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How does Judaism deal with the differences between scientific evidence of the beginning of the world and the account(s) in Bereishit?
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According to the Rambam in the Guide of the Perplexed "Whenever it is possible to interpret the words of an individual in such a manner that they confirm to a being whose existence has been demonstrated, this is the conduct that is more fitting and most suitable for an equitable man of excellent nature."
Even though I'm certain this will be controversial, my answer is that there is no difference between Science and the accounts of Bereshit, we just need a better understanding of both. Below, is my understanding of Parshat Bereshit and the scientific theories that actually support it, in chronological order. I only posted through passuk 8 (day 2), because even though I have a lot more to say, it's time consuming. So I'll only keep going if there is interest.
Passages and Translations are copied from Chabad.org
Sections labeled "My interpretation" are how I think the passages could be read based on Hebrew-wording, rabbinic commentaries and scientific evidence. I think of it as an understanding of passage, not a translation.
Current Scientific Theory: We'll probably never know: All ideas concerning the very early universe (cosmogony^) are speculative. As of early 2010, no accelerator experiments probe energies of sufficient magnitude to provide any experimental insight into the behavior of matter at the energy levels that prevailed during this period.^
My interpretation: In the beginning [of time], God created the Space and the Matter (including the space and matter that will become earth).
"Heavens" and "earth" are both words that are defined in later passages to mean our Atmosphere and planet Earth, however at this point, before their definitions are specified in passages 8 & 10, heavens refers to space within the universe and earth can refer to matter in general.
Current Scientific Theory: 13.9 billion years ago, time begins in our universe, Space rapidly inflated and was filled with a fluid matter.
The Big Bang is The instant in which the universe is thought to have begun rapidly inflating^ from an extremely high energy density^. The best available measurements suggest that the initial conditions occurred between 13.3 and 13.9 billion years ago.^
The Planck epoch, is the earliest period of time in the history of the universe, from zero to approximately 10−43 seconds (Planck time), during which, it is believed, quantum effects of gravity were significant. One could also say that it is the earliest moment in time, as the Planck time is perhaps the shortest possible interval of time, and the Planck epoch lasted only this brief instant.^ Little is known about this epoch, and different theories propose different scenarios.^
At approximately 10-32 (less than a quintillionth) seconds after the Big Bang the potential energy of the inflation field that had driven the inflation of the universe during the inflationary epoch was released, filling the universe with a dense, hot quark-gluon plasma^, an early phase of matter which behaves like a fluid^.
My interpretation: And the Matter (which includes the substance earth will be made from) was chaotic and not-formed, and there exists a dark-matter on the surface of the abyss [of our universe], and God's will (that will be carried out through the laws of nature) are impending over the surface of fluid [matter in the abyss].
Current Scientific Theory: A trillionth of a second after the big bang there is matter, but the elements were not formed yet. The universe has expanded and is filled with matter that behaves like a fluid. It's hypothesised that at this time dark matter constitutes a significant portion of the matter in the universe^.
From this point onwards the physics of the early universe is better understood, and less speculative.^ A trillionth of a second after the big bang, after cosmic inflation ends, the universe is filled with a visibly-colorless^ quark-gluon plasma or "quark soup"^. Experiments with the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider have allowed physicists to determine that the quark–gluon plasma behaved more like a liquid than a gas^. Dark energy is present as a property of space itself, beginning immediately following the period of inflation.^
(It's interesting to note that God "programs" the universe using language.)
Current Scientific Theory: Ten seconds after the Big Bang, the energy of the universe is dominated by photons^. For 380,000 years, the remainder of the photon epoch, the universe contained a hot dense plasma of nuclei, electrons and photons.^
My interpretation: And God saw that it was good [to influence the light matter to continue to exist over the dark matter], and God separated between the light and the darkness (forming stars and galaxies that include our own sun earth and moon).
Why are the luminaries are mentioned again on day four instead of when they were created, on day one? It's not the Creation Story's goal to include every step in our universe's history, the story only mentions things that are new, that means the first time anything like them is created in our universe, or is uniquely new to Earth. Suns, moons and planets are abundant In our universe, the only thing uniquely new about the earth, sun, and moon when they formed was the way the moon stabilized earth's day and night. On day four however, there are more new traits. The atmosphere clears and the Sun's output increases. This makes the sun hot enough to heat the Earth and makes the Sun and Moon and stars visible in the sky for the first time.
Current Scientific Theory: 150 million years after the Big Bang, cold dark matter dominated, paving the way for gravitational collapse to amplify the tiny inhomogeneities left by cosmic inflation.^ Gravitational collapse is at the heart of structure formation in the universe.^ The first stars and quasars form from gravitational collapse. From this point on, most of the visible universe is composed of plasma.^
Some of the earliest galaxies can bee seen forming when the universe was only 500 million years old.^
Our Sun was formed about 4.57 billion years ago when a hydrogen molecular cloud collapsed.^ The infall of material, increase in rotational speed and the crush of gravity created an enormous amount of kinetic energy at the center.^ Most of the mass concentrated in the middle and began to heat up.^
Meanwhile, the rest of the disc began to break up into rings, with gravity causing matter to condense around dust particles. Small fragments collided to become larger fragments, including one collection about 150 million kilometers from the center: this would become the Earth.^
4.6 billion years ago, the Moon stabilized Earth's axis creating steady day and night. Without the moon to stabilize it, the earth would rotate about 3x as fast on a wobbly axis. "Vast tidal forces cause our moon to rapidly pull away... Our day lengthens from four hours to twenty-four".^
My interpretation: And God called the light (of the sun hitting planet Earth) day, and the darkness (on earth) He called night, and it was evening and it was morning (the earth's first stable rotation, with the sun and moon) marked one stage of God's creating.
At the End of Day 1, Earth, the Sun and Moon are all formed, and the Earth is Covered in Water.
Current Scientific Theory: As the planet cooled, clouds formed. Rain created the oceans. Recent evidence suggests the oceans may have begun forming as early as 4.4 Ga.^
The detrital zircon crystals dated to 4.4 Ga show evidence of having undergone contact with liquid water, considered as proof that the planet already had oceans or seas at that time.^ This requires the presence of an atmosphere.^
It is now believed that the Hadean surface was solid, temperate, and water covered.^ Earth hosted a similar mass of continental crust as the present day at 4.5-4.4 billion years.
As the output of the Sun was only 70% of the current amount, significant amounts of greenhouse gas in the atmosphere most likely prevented the surface water from freezing. Volcanic activity was intense and, without an ozone layer to hinder its entry, ultraviolet radiation flooded the surface.
My interpretation: And God said, "Let there be strengthened a metallic-canopy (surrounding earth, in space) in the midst of the water-(covered Earth), and let it be a separation between water (on earth) and water (in the atmosphere)."
The passage states that there is a solid dome encircling earth, but "since [the commentators saw] there is no solid dome encircling the earth, ...[they] say this refers to the atmosphere that encircles the world" (Artscroll).
However, today, we know of a "solid" dome encircling earth, that separated the water on earth from the being lost to space, Earth's magnetic field, without which, we wouldn't have the atmosphere. More so, the word expanse (רקיע - ra-keeya) contains an allusion to its metal nature, its Hebrew root (רקע - ro-kah) is the act of beating metal into thin plates.^
Current Scientific Theory: By 3.5 billion years ago, Earth's metallic core established a magnetic field, which prevents the atmosphere from being stripped away by the solar wind.^ Without the magnetic field, Earth could have lost almost all of its water to space,^ like mars did.^
Both water and a protective magnetic field are essential to the development of life on Earth as we know it.^
By 3.5 billion years ago, the Earth's magnetic field was established. The solar wind flux was about 100 times the value of the modern Sun, so the presence of the magnetic field helped prevent the planet's atmosphere from being stripped away, which is what likely happened to the atmosphere of Mars. However, the field strength was lower than at present and the magnetosphere was about half the modern radius.^
My interpretation: God now says the word "space" now refers to the atmosphere surrounding Earth, and it was a second stage of God's creating.
Current Scientific Theory: Earth is covered in water and the atmosphere is formed. It's possible the early earth was entirely covered with a cloudy atmosphere.
"When we think about the origin of life, there are two threads to follow," says geophysicist John Tarduno. "One obviously is water. But you also have to have a magnetic field, because that protects the atmosphere from erosion and the complete removal of water."^
Sikpping to Passage 11 to discuss evolution.
My interpretation: And God said "Let the it evolve from and be covered, the earth, with a covering (mat) of "individual-grassy-plant-life", 'reproducing-seed-cells' that produce 'seed-cell-offspring' (that grow within the parent); a "tree" (of) fruit, which forms fruits, into many species that will have its' seed-cell-offspring within itself on the land; and it was so.
Current Scientific Theory: The Earth naturally evolved mats of oxygen-producing "cyanobacteria", a photosynthetic, self-replicating cell, similar to prokaryotes (from the greek "karyon" for nut, hence seed or nucleus). They can grow individually, end-to-end in grass-like strands, branching-strands, or cluster into hollow balls. And larger self-replicating photosynthetic-eukaryotic cells that have their genetic material within a nucleus, within itself.
In the strictly modern sense, the name plant refers to the biological classification kingdom Plantae. However, other photosynthetic organisms, including protists, green algae, and cyanobacteria have evolutionary significance to modern plants. These other organisms provide clues to the evolution of all photosynthetic organisms. All of these organisms - plants, green algae, and the protists - are primary photosynthetic eukaryotic organisms.^
Scientists start the search for fossil evidence of plants with indirect evidence for their presence, the evidence of photosynthesis in the geological record. The evidence for photosynthesis in the rock record is varied, but primary evidence comes from around 3 billion years ago, in rock records and fossil evidence of cyanobacteria, photosynthesizing prokaryotic organisms.^
According to endosymbiotic theory, "chloroplasts", the photosynthetic cells within plant-leaves and algae have evolved from cyanobacterial ancestors via endosymbiosis (one organism taking another within itself).^
'Stromatolites' of fossiled mats of oxygen-producing "cyanobacteria" have been found from 2.8 billion years ago, possibly as old as 3.5 billion years ago.^ The presence of biomarkers called 'steranes' in Australian shales indicates that eukaryotes were present 2.7 billion years ago.^ Current phylogenetic evidence suggests that the last universal common ancestor lived during the early Archean eon, perhaps roughly 3.5 Ga or earlier.^
Multicellularity first appeared in cyanobacteria. Cyanobacteria is a large and varied group of bacteria which possess chlorophyll a and which carry out photosynthesis in the presence of light and air with concomitant production of oxygen. Various patterns of cell organization exist, ranging from single-celled to differentiated multicellular forms with branching patterns.^
The answer is, at the heart, there is broad consensus among the Rishonim that when necessary one may depart from the "literal" meaning (apparent intent, peshat) of the Torah text (though even then there are limits).
We are left with a few things to work out:
Chazal say "אֵין מִקְרָא יוֹצֵא מִידֵי פְּשׁוּטוֹ", a verse doesn't depart from it's plain/apparent meaning" (Yevamos 24a,etc.) Contrary to the assertion of some there is no basis to argue that this principle is limited to halachic texts, and a vast array of meforshim cite it or allude to it in the commentaries on the Torah. Midrashic meanings (and so forth) are additional implications of the Torah which do not negate the peshat.
I have seen it argued that Bereshis doesn't have a peshat, while I think this deserves more research on my part it seems less than compelling. Indeed in addressing a hypothetical allegorization of Bereshis Rav Saadia Goan objects
(It is an interesting phenomenon when people take midrashim about the universe being ancient (etc.) literally, while taking the "literal" peshat of the Chumash non-literally.)
Rav Saadiah Gaon writes,
Nevertheless he concedes that under certain circumstances on may, out of necessity, turn aside from the literal meaning of the text. For our discussion the most relevant reason to depart from the peshat is when it conflicts with our own observations (Emunos v'Deos 7:2).
The Gaon's language strongly suggest to me that he requires demonstrative (deductive) proof to justify departing from the peshat.
For the Rambam the simple meaning can be exchanged when doing so produces a better picture but not otherwise:
The Rashba (Chidushei HaRashba, Perushei HaHagados on Bava Basra 74:b) seems to take a pretty liberal attitude about allegorical interpretation of the Torah text when confronted with difficulty. On the other hand he is more expansive in his definition of when such interpretation isn't possible at all. While according to Saadia Gaon and the Rambam the rejection of fundamental principles would prevent one from adopting a non-literal approach (to simplify the issue a bit) the Rashba limits such interpretations whenever there is a conflict with an accepted/received tradition on an issue.
Sof kol Sof, there is basis when needed to interpret scripture contrary to its simple meaning but one must do so with caution. It is not appropriate to dismiss the literal meaning lightly as if there is no issue.
The terms עֶרֶב and בקֶר (evening and morning) suggests to me that the Torah means "day" in the normal sense and Chagiga 12a lists the length of day and night as among that which was created on the first day.
Additionally we have the Gemara: "R. Yehoshua ben Levi said: All creatures of the creation were brought into being with their full stature, their full capacities, and their full beauty" (Rosh HaShanah 11a). Regarding this the Rambam wrote, "Note this likewise, for it includes a principle fully established" (Guide 2:30, page 216). This Chazal suggests a straightforward understanding of the Creation account. To me, however, this highlights an approach on how to come to terms with the conflict between science and B'reshis.
When we speak of age we think of it in terms of the passage of time. When we are discussing the age of the Universe in a scientific sense, however, our calculations are not based on observing a clock, but on physical characteristics resulting from age. Our measurements are not direct, they are by inference albeit strong enough to be compelling under normal circumstances.
The problem is that Creation ex nihilo, יש מעין, isn't normal circumstances. If one were to look at the creatures described in B'reshis, which R. Yehoshua ben Levi called in "full stature" we rightly assume based on their physical characteristics that they had achieved a certain "age" even though they were moments old. While the Gemara in Rosh Hashannah discusses biological creation, the same could be inferred about any physical phenomenon in Creation. There is simply no way for something to be created from nothing while lacking characteristics we would associate with prior existence in any potential universe which would operate similar to ours.
To reject the literal meaning of the text based on apparent age prior to creation is to reject it based on phenomenon we would/should expect based on that very text, to deny it because of observations implicit within in. In other words, it is essentially rejecting creation ex nihilo of Gan Eden a priori. (This is not to argue that one has reason to accept the creation account, that is a different issue, and in this context I assume we are taking for granted that Hashem gave the Torah. Rather I am simply arguing that this conflict isn't sufficient reason to doubt that Hashem gave the Torah).
Once apparent age is a factor, it does not seem to me to be a stretch to assume that the Creator would align such apparent age to conform with the rules He made for the Universe to operate (science/teva) even though He chose to create it via supernatural means.
Many object that this is deceptive. It is certainly no more deceptive that creating the world one way and then telling us (in the Torah) it was done an entirely other way without any indication that the account is allegorical/metaphorical etc. Nor is it any more deceptive than creating the world in such a way that it can be understood as happened through random chance and the blind forces of nature.
The truth is it is not deceptive because Hashem has revealed to us in His Torah how He created the world, and as we have argued, that account implicitly accounts for prior age anyways.
At the same time, it does provide an alternative (although not a better alternative) way to account for the existence of the Universe. This is an essential ingredient for fully free will in an era when we have a clearer understanding of scientific principles. If there were no way to at least plausibly explain the worlds existence without resort to a supernatural Creation six thousand years ago free will would be hindered (albeit not destroyed). This is, after all, the paradox of nature. On the one hand revealing God as the Creator, the Master of the Mansion, on the other hand concealing Him to allow for free will (remember that the root of עולם, universe, is עלם, conceal/hide). Man may choose to draw incorrect conclusions but.."'Write,' replied He; 'whoever wishes to err may err.'" (Genesis Rabbah, VIII.8, p. 59. (Soncino Midrash Rabbah).
With the possibility to understand the conflict as not a true contradiction the justification to reject the peshat/plain meaning is not clear. I'm not going to argue, personally, that it is not permissible but it is not the "דבר פשוט" it is often made out to be (no pun intended).
There is still more to be said on this but to do full justice is a much larger project, here are some links which explore these issues a little more:
Remember that Science isn't a be-all and end-all. If one looked at a tree on day 5, for example, it would have rings. According to science, it could be 100 years old, but still really be two days old. The world could have been created looking 14 billion years old.
Challenge edited by Cyril Domb and Aryeh Carmell has an extensive (and I think varied) set of articles and source texts on this subject. I'm reading it now, so I can't say more about the book yet, but it's worth a read.
I don't think there is a definitive answer but I'll give you my short version.
I'm going to try and give a brief direction or method rather than an answer.
First step - understand the science well. That is, not just what the theories said, but how well founded they are, what assumptions they make, what is proven, what is assumed, the historical developments of those theories, etc.
Second step - understand the Chumash well. That is to say, not just a general understanding of the story, but a detailed, as deep as possible understanding including the various themes of the story, the grammar and meaning of different words and phrases, the various readings of the Rishonim and Achronim (i.e., Rashi, Ibn Ezra, Ramban, Rambam, Malbim, Rav Hirsch, Netziv, etc.), etc.
Third step - note those areas where science and Torah agrees and those where they disagree. For instance, the Big Bang theory works well with the first pasuk, the Cambrian Explosion works well with aspects of the 5th day (although not necessarily with all aspects), etc. The age of the universe is obviously an example an area of disagreement.
Fourth step - determine whether or not the areas of disagreement are well founded -- is the scientific theory in question well established enough to warrant worrying about it.
Fifth step - if the theory seems well established try and see if an honest interpretation is possible from your understanding of the pasukim. At the same time, note other serious attempts by those who are qualified to deal with the contradiction (both those who seek to reconcile the science with the Torah and those who argue that the challenge is not a serious challenge).
Sixth step - if you can't find an answer, be patient - not all questions can be answered at any given moment in time.
I once heard HaRav Aharon Lopiansky quote the following from HaRav Aharon Lichtenstein Zt"l:
or, in less-poetic English,
In other words, Creation was something that happened a rather long time ago, it's cryptic and unclear exactly what happened, and we could certainly find a way to explain everything away to fit with current scientific consensus, as has been done many times with different issues throughout history. However, tomorrow, or decades from now, science may make new discoveries and change their minds. This is nothing wrong with science; science is a process of discovery. But we will have tied down the Torah to this now outdated explanation, while Science has marched on without us, and we'll be left without Science and without Torah.
So how does Torah deal with the differences between scientific evidence and Bereishis? Tentatively. We accept that we don't really understand Creation, and rest our faith on the multitude of other parts of Torah that we see the truth of. Torah does not need to be definitively reconciled - we aren't basing our belief on fitting with science's current view.
I would recommend you some books elucidating the Jewish conception of these topics.
a) The Science of Torah: The Reflection of Torah in the Laws of Science, the Creation of the Universe and the Development of Life, by Nosson Slifkin
This book deals with an examining of the relationship between Torah and the natural world. It's pretty good.
b) In the Beginning: Biblical Creation and Science by Nathan Aviezer. Also see from the same author Fossils and Faith: Understanding Torah and Science
The author by citing chazal harmonize the opening verses of Genesis with modern science. A must read book.
c) Genesis and the Big Bang: The Discovery Of Harmony Between Modern Science And The Bible by Gerald Schroeder
The physicist Gerald Schroeder introduce jewish and scientific insights helping to bridge the gap between science and the Torah in a very knowledgeable way.
d) Torah, Chazal & Science, by Rabbi Moshe Meiselman
An overview on Masorah and Science showing how amazing integration are between them. An interesting food for thought.
d) Kabbalah and the Age of the Universe Paperback by Aryeh Kaplan
An examination of the age of the universe as discussed in Kabbalistic works. Worthwhile reading.
I hope this helps you in some way
I'm afraid the question is a non-starter.
according to Bereishis the world along with time/space and all the laws of physics and everything else we consider "logical" was created miraculously from absolutely nothing by an infinite Being.
science tries to stretch its neck out as far as it can using the current system of logic/physical laws to try to peer out into what is eternal and hence infinite and hence beyond the realm of science.
the Rambam expressed this dilemma as follows (found this in Marpe Lenefesh commentary to shaar yichud end ch.6 in http://dafyomireview.com/article.php?docid=398):
"The Rambam in part 2 chapter 17 of the Moray Nevuchim, brought a very powerful analogy against the heretics who believe in kadmus (that the world existed eternally), and he said that all of their proofs and logic are only from the nature which exists in the world after the Creator has already created them in perfect form from all angles as they are now, and how can we possibly bring a proof from this as to how it was before it was created and brought to existence from nothing: "the analogy of this is to a child who was born in a deserted island, and then his mother died, and this orphan never saw a female. When he grew up and matured intellectually, he asked his father how a man was formed. His father answered him 'each person among us, came to be and was formed in the belly of a female, who is of our kind, like us, of such and such form, and the man was in her belly, small, and his body was closed. And he grew there slowly, slowly for fixed months until the time he was forced to go out from her belly through an opening which opened for him. Afterwards he grew until he became big in his limbs, senses, and intellect, as you see now. The orphan started to deny all of this, and built proofs against all these true things, saying that "they are impossible and are lies, because how is it conceivable that a live man can breathe through his nostrils inside a container which is closed on all sides, and it appears impossible that one cannot live for any time without breathing, or if one cannot excrete the waste of his food, he will die a painful death, and how could his mouth be shut and his navel open, and his eyes closed and his limbs constricted together for such a long time, and when he comes out of there, all of his limbs and his eyes should be complete". This is a clear proof that the formation of man could not have occurred in this way, even though it is truly so."
He ends off: "contemplate this analogy and test it, and you will find the two matters to be identical, and that we are of these who pursue Moshe Rabeinu, peace be unto him, and Avraham avinu, we believe the world came to be in such and such a way, and it was such and such, and it was created such and such, and afterwards Aristotle came to refute our words, and he brought proofs from the laws of this nature, which are complete and with us, here in the present, but which are not comparable to what existed at the time of creation, for this was after absolute non-existence..."
ADDITION: The Big Bang theory is really just a form Aristotle's view that the universe always existed, since a thing cannot make itself (Shaar Yichud), either it existed previously in a different form or an eternal Being created it. Since science rules out the latter, then according to science it must be that it always existed in some form.
Therefore, either you accept the world was created by God in which case the world was created miraculously and there is no need to reconcile anything with science. Or the world always existed and there is no God, ch''v, and therefore the Torah view which speaks of a miraculous creation is irrelevant. Either way the question is a non-starter.


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During the closing ceremony of the Good Mourning grief support group program, each group member (young and old) is presented with a small leather bag containing three small rocks or stones. Each rock is to serve as a reminder of things learned during the support groups.
One rock is rougher than the others. This rock is a reminder of that part inside you that still really hurts when you think of the person who died. As you complete the program, you will take this part of yourself with you.
One rock is smoother than the rough rock. This rock is a reminder of that part of you that is starting to feel better, and you will take this part with you.
The last rock is smooth and polished. It is for that part of you that is feeling much better or will feel much better one day. This is the part of you that takes comfort and strength from your memories of the person who died. You will take this part with you, too.
Those of you who are older may understand that while these three rocks will always be there, they do not fill up your bag--there is still room for other feelings, experiences, memories and relationships. You are also not given three smooth and polished stones because that would not be real. Finally, while everyone does receive three similar rocks, none are exactly the same.
You will never forget the person who died. Our hope for you is that you will continue to find ways to remember the person, to carry him or her in your heart, and to feel less pain and more strength. To do this is to have "good mourning."
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In doing so, however, the city didn't shut the door completely on exploring other alternatives to traditional gravity sewer systems – as long as it doesn't place a significant financial burden – now or in the future – on the city.
That the city council said there was merit to the developer's proposal was refreshing, as was it to see a developer exploring alternative ways to handle waste water. This is particularly important for any development along or near the Chetco River, the main water source for Brookings and Harbor residents.
Developer Ron Tribble, who wants to sell lots on land he owns in the first half-mile east of the Chetco River bridge, said the cost of installing a traditional sewer system was prohibitive. That may be so, that's not the city's problem.
Tribble's alternative system may be cheaper up front for him, but ultimately it would be operated and maintained by the city, at taxpayers' expense.
We applaud the city for taking a long-term approach to making its decision, which no doubt was discouraging for the developer – and two nearby RV park owners who hope to expand their operations. However, it was encouraging to see the council direct its staff to consider a combination of the two sewer system, or find money to help the developer with infrastructure costs.
As Mayor Larry Anderson said, it show the city is willing to work with the people living and wanting to build along the north bank of the river.
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Published: Monday, March 4, 2013 at 11:02 a.m.
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The city of Thibodaux will celebrate its 175th anniversary this month. A commemoration will be held on the front lawn of the Warren J. Harang Jr. Municipal Auditorium on March 11 from 2 to 4 p.m. For information, call 446-7218.
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For those that say "it's none of your business," I am a lifelong Ohio resident and that entitles me to comment on the football team, rape allegation story that was published in Cleveland.
What happened in Steubenville the night of Aug. 14 needs to be analyzed only by those who need to follow the law regarding prosecution of a crime. For all others it's not shades of gray to conveniently hide behind, it's right and wrong. If you have knowledge that would help in solving the crime, you must come forward. If you do not, you are a coward and no amount of excuses will change that.
It doesn't matter how good you are on the football field or all the good things you have done in your life, that will be put in jeopardy. Ten years from now, will you look back on your life and see a man or a coward?
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How do I export an attribute table to dbf or txt format by use of Python in ArcGIS 10?
Or, using ArcPy and the arcpy.ExportXYv_stats tool, just specify exporting to a csv. The super-easy way to do it is to use ModelBuilder to build a tool with the 'Spatial Statistics' -> 'Utilities' -> 'Export Feature Attribute to ASCII' utility, specify exactly how you want it to be exported (.csv, tab delimited, whatever), and then export the model builder script to python. Then you can run that script in a loop for all your files.
I suggest reviewing ArcGIS Online help.
I'm not familiar with ArcPy yet, but I have done many conversions like this using arcgisscripting.
With arcgisscripting, you could use a SearchCursor to read the table and Python has a great csv module for reading and writing to csv files.
All you need to do is load each row of the SearchCursor into a python list object and the csv writer object will write the list to the output file using the writer.writerow(list) method.


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Pardon my ignorance but I can't seem to come up with a solution to this one.
I'd like to create a user that has read access to every user's home catalog located in /home.
Do I need acl's for this or can I achieve it by chmod?
Thanks in advance.
Do all of your users have a single group in common? For example, on some systems the
If you want more control than this, though, to allow only one user to see all home directories, you will need to use ACLs. Depending on the number of users involved, this may quickly become an administrative nightmare. Our sysadmin team at work don't use ACLs anymore, simply because managing them took up way too much of their time.
It occurs to me that, depending on what you want this user to be able to do, you might be able to achieve what you want with shell scripts and carefully crafted
I was halfway through D_Bye's answer when I realised I could do it another way that doesn't require playing around with mounting and
I created an account with its home catalog set to /home and set Pure-FTPd to enclose every user to his home catalog (ChrootEveryone YES).
This means that this account may browse every catalog in /home but doesn't have write rights.
ACL would be problematic, as you'd need to ensure that they're set on every file.
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Some interesting things I bookmarked on del.icio.us on January 16th, 2008:
- Mark Richards – Core Memory – An unprecedented combination of computer history and striking images, Core Memory reveals modern technology's evolution through the world's most renowned computer collection, the Computer History Museum in the Silicon Valley.
- iGoogle Themes – Can't live with Google's bare looks? Check the iGoogle Themes directory for more colorful interfaces.
- Um, Whoops. – Dreamhost mistakenly billed their customers $7,500,000 after one of their guys made a little typo. Yikes!
- 7 Technologies that will Save the Earth in 2008 – EcoGeek is here to keep you informed of the latest technologies that are making our lives better while also ensuring that we don't spoil the Earth at the same time.
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Repurpose the classic Mason jar as a soap or lotion dispenser in your bathroom.
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Sherry began her career with Saint Louis University in 2002 as an Administrative Secretary. She is now an Administrative Assistant for the Department of Physician Assistant Education where she handles the finances for the Department. Her duties entail purchasing, travel arrangements, expense reports, accounts payable, EPAF's, MOA's, SSA's, hiring & supervising FWS, Student Workers, & customer service to walk-ins, current & future students, as well as colleagues.
Dr. Blessing is a qualitative researcher interested in creating, developing and evaluating various aspects of innovative teaching strategies and models. She oversees all qualitative research studies conducted by undergraduate senior Clinical Laboratory Science (CLS) and Investigative and Medical Sciences (IMS) students. She is also the program director of the new, innovative, research-intensive Doisy College Master of Science in Health Sciences (MSHS) degree program and in that role will mentor Master's students who have a similar research interest.
Current Research Project
Development and assessment of student-created content review modules in Laboratory Medicine written in the form of stories
Laboratory Medicine Content Review Module Description
Each story is written in chapters that detail an interesting case study encountered by Laboratory Detective Driver. Interwoven into each story are pertinent patient history and symptoms and laboratory tests ordered with results when appropriate. Detective Driver's mission is to "solve the case." Questions for consideration by the reader are strategically incorporated into the stories for self-assessment. The ultimate goal is to assemble a group of such stories and combine them into an online and/or physical book.
Study Design: Qualitative Research
Example Research Questions
- What skills do students develop and sharpen by completing the Laboratory Medicine Content Review Modules?
- To what extent does completion of Laboratory Content Review Modules have on student performance on the department final comprehensive and the post-graduation certification exams?
- What do students see as the advantages and disadvantages of completing one or more Laboratory Content Review Modules.
Example Data Collection Strategies
- Observations of students discussing the content, usability, etc.. of the Laboratory Medicine Content Review Modules
- Individual interviews
- Focus-group interviews
- Document analysis
Current Status of the Project
- Five stories have been created
- The effectiveness of one story has been studied and the major outcome was that students found the story to very helpful as they study for their department comprehensive exam and for the post-graduation certification exam
- Currently in discussions with a well-known publisher about the possibility of converting these stories into online modules that can be used for students and practitioners
- The concept has been submitted for presentation at the Fall 2012 American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP) meeting; notification of acceptance or not expected sometime in late summer
- To understand the current perspectives of cytotechnology educators.
- To determine the learners' perception of the teaching and learning environment/climate in the cytotechnology classroom.
- To assess the effect on the cytotechnology students' perspectives of classroom environment/climate and how it may correlate with the instructional perspectives of cytotechnology educators.
Lieske C and Zeibig EA. Essentials of Medical Laboratory Practice, FA Davis Publishers, Philadelphia, PA
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Breitbach A, Sargeant D, Gettemeier P, Ruebling I, Carlson J, Eliot K, Kienstra, Zeibig-Blessing E. From Buy-in to Integration: Melding an Interprofessional Initiative into Academic Programs in the Health Professions, submitted to the Journal of Allied Health.
Zeibig EA. Clinical Parasitology: A Practical Approach, 2nd Edition. WB Saunders Company, an imprint of Elsevier Publishing Company, Philadelphia PA. Expected publication- Fall 2012.
Johns G, Zundel B, Denesiuk L, and Zeibig EA. Blood Banking & Transfusion Medicine: Principles and Practices, Pearson Prentice Hall-Expected publication- Spring 2013.


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New York University's Graduate School of Arts and Science will host the Threesis Academic Challenge on Saturday, April 9, 3:30 p.m. at the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, New York University, 566 LaGuardia Place (at Washington Square South). Subways: 1 (Christopher Street); A, C, D, E, F, M (West 4th Street); N, R (8th Street); 6 (Astor Place).
In the competition, adopted from the Three Minute Thesis Challenge founded by the University of Queensland in Australia, master's students present their thesis or final project to a panel of judges in layperson's language in three minutes or less.
Competitors are judged on the following: how well they grasp the subject of their research, their ability to discuss the topic with non-experts, and presentation skills. Students compete for prizes totaling $2,500 while learning to organize ideas and speak about them persuasively in a fun, academic atmosphere.
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I just bought a tablet and I am learning how to do art on the computer. These are the creations I've done and I would love feedback and tips on how to get better.
This is the first drawing I did. It's my friend's character on an online game we play.
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Update: Inclement weather in New York City has made it impossible for documentary filmmaker and eco-activist Shalini Kantayya to get into Rochester for Live Green Day. Read more.
GENESEO, N.Y. - Fulbright scholar and documentary filmmaker Shalini Kantayya will bring her message of eco-activism to the State University of New York at Geneseo during the college's third annual Live Green Day Feb. 10.
Kantayya, a food and policy fellow at the Institute of Agriculture and Trade Policy, says the mission of her production company is to create a culture of human rights and a sustainable planet through wildly imaginative media. She will explain how to convey ideas and messages through alternative media to reach large groups of people during an address at 3 p.m. in Room 114 of the MacVittie Union. At 7 p.m. in the MacVittie Union Ballroom, she will discuss her award-winning documentary "a DROP of LIFE," a futuristic sci-fi film about the mounting global water crisis. All Live Green Day events are free and open to the public.
"This day-long event is designed to inform and educate the campus community on creating a sustainable future through conservation and green initiatives and then applying them to student life and the surrounding community," said Tom Matthews, director of leadership education, development and training at Geneseo. "This has been a successful educational event the past two years and this year's program is just as strong. We are particularly pleased to have Kantayya's participation."
At least 17 exhibitors will be displaying green initiatives and products from 12:30 - 3 p.m. in the MacVittie Ballroom. Among exhibitors will be representatives from the Geneseo Community Garden and the plant manager from the General Motors fuel cell car facility in Honeoye Falls. He is bringing a fuel cell vehicle to the expo to discuss the technology.
As part of Live Green Day, many members of the Geneseo campus are participating in a public pledge to "live greener and incorporate this idea into our curriculum, activities and events Feb. 10 in support of Live Green." Even though the pledge was centered on the day of the event, the organizers of the event encourage those taking the pledge and all members of the campus community to live green every day.
Sponsors of the event include the Geneseo Student Association, Campus Auxiliary Services, Residence Life, the Center for Community, Geneseo Opportunities for Leadership Development (GOLD), Activities Commission, University Police, Geneseo Environmental Organization, the Office of the President, Environmental Impact and Sustainability Task Force, College Union & Activities, and the Livingston County Chamber of Commerce.
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A steam train enters Farringdon underground station in London. The train, an 1898-built steam engine known as Met Locomotive No 1, pulled carriages along part of the Hammersmith & City Line, as part of the celebrations to mark 150th anniversary of the world's oldest underground passenger railway.
Flowers laid by relatives of the 32 victims of the Costa Concordia cruise shipwreck float on the sea off the Tuscan Island of Isola del Giglio, Italy, to mark the first anniversary of the grounding.
Cyclists compete during the French cyclo-cross championships in Nommay.
Miss New York Mallory Hytes Hagan (L), 23, reacts after being named Miss America 2013 during the Miss America Pageant in Las Vegas, January 12, 2013.
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Can social media sites, like Twitter, be used to analyze financial markets for algorithmic trading? How much research has been done on this topic?
Personally, I am very skeptical of the claims in "Twitter mood predicts the stock market". There are several other papers with similar claims, but not so much good quality research is available. Arguably, the sweet bits of these approaches are not public. A sounder approach is to dig at the relationship between social media activity and relate it to the stock market. One idea is take social media as a proxy for investors' attention and exploit this channel to say something sensible about the stock market.
The typical viewpoint is that social media mining provides info on the interests of individual investors, in contrast to big investment firms. Within this framework the hypothesis of Barber and Odean (2008, RFS, "Do retail trades move markets?") makes a lot of sense: retail investors buy popular and news-making stocks, pushing prices up. Interestingly, their investing activity is asymmetric: buy news-makers, but only sell what they own - rarely on news.
Some fresh good work on the topic, based on google searches, is the paper "In search of attention" by Da, Engelberg, and Gao (2011, JF) (EDIT: this is the same work pointed out by wburzyns in his comment above).
I assume that by "how much research" you mean "could you provide me with some links"....
So, as @Shane mentioned in its comment, a hedge fund recently started and is focusing on twitter analysis (here is another link).
From what I understand they are basically implementing a trend-following strategy based on the "mood" of twitter users (I, of course, don't know the details, but it's surely more complicated than that).
As for the links, we already discussed the subject of speech recognition in trading in this post.
The original paper on using Twitter to predict the Dow can be found here. The hedge fund the authors are working with on trading is called Derwent Capital. An interview with the gentleman in charge can be found here. A quick Googling for "twitter analysis paper" turns up a number of results, although I am not going to post links as I have not reviewed them.
The search term factors for a model would be very interesting but very few people have access to the data in sufficient granularity for it to work. You could try licensing data from network providers such as Comcast or Verizon.
Most of the literature on traditional text mining will be applicable to Twitter although some work will be needed to normalize for document length and the unique vocabulary on Twitter.
The was an article about how ten years ago some option market-makers were crawling online discussions forums (like the Yahoo! stock board) to see what people talked about.
If discussion about some ticker spiked, they assumed the volatility for that ticker will increase and factored this into their pricing models. Of course, most of the time is was because of news related to that stock, but not always (think about pump'n'dump schemes).
I assume that today they are much more sophisticated about this.
A related idea is to text mine news and use it for predicting movements of stock market. See this NYTimes article for more information.
There is a product called Wall Street Birds which can be used for trading. Still in invitation mode. Another sentiment based product is Piqqem


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(Lemoore, Calif.)- Columbia College-Lemoore will confer 57 associate and bachelor's degrees upon students at a commencement ceremony at 2 p.m., Wednesday, May 23, in the Base Theater on Naval Air Station Lemoore.
The ceremony will be a joint commencement for Columbia College-Lemoore, Chapman University, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, West Hills College and Lemoore High School. Mike Randerson, vice president of Adult Higher Education for Columbia College, will be conferring degrees.
"For Columbia College graduates, the commencement ceremony is the culmination of their hard work and dedication to improve their lives," Randerson said. "We are proud to acknowledge the accomplishments of each graduate on this special day."
Columbia College was founded in Missouri in 1851 as Christian Female College, the first women�s college west of the Mississippi River to be chartered by a state legislature. The college changed its name to Columbia College in 1970 when it became coeducational. Columbia College-Lemoore was founded in 2001 and today continues to serve military and working adult learners in the area.
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The Duke women's soccer team had the No. 1 ranked Virginia Cavaliers on the ropes, but allowed three second half goals to drop a 3-2 decision at home on Thursday evening at Koskinen Stadium in Durham, N.C.
With the loss, the Blue Devils dropped to 4-5-2 overall and 1-3-1 in the ACC. Virginia improves to 10-0-0, 4-0-0. For the second straight match, Duke led a 2-0 led go away to a league foe.
"I am just heartbroken," said Duke head coach
Robbie Church
. "We are in a tough stretch here. We are miss-matching players; we have a couple of players playing three positions out there. We got another one hurt today, but the kids are not giving up. They are fighting, scratching and playing hard. The first half was unbelievable. I was afraid that so much energy we used in the first half and we are thin that it would come back to haunt us."
Duke got on the board early in the match as senior
Mollie Pathman
raced down the pitch to find redshirt senior
Kim DeCesare
. A product of Massapequa Park, N.Y., DeCesare cut to the right side of the box and sent a perfect cross to junior
Kelly Cobb
, who redirected the ball with her left toe into the net to put Duke ahead, 1-0. Cobb netted her second goal of the season.
Virginia had one of its best chances of the first half in the 12th minute as Makenzy Doniak found herself with a one-v-one chance on the left side of the box, after a Duke defender turned the ball over. Blue Devil goalkeeper
Ali Kershner
made a diving stop to her right to keep Duke's lead, 1-0.
The Blue Devils came back to register its second goal of the match at the 22:10 mark as freshman
Malinda Allen
flicked a corner kick from Pathman over to Cobb. A native of Chugiak, Alaska, Cobb lifted a ball to senior
Kaitlyn Kerr
who did a semi-bicycle kick into the right corner of the net. The goal from Kerr, who is from Bensalem, Pa., was her 26th career tally, which moved her into a tie for eighth on Duke's career scoring charts.
"I always said I wanted to score a bicycle – it wasn't exactly a bike," said Kerr. "I just saw it behind me. I have done it a couple of times in practice over the years, but never got one in a game-like situation. I was just excited to get it. I saw it out there in front and had the opportunity to try to get a goal."
Virginia added two other shots to close the first half, while DeCesare added another that went wide right.
"We were playing awesome," said Kerr about the first half. "We had some team talks this past week to get it back together. I think we did that today. We came out and played as a team today, but we just didn't get the result we wanted."
At the end of the first half, Virginia held a 7-5 lead in shots, but the Blue Devils led 2-0 on the scoreboard.
The Cavaliers came out firing in the second half and scored two goals in a span of less than two minutes to even the match, 2-2, by the 49th minute. Virginia received tallies from Morgan Brian and Makenzy Doniak from very similar positions near the left corner of the box.
Just over three minutes later, Duke freshman
Christina Gibbons
blasted a right-footed attempt from just outside the box that hit the crossbar, which was the Blue Devils best chance to score in the second half. Virginia controlled most of the run of play in the second stanza outshooting Duke, 15-4.
Virginia netted the game-winning goal at the 79:37 mark as Shasta Fisher placed a cross from the right side in front of the goal to the feet of Gloria Douglas, who sank her first goal of the season to give Virginia a 3-2 lead.
Duke added one late shot by DeCesare but it went wide. For the match, Virginia outshot Duke, 22-9, with Kerr, freshman
Toni Payne
and DeCesare each leading the Blue Devils with two.
Kershner played all 90 minutes in goal and finished with a career-high seven saves. Morgan Stearns had one save for Virginia in the net.
"I could not be prouder of our group than I am tonight," said Church. "It is part of being a young team. You have to finish games. We are starting games well. We have kids that have never seen this speed of play. They will be ready to play."
Duke will next host 13th-ranked Virginia Tech on Sunday, Sept. 29 at 2:00 p.m.
Mollie Pathman
registered her 25th career assist on Duke's first goal. She ranks third overall on the Blue Devil career list.
• Senior
Kaitlyn Kerr
notched two points on the night to give her 70 on her career. This moved her into ninth place on Duke's all-time points list.
• Duke dropped to 1-3-1 at home this season.
• The Blue Devils have allowed 10 goals over the last four matches.
• Junior defender
Tabria Williford
excited the first half with an injury and did not return.
• Freshman
Malinda Allen
connected on her first collegiate assist on the second Blue Devil goal.
• Duke drops to 2-15 all-time against No. 1 ranked teams.
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'69 Firebird: Metal ManiaWritten by Elana Scherr on March 3, 2014 Contributors: Jesse Kiser A Hand-Fabbed Firebird That Turns Its Back on the Composite Trend
Normally if someone mentions Ferrari, Pontiac, and custom bodywork in the same sentence, we'll run away before we have to see another Craigslist ad for one of those Ferrari-bodied third-gen abominations. Look it up -- no, wait, don't. But don't run away, either, because while Sid Tracy's '69 Firebird is indeed a modified F-body inspired by Italian supercars, he and builder Troy Gudgel ended up with a road-ready muscle car that we were happy to spend some time with. The project came to our attention more than a year ago when we saw some bare-metal images at Troy's Illinois-based shop, BBT Fabrications. We liked what we saw, so we caught up with Troy in Bakersfield, California, during a rest stop on the 2013 Goodguys Texas Road Tour. The BBT crew was driving the finished Firebird on a road trip from northern California to northern Texas, covering more than 1,300 miles, no big deal perhaps to veteran hot rodders, but quite the test for a brand-new build. The 'bird covered the distance without complaint, and Troy had plenty of time to gauge the reaction to his pewter Pontiac.
"I wasn't sure how people would respond to some of the changes we made," he said. "The modifications to the nose, the Challenger headlights, the ground effects, we weren't sure those would go over well with Pontiac people, but so far everyone has been really positive. Well, there was one Dodge guy who didn't like that we used Dodge headlights."
The nose of the car is certainly striking, with the stock Firebird's beaky chrome replaced by a flush split grille with modern black egg-crate mesh and the aforementioned '11 Dodge Challenger headlights. This radical change was the starting point of the build, when owner Sid decided that he disliked the stock '69 and wanted something really different. "Sid wanted a modern interpretation of the car," Troy said. "He's a Corvette guy, likes Italian sports cars but also wanted to maintain the overall feel of an American muscle car." Sid, Troy, and designer Ben Hermance went back and forth with renderings and phone calls until they'd come up with a lowered, modernized version of the Pontiac that everyone agreed on. Then Troy began to build it, working sheetmetal into a flattened, sleek, chrome-free nose for the Firebird that still reads as "Pontiac" but dramatically changes the feel of the car.
Once the redesigned front end was finished off with a lower valance and chin spoiler, Troy continued the exotic road-race look around the body of the car, with aluminum side skirts and a rear diffuser under a molded-in sheetmetal bumper-less back end and a small lip spoiler integrated into the decklid above. Exhaust tips exit through the rear bodywork to vent the 21⁄2-inch Borla X-pipe. So what exotic mill does that stainless Borla system meet up with? What else for a Corvette guy but an LS3? In this case, a Mast Motorsports-upgraded LS3 boasting 540 hp at 6,700 rpm and 495 lb-ft of torque at 4,800 rpm. That's plenty to get a 3,600-pound car moving. These days it's hard to find an F-body without an LS swap and that can make some folks reluctant to go the modern mill route, but when they look this good and there is so much aftermarket support, even die-hard Ram Air IV fans might have to see the logic in making the move.
The Mast mill is 376 ci and is a bit sportier than stock, thanks to a custom-ground cam and spring package. Mast fuel rails and EFI control the engine, and Troy says that the ease of laptop tuning was another check in the LS engine's favor. "We had to make some changes after we had some driveability issues with the high-elevation drive through Arizona," he said. "Mast helped, it was easy, and it's been running great ever since."
The LS feeds out into a set of Detroit Speed long-tube headers, designed specifically to work with the DSE subframe. It's not a cheap setup, but it makes a first-gen F-body engine swap easy, and that left Troy with plenty of time to work on the Firebird's interior, which is where this build shows what BBT Fabrications can do. Beneath the black Italian leather, every panel is hand-formed aluminum, from the dash to the roof skin, which covers a six-point rollcage, fully integrated into the body of the cockpit. We rode in the car and never even realized the cage was there until we looked at the build photos and saw the bars in the A-pillars. "Sid wanted a covered cage like in a Ferrari," Troy said. "It's not so much for racing but to stiffen the car and make it safer for the street. He didn't want to see it though, and it was a challenge to design the interior around it in a way that tucked it all up out of sight."
Along with covering the cage, shaped aluminum forms the dash, which houses custom-machined gauge clusters done by Jesse Greening at Greening Auto (GreeningAutoCompany.com). The door panels and the handy center console surrounding the Tremec six-speed are also Troy's metalwork. Why did he go with hand-formed metal when so many builds these days are going with CNC, 3-D printing and composite?
"Honestly, I initially intended to do a lot more carbon fiber on this car," Troy answered. "The vents and diffusers are fiberglass, and those were going to be carbon, but then Sid liked the look of the black 'glass, so we left it. Then I started mocking up interior pieces in fiberglass and foam, and got about halfway through one panel and was like, 'I could do this in half the time in metal.' So it started out being about what I am good at, but then you realize that there's something cool about a hand-formed metal piece. 3-D printing is awesome, and we'll see it become the norm as the costs go down, but there will always be a market for the one-off, for handmade."
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Firebirds on the Track
Pontiac's Trans Am has the racier name, but the Firebird spent plenty of time on track. Starting in 1968, Trans Am Champion Jerry Titus switched from Ford power to Fire power, running Pontiac Firebirds until his fatal accident on track in 1970. Titus' company TG Racing also built Pontiacs for other teams, including a couple for BFGoodrich, which were wittily named "Tirebirds."
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A Mast Motorsports LS3 V8 powers the Firebird. BBT Fabrications did the tubing work, as well as the custom valve covers on top of Mast's CNC-ported heads.As part of Detroit Speed and Engineering's plan to make every car in the world easily LS-powered, the suspension company offers LS-to-F-Body stainless steel 17⁄8-inch primary headers with a four-way merge collector. At more than $2,000 per set, they are not for a budget build, but Troy Gudgel says they fit beautifully with the DSE subframe and front suspension.It was almost a shame to cover all the fine metalwork in the custom door panels, but the combo of black leather and suede results in the Euro-lux look that owner Sid Tracy was going for.To complete the Firebird with sports-car levels of comfort, Troy fitted the interior with seats from an Audi TT, leather MOMO wheel, pushbutton start, hidden Vintage Air air conditioning, and a nav system and screen.The entire dash is hand-formed aluminum, all designed to house a machined gauge cluster from Greening Auto and refaced gauges from Redline Gauge Works. Other knobs and switches in the car repeat a splined-metal design, which was inspired by the center-lock wheel nut.A Moser 9-inch with 3.73 gears and 31-spline axles is ready to put the power to the 335/30R18 BFGoodrich tires in the rear. The Firebird had to be mini-tubbed to accommodate the big rubber, but Troy says there are no clearance problems at all, even in speed-bump-heavy street use.The splined design carries into the engine bay, where the clutch and brake reservoirs sit in front of a dimple-died brake booster cover.A hidden rollcage won't pass a strict tech inspection, but it does stiffen the chassis. Troy says that Sid plans to drive the car at a few autocross and road-course events, but most of his interest is in a reliable, comfortable street car.


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Were it not the Monday of Holy Week, the Roman Catholic Church would be celebrating the feast of the Annunciation today, March 25. Lovers of Dante also celebrate March 25 as the day the pilgrim began his descent into the Inferno. Yes, there is a bit of a scholarly discussion about that, as there is with everything in Dante. In Dante's time, March 25 was considered the anniversary of the creation of Adam, the conception of Christ, and the crucifixion. It also marked the Florentine New Year. I'm on academic leave this year, and so it is the first time in more than four years that I haven't read part of Dante's Commedia. So, I have a proposal for dotCommonweal readers: I'm planning to read the entire Commedia from Easter Sunday to Pentecost Sunday. The Inferno has 34 cantos, the Purgatorio 33, and the Paradiso 33. One hundred in all. That works out to two cantos a day for fifty days. If people would like to join me, I can write up posts on Verdicts a couple of times a week, and we can have a bit of a discussion of the text in the comments. It is certainly much more interesting to talk about Dante than it is to talk about the vagaries of ecclesial or national or international politics. I should warn you that I am by no means a Dante expert, but I'm proud to be a Dante enthusiast. If you've never read the Commedia,why not give it a try? Beginners and veterans, enthusiasts and scholars are all welcome. If people indicate interest in the comments to this post, I'll start posting some time next week. Who's in?
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Just a little background regarding the liturgical calendar.March 25 is so close to Good Friday because the early church thought it was the actual date of the death of Jesus.March 25 is the Annunciation because, in a mindset which viewed history as cyclical, it seemed appropriate to make the annual commemoration of the death of Jesus be also the commemoration of his conception. See Thomas Talley's book on the Liturgical Year for the entire academic explanation of this.By the way, this is the reason, as I explain each December to several audiences, that the Nativity is on December 25, a perfect nine months after the death/conception date of 25 March. The Xmas date has NOTHING to do with any preexisting pagan feast. In all likelihood, the feast of Sol Invictus was instituted in the third century, no earlier, as an imperial attempt to distract from the pre-existing Christian celebration on that date.
Team Capaneus, here.
Scott, what a wonderful idea. It has bothered me for years that I've never read Dante. I've been to his grave and listened to an audiotape about his life; now you have inspired me to pick up the three beautiful, slender volumes gathering dust on my bookshelf. Avanti!
Count me in. (I'm a scholar of Renaissance literature, but the English Renaissance--so a few hundred years later! Haven't read the full Commedia since college.)
I've done an annual read-through for many years now. Used to use the wonderful Allen Mandelbaum translation (easily available in paperback), went through Singleton several times (deadly accuracy, I'm sure, but a bit prosaic, though with magnificent notes), and more recently have used the Robert and Jean Hollander version (all of these are Italian-English on facing pages). I wish my Italian were good enough to stick to that, but Dante's Italian is a bit distant from the modern language -- imagine not reading contemporary English very well and trying to deal with, say, John Donne.Thanks to the Princeton Dante Project, the Hollanders' version, notes and all, is available on line: http://etcweb.princeton.edu/dante/pdp/
I am in! Also, I have to preach at Regis on April 8 (the date to which the feast has been transferred), so I am certainly scrounging around for ideas.What translation would you recommend?
Just in time for Dan Brown's new novel Inferno scheduled for release May 14, 2013!!Here's a websites that doesn't get into all the weeds but is still quite useful:http://danteworlds.laits.utexas.edu/index.htmlAnd an audio interview (54 min) of leading Dantista (and charming gentleman) John Freccero who has an Augustinian view of Dante: "This week, Dante's Inferno. You'll hear poet Robert Pinsky reading from his award-winning verse translation. And Eleanor Wachtel talks to John Freccero about why The Divine Comedy is up there with Shakespare and the Bible."http://www.cbc.ca/writersandcompany/episode/2012/02/12/sunday-12-feb-201...
I would love to be part of this endeavor. I still have my copy of "The Divine Comedy: A New Prose Translation" edited by Howard Russell Huse, New York: Rinehart & Co. (1954).
I'll be courageous enough to participate.
Speaking of the Annunciation, here's a poem by Denise Levertov:AnnunciationHail, space for the uncontained God (From the Agathistos Hymn, Greece, VIc)We know the scene: the room, variously furnished,almost always a lectern, a book; alwaysthe tall lily.Arrived on solemn grandeur of great wings,the angelic ambassador, standing or hovering,whom she acknowledges, a guest.But we are told of meek obedience. No one mentionscourage.The engendering Spiritdid not enter her without consent.God waited.She was freeto accept or to refuse, choiceintegral to humanness._______________________Arent there annunciationsof one sort or anotherin most lives?Some unwillinglyundertake great destinies,enact them in sullen pride,uncomprehending.More oftenthose momentswhen roads of light and stormopen from darkness in a man or woman,are turned away fromin dread, in a wave of weakness, in despairand with relief.Ordinary lives continue.God does not smite them.But the gates close, the pathway vanishes._____________________________She had been a child who played, ate, sleptlike any other child but unlike others,wept only for pity, laughedin joy not triumph.Compassion and intelligencefused in her, indivisible.Called to a destiny more momentousthan any in all of Time,she did not quail,only askeda simple, How can this be?and gravely, courteously,took to heart the angels reply,perceiving instantlythe astounding ministry she was offered:to bear in her wombInfinite weight and lightness; to carryin hidden, finite inwardness,nine months of Eternity; to containin slender vase of being,the sun of power -in narrow flesh,the sum of light.Then bring to birth,push out into air, a Man-childneeding, like any other,milk and love but who was God.
So what translation should I order? There were a few different recommendations in the posts above.
My favorite Annunciation is the painting by Henry Tanner, the African American artist. http://www.artchive.com/artchive/t/tanner/annunciation.jpg.html
Wow, this is a great response! As for translations, I'm partial to the translation that Jean and John Hollander did. http://www.amazon.com/The-Inferno-Dante/dp/0385496982/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8.... I think it's the best translation of the Commedia because it captures both the lyricism and strangeness of the Italian. Somehow the notes are both encyclopedic and not overwhelming. I also like the Italian-English facing pages.But if you already have an edition of Dante, stick with that. The different translations will probably help our discussions of the text.I'll put up my first post on Wednesday April 3, and I'll discuss the first six to eight cantos of the Inferno. Looking forward to seeing everyone then.
Scott:i cannot sign on but what a wonderfl idea! Chesterton, when asked what book he would like to have if stranded on a desert island, said "Compton's Guide to Ship building" but I, rather liking the idea of an island sojourn, would take the Commedia.
Great idea, Scott. I'm in!
Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with you. Blessed are you ... Gabriel probably said it best, if the Annunciation has anything to do with your post ... But please, read on.
This is a great idea. Not sure I can keep up with the reading and participate in real time, but I'll be avidly following the discussion.And thanks to Gene Palumbo for Denise Levertov's "Annunciation." She's one of my favorite poets, not least because of the poetic record she created of her self-described "slow movement from agnosticism to Christianity" (specifically, to Catholicism, about a dozen years before her death in 1997). Many of her poems with religious themes have been gathered in "The Stream and the Sapphire," and what I believe is the first biography of her (by Dana Green) came out just last year. Here's my favorite part of "Annunciation":But we are told of meek obedience. No one mentions courage.The engendering Spiritdid not enter her without consent.God waited. She was freeto accept or to refuse, choiceintegral to humanness."God waited." Just wonderful. :)
I have never read it but it's been mentioned on this blog often enough to make me curious. Not sure I can keep up with the reading, but I just got Jacqueline Risset's translation into French. I was ready to regret the coming ending of the Komonchakian Lenten posts, so this might make a nice sequel. Interesting idea, in any case!
Gene, thanks for the poem. Lovely. Easter to Pentecost is a bit busy around here, but I agree with William Collier that this is a great idea. I'll certainly follow along, though I can't promise to keep up. either.
Wonderful poem by Levertov -- many thanks for posting it. (And in the contest of this discussion, reminiscent of St. Bernard's apostrophizing of Mary in Paradiso xxxiii.)