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So, was yesterday's spike attributable to today's script numbers?
No way. Shorts are covering.
Sentiment: Strong Buy
Just my opinion but I 100% don't think so. Volume, options are all on fire. A slight increase in scripts isnt that kind of catalyst....my 2 cents
I feel the same, thanks
something else coming


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At the beginning of the movie "
Free Enterprise
" - basically a "Swingers" type movie for science fiction fans - there is a flashback scene where the main character, Rob, is in a schoolyard fight because another student had the audacity to suggest that Han Solo could beat up Captain Kirk. Of course, we don't want any fisticuffs here. Instead, we thought we would finally put this age old debate to rest in order to save yet another school aged kid from detention… or perhaps, more likely, save another 30-something comic con attendee a trip to county lockup. So let's break this down and look at every aspect of what we know about the lives of these two (fictional) men.
Hand-to-Hand Combat
We know James Kirk is in the military, so of course he would had to have in-depth training in the art of hand-to-hand combat, especially to rise as far as the eventual rank of Admiral. Han Solo, on the other hand, has no confirmed military training (yes, there are rumors) but even if he did, he left the service to pursue life as a smuggler. We have seen Kirk hold his own with, perhaps, with every alien race conceivable. Even in "
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
" Kirk defeated a much more powerful Commander Kruge with no weapon.
Really, what do we actually know abut Han's fighting skills? We saw him punch Lando in the face - before he was later beat to the ground by Lando's guards - then later flip a Biker Scout over his back on Endor, which caused quite a commotion, exactly what he was trying to avoid. That is not much to go on, and neither of those encounters were, by definition, outright successes. Assuming both participants are in their prime fighting age…
: Kirk
Put it this way: Han Solo does not have a "stun" setting - at least that we are aware of - on his blaster. The guy killed poor Greedo in cold blood (no matter what
George Lucas
tries to make us believe) at a bar! What Han lacks in hand-to-hand fighting skills he more than makes up for with a blaster at his side. Who has the outright "balls" to draw a weapon, without even thinking, on a one-on-one showdown with Darth Vader? Granted, Vader easily deflected the blaster fire. Regardless, this example was the one true time we got to see firsthand how quick on the draw Han really is. Yes, he is very fast.
Kirk, almost to a fault, is a little more conservative with his use of a phaser. Kirk would rather know the full situation before resorting to weapons as peaceful negotiations would be Kirk's first solution to any problem. As already mentioned, Greedo found out the hard way how Han Solo negotiates. In fact, in "
Return of the Jedi
" Han was about ready to shoot an Ewok before Luke Skywalker stopped him. That is cold.
Unless Kirk has the power to deflect blaster fire with his hand, which he doesn't, Kirk would have blaster fire right between his eyes before he would even have time to change his phaser setting.
: Solo
This may seem like a no-brainer, but it is closer than you might think. Yes, on paper the Millennium Falcon is no match for the USS Enterprise. The Starship Enterprise is equipped with starship size phasers and proton torpedoes; the Millennium Falcon does not have these. The Millennium Falcon is fast and perhaps the fastest ship in the Star Wars universe. As we know, it will make point five past light speed, but this is no match for the warp engines of a Starfleet Starship. Every additional warp factor is light speed cubed! So in other words, when the Enterprise is coasting along at a moderate speed of warp factor two, this means they are going the speed of light multiplied by itself four times. Sorry Han.
Then again, when discussing the Enterprise, Han may be the first to point out: "Who's gonna fly it kid? You?" This is Han Solo vs. James Kirk. If Kirk wants to use the Enterprise to fight Han, he has to fly it by himself. Starships were not meant to be piloted solo, which puts Kirk at quite a disadvantage.
Most likely, any battle between the Enterprise and the Millennium Falcon would play out in a very similar fashion to the way it did in "
The Empire Strikes Back
" when Han went one-on-one with a fully staffed Star Destroyer. Obviously the Star Destroyer was the more powerful vehicle, but it would be like a giraffe trying to catch a fly. Han would wind up attaching the Falcon to the hull of the Enterprise and eventually floating away with (the rest of) the trash. Factor in the fact Kirk is piloting the Enterprise by himself…
: None
This is interesting. Captain James Kirk's most trusted friend, Mr. Spock, prides himself on his use of logic. Captain Solo's most trusted friend, Chewbacca, is anything but logical. Can anyone imagine Mr. Spock wanting to tear out the arm sockets of a droid because he was losing a game of Dejarik? Honestly, they probably share similar levels of strength, though Spock does have that nifty Vulcan nerve pinch - but who really knows if that works on a Wookie.
A disadvantage for Han might actually be the loyalty he shows toward his friends. In fact, Han sacrificed himself in "The Empire Strikes Back," lest no harm comes to his friends. We did not see Jim Kirk jumping into the radioactive chamber to save the entire ship in "
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn
." Spock had to take care of that bit of dirty work, and, of course, died in the process (at least for awhile).
When it comes down to it, though, Chewbacca's blind loyalty to Han puts Han at a clear advantage. Spock would, without a doubt, find this whole fight between two fictional characters that lived - at least - thousands of years apart in separate galaxies… well… for lack of a better term: illogical.
: Solo
James T. Kirk is an officer in Starfleet of the United Federation of Planets, ranking as high as Admiral; Han Solo eventually became a General in the Rebel Alliance. These are two very similar ranks in two organizations that are not similar at all.
One could argue that the Rebel Alliance defeated the Galactic Empire, which is not unlike the power that the United Federation of Planets maintains. Not so. From everything we know The United Federation of Planets is not corrupt; furthermore, it is certainly not being lead by a Sith Lord. Corrupt organizations, historically, tend to implode on themselves. A case can be made the Galactic Empire was in its last throes, anyway. In the end a group of Ewoks, using sticks and rocks as weapons, won the final battle of the Empire. This would be similar to the Tribbles destroying the entire Federation; it did not, and is not, going to happen.
: Kirk
What have we learned? We learned there is no clear-cut answer. It just depends on the situation. Solo versus Kirk with no weapons: from what we know about Kirk (in his prime) would win. Hand them both their weapon of choice, and the gunslinger Solo becomes the victor. Probably the only thing we can all agree on is that no matter how far this argument is broken down, in the end no "Star Trek" fan will ever admit Han Solo could defeat James Kirk and vice-versa. The tension between the two fan bases will always persist. It's apparent as
William Shatner
said to Rob in "Free Enterprise" in a dream sequence. Once he realizes the original statement - that Han Solo could beat up Captain Kirk - that started the fight: "Kick the little f---er's ass."
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About G3 Fabrication & Engineering Private Limited
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The "Men in Black" actor and the Olympic gold medalist were joined on the greens by other celebs, including athletes Wayne Gretzky and Ken Griffey, Jr.
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Looking gorgeous in a soft yellow gown, the "Hawthorne" actress posed with her handsome husband on the arrivals carpet at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture before heading inside.
With his critical and box office success, Will Smith can afford to be picky about his roles, even when Quentin Tarantino comes knocking at his door.
In a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, the "Independence Day" star revelaed that he turned down Jamie Foxx's role because, "Django wasn't the lead, so it was like, I need to be the lead. The other character was the lead!"
Though rumors of marital issues between Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith are nothing new, the "Men in Black" star candidly admitted in a recent interview that, although their marriage isn't perfect, they are still going strong.
Speaking with blog site Necolebitchie.com, the 44-year-old actor said, "Jada and I have been together for 17 years. If you look at it like a sports record, we are probably like 15 and 2. When we got started, we both truly connected on wanting to be better."
Getting the word out internationally for their upcoming film, Cine 1 revealed two new posters for "After Earth" on Sunday (March 17).
Unlike the domestic features, the international posters show the full faces of Will and Jaden Smith, who star together in the action flick.
He's the consummate entertainer no matter where he is, and Will Smith whipped a crowd of English students into a frenzy during a recent visit to their school.
The "Welcome to Miami" hitmaker showed up at the St. Martin School outside of London, England as the surprise guest at an otherwise-boring assembly.
Giving fans a sneak peek at what's ahead, Sony Pictures released a new poster for "After Earth" on Wednesday (March 6).
The close up features the movies stars Will and Jaden Smith with the tagline "Danger is real. Fear is a choice."
She was all set to star in the film musical adaptation of the classic orphan tale "Annie," and all of sudden Willow Smith decided to pull out of the gig.
And her father Will Smith explained that he's learned a ton from his daughter's desire to not get buried in her career.
He's making his big return to the big screen this summer, and Will Smith's new teaser trailer for "After Earth" has just hit the internet!
The "Enemy of the State" stud, who starred in "Men in Black 3" back in May, will be joined by his son Jaden under the direction of M. Night Shyamalan.
He cut his teeth on the 1980s rap game, and Will Smith showed off his spitting skills at Gabrielle Union's 40th birthday party in Miami, Florida this weekend.
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Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) is set to announce its Q4 earnings for 2012 on January 22. We expect earnings to get a boost mainly on continued strong performance by the pharmaceutical franchise. JNJ's acquisition of Swiss medical device maker Synthes in Q2, will also boost growth over a year ago period. For the quarter, we expect overall EBITDA margins to improve slightly following the company's cost cutting efforts. However, the U.S. dollar is still firm against other major currencies and this could negatively impact the earnings to some extent.
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We expect the pharmaceutical business to continue with its stellar performance on the back of immunology drugs Remicade, Simponi and Stelara and oncology drug Zytiga. The company got approval for extended use of many of these drugs during the past one year. The patent loss of anti-infective Levaquin/Floxin in late 2011, will also weigh on growth even as other anti-infective Prezista's sales may continue to surge. The international market, especially emerging markets, will continue to show strong growth, excluding currency movements.
Trends In Medical Devices & Diagnostics And OTC Businesses
JNJ completed its acquisition of medical devices company Synthes in the second quarter and the earnings of it are incorporated from the third quarter onwards. This should boost the orthopedics business on a year-over-year basis. This, however, will be offset by a decline in sales from its cardiovascular unit after its decision to exit drug-eluting stents. The company is also facing trouble due to its hip implant lawsuits. Further, the Ehicon franchise will be hurt as the company is phasing out its surgical mesh products following a flurry of lawsuits.
Excluding the currency impact, specialty surgery and vision care may continue to add to earnings. The sales from diabetes care are expected to decline as a slowdown in developed markets and currency movements more than offset growth from emerging markets.
The consumer healthcare division may see an improvement in OTC products and nutritional. However, it could continue to witness a decline in women's healthcare, primarily due to divestitures of certain brands. The currency movement affects this division the most, as close to two-third sales are from the international markets.
The company's cost cutting efforts should be visible in a decline in its selling, marketing and administrative costs as % of revenues, which should improve the margins. However, a firm U.S. dollar could play a spoilsport.
We will be closely watching the earnings for any clues on its acquisition plans. The healthcare conglomerate is said to be taking interest in eye-care major Bausch & Lomb. (Read Merck, Abbott And JNJ Show Interest In Bausch & Lomb) Further, there were other rumors of acquisitions, especially in China. (Read Johnson & Johnson's CEO Looks To Bolster Cardiology Devices Segment Through Acquisitions and Johnson & Johnson Mulls Acquisition of Baby Product Manufacturer in China).
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The middle school students were mesmerized as Captain Yaakov Yitzchok Selavan of the IDF Armored Corps quoted Rambam, saying that, when one goes to war, one's thoughts should not be on family, friends or self, but rather, on Klal Yisroel, the entire Jewish Nation.
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May 18, 2012 was a proud day for Torah Day School of Atlanta when Moshe Caplan, TDSA graduate class of 2002-2003, addressed nearly 1000 undergraduate and graduate students, their families and friends, and faculty members of Polytechnic Institute of New York University as valedictorian. Moshe stated in his moving speech, liberally sprinkled with humor, "Success marks a completion, but failure is an opportunity to reassess and improve your idea." He then went on to recount his first assigned project at Polytechnic in which he and his classmates failed miserably, but clearly fully recovered.
Graduating with a combined Bachelors and Master's Degree in Computer Science and Cybersecurity, Moshe's thesis "Cybersecurity of Critical Infrastructure: Recent Attacks and Research in the Field," reflects his keen interest in computer science as well as the safety and security of our country, many organizations and individuals within it. Currently pursuing job opportunities with the Federal Government, Moshe interned with the United States Secret Service, and local universities, Emory and Georgia Institute of Technology.
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A bhelpuri seller's business on Juhu beach in Mumbai picked up after a song from Rajesh Khanna-starrer "Anand", shot on the beach, came out, said Mahesh Bhatt Friday, pointing out the power of cinema that boosts tourism on the home turf as well as offshore.
The famed filmmaker says the movies are akin to "magic carpet".
"Movies are like magic carpets to the consumers. I remember talking to a bhelpuri seller near Juhu beach, who said that a song ('Zindagi kaisi hai paheli') from 'Anand' was shot here and his business increased after the movie. So, it's true that wherever Bollywood goes, tourism follows," Bhatt said at a session on Bollywood and Tourism at the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) Tourism Summit here.
However, he said that shooting in Mumbai, hub of Hindi cinema, has become "a nightmare".
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Bhatt, who directed films like "Arth", "Zakhm" and "Aashiqui", stressed the need for a single-window clearance for filmmakers.
"Once that comes through, it will ease out a lot of things. India has a cinematic workforce and it can be nothing short of paradise for foreign tourists and filmmakers. It is up to us how we can keep this romance between Bollywood and tourism going," he said.
To improve the inflow of foreign filmmakers in the country, the need is to stop being "over cautious", he added.
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I have a 2012 Sedona EX has 25000 miles 3 years old. Excellent Vehicle It is a fully loaded vehicle Because of the Rear DVD console the Radio has no Navigation, Blue tooth. I have used many GM mini vans all had more advanced features like Air leveler suspensions. Could't find a vehicle with 8 passenger seating. The odometer reads 2 miles over the actual speed. When I brought this to the dealer I was told 2 miles is allowable difference.Out of approximately 50 or more vehicles I used in my life this is the only vehicle with this difference.I have a feeling the wheels are undersized. Other than these few negatives Vehicle is Excellent and very reliable.
I'm fairly happy with my 2006 Kia Sedona. My biggest complaint is with the Kia dealership. They charge outrageous prices for their replacement parts. They claim they put superior(to other dealers), genuine parts in the vehicle. Two new catalytic converters with labor cost $2500. They also charged me $440 restocking fee when I changed my mind, after they supposedly had ordered the parts. I still saved a few hundred my going elsewhere.
this van is a go getter.im single with no male help.had it a yr put 30,000 miles on it.no repairs needed.it also demolished a txter that ran into me at 50 miles an hr.only damage was cosmetic.demolished his van;)
bought the 2006 newly designed 2nd generation sedona in 2008. it's had some issues, mostly electrical eg. air bag light on (was a bumper sensor)... front brakes need replacing a bit more often and i had to change the throttle position sensor. but other than that it's been a solid reliable van. i know ppl will criticize kia harsher than other makes, but we also have a 2008 chrysler minivan and it's been a migrane. the kia has had minor issues, but the chrysler has also had minor issues - plus a blown transmission! the chrysler had 78k miles when it blew up. the kia so far has 130k miles and runs smooth as the day we got it. i take it florida without worry. point is kia is no more problem ridden than the domestics.... kia is perhaps less problem ridden than domestics. the one thing we saw with the new style sedona is the power sliding doors are prone to problems. we don't have that option so all is well for us, but our kia salesman says those were improved on in 09 or 10. but if power doors are a big issue just turn the power off and manually use the sliding doors instead... sometimes it's not worth spending $ on power doors. power sliding doors are the sedonas achiles heel. other than that it's a great van.
Piece of junk. I have been paying on this vehicle for two years and I have put too many replacement parts on it. The harmonic balancer came off while I was driving. These parts are heat synced on and are not suppose to just fly off while driving. The drive window motor has quit working. I am constantly replacing brakes and changing the transmission fluid. Every time I try to run the AC the belt brakes and I have to replace it. I did not buy the car new but it has been nothing but trouble and I really wished I had never purchased it. I would not recommend anyone buying a Kia.
Nothing but problems with our 2005 kia Sedona, that we just paid off this past April ,new tramsmittion in October of last year, always putting new brakes on,continuous squeaking brakes now the cooling/heating pipes are rusted, van overheated anti-freeze leaked all over the place, car was smoking, just this past Monday we got stuck in New Hampshire had to have it towed all the way back to Holyoke, Mass cost us $437.00 piece of "JUNK" never buying another kia ever...never got the milliage they said either, 25 on highway 18 in city bunch of liars.....
Bought used in 2005 with only 11K. No real problems till now (replaced rotors, axle and motor mount and it has check engine light on - scan says main problem is Catalytic - but not critical yet). Have had good AC/Heat till last summer when AC went out (pump broken - $950+- if I have it fixed). Haven't taken good care of this car either so I'm amazed it lasted this long. Door handles and other features are kind of cheaply made and break too easily.
At 208,000 miles, 2nd engine, replace 3 catalytic converters, rebuilt transmission, rebuilt 2nd engine, numerous body repairs, gear select cable mechanically froze, 3 alternators, 2 starters, 3 radiators, 4 a/c pumps, many new tires, many new CV joints, new front axles 2x, new front wheel bearing 2x, many brake pad and shoe replacements, new struts and strut mounts, replace headlight plastic 2x, replace interior blower fan and resistor 2x, replace front and rear windshield wiper motors, and today rear door stuck shut neither key nor auto unlock will unlock or activate door manual latch. Nicest thing about this vehicle is it sits well and all the rear seats totally remove for substantial hauling, easily move a 1-2 person apt contents. Clearly Kia for this model year had a quality control problem for component durability and a design issue keeping engine compartment tolerances so tight that substantial disassembly is required to change spark plugs or an alternator and best hope you don't have to pay labor to replace A/C compressor. An extra few inches of clear space around the engine would sure cut repair labor costs dramatically. Local Kia dealer parts are priced excessively, if you can afford time to shop online, most genuine Kia parts available mostly at half dealer price. All Kia dealers charge about $106 just to diagnose a repair problem, and then not always correctly. I went through 3x alternators, 3x starters and 2x batteries before I self identified the problem - - inadequate engine grounding. Once I put an $8 engine to negative battery cable on all the electrical issues were immediately resolved. If your Kia Sedona won't start, before replacing any parts, charge the battery and use a jumper cable between battery negative and engine block and see if it fixes problem. If so, install a permanent cable between engine and negative battery terminal. To Kia's credit in more recent editions the engine displacement has increased, alternator capacity has increased, and starter power increased. Most of the changes are backward compatible even if not specifically stated as so. To Kia detriment, durability in terms of how many engine hours between repairs is dismal. They simply need to buy or make more durably manufactured components. Much better reliability in Toyota and Honda and Nissan minivans. There is no reason why Kia or any auto manufacturer could not offer a 300,000 mile warranty if durability was designed in and built in and suppliers held to task to deliver parts that don't break in ordinary usage.
bought van new in 2005, nothing but junk. air is weak,windows wont go up and down, valve cover gaskets gone. replaced brakes 3 times. whats next. Dave in the Villages fla.
Kia will not stand behind their product. My sister bought a new one and the check engine light came on. They told her it had the wrong oil filter on it. I am an ASE master mechanic so I went to the dealership with her. They stood behind this bogus story. A friend has a Kia with the brake warning light on. I have read dozens of stories of people with the same problem. Kia doesn't wire this system like everyone else.
Problems galore with my 2006 Kia Sedona. Started with sliding door problems not closing correctly, tightly. Then problem moved to my back hatch door just falling and not staying open. Both had to be repaired. Then my automatic locks stopped working (that was very expensive to fix). Headlights constantly going out and having to be replaced. Horn stopped working. But the worst part of all is it will not start up on me on a regular basis at random times. I've had to have my car towed about 8 times in the last year. After about the 7th time and a lot of money later Kia replaced my junction box because my key was no longer sending the signal to the box (part of the anti-theft system). Well here I am 10 months later and it is happening again and Kia won't replace the junction box even though it would be covered under warranty since since same problem happened less then a year ago. Although the Kia looks nice don't judge a book by it's cover. It's a piece of junk, very unreliable and has caused nothing but stress in my life.
I have a 2004 kia sedona. Bought in 2008. Has almost 240,000 miles and no problems. Normal maintenance and I still drive it. Its great in the snow so I cant complain. We do have to completely go through the front end due to going through wheel bearings every year but not surprising since we have driven alot in this van. Had a 1997 windstar before this and it was junk. Would buy another Sedona. Great van!
I bought this minivan a year and a half ago. every 3-4 months it's in the shop for something. now for the 3rd time it's in for a loud vibration in the front right side when I start it up. I've replacwd the front brakes / rotors replaced a cracked manifold. the noise is getting louder and m mechanic says he can't find the problem. it's very annoying every time I start it up. I told him this time if he doesn't find/fix the problem I am getting rid of it! this van is costing me a lot of money that I don't want to spend on it. I am looking forward to dumping it in the spring or sooner!!
Not sure what is worse...vehicle or service no service not knowing how to repair and not standing behind their own product. Only thing I see Kia Service and Dealers at is blaming others for their garbage. I will never buy another and will and have passed the word out. The only thing I could see this vehicle good for is ?????? well let me get back to you on that because I couldn't think of one thing.
bought new in 04. over 92ooo miles, 50000 did brakes & struts still running strong. disappointment would be gas mileage. not as good as caravan
Code P2106 - Throttle Actuator Control System and P2135,P1295 for APS sensor A/B voltage correlation.There is a bulletin in these codes covered at the dealer.Heres the bulletin number TSB 09-FL003-2. The TPS needs replacing and reprogramming the ECM.This should all be fixed at no charge at the dealer.Hoped this helped.Positive feedback and bonuses greatly appreciated.
Brought van a few months ago. After driving 2,000-3,000 miles started having electrical issues. The ability to accelerate while driving occurs. Definately would not recommend this van to anyone!
Don't recommend this Van. Driver's side sun visor won't stay up, had to replace rotors and shocks like within 2 1/2 years, intake tube was replaced Dec. 2011, and been having problems with a/c. Needs major work $800-1,200 to repair check engine light code to pass smog for registration renewal. What a headache! Great on gas, though and fits my whole family comfortably. Besides that... really don't recommend 2006
A/C, Heater, electrical & brakes are not good on this vehicle. Bought this van new. Right away the door locks were buzzing. Had to replce the actuator and now again in 2012. No problems for three years, then oxygen sensor went out & my van completely died on the freeway on ramp. At the time was still under warranty. Rattling sounds in the dash area lead to the motor mounts being replaced, after that continual A/C & heater problems. Have had the following replaced trying to correct the problems of it not being cold enough, blowing hot but not cold, then blowing cold but not hot: A/C Idler pulley, Thermostat, sensor duct, A/C drive belt, Freon, Sensors, A/C actuator, blend door actuator, mix actuator, have all had to be replaced over the last 3 years. Now the air just went out again and I am being told it is the clutch. As for the brakes, they have squeeled since the day I drove it off the lot. No matter what type of brakes I put on, I can't get the problem to go away. Brakes have to be depressed hard to get decent braking power, and then it still isn't that great. in 2010 the ignition sensor went out which caused the rpm guage to go to 0 and the engine to misfire. I wrote this in August of 2012. I doubt I'll buy another Kia.
We bought a new 2008 Kia Sedona and the first issue was the running boards. The sales person said 'absolutely no problem getting them on, just pop back and we will install them." Well, we found out after the purchase that they won't put them on the regular length van! I am disabled and need them to help me get into the van- they told me to get a step stool to get in and out!! That issue finally got fixed by having special ones installed. Next we had the transmission act like it was on its last breath- got that fixed. Had the passenger rear door lock and difficulty opening it. It was looked at and we were told ' you just have a tight fitting door' and they couldn't do anything to help it. The radio would play for 15 minutes or so and would go to static or silence- as did the CD player. Took it in and they said 'faulty radio' and replaced it. Guess what, they must have replaced it with another faulty radio as it is doing the same thing. When I originally took it in I mentioned that I noticed a 'hot' smell and asked if there could be a wiring issue- well, I guess as a woman I was not to question their judgement!! I have taken the problem to the BBB and would you believe they offered to put in the 3rd radio if I paid the labor!! I accepted if they paid the labor and if it didn't resolve the issue they would look at what the real cause was-- I have not heard from them yet!! This has been going on for almost a year!! This all happened under warantee, but they drug it out to the point they say warantee is void-- KIA will never see me buy or recommend them ever! Now it is making a strange noise- I am hoping it is as simple as the muffler.
Overall I LOVE my van!! I bought it used in June 2009 from a dealer who had leased it. I traded in my 2002 Kia Sedona for this one with over 175,000 miles on it. I am finding at approximately the same mileage (80,000 miles) I am having the same problem with the air conditioning system not working. It is starting to make me worry about the other problems now that may be around the corner. My first Sedona was great!! However, as it aged, I wound up spending more and more money on it. I know that is to be expected, but the repairs that were needed were very costly. My husband is VERY OCD about vehicle maintenance, so maintaining our cars has never been an issue. Just wondering if anyone else has had the same experience.
Bought EX new in 2002. Has been great, no unusual repairs (brakes need to be replaced more often though - it is heavy). Has 125K miles, and just bought a new 2012 Sedona.
purchased used '06 in '08. We've had several no-starts since then, at least one a year; this year ('11) twice, spending $1200. I saw the sermon about "doing your homework" which provoked me to tell my story -- I DID MINE and was pleased with the price / reviews, until I bought it. Currently we have problems with the sliding doors and power mirrors. Wife almost side-swiped another vehicle due to mirror problems. After 80,000 miles Warranty has expired. It didn't cover previous problems which is reason I haven't purchased an extended. Will sale as soon as I get current problems fixed. Next van: Honda Odyssey!
My van makes a noise when i put it into gear and when I stop,but not while I am driving. What can this be?
I own a 2005 Kia Sedona. Bought it new. Had it parked for a few years while I drove my 2007 Toyota Sienna. Bought a Toyota instead of a Kia because Kia customer service can't do much of anything to alliviate a problem with a dealership. The dealerships lie and cheat and customer service pretty much says, "OH Well". I now own a Kia piece of junk. A dealership ruined the engine or caused the already junky engeine to fall apart and of course it became my fault. I was lied to and cheated and kicked to the side. The Sedna has less than 75,00 miles on it. They said warranty want pay because oil changes need to be done every 3 months or so many miles. It was serviced when the dealership told me to come back. It was never said to bring it back in 3 months even if you have not driven it the number of miles listed. I am being help resposible for knowing the manual right down to the fine print. Way to go Kia. Well you saved on the engine but you lost repeat business. I will never buy another Kia. By the way, I had a 2000 Hyundai Sonata before this and done the same way. They eventually did put an engine in it but after a lot of blood sweat and tears. I was so stressed out. They are worth nothing on trade and I only got $$1800 for it in a private sale. Toyota is doing fine but intend to trade it for a new one soon.
I also bought a 2005 Kia Sedona brand new and at 72000 the engine started knocking. Oil was changed regularly. They want 200 to put it on the machine. My own experience with cars tells me that not enough iol is getting to the engine and it should be totally. Depending on how they treat me, this could be my first and last Kia.
@ the end of it all you get what you pay for.
Kia dealers give you a hard time about warranty items. They try to blame it you. Been having check enginge light come on for years, they never fix the problem, always charge crazy fee for some B.S. service, and light comes back on. Service sucks. I will never buy or recomend a Kia .
We bought our 2004 Sedona new and have driven the devil out of it. The only concern I've had is that it chews up front wheel bearings. Other than that there has not been any major issues. Would consider Kia for next purchase.


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The Morning Buzz | 2014 Baseball Season Begins
Welcome to the Morning Buzz, PRRI's daily dose of religion-related news with a shot of data – because what doesn't liven up a morning round-up like some public opinion numbers?
It's been discovered that April 1st is a religious holiday. April Fools'! Seriously, though, Religion News Service traces the origins of April Fools' Day to a Pope from the 16th century.
Play ball! Yesterday marked the opening day of the 2014 baseball season. To test your baseball acumen, take this quiz by George Will at the Washington Post's PostPartisan blog.
This weekend, Florida, Kentucky, UConn and Wisconsin will battle it out for the top spot in this year's NCAA championship. Only 612 people correctly predictedthe entire Final Four bracket.
A new survey of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Washington Post, finds many struggling with physical and mental health problems resulting from their service.
As the Department of Homeland Security is reviewing ways to make the deportation policy in the United States more humane, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has written a letter to President Obama which outlines immediate steps that could be taken on the road to a legislative solution. When asked how the immigration system should deal with immigrants who are currently living in the US illegally, 63 percent of Americans say the immigration system should allow them a way to become citizens provided they meet certain requirements, 14 percent of Americans say allow them to become permanent legal residents but not citizens, and 18 percent of Americans say identify and deport them.
The Nobel Prize-winning United Nations group Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports that unless things are brought under control – especially greenhouse emissions – no one on the planet will be immune to the effects of climate change, which could include risk of death or injury on a wide scale, probable damage to public health, displacement of people and potential mass migrations. A slim minority of Americans (16 percent) say that enacting legislation to address climate change should be the highest priority for the President and Congress; 31 percent say high but not the highest; and 51 percent say a lower priority.
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Thunder notebook: OKC sends Ryan Gomes to Boston in three-team deal
The Thunder has made its first roster move of the season, albeit a minor one.
As part of a three-team deal with the Grizzlies and Celtics, OKC sent sporadically used veteran forward Ryan Gomes to Boston and cash considerations to Memphis.
In return, the Thunder receives the Philadelphia 76ers' 2014 second-round pick (top-50 and 56-60 protected, previously owned by Memphis) and the Grizzlies' conditional 2017 second-round pick, with the specific protections unknown.
For OKC, this strictly makes sense for financial reasons. By trading away Gomes, the Thunder gets his entire salary off the books. If the Thunder had simply chose to cut him, the amount he had already been paid would have remained.
With the move, OKC is now around $2.3 million under the luxury tax threshold with two open roster spots, allowing for more financial flexibility to complete another maneuver, potentially adding some point guard help in Russell Westbrook's absence.
Recently, the Thunder has been linked to D-League player of the week Manny Harris, as reported by USA Today. Harris is a 6-foot-5 point guard who started 20 games for the Cavs the past few seasons.
In the move, Boston and Memphis swapped Courtney Lee and Jerryd Bayless.
Upon completion, Boston immediately cut Gomes. He had only appeared in five games this season for the Thunder, never playing more than 10 minutes.
Serge Ibaka missed Tuesday's game at Utah with flu-like symptoms.
It was his first time out of the lineup this season and only the third game he's missed in the last 3 1/2 seasons.
Perry Jones III started in Ibaka's place. It was his second career start. The first came in last year's season finale.
The Jazz will retire former coach Jerry Sloan's jersey number later this month and honor him with a ceremony inside Energy Solutions Arena.
When informed prior to the game, Thunder coach Scott Brooks responded "About time."
"He's one of the greatest coaches of all time. A guy that I look up to," Brooks said. "I appreciate all the hard work that he put into the game. His commitment, his dedication, his consistency is unmatched. His no-nonsense, no-excuse mentality is something I try to live by as a coach. And I admire him. He did it the right way, and he will always have a lasting impact, not only on me but all the other coaches in this league. And some of the young coaches need to go back and look how he did it because he did it the right way."
The Thunder boarded a plane to Denver after the Utah game and will have a day off before playing the Nuggets on Thursday. The game will be broadcast on both Fox Sports Oklahoma and TNT. Tip-off is at 9:30 p.m.


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First time at this theater. It is located in the woods up a rather steep incline in a residential area of Pacifica. You can see the ocean from the top parking lot. There are picnic tables. If you don't find parking in the top lot, you will have to walk up a long flight of steps from the lower lot. There is also a long flight up to the theater entrance, but I believe it is accessible if you go around the building to the back.
The venue is good, with high, stadium-like seating, but it was stifling in the top half. I understand that they are still renovating, so maybe better ventilation or air conditioning will be resolved.
As for the show, whether by direction or delivery, it just wasn't quite as humorous as anticipated.
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There was plenty of parking outside the theater when we arrived early to pick up our tickets at will call, but the wooden stairs up to the top did not look as hard to climb as the directions warned. Small community Theater with refreshments...continued
This show is recommended for ages 13 and up.
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new version of abcrfPosted in R, Statistics, University life with tags ABC model choice, bioinformatics, CRAN, parallelisation, R, R package, random forests on February 12, 2016 by xi'an
abcfr 0.9-3Posted in R, Statistics, University life with tags ABC, ABC model choice, abcrf, bioinformatics, CRAN, R, random forests, reference table, SNPs on August 27, 2015 by xi'an
In conjunction with our reliable ABC model choice via random forest paper, about to be resubmitted to Bioinformatics, we have contributed an R package called abcrf that produces a most likely model and its posterior probability out of an ABC reference table. In conjunction with the realisation that we could devise an approximation to the (ABC) posterior probability using a secondary random forest. "We" meaning Jean-Michel Marin and Pierre Pudlo, as I only acted as a beta tester!
The package abcrf consists of three functions:
- abcrf, which constructs a random forest from a reference table and returns an object of class `abc-rf';
- plot.abcrf, which gives both variable importance plot of a model choice abc-rf object and the projection of the reference table on the LDA axes;
- predict.abcrf, which predict the model for new data and evaluate the posterior probability of the MAP.
An illustration from the manual:
data(snp) data(snp.obs) mc.rf <- abcrf(snp[1:1e3, 1], snp[1:1e3, -1]) predict(mc.rf, snp[1:1e3, -1], snp.obs)
making a random walk geometrically ergodicPosted in R, Statistics with tags Annals of Statistics, CRAN, geometric ergodicity, métro, MCMC, Metropolis-Hastings, R, R package, random walk, uniform ergodicity on March 2, 2013 by xi'an
While a random walk Metropolis-Hastings algorithm cannot be uniformly ergodic in a general setting (Mengersen and Tweedie, AoS, 1996), because it needs more energy to leave far away starting points, it can be geometrically ergodic depending on the target (and the proposal). In a recent Annals of Statistics paper, Leif Johnson and Charlie Geyer designed a trick to turn a random walk Metropolis-Hastings algorithm into a geometrically ergodic random walk Metropolis-Hastings algorithm by virtue of an isotropic transform (under the provision that the original target density has a moment generating function). This theoretical result is complemented by an R package called mcmc. (I have not tested it so far, having read the paper in the métro.) The examples included in the paper are however fairly academic and I wonder how the method performs in practice, on truly complex models, in particular because the change of variables relies on (a) an origin and (b) changing the curvature of space uniformly in all dimensions. Nonetheless, the idea is attractive and reminds me of a project of ours with Randal Douc, started thanks to the 'Og and still under completion.
packed off!!!Posted in Books, pictures, R, Statistics with tags Bayesian Core, Bayesian Essentials with R, bayess, Berlin, books, Carnon, CRAN, La Défense, Luminy, R, Springer-Verlag on February 9, 2013 by xi'an
Deliverance!!! We have at last completed our book! Bayesian Essentials with R is off my desk! In a final nitty-gritty day of compiling and recompiling the R package bayess and the LaTeX file, we have reached versions that were in par with our expectations. The package has been submitted to CRAN (it has gone back and forth a few times, with requests to lower the computing time in the examples: each example should take less than 10s, then 5s…), then accepted by CRAN, incl. a Windows version, and the book has be sent to Springer-Verlag. This truly is a deliverance for me as this book project has been on my work horizon almost constantly for more than the past two years, led to exciting times in Luminy, Carnon and Berlin, has taken an heavy toll on my collaborations and research activities, and was slowly turning into a unsavoury chore! I am thus delighted Jean-Michel and I managed to close the door before any disastrous consequence on either the book or our friendship could develop. Bayesian Essentials with R is certainly an improvement compared with Bayesian Core, primarily by providing a direct access to the R code. We dearly hope it will attract a wider readership by reducing the mathematical requirements (even though some parts are still too involved for most undergraduates) and we will keep testing it with our own students in Montpellier and Paris over the coming months. In the meanwhile, I just enjoy this feeling of renewed freedom!!!
structure and uncertainty, Bristol, Sept. 26Posted in Books, pictures, R, Running, Statistics, Travel, University life, Wines with tags ABC, Bayes factor, Bristol, Chris Sims, CIRM, confidence distribution, CRAN, g-prior, hyper-g-prior, MCMC, model selection, Nobel Prize, Pic du Midi d'Ossau, R, SuSTain on September 27, 2012 by xi'an
Another day full of interesting and challenging—in the sense they generated new questions for me—talks at the SuSTain workshop. After another (dry and fast) run around the Downs; Leo Held started the talks with one of my favourite topics, namely the theory of g-priors in generalized linear models. He did bring a new perspective on the subject, introducing the notion of a testing Bayes factor based on the residual statistic produced by a classical (maximum likelihood) analysis, connected with earlier works of Vale Johnson. While I did not truly get the motivation for switching from the original data to this less informative quantity, I find this perspective opening new questions for dealing with settings where the true data is replaced with one or several classical statistics. With possible strong connections to ABC, of course. Incidentally, Leo managed to produce a napkin with Peter Green's intro to MCMC dating back from their first meeting in 1994: a feat I certainly could not reproduce (as I also met both Peter and Leo for the first time in 1994, at CIRM)… Then Richard Everit presented his recent JCGS paper on Bayesian inference on latent Markov random fields, centred on the issue that simulating the latent MRF involves an MCMC step that is not exact (as in our earlier ABC paper for Ising models with Aude Grelaud). I already discussed this paper in an earlier blog and the only additional question that comes to my mind is whether or not a comparison with the auxiliary variable approach of Møller et al. (2006) would make sense.
In the intermission, I had a great conversation with Oliver Ratman on his talk of yesterday on the surprising feature that some models produce as "data" some sample from a pseudo-posterior.. Opening once again new vistas! The following talks were more on the mathematical side, with James Cussens focussing on the use of integer programming for Bayesian variable selections, then Éric Moulines presenting a recent work with a PhD student of his on PAC-Bayesian bounds and the superiority of combining experts. Including a CRAN package. Éric concluded his talk with the funny occurence of Peter's photograph on Éric's Microsoft Research Profile own page, due to Éric posting our joint photograph at the top of Pic du Midi d'Ossau in 2005… (He concluded with a picture of the mountain that was the exact symmetry of mine yesterday!)
The afternoon was equally superb with Gareth Roberts covering fifteen years of scaling MCMC algorithms, from the mythical 0.234 figure to the optimal temperature decrease in simulated annealing, John Kent playing the outlier with an EM algorithm—however including a formal prior distribution and raising the challenge as to why Bayesians never had to constrain the posterior expectation, which prompted me to infer that (a) the prior distribution should include all constraints and (b) the posterior expectation was not the "right" tool in non-convex parameters spaces—. Natalia Bochkina presented a recent work, joint with Peter Green, on connecting image analysis with Bayesian asymptotics, reminding me of my early attempts at reading Ibragimov and Has'minskii in the 1990's. Then a second work with Vladimir Spoikoini on Bayesian asymptotics with misspecified models, introducing a new notion of effective dimension. The last talk of the day was by Nils Hjort about his coming book on "Credibility, confidence and likelihood"—not yet advertised by CUP—which sounds like an attempt at resuscitating Fisher by deriving distributions in the parameter space from frequentist confidence intervals. I already discussed this notion in an earlier blog, so I am fairly skeptical about it, but the talk was representative of Nils' highly entertaining and though-provoking style! Esp. as he sprinkled the talk with examples where MLE (and some default Bayes estimators) did not work. And reanalysed one of Chris Sims' example presented during his Nobel Prize talk…
the Wang-Landau algorithm reaches the flat histogram in finite timePosted in R, Statistics, University life with tags CRAN, Markov chains, MCMC algorithms, R, Wang-Landau algorithm on October 20, 2011 by xi'an
Pierre Jacob and Robin Ryder (from Paris-Dauphine, CREST, and Statisfaction) have just arXived (and submitted to the Annals of Applied Probability) a neat result on the Wang-Landau algorithm. (This algorithm, which modifies the target in a sort of reweighted partioned sampling to achieve faster convergence, has always been perplexing to me.) They show that some variations of the Wang-Landau algorithm meet the flat histogram criterion in finite time, and, just as importantly that other variations do not reach this criterion. The proof uses elegant Markov chain arguments and I hope the paper makes it through, as there are very few theoretical results on this algorithm. (Pierre also wrote recently a paper with Luke Bornn, Arnaud Doucet, and Pierre Del Moral, on An Adaptive Interacting Wang-Landau Algorithm for Automatic Density Exploration last week, with an associated R package. Not yet on CRAN.)
"simply start over and build something better"Posted in R, Statistics, University life with tags CRAN, R, Robert Gentleman, Ross Ihaka on September 13, 2010 by xi'an
The post on the shortcomings of R has attracted a huge number of readers and Ross Ihaka has now posted a detailed comment that is fairly pessimistic… Given the radical directions drafted in this comment from the father of R (along with Robert Gentleman), I once again re-post it as a main entry to advertise more broadly its contents. (Obviously, the whole debate is now far beyond my reach! Please comment on the most current post, i.e. this one.)
Since (something like) my name has been taken in vain here, let me chip in.
I've been worried for some time that R isn't going to provide the base that we're going to need for statistical computation in the future. (It may well be that the future is already upon us.) There are certainly efficiency problems (speed and memory use), but there are more fundamental issues too. Some of these were inherited from Sand some are peculiar to R.
One of the worst problems is scoping. Consider the following little gem.
f =function() {
if (runif(1) > .5)
x = 10
The x being returned by this function is randomly local or global. There are other examples where variables alternate between local and non-local throughout the body of a function. No sensible language would allow this. It's ugly and it makes optimisation really difficult. This isn't the only problem, even weirder things happen because of interactions between scoping and lazy evaluation.
In light of this, I've come to the conclusion that rather than "fixing" R, it would be much more productive to simply start over and build something better. I think the best you could hope for by fixing the efficiency problems in R would be to boost performance by a small multiple, or perhaps as much as an order of magnitude. This probably isn't enough to justify the effort (Luke Tierney has been working on R compilation for over a decade now).
To try to get an idea of how much speedup is possible, a number of us have been carrying out some experiments to see how much better we could do with something new. Based on prototyping we've been doing at Auckland, it looks like it should be straightforward to get two orders of magnitude speedup over R, at least for those computations which are currently bottle-necked. There are a couple of ways to make this happen.
First, scalar computations in R are very slow. This in part because the R interpreter is very slow, but also because there are a no scalar types. By introducing scalars and using compilation it looks like its possible to get a speedup by a factor of several hundred for scalar computations. This is important because it means that many ghastly uses of array operations and the apply functions could be replaced by simple loops. The cost of these improvements is that scope declarations become mandatory and (optional) type declarations are necessary to help the compiler.
As a side-effect of compilation and the use of type-hinting it should be possible to eliminate dispatch overhead for certain (sealed) classes (scalars and arrays in particular). This won't bring huge benefits across the board, but it will mean that you won't have to do foreign language calls to get efficiency.
A second big problem is that computations on aggregates (data frames in particular) run at glacial rates. This is entirely down to unnecessary copying because of the call-by-value semantics. Preserving call-by-value semantics while eliminating the extra copying is hard. The best we can probably do is to take a conservative approach. R already tries to avoid copying where it can, but fails in an epic fashion. The alternative is to abandon call-by-value and move to reference semantics. Again, prototyping indicates that several hundredfold speedup is possible (for data frames in particular).
The changes in semantics mentioned above mean that the new language will not be R. However, it won't be all that far from R and it should be easy to port R code to the new system, perhaps using some form of automatic translation.
If we're smart about building the new system, it should be possible to make use of multi-cores and parallelism. Adding this to the mix might just make it possible to get a three order-of-magnitude performance boost with just a fraction of the memory that R uses. I think it's something really worth putting some effort into.
I also think one other change is necessary. The license will need to a better job of protecting work donated to the commons than GPL2 seems to have done. I'm not willing to have any more of my work purloined by the likes of Revolution Analytics, so I'll be looking for better protection from the license (and being a lot more careful about who I work with).


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A five-year court battle to remove sectarian prayers from public board of commissioners meetings.
A five-year court battle to remove sectarian prayers from public board of commissioners meetings in Forsyth County, North Carolina, finally came to an end January 17 when the U.S. Supreme Court refused to review a ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth District, which found that the board of commissioners had violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. The lawsuit Joyner v. Forsyth County was originally filed in 2007 on behalf of two women who objected to the sectarian invocations routinely delivered by clergy at board meetings. Each of the lower courts had ruled the prayers unconstitutional.
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