real but as near to God in power as can be without being God. A sorta' absolute.
Entertaining interview. This is a more mellow Scalia than I have seen. He is certainly no scripture scholar. His calling his refusal to recuse himself from the Cheney case an act of courage is laughable. He admits that he only reads the newspapers that do not upset him. He rightly point out that he has not done anything noteworthy. A self assessment easy to agree with.
Was "Our Father" (apologies to C.S. Lewis) responsible for this embarrassing, if somewhat amusing, mistake on the commemorative coin issued by the Vatican in honor of Pope Francis?
Harvard learns about the devil:
A number of years ago I resolved notions for myself how the devil exists and works. Since the notion of free will is true I deduced it is possible to welcome the devil into an interaction in ones life.[selling our souls?] for power. I noted that some rather inept people became unusually and suddenly powerful over others and became an evil force. . From whence did these people suddenly get their power over others? .Steroids for the mind/soul? e.g. Hitler who could only rise to rank of corporal in a 4 year bloody war ended up commanding aristocratic field marshals and an entire educated nation. . Keresh {Waco] a dropout, had evil power over accommplished followers, Manson, a stunted person in both mind and body, was able to gain evil power over more accomplished followers; there are many others. I believe this power force was given them when they made a deal with the evil one. Free will can be a source of evil power. .Yet I doubt a merciful God allows the powerful evil one to enter where it is not welcomed. .
There is a great article in the New Yorker by Flannery O'Connor title "My Dear God" which is an excerpt from her journal in which she gives very insightful comments on the devil, hell, and especially God.
Back in the 50s and early 60s, the good sisters taught us kids the devil was too lazy to get us to sin. The devil could sit back, relax, and watch us sin well enough on our own!
Joe J
As usual . the good sisters were right. That's why he (note gender) got assigned here
Re Hitler: Charisma? Diabolical possession?
I was very surprised this week when Malcolm Gladwell, a favorite writer at the New Yorker, among other things, revealed that he is returning to the Mennonite faith of his youth. I daresay that such a politically incorrect event (according to many liberal lights, anyway) would not have happened even four years ago, at least not publicly.
A Supreme Court justice says he believes in the devil, a popular liberal author returns to his faith. Looks like the The Enlightenment is losing its hold.
HT: Rod Dreher
Jennifer Senior emerges as a very knowledgeable, cagy writer who really stood toe to toe with Scalia. But she failed the ultimate test, imho, in that she did not challenge Scalia on his vote to place the worst president in history in the White House. The story goes that his wife greeted him at the door with a toast coctail after that ignominious vote.
Some things are true, even if Justice Scalia says them.
Why stop there? Some things are true even if Commonweal prints them.
I notice, Mark, that you are a subscriber to Commonweal, a publication you evidently associate with falsehood. You must have a lot of extra money. And time.
Relax, Matthew, my comment was meant in the same spirit as Mr. Garvey's. More in humor and just-provocative-enough, rather than to be taken literally--at least, I hope that's how he meant it.
I think we can both agree that my comments don't take much time to compile, but I will say this: I am cheap. If I'm spending money on something it's because I find it valuable. If I can offer some free advice, you might want to think of expanding your marketing efforts to reach out to conservatives as the liberal Catholic publication that can respect and challenge their views at the same time. One good thing about conservatives: If they like something they understand the obligation to pay for it, themselves. Given the number of liberal commenters here who are not subscribers….well, nuff said.
I'm your huckleberry, Mark. What do you mean by "conservative"? "Conservatives" today enshrine a fellow whose sole gift was charisma and the ability to recite speeches written by other while disdaining a man willing, able and qualified to command a U.S. Naval nuclear attack submarine. "Conservatives" today enshrine a fellow who gladly sold out his friend to as near an American version of facism as we have ever had while disdaining a fellow who cut short a successful U.S. Navy career to return home to assist his mother on the farm when his father died.
And you suggestions liberals are unwilling to pay is more than ludicrous. Reagon could not get enough for mere chatter, Carter earned his way was damn by "conservative" for it.
Yes, by conservative I mean people like Reagan.
Tell you what, let's play some 3-on-3. On my team of Reagan admirers there's me, Pope JPII (who's so fast he can dodge bullets) and Solzhenitsyn (who can withstand any punishment you give as he cuts through the heart of your defense). On your team, I assume it's you, Jimmy Carter, and Clark Clifford (btw, how did that whole BCCI thing work out for Clark?).
I like our chances.
Oh, God, y'all are so boring. Can we talk more about the devil? Or Yog-Sothoth? My guess is that all of Scalia's devil talk is a cover for his work as an agent of the Old Ones.
It's the guy with no letters after his name...speak of the devil.
Please. I've never voted for a liberal in my life, and if they wanna throw up a paywall on a blog...well, good luck to 'em.
Also, I do have a set of letters after my name: REOD (Reformed Order of Dagon). Scalia is often at our meetings, creeping around the refreshments table.
With your dismissive words about Reagan being only able to read the speeches of others, you might learn quite a bit from reading about a book published in 2001 called "Reagan in His Own Hand." From a New York Times review:
The book is called ''Reagan, in His Own Hand,'' and it is mostly a collection of radio commentaries Ronald Reagan delivered between 1976 and 1980, between his failed primary challenge to Gerald Ford and his successful campaign against Jimmy Carter. During those years, Reagan returned to the rubber-chicken circuit, wrote a column and delivered these daily radio messages. Ghostwriters wrote the column, but Reagan actually worked on the radio commentaries himself. He'd sit on airplanes and in the back of cars, drafting piece after piece on legal pads, and would come back from a trip with three weeks of commentaries ready for typing. The dominant impression these drafts leave is that Reagan really was a Reaganite. He'd already been governor of California, but he still saw politics primarily as a battle of ideas.
Ronald Reagan. Photograph by Roger E. Sandler/Reagan-Bush.
"Our free mkt. system is usually termed capitalism and by that definition capitalism has hardly been around long enough to deserve all the evil for which it is being held responsible. . . .
"We have a very visible example of the contrast between the free mkt. & govt. ownership in a household necessity we take for granted. The invention of Alexander Graham Bell- the telephone offers us irrefutable proof of the superiority of the free mkt. . . .
"Now strangely enough in most other countries govt. did take over the telephone system and to this very day the telephones in a great many countries are part of the postal system. In America the govt. wasn't bulldozing it's way into the free mkt. place as it is today. For that we can be grateful. The scattered, competing phone companies were left to the magic of the mkt. place. And that magic worked as it always does."
-- Ronald Reagan, from Reagan Writes: Selections From 'In His Own Hand,' From The New York Times Magazine, Dec. 31, 2001
- Audio: A Ronald Reagan Radio Commentary Jan. 27, 1978
These are earnest policy sermons. Reagan covered everything from bilingual education to the Panama Canal to the political situation in Equatorial Guinea, engrossing himself in a level of detail that frankly surpasses that of almost all op-ed columnists today. In 1978, for example, he came across a speech the Yale law professor Eugene Rostow gave on the proposed SALT II arms control agreement. Reagan couldn't do just one radio commentary summarizing and commenting on Rostow's views. He did six, going through the arcana about mobile launchers, MIRV's, Minutemen versus MX missiles and so on.
Reagan was a middlebrow (and I mean that as a compliment). He believed in the serious explication of ideas. He'd troll through clippings from The Public Interest or National Review, or a policy document someone had sent him, and he'd want to bring it to his listeners' attention. Sometimes, caught up in didactic fervor, he'd get carried away. During a commentary on how tax indexing works, he declared: ''A family of four earning $9,600 last year will have to get a $595 raise to keep even with the 6.2 percent inflation rate. So this year their income is $10,195. But that raise put them in a higher state tax bracket reducing their purchasing power by $70.'' Reagan must have understood that cramming all those numbers into three sentences makes for terrible radio. But he was eager to get the concept across.
Unlike radio commentators or newspaper pundits today, he never responded to the news blip of the moment. He generally ignored political scandals; anyone looking for personal attacks on Jimmy Carter will come up empty. During a commentary on the capital gains tax rate, Reagan declared, ''Frankly speaking the president was a little off base.'' That was as rough as he got.
The editors of this volume, Kiron K. Skinner, Annelise Anderson and Martin Anderson, have toted up the commentaries by subject matter. Twenty-seven percent of them were on foreign and defense policy, 25 percent were on economic policy, 15 percent were on regulation and individual liberty, 10 percent were on energy and the environment, and the like. As the editors note with some surprise, only 3 percent were on social issues, and only one commentary was on abortion. Judging from these pieces, Reagan was more of a policy wonk than a culture warrior. His abortion commentary is entirely secular. He says that until he was governor he'd never given the subject much thought. He declared that neither medicine nor law nor theology rendered a clear verdict. So he asked his lawyers if fetuses had property rights. If a pregnant woman became a widow and found that her husband had split his estate between her and the unborn child, Reagan wondered, could she abort the child and inherit all of the estate? On the basis of such questioning, Reagan decided that since fetuses had property rights, they must have rights to life.
One of the things these commentaries do is blow apart the notion that Reagan was a flighty actor who floated through the presidency on the basis of charm and communication skills. Reagan spent the years leading up to his presidency -- the decades, really -- involved in day-to-day policy disputes. Another thought one can't escape is that George W. Bush could never have written these commentaries. It is impossible to imagine George W. sitting down and composing little essays on the inefficiency of Amtrak subsidies or the foolishness of the Law of the Sea treaty, as Reagan did.
How did this get from Satan to Reagan? Must be some loose fixations rattling around.
Mark Proska:
"If they like something they understand the obligation to pay for it, themselves. Given the number of liberal commenters here who are not subscribers….well, nuff said."
So, Mr. Proska, you admit that you "like" Commonweal.
Now, in response to your cheap shot about commenters here who are not subscribers:
If you are retired and on a fixed income and have been employed by the Catholic Church your entire working life, you might not have made such a comment.
But just to let you know that such people put our money where our mouths are, I will take advantage of the special offer of a year's subscription to Commonweal for new subscribers that was offered a month ago. Hopefully, Commonweal will still honor the offer.
I'm afraid I stand by what I said. What about the Commonweal employees who are trying to support themselves? (their children? their aged parents?) It's tough all over, and everyone has a story.
If you are going to subscribe, I'd recommend the 2-year subscription, it's a better deal than the 1-year. I'm not always good with numbers, but stay away from the 3-year subscription, it's a horrible value, and might even be a misprint.
(I really should get paid for this)
As for the devil, I wonder if the other Catholics on the SC believe in him. Kennedy? Doubtful. Sotomayor? Given her ethnicity, perhaps, but I wouldn't bet on it.
Maybe Scalia was being sarcastic. A search for "scalia sarcastic" at NYT brings up 113 results.
I like the first one, a letter to the editor from two days ago pointing out that sarcasm is an attempt to cover anger with humor.
I guess I share Tom Blackburn's concern that we've shifted a bit from what both Scalia and Bergolio say about the devil...I wonder if it doesn't illustrate or at least suggest that there's a certain apodictic tone, or mood, in which the Devil feels right at home, and ready for work. As a master of distraction, if nothing else.
Most reflective people are conscious of the existence of evil in the world, though they may perceive the boundaries differently. Perhaps for this discussion we can agree to focus on evil as it expresses itself in the actions of persons toward other sentient beings (and perhaps against the environment more generally), setting aside massive typhoons in India or the evolutionary development of the Sphex wasps? Most reflective persons have some sense of prudence, and specifically are prudent about entangling themselves with evil. And most reflective people develop or adopt narratives that express and in part explain their relationship to "the world and all that dwell therein."
If Mr. Scalia or any of us find a narrative that involves a more-or-less anthropomorphized Satan a useful way to deal with Evil in the world, then it is a useful tool toward a life well lived. However, the issue is not whether in a controlled and unthreatening conversation we name Evil, but rather how we will react when confronted by Evil or the opportunity to choose between Evil and Good.
Mark L.
Agree, Mark L.
Michael G., in case you never learned the outcome of the Baby Messiah case:
"I'm afraid I stand by what I said."
Mark, Be not afraid. I had no illusions that your would not stand by what you said. I hope that my palty contribution will save the Commnweal staff from the breadline. I suspect, however, that many of them have volunteered in soup kitches, etc.
"Some things are true, even if Justice Scalia says them."
How true. For example, freedom of speech, even for flag-burners, is a good thing, even if Justice Scalia is one of the most stalwart defenders of free speech. Freedom of religion, ditto. Treating people equally without regard to race, ditto. Preventing the government from seizing people's homes on behalf of a wealthy corporation, ditto. Saying that police shouldn't seize someone's DNA without a warrant, ditto.
How can a guy who is automatically wrong be so right so often . . . it's a mystery.
"If you are retired and on a fixed income and have been employed by the Catholic Church your entire working life, you might not have made such a comment."
Sorry, Helen. Mark made his and just because you didn't make yours ... tough noogies.
Perhaps if one was living in Central America during the Reagan years, the line from Satan to Reagan could have been easily drawn?
I think you will concede that the shift you now lament began with the last sentence of your opening post, no?
Very good point, Philip. Reagan may have been a good writer, but he was a simpleton vis-a-vis the "red menace." He was propelled into politics by right-wing businessmen who saw communists everywhere, and he learned their prejudices. In Reagan's mind, the poor in Central America, South Africa, the Philippines, and elsewhere had no legitimate grievances against their "anti-communist" leaders like Rios Montt, De Klerk, and Marcos. Therefore they MUST have been under the sway of communist agitators.
It was under Reagan that the gap between the wealthy and the middle class began to grow and it hasn't stopped yet. Only the "agitators" have changed: without communists for the CEOs to blame, their bogeymen are now Michael Moore, George Soros, and Occupy Wall Street.


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Round two dlc, go!
Round two dlc, go!
Probably sound files for the DLC.
I haven't even fully finished Pirate's Booty and this seems like it's just around the corner. Pretty glad for the season pass, though.
So it sounds like Mr. Torgue's Campaign of Carnage is another arena combat focused DLC. I sure hope there's more to it than just that. Otherwise, it seems like they are following the Borderlands 1 DLC schedule to a tee so far. DLC 1 was story based with a lot of new places to explore. DLC 2 will be focused on arena wave combat. So now we can say for absolute certain that DLC 3 will be the best and it will increase the level cap, and then DLC 4 will be bogged down with MMO-style collect quests and everybody will have lost interest by that point. Confirmed.
Go figure, Dtoid does a preview and fails to get the important info, like information on level caps.
Is there information on the level cap to be had?
EDIT: just check Kotaku's and Joystiq's previews on it, and they make no mention of the level cap either. It's one of those things where I'd expect if there were going to be a level cap increase, then Gearbox would make a big deal out of it and we'd know. And if there's not, then people aren't going out of their way to say that there's not, which is what's happening right now.
Yep. Someone in the comments posted. Even if there wasn't, it should have been noted that the question was at least asked and no info was available at the time. It's only one of the biggest fucking mechanics in the entire game.
It's like those dumbshits who review MP games and blatantly leave out lag issues, gun handling, lobby systems,etc. You know, the details that are important to the actual gameplay.
So, what's the cap then?
Still 50. "We're looking into upping the cap, but right now there are no specifics."
Really wish I hadn't went in on the Season Pass now. They're treating this game like it's the shittiest MMO in gaming with a weak level cap and stupid patches that only make it more difficult for item hunters.
IGN gave Harley Quinn's Revenge a 9. A NINE. IT WAS TOTAL CRAP. ABSOLUTE BULLCRAP. I don't trust reviews about DLC. I just wait for consumer reactions.
I'm alpha at everything I do son. I sperg with the best.
Actually liking Torgue guns this time around.
I'm still kinda butthurt at how much the "end-game" of the Pirate DLC sucked.
So, 71 hours later, I finally beat BL2. How could it seriously take me that long to beat?? Jesus.
However, one thing that I feel like a lot of people don't put much emphasis on is that you have a lot less to think about with higher and higher levels, and all character builds trend toward homogeneity with more levels. I think there's a lot of interesting decisions to make in building your character with only 45 available skill points. It necessarily means that you'll only reach the end of one of your three trees, and you'll be missing out on the more powerful skills in at least one of the other two trees, if not both.
Don't get me wrong; I look forward to a level cap increase myself, because then my Commando will be even more badass than he is now. But in addition to being more badass, I also think that the character builds become less unique the more skill points are available.
I'm fairly excited for the new DLC. It did not take the BF and I very long to beat the pirate DLC so hopefully this one has a bit more content. I'm fairly certain we'll have it beaten by black Friday as the two of us with days off leads to nothing but 12-16 hour gaming sessions.
PD, he's your fiance, get it right :-p
I've shelved bl2 while the missus and I play us some wow.
Ugh that is going to be so hard to remember. Art I'm making it your job to correct me every time I refer to him as boyfriend on this forum.
Get the misses borderlands 2 and have her play with you!
Saying "fiancée" was such a pain in the butt for the year or so that I did it. Much easier to say "wife" now.
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We've been experimenting with using almond milk as a substitute for actual milk in my household. The biggest failure so far has been with pancakes. The pancakes taste okay, but they are far stickier in the pan than batter made with milk, scorch more easily, and don't brown well. What can I do to get a more satisfactory pancake with almond milk?
I use almond milk as a milk replacement, almost exclusively. I was about to say when I made pancakes with almond milk they turned out fine, when I realized I made Buttermilk pancakes instead of just regular pancakes. I compared recipes for normal and buttermilk and noted that there was far less milk called for in the Buttermilk recipe (makes sense).
In short: you may try finding a recipe that does not call for so much milk, such as a buttermilk pancake recipe.
For reference, the recipes I compared had 1 1/4 cups of milk in the original recipe versus 1/4 cup in the Buttermilk recipe.
I just used this recipe from Silk and they turned out perfectly. (I am not affiliated with Silk, I was just looking for a substitution which is how I stumbled upon this site and your question)
Have you considered using soy milk? I used soy milk for making my pancakes this year for the first time and they worked out great. I followed this recipe from Delia Smith -http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/basicpancakeswithsuga_66226
The just opted to use soy milk and used oil instead of butter. My partner couldn't notice any difference in taste compared to previous years. Although I didn't try one that wasn't flavoured with lemon and brown sugar.
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I have seen some good questions which were closed because they were poll/suggestions/list types of questions. (even that is debatable)
If you post a question and you think the question will be obsolete after x months, it would be beneficial if the poster can set a setting to have the question self delete after x months.
If Stackexchange sites are too concerned about having questions which will be obsolete later, this function can take care of this issue.
SO already has lots of obsolete questions that got posted by other means than poll/suggestions/list questions.
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Good Poems includes poems about lovers, children, failure, everyday life, death, and transcendance. It features the work of classic poets, such as Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, and Robert Frost, as well as the work of contemporary greats such as Howard Nemerov, Charles Bukowski, Donald Hall, Billy Collins, Robert Bly, and Sharon Olds. It's a book of poems for anybody who loves poetry whether they know it or not.
"These are poems to live in comfort with all one's life." (Booklist)
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At Least—Raymond Carver
Address to the Lord—John Berryman
O Karma, Dharma, pudding and pie—Philip Appleman
Psalm—Reed Whittemore
Psalm 121—Michael Wigglesworth
When one has lived a long time alone—Galway Kinnell
Home on the Range—Anonymous
What I Want Is—C. G. Hanzlicek
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Summer Morning—Charles Simic
Otherwise—Jane Kenyon
Poem About Morning—William Meredith
Living—Denise Levertov
Another Spring—Kenneth Rexroth
Morning Person—Vassar Miller
Routine—Arthur Guiterman
The Life of a Day—Tom Hennen
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I've known a Heaven, like a Tent—Emily Dickinson
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from Song of Myself—Walt Whitman
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Late Hours—Lisel Mueller
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Scrambled Eggs and Whiskey—Hayden Carruth
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Nightclub—Billy Collins
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Cradle Song—Jim Schley
Her Door—Mary Leader
The Pupil—Donald Justice
Piano—D. H. Lawrence
Insrument of Choice—Robert Phillips
Homage: Doo-Wop—Joseph Stroud
The Persistence of Song—Howard Moss
Ooly Pop a Cow—David Huddle
Elevator Music—Henry Taylor
The Grain of Sound—Robert Morgan
I Will Make You Brooches—Robert Louis Stevenson
The Dance—C. K. Williams
The Investment—Robert Frost
The Dumka—B. H. Fairchild
The Green Street Mortuary Marching Band—Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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The Swimming Pool—Thomas Lux
Dostoevsky—Charles Bukowski
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When I Heard at the Close of Day—Walt Whitman
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Sonnet—C. B. Trail
Politics—W. B. Yeats
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Lending Out Books—Hal Sirowitz
The Changed Man—Robert Phillips
The Constant North—J. F. Hendry
On the Strength of All Conviction and the Stamina of Love—Jennifer Michael Hecht
The Loft—Richard Jones
This Is Just to Say—William Carlos Williams
This Is Just to Say—Erica-Lynn Gambino
Venetian Air—Thomas Moore
Summer Morning—Louis Simpson
Comin thro' the Rye—Robert Burns
Topograhy—Sharon Olds
Saturday Morning—Hugo Williams
Flight—Louis Jenkins
At Twenty-Three Weeks She Can No Longer See Anything South of Her Belly—Thom Ward
For the Life of Him and Her—Reed Whittemore
Romantics—Lisel Mueller
Down in the Valley—Anonymous
The Middle Years—Walter McDonald
Winter Winds Cold and Blea…—John Clare
since feeling is first—e. e. cummings
Vergissmeinnicht—Keith Douglas
Sonnet XLIII What lips my lips have kissed—Edna St. Vincent Millay
After the Argument—Stephen Dunn
The Orange—Wendy Cope
Susquehanna—Liz Rosenberg
Farm Wife—R. S. Thomas
After Forty Years of Marriage, She Tries a New Recipe for Hamburger Hot Dish—Leo Dangel
Those Who Love—Sara Teasdale
Quietly—Kenneth Rexroth
For C.W.B.—Elizabeth Bishop
Shorelines—Howard Moss
Prayer for a Marriage—Steve Scafidi
The Master Speed—Robert Frost
Bonnard's Nudes—Raymond Carver
6. Day's Work
Happiness—Raymond Carver
Hoeing—John Updike
Some Details of Hebridean House Construction—Thomas A. Clark
Relations—Philip Booth
What I Learned from My Mother—Julia Kasdorf
To be of use—Marge Piercy
No Tool or Rope or Pail—Bob Arnold
Ox Cart Man—Donald Hall
Girl on a Tractor—Joyce Sutphen
Soybeans—Thomas Alan Orr
Landing Pattern—Philip Appleman
Mae West—Edward Field
Hay for the Horses—Gary Snyder
7. Sons and Daughters
Masterworks of Ming—Kay Ryan
Bess—Linda Pastan
A Little Tooth—Thomas Lux
Sonnet XXXVII—William Shakespeare
Egg—C. G. Hanzlicek
Rolls-Royce Dreams—Ginger Andrews
My Life Before I Knew It—Lawrence Raab
After Work—Richard Jones
I Stop Writing the Poem—Tess Gallagher
Franklin Hyde—Hilaire Belloc
Manners—Elizabeth Bishop
September, the First Day of School—Howard Nemerov
First Lesson—Philip Booth
Childhood—Barbara Ras
Waving Good-Bye—Gerald Stern
Family Reunion—Maxine Kumin
8. Language
A Primer of the Daily Round—Howard Nemerov
The Possessive Case—Lisel Mueller
The Icelandic Language—Bill Holm
The Fantastic Names of Jazz—Hayden Carruth
Ode to the Medieval Poets—W. H. Auden
Sweater Weather—Sharon Bryan
9. A Good Life
We grow accustomed to the Dark—Emily Dickinson
A Ritual to Read to Each Other—William Stafford
Courage—Anne Sexton
Sometimes—Sheenagh Pugh
Leisure—W. H. Davies
the way it is now—Charles Bukowski
A Secret Life—Stephen Dunn
Lost—David Wagoner
Sonnet XXV—William Shakespeare
The Eel in the Cave—Robert Bly
Wild Geese—Mary Oliver
From the Manifesto of the Selfish—Stephen Dunn
Hope—Lisel Mueller
The Three Goals—David Budbill
Vermeer—Howard Nemerov
Repression—C. K. Williams
Weather—Linda Pastan
Moderation Is Not a Negation of Intensity, But Helps Avoid Monotony—John Tagliabue
Tell all the Truth but tell it slant—Emily Dickinson
The Props assist the House…—Emily Dickinson
10. Beasts
Little Citizen, Little Survivor—Hayden Carruth
Her First Calf—Wendell Berry
Bats—Randall Jarrell
Riding Lesson—Henry Taylor
Walking the Dog—Howard Nemerov
The Excrement Poem—Maxine Kumin
Stanza IV from Coming of Age—Ursula Leguin
Destruction—Joanne Kyger
How to See Deer—Philip Booth
Dog's Death—John Updike
Names of Horses—Donald Hall
Bison Crossing Near Mt. Rushmore—May Swenson
11. Failure
Success is counted sweetest…—Emily Dickinson
Solitude—Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The first time I remember—Wendell Berry
Our Lady of the Snows—Robert Hass
The British Museum Reading Room—Louis MacNeice
The Bare Arms of Trees—John Tagliabue
The Sailor—Geof Hewitt
A Place for Everything—Louis Jenkins
The Feast—Robert Hass
Nobody Knows You—Jimmie Cox
the last song—Charles Bukowski
12. Complaint
The Forsaken Wife—Elizabeth Thomas
Confession—Stephen Dobyns
Living in the Body—Joyce Sutphen
Tired As I Can Be—Bessie Jackson
The Iceberg Theory—Gerald Locklin
Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front—Wendell Berry
A Bookmark—Tom Disch
poetry readings—Charles Bukowski
Publication—is the Auction…—Emily Dickinson
13. Trips
Once in the 40s—William Stafford
lines from Moby Dick—Herman Melville
Rain Travel—W. S. Merwin
where we are—Gerald Locklin
Excelsior—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
On a Tree Fallen Across the Road—Robert Frost
A Walk Along the Old Tracks—Robert Kinsley
Passengers—Billy Collins
The Walloping Window-Blind—Charles Edward Carryl
The Vacation—Wendell Berry
Directions—Joseph Stroud
Postscript—Seamus Heaney
Night Journey—Theodore Roethke
Waiting—Raymond Carver
14. Snow
New Hampshire—Howard Moss
To fight aloud…—Emily Dickinson
December Moon—May Sarton
Year's End— Richard Wilbur
The Snow Man—Wallace Stevens
January—Baron Wormser
in celebration of surviving—Chuck Miller
Her Long Illness—Donal Hall
Requiescat—Oscar Wilde
The Sixth of January—David Budbill
Not Only the Eskimos—Lisel Mueller
Boy at the Window—Richard Wilbur
Winter Poem
—Frederick Morgan
Lester Tells of Wanda and the Big Snow—Paul Zimmer
Old Boards—Robert Bly
March Blizzard—John Tagliabue
15. Yellow
Elvis Kissed Me—T. S. Kerrigan
Stepping Out of Poetry—Gerald Stern
I shall keep singing!—Emily Dickinson
Song to Onions—Roy Blount, Jr.
O Luxury—Guy W. Longchamps
Coming—Kenneth Rexroth
A Light Left On—May Sarton
The Yellow Slicker—Stuart Dischell
First Kiss—April Lindner
The Music One Looks Back On—Stephen Dobyns
16. Lives
In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus One Day—X. J. Kennedy
Who's Who—W. H. Auden
The Portrait—Stanley Kunitz
Parable of the Four-Poster—Erica Jong
Ed—Louis Simpson
Memory—Hayden Carruth
Lazy—David Lee
Testimonial—Harry Newman, Jr.
Cathedral Builders—John Ormond
The Village Burglar—Anonymous
The Scandal—Robert Bly
At Last the Secret Is Out—W. H. Auden
Night Light—Kate Barnes
Sir Patrick Spens—Anonymous
17. Elders
I Go Back to May 1937—Sharon Olds
Those Winter Sundays—Robert Hayden
The Old Liberators—Robert Hedin
To My Mother—Wendell Berry
Working in the Rain—Robert Morgan
Birthday Card to My Mother—Philip Appleman
Yesterday—W. S. Merwin
No Map—Stephen Dobyns
My Mother—Robert Mezey
When My Dead Father Called—Robert Bly
August Third—May Sarton
Terminus—Ralph Waldo Emerson
18. The End
Authorship—James B(al) Naylor
Young and Old—Charles Kingsley
Shifting the Sun—Diana Der-Hovanessian
My Dad's Wallet—Raymond Carver
When I Am Asked—Lisel Mueller
Dirge Without Music—Edna St. Vicent Millay
My mother said…—Donald Hall
Departures—Linda Pastan
As Befits a Man—Langston Hughes
Sunt Leones—Stevie Smith
Perfection Wasted—John Updike
Eleanor's Letters—Donald Hall
Death and the Turtle—May Sarton
Four Poems in One—Anne Porter
Titanic—David R. Slavitt
The Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna—Charles Wolfe
Kaddish—David Ignatow
Twilight: After Haying—Jane Kenyon
For the Anniversary of My Death—W. S. Merwin
from The Old Italians Dying—Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Street Ballad—George Barker
Let Evening Come—Jane Kenyon
19. The Resurrection
Forty-Five—Hayden Carruth
A Blessing—James Wright
Holy Thursday—William Blake
lines from Walden—Henry David Thoreau
The Peace of Wild Things—Wendell Berry
From Blossoms—Li-Young Lee
The First Green of Spring—David Budhill
Here—Grace Paley
The Lives of the Heart—Jane Hirshfield
Spring—Gerard Manley Hopkins
Fishing in the Keep of Silence—Linda Gregg
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This roleplay takes place in the world of Azeroth, which is also the setting of the Warcraft games. Anybody is welcome to join, even if you aren't familiar with the games, as we will try to provide all the info you need to create a character.
The plot of the roleplay will be about the search for a powerful magical item, the Scythe of Elune. The Scythe previously belonged to Night Elven sentinel Velinde Starsong, who used it to summon semi-intelligent wolflike beasts called the Worgen, in order to fight back demons encroaching on the elven lands. Eventually, though, Velinde realised that the Scythe was summoning more Worgen than she had intended, and that the creatures were getting out of control.
She traveled to human lands in order to search for somebody who knew more about the Worgen and what could be done to contain them, but while traveling through the forests of Duskwood, she disappeared mysteriously, and along with her the Scythe was lost. It was found again by a human, but he had to flee when the Worgen summoned by the Scythe attacked him, and it hasn't been seen since.
Recently, a human mage interested in learning more about the nature of the Scythe has started looking for a group of adventurers willing to venture into Duskwood in search of it. Though the danger will be considerable, and the odds of finding the item low, he has promised a lucrative reward to those taking on the risk.
Character form
Race: (see below)
Class: (see below)
History: (no need to go into detail if you're not familiar with the setting)
The five races are Human, Dwarf, Gnome, Night Elf and Draenei.
The classes are Rogue (all races except Draenei), Warrior (all races), Warlock (Humans and Gnomes), Mage (Humans, Gnomes and Draenei), Druid (Night elves), Hunter (Dwarves, Night elves, Draenei), Paladin (Humans, Dwarves, Draenei), Shaman (Draenei), Priest (all races except Gnomes)
If you are already familiar with Warcraft lore and want to play a character that doesn't fit into this (such as a different race, or a class not normally available for a race), you can do it as long as you come up with a suitable explanation. These guidelines are just to make things simpler for people who don't know much about the world.
You can click here to see short descriptions of the races and classes. If you need any more info on something, you can look it up on WoWWiki or ask me or AaronShadows.
Anybody is welcome to join, just make sure you follow the RP forum rules!
Character form
Name: Erinne
Gender: Female
Race: Night Elf
Appearance: Erinne is about 180 cm tall and has a wiry, though muscular build. She has pale skin, with blue and yellow undertones, giving her a slightly sickly appearance. Her narrow, oval-shaped face is framed by dark blue shoulder-length hair. She has facial markings consisting of two symmetrical red lines on either side of the face, running from the forehead to the cheeks.
Class: Rogue
Equipment: Erinne wears old and well-worn, but serviceable leather armour. She usually fights using two swords, but also carries around a pair of daggers and a gun.
Personality: Erinne has an inquisitive personality, always wanting to try out new things and explore strange places. Although she is sociable and talkative, she doesn't form strong friendships easily. She isn't quick to judge, but once she forms an opinion of something, it is as good as set in stone. Like most night elves, Erinne has a strong distrust of magic and an intense dislike of blood elves.
History: Erinne grew up in the night elven lands in Kalimdor. In her youth, she spent most of her time exploring the forests of Ashenvale. After the night elves joined the Alliance, she traveled to Stormwind, eager to see new places and meet people of other races. Erinne immediately fell in love with the human lands and the fast pace of life there. Since then, she has spent most of her time travelling through Azeroth, never staying in one place for long; though she often returns to Stormwind.
(sorry, I know it's kinda shoddy, will revise it later)
The branches of the trees rustled in the chill breeze as the small group of people rode along the road to Darkshire. Erinne looked around warily, knowing full well that one could never be too cautious in Duskwood. Her two companions seemed likewise alert.
Strange shapes seemed to be moving about in the darkness, and glowing eyes peered at them from the vegetation. Although she knew that those were probably nothing but harmless animals, or illusions created by the shadows in the moonlight, she couldn't help feeling like something dangerous was stalking them. Suddenly, a loud rustling sound coming from the bushes on the left side startled the traveleres. "What was that?" one of the humans asked, peering into the darkness. "Probably just an animal," Erinne said, doubting those words even as she spoke.
She had barely finished speaking when one of the horses panicked, throwing its rider off, and at the very same instant a huge dark shape burst out of the bushes, striking at where the rider had been a second before. Now, its claws instead dug into the horse's back, mauling the poor animal. The creature finished off the horse with another powerful swipe of its claw, as the unfortunate rider attempted to scamper away.
"Worgen!" shouted the other human, drawing his weapon and urging his horse onwards. He managed to strike the Worgen on the head, killing it instantly, but more of the wolf-like creatures had appeared between the trees. Erinne also reached for her swords, and her riding tiger snarled as the creatures closed in on them. They were surrounded.
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Is this possible? I'd like to pull from a master list of universities and colleges either maintained locally in sharepoint or somewhere online (I found this). The idea is to keep users from typing in all sorts of variations of schools (i.e. UMASS vs University of Massachusetts).
I'd actually suggest using Managed Metadata Services for this.
The reason being, you want to include synonyms on your list (UMASS vs University of Massachusetts). Well, MMS fully supports this. You just create a term set with a list of all the universities, set up the synonyms for all the ones you want, and add Managed Metadata fields in the web sites where ever you need it. All you need to do is to set the MM Field to be restricted just to the universities term set.
This works across site collections (whereas lookups are tightly restricted to a single Web, can't go to subwebs or parent webs), and you can delegate management of the term set to users through the security settings available.
The downside, is that this is only available in SharePoint 2010 Server and up.
What you are looking for is called a lookup column:


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I'm almost in tears ! Just amazing work. Compiz now works on this one machine so smoothly where it was really sluggish before and when enable cube/rotate... !! No Panic or crash!
Way things look so far, Raring has already superseded Precise and Quantal. My hat is off to Mark and the Unity team and Sam S.


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For some reason, every page on my website has my domain name on the bottom of the page - to the right of the thumbnails. This never used to happen. I can see it in Firebug, but I still have no idea where it is coming from. How can I get rid of it? Thanks.
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Take a look at your page source. The offending area is a section of content that's being output after the closing
Time to restore your theme from a backup, change your passwords (admin and ftp), and possibly hire a professional to fix it if you can't manage it yourself.


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6 Famous Firsts You Learned in History Class (Are Total BS)
#3. Darwin Didn't Invent the Theory of Evolution
Any chucklehead with half a brain knows who came up with evolution: Charles Darwin. Most people even know the background story: Darwin went on a five-year voyage aboard the HMS Beagle to the Galapagos Islands, discovered some mismatched finches, then, bam! We have The Origin of Species and decades of ill-informed debates at IHOP.
Remember everyone, it's just a theory, and God planted dinosaurs in the Earth to fuck with you.
Except That ...
Before Charles was even born, his own grandfather was preaching evolution -- in verse.
Not only was Charles' grandaddy Erasmus a philosopher, a botanist, an inventor and awesome at wearing ringlets ...
... but also he was one of the first intellectuals to speculate that all life came from one origin. But unlike some people, he didn't just go out and write a world-changing treatise. Erasmus instead chose to express his brilliance in the form of poetry. Check it:
Organic life beneath the shoreless waves
Was born and nurs'd in ocean's pearly caves;
First forms minute, unseen by spheric glass,
Move on the mud, or pierce the watery mass;
These, as successive generations bloom,
New powers acquire and larger limbs assume;
Whence countless groups of vegetation spring,
And breathing realms of fin and feet and wing.
The book that poem came from introduced the three-boobed woman centuries before Total Recall.
BAM, it's evolution, baby! And in 1802, seven years before his grandson was born and 57 years before The Origin of Species. That's like Albert Einstein's great uncle coming up with the theory of relativity, but using the art of shadow puppetry to express it. And Erasmus wasn't done there. He also came up with a little something we like to call natural selection:
"The final course of this contest among males seems to be, that the strongest and most active animal should propagate the species which should thus be improved."
And just to prove that he was the pinnacle of the species, he fathered 14 children.
Not to mention the notion that all life came from a single organism:
Would it be too bold to imagine, that in the great length of time, since the earth began to exist, perhaps millions of ages before the commencement of the history of mankind, would it be too bold to imagine, that all warm-blooded animals have arisen from one living filament, which THE GREAT FIRST CAUSE endued with animality ...
No, Erasmus! It would not be too bold! Unless you don't like science, then yes, it is too bold. The point is that while most grandchildren inherit watches and government bonds from their grandparents, Charles Darwin inherited the beginnings of a paradigm shift.
And one hell of a political cartoon shitstorm.
#2. Copernicus Wasn't the First to Realize the Earth Revolved Around the Sun
If there are two things we know about space, one is that the Earth orbits the sun, and another is that no one can hear you scream when you're attacked by an extended rape metaphor. As we all learned in school, we have Nicolaus Copernicus to thank for that first one.
And maybe the second one, too, if we interpret his wild stare correctly.
He was a 16th-century mathematician, astronomer, physician, translator, artist, cleric, jurist, diplomat, economist, military leader and all-round know-it-all. And in his book De revolutionibus orbium celestium, Copernicus set out to prove not only that was he terrible at catchy titles, but also that the Earth orbited the sun.
Except That...
A Greek mathematician named Aristarchus came up with the heliocentric model a few years prior to Copernicus. And by "a few" we mean 1,800.
And by "came up with" we mean "put his coffee cup down in a fortuitous place."
The problem is that much like your college roommate's insistence that he totally joined a gang when he was in high school, the evidence is pretty lacking. As in, we don't have Aristarchus' actual theory. What we do have are snippets in his citations, and references to Ari's controversial theory from the other big thinkers of the day, like Plutarch and Archimedes.
And the way in which they mention Aristarchus leaves no doubt that the idea was that of a heliocentric model: "The sun, like the fixed stars, remains unmoved and forms the center of a circular orbit in which the earth revolves around it." Not only was Aristarchus the first guy to put forth the theory, but also there's plenty of evidence that Copernicus was familiar with it, specifically that Big C referenced Aristarchus' work then edited out that name drop in later versions, so as not to detract from the "originality" of his own theory.
If Aristarchus was Tupac, then Copernicus was every rapper in history.
So why does Copernicus get all the glory and Aristarchus get all the nothing? For one thing, Aristarchus' theory was dismissed from the get-go for not putting Earth at the center of the universe, but also for not accounting for the movement of the stars. After all, if the Earth is moving and the stars are standing still, why couldn't we see them sliding across the sky like intergalactic hockey pucks? (We can't see it with the naked eye, is the answer.)
More importantly, Aristarchus gave us a model and Copernicus gave us math. The difference between the two is the difference between a kid concocting a robot unicorn out of Play-Doh and a robocryptozoologist giving us the mathematical proof that it exists.
Aristarchus got this crater named after him, while Copernicus got an even bigger crater and a cool new element.
#1. Pythagoras Didn't Discover the Pythagorean Theorem
For those of you too far past your geometry days to remember, the Pythagorean theorem was that one equation you couldn't get away with not learning. If the SAT's could make hot, passionate love to a mathematical concept, this would be it.
We can almost smell the #2 pencils and Ritalin now.
Why? Only because the Pythagorean theorem is one of if not the most important concept in all of mathematics. And from its name, it's pretty damn easy to figure out who was the first person to realize that it existed, to use it and to prove it, right? It was Pythagoras, of course!
We know our math, but we sure have difficulty with pattern-spotting!
Except That...
Ancient Indians, Egyptians and Babylonians were using "Pythagorean triplets" (common sides of a right triangle) to construct their buildings since about 2,000 B.C., whereas Pythagoras "discovered" his theorem around 550 B.C. In fact, the Babylonians also seemed to have a bit of a love affair with the right triangle, seeing as how they actually had rules for generating Pythagorean triplets and wrote down hundreds of the suckers.
Don't believe us? Here they are. You read ancient Babylonian, right?
But hey, there's still something special about being the first to write a proof for a theory, right? Well, many mathematicians believe Pythagoras didn't do that, either. It turns out that a Chinese mathematical text called the Chou Pei Suan Ching has a geometric proof of the Pythagorean theorem that may predate the Greek thinker. So, to recap, Pythagoras gets full credit/hate for a theorem that he wasn't the first to use, discover, document or prove. Man, the ancient Babylonians and Chinese just don't get any breaks.
Still, the Chou Pei Suan Ching-ean theorem doesn't quite have the same ring to it, does it?
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The next class will be Wednesday the 3rd of April at 20:00. You will need your own laptop running either OS X or Windows. Max does not currently run on Linux. If you want to make your Linux machine make funny noises, you should consider PureData. Class will be in the Turing classroom, which adjoins the Church classroom at the back of the space.
As far as what we'll talk about in this class, I want to start looking at these Max meetups less as a lecture series and more as an opportunity to make some interactive art. For our first project I suggest we plan an interactive installation for the Turing room. We can fill the room with light and sound. We can create an immersive, reactive performance. Whatever it we do, it will be a great opportunity to pool our genius and to raise money on behalf of Noisebridge. So let's roll our sleeves up already.
This Wednesday we'll split the class into two parts. In the first part I'll do a quick demo on how to build a vocoder, which is a tool for making people sound like robots. That shouldn't take too long, so in the remaining time we can brainstorm about what we want to do in the Turing Room Performance Space. Bring your best ideas and your darkest mania.
Is your computer currently usable? When you type the letter 'k', does the 'k' character appear on the screen? Are the images in front of you right-side up? Are your internal speakers currently silent, as opposed to emitting a deafening, 18kHz sine tone?
Don't worry, There is hope. Enter Max/MSP--the programming language of the future. Invented by the French for the purpose of challenging the dialectic between man and machine and for confusing the general public, Max makes it easy to connect input to output in a rapid, whimsical and experimental manner. Programming in Max is as simple as hooking objects together using virtual connections called patchcords. Those patchcords can carry instructions, streaming data, sound, video or just about anything else, so it's easy to use Max to explore unexpected possibilities. You want to use Max to drive LED's? Or maybe to make your face dance? Max can do basically anything. Something is a proper subset of anything. Therefore, if you want to do something, Max can probably help.
Noise~ covers the basics, from building a simple patch all the way through tackling algorithmic composition and working with live video. The first class will be targeted at total beginners and will begin at the absolute beginning: downloading Max, opening a patcher and making something happen. From there, as long as there is interest there will be classes.
Previous Classes
March 20, 2013
Infinite Glissando! Loading a buffer~ with uzi and expr. Reading a buffer~ with phasor~ and wave~. Midi math. A world of illusions! Patch
March 13, 2013
Building an arpeggiator, pitch shifting, pfft~/freaky french transforms, presentation mode. Patches
March 6, 2013 Patches
February 27, 2013 Patches
February 20, 2013 Patches
February 13, 2013 Patches&Lab
February 6, 2013 Patches
Noise~ is led by Sam
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Kevin Militello, associate professor of biology,discusses project details in his lab with Erika Valentine, a junior biochemistry major from Hastings, N.Y. She is one of several undergraduate researchers supported by renewal of his NIH grant to continue work on identifying genetic functions in the parasite that causes "sleeping sickness."
GENESEO, N.Y. -- SUNY Geneseo biology researcher Kevin Militello is homing in on a DNA component in a parasite that causes human African trypanosomiasis, also known as "sleeping sickness," and has received renewal of a National Institutes of Health grant to continue the investigation.
Militello, associate professor of biology at Geneseo, received the $387,768 award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which covers a three-year period and provides summer support for three undergraduate research assistants, support for a part-time research technician, supplies, and travel to professional meetings.
In his initial work, Militello and the student researchers working with him discovered the modified DNA base 5-methylcytosine in the parasite, Trypanosoma bruccei, which is typically transmitted by the bite of the tsetse fly. They are trying to determine the genetic function of the molecule, which could lead to alterations in expression of a protein coating in the parasite that seems to protect the organism against destruction. The disease occurs only in 36 sub-Saharan African countries and if untreated, can be fatal.
"The key to this work is to identify the presence of new DNA bases in this organism and to elucidate the roles they play in different biological processes," said Militello. "The group of students working on this research are receiving invaluable laboratory inexperience on a project that can make a real difference in understanding this infectious disease."
The grant includes funds for sub-awards for two additional researchers: Jeffrey Miecznikowski, assistant professor of biostatistics and director of the Statistical Genetics and Genomics Resource at SUNY Buffalo and assistant professor of oncology at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute, and Dan Wang, a biostatistician at Roswell Park, who will work with Miecznikowski in the statistical analysis related to microarray experiments.
Laurie Read, professor of microbiology and immunology at the University at Buffalo School of Medicine, also will provide expertise for the sections of the project involving manipulations of the parasite's genome.
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7th National Brain Tumor Conference
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Teen Texting and Driving: A Modern Day Hazard
In This Article:
Statistics provided by the Pew Research Center indicate that one in four American teens of driving age admits to texting while driving, and almost half of all teens aged 12 to 17 have been in the car with a driver who has texted while behind the wheel.
What is so disconcerting about these statistics is that the same study found teens are aware of the dangers of texting while driving, but the need to stay connected to friends usually takes a backseat to safety.
The Dangers
The results of these unsafe habits can be devastating. According to AAA, motor vehicle crashes are the number one killer of drivers ages 15 to 20, and claim more than 6,000 lives a year. Experts blame inexperience behind the wheel coupled with poor decision making, such as speeding, distracting passengers, and texting, for these alarmingly high numbers.


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The older parts of Jakarta offer the chance to view the sceneries of the past. Explore Sunda Kelapa Harbor and other places of interest to the fullest, where modernity and remnants of the past can still be found.
Here, aside from Sunda Kelapa Harbor, you can found Harbor-Master Tower (Menara Syahbandar), Maritime Museum (Museum Bahari), Fatahillah Museum, Wayang Puppet Museum, Arts Museum and Beos Station.
Nearby hotels such as Omni Batavia. Or various lodgings in Jakarta area.
Public transportation is available, such as TransJakarta buses, bike-cabs, taxis, or rented cars.
In Jakarta, a cab is easy to find. You can also ride the TransJakarta Bus (Corridor I, Blok M - Kota), and stop at Kota, the final destination. Taking a cab from there will be relatively much cheaper from your hotel.


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I find many references to Gödel's pairing function on ordinals but I have not found a definition. What is it?
Define an order on pairs of ordinals $(\alpha,\beta)$ by ordering first by maximum, then by first coordinate, then by second coordinate. That is, one pair preceeds another if the maximum is smaller, or they have the same maximum and the first coordinate is smaller, or they have the same maximum and first coordinate, but the second coordinate is smaller. This is clearly a linear order, and it is a well-order, since none of these three quantities can descend infinitely. Furthermore, every proper initial segment of the order is a set, consisting of pairs with the same or smaller maximum (and indeed, the reason for using the order-by-maximum part of the definition is precisely to ensure that the order is set-like; the lexical order itself is not set-like on Ord).
Thus, every pair $(\alpha,\beta)$ is the $\xi$ th element in this order for some unique $\xi$, we may view $\xi$ as the code of $(\alpha,\beta)$. Every pair has a unique code and every ordinal is a code.
This pairing function is highly robust and absolute, since the definition of the order is absolute to any model of even very weak set theories that contain those ordinals. Another attractive feature is that whenever $\kappa$ is an infinite cardinal (or even merely a sufficiently indecomposable ordinal), then $\kappa$ is closed under pairing, in the sense that any pair of ordinals below $\kappa$ is coded by an ordinal below $\kappa$. This is how we know $\kappa^2=\kappa$ for well-ordered cardinals. In particular, this method of coding also works on natural numbers.
But I'm unsure if this coding is due to Gödel or was known earlier (perhaps even Cantor?); so it may not be the answer you seek.
According to this .pdf file the definition is this:
Consider the canonical ordering on $\mathsf{Ord\times Ord}$: $$(\alpha,\beta)\prec(\gamma,\delta)\iff\begin{cases} \max\lbrace\alpha,\beta\rbrace\lt\max\lbrace\gamma,\delta\rbrace & \lor \\\ \max\lbrace\alpha,\beta\rbrace=\max\lbrace\gamma,\delta\rbrace\land\alpha\lt\gamma&\lor\\\ \max\lbrace\alpha,\beta\rbrace=\max\lbrace\gamma,\delta\rbrace\land\alpha=\gamma\land\beta\lt\gamma \end{cases}$$
The pairing function, if so, $G(\alpha,\beta)=\operatorname{otp}\lbrace(\gamma,\delta)\in\mathsf{Ord\times Ord}\mid(\gamma,\delta)\prec(\alpha,\beta)\rbrace$.
Asaf and Joel have answered the question. Let me add a remark that expands the fact that it helps us prove that $\kappa\times$ and $\kappa$ have the same size. All the claims here can be verified rather easily. Multiplication and exponentiation are in the ordinal sense.
It is customary to write $\Gamma(\alpha,\beta)$ for the order type of the predecessors of $(\alpha,\beta)$ under the order than Asaf denotes $\prec$. For example, $\Gamma(\omega,\omega\cdot2)=\omega^2+\omega$.
An ordinal $\alpha$ is (additively) indecomposable iff $\alpha\gt 0$ and whenever $\beta,\gamma\lt\alpha$, then $\beta+\gamma\lt \alpha$. One can easily check that the indecomposable $\alpha$ are precisely those of the form $\omega^\beta$. Say that $\alpha$ is multiplicatively indecomposable iff $\alpha>0$ and $\beta\gamma\lt \alpha$ whenever $\beta,\gamma\lt\alpha$. Then $\alpha$ is multiplicatively indecomposable iff it is $1$ or has the form $\omega^{\omega^\beta}$.
Ok, we can now state the remark; unfortunately I would not know who to credit for this observation, I think of it as folklore: An ordinal $\alpha$ is multiplicatively indecomposable iff it is closed under Gödel pairing, that is, $\Gamma(\beta,\gamma)\lt\alpha$ whenever $\beta,\gamma\lt\alpha$. In particular, $\Gamma(\kappa,\kappa)=\kappa$ for any infinite cardinal $\kappa$, which of course implies that $\kappa\times\kappa$ and $\kappa$ have the same size. Also, if $\kappa$ is uncountable, then there are $\kappa$ ordinals $\alpha$ below $\kappa$ such that $\Gamma(\alpha,\alpha)=\alpha$. Of course, all of this works well in $\mathsf{ZF}$ and all the definitions involved are absolute.
I prefer a different approach when verifying that $\kappa\times\kappa$ and $\kappa$ have the same size, one that (again) is absolute and goes through in $\mathsf{ZF}$, but only requires the use of additively indecomposable ordinals: One first checks that there is a (recursive) bijection $h:\omega\times\omega\to\omega$ with $h(0,0)=0$. Then, given ordinals $\alpha,\beta$, use their Cantor's normal form to write them as $$ \alpha= \omega^{\alpha_1}n_1 + \omega^{\alpha_2}n_2 + \dots + \omega^{\alpha_k}n_k $$ and $$ \beta= \omega^{\alpha_1}n'_1 + \omega^{\alpha_2}n'_2 + \dots + \omega^{\alpha_k}n'_k $$ where $\alpha_1 \gt \alpha_2 \gt \dots \gt \alpha_k$ are ordinals, and $n_1,\dots,n_k, n'_1,\dots,n'_k$ are natural numbers. (Note that these representations are not unique, but at least one of $n_i$ and $n_i'$ is non-zero iff $\alpha_i$ appears as an exponent in the canonical form of $\alpha$ or $\beta$).
Now set $$ H(\alpha,\beta)=\omega^{\alpha_1}h(n_1,n'_1)+\omega^{\alpha_2}h(n_2,n'_2)+\dots+ \omega^{\alpha_k}h(n_k,n'_k). $$ Then $H$ is a bijection between $\alpha\times\alpha$ and $\alpha$ whenever $\alpha$ is indecomposable. And an easy inductive argument, appealing to the explicit proof of Schröder-Bernstein, allows us to use $H$ to argue that there is, provably in $\mathsf{ZF}$, a class function that assigns to each infinite ordinal $\alpha$ a bijection between $\alpha\times\alpha$ and $\alpha$.
(Of course, the existence of this class function can also be argued from $\Gamma$, using that there are $\kappa$ ordinals $\alpha$ below $\kappa$ with $\Gamma(\alpha,\alpha)=\alpha$, but this second approach is somewhat easier.)
I found this argument a while ago, but then saw that Levy gives essentially the same approach in his textbook on set theory. Again, I am not sure who to credit for this construction, it seems to go back to Gerhard Hessenberg's 1906 book, "Grundbegriffe der Mengenlehre".


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Is it possible to bookmark a link that, when chosen, will automatically open up new document (a word processing document in this case) in Google Documents even if I don't have GD open at the time? Having such a link would be a bit of timesaver for me.
You can indeed. Looking at the HTTP traffic, when you click the button to create a new document, it goes to https://docs.google.com/document/create first. I've checked and you can hit this page directly and it will do just what you want.
As noted by Ava, you can also use:
What Rebecca said above seems to work. Also, these would be the links to spreadsheets and presentations:
As far as I can see there is no easy way of doing so. When you create a new document, the window that opens already has the document ID in its URL, so this means the ID must be created and stored by Google Docs before you can actually start editing.
So I would say, no, it is not possible, because you would have to have an ID in the document editor.
I threw the files necessary to do this properly into a github repo if anyone wants to use it! https://github.com/kyletns/quick-docs
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