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Cinematic Arts MajorSelectThe Cinematic Arts Program offers concentrations in the tracks of critical studies and screenwriting. Minors in those two areas are also available. This program offers the following areas of study: Animation, Critical Studies, and Entertainment Executive. Learn More46-49 units
Cinematic Arts Production MajorSelectThe Cinematic Arts Production major (BFA) encourages the artistic and spiritual growth of students and the exploration of their calling from a thoughtful and culturally engaged Christian worldview. Learn More
Graphic Design MajorSelectThe Graphic Design major prepares students to think creatively about visual communication problems by gaining experience in print design, webpage design, digital imaging, and developing design systems. Learn More53-56 units
MFA in Visual ArtSelectAPU's 37-month, low-residency MFA program accommodates the working artist/educator and centers primarily on studio activity and the integration of faith and art. Students engage in highly collaborative relationships with MFA program mentor-professors, enabling artists to hone their talent through critique and individual instruction. Learn More
Modern Art History, M.A. (online)SelectAPU's Online M.A. in Modern Art History, Theory, and Criticism is an innovative 24-month program that offers a specialized program in modernism while blending courses in contemporary theory and the practice of art criticism. The program cultivates expertise through a framework of aesthetic understanding and scholarly analysis. Learn More1 location36–39 units
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Hey guys,
Honestly, I would possibly be up for trading for something American-spec. GTI, Jetta, Golf, and it has to be a manual transmission. Let me know if you've got something!
Photos are here:
I've got my black MkIII VR6 GTI up for sale. Some of my fellow Vdub guys in the area may have seen it before. In all honesty, I don't want to get rid of it, but I may be leaving sooner rather than later, so I need to get cracking on a buyer before it's too late.
The car really is fantastic, and I have loved every minute of owning it. Let's start with the negatives about the car:
The Bad:
The ignition lock switch needs replacing. It will start, but you have to do it a certain way in order to get her going.
The right rear quarter has some rust, which I have kept touched up with paint. It hasn't really spread at all in the 1+ year that I have owned it.
As with almost any MkIII sunroof, the left track is broken. It will work fine if you replace the track.
The Good:
It was resprayed in 2009, so the paint looks pretty good.
It has *I believe* Brock B2 wheels. They are white and are 17s. Front tires are 205/40R17, rears are 225/35R17.
Front tires are brand new.
It has fully adjustable KW coilovers, and where the ride is stiff, I absolutely love it. The car is a LOT of fun on these Bavarian roads.
It has front and rear strut bars.
It has Sandtler race seats with Schroth harnesses.
It has aftermarket headlamps (projectors) and tails.
Stainless steel headers
Full exhaust.
I replaced the front rotors and all the pads 1 year ago when I purchased the car.
I replaced the automatic windows with crank windows.
The car is FULLY stripped out. It literally has nothing except seats, harnesses, and a dash.
I replaced the front motor mount with a BFI stage .5 polyurethane mountm, and it stiffened up the motor a bit, but if I was keeping it, I would get the rear one as well.
Monowiper! :-D
The car has 247,xxx km, and runs very very strong, and is pretty quick, and sounds fantastic. If any of you have seen it around the Graf/Vilseck area, I think you'd agree it's a great example of a good driver's MkIII VR.
PRICE REDUCED! Asking: $4,100 OBO!!!
Please feel free to contact me at any time to look at the car, ask questions, etc. Test drives will be reserved only for serious buyers.

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The Indian Army personnel were stopped by Chinese troops who came mounted on heavy and light vehicles, official sources said on Sunday. The patrol party was shown a banner that it was Chinese territory and that they cannot proceed to the posts, they said. The sources said the Chinese troops were aggressive in their approach while stopping the Indian patrol who were at their posts. These posts are well inside Indian territory, the sources said, adding that from April this year, the patrol for these forward bases were launched 21 times and only twice it could complete its mission.Sponsored Ads
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Tag Archives: Chinese Territory
5 Reasons Why the Senkaku (Diaoyu) Islands are NOT Chinese Territory – YouTube
5 Reasons Why the Senkaku (Diaoyu) Islands are NOT Chinese Territory
5 Reasons Why the Senkaku (Diaoyu) Islands are NOT Chinese Territory – YouTube
Clinton Warned of Military Danger in China-Japan Dispute – Businessweek
The festering dispute between China and Japan over five uninhabited islands could spin out of control unless the countries improve their communication with each other, according to a confidential report submitted to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton this week by a delegation of former U.S. officials.
The bipartisan four-person delegation met last week with Japan's prime minister and China's vice premier, who is expected to take over as prime minister, and both countries' foreign ministers. The U.S. group warns Clinton in its written report that, while neither side wants a confrontation, a mistake or miscalculation could escalate into a military face-off.
Clinton Warned of Military Danger in China-Japan Dispute – Businessweek
"while neither side wants a confrontation"
This is a meaningless phrase. Of course each side doesn't want a confrontation. Instead, they want the other side to give in. The important question is: What will they do if the other side doesn't give in?
Will China give up and go home if Japan does not allow it to seize the islands? Will Japan allow China to seize the islands? No, neither side is willing to give in at this time. That may change in the future, but right now it looks like nobody is willing to give in. So the tension will build.
Is there really a communication problem between China and Japan?
I don't think there is. Both sides understand what is going on.
Geng Yansheng, a Chinese defense ministry spokesman, explained the move in a September 11 statement, saying: "The determination and the will of the Chinese government and military to safeguard their territorial integrity are firm. We are closely monitoring the situation and reserve the right to take necessary measures."
There really is no issue. This is Chinese territory, end of story. At least that's what the Chinese believe. So there is no communication problem, but there is a clear path to war.
Let me remind you that this dispute is all the fault of the US. Without US backing, Japan would never confront China. I'm using Chinese thinking here. Same with the China-Philippines dispute. So as tension builds in the region, China will be directing their anger toward the US.
Report: Chinese military cyber warfare units identified | Washington Free Beacon
"Chinese cyber espionage poses an advanced persistent threat to U.S. national and economic security," states the report, set for publication Friday.
The report by the Project 2049 Institute, an Arlington, Va.-based think tank that focuses on Asian security issues, concluded that groups operating from Chinese territory have been "waging a coordinated cyber espionage campaign targeting U.S. government, industrial, and think tank computer networks."
The report said that despite difficulties in identifying direct links to Chinese military hackers, "the PLA General Staff Department (GSD) Third Department is likely a leading authority for cyber surveillance."
Report: Chinese military cyber warfare units identified | Washington Free Beacon
China issues white paper on Diaoyu Dao, asserting indisputable sovereignty – Xinhua | English.news.cn
The Chinese government issued a white paper on Diaoyu Dao Tuesday, asserting the country's indisputable sovereignty over it and its affiliated islands.
Diaoyu Dao and its affiliated islands are an inseparable part of the Chinese territory, it is China's inherent territory in all historical, geographical and legal terms, and China enjoys indisputable sovereignty over Diaoyu Dao, the white paper says.
The white paper, titled "Diaoyu Dao, an Inherent Territory of China", was released by the State Council Information Office of the People's Republic of China.
China issues white paper on Diaoyu Dao, asserting indisputable sovereignty – Xinhua | English.news.cn
Sinking superpower: Can US fight 3 new wars?
If Americans think that our police action in Afghanistan is a war, they better think again. Not one, not two, but three red-hot situations are brewing around the world that could very well lead to real shooting wars, with ships, submarines, warplanes and missiles all firing at each other — and very possibly at us.
The first flashpoint that could explode in the next few months is Iran, …
The second is Syria, where after 17 months of inaction, President Obama has announced that the United States might have to intervene militarily to protect Syria's rebels against dictator Bashar al-Assad. Assad's allies Russia and China immediately warned that any US intervention would not be tolerated, meaning they could very well decide to jump into the growing civil war on Assad's side.
China has also ignited the third hot spot by, in effect, declaring the entire South China Sea to be Chinese territory, a blatant act of aggression backed up by combat-ready naval patrols and installation of garrisons on key islands.
China Says U.S. Sending 'Wrong Signal' on South China Sea – Businessweek
China said U.S. criticism of its attempt to bolster claims to gas- and oil-rich islands in the South China Sea sent "a seriously wrong signal" to nations embroiled in territorial disputes in the region.
Tensions have been rising in the region as China has sought to establish a city and military garrison in the Paracel Islands and to physically block foreign access to a disputed reef off the coast of the Philippines, according to the U.S. State Department. Vietnam, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Brunei also claim rights to islands in the sea.
"What we're seeing is a significant ratcheting up of Chinese pressure on the region to basically acquiesce that the South China Sea is Chinese territory," Dean Cheng, a researcher on Chinese political and security issues at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, said in a telephone interview.
China Says U.S. Sending 'Wrong Signal' on South China Sea – Businessweek
Kim brother says N.Korea heading for collapse: book
"My father Kim Jong-Il and Me" will be published in Japan by Bungeishunju on Friday.
"North Korea is very unstable," Jong-Nam told Gomi, who interviewed him at length in the Chinese territory of Macau last year.
"My father governed the country with the backing of the military, but the power of the military has become too strong," he said in Korean. "If the succession ends in failure, the military will wield the real power for sure."
In the book, based on email exchanges and interviews, Jong-Nam says North Korea's troubled state-managed economy presented the regime with a dilemma.
Sea frontiers
The Indian Navy revealed recently that one of its vessels, the amphibious assault ship INS Airavat, was hailed by a Chinese naval officer demanding to know why it was in Chinese territory ? while it was actually off the Vietnamese coast heading for the Vietnamese port of Haiphong.
And it was reported that a Chinese spy ship was discovered in India's Andaman Islands earlier this year.
A quarter of a world away, in the eastern Mediterranean, the consequences of Israel's seizure of a Turkish aid vessel heading for Gaza in May 2010 continue to unfold. Israel steadfastly refuses to apologize for the deaths of nine Turks who were killed by Israeli commandos in the attack, and on Sept. 8, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced that future aid vessels to Gaza would be escorted by the Turkish Navy.
If this sort of thing goes on, it is plausible to imagine a point at which countries with real military power ? Israel and Turkey, or India and China ? start shooting at each other.
Chinese troops enter Indian territory – Hindustan Times
Chinese troops are reported to have entered into Indian territory and destroyed some old Army bunkers and tents in Chumar division of Nyoma sector, about 300 kilometres from in Leh. While some reports suggested that the Chinese troops in helicopters entered one-and-a-half kilometres into
Indian airspace, other reports said that the helicopters landed in Chinese territory and then the troops marched into the area to dismantle the bunkers, a move aimed at displaying that the area belonged to them.
The Army denied that any such incident had taken place. But sources in the know said that two Chinese helicopters had entered into air space and landed one-and-half kilometres into the Indian territory at Chumar in Chingthang area of Tehsil Nyoma.


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Cheesy and spicy, this finger-lickin' snack with just a hint of lime is downright addictive! Beth Stengel - North Hollywood, California
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- 12 cups air-popped popcorn
- 1/4 cup butter, melted
- 2 tablespoons lime juice
- 4-1/2 teaspoons Cajun seasoning
- 4 to 5 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese
- Place popcorn in a large bowl. Combine butter and lime juice; drizzle over popcorn and toss to coat. Combine Cajun seasoning and cheese; sprinkle over popcorn and toss to coat. Yield: 3 quarts.
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Have a Tax Question? Ask a Tax Expert
Good morning and thank you for using Just Answer. There are quite a bit of differences. First of all, if there is only one member of the LLC, the entity is treated as a sole proprietorship by the IRS. This means that if it doesn't show a profit after three years, it could be deemed a hobby. Next, an LLC with two or more members can elect to be taxed as a partnership, regular corporation or subchapter S-corporation. This is significant because regular corporations are subject to income tax where the income and expenses flow to the members in the other entities.
Thinking about an LLC with two members ( me and my wife for example - both foreigners), wich difference it make to elect to be taxed as a partnership, regular corporation ou subchapter S-corporation?
If the entity will generate income, I suggest electing to be taxed as a corporation and then electing to be taxed as an S-Corporation. Here's why: all of the income from a partnership is subject to self-employment tax (Social Security and Medicare) in addition to income tax. This would be an additional 12% or so this year and may revert back to the 15% that's been in place. The income tax would be your individual tax rate. As a regular corporation, you'll pay corporate income tax plus individual tax on the funds you take out of the business outside of salary.
The S-Corp does not pay corporate income tax, and distributions are not taxed as dividends. The net income is taxed at your individual tax rate. Like with regular corporations, you are required to take a salary in line with what others in the field are receiving. Your wages are subject to employment taxes, but this is better than the entire amount of income. Retirement plans such as SEPs and SARSEPs can change this picture and make other choices more favorable.


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Make your own flavored protein powder
Now that I'm marathon training, I'm using protein powder on a daily basis. My stomach has not been happy, though, because of the artificial sweeteners in some of the powders. The solution? A home made flavored protein powder! Thanks to Sonia from The Healthy Foodie for several great recipes, including the Chai Spice recipe! Take a look at all of the flavor ideas that she has come up with.


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Any one purchase this product? been researching duraflex products and feel like they are pretty forgiving for a fiberglass constructed piece. Wondering how they look installed and painted. all the pics i have found online have been with the canards. anyone have pics? please post!
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For Sale: 2 New Energy Veritas V2.8 8" Woofers
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I decided to change path and sell these 2 NEW Energy Veritas V2.8 8" woofers that I was going to use to create a V2.8 clone.
I am asking $150 USD + shipping for the PAIR.
Currently the cost to purchase each new replacement woofer is $145 each, so you are getting 2 for the price of one.
Shipping will be $20 or less to the lower 48 states or Canada.
I take PayPal or Money Order for payment
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The Freedom Square is the main square of Kharkov and an architectural landmark. It is the second largest city-center square in Europe and the ninths in the world. It is the place of every possible events: concerts, demonstrations, fairs, meetings. From the moment of foundation (1925) till 1996 it was known as Dzerzhinskogo square.
The total area of the square is 11.9 hectares, the length is from 960 to 750 meters. Two metro stations are located under the square: station Universitet of Saltivska line and Derzhprom of Oleksiivska line.
Derzhprom (or Gosprom) is the central object of the round part of the Freedom Square. This architectural landmark was built in 1920-th and became the first skyscraper in whole country. From the right side of Gosprom you will see famous old University named after Karazin.
The monument of Lenin (was erected in 1963) became popular place for people to meet.
The Freedom Square in Kharkov is much bigger than the Red Square in Moscow and is the true heart of the city.


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Spdif out from Sound Card to Analog input on Stereo
I have recently purchased a Asus Xonar DX2 and am looking at connecting the Spdif output to an analog input to my Cambridge Audio Pre Amp.
What converter would I need to allow this to work.
Any help would be appreciated
Thanks for your input.
CB, what you're suggesting won't work unless you have some device between the ASUS Xonar D2X's S/PDIF output and the preamp/processor unit performing the function of Digital-to-Analog Conversion (DAC), which reassembles the digital audio signal (a sequence of on-off data representing digital 1s and 0s) into an analog audio signal (where the voltage being carried in the cable actually tracks the audio waveform). There are a few standalone DAC devices in the high-end audio world, but not so many at the consumer level. Of course, you've got Cambridge Audio components, so you're likely not afraid to spend a little money, but some of these devices can be fairly pricey.
The good news is that you've already got a high-quality DAC built into your ASUS D2X sound card -- the D2X uses high-end Burr-Brown digital-to-analog converters, and can achieve a phenomenal signal-to-noise ratio of 118dB. So your best option is to use the D2X's own analog audio outputs to feed the Cambridge Audio preamp directly. Alternately, if your Cambridge Audio preamp can accept any more digital inputs, connect the D2X directly via a S/PDIF cable, whether optical or coaxial. And if not, see if there are any other sources (like a CD changer-player) that could be 'bumped' from a digital input to an analog input.
and if that doesn't answer your question you can always go get a degree in electrical engineering.
Yeah... what he said. :p
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The asus xonar Dx2 analog outputs work pretty good as you mentioned.
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Barak Rejects Likud Demand for Veto
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak said Thursday he rejected the right-wing opposition Likud party's demands for a veto over peace and security policies as a condition for its joining an emergency government.
"We do not intend accepting any Likud veto or any type of diktat," Barak said at a stormy meeting of his Labor party in Tel Aviv.
"We want to have a true partnership in which decisions are taken together," he added.
Barak is trying to woo Likud's hawkish leader Ariel Sharon into a national emergency government and stave off the specter of early elections following a month of deadly unrest that has led to the virtual collapse of the peace process.
But negotiations have faltered over Sharon's demands for a veto over developments on the peace and security fronts.
Without a majority in parliament since July, Barak is scrambling to form a broad government before parliament returns on Monday – TEL AVIV (AFP)
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St. Bernard (1090-1153) was an important medieval theologian and a major figure in the Cistercian Order of monks. He was one of six very gifted sons of a French nobleman.
After some hesitation, Bernard joined the Cistercian Order in 1111, persuading four of his brothers and twenty-seven of his friends to come with him. Several years later Bernard was sent to establish a new monastery at Clairvaux, which then prospered under his leadership and contributed greatly to the renewal of the Church.
St. Bernard was a prolific writer, in spite of his poor health, and his widespread fame brought him into a number of the religious controversies and disputes of the age. Though personally charitable and kind, he was a formidable opponent, and he spared no effort in attacking injustice (such as excessive luxury among the clergy or persecution of the Jews).
St. Bernard was a great theologian, and he particularly relied upon the Bible in his preaching and writing, "not so much," he said, "to expound the words as to touch the people's hearts." Bernard was canonized only twenty-one years after his death in 1153, and in 1830 he was declared a Doctor (an eminent and reliable teacher) of the Church.


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First Time Cloud Event in Chicago Features Leading Experts on the Main Stage to Define the Future of Cloud Computing
SAN FRANCISCO – July 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Today Cloud Connect, produced by UBM TechWeb, announces industry thought leaders Chicago Tribune, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, and Rackspace will take the keynote stage at the first ever Cloud Connect event in Chicago. As the premier technology event for cloud computing, featuring the latest technologies, platforms, strategies, and innovations, Cloud Connect presents a keynote lineup that will provide attendees with information on the latest innovations in cloud computing. Cloud Connect Chicago will take place September 10-13, 2012 at the Hyatt Regency O'Hare, Chicago, IL. To register or for more information, visit: http://cloudconnectevent.com/chicago.
The keynote speakers for Cloud Connect currently include:
- David Linthicum, CTO, Blue Mountain Labs
- Jeremy Yates, Solutions Architect, Chicago Tribune
- Alistair Croll, Founder, CloudOps Research
- Mine Altunay PhD, OSG Security Officer, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
- John Engates, CTO, Rackspace
"We are excited to bring the cloud computing movement to Chicago this fall and welcome leading innovators and industry visionaries to the keynote stage. Cloud Connect's speaker lineup features top minds in the industry who will present attendees with insight on the latest advancements and best practices in cloud technologies," said Steve Wylie, Cloud Connect General Manager. "Bringing the strength of the Cloud Connect brand to Chicago, the event continues to play a vital role in gathering the market together, and will provide IT professionals with the information needed to create a cloud strategy that will improve business efficiencies and cut costs."
Following three successful years in Silicon Valley, Cloud Connect is expanding to Chicago in an effort to further cloud adoption and drive the growth and innovation of the cloud computing market. Chicago ranks in the top five out of more than 370 metro areas in the United States for emerging markets with over four hundred major corporations based in the Chicago area. In an effort to serve this large and growing technology market, Cloud Connect will bring the entire cloud eco-system together in Chicago to discuss the latest innovations and technologies in cloud computing.
Cloud Connect offers a multi-day conference, including tracks on Big Data, Mobile Cloud and Organizational Readiness, in-depth workshops and an expo floor, showcasing the full range of cloud solutions from top cloud computing technology companies. Sponsors of the Chicago event currently include: Rackspace, ActiveState, EnterpriseDB, Esri, Softlayer, Compuware APM, Inktank and IBM. For more information, visit: www.cloudconnectevent.com.
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Cadillac is a classic car. There is a certain visual that comes to mind when the name Cadillac is mentioned. Cadillac vehicles are some of the most powerful vehicles in its class. When it comes to luxury midsize sedans, they are on point every time. Their newest sedan to hit the market is the 2014 CTS model and it lives up to the Cadillac reputation.
This Cadi holds vintage quality with modern upgrades on both the exterior and interior. LED lights adorn the exterior as the cuts and curves are more bold than ever. The interior houses a variety of new additions as well including a ginormous 12.3 inch LCD instrument dashboard that can be customized tithe user's preferences. The audio system is clutch with an 11 speaker Bose stereo system that is boomin' and makes cruising the neighborhood a pleasure. There's an 8 inch touchscreen display on the dash and parking assist that makes backing up and pulling in parallel a little easier. There's also a 20-way adjustable seat for the driver and a land departure warning system. Under the hood holds a stunning 2.0 liter turbocharged four cylinder engine or the choice of the stock 3.6 liter V6. The difference between the two is quite a few horses but the power comes with the all-new twin turbo edition that pushes out 420-hp. This is quite the package for a mid-size luxury vehicle and it will be on the market for purchase in early 2014.
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I'm going to experiment with doing weekly recap posts. This is partly because I got more blogging done than usual this week, including four posts on Wednesday, and people not used to that may have missed some things. Are these worth doing? Let me know what you think. But without further ado: [Read more…]
Friday recap: arguments for the existence of God, Chris Mooney, and more!
Peter van Inwagen's argument for Christianity
My previous post brings me back to a point I made in chapter 1: too many attempts to refute "atheism" fail to understand that atheism is just thinking there aren't any gods. They think that refuting "naturalism" or "materialism" or whatever is somehow evidence that their god exists. I'm now going to give a somewhat longer [Read More…]
William Lane Craig vs. cute teddy bear girl on morality
This is a video I made in November 2010. I think of it every time I hear someone talking about William Lane Craig. His arguments, but especially his moral argument, are so awful that mockery may be the best way to respond: [Read more…]
God: kind of like an abusive boyfriend
Another great image I'm stealing from Facebook: [Read more…]
Did Chris Mooney have a point?
On my previous post on Chris Mooney, James Croft left a comment which I'm very grateful for and want to respond to. Here's the meat of James' comment: I think that Mooney is making a general case that supporters of science and critics of religion need to pay closer attention to the well-developed science of [Read More…]
Arguments for the existence of something that sounds kind of like a god
A close cousin of god-of-the-gaps arguments are arguments that argue for something that sounds kind of like a god, but which wouldn't actually have to be a god. A good example of this is the argument from design, which claims that we can somehow show that the life on Earth and/or the universe was designed, [Read More…]
What arguments are popular among liberal Christians?
Commenter mnb0 makes a point that I think is worth devoting a post to: Countering fundie- and creacrap is easy. It has been done many times before. If you want to distinguish yourself you should find yourself some liberal christians to bash. Don't tell me there aren't in the States and I'm pretty sure it will [Read More…]
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Higher order spectral analysis of Chua's circuit
Elgar, Steve & Chandran, Vinod (1993) Higher order spectral analysis of Chua's circuit. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Fundamental Theory and Applications, 40(10), pp. 689-692.
Higher order spectral analysis is used to investigate nonlinearities in time series of voltages measured from a realization of Chua's circuit. For period-doubled limit cycles, quadratic and cubic nonlinear interactions result in phase coupling and energy exchange between increasing numbers of triads and quartets of Fourier components as the nonlinearity of the system is increased. For circuit parameters that result in a chaotic Rossler-type attractor, bicoherence and tricoherence spectra indicate that both quadratic and cubic nonlinear interactions are important to the dynamics. When the circuit exhibits a double-scroll chaotic attractor the bispectrum is zero, but the tricoherences are high, consistent with the importance of higher-than-second order nonlinear interactions during chaos associated with the double scroll.
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Monday, June 28, 1999
DJIA 10655.15 +102.59 (+0.97%) S&P 500 1331.35 +16.04 (+1.22%) Nasdaq 2602.44 +49.79 (+1.95%) Russell 2000 448.61 +5.50 (+1.24%) 30-Year Bond 88 16/32 +21/32 6.09 Yield
Online healthcare information company drkoop.com Inc. (Nasdaq: KOOP) flew $2 1/8 higher to $16 1/8 after setting up a Clinical Trials Information Center on its website with pharmaceutical contract research organization Quintiles Transnational (Nasdaq: QTRN), giving drkoop.com users access to information about ongoing clinical drug trials for various conditions. The joint effort will also act as a pre-screening service to recruit and enroll possible clinical trial volunteers. While the arrangement will certainly give those with serious illnesses and few treatment options better access to drugs in the clinical trial process and help number one trial operator Quintiles sign up volunteers, it's unclear how the deal will help drkoop.com's business, outside of maybe directing more eyeballs to its website. drkoop.com declined to comment on the announcement, directing interested investors to instead participate in a webcast on its site held at 5:00 p.m. EDT.
After months of back-and-forth with an American suitor, it took a Swedish company to finally cajole equipment rental firm Rental Service Corp. (NYSE: RSV) into a business combination. Atlas Copco AB announced an agreement today to acquire the company, which primarily serves the industrial, manufacturing, and construction markets, for about $730 million, or $29 per share in cash, excluding some $900 million in assumed debt. That's a 21% premium to Rental Service's closing price of $24 1/16 per share Friday and 27% higher than an April bid from United Rentals (NYSE: URI), which Rental Services dismissed as "inadequate" twice. Rental Service shareholders celebrated the emergence of the Scandinavian white knight by boosting the company's shares $4 7/16 to $28 1/2 today. United Rentals, which will not submit a higher bid, gained to $15/16 to $27 1/16.
QUICK TAKES: Industrial electronic components distributor Marshall Industries (NYSE: MI) leapt $15 11/16 to $35 13/16 after agreeing to be acquired by value-added components reseller Avnet Inc. (NYSE: AVT) for $39 per share in either cash or Avnet stock. The purchase price is nearly double Marshall's closing price of $20 1/8 per share Friday. Avnet fell $2 5/8 to $45 3/16... Drug store chain Walgreen Co. (NYSE: WAG) added $1 3/4 to $29 5/16 after posting fiscal Q3 EPS of $0.16, up from $0.13 a year ago and a penny ahead of the First Call mean estimate. The company also said it will launch its full-service Internet pharmacy in September... Electronic payment information processor First Data Corp. (NYSE: FDC) picked up $2 3/8 to $47 13/16 after Credit Suisse First Boston raised its rating on the firm to "strong buy" from "buy" and set a 12-month price target of $60 per share.
Package delivery company FDX Corp. (NYSE: FDX) rose $2 7/8 to $55 3/8 on expectations it will top analysts' EPS estimates of $0.71 when it reports its fiscal Q4 results on Wednesday... Biopharmaceutical company Enzon Inc. (Nasdaq: ENZN) climbed $1 11/16 to $18 1/2 after reworking a licensing agreement for its PEG-Intron product with Schering-Plough (NYSE: SGP), which will entitle Enzon to a higher effective royalty rate. PEG-Intron is a longer-lasting version of Schering-Plough's anticancer/anti-infective Intron A, which is being developed to treat hepatitis C and various cancers... Web-based customer support software provider Silknet Software (Nasdaq: SILK) slinked its way $3 15/16 higher to $35 7/16 after signing a sales and marketing agreement with enterprise interaction management products developer Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories (Nasdaq: GCTI).
Media company Viacom (NYSE: VIA) moved up $2 1/8 to $43 5/16. Over the weekend, The New York Times reported that the company is in talks to combine certain functions of its Simon & Schuster book publishing unit with Time Warner's (NYSE: TWX) Little, Brown and Warner Books business... Milwaukee-based natural gas and pumping equipment company Wicor Inc. (NYSE: WIC) moved up $1 9/16 to $28 1/8 after agreeing to be acquired by Wisconsin Energy Corp. (NYSE: WEC) for $1.5 billion in cash, stock, and assumed debt. Meanwhile, intimate apparel maker Warnaco Group (NYSE: WAC), which would round out a potential WIC-WEC-WAC combo, was little changed today... Water treatment company Nalco Chemical (NYSE: NLC) rose $9 to $51 1/2 after agreeing to be acquired by France's Suez Lyonnaise des Eaux for $53 per share in cash. Fellow water treatment chemicals firm Cytec Industries (NYSE: CYT) rose $3 3/16 to $29 1/2 in sympathy. For a closer look at the Nalco deal, see today's Fool Plate Special.
Specialty packaging and tissue company Chesapeake Corp. (NYSE: CSK) sailed $3 5/8 higher to $38 9/16 after saying it will combine its commercial tissue paper products unit with the similar business unit of paper and lumber company Georgia-Pacific (NYSE: GP). Georgia-Pacific will take a 90% stake in the venture for $730 million, which Chesapeake will use to buy back shares, pay down debt, and make acquisitions... Insurer Zenith National Insurance (NYSE: ZNT) gained $1 7/8 to $26 11/16 after financial services firm Fairfax Financial Holdings said it would acquire nearly 6.6 million Zenith shares from a unit of Reliance Group Holdings (NYSE: REL) for $28 per share... Rural digital broadcast satellite (DBS) services provider Pegasus Communications (Nasdaq: PGTV) added $5 13/16 to $41 5/8 after ING Baring Furman Selz started coverage of the firm with a "buy" rating.
Specialty pharmaceuticals company Jones Pharma (Nasdaq: JMED) tacked on $2 7/8 to $37 5/8 after BancBoston Robertson Stephens raised its rating to "strong buy" from "buy"... Casino operator Boyd Gaming Corp. (NYSE: BYD) rolled $13/16 higher to $6 5/16 after buying the Blue Chip Casino, a riverboat casino in Michigan City, Indiana, for $255 million... Assisted living residences operator Alterra Healthcare Corp. (NYSE: ALI) picked up $1 1/4 to $13 3/16 following a Jefferies & Co. upgrade to "buy" from "underperform"... Canadian wireless communications technology company Research In Motion (Nasdaq: RIMM) sprinted $1 9/16 higher to $19 9/16 after CIBC World Markets started coverage of the firm with a "strong buy" rating.
Investors frowned at shares of teeth whitening technologies developer BriteSmile (AMEX: BWT) today, sending the stock down $2 1/8 to $9 9/16. This week's issue of Barron's raised questions about the company's ability to turn a profit and the safety of its treatment. While the article was the likely catalyst for today's move, investors might have saved themselves some money had they read June 10th's Foolish Double, in which Louis Corrigan pointed out that despite some notable performance benchmarks -- notably and recently the June 3 news that orthodontic practice management firm Orthodontic Centers of America (NYSE: OCA) will offer the company's procedure -- BriteSmile's revenue stream and ability to execute are hardly in perfect health. Enthusiasm for BriteSmile's prospects has helped the company generate an interesting year so far, as the shares are up more than 150% in 1999 even after today's slide. But as with oral hygiene, for stockholders to neglect handling BriteSmile with care could prove a messy business.
"Ben, I just want to say two words to you. Just two words. Are you listening? Earnings warning." Shares of plastics and metals processing equipment company Milacron Inc. (NYSE: MZ) poured out $2 13/16 to $17 7/8 today following news that the company expects second-quarter earnings to come in 10% below last year's $0.45 per share mark. Wall Street was looking for EPS of $0.50. Some might remember back to late April, when the company told investors that despite soft industrial markets -- Milacron missed estimates in Q1 as well -- there were signs of a turnaround and it still expected to post year-over-year EPS growth of between 12% and 15%. That seems unlikely now: "While we have begun to see early signs of a pickup in the past few weeks," said CEO Dan Meyer, "it hasn't been enough to put our second quarter earnings back on track." The company does anticipate "gradual improvement" in EPS for the second half, but if Q2 results come in as now expected, Milacron will have to beat market estimates by an average of $0.03 per share in each of the next two quarters to make the 12% figure.
QUICK CUTS: International telecommunications and Internet services company Worldport Communications (Nasdaq: WRDP) unplugged $4 27/32 to $3 1/2 after saying it's under review by a Nasdaq panel and may be delisted... Online brokerage Ameritrade (Nasdaq: AMTD) slumped $2 to $83 1/2 after filing with the SEC to sell up to $250 million worth of common shares. The company's filing didn't mention the size of the offering. Certain stockholders may sell shares as well... Online health information company Healtheon (Nasdaq: HLTH) lost $7 15/16 to $72 3/8 after Barron's reported that Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), an investor in Healtheon betrothed WebMD, wants to trim its stake in the combined company and is asking a price significantly below market value.
Financial software company SS&C Technologies (Nasdaq: SSNC) dropped $1 25/32 to $6 19/32 after saying Q2 EPS will be between break-even and $0.03. Two analysts surveyed by First Call were looking for a $0.19 per share profit... Bank holding company Associated Banc-Corp (Nasdaq: ASBC), which Friday night said it approved a 2.8 million-share stock buyback in connection with its planned acquisition of Riverside Bank of Minneapolis, lost $3 1/4 to $39 13/16... Small appliances company Salton Inc. (NYSE: SFP) gave away $3 3/8 to $45 1/4 after reporting that it filed to sell approximately 2.9 million shares of company stock to the public, about 2 million by the company and the balance by shareholders. Salton also approved a 3-for-2 stock split; the shares to be sold are counted on a pre-split basis.
Pharmaceutical contract research organization (CRO) Covance (NYSE: CVD), downgraded to "neutral" from "buy" at Dain Rauscher Wessels, lost $1 3/4 to $23 1/4. Friday, the company cancelled plans to merge with rival Parexel International (Nasdaq: PRXL)... Industrial Distribution Group (NYSE: IDG) misplaced $9/16 to $5 7/16 after the maintenance, repair, operating, and production products and services company said it expects Q2 EPS of between $0.06 and $0.08, well short of First Call's three-analyst $0.14 consensus... Free e-mail and paid Internet access provider Juno Online Services (Nasdaq: JWEB) returned $2 7/8 to $23 1/4 today after taking $3 15/16 Friday on rumors of a buyout by America Online (NYSE: AOL). Juno today released a new version of its Internet software.
Website publisher Internet.com Corp. (Nasdaq: INTM) gave up $1 7/8 to $12 1/8 in the stock's second trading session. Shares in the company, which sold 3.4 million stubs to the public for $14 each, finished Friday right where they began... Spanish-language Internet portal Quepasa.com (Nasdaq: PASA), which gave away $2 1/2 on Friday in its first trading session after selling 4 million shares for $12 each, lost another $1/2 to $14 1/8 today.
Discount retailer Consolidated Stores (NYSE: CNS) lost $1 13/16 to $27 3/16 today. The company said it closed its acquisition of BrainPlay.com Inc., a move aimed at expanding the presence of its kbtoys.com online toy division... E-mail direct marketing company MessageMedia (Nasdaq: MESG) slowed $2 3/16 to $16 today. The company said it will provide e-mail management services to interactive health website operator RealAge. Terms were not reported... Technology development company CVF Technologies (AMEX: CNV), which agreed to be bought by privately held USA Global Link, lost $1 1/8 to $4 7/8. The new company, Global Online, will be publicly traded with the symbol "GOL."
Irish pharmaceutical contract research organization Icon PLC's (Nasdaq: ICLR) American depository shares retreated $1 1/2 to $20 1/2 after J.C. Bradford rated the company "neutral" in new coverage... Osteotech Inc. (Nasdaq: OSTE), which provides human bone and bone connective tissue for transplantation, was hit for a loss of $4 1/8 to $31 7/16 despite winning a reiterated "buy" rating from BancBoston Robertson Stephens. "Certain uniformed investors have circulated comments that [a recent acquisition] will have a negative impact" on Q2 EPS, the analyst wrote... Electronic design automation tools maker Avant! (Nasdaq: AVNT), downgraded to "market perform" from "buy" at Hambrecht & Quist, closed down $1 9/16 to $11 7/16.
An Investment Opinion
by Yi-Hsin Chang
Black and White on Wall Street
During my jet-lagged hours on my recent vacation, I read Joseph Jett's Black and White on Wall Street. It's clear fairly early on that Jett never expected to write a book by that title. A general book on Wall Street or at least on bond trading perhaps, but one focused on race? Not likely, considering his father's influence on him and his unwavering opposition toward affirmative action.
If Joe Jett's name doesn't ring a bell, you probably remember news reports in early 1994, and intermittently since then, of a top Wall Street trader who allegedly "brought down" Kidder Peabody. I remember the media stressed the fact he was black. As Jett recalls, "The tenor of the stories conveyed the idea that you can take a black man out of the ghetto, but you can't take the ghetto out of the black man."
Judging from Jett's upbringing in the suburbs of Cleveland, there's little, if any, "ghetto" in this son of an accountant and a school teacher. His father, who served in the navy and the army, was a strict disciplinarian. Jett applied to and was accepted to Carnegie Mellon, Ohio State, and Harvard University. He applied to MIT on a bet from a white classmate who said the only reason he had been accepted was because he was black. Without putting race on his application, Jett was immediately accepted to MIT and ended up going there.
Several years later, while applying for a job during his second year at Harvard Business School, Jett prepared a color-blind resume that didn't mention his race. Inevitably, though, during the interview process, he would be sent to the affirmative-action office. This is a snippet of what he said to the affirmative-action manager at Shearson Lehman:
"[A]ffirmative action is not an opportunity. It is nothing more than an admission of your intellectual inferiority. It's an agreement that says hire me and I will never challenge you. It's an agreement that says the only reason I am here is that the great white father has let me in here. There used to be a saying that it's better to die on your feet than to live on your knees. Affirmative action is living on your knees."
Jett was 100% right, of course. Not surprisingly, he got no job offer from Shearson Lehman. Jett knew that race is such a pervasive issue in this country that he couldn't expect a fair shake in the workplace. He thought one exception would be on Wall Street, where his job performance could be measured by objective standards. This was where he went wrong. Yes, the numbers would show how successfully he invested the company's money, but that's no guarantee that he would be justly compensated for his hard work.
What Jett soon discovered at Kidder was that traders and salesmen weren't rewarded by the amount of business they brought in but rather their ability to master office politics and their buddy-buddy relationships with the boss. Perhaps just as important is a trader's athleticism, proven on the ski slopes or on the golf course.
The strangest and most offensive episodes were the lectures Jett said he got from his boss on "black male sexuality." According to Jett, anytime he was seen just talking to a white woman at the office -- and this didn't happen often because Jett went out of his way to avoid such situations -- he was warned not to date white women, warned that the Kidder culture was "particularly sensitive to issues involving black male sexuality and black male sexual aggressiveness."
With such overt threats of trumped-up charges of sexual harassment, it hardly comes as any surprise that Kidder would blame Jett for what was an orchestrated effort to deceive its parent company, General Electric (NYSE: GE), by juggling books and doctoring balance sheets. Kidder and GE blamed Jett for fictionalizing $350 million in profits. Now, even if you don't believe Jett's detailed and technical account of what actually went on at Kidder, it's much harder to believe that Jett's managers didn't know how he was investing the company's money -- we're talking $30 billion -- when they were keeping tabs on his brief contacts with white female employees.
What happened to Jett would not have happened had he been white. A whole group of people, especially his immediate bosses, would've gone down for the deceptive accounting practices instead of being allowed to retire on the bonuses they earned off of Jett's successful trading strategies.
In the end, in early 1997, a panel of arbitrators at the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) rejected Kidder's charge that Jett had engaged in "fraud, breach of duty and unjust enrichment," and determined that the money Jett had made was real. Still, Jett's recovery from the public lynching by the media has been slow. Investor confidence is crucial in the financial services industry, and Jett's name has been trashed so much that it has been hard to round up clients for his fledgling hedge fund.
Black and White on Wall Street is yet another step in helping to rehabilitate Jett's torn image. While the case was in litigation, his lawyers advised him against making comments, which in effect kept him from telling his side of the story. If you take the time to look, a similar albeit far less dramatic "black and white" story can be found in almost any company in America.
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Yeah, another Hollywood nitwit. She had no problem accepting the movie role of a vigilante doing a shoot'em up film, BUT now everyone's guns are evil and should be banned. How about Hollywood first putting their guns away.
This is a discussion on Gun Prohibition within the The Second Amendment & Gun Legislation Discussion forums, part of the Related Topics category; "The Brave One" star Jodie Foster believes that guns should be completely banned. She may get her wish, depending on how the upcoming elections turn ...
"The Brave One" star Jodie Foster believes that guns should be completely banned. She may get her wish, depending on how the upcoming elections turn out.
Yeah, another Hollywood nitwit. She had no problem accepting the movie role of a vigilante doing a shoot'em up film, BUT now everyone's guns are evil and should be banned. How about Hollywood first putting their guns away.
standard hollywood line... The movie looks good, though.
OK, Jody, first things first. You have to install the "GUn Free Zone" signs around your property. Then you have to require that none of your personal protection staff carry any guns. Then you should start with trying to get the Police Dept in the town that you live in to do away with their guns.
If all that works out for you, then give me a call and we can talk about expanding the ban that worked so well for you.
Until then............SHUT UP AND MAKE MOVIES!
Lex et Libertas Semper Vigilo, Fortis, Paratus, et Fidelis!
"Not only do the people who put their lives on the line to protect the rest of us deserve better, we all deserve better than to have our own security undermined by those who undermine law enforcement." -Thomas Sowell
Hollywood hipocricy is alive and well
More gut emotions and no logic or common sense.
Chris - P95
NRA Certified Instructor & NRA Life Member.
"To own a gun and assume that you are armed
is like owning a piano and assuming that you are a musician!."
http://www.rkba-2a.com/ - a portal for 2A links, articles and some videos.
Actress Jodie Foster has launched an attack against America's abundance of firearms by insisting on a prohibition on the use of guns in the US.
The Silence of the Lambs star insists that guns should not exist, even though they are a huge part of the American culture.
Jodie Foster quote...
"I don't believe that any gun should be in the hand of a thinking, feeling, and breathing human being, Contactmusic quoted Foster, as saying.
Americans are by nature filled with rage-slash-fear. And guns are a huge part of our culture.
"I know I'm crazy because I'm only supposed to say that in Europe. But violence corrupts absolutely," she added.
Foster is playing the role of an urban vigilante in the new flick The Brave One.
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Yes, I agree...
Proverbs 27:12 says: The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it.
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I bet she keeps the money from the movie role.And her armed security.
The limited bits of that movie I have seen in previews appear to all be good reasons to carry. They also seem realistic in that people face similar situations every day (even though they may not take on a role of seeking them out like she supposedly does in the movie) I wonder if she looks at the role as strictly fiction and has convinced herself that this stuff does not ACTUALLY happen. It happens only on the movie screen and therefore there should be no need to defend yourself. If that is the case, then she needs a serious reality check.
~~~the biggest deficit of the general public is a lack of personal accountability.. I have no one to blame for my actions, regardless of circumstances, except myself and by the same token I can hold no one else responsible for my protection and well being other than myself~~~
I try and boycott movies made by anti gun people, therefore I hardly ever go to movies and save a lot of money, My time is better spent at the Range shooting targets. The money I save from movies pays for my ammo.
she is a hipocrite who should keep quite.All she wants is more face time in the media!
Seems she has no problem using guns in movies to make lots of money. Too bad she is ignorant to how real life works.
"In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock." Thomas Jefferson
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I don't take engineering advice from a medical doctor nor firearms advice from an actor. I use both for the services I choose, medical care and entertainment, and ignore the rest.
My wife and I saw the preview for "The Brave One" while at the theater watching "The Invasion" (another good case for staying armed!), and we thought it looked great, so this is highly disappointing news.
Her movie looks like a modern-day version of the classic "Death Wish" with Charles Bronson, except with a female lead, which is even better since they're more often victimized than men.
How someone could play the lead role in this movie, which seems to advocate vigilantism (really more like proper self-defense when going to "dangerous" areas) as Death Wish so obviously did, and then say guns should all be banned, simply baffles me. I don't know for sure, but somehow I don't think the late Mr. Bronson was against guns.
This woman wouldn't be making any movies if it weren't for crime and violence...and she KNOWS it. Her saying she "hates it" is a lie. She would be working as a truck stop waitress without it. Two faced actors aren't worth my spending hard earned money on. Wonder how many armed security guards she employs?
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With Halloween being this coming weekend, I wanted to have a little fun here and talk about scary movies and Oscar. As a general rule, the Academy doesn't go for horror, but they have occasionally slipped on in here and there. This year, there's a fringe contender in It Follows to consider, but mostly that candidacy is an excuse to look quickly at some of the fright flicks that have scored with the Academy. It's not a particularly long list, but there are horror films that have been nominated for Academy Awards and even a handful from the genre that have won Oscars. Who knows, maybe It Follows can shock the world?
As a refresher for those of you have aren't familiar with the title, It Follows is a hybrid character study/coming of age tale/horror film from earlier this year. Written and directed by David Robert Mitchell, it tells the story of a 19 year old girl named Jay (played wonderfully by Maika Monroe in a star making turn) who sees a sexual encounter lead to terror. After sleeping with her new boyfriend for the first time, he basically kidnaps her in order to safely inform her of what he's passed on to her. Until they had sex, he was plagued by something monstrous following him slowly wherever he went. It started when he slept with someone on a one night stand, and now that he's given it to her, he's free from its clutches. Jay is warned that if it catches you, you die. Worse yet, it'll take the form of people you know in order to get close to you. After he lets her go and runs off, she groups up with her friends, neighbor, and sister to figure out if there's any way to survive. Monroe is the undisputed star of the flick, but the cast has some solid supporting players, including Keir Gilchrist. Besides Monroe, you'll be blown away by Mitchell's work behind the camera, especially when it pairs with the contention worthy cinematography by Mike Gioulakis and the score from Rich Vreeland.
While any Oscar attention is a real long shot, I still believe that this flick is truly worthy of consideration in a number of categories, regardless of likelihood. Beyond the ultimately fruitless endeavor of pushing it for a Best Picture, Best Actress (for Monroe), or Best Original Screenplay (for MitchellI nomination, the technical work is […]
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The scariest movies ever nominated for Academy Awards
With Halloween being this coming weekend, I wanted to have a little fun here and talk about scary movies and Oscar. As a general rule, the Academy doesn't go for horror, but they have occasionally slipped on in here and there. This year, there's a fringe contender in It Follows to consider, but mostly that candidacy is an excuse to look quickly at some of the fright flicks that have scored with the Academy. It's not a particularly long list, but there are horror films that have been nominated for Academy Awards and even a handful from the genre that have won Oscars. Who knows, maybe It Follows can shock the world?
Why the Academy shouldn't go back to five Best Picture nominees
One of the most fiercely debated subjects when it comes to the Oscars, aside from the actual films and performances in contention, is what the Academy should do with the size of their Best Picture slates. Recently, rumors have been swirling that AMPAS members have been considering again adjusting the potential lineup, perhaps even going back to having five nominees in Picture. I know there are plenty of fans out there who back that idea, while there are plenty more who want Oscar to go back to a straight ten. I certainly know which one I prefer, but I don't agree that either idea beats the sliding scale that we currently have. Personally, I feel that going back to five would be a big mistake. In fact, I want them to do the exact opposite.
Why do I say that? Well, I truly believe that a bigger group of Best Picture nominees leads to better selections. There's a ripple effect that I'll discuss in the next paragraph, but when more films are in contention, it creates a better group overall. Especially when there was a guaranteed ten, you knew that voters were looking at their favorite movies of the year and keeping their minds open about what they traditionally thought a Best Picture nominee should be. That got us District 9 in a lineup, for example. I also reject the notion that it led to poor choices. If The Blind Side and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close are the worst nominees in an expanded field, we're still doing pretty well. They're weaker nominees, but far from bad ones. The Academy has plenty of history with ten nominees, if not quite as much as it does with five. It's just the sliding scale that's new and not well liked. If Oscar goes back to five, it runs the risk of diluting the overall field, in a way I'm not sure they're even considering.
For example, the biggest issue with going back to five is how much it would impact the smaller contenders. Look at just this past year and consider the case of Whiplash. If there were only five spots, I doubt it gets a big campaign coming out of Sundance like it did, leading to perhaps only J.K. Simmons getting in, if that. No nomination for Best Picture. It definitely doesn't overcome category confusion to show up in Best Adapted Screenplay. The […]
The scariest movies ever nominated for an Academy Award
Since it's Halloween (Happy Halloween everyone), I wanted to do something horror centric but also still relating to Oscar in some way. As such, I wanted to take a look at which scary movies, to one degree or another, were embraced by the Academy Awards. Ideally I'd have focused on Best Picture, but as I'm sure you all know, the pickings there will be mighty slim. Instead, I'll bounce around, trying to stick to bigger categories whenever possible, but still looking for the most overt examples of genre fare ever cited. I might bend the rules once or twice, but hey…it's Halloween. I hope you all enjoy.
Here's the ten scariest movies to catch the attention of Oscar:
1. The Silence of the Lambs – Any list like this has to start with this one, since it almost swept the Oscars in its year. Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Adapted Screenplay…it won five of the big eight categories, part of seven nominations in total. An iconic piece of cinema, it deserves a place at the top of any article of this nature. It's a perfect representation of horror (though it's hardly just that) that the Academy thankfully embraced.
2. The Sixth Sense – One of the Academy's most overt embraces of horror, it received a whopping half dozen citations, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, and Best Original Screenplay. It was a fleeting embrace as opposed to ushering in a more open minded line of voting by Oscar, but it's still cool to remember nonetheless.
3. Black Swan – Psychological terror is still terror, so when this film that should be miles away from an Academy member's tastes got five nods (including Best Picture and Best Director) and won Best Actress, it was an incredibly pleasant surprise. It does harken back to some other movies that they've been fond of in the past, so that was a plus, but still…can you believe this was a nominee alongside the likes of The King's Speech and The Kids Are All Right?
4. The Exorcist – Let me blow your mind for a second…this horror film scored double digit Oscar nominations. Yes, it was nominated for ten Academy Awards (including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Supporting Actress) and won a pair of them, for Best Sound and Best Adapted Screenplay. That's horrifically […]
Diane Keaton: The Top 25 (Best Actress)
It's almost over folks. Yes, this penultimate time around I'll be tackling one of the very biggest of the big eight categories, one of the only two left. This one is arguably the second or third biggest of them all…it's the Best Actress field. This is really about as prestigious a category as there is ladies and gentlemen, give or take how you stack Picture/Director/Actor. I could go on and on in preparation right now, waxing poetic, but at this point I know how the game works here for everyone. You all mostly just want to see the lists that I do anyhow, so I have no problem obliging you good people there in that particular regard once again. All you have to do is just be patient over the next paragraph or two and you'll get the goods front and center for your reading pleasure…
I'll basically just skip burying the lead this time around and just discuss my top ten a bit here now. To me, the best winner of this category so far to date has been Diane Keaton in her iconic performance in Annie Hall. She creates an unforgettable character alongside Woody Allen and wins both your heart and your mind. It's unquestionably the best winner in this category's history, at least in my eyes. A classic performance in a classic film. Not far behind is Hilary Swank in Boys Don't Cry, which I think is not just one of the all time best bits of acting, but somehow an underrated one despite winning Swank her first Oscar. Swank actually has two performances in my top ten (and she's not the only multiple honoree here, but I'll get to that in a moment), but this is her crowning achievement. Rounding out the top five we have Jodie Foster in The Silence of the Lambs (who has two performances on my list), Elizabeth Taylor for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and Charlize Theron for Monster. They're all tremendous performances, and they're joined in an absolutely stacked top ten by the likes of Louise Fletcher for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Vivien Leigh for Gone with the Wind, Natalie Portman for Black Swan, Meryl Streep for Sophie's Choice, and Swank again for Million Dollar Baby. Besides Swank's two mentions, Foster also shows up again just outside the top ten for The Accused, while Leigh has one more in […]
Oscars®: Noah – What's up with the 2015 Awards Race
Directed by: Darren Aronofsky
Written by: Darren Aronofsky and Ari Handel
Main Cast: Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Anthony Hopkins, Emma Watson, Logan Lerman, Ray Winstone, Douglas Booth, Marton Csokas, Nick Nolte, Mark Margolis, and Frank Langella
Past Oscar relations: Crowe won Best Actor for Gladiator and has two other acting nominations, Hopkins won Best Actor for The Silence of the Lambs and has three other acting nominations, Connolly won Best Supporting Actress for A Beautiful Mind, Nolte has three acting nominations, Langella has one acting nominations, Aronofsky has a nomination for Best Director, and DP Matthew Libatique has a nomination for Best Cinematography
Here we go now with our first true article in this new series on 2014 contenders. First up is Darren Aronofsky's Noah, which again brings him together with the likes of Jennifer Connelly, composer Clint Mansell, co-writer Ari Handel, and cinematographer Matthew Libatique, along with newcomers like Russell Crowe, Anthony Hopkins, Ray Winstone, Emma Watson, and Logan Lerman. It's a retelling of the story of Noah (shockingly enough), though apparently more in line with Aronofsky's prior work like The Fountain than more straightforward biblical tales to date.
What this movie has going in its favor is quite simply Aronofsky. He's a visionary director and this has long been a passion project of his. I'll have a bit more to say about passion projects this weekend, but I'm someone who's always interested in them and how much potential they have. Aronofsky finally caught the Academy's attention last time around with Black Swan (though both Requiem for a Dream and The Wrestler scored acting citations), so if Oscar voters are now on his wavelength, we could see them look to honor his ambition here.
Working against Noah is publicity that the flick will get because of its origins, as opposed to the final product itself. Early reviews have been mixed but mostly positive, so it's not a question of if the film is any good or not, but if it'll be given a real chance. My heart wants to say that folks will look past the potential protests from the religious right, but my head thinks that it'll become something all too easy to ignore for voters. Taking into account that it's an early year release as well, and the movie clearly will have an uphill battle for any major recognition, to say the least.
So, can this be a player at all? My gut says […]
"THE MONK" with Vincent Cassel – Official Trailer and Poster
Watch the corruption of a 16th Century, pious Capuchin Monk as he is led down a dangerous path of sin in THE MONK, the supernatural thriller adapted from Matthew G. Lewis' classic cult novel.
Raised in a monastery, Brother Ambrosio (Vincent Cassel) grows up into a preacher admired for his fervor and feared for his righteousness, until arrival of a mysterious apprentice undermines his convictions with dark consequences. Get a look at the film by checking out the official trailer and poster now:
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Starring Vincent Cassel (BLACK SWAN, MESRIN: KILLER INSTINCT), and directed by Dominik Moll, THE MONK will be in select theaters, On Demand, and available for download starting Friday, March 8th.
Mila Kunis facing pregnancy rumors
HollywoodNews.com: Mila Kunis' romance with Ashton Kutcher has received a lot of scrutiny considering he is still married to Demi Moore and allegedly split with her when he was caught in a cheating scandal.
Now that the two have been happily showing off their budding relationship, they are facing more scrutiny than ever, states RadarOnline. While out for a walk, Kunis sparked pregnancy rumors as her shirt clung to a seemingly rounder than usual stomach.
She has been open about her body being different since filming 'Black Swan,' but it is looking even more different than usual.
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Natalie Portman's wedding dress designed by Rodarte
HollywoodNews.com: Natalie Portman married Benjamin Millepied this weekend, and the lucky design she wore was a Rodarte wedding dress.
Portman wore a dress from the label designed by her good friends, Laura and Kate Mulleavy, states UsMagazine.com. The dress was reportedly a white A-line dress that included sheer sleeves.
Portman also reportedly wore flats with her dress along with a veil and a floral crown.
Rodarte has been working with Portman for some time now as the designers created her 'Black Swan' tutus along with the dresses she wore to the 83rd Annual Academy Awards and the 20120 Venice Film Festival.
Portman and Millepied had a traditional Jewish ceremony this weekend near Big Sur, California.
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HollywoodNews.com: Natalie Portman is officially a married woman as she has reportedly wed fiance and father of her son Benjamin Millepied.
The two allegedly had a traditional Jewish ceremony this weekend at a private home near Big Sur, California, states RadarOnline. They already have a 13-month-old son together, Aleph.
Portman and Millepied originally met while working on 'Black Swan' together as he helped to choreograph the film and also had a small role as a dancer.
They welcomed their first son last year after she earned an Oscar for her role in 'Black Swan.'
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Mila Kunis talks conflicts with losing, gaining weight for 'Black Swan'
HollywoodNews.com: Mila Kunis lost a lot of weight for her role in 'Black Swan,' but it seems now that she has gained it back, she is realizing a lot about how people look at weight.
Kunis opened up to 'Glamour' about losing the weight and how people looked at her, states RadarOnline. "What was crazy was, when I was shooting 'Black Swan,' everyone was like, 'Gosh, you're really too skinny,'" Kunis said.
However, as soon as she gained it back, people flipped on her: "Then my weight started bouncing back and they're like, 'She looked better when she was anorexic-looking.'"
But Kunis knows she will only be the weight she wants to be: "You can't please anyone!"
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Seeking input/responses for a outdoor water heater enclosure that I am currently in the process of building. Home is located in SW Florida and I am not too concerned with water pipes freezing. The water heater's location is right behind back-to-back bathrooms and kitchen to minimize hot water distance.
My position is that I am not a good carpenter, but generally hate to pay someone for work I can "try" to do myself. With any project I like the challenge, don't mind working hard to get through, but unfortunately either lack the experience and know how in some cases and prefer not to bother others with my own construction issues. Okay, getting that disclaimer out of the way I have attached some pics of my (unfinished) WH enclosure project.I will be reinforcing the cabinet and puting in a front access door, of which it didn't have before. My concerns are:
1) Is it okay to butt the PT lumber against the outside wall (sealed concrete block) and put dynaflex 230 silicone/acryllic caulking around the 2 x 4"'s perimeter . Will this cause moisture entrapment issues within the wall or wood?
2) Is it okay to caulk around the electrical conduit tubing and incoming pvc water line to help keep water out?
All suggestions or comments much appreciated.
Is you WH sitting directly on concrete? If so the concrete will eat the bottom off the WH in a year or less. Same goes for PT lumber.
Install a plastic WH pan under the WH to insulate from the concrete (or PT lumber).
It has been sitting directly on that slab for a number years. I did put some caulking around the bottom edge years ago to help prevent rust. The plastic pan is good suggestion and I will pick one up. Hopefully the bottom isn't too bad. I haven't seen any rust stains on the slab and I noticed when I drilled into the slab it spit out dry dust, so hopefully that translates into little moisture coming through the cement. I never sealed the slab as it didn't occur to me to do so, Should I ?
best advise I can give you is to talk with your local building official and find out what your local requirements are.
I have seen aluminum water heater cabinets on-line and they are sold at some (not in FL) L0w3s and H0 De's, but the reviews on them is that they are open-back, flimsy, weather quickly and look bad. Most are sold in California and Arizona for older homes. Got to consider Hurricanes here.
Good luck!
I'll call the building official's office tomorrow and hopefully I won't be to far off track (or in violation) with this enclosure. I should have done that in the first place. Thanks for the replies.
Got a mess there. Those lines should have been run down to the side of the enclosure so water would not be running down into the building from the roof.
No clue why you would have used 4 X 4's sitting on the slab.
Pressure treated 2 X 4's should have been used.
That siding is installed wrong, and I sure never would have used that type siding. Should have been installed on the outside of the 2X's not the way you have it.
The whole encloure should have been built taller so you could have used a real prehung door.
If I got stuck trying to work on that one I'd tear it all down and start over.
All lumber is PT and those on the slab are 2 x 4"s sandwiched together. I needed the extra height as the enclosure was built prior years ago. The siding I plan to replace with 1/2" sheet PT and add few 2 x 4" bracing where needed. I probably should consider building another one or consider buying one like this enclosure site http://myaquahut.com/ will get their prices. So far, I haven't purchased any of the wood as my (deceased) father had it leftover.
I didn't consider a pre-hung door which is another good suggestion.
The current dimension is 67" H (bottom stacked lumber included) x 36" W X 39" D. To start over and build it taller with all PT 2 X 4" frame, and 3-sheets of 1/2" plywood ($40 each) and pre-hung doors would near or exceed $200. The cheapo metal one at big box is $100. Unfortunately, part of the issue when I approach any sort of carpentry is in the initial decision of how to do it and cost and tend towards cheaping out as I feel that even if I spend more I still may mess it up. I searched the net trying find plans and came up empty. I didn't want to bother my friends or family members that may have had better ideas or skill level.
I may end up buying one and wallow in my defeat. :laughing: Reviews of manufactured enclosures: http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/keep...u-crazy-169132
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HW tank. It's also an air conditioner.
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FL code looks to be trumped by this statement in reference to the manufacturer (Rheem): 502.1 General. Water heaters shall be installed in accordance
with the manufacturer's installation instructions.
From Rheem's install guide: Locate the water heater in a clean dry area as near as practical to the area of greatest heated water demand. Long uninsulated hot water lines can waste energy and water. Place the water heater in such a manner that the thermostat and element access panels can be removed to permit inspection and servicing such as removal
of elements or checking controls. The water heater and water lines should be protected from freezing temperatures. Do not install the water heater in outdoor, unprotected areas.
Make certain the floor underneath the water heater is strong enough to sufficiently support the weight of the water heater once it is filled with water.
CAUTION: The water heater should not be located in an area where leakage of the tank or connections will result in damage to the area adjacent to it or to lower floors of the structure. Where such areas cannot be avoided, it is recommended that a suitable catch pan, adequately drained, be installed under the water heater.
*Given the location of my kitchen and bathroom it looks likes there's more pros than the 1 con (possible freezing), which is unlikely in my region, to have the WH enclosed outside. I have a blanket around it and can spray or used sealed insulation inside the cabinet.
FL: http://www2.iccsafe.org/states/Flori...%20Heaters.pdf
Rheem: http://www.rheem.com/documents/fury-...nd-care-manual
PT plywood, a few PT 2 x 4" braces, PT 1 x 4" + ply "Z" pattern door, sealed insulation and mod-bit self stick cap sheet for the roof should suffice and last 10 or more years.
PVC Pipes? Geeessssshhhhh
Well....me being the cheap bast'rd I am....I built my own as well......
Out of 14g galvanized steel....
Mine sits on a plate of 10g stainless steel.....
For all that work using wood....you could have gone down to HD and for about $80 bought a metal one...with door.
Makes me cringe to see plumbing outside like that, guess I'm just used to taking freezing temps into consideration with everything... but given it's not a concern in Florida guess it could work. Is cpvc allowed for water supply though? Did not figure it could handle those kinds of pressures.
Ddawg.. that's a nice build. I am having a bit of enclosure envy on that one.
The metal ones at (B)lowes are reviewed around the net as being crap, but at this point I'd am willing to pay $100 for one and find a way to stabilize it.
I haven't spent much on this project except for time and energy. Probably about 3 hours and $50 away from upgrading and completing the existing shed.
The cold water lines say drinking water on them. We have a hot/cold water dispenser and don't use the hot water faucet tap for drinking water, but it has good (not great) pressure.
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He caught everything thrown his way, he was very fluid in his routes, he was unable to be covered, and he cemented himself as an early top 10 prospect in the state of Florida.
Clarington liked what he saw in Gainesville and he actually grew up a fan of the Gators.
"I have visited UF before, but Friday Night Lights was my first camp there. As a kid I watched Florida and Florida was my favorite school. I loved their colors, the way they won, and their offense.
"I still have a lot of interest in Florida and I had a good time at the camp. I did not get a lot of reps, but when I got them, I think I did very well. I got a good bit of attention from their coaches and it was cool there," Clarington told Scout.
The Gators like over a dozen other top schools have offered the 6-foot-6, 220 pound junior tight end a scholarship.
Alabama, Florida State, Georgia, Miami, Notre Dame, South Carolina, and Tennessee are some of his other offers.
No favorites yet for the soon-to-be Scout 100 tight end.
Florida is still very much on his radar as is Miami and others, but his connection to an SEC school could come into play too.
"Gilbert Johnson is going to Georgia and we have talked about going to the same school. They have produced some top tight ends and I like that. I wouldn't say they lead, but I do like Georgia a lot. Me and Gilbert are very good friends, so we'd like to play college ball together."
At the end of the day, Clarington will make his own decision. The star out of Westminster Christian in Miami plans to take the recruiting process slow, examine his offers, and find the perfect school for him.
In the meantime, he is going to keep working on his craft as a tight end.
"I do not think you can find tight ends like me out there. I have great size, I can run, I can jump and catch the ball, and I think I am the kind of tight end that is hard to find.
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Pune: Pune Warriors head coach Allan Donald on Wednesday said it might be the fear of failure that has resulted in openers Robin Uthappa and Manish Pandey failing to take advantage of field restrictions at the beginning of their innings during the team's first two Pepsi IPL games.
"Manish Pandey and Robin Uthappa are attacking batsmen, but they seem to have gone into a shell during Powerplay. It could be the fear (of failure) internally," said Donald ahead of the Warriors' match against Rajasthan Royals on Thursday.
"It's my responsibility to help them. The mission is to get off the blocks and show some intent," he added.
The Warriors, who have slumped to two straight losses against Sunrisers Hyderabad and Kings XI Punjab, got a timely boost ahead of their third tie against the Jaipur franchise with Yuvraj Singh declared fit to play.
"Yuvraj is fit and will play. He was struggling to move last week and was not very mobile," said Donald.
The team, however, has been hit by a groin strain to another key player ' West Indian Marlon Samuels ' who has been ruled out as the Warriors did not want to take any chance of aggravating the injury, according to Donald.
"Marlon Samuels has a groin strain and is out of the match. He could miss the next one, too. We don't want to take a risk because it's a long tournament," he said.
The Warriors coach conceded that batting has let down the team so far in the tournament.
"Our bowling is the only positive. In the first game (against Sunrisers Hyderabad), they were brilliant. In the next match (against Kings XI Punjab), what did we make....100? You can't defend that kind of a total," he said.
Chasing a paltry 127 for victory against the Sunrisers, the Warriors were shot out for a mere 104 and then in the second game against KXIP they could post just 99 for nine.


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Koni and TC Kline Racing Team Up for BMWCCA Oktoberfest 2012
posted by Bryan Joslin on 13 September 2012 in Aftermarket and Industry News
Koni Shock Absorbers and TC Kline Racing are joining forces to offer complimentary shock absorber inspections and dyno testing, rebuild services and tuning advice at the BMW Car Club of America's Oktoberfest national convention track events at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course on Sept. 20-23, 2012.
"This is our way to say "thank you" to BMW enthusiasts and club racers for making Koni their performance damper brand for many years," stated Lee Grimes, Performance Automotive Product Manager for Koni America. "Offering BMWCCA Oktoberfest trackside support is a natural extension of our long term partnership with TC Kline Racing. Their focus on BMW tuning for street, double duty street/track cars, and full race BMWs is very highly regarded and Koni is proud to be a part of that."
"Our business is primarily high performance street applications that derive directly from pro racing applications and nine professional championship wins," commented TC Kline. "The performance and quality of the product that we offer can only be produced with the absolute best components like Koni shock absorbers." TC Kline has been an authorized Koni dealer since 1986 and has facilities in Columbus, OH and Santa Barbara, CA.
If you attend the Oktoberfest track events at Mid-Ohio, be sure to visit the TC Kline Racing display with the Koni Motorsports Service trailer


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Ellery burst onto the runway at the 2010 Melbourne Fashion Festival (VAMFF) with outfits that's screamed sex. There were hot pants. There were minidresses. There were thigh high boots layered over exposed suspenders. And there was, of course, leather.
Not a wallflower look amoung them, you can view all the outfits from the Ellery Autumn / Winter 2010 runway by clicking on the gallery below.