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2 So Sarai said to Abram, "See now, the Lord has restrained me from bearing children. Please, go in to my maid; perhaps I shall obtain children by her." And Abram heeded the voice of Sarai. | 2 so she said to Abram, "The LORD has kept me from having children. Go, sleep with my maidservant; perhaps I can build a family through her." Abram agreed to what Sarai said. |
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I thank Col. John Walsh for his service, both military and as a U.S. senator.
He deserves more than a footnote in Montana politics. He and his fellow warriors gave the Iraqis back their government. They didn't want it. Walsh was the first senator to say not one more American sacrificed. I say, to hell with Iraq.
I wonder, now that The Gazette has expressed its indignation of plagiarism and demanded resignation, has The Gazette done their due diligence and investigated the source and who tipped that "journalist" to uncover such an egregious affront to the holier-than-now wordsmiths?
Expressing your deeply held beliefs is not enough. You have to pay homage to Socrates, Aristotle and Mark Twain to satisfy those who print the word, regardless of their political leaning.
I have never had an original thought. I am the sum total of my education and school of hard knocks (Nam 65-66). I apologize to Samuel Clemens and whoever-the-hell else I have quoted without acknowledgment.
I realize I am insulting the folks who buy ink by the barrel, a losing proposition. However, I smell a Cheney in the "Koch's" kitchen. Another Dailey/Hill purchase of Montana government. We deserve whatever the hell we get.
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Green Revolving Fund
Initiated in 2013, the Champlain College Green Revolving Fund (GRF) is an investment fund that finances energy efficiency, renewable energy and other sustainability projects on campus. The Fund provides capital for special projects conducted by Physical Plant that reduce environmental impact and can repay the fund with cost-savings within five years. A portion of these savings are used to support a subsidiary Green Community Fund that finances smaller community-led sustainability projects which may lack monetary savings but are in clear alignment with Champlain College's sustainability objectives.
The mission of the Champlain College Green Revolving Fund (GRF) is to encourage environmentally sound technologies and practices on Champlain's campus. The GRF will finance innovative projects that reduce the College's environmental impact; improve the educational environment; and generate financial returns while engaging students, staff, faculty and administrators in the decision-making and implementation process. The fund will further the broader academic mission of the College while helping it to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and embody the College's values. Sustainability is one of the seven values of the College, which drive the goals of Champlain 2020: A Strategic Plan for Champlain College 2010-2020. |
Champlain College is a participant of the Billion Dollar Challenge and a partner of 1% for the Planet. |
The fund functions as an independent fiscal entity managed by a committee of Champlain community members. The Fund will grow over time by collecting cost-savings from the projects it funds and reinvesting them in new projects. This structure will provide substantial cost-savings over time, while offering opportunities for engagement and hands-on learning for the entire Champlain community.
- To foster environmentally sound technologies and practices on Champlain's campus.
- To empower students, staff, faculty and administrators with opportunities to move the College toward sustainability and carbon neutrality.
- To ensure that beneficial and profitable green projects do not go unfunded due to capital constraints.
- To buffer Champlain's budget against rising energy prices.
- To transform Champlain into a national leader in sustainable practices and demonstrate that sustainability can be financially viable.
The fund will be managed by a GRF committee including:
- Physical Plant Director
- Sustainability Director
- Budget Director, or representative of Finance Office
- One administrator
- Representative of Advancement Office
- Up to two (2) faculty members
- Two students, one of whom is appointed by the Student Government Association
Full Description of the Green Revolving Fund
Upcoming Committee Meetings: Tuesday, October 28th and Tuesday, November 18th at 9:30am-10:30am in Ireland 201
Project Criteria
Physical Plant projects should meet the following criteria:
- Produce financial savings that will pay for the initial cost of the project within five years. Shorter payback periods are preferred.
- Quantifiably improve the environmental sustainability of Champlain College (e.g. improved energy efficiency, renewable energy generation and waste reduction).
- Use loan funding cost-effectively as measured by the environmental impact reduction per dollar.
The Committee will evaluate proposed Community Fund projects on the following criteria:
- Promote awareness and understanding of sustainability in education, campus culture and behavior.
- Directly or indirectly reduce Champlain's environmental impact.
- Encourage student participation, learning, and leadership.
- Engage members of the Champlain community.
- Use funding cost-effectively.
- Produce financial savings that can pay for the initial cost of the project (required only of projects that, exceed $2,500).
Application Forms
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PHILADELPHIA — Life, in sports, isn't always fair. The Raptors worked incredibly hard in a gritty, encouraging effort against Memphis on Wednesday and came away with a loss. Then they basically were awful for large swaths of Friday's game against Philadelphia, "expecting to simply walk on the floor to get a win," as Dwane Casey put it afterward, but managed to escape with a win. How is that fair? It isn't, but the Raptors return home from this trip with two wins in three tries and that will cover up some ugly moments. It shouldn't. This group is a mess right now. The energy is lacking to start games, the offence has morphed from world-beating into a bit of a tire fire and the swagger and confidence that was so evident for the first two months of the season has completely vanished.
- It's time to make a change. Two, in fact. Amir Johnson was a -21 against Philly. Patrick Patterson was +26. I'm not a huge fan of +/- (especially of the individual variety, since many players can look great because they mostly face backups instead of starters, with the opposite also being true), but for January, Patterson is +61 and Johnson is -95. The numbers for the entire season are even more striking. More than that, Johnson has been battling a series of nagging injuries and often takes a while to really start making an impact on games. Bringing him off the bench could be a big boost. They'd miss his excellent screens, his defence and his ability to score inside, but he'd still provide a lot of that off of the bench. If Patterson started, the team could also get away with starting the offensively limited James Johnson, who is the second-best defender on the team after Amir. That would be a big upgrade over Greivis Vasquez and would return DeMar DeRozan to shooting guard, where he is more comfortable. The new lineup would have energy, decent size, enough offensive capabilities and would allow pick-and-roll maestros Vasquez and Amir Johnson more of an opportunity to connect with Terrence Ross spotting up for threes. Or, they can keep things status quo and hope things change. Casey mentioned "nagging injuries" as one reason why the starters aren't getting it done and it didn't take much sleuthing to deduct he was mainly talking about Amir, who has been dealing with a bit of a shoulder issue (he is wearing more padding for games).
- Toronto had won just three of 16 quarters over the past four games, before winning two against the Sixers.
- The offence has become far too predictable. There is little movement, less pick-and-roll action than we've seen in past months and pretty bad shot selection. The team has shot 25% from three for most of January, yet continues to launch threes instead of going inside. Some of them are good looks that normally drop, but many more are just bad decisions. Mixing it up could be beneficial. Giving Jonas Valanciunas the ball more could help. He's No. 7 in the league in field goal percentage and gets them higher efficiency looks than DeRozan isolations.
- Speaking of which, DeRozan is in one of the worst slumps of his career. He made a surprisingly effective return from his six-week injury layoff, largely because he let the game come to him. In the first three games, DeRozan didn't force anything, everything came within the flow of the game. Now, he has gone back to forcing shots, most of them being at an extremely high level of difficulty. DeRozan is just six for his past 34 shot attempts and has has only been to the free throw line three times over the past three games.
"I kind of find myself looking for fouls now, instead of it coming naturally to me," DeRozan said. Not surprisingly, he also said he didn't think the starting lineup needed to be altered. "No, it's on us, whoever starts because we're the ones that come out and depict the start of the game. We don't need to be fighting back from down 30-7. We don't need to put ourselves in that type of hole because it can easily turn out bad," he said.
- Credit Lowry for doing what he can do. He was unreal in the fourth, basically, strapping his teammates on his back and carrying them to a win. That's what true all-stars do and Lowry has certainly earned his spot.
- Patrick Patterson has basically doubled his usual production on the offensive boards and has come up with some huge rebounds lately. With opponents taking away his three-point shooting lately, he said he has been trying to do other things. He also sees getting better as a rebounder as a natural progression. "I haven't been known as a great rebounder. That's a thing I've been lacking throughout my NBA career. Shot hasn't been falling, teams are closing on me," Patterson said. "Every year in the NBA I've added something. Three-point shooting. Perimeter defence. Every year is something different."
"They've got to decide. They've got to make a decision from top to bottom. We can continue to say, 'We're going to be okay, we're going to be okay;' we're not going to be okay if we continue to perform like that." – Casey
"We have an air of complacency and I didn't like it".
- "I always say, things always happen for a reason. Just sitting at his house with his family, with his son, that's a memorable experience that's going to go down, not just for the night, not for this year, you look back at it 20, 30 years from now, it's something he can look back at, not only (just) for him but for his son as well." – DeRozan to the Sun on Lowry having everyone at his house for the all-star announcement.
- Toronto is now 20 games in front of the Sixers.
- Toronto has not scored 100 points in the past five games. The team is 5-7 when scoring below 100 and had given up 100 or more in four of five games before this run.


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I have build a surface definded by polylines but time to time I lose the contours generated by the surface. I lost them when I re-open the file after closing it the day before or in other commands like save. I am Windows 7 user, 64 bit so I am not sure if some one else have had this problem. Maybe I have to check my RAM perhaps?
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Do you have Level of Detail switched on?
Do you have Level of Detail switched on?
Thanks for the answer. I do not what is level of detail so I am not sure if I have it turned on or off. However I think that it is not the problem due I lose contourse for one of the surfaces that I have in the screen. The other one that defines my dams are intact
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Thanks for the instruction. I am keeping my contours by now. I hope to follow up just in case I have this problem again. The lavel of detail commna is working by now.
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Wood Working. The Yuchi men spend part of their time, when not engaged directly in procuring food, in manufacturing various useful articles out of wood. One form of knife, yanlibo', 'knife bent,' used in whittling such objects, consists of a piece of iron curved at one after the fashion of a farrier's knife (Fig. 15).


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The CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) is at 20.97. This is a neutral reading and indicates that market risks appear low.
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The McClellan Volume Summation Index measures advancing and declining volume on the NYSE. During the last month, approximately 7.66% more of each day's volume has traded in declining issues than in advancing issues, pushing this indicator towards the lower end of its range for the last two years.
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During the last five trading days, volume in put options has lagged volume in call options by 30.53% as investors make bullish bets in their portfolios. However, this is still among the highest levels of put buying seen during the last two years, indicating extreme fear on the part of investors.
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BLADE RUNNER is...
apparently getting a pre/sequel:
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=81193 "Following his work on Prometheus, Ridley Scott is ready to return to the world of "Blade Runner," reports Deadline. The site says that Scott is committing to direct and produce "a film that advances his other seminal and groundbreaking science fiction film." While the site says it is not sure if the project will be a sequel or prequel to the 1982 film, Warner Bros-based financing and production company Alcon Entertainment announced earlier this year that they had secured film, television and ancillary franchise rights to produce prequels and sequels to the iconic sci-fi original. Back then, Alcon said that the franchise rights "would be all-inclusive, but exclude rights to remake the original. The Company, however, may produce projects based on situations introduced in the original film." Alcon co-founders and co-Chief Executive Officers Broderick Johnson and Andrew Kosove will produce along with Bud Yorkin. Cynthia Sikes Yorkin will co-produce. Frank Giustra and Tim Gamble, CEO's of Thunderbird Films, will serve as executive producers. You can watch the original trailer for the Harrison Ford-starrer below. The movie was loosely based on the novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick." Anyone here seen the first one?? Either of the FIVE versions....
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August 18th, 2011, 01:32 PM | #2 |
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Re: BLADE RUNNER is...
Blade Runner was good. I enjoyed it.
August 18th, 2011, 01:37 PM | #3 |
Re: BLADE RUNNER is...
If you're talking about the film with Harrison Ford, IT KICKS ASS.
August 18th, 2011, 02:23 PM | #4 |
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Re: BLADE RUNNER is...
I wouldn't even put any of the other films in the same category as the one with Harrison Ford.
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BLADERUNNER is frikkin' GORGEOUS.
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Re: BLADE RUNNER is...
quoted for truth... it was the most ambitious film ever made IMO. the tech at the time... coupled with its adherence to the original script and vision made it an amazing accomplishment... i cant wait for another installment with current tech... mocap ftw
August 18th, 2011, 01:58 PM | #7 |
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I voted good, but it's AWESOME.
How stupid of me damn it. |
August 18th, 2011, 02:26 PM | #8 |
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Re: BLADE RUNNER is...
I thought it was ok. I liked The Final Cut the most out of all the versions.
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Actually, disabling substances are used in the vast majority of rapes. The most common is alcohol (trying to get the victim too drunk to resist or looking for someone who already is, in about two thirds of rapes), but drugs are used in about 20% of additional rapes. Very, very few rapes follow the classic Hollywood script of "stranger leaps out of the bushes with a knife" - so vanishingly few that the scenario is statistically almost nonexistant. Disabling substances are extremely popular because 1) they work very well, 2) the victim often can't remember the attacker well if at all, 3) the victim is not in a state to be making a report until long after the event, 4) the victim's ability to make legally reliable testimony is compromised. Why would people choose the Hollywood way over that?
And I'm sorry, but if you think that you can watch everything you consume every second of every evening you're out and not slip up, you're an idiot. And yes, the reason people get mad at people like you is that the problem is that there are people out there drugging other peoples' drinks en masse and thinking that this is acceptable behavior, not that victims haven't gained supernatural abilities to hyperfocus on everything they may potentially consume at all times and never slip up. "Look, I'm sorry that you're dying of pancreatic cancer, but you should have been getting pancreatic function tests daily and working two jobs to pay for weekly MRI scans to find it before it could have posed a threat to you, and because you weren't, it's your own damned fault, and don't act like I'm a jerk for pointing this out!" That's how you come across when you take that tack. The problem is the f***ing cancer, not the victim.


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TUESDAY: We start our occasional series profiling different responses to gang violence around the state with a look at a faith-based mentorship program called 11:45.
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MONDAY: Two members of Portland's Gang Violence Task Force discuss how officers are responding to the recent spate of gang-related shootings and their broader approach to combat youth violence.
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Lisbon - Portugal's opposition leader Manuela Ferreira Leite is known as an Iron Lady - although some say she also has a maternal touch.
The 68-year-old leader of the Social Democratic Party - conservative, despite its name - could become the country's next prime minister if she beats Socialist outgoing premier Jose Socrates in Sunday's elections.
Coming from a prominent Lisbon family of lawyers, academically brilliant Ferreira Leite studied economics and finance, initially embarking on an academic career.
But she was then led into politics by her friend Anibal Cavaco Silva, currently the Portuguese president, who made her a senior official in the finance ministry he was heading in the early 1980s.
Ferreira Leite later rose to education minister, facing stormy student protests over her reforms during her term in office from 1993 to 1995 while Cavaco Silva was prime minister.
From 2002 to 2004, Ferreira Leite served as finance minister in the cabinet of prime minister Jose Manuel Barroso, now president of the European Commission.
She cut spending ruthlessly and became known as a "super-minister" with vast powers.
In 2008, Ferreira Leite became the first woman in Portugal to head a large political party.
Known as tough, tenacious and austere, Ferreira Leite sometimes gives off an air of arrogance, but collaborators say she also has the "maternal" attitude of carefully weighing how her decisions will affect individual people.
A staunch champion of traditional family values, the divorced mother of three spends much of her leisure time with her children. (dpa)
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This series is Scooby Doo back to it's very best. Having seen several episodes now, I am a big fan. The fact that it's under new production is better, to be honest. It's a Scrappy free zone and whilst the animation is suitably modern, the characters and plots are tried and tested.There are plenty of in jokes and any fan of the original series should support this show. Go, Scooby, go!
I have read complaints regarding this latest addition to the TV Scooby
shows. People can say what they want, but this cast does a real good job!
Casey Kasem as 'Shaggy' - There is no other 'Shaggy'. (Apologies to Scott
Innes, Who has done an ok job as 'Shaggy' and a pretty good job as
'Scooby'). Frank Welker as 'Freddy' - Again, there is no other.(Although I
do believe someone else could do a better 'Scooby'. Sorry Frank. Don Messick
is definitely the only 'Scoobert'.) Mindy Cohn seems to do a pretty good
'Velma' and Grey DeLisle's version of Daphne, as heard in previous 'Scooby'
movies, is perfectly acceptable.
For me Nicole Jaffe will always be 'Velma'. Heather North will always be
'Daphne'. Stefanianna Christopherson from the original 1969 series will
always be the first 'Daphne', but Heather is the voice I'm most familiar
Despite all the dynamic changes, it's a really good show! Keep up the good
What can I say? I have to agree with most everything that was said here. I really like this show, especially putting Scooby-Doo in a more modern setting with new technology (cell phones, a computer in the Mystery Machine, industrial size Scooby-Snacks, etc.) I also really like the music on the show. About the voices, it's good to see Frank Welker and Casey Kasem still voicing Fred and Shaggy. Frank's Scooby voice is good, but I wonder what ever happened to Scott Innes who did Scooby's voice in the direct-to-video movies. And there's Grey DeLisle who reprises her role as Daphne from "The Cyber Chase." As for Marcie Cole's Velma, it's not the best, but a little better then B.J. Ward's. Marcie sort of keeps the nasal tone in her voice. And the show itself still stays true to the original mystery solving formula and catching the bad guy at the end, who would have gotten away with it if it weren't for those meddling kids. It's good to see that after 33 years the famous Great Dane hasn't lost it's touch. Catch this show weekday mornings on Kids WB. It's highly recommended for any Scooby-Doo fan.
What's New Scooby Doo isn't a bad show, I just prefer the Hanna Barbara cartoon. What I do like about this show is the music, the theme tune is very good, and the songs featured are not so bad either. The animation is very colourful and bright, but what it lacks is that Hanna Barbara touch I have come to know and love. What's New Scooby Doo? I believe is an improvement over Shaggy and Scooby Doo Get a Clue, which was a disgrace to the Scooby Doo name, and this has nothing to do with Casey Kasem being Shaggy(I have seen the movies where he's not Shaggy and most of them are surprisingly good).-it was poorly animated, thinly plotted and the voice cast was not at all good, in my opinion that is. The characters I had little problem with the characters, though I did wish Scooby had a bigger role to play, and no offence to Frank Welker but I do prefer Don Messick, who sadly died in 1997. The other characters are fine, Casey Kasem has still got it as Shaggy. Another problem I had, was that the villains were rather predictable, and the show, while funny at times, does lack the humour and charm that made the original show such a childhood delight. The plots are more of the same, and not always interesting, but it is an improvement over the Scooby and Scrappy show. All in all, not at all bad, but not great either. 6/10 Bethany Cox
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I grew up in the 90's watching the re-runs of the old episodes and then
this series made its way; it has everything the old show has only set
in a modern time. The gang return, Scooby, Shaggy, Velma, Daphne and
The plot is simple, when a spooky occurrence happens the Scooby Gnag
arrive to solve the problem and find the culprit responsible.
The show is more colourful and much more funnier; its great for a new
generation to be exposed to the coolest team of detectives; the voice
actors are brilliant as always and the occasional references to the
movies is great.
Overall a great show.
"What's New Scooby-Doo?" You brand-new TV show!!
The lame attempts to recapture the magic of the famous "scooby-Doo"
franchise fell flat during the 1980s (remember "13 ghosts of Scooby-Doo"
"A Pup Named Scooby-Doo"?, among several other stinkers). Plus, the
addition of Scrappy-Doo in 1979 didn't help matters either. After the
original series ended in 1991, the franchise dropped Scrappy, bought back
Fred and Velma, and made a string of decent direct-to-video animated
features. But the success of the 2002 live-action feature prompted this
cartoon, and a renewal to the famous franchise many of us Gen-Xers have
grown to love.
I was never really a fan of "Scooby-Doo" until last year. Sure, I watched
the reruns of every weekend from about 1985 until 1991, but that was
my brother liked it, and we only had two TV's in our house (the other was
my parents room, and since they were sleeping, the other TV was the only
we could watch. I survived.) The problem was, in the mid-80s,
Where are You?" was a rarity on the local syndication channels. We had
watch "Scooby and Scrappy-Doo," which was god-awful, and I wouldn't force
anyone to watch it. I turned away the cartoons in 1991, after "A Pup
Scooby-Doo" aggravated me. Last year, I saw the live-action movie out of
curiosity, and then this cartoon premired on Cartoon Network in March
and I couldn't resist. I was hooked.
It's actually a funny show, and capitalizes on what made the movie fun.
emphasizes bright color, and gives the show a modern-day approach. The
beauty part is, they maintained much of the character personalities from
film, and added on to the original concepts: Fred isn't as much of a
show-off credit-hogger as he was, Daphne is way more resourceful, and not
nearly as "damsel-in-distress-esque", Velma speaks, is shown more, and has
GREAT one-liners (I think this may have been because Linda Cardellini was
great in the movie, they most likely had to captialize on what she bought
the character), and Shaggy is great and sounds terrific, due in no small
part to the return of the great Casey Kasem, who was sorely lacking in the
cartoon movies. Frank Welker as Fred is what makes this cartoon. Welker
and Kasem are the heart and soul of this series--it isn't a cartoon
either of them. Besides, Fred has a trademark voice--no one could copy
Sadly, Don Messick (Scooby's original voice) is no longer with us, and
Welker tries to capture that speech-impediment, and it does work. It's a
shame that Messick's last original series run as Scooby was in the pitiful
"A Pup Named Scooby-Doo" (I'm sorry, but I really don't like that cartoon.
It's painfully obvious.)
I highly recommend this as a good introduction series for the youngsters,
but I would most likely say to watch "Scooby-Doo! Where Are You?", which
still is (and always will be) the best. This series is also fun for those
who love the original series. It captures the magic of the original, and
still holds the charm that made it special--jokes, mystery, and of course,
the famous lines. Plus, Fred is sans ascot.
So, What's new, Scooby-Doo? You just got a good review from this 20-year
old fan!
I am watching this right now, I taped it off of the TV. Because it was too early to watch on a Saturday. well the voices are pretty good, Scooby,s never been the same since Don Messick passed away. Frank Welker is a voice god, but I give his Scooby a B-. And the girl who does Velma, sounds OK but it really sounds a lot like shes still doing "Nancy" from kids from room 402. but maybe this show will take off. lets hope. frankly I thought that they should have just made Scooby movies. they made enough TV shows and screwed Scooby over with scrappy but this looks like it will be better. I say good luck to these creators. Re- write This Show is not good looking back. I don't know why I wrote this good of a comment. I read a lot of the other peoples posts here, and I see we are mostly on the same page. Frank Welker CANNOT do Scooby Doo, he sounds like "Chicken Boo" from the old "Animaniacs" Cartoon. Basically this is the worst Scooby series I have ever seen.
After Disney's 1 Saturday Morning and FOX Kids were canceled by their respective networks, I was searching for a new show to watch on Sat. Mornings. I soon heard that a new Scooby-Doo show was going into production for the now-defunct WB network. Zoinks! Remembering that I have been a SD fan since I was a toddler, I was excited and watched every episode when it initially aired, and watched the reruns. While many say that this is a bad remake, I disagree. What's New, Scooby-Doo? is INDEED a VERY entertaining show, and not a bad remake. The writing is LOL funny, the animation is stunning, and a HUGE improvement over the original show's animation, as well as the casting, Casey Kasem reprises his role as Shaggy, Frank Welker not only reprises his role as Fred, but now voices Scooby, too! As for the girls, well, Grey DeLisle (DUH-lyle) voices Daphne and Mindy Cohn (Natalie Green from the Facts of Life) voices Velma. I own all 3 seasons of the show on DVD so I can watch them anytime I want, and I still watch the reruns from time to time on Cartoon Network. If you and your family like Scooby-Doo, check out this show. You won't be sorry.
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Updated as of 2012 I have never liked the Warner Bros. cartoons that are produced by Sander Schwartz (2002-2007), and most of them are crap. It makes me sad seeing such programming made by a company that once made such great cartoons starring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Sylvester, Wile E. Coyote and the rest, changing and turning out mediocre un-funny product. THIS one, however, I feel is one of the WORST Scooby-Doo shows ever made! ("Shaggy and Scooby-Doo Get a Clue" is also just as bad, if not worse). I grew up watching classic Scooby, and it had a lot of stuff that made it fun... lovable characters, good voice cast, memorable music, goofy sound effects, and more. But with this new series, it is very difficult for me to watch, especially knowing that it was made by the same studio that made the classic Looney Tunes. For one thing, the Hanna-Barbera sound effects are seldom used here, not even the Disney-esque "Castle Thunder" sound effect (it was only used a couple of times in the entire series, probably because the sound effect was presented with a very low-fidelity quality as if it were ripped off one of Edison's wax cylinders), instead they favored for more realistic, louder thunderclaps that could hurt your ears if the volume is too high, and the rest of the sound effects are the standard "house" WB sound FX in use at the time, making it sound less like a cartoon and more like real life. The music is mostly generic 2000s-cartoon synthesizer scores, and often sometimes overpowers the stories and images. The animation also gets rather poor at times, even for 2000s Termite Terrace standards! At least we have Casey Kasem and Frank Welker, two of the original voices. Also, I was not really a fan of Frank Welker's Scooby voice in this show. It sounds more like Brain from the "Inspector Gadget" cartoon (ironically, Frank Welker also did Brain's voice in "Inspector Gadget," as well as Dr. Claw!) The humans also don't act like how they originally did. They now act like how they were in "A Pup Named Scooby-Doo." Fred is not very smart and tends to do weird stuff, goof things up, and is practically IN LOVE with his Mystery Machine! Daphne is now a stereotypical teenage girl who panics if her clothes get dirty (at least she doesn't have a butler in this installment). She also now sounds like Vicky from "The Fairly Oddparents" (fact is, Grey DeLisle, the voice of Vicky, voices Daphne in this show, and sometimes voices Velma, too). Another main beef is that this show does not focus very much on Scooby-Doo himself! He may have four or five lines of dialogue in a 30-minute episode, and that is it. It almost seemed the producers wanted Fred, Daphne and Velma to be the stars of the show, because it focuses more on them 2/3rds of the time. The one exception was that weird "Camp Comeoniwannascareya" episode that only feature Shaggy and Scooby (while not great, it was rather interesting.) This cartoon is all just a cheap mockery of the Scooby-Doo franchise (sort of like "A Pup Named Scooby-Doo" but without the fun put into parodying the conventions) , while "Shaggy and Scooby-Doo Get a Clue" was just another "Loonatics Unleashed." In fact, this show does not even have as much of a creepy atmosphere anymore, compared to the Scooby-Doo cartoons of the 1970s! That is another reason I don't like this show. This is the main reason why the name Sander Schwartz makes my blood boil, because of what he has done to the beloved Scooby characters! A few episodes, however, were actually decent and fun to watch, but the rest of them aren't very good. But I still do not like how Warner Bros. messed up Scooby-Doo at this time (including with the "Get a Clue!" series). For shame, WB. However, WB seems to have improved a bit with "Scooby-Doo: Mystery Incorporated." A number of things "What's New" got wrong, this new show gets right! I recommend skipping over "What's New Scooby-Doo" and "Shaggy and Scooby-Doo Get a Clue" and going straight over to the new "Mystery Inc." show instead.
After over a decade of inaction following A Pup Named Scooby-Doo,
Joseph Barbera and company decided to give Scooby and the gang a
makeover with 2002's What's New, Scooby Doo? The show doesn't really
stray away from the original format; what brings things down is the
Here's the thing: the only original voice actors that returned for this
series are Frank Welker (Fred) and Casey Kasem (Shaggy). Mindy Cohn
takes over as the voice of Velma (but that's not really surprising
because Velma has had a different voice in just about every series;
plus, the voice isn't as annoying as whoever took over in 1979 after
Patricia Stevens left), and even Heather North failed to reprise her
role of Daphne (to be fair, though, North didn't do the voice in 1969);
she is replaced by Grey DeLisle.
The strangest thing of all is Scooby-Doo's new voice. Since Don Messick
died back in 1997, Frank Welker does the voice, and to say that he
doesn't sound the same would be an understatement. It's not that I was
expecting the voice to be identical, but Welker's version sounds, well,
weird. Not only that, but he does it in a way that ANYone could be
doing the voice. Another thing about it is that Scooby hardly ever
talks now; the only thing he really says is "Scooby-dooby-doo!" at the
end of each episode, as well as saying "Yeah!" followed by a snippet of
what Shaggy just said. Isn't this supposed to be HIS show?
Since the format of the show hasn't changed, people will probably argue
over whether the series is classic or dated, but I personally am just
going to stick with the episodes from the show's glory days: the 1970s.
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Any news on the front about the new star wars ride for Disney? I read (somewhere) on the force.net about the future of the star wars franchise and aside from the billions of mass merchandising, that they will be producing some live action TV shows and new ride for Disney.
Maybe a flume ride in the lava stage of Ep3? Kind of like splash mountain but with fire and jedi/sith audio animatronics.
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I'd be happy if they just changed the story on Star Tours.
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Maybe they could turn Mickey's Toontown Fair to Mickey's Star Wars Episode .5
Aside from licensing rights and all of the red tape that goes with doing something with Star Wars, this is such an untapped resource of some great ideas. They could build a whole Star Wars Land in one of the parks. Not only are there very diverse sources of theming, ride ideas, and interactive elements, but the popularity now transcends over many generations. Not only would I love something like this, but so would my father who is in his early 60's, and my kids would have an adrenaline overload walking into a "Galaxy Far, Far Away Land". Since the movies now span nearly 30 years, there are many fans of all ages and probably for many years to come. Disney could position themselves for the future when Lucas dies and his kids decide to put out the last 3 movies (they're going to come out sooner or later, nobody is going to walk away from the potential money that's there).
I think anything that they do would be a good step in the right direction. I agree with most here that a quick fix would be to enhance what is already there. Make at least one new movie if not 3 or 4. I think that it would truly make it an adventure to get on the ride not knowing what was going to happen and where you were going to go.
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there are so many possibilites that you could do, and as mandabella said the story on star tours is getting a bit old, even just some slight changes would be good, it is and will always be such a popular movie it deserves a new ride
I would like it if I didn't yak my guts out after riding Star Tours...so I usually just wait in Tatooine Traders. I love my big cousin Brian...he's the only one who has a strong enough stomach to hold my hair back...Originally Posted by MandaBella
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I think it would be cool if they had different "flights" available on Star Tours - one flight to Endor, one to Hoth, another to Tatooine, Dagobah...you could choose your destination! It would also add to the atmosphere of it being a spaceport!
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That would be awesome! Adding the characters from each planet/moon and it would make the ride more unique while encouraging everyone to ride it much more often!Originally Posted by olmec26
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Talk about partisanship." Carl D. Leow Rogers Cit Member CommentsjaxsppIn the Real World, which has nothing to do with RS and Freeman, Minute Clinics are being built everywhere, coast to coast. This is because millions of people who depended upon ERs for their medical care will now be able to go to a normal doctor. RS and Freeman: outside looking in. Posted 453 days ago. jaxsppI used to just think RS was evil. He hated everyone who was a non-white Republican. Then I realized it was because of his paranoid schizophrenia. But even beyond that, there is some form of autism. What 8is it, you are not telling us RS? Posted 453 days ago. jaxsppBottom line here there are two whiney Republicans here who don't get the big picture. Millions of Americans are better off. Millions. But Fact freeman and Rain Man RS don't understand the system yet, so they are floundering. They will get it, and realize America is catching up with the rest of the world. Posted 453 days ago. rshill7If you don't have a doctor, good luck finding one, or dumping him for another. Waiting lists galore, and 5 hour minimums for emergency. Although I can't conclusively say I was injured by an overworked surgeon who scheduled me in on the latest hour of a Friday evening surgery which was delayed and delayed. Was it a backlog? Overworked? Overbooked schedule? All I know is, he punctured my optic nerve. It's permanent. And we don't do lawsuits here. So I'm not a big fan of our OHIP here. My issue, probably...maybe like yours...why fix something that is not broken? Why a 100% solution for a 10% problem? Of the 85% US citizens with private healthcare, 87% are happy with what they've got. For the other 10 - 15 %... yeah! By all means... fix that problem and get them covered, either with a Medicaid and or Medicare overhaul. But 100%...that's sabotage. But I think you already knew that." (My Canadian friend of 5 years) Posted 453 days ago. rshill7Hville: I have a friend in Canada whom I respect immensely. He is one of the most intelligent people I've ever met. He's a little older than I, and very well-read. We talk about many political things on bothe sides of the border. He also keeps up on American politics, and has looked up to America his entire life, yet is still very patriotic to his own native country. Here is what I asked him less than an hour ago, and here is verbatim response. "Are you happy with your Canadian healthcare system? Been meaning to ask you that." (RS) "The latest here in Ontario is that the incredibly corrupt Wynn government... corrupt to the tune of 1.1B for gas plant cancellations...the latest is that the Ontario Health Insurance Plan will NOT be covering cataract surgery. OHIP has declined over the last 20 years. 20 years ago I got back scans within days...two years ago, I waited over a year for an MRI for my back, and I only got in because of a cancellation. Posted 453 days ago. rshill7And even hypocrite Ron Johnson didn't stand with Cruz and the American people who wanted O'commicare defunded. These are the only Senators who stood with Cruz. There are actually 19 of them: NAYs —19 Crapo (R-ID) Cruz (R-TX) Enzi (R-WY) Fischer (R-NE) Grassley (R-IA) Heller (R-NV) Inhofe (R-OK) Lee (R-UT) Moran (R-KS) Paul (R-KY) Portman (R-OH) Risch (R-ID) Roberts (R-KS) Rubio (R-FL) Scott (R-SC) Sessions (R-AL) Shelby (R-AL) Toomey (R-PA) Vitter (R-LA) These are the conservatives in the Senate. Posted 453 days ago. rshill7Stop pretending moderate Republican squishes want to do the right thing. Republican poll numbers are down because their own base are mad at them, not because they are mad at the conservatives like Cruz. They love Cruz...it's the moderates they want to drop-kick. Guess who is plowing cash into Lindsey Graham's campaign? George Soros. You may be awake, but you're still not quite lucid. If you're a moderate, go ahead and be a democrat...what's the difference? Posted 453 days ago. rshill7The Republican controlled House tried to defund O'commiecare. Ted Cruz filibustered it to require the Senate to garner 60 votes to defeat the defunding. He had about 14 other Republican Senators on his side. The old guard moderates voted with Reid and co. allowing Reid to table the defunding measure. They also bad-mouthed both he and the entire Tea Party on national television repeatedly. Peter King (house) and John McCain (senate) were the most vocal. Had the Senate stood with the House and with Cruz and company, O' would have had to veto it, all by his lonesome. Moderates stood with Reid, Schumer, Pelosi, Durbin and Obama etc in shutting down the government so that Tea Party Republicans would get blamed. Who "gets blamed" though has no bearing whatsoever on what is true. You who hate being lied to, stop slurping up lie after lie with such a *****y straw. Stop applauding lukewarm traitors. Stop pretending democrats want to do the right thing. Posted 453 days ago. rshill7Millions more Americans will have the plans of their choice canceled in months to come," says Senator Johnson in a statement." "Americans want the freedom to choose their own plans and want to be in control of their own health care. They don't want Obamacare destroying what they have and what they like. They don't want their personal choices regarding their health plans and their families' health plans canceled by Obamacare." "The 'If You Like Your Health Plan, You Can Keep It Act' will amend the law to make Obamacare live up to the promises of the politicians who sold the plan to the American public. I will file the bill in the coming week and hope to garner support from fellow Senators of both parties who truly want to make sure President Obama honors his promise that every American has the freedom to keep his or her own health care plan." (The Weekly Standard) Posted 453 days ago. rshill7They "discussed it"? Well isn't that special? As usual, all they care about is power and control. Same crap, different day. Too little too late, lying political whores. You have already "guaranteed" that 3-4 years ago when you were selling it with 100% lies. Nothing you said about it was true. NOTHING. "October 25th (that would be a week ago), 2013: "Senator Ron Johnson, Republican of Wisconsin will propose a new law next week (that would be this week) called: "If You Like Your Health Plan, You Can Keep It Act." "One of the most important promises made by President Obama and Democrat congressional leadership to promote the Affordable Care Act was that Americans who were satisfied with their health plans could keep them. That promise has been broken. More than a million Americans have been notified that the plans they like with the coverage they have chosen have been canceled. Posted 453 days ago. Freeman"The Hill" Lawmakers discussed a proposal by Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) to let people keep their health plans, even if they fall short of the requirements set under the new law, according to another lawmaker in the room. Landrieu expects several Democrats to co-sponsor the proposal. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) told reporters that he plans to sign onto Landrieu's bill. Sen. Mark Pryor (D-Ark.), who faces a tough race next year, said he is in the midst of reviewing a draft. Posted 453 days ago. rshill7O'commie also signed another Executive order today regarding mandating "global warming preparedness" for public and private organizations. Dear Moderates: F*ck you. You've fu*cked yourselves. RS. Posted 453 days ago. FreemanThey are playing hockey on the deck and making sno-cones from the left over chunks. <-(Period) Posted 453 days ago. rshill7"It's his Titanic moment. He's hit the iceberg, but they keep acting like no water is coming into the ship." Posted 453 days ago. rshill7FLASHBACK – Pelosi (2011): "If everyone in America was very very pleased with his or her health insurance, and had no complaints, and had access to quality affordable health care in our country, it still would have been necessary for us to pass [ObamaCare] because we could not sustain the system." (Pelosi) Why? Control, that's why. That's what commies do. That's historically, what they've always done. Why the surprise? People who thought the word "commie or socialist" was waaaay out there, no longer think it is. Here's your belated, where ya' been? Are you awake now?! ". . . Peter Hart, a Democratic pollster who conducted the survey with Republican Bill McInturff, called this a "Howard Beale moment," a reference to the famous rant from the 1976 movie Network. "We're mad as hell," Hart said, "and we're not going to take it anymore." Privately, party strategists agree. On Obama, a Democratic operative who works with the White House emailed me to say: Posted 453 days ago. FreemanThe democrats own this baby, they own this crappy economy and they own the disaster that is our foreign policy. Problem is you can't get them to admit they own it. They will blame everyone but themselves. The lack of leadership is astounding. The only thing this administration seems to be competent at is B-Slapping terrorists with drones. That's something to hang onto, I guess. Posted 453 days ago. FreemanI, at this point, cannot believe that democrats still blame the republicans and the insurance companies for the disaster that they created. They were warned, people begged them to stop, not one republican voted for it. That fact alone should have given the democrats pause, but no, their way or the highway. They have been wrong on every front and just cannot bring themselves to admit it. This is what you get when you have one-party rule in congress and the oval office. Posted 453 days ago. FreemanSo, the website failure is nothing more than a symptom of a much larger illness. The administration could not, after 2.5 years and $500,000,000.00, even get the enrollment portal operational. The policy and regulatory issues were not thought out, the potential consequences were not even considered. The facts regarding your ability to keep what you have if you like it were, it now appears, knowingly misrepresented. The administration knew as early as 2010 that not only the individual market participants but the small and medium sized employer participants were going to lose their plans by the end of 2013. They knew it and they lied about it. Posted 453 days ago. FreemanWith regard to the Blue Cross plan, I will bet that you will spend more with WAY larger deductibles and co pays. I think the BCBS went to 10K per year for a family and 4800 for individual. That is double what my current plan has. Posted 453 days ago. rshill7Here's one more funny at YouTube related directly related to this unfunny healthcare debacle: Remy: Healthcare Mash Posted 453 days ago. Post a Comment |


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We're purchasing and renovating a home, with kitchen and master bath being the largest projects. Below is the bathroom design. The toilet is in a strange spot because that's where it is currently located, but facing the opposite way and "open" (no door) to the bathtub. The "pocket" door drawn by the toilet will be barn style sliding but using a glass door that is the same as shower door. Realize no way to latch and no trim there ... just want a sense of privacy to be able to close. Second floor bath and trying to keep the toilet relatively close to where it currently is for cost reasons. The tub/shower configuration is drawn this way because my inspiration photo has a tub floating out in front of a feature wall that hides the shower. While I realize 40" wide shower is on narrow side, my current steam shower is only 36" wide; I'll love those extra 4 inches ... and allows for 2 sinks in the vanity ... which was hard to get! Inspiration photo: |
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Sorry; wasn't specific above. I'm asking for your thoughts/ideas on this layout and suggestions for improving, should it need improving! Many thanks! |
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What about switching the vanity and tub locations? That way you'd walk in to see your lovely feature wall and tub. Also, this does not seem like the most efficient use of space, although I think it's a cool design. What if you reversed the toilet so that the tank was against the "top" wall in the picture and slid the barrier wall up against that "top" wall as well. That would give you a wider walkway by the shower and maybe a little bit more open feeling floor space. |
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Thanks prickly for the feedback! Switching placement of tub & vanity is a layout that we considered, but I like facing the feature wall when you walk into the bathroom from the bedroom, which is what the current configuration allows. It's my understanding that moving the toilet to where you suggest is problematic for two reasons: (1) it's too far away from his current placement and thus expensive to move that far; and (2) it would then share a wall with the bedroom which is on the other side of the wall where you suggest moving. Also, there would be no space for linen storage. |
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Pilgrim's Pride makes offer to buy Hillshire Brands
Poultry producer Pilgrim's Pride Corp. has made an unsolicited bid to buy Chicago-based packaged food company Hillshire Brands Co. in a deal valued at nearly $5.7 billion plus debt, the latest shakeup in the food industry.
Hillshire said it will review the proposal and that it still believes in its plan to buy Birds Eye and Vlasic maker Pinnacle Foods, which was announced two weeks ago. Pilgrim's Pride's offer is dependent on Hillshire not going forward with that deal.
The $45-per-share cash offer, which Pilgrim's announced on Tuesday, represents a premium of about 22 percent to Hillshire's closing stock price on Friday.
The offer comes after the companies met in Chicago in February, Pilgrim's Pride said. Pilgrim's Pride, which is based in Colorado, said that it would keep Chicago as a major center of Pilgrim's Pride's North American operations if the deal proceeds.
Shares of Hillshire soared 22 percent to $45.19 on Tuesday, hovering above the offer price. Pilgrim's Pride shares rose 1.7 percent at $25.52.
"We feel confident that Hillshire shareholders will recognize the superior value this proposal represents for them," Pilgrim's Pride CEO Bill Lovette said during a conference call on Tuesday morning.
Hillshire, created after conglomerate Sara Lee spun off its European coffee and tea business in 2012, has long been seen by Wall Street as a potential acquisition candidate. The company, known for products such as Jimmy Dean sausage and Ball Park hot dogs, has been beefing up with its own acquisitions as well.
"Consistent with its fiduciary duties, and in consultation with its independent financial and legal advisors, Hillshire Brands' Board will thoroughly review the Pilgrim's Pride proposal," Hillshire said in a brief statement issued on Tuesday morning. Hillshire said it continues to believe in the strategic merits and potential value creation from its proposed acquisition of Pinnacle Foods.
Some analysts said the new offer was a better deal for Hillshire shareholders than the $4.3 billion offer Hillshire has pending to buy Pinnacle Foods. They also said that it is possible other bidders will emerge for Hillshire, including Arkansas-based Tyson, the world's largest poultry producer ahead of Pilgrim's Pride.
Shares of Pinnacle Foods fell 5.4 percent to $31.48. In order for Pilgrim's Pride to acquire Hillshire, Pilgrim's Pride has offered to pay the $163 million termination fee Hillshire would owe Pinnacle to break off that pending deal. Pilgrim's Pride wants to buy Hillshire as it is now, without adding Pinnacle, which is focused on foods such as Birds Eye frozen vegetables and Vlasic pickles.
An acquisition of Hillshire would allow Pilgrim's Pride to expand its business in branded foods. Right now, 80 percent of Pilgrim's Pride's sales are in fresh poultry and 20 percent of its sales are in prepared foods. The company hopes to use its existing strength in foodservice and supermarket deli with Hillshire's strength in retail, Lovette said.
Pilgirm's Pride said it wants to sit down with Hillshire in the near future to discuss the deal. It aims to close the deal in the third quarter of 2014, upon customary closing conditions and Hillshire breaking off its agreement with Pinnacle.
"For Hillshire shareholders, our proposal provides a substantial premium, greater certainty and immediate cash value for their shares," Lovette said. "We have long respected the Hillshire business and we are confident that Hillshire's board and shareholders will find our all-cash premium proposal to be superior to the pending acquisition of Pinnacle."
The offer from Pilgrim's Pride is a preferable option for Hillshire shareholders than the Pinnacle deal both strategically and financially, J.P. Morgan analyst Ken Goldman said. It makes more sense to combine two meat-focused companies than a company focused on meat and one focused on frozen vegetables, Goldman said.
Other possible bidders for Hillshire could include Tyson, Cargill, Sanderson Farms and possibly even cereal maker Kellogg, Goldman said.
Hillshire, under CEO Sean Connolly, has been trying to transform itself into a company with a broader portfolio of meat and other foods. On May 12, Hillshire said it planned to buy Pinnacle Foods Inc., maker of Birds Eye vegetables and Vlasic pickles, for about $4.3 billion in cash and stock, plus the assumption of nearly $2.4 billion in debt.
"Sean Connolly has done an exceptional job, in our view, of creating value for shareholders and represents one of the best executives within consumer staples," Rob Campagnino, consumer analyst at SSR LLC consumer analyst, said. The "value-creation opportunity" presented to Connolly and the Hillshire board by Pilgrim's Pride "represents a far too compelling option" compared to the Pinnacle Foods acquisition "for them to turn it down," Campagnino wrote in a research note on Tuesday morning.
Pilgrim's Pride said its offer for Hillshire had the support of Brazil's JBS S.A., its majority owner and the world's largest meat processor.
JBS was interested in the meat business that was part of Sara Lee before the company split into two, but never made a formal offer. Tuesday's proposal came from Pilgrim's Pride, in which JBS holds a 75 percent stake. Pilgrim's Pride came to Chicago in February to discuss a potential deal with Hillshire, but nothing emerged from those talks.
In addition to the $45 per share Pilgrim's is offering for Hillshire, implying a value of roughly $5.67 billion, it would also assume $553 million in net debt. Pilgrim's Pride would also pay the $163 million termination fee that Hillshire would have to pay to break off its deal with Pinnacle. In total, that gives the deal an enterprise value of roughly $6.39 billion.
Pilgrim's Pride said it expects to finance the deal with existing cash and third party financing.
The proposed deal comes after several changes in the food industry. Among them, in early May Mondelez International announced a restructuring and said it plans to combine its coffee business with D.E. Master Blenders 1753 B.V. Hillshire announced its proposal to buy Pinnacle Foods on May 12. Hillshire completed its $165 million acquisition of Van's Natural Foods from Catterton Partners on May 15.
The company that became Pilgrim's Pride got its start in 1946 in Pittsburg, Texas. Partners Aubrey Pilgrim and Pat Johns, and soon after Pilgrim's brother, Lonnie "Bo" Pilgrim, sold baby chicks and feed to local farmers. The farmers would raise the baby chicks and sell them back to the partners, who would in turn sell the grown chickens.
Pilgrim's Pride expanded with the help of several acquisitions over decades and went public in 1986. It entered bankruptcy protection in December 2008, when too much chicken in the market and high corn prices weighed on the company and the industry. Pilgrim's Pride emerged from bankruptcy protection a year later in an exit deal that included selling a majority stake in the company to Brazil's JBS SA. It is now based in Greeley, Colorado, where JBS has a corporate office.
Representatives for Tyson and Sanderson Farms could not be immediately reached for comment. Cargill and Kellogg declined to comment.
Pilgrim's Pride retained Lazard as its financial advisor and Cravath, Swaine & Moore as its legal counsel. Hillshire said that Centerview Partners and Goldman, Sachs & Co. are its financial advisors and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP is its legal advisor.
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FINCASTLE – Betty Miller, 69, died early Tuesday in a fire that consumed the mobile home where she lived with her husband.
JELLICO—Official records of the city of Jellico will now be in the hands of a new employee after the position that had been open for nearly four months was filled Monday.
JELLICO—Groundwork was laid to reinstate the Jellico Board of Utilities as an entity functioning independently from the city during a Board of Mayor and Aldermen meeting last Thursday.
A handful of blighted properties may get a makeover, as the city of LaFollette is looking at passing an ordinance that would allow for the cleanup of several meth houses.
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PUBLISHED: 29 Sep 2012 00:01:40 | UPDATED: 30 Sep 2012 00:49:29PUBLISHED: 29 Sep 2012 PRINT EDITION: 29 Sep 2012Jane Albert
Director Andrew Dominik: 'The first time I met Brad it was almost like going on a date with some girl you really like. You feel nervous. And it took a while to recover. Now he's just Brad.' Photo: Michelle Mossop
Brad Pitt heads up a fine ensemble of actors including James Gandolfini, Richard Jenkins, Ray Liotta and Ben Mendelsohn.
As Hollywood moments go it deserves its own statue. All it took was a single message from Australian director Andrew Dominik to Brad Pitt to convince the Hollywood heavyweight to sign on to not only star in but also produce his latest film, Killing Them Softly.
"I sent him a text saying 'I'm going to make that film of the book I sent you. Are you interested?'." Dominik recalled during a brief visit to promote the film last week. Back came a single word: "Yes."
It was quite a coup: not only had Dominik yet to write the script, he was a director with only two films to his name, the second of which had been, in his own words, "a financial disaster". It helped that Pitt had been deeply involved in that financial disaster, otherwise known as The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.
Adversity had first forged a friendship, then cemented it. Both remain proud of an acclaimed, if financially disappointing, film (it earned two Oscar nominations and Pitt the best actor award at the Venice Film Festival in 2007).
Dominik's debut feature, the 2000 biopic Chopper, about the notorious and colourful Mark "Chopper" Read, had caught Pitt's attention. He requested a meeting, an experience Dominik recalls as akin to a first date.
"Brad makes an impact. He has an aura about him, something extra-human that takes a while to get over," he explains.
"The first time I met him it was almost like going on a date with some girl you really like. You feel nervous. And it took a while to get over. Now he's just Brad."
"Just Brad" and Dominik continued their Killing Them Softly text exchange, nutting out the deal, divvying up the creative control and debating who to approach for finance, a process that had just become considerably easier.
"Brad had agreed to do it," Dominik continues, "and then he asked me what it was about." A gangster film meets politico-social satire, Killing Them Softly is based on the 1974 novel Cogan's Trade by crime fiction author and prosecuting attorney George V. Higgins. Dominik has updated it to the financially stricken, pre-election America of 2008.
It is the story of two bumbling petty criminals who roll a mob poker game, unwittingly bringing down a delicate criminal economy, and the hit man brought in to restore the balance. The catch is that these are recession-style gangsters operating in a world of post-GFC cutbacks from which even the most sought-after hit man isn't immune. For Dominik, this world represented a microcosm of the larger story unfolding in America at the time.
Pitt heads a fine ensemble of almost exclusively male actors including James Gandolfini, Richard Jenkins, Ray Liotta and Ben Mendelsohn.
Nor was he the film's only early heavyweight fan. Undismayed by Jesse James' fortunes, Oscar campaign master Harvey Weinstein – a man with a legendary nose for award potential – signed up in 2010, at script stage, to distribute the film. Dominik describes him as "like a pirate king", albeit fondly. Is he as tricky as legend has it? "Oh yeah! He'll do anything to get what he wants, which is something to respect, really."
The film premiered to raves at this year's Cannes Film Festival, where it was nominated for the Palme d'Or, and it has received generally positive British reviews. While some baulked at the occasionally heavy-handed satire and indulgent stylistic flourishes, Peter Bradshaw's response in The Guardian was typical, praising the film's "swaggering insolence" and Pitt's performance.
"Make no mistake – even a not-quite-top-drawer Dominik effort still stands head and shoulders above the vast majority of features released in any one year," Daniel Green added on cine-vue.com, calling it "a supremely sharp, savagely swift deconstruction of the American dream, male machismo and the modern gangster movie".
Born in New Zealand, Dominik moved to Australia when he was two and grew up in Melbourne, graduating from film school in 1988. While he describes himself firmly as Australian, the 44-year-old is now based in Los Angeles where he met his partner, Australian actress Bella Heathcote, and counts the likes of Pitt and director Terrence Malick as good friends.
In person he is both engaging and distant, alternating between near monosyllabic answers and sudden passionate and enlightening anecdotes.
So what occupies most of his time between film projects (he has produced just three films in 12 years)? "Getting the money. And finding the subject," he says. What is it about a subject that attracts his attention? "I don't know," he says.
Yet it's clear – and later Dominik warms to the topic and waxes lyrical about it – that he's fascinated by people and what motivates them. "You want to find something that describes the human animal," he says. "I'm interested in people and how they behave."
In this case it's the human animal as motivated by money. "[Killing Them Softly] is really the story of an economic crisis. It's a story about America. Crime movies are really about the capitalist ideal in operation. Capitalism is a Darwinian idea and crime is its most base level," Dominik says.
"That's the unconscious appeal of the crime movie because it's the one where everyone cares about money. It's not about family values or integrity."
Dominik is unapologetic about making unflattering observations about his adopted country. "Americans don't like to be criticised," he says. "Whereas with Australians, when you point out their weaknesses it's a way of saying 'I see you'. They don't see it as an attack. But if you point out an American's weakness, they feel like they're being attacked."
The film's American release has shifted a few times – in part due to the Aurora massacre when a gunman opened fire at a midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises.
The US release date of November 30 has been fixed to coincide with the all-important awards season, which begins in December. Killing Them Softly is one of three Australian-directed features Weinstein has picked up, including Wayne Blair's The Sapphires and John Hillcoat's Prohibition gangster thriller Lawless – though it has to be said that the only Australian connection among the three is the directors' nationality.
All Dominik's film projects have been inspired by, or adapted from, books and his next is no different: he will adapt Joyce Carol Oates's 2000 novel Blonde, said to be the "real story" of actress Marilyn Monroe. It is a project Dominik has been working on since 2007, with Naomi Watts firmly in mind.
Dominik discussed the project with Watts and with Pitt, who he hopes will again be involved. "I really want to do it but there are a lot of hurdles to jump," he says. "I have a number I have to hit if I want to make the picture."
Perhaps a timely text message to the right financier would seal the deal.
Killing Them Softly opens nationally on October 11.
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Calories | 143 |
Total Fat | 9g |
Saturated Fat | 4g |
Cholesterol | 50mg |
Sodium | 58mg |
Total Carbohydrate | 0 |
Dietary Fiber | -- |
Sugars | -- |
Protein | 14g |
Calcium | 0 |
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Serves: 8
Total Time: 2 hr 14 min
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- 1 (4- to 5-pound) bone-in leg of lamb, shank portion, trimmed of fat
- 3 clove(s) garlic, sliced
- 1.5 teaspoon(s) olive oil
- 1 teaspoon(s) dried oregano
- 1 teaspoon(s) dried thyme leaves
- Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper, to taste
- 3/4 cup(s) water
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Place a wire rack in a shallow roasting pan.
- Make short, deep slits all over lamb with a sharp knife and fill with garlic slices. Rub the lamb with oil and sprinkle with oregano, thyme, salt and pepper. Transfer to the prepared pan.
- Roast the lamb for 1 hour. Add water to pan and roast for 15 to 20 minutes more, or until an instant-read thermometer inserted into the center registers 135 degrees F for medium-rare. Transfer the lamb to a serving platter, tent with foil and let rest for 15 minutes before carving.
- Meanwhile, skim off any fat from pan juices and pour juices into a small saucepan. Reheat gently over low heat. Carve the lamb into thin slices and serve with pan juices.
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