Two compositions for recorders by Henry VIII, King of England 1509-1547-- 'If Love Now Reynyd [Reigned]' and an untitled work-- played by the Krainis Recorder Consort on a Kapp long-playing disc, KCL9049, issued in 1960.Shakespeare would no doubt have heard this, or music very much like it.
As far as his association with music is concerned, Henry the Eighth is probably best known these days for graciously lending his name to a song celebrating serial marriage, made a hit by Herman's Hermits. But, because 2009 marks the 500th Anniversary of Henry's accession to the throne, it seems appropriate to consider a more direct contribution.
In the album liner notes, Bernard Krainis, recorder soloist of the New York Pro Musica, which he co-founded, and director of the Consort performing here, says--
"It is perhaps paradoxical that two such lovely works should come from the pen of a monarch whom history depicts as bloodthirsty, callous and self-indulgent. Henry, however, was a typical Renaissance Humanist, whose wide ranging interests included a passionate devotion to music. At his death, he owned 76 recorders-- just a small part of his princely collection of all the important instruments of his day."
The source for this music is a manuscript at the British Museum. The portrait of Henry, in 1540, is by Hans Holbein the Younger.
I've been a rock and I've got my fencesMe, I like her attitude, which is "Screw you, I am what I am". For me, nothing captures that like her song, Girls With Guitars. Lord, have mercy ....
I never let them down
When it comes to love I keep my senses
I don't get kicked around
I shivered once you broke into my soul
The damage is done now
I'm outta control
How did you get to me
No one else on earth
Could ever hurt me
Break my heart the way you do
No one else on earth
Was ever worth it
No one could love me like
No one could love me like you
You can make me want you
Any time you want to
You're burning me alive
I can't deny you
Even when I catch you
Weaving a weak alibi
Cause when the night falls
You make me forget
Your love is killing me
And it ain't over yet
How did you get to me
No one else on earth
Could ever hurt me
Break my heart the way you do
No one else on earth
Was ever worth it
No one could love me like
No one could love me like you
I shivered once you broke into my soul
The damage is done now
I'm outta control
How did you get to me
No one else on earth
Could ever hurt me
Break my heart the way you do
No one else on earth
Was ever worth it
No one could love me like
No one could love me like you
No one else on earth
Could ever hurt me
Break my heart the way you do
No one else on earth
Was ever worth it
No one could love me like
No one could love me like you
No one else on earth
Was ever worth it
No one could love me like
No one like you
No one like you
After hearing feminist rhetoric on rape for several decades, it’s strange to be in the position of educating them on what is happening to women in Scandinavia, because they are usually the ones who know more about such things than anyone.Zing! And don't miss the follow-up, which dissects the New York Times with a thoroughness that would have been admired by Jacques Derrida. Double Zing!
The point here is to counter the poisonous rhetoric that makes it seem as though America is a uniquely villainous country. This may have made sense forty years ago when our schools fostered patriotism and Americans were in denial about awful (or allegedly awful) things we had done, but today the situation is reversed, it seems, with schools dispensing information on nothing but the villainous things we’ve done while mentioning none of the bad things others have done. So, to restore some balance, here is my proposed lineup:Simply superb. I for one intend to do so cheerfully. I also intend to post about the Left's curious silence about the fire bombings of Tokyo and Dresden, or why it would have been OK to nuke Berlin during the Great Patriotic War. Not for nothing did Woody Guthrie's guitar say "This machine kills fascists."
August 1: Bataan Death March Day
August 2: Rape of Nanking Day
August 3: Manila Massacre Day
August 4: Korean Comfort Women Day
August 5: Experiments on Live Prisoners Day
NASA satellite data from the years 2000 through 2011 show the Earth's atmosphere is allowing far more heat to be released into space than alarmist computer models have predicted, reports a new study in the peer-reviewed science journal Remote Sensing. The study indicates far less future global warming will occur than United Nations computer models have predicted, and supports prior studies indicating increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide trap far less heat than alarmists have claimed.The Usual Suspects in the Warmist camp are reacting as you'd expect. They're not making their case any stronger:
"If you want to do a story then write one pointing to the ridiculousness of people jumping onto every random press release as if well-established science gets dismissed on a dime," [NASA's Gavin] Schmidt said. "Climate sensitivity is not constrained by the last two decades of imperfect satellite data, but rather the paleoclimate record."Pay no attention to the data there - we're doing science! Or something. But the paleoclimate record isn't a strong peg to hang your hat on:
Without trying to prejudice this work, but also because of what I almost think I know to be the case, the results of this study will show that we can probably say a fair bit about <100 year extra-tropical NH [Northern Hemisphere - Borepatch] temperature variability (at least as far as we believe the proxy estimates), but honestly know fuck-all about what the >100 year variability was like with any certainty (i.e. we know with certainty that we know fuck-all).That was paleoclimatologist Ed Cook's email to the University of East Anglia's Keith Briffa, published in the ClimateGate data dump.
While the thermometer records indicate a substantial warming trend, many tree rings do not display a corresponding change in their width.[2] A temperature trend extracted from tree rings alone would not show any substantial warming. The temperature graphs calculated in these two ways thus "diverge" from one another since the 1950s, which is the origin of the term.The East Anglia crowd "solved" this problem by hiding the decline:
But the real money here is obviously in the consumption/investment categories. You can redistribute consumption from the top 1% and give it to average Americans working in a car factory, or a Walmart. But it’s an illusion to think you can redistribute investment from the top 1%, so that average Americans can have a higher living standard. Where do people think the car factory comes from? Or the Walmart building? BTW, this has nothing to do with trickle-down economics, a theory I reject. This is simple accounting. Money put into investment projects isn’t available to boost living standards for the lower classes, unless you don’t do those investment projects.Must-read stuff, via Aretae (who knows must-read stuff).
Yesterday, I published a press release titled Tree ring widths more affected by sheep than temperature in which researchers in Norway published a peer reviewed study stating:Long time readers know my scorn for the Michael Mann "Hockey Stick" graph used - with great fanfare - to justify the late 1990s ZOMG Thermageddon!!!1!!eleventy! schtick. The statistical method was bogus, producing a hockey stick graph even when fed random data (say, the phone numbers in your local Telephone Directory), and Mann used Bristlecone Pine tree core data, which was known to be inappropriate for measuring temperature.
“We found tree ring widths were more affected by sheep than the ambient temperature at the site, although temperatures were still visible in the tree ring records. This shows that the density of herbivores affects the tree ring record, at least in places with slow-growing trees.”They went on to say that “This study does not mean that using tree rings to infer past climate is flawed as we can still see the effect of temperatures on the rings…”, but according to MM05 [McIntyre & McKittrick 2005 - Borepatch] below, that doesn’t seem to be fully accurate.
One of the most persistent falsehoods heard from anti-gunners, I mean besides the penis jokes, is that gun culture folks are all toothless idiots who "jest wanna shewt sumthin". Of course, when you're familiar with the facts, you know that a large percentage of the folks who carry study all the time: they study tactics, take classes and spend a fair amount of their resources trying to be ready should they be called on to use that gun they carry.I'll happily discuss Aquinas, Catholic Just War doctrine, the inherent flaws in Plato's Republic, and how all that buttresses a natural right to self defense with lethal weapons with any of them. If it makes them less nervous, I'll even put my teeth back in.
Yow. Seems he's in stable condition now. I expect he had words with his family, though.
A 50-year-old South African man woke up inside a mortuary over the weekend and screamed to be let out - scaring away attendants who thought he was a ghost.His family presumed he was dead when they could not wake him on Saturday night and contacted a private morgue in a rural village in the Eastern Cape.
He spent almost 24 hours inside the morgue, the region's health department spokesman told the Sapa news agency.
I came across a form of this question in the comments over at Ann Althouse's blog... "Hey, Mr. Liberal. If you think food stamps are such a great idea, what's wrong with school choice programs and educational vouchers? They're just school stamps, right?"The Orphan Wilde describes his blog as "A peculiar brand of misanthropy". Well, his brand of misanthropy is pretty danged good, if you ask me:
Nobody should study martial arts for the purpose of self defense without also studying the use of firearms; in order to be capable of reacting appropriately to firearms, you must not only understand them, you must understand how your opponent will use them, what mistakes your opponent is like to make, and what his weaknesses will be.No "there is no spoon" nonsense here, just smart analysis of all sorts of things. When I get around to reorganizing the blogroll, he's going in the "Wicked Smaht Bahstids" category..
I've already written a post that i was deprived in my childhood because I didn't have a Gilbert Atomic Energy Lab. Consider some of what it included: a U-239 Geiger radiation counter, an electroscope to measure radioactivity of different substances, a spinthariscope to watch "live" radioactive disintegration, a Wilson Cloud Chamber to see paths of electrons & alpha particles at 10k mps, three very low-level radioactive sources (Alpha, Beta, Gamma) and four samples of Uranium-bearing ores.We all knew why Johnny can't read. Now we know why he can't understand electron orbitals.
However, I did have a chemistry set and it did include chemicals. As you can see in the above picture, incredibly enough not only do modern chemistry sets already not include such dangers as glass test tubes and Bunsen burners, now they've also done away with chemicals.
My little boy tried shaving for the first time todayPhoto copyright 2009 Borepatch
My little girl said "Momma, I love Paul."
It's been no time since he was "Daniel Boone"
and she'd wear my high heels to make her tall.
He'd bring to me a trinket from a box of Cracker Jacks,
and she a weed as if it were a rose.
I used to wonder where did babies come from
but now I wonder where do babies go?
Where do babies go without us knowin' that they're gone,
and time pays no mind to how fast children grow?
I used to wonder where did babies come from
and now I wonder where do babies go?
Where do babies go without us knowin' that they're gone,
and time pays no mind to how fast children grow?
I used to wonder where did babies come from
and now I wonder where do babies go?
A young lady named Jennifer might, for example, particularly like Duffies, a new breakfast cereal. But when she hears the doorbell ring, opens the door, and someone punches her square in the face and says ’Eat Duffies, assface!” she progresses to think a different product is in her future. For you see, this is sort of how Climate Change is being sold to us right now. As a punch in the face.Very smart it is indeed, and you should RTWT. I was struck by the similarities between the climate debate and the gun control debate. In both, the "non Progressive" side spends a lot of time discussing the actual data. In both, the Progressive side spends a lot of time talking about how evil and stupid the other side is.
The problem, which all climate change proponents have to face sooner or later, is that climate change deniers as you call them do a much better job of getting their message out because of your efforts to humiliate them for not seeing how smart you want to seem. When they excise the obscenity, obscurity, and politics of your latest messages, they find nothing left.Alas, the disagreement is over first principles, and so no discussion of the data or science is likely to prove fruitful. There is the same whiff of desperation from both the Kyoto and the Brady groups; a feeling that their day has passed and that they need to get something now or never. The rhetoric is dialed up to 11 in the climate debate in order to shout down an inconvenient dissent; the Brady crowd has given up on debate entirely which is why we see back door regulatory efforts as the preferred choice of action.
A Father Of Four brings the news that Dare Not Speak Its Name:Intellectuals made the claim that venereal transmission of power was wrong on its face and ordinary people should have the right to determine their own destinies. The explicitly took the side of the ordinary person against the ruling class.Contrast that with what we have now. The intellectuals have decided that they should be the ruling class. Instead of sticking with the winning solution, that the individual has the right to determine his own destiny, they have decided to supplant the hereditary monarchs and their cronies and pretend that they have a plan that will maximize everyone’s happiness, so long as we do what they say. They tell us to shut up and do as we are told. They tell us that we are not fit to question their wisdom no matter how many times that their actions fail to lead to their desired results. They’ve become the exact replica of what they as a class fought against so long ago.
Last month, Wits University and RAU scientists released the results of a recent analysis that revealed the presence of female hormones in beer.The results of the study are pretty interesting, and you should RTWT. Scary stuff.
Men should take a concerned look at their beer consumption.
The theory is that beer contains female hormones (hops contains Phytoestrogens) and that by drinking enough beer, men turn into women.
Nonfarm payroll employment was essentially unchanged in June (+18,000), and the unemployment rate was little changed at 9.2 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today.And so, the question: how many companies does it take to downsize that job gain to zero? Start here:
After Wall Street closed today, Cisco said that it was going to cut 6,500 workers to get its costs more in line with its revenue streamsAnd now look here:
Borders’ roughly 400 remaining stores will close, and nearly 11,000 jobs will be lost, according to the company.And so the answer is two.
As the ground fast approaches and panic begins to set in, a lot of trained people look to the "elevators" to gain some elevation, when what they actually need is airspeed.
The flippers primarily control airspeed,4 not elevation.
Of all the oversimplified wishful-thinking ideas, the notion that the yoke is the up/down control is the most deadly. You may think that neither you nor anybody else would be dumb enough to keep pulling back until the stall occurs — but the accident statistics indicate otherwise. The stall/spin accident is the #1 most-common type of fatal accident, year in and year out.
Here are the facts: The yield on Greek sovereign debt is now at record highs for the euro era. Last week’s state-managed bond auction in Italy almost failed. And, while few seem to have noticed, the overnight repurchase market -- for short-term, secured, corporate debt obligations -- nearly seized up amid what Combs described as “an almost panicky scramble” for less- risky paper.
Indeed, investors’ manic desire for safety last week reached levels not seen since the most acute days of the financial crisis in September and October 2008. Ironically, though, given the pathetic display in Washington and the country’s ongoing fiscal troubles, people turned in droves to the perceived security of the U.S. Treasury market, even though it has never looked shakier.
U.S. Treasury bills shorter than three months in duration traded at negative yields last week. Three-month bills were trading a yield of 1 basis point. Six-month bills traded to yield 4 basis points and one- year U.S. Treasuries were trading to yield 13 basis points.Bond prices and interest rates are inversely related: as price goes up (in this case, from increased demand), interest paid falls. It's now negative, which means that European financial markets are paying the US Government for the privilege of holding Treasury notes.
In short, demand for the perceived security of the debt obligations of the U.S. government was so intense that “it was virtually impossible to find ANY amount of certain maturities of short duration Treasury bills,” Combs informed me.
Yeah, me either.
As Kevin Drum points out, "This is not, repeat not, a good time to be screwing around with the possibility of defaulting on U.S. debt". Yet as Stan Collender notes:On the one hand, much of Wall Street is insisting that the whole fight is political theater and that Congress and the White house will work something out. On the other hand, congressional Republicans are insisting that Wall Street won't react negatively if a deal doesn't get done.I'm having a hard time seeing how any of this ends well.
In other words, financial markets aren't yet reacting because they think a deal is in the offing and the GOP isn't cutting a deal because it doesn't think Wall Street cares.
I have found that communication in emergencies is with out compare one of the MOST important tasks to cover. Cell phones will save your butt in a pinch, but what happens when the cell network goes down? When you need help bad and the little gadget that you take for granted every day doesn't work, well.... it sucks..I have to say that I hadn't thought about this before.
When my home town flooded a few years back there was zero cell service. There was also no Internet or land line phones. I luckily had the fortune of being a HAM operator and was able to call my parents and let them know what was going on.
1972: World population to be 15 Billion:
This one from 1986 on temperature increase in America:
Hansen said the average U.S. temperature had risen from one to two degrees since 1958 and is predicted to increase an additional 3 or 4 degrees sometime between 2010 and 2020.Staying in 1986 for the moment, we have this unequivocal prediction:
The Press-Courier (Milwaukee) June 11 1986
“Within 15 years,” said Goddard Space Flight Honcho James Hansen, “global temperatures will rise to a level which hasn’t existed on earth for 100,000 years”.
The News and Courier, June 17th 1986
Citing Population Council data, the Blueprint said:1990: IPCC claims 0.6° increase by 2010:
…the world’s population will stabilise at nearly 15.5 billion…about a century hence… [around 2070]Almost half a century has passed since then. The radical change that was said to be so necessary was not undertaken (the book proposed everything from a ban on road building to the invention of “a new philosophy of life”).
So how accurate was that population prognostication? Recently the United Nations issued a press release that contains a rather different prediction:
The current world population of close to 7 billion is projected to reach 10.1 billion in the next ninety years… [around 2100]
The biggest weakness of the ZOMG-Thermageddon!!!1!! crowd is that their shelf life has expired. It worked with the public for a bit during a run of hot summers in the 1990s, but it's been failed prediction after failed prediction ever since. Numbers get revised, and then revised again, and even with a Press that's happy to sell the Establishment Line, the public isn't buying it.
About that AGW you’ve been asking us to pay Trillion$ to stop…Fuck you!
(Graph from WUWT. Click to embiggenify)
Gee…All that extra CO2 in the last decade and how much warming? Zip! Zero! Nada!
I'm not any kind of gun or shooting expert. I like shooting, and shoot a fair number of different guns, but I'm really a dilettante. Your mileage may vary, void where prohibited, do not remove tag under penalty of law.
I don't do scientific, repeatable tests. There's no checklist, although that's not a bad idea. I write about what I like and don't like, but it's pretty much stream of consciousness. Opinion, we got opinion here. Step right up.
I'm not a shooting teacher, although I do like to introduce people to shooting. Maybe some day I'll take the NRA teaching class, but until then, you get a dilettante's view. You'll get opinion here, but if you get serious about shooting, you'll want to get someone who knows what he's doing to give you some pointers. It can help.
And oh yeah, shooting things is fun.
If you suspect that scientists are only supposed to enter the "highly political arena of the climate change debate" when they're presenting evidence of Manmade Global Warming, then you're as nasty and suspicious as I am.
The chief of the world's leading physics lab at CERN in Geneva has prohibited scientists from drawing conclusions from a major experiment. The CLOUD ("Cosmics Leaving Outdoor Droplets") experiment examines the role that energetic particles from deep space play in cloud formation. CLOUD uses CERN's proton synchrotron to examine nucleation.
CERN Director General Rolf-Dieter Heuer told Welt Online that the scientists should refrain from drawing conclusions from the latest experiment.
"I have asked the colleagues to present the results clearly, but not to interpret them," reports veteran science editor Nigel Calder on his blog. Why?
Because, Heuer says, "That would go immediately into the highly political arena of the climate change debate. One has to make clear that cosmic radiation is only one of many parameters."
