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Sexual Assault Policies on Campus: A Discussion Paper
Sexual violence is an ongoing concern in post-secondary educational environments. It is "any violence, physical or psychological, carried out through sexual means or targeting sexuality" and includes sexual abuse, assault, rape and harassment (Ontario Women's Directorate, 2013, p. 3).
Canadian institutions and governmental bodies have made efforts to address sexual violence on campus. For instance, the Ontario Women's Directorate (2013) created Developing a Response to Sexual Violence: a Resource Guide for Ontario's Colleges and Universities and the Canadian Federation of Students-Ontario (2013) released a Campus Toolkit for Combating Sexual Violence. Student groups, universities and colleges have implemented prevention programs such as US-based
Bringing in the Bystander™ and Green Dot, as well as awareness campaigns such as Got Consent? and Draw The Line (Banyard, Plante, & Moynihan, 2005; University of New Hampshire, 2014; Senn & Forrest, 2013; University of Windsor, n.d.; Coker et al., 2011; Green Dot etc., 2010; Sexual Assault Support Centre at the University of British Columbia, n.d.; Ontario Coalition of Rape
Crisis Centres, n.d.). Grassroots and community-directed efforts such as the It's Time to End Violence Against Women on Campus Project have also made strides toward addressing and preventing campus sexual assault (Sexual
Assault Centre of Hamilton & Area & YWCA Hamilton, 2014).
NOT ALONE: First Report of the White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault
Why We Need to Act
One in five women is sexually assaulted in college. Most often, it's by someone she knows – and also most often, she does not report what happened. Many survivors are left feeling isolated, ashamed or to blame. Although it happens less often, men, too, are victims of these crimes.
The President created the Task Force to Protect Students From Sexual Assault to turn this tide. As the name of our new website – Not Alone.gov – indicates, we are here to tell sexual assault survivors that they are not alone. And we're also here to help schools live up to their obligation to protect students from sexual violence.
Race, Class & College Access: Achieving Diversity in a Shifting Legal Landscape
Headlines surrounding the consideration of race and ethnicity in college admissions are often incomplete and ill-informed, promoting polarization and deflecting attention from practices that promote racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic diversity in higher education. As colleges and universities seek o educate an increasingly diverse American citizenry and achieve the associated educational aims, it is imperative that post- secondary leaders, policymakers, researchers, and members of the media better understand the work and challenges facing institutions in this current legal climate.
Want a Loyal Team? Choose Kindness over Toughness
The Nature of Social Media
Slides dealing with social media basic categories.
ABORIGINAL WOMEN OUTPERFORMING IN LABOUR MARKETS
• Aboriginal women living off-reserve have bucked national trends, with employment rates rising since 2007 alongside labour force participation.
• Employment growth has been particularly high in service sectors such as finance and professional services – areas typically associated with well-paying, stable jobs.
• Linked to improving labour market outcomes, Aboriginal women have seen sizeable improvements in education attainment over the past 20 years.
• Significant gaps in outcomes relative to the Non-Aboriginal population persist. Fortunately, the rela- tively young population implies that these gaps will continue to close as the Aboriginal population is likely to see further gains in educational outcomes.
2015 CUSC Survey of Graduating Students
The 2015 Graduating Student Survey marks the 21st cooperative study undertaken by the Canadian University Survey Consortium/Consortium canadien de recherche sur les étudiants universitaires (CUSC-CCREU). The 2015 survey involved 36 universities and over 18,000 graduating university students from across Canada.
Regulated Nurses, 2014
Regulated Nurses, 2014 highlights current trends in nursing practice across a variety of supply, employment and demographic characteristics. This report highlights data for the 3 groups of regulated nursing professionals in Canada: registered nurses (RNs, including nurse practitioners, or NPs), licensed practical nurses (LPNs) and registered psychiatric nurses (RPNs).
2015 QUALITY AND PRODUCTIVITY AWARDS
Since 1987, the Canadian Association of University Business Officers (CAUBO) has celebrated the administrative achievements of our members through the Quality & Productivity (Q&P) Awards Program. The simple concept of sharing good ideas has grown
into an established best practices program that celebrates the successes of our members and provides a venue for spreading the word.
CAUBO promotes the professional and effective delivery of services and administration of resources in all facets of higher education. This annual awards program is designed to recognize, reward and share achievements of administrators in the introduction of new services, improvement in the quality of services provided, and the management of human, financial, and
physical resources.
Depuis 1987, L'Association canadienne du personnel administratif universitaire (ACPAU) souligne les bons coups de ses membres par l'entremise du programme des prix de la qualité et de la productivité. Le concept de départ, qui consistait à
communiquer de bonnes idées, a germé; aujourd'hui, il s'agit d'un programme bien établi qui réunit des pratiques exemplaires, met en valeur les réussites de nos membres et constitue un moyen de diffuser ce savoir.
L'ACPAU s'occupe de promouvoir la prestation professionnelle de services et l'administration effice de ressources dans toutes les facettes de l'enseignement supérieur. Le programme des prix de la qualité et de la productivité vise à récompenser et à faire connaître chaque année les réalisations des administrateurs universitaires, que ce soit pour l'introduction de nouveaux services, l'amélioration de la qualité des services fournis, ou encore la gestion des ressources humaines, financières
ou physiques.
If You Build It, Will They Come? An Evaluation of Whiteboard, a Networked Academic Profiles Project
This project was designed to evaluate how an online social learning environment implemented within the disciplinarily-defined context of a university department might enhance academic engagement, research collaboration and the achievement of learning outcomes among undergraduate students. In developing this research, we were guided by the following research questions:
• How can social networking and progress-tracking technologies enhance academic engagement and student experience in a discipline-bounded environment?
• How can networked academic profiles create a more cohesive academic experience for students?
• Can use of networked academic profiles strengthen students' academic orientation to new media and information literacy?
A Framework for Online Learning Revenue Models at Universities: Research and Opportunities
As online learning has become more established, we at ExtensionEngine have noted the evolution of a framework comprising four distinct revenue models: For- Credit, Research, Pre-Matriculation and Post-Graduation. This study investigates the prevalence of these four models among 136 U.S. colleges and universities as a means to identify and define new opportunities for learning in higher education.
To determine the current prevalence of each model, we used each sample institution's website to tally the number of online programs in each model. For comparison, we noted the occurrence of in-person programs for the Pre-Matriculation and Post-Graduation models. We analyzed this data against college type (private or public), enrollment, and endowment size.
Gendered imperatives and their implications for women and men
The overarching message of this report is that equality does not happen by accident.
The research reviewed suggests that education policy makers should ensure that gender equality is a
real rather than a rhetorical priority and that change is substantively resourced in teacher
education and in school practices.
The publication of this report is part of our ongoing commitment to promoting gender equality in European schools and societies. A complementary report on gender and educational attainment will be published by Eurydice in November 2009. Also in November, a conference on gender and educational attainment organised by the Swedish Presidency of the European Union will bring together many of the key actors with the aim to providing an improved basis for further European policy
cooperation in this field.
Gender and Education for All: The Leap to Equality
The goals of Education for All (EFA) are centrally concerned with equality. If children are excluded from access to education, they are denied their human rights and prevented from developing their talents and interests in the most basic of ways. Education is a torch which can help to guide and illuminate their lives. It is the acknowledged responsibility of all governments to ensure that everyone is given the chance to benefit from it in these ways. It is also in the fundamental interests of society to
see that this happens – progress with economic and social development depends upon it.
Promoting Gender Equality in Education
This publication was originally designed in 2003 when the Gender in Education Network in Asia-Pacific (GENIA) was established. Few gender in education resources were available at that time, and until the 2006 version, documents were mainly intended to be used by GENIA members, who are representatives (gender focal points) from ministries of education in the Asia-Pacific region.
GENIA members have been using the Toolkit to sensitize and train their national counterparts ever since.
Report on the Gender Initiative: Gender Equality in Education, Employment and Entrepreneurship
The 2011 Meeting of the OECD Council at Ministerial level is the first milestone in the Gender Initiative, which was launched by the OECD to help governments promote gender equality in Education, Employment and Entrepreneurship (the "three Es"). Reducing persistent gender inequalities is necessary not only for reasons of fairness and equity but also out of economic
necessity. Greater economic opportunities for women will help to increase labour productivity, and higher female employment will widen the base of taxpayers and contributors to social protection systems which will come under increasing pressure due to population ageing. More gender diversity would help promote innovation and competitiveness in business. Greater economic empowerment of women and greater gender equality in leadership are key components of the OECD's wider agenda to
develop policies for stronger, better and fairer growth.
The ABC of Gender Equality in Education Aptitude, Behavuiour, Confidence
To compete successfully in today's global economy, countries need to develop the potential of all of their citizens. They need to ensure that men and women develop the right skills and find opportunities to use them productively. Many countries are working towards achieving gender parity at the workplace and in access to jobs. In education, too, many countries have been successful in closing gender gaps in learning outcomes. Yet, as this report reveals, even when boys and girls are equally proficient in mathematics and science, their attitudes towards learning and aspirations for their future are markedly different – and that has a significant impact on their decisions to pursue further education and their choice of career.
Gender Equality in Education: Looking beyond Parity
Globally, some 39 million girls of lower secondary age are currently not enrolled in either primary or secondary education, while two‐thirds of the world's 796 million illiterate adults are women. Only about one‐third of countries have achieved gender parity at secondary level. The evidence shows that something needs to change.
The IIEP 2011 Evidence‐Based Policy Forum on Gender Equality in Education: Looking Beyond Parity, aimed to review how schools and the education system as a whole can function pro‐ actively in the equal interests of girls and of boys, men and women. Much of the currently available research on gender equality in education has focused on gender parity in terms of access to primary and secondary schools (including how this is related to engagement of women within the teaching
profession and the education system more broadly). More recently, evidence has emerged that looks beyond access, examining gender equality in more depth in terms of learning achievement.
Addressing mental health issues on university campuses
University leaders are actively addressing the issue of mental health on campuses across Canada. No longer seen as simply a question of crisis management, mental health issues are being approached in more proactive and systematic ways, as universities increasingly appreciate the advantages of prevention over reaction. "We are exploring what we need as a sector to deal with mental health issues in the post-secondary setting," says Dr. SuTing Teo, Director of Student Health and Wellness at Ryerson University. Dr. Teo is co-chair of a working group on mental health for the Canadian Association of College and
University Student Services (CACUSS), one of several inter-institutional organizations focusing on the issue. The key is to identify best practices and then put into action strategies and plans that work best for an individual institution
and its specific circumstances.
Mental health and well-being in post- secondary education settings
This background paper was commissioned as a "jumping-off-point" for a CACUSS pre-conference workshop: Student Mental Health: A Call to Action, being held at Ryerson University on June 19, 2011. The three over-arching questions to be addressed at this workshop are:
1) Where are we now?
2) Where do we want to be?
3) How should we get there?
This paper is framed around these same three questions, with a goal of painting a broad picture of where things are at now in Canada and internationally and seeding some potentially provocative ideas about how we might move forward with further discussion and action.
This background paper as well as proceedings from the CACUSS pre-conference will inform the development of a comprehensive framework for promoting post-secondary student
"It is time for a renewal of thought, discussion and action about student health. Our expanding
knowledge of the processes and paradigms of learning, emerging institutional commitments to student
success, and a revised formulation of the elements of health itself demand that our
facility-centered, service-
mental health.
Supporting First Nations Learners Transitioning to Post-Secondary
The purpose of this paper is to examine the factors affecting the success of First Nations learners in education in Canada and the types of initiatives required to support the successful transition of First Nations learners to post-secondary. A description of First Nations peoples and a brief overview of the historical context of education for First Nations in Canada will assist the
reader in understanding the reality of First Nations communities and schools, and the impacts on First Nation learners. It is these experiences that prompt the design, development and delivery of specialized programs and services required to assist First Nations students with their transitions to post-
secondary education.


Joseph Barringhaus is the Sports Photo Editor for The Sunflower. Joseph is a senior at Wichita State majoring in marketing with a minor in communications. He was born in Michigan but quickly moved to Grapevine, TX. After graduation, Joseph attended a junior college, did a year of missionary work, and eventually ended up at Wichita State. Joseph's love for sports is seen in his style of photography. If you're at a sporting event at Wichita State, odds are you'll see him glued to his camera ready for the next shot. Joseph plans to work for his home church in Texas and continue to work in sports photography after graduation.


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Visiting Vassar's House System
2 April 2009 (collegiateway.org) — It was my pleasure last week to visit and speak on the lovely campus of Vassar College in New York, through the kind invitation of Mr. Luis Inoa, Vassar's Assistant Dean of Students and Director of Residential Life. I had a wonderful time, I met many smart and dedicated people, and I'm grateful indeed to Mr. Inoa and to his colleagues for their generous hospitality during my stay.
Vassar was established in the nineteenth century as a women's college, and today it is one of the most selective co-educational liberal arts institutions in the United States. For many years it has placed faculty in residence in its dormitories, and it has many of the elements of a residential college system—a house system—already in place. In thinking about how Vassar might strengthen its existing structures and nudge them in the direction of a more fully-articulated house system, I'd suggest focusing on four areas that could benefit from further development. These four areas might be open to improvement on your campus as well.
Membership and identity. Vassar's existing houses are thought of primarily as residential units, each one based in a single building that houses freshmen, sophomores, and juniors. A separate senior housing complex is located elsewhere on campus, and when seniors move into that group of buildings they lose their connection with their houses. The first clear thing that Vassar could do is strengthen the notion that its houses are membership units rather than buildings. The seniors who move out should retain their house membership, continue to participate in house life, and graduate with their houses at the end of their college tenure. Similarly, those students who spend all or part of their junior year studying abroad should remain members of their houses while they are away—and serve as a vital resource for the younger house members who may wish to follow in their footsteps.
One simple tool to encourage this sense of continuing membership is a printed facebook. Every residential college should have one, distributed at the beginning of each year, and the facebook should include not only the college's (or house's) members, both students and faculty, but also building staff and other important people who frequent the house facilities. In response to the question, What is the house?, the facebook answers, These people are the house.
Other devices that support community identity in a residential college system include signs and symbols of various kinds, and some of Vassar's houses have already spontaneously adopted house colors to identify themselves (although these haven't always been consistent from year to year). Heraldic designs have traditionally been used around the world to represent residential colleges as corporate bodies also, and such designs would fit perfectly here as well. Since many of Vassar's houses are named for women it would be entirely in keeping with centuries of artistic tradition to place their heraldic designs on a lozenge rather than a shield-shape, thereby indicating female rather than male identity.
Common spaces. Nearly all of the existing Vassar houses are fortunate in having excellent common rooms already in place. These could be enhanced as junior common rooms with the addition of a few reference books, magazine subscriptions, and green plants; they could be neatened up with the aid of individual floor plans; and those main common rooms that presently house televisions could have their TVs shifted out to less central locations (and they could be replaced with pianos).
The principal common room of Olivia Josselyn House. This is an ideal residential college junior common room, large enough to support multiple seating circles. (A posted floor plan would help students and staff keep it looking neat.) The fireplace is said to be functional but not available for use due to fire regulations—that's surely something to be discussed with the campus fire marshall, since a working fireplace can be of great social and educational value.
All of the Vassar houses are also exceptionally fortunate in having a small grounds area around their existing buildings that could easily be marked off and distinguished as belonging to house rather than to the campus at large. This doesn't mean walling the space off behind a gate: it means nothing more than adding, say, a three-foot-tall hedge, or some ornamental shrubs on each corner that emphasize the points of entrance. This kind of semi-enclosure is very important in promoting a sense of ownership and responsibility among the house members, and green-thumbed residents can even be encouraged and supported in the enrichment of their house grounds with useful and ornamental plants of every kind.
Emma Hartman Noyes House, designed in 1958 by Eero Saarinen and recently renovated. This front entrance illustrates how a minor adjustment to the landscaping could create a wonderful house lawn. Just out of view to the right is a dirt path frequented by all students as they cut across the campus. The hedge shown here, which cramps the building in its present location, just needs to be moved to the right edge of the visible lawn area, alongside the dirt track. This would mark the track as an official path (since it's foolish to try to prevent its use), and at the same time create a wonderful semi-circular Noyes House lawn.
A regular rhythm of life. The one thing, more than any other, that gives cohesion to a residential college community is a regular rhythm of life, week after week, month after month, year after year. The Vassar houses have a number of events taking place in them each term, but these have tended to be ad hoc and not part of a consistent pattern. I'd get a regular pattern underway by hosting a house tea every week, beginning at the very start of the year and continuing without fail all the way to graduation. From this root a hundred other branches will spontaneously sprout, because when clever people get to know one another well they come up with all kinds of clever things to do.
Although the Vassar houses do not now have separate dining halls, the central campus dining facility, called ACDC, does have a number of distinct seating areas that could be used weekly or monthly for special house dinners. Here I might start (always at the very beginning of the year) with a monthly house-only dinner, with each house having its own special day. Tablecloths in the house colors, a special house-invented menu item, and some musical accompaniment in the background, and you're all set.
Faculty leadership. As noted above, the Vassar houses do have live-in faculty, but these two or three people are the only faculty members who are associated with each house at any given time, and their role is somewhat ambiguous. To diversity the house community and multiply opportunities for involvement it certainly would be beneficial to assemble a whole body of fellows and associates, most of then non-resident, for each of the houses. These senior members (so called in contrast to the students, who are the junior members) would come to tea each week and dinner each month, and serve as an informal advising network for everyone in the house. And they would also constitute a pool from which a live-in house principal could be drawn whenever a vacancy occurs.
The role of the live-in house principal could be more clearly articulated as an important leadership position as well, rather than simply as a someone who functions as a take-it-or-leave-it resource. This does not mean the house principal should manage everything from plumbing to counseling on a daily basis. It simply means that he or she is seen and understood to be the senior member of the community. As with the facebook, when a visitor asks, Who is in charge of this house?, the members should reply, The principal is in charge of this house.
A large part of a house principal's leadership in this context is exercised simply by being present and visible. During the first week of the year after the new freshmen arrive, for example, the principals of all the houses should walk through the corridors of their buildings almost every night, saying hello, asking friendly questions, and taking the temperature of the society.
The principals should also function importantly as moral voices within their houses. Again, this does not mean sneaking around with a clipboard to take legalistic notes on student conduct—that's a pejorative stereotype that has been pushed so effectively that many people can't even imagine an alternative. Being a moral voice simply means acting visibly and publicly like a responsible adult. It means publicly complimenting people who are considerate, while at the same time speaking sharply to those who act irresponsibly. It means—in public view of the students—straightening up rooms as you pass through them. It means showing courtesy to the cleaning staff and the groundskeepers as well as to fellow faculty members. This kind of simple moral leadership emboldens the responsible but quiet majority who need to know that good manners are right and proper, and that it is permissible and appropriate to speak up when an irresponsible minority is infringing on their right to peace and quiet. It means being "fierce to the foolish and kind to the crumpled."
Vassar already has social and architectural elements in place that almost any college or university in the world would envy. With only a few adjustments to those existing elements it could easily make campus life stronger and richer for everyone. Your own campus may not be as elegant as Vassar's, but even so, many of the same collegiate design principles are still there for the taking, ready to be adapted to your own circumstances as you see fit.
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House Systems and Residential College Systems
A Collegiate House System for an Oklahoma School
House Systems in Secondary Schools

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Make Your Own Damn Movie! (Paperback)
Secrets of a Renegade Director
By Lloyd Kaufman, Adam Jahnke, Trent Haaga, Trey Parker (Foreword by), James Gunn (Introduction by)
L.A. Weekly Books, 9780312288648, 352pp.
Lloyd Kaufman, the writer/producer/director of such cult-classic films as The Toxic Avenger, Class of Nuke 'Em High, and Tromeo and Juliet, offers a guide to movie-making unlike any other available anywhere. In 25 years, Kaufman, along with partner Michael Herz, has built Troma Studios up from a company struggling to find its voice in a field crowded with competitors to its current--and legendary--status as a lone survivor, a bastion of true cinematic independence, and the world's greatest collection of camp on film.
As entertaining and funny as it is informative and insightful, Make Your Own Damn Movie! places Kaufman's radically low-budget, independent-studio style of filmaking directly in the reader's hands. Thus we learn how to: develop and write a knock-out screenplay; raise funding; find locations and cast actors; hire a crew; obtain equipment, permits, and music rights (all for little or no money); make incredible special effects for $0.79 each; charm, schmooze, and network while on the film-festival circuit; and, finally, make a bad actor act so bad it's actually good.
From scriptwriting and directing to financing and marketing, this book is brimming with utterly off-the-wall, decidedly maverick, yet consistently proven advice on how to fully develop one's idea for an independent film.
Lloyd Kaufman has written, produced, and/or directed more than 25 films, including The Toxic Avenger, Sgt. Kabukiman NYPD, and Terror Firmer. He is president of Troma Entertainment. This is his second book.
Praise For Make Your Own Damn Movie!: Secrets of a Renegade Director…
"If you want to make a movie because you want to become rich, go put a thousand dollars down on thirteen black . . . Your odds are way better . . . If, however, you want to make a movie because you want people to laugh, or cry, or puke--then read [this book]." —Trey Parker, from the Foreword


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September 7, 2016 Dragon Age / Games and Theology
Thedosian Theology – Secret Connections to Our Religions
Theology and religion, as any Dragon Age player knows, play a large part in the Dragon Age series. Between the Andrastian religion, the Dalish pantheon, the Tevinter dragons, and the various cults that pop up here and there, Thedas is rife with gods, spirits, and holy relics. But where did these unseen beings come from?
From our world, of course. That's why I'm here today.
Today we're going to tackle the Andrastian religion, centered around the all-powerful Maker and his mortal bride, Andraste. Please note the Chant of Light and the general teachings of the Chantry are not going to be discussed here, unless you guys really want me to delve into those topics, in which case I will in a future post. Let me know in the comments. Here we go!
While the Chantry, the main religious organization on the continent of Thedas, is a thinly veiled reference to the Catholic Church and professes many similar teachings as Catholicism with a little bit of fundamental Christianity thrown in for good measure, the two primary figures of this religion appear to pull from many different religions, as well as secular figures.
Let's start with the Maker, sometimes called "The Maker of the World" and "The Wellspring of All."
He is the only deity of the Andrastian religion, the creator father-figure that humans (and some elves) worship. The Maker's attributes generally stay within the Abrahamic religions, as his titles illustrate. The Judeo-Christian (yes, I am differentiating between Abrahamic and Judeo-Christian on purpose) god is also referred to as the Creator of the Universe, the one who made the world and everything in it. The Maker first created the Fade and the spirits, much like the Judeo-Christian god created the heavens and the angels. But, both of these gods were dissatisfied with their spirit creations and strove to create beings with the creative power of the divine Maker, or "…in His own image…" (Genesis 1:27).
So while the Maker's history is that of the Judeo-Christian god, the Maker actually encompasses details of all the Abrahamic religions. As such, the Maker shares many attributes with Islam's Allah.
A brief disclaimer: while I will refer to the Islamic interpretation of the Abrahamic god as "Allah" and the Judeo-Christian interpretation as "God" for clarity purposes, please note that the Hebrew, Christian, and Islamic god is one and the same from a theological perspective, even though each religion uses its own terminology/name.
Getting back to the Andrastian faith, the Chant of Light states that:
"There was no word/For heaven or for earth, for sea or sky./All that existed was silence./Then the Voice of the Maker rang out/The first Word/And His Word became all that might be." (Threnodies 5:1-8)
The important part of this is the fifth and sixth lines, "the first Word/And His Word became all that might be." In Genesis (if you're following along with your Bible) or Bereishis (in the Torah), God goes through a very lengthy creation that takes six days, after which an entire day is used for rest and recovery. In the Qur'an, however, the creation is much simpler. When Allah decreed to create the world, he stated: "…'Be," and it is." (Qur'an 2:117)
And so it seems that the Maker has a similar creation style as Allah. Interestingly, unlike the Catholic Church (and other Christian faiths), the Chantry does not teach the existence of a trinity (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit). This is also in alignment with Islam, which (if I recall correctly) views the trinity as polytheism, and so does not accept that particular idea, just as the Chantry asserts there is only one god in existence.
So the Maker pulls a great deal from the Abrahamic religions, seamlessly encompassing attributes from all three religions. But what of Andraste, the Maker's Holy Bride?
Most would immediately point to the similarities between Andraste and Jesus as theological figures. Both were prophets whose teachings resulted in the formation of a new, mainstream religion. Both claimed a special relationship with their respective gods. Both exalted the poor. Both were martyred because of their actions while doing their god's work (i.e., rabble-rousing).
But Andraste also gleans characteristics from the French heroine Joan of Arc, even moreso than these surface similarities to Jesus of Nazareth. For instance, like Joan of Arc, Andraste is burned at the stake after becoming a powerful (female) military leader in a world still predominantly run by men. They both bucked the status quo after their respective holy figures spoke to them, and they both brought about extreme political change (by either resulting in the creation of the Chantry or by establishing Charles VII of France as king, instead of Henry V of England, following the death of Charles VI).
Both of these powerful women successfully commanded large armies, and devoutly followed their god, whom they both claimed spoke to them. They were martyred for their beliefs, both burned at the stake. Unlike Joan, Andraste was granted a quick death by a penitent man who had betrayed her, dying by the sword before the flames could consume her. And, like Joan but unlike Jesus, Andraste does not return from the dead. She goes to the Maker's side and stays there.
Additionally, Andraste borrows features from the Greek goddess Nemesis and her Roman counterpart, named Adrastea.
Nemesis was originally known for the dispensing of fortunes and as being the bringer of justice, much like the Chantry's Andraste fought for freedom from Tevinter. Nemesis also is associated with fire, and was often depicted as holding an ax or whip. Andraste, likewise, is often depicted as holding a bowl of flames, and some images show her with a sword. Later on, Nemesis became associated with vengeance or the anger of the gods, much like Andraste claimed her war against Tevinter was sanctioned by the Maker, going so far as to call it an Exalted March.
Adrastea, meanwhile, not only lends her name, but also her sense of fairness. The Roman Adrastea was the goddess of fortune, and the Romans believed that fortune was even-handed. In fact, her festival, held in June, even allowed slaves to participate in the festivities as equals, much like Andraste believed that the slaves should be free to live as equals to the magisters in Tevinter. In her eyes, the Maker loved all His creations equally.
I hope you enjoyed this brief foray into Thedosian theology and how it relates to our own world's religions. While the game draws clear lines between the faiths within the game, the inspirations are a melting pot of people and beliefs.The pieces fit together, and work together, so well in the virtual world, creating a rich and diverse universe for us to experience and explore. And art imitates life, they say…
Did I miss anything? Is there more you'd like to discuss about theology, the Maker, or Andraste? Let me know in the comments!
For fairness' sake, I plan on tackling the Dalish elf pantheon next week, so stay tuned!
Until then, thanks for stopping by, and I'll see you soon.
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veryverygaming says:
Cool post. I've not played any of the Dragon Age series but this post has piqued my interest! Props for noting that Allah is simply the Arabic word for God and not something totally different. There's a reason why Arab Christians use the term Allah, and it's not because they're secretly Muslims 😛
ambigaming says:
Glad you liked the topic; I wasn't sure this was going to be one people were interested in! If you look into Dragon Age, let me know what you think 🙂
And thank you for the props! I always want to be as accurate as possible when discussing another person's religious beliefs!
The parallels between the Chantry and the real-world Judeo-Christian sects always felt rather appropriate to Dragon Age. Given how much it pulls from traditional European-stylized high fantasy, and how much faith and religion played a large part in the real life era that inspired most of that, it kind of feels like Dragon Age would have been lacking something if the Chantry wasn't part of that world.
I wholeheartedly agree. The Chanty felt very well-placed in the world of Thedas, filling the very large religious niche that existed in the real world during the Middle Ages and making the game feel that much more realistic in terms of culture, etc., especially in regard to the friction between religion and science (or in this case, religion and magic).
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Fern11 says:
I can't say I saw Andraste as a Joan of Arc-like figure, but that's because I am dense as hell. I mean, she literally died in a pyre, for goodness' sake.*
I always thought it interesting that Andraste's status as the Maker's chosen seems to make her both a Jesus and Virgin Mary figure. There is the obvious "Bride of the Maker/the Lord" aspect, but there's also fact that Andraste was called upon at a relatively young age, just like Mary, whereas our boy Jesus was in his late 20s when God called him to action. On the other hand, she is the one martyred, and one could argue that being his favourite creation singles her out amongst his "children". I also think there is something to ponder about the fact that, unlike Christianity's God, the Maker really doesn't want to give her up, and unlike Jesus (Biblical Jesus, anyways), Andraste is willing and decided.
Andrastean religion is a very interesting "what if" regarding the Catholic church and, to a certain extent, other Christian denominations. As in: what if they hadn't been so dickish to women? The entire structure of the dominant religion changes on account of the messiah being a woman, and in turn it changes how women are seen by Thedosian societies. That is not to say Thedas is free of sexism or gender-based power imbalances, but they are better off than us in that respect.
In the spirit of fairness, I am aware that early Christians weren't so bothered by women being leaders and that there are feminist Christian scholars. Even so, for the most part Christianity is pretty awful to women.
*I did see the similarities between Joan of Arc and Leliana though, she had the visions, the heretic claims and she's the Thedosian equivalent of French. All she is missing is martyrdom, and I think there is a case for that, what with Alexius experimenting on her and her sacrifice for the Inquisitor and Dorian (and that horrible thing that happens when you decide to desecrate Andraste's ashes).
I did enjoy the parallels (and perhaps perpendicularities – yes I just made up that word) between the Andrastian religion and the Catholic one. I didn't want to nerd out *so* much, but maybe this post warrants a follow-up 😉
And I absolutely see the parallels between Joan of Arc and Leliana, although some of that (for me) is also because of a bit of a headcanon about Leliana being – in essence if not in actuality – a reincarnated Andraste. She believes the Maker loves all, has prophetic visions (sort of – did you read the article I wrote about Leliana predicting Inquisition?), and is, at the end of the day, a pretty selfless person who is willing to die for her cause or her faith.
I know other folks say Sera occupies the "reincarnated Andraste" place, or that Mythal and Andraste were/are the same person (which is another post that is sure to come up haha), but right now, I think Leliana and Andraste share more than cursory similarities.
Haha, well, if you do nerd out in a follow-up post I will be happy to read it. 😀
Wow, that's an interesting headcanon! I definitely saw Leliana as someone who is much closer to Andraste's thoughts and way of life than the Chantry is, but her being actually Andraste? It didn't cross my mind. The prophetic visions are a big point in favour of your headcanon.
I read the article and it effectively blew my mind. I have some questions about it, too, but if it is all right with you, I'll post them there. I thought her vision was about the Blight, or even the less physical darkness that surrounds her during her time as Left Hand. I totally missed the gigantic explosion and demon-spitting magical vortex from Inquisition (see what I told you about being dense as hell?).
My mind is definitely a frightening place, so I think it's less you "being dense" and me just having a wildly active imagination haha.
I think her dream is so vague, though, it's easy to put a lot of different meanings behind it, like horoscopes. Is the dream symbolic? Literal? Personal? I look forward to your questions!
Also, I've never seen these theories about Sera or Mythal, but I am definitely interested in reading more on that. Sera is a great character and her relationship with her faith is very different than what we are used to see in DA, but her occupying a "reincarnated Andraste" place is not something I would have considered. It's worth pondering, though.
Also, if Mythal were Andraste, then this means that Andraste could have been an elf (and a mage at that) or that Mythal was human. Either way, the Chantry and the Dalish would be in for a pretty big surprise. 😀 I wonder what that would mean in relation to Flemeth. It would be apt that a martyr burned in a pyre would go on to take residence within a witch.
Ah, you're making me want to write another theology post…
But yes, what I've found about Sera is based on a few observations about her and something Cole says. It's something about how she has music in her body, but she "must NEVER sing." (It's part of the line where he comments about her not being able to draw but doing it anyway, and being able to dance but never dancing). Her discomfort with the Fade/all things Maker could also suggest that either a) Andraste is locked away in her body and the part of her that is Sera doesn't want any part of that, or b) Andraste has an "it's complicated" relationship with the Maker after being burned at the stake.
And Mythal…. yeah I think that's going to be a post, because I could babble on and on about that one for days on end haha
Hah, pretend this is me egging you on then (minus the flying close to the sun thing): http://imgur.com/ARJ8M60
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The 33rd annual Great Mississippi River Balloon Race at Natchez disappeared with the wind this year.
Turbulence canceled all but the preliminary "hare and hounds" race on Friday.
The town has endured winds of change – at times catastrophic – since it was founded 300 years ago. It was spared the torch by U.S. Grant, who had a bigger prize in his sights – Vicksburg.
And more than survived, as Faulkner said, it has prevailed, as, pound for pound, the preeminent showcase for antebellum homes.
That includes the biggies of Charleston, Savannah and New Orleans.
Here's a major difference: Much of its history is for sale.
And at a right good price, as Scarlett O'Hara's uppity former plantation overseer told her before she threw red Georgia dirt in his face.
The town is shrinking, not unheard of in a state that is doing the same.
But it is doing so with grace.
Natchez is brimming with historic houses for sale, many of them in quite good shape.
We did not visit the town for the balloon race, though we did see them firing up and inflating on the lawn in front the Grand Hotel, where we stayed, on the bluff overlooking the river.
Natchez is a two-hour drive from our house in northeast Jackson. We take the Natchez Trace Parkway, whose predecessor route dates to time immemorial, when migrating animals created it, then Indians, and later Europeans followed it.
The 445-mile national parkway does a pretty good job of skirting time as it meanders northeasterly, like the path of a tornado, to its terminus in Nashville.
The roadway cuts a narrow swath through old forests with towering oaks and pines draped with Spanish moss hanging from their limbs like great Druidic beards.
How could there not be romantic tales with this kind of setting.
And how could there not be sorrow to make the romance believable.
The great beauty of the mansions belies the great sorrows that surround them.
Out tour guide on the Hop On Hop Off double-decker bus informed us in an otherwise wholly entertaining monologue, that 2,000 people were sold in Natchez slave markets.
At one point, The Forks of the Road was the location of the market. Our guide, a jolly black lady, pointed out rusty iron rings sunk into a patch of concrete where the slaves' shackles were attached.
Natchez benefited from the confluence of factors that led it to become a major and wealthy city on the lower Mississippi. Cotton, British textile demand Eli Whitney's fabled gin, and, of course slave labor.
The irony is that while it is most assuredly on the nation's dominant transportation route – the River, not the Trace – it not connected to major highways and airports.
Thus it is spared the onslaught of change, at a price.


____ Which is (big) a cat or a mouse?
____Winter is (cold) season of the year.
___This morning Bob got up (early) than usually.
____Tom is (fast) runner of his class.
____Which do you like (good), tea or coffee?
____Betty is (beautiful) than any other girl of her class.
__In which country did the world's (bad) nuclear disaster take place in 1986?
--Mark is very energetic, he walked (far) in an hour than Bob did in two hours.


Jacob Carter is a research scientist for the Center for Science and Democracy at the Union of Concerned Scientists. In this role, Dr. Carter investigates how science is used in the policy-making process, focusing on issues of scientific integrity across the federal government.
Prior to joining UCS, Dr. Carter worked at the Environmental Protection Agency as an Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) Postdoctoral Fellow. At the EPA, Dr. Carter integrated the effects of climate change into estimates of future coastal inundation on contaminated lands, such as brownfields and superfund sites, to help guide decisions on adaptation efforts that could better protect nearby communities from the spread of dangerous contaminants during future floods. He also helped model greenhouse gas emissions for the siting of renewable energy installations on green space versus contaminated lands as part of his work with EPA's RE-Powering America's Land Initiative. Prior to his postdoctoral position, Dr. Carter was at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, where he helped establish an interagency task force on improving the health of honey bees and other pollinators, planned the planting of the first pollinator garden on the south lawn of the White House, and also worked on President Obama's Climate Action Plan.
Dr. Carter has a B.S. in biology from the University of Central Arkansas, and an M.S. in biology from Kansas State University. He earned a PhD in ecology and evolutionary biology and a graduate-level certificate in environmental studies from the University of Kansas.
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SKAI's Viceroy Palm Jumeirah Dubai set to open in March
Handover of signature residences have begun, says Kabir Mulchandani after getting completion certificate
SKAI Holdings, Dubai-based real estate and hospitality group, said on Wednesday it has received completion certificate for its $1.17billion (AED4.3bn) Viceroy Palm Jumeirah Dubai which will officially open in March 2017.
Trakhees, the regulatory body responsible to issue construction permits for projects on the Palm, awarded the building permit and completion certificate for the project on November 14 - more than two weeks ahead of schedule.
"The completion of our flagship project ahead of schedule is testament to our commitment and confidence in Dubai's growing hospitality sector," Kabir Mulchandani, group chief executive officer, SKAI, said in a statement.
The joint team of the developer and China State Construction Engineering Corporation (Middle East), contractor and equity partner in the project, have been on site over the past two years overseeing more than 4,000 workers.
Bill Walshe, chief executive officer, Viceroy Hotel Group, said the completion of the hotel - its first venture in Dubai - is an important milestone in their continued growth in the region.
Mikael Svensson, general manager, Viceroy Palm Jumeirah Dubai, said they have adopted the concept of theatre since the hotel's design is inspired from an amphitheatre with each Viceroy staff undertaking training with a theatrical troupe to improve service spontaneity.
The hotel comprises 477 rooms, 10 restaurants, a spa along with health and wellness areas. The residential component consists of 221 units, with handover of units underway.
Construction work is progressing on SKAI's second hospitality and residential project, the Viceroy Dubai Jumeirah Village, which is 32 percent complete. It will commence operation in 2018.
The $348.4m (AED1.28bn) project features 247-hotel rooms and suites, 221 hotel apartments and 33 four-bedroom hotel apartments all with private pools.
Saudi tourism 'aims to employ 1.7m people by 2020'
French hotel giant inks deal for new luxury Doha property
Animal rights group attacks plans for SeaWorld Abu Dhabi
Emirates says to see 307,000 passengers in festive holiday rush
Dubai's Emaar hires new CEO to drive hotel expansion plan
Revealed: SeaWorld Abu Dhabi to open on Yas Island in 2022


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Q: Include test run id in k6 metrics sent to Datadog I use k6 on my local machine to perform load-testing as well as a Datadog agent to visualize the metrics in Datadog.
I'd like to filter k6 metrics in Datadog as the tests aren't distinguishable.
At this point the $test_run_id only shows * (refer to the screenshot below):

I followed this the official doc that suggests to set include_test_run_id flag to true in k6 config, but I was unsuccessful.
Here's a k6 config I currently use (<YOUR_DATADOG_API_KEY> is replaced with an actual Datadog API key):
export const options = {
  vus: 5,
  duration: "10s",
  noConnectionReuse: true,
  ext: {
    loadimpact: {
      apm: [
        {
          provider: "datadog",
          api_key: "<YOUR_DATADOG_API_KEY>",
          include_test_run_id: true
        }
    ]
    }
  }
};

A: You are using the DataDog configuration for the commercial k6 Cloud service (k6 cloud), not locally run k6 tests (k6 run). test_run_id is a concept in the cloud service, though it's also easy to emulate locally as a way to distinguish between test runs.
For local tests, you should enable the DataDog output by running k6 with k6 run --out datadog script.js. I assume you did that, otherwise you wouldn't see any metrics in DataDog.
Then, you can use the tags option to inject a unique extra tag for all metrics generated by a particular k6 run, so you can differentiate them in DataDog. For example:
k6 run --out datadog --tag test_run_id=1 script.js
k6 run --out datadog --tag test_run_id=2 script.js
k6 run --out datadog --tag test_run_id=3 script.js
...

Of course, you can choose any key=value combination, you are not restricted to test_run_id.

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COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Sales of its blockbuster diabetes drug helped boost fourth-quarter profits at Danish pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk AS by 19 percent.
The world's biggest insulin maker said net profit in the last three months of 2011 reached 4.68 billion kroner ($825 million), up from 3.95 billion kroner in the same period of 2010.
Quarterly sales rose 12 percent to 18.12 billion kroner ($3.2 billion) from 16.12 billion.
Chief Executive Lars Rebien Soerensen said Thursday that 2011 "had been a very positive year," and said the Copenhagen-based group saw "significant progress for our portfolio of clinical development projects."
For 2012, it said it expects a sales growth of 7 to 11 percent, which is about 4 percentage points higher than initially expected.


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In Denhof v. Challa, No. 321862, the Michigan Court of Appeals ruled that the Ottawa Country Friend of the Court (FOC), was shielded from liability on the basis of quasi-judicial, absolute immunity.
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text:
\section{Introduction}
\label{sec_intro}

 The conventional picture of superconductivity in cold Fermi
liquids is that attractive interactions between fermions lead to
a pairing instability that destroys the Fermi surface. Bardeen,
Cooper, and Schrieffer showed that this instability is present
for any attractive interaction, no matter how weak \cite{BCS:1957}.
This would seem to imply that a Fermi liquid with purely
repulsive interactions is stable and has a Fermi surface.

 Kohn and Luttinger \cite{Kohn:1965} showed that in the case
of fermions interacting via short range forces this is not correct.
There is a pairing instability even if the interaction is repulsive
in all partial wave channels. The resulting critical temperature is
typically very small, but the Kohn-Luttinger effect may well play a
role in $p$-wave pairing in liquid $^3$He \cite{Baranov:1992,Efremov:2000}
and cold atomic gases \cite{Bulgac:2006gh} as well as $d$-wave pairing
in high $T_c$ superconductivity.

 In this paper we study whether the Kohn-Luttinger effect also
takes place in gauge theories. This study is part of a broader
program to understand to what extent results from Fermi liquid
theory can be extended to dense systems of fermions interacting
via long range gauge forces. Non-Fermi liquid effects in the
specific heat and the fermion dispersion relation were studied
in \cite{Holstein:1973,Baym:1975va,Polchinski:ii,Chakravarty:1995,Ipp:2003cj,Schafer:2004zf}.
The specific question whether repulsive interactions in gauge theories
can lead to superfluidity is of interest in connection with effective
$U(1)$ gauge theories that arise in condensed matter systems. In
non-abelian gauge theories attractive channels always exist. However,
there are a number of superconducting phases in which some of the
fermions remain ungapped and the residual interactions between these
excitations are repulsive. A simple example is color superconductivity
in QCD with two flavors. In this case up and down quarks with two
different colors form an $s$-wave superconductor whereas up and
down quarks of the third color remain gapless. Gapless fermions
also appear in the gapless color-flavor-locked (CFL) phase
\cite{Alford:2003fq}.

\section{Short range forces}
\label{sec_short}

 Kohn and Luttinger considered short range interactions characterized
by a BCS potential $V(x)$. This potential describes particle-particle
scattering $\vec{p}_1+(-\vec{p}_1)\to \vec{p}_3+(-\vec{p}_3)$ with
$|\vec{p}_1|=|\vec{p}_3|=p_F$ and $x=\hat{p}_1\cdot\hat{p}_3$ is the
scattering angle. The partial wave amplitudes are
\be
V_l = \int dx\ P_l(x)V(x),
\ee
where $P_l(x)$ is the Legendre polynomials of order $l$. If one of the
partial wave amplitudes is attractive then $s$-channel rescattering
between the particles will lead to a logarithmic growth of the interaction
as the energy of the pair goes to zero. The system becomes superfluid when
the effective interaction reaches a Landau pole. If all $V_l$ are repulsive
then the effective interaction goes to zero logarithmically near the Fermi
surface.

 Kohn and Luttinger observed that in this case $t$-channel particle-hole
exchanges cannot be neglected. They note that if the BCS amplitude
and all its derivatives are analytic then the tree level partial wave
amplitudes have to be exponentially small, $V_l\sim e^{-l}$, as $l\to
\infty$. This implies that perturbative corrections to the effective
interaction can be important even if the coupling is small. In particular,
if perturbative corrections are non-analytic in the scattering angle $x$
then they will dominate over the tree level amplitude for sufficiently
large $l$. The $t$-channel particle-hole bubble shown in
Fig.~\ref{fig_resc} is
\be
\Pi(\nu\!=\!0,q) = \frac{mk_F}{4\pi^2}
  \left\{ -1 +\frac{1}{q}\bigg(1-\frac{q^2}{4}\bigg) \log\bigg(
    \frac{2-q}{2+q} \bigg) \right\},
\ee
where $\nu=k_0$ is the energy transfer and $q=|\vec{k}|/k_F$ is the
momentum transfer in units of $k_F$. This expression has a logarithmic
singularity at $q=2$ which corresponds to $x=-1$. The contribution
of the singularity to the BCS amplitude is
\be
\delta V(x) = -\left[V(-1)\right]^2 \frac{mk_F}{16\pi^2}
   (1+x) \log(1+x) .
\ee
The correction to the partial wave amplitudes can be determined by
using the generating functional
\be
P_l(x) = \frac{1}{2^l l!}\frac{d^l}{dx^l} \left[
  \left(x^2-1\right)^l\right]
\ee
and integrating by parts $l$ times. We find
\be
\delta V_l =  (-1)^{l+1}\frac{mk_F}{4\pi^2} \frac{[V(-1)]^2}{l^4}
\ee
which is attractive for even $l$ and falls off as a power of $l$. This
implies that even if all $V_l$ are repulsive there is a critical $l_{crit}$
such that $V_l+\delta V_l$ is attractive for $l$ even and $l>l_{crit}$.

\begin{figure}
\includegraphics[width=8cm,clip=true]{kl_fig.eps}
\caption{\label{fig_resc}
The upper panel shows the direct interaction and the $t$-channel
particle-hole correction in a theory with short range interactions.
The lower panel shows the direct interaction in a gauge theory. In
this case, $t$-channel particle-hole bubbles have to be resummed
at leading order.  }
\end{figure}

 In nuclear physics the screening correction is known as the
``induced interaction''. Consider a short rage potential with
a strength adjusted to give the the scattering length $a$. If $a$ is
negative then the $s$-wave interaction is attractive and in BCS theory
we find a gap
\be
 \Delta = \frac{8E_F}{e^2}\exp\left(-\frac{\pi}{2k_F|a|}\right),
\ee
where $k_F$ is the Fermi momentum and $E_F$ is the Fermi energy.
The screening correction reduces the magnitude of the gap by a
factor $(4e)^{1/2}\simeq 2.2$ \cite{Gorkov:1961}. If the $a$ is
positive then the interaction is repulsive and no $s$-wave pairing
takes place. However, the interaction is attractive in higher
partial waves. The $d$-wave gap is of order
\be
 \Delta \sim E_F \exp\left(-\frac{\pi^2}{(2k_Fa)^2}
      \frac{105}{2(8-\log(2048))} \right)
\ee
Higher order corrections to this result were studied in
\cite{Baranov:1992,Efremov:2000}.

\section{Superconductivity in gauge theories}
\label{sec_csc}

 In gauge theories the interaction is long range and the
particle-hole screening correction has to be included at leading
order even if the angular momentum $l$ is small. The screened electric
and magnetic gauge boson propagators are given by
\cite{Kapusta:1989,LeBellac:1996}
\bea
iD_{00}(\omega,\vec{k}) &=& \frac{1}{\vec{k}^2+2m^2}, \\
iD_{ij}(\omega,\vec{k}) &=& \frac{\delta_{ij}-\hat{k}_i\hat{k}_j}
 {\vec{k}^2-i\frac{\pi}{2}m^2 \omega/|\vec{k}|},
\eea
where  $m^2$ is the dynamically generated gauge boson mass and we have
assumed that $|\omega|\ll|\vec{k}|$. In perturbation theory $m^2=
g^2N_f\mu^2/(4\pi^2)$ where $g$ is the gauge coupling, $\mu$ is the
baryon chemical potential and $N_f$ is the number of fermions in the
fundamental representation. The electric interaction is completely
screened. At low energy multipole moments of the interaction are
independent of energy and decrease exponentially with $l$. The magnetic
interaction, on the other hand, in only dynamically screened. Multipole
moments diverge as a logarithm of energy and the coefficient of
$\log(\omega)$ is independent of $l$. We find \cite{Son:1998uk}
\be
\label{fl_om}
 f_l(\omega) =-c_A \frac{2g^2}{3} \log(\omega) ,
\ee
where $c_A$ is a symmetry factor that depends on the channel and
the gauge group. For color anti-symmetric quark pairing in QCD
$c_A=-(N_c+1)/(2N_c)$. The renormalization group flow of the interaction
equ.~(\ref{fl_om}) was first studied by Son \cite{Son:1998uk}. The value
of the $s$-wave gap is
\be
\label{gap_oge}
\Delta_0 \simeq 2\Lambda_{BCS}
   \exp\left(-\frac{\pi^2+4}{8}\right)
   \exp\left(-\frac{3\pi^2}{\sqrt{2}g}\right).
\ee
where the scale is given by $\Lambda_{BCS}=256\pi^4(2/N_f)^{5/2}g^{-5}\mu$
and we have set $N_c=3$. The coefficient of $1/g$ in the exponent is
determined by equ.~(\ref{fl_om}) and is independent of $l$. The
pre-exponential factor is sensitive to electric gauge boson exchanges and
fermion self-energy corrections and depends on $l$. The dependence
on $l$ can be determined by expanding the magnetic and electric gauge
boson exchange amplitudes around the forward direction. The result is
$\Delta_l=\exp(3c_l)\Delta_0$ with \cite{Schafer:2000tw,Brown:1999yd}
\be
 c_l= \int \frac{dx}{1-x}\ \left( P_l(x) -1 \right).
\ee
The coefficients $c_l$ can be computed using the recursion relation
for the Legendre polynomials. We find
\be
 c_l = -2 \sum_{n=1}^l \frac{1}{n}
 \;  \stackrel{l\to\infty}{\longrightarrow} \; -2\log(l)
\ee
which implies that the gap scales as $\Delta_l\sim \Delta_0/l^6$
and becomes very small for $l\gg 1$. We should note, however, that
the result is reliable only if $\log(l)< 1/g$. When this inequality
is violated we cannot expand the scattering amplitude around $x=1$.
In practice, this is already the case for $l\sim 2$.

\begin{figure}
\includegraphics[width=7cm,clip=true]{oge_mult_flw_txt.eps}
\caption{\label{fig_fl}
Scaled gauge boson exchange multipole amplitudes $\tilde{f}_l(\tilde\omega)$
as a function of the dimensionless energy variable $\tilde\omega$. The
figure shows the $l=5,10,20,40$ multipoles. For QCD at $\mu=500$ MeV
the energy scale corresponds to roughly 1 GeV. }
\end{figure}

 This suggests that the behavior of the scattering amplitude changes
when $\log(l)\sim 1/g$, and that something analogous to the Kohn-Luttinger
effect may take place. In order to study this question we compute the
partial wave amplitudes without relying on a expansion around $x=1$.
The transverse gauge boson exchange contribution is given by
\be
 f_l(\omega) = c_R g^2 \tilde{f}_l(\tilde\omega), \hspace{1cm}
\tilde\omega = \frac{\pi}{4\sqrt{2}}\frac{m^2}{\mu^2}
  \left(\frac{\omega}{\mu}\right)
\ee
where $c_R$ is a color factor and
\be
 \tilde{f}_l(\tilde\omega)  = \int dx\
  \frac{P_l(x)}{1-x +\tilde\omega/\sqrt{1-x}} .
\ee
In Fig.~\ref{fig_fl} we show the function $\tilde{f}_l(\tilde\omega)$
for several different values of $l$. We observe that for every value
of $\tilde\omega$ the scattering amplitude changes sign if $l$ is
larger than some critical value. Also, for every value of $l$ ($l\geq 2$)
the amplitude changes sign for $\tilde\omega>\tilde\omega_0(l)$. The
function $\tilde{f}_l(\tilde\omega)$ exhibits a very simple scaling
behavior $\tilde{f}_l(\tilde\omega)=F(\tilde\omega_0(l)/\tilde\omega)$
with $\tilde\omega_0(l)\sim l^{-\alpha}$ and $\alpha\simeq 2/\log(2)$.

 The figure shows that even if the interaction in the forward direction
is repulsive higher multipole amplitudes are attractive for almost all
energies. The question is whether this is sufficient in order to produce
superconductivity. In the appendix we discuss conditions under
which interactions that are repulsive in some energy regime
induce pairing instabilities. We show that if the interaction
is repulsive below some energy $\omega_0$ then a necessary condition
for pairing is that the gap $\Delta$ is larger than $\omega_0$.
An upper bound on the gap can be obtained by assuming that $\Delta
(\omega)$ is independent of $\omega$. In this case we find
\be
\label{eli_rep}
 1 =-\frac{g^2c_R}{8\pi^2}\int_\Delta \frac{d\omega}{\omega}
   \tilde{f}_l(\omega)
\ee
and consistency requires that $\Delta > \omega_0(l)$. This means
that the integral on the RHS can be bounded by replacing the lower
limit by $\omega_0(l)$. This integral is only weakly dependent on
$l$ and quickly approaches a finite limiting value, see Fig.~\ref{fig_fl}.
Numerically we find
\be
\label{fcrit}
\lim_{l\to\infty}\int_{\omega_0(l)} \frac{d\omega}{\omega}
   \tilde{f}_l(\omega) = -0.107 .
\ee
This implies that in the limit of large $l$ a gap can only appear
if $0.107g^2c_R/(8\pi^2)>1$. We can ask if this result is modified
by higher order perturbative corrections. If $\omega_0(l)$ is smaller
than the scale of non-Fermi liquid effects in the normal phase,
$\omega_{\it nfl}=m\exp(-9\pi^2/g^2)$, then self energy corrections to
the fermion propagator have to be taken into account. These corrections
further reduce equ.~(\ref{fcrit}). Higher order contributions to the
vertex scale as $\omega^{1/3}$ and can be neglected \cite{Schafer:2004zf}.
We conclude that in the weak coupling limit superconductivity does
not take place in repulsive channels. Indeed, judging from the weak
coupling result, superconductivity is not likely even for large
values of the coupling.

\section{Conclusions}
\label{sec_sum}

  Our results are directly applicable to a $U(1)$ gauge theory
at finite density. In that case there are no attractive channels
and our results imply that superconductivity does not take place.
Of course, if the density is very small or the coupling is very
large then the system may exhibit other instabilities, for example
towards ferromagnetism or crystalline order \cite{Bloch:1929}.

 In QCD attractive channels always exist. However, there are cases
in which the primary pairing channel leaves some modes ungapped.
The simplest example is the 2SC phase of $N_f=2$ QCD. In this
case up and down quarks with two different colors are paired
but quarks of the third color are unpaired. At energies below
the primary pairing gap $\Delta$ these quarks interact via the
exchange of the hypercharge gluon of the $SU(3)$ gauge group.
This gluon is part of the broken sector of the gauge group, and
as a consequence the magnetic interaction is screened. The
momentum dependent screening mass was computed in
\cite{Rischke:2000qz,Rischke:2002rz}. The result is
\be
{\rm Re}\,\Pi_T(k_0,k) = \frac{\pi^2}{4}\, m^2\, \frac{\Delta}{k}
\hspace{0.5cm}(k_0\ll\Delta, \, k\gg\Delta).
\ee
For $k<\Delta$ the screening mass goes to a constant. We observe
that this result has the same structure as the Landau damping
term except that the self energy is real rather than imaginary
and the energy is replaced by the gap. As a consequence the partial
wave amplitudes are identical to the results shown in Fig.~\ref{fig_fl}
for $\omega>\Delta$ and become constant for $\omega<\Delta$. This means
that pairing takes place in the partial wave for which $\omega_0\sim
\Delta$, so $l\sim (m/\Delta)^{1/\alpha}$. This is parametrically large,
but for values of the gap that are of physical interest $l$ could
be as small as $l=2$.

 Finally we can try to estimate the magnitude of the pairing
gap. The scale for the secondary gap $\Delta_R$ is set by the
primary gap $\Delta$. The multipole amplitude $f_l(\omega)$ is
independent of energy for $\omega<\Delta$ and the dependence of
the gap on the coupling constant is given by the BCS result,
$\Delta_R\sim \Delta\exp(-c/g^2)$. The constant $c=8\pi^2/(c_R
|f_l(\Delta)|)$ is determined by the color factor $c_R$ and the
partial wave amplitude at the scale set by the primary gap.
Using $c_R=1/3$ for the ungapped quark in the 2SC phase and
$|f_l(\Delta)|\leq 0.07$ from Fig.~\ref{fig_fl} we get $c\simeq
3300$. This means that that the gap is completely negligible, even
if the coupling is strong. In practice the most likely mechanism
for generating a secondary gap is the attractive instanton interaction
in the spin-one channel $\langle uC\vec{\alpha}d\rangle$ discussed
in \cite{Alford:1997zt}. This mechanism requires strong coupling,
since perturbative interactions in this channel are repulsive.

Acknowledgments: I would like to thank I.~Shovkovy for a useful
discussion. This work was supported by US Department of Energy
grants DE-FG02-03ER41260.

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