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"When the promiscuous Susie returns home from an evening of drinking and indiscriminate,though disappointing,sex, she's confronted by her irate brother, Jack. To her horror, she's upended for a humiliating spanking right in front of Jack's long time lover, Dave. When Jack realizes that this bare-assed spanking is turning Susie on, he knows exactly what his misbehaving sister needs. When Jack introduces Susie to his friend, Nicholas, she's astounded by the amazing man, his impressive size, his good looks, his cool, his calm, his no-nonsense attitude. ""The true test of a submissive is to do as she is told every time, even when it doesn't please her,"" Nicholas tells her. Jack wants this man to train her. Although she's doubtful, an introductory session under this man's rule becomes the orgasmic bliss she's been hoping for. But can she truly submit to this man for more than night? It's a tall order, but just for the sexual benefits, Susie's willing to try. She'll spend a month at Nicholas' exotic Maui estate where she'll be totally controlled by this dominant man, subject to punishment and a sexual training that will leave her breathless. Nicholas seems to know exactly what Susie most desires and is all too happy to administer the hard hot spankings that turn her on. When he introduces her to the pleasures of anal sex, she's left feeling totally used but thoroughly sated. Before this amazing vacation ends, however, Susie realizes that Nicholas's spanking discipline is heating up her romantic fires? is it possible that this arrangement doesn't have to end when her month in paradise is over?"
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by Mojo Ichiruto » Sat Mar 03, 2012 12:19 pmSince we don't have one yet I will start one.
DC Nation on Cartoon Network debuted this morning 3-3-12 replaying part of the Green Lantern TAS episode that aired back in November of last year. I enjoyed this show when I watched it last year and it was still good to watch again with my son this morning. Not much to be said about it that hasn't already been discussed.
Young Justice also returned with a new episode this morning "Misplaced". Without spoiling to much it was the shows take on the "World without Grown Ups" storyline. I loved this episode as it had some great humor, awesome action, and a very emotional ending as well. The big shocker in the episode is that
. We get a new member of the team out of the above spoiler but it is at a great price.
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Zatarra sacrifices himself to becomes the new human host for Nabu and the helmet of Fate so that his daughter Zatanna is released from that curse
They had two DC Nation shorts this morning as well, one during each episode. During GL:TAS they replayed the same one with the claymation characters voiced over by the little kids, pretty funny stuff. Then during YJ they aired a new Plastic Man short that was pretty silly as well, but still entertaining.
All in all I thought it was a pretty good start to the DC Nation on Cartoon Network and I look forward to more great Saturday morning superhero cartoon watching in the future!
by Dragavon » Sat Mar 03, 2012 12:24 pmIn the morning? Seriously? WTF? I knew it wasn't on last night but this is just bullshit.
by Mojo Ichiruto » Sat Mar 03, 2012 12:27 pm
I prefer them being on Saturday mornings myself. Disney XD's Marvel Block is also gonna be on Sunday mornings as well starting April 1st, I love that they are bringing Superhero toons back to the weekend morning timeslots.
by Dragavon » Sat Mar 03, 2012 12:31 pm
It's not that I have a problem with the morning. It's just that I hadn't seen a single ad saying a new episode would be on this morning or I would have DVR'd it.
by Mojo Ichiruto » Sat Mar 03, 2012 12:55 pm
Well if you have DirecTV then you might have the Cartoon Network West channel like I do as well. It should be coming on there again at 1:30pm I think.
by Dragavon » Sat Mar 03, 2012 1:14 pmThat was an interesting episode. Especially the last bit. I like that they are willing to go so dark.
by Herald » Sat Mar 03, 2012 1:18 pm
The individual episodes might come back on again sometime this week.
Also, if you have some sort of on-demand service with your cable, go to the Cartoon Network section, which might be getting the episodes sometime this week.
Luckily for me, I had the DVR set to record all new Young Justice episodes.
by Strict31 » Sat Mar 03, 2012 2:35 pm
I've got the series programmed into my DVR. This means, no matter when it is moved in CN's schedule, my DVR will find it and record it.
Yesterday, I went into the menu to find YJ and program my DVR to record it at the new time, only to discover my DVR had already done that on its own.
I'm using Time Warner's built-in DVR, and while it has...A LOT of other flaws, it has always tracked when my programmed shows change time slots. I hadn't thought this was a capability unique to TWC's DVR service, but I've seen a couple people now have the same problem as you. If you live in an area where you can make a switch to TWC, you might want to do so.
by Grayson » Sat Mar 03, 2012 3:07 pmI have said it before but I feel it should be repeated here: Young Justice is currently infinitely better than anything DC is currently publishing in their Teen line. I wish that a majority of the relaunch would have followed this show as an example of how to relaunch characters and make them fun and interesting.
by PDH » Sat Mar 03, 2012 3:23 pm
by Mojo Ichiruto » Sat Mar 03, 2012 4:14 pm
Absolutely agree.
by e_galston » Sat Mar 03, 2012 4:15 pmi really enjoyed the YJ episode.. GL i think will have to grow on me.
by Herald » Sat Mar 03, 2012 4:28 pm
As mentioned, my Comcast DVR caught the time change, too.
by Amoebas » Sun Mar 04, 2012 12:26 amFor those that missed it on Saturday (like me) - it's on today (Sunday) at 10am.
by Dragavon » Sun Mar 04, 2012 12:32 am
No, I had taken YJ off DVR because it was recording episodes I had seen already. I have to put it back on.
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"There is hope for the world". Pete Seeger: The Power of Song.
(This interview was recorded at the home of Pete Seeger, near Beacon, NY, November 2008. It includes portions that, for time consideration, were edited from the one-hour radio program and will be included in a later broadcast.)
So Doug (Orr) and I are working on a book we're calling "Wayfaring Strangers" and we want to make a journey through music, but we'll digress into lots of different other areas and lots of different places, where we trace the movement of songs and tunes from Scotland to the Appalachians, and on the way we'll travel through Ulster and see what influences are picked up along there. So that's what we're working on just now. And we're gathering all kinds of input into that and talking just generally about music, musical influences and the journey that music makes, and, in a sense, what is left behind and what is picked up as it moves through time.
Doug found this quote from your father: "Don't think of folk music as any one particular group of songs or singers, think of it as an ancient, ancient process which has been going for thousands of years where people take older material and mould it to fit into their lives and new songs."
And there'll always be arguments, oh sing it the old way. Sing that new verse you made up!
The main thing I've tried to do is to demonstrate to people that it's fun to sing together. It's true that a good solo singer is unforgettable, but it's also unforgettable if you can get a crowd of people who may never have met each other before and find that they have fun singing together. And they surprise themselves in how good it sounds. I've done this first with children seventy years ago, and then later on with college students sixty years ago, and now I cannot sing very well myself, but I try and find songs that people can sing if all I do is give them the accompaniment. And sometimes the words. In church they call this lining out the hymn. I'll give a few words and they sing the verses and well as the chorus.
But music was just something that was around you all the time growing up, and when you talk about sharing music with children now, it's sometimes something that has to be introduced to children because they maybe don't have it in their family and they're maybe not surrounded by it. But you would have heard music and song as early as you heard people conversing.
Well, my parents were both classical musicians. My mother was a very good violinist and for her the three Bs were Bach, Beethoven and Brahms. I think I countered by saying, Mother for me it's Boats, Banjos and Biscuits! Another time I said, Ballads, Blues and Breakdowns.
However, it was actually a Scotsman who went to Canada as a child and became a famous writer of books about nature, and he was my guru as a child. Ernest Thompson Seton, and I read every single one of his books and when I was 16 I announced to family – my mother was teaching violin to a Jewish family – they said, what are you going to do with your life, you're 16? I said, well I'm going to be a hermit in this hypocritical world, that's the only way to be an honest person. And they said, that's you're idea of morality? You're going to be nice and pure in yourself and let the rest of the world go to hell?
And I thought it over and decided they were right and then got more involved, made lots of mistakes. I do think that to try and be a hermit now, you can do it occasionally for a short period of time, but by and large if this world is still here in a hundred years it will be people who somehow find a community they like to work with and work with other people.
Apart from the three Bs who were your earlier musical influences that you can recall?
I played in the school jazz band. I wanted to be like my teenage peers, so I went clunk, clunk, clunk on a tenor banjo, playing the chords which were written down in the sheet music. But I really didn't enjoy it that much. It put me in touch with my peers for a while, but at age 17 my father took me to a festival in Ashville, North Carolina, and I heard ordinary working people making fantastically good music. They didn't play many kinds of music, they just played the kind they knew. And I'll never forget a woman in her 50s named Samantha Bumgarner, from a small town in Eastern Tennessee, and she'd come over the mountains to sing at this festival. The man in charge of the festival was a lawyer, but he actually became a very good showman. He would have only one mic on stage right and another mic on stage left, maybe 30 feet away- it was a broad stage. And he'd have spotlights on stage right and there a band would be playing. While they were playing, he would go over to stage left and get another band out and group them around the mic. He'd say, "Now you know what you're going to play? You know what key you're in? You're all in tune? Now the moment the spotlight hits you, you start playing. But don't play until the spotlight hits you." Now he walks back to stage right and the band there is finishing up and he leads the audience in the applause. "Give a hand to the Concrete Boys, and aren't they wonderful?" And then he would walk across the stage 30 feet and the spotlight would follow him. "Now here's the Smith Hollow Gang! And they're going to take over!" So he had a fast moving show, back and forth from stage right to stage left.
It sounds like a slick production.
And this was Bascom Lamar Lunsford?
Bascom Lamar Lunsford. He gave me my first lesson in playing a 5 string banjo. Instead of going and just playing chords, clunk, clunk, clunk, you'd pick up on maybe the middle string and then pick up on the first string, five notes higher. And then come down with your thumb on the fifth string. Gradually, I didn't learn this all at once, I learned you picked one of the strings with your left hand. So now I could get four beats there. Up on the middle string, plucked the first string with your left hand – my mother says that on the violin that's called Left Hand Pizzicato. I just call it pulling off, but you know my phrase has been picked up by the whole music world now. Guitar pickers all around the world, it's pulling off when you play a note with your left hand. And sometimes you can, instead of pulling off, you can hammer down on one of the strings, usually a lower string. You pick it with your right hand and then come down strongly on the fretboard with your left hand and the string is still vibrating in the new pitch. And of course, a man named Earl Scruggs invented a way to divide up 8 short notes into 3, 3 and 2, that adds up to 8. And if you analyze it, that's basically the rhumba rhythm.
So, Africa had its share in modern banjo picking as well. Of course the banjo was originally an African instrument. Before that, it might have come from Asia, nobody knows. It's mainly popular in West Africa.
When you started to play banjo were you aware of the origins, imported from Africa, or was there just a sense at the time that it was an American instrument? People have researched it more since then. How did you come to the banjo? What was your thinking?
Well my father was ... what he gave the name, musicologist. He was interested in world music, way back 80 years ago, 90 years ago, and when recordings became available in the 20s and 30s he was teaching classes in world music and became the head of the Ethno-Musicalogical Society. His life was in academia. And so, through him, I've met others. Herkovic died tragically young, he was only in his 50s I believe, but had researched West African culture deeply and that taught me a little bit. And then in 1963, 1964 my wife and I were able to afford to take our whole family around the world. Actually we sang for our supper in about 30 different countries of Asia, Africa and Europe, East and West, and in Africa we were able to film songs and different instruments. That's where I learned that a drum in parts of West Africa can "talk". Literally say anything. I said, can you say anything you want on this drum? He says, anything you can say in Yoruba is the local language and it's a tone language, so "ba-wo" will mean something quite different from "ba-wo" or "ba-wo" say maybe eight or ten different things with the same two syllables. And when we visited this man, he was the Chief in a small town, we drove our car through the gate into the courtyard and a man at the entrance drummed a few beats of his drum and the Chief walked out immediately to say Hello. I said, how did you know we were going to be here? He says, oh the drum informed me that the foreign guests have arrived! He said, you can say anything you can say in Yoruba. There's a man leaning against a wall 50 feet away. Send a message to him. I said, ask him to bring me the umbrella that it also leaning against the wall. Bring it to me, not my wife. So now the drummer played a few short beats and the man woke up as if the drum had said, "Hey get up, bring the umbrella over here and give it to the foreign guest, to the man". Afterwards I said, how did you say "umbrella" in Yoruba? He said, well it's true, umbrella is an English word, but "umbrella" [said in singing voice] is Yoruba.
You must have collected a lot of scraps and pieces of songs and tunes when you were travelling round the world, and I suppose that would have been true maybe when you made that first trip down to Appalachia, down to Asheville, and met that great song collector, and great tune collectors Bascom Lamar Lusford, and Alan Lomax in fact. At the time, were you thinking about trying to collect music or were you just moved by music and wanted to make music? What about the collection side?
I'm afraid I was not that well organized! I just hit upon something that sounded nice and tried to imitate it. Bascom Lamar Lunsford was a very conservative man. He said, this folk music, it was all right until Seeger got connected with it. He did not approve of me. Even though he gave me my first lesson on the instrument. The man who should be remembered was the son of old John Lomax who collected cowboy songs. I think that the word folk music was invented about 150 years ago in Europe, meant the music of the peasant class, ancient and anonymous. Well around the year 1900 a young man studying at the University of Texas on his vacations liked to sit around the camp fire with a pencil and paper, writing down the words that the cowboys were singing. His professor said, oh this is just primitive, throw this away, you're wasting your time. But a year later, up at Harvard, Professor Kittredge said, oh this is very interesting, this is American folk music. So John Lomax picked up the term. These were not ancient songs, they were not all anonymous, some of them were, but not all, and in 1907 he brought out a book, Cowboy Songs, and got President Theodore Roosevelt to write a short forward saying, these are good songs, people ought to sing 'em. Whereas in Europe they would say, oh you're not authentic, this has only to be sung by a peasant!
But here in democratic America, John now encouraged people to sing these songs, and although he made a living working in a bank, whenever he could take a week or two off he would pile his family into a car and they would visit a singing family wherever they could find one. The Ritchie family is a singing family in Kentucky, but he found other similar families in Texas, or wherever. Sometimes, he reached out through the newspapers. It's 300 miles from Albany to Buffalo, he wrote a letter to every small town newspaper along those 300 miles and said, is there anybody who knows somebody who knows some of the canal songs sung 30 years ago before they motorised the Erie Canal, the canal barges were pulled by mules, and a man had to walk behind the mules. Well, he got numerous letters from people who said, oh my Uncle John, he worked at the canal when he was young, he can sing you some of these songs. So he had a batch of very good canal songs in his next book, American Ballads and Folk Songs, 1934. And that was when his younger son said, Father, I'd like to carry on your work. And during the new deal, the Library of Congress got some money to pay somebody for the archives of Folk Song. Before that it was just a junk heap. Poor Robert Gordon didn't have time to catalogue them all, there were just piles of disks and papers mounting up in a small room in the very top floor of the library. Well Alan took over this at aged 22. His father called him "The Acting Curator." His father was "The Curator" the man with the reputation, but his 22 year old son ... And he, with the confidence of youth and energy, did in six years what most men would have taken a lifetime to do. He'd call up the head of CBS Radio, a Mr. Paley and ask "you have the Symphony of the Year? The Columbia Symphony, and you have a School of the Air. I think you should devote one year to telling the American people about American Folk Music. I'll write the programs and I can introduce the singers and after the singers have sung we'll have a composer like Aaron Copland write the same melody played for the sixty instruments of the Symphony Orchestra!" And he couldn't find an old sailor who knew the song, he'd interview the author of the book, oh I've forgotten her name now, at aged 89 my memory has gone, but she wrote a lovely song ... Joanna Carver Colcord, "Songs of American Sailormen." She was a teenager and her father was captain of the boat and she and her family sailed on a whaling ship. And she also took out pencil and paper and years later came out with a nice book. So he said, "Pete, learn this song!" I think I was 19 or 20.
Tis advertised in Boston,
New York and Buffalo
Five hundred brave Americans
A-whaling for to go.
Singin' blow you winds of the morning,
Blow you winds, hi-ho!
Clear away you're running gear
And blow, blow, blow!
And six or eight verses going on, the last verse ...
Now we're through us
Now we're through our sailing
A winding glass around we'll pass
And damn this blubber whaling.
Way back in the year 1939/40 he (Alan Lomax) paid me all of $15 a week to listen to hundreds, thousands of old records. Back in the 20s they found that records would sell in the south if they were local southern songs, and often these were old ballads. And if they weren't they still told about the life. Uncle Dave Macon was in his seventies singing on the Grand Ole Opry of Nashville, but he had started back in the 1890s and that's when they had what amounted to a kind of a strike in the coalfields of Tennessee, because the Union was trying to organise the coalminers and the owners of the mines, JP Morgan up in New York owned the mine, got to the Governor of Tennessee and got the Governor to get state prisoners to work in the mines. And so, if the white miners had gone on strike, the black prisoners were already trained to take over. So Uncle Dave's song ...
Way back yonder in Tennessee
They leased the convicts out
Put them work and in the mine
Against free labor's stout.
Free labour rebelled against it
To win it took some time
But while the lease was in effect
They made 'em rise and shine.
Buddy, won't you roll down the line,
Roll down the line,
And it's a great song, I'm glad it's still being sung. I fell in love with Uncle Dave and his work, never met him, saw the movie about him, they had a movie in the late 30s about the Grand Ole Opry. I'm told they toured and Dave took from his home a real southern sugar cured ham, and when they got to a restaurant he'd give it to the waitress and say, cut off a slice of this ham and fry it along with my eggs. People at the neighboring tables, "hmm that smells good," they'd say to the waitress, "can we have the same thing as that man ... I'm sorry Sir, that's his ham!"
In about 1940, round about the time that you're talking about there, that was when you met up with Woody Guthrie and started working with Woody. Was that your inspiration then for starting to write songs, because he was writing songs? Did he encourage you to try your hand?
In a subtle way, yes. Woody Guthrie, like Robert Burns, was a genius who came from a small town, and he could have been very famous, if he'd wanted to, taking jobs in the city, but like Robert Burns, he turned them down. He was very honorary. He came to New York in the winter, February, of 1940 and Alan Lomax and I both came up from New York to hear him sing. It was a benefit concert for California Agricultural Workers who didn't get paid very much money. And so on stage, they called them Oakies. Texies came from Texas, Arkies came from Arkansas, Kansies came from Kansas, Woody was a Oakie. He stood there with his cowboy hat pushed on the back of his head telling short stories. He said, you know, Oklahoma is a very rich state. If you want some oil, just go down a hole in the ground, get you some oil. We got lead mines in Oklahoma. You want some lead, go down the hole, get you some lead. If you want food, clothes or groceries, just go down the hole and stay there. And he'd sing another song.
When you started to sing with Woody Guthrie and others who were beginning to gather in and around New York City in sort of late 50s by now, into the 50s and into the early 60s when people were starting to embrace the idea of folk music, what were they singing back then? What was the musical currency among people back then?
We wanted to reach working people. We looked upon the people that owned the newspapers and the people that owned the radio stations as rich people who did not agree with us politically. We were in favour of Unions, and of course, made a lot of mistakes. Over confident about this and over confident about that. We got a word called Hootenanny when we were travelling through Seattle, Washington. They had a monthly fund raising party. We found that the word had come from Indiana, which 200 years ago, 250 years ago had been French territory, and it was probably a French word originally. As a matter of fact, up in Cornell University, some French students were told there was going to be a Hootenanny. A Hootenanny here? What's wrong? Well, they said, back where we come from a Hootenanny is when you shoo the bride and groom out in the fields to spend the first night!
When you were singing in and around the city then, and we've seen wonderful footage on Jean Ritchie's life story, they did a great documentary, "High Hills and Mountains, the Jean Ritchie Story," and you were interviewed for that, and you were singing with Jean there in some wonderful footage. How did you take to the likes of songs that she was bringing into the city? You know, they obviously sounded as if they were maybe very old, from another place, and were coming in and mixing and mingling with new songs written by Woody Guthrie or with people's own idea of protest songs. Could you hear that strain of old balladry as well that was sort of coming into the mix there?
A really good melody is going to live on often after the words are changed. There's one great old melody ... (Pete whistles) My whistling wasn't much good, but maybe you can ...
…recognize the tune ...
A great composer would be proud if they had written that melody. It's so good, it hasn't been changed much. Richard Farina made up some verses to it telling about the bombing of a church in Alabama during the Civil Rights Movement. I made up some words of it using a letter in my local newspaper in 1965, I think it was. There were now, what they call "Advisers" in Vietnam. They were really troops, and a local woman said, "Dear Editor, what is our country coming to? My husband sent me a letter a month ago saying it's my own troops I have to watch out for. I sleep with a pistol under my head. And last week his body arrived back home. Oh, and he said, the only people we've got who are friends are a few Generals, all they want is our guns." Well I turned it into rhythm.
It's my own troops I have to watch out for, he said.
I sleep with a pistol right under my head.
He wrote this last month
Last week he was dead
And Simon came home in a casket.
I sang this over in Europe. Actually I had stayed away from songs about Vietnam when I sang in the Soviet Union, I sang mainly songs of the Union Movement, and the Civil Rights Movement, as well as old American love songs, any song I liked, dance tunes. But a student in Moscow said, can you come and sing at Moscow University. All the tickets are sold to your concert in Tchaikovsky Hall. I said, sure. And a man named Peter Groce said, I am the New York Times reporter, can I come with you, they won't let me on the campus. Maybe you can get me in. I said, sure. I was all innocence, I said, you can carry my guitar. Well, in his article he didn't mention any of the songs I sang except this one song, and the reason I sang it was that I was specifically asked a question, "Mr. Seeger, are songs being sung in America about the Vietnam War?" And I said, "Yes there's a man named Bob Dylan making up songs called Masters of War, and a man named Phil Oakes who's making up similar songs, and Buffy St. Marie who is native American who's making up songs. And they are all through the colleges". Then I sang this song. Well Peter Groce wrote a very short piece, you can't call it an article, it was about sixty or seventy words, for the Paris Edition of the Herald Tribune, which is run by the New York Times, and he said, "Seeger sang an anti American song to the Moscow students." Well, the New York Times here picked up that little piece and headlined it, "Seeger Sings Anti American Song in Moscow". And a committee in my home town went up and down the street with petitions saying I should not be allowed to sing for the High School students here.
I called up the Editor and he agreed – I read him the words of the song – he said, no that's not anti American. And ... but it was too late. On the other hand I realized that for 18 years I'd lived in this town and I treated my home town like a hotel, go in, picked up my mail, got my groceries, but I didn't really know anybody in town. So it taught me an important lesson, and of course, Clearwater (environmental organization) has completely changed that. Toshi and I walk down the street of our home town and people say, "Hi Toshi, Hi Pete" everywhere we go.
But for folk music and community, songs and community singing are such a force for bringing people together and giving people something to share and continue on their collective memory and traditions, it must have been heartbreaking to have that force for good, be turned against you in that way.
Well life is a struggle, and I learned. The happiest people I've ever known in my life were people who were struggling in some way, even when they thought there was no chance. The Civil Rights Movement was full of high spirits. The story is that a group of people in one room had just learned a new song. Somebody came into this office and said, How is everybody today? And they all broke out with this new song:
Woke up this morning with my mind
Stayed on freedom.
Woke up this morning with my mind
Stayed on freedom.
It was a preacher who actually wrote it with new words to an old gospel song. My mind stayed on Jesus, was the original hymn.
Back to that other melody that you sang, that you wrote the words about the Vietnam soldier, where did you first hear that melody? What was your first association with that melody? I know it as a song of lost and unrequited love in Scotland, called "I Once Loved a Lass".
I can't remember. It might be that I heard it from Richard Farina's song, "The choir kept singing for freedom," about somebody throwing a bomb through the window of a church and killing four children in Sunday school.
And that line for me goes: "Now she's gone to be wed tae another." Unrequited love. But, as you said, it's the power of a strong melody.
Hard to say what the original is!
I guess sometimes the words are so great that they'll get different tunes made up. I was reading the Book of Ecclesiastes once and jotted down some of the phrases. I got a letter from my publisher saying, Pete, can't you make up another song like Goodnight Irene? I can't market these protest songs you keep writing. And I was a little angry. I said, you'd better get yourself another song writer, this is the only kind of song I know how to write. And I pulled these lines out of my pocket and just improvised off the top of my head a melody. And I had at that time a reel to reel tape recorder, this is about 1959 I think. And I recorded it and sent it off to him. I got a nice letter from him a week later. He said, just wonderful, just what I was looking for. And he got the song to a famous rock group called The Birds. They changed my melody very slightly but they basically kept the words. I rearranged the King James version slightly so that they'd rhyme better and added six words at the very end. "I swear it's not too late." This extraordinary piece – oh they did it.
Ecclesiastes in Greek means Teacher. However, the name who wrote it was named Qoheleth in Hebrew, it means Convoker, somebody who brings people together to speak to them, and he wrote this poetry in what the Greeks called Anaphora, which means that the beginning of each line has the same word, or same phrase. The line may not rhyme at all, but it's poetry because it has this regular form. Now, this is pure conjecture on my part. The Greeks had slaves, Aesops – fables are supposed to be African folk stories, because Aesop was an Ethiopian, and it is very possible that Anaphora was an African rhetorical device which the Greeks picked up on. No proof whatsoever, but look at how many Dr King's great speeches, "I have a dream, da-da-da, I have a dream, da-da-da-da, I have a dream." Or "Give us the Vote, da-da-da, Give us the Vote, da-da-da-da Give us the Vote!" And the Greeks had charged through what is now Israel just previous to the year 252 and they left a trail of Greek culture, Greek statues, Greek architecture and Greek Anaphora. So that it is very possible that Qoheleth picked up on this new poetry device for his words.
I use this whenever people get pessimistic about the world. I say, admittedly, there are great dangers in the world and foolish scientists who invent things they never should invent. But to say that there's no hope I think is a little unrealistic too. We've always had good killers around, you know, if you go back far enough, all our ancestors were good killers. The ones who were not good killers didn't have descendants. But you and I, our ancestors tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of years ago were good killers. On the other hand, at least for the last fifty thousand years we've been a big brained species who has managed to wipe out the other possible competitors by being able to talk with each other. Maybe sit around in a circle. Do we fight or do we run? Do we stay and starve or do we invade our neighbour's hunting ground and face a fight to the death? And everybody could speak. Everybody could speak. And this great tradition is also in our genes. So it depends on what time, there's a time for this and a time for that.
A time to be born
A time to die
A time to plant
A time to reap
A time to kill
A time to heal
A time to laugh
A time to week
To everything, turn, turn, turn.
There is a season, turn, turn, turn.
And a time for every purpose under Heaven.
Oh, I guess I added that word, Turn, Turn, Turn. Qoheleth didn't have that.
The idea of people sitting in a circle to discuss their problems, their challenges, their options also reminded me of people sitting in a circle to sing and share song, and the power of song in that intimate sort of setting. And another wonderful forum for song sharing has been Sing Out Magazine that you were involved in setting up, and it's continued on and it's sort of it's own song circle through print.
Well, we had – right after World War II – Lee Hayes, well Lee Hayes was an extraordinary man, he was the son of a Methodist preacher, who was a good writer of verses and teller of stories, wrote the words of "If I had a Hammer," "Kisses Sweeter than Wine" and many other songs. Lee Hayes and I started a little newsletter, "People's Songs" we called it. I think we had all of two thousand readers when we went bankrupt, we couldn't pay our bills. And we started up a year later and called our newspaper "Sing Out." And it's still going, not a big circulation, maybe thirteen thousand, but it prints songs which the average newspaper is not going to print, telling what's going on in Iraq, for example, right now. And encouraging people to write songs. Not to get rich, but to try and bring people together. Yes, I ran school newspapers when I was in school. As a 12 year old I think I sold my little purple inked pieces of paper for 2 cents a copy. And then the next school I went to I had a scholarship there but I didn't have any allowance, so I tried shining shoes for a nickel a pair, slow going, but I found I could use the school linear graph machine and if I bought the paper and the stencils ... well I started a weekly newsletter and sold an average of 80 or 100 copies and kept the money. It was free enterprise.
We talk about the song traditions that continue on and songs get passed on and travel across the ocean. It strikes me that what is getting passed on and what is travelling is the tradition of wanting to make music and the spirit of wanting to share song. As much as the actual songs themselves, it's the spirit of sharing song that travels as powerfully as the actual material.
Yes, the idea that you don't have to know the theories, you don't even have to know how to read, but if you've got a memory and can remember a song and there's a party there, and after things have warmed up then you can ... A friend of mine here in Beacon, I'd never heard him sing ever, but we had a good song session at our little Clearwater Club, we called the Beacon Sloop Club, and without any accompaniment he comes out with a song he must have known as a kid and everybody laughed and started singing along with him. This was Dan Searles. So yes, when there's a community gathering and things are warmed up, people forget the idea of stage fright or anything like that. They warm to the occasion. Not that it's easy. Almost a hundred years ago John Philip Sousa, a famous bandleader, he wrote the Marching Song and the Stars and Stripes Forever. He said, "What will happen to the American voice now the phonograph has been invented?" And he's right. Men used to sing in bars, now they got a TV set there. Women used to sing lullabies. Every woman sang lullabies. Now a few do, but as many ... oh put the kid in front of the tube, he'll fall asleep soon. So our inventions… I find myself very conservative in some ways.
You've kept your own spirit of wanting to make songs and share songs and to gather people together through song and to empower people through song and long may you continue to do so.
Hope so, hope so.
Doug Orr:
One question to Pete, as someone who has given much of your life to the cause of human rights and social justice, what have been your feelings the last few weeks when Barrack Obama was elected President?
It's a great step forward, I believe. Not just for America, but for the world. But we'll see though. I don't expect miracles. The pressures that any President is under must be unbelievable. My hope is mainly for small things to save the world, millions of small things. But occasionally big things happen. As we know, Dr. King reached Lyndon Johnson and the Voting Rights Act was passed. Who knows? Who knows? A friend of mine was a Naval Commander in WW2 and he believed that sooner or later the United Nations would be changed. He said, "The great compromise in the American Constitutional Convention was having two houses of Congress, and the slave owners and the rich people liked the Senate and the Jeffersonians liked the House of Representative, but a Bill could not become law unless they both passed it". He says, "What we need for the United Nations is: you don't have to have two or three houses, just count the vote three ways". He calls it the "Binding Triad". My friend was Richard Hudson by name, he's dead now, but his family carries on the fight for the Binding Triad. When you vote on something, count the vote three ways. One is one vote per country. Little Costa Rica gets one vote, big India and big China both get one vote. Second way of counting would be one vote per person, so Costa Rica gets 3 million votes and India and China both get over a thousand million votes, a billion votes. And, Henry Kissinger is supposed to have joked once, "I think it should be one dollar one vote". This is how nations pay their dues to the United Nations. You have to pay annual dues, depending on what your gross domestic product is. So a rich country, even if small, would get a larger number of votes, and a big country, if very poor, won't get so many.
But if this resolution passes by a majority of all three different ways of counting, you know the little countries like it, the big countries like it, and the rich countries like it. And then it could be a Binding Triad. Imagine a tripod. It's steady there, it doesn't rock back and forth. And then we could get rid of that foolish veto idea by which any one of five countries can cancel out the rest of the world. Sooner or later something like this is going to be done, could be done sooner than later, but who knows. Right now I'm amazed to find different things happening.
Well, Pete, thanks for your time and for your anecdotes and wonderful insights.
Well you can use all of it or none of it. Your creative editing now takes over. Which is creative editing, what we all should learn, is what parents have to do for children. Yes, radio stations need to learn it, television, publications. And a singer faced with an audience decides what song will come next.
Yes definitely. We could all use a bit more editing. Somewhere between our brains and our mouths usually would work! But thank you, thank you for your time and your wonderful insights.


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Is The Six Strikes Plan Being Delayed Because ISPs Are Pushing Back Against Hollywood Demands?
from the seems-possible dept
Earlier this year, the RIAA said that the program would finally kick off in July. There were some rumors of delays, and then a bunch of sites (including us) got confused about the actual start date. There have been multiple reports now saying that it will actually roll out later in the fall.
Of course, this has a lot of people wondering just what the delay is about. There might be a clue in a piece over at The Daily Dot, where they say that the director of the Center for Copyright Information (CCI), Jill Lesser, has hinted strongly that the ISPs disagree with some RIAA/MPAA demands:
Jill Lesser, Executive Director of the Center for Copyright Information, told the Daily Dot that the repeated delays were because the coalition wanted an independent review from the American Arbitration Association.Of course, there's one big thing that happened between when the agreement was made and now: the huge public reaction to SOPA. After that, the EFF rightly called for scrapping the backroom deal and starting a new negotiation that actually involved the public. That recommendation was ignored by Hollywood, of course, but the news of some internal fighting hopefully means that the ISPs are asserting themselves a bit more strongly against excessive RIAA/MPAA demands. Of course, once again, this is why it would be nicer if this debate were in public, rather than hidden behind closed doors.
She hinted that disagreement between the ISPs or the lobbying groups might have held up the process. Responding to a question about the delay, she wrote "members are all very involved in internal planning and review of the alert system, which has been and will continue to be a collaborative process."


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Every morning in Africa a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the lion or it will not survive. Every morning a lion wakes up and it knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle or it will starve. It doesn't matter if you are the lion or the gazelle, when the sun comes up, you better be running.
- African Proverb
Fun times on The JMT/ Half Dome trail. There was way to much snow for us to make it up the face where the switchbacks use to be. If we had crampons we could of went up but without crampons going straight up would of been very dangerous if we slipped. The cables will not be going up until June since it is way to dangerous to get through the snow sections. They can't even send trail workers up yet.
We had a great time left at 5;15 am and were home by 9:30. It's great that it's only a 3.5 hour drive to Yosemite Valley we are very lucky.
El Cap had tons of activity and Camp 4 was full. It's the beginning of the climbing season. I really miss hanging out with all the climbers such a colorful bunch of people with amazing stories ;-)
The weather was great it got pretty warm on the trail. On the way down we decided to go down the Mist trail but got turned around because a guy fell and died there around noon. I still haven't read any reports about the mans death. Very sad.
We made the long climb back up to the JMT junction and headed down the valley there were a lot of people on the trail. I was surprised since school is still in. But I guess it was a Friday.
Saw my friends Bogie and hi wife Edith near the Nevada falls bridge. It was a wonderful surprise.
It's taper time for the Ohlone 131 miler which I will start at 11am on Friday woo hoo


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Philippine senator charged with plunder surrenders
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A popular Philippine senator and action movie star surrendered Friday after an anti-graft court ordered his arrest on large-scale corruption charges in a rare spectacle of the country's high and mighty being made to answer for alleged misdeeds.
Sen. Ramon Revilla Jr., who belongs to a powerful political clan and one of the country's most famous movie and TV celebrities, arrived in a convoy of SUVs with his wife, children and fans at the Sandiganbayan anti-graft court in suburban Quezon city. He was to be taken later to police headquarters, where his fingerprints and mug shots will be taken before his detention. Local TV networks beamed his surrender live nationwide.
Revilla is one of three influential senators indicted early this month for allegedly receiving huge kickbacks from state anti-poverty and development funds. He says he is innocent.
"Even in my dreams I didn't see this coming," Revilla said at his mansion in Cavite province, south of Manila, where his fans and relatives gathered to show support before his trip to the court. "It's like a nightmare I can't wake up from."
Revilla's lawyer, Joel Bodegon said he filed a petition for bail because the evidence against his client is weak. He requested a hearing next week on the motion.
Corruption has plagued this poor southeast Asian nation of 97 million Filipinos for decades, fostered by a culture of impunity by powerful politicians, businessmen and their allies, weak law enforcement and a notoriously slow justice system.
Under President Benigno Aquino III, who rose to power in 2010 on a promise to battle poverty and corruption, his predecessor has been detained on vote-rigging charges and a Supreme Court justice was impeached for the first time for not disclosing $2.4 million in his bank accounts.
Aside from Revilla, Senators Juan Ponce Enrile and Jinggoy Estrada face arrest for economic plunder. Enrile, a wealthy businessman, was defense minister when dictator Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law in the Philippines in 1972, a dark era in the country's history that was characterized by widespread corruption and human rights abuses. Estrada is the son of a president who was deposed by a nonviolent public uprising in 2001 for plunder.


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So, you wanna start running barefoot?
Yet, one must still ask: is this a viable option for me?
Before you answer that question, let me explain why I think barefoot or minimal footwear running may not be good for you. It is not good if you are thinking it is some sort of cure-all that only requires taking off your shoes and starting to run injury free without radical changes in the way you may have been thinking of running up to now. If your running strategy has been about very specific time or distance goals, and you have been willing to push through pain to injury, then I would caution you: your bare feet will not allow you to continue this way.
Alas, the hallmark of my barefoot running philosophy is regaining connectedness, mindfulness, and presence in your running and in your body.
Barefoot running is not about blocking or pushing through pain, or at least it shouldn't be. Rather it is about tuning-in to your own body's highly sophisticated set of integrated awareness systems, systems that communicate through feelings and senses that are being collected in real-time as you move. From my perspective, learning how to run well means learning how to tap into the feeling of running well, which more often than not requires baring the foot to get the full feel of what happens when you move.
However, even if you decide that barefoot is the route for you, take one step backward and realize you are most likely in the process of rehabilitating your feet and legs from years of being differently-abled, shoed, and cast. Atrophy, loss of range of motion, weakness, neglect, the foot has not been treated well lately. All the padding and support and protection has not led to stronger feet...sadly.
So, the first key is to start slowly, incrementally and avoid over-exuberance, avoid being driven by your ego. Think orchard growing, not fast food. Think lifetime of development and growth. Think joy.
So, what are my secrets, what is it I share with clients who take my Introduction to Barefoot Running Clinic?
My goal is to get people to learn how to feel what good running feels like. I want them to develop a feeling for it. One of the primary feelings becomes an awareness of the texture and hardness of terrain and of impact. This awareness is the beginning.
To master this awareness, I have clients learn to move on hard surfaces first. Not focusing on distance or speed, I have my clients first walk and then trot on hard, fairly smooth surfaces. I work with them to focus on and begin to master three goals: quiet, quick, in-balance.
The Three Goals
1. Master gentle, quiet, forefoot-centric landings, silent and smooth.
Learn to move with no hard edges, no pounding, by learning how to have the impact of landing flow through the entire foot, starting in the forefoot and quickly spreading through the legs smoothly. Notice how silent your movement becomes. Imagine the movement of a big cat. Watch your dogs trot. Let them be models for tuned-in, flowing movement that wastes little energy on pound or sound.
2. Quicken your cadence: Running in bare feet encourages this naturally.
Some shoe runners are plodders. You can hear them coming. Lots of wasted energy on poorly timed impact. Quicker cadence ends up making sense when you realize that your ability to absorb and recoil energy through elasticity in your body dissipates quickly and is lost if not used. Learning how to get back in touch with the sweet spot of optimal recoil efficiency is easier to find when you can feel your feet, feeling that encourages a landing phase with foot more in line with your center of gravity (thinking about how you land if you jump down onto a hard surface in barefeet, not on your heels!). Over-striding is discouraged, nearly impossible barefooted.
3. Stable upright posture: balanced head, core engaged, unbent torso, the feeling of balance, relaxed, yet strong.
I think that good running can be judged aesthetically. It should look good, not painful. When you see someone moving or running well, it looks smooth and fluid and graceful and efficient. The opposite looks painful, when someone is hunched and stiff, robotic and plodding. Indeed efficient running is tall and stable, the upper body acting as the fulcrum from which the legs and arms can move freely with a serious lack of bouncing or swaying of the head.
Ultimately my coaching goal is to help people perfect what I call a persistent hunt trot...a gait not purely about speed, but about smooth, flowing, efficient, sustainable movement, movement that leaves you ready to hunt or play another day.
Barefooting itself is all about mindfulness and presence. Running like an upright Primate, not like a Robot. Aware of your body and your environment AT ALL TIMES.
Listen to your body...learn to hear what it is telling you. Adjust accordingly. Advance accordingly.
Best Regards, Barefoot Ted
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A host of Premier League clubs are chasing Dutch international Stefan De Vrij
A Premier League battle is set to ensue in January for Feyenoord defender Stefan De Vrij, Sky Sports understands.
Last Updated: 18/12/12 3:24pm
Liverpool are understood to be heading the chase for the highly-rated 20-year-old central defender - who shunned interest from England in the summer to stay in Holland, and he was appointed captain replacing Ron Vlaar.
The Dutch international has continued to impress with the Rotterdam giants, and now they look ready to cash in on one of their prized assets.
Liverpool are set to push ahead with a move, but they will face intense competition from elsewhere in the Premier League.
Sky Sports understands that Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea and Newcastle United have all been alerted to De Vrij's progress this term and are ready to compete.
It is believed Feyenoord would be looking for around €10million (£8million) for De Vrij, who has 18 months left on his deal at De Kuip.


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RENTON, Wash. (AP) Pete Carroll called it a textbook example of how the Seattle Seahawks want to close out a victory, with the ball in their hands and the final seconds ticking away.
``Finishing'' is one of the terms the Seahawks' coach constantly preaches. And his team's 30-20 win over Minnesota on Sunday was a pretty good definition of what Carroll wants to see.
``Finishing is huge in this program, the awareness of it, the concept of it what it takes to finish is a big deal to us. ... We put together a really good finish to this game and that really was the story to me,'' Carroll said Monday. ``There are issues that we have and stuff that we're working on, but we put together a great fourth quarter on defense and on offense and owned the football and controlled the football game.''
Thanks to the running of Marshawn Lynch, overshadowed at times by Adrian Peterson's big day, the Seahawks (5-4) were able to control the ball for nearly all of the final 12 minutes, never giving Minnesota a chance to rally.
Lynch rushed for 124 yards, including 69 in the second half. While his running allowed Seattle to control the clock, its defense made adjustments to try and contain Peterson, who finished with 182 yards.
Seattle scored on two of its final four possessions, but it was the last one that proved most impressive. The Seahawks took over with 5:27 left following an interception and never let Minnesota see the ball again. The Seahawks ran 11 plays, converting a pair of fourth-down attempts. The last fourth-down conversion was a 6-yard pass on fourth-and-4 to fullback Michael Robinson out of the backfield.
Russell Wilson then took a knee at the Minnesota 9, concluding one of Seattle's more impressive drives that didn't result in points.
``We wanted to finish the game on offense and we didn't want to give them a chance,'' Carroll said.
Peterson was the story early because of his dynamic performance that included 144 yards rushing in the first half. But Lynch was equally good in a different way. While Peterson carried just five times in the second half, Lynch was handed the ball 15 times and told to grind out yards and eat up clock. Lynch had just one run that went for more than 10 yards - a 23-yard run when he carried tacklers and helped set up his 3-yard TD in the third quarter - but he accomplished what Seattle wanted.
The Seahawks had 21 minutes of possession in the second half and of the final 11:49 of the fourth quarter, Minnesota held the ball for just 56 seconds.
Some of Peterson's yards were just his remarkable ability. Carroll noted that was the case on his 74-yard run on the second play of the game when Peterson slipped between two defenders at the sideline with a piercing cut and found open field only to be tracked down at the 1.
But there were issues with defenders filling in the wrong gaps that gave Peterson a free run into the secondary.
``He made a lot of guys miss, but we did not fit our runs well at all at times. There were a bunch of them that we did, but there were a half-dozen plays that we didn't and we took advantage of them and made the most of it,'' Carroll said. ``He was very, very quick and very decisive in his runs and made the most of the opportunities that he had and we were lucky to get him down a couple of times.''
Instead of trying to make slowing down Peterson more complicated, the Seahawks simplified things in the second half. Multiple players noted the decision to return to their base defense. While Peterson had one big run in the second half - among the few carries he had - Seattle also stopped Peterson three times for no gain or a loss of yardage.
After carrying the Seahawks through the early part of the season, Seattle's defense has now given up at least 20 points in three of the past four games. And if Christian Ponder had been at all effective throwing the ball, the Vikings would have become the fourth straight team to top 300 total yards against the Seahawks.
``That's why finishing is so important,'' Carroll said. ``We did all of the right stuff to get out of that game with a big win for us at the end.''
Notes: LB K.J. Wright and OT James Carpenter (concussions) will both be following league protocol this week for returning, Carroll said. He did not know if either would play Sunday vs. the Jets. Wright's status is of concern in that he's the starting outside linebacker and the backup at middle linebacker. ... SS Kam Chancellor sustained a thigh bruise late in the game.
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Sony HXR-MC50E features a high resolution Exmor R CMOS Sensor. This new Sensor developed by Sony captures amazing, Full HD video with superb contrast, rich colours and less picture noise. And it is equipped with Optical SteadyShot Active Mode anti-shake technology which means you can capture steady, smooth, high-quality content with your camcorder, even when moving or zooming in or out. The 1920 x 1080 FULL HD resolution gives your production exceptional high definition quality. But its the incompatibility of supplied PMB with Mac makes numerous Mac users frustrated. They are looking for the best solution to make Sony HXR-MC50E generated AVCHD files playable and editbale on Mac iMovie, FCP, FCE and other non-linear editing software. Right, a program named UFUSoft AVCHD Converter for Mac is the recommended software to convert Sony HXR-MC50E AVCHD files to MOV for iMovie with the least loss of original video quality.
The step-by-step guide below shows you how to convert Sony HXR-MC50E 1080 .mts videos to H.264 .mov for iMovie 8/9/11 on Mac OS X like Mavericks, Mountain Lion, Lion or Snow Leopard.
Step 1. Load Sony HXR-MC50E full HD videos to UFUSoft AVCHD Converter for Mac.
Use a card reader to copy and transfer the .mts files to iMac hard drive disk, run UFUSoft AVCHD Converter for Mac as the fast Mac Sony MTS converter, and click the "Add" button to load the .mts videos. You can also use the drag-and-drop method to load the 1080 .mts files to the application UI.
Step 2. Choose iMovie compatible MOV format.
Click the "Format" option, and choose HD Video > HD MOV-QuickTime (*.mov) as output format. The Sony MTS converter will transcode Sony HXR-MC50E AVCHD to iMovie compatible MOV with H.264 as video codec in HD 1920×1080.
Step 3. Convert Sony HXR-MC50E MTS to MOV for iMovie 8/9/11.
Click the convert button under the preview window, and the conversion from Sony HXR-MC50E 1080 MTS to MOV for iMovie 8/9/11 will start immediately. The converter works great for have a batch of files in the queue for conversion.
Step 4. Load Sony HD videos to iMovie 8/9/11.
After the conversion, you will get excellent results with the output HD MOV videos in iMovie on Mac. Create a project in iMovie and import videos for editing. You can trim video and audio clips, add captions and titles, add narration and transitions, and create scrolling credits for the end of the movie.
If you are Windows users, you can convert AVCHD/MTS/M2TS files to other editable and playable video formats with the help of MTS to iMovie 8/9/11 Converter on Windows.


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Three players finished in double figures for MIT but it was not enough to overcome swarming WPI defense and a game-high 20 points by Jeffrey Robinson, in a 62-50 loss in New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) men's basketball action on Saturday afternoon. MIT falls to 14-6 and 4-3 in the NEWMAC while WPI (17-3, 7-0) has now won 10 straight and remains unbeaten in league play.
The game was physical from the outset, with the teams combining for 41 personal fouls, and both defenses were able to stifle their opponents, as the two highest scoring teams in the NEWMAC were held well under their season averages.
After a Mitchell Kates three-pointer brought the homestanding Engineers back within one, 44-43, with 6:25 remaining, WPI would score 11 of the game's next 13 points, including a pair of key trifectas by Ben Etten and Kyle Nadeau. Nadeau's triple was one of four on the game for the senior guard and put the visitors up 10 with just 2:40 to go. MIT would get no closer than seven the rest of the way.
WPI took a six-point lead early in the second half but Kates responded to cut the lead in half just a minute into the stanza. Neither team would lead by more than four over the next 13 and a half minutes, until the decisive WPI run.
WPI jumped out to an early11-point lead, as Robinson took over for the visiting Engineers, scoring nine points during an 11-0 first-half spurt. The hosts shored up their defense down the stretch, cutting the deficit to five at the break.
Kates had 17 points to go along with four rebounds, four assists and a pair of steals. Jamie Karraker had 14 points and Will Tashman finished with 10 points and six boards for the Cardinal and Gray, who made just eight-of-27 shots from behind the arc.
Robinson was seven-for-14 from the field and five-of-six from the line, adding a pair of rebounds and an assist to his 20 points in just 29 minutes of action. Nadeau was four-of-six from long distance en route to 15 points. The visitors benefitted from a 30 to 12 advantage from the foul line, getting 20 of their 62 points at the charity stripe.
MIT will be back in action on Wednesday, February 2, when it travels to Babson College looking to avenge an early season loss at the hands of the Beavers. The game tips at 7:00 p.m. WPI is off until Saturday, February 5, when the Engineers will play at Wheaton College at 2:00 p.m.


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PHILADELPHIA — At 29, Anthony Recker isn't considered a newbie anymore.
The Catasauqua graduate has played for three in the big leagues for organizations and has now made two Opening Day rosters, including the 2013 New York Mets'.
The path there this spring was anything but easy. Staying there might be even harder.


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You read that right. I made Milanos. The beloved chocolate sandwich cookies from Pepperidge Farm. We added orange zest to the cookies themselves, rather than adding an orange curd-type layer like the orange flavored ones, which gave ours a bit of uniqueness…all in all, they tasted similar to the originals, which is to say, quite good.
We brought them to a party, so we decided that we would have to package them like the real thing, in the white paper cups. We also put them in a white bag, but the Pepperidge Farm packers/people who made their packaging really know what they are doing and can make their cookies stand up. Our tower of cookies got all lopsided once in the bags. Nonetheless, our cookies made it to the party in one piece and were enjoyed by all!
P.S. This post is a part of my catching up series.


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Albatross Aerial Perspective was founded in 1988 by Duby Tal and Moni Haramati. Tal and Haramati served in the Israeli Air Force as helicopter pilots and in turn this encouraged their passion for photography which could not be cultivated in a better way than from up in the air. This saw a start to a fruitful and expansive company which specializes in aerial and ground photography.
Albatross offers services in photography, publishing, productions and photo stock including stock images and footage. It has many customers ranging from National Geographic; to Israeli government ministries; advertising, design and production companies as well as large private companies. Tal is a world-renowned photographer and has presented his work, which is highly refined yet artistic and Geo-referenced, in several exhibitions across the globe, making Albatross one of the best photo agencies in Israel. The company also publishes photography and custom-made books such as Skyline and Flights into Biblical Archaeology to mention a few. Albatross has followed, documented and published Israel's most expansive projects such as Highway 6 and Azrieli Center and also produces professional documentary, commercial and promotional films which have won prizes, such as Ben Gurion Airport 2000 which achieved an international prize. Lastly, Albatross creates large collections, taken over 20 years, of aerial and ground photography as well as footage of Israel and the world.
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The following poem was not written by W.C. Daniells but was found among his other writings. W.C. was a staunch Republican, and this poem reflects perfectly what his attitude was toward President Franklin Roosevelt. The author is unknown.
A stranger stood at the gates of Hell,
And the Devil himself had answered the bell.
He looked him over from head to toe,
And said, "My Friend, I'd like to know
What you have done in the line of sin
To entitle you to come within?"
Then Franklin D. with his usual guile
Stepped forth and flashed his toothy smile.
"When I took charge in Thirty-three
A nation's faith was mine," said he.
I promised this and I promised that,
And I calmed them down with a Fireside chat,
I spent their money on fishing trips,
And fished from the decks of their Battleships,
I gave them jobs on the P.W.A.,
Then raised their taxes and took it away.
I raised their wages and closed their shops,
I killed their pigs and burned their crops.
I double-crossed both old and young,
And still, the fools, my praises sung.
I brought back beer, and what do you think?
I taxed it so high, they couldn't drink.
I furnished money with Government loans,
When they missed a payment, I took their homes.
When I wanted to punish the folks, you know,
I put my wife on the radio.
I paid them to let their Farms lie still,
And imported Food Stuffs from Brazil.
I curtailed crops, when I felt real mean
And shipped in corn from Argentine.
When they'd start to worry, stew and fret,
I'd get them to chanting the Alphabet,
With A.A.A. and the C.C.C.
The W.P.A. and N.L.B.
With these many units, I got their goats,
And still, I crammed it down their throats.
My workers worked with the speed of snails,
While the taxpayers chewed their fingernails.
When the Organizers needed dough,
I closed the plants for the C.I.O.
I ruined jobs, and I ruined health,
And I put the screws on the rich man's wealth.
And someone who couldn't stand the gaff,
Would come to me, and how I'd laugh.
When they got too strong on certain things,
I'd pack and head for old Warm Springs.
I ruined their country, their homes and then
I placed the blame on Nine Old Men.
Now Franklin talked both long and loud,
And the Devil stood, and his head he bowed.
At last he said, "Let's make it clear,
You'll have to move, you can't stay here;
For once you mingle with this mob,
I'll have to hunt myself a job."


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I'd like to thank Fort Gordon, GA leadership for the rapid about-face. Only a week ago American Atheists and Freedom From Religion Foundation demanded that the US Constitution be upheld for soldiers attending the Advanced Leadership Course (ALC). Hundreds of soldiers were ordered to clean up a Catholic organizations yard – also known as "area beautification."
This was off-post, during the duty day and in uniform. The time period this was supposed to take place was over several months! An atheist soldier wrote to me asking how to deal with this issue. In reality, simply contacting me had already set the ball in motion. I reached out to FFRF, and together we issued a coordinated legal / media outreach.
To Fort Gordon's credit, they acted pretty fast. Yesterday, I got this short message from a foxhole atheist stationed there:
That program with the Catholic Social Services has ceased.
I remember calling their Operations Center for a courtesy head's up. The officer on the phone was a bit taken aback at first. I felt bad because he was in the middle of a shift change, and my phone call made him fill out all sorts of paperwork. We talked for 20 minutes and it was very cordial and I had a feeling that everything was going to work out fine by the end of it. Thank you, Fort Gordon for doing the right thing!
Thank you to my peers at American Atheists and the awesome resources and legal team at FFRF. Looking forward to fixing these issues together – one at a time if we have to.
Lastly, I'd like to thank all of you who responded to my call to action. Plenty of you called / emailed press and others – and this certainly helped. The foxhole atheist community needs people like you to speak for them. You stood and delivered. I appreciate it every time you come through for us. I take out my megaphone when I've exhausted other means, and because of you it really works.


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1. Re: Match canon 60d still to canon 60d footage.Dave Merchant Apr 11, 2012 4:57 AM (in response to jb.uk)
'the right forum' depends on which software you're using - this is the Premiere Pro section. Let us know and we'll move the message to the right place for you.
If you're cropping in PS the easiest way to match the two images (still and an exported frame from the video) is to open the exported frame and add the still as a new layer, move and scale it to match (turn down the opacity on the still to see what you're doing then reset the opacity when done). Then save the file as a JPEG or TIFF, which will crop everything to the document size - as your base layer was the exported frame, the resulting file will be the same dimensions as the video. This of course assumes that the still and video were shot with camera and lens settings so that everything you can see in the video is also present in the still.
Premiere Pro, After Effects etc. can crop and zoom a still image too, but it's easier in PS if all you want is a static image (i.e. the zoom isn't animated).
You will find it tricky to get a perfect 1:1 pixel match, as the encoding for video used on DSLRs doesn't read the same pixels as a still shot does. There's interpolation and sampling going on, so you can get the two layers to be visually the same, but not mathematically.
Canon video at 1088 is always a bit confusing, it's down to the way the sensor polling takes place. Just place the footage into a 1920x1080 timeline at 100% and it'll crop off the left and/or right edges - do not use the 'scale to frame size' feature in Prem Pro or you'll force a resampling of every pixel, and lose a lot of quality.
2. Re: Match canon 60d still to canon 60d footage.jb.uk Apr 11, 2012 7:43 AM (in response to Dave Merchant)
Hi Dave,
Thanks for the reply. I am using Premiere Pro, also After Effects, and Mocha.
I have looked at making a manual/visual crop, as you suggested, but I'm really looking for a way to get a more accurate, mathmatical method.
The still and the footage were shot with the same camera, lens, settings, and on a tripod. The problem is that still has a different aspect ratio to the vidoe. Everything in the video is in the still, but not everything in the still is in the video. There is a strip cropped off from the top of the still, and one from the bottom.
What I really need to understand is how the camera takes the pixels from the sensor at 5184 x 3456 and downsizes them to 1920 x 1080. If I can understand that, then I can replicate the same process in Photoshop.
I assume it must be doing a crop and a resize, but I haven't been able to duplicate the process.
I've tried using the info panel to measure the size of the top/bottom crops, but the figures seem fairly random. If it were cropping to leave the height at an exact multiple of 1080 or 1088, I would understand, but it doesn't seem to be doing that.
3. Re: Match canon 60d still to canon 60d footage.rejdmast1 Apr 11, 2012 8:01 AM (in response to jb.uk)
Even if you do line up the still and the video "perfectly" you are going to find that the still photo is a LOT sharper than the video.
4. Re: Match canon 60d still to canon 60d footage.Jim_Simon Apr 11, 2012 8:43 AM (in response to jb.uk)
I want to match up the still pixel-for-pixel with the footage.
That may not be possible, simply because the camera does not record the images that way. The full raster capture, used for photographs, is scaled for video. Pixels captured with the sensor are thrown out to 'dumb down' the full resolution image for the 1920 x 1080 needed for video.
5. Re: Match canon 60d still to canon 60d footage.jb.uk Apr 11, 2012 9:03 AM (in response to jb.uk)
I realise that the raw image will be sharper, but that's something I can deal with using Photoshop, or even within Premiere/After effects. The key thing is to get the two images lined up.
I agree that pixels are thrown away, but the camera is going to be doing that in the most efficient way. It won't be interpolating unless it has to. It throws away pixels along the top and bottom, the rest of the pixels all seem to be present. It might be sampling every other line, or something like that, but I feel there must be a way to work out which pixels it is keeping from the raw image. Really, all I need to do is find out the x,y co-ordinates of any two opposite corners.
6. Re: Match canon 60d still to canon 60d footage.Jim_Simon Apr 11, 2012 9:40 AM (in response to jb.uk)
It might be sampling every other line
That's one common complaint about DSLRs. In which case, there simply will not be a 1 for 1 pixel match.


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MarketWatch Week Ahead: Fed, Jobs, Facebook
The Federal Reserve's meeting on monetary policy, March employment data and Facebook's earnings will keep investors and traders on their toes next week. Polya Lesova reports. Photo: AP Images.
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The Florida football team won't find out its official postseason destination until Sunday night, then won't begin preparing for the bowl until the middle of December, coach Will Muschamp said.
What will the Gator players do with all the downtime?
"Our guys will be lifting, running and maintaining some good endurance shape right now," Muschamp said. "That's the most important thing. They need a break right now. It's been a long season. So, they need a break from football for a little bit, get in the weight room and heal up. I think you can do too much at times as far as practice is concerned, so you have to be careful there."
And for the coaches?
"Right now, as a staff, we're recruiting really hard," Muschamp said. "I just worry about the things we can control, which is recruiting right now. So we're going to recruit hard now. That's the most important thing we need to do."
The true benefit for a team invited to a bowl is player development and practice before the game.
"It's a huge part and every day when we get back we will get on the practice field Dec. 7 and 8 and get out in just some helmets on Friday for more of a conditioning practice and Saturday it will be a shells practice and just working on our football team," Muschamp said. "Our first four or five bowl practices will be absolutely no work on the opponent. It will be all working on ourselves and getting our guys back into the swing of playing football again and working on developing our young players.
"But the last four practices before we break for Christmas will be dedicated to the opponent, no different than game week. When we get to the bowl site, we'll go back through more normal game preparation week so you get two weeks to really prepare for those guys. Sometimes our guys will forget over Christmas our game plan so we've got to review that."
UF's young players can expect extra attention.
"Loucheiz Purifoy, I think he started the bowl game last year for us at corner when Marcus hurt his neck and came in and played really well for us in the Gator Bowl, so it's huge for young player to take a step forward," Muschamp said. "I'm going to meet with some guys today, like Brian Poole. They need to cherish this opportunity sitting in front of them. It's another spring ball. It's another opportunity to improve yourself as a player for the football team. Loucheiz is the greatest example and certainly Antonio (Morrison) will take advantage of it. Antonio is a really good football player and the reason as much as anything is that he's very mature. He practices well and he prepares himself well."
Coaches with teams in bowl want to avoid getting their teams stale.
"That's for everybody," Muschamp said. "It's not any different for anyone else. I think, again, you go back and look at everything. You can practice too much and prepare too much and become stale with your team. I always look at it as you practice seven or eight times here in Gainesville and then you get on the bowl site, you'll get another five or six practices, so you're looking at another spring ball. You got to keep it interesting for your guys.
"You deal with a different attitude. You have to always stay on top of it, complacency kills. You can't get complacent in what you are trying to do. You have to understand why you had success and that is constantly my message for them 'Why did we win this game?' Those are the things you can't get away from. You have to understand why you are successful and again, I go back after every win, lose or draw and very technical in our approach of why things worked and why things didn't and then addressing things when they are not right. The kids will tell you that I am real honest with them on where we are and what we need to do to be successful and understand where the barometer is set and where we want to be."
Florida football team gets some rest time
The Florida football team won't find out its official postseason destination until Sunday night, then won't begin preparing for the bowl until the middle of December, coach Will Muschamp said.


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Liora Manne - TER23276256 - Terrace Multi Stripe Indoor/Outdoor Rug Green 23" X 35"
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This is Blue Daughter with pinkish-red carnations, for Sinead and flwrjane, who always post such pretty flowers.
[Image: Jim Lawrence Traditional Ironwork]
And I've taken to this style of clear glass pendant light, and am wondering whether I could make something similar but bigger for the hall using a goldfish bowl and Scottish Husband's electrical skills. Now that he has affixed the magnetic knife-strip to the wall, anything is possible.