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FLORENCE – The Cashore Marionettes will be performing two shows at the Francis Marion University Performing Arts Center on Saturday, March 10. Both shows will be performed in the more intimate Black Box Theatre at the PAC.
The Marionettes show is unmatched in artistry, grace and refinement of movement and the internationally acclaimed group redefines the art of puppetry. The moving and humorous performances have astounded audiences in Europe, the Far East and across North America including stops at the Kennedy Center in Washington.
The afternoon program, "Simple Gifts", is a series of touching portrayals and poignant scenes from everyday life set to stunning music by such composers as Vivaldi, Strauss, Beethoven and Copland. The evening program, "Life in Motion", is a powerful, entertaining, surprising, theatrically satisfying, one-of-a-kind evening for adults and young adults.
Tickets for the afternoon show begin at $5 and begin at $10 for the evening show and may be purchased at www.fmupac.org, via telephone at (843) 661-4444, and at the FMU Performing Arts Center Box Office. Telephone and personal ticket sales are available Monday through Friday between 12-5 p.m. Tickets may be available for purchase at the door.


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Ambisonic decoding
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This page focusses on decoding of classic first-order Ambisonics. Other relevant information is available on the Ambisonic reproduction systems page.
The Ambisonic B-format WXYZ signals define what the listener should hear. How these signals are presented to the listener by the speakers for best results, depends on the number of speakers and their location. Ambisonics treats directions where no speakers are placed with as much importance as speaker positions. It is undesirable for the listener to be conscious that the sound is coming from a discrete number of speakers. Some simple decoding equations are known to give good results for common speaker arrangements.
But Ambisonic Speaker Decoders can use much more information about the position of speakers, including their exact position and distance from the listener. Because human beings use different mechanisms to locate sound, Classic Ambisonic Decoders it is desirable to modify the speaker feeds at each frequency to present the best information using Shelf Filters.
Some views on the complexities of Shelf Filters and Distance Compensation are explained in "Ambisonic Surround Decoders"[1] and "SHELF FILTERS for Ambisonic Decoders"[2] in the External links.
There are specialised decoders for large audiences in large spaces.
Hardware decoders have been commercially available since the late 1970s; currently, Ambisonics is standard in surround products offered by Meridian Audio, Ltd.. Ad hoc software decoders are also available (see External links).
There are five main types of decoder:
Diametric decoders[edit]
This design is intended for a domestic, small room setting, and allows speakers to be arranged in diametrically opposed pairs.
Regular Polygon decoders[edit]
This design is intended for a domestic, small room setting. The speakers are equidistant from the listener and lie equally spaced on the circumference of a circle. The simplest Regular Polygon decoder is a Square with the listener in the centre. At least four speakers are required. Triangles do not work, exhibiting large "holes" between the speakers. Regular Hexagons perform better than Squares especially to the sides.
For the simplest (two dimensional) case (no height information), and spacing the loudspeakers equally in a circle, we derive the loudspeaker signals from the B-format W, X and Y channels:
where is the direction of the speaker under consideration.
The most useful of these is the Square 4.0 decoder.
The coordinate system used in Ambisonics follows the right hand rule convention with positive X pointing forwards, positive Y pointing to the left and positive Z pointing upwards. Horizontal angles run anticlockwise from due front and vertical angles are positive above the horizontal, negative below.
Auditorium decoders[edit]
This design is intended for a large, public space setting.
"Vienna" decoders[edit]
These are so named because the paper introducing them was presented at the 1992 AES conference held in Vienna. This design was covered by US 5757927 [3] from Trifield Productions (see External links). The technology provides one approach to the decoding of Ambisonic signals to irregular loudspeaker arrays (such as ITU) commonly used for 5.1 surround sound replay. A slight flaw in the 1992 published papers decoder coefficients, and the use of heuristic search algorithms in order to solve the set of non-linear simultaneous equations needed to generate the decoders was published by Wiggins et al. in 2003,[4] and later extended to higher order irregular decoders in 2004[5]
Parametric decoders[edit]
The idea behind parametric decoding is to treat the sound's direction of incidence as a parameter that can be estimated through time–frequency analysis. A large body of research into human spatial hearing[6][7] suggests that our auditory cortex applies similar techniques in its auditory scene analysis, which explains why these methods work.
The major benefits of parametric decoding is a greatly increased angular resolution and the separation of analysis and synthesis into separate processing steps. This separation allows B-format recordings to be rendered using any panning technique, including delay panning, VBAP[8] and HRTF-based synthesis.
Parametric decoding was pioneered by Lake DSP[9] in the late 1990s and independently suggested by Farina and Ugolotti in 1999.[10] Later work in this domain includes the DirAC method[11] and the Harpex method.[12]
Irregular Layout Decoders[edit]
The Rapture3D decoder from Blue Ripple Sound supports this and is already used in a number of computer games using OpenAL.
See also[edit]
- Ambisonics
- Ambisonic UHJ format: Decoding UHJ
- Meridian Audio, Ltd., manufacturer of hardware decoders
- ^ Lee, Richard (18 February 2007). "Ambisonic Surround Decoder". Ambisonia.com. Archived from the original on 19 March 2009. Retrieved 4 April 2009.
- ^ Lee, Richard (14 April 2007). "SHELF FILTERS for Ambisonic Decoders" (Zipped Microsoft Word document). Ambisonia.com. Archived from the original on 15 April 2009. Retrieved 4 April 2009.
- ^ US patent 5757927, Gerzon, Michael Anthony & Barton, Geoffrey James, "Surround sound apparatus", issued 1998-05-26
- ^ Wiggins, Bruce; Paterson-Stephens, Iain; Lowndes, Val; Berry, Stuart (2003). "The Design and Optimisation of Surround Sound Decoders Using Heuristic Methods". Proceedings of UKSim 2003, Conference of the UK Simulation Society: 106–114.
- ^ Wiggins, Bruce (2004). An Investigation into the Real-time Manipulation and Control of Three-dimensional Sound Fields (Ph.D.). University of Derby.
- ^ Blauert, Jens (1997). Spatial Hearing: The Psychophysics of Human Sound Localization (Revised ed.). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-02413-6. Retrieved 6 January 2011.
- ^ Bregman, Albert S. (29 September 1994). Auditory Scene Analysis: The Perceptual Organization of Sound. Bradford Books. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-52195-6. Retrieved 12 May 2012.
- ^ "Vector base amplitude panning". Research / Spatial sound. Otakaari, Finland: TKK Acoustics. 18 January 2006. Retrieved 12 May 2012.
- ^ US patent 6628787, McGrath, David Stanley & McKeag, Adam Richard, "Wavelet conversion of 3-D audio signals", issued 2003-09-30
- ^ Farina, Angelo; Ugolotti, Emanuele (April 1999). "Subjective Comparison Between Stereo Dipole and 3D Ambisonic Surround Systems for Automotive Applications" (PDF). Proceedings of the AES 16th International Conference. AES 16th International conference on Spatial Sound Reproduction. Rovaniemi, Finland: AES. s78357. Retrieved 12 May 2012.
- ^ "Directional Audio Coding". Research / Spatial sound. Otakaari, Finland: TKK Acoustics. 23 May 2011. Retrieved 12 May 2012.
- ^ "Harpex". Oslo, Norway: Harpex Limited. 2011. Retrieved 12 May 2012.
External links[edit]
- Ambisonic Surround Sound FAQ (Sections 17 and 18 for hardware decoders)
- Ambisonia website Bruce Wiggins's WAD decoders for 4.0, 6.0 and 8.0 are nearly Classic Ambisonic Decoders and easy to use plugins for Windows Media Player.
- B2X Plug-Ins B2D, B2G and B2Stereo software decoders, in VST and Audio Unit formats, for Mac OS X
- Shelf Filters and Distance Compensation "Ambisonic Surround Decoder" and "SHELF FILTERS for Ambisonic Decoders" explain these important features of Classic Ambisonic Decoders for those designing software decoders
- Harpex Ltd (for stand-alone and plug-in versions of the Harpex method)
- Blue Ripple Sound Limited Rapture3D and TOA regular and irregular speaker decoders, binaural stereo and more.

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SOMERSET Drainage Boards will call on all local authorities, agencies and services to unite behind an all-embracing strategy to reduce the threat of flooding in the county at a top-level meeting on Friday (March 15).
Nick Stevens, Chief Executive of the Somerset Drainage Boards Consortium, will reinforce the need for a sustainable, whole-catchment approach.
Speaking in advance of the Somerset Flooding Summit, he said: "This is an opportunity for organisations, local authorities and communities across the county to unite and promote a way forward which is both affordable and sustainable."
Repeated and prolonged flooding saw many businesses in Somerset waterlogged three times last year and farmland under water for many months.
The Environment Agency has now agreed that desilting, or dredging, would substantially alleviate flooding and reduce disruption and financial consequences to the county, but the estimated £2million cost and future maintenance funding cannot be met under the Government's current funding criteria.
Nick will explain to the countywide meeting how the flood risk to the Somerset Levels and Moors has increased, not only through deterioration in the condition of the rivers, but also because of urban development and changes to land management in the catchment areas of the rivers Parrett and Tone.
He said: "The key is to tackle the flooding problem on a whole-catchment basis. For many years now, the rate at which floodwater comes off the higher land surrounding the Levels and Moors has been increasing. Yet instead of improving the capacity of the rivers to cope with the extra challenge, we have allowed them to become silted up."


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Playing pirate does not have to be creeepy nor cut some one with sword. Pirate parties can be fun.
Kids can count fake gold coins: walk the plank ( a balance beam): or go on a treasure hunt for fun party favors.
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Keeneland Gross Passes 2012 Total on 5th Day
Led by a $260,000 Cherokee Run mare, the Keeneland November sale racked up more gains at Saturday's fifth session Nov. 9, and surpassed 2012's total gross with six days left in the auction.
Led by a $260,000 Cherokee Run mare, the Keeneland November sale racked up more gains at Saturday's fifth session Nov. 9, and surpassed 2012's total gross with six days left in the auction.
Aubby K, making her first start since she was unplaced in the Test Stakes (gr. I) more than six months ago, became a grade II winner when she put away nine rivals in the $150,000 Inside Information Stakes (gr. II).
Golden Mystery makes her first appearance since she was purchased at auction last month in the $150,000 Inside Information Stakes (gr. II) March 17 at Gulfstream Park.
Sold at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky winter mixed sale for $625,000 to Regis Farms a day after her win in the Hurricane Bertie Stakes (gr. III) Feb. 10, Golden Mystery is back with trainer Marty Wolfson at Calder.
Beloveda, a half sister to recent Hurricane Bertie (gr. III) winner Golden Mystery, brought the highest price so far at the Feb. 11 Fasig-Tipton Kentucky winter mixed sale when she was bought for $205,000 by Gainesway.
Golden Mystery made things look easy in the stretch of the Hurricane Bertie Stakes (gr. III) at Gulfstream Park Feb. 10 as she drew off to a 3 1/2-length score.
Emma's Encore won the hearts of racing fans last summer racing for 83-year-old trainer Allen Jerkens. The daughter of Congrats is highweighted in the $150,000 Hurricane Bertie Stakes (gr. III) at Gulfstream Park on Feb. 10.
There wasn't much sunshine to be found at Gulfstream Park Jan. 19 as Golden Mystery opened the Florida Sunshine Millions program with a romping victory in the $150,000 Filly and Mare Sprint.
Grade I winner Emma's Encore gets her 4-year-old season started in the $150,000 Florida Sunshine Millions Filly and Mare Sprint, one of two sprint stakes on the special program for state-breds Jan. 19 at Gulfstream Park.
Dust and Diamonds produced a quick return on her purchase at auction in November with an easy victory in the $100,000 Sugar Swirl Stakes (gr. III) at Gulfstream Park Dec. 8.
C C's Pal, who has won or placed in 22 of 30 starts for owner Eric Fein and trainer Rick Dutrow, tops the eight-horse field of older fillies and mares entered in the Aug. 3 Honorable Miss Stakes (gr. II) at Saratoga.
In step with the trend from recent years, the July 7 Princess Rooney Handicap (gr. I) at Calder Race Course has attracted mostly local horses, highlighted by reigning champion female sprinter Musical Romance.
Fourth as the favorite in the My Juliet Stakes, Nicole H makes a one-week turnaround for trainer Michael Hushion in the $200,000 Vagrancy Handicap (gr. II) June 2 at Belmont Park.
Favored Eighttofasttocatch wins the Maryland Million Classic to highlight Maryland racing's big day.
The 26th Jim McKay Maryland Million attracted 111 entrants to the 11-race program which will be held Oct. 1 at Laurel Park. The total purses are worth more than $1 million.
Under a heads-up ride from Cornelio Velasquez, Hot Summer made a late charge along the inside and edged pacesetter Maple Forest in the final strides to win the $102,000 Victory Ride Stakes (gr. III) Aug. 27 at Saratoga.
Led by 3-1 morning-line favorite Jealous Girl, a field of 10 3-year-old filly sprinters was drawn for the $100,000 Victory Ride (gr. III) Aug. 27 at Saratoga.
Graded stakes placed in a pair of starts this year, Ms Vanenzza looks to break through against nine fillies and mares in the $150,000 Endine Stakes (gr. III) Aug. 20 at Delaware Park.
Speedy Hilda's Passion, a two-time graded stakes winner at Gulfstream Park this year, makes her Belmont Park debut as the heavy favorite for the $150,000 Vagrancy Handicap (gr. II) June 4.
Turtle Bird Stable's Haynesfield, winner of the Jockey Club Gold Cup (gr. I) in 2010, has been honored as New York-bred Horse of the Year for the second year in a row.
Final Mesa left her rivals behind in the stretch to register her first graded stakes score for Wesley Ward in the $100,000 Old Hat (gr. III) on opening day of the 2011 Gulfstream Park meet Jan. 5.
Roxy Gap won all three of her starts at Woodbine last summer by big margins for trainer Mark Casse and is the morning-line pick for the $100,000 Old Hat Stakes Jan. 5, opening day feature of the 2011 Gulfstream Park meet.
R Heat Lightning, fresh off a nifty score in the Spinaway Stakes (gr. I) at seven furlongs Sept. 5 at Saratoga, steps up to a mile in the Frizette Stakes (gr. I) for 2-year-old fillies Oct. 9 at Belmont Park.
Trainer Todd Pletcher, who won last year's Frizette Stakes (gr. I) with Devil May Care, is likely to have a foursome for the $300,000 race Oct. 9 at Belmont Park.
A hot pace failed to deter Wickedly Perfect when she rallied in upper stretch to win the $150,000 Sorrento Stakes (gr. III) Aug. 6 at Del Mar to remain unbeaten in two starts.
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|Honchis'n Ponchis
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|Todd A. Pletcher
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Pastoral challenges prompted pietists among Elizabethan Catholics and Calvinists to commend what historians now call an inward turn whereby the faithful, in a sense, become their own confessors. This article suggests that spiritual exercises or soliloquies Shakespeare scripted for his Hamlet (and, less so, for Angelo in
David Bevington's
Stephen Egerton preached at Blackfriars before Shakespeare came to London and was still there in 1596 to oppose James Burbage's plans to transform the great hall into a theater. Egerton was preaching at Blackfriars when Shakespeare succeeded, in 1608, where Burbage had failed. During his long tenure, Egerton's sermons consistently sized up the realm's reformed churches and found them wanting. In 1589, he berated Queen Elizabeth's religiously reformed counselors for failing to advocate aggressively further changes in liturgy and polity. But his timing was terrible, for conformists then held the advantage and hoped to silence talk of greater change. Egerton accused his conformist critics of pandering; they hoped to perpetuate their privileged positions by flattering powerful patrons, he said, by making out "the sins of great ones to be little ones." But while lecturing determined conformists, on
In the 1560s and 1570s, the "clearing" (or purification) that mattered most to reformists, assiduous Calvinists later called puritans by their critics, was more liturgical than psychological. They longed to have what they called the "inventions of men," which they associated with Catholicism, banned and to have the established church explicitly proscribe gaudy clerical apparel that attracted attention and affection away from God's Word and its elaboration in their sermons. Candles, surplices (liturgical tunics), saints' images, kneeling before altars, and the altars themselves were "idolatries," which, Egerton insisted, exhibited England's ingratitude for all that the earliest Tudor reformers had done. Those "idolatries" might appear petty to some--adiaphora or excesses that could be tolerated without great consequence. To others, however, they were serious crimes. Egerton was emphatically among those "others" ([
But the criminal within every Christian was a substantial concern as well for Egerton and his friends. Even the avidly reformed in their parishes invariably forgot that they "oftentimes trip[ped] in particulars" because "nothing standeth betweene us and the actual committing of sin, but onely the want of occasion." The remedy was to remember to "make reckoning" of the sin within, Egerton explained, and to fortify one's resolve to resist its bidding ([
Excuses had to be evicted. Remorse took their place, developing into a "godly sorrow," which, in Laurence Tomson's version of Theodore Beza's biblical commentary, was roughly the equivalent of a revenge that was prompted by love rather than hatred and fear ([
Long-time preacher at Dry Drayton near Cambridge, Richard Greenham explained that ordinary sorrow insufficient. It might fit easily into Christians' to-do lists and, therefore, be more palatable and practical. To encourage tepid regrets, however, was a mistake, Greenham said, illustrating his point with the story of a heretic, who asked from the scaffold how he might be spared the torments of hell that allegedly awaited him. Told that repentance, then and there, could save him, he replied to his would-be consolers that, if their "Christ [is] so easily intreated … I defie him." If the authorities had "dealt more bitterly" with the heretic, Greenham speculated, if they had required him to scrub his sins and "clear" his conscience, he might have complied.([
The third act of Shakespeare's
That kind of assurance was at the center of the fideism taught at Wittenberg, where--Shakespeare informs playgoers--the younger Hamlet had been studying at the time of his father's assassination. Whatever--if anything in particular--the playwright would have had his protagonist learn at Luther's university, usurper Claudius learns, to his disadvantage, what the patrons at the play who frequented London sermons already understood, specifically, that the stage penitent's attempts to atone were lame:
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below Words without thoughts never to heaven goe.
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below
Words without thoughts never to heaven goe.
Claudius is, as Bevington says, "a textbook case of the unregenerate sinner, incapable of extricating himself from his damnable predicament despite his knowing precisely what he would have to do to save his soul" ([
Or did playgoers see Hamlet's persistent assaults on his own irresolution as an elaborate dramatization of the introspection exhibited in Michel de Montaigne's
Arguably, Shapiro's masterful reconstruction of a single year in the playwright's life--the year before
But auditors and readers would also learn that God was the source of their sorrows and that their sorrows were symptoms of reconciliation--and therefore were blessings. For example, central to the Jesuits' evangelical ethos were Ignatius Loyola's
Reformists maintained that it was incumbent on faithful Christians to shape a distinctive presence in this world. The faithful, preoccupied with their "strayings and infirmities," were called to be miserable. If ever they should start to believe that their goodwill and good deeds curried favor in the celestial court and that they had earned God's grace, they should immediately "clear" that conceit, which--in the end--would count against them. According to the prolific Suffolk preacher Nicholas Bownde, King David discovered precisely that, and the misery and repentance his discovery occasioned were useful precedents for Elizabethan Calvinists struggling to come to terms with their impiety. On Bownde's pages, plagues and other afflictions in Elizabethan England were connected with David's temptations to renounce God's righteousness. For David, however, his humiliation turned into humility, not self-pity. Humility led to frank assessments of his transgressions and to self-accusations. Hence, he showed religiously reformed Christians in Bownde's time and place how to judge themselves "so thorowly that the Lord in his good time might cease judging of us" ([
Yet that formula is misleading. God was not the end of creatures' self-analysis and repentance, as "in his good time" would suggest. God "hath the greatest stroke in these distresses of the mind," in every Christian's dis-ease, which, as William Perkins explained, attests genuine contrition and "Christian clearing." God, the choreographer, dances along with his terrestrial company [
The development of a "true feeling of religion" (and the "Christian clearing" required to make a place for it in one's conscience) was steady, but seldom smooth; indeed, one's route from indifference and insensibility swerved, doubled back, and swerved again before reaching an assurance of election. Richard Greenham, Bownde's father-in-law and reformist expert on consolation, called it "an interchangeable course of sorrow and comfort, of faith and feare." The distance to one's destination--"quietnesse of minde"--at any given time, was uncertain, although what was certain was that both the beginnings and ends belonged to God [
But reformists were consoled by their discomfort. "We feele not corruption by corruption," Arthur Dent explained while he cut a "pathe-way" to heaven for ordinary Christians; "we feele corruption by grace. And the more grace we have, the more quick we are in the feeling of corruption." As for the "doubting and wavering," which typically plagued faith and threatened to overturn the faithful's assurances of election, Dent noted that they were hardly cause for despair--no more than "the barking and bawling of a few little currs and whippets." No bother at all; "doubtings," he went on, "do no whit impeach the certainety of salvation but rather argue a perfect soundness and health of [our] soules" ([
Ministering comfort from the pulpit was no easy matter. Former playwright and reformist pamphleteer Stephen Gosson declared that "the hardest profession in the world [is] to be a preacher." In theory, the reformed Christians' "wavering" or dialectic between doubt and faith enriched religious experience, yet, in practice, those Christians seemed to experience the dialectic as a duel, "a combat of contraries" ([
Stephen Egerton was heard to call it "a heavenly journey," notwithstanding its "manie trials [and] fears." The religiously reformed, repentant, and self-analytical were "sorrowfull pilgrim[s,]" but never "comfortless" ([
The "preservative" prescribed most often was self-accusation, which consoled because, as we learned here, it was a sign of the presence of "contrary grace." Norfolk rector and chaplain to King James I, Anthony Maxey, typical of Calvinism's would-be consolers, insisted that only grace tugged sinners to "feele their corruption" ([
And, because desperation still dispirited those ordinary Christians, their pastors and preachers reminded them that sacraments were given "for the taking awaye of doubt and distruste." Ideally, therefore, their confidence was "underpropped and confirmed" by sacraments as well as by scriptures and self-incrimination, and they could be assured "of the grace and favor of God touching the forgiveness of [their] sinnes." That was the line taken by Thomas Wilcox, Dering's friend who collaborated with John Field and perhaps Thomas Cartwright to formulate the puritans' 1572
Wilcox was alluding to the conditions priests reportedly placed on absolution, specifically, to the stipulation that the absolved pay for pardons. Priests held back the good news that forgiveness was free, so that the Catholic clerical establishment might profit by intensifying the laity's uncertainties and then by charging for temporary relief. Unsurprisingly, from the Catholics' missionary literature, one retrieves a very different image of the unreformed--English Catholic priests, Jesuits, other expatriate "seminarie men," and the Jacobethan Catholic laity they all served. For instance, layman George Gilbert stressed the heroism of the clerical itinerants who crossed from the Continent during the early 1580s and who risked their lives to rekindle "a true feeling of religion" among "frosty" Catholics (
"Papistry" had been forced underground by that time. Pastoral counseling was not readily available, so Jesuit Robert Persons composed and circulated something of a self-help manual to explain to laymen how to undertake the "weghtye busines" of their salvation: "a Christian may judge of him selfe whether he performe [and] do the thinge for whiche he was sente into this worlde." From Christ--without clerical mediation--the faithful received not only detailed instructions on how to please God but "also force and habilitie, by his grace, whereby we are made able" to "fly evil" and "doe good." Fleeing evil and doing good began with self-arraignment. Persons told his readers to start by unequivocally acknowledging and repenting their "infirmitie" ([
Repentance was disorienting, he conceded; how distressing to face the fact that--and to figure out why--God was "styrred up" against the way one lived! Recusants (Catholics who refused to attend the reformed church and were fined for their absences) as well as church papists, who grudgingly appeared at the established churches to avoid penalties, justifiably experienced "servile fear." They had to hide their faith or to practice it privately and irregularly. They learned from historians that God had expected heroism and martyrdom from Catholics who confronted difficult circumstances in the past. Hence, they likely suspected that their compromises and cowardice--despite the political problems they faced--as well as other shortcomings might prompt God to punish them. The aim of Persons's "exercises" was to change their suspicion, "everye daye, into love." Among the English Catholics trembling "in feare onlie for dreade of punishment," he circulated a
For Persons, "consideration" led to a penitent's resolve to accept "the austeritie of a vertuous life." That had been the great accomplishment of martyrs and monks. For the latter, convents were incubators where contemplation developed--as "consideration"--and issued in the determination to confront the struggles with sin that God choreographed for them. Edmund Bunny, one of Archbishop Grindal's chaplains and a canon of Carlisle Cathedral, who abridged Calvin's
Persons was aware that he and other expatriate missionaries returning to England were working in a world turned upside-down, a world in which the Catholic laity ordered around--and the reformed laity chased around--devout priests. Perhaps what disturbed the clerics who had come from abroad more than their dependence on the resident, recusant laity was that laity's independence and intractability. It appeared to Persons that many church papists needed throttling rather than coaching and counseling. They seemed as resistant to Jesuit counselors, he remarked, as Hebrews had been inhospitable to their prophets. Stiff-necked Hebrews and stubborn Catholics exhibited "so … perverse an alienation" from God. Jacobethan Catholics had much to learn from the Old Testament prophets' shrill indictments (from their "kynde of speeche"), which, Persons explained applied personally to sixteenth-century Christians who "refusest [God's] good motions and other meanes sent from hym." As for those "other meanes," Persons was explicit, asking "how many Christians be there … which abhorre to here good counsayle? feare and tremble to reade good bookes? fly and detest the frequentation of godlie companie lest perhappes by suche occasions they might be touched in conscience, converted, and saved" [
Avoiding godly company and counsel, too many Catholics, on Persons' count, also avoided confronting their "infirmitie" and ingratitude. "Obduration and hardnes of hart" kept them from experiencing godly sorrow. Prelates assembled at the Council of Trent in 1551 had ordered that confessionals become tribunals to shame the doggedly indifferent. The Jesuits' spiritual exercises served similarly--as remedies for "a most dangerous and desperate disease"--"almost a remedyles disease"--this "obduration." Person's "exercise" was therapy, assisting Catholics to accuse themselves, moving faithful yet somewhat indolent readers to exhibit, in Persons's terms, "a kind hart," which, in turn, results in contrition and "amendement of lyfe" ([
Bunny valued Persons's words and was persuaded that, scrubbed of Catholic sentiment, the Jesuit's
Bunny joined the chorus of English reformists who complained that popes "meddled with civill causes." Complainants read Tudor history as an indictment of Catholic prelates. In the late 1520s, Pope Clement VII was an obstacle to King Henry VIII's pursuit of the divorce that, he predicted, would supply him (and his realm), on remarriage, with a male heir. Fewer than fifty years later, Pope Pius V injudiciously, reformists argued, had excommunicated Queen Elizabeth. There seemed to be no end to papal meddling, and, by the early 1580s, Catholicism's English critics identified Jesuits as executors of Rome's most egregious and invidious policies. Bunny compared Jesuits' strategy to that of Thomas Becket. Jesuits--much as that "arrogant" twelfth-century archbishop--were intent on forcing English Catholics to choose between "a foreign priest" and their queen ([
The expatriate "Jesuits, seminarie priests, and all the[ir] company of unnaturall impes" made their choice when they first left England, Bunny said, and, their return to force that choice on others was unpardonable and more than sufficient, he continued, to condemn their spokesman, Persons. But that was no reason to disregard (and to discard) Persons's contributions to the development of religious self-awareness ([
Reformed and unreformed agreed, then, that the spirit's "good motions" kept pious Christians "continual[ly] exercising." Bunny even admitted, discretely--for the Calvinists' fideism often precluded what was called "works righteousness"--that such "exercising" included obligatory charitable activities, although he accused Catholics of turning "to superstitious and very il uses" legacies and endowments given for charitable ends ([
Because Persons' take on the collaboration between divine grace and human will was close--yet not close enough--to the religiously reformed consensus, Bunny clarified: Persons kept grace, the "great oxe," apart from "our endevor at the other end," whereas, in the rival, reformed scheme, "regenerate [Christians] have an indevor framed in them by grace, but otherwise the natural children of Adam have noe such of themselves, but only to evil" ([
Bunny was less hostile toward Luis de Granada, a Dominican friar, whose work also appealed to Persons. For De Granada, pious Christians were perpetually perplexed. How else could they react to the clods of envy, ambition, and corruption that obstructed their every effort to pass from the miseries of this world to the rewards of the next? Still, de Granada, much as the Jesuits, was sure that absolution was on offer in the sacrament of Penance and that "wrangling puritane calvenist[s]" were motivated by "great malice and folie." Nonetheless, reformists saw to the English translation of de Granada's texts, inasmuch as that literature--as Persons'
Weeping signaled that the medicine was working. De Granada tried his hand at child psychology to elaborate: "loth-some to behold," infants come from the womb with ambitions that they cannot articulate and will find utterly impossible to satisfy. All they can do at the start of life--without instruction--and at the end of life--with frustration--is weep. Tears, however, cleanse and heal. ([
Robert Persons began asking for Southwell in autumn, 1584. Jesuit colleagues who landed with the first wave had been captured. But the Order's General in Rome, Aquaviva, was not yet reconciled to having Southwell exposed to danger in England when that expatriate's impressive intellectual gifts might be put to excellent use and safely so, elsewhere ([
"My tears, my drink," he has King David confide in "David's
In Southwell's "Prodigall Child's Soule Wracke," the narrator, "grown rich in vice, in vertue poore," becomes aware of his predicament as "waves of wo" wash over him or her. "Soule Wracke" draws out the metaphor:
The wrestling winds with raging blasts Still hold me in cruell chace. They broke my anchors, sailes, and masts, Permitting no reposing place. The boistrous seas with swelling flouds, On every side did work their spight, Heaven overcast with stormie clouds, Denide the Planets guiding light. The hellish furies lay in wait, To winne my soule into their power, To make me bite at every bait, Wherein my bane I might devoure. Thus heaven and hell, thus sea and land, Thus stormes and tempests did conspire, With just revenge of scourging hand, To witnes God's deserved ire
The wrestling winds with raging blasts
Still hold me in cruell chace.
They broke my anchors, sailes, and masts,
Permitting no reposing place.
The boistrous seas with swelling flouds,
On every side did work their spight,
Heaven overcast with stormie clouds,
Denide the Planets guiding light.
The hellish furies lay in wait,
To winne my soule into their power,
To make me bite at every bait,
Wherein my bane I might devoure.
Thus heaven and hell, thus sea and land,
Thus stormes and tempests did conspire,
With just revenge of scourging hand,
To witnes God's deserved ire
The criticism that the poet had been "unable to paint sin in other than dark colors" ([
The martyrs' ordeals seemed to him superior to psycho-spiritual struggles in reformed circles, which, he believed, hardly qualified as pseudo-martyrdoms. Yet the religiously reformed continued to commend what could be learned from the "darkenes" they experienced as a kind of death, insofar as their arrogance and complacence had died. Had they not turned inward, confronting the "darkenes" there, and had they not reflected on "God's deserved ire," they would not have come to construe their "repaire" as biblical and redemptive, and to "feel" it as something both intimate and transcendent. "Deserved ire" played the same large part in reformists' remarks on "repaire"; "you shalbe damned," non-conformist preacher Arthur Dent prophesied, "except ye have this cleering of your selves." From the early 1580s, long before he cut his
And they should also ponder what, within themselves, so displeased God! Without knowing what to confess and what to "cleer," the reformed faithful could hardly experience a "true feeling of religion," originating in one's sorrowful self-awareness and developing--with contrition--into something akin to the prodigal's "soule wracke." Dent, though, was asked by some parishioners to help them avoid the "strong purgations" that his sermons urged on them. He replied with a question--"would you have plaisters before you have wounds"--then explained that there were no shortcuts, no quick ways to acquire assurances of election and, with it, "the true feeling of religion." Marrowless or mild self-deprecation would gain nothing; Dent could and would comfort them only when he saw their "faces blubbered with weeping and [their] heartes mollified and sorrowing with care." His mention of weeping and of "mournefull lessons" about human "infirmitie" ([
Southwell's narrator, in this instance, was St. Peter. Medieval and Jacobethan Catholic polemicists frequently drew that apostle into their vindications of popes' claims to authority over all Christian churches. Said to have been the first bishop of Rome and to have deposited his powers with his successors there--notably, his power to bind and loose any sinner--sinful princes as well as sinful prelates--St. Peter was central to the Catholics' replies to antipapal rhetoric. They could say, after all, that Peter's place in church history and his power to absolve had been explicitly attested in the Gospel of Matthew (6:18-19), "on this rock." Jesuits were known for opposing alternative readings of that controversial passage as part of what Michael Questier now describes as their "aggressive" initiative to enforce papal supremacy ([
Southwell's "Complaynt of St. Peter" was a translation of Luigi Tansillo's "Lagrime di San Pietro," but the translator liberally tinkered with his source, purging what Pierre Janelle calls the Tansillo's "good natured garrulity." Southwell, in effect, transformed Tansillo's text into a Petrarchan rapture--into his own "great lyric of remorse" [
Other critics think otherwise. Louis Martz claimed that he had to squint to see "hints of intense self-awareness" in the "Complaynt" ([
One could argue that Southwell dropped his--and Tansillo's--St. Peter on the reformist's (and on Hamlet's) "interchangeable course." The apostle's appeals to Mary unmistakably marked his "Complaynt" as Catholic, although its shifts from faith to fear and back clearly are confessionally bipartisan and symptomatic of what Thomas Wilcox, Richard Greenham, Arthur Dent, and other ardent reformists often described as puritans, diagnosed as ultimately, soterially hygienic "distresses of the minde." Southwell's Peter knows his "inner feeling" of remorse is unfeigned, but he is not sure that Mary will "the sorrow with the sinner see." And even if she does, "can mother like what did the sonne abjure, or hart deflowred a virgin's love redeeme" ([
If Pierre Janelle is correct, Southwell did not learn "to distrust and disregard himself" at Douai. Instead, he acquired his eagerness for self-effacement in England and brought to the Society of Jesus and to Catholic friends across the Channel what was said about the religious personality in the religion around Shakespeare ([
We will never know how closely Shakespeare observed evangelical impulses that marked the religion around him and that he shuffled into Hamlet's religions. But we now know that "inward greefe" and contrition rivetingly described and countenanced on both sides of the confessional divide were difficult to miss. Some of Southwell's phrases did resurface at the Globe, Shakespeare's theater in Southwark, words and sentiments which tempt historian Peter Milward to dub that Jesuit's poetry a "storehouse of Shakespearean phrases." He was particularly impressed by "the large number of parallels with
But the problem with docking Hamlet alongside the puritan prodigal is that Shakespeare took "pleasure in teasing" puritanical Calvinists, as Jonathan Bate says, suggesting the playwright's ridicule was repayment for their opposition to theatrical entertainment ([
Angelo is usually taken as evidence of Shakespeare's demonization of the realm's puritans. Debora Shuger's study of Jacobethan "political theologies" tellingly makes that argument, starting with what she configures as the "fundamental opposition between the penitential models," which encourage virtue, and a "puritan disciplinary" model, which punishes vice. John Whitgift and conformist bishops, Shuger alleges, implemented the former as part of a program she describes as "inclusive churchmanship." The latter, she continues, had been reupholstered in "the modern puritanisms of the religious Right" in the United States, which, during the last decade of the twentieth century and early in the twenty-first, took great pains to legislate morality. Shuger's late Tudor puritans have no patience for prodigals, and no pardons. Indeed, a "blanket repudiation of penitential in favor of penal justice characterizes the puritan reformation of manners" ([
But Angelo seems to me--and may have seemed to playgoers--more caricature than characterization. Much the same may be said about the "coldly legalistic" Isabella, whom he tried to seduce ([
Caricatures normally contain some truth, which polemicists have expertly stretched to make a point. The conformists depicted puritans as fanatics for discipline who wanted the promiscuous put to death and who would have had disobedient children on scaffolds as well. But evidence suggests that puritans favored excommunication not extermination when their neighbors were guilty of such "enormous crymes as incest … adultery, and such lyke" ([
There is no denying that reformist and conformist moralists alike frowned on bridal pregnancies and that puritan disciplinary strategies tended to polarize communities, as social historians Keith Wrightson and David Levine conclude in their study of a single Kent village where highly placed puritans "aggressive[ly]" pursued delinquent, destitute locals [
But the puritans' reputation for aggressive, confrontational, meddling persisted, largely because the circulation of accusations to that effect served the conformist critics' self-interest. Matthew Sutcliffe, for one, insisted that the puritans only pretended to be pious and they passed off their plans to rule their parishes as a grand, selfless project to purify the realm ([
When I would pray and think, I think and pray
To several subjects. Heaven hath my empty words,
Whilst my invention, hearing not my tongue,
Anchors on Isabel. Heaven in my mouth,
As if I only did but chew his name,
And in my heart the strong and swelling evil
Of my conception. The state, whereon I studied,
Is like a good thing, being often read,
Grown seared and tedious; yea my gravity,
Wherein, let no man hear me, I take pride,
Could I, with boot, change for an idle plume
Which the air beats for vain. O place, O form,
How often dost thou with thy case, thy habit,
Wrench awe from fools, and tie the wiser souls
To thy false seeming (2.4)!
Angelo shrinks from the sin that "the most just law" forbids--and for which Isabella's brother must pay with his life--yet he is drawn to commit it and to compromise the law, himself, and the object of his affection.
He was attracted first by her virtue. His soliloquies say so, in part, to exculpate him. "Dost thou desire her foully for those things that make her good?" Has the devil, "to catch a saint," impeccable Angelo, "bait[ed the] hook" with a saint (2.2)? Possibly Shakespeare here was having some fun with the puritans' and convents' notoriety for sanctity? Certainly, he knew that much-flawed humans were bound to fall short of their loftiest expectations. Vocations, for the more fervent Calvinists and Catholics, imposed burdens beneath which the sturdiest Christians were bound to buckle. Still, it would be fair to ask whether a typical puritan reformist was as catastrophically unself-conscious about just that or was sometimes worried, as Angelo is, that "when once our grace we have forgot, nothing goes right" (4.4).
To be sure, many reformists on the fringe became convinced that they could not lose or "forget" the grace they had. Onstage, Angelo, before he was overwhelmed with desire for Isabella, was of that kind, yet his sense of righteousness dissolved, as did the self-confidence of puritan and Jesuit pietists, whom we have found weeping or worrying about the acceptability of their remorse. Nonetheless, a number of puritans who pushed off from the established church were as cocksure, impatient, and exclusivist as many of their contemporary critics claimed and, we learned, as not a few historians say. Among the former--the Jacobethan critics--one comes across moderate reformists who fiercely disliked their exclusivist or separatist colleagues. William Crashaw said that they had been infected with a "horrible and hellish pride" ([
Moderate reformists, unlike Angelo and Hamlet, submitted briefs for patience. They appreciated the need for toleration, inasmuch as "right excellent men [sometimes] come short in some things about the ordering of God's church" ([
Patches from the religions around Shakespeare that went into the making of the punitive parts of Hamlet's character and that fueled his self-analysis onstage--Hamlet's religions, that is--look to have been quite different, and, on this count, the playwright's protagonist would seem to have most in common with prodigals in Southwell's poetry and with the moderate, prolific puritan, Arthur Dent, who summoned parishioners to repentance with a string of censures: "cursed I was always, cursed I am, and cursed I shall be," he preached, assuming that Christian "clearing" was inconceivable without Christians cursing. His reason should now be clear to us; the "lets and hindrances unto repentance" could not be overcome if one trusted that pardons were possible without a sinner's excruciating self-interrogation and self-incrimination. Dent's mission was to ensure that the faithful were sufficiently introspective [
Literary historian Stephen Greenblatt would probably add that Dent's challenge was to keep the reformed Christians in a state of "salutary anxiety" ([
But caution is advisable. In Hamlet's religions, anxiety promoted self-analysis, which, in turn, encouraged humility and consolation. Yet anxieties were also known to stir contention. The infamous Hacket episode demonstrated how self-analysis driven by dis-ease and dissent might erupt to the disadvantage of all concerned. During his tenure in London, from arrival to execution, William Hacket quickly went from cursing himself to cursing authorities. He became a spectacle. During the spring and summer of 1591, his shrill and nearly incoherent, "most fearfull imprecations" were acclaimed as "a matter of rare zeal" ([
Conformists, always suspicious of reformists' anxieties, self-analyses, and enthusiasms, justifiably why moderates had not recognized, early on--and immediately repudiated--"the qualytye and enormyte of [Hacket's] offenses" ([
But a case could be made that "authoritarian conformists" were overly concerned and overreacted. A few years after Shakespeare arrived in London, they hounded leading Calvinist extremists. They executed outspoken John Penry, who had managed to keep pamphlets pouring from the radical reformists' secret presses in the late 1580s, and they scavenged for notes that London's notorious reformist networker, John Field--allegedly, "upon his death bed"-- ordered burned ([
Hamlet's anxieties and outpourings, onstage, proved politically dangerous, but one would be foolish to dock them alongside Hacket's. We have, however, encountered Calvinist and Catholic pietists whose passions for structuring desire expressed themselves much as Shakespeare's Hamlet does, with the often unabated "zeal and fervency" that the conformists and some moderate reformists found embarrassing and hoped to "cool" ([
British Library, Egerton MSS.
British Library Lansdowne MSS.
Espencaeus C.
British Library Harleain MSS.
British Library, Additional MSS.
Warwickshire Record Office County Records.
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Most of us would love to create a craft or designer item that would become so popular that we would have a spot on QVC and have our bags featured, and featured in publications about our spectacular and unique creations. This was the case in the life of Emily Blumenthal, the creator of the Yasmena handbag. Sarah Jessica Parker wore one of her bags in one of the sex and the city shows which was a great advertisement for Yasmena handbags. Now we are thrilled to have Emily take us step-by-step through her new book handbag designer 101. This STUNNING hard covered book not only allows us to create one of the bags featured with the patterns to go along with the bag. You will learn what it type of handles and purse forms to use and how to assemble each bag. She features handbags, evening bags and camera bags, backpacks and many other ideas to inspire you. Then she goes on to tell you how to create your business of marketing your bags and selling them. The illustrations in this book are beautiful and all the instructions and inspiration are clear and concise. I think anyone of you who ever wanted to make a stunning purse or handbag will fall in love with this book.
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The California Supreme Court has agreed to examine the state's recently adopted marriage ban, scheduling a hearing for March. The court will decide whether Prop. 8 was a sweeping revision or a simple amendment to the state's constitution, and whether legally married same-sex couples should suffer a blanket divorce.
In the meantime, there will be no more same-sex marriages in California, a decision that should please supporters of the ban as well as the state's attorney general, who argued accordingly.
Los Angeles Times:
The California Supreme Court agreed [Wednesday] to review legal challenges to Prop. 8, the voter initiative that restored a ban on same-sex marriage, but refused to permit gay weddings to resume pending a ruling.
Meeting in closed session, the state high court asked litigants on both sides for more written arguments and scheduled a hearing for next March. The court also signaled its intention to decide the fate of existing same-sex marriages, asking litigants to argue that question.
The California Supreme Court, from left: Associate Justice Carlos R. Moreno, Associate Justice Joyce L. Kennard, Associate Justice Kathryn Mickle Werdegar, Chief Justice Ronald M. George, Associate Justice Ming W. Chin, Associate Justice Marvin R. Baxter, and Associate Justice Carol A. Corrigan.


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Miranda Kerr Flaunts Killer Abs in a Bikini (PHOTOS)
Showing off her ripped abs and enviable figure, Kerr flaunted her supermodel frame in a daisy-adorned bikini.
How does Kerr stay in shape?
Kerr has been a longtime health food supporter and follows a strict workout regime to stay slim in her Victoria's Secret skivvies.
Orlando Bloom's better half revealed to Harper's Bazaar magazine: "Rather than diet, my family instilled in me a real appreciation and passion for good health and organic living. I adopt a 80/20 rule. 80% good, 20% indulgent and that works for me and my body personally."
She added: "I love food and enjoy eating fresh organic produce. I drink warm water and lemon every morning and I also drink lots of good quality purified and preferably alkaline water throughout the day.
Kerr's key to staying fit is based on one main principle: "I believe that everything in moderation is best."
The new mother looks absolutely fantastic and adheres to the adage that "food is [her] friend" despite the fact that she needs to be bikini-ready at all times.
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Asked whether he thought there might be some unofficial pinkwashing going on, he shrugged his shoulders and grinned.
Both the Duke and Duchess grinned broadly as they took turns at the wheel of the Sealegs, which reached speeds of 40 knots.
Instead of running for the hills, he grinned—literally—and bore the humiliation like a true Englishman.
When asked how he felt about the fact it made the possibility of him becoming king less likely, he grinned and said, "Great!"
Prosecutor Richard Mantei rolled his eyes and grinned sheepishly.
"Truly-truly outrageous," sympathized the Seneschal; yet he grinned.
He grinned, then looked curiously at his superior's cut cheek.
He grinned foolishly, and drank the remaining liquor from the bottle.
Picard grinned slyly, and whispered something into Raynal's ear.
He picked himself up, shook himself like a dog emerging from water, grinned cheerfully at Carter, and sped back of the line.
Old English grennian "show the teeth" (in pain or anger), common Germanic (cf. Old Norse grenja "to howl," grina "to grin;" Dutch grienen "to whine;" German greinen "to cry"), from PIE root *ghrei- "be open." Sense of "bare the teeth in a broad smile" is late 15c., perhaps via the notion of "forced or unnatural smile." Related: Grinned; grinning.
1630s, from grin (v.).
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This past weekend, I attended Paradox Sports' Gimps on Ice event in Ouray. Paradox Sports is an organization that provides inspiration, opportunities and equipment to the disabled community, helping them to continue to participate in outdoor sports despite the odds. I had heard many great things about this particular event from my friends involved, namely Osprey sponsored athlete, Timmy O'Neill. In that sense, I felt prepared to be inspired. Little did I know that I was going to have the most profoundly life changing experience of my life.
Recently, Osprey became an official corporate sponsor of Paradox, and I was proud to be in attendance to represent our company. I came equipped with a bit of schwag to better represent Osprey and also to help raise money and enthusiasm for Paradox. The evening after our first climbing day in the park, Timmy and I got together to determine how best to go about raffling the grand prize, a Variant 37. We decided that the best use of that prize would be to present it to the individual who most inspired all of us, Austin Bushnell.
Austin is a young man with a brain deterioration condition. He has a seemingly endless supply of enthusiasm and self-motivation. With the help of both Chris Folsom and Chad Butrick assisting him throughout the entire route with gear placement and tips, Austin successfully topped out a climb, repeating "I will not give up, I'm going to the top" every inch of the way. Most everyone stopped in their tracks to witness this remarkable event, and I think we were all made better having witnessed this truly inspiring effort.
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Tuesday, October 19 2010 - Research/Evidence
AE911Truth Delivers the Evidence to the Media: Press Conference - National Press Club
Richard Gage, AIA, and Gregg Roberts
This is the actual 10-minute statement read by Richard Gage, AIA, to the media at the AE911Truth press conference at the National Press Club in Washington DC on September 9, 2010.
Good afternoon, my name is Richard Gage, AIA. I'm a member of the American Institute of Architects; I've been a licensed architect for 22 years; And I'm the founder of the non-profit organization, Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth (AE911Truth).As a group, we now have more than 1,270 architect and engineer petition signers. Collectively, we have more than 25,000 years of building and technical experience. This press conference is being given by our petition signers and supporters today in 65 [it turned out to be 67] locations around the world, including 30 states and 4 countries.
Today, we're here to inform you that we have uncovered evidence that the official investigations into what happened to the World Trade Center skyscrapers on 9/11 were deeply flawed, or worse. The scientific forensic facts we have discovered have very troubling implications.
For example, a technologically advanced, highly energetic material has been discovered in World Trade Center dust from the 9/11 catastrophe.
This follows the discovery, by the United States Geological Survey and others, of high concentrations of unusual previously molten iron-rich microspheres in the WTC dust. These microspheres can only have been formed during the destruction of the World Trade Center at temperatures far higher than can be explained by the jet fuel and office fires. Those fires, we are told by engineers employed by NIST, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, were allegedly the cause of the World Trade Center's destruction. The discovery of this advanced energetic material, in the form of red/gray chips distributed throughout the dust, both explains the iron-rich microspheres and confirms the inadequacy of the official account of what happened that tragic day.
Even before the microspheres and red/gray chips had been identified and brought to our attention, we were deeply concerned about other aspects of the destruction of these iconic buildings, and how they were investigated. More than two dozen firefighters, engineers, and other witnesses reported seeing substantial quantities of molten iron or steel, flowing like lava in the debris under all three World Trade Center high-rises. Office fires and jet fuel cannot possibly reach the temperatures necessary to liquefy iron or steel. A mixture called thermite, consisting of pulverized iron oxide and aluminum, CAN generate temperatures above 4000 degreesF -- far more than is needed to melt iron or steel, which melts at about 2750 degreesF.
The energetic material that was found in the WTC dust by an international team of scientists (led by Niels Harrit of the University of Copenhagen in Denmark) was reported in the peer-reviewed Bentham Open Journal of Chemical Physics. It consists of nano-engineered iron oxide and aluminum particles 1000th the size of a human hair, embedded in another substance consisting of carbon, oxygen, and silicon. The sizes of the iron oxide particles are extremely uniform, and neither they nor the ultra-fine-grain aluminum platelets could possibly have been created by a natural process such as a gravitational collapse or the impact of jetliners. The red/gray chips in which these particles were found exhibit the same characteristics as advanced energetic materials developed in US national laboratories in the years leading up to 9/11. They have no reason to be in this dust. Given all the horrific costs in human lives, lost civil liberties, and trillions of tax dollars spent in response to the official account of 9/11, there can be no more urgent need than for our country and the world to find out who put those materials in the World Trade Center -- and why.This need makes it all the more disturbing that top engineers in charge of the government's investigation would avoid dealing straightforwardly with ALL the evidence that AE911Truth and others have repeatedly brought to their attention, much of which has been available in the public record since the beginning. John Gross, NIST co-project leader, has denied the existence of -- or even any reports of -- molten iron or steel at the World Trade Center.
They stopped their analysis of the towers' complete and highly energetic destruction at the very point when the destruction began. And they have dismissed or avoided serious analysis of the additional evidence with which we are concerned, such as:1. Both Twin Towers were completely dismembered and destroyed in just 10 to 14 seconds - which occurs at near free-fall acceleration. For this to happen, all 47 of their massive core columns as well as a large fraction of their external columns would have to be compromised with explosives beforehand.
2. More than 100 first responders reported hearing explosions and seeing flashes of light at the onset of destruction. Light flashes indicate explosive detonations. These witnesses are documented in NYC's "Oral Histories" by City Fire Commissioner Thomas Von Essen
3. Multi-ton steel perimeter wall sections were ejected laterally at 60 mph to a distance of 600 ft. That speed and distance indicates that a high-pressure explosion initiated the ejection.
4. 90,000 tons of concrete and metal decking was pulverized in mid-air, again indicating explosions.
5. World Trade Center 7, a 47-story building which was not hit by an aircraft, fell at free-fall acceleration for more than 100 feet -- a significant fact that NIST's Shyam Sunder was forced to admit after being presented with our research. Yet NIST has failed to review or acknowledge the obvious implications of this fact, which is that the columns must have been explosively severed within fractions of a second of each other.
6. The complete destruction and dismemberment of Building 7, collapsing in just 6-1/2 seconds--which is near freefall acceleration--through the path of what was greatest resistance, symmetrically vertical, including 2-1/2 seconds of pure free-fall (zero resistance), is an occurrence only possible with expertly-placed explosives.
There are other falsehoods and omissions in NIST's official report:
1. NIST overstated the severity and duration of the fires in all three skyscrapers, apparently in order to more credibly attribute the destruction to the fires, yet without exaggerating them enough to account for molten iron or steel.
In short, NIST's official technical explanation is fraudulent and inconsistent with the basic laws of physics. By contrast, the hypothesis of controlled demolition is consistent with all of the available technical evidence.
This week, here in Washington, DC, we personally delivered our DVD "9/11: Blueprint for Truth -- The SF Press Conference Edition," which included highlights of the forensic evidence, into the hands of staffers for the science advisors of every elected representative on Capitol Hill. In addition, we have sat down with over a dozen of them and presented in detail the overwhelming evidence of explosive controlled demolition. We have personally invited over 400 of them to today's event. How many Congressional science advisors are here today? [None].
I urge you to go to our website AE911Truth.org for more information, including comments by our members on the problems with the official investigation. At this point, we are calling for Attorney General Eric Holder to ask a federal grand jury to investigate those responsible for the NIST report, including Lead Investigator Shyam Sunder and Co-Project Leader John Gross.
We also want to thank our growing family of more than three hundred sustaining financial supporters. We could not do this without you.
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Have Relationship Questions? Ask a Counselor for Answers ASAP
Hi. Welcome. I am a Licensed Master Social Worker with more than 20 years experience working with individuals and families on a variety of issues.
I hear the strong feelings and I would suggest that you keep doing the things that you are such as spending time together to see if the spark can be reunited
plan something romantic , fun and stuff you used to do when the spark was there for her
it could be caution and fear that is preventing her from fully letting go
no pressure...light, casual and just be yourself...they guy she feel in love with the first time
As further background, we both recently got divorced, hers was a much more difficult divorce requiring lawyers and 2 years to get sorted out, also her mother died just before xmas , so she has had a lot of emotional turmoil recently.
thank you for giving me more background...makes great sense.....
she has had so much to deal with and I am sure fear and grief play a huge part on all of it.
you being steady, calm and non pressuring can go a long way here.
when she says she has lost that spark it sounds like it is just buried by all of the traumas she has been through recently
I feel there is hope here in time and with lots of patience and loving support
we broke up for 3 months in January and after my writing to her a couple of times she initiate the first meeting over coffee, which we both agreed went great. We got back together like old times within 1 week and everything was fantastic...then she went to the "lost spark" position. (also as further background, she was seeing someone over the period while we broke up but she broke up with him very quickly after we got back together...I think she was trying to see what someone else was like...maybe comparing to me??)
she is most likely not ready or capable of jumping into anything serious right now so if you can be there for her I think it will help
yes could be comparing and I think she might be a bit all over the place with her emotions because of all the pain and turmoil she has had.
slow and steady I believe will be the answer here
yes , think thats what she is intimating, she says she is wanting to get her life together, planning to sell her former marital / family home. not sure about her financial situation, and i may have made a bit of a mistake in suggesting we could buy something together?
dont be hard on yourself for that suggestion...not a mistake since you were acting from a place of love. It just may be a bit soon for her thats all.
so if you can really slow it down and I know it is hard for you since you care and love her, but i believe it is all she can handle now
the spark was there and most likely still is.
she will be better in the relationship with you in the future if she can have this time to sort it all out
so she says she just wants to be friends at the moment. I have agreed to that , as would always be her friend. I still drop in a bit more than just being a friend in our conversations and that seems to go down ok, so I keep getting the impression she wants to have a rerlationship with me, but is creating this distance in it that makes me worried that we may not get close again.
So do I keep contact up or wait for her to contact me, how often should I contact her?
that is why your steadiness and patience are what may make her feel safe enough in time to move to another level
As friends right now you can still contact her but not so frequently that she feels pressure
she may also reach out as she might miss the steadiness and safety of you
try as best as you can not to worry about the future and be present here and now and let it all play out
trying not to be a typical male here but would her age have any bearing on her emotional state? She is going to be 51 next month and one of my friends commented that a lot of the emotional behaviours is typical of "women of a certain age"
lol thats hysterical.
I see it more about what she has been through then any hormonal issues that could be occuring
we are emotional at any age and when there has been a lot to deal with we need our time to sort it out. does that make sense?
how long typically is this likely to last? i lover her enough to wait for ever although i get some friends who urge me to move on. I'm just too in love with her to even contemplate that
I might suggest that you go with your gut and heart here and leave the buddies opinions to the side for now.
they have your best at heart but they arent in it.
I would say if after a few months of no forward progression you can assume that nothing is going to change in this area.
you can still date and be open to others if that is your desire too...nothing wrong with that
yes, taking time to sort things out rings a bell as that is similar to the period a few years back when she was planning on leaving her husband and move back to the uk, she went "radio silent on me" for over 2 months. Maybe that's her normal coping mechanism?
excellent insight and it could very well be. too many distractions could prevent her form working through it...but eventually she does
thnks, will sign off now and remember to as for "coachJenk" if i use this again!
any last minute advice to add?
yes please ask for me. Yes...stay steady and patient and keep your heart open.
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The macro news out of the U.S. was very strong last week, indicating that October wasn't quite so bad that many had expected given the shenanigans in Washington.
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a square wave generator produces 20v peak to peak square wave balanced around ground at 10 Hz. the output terminal of the square wave generator connects directly with impedence z1. the impedance of z1 is 10-90 degrees when measured at (1/2pi) k hz. the other end of z1 hooks to the parallel combination of z2, impedence is -10j at (1/2pi) khz, and z3 whose impedence is 20. the other end of th eparallel combination hooks to the negative terminal of the pulse generator and to groud a. identify the type and value of component z1. use the si prefixes for its value. b. identity the type and value of component z2. use the appropiate si prefixes for its value c. identify the type and value of component z3. use th eappropriate si prefixes for its value. d. draw the circuit in pspice. e analyze the circuit wit pspice' measuring the voltage at the node where z1,z2, and z3 are connected the current in z2. set the time scale to 200ms and measure voltage and current on a scale of +5 to -5. simulation time should be 200 ms
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Sources say Ford continues to make good progress testing its upcoming in-house-designed 6.7-liter V-8 diesel engine. The new engine will replace the Navistar-sourced 6.4-liter V-8 Power Stroke diesel engine in Ford's heavy-duty pickups by 2011. Code-named Scorpion, the new motor is said to pack plenty of sting -- plus a few other surprises.
The latest power targets are said to be more than 390 horsepower and 720 pounds-feet of torque. Today's Power Stroke diesel is rated at 350 hp and 650 pounds-feet.
Scorpion fuel economy is expected to improve by 3 mpg or more compared to the current Power Stroke. Helping the Scorpion's mileage will be a new six-speed automatic transmission, like the 2009 Ford F-150 will have.
The Scorpion is said to share several key traits with GM's revolutionary new 4.5-liter Duramax V-8 diesel engine. Intake and exhaust flow through the cylinder heads is reversed (relative to conventional diesel engine design) with the exhaust exiting directly into dual sequential turbos sitting in the engine's valley. The Scorpion will also use lighter aluminum cylinder heads, abandoning the cast-iron heads found in today's 6.4-liter Power Stroke.
Unlike the Duramax, the Scorpion diesel will continue to use an overhead valve engine design, rather than overhead cam.
The new 6.7-liter diesel engine will be manufactured in Mexico.
How important is this motor? The move is expected to permanently end Ford's longtime use of Navistar-built diesel engines in its heavy-duty pickups, due to an ongoing legal battle between the two companies over warranty and cost issues related to the old 6.0-liter V-8 Power Stroke (model years 2003-07). Ford has used Navistar diesels in its F-Series trucks since 1982.
It's not yet known if the Scorpion will continue to use the Power Stroke name or if Ford will create a brand new label for the engine. Whatever it's called, Ford's competitors are sure to feel the Scorpion's sting!
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Vance Worley has been scratched from his Friday start for Triple-A Indianapolis, according to CBSSports.com
The obvious conclusion is that Worley was scratched so that he can start for the Pittsburgh Pirates Sunday in the place of Francisco Liriano, who was sent to the 15-day disabled list earlier this week with a left oblique strain, although the team has yet to confirm.
Worley is 3-2 with a 4.30 ERA in seven starts for Indianapolis, although he has a much better 1.10 WHIP and a 10.75 K/BB rate, as he has allowed just four walks all season.
He has extensive experience at the Major League level with the Philadelphia Phillies and Minnesota Twins, as he owns a career mark of 19-18 with a 4.05 ERA in parts of four seasons. His most successful year came in 2011, when he finished third in National League Rookie of the Year voting while with the Phillies. He pitched to an 11-3 record with a 3.01 ERA.
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Tigana 'on the brink'
Several newspapers have claimed that the Frenchman must win against West Brom on New Year's Day or else he will be sacked.
Fulham have been in freefall in recent weeks, edging ever nearer to the relegation zone despite heavy investment in the team by chairman Mohamed Al Fayed.
If Fulham do lose against West Brom, Tigana could become the first managerial casualty of 2003.
It is believed that relations between Tigana and Al Fayed are already at breaking point, with the club failing to offer the French coach a new contract.
Should Tigana be sacked, it could cost the Cottagers £3m as assistant Christian Damiano and his team would also be expected to leave.
And despite all their deals expiring in the summer, relegation to Division One would be a far heavier price to pay for the London club.
Former Republic of Ireland manager Mick McCarthy, who was at Saturday's 1-0 defeat by Manchester City, is available and could be considered for the job.
Other options available to Al Fayed would be to put veteran Scottish star John Collins and coach Chris Coleman in joint charge on a temporary basis.
That would then pave the way for the Fulham chief to appoint his preferred long-term choice - Martin O'Neill.
O'Neill is a personal friend of Al Fayed and was the chairman's first choice when Kevin Keegan walked out on the club three years ago to take England job.
Al Fayed missed out to Celtic on that occasion, but would be ready to pounce at the end of the season when O'Neill's contract at Parkhead expires.
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Glacier Bay AND Tracy Arm: Zuiderdam Cruise Review by KJ84037
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Glacier Bay AND Tracy Arm
Destination: Alaska
Embarkation: Vancouver
The primary reason we picked this cruise over other options on Princess and HAL was the opportunity to visit both Tracy Arm and Glacier Bay as well as see the inside passage via Vancouver. In hindsight, we certainly would not have wanted to miss any of these aspects. The service call at Tracy Arm where we directly boarded the catamaran to Tracy Arm went smoothly. When we boarded the catamaran it was raining and foggy. If we could have cancelled the trip I would have strongly considered doing so since it looked like we were not going to be able to see anything. Good thing I didn't because the scenery was nothing short of incredible. Once we got back into the arm where it narrows we were greeted with more waterfalls than I can remember falling off sheer granite cliffs into a milky green bay full of colorful icebergs. For Lord of the Rings fans it looked a lot like Rivendell. The small catamaran maneuvered right next to a number of waterfalls allowing numerous picture taking opportunities. At the end of the fjord, we turned up toward Sawyer Glacier (South Sawyer was too icy) and pulled fairly close to this beautiful tidewater gem. There was some calving and still numerous waterfalls coming off the steep granite walls. The comparison John Muir made to Yosemite is quite apt. Upon returning to meet the cruise ship in Juneau we grabbed a quick bite and grabbed a shuttle to Mendenhall Glacier with a stop at the fish hatchery. It was fun and beautiful but a little overpriced.
The next day found us in Skagway where we rented a van from Avis and drove to Emerald Lake in the Yukon. This was a nice drive and a nice day with a mix of sun and a little rain. The kids enjoyed our stop at Caribou Crossing and the sand dunes at Carcross.
The next day in Glacier Bay was the highlight in a trip with a lot of highlights. We lucked out and had beautiful weather which undoubtedly greatly added to the experience. I awoke at 5:45 to experience the whole thing. The scenery was so unbelievably beautiful that tears came to my eyes on several occasions. Admittedly, I am more of a sucker for scenery than most but suffice it to say it could not have been more spectacular to my eye. The unbelievable colors, tidewater glaciers, high glaciated mountains and wildlife combined into a feast for the eyes. Kudos go to the captain for taking us up John Hopkins Inlet in addition to Tarr Inlet with Marjorie Glacier because it was wonderful. I do not believe the Princess ship that visited Glacier Bay that day made it up Johns Hopkins Inlet so big kudos to HAL (and Captain Turner). Most of the whales were concentrated near the beginning of the bay and there were numerous pods of humpbacks feeding, breaching, etc. as we left. We then headed out to open ocean around Prince of Wales Island to head to Ketchikan. The scenery heading out to the open ocean was also quite a site.
The next day found us in Ketchikan where we had chartered a boat for an afternoon of Salmon fishing. We all had great fun with Jordan Box of Jordan Box's Fishing Adventures. He picked us right up from the dock, was great with the kids, and worked hard to help us catch fish. We caught quite a few Salmon (kept 9, released or lost at least that many) and a few rockfish in our 4 hour charter. I have been fishing in Ketchikan previously so this was the shore excursion of choice for us.
On board, I will politely say that we do not see eye to eye with many of the styling choices in the interior of the ship. The Lido restaurant was particularly bad and a place where we ended up spending a lot of time. The long cramped stateroom hallways were a bit of a downer and it seemed like the carpet didn't match the walls, which didn't match the faux artwork etc. I guess our taste is more sedate (boring) but we really enjoyed all the outdoor areas and the Crow's Nest/Explorations Café.
The staff was, almost without exception, wonderful and friendly but we are not high maintenance people. Our room steward in particular stood out as did a number of the wait staff. We had open seating for dinner and ate in the Vista Dining Room most nights. The only time we experienced any wait at all was the last night when they told us to come back ½ hour later and sit with the late seating upstairs. I know Holland America has a good reputation for food but it was better than I expected—often really good, sometimes excellent. It has to be hard serving that many people at the same time but they pulled it off about as well as could be expected.
We enjoyed the two shows we attended (comedian and magician) and took in a few movies in the screening room. My youngest enjoyed the kids club the few times he attended. My older two kids were a little too shy to fully embrace the teen's club and only went a time or two. We spent a lot of time on the sports deck which seemed to be badly in need of a little maintenance on the netting, equipment as well as some new balls. It seems like HAL could spring for a few more family/kid friendly facilities (i.e. foosball tables, more ping pong tables, video game machines that do not require you to be in the kid's club etc.).
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- 1/2 cup golden raisins, chopped
- 1/4 cup pistachios, chopped
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
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- 1 1/2 ounces white chocolate, finely chopped
Preheat the oven to 375º. Toast the hazelnuts in a pie plate for 7 to 8 minutes. Let cool; rub in a kitchen towel to remove the skins, then coarsely chop. In a large bowl, combine them with the cornflakes, feuilletine, raisins, pistachios and salt.
In a microwave-safe bowl, combine two-thirds of the chopped milk and white chocolates. Microwave at medium-high power in 30-second bursts, stirring in between, until melted, 2 minutes. Stir in the remaining chocolates until smooth.
Pour half of the melted chocolate over the hazelnut mixture. Using a rubber spatula, quickly fold in the chocolate until evenly coated. Add the remaining chocolate and fold gently until all of the ingredients are generously coated with chocolate.
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BIOCHEM is a collection of photographs made in the vacant laboratories and classrooms of the old biochemistry buildings at UW-Madison. Though the spaces pictured were no longer inhabited, the images convey the sense of activity and occupation that had been part of the place for nearly a century. This is a look at where science happened.
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Tomic to end Davis Cup exile
Tennis: GOOD news for our Davis Cup team, with Bernard Tomic and Pat Rafter agreeing to play nice and the Aussie kid ending his exile from the squad.
Tomic - currently playing at the Miami Masters - revealed he would don the green and gold against Uzbekistan next month, despite saying in January he would boycott the tie in retaliation for being suspended from the previous tie against Chinese Taipei.
But Bernie says he's had a chat with Pat and was looking forward to joining Lleyton Hewitt and Marinko Matosevic for the April 5-7 showdown in Namangan, but wasn't necessarily looking forward to the surrounds.
"It's not going to be a pretty place but I'm looking forward to it. We have got a good team now," he said.
Soccer: FOR a sporting club, about the worst thing that could happen to you right now is for master doping doctor Eufemiano Fuentes to utter your club's name publicly.
And when that club is Spanish soccer goliath Real Madrid and Fuentes says they owe him money, it's even more sensational.
Fuentes - the doctor at the centre of the Operation Puerto case that could implicate tens of cycling and football teams, boxers, athletes and tennis players - said he wants to collect a debt from Real before the statute of limitations voids it.
Fuentes' lawyer said the debt was from "2007, 2008 or 2009" but denied it was related to Operation Puerto.
That'd be little consolation to Real.
Formula 1: MICHAEL Schumacher wasn't the man to turn Mercedes' F1 fortunes around, and by the sounds of it Lewis Hamilton might not be this year either.
The Brit has admitted - after just one race in this year's championship - this his car lacks the pace to compete with the Red Bulls and Ferraris.
"At the moment, in terms of pure performance we don't have the speed to compete for the world title," Hamilton said ahead of the Malaysian GP.
Hamilton was ninth-quickest in the two practice sessions at Sepang and was more than a second down on resurgent Lotus driver Kimi Raikkonen.
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Cycling: CANADIAN Francois Parisien won the fifth stage of the Tour of Catalonia as Ireland's Daniel Martin extended his overall lead. Parisien, of the Argos-Shimano team, took the stage honours on the line as 13 riders finished the 156 km ride from Rialp to Lleida in a time of 3:32.2.
Cricket: THE West Indies cruised to an innings and 65-run victory over Zimbabwe to clinch the second and final Test inside three days at Windsor Park. After declaring at their overnight position of 8-381 and with a first innings lead of 206, the hosts bowled out Zimbabwe for 175 in the afternoon session to claim the series 2-0.
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