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New York Times Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers
February 25, 2018
1. Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
Michael Wolff
A journalist offers an inside account of the first year of the Trump White House.
2. Obama: An Intimate Portrait
Pete Souza
More than 300 pictures of the former president by his White House photographer, with behind-the-scenes stories.
3. All-American Murder
James Patterson and Alex Abramovich with Mike Harvkey
The story of Aaron Hernandez, the New England Patriots tight end convicted of first-degree murder.
4. Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Steve Coll
How the United States failed to understand a secret wing of a Pakistani intelligence agency and doomed two wars.
5. Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
Neil deGrasse Tyson
A straightforward, easy-to-understand introduction to the universe.
6. Leonardo Da Vinci
Walter Isaacson
A biography of the Italian Renaissance polymath which connects his work in various disciplines.
7. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
David Grann
The story of a murder spree in 1920s Oklahoma that targeted Osage Indians.
8. Everything Happens for a Reason : And Other Lies I've Loved
Kate Bowler
A divinity school professor examines her tacit beliefs when she learns she has late-stage colon cancer.
9. The Last Black Unicorn
Tiffany Haddish
The comedian recounts growing up in South Central Los Angeles and finding success after a period of homelessness.
10. Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose
Joe Biden
The former vice president recalls his toughest year in office, as his son battled brain cancer.
11. How Democracies Die
Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt
The decline of democracies in Europe and Latin America and ways to avoid authoritarianism.
12. When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing
Daniel H. Pink
Research reveals the ideal time to make small decisions and big life changes.
13. Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic
David Frum
A former speechwriter for George W. Bush argues how America might become an illiberal democracy.
14. Grant
Ron Chernow
A biography of the Union general of the Civil War and two-term president.
15. The Line Becomes a River
Francisco Cantú
A memoir by a former U.S. Board Patrol agent who is the grandson of a Mexican immigrant.
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A version of this list appears in the February 25, 2018 issue of The New York Times Book Review. Rankings reflect sales for the week ending February 10, 2018.
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As with the upcoming release of any console, the news about Nintendo's Revolution are a mixture of fact and rumor. It could be as cheap as $150 or as pricey as $300. "Revolution" may not even be its final name. See what I mean?
The folks over at Revolution Report, probably tired of having to cut and paste replies to questions like the above, have put together a pretty concise FAQ dealing with all the current information available for Nintendo's next-generation console.
You've asked for it. We've listened, we've compiled and now it has been released.
Revolution Report compiled a list of the most frequent questions asked about Nintendo's upcoming console, code-named the Nintendo Revolution. Using questions often received in over six months of mailbag questions, our team used our collective knowledge to provide detailed information we've gained in our news and exclusive interviews.
It's a good, albeit long read with links aplenty to all the press releases, interviews, and news they've sifted through. Of note? A quote from Shigeru Miyamoto going on record as saying, "The majority of people won't be playing our system with an HDTV, though with the Revolution, 480p resolution will be standard." Considering that some people are hailing today's consoles as the reason for the upsurge in HDTV sales, it's good to see Nintendo sticking with its "goal of making an small, inexpensive and developer-friendly machine."

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Dartmouth Youth Wind Ensemble
Open to students of the Upper Valley and surrounding regions, grades 6–8, this program offers students the chance to attend weekly rehearsals and to learn side-by-side with the student musicians of Dartmouth College.
This program is focused on advancing performing skills and confidence in young, developing musicians through the exploration and performance of carefully chosen, level-appropriate music for wind ensemble. During weekly rehearsals, students will enjoy the opportunity to learn in full ensemble rehearsal, as well as sectional practice for their unique instrument and occasional one-on-one pull-out instruction.
Daniel Buchner, Interim Director of the Dartmouth College Wind Ensemble and an experienced music educator, will oversee and direct the program, calling upon his experience teaching music on all levels, from the elementary classroom through professional. Dan will be joined by student members of the Dartmouth College Wind Ensemble as mentors in each of the instrumental sections, along with student conductor Frederika Rentzeperis '19 leading the ensemble from the podium.
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How Much Would It Cost To Store All US Phone Calls Made In A Year?
from the cheaper-than-you-think dept
An early criticism of Snowden's leak about NSA spying activity was that the $20 million annual cost for PRISM -- whatever that turns out to be -- was simply too low to be credible. One person who knows more about storage costs than practically anyone -- well, outside the NSA, at least -- is Brewster Kahle, who set up the Internet Archive, essentially a backup for the entire Web plus a wonderfully rich store of many other materials. He's carried out a fascinating back-of-the envelope calculation of how much it would cost annually to record every phone call made in the US and store it in the cloud:
These estimates show only $27M in capital cost, and $2M in electricity and take less than 5,000 square feet of space to store and process all US phonecalls made in a year. The NSA seems to be spending $1.7 billion on a 100k square foot datacenter that could easily handle this and much much more. Therefore, money and technology would not hold back such a project -- it would be held back if someone did not have the opportunity or will.
Kahle has made the calculation available as a shared document (on Google, appropriately enough), so you can inspect his assumptions there and play around with the numbers. It's also worth reading through the comments to his short post, since they make some interesting points. However, even if the numbers are off by a factor or two, there's no doubt about the feasibility of recording all US phone calls.
And that's for sound files, which take up quite a lot of space. Text-based information pulled in from emails, Web pages and chat logs could be stored more compactly. That would make the routine recording of vast swathes of what those in the US -- and outside it -- do online not just plausible, but so cheap in comparison to the NSA's presumably large budget, that the latter might feel it would be crazy not to do so as a matter of course.
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Home Ministry Spiritual Life Michael the Archangel Prayer Warriors
Michael the Archangel Prayer Warriors (MAPW) are just ordinary Catholics trying to fight an extraordinary enemy (Satan) through prayer, fasting, frequent reception of the Sacraments and all the ordinary and extraordinary holy things done by Christians everywhere, who are attempting to practice their faith. We serve God according to our vocation in life, but prayer and fasting are our main weapons.
1. "Jesus seems to…announce a mysterious law of the world of prayer, namely, that God, by His own decree, has somehow placed His power in the hands of persons who intercede, in such a way that unless they intercede, His power is withheld. This is the great attraction of the prayer of intercession: that as you practice it you get a sense of the tremendous power there is in prayer and having sensed this power, you will never give up prayer." Fr. Anthony de Mello, S.J., Sadhana - A Way to God
This is about prayer, spiritual warfare, and not just talking about prayer,which can be highly narcotizing. We must be about the practice of prayer.
2. Our MAPW are devoted to spending a minimum of one hour each day in solitude and silence in some quiet place immersed in prayer and meditation. The Holy Rosary is the weapon of choice. The practice of praying the Liturgy of the Hours is also highly encouraged as is any Lectio Divina.
Be still before the Lord
and wait patiently for him;
do not fret when people succeed in their ways,
when they carry out their wicked schemes. Ps 37:7 (NIV)
The practice of praying in a place which is quiet and away from the noisy world we live in is most important for our own spiritual health, but has grand implications for the Church which is The Body of Christ and for the world. Mass is not enough!
There are no meetings, dues, or vows. We just take on an obligation with love to spend one hour a day in prayer and to fast on Fridays.
St. Bruno Night Warriors
St. Bruno Night Warriors (SBNW) are Christians who practice the same prayer formulas that our MAPW's practice in #2, but they pray during the nighttime ours, anytime between the hours of 8:00PM and 4:00AM. These are the hours when fewer Christians are at prayer in our portion of the globe. These are the hours when the greatest evil takes place, and there are fewer people at prayer. So, our Night Warriors fill this gap and continue the prayer relay. With the diminution of the contemplative and cloistered religious orders throughout the Church, you and I are seriously needed to take up the slack.
"Prayer offered up at night possesses a great power, more than the prayer of daytime. There is nothing even Satan fears so much as prayer that is offered during the vigilance at night…" Isaac the Syrian
"The faithful must get used to praying in the night, like Jesus. God carries out His works at night. In the night, all movement is transformed and grows by God's strength." Robert Cardinal Sarah
Brothers and sisters, please give this more than just a great deal of thought. Pray about this and make a decision to deepen and strengthen your love life for the Triune God, Mother Mary, all the saints, and for Mother Church. This will benefit the world in which she, the Church, ministers her loving benevolence.
Michael the Archangel Prayer Warrior's Preamble
And so, the institution of Michael, the Archangel Prayer Warriors came about because so many of the faithful were lacking in spiritual direction particularly with regard to prayer, and there was/is this necessity to intensify the power of prayer against Satan and his minions.
At this time, there are no proposed meetings, although we may sometime decide in the future. We all have enough things to do or already have made commitments toward many other ministries, so we will not waste time in hearings or committees. Since we are about the business of prayer, most of our spiritual encouragement should continue to come from our frequent reception of the sacraments, our daily prayer life, our families, loved ones, close friends, and parishioners who are also prayer warriors. All of these are channels of God's grace.
As an aside, one of the reasons the Hebrew Scriptures mandated the people's participation in frequent assemblies and the Church has mandated the same thing in our Sunday worship services (Mass) under penalty of serious sin, is because of something we've talked about elsewhere. It is called "interpersonal neurobiology". It is essentially group therapy that occurs just by all of us being together on one place for a particular purpose. This "we are the clay; You are the Potter" imagery that is found in the Hebrew Scriptures has a physiological basis called neuroplasticity. Neuroplasticity means our brains are rewired and a great healing is taking place slowly as we continue to associate ourselves with other healing sinners. This is a complex subject, and there are some very good lectures on YouTube presented by some fine psychiatrists and other medical people on this subject should you wish to learn more. Start by looking for lectures on depression, but a better place to start might be PTSD. Dr Steven Porges has some lectures on this subject. Mindsight is a book wrtten by psychiatrist Dan Siegle that explains interpersonal neurobiology very well.
A nightly nighttime rendezvous with God in silence can and will become habit forming. The desire to meet the Lord in the silent darkness of the night will grow to the point that you will eventually find yourself carefully arranging your daily schedule so that you retire for the evening rest at the same time each night or as close to it as is possible. You will go about organizing your daytime schedule so that you will not be cheated out of your time with the Lord.
You may find yourself needing less sleep. A number of the saints slept very little, but spent many hours in prayer. Certainly, the time for getting up for the regular night vigil will become easier as you intensify the practice. An alarm clock may not be necessary. Just a word said to your Guardian Angel will suffice. There can be times when remaining awake might be challenging. This becomes much less of a challenge as time progresses. A slight rocking motion of the head or body can help one stay awake. Or you can change to another prayer format or change prayer posture.
As you gain more experience in getting out of bed and going to the place of prayer, you might notice your body's temperature rising before even getting up, possibly to the point of sweating. This can aid a person in realizing the call to prayer has occurred, just as in the final minutes of prayer, you can become aware that the body is cooling down, as it readies itself for sleep once again. These temperature differentials are measurements are in tenths of a degree and would require a basel body temperature to register these variants.
The nighttime silence is a powerful, silent elixir for the spirit. It might even be intoxicating. It also is a profound weapon against Satan and his ilk.
Prayer At Night
"Prayer offered up at night possesses a great power, more than the prayer of daytime. Therefore all the righteous prayed during the night, while combating the heaviness of the body and the sweetness of sleep and repelling corporeal nature….There is nothing even Satan fears so much as prayer that is offered during the vigilance at night…For this reason the devil smites them with violent warfare, in order to hinder them, if possible from this work [as was the case with Anthony the great, Blessed Paul, Arsenius, and other Desert Fathers]….But those who have resisted his wicked stratagems even a little, who have tasted the gifts of God that are granted during vigil, and who have experienced in themselves the magnitude of God's help that is always nigh to them, utterly disdain him and all his devices….Which of the solitaries, through possessing all the virtues together, could neglect this work, and not be reckoned to be idle without it? For night vigil is the light of the thinking, and by it the understanding is exalted, the thought is collected, and the mind takes flight and gazes at spiritual things and by prayer is rejuvenated and shines brilliantly".1
When keeping vigil, especially the 3rd watch – midnight to three AM – if you ate your last meal around 6:00PM, you have a head start on a good 14 to 16 hour intermittent fast. If you are fasting on the days prescribed by the Didache, which are Wednesdays and Fridays, and are keeping the third watch, a 24hour fast is well within reach.
If you are concerned about a rapacious appetite while breaking the fast, be assured that it is not an abnormal experience. Scientists have found that most people only eat an additional 20% more calories than they would have had they not fasted. we can learn a great deal about moderation from fasting.
Fasting teaches many things including the ability to tolerate a little suffering in the form of hunger pangs. What a delight to offer these sufferings in union with Christ's sufferings. These small pains make us aware of the poverty of our existence without God, and certainly more aware of the sufferings of the poor.
All of this should lead us to a simpler lifestyle. It reduces our desire for needless consumption of goods and food. Gospel simplicity is one of the frequent topics of our Blessed Lord. The warnings to the rich should be sufficient.
Peace be with you.
1 From the Ascetical Homilies by Isaac the Syrian, ca 700, Feast Jan. 28. Quoted by Robert Cardinal Sarah in his book, The Power Of Silence Against The Dictatorship Of Noise.
May the All-Powerful, Triune God, continue to bless you, protect you from all evil, and bring you to everlasting life. Amen
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That is, Ascent, the new sonic instance from Six Organs of Admittance, which broke through Earth's atmosphere before the leaves turned, back in August. Sent from space and channeled through the axe and voice of Ben Chasny, it's not just a relic to be held and maintained and played on your turntable - no, it's a skin-peeling thrill of a live experience, too. If you're going to be here for the rest of time, you might as well not regret any of the moments of now you have to experience, you know? Having already launched it the Western coast of North America, the Six Organs of Admittance Ascent touches down this weekend in European airspace, with the first encounter set for Brum, UK's gay ol' Supersonic Festival. In tote and of EXTREME note, it's not just any old Six O-band, but a band comprised of Comets on Fire-mates, just like the album! 'The fuck will that be like? Probably something kinda like how the LA Times described a recent show: " the group built towering, majestic cathedrals of electrified sound, lifting the crowd by sheer force of electricity and vibrations.." Holy head-balls! That shit (aka music, physically experienced) sounds meta-heavy - like Ascent! And they're coming back state-side this December? Rad! Sold! But don't just believe us (or some hack journalistas) - get up, stand up and ride yr. very own rocket to one of these fine rock n' roll holes in the wall to see and believe for yourselves!!!
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