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It was about mid-March when Atlanta-based NFL agent Jack Reale received a phone call from Saints General Manager Mickey Loomis.
The Saints, Loomis said, wanted to explore the possibility of signing his 12-time Pro Bowler of a client, cornerback Champ Bailey. When was the earliest he could visit?
What followed wasn't the speediest of processes; it wasn't until Monday that Bailey actually made it to New Orleans, and another four days passed before the future Hall of Famer agreed to a two-year deal Friday that's reportedly worth up to $7 million.
But, according to Reale, once Bailey visited with coach Sean Payton and defensive coordinator Rob Ryan, he immediately knew they'd soon be his bosses.
"He was very impressed. He felt extremely comfortable with both of them," Reale said Friday. "It worked out just right."
After the Saints contacted his camp, Bailey was immediately interested. New Orleans perfectly matched the criteria he was looking for from his next NFL employer.
Coach Sean Payton's staff was stable. Quarterback Drew Brees is a future Hall of Famer. The defense in 2013 was ranked fourth overall and second against the pass. And New Orleans nowadays perennially has a legitimate shot at going deep in the postseason: It has won a championship and has been to the divisional round of the NFC playoffs twice since the 2009 campaign.
But scheduling conflicts — for example, Saints brass had to attend the annual NFL owners meeting in Orlando, Fla., from March 24 to 26 — prevented a prompt meeting.
Both sides stayed patient, though, and Bailey arrived in New Orleans on Monday. He was later examined by the team's medical staff and passed a physical, Reale said.
He spent time with Ryan, Payton and Loomis, and he was sold on the "energy" from them and others in the building, Reale said.
He also knew that another of Reale's clients — kicker John Kasay, who like Bailey went to the University of Georgia — was in New Orleans for the final season of his 20-year NFL career in 2011, the last time the Saints won the NFC South.
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Reale passed on Kasay's recommendation to Bailey, and that was "a big factor," the agent said.
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"He's really going to be looking forward to being there in New Orleans," Reale added. "He's hoping he can be part of getting them to another Super Bowl."
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"We are excited to be able to add a future Hall of Fame player," Loomis said in a statement about Bailey, whose given first name is Roland. "His career accomplishments mirror that of his high character, and he's a very prideful and competitive player who we believe will add to our defense."
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Thursday, December 18, 2008
foghorn smacks dog - big antics for big pain
To make big hits stronger, you gotta use really big antics and leave them on long enough to build up power before the actual contact which barely registers onscreen.
This is so well thought out and aims solely to give the audience the biggest entertainment possible. It uses the same principles as Disney, but doesn't overdo it to the point where the action distracts from the acting or the gag. When he uses secondary actions he focuses the action on the main action. A lot of late 30s animation used too many secondary actions happening all over the character and made it hard to see hat the main actions of the characters were. Some Disney animators continued this practice to the end. Pete offered an example of this kind of thing from the Aristocats a couple of posts ago in the comments.
Bob McKimson completely directs his animation and staging to make the entertainment point come across clearly -which makes him a great director.
He doesn't confuse your eye with a lot of extra superfluous overlapping action, or too much squash and stretch and general animator show off stuff. He knows how to communicate with the audience and does it with extreme precision.
I think maybe why McKimson tried to constrain Scribner so much in his cartoons was because he felt Rod would have too much going on in his actions that distracted from the main point. It kind of backfired though, because Scribner in McKimson's cartoons had his characters move around and twitch within McKimson's prescribed "legal area" as if they were trying to wriggle out of a straight jacket. - I have clips of that stuff too. Maybe I'll show that in a later post. It's funny and sad at the same time.
I don't know who animated this, but it's very direct, powerful, to the point and most of all funny as heck.
25 comments:
- Niki said...
this is very good to get away from the appeal and unappealing post that whole Delgo 'thing' I think I should watch it to know better what not to do.
I also remember seeing this as a kid was hilarious how Fog kept beating him. Well I'll download it for now but I'll talk about it later cause I gotta go back to sleep, Vintage Natwick, sleeping mid-day I mean.
- trevor thompson said...
I have difficulty discerning what Scribner did different when he was working in McKimson's unit, versus Clampett's.
The thing is, I notice Scribner very much in McKimson's cartoons, especially in "Rabbit's Kin" and "Devil May Hare", and the only thing that looks different to my eye is that he's being forced to draw the characters to the letter the way McKimson designed them.
Rod's energy is unparalleled, and as animate as the characters are in McKimson's early cartoons, they don't quite have the same freneticism in the hands of other animators.
I can sort of see what you're saying, John, about Scribner being controlled by McKimson, but I think the reason he didn't last very long after that was because McKimson realized he couldn't control him, despite numerous attempts.
I dunno. Maybe I'm just biased. Scribner is my favorite, after all, and the idea of him being the only animator in Termite Terrace or at Warners who couldn't be tamed seems appealing to me.
- trevor.
- Adam said...
Even the sound fx and impact sparks (is there a better term for this?) are funny and point your attention to the impact. This just gets more fun the more I loop the video, ha. Thanks for the post John.
- Justin said...
Have you ever seen the 1979 chuck jones cartoon, Raggedy Ann & Andy: the Pumpking that Couldn't Smile?
I thought maybe you could use it to compare with the Raggedy Anne & Andy movie that you posted about last time if that post had to do with appeal.
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- litlgrey said...
My wholly unedumacated guess as to who animated this authoritative and distinctly post-War sequence?
Either Tom McKimson, or Art Davis.
What I like about this period, even though animators sometimes overdosed on rubbery action and poses at the expense of either character or story, was that unlike the heavily restrained 1950s, NOTHING was droll.
Drollery seems to be death for enjoyable cartoons because very few directors can get away with it. Wait, I will rephrase that. Drollery seems to be the death for enoyable COMEDY because, same sentence ending.
- Leeann H said...
Great drawings with big broad gestures; these are brilliant and funny key frames, which still entertain as individual pictures! It's a lost art, this. :(
- Hans Flagon said...
I love the screen grabs storyboarding exactly what is ABOUT to happen.
Watching the clip, I'm surprised how much secondary movement and speedlines there are, but it doesn't distract from the solid main movement, which itself foreshadows, without spoiling, in body weight shifts what those big galloot chicken wings are about to do.
If this were done 20 years later, there would have been a cut to a totally useless reaction shot of the dog, going "Oh Brother" or some stupid nonsense.
Breaking the 4th wall Reaction Shots aren't inherently bad, it worked for Oliver Hardy. If even worked for Alan Hale Jr talking to Gilligan, in reference to Laurel and Hardy. But it was one of the Viruses that led to the hated 'tude takes.
- animaenagerie said...
"He doesn't confuse your eye with a lot of extra superfluous overlapping action, or too much squash and stretch and general animator show off stuff."
Am I the only one who thinks the sloppy overuse of unnecessary dry brush speed lines every time Foghorn moves his head or his arm in this scene also falls into the category of "general animator show-off stuff" ?
- Niki said...
Justin! thank you! that reminded me how I used to love all those old TV specials they had for those adorable comic books! It's determined! I know what I want to do, Mr.John, you brought back the fun, Genndy made action cartoons decent, so I'm gonna bring back good specials! To remind everyone they can be more than just convoluted, and extended versions of a piece of poo!
- Iritscen said...
I just want to point out that, to me, the timing is what makes this extra-funny. Not just the movements, but the timing of the actual smacks. The dog has just raised his head to rest it on his paw and look at us when he gets smacked down again. We're not given the chance to see those final smacks coming, because we're watching the dog, not Foghorn, and the unexpectedness and the somewhat ruthlessly quick timing of it actually make me laugh out of surprise -- each time I watch it.
Somewhere along the line, it seems like cartoons lost their timing. Is it just my imagination? A lot of the cartoons I grew up with in the '80s were fun, but watching them now is painful because of the sloppy, out-of-control animation that goes from Point A to Point B with no thought as to timing. So many wasted opportunities there....
- David Germain said...
I'd guess it was either animated by Charles McKimson or Manny Gould. Both those guys quite often incorporated quick and/or violent hand gestures into their scenes.
- Jeremy said...
Yeah, I'm in full agreement. This is brilliant work I'm really interested in seeing the Scribner work you talked about. Thanks, this helps a lot!
- Zoran Taylor said...
I was in the park with my Dad earlier this evening, and I was explaining to him that typical Disney fails as entertainment precisely because the animators treat everything like the thing we happened to be watching - a little dog, ours in this case, flailing around as it chases after a ball through the snowbank. Think about it: what else in reality has that much insufferable cuteness and excessive overlapping action and detail (mussed fur) in one place at one time? I figure Disney animators must've had an unusual addiction to watching animals play, to the expense of doing regular people stuff. Like.....I dunno, getting mugged? Chasing after foxy mature Girl Guides? Yeah, that'll make you, er, "man" enough to be an animator in no time flat!
For me, even the silliest animation will fail at being really funny if it denies itself to the right to be aggressive SOME of the time. Even non-violent actions in real life are entertaining because they have a balance between turbulence and delicacy.
Cartoons simply aren't funny if they don't acknowledge how strident real people are, how much concentrated power goes into the simplest of actions when we're really fired up and motivated. Disney, meanwhile, wanted even the brutal physical BEATINGS in his cartoons to look effete and lighthearted! I don't believe for a second that Cruella actually wants to hurt those dogs, I just don't. She treats every action like she's eating caviar. Where is there a POTENTIAL for violence in that?? Foghorn, on the other hand, could do much NASTIER things then he actually does, and shocked as we might be, we'll believe it all the way.
- Caleb said...
I think the understated actions help the cartoon be more repeatedly watchable. Even the dry brush lines are contained and used in just the right amounts. The hard hits are even funnier here because Foghorn isn't even looking in that direction. The timing makes me laugh even without sound.
- pappy d said...
The principles are universal, but the timing of the anticipation, action & follow-through is specifically Foghorn's. He makes so many rhetorical flourishes that you usually can't tell just when to duck. Sometimes a big sucker punch will accompany a repetition of dialog for emphasis. He was never that intimidating when he was done with a lower cel count.
It seems to me the whole point of animation is movement. You point out in an earlier post the design similarity of the 2 cooks from "Lady & the Tramp". They do have an ethnic resemblance (as does the cast from "Coal Black") but there's still a lot of contrast in how they behave. Limited animation has to depend solely on graphic design & voice acting to distinguish one character from another. Even the better stuff zips from pose to pose a la CalArts.
- Taco Wiz said...
Cartoon Network's getting this new show called Looney Tunes. There's apparantly some Chuck Clampett or Bob Jones working on this.
This is my source. The art for this show looks horrible. Now Family Guy, THERE'S a show with sophistication!
Yeah, everything above was a joke. But Looney Tunes IS coming back, starting with a marathon on New Years Day. AWESOME! Spread the word, Mr. Kricfalusi. High viewers=more reruns.
- Rudy Tenebre said...
Using formal theory to substantiate ones tastes is a fine route. Admitting the subjective nature of aesthetic judgments by no means leads to liking the Jackson Five, or Filmation. Like Foghorn, Beethoven is universal. By universal, you mean a certain immaterial concept we call a 'universal'. That is, a theoretical object. If a theoretical object, then fundamentally unproven, for such is the nature of Theory. There is a profound difference between being objective, and having an objective. Simply because I contest your language doesn't mean I don't share your tastes, or admit the effectiveness of your practices.
- HemlockMan said...
That's the thing about McKimson's critters, and what makes them so darned funny. They're hambones! They move in broad strokes, even for cartoon characters!!
- James N. said...
"Cartoon Network's getting this new show called Looney Tunes. There's apparantly some Chuck Clampett or Bob Jones working on this."
This is good news... let's just hope the cartoons aren't cut to shreds <_<
- Hans Flagon said...
"Am I the only one who thinks the sloppy overuse of unnecessary dry brush speed lines..."
I was surprised they were there, I thought they were superfluous, but they did not distract from the main action, and my feeling is, if I were watching this on a 2 story tall screen, it may have provided just the right accent. I can't say it would have been better without them totally. And it may have been a technique they needed to keep in practice for when it may have been more necessary.
It makes me wonder if there might have been some similar live footage with actual blurs that was being studied at some point, or if they just automatically added when ever they knew a movement was going to speed across fewer frames.
The timing is great though. Consider Pixars Presto, in comparison, where there is no breathing room between gags in the rushed pantomime. Or the Toon intro to Roger Rabbit, which I haven't seen since theatrical release.
You know if this was made today, Henery would just stand there motionless, maybe with a blink formula. I guess it's supposed to appear natural for everyone to be retarded and not react to something until the other character is finished with their entire speech.
- Tommy said...
As a child I LOVED watching Foghorn Leghorn smack that dog around. I also loved watching Sylvester the cat falling down stairs. In my young mind I though, it was so funny because Foghorn and Sylvester's bodies look like adult man bodies. I see now that it is due to solid drawing. Now if I could only get my hand to make the pencil do stuff like this it would be sweet like candy.
- Alain-Christian said...
M. R Darbyshire:
What is a blink formula?
- Mr. Semaj said...
Just another element that made McKimson's cartoons so funny.
One of my most favorite smacking scenes, from any cartoon was Daffy smacking the mad scientist from "Birth of a Notion".
- andy said...
1) I would be interested in hearing your thoughts about voice over.
2) any commentary on friz freleng - specifically Misterjaw, Pancho and Toro "The Tijuana Toads", The Ant and the Aardvark, Crazylegs Crane. Very little I could find online, but some links to some dvd complations.


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I used this phrase back in 1994 when I had an asthma attack. Sorry lady.
I thought contracts had to be signed by someone over the age of 16, or 18, or something like that. Isn't signing that contract a waste of time?
If they were to use this contract against the girl, parents, or even to protect themselves, wouldn't a judge just throw it out on the basis it was signed by a 5 year old?
I feel that just because you don't believe a law/rule is right, doesn't mean you shouldn't use it to your advantage when given the chance. Most would refer to this as "playing the game"
I've seen co-workers time after time be turned down for a job their over qualified for to someone who's absurdly under qualified just because that person is willing "tweak" stats or numbers. It's hard to complain to someone doing this, because after all the industry is rewarding them for this behavior. I'm sure we all know the effects of conditioning and positive reinforcement.
I personally feel those who don't take advantage of the rules to achieve their goals are fools. Although I wouldn't have announced it on the radio.
Molyneux is not changing his stance on his beliefs, just acknowledging this is how he accomplished his goal. If anything this should demonstrate the blatant errors of the DMCA.
I would imagine since this banner is replacing an ad, anyone who is using Ad Block of any kind wouldn't even see it
Am I right?
"It's suggested that these kinds of orders could be valid for up to six months but at least initially would only be directed at sites hosting actual files, not links to files such as in the case of BitTorrent indexes."
The most laughable part of all. You're going to go on sites like Youtube and take down what's probably legitimate content while the people who don't give a f#@! continue to actually watch your content for free.
At least in the past, as weak as their strategies may have been, at least it aimed toward the actual problem of piracy. It seems now you're just attacking everything and anything for the sake of attacking it.
I disagree this was not a poor choice to notify how your family died. It's understandable it could not be done face to face, but if texting was an option why wouldn't a phone call be? This was apparently not a mass text, so they took the time to write each text individually. I don't see a phone call taking much longer.
I see the argument they "opt[ed] in" to text notification. I have my doubts there was a box...
[ ] Please notify family by SMS in case of injury or death
...on the flight forms. It's likely an option to receive general notifications. I doubt this is the kind of notification they had in mind.
If phone was not an option, for whatever reason, then I would agree contacting by some means over no means would be preferable. But if I get a text a loved one has died because I opted to get a text notification when my plane was going to be late, I would be very upset.
He's debunking the theory that copyright is required to make money off of music or movies. Needing copyright to "sell media" is the only real reason copyright is still around.
I couldn't find the quote, I thought it was in the article about inaccurate stories in the media.
Cracked writers have said in their articles that they're not necessarily required to fact check, and articles can be opinion based. I know they quite often pride themselves because they do at times put out heavy fact checked and cited articles, but their main focus is comedy.
And in that article you mentioned, "5 Big News Stories That Left Out the Most Important Part", they admit they make mistakes.
That didn't stop every news source and website on the planet (including, ahem, us) from declaring it to be the harbinger of sci-fi technologies that we've been dreaming about for years.
That may be a partial quote, but it's the only part that addresses his point.
The original poster was referring to the "purpose" of copyright. The purpose was "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts". The rest of the quote is merely the method they planned to approach it by.
Read the question before correcting the answer.
"As the components are free, as in open source and beer, there is nor financial reward to the developers of other incentive for the developers to create what the users require."
This is the same argument people make with copyright works, this very same website has shown this is not true.
And what you state is almost the opposite of what I've come to expect from open source software.
"As a consequence if there is some critically need function required but one in which developers find distasteful then that component will not be produced."
This is the most laughable part of all. This is what I would expect from closed source software sure. Microsoft left Internet Explorer 6 on the market, horribly bugged, for years because there were no browsers to really compete with it. It wasn't until Firefox (an open source browser) came in to compete against it that Microsoft smartened up.
Open source does the opposite because it's being made by the people who use the damn product. In this case we're not talking about a small group of developers who might decide they equally don't like something and exclude it. We're talking about thousands of developers with different concerns. I've never seen something "critical" missing from open source software. I have seen open source missing a feature that was critical to specific businesses, but that is a different story, and has little to do with the overall quality.
"In a free society money is the means by which scarce resources are allocated to the highest needs."
Your quote here, let me fix it.
"In a fiat currency capitalist society money is the chains that binds the most scarce resources to those more likely to abuse it"
Trust me, we're better off with open source.
I know what I'm doing this upcoming Sunday
Vindictiveness in general doesn't make any sense. But it sure makes you feel better.
Is it just me? Or is it weird that both Open Source companies both have logos that look like old fashioned locks? Seems like a poor logo.
"You are the 1%, and you deserve so much"
should be...
"You are the 1%, and think you deserve so much"
"Besides, half a million is hardly successful, my grandma shits out that much during her /ANAL SEEPAGE/ attacks"
Here goes another idiot thinking he can dictate the norm. Only a person with their head in the clouds would think making a half a million isn't successful just because someone else has made more. You greedy empirical fucks won't give up until every other man is just a slave under your boot.
Get this through your head, the world owes you nothing. It is just as willing to put a bullet through your head walking home one evening as it is willing to give you a break. You should feel privileged to have done so well. Go ahead and call others liars and thieves. Is your family wealthy? If so, which of the three ways did they do it that are common to so many other wealthy American's. Was it prostitution? Smuggling? Or slavery?
The world is changing, and you're playing for the wrong side. You are the 1%, and you deserve so much. But people are massing, protesting, fighting. Who do you think is going to save you when you're outnumbered 99 to 1? The police? Don't make me laugh (it hurts my belly). No one else on here is willing to say this, because they're mostly reasonable people, but you're a piece of shit. And I expect you'll get what's coming to you a lot sooner than you think.
Down with corporations. Long live the people!
"Batman will surely make a ton of money in theatrical but not all movies (TV shows, books, etc) are Batman."
This is one of the things I hate about movies. Do you think Batman just sells because Batman is popular? There have been other Batman movies and shows, this one sells because they're good. Not just because it's Batman. Maybe if making a movie like The Dark Knight Rises is what's needed to make money, creators would take the time to make better movies.
I for one am getting sick of Hollywood making shitty movies just because it will meet the bottom line. More movies like Dark Knight and Avengers please.
"These new display ad units will appear within the calling window of users who do not have Skype Credit or subscriptions when they're making 1:1 Skype-to-Skype audio calls using Skype for Windows."
From reading the article, the ad comes in as a third caller. Skype already has the ability to do three way calling. So some computer dials into your convo, and that computer would basically record that it connected correctly.
I really can't say this enough. There is nothing in this bill that will stop piracy.
I hear a bunch of crap about blocking DNS domains to take down "rogue" sites. Loading a site without the use of DNS requests can be done, not to mention many services (like bit torrent) don't use DNS at all.
Connections can be encrypted, proxy servers can be use to redirect your connection, and internet routes can always be rerouted. And even though it can seem complex, I know 10 year olds that can accomplish these things.
When small businesses can't work because licensing fees are too high, and big industry's still won't budge on their ridiculous prices, piracy will thrive.


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Halloween Sedalia Style at Dukes & Boots [PHOTOS]
As usual, a good time was had by all at the first Halloween celebration at Dukes & Boots. Over $500 in cash and prizes was awarded to participants in the costume contest. Part two is Halloween night with a $500 cash to the best costume. Here are some pics. Comment on them and share them!


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Offerman arrested after ugly incident in Bridgeport; Everett moving towards top of league
The Long Island Ducks and the Atlantic League attracted attention from just about all major media outlets nationwide last week. Unfortunately, this was not the sort of publicity the team or the league was looking for.
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Virginia Parks Bid Farewell to ARVC President
November 2, 2010 by RVBusiness · Comments Off on Virginia Parks Bid Farewell to ARVC President
The board and members of the Virginia Campground Association (VCA) have voted to accept individual Virginia state parks as full members of VCA and the National Association of RV Parks and Campgrounds (ARVC).
Meeting at the 2010 Annual Fall Convention & Trade Show at American Heritage RV Park in Williamsburg, Oct. 18-20, the members decided that the association would no longer accept advertising in the Virginia Campground Directory from non-members and therefore the state parks could join the association as regular members and be accorded all of the rights, privileges and benefits of membership including listings in the directory and advertising, according to a news release.
In recent years, the Virginia State Parks Department purchased a full page ad listing all of the state parks with campground accommodations and also had icons on the state map in the directory denoting their locations.
"The VCA board and members at the meeting felt that state parks are marketing their facilities in the same manner as the private sector and the state parks are not going away, so it's best that the private campground industry embrace them, learn from them and benefit from having them in the industry," said David Gorin, executive director of VCA.
The association presented the new plan to State Park Director of Marketing Tom Cervanek and while he could not speak for the State Park Department, he seemed to embrace the concept of full membership, Gorin stated.
There were 20 campgrounds in attendance and 15 exhibitors. The conference focused on the educational seminars on the topic "Park Marketing for the 21st Century" and was highlighted by three seminars by Blake Ashdown, a longtime RV park entrepreneur and President of Sure Vista Solutions, a technology-based marketing company that specializes in measuring guest satisfaction and incorporating the findings into action plans for business improvement.
A marketing panel described three of the newest marketing techniques. Carol Rust of Yogi Bear Jellystone Park, Luray, Va., described her park's experience with Groupon, an Internet marketing tool that is designed to attract new customers through limited deep discounting and the broad reach of the internet. Alan Kobran, president of Illumenetics, described his company's customer relations management system (CRM), a technology solution for tracking and communicating with customers. And special guest Mary Arlington of High Plains Camping in Oakley, Kan., talked about how she turned a small campground into a profitable business through focusing marketing efforts in social media.
In a moving ceremony at the convention's Monday night dinner, VCA President Karl Littman, Candy Hill Campground, Winchester, and ARVC Board Member Steve Albrecht of Staunton/Walnut Hills KOA, Staunton, paid tribute to Linda Profaizer, retiring president and CEO of ARVC. The association presented her with a special gift in recognition of her 40 years of leadership in the campground industry with Woodalls and then with ARVC.
VCA also bid farewell to Skip and Judy Deegans of Anderson's Brochure Distribution Service on their retirement, while welcoming Joe Tice, the new owner of Anderson's.
The small but powerful group of members attending the meeting supported the association by purchasing over $4,000 worth of merchandise at the annual auction.
Karl Littman was elected to his fourth one-year term as VCA president. Other officers elected were Vice President Ray Barker (Tall Pines Harbor, Sanford), Treasurer Bill Rhoads (American Heritage, Williamsburg), Secretary Kristina Crall (Grey's Point Camp, Urbanna) and Board Chairman Steve Albrecht.


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Israel News - Stay Informed, Pray Informed
Israel Today has reported numerous times in recent years about the mounting cyber war that the Jewish state has found itself a prominent part of. Cyber warfare teams set up by the government and Israeli army, not to mention private security firms, fend off thousands of attacks every day.
But things move fast in this arena, and if Israel fails to stay at least one step ahead of its enemies, it could fall prey to an attack that could devastate Israel's computer-linked infrastructure.
The global hacker group Anonymous has threated repeatedly to target Israel, and likely has done so many times. It is apparently set to try again on Sunday, April 7 under the banner of #OpIsrael.
A leading hacker going by the handle of "Anon Ghost" told The Hackers Post that "the hacking teams have decided to unite against Israel as one entity…Israel should be getting prepared to be erased from the Internet."
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Home Decor
If you are looking for home decor items for your Jewish home or to give as a gift, you came to the right place. World of Judaica has an extensive supply of home decor items. These include tapestry wall hangings, home decor accessories, and home blessing wall hangings. These Judaica Jewish art pieces will look beautiful hung in your home. The home decor items also serve as the perfect gift for a Jewish holiday or Jewish wedding.
Whether it is a new home or not, any Jewish home could use home decor accessories to brighten up the space. These items give your home a warmer feel and are sure to be conversation pieces when guests come over for Shabbat or Jewish holidays. Many home decor pieces feature a Star of David or Hamsa symbol, and some display the incredible skyline of Jerusalem.
World of Judaica is proud to offer a collection of tapestry wall hangings to add to your home decor. These cloth tapestries feature embroidered detail and colorful designs. Many of our wall hangings display blessings both in Hebrew and English. The home blessing tapestry is a perfect gift for a housewarming. Other blessings include the quote 'I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine,' which is ideal for a Jewish wedding present.
This Jewish home decor collection serves as a wonderful place to find Jewish gifts. Choose from a tapestry or laser cut wall hanging. Popular symbols include pomegranates and Magen David Stars. Make sure to check out the home decor items designed by the Israeli artist Yair Emanuel. Emanuel is a famous Jewish artist known for his use of vibrant colors and unique designs. His work is both beautiful and functional.
When looking for Jewish home decor, check out World of Judaica's exquisite collection of Jewish art for the Jewish home.
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Home sweet home! Every home needs to be decorated and designed to feel like it's your own. This may mean something different for each individual. When looking for home decor items, first decide whether you are looking for Jewish themed home decor or non religious home decor. Next, if the home decor items are being given as a gift, try to find out the style and taste of the person you are buying for. The home decor category covers a range of options.
What is Home Decor?
Home decor refers to items and wall decorations that are used to add style to a home. The style is often defined as interior design. Different interior design styles include Victorian, feng shui, modern, art deco, contemporary, and more. Home decor items can include a variety of options, from wall decor to tablecloths to couch pillows.
Home decor can change drastically from house to house and room to room, even season to season! It is important to factor in style, budget, and the type of living space when choosing home decor items. These items are often purchased for living rooms or communal family room spaces, but they may also be purchased for a home office or bedroom. It is crucial to consider which items in these rooms you want to keep and which items you want to purchase new. Take a moment to get a sense of the current style of your living space and decide what you like and dislike about the atmosphere. If you are looking for home decor items to give as a gift, find out the person's unique style and try not to veer too far from it.
Home decor items can include paintings, wall hangings, wall blessings, table items, picture frames, and many more accessories. Decorations for these products can include a design of flowers, pomegranates, birds, and other motifs. Zodiac sign images are also commonly featured on wall hangings.
Jewish home decor items can be decorated with images of Israel. Popular Jewish themed tapestries and paintings feature an image of Jerusalem, either the Western Wall in the old city or a scene of the Jerusalem skyline. Other Jewish pictures and paintings display Jewish symbols such as the Star of David or Hamsa.
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Despite the prospects of the largest base price for processing tomatoes in the industry's history, growers planted only slightly more acres than last year.
Most of the state's packers have agreed to a $63 per ton price. One of the state's largest, Morning Star, has not agreed to the flat $63 price, but according to Ross Siragusa, president of the California Tomato Growers Association. "Growers are pleased to be getting closer (with Morning Star), but still expect to be paid $63."
(Western Farm Press incorrectly reported last issue that CTGA was holding out for $65 per ton.)
The $63 price compares with the $58 base paid in 2006 and approximately $50 over the previous four years.
The final 2007 price will be higher than that because the crop was so short — just 10.1 million tons — which depleted inventory and set the scene for growers to ask for more money this season.
Last year's average price was $58 per ton, with an average yield of 36.4 tons per acre. Processing plant door price was $67 per ton, which included premiums.
In January, California's tomato processors indicated they intend to contract 12.0 million tons, 20 percent more than the 2006 contracted production reported in September, 2006.
At that time, processors estimated the contracted production for 2007 would come from 305,000 acres, producing an average of 39.34 tons per acre.
The next acreage report is due at the end of May and Siragusa says the industry expects it to be somewhat surprisingly less than 300,000 acres, likely 280,000 to 290,000 acres.
There are several reasons for that: alternative crops are more attractive, particularly corn; alfalfa is offering some of the most attractive prices in years; and the cost and availability of irrigation water.
"Other crops provide legitimate alternatives to tomatoes, so losing acreage is not as big a concern for growers," says Siragusa. "We certainly would have seen more tomatoes if other row crops hadn't been so strong."
Don Cameron, Terranova Ranch Manager. Helm, Calif., says, "With the dry weather we've had this year, the main problem is the lack of moisture in beds at planting. Water had to be applied pretty quickly after planting due to the extremely dry conditions.
"The dry weather is producing ideal conditions for the new plants, as opposed to last year when wet weather brought a lot of disease problems. Water is the key to the crop this year. With water already being traded at $230 per acre foot, we are positioned for an interesting year."
Indeed, water could very well be the Achilles heel as the season moves forward, even though the production situation now is favorable.
"The crop should be early, and we have the potential for above average yields," Siragusa says. "There is a great deal of concern regarding the water situation out into 2008. Unlike previous dry years, the amount of permanent crops has increased dramatically — and permanent crops will get the water first. Row crops can't afford to pay $200 plus for supplemental water."
The $63 per ton sounds good on the surface, says Cameron, "but with the increased production costs we've seen, a grower will need a good crop to make money."
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About a week or so ago I was on the gaming/chat site Pogo, playing some mah jong and just generally wasting time until I was tired. Well this lady enters the game room I am in and first thing she says in the chat is "Hello and God bless you all". Someone replied with "God bless you as well." It's not just because I'm an atheist that I found this to be a rather rude and offensive thing to say. What if I were Buddhist? or Hindu? Or even Muslim? So just to see what would be said, if I would get polite responses back I said "May Allah bless you as well." Was this a bit of sh!t disturbing on my part? Maybe, it was late, I was bored and couldn't sleep.
What followed was a rather long discussion about religion and how wonderful it is and how terrible I am for not believing in gods. This lady insisted that I hate children and Santa Claus because I don't believe in her god. I hate children because I hate children, even when I believed in god I hated children. The thing that got me though was her remark about Santa. I asked her why should I dislike him? What did he ever do? Nothing, he's not a real person (much like her god, but I didn't say that).
I said I see no reason for me to hate Santa and therefore ruin the idea of him for small children, he has nothing to do with the actually reason for the holiday. Unless Santa and Jesus are the same person and I'm pretty sure they're not, I think it's ok for me to have no real beefs with Santa. When I pointed out the fact that Christmas is the celebration of the birth of Christ and not a celebration of Santa she told me I was wrong that the two things are pretty much the same. As well as the Easter bunny and Easter. When I told her that she was commercializing the holidays for our modern world, she asked me if I believed in god and celebrated the holidays would I do so without Santa and the bunny. Well if I were going to claim to be a TRUE christian as she was doing, yes I would celebrate the true meaning of those holidays but, this again made me a bad person.
Next came the topic of family and whether or not family shared the same beliefs. Well when I told her my dad was religious and I'm not, she had the nerve to say that "well then I can guarantee he isn't having a good time with you when you visit." Most of you know what has recently been going on with my father in regards to his health, this hurt a lot. She had the balls to suggest that my father just pretends to like me simply because he is my father and has too. I set her straight very quickly.
To end the conversation, I gave her one of my favorite quotes:
Well she told me that quote makes absolutely NO SENSE. I had already been questioning her intelligence, now I was quite sure she wasn't very bright. When I tried to explain it to her using people who kill doctors who perform abortions, suicide bombers, honor killings etc. She said it was clear I was just making stuff up and had been proven wrong and should just give up my silly argument. So I tried one more time to explain to her "if I kill a doctor who performs abortions I'm a bad person right?" she agreed. "Ok now if I do so and say it is gods wishes, because what this doctordoes is against gods word, religious people will think that I'm some sort of hero for doing 'gods work'" She still couldn't or likely refused to see that it's true.
Apparently choosing to believe that life itself is a wonderful and miraculous thing and being quite content in that knowledge gives you a bad attitude. Because I believe in science, reason and logic I am just a generally unhappy person. In order to be truly happy on Earth you have to believe that there is a higher power and when we die, we go to something bigger, better and more amazing than this. Because lets be honest out of all the planets in the universe we somehow wind up here and this isn't enough. There has to be more, there needs to more. Some people really are greedy aren't they?
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A Safe Ride to School for Girls in Afghanistan
The Safe Ride to School for Afghan Girls Program was created in response to an attack on female students and teachers in the Kandahar Province. In 2008, men on motorcycles sprayed acid into the faces of teachers and students walking to school, targeting girls wearing school uniforms. Donors rallied and purchased a school bus so this would never happen again. Since 2009, the bus program has provided safe passage for the 100 girls living farthest from Mirwais Mena School for Girls.
After years of use, the school bus started breaking down. Without this program, many of these girls would be forced to drop out of school. But thanks to our generous donors, this did not happen. We are pleased to announce that we have raised enough money to purchase two new buses! Funds used to purchase the buses were matched dollar for dollar by a generous donor.
But we're not done. Keeping these buses running is costly. Funding is needed to help pay for the bus drivers, fuel and on-going maintenance. With your support, we can continue to provide safe passage to school for girls in Afghanistan.
An 11th grade student named Sadia at the Mirwais Mena School sums it up perfectly: "Education is like a light; you can see the path you are going on in the dark. If you don't have an education, you are blind, and you will not see things clearly. The bus project is extraordinary. It helps to take girls safely to school and get them back home safely."
Update from the Field
August 2016
In August 2016 GreaterGood helped purchase an additional bus for the Mirwais Mena School in Kandahar, Afghanistan. We now have 2 fully functioning buses, that safely transport 100 girls to and from school, daily. The school is immensely grateful as these are the only running buses to and from the Mirwais Mena School in Kandahar City, Afghanistan.
This is Shamsia. Eight years ago, as she walked to school outside of Kandahar, Afghanistan, she and several others were attacked with acid by the taliban on their way to school. What was their crime? Going to school. Nearly a decade later, she is still suffering from the attack, as her eyes still spontaneously tear up and itch, but her passion for education keeps her going. Those attacks were the inspiration for the Safe Ride to School Program. Now, Shamsia is a teacher at the school and added that in past years 200 girls left school due to the lack of transportation. She sends her gratitude for the continued safety she and her students experience on their ride to school.
GROW (Girls' Right to Opportunity Worldwide) in partnership with GreaterGood.org, Dream Weaver Foundation and The Literacy Site™ is dedicated to improving girls' well being by supporting and monitoring innovative projects that identify and remove barriers to girls' education across the globe.
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- Seven classic Spanish tapas favorites
- Chorizo, almonds, olives, sweet garlic and more
- Beautiful hand-painted ceramic tapas platter
- Traditional Spanish toothpicks
Tapas is one of the most beloved parts of Spanish food. These small bites display a cornucopia of flavors for any gathering. We've selected a wonderful variety of tapas essentials that are easy to prepare and certain to impress your guests!
Our dry-cured chorizo, made from an artisanal producer in La Rioja, is a sublime cured sausage seasoned with the famous smoked paprika, Pimentón de la Vera. Our anchovy-stuffed olives have gained a fanatical following since we first brought them back from the port of Alicante years ago.
Hand-peeled baby artichoke hearts from fertile Navarra, tangy Basque guindilla peppers and tangy-sweet fire-roasted piquillo pepper strips, bring the world famous vegetables of Spain to the mix. We also included a jar of marinated garlic cloves. This white garlic is a particularly mild and sweet variety unlike any other form.
Our crunchy Marcona almonds are the largest in the world. They soak up the hot sun along the Mediterranean for a smooth texture and sweet flavor.
To add elegance to the spread, we've included a gorgeous hand-painted tray in the traditional Spanish style and palillos, the famous Spanish toothpicks made of polished wood that are certain to bring back fond memories of pintxos bars in San Sebastian.
This selection is a wish come true for your next evening of entertaining. It also makes a lovely gift for a tapas-loving friend, or the perfect introduction to the wonders of the Spanish table!
Sizes for the items included in this collection are as follows: Ceramic Tapas Tray - 13 inches in diameter, Palacios Chorizo - 7.9 oz, Don Pallilo Toothpicks - 300 toothpicks, Anchovy Stuffed Olives - 5.29 oz drained weight, Marcona Almonds - 5.3 oz, Artichoke Hearts - 6.35 oz drained weight, Guindilla Peppers - 4.5 oz, Sweet White Garlic - 6.3 oz and Piquillo Pepper Strips - 8 oz.
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What's the foundation for many economic statistics both inside and outside the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)? It's something most people have never heard of, yet it is essential for finding out what's going on inside the world's largest economy. It's called the "use table," and it is a fundamental tool of BEA's input-output accounts. The use table provides both a broad and a detailed look at the U.S. economy. It is simple, yet complex. The table can answer a question as general as: "So, what was gross domestic product (GDP) in 2010?" ($14.5 trillion) and as specific as: "What was the most energy-intensive industry in 2010?" (water transportation).
The use table is a matrix that shows the commodities used by individual industries in their production processes (intermediate inputs) as well as commodities that are sold directly to consumers and other buyers (final uses). The table also shows each industry's contribution to GDP (value added). The table serves as a foundation for many other economic statistics, such as BEA's national income and product accounts and BEA's Regional Input-Output Modeling System (RIMS II). The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Producer Price Index also relies on the use table.
Here's a simplified use table. Even the most complex ones—for example, the "detail" level benchmark use tables—follow the same construction. They're just larger.
So, how do you read this important table? Let's start with the columns and rows in the blue intermediates section. The columns list industries, like the auto industry or the restaurant industry. The rows list the commodities—like computers or legal services—that are used by a given industry, hence the term use table. Intermediates are the goods and services that industries use to produce their own goods and services. For example, milk is an intermediate input to the cheese industry (you need milk to make cheese), and architecture services are an intermediate input to the construction industry (you need some sort of blueprint to build that skyscraper). The use table includes all intermediates used in production. You need milk to make cheese, but you also need containers to hold the milk and devices to heat it, ingredients to start the curdling process, salt and other flavorings, and so on.
Intermediate inputs are an important part of the economy, but they are just part of this robust table. As we delve deeper into the use table, we'll show that the use table doesn't just show GDP; it provides three different methods of measuring GDP.
The first presentation of GDP is in the measurement of total value added. When industries sell their products, they don't simply add up the cost of intermediates and sell them for the sum of those costs. The concept of value added is that any good or service is worth more than the sum of its parts. For example, you're not merely paying for raw ingredients and services when you buy cheese. You also pay for the labor of the employees who made that cheese; you pay for a variety of taxes, such as sales and excise taxes; and you pay for the capital used in the production of cheese. So, the sum of value added across all industries equals GDP.
Directly below the value-added section is the purple section titled "Total Industry Output." This is the sum of the intermediate and value-added rows. When you sum this across all industries, you get "Total Output," the section at the bottom right.
The sections to the right of the intermediates section look at the economy from the perspective of commodities rather than industries. Instead of telling us what commodities an industry uses, these sections tell us how commodities are being used. When you read across any given commodity row, the use table tells you how much of that commodity is being purchased and by whom. In the blue section, these are in the form of intermediates. Cheese makers purchase milk as an intermediate product; but so do coffee shops, bakeries, restaurants, and quite a few other industries.
At this point, you might be saying, "Hey, wait, I buy milk, too, and I just drink it. What about me?" Those kinds of purchases—by individuals and entities who purchase a commodity at its final stage rather than as an intermediate input into some other product—are represented in the "Final Uses" section (the red section to the right of the intermediates). That brings us to the second method by which the use table presents GDP, as a sum of final uses. Final uses include personal consumption expenditures, private and government investment (such as in buildings or durable equipment), government consumption expenditures, and net exports. If you've taken macroeconomics and this sounds familiar, it should—it's the classic GDP equation where GDP equals C + I + G + NX.
The final uses section is in the same red color as the value-added section because when you sum up either the value-added section or the final uses section, you end up with the same total, which equals GDP. Two different ways of looking at the economy, the value-added approach and the final-use (also called the expenditures) approach, and both lead to the same value.
Add up the intermediates and final uses across a given row, and you get "Total Commodity Output." Another useful attribute of the use table is that the sum of total commodity output is equal to total output—the same total output you get when you sum up total industry output. This gives us the third way to measure GDP in the use table, where you take total output and subtract the sum of intermediates.
As you can see, this one impressive table provides three different ways to measure GDP. It also provides a comprehensive look at what industries need to produce their products and details on how those products are used throughout the economy. The combination of comprehensive detail, mathematical consistency, and simple presentation make the use table one of the most powerful tools in economic analysis.


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For decades, lead-acid battery technology has been the mainstay of battery-based renewable energy systems, providing reliable storage and ample energy capacity. The most common battery used—flooded lead-acid (FLA)—requires regular watering to maintain electrolyte levels and venting to avoid the buildup of hydrogen and sulfuric gases. Additionally, FLAs are large and heavy, making battery replacement a challenging task for some systems.
With all of the recent action in the electric vehicle and personal electronics industries, lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries have gained much attention. Here, we examine Li-ion battery pros and cons, and discover why most system owners won't be swapping out their FLA batteries anytime soon.
"Lithium-ion" refers to a variety of lithium-based battery chemistries. Each chemistry has its strong and weak points, which means certain types of chemistries are better-suited for particular applications. There continues to be new lithium-based chemistries being developed (such as lithium-air), but it is too early to tell which will become commercially viable. See the "Lithium Battery Technologies" table for details on a few of the more common types of Li-ion chemistries.
Li-ion batteries typically come in one of three formats: pouch, cylindrical, and prismatic (rectangular-cubic). Pouch types tend to be used in small portable devices, such as smart phones and tablet PCs, or in devices where low weight is important, such as hobbyist remote control vehicles. Cylindrical forms lend themselves to powering medium-sized portable devices, such as power tools. Prismatic are generally the largest, and are typically used in electric vehicles. Prismatic types are also favored in applications that were previously powered by lead-acid batteries, such as backup or off-grid telecommunication systems. Prismatic types usually have hard corrugated sides, which creates air gaps between adjacent cells—an aid to cooling.
If Li-ion has an application for residential RE storage, the best candidate is the large-format prismatic lithium iron phosphate (LiFePO4; LFP) battery. But how do they compare with lead-acid technologies?
Weight. Comparing weight versus available energy storage, an LFP is about one-third the weight of a lead-acid (LA) battery. This is a great advantage for mobile applications, such as boats/RVs, but for stationary RE applications, weight is usually a consideration only during battery change-out.
Space. At about half the volume of an LA battery with equivalent energy storage, LFPs take up far less space. This may be an advantage for mobile applications, but for stationary RE applications, size or volume is typically not a deciding factor.
Low-Temperature Capacity. The storage capacity of LAs drops by 50% at -4°F, compared to 8% with LFP. Keeping lead-acid batteries warm so that they maintain reasonable capacity in cold climates can be challenging, giving LFPs an advantage. However, LFP batteries generally should be charged at a slower rate when cold—usually no more than a C/10 at ambient temperatures below 32°F. (For example, if you have a 200 Ah battery, a C/10 charge rate will be 20 A.)


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The nominations cap a dream year for Etzebeth, who celebrates his 21st birthday next week. He starred for the DHL Stormers in Vodacom Super Rugby before making his Springbok debut against England in Durban in June. On Saturday he will represent DHL Western Province in the Absa Currie Cup final.
Etzebeth has been nominated in the categories for SARU Rugby Player of the Year, Young Player of the Year and Vodacom Super Rugby Player of the Year, following consistently outstanding performances for the Springboks, DHL Stormers and DHL Western Province in 2012.
Five players have been nominated in two categories – Keegan Daniel and JP Pietersen (both nominated for SARU Rugby Player and Vodacom Super Rugby Player of the Year), Marcell Coetzee (Vodacom Super Rugby and Young Player of the Year), as well as Elton Jantjies and Raymond Rhule (both nominated for Young Player and Absa Currie Cup Premier Division Player of the Year).
The final two nominations in the category for SARU Rugby Player of the Year are Pat Lambie, who was voted Young Player of the Year in 2011, and veteran Springbok wing and two-time winner (2005 and 2007) Bryan Habana, who extended his try-scoring record in Tests to 47 this year after some great displays in the green and gold.
KwaZulu-Natal's impressive season is reflected in nominations for Absa Team of the Year, with both Sharks teams (Vodacom Super Rugby and Absa Currie Cup) nominated. They are up against the Junior Springboks, who won the IRB Junior World Championship in South Africa earlier this year, the DHL Stormers, who topped the log in Vodacom Super Rugby, and the Absa Currie Cup First Division champions, the EP Kings.
The Absa Coach of the Year will be one of Allister Coetzee (DHL Stormers and Western Province), Pote Human (GWK Griquas), John Plumtree (The Sharks), Alan Solomons (EP Kings) or Dawie Theron (SA Under-20).
For the first time the public were able to vote in the Awards, through a voting process on the Springboks' Facebook page, alongside the country's rugby media, who traditionally vote for the winners in some of the categories.
Following an extensive voting process amongst various stakeholders, the winners in a number of other categories have already been determined – Coca-Cola Craven Week Player of the Tournament, Marriott Referee Award, Women's Achiever of the Year, SARU National Club Championship Player of the Tournament, SA Under-20 Player of the Year and Springbok Sevens Player of the Year.
The nominees for 2012 are (in alphabetical order):
SARU Rugby Player of the Year:
1. Keegan Daniel
2. Eben Etzebeth
3. Bryan Habana
4. Pat Lambie
5. JP Pietersen
Young Player of the Year:
1. Marcell Coetzee
2. Eben Etzebeth
3. Johan Goosen
4. Elton Jantjies
5. Raymond Rhule
Absa Team of the Year:
1. Eastern Province Kings (Absa Currie Cup First Division)
2. The Sharks (Vodacom Super Rugby)
3. The Sharks (Absa Currie Cup)
4. South Africa Under-20 (IRB Junior World Championship)
5. DHL Stormers (Vodacom Super Rugby)
Absa Coach of the Year:
1. Allister Coetzee (DHL Stormers and Western Province)
2. Pote Human (GWK Griquas)
3. John Plumtree (The Sharks)
4. Alan Solomons (EP Kings)
5. Dawie Theron (SA Under-20)
Vodacom Super Rugby Player of the Year:
1. Marcell Coetzee (The Sharks)
2. Keegan Daniel (The Sharks)
3. Bismarck du Plessis (The Sharks)
4. Eben Etzebeth (DHL Stormers)
5. JP Pietersen (The Sharks)
Absa Currie Cup Premier Division Player of the Year:
1. Deon Fourie (DHL Western Province)
2. JC Janse van Rensburg (MTN Golden Lions)
3. Elton Jantjies (MTN Golden Lions)
4. Louis Ludik (The Sharks)
5. Raymond Rhule (Toyota Free State Cheetahs)
Absa Currie Cup First Division Player of the Year:
1. Hansie Graaff (Griffons)
2. JW Jonker (Ford Pumas)
3. Rudi Mathee (Ford Pumas)
4. Paul Perez (EP Kings)
5. Luke Watson (EP Kings)
Vodacom Cup Player of the Year:
1. Marcel Brache (DHL Western Province)
2. Demetri Catrakilis (DHL Western Province)
3. Jaco Kriel (MTN Golden Lions)
4. Gouws Prinsloo (Sharks XV)
5. Jan Serfontein (Vodacom Blue Bulls)


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Whole Slab - Bands lyrics
Bandz a make her dance [x6]
[Juicy J - Hook: x2]
Bands a make her dance
Bands a make her dance
All these chicks poppin' pussy
I'm just poppin' bands
Bands a make her dance
Bands a make her dance
These chicks clapping
And they ain't using hands
[Verse 1 - Rick Ross]
She sweet as my swisha when I know she get richer
Take you shopping for hours just for my Instagram pictures
Listen: bands a make her dance
Mills a make me move
For years I paid my dues, now I'm paid to wear my shoes
Reeboks for the week, I rocks with the streets
Over time to the bees, haters give em swish cheese
If I gave em a jar he'd smoke powder for me
Gotta pull double shifts just to count all my cheese
[Verse 2 - Whole Slab]
You want this money bitch?
Come and get it ho
Racks in the air, bands on the floor
Now dance on the money, that's a money rug
She got her titties be as shots and time to tuck
She bad as fuck, I'm turning up
I'm hard in the pen
Ya'll be bad dick and ratchet hoes, the whole Slab case
Bands a make her, 50 make her fuck
That ice would make her bite
That coup will make her suck)
[Hook: x2]
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[Verse 3 - Lil Wayne]
Pop that pussy for a real nigga
Pull out my black card, that's my lil nigga
Make a movie with yo bitch Steven Spiel nigga
Smoking on Keish Cole, give me chills nigga
What's your real name and not your stripper name
I make it rain on ya like a window pane
Bands a make her dance
Tunechi make her cum
Hit it from the side like a motherfucking bass drum
Two hoes on one fucking pole
Two hoes on my fucking pole
I don't tip I pay bills bitches call me buffalo
Her stomach in and her ass out
I'm flyer than the ones they pass out
If money grow on trees, I branched out
I'm just waiting on my bitch to cash out
[Hook: x2]
[Verse 4 - 2 Chainz]
2 Chainz, four bracelets
Let me see that ass clap, standing ovation (TRU)
If yo girl don't swallow kids, man that ho basic
Got two bitches with me: take a shot at one ho, using her friend for a chaser
(Bands a make her bust it) Buss it!
(Let me see you touch it) Touch it!
Money talk, you ain't got none, end of discussion! (Damn!)
(Bands a make her do it) Do it!
(Pocket full of money) Money!
Young nigga gettin' head while tha engine runnin' (Errrgh!)
Let me see you wiggle, do it for a real nigga (Yeay!)
I be laughing to the bank, all you do is giggle
Ballin' in my coupe, call it sports car
Drop the top and freaky treat that bitch just like a pornstar!
[Hook: x2]


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By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN and MARK SCOTT
Published: June 14, 2012
PURSUING A SALE Dick Clark Productions, the 55-year-old company that produces the Golden Globe awards show and the New Year's Eve broadcast hosted by the company's late founder, left, is exploring a sale of itself, people briefed on the matter said on Wednesday.
The company has hired the Raine Group, a boutique investment bank, to run the sales process, these people said.
A sale could yield a payday for the company's current backers, the Washington Redskins owner Daniel M. Snyder and Six Flags Entertainment.
Mr. Snyder's Red Zone Capital bought Dick Clark Productions from another investment group in 2007 for $175 million. ANDREW ROSS SORKIN
WEALTH OF EXPERIENCE The investment bank Lazard said on Tuesday that Richard D. Parsons had joined the firm's 12-member board, which includes directors like Michael J. Turner, a former chief executive of BAE Systems, and Vernon Jordan.
Mr. Parsons, 64, a former chief executive of Time Warner, served as chairman of Citigroup from 2009 until stepping down in April. He is also on the boards of Est?Lauder and Madison Square Garden.
PROMINENT HIRE The money manager BlackRock has hired Philipp M. Hildebrand, below, who resigned under a cloud from the Swiss National Bank in January, to oversee institutional client relationships outside the United States.
Mr. Hildebrand, 48, stepped down as head of Switzerland's central bank after doubts were raised about currency trades he and his wife made in 2011.
In his role at BlackRock, Mr. Hildebrand will advise the firm's clients across Europe, the Middle East, Africa and the Asia-Pacific region, the company said in a statement on Wednesday. He is expected to begin work in October and will be based in London. MARK SCOTT


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Courtesy of Babson College Sports Information
BABSON PARK, Mass. – Kaitlyn Pettengill recorded five points and Alyssa Hood added four to lead the top-seeded Babson College Beavers to a convincing 16-7 victory over fifth-seeded MIT in the semifinal round of the 2010 New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) Women's Lacrosse Tournament at Babson's MacDowell Field on Saturday.
With the win, the 10th-ranked Beavers advance to their fourth straight conference final, as they will host second-seeded Springfield College in the NEWMAC Championship Game on Sunday at 1 p.m. after the Pride knocked off third-seeded Mount Holyoke College, 17-10, in Saturday's second semifinal.
The Engineers finish the season with a record of 9-7, marking the first time the program has registered back-to-back winning campaigns.
MIT was paced by Erica Little, who scored three goals in defeat, and Casey Flynn, who added a game-high three assists. Meghan Wright paced the squad with four groundballs, followed by three from Lauren Rodda. Alex Wright recorded four draw controls and two groundballs as Stephanie Leger contributed four groundballs. Allison Hamilos played the entire game in net, finishing with 10 saves.
With her three goals and two assists, Pettengill moved past fellow senior captain Anna Collins for first place on Babson's all-time list with 269 career points. Collins added two goals in the victory to increase her point total to 267, while Hood contributed three goals and one assist. Also adding multiple points for the Beavers were Taylor Kralovenec and Kristy Benoit, who each had two goals and one assist, Erin Daley and Trisha Babson, who had one goal and two assists apiece, and Jamie Spang, who joined Collins with two goals. Goalie Sarah Macary went the distance in net for Babson, making six saves.
Babson took control of the game early on, opening the contest with a 4-0 run that featured goals from Spang, Pettengill, Daley, and Trisha Babson. Kelly Duncan finally put MIT on the board with 14:17 left on a free-position attempt, but the Beavers rattled off four more unanswered scores to increase their advantage to 8-1. Trisha Babson scored the first two, while Pettengill and Kralovenec also contributed scores. Molly McShane netted the Engineers' second goal of the game, connecting on a pass from Flynn with 6:16 remaining in the opening period. However, Kralovenec struck again at the three-minute mark to give the hosts a 9-2 lead at the break.
The Beavers continued to add to their advantage in the second, as Pettengill scored once and Hood tallied two in a row to make it 12-2 with 17:54 left in the contest. MIT would mount a comeback attempt with a 5-2 run over the next 15 minutes, to narrow the gap to 14-7. Little scored three times during the spurt, with Flynn earning assists on the first two goals. Laura Wacker converted a feed from Katie Kauffman while Leger buried a free-position shot. Babson responded with two goals during the final 41 seconds to claim the win.


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Here are the details that I can tell you:
- camera is essentially a Ricoh GX100
- 10 megapixels
- 24-72mm lens (far wider than anything else out there at the moment)
- 1cm wide-angle macro
- 4cm telephoto macro
- RAW files (approx. 4-second write time)
- CCD-shift image stabilization
- external strobes triggered via fiber-optic by LED light (NOT built-in flash, which should mean much faster shot-to-shot times)
- lever-activated shutter release
- two VERY comprehensive custom modes activated on mode dial (set one up for wide-angle, set one up for macro)
knob-activated manual focus (as opposed to push-buttons)(misinformation from rep)
- about US$1000 street price
- housing looks very robust with a nice big grip, though still much more compact than third-party housings (e.g. Ikelite)


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Hey gang!
This year BrickCon is going to sponsor a Battle theme that pulls together battles from different periods. It could include the Norman conquest, to the Battle of the Bulge, to Master Chief versus the Covenant. It could be as up-close-and-personal as Robin Hood duelling with Sir Guy of Gisbourne or as sprawling as the 300 Spartans versus the Persian army at Thermopylae.
So where do you come in?
Well, if you're planning to attend BrickCon this year, and you can stage a battle, the Battle theme is the place for your creation. Haven't you always wanted to stage a massive battle between the factions in your collection? Isn't it time for the Black Falcons and the Crusader Knights to throw down? Crownies versus Dragon Knights? Or maybe you want to go more historical and have Egyptians battling Hittites, or Romans versus barbarians? Maybe you want to channel a Hollywood fantasy director and have some orcs assaulting unsuspecting elves and humans!
I've seen some of the great creations made by the Classic-Castle community, so if you're interested in turning your talents toward the art of war, contact me with the size of your MOC so I can plan room for it.
Hope to see you at BrickCon next month!


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There was a time when the outgoing president of the Nineteenth Century Club got a silver tea service at the end of her tenure.
The week in court for all sides in the Nineteenth Century Club Chancery Court case shows the decline of an organization as well as the old mansion it has called home for much of its existence.
(Daily News File/Lance Murphey)
That time lasted into the mid-1990s, when the custom became too expensive for a philanthropic organization whose membership had dwindled.
The club was an incubator for local civic efforts before the term incubator was used for such efforts. The group was behind the Red Cross' arrival in Memphis, the city's first public playground and similar charitable and philanthropic efforts.
And for most of its existence, a mansion on Union Avenue in Midtown built by a millionaire lumberman was home to the Nineteenth Century Club.
In a week's worth of testimony in Shelby County Chancery Court last week, former and current members of the club distinguished between the organization and the building it called home for most of the 20th century and the first 12 years of the 21st century.
"The club is not the building, and the building is not the club," Nancy Walker, one of the plaintiffs, said in an excerpt from a deposition read in court Friday, Aug. 29, the final day of testimony. "But one without the other is not much good."
Chancellor Walter Evans is to decide the validity of the club's October vote to sell the house to Union Group LLC for more than $500,000. Union Group is a family-owned company that wants to demolish the mansion and build a restaurant on the land.
The condition of the mansion started to slip in the 1960s, according to Lynn Heathcott, the president of the club since 2007. That's when problems with the mansion's roof prompted a change from tile to a more conventional roof. The roof didn't match the "Chicago-style" gutter system, and because of that, the wood began to rot and other leaks began.
The club, however, still had the membership to do its philanthropic work and maintain the house.
But the neglect that built up in recent years as membership dwindled came to a head in 2001, when local code enforcement officials presented club leaders with "several pages of violations," Heathcott said. The 2001 violations also triggered quarterly visits by code enforcement inspectors.
"It was impossible," she said. "No one had the money to do that except a little bit at a time."
Heathcott has remained president since 2007 because "no one would accept the job," she testified. "We have tried a number of times to get people to step up."
The club raised $35,000 for a new furnace. Chandeliers were rewired, and the practice by some members of sending household items they no longer wanted to the mansion ended.
"We continually tried to do things," Heathcott testified. "It never seemed to get us to a situation where we didn't have to deal with code enforcement."
Then in 2010, code enforcement summoned the club to General Sessions Environmental Court as a "neglected property," requiring appearances and updates every six weeks instead of once every three months. The court action forced the club to get an estimate for how much it would cost to fix everything in the building.
The total came in at $2.6 million, an amount Heathcott described as "frightening" and "overwhelming" for a group that then numbered about 20 active dues-paying members. Just fixing the roof and sealing the exterior was $800,000 to $900,000, and members who had been considering a capital campaign to raise money tabled the idea after getting the cost estimate.
"We just didn't feel like we had the energy to take it on," Heathcott said. "Then we had to face the really hard decision. It was almost like the nail in the coffin when we got the summons."
Paying dues is an integral part of the court fight that Evans is to decide. Past members who became inactive – some of them lifetime members – are among the plaintiffs seeking to void the sale.
But attorneys for the club and the Children's Museum of Memphis, to which the club donated most of the money from the sale, argue that in the last 12 years the organization has gone from a for-profit corporation to a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization and is a different organization legally with a different set of bylaws.
Those new bylaws require members in good standing to pay dues even if they were lifetime members, such as Teresa Hurst, another plaintiff in the lawsuit. She was the second former president of the club to get a lifetime membership instead of a silver tea service.
Hurst, an attorney, argued that her lifetime membership gives her a property interest – a legal term with a specific meaning – that should have meant she got a notice of the club's October 2010 vote to sell the mansion.
"I didn't think the members and myself had been treated fairly," Hurst testified. "I want a revote on the issue."
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SANFORD — Local eighth-grader Emily Morgan's illustration of life in Maine has captured the notice of the state's first lady, Ann LePage.
LePage and The Barbara Bush Foundation teamed up earlier this year to challenge all Maine students in grades K through 8 to submit art work depicting "What Living in Maine Means to Me." The winning works of art will be published in a journal promoting literacy and health that will be distributed to families with newborn babies, according to Ann MacEachern, an art teacher with the Sanford School Department.
Morgan is one of 32 winners whose works were selected from 867 entries submitted from throughout the state. Her drawing shows two young people enjoying a run on a beach.
Morgan will receive an autographed copy of the journal and will be invited to the Blaine House in Augusta to be honored.
LePage plans to visit the schools of the 32 students with winning entries.


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Former DHS/NSA Official Says You Should Blame Privacy Advocates For The TSA Groping You
from the wait,what? dept
TSA ended up taking more time to inspect everyone, treating all travelers as potential terrorists, and subjecting many to whole-body imaging and enhanced pat-downs. We can't blame TSA for this wrong turn, though. Privacy lobbies persuaded Congress that TSA couldn't be trusted with data about the travelers it was screening. With no information about travelers, TSA had no choice but to treat them all alike, sending us down a long blind alley that has inconvenienced billions.Of course! It isn't the TSA's fault the TSA debased me. It's because privacy advocates (also me) didn't want the TSA to debase me by massively invading my privacy. It makes perfect sense! Never mind that this is all a theater show ostensibly designed to up the suicide count of Americans worldwide, because they sure aren't catching anyone important. It's the privacy people who are to blame. Also, all those women who are sexually assaulted? Pshh, they were dressed to provocatively. Blame the short-skirt makers or whoever.
Then, because apparently Stewart Baker hasn't been reading the news lately, he testified that instead the government just needs more data on all of us, while driving home the point that the current security screenings are stupid.
No one wants to be against privacy, but we've tried the privacy campaigners' preferred solution, denying even the smallest scrap of data to the government, and they saddled us with ten years of stupid screening at our airports, where a lack of data forced TSA to treat everyone like a suspected terrorist. No one liked that solution, with good reason. It's time to recognize that failure and encourage experiments in smarter, faster, more informed screening based on data-sharing.Okay, no. The TSA has not tried the privacy campaigner's preferred solution, because I've yet to hear a privacy campaigner stamp her feet over the fact that her nipples haven't been tweaked lately. And, while everyone would like better and safer solutions for traveling, making the "our government just doesn't have enough data on us" argument at this point in time might be the most tone-deaf thing since Bob Dylan. The TSA is full of misconduct, the government is collecting too much data on us and is overloaded with it, all while even the TSA's advocates are calling their current screening processes "stupid."
Drop the curtain on this theater, because the show has been going on too long and it sucks anyway.


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Small SipVicious Guide
This is a small guide on getting the SipVicious tool pack
SIPVicious suite is a set of tools that can be used to audit SIP based systems. It currently consists of four tools:
* svmap - this is a sip scanner. Lists SIP devices found on an IP range
* svwar - identifies active extensions on a PBX
* svcrack - an online password cracker for SIP PBX
* svreport - manages sessions and exports reports to various formats
The home page is located here: Blog
The code is here: Code
SipVicious requires python 2.4 or greater. For BT2 and 3 beta you have this so no need to worry.
There is a video tutorial that will help you out on setting it up and a small walk through using the tools located here:
This video uses the tools found on the Getting Started page below.
There is also a page with info on setting up a VMware player and Trixbox image to use SipVicious against located here:
The whole thing is pretty straightforward and easy to use.
Have fun with your SIP auditing!
Special thanks to Sandro Gauci for making the tools and video!


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Stretch of 16 ECAC Hockey Games Begins
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The Yale women's ice hockey team returns to the ice at Ingalls Rink Friday vs. Colgate (7:00 p.m.), a game that could help set the tone as the Bulldogs aim to solidify a spot in the ECAC Hockey playoffs over the course of the regular season's final 16 games. Yale also hosts No. 3 Cornell, Saturday at 4:00 p.m., as the second half of the season gets underway.
The last time Yale played conference games, Nov. 15-16, the Bulldogs swept a series at Rensselaer and Union. That leaves them in eighth place entering the second half of the season, holding down the final ECAC Hockey playoff spot. The top four teams in the final standings host teams five through eight in the best-of-three ECAC Hockey quarterfinal series Feb. 28 through Mar. 2.
Colgate (3-12-2, 1-7-0 ECAC Hockey) is one of four teams currently behind the Bulldogs, chasing them for a playoff spot. Just five points separate the seventh-place team (Rensselaer) from the 12th-place team (Brown) in the standings.
The Bulldogs are in eighth place in terms of points, but are seventh in terms of winning percentage. Rensselaer is 3-5-0, a point ahead of Yale in the standings. The Engineers are off this weekend, so Yale could pass them in the standings with two points.
Yale (4-8-1, 2-3-1 ECAC Hockey) will be without the services of its leading scorer, freshman forward Phoebe Staenz (Zürich, Switzerland), who is playing for Switzerland in the Nations Cup in Germany this weekend. With Staenz away, the top remaining point scorer is sophomore forward Janelle Ferrara (Winthrop, Mass.) (3-7-10) and the top remaining goal scorer is freshman forward Krista Yip-Chuck (Whitby, Ont.) (four goals).
Junior goaltender Jaimie Leonoff (Montreal, Que.) is off to a strong start this season with a .921 save percentage. Last season she improved as the season wore on, as her second-half numbers (.934 save percentage, 2.36 goals-against average) were better than her first-half numbers (.917, 3.27), so the best may be yet to come from her this year.
Colgate was 2-4-0 after the season's first six games, but has gone just 1-8-2 since. The Raiders have been shut out six times so far. Forward Miriam Drubel (6-5-11) leads the team in goals and points. Three different goalies have played at least 280 minutes each, with Brittney Brooks seeing the most time (392:31). She has a .923 save percentage and a 2.29 goals-against average.
Cornell (10-1-2, 6-0-2 ECAC Hockey) had an 11-game unbeaten streak to start the season snapped shortly before the break by No. 7 Boston College. Still, the Big Red are the only team that is unbeaten in ECAC Hockey conference games, and the team's .875 winning percentage in conference play leads the league. No. 5 Harvard, which has played one more conference game than Cornell, has a one-point lead on the Big Red in the standings.
Big Red forward Emily Fulton (8-16-24 in 13 games), a former Canadian Under-18 Team member, leads the NCAA in points per game and assists per game. Two other Big Red forwards are in the top seven in points per game (Jessica Campbell and Jillian Saulnier, both with 20 points in 13 games). Campbell, a former Canadian Under-18 Team member, scored the game-winning goal in last year's ECAC Hockey Tournament championship game. Saulnier, a former Canadian Under-22 Team member, leads the NCAA in goals per game (12 in 13 games). Defenseman Cassandra Poudrier, an ECAC Hockey All-Rookie Team selection last year who has also played for the Canadian National Team and Under-18 Team, is tied for the NCAA lead with five power play goals. Goalie Lauren Slebodnick has a .922 save percentage and a 1.96 goals-against average.
Adding to the festivities at Ingalls Rink this weekend is a scheduled visit on Friday night from the New Canaan youth hockey program; last January, the Bulldogs visited New Canaan to provide a special skills clinic at the program's outdoor rink. That rink, the New Canaan Winter Club, was started by members of the Resor family (relatives of former Yale women's ice hockey players Carry Resor '09, Helen Resor '09, Jane Resor '01 and Nina Resor '07).
- Yale Statistics
- Colgate Statistics
- Cornell Statistics
- Live Stats Friday and Saturday
- Live Video Friday and Saturday
- Directions to Ingalls Rink
- Yale Women's Ice Hockey on Twitter
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Report by Sam Rubin '95 (firstname.lastname@example.com), Yale Sports Publicity