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A haftorah of singing praise and raising kids
As Tablet Magazine spent the past week looking at the Jewish body, from bris to burial, the opening sentence of this week's haftorah presented an apt, if puzzling, coda.
"Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear," it reads, "break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail; for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the Lord."
Reading this week's parasha, one could be forgiven for taking this verse literally: Noah, the hero of the Torah portion, has barely survived a flood that devastates life on Earth when, after a much-needed glass of wine too many, he passes out in his tent. His son Ham walks in, sees the nakedness of his father, gleefully shares the news with his siblings, and is eternally cursed for his indiscretion. After such a dim glimpse of family life, barrenness may not look like such a terrible option; if kids are likely to observe their parents' most bitter failings and then rant about it to others, let those who did not bear children praise the Lord, indeed.
When Noah curses Ham—"A servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren," cries the enraged father once he's awake and sober—one is put in mind of Philip Larkin's poem, "This Be the Verse." As the last stanza boldly declares, "Man hands on misery to man./ It deepens like a coastal shelf./ Get out as early as you can,/ And don't have any kids yourself." Is this what the haftorah is trying to tell us by urging the childless to break into song? That our relationships with our children are inherently doomed?
Further reading answers the question plainly. The barren woman, a metaphor for the exiled people of Israel, is told to rejoice as her husband, God himself, would soon bless her with countless offspring, "and make the desolate cities to be inhabited."
It's an apt and poetic sermon about nationhood, but it works just as well when read as a primer on parenthood. Let us consider for a moment the haftorah's discussion of the children of the desolate and the children of the married wife. The latter, presumably, are concrete kids, the fruit of a blessed union, whereas the former are ethereal, the sum of all hopes, the dream of the destitute. Like Plato's theory of forms, the children of the desolate are theoretical ideals, not faulting and flawed flesh and blood. They are perfect, and it is this perfection that is the cause for the barren's joyous song—she has no children, but the ones she might have one day are incomparable.
This is more than a mere message of hope. It's a radical logic for life. The notion of continuity, the haftorah tells us, the very act of birthing a new generation, depends on our belief in redemption and our acceptance of our own powerlessness. The people of Israel, the Lord promises, will thrive, but not right now; they will return to their promised land, but not in the foreseeable future. While they wait, they'll surely notice other nations, other peoples, thriving in the present, rich with material and might; and yet wait they will, faithfully wait for some radiant moment in the future when deliverance finally arrives. To the human mind, constantly in search of concrete rewards, nothing could be more difficult; but for the human heart, constantly in need of hope, nothing could be more uplifting.
The same, perhaps, could be said of parenting. There is, of course, much worldly satisfaction in watching one's children become thoughtful, independent adults, but, at its heart, having children is a mad act of faith. This, I think, is why so many otherwise-rational people so often speak of their children in that hyperbolic, quivering way that makes us non-parents queasy. It's because parenthood is, at heart, a nearly messianic pursuit. It requires one to believe, sometimes against all available evidence, that one's children will thrive and meet the loftiest expectations, reach the loftiest heights, enjoy the most rewarding lives imaginable. We raise real children, whom we love no matter their shortcomings, but we never lose sight of those ephemeral beings, the grown-ups that they might one day be; and even though we know we may not be there to see our children grow, even though we somberly understand that our hopes may be crushed by a chain of bad decisions and events beyond our control, even though we may respect our children for having ambitions of their own that have nothing to do with our own, we sing with joy.
If we didn't, life would be little but a strand of disappointments and defeats. Our own mortality, never far from our minds, would crush us under its insufferable weight. Life would be lived in anticipation of its inevitable end. But by believing—in God, in our people, in our children—we transcend. We have faith in a future that may not include us, and may not unfurl according to our desires, but that would nonetheless march on, oblivious and unstoppable. And nothing could make us happier.
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Mikhail Youzhny won his first Swiss Open title on Sunday at his eighth attempt, beating Robin Haase 6-3, 6-4.
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A former top-10 player now ranked No. 33, the 31-year-old Russian had never previously reached the final at Gstaad in seven visits since 2002.
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You see, every Halloween Phil Ulmen turns his home into a castle -- Dracula's Castle.
It is a king-size production that you can't miss at 805 North 17th Street between Ada and Resseguie streets in the North End.
The 70-year-old retired phone company worker has been putting up the amazing display for the last 11 years.
I'm trying to hit them with just a kind of mini experience of those black and white movies that a lot of us loved when we were kids coming up, said Ulmen.
The castle has 12-foot walls that nearly block out the entire front of Ulmen's house. A ghost flies from a boom and fishing line. One motor moves the arms, said Ulmen. That makes the arms go up and down.
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Years ago I started thinking I want to have myself a fire-breathing dragon, said Ulmen.
So he built one from scratch using materials including PVC pipe, cut and painted milk bottle pieces for scales and furnace duct aluminum for the fire-breathing snout and jaw. The fire itself is fueled with propane.
Phil starts working on it on October 1, and puts in eight hour days, every day leading up to Halloween.
His experience building sets and props for community theater, and some serious backyard engineering, come in very handy for the project. It's a labor of love. Or madness, or both, said Ulmen.
But the fuel that keeps the dragon burning year after year is not really the propane -- it's Ulmen.
That dragon has become a part of living in the North End for a lot of these children, and I love that, said Ulmen. You know, I'm crazy about kids. I always have been.
On Halloween night Ulmen dresses as Dracula to greet the trick-or-treaters who then get a chocolate gold coin from a helpless maiden chained to a rock. Why a helpless maiden chained to a rock? Because that's what dragons do, explained Ulmen.
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Cannon Smith named University of Memphis starting quarterback
University of Miami transfer Cannon Smith, son of FedEx founder Fred Smith, will begin his University of Memphis career as the team's starting quarterback.
Tigers coach Larry Porter announced Monday that Smith had earned the starting nod in a ''very competitive race from start to finish'' with true freshman Ryan Williams. Smith will start Saturday night in the season-opener at Mississippi State.
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Williams, a 6-5, 220-pound classic drop-back quarterback, was a contender from late last spring. The 18-year-old earned Most Valuable Offensive Player honors in the Blue-Gray Game.
But Smith, a sophomore, had experience, albeit slight, as an edge. Smith, who turns 23 in October, played for the Hurricanes in one game -- their 2008 season opener against Charleston Southern -- a year after spending the 2007 season at Hargrave (Va.) Military Academy. At Hargrave, a military prep school, Smith set a single-game school record with 476 passing yards and four TDs.
''Cannon is probably a tad bit more athletic and he probably has a stronger arm,'' Porter said. ''Ryan is more of a pocket passer.''
Porter said the race was close because of several factors, among them an inability for either Smith or Williams to follow one solid practice performance with another.
''With young, inexperienced quarterbacks, you are going to have a degree of inconsistency,'' Porter said. ''But as you kept going through the process and watching these guys compete, you saw them growing and getting better and making better decisions and being able to manage the offense.''
With the Tigers going through a closed practice session Monday, Smith was not available for comment. In an earlier interview during fall camp he said a lackluster spring game motivated him.
''I took some things away from it,'' Smith said. ''Obviously, I went through that film and evaluated myself and did that with the coaches.''
The quarterback race began in the spring with returning starter Tyler Bass in the mix, along with junior college transfer Andy Summerlin. Summerlin injured his throwing shoulder in a spring scrimmage and continues to rehab, hoping for an early October return. Bass started three games last year, but fell behind Smith and Williams after the spring.
''We evaluated our quarterbacks based on three things: decision-making, being able to manage the offense, and productivity,'' Porter said. ''When you look at the two -- Ryan and Cannon -- they are very, very similar in terms of their production.''
But they are different quarterbacks. Smith is listed at 6-feet and 205 pounds and doesn't mind scrambling for yards, if necessary. Williams is a pro-style quarterback with a deft touch, particularly on fade routes.
As for any plans to use both quarterbacks in a game, Porter said he'd rather establish a rhythm with one quarterback -- but he would do "whatever it takes to win.''
Porter dismissed suggestions that he was pressured to pick Smith because of his father's position as a key athletic department supporter.
''The pressure for me was to do what was right for this football team and that's to put the best players on the field,'' he said.
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By Brian email@example.com When he was an assistant football coach on several deplorable Henry County teams, Clint Satterfield religiously checked the Saturday morning newspaper for the score of the Jonesboro game. He was a Satterfield, after all, the last of a progeny of Cardinals football players. Habit brings them to the sports pages every Saturday during football season to check on their Cardinals, deplorable or not. That won't change now that Satterfield was hired to become the first head football coach in the history of Locust Grove when it opens this fall. Satterfield was approved by the Henry County Board of Education Monday night, along with the majority of Locust Grove's athletic department, including Dutchtown baseball coach and co-athletic director Stephen Phillips, who will hold the same positions at Locust Grove next season. Satterfield left Henry County four years ago for Jonesboro, returning to his alma mater as somewhat of a prodigal son. He knew well the morass of the Cardinals program and the misfortune that had plagued it since 1948. Jonesboro was coming off a winless season in 2005, but Satterfield orchestrated a remarkable turnaround in just three years, culminating with last year's first-round victory in the state playoffs, the first in school history. Satterfield knows well the travails and uncertainty of standing a program back on its feet. "I'm a realist," Satterfield said, "and going into a situation like this is going to take some time. What you want to try to do is much like what I did at Jonesboro. When I walked in at Jonesboro, they were struggling. The first thing I tried to do was build the morale up. And I'll do the same thing with the new program. "I want them to look forward to trying to be a Locust Grove Wildcat. That's what I did at Jonesboro. I wanted them to have some kind of pride of wearing that jersey and that helmet." Satterfield went 12-20 in three years at Jonesboro, but his Cardinals teams improved every season. They won 2 games in 2006, then 3, then 7 last season. Satterfield acknowledged this past season that much of Jonesboro's turnaround could be attributed to the coaching staff he assembled in the offseason, and he made that a priority when applying for the Locust Grove job, he said. Two members of that staff will join Satterfield at Locust Grove: Jamie Reed, the offensive coordinator Satterfield brought in last season, and John Bishop, who was also an assistant boys basketball coach at Jonesboro. Satterfield said other members of his coaching staff will be Karsten Bailey, a former NFL player with the Seattle Seahawks and Green Bay Packers; Ronnie Daniels, a former NFL and AFL player; Craig Melton, who will also be the Locust Grove golf coach; and Greg Shook, a former assistant basketball coach at Morrow and Clayton State. "One thing I wanted to make sure before I took the job was that I could have a good staff," Satterfield said. "The school has done everything I asked them to do." Indeed, they showed him the brand new football stadium he'll have all to his own, just like he used to enjoy at Henry County. They showed him the brand new weight room and the brand new lockers. They showed Satterfield enough to convince him Locust Grove has raucous crowds and championship banners in its future. But on Saturday mornings this season, Satterfield will still go looking through the local paper, hoping his alma mater is doing just fine without him. "The Satterfields are always looking in the newspaper to find the Jonesboro score," Satterfield said. "No matter where I've been, no matter where my brothers have coached, we always look for the Jonesboro score on Saturday. That'll continue to be the same way."
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JAKARTA, Indonesia — Indonesia Muslim hard-liners have resumed protests in the country's capital and two other cities against the Miss World pageant being held in the resort island of Bali.
Several hundred members of the Islamic Defenders Front and Islamic Society Forum held a rally late Saturday in downtown Jakarta.
They waved banners with the slogan "Reject Miss World" and "Miss World Go To Hell."
Similar protests were staged in East Java cities of Jember and Banyuwangi, where police blocked the protesters from travelling to Bali.
The 63rd edition of the Miss World pageant was opened last Sunday in Bali after days of protests by the groups confined the event to the only Hindu-dominated province in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim country.
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Elusive 'Hot' Electrons Captured In Ultra-Thin Solar Cells
Shrinking cells snares charges in less than one-trillionth of a second
Boston College researchers have observed the "hot electron" effect in a solar cell for the first time and successfully harvested the elusive charges using ultra-thin solar cells, opening a potential avenue to improved solar power efficiency, the authors report in the current online edition of Applied Physics Letters.
When light is captured in solar cells, it generates free electrons in a range of energy states. But in order to snare these charges, the electrons must reach the bottom of the conduction band. The problem has been that these highly energized "hot" electrons lose much of their energy to heat along the way.
Hot electrons have been observed in other devices, such as semiconductors. But their high kinetic energy can cause these electrons, also known as "hot carriers," to degrade a device. Researchers have long theorized about the benefits of harnessing hot electrons for solar power through so-called "3rd generation" devices.
By using ultrathin solar cells "" a film fewer than 30 nanometers thick "" the team developed a mechanism able to extract hot electrons in the moments before they cool "" effectively opening a new "escape hatch" through which they typically don't travel, said co-author Michael J. Naughton, the Evelyn J. and Robert A. Ferris Professor of Physics at Boston College.
The team's success centered on minimizing the environment within which the electrons are able to escape, said Professor of Physics Krzysztof Kempa, lead author of the paper.
Kempa compared the challenge to trying to heat a swimming pool with a pot of boiling water. Drop the pot into the center of the pool and there would be no change in temperature at the edge because the heat would dissipate en route. But drop the pot into a sink filled with cold water and the heat would likely raise the temperature in the smaller area.
"We have shrunk the size of the solar cell by making it thin," Kempa said. "In doing so, we are bringing these hot electrons closer to the surface, so they can be collected more readily. These electrons have to be captured in less than a picosecond, which is less than one trillionth of a second."
The ultrathin cells demonstrated overall power conversion efficiency of approximately 3 percent using absorbers one fiftieth as thick as conventional cells. The team attributed the gains to the capture of hot electrons and an accompanying reduction in voltage-sapping heat. The researchers acknowledged the film's efficiency is limited by the negligible light collection of ultra-thin junctions. However, combining the film with better light-trapping technology "" such as nanowire structures "" could significantly increase efficiency in an ultra-thin hot electron solar cell technology.
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The Parents Television Council released a statement last week supporting the move to cancel the program due to its graphic content. PTC President Tim Winter called the decision to cancel the show "a victory for families."
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"The 700 Club" host and conservative Christian leader Pat Robertson has expressed opposition to arguing with atheists on social media about the existence of God.
On the Thursday edition of "The 700 Club" program's "Bring It On" segment, Robertson got a question from a viewer named Christine regarding online debates with atheists.
"Whenever I post something on social media about my faith, many atheists comment that what I believe is wrong and try to argue about God's existence," wrote Christine. Should I argue back and try to prove His existence or should I just ignore it?" more >>
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The National Religious Campaign Against Torture (NRCAT) sent letters to Palin and the NRA Wednesday calling Palin's words "unacceptable."
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One year after his son's suicide, Rick Warren, author of the Purpose Driven Life and pastor at Saddleback Church in Southern California, said that his sermons during worship services beginning this Thursday evening, will be about how the message of Easter provides the answer to life's most devastating trials.
"Do you ever find yourself discouraged, or depressed or defeated, or even devastated by the circumstances in your life? If so, let me take a minute to encourage you about the pathway to hope and change and transformation that I've found in the Easter story of the resurrection of Jesus," said Warren during a video he released earlier this week (see video below).
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