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The Baby Trail
by Sinead Moriarty
Infertility is no laughing matter. Men and women unable to have children are often put through the emotional and physical wringer in trying to build a family. So to say that Sinead Moriarty's first novel THE BABY TRAIL --- about one woman's difficulty getting pregnant --- is humorous, while true, does not do justice to the depth of the story and the sensitivity Moriarty feels for the serious subject matter.
THE BABY TRAIL is funny, often laugh-out-loud funny. But that is because its main character, Emma Hamilton, is funny, not because Moriarty tries to suggest that infertility is.
At thirty-three, happily married and content in her career, Emma has decided it is high time to start a family. Her husband, James, agrees. She thinks it will be simple; stop using birth control, have sex, and after a couple of months she will find herself pregnant. But after a few months go by, Emma starts to get worried. She changes her diet, exercises more, and tracks her ovulation. Still no pregnancy. After a year, Emma and James visit fertility specialists, and from that point on Emma spends a year undergoing painful and depressing procedures, taking hormones and becoming positively obsessed with conception.
Her family and friends begin to worry about her, and her relationship with James becomes strained; Emma knows she is losing emotional control but feels she needs to keep trying to have a baby. Finally, after a couple of years and one too many invasive doctor visits, she needs to decide what her priorities are and how much she is willing to endure to have a child.
What is funny about this story? Despite the serious and heartbreaking topic, Moriarty's prose is often hilarious and always witty. Dubliner Emma is smarty and sassy with a sharp tongue, and her brogue and Irish slang are charming (yet readable). Often it is Emma's --- that is Moriarty's --- honesty about sex, relationships and ego that make the book funny, but mostly it is Emma's wry and bold narration that will get a laugh from readers.
Still, this is a serious book. Moriarty does not trivialize the issue of infertility and never gives Emma an easy way out; she and James must make tough decisions. We follow Emma through two years of humiliation, sadness, anger and frustration as well as hopefulness. THE BABY TRAIL is realistic and poignant in this way.
Along with Emma and James, readers meet a host of characters that are all important in Emma's life. Her two close friends represent two alternate lifestyles --- the single, workaholic and the stressed stay-at-home mom. Her parents and siblings, while unable to empathize, are supportive of Emma and every bit as quirky as she is. James's friend Donal, a professional rugby player, is raising his orphaned niece on his own. And James's brother and sister-in-law are having twins, and rubbing salt in Emma's emotional wounds.
It would be a shame to pass over this novel because it seems at first glance like so much light "Chick Lit" reading. For fans of the genre there is the spunky heroine (and Irish to boot), the handsome love interest, the fiery friends, and lots to smile at. However, this novel transcends many similar stories by dealing with a difficult issue with grace and intelligence. So readers looking for something a bit meatier will not be disappointed. While the abrupt ending may leave readers a bit put off, Moriarty seems to be trying to leave the end of Emma's struggles to the imagination. Still, the end, while a respectable effort, is the main weakness of the novel.
Moriarty's debut is promising. It is well-written with a good blend of humor and drama.
Reviewed by Sarah Rachel Egelman on December 22, 2010
Genres: Fiction
Publisher: Atria
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Easter is celebrated in much of our modern American culture as a holiday that serves up fancy baskets of toys and candy, dyed eggs, Easter egg hunts at the park, a little vacation time, and a new set of clothes for church. Rather than downplaying the secularization of Easter, we could take these as signs that a joy-filled life is available. Isn't that what Easter is, the hope of being raised to a new level of life?
Easter occurs at the approaching of the springtime of year. I have always lived in areas of the country where winter means a long season of cold, a season where things in nature have died, and a season of long dark days. Springtime means that nature is about to come alive and the dark days are over. People look forward to the joy and hope of brighter days just ahead.
We live in a world where life often does not go as we plan and hope. We want our lives to be peaceful, secure, happy, and fulfilling.
We live in a world where life often does not go as we plan and hope. We want our lives to be peaceful, secure, happy, and fulfilling. Unfortunately, the life we want quickly becomes discouraged and depressed by unexpected sickness, accidents, failed friendships, divorces, bullying, addictive drug use, grief over the death of loved ones, and so forth. Our dreams are often disappointed and our jobs often unfulfilling. We live in a world threatened by war, crime, failed governments, and societal unrest. Instead of happiness and peace, we live with fear, debilitating stress, and what can seem like a long dark winter, but thankfully, there are a few rays of sunshine that keep us going. For many, the kind of life we want escapes us and we long for colorful eggs, new clothes, and fancy baskets of toys and candy.
The real meaning of Easter is that into our oft-dismal world, hope for a new and better life has come. A man came on the world scene who did things that were never thought possible. He showed us things people long for but are unable to achieve. He showed us that he has the power to eliminate diseases and bodily defects by healing people. He could control the weather so that its violent storms were calmed. He satisfied the needs of the poor and raised their dignity and worth. He brought dead people back to life. He changed people's hearts through acceptance, love and forgiveness so that they would be able to love one another. He promised citizenship in a kingdom with no more fear, crime, cruelty, and death.
He gave unheard of meaning to the word resurrection. He promised that those who believed in him would be spiritually resurrected to a new and satisfying life, and later would be bodily resurrected to never die again, enjoying life on a new and incorruptible earth. His statement to the spiritual effect is this, "an hour is coming and now is, when the (spiritually) dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live" (John 5:25). He follows up with words regarding the physical effect, "an hour is coming in which all who are in the tombs will hear his voice, and will come forth", some to a resurrection of life, and some to a resurrection of judgment (John 5:28-29). He would be a kind and benevolent Lord and king of a kingdom that guarantees the fulfillment of all that is good. God, sent this person, his son, into the world, so that through him, God could rescue us and transfer us to the kingdom of his beloved son (Colossians 1:13-14).
Easter is the time when Jesus comes forth to guarantee the completion of God's story, a story that includes the entire history of life on earth.
Easter is a celebration by those who have entered into God's story by faith in Jesus, and who are currently living a new life in God's partially fulfilled kingdom on earth. Furthermore, they are looking forward to its completion when Christ returns. The certainty of God's plan for our world and for our lives is guaranteed by the well-attested fact of Jesus' bodily resurrection from the dead, and the spiritual life now residing in all believers through God's indwelling Spirit. Easter celebrates life-giving hope.
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…And we have had an extra close this time the ship being sugar loaded makes for rolling more. Things have to be well lashed to stand it. Sleep!- it is out of the question, but it is over now- I _____. St. Helena is a long way astern. We passed 300 miles to Westward of it, thinking to get better winds. In fact it is considerable out of the currents to America, but ships often sight it to make some of their longitude. It is one of the land marks that divide the distance from East India home. We saw one solitary vessel just at night, last week. Deck Bucket been busy pouring over accounts, making balance sheets, for a dollar out of the way be disgraceful.
… Take some Sulphur. While he was mixing it up, I thought of the time he was a little fellow with his brother and sister. There was an open fireplace in the sitting room and his mother ____ to let the children ______ by the fire, Put on their night gowns (his was a __ one made of yellow flannel and they called it John's ____jerry. Ah! How well he remembers it.) Then gave them a dose of Sulphur, if they were unwell and they would get all aglow and scamper off upstairs to bed in the cold unfinished chambers or attics. The cottage was sold a long way ago. The toiling mother hopeful mother has no children near her now. They are all in Scotland, some in Heaven, and John, the oldest. Come Pilgarlic- enough of this. Dreaming again. How much money have you remitted _____ ______ _____ ____ voyage? How much will you make? Hush! Bucket, it is Sunday….
…all we dared to ask for. The Trades are stormy and fresh. The Sun sends his high rays on a thousand light waves that dance and foam around us in our noble ship moves on bound for our native land with steady speed that is grand.
________? No Sir, my name is __ Keaton. What are you sailing round the world under an alias for? I don't know Sir! What ship was you in before you joined this one in Hong Kong? I was Second Mate of a Siamese Steamer! What did you leave it for to go before the mast? I was sick and went to the hospital. Why didn't you go in your own country ships? Because Sir, No boarding house would take me in without money, which I hadn't got. But the American ship Master took me in. How long was you in his house? Two days Sir, and you let him take twenty dollars, your ________ money for two day's pay and the chance to get on this ship. Yes Sir! I couldn't help myself. So that's the way land sharks got ….
…was in his home over two days _____ only one, besides getting the money they had with them. He got twenty dollars advance apiece = $160.00. But why some will ask need you employ this shipping master to ship your crew. Because the American Consul has a hand in it. He won't allow only such men shipped as he has security for, and Northall(?), the shipping master is the security, and probably gives the Consul half the fees.
But today my story, "Sailors or ______ or, what's your name, who was the first to propose your running away from the ship? You or Steve? Steve Sir. I never thought of it till an hour before we ______. What was your object in running away? Well Sir, I did not care about …..
…running away? He said the boys were inspiring him Sir! Did you or Steve steal all those clothes out of the forecastle? Steve Sir. I never knew that anything was stolen. I thought they were all Steve's clothes. Did you take any water? No Sir. Did you take much bread? Only what was in the bread bags, about two pounds. What time did you start? About two in the morning Sir. How far did you go? We paddled to the North with a fair tide 'till about 8 o'clock, then we went into a lagoon to try and get some water, but the shore was too sh_____ to get the boat up to where there was open water, so we had to start out again. Where you not afraid of being caught? Yes Sir! How long did you keep on them? Two days Sir! What did you live on then? A little bread dipped in salt water. We were almost famished then. What did you do then? We went on shore at a ….
…And went up to the Captain of the port. What did you tell him? That we was deserters from a ship. Then What? Then he sent some men with me to get Steve. When we got to the beach, they was gone. We went along the ______ about three miles and found them. Steve was crying with a lot of natives round him. He said they had tied his hands behind him and plundered the boat. What did you do then? We went back to the town and stayed there. What did they ___ you on? We lived with the priest and we got the same as he got. Who was it you told the story to of being the only survivors of an English ship that had foundered, and you was the Captain? I never told anyone that Sir! Yes, you did. Well Sir! I told that to the Captain of the Port. It was the priest I told the true story to…____ _____I….
…hands _________ behind my back, I tried to jump overboard (which was true). And now you know the charges and expenses against you are heavy? Yes Sir, but we must meet them as ______ as our wages go.
Whoever reads this will see that I am hard up for paper and I have been robbing everything to splice it as ____ as any.
…Sam ________, my Boston boy has got into disgrace two days ago. I saw somebody on the poop and could not make out who it was, whether it was some broken nosed Paddy, or who, I couldn't tell. But finally it proved to be him. He had been fighting with Steve, and his face was a mass of black and blue. He did not like to tell anything about it, but finally he said that Steve could fight better than he could. A pretty sight he would be to go home to his mother!, after 18 months absence, and suppose the Captain or Officers had done it! What _____ they would have deen! It would cost one hundred dollars to do that to one of those. Still, they will do it…..
A year ago I was in Batavia. It seems only yesterday, but a year has been spent in the Orient and what has done for us, what for the loved ones at home?
It is a lovely month, the decaying leaves are so rich in coloring, but we shall not see them. They will be turned into icicles when we get there. Never mind, we shall need the change. These torpid ______ of ours want some cold blood circulating through them. How merrily the sleigh bells will jingle! The dark pines will have leaves enough for us, but we will hug the pine ______ and give up most of outdoor comforts to be inside ours, won't we Pilgarlic?
15th October. 95 days at Sea.
Latitude- 7 degrees South. Longitude- 27 degrees West.
Here we are in the heart of the ________ zone again- with the thermometer at 82 degrees in the shade- getting our lives well-cooked again. We are well into the Western hemisphere too. That is one comfort, and please God, we will be in cooler weather very soon, for don't you see? It is the 15th of October! The wind comes down from the NW and whistles round our New England homes and whirls the dust up in the roads. The farms are getting ready with their crops and thinking of winter. We are near the Equator, which we shall _____ in a few days, and that is another land mark. The last week has been hard for old D.B. Four days and nights of steady, constant tooth ache. Ugh! What would he have given for a Dentist! But as usual today is the Sabbath, he has crawled out of….
…of the time to ________ ______ or later, when the Great Pain must come. And he must lay down on his lonely couch and breathe out the last breath. No one to care for him or smooth his hard pillow- 'tis all right.
and so if ______ can't have the _______ God sends us these beautiful creatures to take their places. Yet I hope we shall see the _______ birds in their time and reason.
I feel so full of the idea of getting home, I can't do anything. I can't make a basket. I have had one on the bench this long time and have promised it long ago. Still, I can't seem to finish it. It is a busy time with the sailors now. A great change has come over our ship. She is tarred, scrubbed, and painted, 'till she shines and glistens like a new dollar. I have had everything out of my room- of course, and looked at it and smelt of I,t and not a speck of dirt remains. The ship cleaning and painting beats home a ….
Mow we are cursing the track of outward bound ships and we have had to keep our lights burning and good eyes on the water nights, for many a good ship has gone down here never to be heard of again. I suppose they have got our letters at home now that we sent from "Anjer". And the children be given to think of their Papa and tell little flaxen haired darlings about "Uncle John". Bless them all. Perhaps in a few weeks more _____ _______, we shall be there. We can't get there _______ Birthday ______ I think I know somebody that would get a present that day.
When I was in Hong Kong, I found a Hallowell boy who was once before the mast with me, about 3 or 4 years ago. Now he was Mate of the ship Otago of Rockland, Captain Thorndike bound to San Francisco. He sent me a bundle of papers, and I stowed them away overhead in my room. One day when the ship was rolling heavily, they fell down. When I went to pick them up, I noticed they had Gazette in fancy type. I thought it was some story paper, the Evening Gazette or something of that sort. When I detected Hallowell in one of the columns, thinks I to myself. Hallowell is getting very notorious, and opened it. It was a quarter sheet entirely new to me. I looked again and it was full of Hallowell advertisements, and sure enough it was a Hallowell paper. Can this be the old Hallowell Gazette? ….
Isle Fernando ___________- as seen from the deck of the Franklin, being 12 miles West.
…the Methodist(?) evening meetings the minutes. Mr. Bone(?) used to call out, Oh Wicked Hallowell! What would he say now?
Saturday, October 21st. 101 days out. North Atlantic, 50 miles North of the Equator. Hurrah! Hail! Old Pond! Now we can see Boston on the old chart. We crossed the line last night, 100 days out, just the time I gave her. Now 29 days more. It is the 56th time I have crossed the line, and never saw it yet. Things look natural round here. The old stars begin to come in sight, Cassiopeia, Ursa Major, and other old friends bid us welcome. But not a sail have we seen! What does it mean? Is it War? Is it Peace? As Capt. Holt said, "when he ______ a passing vessel. Echo our wars where! We must wait. Thursday we saw the Island of Fernando De ________. It is 3 degrees 50 minutes South and is a ______ settlement belonging to Brazil. It has a remarkable Peak! And once seen is never forgotten, it looks like a _____________ chimney. I have seen it a great many times.. Now along our lee- bore lay the West India Islands and we begin to think of home in earnest….
…_________ cockroaches, what a noise they make, when they found they were to be driven away from their old haunts. The sailors have been turned out from the forecastle to have it cleaned, painted, and varnished. And now like Alexander who wept because there were no more worlds to conquer, D.B weeps because there are no more places to clean out. He has got another attack of liver, and it is excruciating. However there is no help for it. I am reading lives of celebrated travelers now. Nice English work in three volumes given me by Mr. Pearson at Batavia. I shall finish nearly all my books. D.B. has written an abstract journal of the voyage through the Eastern seas to send to London at the request of the Captain of HBM ship Nassau(?) And is now amusing himself with Drawing a _________ chart of the whole voyage. But he can't make any baskets! I don't know why, it's no use to try.
Sunday October 22 – 102 days out.
Our Trade winds are now getting light, and we shall soon be in the de___tiable ground between the SE and NE where we beat so hard to get south on the passage out last year. If we get the same wind this time, hard we will go it. We have had a long spell of fine weather now. _____ ______ since putting out our Studding sails both sides. It seems an age to us "homeward bounds" How the sun comes out!The thermometer is at 81 degrees in the shade and we are all rigged up in white cloths again. What is there so nice and cool as clean white sheets? Soon it will be cold enough though and we will….
Oct. 25th – 105 days out.
Our SE Trades still hang on, but are getting very light and rather tedious. The weather is clear and beautiful, but sluggish. No vigor in it. I am now reading lectures on Geology. How much there is to learn! Like mine, I am amusing myself, drawing of course the Franklin and Fearless are drawn and _________ to death. Last night, one of those incidents occurred on board, which are so harrowing to the Capt. Of course, Deck Bucket can't _____ is _____ his _____. It can't be written here. But sleep has been from his eyelids for many a night. The following piece of paper will tell where we were a year ago.
Program of note save by Captain Drew.
…and with flowers and tea, and all so pretty. But I have described it in an early part of this chronicle. Such pleasures come to us like Angels Visits. It is hard sometimes to think we are shut up, imprisoned on our "floating graves" for Ever. But it is all right, no doubt.
There was about 8,000 ______ put on board here in Ilo-ilo for me to get on shore somewhere without paying the duties. I thought of it so much that I already a smuggler, and it worried me a good deal to think of _______ up at the Custom House, and perjure myself by swearing that I had entered all the merchandise. Until at last I thought, why should I do _____ _______ Mr. baker's ship into danger for such a paltry thing, and I made up my mind. I would do no such thing!
…and it seemed as though I was released from prison. I felt so free.
Sunday 29th October – 109 days out. Latitude 10 degrees North. We are now in the NE Trades and going along at a rate of 150 miles a day. We had a few days of doldrums, with wind flying all round, and torrents of rain, which made us ____ all our Studding sails. And a great time everybody had washing and scrubbing. Chin, in all his glory with his washboard. He never is so happy as when he them a going. Everybody has read many an "Explanation of them Doldrums", how the SE Tradewinds….
I saw the North star last Thursday so nice on seven degrees North. You can hardly ever see it nearer the Equator on account of its small altitude and the clarity of the atmosphere. It seems like an old friend and now three weeks from today, we ought to be in Boston, Please God.
We saw an immense stick ________ body floating, back sticking up endways, like the mast of a ship. If we has struck on it- would have made a hole in the bottom of the ship, and we went within two rods of it. It's funny that we don't see any ships. What does that mean? _______ ______ have we seen now for a long time, and we are ______ their most frequented track of all the ….


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Ep #018: Ray Myers, India 1966-68
Ray Myers served in India as a Peace Corps Volunteer from 1966 to 1968, during the first decade of the Peace Corps and only two decades after India gained its independence. During an era defined by the Vietnam War, the Civil Rights Movement, and rock 'n' roll in the US, Ray found himself training future teachers, building kitchens, and learning to play the drums with new friends from a very different culture.
On this Episode:
How Ray made friends and connecting with his community through music
The satisfaction of building physical things as a Peace Corps Volunteer
Spending an entire Peace Corps service without being able to speak to your friends and family back home
Photos from Ray's Story
Ray's Peace Corps Story
Where and when did you serve? What did you do?
I first worked in India as a Peace Corps Volunteer from 1966 to 1968, and returned to Karnataka State on two subsequent occasions. In December 2006, I spoke at a conference on the use of technology for students with disabilities in Bangalore, India, and for the month of July 2008, I returned to the town where I had worked as a Peace Corps Volunteer forty years earlier. Bangalore may be known to many Americans now, and perhaps some have even spoken to are presentative of an American customer service center there.
The Hubliarea where I worked as a Volunteer is not as internationally renowned as Bangalore, but is that part of India where the Deshpande family originated before coming to the United States and launching a successful technology business venture headquartered in Andover, Massachusetts.T he Deshpandes subsequently established the Deshpande Foundation in1996 which now supports non-governmental development efforts in their hometown half-way around the world. Young Americans and other adventurous world citizens are once again invited to Hubli to contribute their skills to development in a part of the world where technology can now connect us with a "click," but where many remain unconnected and struggling to survive.
What is one of your favorite Peace Corps memories?
After a few months, the most enjoyable part of the day for me would be meeting with some of the teacher trainees as they sang and played local Karnatic folk tunes. I was fascinated by the rhythm and sounds of the tabla that accompanied the harmonium and singers. Eventually, I became one of the tabla players when they were performing less complicated rhythmic patterns. While these activities were not considered official duties or assignments, they enabled me to become more a part of the training college community and eventually expand my work scope to include some of the work in neighboring villages described below. I was a stranger in a foreign land, yet there was a sense of freedom and acceptance that I did not fully appreciate at the time or would ever have a chance to experience again.
Do you have a favorite quote or local saying?
Hoog bunni (phonetic spelling from Kannada) = "go and come (back)"
For more about Ray Myers:
Ray's blog: https://raymyers1101.wordpress.com/
Twitter: @RaymondMyers
Article by Ray Myers about his service: here
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Ken Bedell
December 4, 2017	@ 10:52 am
Ray, Thanks for sharing this. On your return visits, I wonder if students continued to play the music you learned. Could you still drum with them?
Ray Myers
December 4, 2017	@ 10:55 pm
Thanks, Ken. Unfortunately, on my return visits I did not have the opportunity to play my tablas with them. I have become a little rusty with my technique, or maybe it's just that my fingers are not as "fast" as they used to be?
Teaching in the Bush – Katie McNamara, Namibia 2016-18
101 Arabian Tales – Randy Hobler, Libya 1968-1969
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Q: VSCode is giving me documentation for an old version of a package, but using code from a new version When my cursor is over a command, I get its documentation.

But if I right click the command and go to its definition, there I see the true state of affairs. Note how the parameters value and amount are reversed.

In my code, I've always been passing amount, then value for this particular method, because that's what the documentation had always shown. Then one day I noticed the documentation for some commands was different from how I remembered it.
This method is from a redis package for python (https://github.com/andymccurdy/redis-py), and in that page they specifically note this change of argument order from version 2.X to 3.X. My IDE shows me the 2.X documentation, but uses the code of 3.X. I created a virtual environment, activated it, and installed the latest version of this package. A pip freeze inside my env confirms this: redis==3.5.0. And my IDE is set to use this env (bottom left corner in VSCode for mac).
Any idea what's going on here and how to fix this? Also, in case it's worth mentioning, when I was taking those screenshots, I noticed that if I hold down cmd while the incorrect documentation is showing, the correct documentation appears above it. I'm not sure what that does, never held cmd while hovering over a method before.

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MOSCOW — Russia's transportation minister said a supervisor at Sochi airport died Saturday during an emergency response after a landing plane careered off the end of the runway into a riverbed and caught fire.
The health ministry said 18 people were injured in the accident, which occurred about 3 a.m. Saturday as the Utair-operated Boeing 737 from Moscow was landing. The plane was carrying 164 passengers and six crew members.
The Sochi airport said the fire was extinguished within eight minutes.
Transportation Minister Yevgeny Ditrikh said airport shift supervisor Vladimir Begiyan, who was one of the first responders to the accident, died of a heart attack at the scene.
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Way back, we did a character donation drive that a lot of you awesome people donated to. The winning characters would get bonus chapters dedicated to their individual back stories that, at the time, we didn't feel were super relevant to the plot but would have been a fun read regardless. The issue was that once the drive was over and the dust cleared, we sat down and hashed out the details of each of the nominated characters' backgrounds and when we were done, we realized that their backgrounds were more important to the plot than we initially realized and very suddenly it felt like telling them as unimportant, separate stories would be doing them a really big disservice.
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Q: Defining a new command using another new command I want to defined a command that uses another command in its definition, like so:
\newcommand{\command1}{$\alpha^x$}
\newcommand{\command2}{\command1_\beta}

I understand that csname may be used for that (and also to use numbers in the name ov the command, I believe) - but using csname seems not so easy and unfortunately I don't have the time to familiarize myself with these finer point of TeX and other examples . Could you please help me?
Please not that this command should only be used inside a math environment like so:
\begin{document}
Here is a hitherto unknown mathematical object: $\command2+1$. %should display $\alpha^x_{\beta} +1$
\end{document}

A: Another simple way. Here, the numbers are not part of the command's name, but the parameter of \command. It's a bit of a scam.
\documentclass{article}
\newcommand*{\command}[1]{\ifx1#1\alpha^{x}\fi\ifx2#1\command{1}_{\beta}\fi}
\begin{document}
\[\command1+1+\command2+2\] % More correctly: \[\command{1}+1+\command{2}+2\]
\end{document}

A: \newcommand*\commandA{\alpha^{x}}
\newcommand*\commandB{\commandA_{\beta}}

And then use $\commandB+1$.
Using numbers in commands is not possible except doing hacks, but it's not a good solution. If you want to define csnames followed by numbers there are already hacks written. Here's a simpler trick, but I don't recommend it.
\newcount\tmpcount
\newcommand*\command{\afterassignment\docommand\tmpcount=}
\newcommand*\docommand{\csname command\the\tmpcount\endcsname}
\expandafter\newcommand\csname command1\endcsname{\alpha^{x}}
\expandafter\newcommand\csname command2\endcsname{\command1_{\beta}}

but it's a bit of a mess, couldn't you use \command{1} rather than \command1? Or just go with \commandA and \commandB.


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