Exsultet by Fr Guy Nicholls

of the Birmingham Oratory, via Catholic Mom of 10:



for more videos, go here...

Stuck in the Middle - Brad Davidge with Natalie MacMaster

his website

Cape Breton Live in Concert on Cape Breton Live Radio:


Hrm, her Live in Cape Breton DVD is not available from Amazon US or Amazon.ca.

A cd by her and her uncle, Buddy MacMaster.

She'll be in Phoenix in September, and then touring California in October, including Napa and Davis.

Links to Cape Breton musicians and artists.

St. Patrick's Day at Christendom

From the Chronicler:


Sarge, check the vid at 0:20 or (-2:35).

Sierra Hull, IBMA, 2007

Sierra Hull
Sierra Hull, musical prodigy in Pickett County!
Sierra Hull, 12, rises in bluegrass with help from Alison Krauss ...

Sierra Hull ~ Steel Rails


What will her voice sound like once it matures? It's not exactly a powerful one, but the same could be said of Alison Krauss?

A MV for Sarge

Taylor Swift - Picture to Burn


She and her friend are talking "their age" at the beginning?

Hayley Westenra, Amazing Grace

Bluegrass Medley / Angelina Baker

PKM & LWRC

After using one in Ghost Recon maybe you'd like a real PKM Sarge...

VLTOR Weapon Systems

Then there is the Dillon Aero M134D minigun
Dillon Aero: M134 Gatling Gun, Miniguns, M134 Gun Systems, Naval ...
vids


M-134D Gatling Gun System
YouTube - M134 Gatling Gun vs. M240
YouTube - M134D Gatling Gun on Italian NH90
Dillion Aero M134D Gatling gun - Military Photos

Have you heard anything about the M6A1 or 2?

Land Warfare Resource Corporation
Defense Review - LWRC M6A2 Gas Piston Weapons at NDIA Small Arms ...

General Equipment International page

LWRC Gas piston rifles


LWRC 6.8mm SPC M6A2 Mag Dump

LWRC PSD Future Weapons


6.8mm! Includes a brief appearance by Paul Howe.

LWRC PSD Part 2 Future Weapons

LWRC PSD Future Weapons - AOL Video

Future Weapons: "LWRC Infantry Automatic Rifle (IAR)"


Future Weapons Season 3 Premier Infantry Automatic Rifle

Mary Fahl, Going Home

The actual Gods and Generals opening:

Tsai Chin Charity Concert 2008

I've seen the posters for the concert up, both at Milpitas Square and
There's no website for it, though.

The dates can be found here:
@ Flint Center, Cupertino
Apr 26, 2008, Saturday, 7:30 PM
Apr 27, 2008, Sunday, 4:00 PM

I don't think I'll be going--the cheapest seats were $50, I think.

Discussion of headcoverings

There is some discussion over whether it is proper for women to wear a chapel veil over at Fr. Z's blog, Feminine Genius (Fr. Z's response), and now the Cornell Society for a Good Time. It's been asked whether men should not wear headcovering as well, to show humility before God. On the other hand, there's St. Paul's argument that men should be uncovered (1 Cor 11:2-16).

Nonetheless, I did have the following questions:
1. When are monks permitted to have the cowl over their head and when are the forbidden from doing so?

2. What would St. Paul make of the practice of Jewish men wearing a headcovering? How long has this custom been observed? (Since before the coming of Christ?) Some of the Jewish men are shown with headcoverings (e.g., the Pharisees and Simon of Cyrene) in The Passion of the Christ, but St. John does not have one (especially at the Crucifixion).

If the argumentation behind St. Paul's injunction pertains to the relationship beetween husband and wife, then why should single women need to ear the veil? (So this Messianic Jewish website would argue.) But the words in the passage seem to refer more to the relationship between men and women in general?

Headcovering in Jewish Law
Question 11.1.2: Dress: Why do many Jewish men wear head coverings ...

Having worn a hood while in church to pray I can say that it has helped to block everything else out and more over foster certain interior dispositions towards prayer.

A Protestant's take on the question

So Baltar has now taken refuge with a monotheistic cult, after being rejected by every other ship in the fleet. Will the writers and producers resolve the religious/'metaphysical' questions, and will they give credible answers by the time the final episode is shown? One person even speculated that the Galactica will end up at Earth just in time for Baltar to be a certain Prophet announcing the "One True God." With a beard, does he resemble Christ? Will he keep the beard much longer?

The promo for this season:

source

Apollo's promo photos include a shot of him as a civilian, and there is a reason for that, so is this what Baltar will look like after the first episode of season 4?

At first I thought the cult would consist of only women, but there are some men in it as well. Those who are familiar with Baltar's proclivities will understand why I thought that.

And then there is that moment later in the episode when Baltar has some measure of humility and conversion while praying for the health of a sick child. And who is the leader of the cult? She seems to be a cynical woman with her own agenda.

edit: ah! So he does shave 35 minutes into the episode...

New episodes can be seen at the Sci-Fi website.

CFP: Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy at Philosophy Conferences ...
From Blackwell... naturally.

RP, Government Failure Is Endemic

Dr. Paul gives the Austrian critique:

The latest regulatory plan from the Treasury Department, with the potential to turn the Federal Reserve into a super-regulator overseeing state-chartered banks and bank holding companies, and acting as a guarantor of market stability, is another in a long line of half-baked government responses to financial difficulty. Recession after recession has not impressed upon government leaders the reality that the Federal Reserve's monetary policy activities are what lead to market instability.

The business cycle, contrary to what Secretary Paulson and others seem to believe, is not endemic to the free market. It is always and everywhere the result of monetary inflation and subsequent malinvestment, which when it is discovered must of necessity be liquidated in order for a true recovery to occur. Delaying the liquidation will only prolong the crisis and ensure that the next crisis will be more severe.

Every government intervention will result in a distortion of the market and a subsequent shock somewhere down the line in the future. It is about time that we recognize the failure of government intervention, get our hands out of the private sector, and for once allow the market to function.

World: Economist Reflects On Financial Crisis
Martin Wolf: FT bio, wiki; Nottingham University

He is also the author of Why Globalization Works; Google Books.

Liam Neeson interview for Taken

@ AOL

The MSM lets the citizenry down, again.

Via Rod Dreher, from Dumb Money by Michael Kinsley:

We don't need a conversation about race. At least not now. What we need is a conversation about money. It becomes clearer by the day that this is not your grandmother's--or even Barack Obama's grandmother's--economic downturn. This time we start with a huge government deficit and record private debt, all run up when times were good and we should have been storing up acorns. This is one that begins with people losing their homes, which is usually the last act of the drama. This is one that is bringing back stagflation--that poisonous combination of economic slowdown and eroding currency we cured at a terrible cost back in 1981. When that red phone rings in the middle of the night, it probably won't be the National Security Adviser saying Osama bin Laden has struck again. It will be the Treasury Secretary reporting that markets have opened in the Far East and the dollar has become worthless.

Paleoconservatives and paleolibertarians, as well as those on the "left" (the folks over at Counterpunch, for example), have known that this should have been an important campaign issue from the very start, beginning last year. Where the heck have you been Michael Kinsley, and the rest of the MSM? Where are the critical minds with a deep knowledge of history, political science, economics, and philosophy, instead of a meager degree in journalism and a passing acquaintance with best-sellers and the like?

We cannot count on the MSM to do the investigative work that we as citizens should be doing, and if we ourselves cannot do it, then there is something wrong with the "Republic." But we knew that already.

The Tudors are back

Actually, it's the show The Tudors, back for season 2. It's popular enough among young people as well, which is unfortunate, given their lack of historical knowledge these days.

official Showtime site
Yahoo
The Tudors Online

Related Links:
The Tudors
Tudor History
History of the Monarchy > The Tudors

Hayley Westenra & Jonathan Ansell Un Giorno Per Noi

Hayley Westenra & Jonathan Ansell Un Giorno Per Noi


This Morning Hayley Westenra & Jonathan Ansell interview


Hayley Westenra - Benedictus

JM has been giving a little salute the past two days, I don't know who taught her to do that, or why she is doing it, but she is being a cute 2nd grader. I wonder where all the kids are from 10 years ago... Alicia, Ingrid, Adrianna, David and Marisol, and the others.

One of the boys forgot to bring his inhaler to school today and he had two asthma attacks--he didn't tell me about the first one, even though he was starting to have it right before P.E. But apparently that didn't last too long. The other one started afterschool, and he couldn't walk, he was bent over, trying to breathe. I was going to carry him to the office, but that didn't seem to help his breathing. Fortunately, his father came with his inhaler. Kids!

Apparently Ms. N- told [some of] her kids that I was doing graduate studies to become a doctor, so three of them walked up to me and said "Dr. ----" and laughed. They thought it was impressive and funny at the same time. Kids!

Mattie Porte's full report on Richard Heinberg

Heinberg: Resilient communities - paths for powering down:
Mattie Porte, Findhorn Foundation
Now that he'd warmed us up with a talk on 'Peak Everything,' Richard Heinberg said he'd come back to try out some new ideas he'd working with over the past few weeks. "It's all a big unknown," he admitted, but had decided we were the kind of audience that could handle the unknown. Where are we? Where are we going?

Adam Carolla with Julianne Hough - Week 3

Not eliminated yet!
DWTS - Adam Carolla with Julianne Hough - Week 3


Adam & Julianne Interview Each Other


The Insider with Adam Carolla & Julianne Hough


Interview with DWTS Helio Castroneves and Julianne Hough


Kylie Minogue-Can't Get You Out Of My Head[Live DWTS-2008]


JULIANNE HOUGH AND FAMILY - sister sister


Kylie Minogue - Dancing with the Stars (All I See)


Kylie Minogue - Dancing With the Stars - ExtraTV Backstage
All I See (The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson)

Zenit: Jesus Remains With Us in Scripture

Jesus Remains With Us in Scripture

Gospel Commentary for 3rd Sunday of Easter

By Father Raniero Cantalamessa, OFM Cap

ROME, APRIL 4, 2008 (Zenit.org).- “Were not our hearts burning within us while he spoke to us on the way and explained the Scriptures to us?” This line from the Gospel passage about the disciples of Emmaus brings us to reflect on the Scriptures.

There are two ways to approach the Bible. The first is that of considering it an old book, full of religious wisdom, of moral values, and of poetry too. From this point of view it is absolutely the most important book for understanding our Western culture and the Judeo-Christian religion. It is also the most printed and read book in the world.

But there is another, much more demanding way to approach the Bible, and it is that of believing that it contains the living word of God for us, that it is an “inspired” book, that is, written, indeed, by human authors, with all of their limitations, but with God’s direct intervention. A very human book and, at the same time, divine, that speaks to men of all times and reveals to them the meaning of life and death.

Above all it reveals to them God’s love. If all the Bibles in the world, St. Augustine said, on account of some disaster, would be destroyed and there remained only one copy and, of this copy, all of the pages were illegible save for one, and on this page only one line were legible; if this line were that of the first letter of John that reads “God is love,” the whole Bible would be saved because it is summed up in this statement. This explains how it is that so many people approach the Bible without culture, without great education, with simplicity, believing that it is the Holy Spirit that speaks in it and find in it answers to their problems, light, encouragement, in a word, life.

The two ways of approaching the Bible -- the way of erudition and the way of faith -- do not exclude each other, on the contrary, they must be united. It is necessary to study the Bible, the way in which it should be interpreted (or to pay attention to the findings of those study it in this way), so as not to fall into fundamentalism.

Fundamentalism consists in taking a verse from the Bible, just as it sounds, and applying it to today’s situations, without taking into account the difference of culture, of time, and of the different genres of the Bible.

It is believed, for example, that the universe is little more that 4,000 years old since this would seem to be what we can calculate from the information that the Bible provides, while we know that the universe is some billions of years old. The Bible was not written as a textbook of natural science, but for salvation. God, in the Bible, adapted himself to the way of speaking of the men of the time so that they could understand; he did not write only for the men of the age of technology.

On the other hand, to reduce the Bible to an object of study and erudition, remaining neutral to its message, is to kill it. It would be as if a man, receiving a letter from the woman he loves, were to examine it with a dictionary, from the point of view of grammar and syntax, and stops at these things, without grasping the love that is in it.

Reading the Bible without faith is like trying to read a book at night: nothing can be read, or at least one does not read what is essential. Reading Scripture with faith means reading it in reference to Christ, grasping what refers to him on every page, just as he did with the disciples of Emmaus.

Jesus remains with us in two ways: in the Eucharist and in his word. He is present in both: in the Eucharist under the form of food, in the Word under the form of light and truth. The word has a great advantage over the Eucharist. Only those who already believe and are in a state of grace can receive communion; but everyone, believers and nonbelievers, married people and divorced people, can approach the word of God. Indeed, to become a believer, the most normal route is that of listening to God’s word.

[Translation by Joseph G. Trabbic]

* * *

Father Raniero Cantalamessa is the Pontifical Household preacher. The readings for this Sunday are Acts 2:14a, 22-28; 1 Peter 1:17-21; Luke 24:13-35.

AN: Witnesses confirm: Chinese soldiers "dressed as monks" sparked the violence

Witnesses confirm: Chinese soldiers "dressed as monks" sparked the violence
by Nirmala Carvalho
A Tibetan leader defends the choice of non-violence, and claims that Chinese soldiers dressed as monks in order to instigate violence. "We are not terrorists", he says, expressing the view that "Chinese propaganda" is behind attacks meant to justify accusations against the Tibetans. In Lhasa, the army is also harassing the Chinese.

Crop to Cuisine: Why Localism Matters

From Global Public Media--

Crop to Cuisine: Why Localism Matters

Localization of our food supply is one of the most critical ways we will improve the condition of our planet. There are many things we can be doing in the way of environmental sustainability. But none of them play as central a role in everyone's life as food. In this episode, we launch Crop To Cuisine onto the airwaves discussing the reasons that localization of our food supply is so important, including the historical context, environmental impacts, and even economic benefits. Our guests include Amy Trubek, PhD, Dawn Thilmany, PhD, and Jon Ash, Chef and Author.

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Ok, in case you're too lazy

Here are two trailers for season 4 of Doctor Who:


For KK--

Sense and Sensibility 2008

BBC website; Masterpiece Theater

I've been able to watch most of S&S 2008 at that other source, and it has been ok, despite the additions made by Andrew Davies. Most consider it to be the best adaptation out of the group, and I suspect this is true, but I am not going to take the time to confirm it by watching the rest. I do think the Edward Ferrars in this one is better than the Hugh Grant one in the Ang Lee version...

the trailer for the DVD...


Hattie Morahan (plays Elinor Dashwood):

Hattie Morahan Fansite for the star of Sense and Sensibility

(Whoa! Didn't realize she was in The Bank Job! What did I say about British actresses, Sarge!)

Charity Wakefield plays Marianne Dashwood.

Charity Wakefield fansite

Plus some Doctor Who news:
The stars line up for Doctor Who
official website

Series 4 premiere: April 5
Trailer for season 4--includes a glimpse of Rose. And Donna isn't annoying, either! (Trailers also available at the official site.)