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Women's Hockey Edged By Maine, 3-2
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Brooke Simpson scored a career-high two goals for the Friars
AT PROVIDENCE: 2013-14 ... Dressed for all 35 games ... Recorded a team-best 25 points on seven goals and a team-high 18 assists ... Notched six points (2-4-6) against ranked opponents ... Ranked third on the team in goals (7) and shots (96) ... Twenty-one of her points came in league action on six goals and 15 assists ... Led the team in power-play points on two goals and eight assists ... Tallied seven multi-point games, including three three-point performances ... Six of those multi-point games came against Hockey East opponents ... Collected a career-high three assists in the Friars' 4-3 win over ninth-ranked Boston University (Jan. 17) ... Notched 11 points in a 10-game span (4-7-11) from Oct. 25 to Nov. 24 ... Tallied the game-winning goal over 10th-ranked Mercyhurst (Oct. 13) ... Was a two-time Hockey East Weekly Top Performer (Jan. 20 and Feb. 17) ... Earned the Hockey East Sportsmanship Award (March 5), as she finished the season with three penalties including one in conference play ... Inducted into Providence College's Chi Alpha Sigma organization for maintaining at least a 3.4 grade-point average throughout her junior year ... 2012-13 ... Played in all 36 games for the Friars ... Registered 31 points on 13 goals and 18 assists ... Finished second on the team in points and assists and fourth in goals ... Recorded nine multi-point games and notched eight points against ranked opponents ... Was second on the team with five power play goals ... Helped the Friars in their 5-4 overtime comeback win at UNH in the Hockey East quarterfinal round with two assists ... 2011-12 ... Played in all 37 games ... Registered 12 points on four goals and eight assists to lead the freshman class ... Scored her first collegiate goal, Providence's first goal of the season, at Bemidji State (10/1) ... Tallied her first, multi-point game with a goal and an assist in the Hockey East Quarterfinal against Maine (2/25) ... Scored the game-winning goal in the Hockey East semifinal against #7 Northeastern (3/3) ... Finished the season with a rating of +1 ... Played in 21 conference games with five points on a goal and four assists.
BEFORE PROVIDENCE: Graduated from Tabor Academy...Earned 11 varsity letters, including four in ice hockey, four in field hockey and three in softball ... Captained both ice hockey and softball teams ...Registered 143 points during her hockey career and led the team in goals scored from '07 to `11 ... Twice named NE Prep School First Team honoree ... Four-time attendee of the National Hockey Player Development Camps ... Also played four years of club hockey with the Massachusetts Spitfires ... Named Boston Globe Softball All-Scholastic.
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Planning and Zoning Board delays Moore's recommendation
Date: September 15, 2009
by: Kurt Schultheis | City Editor
The Longboat Key Planning and Zoning Board delayed a recommendation to the Town Commission on owner Alan Moore's request to change Moore's Stone Crab Restaurant & Marina, 800 Broadway, to a residential site.
Moore says he won't be able to renegotiate his business's double-digit interest-rate loans that are due in January if the planning board doesn't move his request along to the commission next month.
Also at its regular meeting, the planning board:
• A request by Ringling College of Art and Design to delay a site-plan application for the Longboat Key Center for the Arts. The issuance of a building permit will be extended to June 30, 2012.
• A site-plan amendment for The Longboat Key Club Moorings Marina, 2800 Harbourside Drive, to allow for the addition of 13 parking spaces.
• Suggestions put together by town staff that depict different types of welcome signs that can be placed at the island's north and south ends as part of a $500,000 grant awarded as a result of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The planning board's suggestions will be forwarded to the Town Commission for review at its Thursday, Sept. 24 regular workshop.
For more information on Moore's request, pick up a copy of the Thursday, Sept. 17 Longboat Observer.
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- It is hard for me to believe that Moore's request would be denied after an election demonstrated citizens of the island supported Moore's request. I guess the planning board is not interested in citizens' opinions about the key. Maybe we need to look at whose opinions should count.
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So we shouldn't educate and talk about the facts cause it might make us look bad? Learning the truth about history is important so we don't repeat it. Many people think Ron Paul is crazy, but that doesn't stop him from speaking the truth. Truth is truth, and facts are facts, we shouldn't avoid it cause it might make us look bad.
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By Jim Hagerty
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Rockford native, songwriter Steve Mutimer, otherwise known as Poppa Steve, has been tapped by director Edoardo Ponti for music for the upcoming film Coming & Going.
Scheduled for a 2010 release, Coming & Going stars Sasha Alexander (NCIS, Dawson's Creek, Mission Impossible III) and Rys Darby (Yes Man, The Next Big Thing). The comedy chronicles the quest of an OB-GYN who is unable to speak to women outside of his examination room.
Mutimer submitted 12 songs for the film, all of which were well received. According to Roger Goff, who supervised the film's score, Ponti chose seven songs from five of Mutimer's CDs.
"I needed a wide variety of music that would sound great and deliver a range of emotions," Goff said. "That's why I was so thrilled to meet Poppa Steve. Every track from him is impeccability recorded."
Mutimer got his start as a drummer, playing with several Rockford-based bands starting in the late 1950s and early '60s. After touring to support acts like The Four Tops, Mutimer enjoyed a successful career in advertising, while continuing to write music. Known for his unique rock-tinged jazz, the East High graduate has 16 CDs and more than 200 songs in his catalog. His material been played on more than 120 jazz stations worldwide.
"Since I don't have a live band to tour and promote with," Mutimer, who has lived in Arizona since 2004, said, "my success on commercial radio is limited at best. I've been concentrating on the film and television side of the business. This is my first real success in this arena."
Mutimer won more than 100 awards in his 35-year career in advertising and three TV Emmys for music composition. A recent CD, Poppa Roots, features a list of Rockford-inspired songs such as "Mrs. Fisher's Chips," "Flicks at The Midway," and "North Main Tavern." The song, "LPs from Comay's," will appear in the film.
Ponti was born in Switzerland and is the son of actress Sophia Loren and late film producer Carlo Ponti.
"I'm most happy and suprised to have many tunes selected by such a prestigious producer/director," Mutimer noted. "The additional fact that Edoardo comes from such a legendary motion picture family really makes this something special for me."
Mutimer's music can be previewed at www.dryheatrecords.com. More information about Coming & Going is at www.imdb.com/title/tt1436349/.
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Pat Robertson: Since 'We Don't Condone Wife-Beating These Days' Husband Should 'Move to Saudi Arabia' to Beat Her
Mitt Romney this weekend stumped alongside televangelist Pat Robertson, not minding Robertson's legacy of incendiary, insensitive, heartless and apocalyptic rhetoric that has gotten him in trouble in the past. Apparently, Robertson's own CBN has become aware of Robertson's problematic statements, and may even be editing his controversial claims out of episode archives.
For example, today on the 700 Club's "Bring It On" segment where viewers ask Robertson questions, one man wondered how he should go about repairing his marriage with a wife who "insults" him and once tried to attack him.
"Well, you could become a Muslim and you could beat her," Robertson responded. "This man's got to stand up to her and he can't let her get away with this stuff," Robertson continued, "I don't think we condone wife-beating these days but something has got to be done."
He later said the woman is a "rebellious child" and pondered if she has psychological problems. Robertson told the viewer that since he "can't divorce her according to the Scripture, so I say: move to Saudi Arabia."
However, if you watch the show as posted on CBN's website, Robertson's words towards the end of the program about Saudi Arabia and wife-beating were noticeably edited out.
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You sleep (hopefully) for 8 hours. You work (at least) 8 hours. What are you doing in those remaining 8 hours of your day, and more importantly, what are the other 8 hours doing for you? To the bleary-eyed worker who doesn't have time to stop and catch his breath, the idea of having 8 hours may sound absurd. If that's you, this is your wake-up call. THE OTHER 8 HOURS provides a blueprint that will help you carve out more time in your day and find the inspiration to spend that free time in a more productive way. Whether you want to pay off debt, make more money, start a business, develop a hobby, write a blog, or write the next great American novel, Robert Pagliarini will get you closer to living a richer, more fulfilled life. In THE OTHER 8 HOURS, you'll learn how to:
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Pagliarini (The Six-Day Financial Makeover) refreshes a tired premise with a snappy style that helps readers prioritize their commitments and divest their energies accordingly. Simple exercises target "LifeLeeches," insidious activities that suck up free time—video games, meaningless meetings, social media, porn, and (rather bizarrely) reading and carpooling—in order to dedicate those freed up hours to make extra money, develop more job-related skills, blog for cash, expand a creative or entrepreneurial venture, or simply engage in more fulfilling hobbies. A large portion of the book is focused on becoming what the author calls a "Cre8tor," someone who does not just settle for a paycheck but creates their own financial life. Even readers perfectly at peace with their career and paycheck will find the tips and a companion Web site, featuring downloadable templates for time management and a "Goal Achievement Plan," useful catalysts for further professional and personal growth. — Publishers Weekly
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I don't know when it happened, but the rules for getting ahead have changed and nobody got the memo. We plugged into a belief system that promised our hard work would enable us to pay our bills, send our kids to college, enjoy retirement, and live a balanced life with time for our family and friends. How's that working so far?
We've had to run faster and faster just to stay in place. Job security is an oxymoron. Rising expenses and high debt levels weigh us down. Taxes and inflation take a huge bite out of our ability to save for our future. Our solution? Cram more into our already overscheduled calendars without determining how or if these commitments and responsibilities are getting us closer to our ideal life.
This solution is clearly not working. We're overextended and overstressed. We aren't any closer to achieving our goals because we have been chipping away at the one thing that can give us more meaning and income—the other 8 hours.
But before you can use the other 8 hours to close your gaps and achieve your ideal life, you first must recognize the power of your free time. Here are a few things this section will teach you:
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• The problems with the traditional approach to work, saving, and investing.
• Why it has become harder to get ahead.
• Why the other 8 hours is the answer to closing our gaps, improving financial security, and living a more meaningful life.
We spend the first quarter of our lives learning and growing, but then something happens and we stop investing in ourselves. This section is your wake-up call to the challenges we face if we don't use the other 8 hours.
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Six years ago, Mark and Sarah were on a cruise ship touring the South Pacific when a violent tropical storm damaged the ship's hull. Several passengers were knocked overboard and into the dark, churning waters nearly fifty feet below. Mark and Sarah were two of the passengers who plunged into the cold waters that night. They frantically grabbed pieces of debris and hung on tight—doing whatever they could to keep their head above water.
The next morning, Mark washed up onto a small and uninhabited island. Sarah washed up onto a neighboring island, also uninhabited, about two miles from Mark.
After the initial shock of the situation wore away, fear and anxiety overcame them. They knew that it would not be easy. They would have to work hard to build a shelter, pick fruits, locate fresh water, and fish for food. The first few days were scary and difficult, but they both managed to build makeshift shelters to protect them from the rain and sun. They found freshwater streams deeper into the islands and plenty of fruits and nuts. As the days turned into weeks, they even got good at trapping crabs and spearing fish.
In the late afternoons, Mark had some time to relax after a hard day's work. He'd climb to his favorite bluff and watch the waves crash against rocks. As the sun set and the stars lit up the sky, he'd dream of galaxies far away and pray that he'd be rescued soon.
Sarah struggled to survive each day, too. Like Mark, her day began when the sun came up. Chopping wood, climbing trees for fruit, picking nuts and berries, fishing, and getting water kept her busy. At the end of her daily routine, she'd long to relax on the beach, but she knew she wanted more than just to survive. Sarah wanted to get off the island.
Each afternoon, Sarah spent a couple of additional hours gathering and storing wood. She tested nearly every type of vegetation on the island to see which produced the darkest and thickest smoke. She collected rocks of all sizes and used them to spell "H E L P" in gigantic letters on the beach in four areas around the island. Sarah also dug fire pits on the beach in several areas where she kept a large supply of dry wood and special vegetation.
Because it rained often, Sarah found it necessary to continuously replace wet wood and vegetation with dry supplies. Her rock signs around the island also needed care and attention. Not wanting to place her fate in the hands of a rescue team that might never come, Sarah started building a raft out of bamboo and vines—a little bit each day.
Of course, she'd relax as well. Her favorite time of day was sunset. Sarah would take a handful of nuts and berries she'd picked earlier in the day down to the beach and sit under her favorite palm tree. She'd daydream about her family and how wonderful a big piece of her mother's special chocolate cake would taste. During these daydreams, she'd also spend a few minutes going over her rescue plan.
Day after day, without any fanfare or recognition, Mark and Sarah did what they needed to do to survive. After several noneventful weeks, that day finally came. Sarah was picking fruit near the beach and Mark was trapping crabs when they both—almost at the same time—saw a small plane in the distance.
Sarah jumped into action. She ran to the small fire and used it to light the large pile of wood. She dumped the vegetation on it and used her homemade tiki torch to light the other stacks of wood on fire. She then ran back to add more wood and vegetation to the fire. Huge plumes of smoke rose into the air and filled the sky above her island.
Meanwhile, Mark was frantic. He ran around trying to figure out what to do. He fumbled, trying to light a fire, and once he had one lit, he was disappointed that it produced very little visible smoke. He sprinted into the jungle and grabbed any kind of vegetation he could find to throw on the fire. Unfortunately, the vegetation he used quickly suffocated the fire and Mark wasted several precious minutes trying to light another one. Each time he threw new vegetation on the fire to create more smoke, the fire would die and he would waste time trying to restart it.
The plane turned and started heading toward the islands. As it got closer, Mark realized it was not flying toward him but was headed several miles off course. The plane circled Sarah's island and touched down a hundred yards offshore. Two rescuers jumped out of the plane and started paddling toward her in a raft. As they got closer, she looked around her island one last time and dove into the ocean and swam toward the raft. Minutes later, Sarah was airborne. The pilot asked her if there were any other survivors and Sarah told them that she had been alone.
Desperate to get their attention, Mark resorted to running up and down the beach waving his arms in the air and screaming in desperation. As the plane flew out of sight, Mark realized that he had missed his chance.
Mark survived. He survived the fifty-foot plunge into the water, lived through the violent storm, made it to dry land, built a shelter, and found food and water. Sarah also survived. She did what was necessary to make it each day, but she had a bigger plan—she wanted a better life. She wanted to see her family again, to taste chocolate, and to read a love story. She wanted to hug her friends and hear the sounds of her church choir. She wanted to pet her dog, attend a play, and grow old with her husband. She needed to survive on the island, but she made the decision that surviving was just not enough.
Mark and Sarah's lessons aren't reserved for castaways on remote islands. Their story is played out every day around the globe—in small towns and in big cities, in diners and in corner offices, and for those working for minimum wage and those pursuing advanced degrees.
If you feel like you are stranded on an island of monotony, unpaid bills, and forgotten dreams, or if you find yourself daydreaming of a different life but have no idea how to achieve it, there is only one solution . . .
Your day doesn't start when you crawl out of bed. Your day—and even your life—doesn't really start until 5:00 PM. What you've done with your time after 5:00 PM last week, last month, and last year has determined where you are today. How you use the other 8 hours today, tomorrow, and next year will determine your future—they are your only hope to radically improve your life. The 8 hours you sleep are lost. The 8 hours you sell for a paycheck are gone. What you have—really, all you have—are the other 8 hours. Life not only happens in those the other 8 hours, but life is the other 8 hours.
Where you work, the size of your paycheck, the amount of debt you have, what you weigh, the number of people you can count on to help you in an emergency, your connection to God, the relationship you have with your spouse and children, and just about everything else that is meaningful to you is the result of how you've used the other 8 hours.
Look at each of the areas below to see the profound effect the other 8 hours has had:
Even if you met your partner/spouse at work (I did), you needed to put time and energy into your relationship after work if you wanted it to grow and mature. The dates you went on, long walks, and falling in love all occurred during the other 8 hours. Even the disagreements and arguments that make you the couple you are today occurred after 5:00 PM.
If you have children, surely their conception and maybe their birth occurred during the other 8 hours. All of the diapers you changed, Elmo you watched, and homework you've helped complete—all of the things you did to build connections with your children today—wouldn't have happened if it were not for the other 8 hours.
The reason my daughter runs up and hugs me when I come home from work is because of the other 8 hours I've "invested" in her (then again, it's probably the M&Ms I bribed her with).
The love your spouse and children feel toward you—and, yes, the abscence of love—are entirely the result of how you have spent the other 8 hours. The connection you feel toward your siblings and parents is based largely on what you've done during the other 8 hours. If you invested them wisely, you probably have some good relationships. If you didn't, you probably don't.
The nine-to-five working hours are a great time to meet people and develop friendships. I met most of my nonchildhood friends while working. It's no surprise. We come into contact with more people for longer periods during working hours than we do at any other time of the day. But to convert your work relationships into real friendships, you have to spend some of your other 8 hours hanging out with and getting to know those people on a di?erent level. It's one thing to chat around the water cooler about the latest American Idol contestant to be voted off or to relive Sunday's big game in the lunchroom, but it's an entirely different thing to share a drink or dinner with someone and really get to know him. Your close friends—regardless of where you met them—became your friends during the other 8 hours.
Leo Babauta is one cool cat. He is the author of the best-selling book The Power of Less, and of the popular and enlightening Zen Habits blog (zenhabits.com). Here's how he answered the question, What one thing should readers do with their other 8 hours that will have the greatest positive impact on their lives?
Pursue your passion. Find out what you're most passionate about, and pursue it with everything you have. That might mean doing something with your children, or it might mean creating something brilliant or starting a new enterprise. It might take some experimenting to figure out what you love, but it's worth the effort to find it. Once you've found that passion, really pour your soul into it. Clear away everything else to make space for this, and really focus on it until the world around you disappears. If possible, start to make money from it so that you can eventually quit your day job and make a living doing what you love.
The notch you use in your belt, how out of breath you feel after climbing a flight of stairs, and how comfortable you are in a bathing suit are almost entirely dependent on how you have used the other 8 hours. What you choose to eat for breakfast, dinner, desert, and snacks is usually determined during the other 8 hours. If you've chosen wisely, it shows. Do you exercise? If so, when? While you sleep? No. While you work? No. During the other 8 hours? Yup.
This category includes your hobbies, educational pursuits, travel, reading, art, and other activities that you find enriching and are passionate about. One of my hobbies is Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and mixed martial arts. I'm not very good, but I enjoy it and I'm better than when I started. I also enjoy learning Spanish (even though those verbs confuse me). Another of my favorite pastimes? Reading. My clients wouldn't appreciate it, and I wouldn't be very successful if I spent my hours between nine and five practicing jujitsu, learning Spanish, and reading books. No, I can only do these things that I love and am passionate about—these things that help define me as a person—during the other 8 hours.
Your spirituality and faith should follow you wherever you go—during work and during the other 8 hours. But, unless your nine-to-five job is in ministry, chances are your spiritual growth and deepest connection to God occur during church/temple, small group meetings, Bible study, chanting, volunteering, meditation, or whatever.
Surely your financial health is the direct result of the hours between nine and five. It is during this time that you work and earn a paycheck. Your paycheck determines your financial health, right? Not so fast. Obviously your working hours play a significant role in your finances, but you might be surprised at the role the other 8 hours play in the size of your bank account.
Your financial health is determined by just two things . . . your income and your expenses. That's it. No more, no less. Your income is based on what you do for a living and how well you do it. The best snow cone maker in the world may make a fine snow cone, but her choice of occupation limits her financial success. Likewise, a brain surgeon who botches every surgery isn't going to be financially successful either.
What you do for a living is based on hundreds of factors . . . where you grew up, your intelligence, your parents' encouragement, your personality, your interests, chance, etc. What you do for a living is also determined partly by whether or not you graduated from high school, spent the extra years getting an advanced degree, took online courses or night classes to earn an important industry designation; by how hard you studied, and your personal network of friends and acquaintances. It is these factors—those that you can control—that have a huge impact on what you do between the hours of nine and five. And guess what? All of these other factors are the direct result of how you have spent the other 8 hours.
So the other 8 hours have a huge impact on our income, but what about the other half of the financial health equation . . . our expenses? You guessed it. Your expenses are the result of the decisions you make during the other 8 hours. How much you choose to spend on rent, the type of car you drive, the clothes you buy, the entertainment you experience, and the toys you purchase aren't decisions you usually make while you are working, and they definitely aren't decisions you make while sleeping. Every single one of these spending decisions—and thousand of others, both big and small—occur during the other 8 hours.
Still aren't convinced? I need you to buy into just how important the other 8 hours are. If you read this book with the same skepticism you have when you read those tabloid headlines in line at the grocery, it's not going to work. Go ahead. Drink the Kool-Aid. Because once you do—once you realize the power the other 8 hours has had on your life—you will respect and appreciate the power that the other 8 hours can have on your life.
To prove just how important the other 8 hours have been in your life, take this quiz . . .
Directions: After each question, put a checkmark in the "sleeping" box if the event occurred while you were sleeping, a checkmark in the "working" box if it occurred while you were working, and a checkmark in the "other" box if the event occurred in the other 8 hours.
Excerpted from The Other 8 Hours by Robert Pagliarini.
Copyright © 2010 by Robert Pagliarini.
Published in January 2010 by St. Martin's Press.
All rights reserved. This work is protected under copyright laws and reproduction is strictly prohibited. Permission to reproduce the material in any manner or medium must be secured from the Publisher.
This is one amazing book! It is such a simple idea, but you rarely hear anyone discuss it, let alone write a book about it. The basic idea is to use those precious hours when we are not working or sleeping to accomplish the things in life most important to us. It is true that most people in life waste this time, very often unaware they are doing so. That's the problem, "The Other Eight Hours" offers the solution.
The book is very well laid out into four sections. First, Robert identifies the problem and the next three sections offer detailed solutions. He takes us from getting more time to getting more money to getting a life. The order of the book follows a logical progression which makes it much easier to read and comprehend. To help you remember many of the concepts there are mini-stories, graphs, tips and resources interspersed throughout the book.
Two new concepts that I was introduced to in this book were "boosting" (which I found absolutely brilliant) and "sparking". The true beauty of the book though is that there are plenty of ideas for everyone, you can pick and choose which ones interest you. Once you've done that there are plenty of details on how and where to pursue them. I have already started to institute several of Robert's ideas into my life. To me that's the real value of the book, true usefulness.
"The Other Eight Hours" should be required reading for all high school seniors. What a difference that would make!
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Posted April 7, 2010
I enjoyed his first book...Plan Z. He thinks outside the box and suggests solutions that make so much sense.
I couldn't wait to get a copy of this new book...The Other 8 Hours. I was laid off from a corporate job and would like to be able to create something for myself. I work in IT (Information Technology) developing web sites. Our jobs are being given to off-shore resources because it saves money...it's not because the job gets done well.
There needs to be a grass roots effort in order to survive. People are looking to work for themselves and/or start businesses to employ others. Survival is the priority...and only we can boost what we are capable of. I hear that things are starting to get better...but not from where any one I know is sitting. There are more lay offs all the time and very little hiring.
Keep the ideas and solutions coming!
Posted February 5, 2010
This book is truly eye-opening and life-changing. I consider myself successful, motivated, and happy. And yet I still learned so much from this book. I found myself constantly nodding my head "yes" as I read (and laughing - the author is really funny!), and taking notes about changes I need to implement and things I am going to try. This book is literally for everyone from high school kids to seniors, from part-time workers to busy professionals to entrepreneurs to stay at home mothers. The flow of the book is perfect, it is so enjoyable to read, and best of all it truly has the ability to change lives!! I actually just ordered another copy to give to a friend and I can honestly say I have never done that with a non-fiction book before. This book will be my gift of choice for all birthdays, etc. this year.Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.
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Website peeps into 73,000 unsecured security cameras via default passwordscolinneagle (2544914) writes "After coming across a Russian website that streams video from unsecured video cameras that employ default usernames and passwords (the site claims it's doing it to raise awareness of privacy risks), a blogger used the information available to try to contact the people who were unwittingly streamed on the site. It didn't go well. The owner of a pizza restaurant, for example, cursed her out over the phone and accused her of "hacking" the cameras herself. And whoever (finally) answered the phone at a military building whose cameras were streaming on the site told her to "call the Pentagon."
The most common location of the cameras was the U.S., but many others were accessed from South Korea, China, Mexico, the UK, Italy, and France, among others. Some are from businesses, and some are from personal residences. Particularly alarming was the number of camera feeds of sleeping babies, which people often set up to protect them, but, being unaware of the risks, don't change the username or password from the default options that came with the cameras.
It's not the first time this kind of issue has come to light. In September 2013, the FTC cracked down on TRENDnet after its unsecured cameras were found to be accessible online. But the Russian site accesses cameras from several manufacturers, raising some new questions — why are strong passwords not required for these cameras? And, once this becomes mandatory, what can be done about the millions of unsecured cameras that remain live in peoples' homes?"
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Terra Incognita: The return of the Khazar myth
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A recent study ('The missing link of Jewish European Ancestry') published online
by the Oxford journal Genome Biology and Evolution concluded that "the genome of
European Jews is a tapestry of ancient populations including Judaized Khazars,
Greco-Romans and Mesopotamian Jews, and Judeans, and their population structure
was formed in the Caucasus and the banks of the Volga with roots stretching to
Canaan and the banks of the Jordan."The article has been gaining some buzz in a
variety of places, from neo-Nazi websites to radical left-wing blogs, as proof
that the Jewish people are not a distinct "people" and that their origins are in
the Caucuses, not the Middle East.The author of the article,
post-doctoral researcher Eran Elhaik of the Department of Mental Health at Johns
Hopkins University, based his conclusion on what he describes as the "Khazar
hypothesis," which he accepts as a reasonable hypothesis that should be
tested.The Khazar theory for the origin of the Jews was invented by the
womanizing communist intellectual Arthur Koestler in his 1976 book The
Thirteenth Tribe. The Khazars, a Turkish polity that came to dominate the
Caucuses in the 7th century, disappeared eventually several hundred years later,
like many other tribal mini-states established in that area during the period.
Some of the Khazar elite supposedly converted to Judaism.Koestler wrote
his book without historical training in the history of the Caucuses and
primarily as an intellectual provocation about the history of the
Jews.When he came to the part about the fall of the Khazar empire, he
noted that "where the historians' resources give out, legend and folklore
provide useful hints."Based on his intellectual exercise, which was
grounded in nothing more than whimsical thinking, Koestler concluded: "Here,
then, we have the cradle of the numerically strongest and culturally dominant
part of modern Jewry."Elhaik, whose previous articles have dealt with
such subjects as the genome sequence of the Leafcutter ant, decided that he
could use his background to divine the true origins of the Jewish
people.He analyzed data on 1,287 "unrelated individuals of 8 Jewish and
74 non-Jewish populations," the article said."As Judeans and Khazars
have been vanquished…contemporary Middle Eastern and Caucasian populations were
used as surrogates," Elhaik writes. "Palestinians were considered proto-Judeans"
and Armenians and Georgians were considered "proto-Khazars because they emerged
from the same cohort as Khazars."THE AUTHOR sets out with the claim that
he is interested in studying the European Jewish link to the Khazars since
European-descended Jews are the "largest ethno-religious aggregate of modern
Jewish communities, accounting for nearly 90 percent of over 13 million Jews
worldwide."The analysis then fits the model.According to the
author, some 70% of European Jews "and almost all Eastern European Jews cluster
with Armenian, Georgian and Azerbaijani Jews." Surprisingly some 15% of Central
European Jews are similar to the Druse and Cypriots.The author notes
that "strong evidence" for the Khazar hypothesis is that Eastern European Jews
closely resemble Jews from the Caucuses. "Because Caucasus populations remained
isolated in the Caucasus region, and because there are no records of Caucasus
populations mass-migrating to Eastern and Central Europe prior to the fall of
Khazaria, these findings imply a shared origin for European Jews and Caucasus
populations."Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
However, in the case of Elhaik, the evidence is not only weak and misleading, it
is based on numerous sources that are not historical, instead employing
conjectures and leaps in logic, as well as claims that cannot be
substantiated.One of Elhaik's very first claims, that "contemporary
Eastern European Jews comprise the largest ethno-religious aggregate of modern
Jewish communities, accounting for nearly 90% of over 13 million Jews worldwide"
is said to be based on a publication by the United Jewish Communities in 2003,
titled the "National Jewish Population Survey, 2000-01."Except this
source deals with the demographics of Jews in the United States.An
inquiry with Dr. Elhaik resulted in a note that this was a mistake that would be
corrected, and that the actual source should be Harry Ostrer's 2001 paper in
genetics, "A Genetic Profile of Contemporary Jewish Populations."Except
Ostrer wrote that "contemporary Jewry is comprised of ~13 million people… Among
the Jews of the United States, ~90% are of Ashkenazi origin." So right from the
beginning Elhaik has made a basic flaw in his use of sources, one that was
neither caught by the editors of Genome Biology and Evolution, nor the peer
reviewers of his paper.Yet it is a claim that should have been caught,
for most people who study Jews know that 90% of them are not Ashkenazi and their
population is much more diverse than that presented by Elhaik.However,
the real flaws in this new research are historical. The author claims a massive
knowledge of history that has major implications for his findings."There
are no records of Caucasus populations mass-migrating to Eastern and Central
Europe prior to the fall of Khazaria."The footnote for this is another
genetic research study, but a claim like this requires historical knowledge of
the Caucuses. In fact, the Caucuses were a place of great human movement from
the 15th to 19th centuries. Cossacks, Circassians, Chechans, Tatars and numerous
other groups roamed the region in the period, some of whom, like the Khazars,
vanished to history.The author claims that his evidence shows that
"Judaized Greco-Roman male-driven migration directly to Khazaria is consistent
with historical demographic migrations and could have created the observed
pattern." Following in the footsteps of Tel Aviv University academic Shlomo
Sand's work, The Invention of the Jewish People, Elhaik claims "no Jewish
historiography was produced from the time of Josephus Flavius (1st century CE)
to the 19th century."But the source, Sand, is not an expert on Jewish
history in the period – his book, like Koester's, was more a
polemic.Elhaik goes further, noting that "the religious conversion of
the Khazars encompassed all the Empire's citizens and subordinate tribes and
lasted for the next 400 years…the Judeo- Khazars fled to Eastern Europe and
later migrated to Central Europe and admixing with the neighboring
populations."There is actually no evidence of this; the general view has
been that only some of the Khazar elite converted to Judaism.Yet Elhaik
even claims to know the details of the Judeo-Khazar life. "After the decline of
their Empire, the Judeo-Khazars refugees sought shelter in the emerging Polish
Kingdom and other Eastern European communities, where their expertise in
economics, finances, and politics were valued."The source for much of
this is Koestler, passed off as fact with no mention that Koestler simply
inferred most of it from his imagination and theories. The author argues that
his study showed a remarkably "high genetic similarity" between Jews and
Armenians, but not Georgians.In order to explain similarities between
Jews and Druse, the author argues that the Druse have "Turkish-Southern Caucuses
origins… the genetic similarity between European Jews and Druse therefore
supports the Khazarian Hypothesis."Yet the author is not a historian of
the Druse, and has not investigated the Druse religion. He claims the Druse
migrated to Syria and Palestine, but doesn't bother to mention that they
migrated from Egypt, not modern-day Turkey.Still, the author is
convinced that the Druse-Jewish connection "should not be confused with a
Semitic origin," – as evidently the author knows, without having genetically
tested the Druse, that they are not Semites or Arabs.Because the author
believes his data shows that Jews are related to Armenians, he posits that "our
findings support a largescale conversion scenario that influenced the majority
of the [Khazar] population."THE TROUBLING issue with Elhaik's paper is
that it was accepted for publication by an academic journal. It is a problem
because it becomes part of the historical record, so that the Koestler thesis
can now be said to be supported by "genetic evidence."Commentators who
have written about it now embrace the science as a "groundbreaking study." Rev.
Ted Pike posted an enthusiastic message on his blog noting that "new genetic
research confirms Koestler's Khazar theory." Therefore, Pike concludes, the Jews
"are proselytes who seized land in Palestine that never belonged to their true
ancestors."But what is equally disturbing is that even the genetic
evidence Elhaik presents is unclear. He argues that modern-day Ashkenazi Jews
share around 30% of their ancestry with modern-day people in the Caucuses, such
as Armenians. From this he postulates that Jews and Armenians share Khazar
ancestry.But one might equally conclude that in fact many Armenians are
simply descended from Jews.Similarly with the Druse, rather than
concluding that the Druse have a convoluted Caucuses ancestry, one could note
that many Druse share some genetics with Jews – since Jews and Druse once lived
in similar areas in the Middle East, such as Alexandria, where they both were
significant populations in the 11th century.The author's claim that
there are "significantly smaller" genetic distances between Jews and Armenians
and Georgians than between Jews and Palestinians, the Beduin and Jordanians, is
based on the odd assumption that the Beduin in Jordan should necessarily share
genetic material with Jews.Why would modern-day Palestinians be any
better stand-ins for 1st century Jews than, say, modern Jews? Why would anyone
assume the Jews and Beduin are related? The data presented also doesn't appear
to show "significant" differences, with scores of .234 and .2387 provided as
evidence of "genetic distance" between Caucuses and Middle Eastern origins of
Jewish populations– without an explanation of the significance of the scores
(i.e what is the score of a Japanese person and an Icelander?). The author also
doesn't include a dummy variable or control for the fact that neither the Beduin
or Armenians are good stand-ins for Jewish ancestry.If we think of the
Elhaik study in another context, consider this: If one did a genetic study of
African-Americans and white Americans and found that both of them share 30% of
their ancestry with the British, one would not be correct in concluding that
African-Americans have their origins in London.Yet the author has
seemingly made this leap of logic.This points to the sad tragedy that
due to an obsessive interest in the "true" origins of the Jewish people, all
sorts of scientific norms are discarded in favor of embracing any wild
theory.That Elhaik, not previously an expert on Jewish genetics or
history, can publish an academic paper "proving" the origins of the Jews, is
evidence of this tendency.
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Hostel Raizzy's Guesthouse - Kuala Lumpur
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Looking for hostels in Kuala Lumpur? Take a look at Raizzy's Guesthouse!
This Kuala Lumpur hostel offers free Wi-Fi, a garden and concierge services.
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A free continental breakfast is served each morning.
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- No pets and no service animals are allowed at this property.
Check-in: after 2 PM.
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Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
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Raizzy's Guesthouse has 24 guest rooms. Business travelers visiting the Chinatown - Sentral area will have access to free wireless high-speed Internet access.
Shared bathrooms are outfitted with showers and complimentary toiletries. Additional comforts include air conditioning.
Irons/ironing boards and hair dryers can be provided on request.
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Distances from Hostel Raizzy's GuesthouseSri Mahamariamman Temple - 0 km / 0 mi
Petaling Street - 0.2 km / 0.1 mi
Central Market - 0.3 km / 0.2 mi
Dayabumi Complex - 0.4 km / 0.2 mi
Merdeka Stadium - 0.5 km / 0.3 mi
National Mosque - 0.6 km / 0.3 mi
Kuala Lumpur City Gallery - 0.6 km / 0.4 mi
Jamek Mosque - 0.6 km / 0.4 mi
Sultan Abdul Samad Building - 0.7 km / 0.4 mi
Merdeka Square - 0.7 km / 0.4 mi
Islamic Arts Museum - 0.7 km / 0.4 mi
Negara Stadium - 0.8 km / 0.5 mi
St. John's Cathedral - 0.8 km / 0.5 mi
DBKL City Theatre - 0.8 km / 0.5 mi
Royal Malaysian Police Museum - 0.8 km / 0.5 mi
The closest major airports to Raizzy's Guesthouse are:
Subang (SZB-Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah) - 14.5 km / 9 mi
Kuala Lumpur (KUL-Kuala Lumpur Intl.) - 42.7 km / 26.6 mi
The preferred airport for Raizzy's Guesthouse is Kuala Lumpur (KUL-Kuala Lumpur Intl.).
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(HealthDay)—Getting kids involved in the kitchen, through cooking classes or at home, may make them more likely to choose healthy foods, according to a recent review.
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Genetics researchers have identified at least two new gene variants that increase the risk of common childhood obesity.
A sleepless night makes us more likely to reach for doughnuts or pizza than for whole grains and leafy green vegetables, suggests a new study from UC Berkeley that examines the brain regions that control ...
A new study investigating the psychology behind losing weight suggests temperament may influence food choices rather than willpower.
Poor diet is a major contributing factor to increasing obesity, diabetes, hypertension and other chronic illness.
Current approaches to curbing the global rise of chronic diseases, such as diabetes and heart disease, are failing, according to University of Southampton researchers.
Mothers are more likely than fathers to read nutrition labels when considering food and drink purchases, according to the latest C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health.
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Previous research has found that emotions affect eating, and that negative moods and positive moods may actually lead to preferences for different kinds of foods. For example, if given the choice between ...
As obesity rates soar worldwide, the antidote may seem obvious: Eat less! Move more! But the common-sense approach hasn't been terribly effective, prompting some scientists to question the simplicity of the formula.
The good news is Americans are living longer. The bad is that we're not living as long as people in other countries.
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Preaching the benefits of healthy eating has little point when the cost of purchasing healthy foods in South Australia can cost as much as a third of a low-earner's income, according to Flinders University ...
New research is challenging widely held beliefs about the dietary benefits of unsaturated fats, showing that some types long considered healthy, such as corn and safflower oil, may actually harm people with heart problems.


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STOPAQ supplies a wide range of green visco-elastic solution to protect assets from corrosion and water ingress. The patented visco-elastic product solutions are produced in two different plants at our sites in Stadskanaal, The Netherlands and Damman, Saudi Arabia. The products are world-wide marketed under the brands of STOPAQ. Our visco-elastic coatings & sealants are ...
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As one of the world's leading suppliers of drinking water and wastewater plant planning, installation and operational management, we offer sustainable solutions that can serve as the economic basis for a region and provide enhanced quality of life for the local population.Our customers have justified confidence in our blend of innovative technologies and over 80 years of ...
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To mark IDC Herzliya's 20th anniversary, we spent a day following Prof. Uriel Reichman, IDC's founder and president, and Jonathan Davis, VP for External Relations, around its delightful campus.
Title: The Family Guide to Touring Israel
Author: Lisa Aiken
Publisher: Lisa Aiken
The proof will be in your hands: some self-published books are remarkably wonderful. Lisa Aiken's The Family Guide to Touring Israel is a 382-page paperback with essentials even native Israelis need to know.
The easy-reading prose informs you of sporting opportunities, gift shop locations and hours, tree-planting and handicap-accessible touring realities. Pay attention to Aiken's notes about bathroom facilities (they tend to range from hygienic nightmares to high-class and helpful). The remarks alert you to the need for packing baby-changing items and/or tissues and soap to protect the rest of the group.
Chapters progress from how to book flights and arrange itineraries to hiring tour guides, what to expect in terms of hotels, health services, food, kosher certification, public and private transportation opportunities. Want to go jeeping, scuba-diving, camel riding or celebrate a simcha? Maybe you'd prefer a walking tour with or without professional guides. Get the contact information and driving directions you need in this handy guide.
The bulk of the book is an overview of specific regions and communities, with complete contact information for museums, restaurants, ticket offices and their hours. The wealth of the listings surprise even seasoned tourists who've covered Israel. You can dig history when you find out how to join archaeologists uncovering the past. Learn where the kids can make paper from tree bark and flower petals with adult guidance, and how you can customize a trip to make dreams come true at any age.
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Creativity without clarity is not sufficient for writing. I am eternally thankful to Hashem for his gift to me.
This core idea of memory is very difficult to fully comprehend; however, it is essential.
Sometimes the most powerful countermove one can make when a person is screaming is to calmly say that her behavior is not helpful and then continue interacting with the rest of the family while ignoring the enraged person.
"Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples shall divide within you."
Divorce from a vindictive, cruel spouse can be a lifelong nightmare when there are offspring.
There were many French Jews who jumped at the chance to shed their ancient identity and assimilate.
As Rabbi Shemtov stood on the stage and looked out at the attendees, he told them that "Rather than take photos with your cellphones, take a mental photo and keep this Shabbat in your mind and take it with you throughout your life."
Yeshiva v'Kollel Bais Moshe Chaim will be holding a grand celebration on the occasion of the institution's 40th anniversary on Sunday evening, December 7. Alumni, students, friends and faculty of the yeshiva, also known as Talmudic University of Florida, will celebrate the achievement and vision of its founders and the spiritual guidance of its educational […]
The yeshiva night accommodates all levels of Jewish education.
Recently, Fort Lauderdale has been the focus of international news, and it has not been about the wonderful weather.
Rabbi Sacks held the position of chief rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth for 22 years until September 2013.
The event included a dvar Torah by student Pesach Bixon, an overview of courses, information about student life and a student panel that answered frequently asked questions from a student perspective.
It is difficult to write about such a holy person, for I fear I will not accurately portray his greatness…
Tehilim 71:9 reads "Do not cast me off in the time of old age; Do not forsake me when my strength fails." The message is apropos to the endeavor – wonder and spirituality ruled as respect for aging heroes of the Shoah increased among Leo Baeck students.
Title: The Kosher Grapevine: Exploring the World of Wine
Author: Irving Langer
Publisher: Gefen
Breathe deeply. You'll need maximum physical and spiritual power to absorb the uplifting lessons in this book. Page 249 explains why some Jews are praised as "fish on dry land," a phrase that describes Moshe Rabeinu. Am Yisrael began to appreciate his depth of character at kriat Yam Suf, realizing that "he lived in the revealed world as though he were in the concealed world."
Author Irving Langer provides his own look at wine-making as well as the nature of the storage barrels used to age wines for taste perfection. He intersperses the book with Jewish historical facts and figures, a few jokes and photographs, and advice on how to pair wines with specific foods.
Unlike formulaic biographies from popular publishing houses in the Orthodox Jewish world, Beyond Politics is not predictable. The vignettes of individual men and women who trekked through Ethiopia and Sudan, flew in from Austria, India, and Algeria, or were born on Israeli soil are gritty, adventurous, and heartwarming.
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Editor: Rabbi Menachem Waldman
Publisher: Koren Publishing
Most of the No-Potato Passover recipes are as casual as the title's spelling: some include only six ingredients and limited prep time – half to one full hour. They're good for heart health and waistlines, too.
The Hebrew-English haggada provides a wealth of photographic evidence of the lives led by Ethiopian Jews. The pottery, the unembellished homes, school, and synagogues, the gaunt Jews in modest clothing and head coverings portray dedication to Torah values despite harsh political and topographical conditions.
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... Very old, very narrow, and very stone. Then to Avignon to stay right in the centre of this walled-city. Hotel de L'Horloge overlooking the main square - had to park 700 metres away and 'drag' though. Walked the inside for a few hours, found an Irish pub for a pint and then observed how the palais and cathedral looked at night. Beautiful. Warm night; so listened to the sounds of the square through our window and planned our trip out of ...
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Mickey nodded, the cold wind burning his cheeks ever so lightly. "Since we're... Normal for the moment, we should sit down at a fine restaurant. Or something." Upon saying that Mickey hoisted Lilly up and sat her upon his broad shoulders, "Is this better, can you see a nice place to eat?" Mickey knew they were going in the correct direction for food and had only an idea of how close it was, Lily could be his eyes in the sky.
Oh how they were drawing attention, not negative unless either of them look at being called a couple a negative thing. Mickey didn't care, as long as he wasn't noticed as a wanderer and kicked out just as he gain a warm room and inched closer to the meal fit for a king. Especially with Lily. He wouldn't want to rob her of any of these fine things, but also wouldn't be able to leave her, without noticing, he had claimed her as his and that was that.


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Merton on Prayer and Love
"Prayer and love are learned in the hour when prayer has become impossible and your heart has turned to stone." – Thomas Merton
"Prayer and love are learned in the hour when prayer has become impossible and your heart has turned to stone." – Thomas Merton
|There are basically two kinds of law: (l) law as the way things ought to be, and (2) law as the way things are. An example of the first is "No Trespassing." An example of the second is the law of gravity.
God's law has traditionally been spelled out in terms of category no. 1, a compendium of dos and don'ts. These dos and don'ts are the work of moralists and, when obeyed, serve the useful purpose of keeping us from each other's throats. They can't make us human, but they can help keep us honest.
God's law in itself, however, comes under category no. 2 and is the work of God. It has been stated in seven words: "Whoever does not love abides in death" (1 John 3:14). Like it or not, that's how it is. If you don't believe it, you can always put it to the test just the way if you don't believe the law of gravity, you can always step out a tenth-story window.
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What offends my taste in fiction is when right is held up as wrong, or wrong as right. Fiction is the concrete expression of of mystery–mystery that is lived. Catholics believe that all creation is good and that evil is the wrong use of good and that without Grace we use it wrong most of the time. It's almost impossible to write about supernatural Grace in fiction. We almost have to approach it negatively. As to natural Grace, we have to take that the way it comes–through nature. In any case, it operates surrounded by evil. ~ from the Habit of Being, pg. 144
The best fiction and the best preaching include a kind of ambush. Approaching the subject sidewise and seemingly accidental. Seeing the truth for what it isn't is often the only place we can start. It's usually the only believable one.
We've recently completed a series on the Apostles' Creed. I was struck by how the Creed operates more as an aid to prayer and worship than as a simple statement of faith. It is intellectual, it can be academic, but it's mostly a means of faith and a matter of prayer.
Ben Myers has a great reflection on the Creed and how it facilitates faith during the "dark" season of Lent. Take a look:
There is no avoiding the fact that the Old Testament is violent. Take this example from Genesis 4:23.
Lamech said to his wives:
'Adah and Zillah, hear my voice;
you wives of Lamech, listen to what I say:
I have killed a man for wounding me,
a young man for striking me.
If Cain is avenged sevenfold,
truly Lamech seventy-sevenfold.'
Here are two more examples from the Psalms:
The righteous will rejoice when they see vengeance done;
they will bathe their feet in the blood of the wicked. ~ Ps. 58:10
O daughter Babylon, you devastator!
Happy shall they be who pay you back
what you have done to us!
Happy shall they be who take your little ones
and dash them against the rock! ~ Ps. 137:9
Psalm 37 seems to read more like Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian than it does the Bible. Some may find it hard to accept that words this are in the Bible at all. Reverend Jeremiah Wright found himself under a barrage of criticism for words he uttered in a sermon that were inspired by Psalm 137. Those words led to his disavowal by his former parishioner, President Obama.
The passage from Genesis above and the two Psalms cited along with it are reminders to us that our capacity for violence and our thirst for revenge lie just below the surface of our collective and personal lives. Events like 9/11 and the senseless deaths of innocent people stir up these feelings up. "We know we shouldn't feel this way but what if we feel this way?"
Branson Parlor offers a suggestion for how we are to both read these texts and deal with our own violent and vengeful impulses. He suggests that we sing them. Read about it in: "Overcoming Lamech: Lament as an Antidote to Violence".
This is from a recently published book of poems by Scott Cairns. Cairns is a poet and writing teacher at the University of Missouri. For your enjoyment and perhaps your prayer.
O God Belovéd if obliquely so,
dimly apprehended in the midst
of this, the fraught obscuring fog
of my insufficiently capacious ken,
Ostensible Lover of our kind—while
apparently aloof—allow
that I might glimpse once more
Your shadow in the land, avail
for me, a second time, the sense
of dire Presence in the pulsing
hollow near the heart.
Once more, O Lord, from Your Enormity incline
your Face to shine upon Your servant, shy
of immolation, if You will. ~ from Idiot Psalms, New Poems by Scott Cairns