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Corporate Internal Investigations: Their Nuts, Bolts and Special Problems Topic of September 27 C. Willard Heckel Inn of Court Program
The legal community is invited to attend an open meeting of the C. Willard Heckel Inn of Court at Rutgers School of Law–Newark on Thursday, September 27, 2012 from 5–7 pm. The Heckel Inn kicks off its season with a CLE program titled "Corporate Internal Investigations: Nuts, Bolts and Special Problems, Including the Attorney-Client Privilege." The program will focus on some of the thorny issues that confront attorneys and the courts in connection with internal corporate investigations, including attorney-client privilege issues.
A panel comprised of the U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, a judge of the Superior Court, and experienced practitioners will discuss potential pitfalls and practical issues that arise in the conduct of corporate internal investigations. There will be contrasting points of view provided by counsel representing corporate officers, the corporation itself, prosecutors, and the judiciary on issues such as the scope and extent of the attorney-client privilege and when it and other privileges should be invoked or waived.
Pre-registration is required at www.rutgerscle.com. The program will provide 2.0 CLE credit hours (NJ, NY and PA), including 1.0 ethics. The registration fee is $75 or FREE for C. Willard Heckel Inn of Court members.
The C. Willard Heckel Inn of Court was founded in 1990 to further civility and excellence in the practice of law in New Jersey in both the state and federal courts. The Inn's core focus is on criminal and related civil practice in both the federal and state court systems, although many of its programs involve issues of broader appeal to the Bar. The Inn brings together highly experienced and distinguished justices, judges, trial attorneys, members of the Rar and Rutgers law students to enhance their skills and focus on emerging and important issues facing the Bar and bench.
Sponsored by Rutgers School of Law-Newark, the Inn offers programs that qualify for continuing legal education credit in New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania. Visit http://www.law.newark.rutgers.edu/about-school/heckel-inn-court for information about membership.
|"Corporate Internal Investigations: Nuts, Bolts and Special Problems, Including the Attorney-Client Privilege"
|Russell C. Deyo, Esq., retired General Counsel of Johnson & Johnson and former Chief of Special Prosecutions, U.S. Attorney's Office, District of New Jersey
Hon. Paul J. Fishman, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey
Carlos F. Ortiz, Esq., Shareholder, LeClairRyan, and head of the Compliance, Investigations and White Collar defense team
James A. Plaisted, Esq., Member, Walder Hayden and Brogan, Certified Trial Attorney, and past Chief, Fraud and Public Protection Division, U.S. Attorney's Office, District of New Jersey
Hon. Alberto Rivas, Judge of the Superior Court, previously a Partner Lite DePalma Greenberg & Rivas
Jacqueline C. Wolff, Partner, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, and co-chair of the Corporate Investigations and White Collar Defense Group
|5–7 pm, Thursday, September 27, 2012
|Baker Trial Courtroom, Rutgers School of Law–Newark


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What makes music "manly"? Is it a deep bass line? A heavy, complicated guitar rift competing with lyrics screamed over the noise? Rock stars strutting their stuff in tight leather pants and crazy bedhead hair, à la Jim Morrison? Or is it something else entirely?
We asked Max Maxwell, one of the owners of Mom's Music who has been a huge part of the Louisville music scene for more than thirty-five years, to give us his take. –Sara Nelle Murphy, Contributing Writer
What is the manliest musical instrument?
Well I'm a drummer, so I believe the drums are the most manliest instrument. You have to be in good shape, you have to be strong and agile. You can't be lazy and funky.
What is a rockstar in 2012?
I read a lot on the music blogs. Deejays seem to be the rockstars these days. They're becoming so popular because they're able to draw bigger crowds than rock bands. The younger generation really enjoys it because they can connect with these guys. Although these guys like Bassnectar (who just played at Forecastle) are very talented, it's not that far out of reach to be a deejay. Technology makes it so much more accessible to make electronic music and to share it, so it's growing more and more popular day by day.
Max's Manly Music Mix
"Back In Black" by AC/DC
"Classic. Number one."
"Screamin' For Vengeance" by Judas Priest
"A very manly band."
"Let's Stay Together by Marvin Gaye
"It's a slow song, a sweet song. But it shows that there's different ways of looking at what the definition of 'manly' is. In this case, he's a man because he's taking care of his lady. He's a gentleman."
"The Devil Went Down To Georgia" by the Charlie Daniels Band
"I mean the guy is fighting the devil – enough said."
"Boys and their toys."

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TOPEKA, Kan. -- Kansas' recreational trails program will receive $2 million under the federal transportation bill passed by Congress this summer.
"One of our highest priorities is to enhance ecotourism in Kansas, which includes developing a good trail system," said Robin Jennison, Secretary of the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism (KDWPT), which manages the trails program. "This level of funding will allow us to make great strides in the number and quality of trails across our state."
Federal transportation dollars go to the Kansas Department of Transportation, which then transfers an allocation to KDWPT for the trails program. The federal transportation bill – Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century, or MAP-21 – had specified $1.3 million for the trails program, but a decision was made to increase the allocation in accordance with new flexibility provisions in MAP-21.
"KDOT and KDWPT worked to come up with a way to prioritize the amount of money that should be applied to recreational trails and determined that $2 million is the appropriate level," said Transportation Secretary Mike King. "This will help move ecotourism forward in Kansas."
Kansas has more than 650 trails totaling more than 2,100 miles in length. KDWPT directly manages trails located on state park, wildlife area or state fishing lake properties. The others are managed by local governments or non-governmental organizations. To locate trails, visit http://maps.kansasgis.org/recfinder/public/index.cfm.
Earlier this month, Kansas exercised a provision in the federal transportation bill to "opt out" of the recreational trails program. Exercising that provision simply gave the state maximum flexibility to prioritize the funding. It didn't eliminate state support for the recreational trails program, which has received about $1.3 million annually in recent years. To have that flexibility option, the state had to "opt out" by Sept. 1.
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Rashi (Shemos 26:6, 26) counts out the number of poles for the chatzer (courtyard of the Tabernacle) on each side in parshas Terumah. He seems to ignore what is called the Fencepost Problem. The same problem exists for the 20 amah enclosure on the East side. Do any of the commentators address this?
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If I understand correctly, you are referring to the brichim, the horizontal poles that were slipped through rings on the boards -- and through holes within the boards -- to hold them in place. The math is straightforward: There were 20 boards of 1.5 amos on the north and south, thus requiring the poles to span 30 amos (the top and bottom poles were 2 x 15 amos, and the middle pole 1 x 30 amos). On the west was 8 boards of 1.5 amos, which required the poles to span 12 amos (again, top and bottom 2 x 6, middle 1 x 12).
Now, the 8 boards on the west overlapped one amah of the ones on the north and south. But evidently the poles on the N and S sides did not extend over the thickness of the western boards. So the math works out perfectly.


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January 30, 2013
Basic operating expenses is what voters in the Edison Local School District are being asked to help maintain with the 9.45-mill levy in a special election on Tuesday....
What will Edison get with the new School Funding proposal from Gov. Kasich?
The plan ensures that the first 20 mills of local property tax generate the same as a district with a $250,00 per student property tax base.
Edison Valuation = $312,125,400 Edison students = 1,985 Valuation per student = $157,242 Edison tax revenue on 20 mills at valuation of $312,125,400 is $6,242,508. Proposed tax revenue on 20 mills at $250,000 per student is $9,825,000. (250000 * 1985 students = valuation of $491,250,000) $491,250,000/1000) * 20 = $9,825,000 Under the Kasich plan Edison would receive additional state funding of $3,582,492.
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Part 3: The teachers have also agreed to a freeze on step increases for both years of the contract. With the new contract teachers will have agreed to a freeze on the base salary in 3 of the past 5 years and a freeze on step increases for 2 years.
The new contract will also eliminate the Board practice of picking up the employee portion of their STRS retirement contribution. This practice will be eliminated at the beginning of the 2013-14 school year.
The new contract also contains changes in language, most notably the creation of a joint committee that will create a new teacher evaluation tool. This was necessary to meet the change in the law concerning teacher evaluations in the State of Ohio. The new evaluation tool will be used starting with the 2013-2014 school year.
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The major cost savings will be seen in the areas of insurance and step freezes. With the new deal teachers will pay more for their insurance increasing their contribution from 10% to 12%. New spousal language was also added to the insurance portion of the contract. This language requires that the spouse of any teacher working for another employer that offers insurance must enroll in single coverage with their employer.
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Look here to see what "Edison School District" staff in Milan, Oh agreed to in Dec. 17 2012 for a new contract. Part 1: The Edison Board of Education and the Edison Teachers Association have reached an agreement on a new two year contract covering the 98 teachers employed by the district. In the deal the Teachers have agreed to concessions that will help the district during their current financial struggles. The two year deal will help the financially strapped District save $339,505 over the course of the agreement.
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GENESEO, N.Y. - Drawings by ten artists from around the county are part of an invitational exhibition through March 12 at the State University of New York at Geneseo's Bertha V. B. Lederer Gallery in the School of the Arts.
The "Drawn to New York" exhibition includes works by Juan Carlos Llera and Allan Peterson from Florida; Michael Bramwell from North Carolina; Jim Condron from Maryland; Russell Gordon of Michigan; Jill Odegaard from Pennsylvania; Barbara Nesin from Georgia; Carl Hazelwood, Peter Jemison and Jill Levine from New York; and Victor Davson and Cecily Cottingham from New Jersey. Materials used are as diverse as paper and thread works to digitally created prints.
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Markey and Gomez Will Face Off for Kerry's Seat
WASHINGTON—Massachusetts Democrats on Tuesday chose Rep. Edward Markey, a long-serving House member and a liberal on environmental and social issues, as their nominee for the Senate seat vacated by John Kerry. Businessman Gabriel Gomez won the Republican nomination.
Messrs. Markey and Gomez will now face each other in a June 25 general election. Mr. Kerry resigned from the Senate in January to become secretary of state.
With 98% of precincts reporting, Mr. Markey led his Democratic rival, Rep. Stephen Lynch, 58% to 42%, according to the Associated Press tally.
In the Republican primary, Mr. Gomez topped two rivals.
With 98% of precincts reporting, Mr. Gomez, a private-equity executive and former Navy SEAL, had 51% of the vote, while Michael Sullivan, a former U.S. attorney for Massachusetts, had 36% and state Rep. Dan Winslow had 13%.
While Massachusetts has elected a string of GOP governors and one Republican senator in recent years, Mr. Markey enters the two-month general-election campaign as the favorite. Democrats hold a 3-to-1 advantage over Republicans in registered voters, though independent voters outnumber those in both parties, accounting for nearly 53% of the electorate. Mr. Markey, 66 years old, outraised all candidates in both parties in the primary election.
Mr. Gomez's victory gives Republicans a Hispanic candidate at a time when the party is trying to broaden its appeal among minorities. Mr. Gomez, 47, is a first-generation American; his parents emigrated from Colombia. He also has deep pockets: He lent his campaign $600,000 earlier this year, according to records submitted to federal election officials.
Mr. Gomez came to Massachusetts to earn an M.B.A. at Harvard University. He has a personal connection to an event that absorbs voter attention these days: He ran this year's Boston Marathon and was near the explosions that occurred toward the end of the race.
The two Democratic House members brought very different political profiles to the primary race. While Mr. Markey backed President Barack Obama's health-care law and opposes the Keystone pipeline on environmental grounds, Mr. Lynch opposed the health law and supports the pipeline.
When Mr. Kerry vacated the seat in January, Democratic leaders moved quickly to coalesce around Mr. Markey in an attempt to avoid a repeat of a 2010 special election, when Republican Scott Brown unexpectedly won a Senate seat after the death of Edward M. Kennedy.
Within a day of Mr. Markey's announcement that he would run, influential figures in the Massachusetts Democratic establishment had endorsed him, trying to clear the field and frighten off potential challengers. Mr. Kerry called Mr. Markey, who first came to Congress in 1976, "one of the most experienced" legislators in Congress.
With Mr. Brown's upset win in 2010 on their minds, Democratic leaders are scheduled to hold a "unity" breakfast on Wednesday to begin planning their next moves.
"Everyone learned that you can't take anything for granted," said Jeff Gohringer, a spokesman for the League of Conservation Voters, which has spent $850,000 so far on Mr. Markey's behalf and has organized workers to knock on voters' doors—in many cases the same people targeted in the race that put Democrat Elizabeth Warren in the Senate in 2012.
Mr. Markey is popular with environmentalists, who note that he has helped write legislation aimed at diminishing climate change.
Mr. Lynch, a former steelworker, had hoped to take the Senate seat by appealing to independents and conservative Democrats. Independents have the option of voting in either the Democratic or Republican primaries.
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Falling Headband Over Heels
Here comes Game 7, Miami vs. San Antonio, a one-night finale for the Finals, the can't-miss easy sell. It would also be nice if we could put aside the talk of where Tuesday's ludicrously thrilling Game 6 belongs among the list of all-time games, because true or not true, the debate ruins the pleasure, since all-time comparisons are warped by memory and/or sentiment and are basically futile and exhausting.
When Game 6 was done, LeBron James said it was "by far the best game" he had ever been a part of, and the opinion of the current premier player on the planet is not an insignificant thing, but surely Miami winning was crucial to that declaration. James probably wouldn't have busted out the praise if he'd heard the Spurs popping Moët down the corridor. But the Heat had won, improbably, and James looked wiped in the news conference afterward, slouching back in his chair, gripping the microphone in one hand, like a rumply Jerry Lewis at 3 a.m. After four quarters and overtime, James had a right to be slap-happy, and he finished off a few of his sentences with a laugh which was low-voiced and warm, the kind of hehhehhehheh you do when you're so tired that everything sounds a little funny.
Hehhehhehheh. Wow they rolled out the celebration for San Antonio. Oh man. It surrounded the court in the closing moments of regulation, vigilant but rude, a sudden inundation of uniformed police and a yellow cordon that curled around the corners of the court, icing on an expected victory cake. The Heat saw it. You couldn't not see it.
Miami's Chris Bosh said the tape had ticked him off, except he used another word instead of ticked, and James concurred. "Yeah, I noticed it," James said. "It kind of did the same to all of us." Did it actually cause the Heat to win the game? Eh, who knows. Maybe a bunch of yellow rope was just a bunch of yellow rope. But it shows how a victor is allowed to grab control of the narrative. Had the Spurs won, the rope—and the NBA's overenthusiastic Party Planning Committee—would have been forgotten, or worse, deployed as another insult to the underwhelming Heat. But if the Heat win Game 7 on Thursday, The Yellow Rope becomes a defining moment, a call to arms, a future documentary subject, motivating a desperate team to a victory.
The Yellow Rope will do talk shows and buy a place in Key Biscayne and probably get really good at golf and tennis.
Hehhehhehheh. Oh, fans left. They really did. I was sitting with a pair of friends, Heat season-ticket holders both, and a whole group suddenly cleared out around us, as if they'd been told the city was handing out free Maseratis in the parking lot. At the time the Heat were down five with less than a half minute to play, and that is undoubtedly a gloomy spot, but even a modest level of basketball-watching experience will tell you that five points is only in the ballpark of "over," which is probably something someone should have told to the folks carrying out the yellow rope, too. I did not see the disloyalists trying to barge their way back into the arena—Let us in! We love not losing games!—but the tales and amateur video are priceless. You can think of this is as the comical nadir for a city's already-ridiculed sports fans but I choose to see it as a fantastic learning experience. Those fans will never leave anything, ever again. Ever. Seriously. They will not leave a game or a movie or a poetry reading or dinner party. They will be at your house long after dessert, doing the dishes, programming your coffee maker for the next morning. I learned my lesson. I was there at Game 6, June 18…they would not let me back in….do you want me to take out the recycling?
Hehhehhehheh. The headband. Late in the game, as Miami was clawing way back, LeBron James's famous sweaty headband came off after a fourth quarter play, and never returned, and its absence corresponded with a rush of brilliant play from the reigning MVP.
The thing that turned the headband into a thing, of course, was that James did not ask for it back—presumably the Heat had another headband on hand, or could have dispatched Pat Riley with a company credit card to Dick's Sporting Goods DKS 1.06 % —and this shows a charming superstitiousness and flair for the dramatic. It also shows how ridiculously fragile the environment surrounding Game 6 was: James was on the verge of his second finals loss in three years, and though he got a ring last season, had Miami blown it, the tedious second-guessing of his greatness would have gotten a pronounced revival. But the Heat had won, and so it was all happy headband, all the time. It did take on a goofy life of its own—the first two questions at James's postgame interview referenced the headband, and James was asked about it again on Wednesday. Big news: James intends to start Game 7 with the headband. Bigger news: The headband is apparently a he. James said that if it gets knocked off again, "me and him will have a little discussion." Clearly, LeBron's Headband needs to get in touch with The Yellow Rope.
Hehhehhehheh. Calling it now: Heat or Spurs in seven.
Count on it. And don't leave early. Not letting you back in. Headband or not.
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The WSJ projects Team USA to win the overall medal race in Rio—thanks largely to its dominant contingent of female stars.
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We focused on four types of athletes—cyclists, weightlifters, swimmers and high jumpers—to imagine just how different 'faster, stronger, higher,' could look.
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With Mammograms, Timing May Matter
Dec. 14, 2010 -- Women who have regular mammograms should consider paying attention to when they are scheduled. New research finds the timing of mammograms could affect the accuracy of results.
''Try to schedule it during the first week of your menstrual cycle," says researcher Diana Miglioretti, PhD, a senior investigator at Group Health Research Institute in Seattle, who led the study. "The first day of your menstrual cycle is the day you start to bleed."
But she adds: "I don't want women to stress too much over this, if they can't get in."
Her study does show, however, that timing of mammograms can make a difference for women who regularly get them. For some reason, the timing did not seem to have the same effect on accuracy in the women studied who were getting their first mammogram, Miglioretti tells WebMD.
The study is published online in the journal Radiology.
Timing of Mammograms: Backstory
Previous studies have looked at the timing of mammograms, Miglioretti says. Some experts have found that accuracy might be better in the first half of the cycle.
Other research has shown that breast density may be lower during the first half of the cycle. "We know breast density strongly affects mammography performance," she says. If a woman has a lot of dense tissue, it's more difficult to find cancer.
Timing of Mammograms: Study Details
Miglioretti and her colleagues examined 387,218 mammograms from women aged 35 to 54 who got the screenings from 1996 through 2007. The data were retrieved from six National Cancer Institute-funded Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium mammography registries.
None of the women had a history of breast cancer, breast augmentation, or mastectomies. The images were interpreted by more than 770 radiologists.
In all, 1,283 of the mammograms were linked to breast cancer cases.
The researchers took into account when the women had the mammograms and whether it was their first or not. They found that for women who had already had a screening mammogram in the past two years, the sensitivity -- the number of true positive findings -- was highest in those who had the mammograms the first week of their cycle. ''It was about 80% the first week," Miglioretti says.
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Wake up to a weekend in Cape Town this JulyIt's July and while the days are colder, it's certainly not a reason to stay indoors! There's so much happening in Cape Town over this period. With our fantastic Hello Weekend campaign and thanks to our great partner Kulula.com, you can visit Cape Town this July from as little as R2 750.
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The Pratt High School golf team was fortunate to have a couple of the few days in western Kansas when the wind wasn't blowing. Even so, the lengthy but well-groomed Bentwood Course still got the better of most of the Greenback golfers as they finished 7th out of 9 teams at the regional in Ulysses.
Larned won the regional with 324 and Andale was 2nd with 328. Pratt had 381.
PHS sophomore Tyler Skaggs qualified for State as an individual by posting an 80 to finish 10th. After a triple bogey-bogey start, Skaggs finished strongly, only 4 over par over his final 14 holes.
Other Pratt results were 30th Navarre Strapp 95; 31st Spence Sullivan 96; 46th Hunter Walker 110; 48th Skylar Stalcup 112; 52nd Alec Hampton 116.
"With all of the boundaries and OB to the right on this course, we had some issues with penalty strokes, basically making our scores higher than recent outings," said PHS coach Andy Kisner.
"All in all, we had a good season where we were able to finish 2nd in several tournaments and return to being competitive," Kisner continued. "We have had good senior leadership from Navarre Strapp, Alec Hampton, Ethan Gillig, and Skylar Stalcup. Sophmores Tyler Skaggs and Spence Sullivan, and freshman Hunter Walker are all good players that are getting better and will be the core of the team for the next few years."
Tyler Skaggs will compete next Monday at Cheney in the 4A State Golf Tournament. "We are looking forward to seeing what Tyler can do at State," concluded Kisner.
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Urine odor is related to the volume and concentration of a variety of substances excreted by the kidneys. Normally, urine that contains a lot of water has little to no odor. If your urine becomes highly concentrated — a high level of waste products with little water — urine odor may have a strong ammonia smell.
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I'm pretty sure I've worn red for each of the 10 years the American Heart Association's National Wear Red Day has been in existance. This year, it comes with a bit of added perspective.
You know how they say those phone calls in the middle of the night never bring good news? That was exactly my thought when my cell phone rang around 3am when morning in late August. My mom had suffered what, thankfully, turned out to be a minor heart attack. They took her to the cath lab the next morning and put in a couple stents. No major surgery required, no major damage to the heart muscle. She truly dodged a bullet.
It's especially true because my mom was typical of many women - she ignored the symptoms at first. She knew she wasn't feeling quite right but thought she could tough it out. Finally, she decided to have my sister check her blood pressure (they have one of those home units because my dad had heart surgery a few years earlier) and it was dangerously high. She agreed to have my sister drive her to the hospital - where mom said she was amazed how quickly they jumped into action to respond.
Not everyone is so lucky. One in three women in America dies from heart disease. Heart disease is the leading cause of death for women. If you suspect problems, don't ignore them - and call an ambulance rather than driving to the ER.
My mom is doing great today. She's completed cardiac rehab, is riding her exercise bike regularly and has lost nearly 20 pounds. She plans to add walking to the regimen this spring (it is winter in Wisconsin, after all!).
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The 5 Strangest Ways Your Mind Can Get Your Body Sick
#2. Jerusalem Syndrome
The Symptoms:
So, you're in Israel, on a tour of the Holy Land. Suddenly, a member abandons the tour group, dons a makeshift white toga, and starts wandering the city, singing and shouting religious slogans.
Who cares, right? It's a crazy person who thinks he's Jesus or something. Jerusalem is probably full of them. It's nothing more than an amusing story to tell back home.
The only problem is, that person had no previous mental illness, and will return to normal as soon as he leaves. And next month, there'll be another one just like him. And another. And another.
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It's like the world's slowest flash mob.
The Disorder:
They call it Jerusalem Syndrome. A large study was done on the subject for the British Journal of Psychiatry, and what's strange is how incredibly specific the symptoms are. The victim always makes a toga. It's always white. Then they spend their time in the city shouting out religious verses or singing songs, and then finally deliver a religious sermon at a holy place, presumably about the comforts of wearing a toga.
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This one even has his own harp.
And yes, their study was careful to separate out the people who were already crazy, or who had come to Jerusalem because they already thought they were the messiah (there are a fair number of both). What are left are dozens of average, everyday tourists who spontaneously turn themselves into Moses.
Some of them probably parted the waves on a few beers first.
It just appears that Jerusalem, a city obviously steeped in religious significance for three different religions, just makes some people snap. And it makes then snap in a bizarrely specific way. A lifetime of cultural and religious background comes crashing in at the sight of these sacred places.
The affected are usually detained (it's hard for the tourists to enjoy breakfast at a cafe when several men in togas are screaming prophecy at them) and sedated. Then they're fine again.
#1. Retired Husband Syndrome (RHS)
The Symptoms:
An elderly Japanese woman named Takako Terakawa began to develop rashes all over her body. Her speech began to slur. She would vomit after eating. A visit to her doctor revealed that she had multiple polyps in her throat. After some tests, doctors revealed that Terakawa was suffering from RHS, a disease that affects 60 percent of Japanese women over 60-years old.
The Disorder:
RHS stands for Retired Husband Syndrome.
Symptoms also involve extreme violence whenever golf is mentioned.
The thing is, for most of their adult lives, Japanese men spend very little time at home. They put in long hours at the office, and then social custom often has them spending late nights getting wasted in Japan's Sake-fueled version of "team building." Then it's right to bed and off to work again. This goes on for decades.
"Great news, kids! That crazy hobo sleeping in the spare room was your father all along!"
Their wives adjust to it -- so much so that when the men finally retire, it comes as a massive shock to the long-isolated women at home. Everything about their day-to-day routine that they've known since marriage is utterly disrupted. They go from essentially living alone, to being at the beck and call of a demanding husband, in a culture that demands that the women do everything. The result is depression -- which makes sense -- and a host of physical symptoms from skin rashes to a never-ending flu -- which is insane. The Japanese call it Shujin Zaitaku Sutoresu which literally means "One's Husband Being at Home Stress Syndrome."
The cure? Well, there are programs to help retrain Japanese men on how to not be dicks to their wives. And if that doesn't work, well, Japanese retirees have one of the highest divorce rates in the country. So there's that.
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What should be the maximum length of a function?
And are there cases which are an exception to this?
What should be the maximum length of a function?
And are there cases which are an exception to this?
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Since I embarked on this crazy racket in 1970, I have seen exactly one module that really needed to be more than one printed page (about 60 lines). I have seen lots of modules that were longer.
For that matter, I have written modules that were longer, but they were usually large finite state machines written as big switch-statements.
Part of the problem appears to be that programmers these days are not taught to modularize things.
Coding standards that maximize the waste of vertical space appear also to be part of the problem. (I have yet to meet a software manager who has read Gerald Weinberg's "Psychology of Computer Programming". Weinberg points out that multiple studies have shown that programmer comprehension is essentially limited to what the programmer can see at any given instant. If he has to scroll, or turn a page, his comprehension drops significantly: he has to remember, and abstract.)
I remain convinced that a lot of the well-documented programmer productivity gains from FORTH were due to the FORTH "block" system for source code: modules were hard-limited to an absolute maximum of 16 lines of 64 characters. You could factor infinitely, but you could not under any circumstances whatsoever write a 17-line routine.
What's the Right Size, Really?
Depends on the language you use, but in general (and for my personal taste):
If it's more, then it's something I need to come back to later and rework.
But realistically, any size it needs to be when you need to deliver something and that it makes more sense on the moment to spit them out like that, makes it even easier sometimes for someone to review before shipping. (but still get back to it later).
(Recently my team ran a program on our codebase: we found class with 197 methods and another with only 3 methods but one of them was 600 lines. Cute game: what's the worse of the 2 evils?)
Now for a more zen answer... In general it's considered a good practice (TM) to quote one or two great men, so here goes:
Addendum on Comment Styles
As an addendum to this, your functions should have clear names explaining their intent. Regarding comments, I usually don't comment inside a function:
A comment block at the top of each function (that requires explanation) is enough. If your function is small and function names are explicit enough, then you should just need to say what you want to achieve and why. I use inline comments only for fields in some languages or on block starts for functions that break that 25-35 line rules if the intent is unclear. I use a block comment inside the code when an exceptional situations occurs (a catch block where you don't need or want to do anything should have a comment saying why, for instance).
For more, please read my answer on Style and recommendations of commenting code
In my opinion, every function should be as small as possible. Each function should do only one think and do it well. That doesn't really answer the maximum length question, but it is more my feelings on the length of functions.
To use the words of Uncle Bob, "Extract till you just can't extract any more. Extract till you drop."
What should be the maximum height of a building? Depends on where the build is, or the height you want it to be.
A method that works for me is: Can I have a part of a longer function give a name that makes sense. I think length of a method is not that important like good naming. The method should do what the name says, no more and no less. And you should be able to give a good name. If you cannot name your method good, the code is probably not good put together.
As long as it needs to be to do what it needs to do, but no longer.
The question should be how many things should a function do. And usually, it's rare that you need a 100 lines to do "one" thing. Again that depends on the level from which you are looking at the code: Is hashing a password one thing? Or is hashing and saving the password one thing?
I would say, start with saving password as one function. When you feel that hashing is different, and you refactor the code. I am no expert programmer by any means, but IMHO, the whole idea of functions begin small is that the more atomic your functions are, the higher the chance of code re-use, never having to make the same change in more than one place, etc.
I have seen SQL stored procedures that run over 1000 lines. Does the number of lines of stored procedures also be less than 50? I don't know, but it makes reading the code, hell. Not only do you have to keep scrolling up and down, you need to give a few lines of code a name like "this does validation1", "this updates in the database", etc. - a work that the programmer should have done.
From Cyclomatic complexity (Wikipedia):
Typically, I try to keep my methods/functions to what fits on the screen of a 1680x1050 monitor. If it doesn't fit, then use helper methods/functions to parcel out the task.
It helps readability on both screen and paper.
I think there is a trade off. If you have a lot of short methods, it is often harder to debug them than one long method. If you have to jump around the editor 20 or 30 different times to trace one method call, it will be hard to keep it all in your head. Meanwhile if there is one well written clear method, even if it is 100 lines, it is often easier to keep in your head.
The real question is why should items be in different methods, and the answer as given above is code re-use. If you aren't re-using the code (or don't know) then it may make sense to leave it in one giant easy to follow method and then as you need to re-use it, split the parts that need re-using into smaller methods.
In reality part of good method design is making functionally cohesive methods (essentially they do one thing). The length of the methods do not matter. If a function does one well defined thing and is 1,000 lines than it is a good method. If a function does 3 or 4 things and is only 15 lines, then it is a bad method...
I find it easier to keep track of what I'm doing if I can see the entire function all at once. So here's how I prefer to write functions:
I rarely write functions longer than that. Most of those are giant C/C++ switch statements.
Short enough to be optimized correctly
Methods should be so short as to do exactly one thing. The reason for this is simple: so your code can be properly optimized.
In a JIT-ted language like Java or C#, it is important that your methods be simple so that the JIT-compiler can produce code quickly. Longer, more complicated methods naturally require more JIT time. Also, JIT compilers only offer a handful of optimizations and only the simplest of methods benefit from this. This fact was even called out in Bill Wagner's Effective C#.
In a lower-level language, like C or C++, having short methods (maybe a dozen or so lines) is also important because that way you minimize the need for storing local variables in RAM rather than in a register. (Aka 'Register Spilling'.) Note however that in this unmanaged case, the relative cost of each function call can be pretty high.
And even in a dynamic language, like Ruby or Python, having short methods also helps out in compiler optimizations as well. In a dynamic language the more 'dynamic' a feature, the harder it is to optimize. For example, a long method which takes an X and could return an Int, Float, or String will likely perform far slower than three separate methods which each only return a single type. This is because, if the compiler knows exactly what type the function will return, it can optimize the function call site as well. (E.g., not checking for type conversions.)
For me, a function is any length it needs to be. Most of the time that I divide it up is when I will reuse code.
Basically, I'll stick to the principal 'high cohesion, low coupling' and there is no constraint on length.
I don't put a hard line limit on anything because some functions implement algorithms that are inherently complex and any attempt to make them shorter would make the interactions between the new, shorter functions so complicated that the net result would be no reduction in simplicity. I also don't believe that the idea that a function should only do "one thing" is a good guide, since "one thing" at a high level of abstraction can be "many things" at a lower level.
To me, a function is definitely too long if its length causes subtle violations of DRY right now, and extracting part of the function into a new function or class could solve this. A function may be too long if this isn't the case, but a function or class could easily be extracted that would make the code more modular in a way that is likely to be useful in the face of foreseeable change down the road.
Most compilers do not mind a function's length. A function should be functional, but be both easy to understand, change and reuse to human beings. Choose a length that suits you best.
My general rule is that a function should fit on the screen. There are only three cases I have found that tend to violate this:
1) Dispatch functions. In the old days these were common but most of them are replaced with object inheritance these days. Objects only work inside your program, though, and thus you'll still see occasional dispatch functions when dealing with data arriving from elsewhere.
2) Functions that do a whole bunch of steps to accomplish a goal and where the steps lack a good subdivision. You end up with a function that simply calls a long list of other functions in order.
3) Like #2 but where the individual steps are so small that they are simply inlined rather than called separately.
It very much depends on what's in the code.
I have seen a thousand-line routine that I had no problem with. It was a huge switch statement, no option exceeded a dozen lines and the only control structure in any option was a single loop. These days it would have been written with objects but that wasn't an option back then.
I'm also looking at 120 lines in a switch in front of me. No case exceeds 3 lines--a guard, an assignment and the break. It's parsing a text file, objects aren't a possibility. Any alternative would be harder to read.
Maybe function length is not so a good metric. We try to use cyclomatic complexity, on methods too, and one of the future source control checkin rules that cyclomatic complexity on classes and methods must be lower than X.
For methods, X is set to 30, and that's pretty tight.


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I am wondering if there is a way to run Ubuntu applications from Windows. I have heard of WINE, which emulates Windows in order to run Windows applications on Ubuntu. Is their a Windows application that would allow you to run Ubuntu applications on Windows?
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The general question to this is NO, however, there is a but:
But generally you can not take an arbitrary .deb and install and run it in Windows.
There's also Xwindows, which would allow you to run applications from the Ubuntu server on your windows desktop. It can take a little setting up - the key is to understand that -you- are the server and the Ubuntu server is contacting you - but once it's set up I think it will do what you're looking for.
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Is it proper to use the following expressions
I started to London yesterday afternoon .
I started to London yesterday morning
I ask because it is supposedly correct to say 'last night'. Why don't we say 'last afternoon' or 'last morning'?
Is it proper to use the following expressions
I ask because it is supposedly correct to say 'last night'. Why don't we say 'last afternoon' or 'last morning'?
Yes, constructions such as
are quite common.
For night, it is more customary to say last night rather than yesterday night, although we do say yesterday evening, tomorrow night, Saturday night, and so on.
When the day is itself a compound, I think this compact form is less common, however. To say
sounds unnatural to me; my eyes jump to the set phrase "tomorrow morning," and then I wonder how there can be a full day after a part of a day, and then I realize I have parsed it wrongly. Better to have said
Yesterday afternoon is correct, but your sentences are wrong. The correct sentences are:
The way to refer to times of day with reference to now is (if it is noon) in order (in American Emglish):
I hesitate to say for fear that doing so puts them into people's heads, but one does not say: 'today noon' or 'today morning' or 'yesterday night' or 'this night'. These latter may be appropriate in other varieties of English, but not in AmE.
Why is this the case (why the irregularity for 'tonight' and 'last night'? That's just the way it is, people just speak that way. A logical reorganization might make it easier for EFL but it wouldn't respect the pattern that native speaker's grow up with.


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In Starting Strength, a well-known book on barbell training, Mark Rippetoe says (emphasis mine):
It goes on to recommend doing the barbell version ("as the weight of history and precedent demands"), though.
It is a different exercise. Quoting Mark Rippetoe (Starting Strength, p.68):
He also says that getting into position, and getting up with the dumbbells after the set "is a large part of the fun", and that they require more conscious control and are harder to do compared to the barbell version.
I don't see why it should be less effective, except in regard to the bench press as competitive lift.
From my experience when Bench pressing with a good spotter will be 10 times more effective. it tends to use more of your core and also if done correctly you will see a vast improvement when training to your tri's too. You center of gravity is also better when barbell pressing and ensures a good press.
I would only dumbbell press if if the bench press equipment is not capable of spotting you with a lift your self and you believe that you could be putting your self in danger.
Main difference is that it is not a core lift. I use it as an accessory exercise at higher volumes (10-12 rep range) to improve my bench press.


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Candie's Captures Haunted Look In Britney's Eyes; Kate Moss Engaged?
- Britney Spears is returning as the face of Candie's, minus the pink spray-painted haybales. [People]
- Julia Roberts is in Paris for a week, shooting advertising for her previously-announced Lancôme contract. The endorsement deal is worth a reported $20 million. [Radaronline]


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Why sometimes when I open a picture or Skype (probably there are other programs with the same behavior, but I don't remember now) the Image Viewer / Skype is not focused.
It doesn't happen all the time. I cannot catch the exact condition when this happens, but it really bothers me because often I close the wrong program.


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I'm preparing for a client presentation, and all the Microsoft literature about SharePoint 2010 boasts of "cutting costs with unified infrastructure." However, I have been able to find no detail which might explain what that phrase means.
Does anyone know what "unified infrastructure" is supposed to mean, and what the difference between SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2007/WSS 3.0 is in that regard?


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A poem for the Nativity
Just before Christmas we had a discussion of Christmas poetry. If I had known the one I give below, I'd have included it. It's by the British poet Sally Read, and since on another thread below it became clear that not everyone likes it as much as I do, I thought I'd give it its own thread.NativityHer labours heat still cloaked her,and on that, the nights cold like a slap.smell of blood and feed brought to mindjellied foals on stick-legs. But what she sawwas this: a blubbery pink umbilical cordtethering God to man, tough as pork-fat.Who cut it? Joseph with a grafting knife,and the baby juddered red, fists clenched,as though falling to the floor.And was she shocked, as all new mothers are,by that fresh distance spread between them:pitch birth eyes appraising her from outsideas if he hadnt guessed the voiceof his nine-month world to be so sadlysmall and human? She could only doas all new mothers do: knit his skinback into hers with warmth, milk and song,breathing out the pain, as with bony gumsand fierce with need, he latched on.Sally Read, Christmas 2011
About the Author
Rev. Joseph A. Komonchak, professor emeritus of the School of Theology and Religious Studies at the Catholic University of America, is a retired priest of the Archdiocese of New York.
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Have you ever seen an umbilical cord? Would tough as pork-fat describe it? Not at all - I have to agree with that. My most recent encounters with umbilical chords were with newborn kittens, and, with scissors, it is the easiest thing in the world to cut those chords (after the difficulty of tying a string into a knot around the slippery chord near the kitten's tummy.)breathing out the pain, as [...] he latched on - That's another description that doesn't quite ring true, at least, not without further explanation. More commonly there is no pain involved. It feels more or less like the inside of one's mouth when spitting out toothpaste after gargling.birth eyes appraising her - Now, that is interesting. What does a brand new newborn think about? That the voice of his nine-month world [is] so sadly small and human? I have no idea.I might like the notion that the umbilical chord represents a (vital? fragile? ephemeral? meant to be severed?) link from God to man, and that the infant Jesus is fierce with need, but I don't care much for the rest of the poem.
Claire --Alison Gopnik is a child psychologist who specializes in the tiny ones. Her Scientist in the Crib and her The Philosophical Baby are utterly fascinating.Among other things they've discovered that within hours a newborn baby knows its mother. By smell, I assume, but don't know.
Not so easy to cut a human umbilical cord -- tough is the word for it. I think the poem is vivid and very moving. Thank you for sharing, Fr. K.
Our foremothers in gathering/hunting days had no trouble biting the cord with their sharp little teeth. A newborn recognizes the familiar voice s/he's been listening to from the inside for many months.As to "birth eyes appraising her from outside"? I don't think newborns are disappointed that Mother is "sadly small and human". I think they're delighted to finally see the source of the songs.Sally Read does not seem to hold women in very high regard. (Or the culture in which Mary and Joseph lived.)
I like the poem, too, whether entirely realistic or not. I think it captures both the miraculous nature of the Incarnation, as well as the utter humanity of the event. The poet gives us a vivid reminder of the first of Christ's two supreme acts of humility, the other being the Passion. As for Mary, who had lived for months with the awesome realization (and confusion?) that she would be giving birth to God, the poet provides at least a hint of what must have been going through Mary's mind as she delivered what to her at that moment was her helpless human child.
Who cut it? Joseph with a grafting knife,and the baby juddered red, fists clenched,as though falling to the floor.------------------ Joseph wouldn't have been present, but a grafting knife would have been a good tool for the women to use.I like "the baby juddered red", although a newborn with his instinctive fear of falling out of the tree does not clench his fists as much as he spreads out his little hands to clutch mother's fur. (A documentary made by physicians against circumcision shows a baby juddering red and screaming in panic and pain when a man in a mask attacks him with a knife.)
The Philosophical Baby? What a great title!
Claire --Gopnik is apparently a highly regarded psychologist, in spite of the fact that she is so wildly in love iwth her little subjects that I have to wonder how objective she is about them. But she obviously knows what questions are important. What I particularly admire about her is that she does not make the assumption that the tiny ones must be just glorified little primates. (Yes, I'm fascinated by the tiniest ones -- the smaller the better :-)As to the poem, I don't see why we need assume that Jesus' birth was in any way a typical one. When the Christmas carol says "Angels we have heard on high/Sweetly singing o'er the plains" I'm quite sue that that is nearer to the poetic truth of that astounding event than any literal accpimt of the Gospels is.
I don't mind it being typical, although I think the angel song is true as well, but why does each image have to be a sharp smack? Whack! blubber. Whack! falling to the floor. Whack! bony gums.
Kathy: Why "whack"? Some of those images are not loud and sharp. Blubber, gums...
Fr. K,It's a matter of shock value, a slap like the night's cold. Why pork-fat? This is a Jewish family. It's one thing to talk about a down-to-earth Incarnation, and another to press the point so hard.
Not just gums, but bony gums...
I admire the earthiness of Read's poem. Poetry need not be "realistic", in fact should not be. Metaphor, employed wisely and creatively is a defining characteristic of poetry. Her work conveys the Incarnation, after all. Not a sanitized, Disney-version of the Messiah's birth, but the sweaty, uncomfortable and bloody reality of birth. Christ entering into life as a human baby, exiting into the world through the birth canal, not just showing up out of nowhere, clean, dry and pristine accompanied by singing angels.
"... fierce with need, he latched on." Interesting, multi-layered image there. Meant to suggest a symbiotic relationship with God? He devours us in his need for our love as we devour him through the Eucharist?There's a lot of blood and flesh, even violence in the images, the cutting, the juddering, the clenching. Certainly, Sally Read knows that encounters with God are not made of angel harps and fluffly clouds. Ask Abraham who led Isaac to the slaughter or Christ on the cross.What's your sister Bernie think about it?
I'm not saying there's nothing interesting here. The tethering, the separation, the noting of the separation, the rejoining, the latching on--all very interesting. I just don't know that the shocking things--"jellied foals" and "pork-fat", the knife and the bones--are helpful to understanding any of it. I guess I can't help remembering that this is a woman who, 2 years ago, wanted to write a book about a vagina. Perhaps these parts of the poem seem like the same kind of fleshy introspection, rather than a meaningful reflection on the Incarnation. I suppose I'd rather see lucidity in religious art, rather than introspection. Not there there is no interplay. Hmm.
I don't find the poem very introspective, far from it. "Fleshy" it is, but so was the en-flesh-ment of the Word. The umbilical cord "tethering God to man" is wonderful. Augustine wondered that the Word was speech-less when born, unable to utter his mother's name, able only to squall.
By "introspective" I mean that the author has put a personal spin on the event. Rather than speaking about the event as it was, she is "reading" the event with a certain striking fleshiness, especially in the first half of the poem, that I doubt was really the major focus of the interior or exterior scene of the virgin birth. It's a matter of degree, almost certainly overshot.
A baby hums the mother's' name while nursing. Mmm mm mmm. A three-note song to mom. (Odd that Augustine never noticed that when his mistress nursed his son. Or that Monica never reminded him of his own days as a nursling.)
Fr. K.,Just a word of thanks for these posts on art, liturgy, and theology. In my line of work I've found two things for sure: a) these things are almost impossible to talk about, and b) making the effort is illuminating. So thank you, and please continue!
I second Kathy's commendation. I've found the discussion of these topics very enlightening.
Kathy: Thank you for the kind words. I do think that your understanding of "introspective" is unusual: would "idiosyncratic" be better? Jean Raber: My sister Bernie's initial reaction was "Wow!" She wants to think about the poem before saying more. She too wondered at the meaning of "judder," which I find the OED traces back only to 1931 and for which it gives the meaning "to shake violently".
I heard a British friend use "judder" in the context of a car engine that started shaking violently when the ignition key was turned, so I assumed the word is British slang, though I have yet to hear it used on "Downton Abbey." ;) (Speaking of which, creator Julian Fellowes, who is Catholic, said recently that he will be introducing a "Catholic theme" into season three of the series.)
William, there will be a season three? Say it ain't so! :-)
William Collier, that's what I thought of, too. Old people like me will perhaps recall the occasional ride in a Model A Ford, or any old heap with a clutch and an attitude.About Downtown Abbey: interesting article in the NYT this morning about the rich American girls who married poor English aristocrats and noblemen, including Lord Grantham's Cora: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/20/books/heiresses-of-whartons-era-in-fas...
As a pediatrician, Im somewhat familiar with human umbilical cords. I cut several as a medical student and used scissors and forceps on many more as a resident in the neonatal intensive care unit, placing umbilical vessel catheters. I dont find the simile too much of a stretch. Perhaps cooked pork fat is more like it, which should direct our attention to Kathys point above: Mary, Joseph, and Jesus are Jews. In the poem, that which tethers God to man is disturbingly non-kosher. I dont read this as an anti-Jewish, law vs. freedom dichotomy, but a blunt reminder that God, forever willing to break Gods own rules, comes to us in most unexpected of ways. The word for non-kosher items in Yiddish is treyf. Mary and Joseph, of course, couldnt speak Yiddish, which didnt yet exist as a language, but the word comes from the Hebrew terefa, carrion, from a root that means torn or ripped. Christians see the Incarnate, crucified and risen Jesus, whose glorified flesh is torn (see John 20:24-29), as the saving and definitive tether between God and humans. In one startling image, Read links the Incarnation back to Jewish cultural history and forward to the Passion and Resurrection. As for Mary breathing out her pain, shes only minutes post-partum ( labours heat still cloaked her ), but Ill leave to those who know from experience if the moment of birth doesnt mean the pains over. From what Ive seen, however, theres still a lot of discomfort, even if the babys pink and well and Moms endorphins are doing their job. Either way, though, arguing over details misses the point. Ms. Read is writing poetry here, of course, but I take her real literary form in this case as midrash, a venerable, fruitful, and very Jewish way of exegeting scripture through narrative. If thats anywhere near the mark (and worrying whether or not Ms. Read thought of midrash while writing this would mean falling for the intentional fallacy), then the earthiness, carnality, and almost offensive imagery is congruent with the theological thrust. This is a profoundly Incarnational poem, which is also to say its anti-gnostic and anti-docetic, and thats a theological mystery we moderns, most of whom are practical Gnostics, need to have our faces rubbed in time and again. Incarnation isnt neat or clean; its messy, inconvenient, and often offensive. I like to imagine that I hear Jesus God Incarnate more clearly than the skeptical Jews in John 6, who were offended at the notion of eating flesh (the verb in 6:56, trogon, mean to gnaw or crunch, so Read, compared to Johns Jesus, is toning it down), but, if Im honest, Im at least as deaf, if not more so. I need to be reminded of what Incarnation really entails, and Ms. Read is offering me a much-needed reminder through her orthodox theological reflection. And I do mean orthodox: I dont know what Gregory Nanzianzen, Tertullian, and Irenaeus would make of the poem, but theyd agree Reads theology is spot on. Thanks, Fr. Komonchak, for this and your many other contributions here. Youve made me want to find more of Reads work, whose poetry is new to me. This poem reminds me of the work of Scott Cairns, for whom midrash is an important poetic tool, as well as B H Fairchilds, The Deposition, and a poem by Andrew Hudgins, Piss Christ, which is certainly not for the faint of heart, but which contemplates Andres Serranos controversial photograph and finds in it a theologically compelling rejection of Gnosticism. I suspect you already know them, but it's my way of repaying the debt I owe you.
Dr. Volck - please, comment here more frequently.
Agreed. However, I think "gnosticism" can stand for a lot of different things, and "incarnation" for a lot of different things, and we would all benefit from a lot more definition.Fr. K., you are right, I was using "introspective" in an idiosyncratic way :) What I mean to say is that Read seems to be reading Christian revelation through a preferred lens.
Yes, those Fr. K threads are very interesting. Aren't they always? Let me say it once now, and then I never need to repeat it again.
@ Jim : Thanks for your kind words. @ Kathy: You're quite right that, as they are used today, the terms are slippery. I should have stuck with "docetic" rather than "gnostic." Please take "Incarnation" in its formal Nicene meaning.
I don't think most moderns are practical docetists. That is not our problem. I don't think the current age has any problem seeing Jesus as a man like us, with all the messy business that entails. I think we have much more of a problem seeing Jesus as the incarnate Word, originating beyond time, and powerfully joining himself to human nature. It's the God side of the Chalcedonian equation that is lost to us, not the bodily aspects.
"I dont think the current age has any problem seeing Jesus as a man like us, with all the messy business that entails. I think we have much more of a problem seeing Jesus as the incarnate Word ... "I understand the concern expressed above, but am not sure how it reflects back on the poem. Does the work reflect our skewed view of Jesus as a man like us by emphasizing the "messy business" of human birth? Does her poem go so far as to contribute to our problem seeing Jesus as the incarnate Word?
Kathy: Youre doing me a favor in forcing me to select my words carefully. In my effort last night to clarify, I chose the readiest answer, since Id already mentioned Docetism in my first post. That should teach me to dash off something during down time at the hospital. I think youre right that the modern tendency is to lop off Christs divinity, turning him into a human with some special insight. We could have an interesting conversation on why this way of denying the hypostatic union is the contemporary default, but not now. My sense, however, is that the modern preference for an exclusively human Jesus and the ancient overemphasis on undefiled divinity (such as in various forms of Gnosticism) are two expressions of the same impulse to keep matter and spirit at a safe distance. There are countless ways I can choose to keep them apart if my desire to solve the mystery of the Incarnation is strong enough. Contemplating mystery is hard work, and most of us, I suspect, prefer choosing a solution that fits our way of seeing things. Its easier to tidy things up on my own terms than remain in uncertainty. Remember that heresy comes from the Greek hairesis, a choice, and ultimately from hairomai, "to personally select." Heresy is so attractive because its not completely false and because its of our own making. Heresy is our way of absolutizing some of the truth and neglecting those parts of the whole we dont think fit. In that sense, I suspect were all heretics, which is a reminder that I should be careful in judging someone elses orthodoxy. I believe Ms. Reads poem works against these personally chosen means of separating spirit and matter, God and humanity. Reasonable Christians and reasonable readers of poetry can debate the merits of her poem, but if the author is pointing us where I think, she has to do so forcefully, even shockingly, because weve grown comfortable with our own choices, however pretty we imagine them. As Andrew Hudgins writes at the end of his poem on the disturbing Serrano photograph, We have grown used to beauty without horror./We have grown used to useless beauty.Or as Flannery OConnor wrote in The Fiction Writer and His Country:When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs as you do, you can relax a little and use more normal means of talking to it; when you have to assume that it does not, then you have to make your vision apparent by shockto the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost-blind, you draw large and startling figures.When it comes to God, Im mostly deaf and nearly blind, but I want to see and hear better. Thats why this I resonate with this poem: I hear its shouts, I see its startling figures.
Jean Raber asked what my sister Bernadette, known from a couple of earlier references to poetry, thinks of Read's poem. Here is what she just sent me: I decided I was not going to read what anyone else has said about the poem until after I had written down my own thoughts. So, here they are. I always think a person's initial reaction to a poem is visceral and accurate. That is, we know if a poem's images evoke sadness, pleasure, anger, loneliness, etc. even if we haven't a clue as to what the poem is about. Even a first reading of this poem bounces you back and forth with its alternating images of the warm and nurturing elements of birth and the violent and all too realistic images of birth (bodily fluids, gelatinous images and even ugly ones, "pork fat." This poem definitely emphasizes the human and universal aspects of birth and gives a vision of the Christ that is far different from the ever-present, beautiful but sanitized, version we see in Raphael or Murillo paintings. From the first lines we feel this clash of imagery: warmth cloaks the Virgin in the first line and a night that is "cold like a slap" also greets her. There are few, but very important, references to the special nativity that this poem is about. The smell of blood and feed and the newly born foal's quavering legs evoke the manger, Joseph is mentioned once and the "umbilical cord tethering God to man" are the only lines that define this as other than any human birth. The humanity of Jesus is emphasized here. Is the poet saying that the child, still in the womb, exists in a kind of Paradise, all its needs attended to, innocent, unaware? I don't know quite what to make of the deliberately negative image of the umbilical cord as tough, blubbery pork fat. The umbilical cord that has sustained the baby in its nine months in the womb, has been a life-giving conduit. But here nothing of that is emphasized. It is something whose function and time are over and that must be severed if the child is to have a separate existence. Is the negative imagery to emphasize this casting off of what attached us to Paradise as a vilent severing and of our human condition as outcasts? There are two questions posed in the poem. Who cut the umbilical cord? is the first. The answer, "Joseph, with a grafting knife." There is no way to avoid the question, "Why a grafting knife?" That has to be important and deliberate rather than accidental or casual. I remember that Dad had a older friend (Mr. Kostner, or something like that) who lived on Strawtown Road in West Nyack who grafted trees so that different types of fruit would grow on the same root stock. Dad took me there one day and Mr. K showed us how he made a slit in a tree with a strong root system and inserted in it a slip or bud of another tree that produced better fruit but wasn't so strong. He then covered the slip and waited for it to be incorporated into the circulatory system of the rooted tree. Then, as it grew, it could produce fruit. The image of the Virgin reknitting "his skin back with hers" has to be related to this expulsion, separation and the search to find Paradise again. I don't ever remember seeing the word "juddering" before (maybe more common in England) but it made me think immediately of "shuddering" and my dictionary gives its etymon as being a combination of jerk and shudder. Anyway, juddering and clenched fists evoke both the reality of the shock of leaving a warm, nuturing womb and the cold slap of air in the manger, but also the combative posture of a new being confronting a hostile world and falling. Again, it's the idea of the Fall, or expulsion from Paradise. I began to think about images of the Christ and aren't there some paintings in which Christ is depicted as a gardener? What is the idea behind those images? And of course, there are references to the Tree of Jesse, the geneology of Jesus, and the tree of life, a universal symbol found in cultures around the world. Grafting seems to fit into those well-known associations. It is necessary to sever the bud from its tree, to insert it into another world and from that, something good can result. Is that too far out? Joseph's act is violent but necessary. The second question is about whether the mother was shocked at the new distance spread between her and her new-born? There is a consciousness of this new individual who appraises her, as she does him, and of his new awareness of a world that is imperfect, "so sadly, small and human" as opposed to the universe of the womb that seemed in its spherical shape and warmth to lack nothing. She breathes out the pain of the birth and he attaches himself to her in a new way, not by way of the now cut-off umbilical cord. The last verses are about how to recover the warmth of the abandoned womb and it is a process of reknitting. Again you have the contrast of positive images, "warmth, milk and song" and strong, intense, even somewhat ugly but very realistic images of "bony gums, fierce with need' and "latched on". The notion we are left with is of a great thirst, for milk, of course, but for what more? Knowledge, awareness? So now, I'll turn to your blog and see what the theologians have to say. It seems to me that the theologians among you will have a field day trying to unwind the enigma of the untethering of God and man, the untethering of the Divine and the Human. Is it our task to reknit Paradise through warmth and song? To reknit the Divine and the Human?
Perhaps a grafting knife has something to do with Romans 11--Joseph perhaps representing Judaism. More likely, though, Joseph's actions, though they separate the tether, are paradoxically making the God-man union permanent.
Kathy --I agree that it is the God side of Jesus that presents more problems these days. That's not at all surprising, given that our general culture has been formed by materialists/scientists whose vision hasn't gone beyond the three dimensional, material world.. Some of the new physics is changing that, however. One theory even has bits of matter existing in two or more places at once. The scientists still call those bits "matter", but in saying they can be in more than one place at once they are assigning them a spiritual property. What they have done is define matter up -- so that it isn't really matter any more, it's spiritual.At any rate, with that idea and with the serious positing of other dimensions by some scientists, maybe the younger folks will start to seriously entertain the idea that maybe there is more to reality than just this poor old cosmos, and that the God who created it is immensely greater than they ever allowed themselves to imagine.