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Part 4 of the 5 Day Ignatian Reflection
Part 2 of the Ignatian Reflection
Bless the Lord, O my soul!
O Lord my God, you are very great!
You are clothed with splendor and majesty,
covering yourself with light as with a garment,
stretching out the heavens like a tent.
he lays the beams of his chambers on the waters;
he makes the clouds his chariot;
he rides on the wings of the wind;
he makes his messengers winds,
his ministers a flaming fire.
He set the earth on its foundations,
so that it should never be moved.
You covered it with the deep as with a garment;
the waters stood above the mountains.
At your rebuke they fled;
at the sound of your thunder they took to flight.
The mountains rose, the valleys sank down
to the place that you appointed for them.
You set a boundary that they may not pass,
so that they might not again cover the earth.
You make springs gush forth in the valleys;
they flow between the hills;they give drink to every beast of the field;
the wild donke
ys quench their thirst.
Beside them the birds of the heavens dwell;
they sing among the branches.
From your lofty abode you water the mountains;
the earth is satisfied with the fruit of your work.
You cause the grass to grow for the livestock
and plants for man to cultivate,
that he may bring forth food from the earth
and wine to gladden the heart of man,
oil to make his face shine
and bread to strengthen man's heart.
The trees of the Lord are watered abundantly,
the cedars of Lebanon that he planted.
In them the birds build their nests;
the stork has her home in the fir trees.
The high mountains are for the wild goats;
the rocks are a refuge for the rock badgers.
He made the moon to mark the seasons;[a]
the sun knows its time for setting.
You make darkness, and it is night,
when all the beasts of the forest creep about.
The young lions roar for their prey,
seeking their food from God.
When the sun rises, they steal away
and lie down in their dens.
Man goes out to his work
and to his labor until the evening.
O Lord, how manifold are your works!
In wisdom have you made them all;
the earth is full of your creatures.
Here is the sea, great and wide,
which teems with creatures innumerable,
living things both small and great.
There go the ships,
and Leviathan, which you formed to play in it.[b]
These all look to you,
to give them their food in due season.
When you give it to them, they gather it up;
when you open your hand, they are filled with good things.
When you hide your face, they are dismayed;
when you take away their breath, they die
and return to their dust.
When you send forth your Spirit,[c] they are created,
and you renew the face of the ground.
May the glory of the Lord endure forever;
may the Lord rejoice in his works,
who looks on the earth and it trembles,
who touches the mountains and they smoke!
I will sing to the Lord as long as I live;
I will sing praise to my God while I have being.
May my meditation be pleasing to him,
for I rejoice in the Lord.
Let sinners be consumed from the earth,
and let the wicked be no more!
Bless the Lord, O my soul!
Praise the Lord!
"The practice of contemplation is one of the great spiritual arts," writes Martin Laird in A Sunlit Absence. "Not a technique but a skill, it harnesses the winds of grace that lead us out into the liberating sea of silence."
In this companion volume to his bestselling Into the Silent Land, Laird focuses on a quality often overlooked by books on Christian meditation: a vast and flowing spaciousness that embraces both silence and sound, and transcends all subject/object dualisms. Drawing on the wisdom of great contemplatives from St. Augustine and St. Teresa of Avila to St. Hesychios, Simone Weil, and many others, Laird shows how we can uncover the deeper levels of awareness that rest within us like buried treasure waiting to be found. The key insight of the book is that as our practice matures, so will our experience of life's ordeals, sorrows, and joys expand into generous, receptive maturity. We learn to see whatever difficulties we experience in meditation–boredom, lethargy, arrogance, depression, grief, anxiety–not as obstacles to be overcome but as opportunities to practice surrender to what is. With clarity and grace Laird shows how we can move away from identifying with our turbulent, ever-changing thoughts and emotions to the cultivation of a "sunlit absence"–the luminous awareness in which God's presence can most profoundly be felt.
Addressed to both beginners and intermediates on the pathless path of still prayer, A Sunlit Absenceoffers wise guidance on the specifics of contemplative practice as well as an inspiring vision of the purpose of such practice and the central role it can play in our spiritual lives.
Helena, Mont.
TREES are on the front lines of our changing climate. And when the oldest trees in the world suddenly start dying, it's time to pay attention.
North America's ancient alpine bristlecone forests are falling victim to a voracious beetle and an Asian fungus. In Texas, a prolonged drought killed more than five million urban shade trees last year and an additional half-billion trees in parks and forests. In the Amazon, two severe droughts have killed billions more.
The common factor has been hotter, drier weather.
We have underestimated the importance of trees. They are not merely pleasant sources of shade but a potentially major answer to some of our most pressing environmental problems. We take them for granted, but they are a near miracle. In a bit of natural alchemy called photosynthesis, for example, trees turn one of the seemingly most insubstantial things of all — sunlight — into food for insects, wildlife and people, and use it to create shade, beauty and wood for fuel, furniture and homes.
For all of that, the unbroken forest that once covered much of the continent is now shot through with holes.
Humans have cut down the biggest and best trees and left the runts behind. What does that mean for the genetic fitness of our forests? No one knows for sure, for trees and forests are poorly understood on almost all levels. "It's embarrassing how little we know," one eminent redwood researcher told me.
What we do know, however, suggests that what trees do is essential though often not obvious. Decades ago, Katsuhiko Matsunaga, a marine chemist at Hokkaido University in Japan, discovered that when tree leaves decompose, they leach acids into the ocean that help fertilize plankton. When plankton thrive, so does the rest of the food chain. In a campaign calledForests Are Lovers of the Sea, fishermen have replanted forests along coasts and rivers to bring back fish and oyster stocks. And they have returned.
Trees are nature's water filters, capable of cleaning up the most toxic wastes, including explosives, solvents and organic wastes, largely through a dense community of microbes around the tree's roots that clean water in exchange for nutrients, a process known as phytoremediation. Tree leaves also filter air pollution. A 2008 study by researchers at Columbia University found that more trees in urban neighborhoods correlate with a lower incidence of asthma.
In Japan, researchers have long studied what they call "forest bathing." A walk in the woods, they say, reduces the level of stress chemicals in the body and increases natural killer cells in the immune system, which fight tumors and viruses. Studies in inner cities show that anxiety, depression and even crime are lower in a landscaped environment.
Trees also release vast clouds of beneficial chemicals. On a large scale, some of these aerosols appear to help regulate the climate; others are anti-bacterial, anti-fungal and anti-viral. We need to learn much more about the role these chemicals play in nature. One of these substances, taxane, from the Pacific yew tree, has become a powerful treatment for breast and other cancers. Aspirin's active ingredient comes from willows.
Trees are greatly underutilized as an eco-technology. "Working trees" could absorb some of the excess phosphorus and nitrogen that run off farm fields and help heal the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico. In Africa, millions of acres of parched land have been reclaimed through strategic tree growth.
Trees are also the planet's heat shield. They keep the concrete and asphalt of cities and suburbs 10 or more degrees cooler and protect our skin from the sun's harsh UV rays. The Texas Department of Forestry has estimated that the die-off of shade trees will cost Texans hundreds of millions of dollars more for air-conditioning. Trees, of course, sequester carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that makes the planet warmer. A study by the Carnegie Institution for Science also found that water vapor from forests lowers ambient temperatures.
A big question is, which trees should we be planting? Ten years ago, I met a shade tree farmer named David Milarch, a co-founder of the Champion Tree Project who has been cloning some of the world's oldest and largest trees to protect their genetics, from California redwoods to the oaks of Ireland. "These are the supertrees, and they have stood the test of time," he says.
Science doesn't know if these genes will be important on a warmer planet, but an old proverb seems apt. "When is the best time to plant a tree?" The answer: "Twenty years ago. The second-best time? Today."
Jim Robbins is the author of the forthcoming book "The Man Who Planted Trees."
This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:
Correction: April 21, 2012
An earlier version of this essay referred incorrectly to one of the greenhouse gases that are warming the planet. It is carbon dioxide, not carbon.
Article taken from the New York Times. Read full story http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/09/science/earth/2012-was-hottest-year-ever-in-us.html?gwh=FAC15B888EC939EAE38C28F2B1FD9510&_r=0
The numbers are in: 2012, the year of a surreal March heat wave, a severe drought in the Corn Belt and a huge storm that caused broad devastation in the Middle Atlantic States, turns out to have been the hottest year ever recorded in the contiguous United States.
How hot was it? The temperature differences between years are usually measured in fractions of a degree, but last year's 55.3 degree average demolished the previous record, set in 1998, by a full degree Fahrenheit.
If that does not sound sufficiently impressive, consider that 34,008 daily high records were set at weather stations across the country, compared with only 6,664 record lows, according to a count maintained by theWeather Channel meteorologist Guy Walton, using federal temperature records.
That ratio, which was roughly in balance as recently as the 1970s, has been out of whack for decades as the country has warmed, but never by as much as it was last year.
"The heat was remarkable," said Jake Crouch, a scientist with the National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C., which released the official climate compilation on Tuesday. "It was prolonged. That we beat the record by one degree is quite a big deal."
Scientists said that natural variability almost certainly played a role in last year's extreme heat and drought. But many of them expressed doubt that such a striking new record would have been set without the backdrop of global warming caused by the human release of greenhouse gases. And they warned that 2012 was probably a foretaste of things to come, as continuing warming makes heat extremes more likely.
Even so, the last year's record for the United States is not expected to translate into a global temperature record when figures are released in the coming weeks. The year featured a La Niña weather pattern, which tends to cool the global climate over all, and scientists expect it to be the world's eighth- or ninth-warmest year on record.
Assuming that prediction holds up, it will mean that the 10 warmest years on record all fell within the past 15 years, a measure of how much the planet has warmed. Nobody who is under 28 has lived through a month of global temperatures that fell below the 20th-century average, because the last such month was February 1985.
Last year's weather in the United States began with an unusually warm winter, with relatively little snow across much of the country, followed by a March that was so hot that trees burst into bloom and swimming pools opened early. The soil dried out in the March heat, helping to set the stage for a drought that peaked during the warmest July on record.
The drought engulfed 61 percent of the nation, killed corn and soybean crops and sent prices spiraling. It was comparable to a severe drought in the 1950s, Mr. Crouch said, but not quite as severe as the legendary Dust Bowldrought of the 1930s, which was exacerbated by poor farming practices that allowed topsoil to blow away.
Extensive records covering the lower 48 states go back to 1895; Alaska and Hawaii have shorter records and are generally not included in long-term climate comparisons for that reason.
Mr. Crouch pointed out that until last year, the coldest year in the historical record for the lower 48 states, 1917, was separated from the warmest year, 1998, by only 4.2 degrees Fahrenheit. That is why the 2012 record, and its one degree increase over 1998, strikes climatologists as so unusual.
"We're taking quite a large step above what the period of record has shown for the contiguous United States," Mr. Crouch said.
In addition to being the nation's warmest year, 2012 turned out to be the second-worst on a measure called the Climate Extremes Index, surpassed only by 1998.
Experts are still counting, but so far 11 disasters in 2012 have exceeded a threshold of $1 billion in damages, including several tornado outbreaks; Hurricane Isaac, which hit the Gulf Coast in August, and, late in the year, Hurricane Sandy, which caused damage likely to exceed $60 billion in nearly half the states, primarily in the mid-Atlantic region.
Among those big disasters was one bearing a label many people had never heard before: the derecho, a line of severe, fast-moving thunderstorms that struck central and eastern parts of the country starting on June 29, killing more than 20 people, toppling trees and knocking out power for millions of households.
For people who escaped both the derecho and Hurricane Sandy relatively unscathed, the year may be remembered most for the sheer breadth and oppressiveness of the summer heat wave. By the calculations of the climatic data center, a third of the nation's population experienced 10 or more days of summer temperatures exceeding 100 degrees Fahrenheit.
Among the cities that set temperature records in 2012 were Nashville; Athens, Ga.; and Cairo, Ill., all of which hit 109 degrees on June 29; Greenville, S.C., which hit 107 degrees on July 1; and Lamar, Colo., which hit 112 degrees on June 27.
With the end of the growing season, coverage of the drought has waned, but the drought itself has not. Mr. Crouch pointed out that at the beginning of January, 61 percent of the country was still in moderate to severe drought conditions. "I foresee that it's going to be a big story moving forward in 2013," he said.
This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:
Correction: February 7, 2013
A map on Jan. 9 with an article about record-breaking heat in 2012, using information from Accuweather, erroneously included one city among those whose average temperature in 2012 ranged from -1 to + 1 degrees from normal. Phoenix should have been in the +1 to +2 degree range.
Article Taken from the New York Times. Read Original http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/21/opinion/how-green-was-my-lawn.html
Stony Brook, N.Y.
FIFTY years ago this month Rachel Carson, already a best-selling writer, published "Silent Spring," the book many credit with inspiring the modern environmental movement. Nowadays, when environmental causes are often under political siege, it bears remembering that they were once extraordinarily popular, especially where both the book and the movement were born: in the suburbs.
As modern environmentalists like to remind us, the issue is a global one: climate change, pollution and nuclear radiation know no boundaries, and Public Enemy No. 1 is often the car-centric suburban lifestyle. But anyone trying to bring new energy to the movement could learn a lesson from how activists of the 1950s and '60s picked up on, and played off of, concerns about pollution and preservation that pervaded suburban lives and neighborhoods.
Carson's book had deep roots in the angst and activism that stirred in the postwar Northeast suburbs, in particular a 1957 lawsuit by 13 Long Island residents over DDT spraying. In 1966, academics and a lawyer sat down in a Long Island living room with a high school teacher, students and housewives to plan the trial that would give birth to the Environmental Defense Fund.
In 1970, only eight years after "Silent Spring" appeared, Americans ranked pollution as the country's No. 1 problem, outpolling worries about Vietnam and civil rights. And worsening pollution registered most strongly neither in rural areas nor even in cities, but in suburbs.
What drove the movement's early suburban success? It started with activists picking up on local issues like drinking-water safety and smog, concerns that directly affected suburban dwellers but had been largely overlooked by civic leaders, from health and planning experts to homeowner associations to conservation groups.
At the same time, the movement's early leaders didn't see themselves as working outside the suburbs; in fact, they saw themselves as coming from traditional professional realms like medicine and science, as well as the home, into neighborly civic engagement.
They then honed a nature advocacy that was pitched not just to suburban elites, but to those in mass suburbs like Levittown, and even to those in blighted downtowns. Because they could understand the environment as an intimate part of their own lives, these suburban activists could recognize nature in places where it seemingly wasn't — the air in slums, the soil in decrepit industrial zones — and work to protect it.
By the first Earth Day, in 1970, activists in places like Long Island and suburban Los Angeles were consolidating a popular new movement with its own distinctive agenda and name.
Today, however, climate change, perhaps the most important environmental issue of our time, rarely polls among voters' top five concerns. One reason may be that its patently global character has enervated support at environmentalism's suburban grass roots. But it doesn't help that blanket condemnation of suburbs as hopelessly dependent on fossil fuels comes all too easily.
Many of today's environmental leaders have thus steered their imaginations and energies away not just from where their own movement was born, but from where a still-growing majority of Americans actually live.
Today's movement, then, should reframe climate change as a local issue, one in which even suburban homeowners have a vital and actionable stake.
It's not as far-fetched as it might sound. Already, one can find suburban households, churches and homeowner associations interested in how to do things "greener," whether it's recycling or landscaping. The trick will be finding concerns that spark imaginations and mobilize group energies at this local level, and working from there.
True, one barrier to recapturing such civic energies and innovations is the growing fragmentation of our suburbs by class and race, which has produced a yawning "nature" gap. It's easier for wealthier neighborhoods, interwoven with green open space, to equate nature advocacy with neighborhood defense, while more easily affording the extra costs of green buildings and organic food, than it is for poor neighborhoods, whether in the city or the suburbs.
And yet this disparity offers an avenue for a revivified, close-to-home environmental altruism. Slums and industrial zones, so often the exclusive focus of environmental justice advocates, could also attract attention from newly energized activists in the suburbs, where these types of sites are increasingly found.
Wherever today's activists choose to take the environmental movement, if the causes it espouses are to achieve the popularity they once enjoyed, then a return to its suburban foundations is absolutely vital. Taking a page from the origins of "Silent Spring" would be a good start.
Christopher C. Sellers is an associate professor of history at Stony Brook University and the author of "Crabgrass Crucible: Suburban Nature and the Rise of Environmentalism in Twentieth-Century America."
Article Taken from New York Times. Read Original http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/25/opinion/sunday/is-this-the-end.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&pagewanted=print&
WE'D seen it before: the Piazza San Marco in Venice submerged by the acqua alta; New Orleans underwater in the aftermath of Katrina; the wreckage-strewn beaches of Indonesia left behind by the tsunami of 2004. We just hadn't seen it here. (Last summer's Hurricane Irene did a lot of damage on the East Coast, but New York City was spared the worst.) "Fear death by water," T. S. Eliot intoned in "The Waste Land." We do now.
There had been warnings. In 2009, the New York City Panel on Climate Change issued a prophetic report. "In the coming decades, our coastal city will most likely face more rapidly rising sea levels and warmer temperatures, as well as potentially more droughts and floods, which will all have impacts on New York City's critical infrastructure," said William Solecki, a geographer at Hunter College and a member of the panel. But what good are warnings? Intelligence agents received advance word that terrorists were hoping to hijack commercial jets. Who listened? (Not George W. Bush.) If we can't imagine our own deaths, as Freud insisted, how can we be expected to imagine the death of a city?
History is a series of random events organized in a seemingly sensible order. We experience it as chronology, with ourselves as the end point — not the end point, but as the culmination of events that leads to the very moment in which we happen to live. "Historical events might be unique, and given pattern by an end," the critic Frank Kermode proposed in "The Sense of an Ending," his classic work on literary narrative, "yet there are perpetuities which defy both the uniqueness and the end." What he's saying (I think) is that there is no pattern. Flux is all.
Last month's "weather event" should have taught us that. Whether in 50 or 100 or 200 years, there's a good chance that New York City will sink beneath the sea. But if there are no patterns, it means that nothing is inevitable either. History offers less dire scenarios: the city could move to another island, the way Torcello was moved to Venice, stone by stone, after the lagoon turned into a swamp and its citizens succumbed to a plague of malaria. The city managed to survive, if not where it had begun. Perhaps the day will come when skyscrapers rise out of downtown Scarsdale.
Humans are ingenious. Our species tends to see nature as something of a nuisance, a phenomenon to be outwitted. Consider efforts to save Venice: planners have hatched one scheme after another to prevent the city from sinking. Industrial development has been curtailed. Buildings dating from the Renaissance have been "relocated."
The most ambitious project, begun a decade ago, is the installation of mobile gates in the lagoons. Known by the acronym MOSE — the Italian name for Moses, who mythically parted the Red Sea — it's an intricate engineering feat: whenever the tide rises, metal barriers that lie in concrete bunkers on the sea floor are lifted by compressed air pressure and pivoted into place on hinges.
Is the Modulo Sperimentale Elettromeccanico — the project's official name — some engineer's fantasy? It was scheduled for completion this year, but that has been put off until 2014. Even if, by some miracle, the gates materialize, they will be only a stay against the inevitable. Look at the unfortunate Easter Islanders, who left behind as evidence of their existence a mountainside of huge blank-faced busts, or the Polynesians of Pitcairn Island, who didn't leave behind much more than a few burial sites and a bunch of stone tools. Every civilization must go.
Yet each goes in its own way. In "Collapse," Jared Diamond showed how the disappearance of a civilization has multiple causes. A cascade of events with unforeseen consequences invariably brings it to a close. The Norse of Greenland cut down their trees (for firewood and other purposes) until there were no more trees, which made it a challenge to build houses or boats. There were other causes, too: violent clashes with the Inuit, bad weather, ice pileups in the fjords blocking trade routes. But deforestation was the prime factor. By the end, no tree fell in the forest, as there was none; and there would have been no one to hear it if it had.
"Some say the world will end in fire, / Some say in ice," declared Robert Frost. Another alternative would be lava. Pliny the Younger's letters to Tacitus described the eruption of Mount Vesuvius: A plume of dirt and ash rose in the sky; rocks pelted Pompeii; and then darkness arrived. "It was not like a moonless or cloudy night, but like being in an enclosed place where the light has been doused." Who did this? It must have been the gods. "Many were raising their hands to implore the gods, but more took the view that no gods now existed anywhere, and that this was an eternal and final darkness hanging over the world." But of course it wasn't the end of the world: it was just the end of them.
Contemplating our ephemerality can be a profound experience. To wander the once magnificent Roman cities strung along the Lycian coast of Turkey — now largely reduced to rubble, much still unexcavated — is to realize how extensive, how magisterial this civilization was. Whole cities are underwater; you can snorkel over them and read inscriptions carved into ancient monoliths. Ephesus, pop. 300,000 in the second century A.D., is a vast necropolis. The amphitheater that accommodated nearly 25,000 people sits empty. The Temple of Artemis, said to have been four times larger than the Parthenon, is a handful of slender columns.
YET we return home from our travels intoxicated by beauty, not truth. It doesn't occur to us that we, too, will one day be described in a guidebook (Fodor's North America 2212?) as metropolitans who resided in 60-story towers and traveled beneath the waves in metal-sheathed trains.
It's this willed ignorance, I suspect, that explains why it's difficult to process the implications of climate change for New York, even in the face of explicit warnings from politicians, not the most future-oriented people. Governor Andrew M. Cuomo has been courageous to make global warming a subject of public debate, but will taxpayers support his proposal to build a levee in New York Harbor? Wouldn't it be easier to think of Sandy as a "once in a lifetime" storm? Even as Lower Manhattan continues to bail itself out — this time in the literal sense — One World Trade Center rises, floor by floor. The governor notes that "we have a 100-year flood every two years now," which doesn't stop rents from going up in Battery Park City.
Walking on New York's Upper East Side, I was reminded by the gargantuan white box atop a busy construction site that the Second Avenue line, first proposed in 1929, remains very much in the works. And why not? Should images of water pouring into the subway tunnels that occupied our newspapers a few weeks back be sufficient to stay us from progress? "I must live till I die," says the hero of a Joseph Conrad novel. The same could be said of cities.
When, on my way home at night, I climb the steps from the subway by the American Museum of Natural History — itself a monument to transience, with its dinosaurs and its mammoth and its skeleton of a dodo bird, that doomed species whose name has become an idiom for extinction — I feel more keenly than ever the miraculousness, the improbability of New York.
Looking down Central Park West, I'm thrilled by the necklace of green-and-red traffic lights extending toward Columbus Circle and the glittering tower of One57, that vertical paradise for billionaires. And as I walk past the splashing fountain in front of the museum's south entrance on West 77th Street, I recall a sentence from Edward Gibbon's ode to evanescence, "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire," in which "the learned Poggius" gazes down at the remains of the city from the Capitoline hill: "The public and private edifices, that were founded for eternity, lie prostrate, naked, and broken, like the limbs of a mighty giant; and the ruin is the more visible, from the stupendous relics that have survived the injuries of time and fortune."
This is our fate. All the more reason to appreciate what we have while we have it.
James Atlas is a contributing opinion writer and the author of a forthcoming book about biography.


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B&W ASW610 problem?
I just bought me a new HT system. It consists of:
5x B&W M-1
Denon AVR-2311 amp
B&W ASW 610 sub
Chord carnival silverscreen for speakers / Profigold line cable for SW
The problem is that sometimes in movies when the action gets really intense and the sub is really delivering it automatically turns itself off for about 1-2 seconds (in the back the red light is on instead of green ).
It looks like an "safe auto-off" feature of the SW or amp but I couldn't find it anywhere.
In particular I was watching War of the worlds BD, which is a really bass heavy movie.
The satellites work flawlessly. I calibrated my speakers using Audyssey on the amp.
The master volume on the amp was set to 66/99, -6dB SW level in the amp settings, sub volume aprox. half.
What I want to know is if it's a settings thing or is there something wrong with the sub/amp? Any clue?
Where's the Low Pass Filter set on the sub, and what's the crossover frequency shown on the receiver for the main speakers and subwoofer?
The filter is set to: LFE
Front: 100
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surround 90
sub: 120
Well, I'd take all the crossover points down to 90, including the sub, turn the sub level up to full, and wind down the signal level on the sub channel on the receiver a bit to get the balance back.
It sounds to me like the sub is being overdriven with too much (relatively) high frequency stuff, and putting up the white flag (or rather the red light) in defeat.
Driving your 610 in protection mode?
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Hello Sups
We are unaware of any issues with this product, and I tend to agree with Andrew regarding the crossover frequency.
I've had a chat with our engineers, and they recommend the following:
First, switch off all Audyssey EQ etc
Manually set-up the whole thing, distances, levels etc.
Select all speakers to "small"
Crossover point set within the amplifier to "80Hz",
On the rear of the subwoofer, set the low-pass filter to "out" to allow the filtered signal from the processor to go straight through to the amp-module in the subwoofer.
Adjust the volume on the subwoofer to suit
See how the above goes, otherwise if it still occurs, call our service dept 01903 221700.
Hope this works.
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Thank you very much for your replies Andrew and Shaun.
I'll try it when I come back home.
I probably was overdriving the sub, because I noticed a big volume increse after the Audyssey set-up got finished. And I additionally increased the volume on the sub once it got set.
I will manually set all parameters to see how that goes.
Thanks again for your help!
Thanks for that, Shaun - forgot about the crossover bypass switch on that sub!
Fixed....turned off Audyssey, kept the EQ settings, set all the freq's to 90 and the sub to -7dB. Works like a charm. The sound is amazing!
Thanks for thorough reviews whathifi.com, as you can see all my gear is from your Best buy sections. Not a thing I would change =)
I have the B&W ASW610 and the Denon AVR 1910 with B&W 684s for front and B&W 686s for rear.
My subs were working fine before but when I moved it's not working anymore. The status light remains red all the time.
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The sophomore film from former music video and commercial director Michael Bay, this fast-paced action yarn featured rapid-fire editing, a cutting-edge rock soundtrack and liberal use of shots awash in a haze of burnished hues, all trademarks of producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer. Nicolas Cage stars as Stanley Goodspeed, an FBI chemical weapons expert handed a unique assignment. Francis X. Hummel (Ed Harris), an insane Marine Corps general, has taken 81 tourists hostage on the abandoned island prison of Alcatraz. He and his men are threatening to bomb San Francisco with deadly gas unless $100 million is paid in war reparations to the families of servicemen killed in covert operations. Goodspeed is teamed with former British spy John Patrick Mason (Sean Connery), the only man ever to escape "The Rock," as well as a Navy SEAL team. When their military escorts are ambushed, it's up to odd couple Goodspeed and Mason to break into Alcatraz and stop Hummel. The Rock was the last film produced by Simpson, who died of a drug overdose before the film's release. Solo, his partner Bruckheimer continued making the sort of glossy, frenetic films for which the duo was famed.
- MPAA Rating: R
- Genre(s): Drama
- Run Time: 136min.
- Theatrical Release Date: 02/26/1999
- DVD Release Date: 12/03/1997
- Distributor(s): Phaedra
- Director(s): Michael Bay
- Starring: Nicolas Cage , Sean Connery , Ed Harris , Michael Biehn , William Forsythe
- Themes: Race Against Time,Terrorism,Hostage Situations,Criminal's Revenge,Heroic Mission
- Tone: Earnest,Forceful,Rousing,Slick,Tense,Visceral,Flashy
- Keywords: gas, biological-warfare, blackmail, chemical-warfare, criminal, death, espionage, gasoline, hostage, prison, race-against-time, rescue, terrorism
- Language: English
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Summary: This is information about publishing for K-12 teachers.
The adoption of textbooks as the source of content material in the typical K-12 classroom is about to go through a historical change. Gladwell (2000) identified tipping points that, in retrospect, were obvious successors to the known knowledge or way of doing business. In this case American education is building toward a tipping point that will supplant the traditional hard copy textbook. Textbook committees have begun to adopt laptop computers, chromebooks, ipads, and mobile devices as a substitute for hard copy textbooks, workbooks, and other forms of printed material. Although publishers are moving slowly and deliberately to create digital content the real advantage to adoption of hardware devices is the opportunity to advance, enhance, and customize content material for the individual school district and local conditions. As education tracks in the direction of individualized and personalized learning, there is no better way to achieve this goal than by adapting a lesson to the children (child) within a teacher's classroom.
The Internet has opened the door for teachers to become authors of materials that can be published on the Internet through portals such as Connexions—an authoring data base that "houses" self-authored material that can be accessed by students and teachers within the classroom, across grade levels in a building, across districts, across the state . . . and beyond.
The tipping point may be the purchase of tablet computers as digital devices that are used as books and workbooks. However, the paradigm shift is manifested in the opportunity to use these devices as tools to customize material and "author" content that fits the approach, style, and pedagogy of a teacher at the local level. The teacher as an author of content opens the door for customized lessons that can be adapted by the district to align with local and state guidelines.
The challenge for a school district is in changing the paradigm from teacher as a consumer of content to teacher as author of content. In the past, hard copy textbooks were considered single stop content resources for teachers and students. The Internet has altered how educators view content. Textbook publishers "generalize" knowledge to meet the requirements and expectations of many states and many perspectives. Open Source allows for learning that can be "crowd sourced" by many perspectives and filtered by one's own critical understanding of the subject. It also allows for customizing content to meet local conditions and individual needs.
Through open source software there is the opportunity to author high quality content that can be continuously refined. Teachers are able to develop lessons that enhance and complement content that addresses individual learning needs.
Teacher authoring is a fundamentally different approach to developing content for the typical K-12 school district. As teacher leadership gains credence and acceptance as an expectation for classroom teachers there is, as well, an opportunity to advance teachers as content specialists who publish high quality content.
1. Open Source first needs to be understood and accepted; 2. Open Source is a way to disseminate knowledge at low cost; 3. There is an acceleration of virtual content on tablet computers and mobile devices; 4. Open Source will offer locally published curriculum and instructional/pedagogical materials; 5. Teachers are the authors of quality content material.
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Gladwell, M. (2000). The tipping point. Boston: Little, Brown and Company.
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we had the pleasure of dining here for my birthday using a Bloomspot voucher for a 4 course meal. It ws amazing! The cassoulet is fantastic and a perfect traditional French comfort food, and everything else was so creative and delicious. The kale Caesar salad was healthy and decadent at the same time. The salmon had an Asian trwist and... More
There is something different happening at Pigalle, a Boston mainstay in the theater district – live music, an Asian flair to the menu, $1 oysters on Fridays. It has been many many years since I visited Pigalle and then I had the good fortune to dine there twice just recently. To be honest I had forgotten about it and shame... More
This small, classy French restaurant is a little pricey for a regular dinner outing, but order from the bar menu, and you can enjoy beautifully prepared dishes from the simple (excellent burger) to the more complex (interesting cassoulet) at affordable prices. It's all a little cramped, but worth it for the qualty of the dining.
We had a lovely dinner. Our reservations were at 8pm on Saturday. Our table was promptly ready and our waiter was extra friendly and sweet. The booth was small and faced the restaurant. The room is a little loud but it added a bit of energy to the mood. We chose the Chefs Tasting and Wine pairing. We each ordered... More
I ate at Pigalle last night and sat at the bar. I think one of the great things about this place is that you can dine either high end in the dining room or take advantage of their pretty extensive bar menu. As someone who lives in the neighborhood, its great that you can drop by for a burger (excellent)... More
This restaurant, with its welcoming intimate space provides imaginative and delicious food (try the tuna martini or duck confit and pate as a first course)' gracious expert service (menus, drinks, food, refills on water and wine glasses ) and a relaxed pace. We felt as though we were back in France...with that European sense of not being rushed to vacate... More
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CANTON, Ohio -- Single-season sacks leader Michael Strahan and two players who tried to block him are among 15 modern-era finalists for the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Strahan, who had 22 1/2 sacks in 2001 and 141 1/2 for his 15-year his career with the New York Giants, is joined by offensive tackle Jonathan Ogden of the Ravens and guard-tackle Larry Allen of the Cowboys and 49ers.
The fourth first-year eligible to make the cut is defensive tackle Warren Sapp of the Buccaneers and Raiders.
Strahan, Ogden and Sapp all won Super Bowls.
The hall announced Friday that the other finalists are running back Jerome Bettis; receivers Cris Carter, Tim Brown and Andre Reed; LB-DEs Charles Haley and Kevin Greene; guard Will Shields; defensive back Aeneas Williams; coach Bill Parcells; and former owners Edward DeBartolo Jr. of the 49ers and the late Art Modell of the Browns, who moved to Baltimore in 1996 to become the Ravens.
The two senior nominees are defensive tackle Curley Culp -- who played for the Chiefs, Oilers and Lions -- and linebacker Dave Robinson of the Packers and Redskins.
Between four and seven new members will be selected Feb. 2, the day before the Super Bowl, in New Orleans.
Bettis played for the Rams and Steelers -- he won the 2006 Super Bowl in his final game, something Strahan did in 2008. He's in his third season of eligibility and was beaten out by fellow running backs Marshall Faulk in 2011 and Curtis Martin in 2012 for the hall.
Carter, Brown and Reed all were in the top 10 in receptions when they retired. Haley won five Super Bowls, two with San Francisco and three with Dallas.
Greene was one of the first hybrid linebacker-end defenders, which best suited his pass-rushing skills.
Shields was an ironman blocker for 14 seasons in Kansas City. Williams was a versatile defensive back who played on the corner and at safety. He had 55 career interceptions and 23 fumble recoveries.
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"No one cares what you wear," a Lord & Taylor exec cooed, as my eyes moved from my yellow feet to her 8 trillion karat diamond rings. I decided this mama bird will be my new best friend. Her colleague also looked familiar, so I exclaimed "Hey, I think I know you!" Perhaps you've seen her photo, interjected my new L&T best friend, mercifully murmuring under her breath: "That's the CEO of Lord & Taylor."
So the clothes: According to the show description, "Much like the singers and poets of the beatnik generation, she [the muse of this season's show] makes a point of personal expression, unaggressively proclaiming her identity." I though the point of beatniks was to proclaim their identity, but no matterthis wasn't grizzly Ginsberg beatnik, but the cartoonish farce of Funny Face. Many, many turtlenecks would be involved. As would black knee-highs, square-frame glasses, ballet slippers, and head scarves, paired with baggy bloomers and voluminous pleated shorts (cute, but I'd seen them around at Urban Outfitters and Nolita boutique Min-K), intricately pleated "origami" dresses, and thick-knit bustiersfantastically worn over the turtlenecks. It's exactly like the description says: "Cool chic emerges like a preliminary draft that brings out the essence of things. The sketch becomes the end in itself.". Huh?
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Double Major In a wildly entertaining British Open that saw three breathtaking 72nd-hole finishes and a playoff, unflappable Mark O'Meara won his second major in three months by John Garrity
Alcohol is not truth serum, but sometimes the wetted tongue speaks with refreshing candor. On Sunday, in the aftermath of Mark O'Meara's victory in the British Open, a man in a dark blazer came up behind Brian Watts, who an hour before had lost to O'Meara in a four-hole playoff and was now sitting on a couch in the almost-deserted hospitality tent. The man handed Watts a champagne glass and filled it halfway. Watts, a Diet Coke man, gave the glass a dubious look. But he took a sipcelebrating, no doubt, his imminent escape from golf exile.
The waiter carrying the tray of champagne flutes was already out of earshot. He had crossed the driveway and was passing out drinks to a thirsty and clamoring crowd. Why all the champagne? Because this was a major championship that had given many participantsand spectatorsreason to celebrate. Within an hour on Sunday, the Royal Birkdale Golf Club offered up no fewer than three 72nd-hole finishes as compelling as any in British Open history. Tiger Woods, a stroke off the lead, dropped a 30-foot birdie putt and arm-pumped his way across the 18th green. Seventeen-year-old Brit Justin Rose holed out a 45-yard pitch for birdie and tied for fourth, the best finish by an amateur since Frank Stranahan's second-place finish at Carnoustie in 1953. And Watts forced the playoff with one of the best long bunker shots ever made under pressure. There were other developments last weekend that also merited a tip of the glass. An ultraexclusive gated community in Florida found itself three fourths of the way to the Grand Slam. (O'Meara, who also won the Masters in April, and U.S. Open champion Lee Janzen are both residents of Isleworth in Orlando.) For the second time this summer, the winner of a major had a lost ball reappear as he was walking back to hit another. (A spectator stumbled upon O'Meara's ball in the rough during the third round, saving him at least two strokes; Janzen hit a ball into a tree at San Francisco's Olympic Club in June but lucked out minutes later when it fell back to earth.) For the second time this summer, a four-round total of even par took the prize at a major. (At the Olympic Club tight fairways and fast greens humbled the field; at Royal Birkdale, deep rough and wind did.) Ah, yes, the conditions. The weather in the British Isles has been on the wet and windy side this year. England's northwest shore is so soggy that hedgerows are spilling onto pavements, and articles left outdoors overnight turn into Chia pets. The days leading up to the Open were notable for squalls that whistled through the flags at Royal Birkdale. The rough was so thick that Tom Lehman lost six balls in eight holes during a Monday practice round and so tall that you could almost hide a Texan in itspecifically the defending champion from Dallas, Justin Leonard, who finished 17 over par for the tournament.
Only on the opening day could the weather be called ideal, and the field celebrated with 27 subpar rounds, led by Woods and John Huston, who each shot 65. But the second round went to Royal Birkdale as morning rains soaked the course and afternoon winds raked it. Woods got around in 73 and O'Meara shot a splendid 68, but the day belonged to two golfers who had never been on a leader board at a major. The first was Rose, the rosy-cheeked boy from Hook, a town 40 miles southwest of London, who ditched school 18 months ago to play full-time amateur golf. He shot a 66 in Friday's gale, tying Stranahan (1950) and Woods (1996) for the lowest British Open round by an amateur. "My 66 was nowhere near as good," said Woods, "because mine was in calm weather." The other interloper was Watts, a 32-year-old American who spends most of the year in Japanese hotel rooms, watching television and talking long distance to his wife, Debbye, who is raising their one-year-old son in Oklahoma City. This curious and unsatisfactory arrangement owes to Watts's success on the Japanese tour (he has won 11 tournaments and more than $4 million in five-plus years) and to his equally curious and unsatisfactory attempts to make it on the PGA Tour. (He finished 184th on the money list in 1991, his only year on that circuit.) Watts has been portrayed in the media (unfairly, according to his friends and family) as an ugly American who accumulates bags of yen while shunning Japanese food and culture. Watts says he eats whatever his hosts serve him"Except the raw fish. It's just a mental block," he saysand even loads up the rice cooker whenever he's in Oklahoma City.
With his welcome perhaps wearing out in Japan, Watts had to feel more pressure than the weekend's other contenders. Victory in the British Open carries a five-year exemption for the PGA Tour, and all prize money counts toward the Tour's money list. In effect Watts came to Royal Birkdale as a hostage attempting to raise his own ransom. O'Meara, on the other hand, seemed as relaxed as a pensioner at tea. Before he won the Masters, he was just one of the test-pattern personalities who toil quietly on Tour and end up rich (14 tournament wins and $8.8 million in prize money over 17 years, in O'Meara's case). He didn't register with golf fans until he began exerting an avuncular influence on another of his Isleworth neighbors, Woods. The two holidayed together in Ireland the week before the Open, playing golf and fishing, and it was easy to think of the 41-year-old O'Meara just as Tiger's older, unthreatening friend.
In the end he got a huge break. Since the spectator, an "outside agency" under the rules, had picked up the ball, O'Meara was given a free drop near the point where his ball had been found. When two efforts to drop it on the steep slope did not produce a legal lie, he was told that he could place his ball in the rough. From that cushy lie, O'Meara pitched onto the green and two-putted for a five. At the time O'Meara's hike through the hay suggested that he didn't think he could beat the elements. In retrospect it showed that he had the right temperament for Royal Birkdalea wry detachment that did not so much overcome setbacks as ignore them. On Sunday, in a wind that made the pin flags merely flap instead of stiffen, O'Meara rode like a leaf on the tide of dramatic surges. Ahead of him Woods, who at 22 was scrapping for his second major championship, chipped in for birdie on 17 and thrilled the grandstands on 18 with the long putt that momentarily tied him for the lead. Rose then goosed the crowd with his pitch-in from the tall grass, his last shot as an amateur. (Rose's total of 282 tied him for fourth with Jim Furyk, Jesper Parnevik and Raymond Russell, and led him to announce that he was turning pro.) In the end, though, it was O'Meara and Wattsthe man without a care versus the man without a country. Both birdied the 17th and parred the 18th, although Watts hit the shot we'll remember, a long greenside bunker blast from an awkward lie that came out low and rolled to tap-in range. The two men then were taken to the 15th tee to start the four-hole, stroke-play playoff unique to the Open. Watts blinked first, missing a short birdie putt on 15. He squandered another stroke when he drove into a wall of grass on 17. In the 18th fairway, with sunlight squeezing through a crack in the clouds, O'Meara turned to Higginbotham and said, "I have never been this calm. I can't believe how calm I am." He then smacked a four-iron to the back edge of the green. Two putts later, he was the oldest player in modern times to win two majors in the same year.
Outside, a throng of well-wishers surrounded O'Meara in the driveway next to the clubhouse while his wife, Alicia, watched happily and sipped champagne. "Mark didn't have anything to prove," she said. "This is just something nice that happened to us." Higginbotham, enjoying the momentand his lagersaid, "He's got to get his due now. If he never makes another penny in golf, Mark O'Meara is in the history books." The funny thing was, the one guy without a glass in his hand was the winner. He just stood there with a contented smile on his face, clutching an old claret jug.
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Is Any New Car Weird Enough To Be A Modern Espada?
The Lamborghini Espada remains one of the coolest cars ever made. Why? Because it was a grand-tourer with room for four adults behind its supercar-grade V12
The Lamborghini Espada remains one of the coolest cars ever made. Why? Because it was a grand-tourer with room for four adults behind its supercar-grade V12
I'm sure the 1970 Paris Motor Show was worth visiting for all the French goodness it had to offer, but the most desirable piece of brilliance must have been the Espada show car, specially prepared for the event by Bertone.
This latest edition of the Evo Diaries video series starts in exactly the right way: with the Lamborghini Espada's engine at full roar in a tunnel. If you're having a dull afternoon, that sound will wake you up better than any coffee.
This is not a cutaway illustration. It's the Marzal, the most important Lamborghini that never was. The love child of 50 square feet of glass and half a Miura engine, it was the epitome of Lamborghini's pre-supercar design philosophy. Last month, the only one made was sold for $2.1 million.
Namesake for not only the eponymous 1966 supercar but most Lamborghinis, noted by Hemingway and countless dead matadors, these are the cunning, ferocious Miura bulls of Andalusia.
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Well into the second century of the automobile, new vehicles can't help but be a portmanteau of earlier designs. Even those that believe they're a new segment. Let's see some of the recently-revealed Acura ZDX
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I heard Musberger´s comments. Not a thing wrong with what he said. It was a little school-boyish, but gentlemenly. If the suits were offended by this, how must they feel at the comments of many of the players. Yet, you hear no complaints about them. And Miss Webb appears to be more mature than the whole lot. Click Here if you Like this Comment
At the ceremonial (fake) swearing in of new senators, Joe Biden told Heidi somebody, a new senator, to spread her legs so that she could be frisked. (presumably by him)And not one feminist said anything about that.His comment was perhaps more gross than something said by any womanizer in any bar in the united states.And not one feminist said anything... Click Here if you Like this Comment
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The beauty queen apparently has class. Sure hope her football man does, too. Click Here if you Like this Comment
I did not watch it on TV but having read the quotes and one mind reader here, it´s apparent that there in nothing worse than PC corruption. Click Here if you Like this Comment
Now that the folks up north have seen a small sampling of the beauty and grace of southern women, maybe they will think twice before they stereotype them all as toothless hayseeds, but I doubt it. Click Here if you Like this Comment
Musberger´s comments criticized as being disrespectful to women but Bill Clinton, with history of abusing women, was named father of the year????? Click Here if you Like this Comment
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It was a slow news morning, so Morning Joke had to say something. Notre Dame was getting blown out, so naturally the conversation turned to faces in the crowd, as is typical. Brent was not demeaning in any way, it was very complementary. No story. Click Here if you Like this Comment
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That was a horrible game that was totally out of hand by the time Musburger said that.Those guys had to be desperate to find something to talk about, since the game wasn´t the least bit interesting after about the first 10 minutes.She is attractive. I don´t blame Musburger for pointing it out, and didn´t think it was creepy in any way.But I guess he broke the first commandment of the lie-beral PC police, and actually said out loud what every man (and most women) in America were thinking when they saw her -- that her boyfriend was a VERY lucky guy!!!!! Click Here if you Like this Comment
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