A DC Birding Blog: Favorite Bird Songs.
Wood Thrush: This is the familiar thrush of DC’s wooded parks. (And it is DC’s “state” bird.)
Pentagram partner Daniel Weil has created a new design for the chess set, which is making its debut at the World Chess Candidates Tournament in London.
Black pieces
Weil was asked to design the new pieces following Pentagram’s earlier work with organisation World Chess, which saw John Rushworth create a new identity for the organisation, Naresh Ramchandani work on campaigns, and Weil design the playing environments.
From In the Light of the Law:
According to the (Old) Catholic Encyclopedia, in his bullum Cogit nos(21 March 1591), Pope Gregory XIV forbade under pain of excommunication all bets concerning the election of a pope, the duration of a pontificate, or the creation of new cardinals.
Some folks are asking, is this still the law? Answer: No.
Gregory’s norm was a penal provision of an older system of canon law known as the Ius Decretalium. As such, according to Canon 6, 5º of thePio-Benedictine Code of Canon Law, Cogit would have been abrogated on May 19, 1918. There is presently no canon law on conclave wagers.
Catholics should, of course, be mindful of the balanced view of gambling shown by the Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC 2413) and avoid conduct contrary to it.
Added: I’ll make a bet right now: I’ll bet this post gets more hits than any other conclave post I put up. 🙂
Updated: First place in hits, approx. 30 hours after it went up. 🙂
Full contact amazin’ folks.
New track. Hopefully I’ll hear some lyrics on it after Rich Jones does some work on it.
Migratesong syncs, say, the scotts.com bird identifier based on zip code, to an archive of birdsongs (such as weBIRD or birdjam) while tracking your location. For each species of bird, there are a version or two of the different songs which each bird makes (alert, mating, etc.). Once installed, the app will automatically change your phone alerts to the sound of a bird native to the region you are in. Different contacts can be set to rotate through different birds, be one bird, one type of call (say, a mating call for your beau) or simply one sound. When the app icon is tapped, Migratesong displays a timeline of the most recent birdsongs and a picture of their singer, so that when the user hears a song he or she is particularly attracted to, more info can be easily obtained and variables set (i.e. “Always play this song for this contact” or “I never want to hear that bird again.”)
Future development would include making the birdsong correspond to the area code of the caller, incorporating a streamlined version of weBIRD’s identification system and user-submitted recordings.
Wide use of this application would change the cultural phenomenon of the interrupting alert/text/phone call forever. If 100 people in a room texted each other, it would sound like a sanctuary, not a cacophony. Whoa.
Just now on NPR I heard about a Valvoline product for “higher-mileage” cars…a euphemism I’ve decided to adopt. Now I’m a higher-mileage carcass.
A submission for a book cover project that I did with Mark. They didn’t pick us.
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Abbiamo deciso di dedicare una intera sezione del nostro sito ad Adriano Graziotti in quanto oltre ad un profondo sentimento d’amicizia e discepolato, ci lega al grande maestro scomparso una affinità di propositi e di ricerche che in diversi anni, abbiamo cercato di sviluppare attraverso le iniziative di Simmetria e in vari testi pubblicati nelle nostre collane. Tra questi il più importante contributo alla conoscenza degli studi di Graziotti, seguita ad essere la raccolta di tavole di “Hermetica Geometria” commentate dallo stesso autore.
Tracklist:
1. I Didn’t Love You
2. You’re Just Afraid (To Give Me Your Love)
3. Dance All Night
4. Will There Be Tomorrow
5. Why Should I Think The Way I Do
6. I Want To Let You Know
7. Love Me
8. Saturn
The Benedictines… because that’s where I landed after Wabash. I got a job in the monastery, and I blended in. It was serendipitous and a crap shoot, but I can honestly say the Franciscans, Dominicans and Jesuits never interested me much. On the other hand, the Benedictine reform orders– Carthusians and Cistercians– and the Carmelites form the ‘contemplative’ orders and are more up my alley. Thomas Merton. Bernard of Clairvaux. The Carmelite mystics.
http://www.religious-vocation.com/differences_religious_orders.html
It’s a matter of: what do you want? For me, I want refuge, an axis mundi, a rock and foundation. The Benedictine order is orienting in a modern world of many crosswinds. Ora et Labora. Work hard, and don’t forget to just pray. Not praying while serving the poor, not praying while driving, but prayer on it’s own and without any competition for attention. The still mind that arises in prayer in the morning is the one worth cultivating all day.
I am infuriated when I hear people half-heatedly say that all religions “try to get to the same place.” They don’t, and the only people who think that are those who are not part of any religion, twats with “COEXIST” bumper stickers. But you can say that all Catholic religious orders try to get to the same place– that is, beatitude. Therefore, certain orders correspond with the way individual men mirror Christ by their talents and passions. I am intrigued by the vast majority of Christ’s life– the unwritten part–which we reverently hold to be a time of private prayer, of hard work as a carpenter, of familial loyalty. Because I want to imitate Christ in that mode, I have found the Benedictines to be the order which lends itself towards that particular holistic vision of the devout life.
I read this at some point in the past decade:
From Costume of Prelates of the Catholic Church, According to Roman Etiquette (Classic Reprint) by John Abel Felix Prosper Nainfa:
“…the Prelate is reciprocally bound to make his dignity known by wearing the proper costume. Owing to personal sentiments of humility, one may sometimes be opposed to this solemn display; but the example given by great saints like the noble Cardinal St. Charles Borromeo, and the holy Bishop, St. Francis de Sales, who were scrupulously faithful in observing the least prescriptions of the Ceremonials, proves that such humility has no legitimate foundation.”
Psst. Rome. Give us the mass bling whilst you do your Mass thing.
Today in 1944, 69 years ago, American forces landed on Kwajalein Atoll et al. within the Marshall Islands. It has been a site of everything from the Nike-Zeus defense shield to the new Peacekeeper system. It was an epic battle. 373 Americans lost their lives, and ~7,400 Japanese.
Then:
Now:
And here’s a false color I made of the battle of Okinawa, a few months later, but was even more epic (and was where my mother, the father Col. Thomas Martin Daly, was born. He was the Commander of Maintenance and Supply. They were sending him to Korea, he got as far as Hawai’i, and they changed orders there, telling him he could bring his family if he wanted. That was 1966.).
