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Adam Schefter @AdamSchefter 4m Filed to ESPN: Browns RB Trent Richardson traded to Indy for Colts' first-round pick. Jay Glazer @JayGlazer 2m And Cleveland is bringing in Willis McGahee for a physical and if he passes they are planning to sign him lol Browns have already given up
I actually understand the trade. Now the Browns have 2 first round picks in the upcoming draft.This will be a real good draft for QB's so they will be able to get a good one and you can always find a serviceable RB.
Steve Palazzolo @StevePalazzolo 15m Colts "win" this trade today in public opinion because it's the regular season then the Browns will "win" draft day because 2 1st rounders Pretty much sums it up. That Colts pick needs to be for a better player than Richardson though because they have already paid him a decent amount of money. That pick probably needs to be a WR and then they can get another RB in the 3rd round or sign one to a 1 or 2 year deal from free agency.
Browns with o - 2 start have indeed given up and are looking for the future. They will/should get a top pick qb wise, but the jags should have first choice.
Didn't Cleveland trade up to take TR at #3? Much like the Jags, no matter what Cleveland does they just never seem to get any better. Found this gem by a Browns fan in response to the trade: "Cleveland Browns Memorabilia Bonfire at my house tonight!" Too funny!
they're starting brian hoyer at QB and have no running game. they might finish with a worse record than the jags. If they get lucky they might end up with Teddy Bridgewater and Marquise Lee/Sammy Watkins
Glad to see that Trent was picked up by Indy. His run production should increase dramatically now that he has a QB.
Agree. He's my fantasy football RB and his a$$ would have been on the bench right now if there was anyone else worth picking up.
I wonder if Trent's mom would need to sell her nice home in Tuscaloosa in order to move and be closer to her son in Indy???
Bad deal when you think of what they gave up to move to get him, but not otherwise, I don't think he's a world beating back waiting to happen.
Yea I don't buy Trent being this game changer at running back in the league. At Alabama he was running behind a stacked oline against inferior talent most week. The emmitt comparisons only come up because they went to the same high school. He's no emmitt. And don't give me that he has no qb or what not. Elite backs shine regardless. Look at Adrian Peterson he has Ponder for crying out loud and should have broke the single season yardage record. Same with Chris Johnson. If you're an elite rb you don't need an elite or even average qb to shine. End of story.
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I don't see how this is a good trade for the Browns. They are giving up on a top 5 talent that is just starting to scratch the surface. Didn't they just have a draft with 2 1st round picks? How did that work out? This is an organization in disarray. They better hope they end up in the top 2. Sent from my iPhone using GatorCountry
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The website has the info for all the funds (including the ones that have not listed yet) which provides a great chance to look under the hood. There is generally a lot of BRIC and South Africa exposure in the funds. Some funds will be more useful than others but generally they will be useful for adding emerging volatility in for various sectors for people that do not want to pick stocks. Being able to narrowly manage volatility in this way is a big deal for people willing to learn about this.
One criticism of the current rally that started in March is the extent to which low quality and small cap stocks seem to be leading. The reason for the criticism is that because it is low quality and small cap that are leading it means that much of the rally is from short covering. David Rosenberg has been writing along these lines of late. It may be so that the rally is being driven by short covering but generally speaking it is small cap and the like that lead off the real bottom.
This is more of a how the market works concept and there certainly can be fakeouts but it is a good bet that the stocks leading now, ex-financials IMO, will lead whenever the turn comes. FWIW I think there needs to be at least one more run down but I will slowly heed the call if the SPX goes back above the 200 DMA which has dropped precipitously of late.
This brings up an interesting point. If the SPX does go above the 200 DMA anytime soon I have said that I will buy a name or two if it is still there late in the day on the second day. Invariably there will be a couple of comments asking why I didn't wait for the 200 DMA to slope upwards or wait for the 50 DMA to cross above the 200 DMA.
Aside from the fact that no strategy can be the single best for every bear market and my goal was simply to avoid the full brunt of the bear I think changing tactics in the middle of an event is bad idea in terms of opening the door to be less disciplined. If you pick a strategy that has a reasonable basis for working, as I would say has been the case for the 200 DMA, and you did so ahead of time when there was no emotion involved it is not a good idea to second guess some part of it now if you are feeling uncertain. Uncertainty may not be an emotion but it might as well be. The time to make a tweak or pick something different is before the next event not in the middle of the current one.
From the this one goes to eleven file Bill Luby mentioned that all the Direxion 3X ETFs are now optionable. Oh boy. Bill also noted that Direxion has 3X treasury ETFs which I did not know about. The 30 year bull is ticker TMF, 30 year bear TMV, ten year bull TYD and ten year bear TYO. Obviously you can't count on them offer 3X anything over longer periods of time but as a reminder when the interest rate of the ten year moves 1% it works out to about an 8% price move. A similar move in the 30 year yield is more like a 12% price move. Staying wrong in one of these funds could have a big price impact on the fund you buy.
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- Anonymous said...
Off topic.
It was interesting listening to Marc Faber on Bloomberg Asia yesterday evening. Dr. Doom is certainly bearish on Obama (turning the U.S. into the "Soviet Union" plus his take hyperinflation,nationalization, budget blowouts, etc.) Yet, he was neutral on gold. Very positive on Asia, which encompasses a very wide geographical region in his universe (Turkey is in Asia).
I enjoyed his rapport with the host--he sounds like Boris Goodinov from the old Rocky and Bullwinkle show.
Now, the IRS states tax revenues for April are down 34% ($138b). No shocker there. Should we still be blaming Bush?
Just my two cents (soon to be a nickel) worth.
- Roger Nusbaum said...
It seems that a couple of seeds were planted in the Clinton years (not sure that makes any portion his "fault"), the policy of Greenspan seems in hindsight to be a big catalyst but Bush was and probably will always thought to have been amazingly slow to have even an inkling. Obama inherited true crap and appears to be doing things that are not the most capitalist solution (don't know how even his supporters can deny that even if they agree with what is being done).
I wish I had a couple of good ideas but I don't. - 7:21 AM
- Anonymous said...
I am watching Marc Faber as I type, thankfully do to DVR's
your 200 dma plan is unemotional and valid, but it is far from optimal so it will always be criticized. The fact we critics do not have a clear alternative will not stop the criticisms from continuing :)
The current rally continues to surprise and I am looking forward to more of it, until it stops. I think this rallies end will be very difficult to predict - 7:25 AM
- Anonymous said...
Index Universe article on diversification and asset calss correlations....
http://www.indexuniverse.com/sections/research/5911-etfs-a-diversification.html - 7:33 AM
- Anonymous said...
RR- Serrapere has a decent article today over at IU.
http://www.indexuniverse.com/sections/features/5887-active-indexer-column-for-may.html - 7:49 AM
- Roger Nusbaum said...
thank for the IU links haven't been over there yet today.
- Anonymous said...
Wow, if I read this correctly Roubini is now proclaiming that the recession will be over by the end of the year and that there is light at the end of the tiunnel and we are closer to the bottom???
http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/article/254886/Even-Roubini-Now-Sees-Green-Shoots!?tickers=?sec=topStories&pos=7&asset=&ccode= - 8:12 AM
- schtoonkmeyer said...
re African exposure - AFK from Market Vectors is an interesting play - a geographic as opposed to sector diversification candidate.
- Anonymous said...
Anon 8:12- Blodget is a hack. This is what roubini had to say about the so called green shoots a week ago, now he has changed his mind???
http://www.forbes.com/2009/05/20/depression-recession-green-shoots-housing-jobs-opinions-columnists-nouriel-roubini.html - 8:22 AM
- Anonymous said...
IMO, until this market sorts itself out cash is king! I also own a small amount of IG corporates via a fund. Long the 2-year and short the 10-yr. A few dividend stocks (VLO, COP) and commodities ETFs (DBA).
Trading the range-bound market from the short side whenever there is a big rally in equities.
Presently I am as cautious as I have been at any time since September. Waiting for a summer rally in Treasuries. - 9:49 AM
- Anonymous said...
Isn't there always uncertainty in the market? You can't let uncertainty be a reason to "stay the course". If you have a plan for when the Sh*t hits the fan, you are probalbly not overly emotional or too panicked to make decisions at that time - like tweaking your preconceived plan and being opportunistic with what the market presents. I think this is what you do, RR, when you decide when and if to jump in and out of an inverse leveraged ETF - don't you? I think flexibility in the face of adversity is a much better plan then sticking to a preconceived plan you already made. I think Hussman calls it "responding to to market conditions as they arise".
That is just my opinion, I could be wrong. - 11:11 AM
- Anonymous said...
I think its way to early to invest in the etf's market, globally no one has yet noticed the devaluation of porfolios, and assets of large companies. Yes every one knows that an upward trend is beginnining to emerge, but reality is .... most ets are supported heavily by consumer spending and the more secured cinsumers feel on their jobs, the more they spend, yet no one has come up with a solution for that.... its like all these ideas, and legislations here in the use to force banks to lend..... what good is it for banks to dole out the money, mortgage companies to fix rates and reduce home owners interest rates, cars to do the same, credit card companies and the list can go on ........ if the consumer doesnt have the ability to payback their loans?????? or in other words .... NO INCOME COMING in??? how come thats not addressed?
- Anonymous said...
With respect to the 200dma. Since you invest worldwide, do you only take the SP500 200dma into account? If so, why? Many of the world stock markets are above their 200dma right now. Thanx in advance.
Brian - 3:28 PM
- Roger Nusbaum said...
Brian, so there is a fair bit of context to this, think of the posts as an ongoing dialogue here and the other places i write.
I have been very clear, maybe more on greenfaucet.com, about the countries I have been favoring during all of this--China, Norway, Chile and Brazil--almost to the point of being a broken record. - 4:00 PM
- Anonymous said...
I guess I wasn't clear in my last question. I know you invest worldwide, that was the point of my question with respect to which 200DMA you use.
For instance if you are investing in Norway, do you use the 200DMA for Norway's stock market to enter it? Or is only the SP500 200DMA your guide? - 7:22 PM
- Anonymous said...
how the market works? really?
a) CNBC, MSNBC, BLOOMBERG pump people up on how rich they can get if only they invest in "the market"
b) Financial Advisors and 401K sellers funnel middle calls assets into funds, ETFs, stocks, does not matter
c) Every takes a cut
d) Wall Street ultimiately pumps and dumps take %30-%50 every 10 years.
e) CNBC, BloomBerg, ... blame blah blah blame blah blah
f) Congress holds some hearing and changes loophole 1 into loophole 3
g) Repeat from a) - 7:50 PM
- Roger Nusbaum said...
we benchmark against the SPX because clients are US based and that index is easy for anyone to find as opposed to MSCI world. We take defensive action when the SPX goes below the 200 DMA which means raising cash and maybe some double short. Deciding what to keep and how to ride these out is part of what I am paid for.
- Anonymous said...
Brian - I agree with your thoughts. If you are going to use a metric like 200dma as a trigger for action, it seems like it should be the 200dma for the market which mimics your portfolio.
Roger, two realted questions -if/when the 200 dma is passed, why "only" add two positions? I assume two positions might only result in a small change in your overall allocation (maybe 5%). How large a range of allocations to equities do you feel is appropriate. i.e. if 60% equities is a person's "neutral" allocation to equities would you feel a 50-70% range is appropriate or would you feel a larger range could be appropriate? - 8:31 PM
- Roger Nusbaum said...
i've written about this literally hundreds of times. I am trying to avoid getting whipsawed. all at once is just not how i do things. further, whether you believe it or not it takes very few trades to have a meaningful impact on how a portfolio behaves.
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Great Blog! Would you be interested in mentioning a movie about Stock Market Manipulation that is coming out on June 10, 2009?
Please check out the site and movie trailer at stockshockmovie.com
It has been a really fun project and will hopefully help thousands of people to protect their investments!
Movie is called: Stock Shock!
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Toronto FC 2-1 Sporting Kansas City: Earnshaw brace gives Reds first win of the season
The Welsh striker bagged an early double and his side was able to hold out for a home victory.
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Two Robert Earnshaw goals in the first half were enough to hand Toronto FC a 2-1 win over Sporting Kansas City in the Reds' home opener at Rogers Centre.
The home side got off to a flying start in the third minute when Earnshaw took advantage of a poor square pass in the back by Matt Besler. The Welshman took a touch around Aurélien Collin and finished low for his first MLS goal.
Earnshaw doubled his tally just over 15 minutes later after fine work from John Bostock resulted in Paulo Nagamura fouling the on-loan Tottenham man in the box, though there was a hint of a dive on the play. Earnshaw stepped up and buried the penalty kick to his left.
Sporting KC turned on the pressure in the second half, and got the goal it deserved with 15 minutes to play. It was pure route one stuff, as a long ball from Jimmy Nielsen was flicked on by C.J. Sapong, and Designated Player Claudio Bieler made no mistake, firing home for his second goal in two games.
The visitors applied some more pressure through the late stages but Joe Bendik and his defense were able to make the lead stand up to give Ryan Nelsen his first win as a MLS head coach.
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Spacious Wildwood Townhouse 1 block from beach in Wildwood
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Beautiful spacious townhouse recently built on quiet street just one
block from beach and boardwalk. Very nicely furnished and very well
maintained. Lots of features including high-end appliances, granite
counters in kitchen, tile and hardwood floors, deck with gas grill,
large garage, central air conditioning, enclosed outdoor shower and
changing room, very large rooms, cathedral ceilings, well equipped
with supplies. Same owner has 2 of these houses, side-by-side. If
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Beautiful inside and out, this house is a wonderful place for family
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outdoor deck with picnic furnishings and gas grill, backyard with
enclosed outdoor shower and changing room. Gas fireplace in living
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with kitchen and bed supplies. Beautifully maintained. Near nice
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Property is available year round for weekend and weekly rental.
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Can Benedict get one where he just reads things? I'd watch that shit.
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And Andrew Scott will have his own segment where he reads fairy tales and ovaries explode.
i think Benedict should cut vegetables on the show
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Governments need to create options for people, says UN's top disaster officialIn an interview with BBC World News, Margareta Wahlstrom, UN Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction, stressed the importance of urban planning and creating safe living environments following the flooding and landslides that have hit Australia and Brazil. |
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Campaign cities and partners urged to nominate candidates for the UN-Sasakawa awardIn a message from Helena Molin Valdes, Deputy Director of UNISDR, all campaign cities and partners are encouraged to submit a nomination for the UN-Sasakawa award to highlight good practice and achievements against as many of the "ten essentials" for making cities resilient as possible. |
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Haiti must emerge safer says Special Representative for Disaster Risk ReductionIt has been six months since a 7.0 earthquake hit Haiti, causing major damage to the capital, Port-au-Prince, and surrounding areas. "Reconstruction will take years but Haiti must emerge safer," says Margareta Wahlström, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction. "After the tsunami six years ago, people have not yet fully recovered. Rebuilding involving all key national actors takes time and is a necessary step to make Haiti truly sustainable." |
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Shanghai Expo 2010 to hold forum on disaster risk reductionA "Forum on Disaster Risk Reduction" will be hosted by DEVNET in collaboration with UNISDR, UN-Habitat and ICLEI in the context of the Shanghai Expo 2010 "Better City, Better Life." The forum will be held at the Everbright Convention & Exhibition Center in Shanghai from 28-30 July 2010. |
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Nearly 30 Asian cities sign up to the 'Making Cities Resilient Campaign'28 cities signed up to the new 'Making Cities Resilient: My City is Getting Ready' campaign at a regional launch event in New Delhi on 8 June. The event was hosted by the National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM), SAARC Disaster Management Centre and the Indian Ministry of Urban Development. Among the cities that joined the campaign are New Delhi and Pune (India), Dhaka (Bangladesh), Karachi (Pakistan), Kathmandu (Nepal), Kabul (Afghanistan), Colombo (Sri Lanka), Thimphu (Bhutan) and Male (Maldives). All cities commit to sustainable development practices that increase their cities' resilience to disasters and to take the necessary steps to put in place much-needed disaster risk reduction plans. |
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Asian Cities to Join UN in Disaster Risk Reduction CampaignMayors and local government leaders from more than 100 South Asian cities are invited at a regional launch event in New Delhi on 8 June 2010 to sign up to the 'Making Cities Resilient: My City is Getting Ready' campaign . The event is being hosted by the National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM), SAARC Disaster Management Centre and the Indian Ministry of Urban Development. Among the cities expected to join the campaign are New Delhi and Mumbai (India), Dhaka (Bangladesh), Karachi (Pakistan), Kathmandu (Nepal), Kabul (Afghanistan), Colombo (Sri Lanka), Thimphu (Bhutan) and Male (Maldives). |
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City leaders join UN Making Cities Resilient campaignLocal governments are showing their commitment to protect cities and citizens from natural hazards by signing up to a new global disaster risk reduction campaign. Davos (Switzerland), Port-au-Prince (Haiti), Santa Tecla (El Salvador) and Baofeng (China) are the latest to join the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction's Making Cities Resilient: My City is Getting Ready campaign, which is aimed at guiding to process to put in place much-needed disaster reduction plans. On 30 May, leaders from eight took part in the UNISDR's official campaign launch at the First World Congress on Cities and Adaptation to Climate Change in Bonn. |
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Git is a "directory content manager" that was designed to handle massive projects such as the Linux kernel with speed and efficiency. It falls in the category of distributed source code management tools and is similar to GNU Arch, Monotone, and BitKeeper. Every Git working directory is a fully-fledged repository with full revision tracking capabilities and is not dependent on network access to a central server.
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Taglog is designed for anyone who spends most of their day sitting at a computer, working on various projects. You can make notes about what you do, as you go along, associating them with the projects you work on. At the end of the week you can produce a report of how your time was spent, broken down by project for booking purposes. You can view previous entries, by date, or by project. You can enter the actions you intend to take, associate them with a project, and mark them as active, or complete.
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A game which looks like a Rubik's Cube, but is a slider, not a twister.
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Picturing the Past 157: Wolf Meadows todayPosted Wednesday, May 2, 2012, at 4:09 PM I was told these are the remains of the old house which stood at Wolf Meadows west for Shelbyville for years. (T-G Photo by David Melson)
But while I was photographing search efforts in the Wolf Meadows area where Bobby Smelcer's skull was found, I stopped by the remains of the old house so many young Bedford Countians were fascinated with (the search is some distance away from the house area). As you can see, there's nothing left but a pile of rubble where the house burned quite a few years ago. I photographed the fire that night and am trying to remember...it seems like it was a warm Friday night during football season, maybe in the 1990s or late 1980s. And I'm surprised no one ran off the bluff on the west side of Stewart Road back when there was a lot of night traffic. I hadn't been there in years, and I'm not sure if I was ever there in the daytime, so never noticed the deep dropoff. Picturing the Past is featured each Tuesday in this blog. Reader contributions are welcome. Comments Showing comments in chronological order [Show most recent comments first] Where did Wolf Meadows get it's name? Was there a wolf that was seen in the meadow a hundred years ago? Was it owned at at one time by the Wolf - Wolfe Families? Answers????????? -- Posted by mytaxesaremine on Wed, May 2, 2012, at 4:46 PM
The last entry on PTP 48 says the house burned Aug. 1987. This blog also gives some good info. -- Posted by Cal t on Wed, May 2, 2012, at 5:38 PM
I googled Wolf Meadows the other day and this is a link I found. Scroll down to about the third story and it starts along with a photograph. I kept reading other stories and it made mention of the Walking Horse Hotel in Wartrace. http://www.officeofparanormalstudies.com... -- Posted by redddj on Fri, May 4, 2012, at 8:07 PM
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Recipe by Rachel
"This soup is thick and hearty. It combines fresh mixed vegetables with pasta and chickpeas. Simple, yet delicious. It keeps well, and tastes even better the next day."
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2 tablespoons olive oil
1 small onion, chopped
3 stalks celery, chopped
1 (28 ounce) can whole peeled tomatoes, with liquid
2 cups water
1/4 teaspoon dried basil
1 (15 ounce) can chickpeas (garbanzo beans), drained
1/4 pound cooked pasta
Not enough spices for me. I added garlic after I sauted the onion, and then added more basil, and some oregano and some parsley to it. I thought it was much better after that. I also don't like my pasta overcooked, so I added uncooked pasta to the soup base during the second step and let it cook together for about 30 minutes. I also don't like overcooked celery, so I added that in at the third step.
This was kind of bland but, once I got the season's put together it was all right. Something I will make again but, next time I think I will use chopped tomatoes with spices and stuff in it and not whole. It's great if you don't have any money (as I often do) and nothing in the house to eat.
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A pretty good basic recipe. It is a bit bland and needs some added spices to it. After that it is pretty tasty.
This was great for a base recipe, but pretty bland on it's own. I added hot sauce to it for flavor.
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Imagine a database that has tables for cities, services, and companies. There is also cities_companies and companies_services for the has and belongs to manys.
Some typical data stored might indicate:
CompanyX preforms the service auto repair
CompanyX operates in the city of Atlanta
Atlanta is in the state of Georgia
I have represented this relationship in Active record as:
This is workable, but has some issues.Code:State -> has many -> City
City -> belongs to -> State
Services <- has and belongs to many -> Companies
Companies <- has and belongs to many -> Cities
For example, if I list the cities in a state, what would be the best way to get the number of companies that serve that city?
For example, this:... has the problem of a query being called for every count. How might that be reduced to one query?Code:<% for city in @state.cities %>
<li><%= city.name %>, <%= city.services.count %> </li>
<% end %>
What's worse, what if the page is supposed to be a listing of cities where there are auto mechanics in Georgia? I'm just not sure how to properly do that with Active Record.
I could go into all these models and start adding methods with find_by_sqls, but I'd really like to know if there is some way I can get Active Record to do this without so much fuss. I for example, I would prefer adding in :join and :includes into a find than using find_by_sql.
Also, I'd appreciate a heads up if I am going about this all wrong!
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Fog City Mavericks | 2007 2006 - 2007 | Actor | n/a | 20077 |
Up | 2009 | Actor | Voice of Campmaster Strauch | 20097 |
Monsters, Inc. | 2001 | Voice | n/a | 20016 |
The Pixar Story | Actor | Interviewee | 7 | |
The Incredibles | 2004 | Actor | Additional Voice | 20047 |
Up | 2009 | Director | n/a | 4 |
Mike's New Car | 2013 | Director | n/a | 4 |
Monsters, Inc. | 2001 | Director | n/a | 4 |
Howl's Moving Castle | 2005 | Director | (USA) | 4 |
The 82nd Annual Academy Awards | 2009 2008 - 2009 | Director | (What the Oscars Would Mean to Me: "Up") | 4 |
Monsters University | 2013 | Executive Producer | n/a | 1 |
Brave | 2012 | Executive Producer | n/a | 1 |
Howl's Moving Castle | 2005 | Executive Producer | n/a | 1 |
Mike's New Car | 2013 | Screenplay | n/a | 1 |
Up | 2009 | Screenplay | n/a | 1 |
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WALL-E | 2008 | Story By | n/a | 1 |
Toy Story | 1995 | Story By | original story | 1 |
Monsters, Inc. | 2001 | From Story | from original story | 1 |
Toy Story 2 | 1999 | From Story | n/a | 1 |
Toy Story | 1995 | Storyboard Artist | story artist | 1 |
A Bug's Life | 1998 | Storyboard Artist | storyboarding | 1 |
Monsters University | 2013 | Creative Executive | Creative Team(Pixar) | 1 |
Toy Story 3 | 2010 | Executive | Pixar Senior Creative Team | 1 |
Brave | 2012 | Creative Executive | Creative Team(Pixar) | 1 |
Cars 2 | 2011 | Creative Executive | Creative Team(Pixar) | 1 |
WALL-E | 2008 | Executive | Pixar Senior Creative Team | 1 |
Howl's Moving Castle | 2005 | ADR/Dialogue Editor | Dialogue Director | 1 |
WALL-E | 2008 | ADR Voice Casting | Additional Voice(Skywalker Sound) | 1 |
Toy Story | 1995 | Animator | n/a | 1 |
Ratatouille | 2007 | Other | Pixar Productions | 1 |
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Made his directorial debut with "Monsters, Inc."; earned second Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Feature |
Co-directed the animated short, "Mike's New Car"; also contributed to the story; earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Short |
Co-wrote and co-directed the Pixar animated feature, "Up"; earned Academy Award nominations for Best Original Screenplay and Best Picture |
Made his voiceover debut in the special DVD add-on feature, "Mr. Incredible and Pals" |
Directed the English translation of "Howl's Moving Castle" |
Co-authored the sequel, "Toy Story 2" |
Collaborated on animation, music and the story for the company's feature-film debut, "Toy Story"; earned first Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay |
Co-wrote the screenplay for "WALL-E"; earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay |
Contributed to the story for the studio's second feature, "A Bug's Life" |
Began working at Pixar Animation Studios after graduating from college |
He was born Peter Hans Docter on Aug. 10, 1968, in Bloomington, MN to Rita and Dave Docter, a music teacher and a college choral director, respectively. Peter's two sisters followed the family's musical imprimatur, becoming accomplished in stringed instruments, but while Peter developed proficiency in music, he gravitated more towards visual storytelling. Tall and socially awkward from an early age, he became an introverted child, living largely in his imagination. Inspired by the cartoons of Disney, Chuck Jones and the Golden Age of radio comedy, he gravitated from an early age toward the visual, making cartoon flip-books and short animated films with the family's movie camera. More preoccupied with his art than his classes and harboring dreams of working for Disney, he was a poor student, though he did establish a comedy imprint at Bloomington's Kennedy High, where he and a friend turned the morning announcements into a regular comedy routine. After graduating high school, he attended the University of Minnesota in St. Paul, MN for a year before being accepted into the cartoonist's hotbed, the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, CA. There, he would win a Student Academy Award for the film "Next Door," a hand-drawn cartoon about a grumpy old man bugged persistently by an irrepressible neighbor girl. With two other animated shorts to his name, he was already fielding job offers as graduation neared in 1990 - most notably from Fox's fledgling animated sitcom, "The Simpsons" (1989- ) and Pixar, a small shop filled with computer-imaging techies that had once been a unit of George Lucas' Lucasfilm Limited, which had later been purchased by Steve Jobs in 1986.
Docter chose the struggling company Pixar, starting at the company's Emeryville, CA, headquarters the day after graduation as only the third animator hired. Headed by John Lasseter, the company proved to be a veritable creative cauldron that promoted talented minds to create while being uninhibited by typical Hollywood creation-by-committee. Docter worked on several commercials and, given the company's small staff, found himself doing more than just animation; he began writing, creating music, and eventually collaborating on the story for what would become the company's Lasseter-directed feature-film debut, "Toy Story." He supervised the animation on the pioneering computer-animated movie, a colorful tale of a cadre of children's toys who come to life when the child is out of the room, featuring the voices of Tim Allen as the brash new toy in the chest, Buzz Lightyear, and Tom Hanks as the once-beloved cowboy action-figure, Woody, whom Lightyear threatens to usurp. Picked up for distribution by Disney, "Toy Story" proved a blockbuster, fulfilling Docter's earlier dreams to boot. It also netted him his first Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay, as well as an Annie Award for his animation work. He did storyboard work for the studio's next feature "A Bug's Life" (1998), and contributed the story treatment for the next year's successful sequel, "Toy Story 2," which would earn him another Annie Award for writing.
Docter's own vision would give rise to the studio's 2001 release, "Monsters, Inc.," the story of Sulley and Mike (voiced by John Goodman and Billy Crystal, respectively), two everyday pathos-ridden monsters who happen to make a living scaring children in the night. With Docter given directorial duties on the first Pixar feature not to be helmed by Lasseter, it entrenched the studio's ethos as an engine of ostensible children's movies that worked on so many layers as to be funny and entertaining for adults too. Subversive in its anti-establishment subtext, it gave Disney, as The New York Times observed, "the last leg up by stealing the style and speed of Warner Brothers cartoons, which used to ridicule Disney's do-gooder ethos." It also earned Docter another Oscar nomination; this time for Best Animated Feature, and another Annie nod as director, even as it won him the BAFTA Children's Award in the U.K. In the wake of Pixar's blockbuster, "The Incredibles" (2005), he made his credited voiceover debut in the special DVD add-on feature, "Mr. Incredible and Pals" (2005), playing the campy fictional voice of a TV-cartoon version of Mr. Incredible, to the chagrin of the real Mr. Incredible. He next penned the original story that Pixar would make into "WALL E" (2008), which would earn the company and its now official parent company Disney - which acquired Pixar in 2006 - widespread laud as a more fluid next-generation of CG-animation, telling the story of a lonely service droid left cleaning up the detritus of a since-space-bound humankind and the nearly silent love story involving him and a "female" droid sent scan the planet. The film was broadly hailed as not just an animated spectacle, but as a cinematic masterpiece, going on to garner Docter yet another writing Oscar nomination and win the Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film.
But behind the scenes, Docter, along with colleague Bob Peterson, had been working on another project as early as 2004, based on a simple sketch the former had done of a box-shaped scowling old codger. They conceived the story of Carl Frederickson (voiced by Ed Asner), a grumbling curmudgeon who, after losing his wife of many years, hatches a plan to attach enough balloons to their house to make it airborne, hoping to pilot the makeshift vehicle to a hidden tropical idyll in South America that they had always wanted to visit together. Docter's 12-year-old daughter Ellie, one of two children he had with his wife Sharon, lent the voice to Frederickson's wife as a young girl. With obvious overtones of Docter's student film, "Next Door," Docter and Peterson added a stowaway to the trip, a pestering, effervescent neighborhood kid attempting to earn a scout merit-badge by helping the elderly. In spring 2009, "Up," a far-flung adventure, a mismatched-buddy comedy and an introspective story of loss and mortality became the rave of the Cannes Film Festival. An advance notice of the film in Time magazine projected it to be "one the most satisfying movie experiences of its year... The story of a septuagenarian grouch who uses his cane, hearing aid and dentures to thwart all evild rs; a buddy movie whose pals are separated by 70 years; a love story that transcends the grave - has there been a movie like this in the history of feature animation?" By early 2010, "Up" had won two Golden Globes and earned eight Annie nominations, two of those to Docter for writing and directing. Due to the Academy's recent inclusion of 10 Best Pictures nominations, "Up" shockingly nabbed Oscar nods in two categories - Best Feature Film and Best Animated Feature Film - leaving no doubt as to the industry's appreciation for the unique crowd pleaser. To no one's surprise, Docter would go on to win in the latter Oscar category.
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Dave Docter | Father | |
Nicholas Docter | Son | Born c. 1997; mother, Amanda Docter |
Elizabeth Docter | Daughter | Born c. 1999; mother, Amanda Docter; voiced a 'Young Ellie' in "Up" (2009) |
Rita Docter | Mother |
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California Institute of the Arts |
University of Minnesota |
John F. Kennedy Senior High School |
Notes |
Affiliations |
Christian |
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