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We\'re covering the stock market live on Thursday. You can read a wrap of pre-market actions here and — shortly after the open — get a compact rundown of today\'s stock market in Market Snapshot.
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- 9:33 am
- Up at open
- by Victor Reklaitis
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Good morning.
Stocks are rising at the open.
SPX +7 points
Down +67 points
Nasdaq +19 points
- 9:35 am
- Finding its footing?
- by Victor Reklaitis
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Sam Stovall, S&P Capital IQ's chief equity strategist, offered a few illuminating comments late Wednesday.
"From a technical perspective, even though the S&P 500's recent price action defines the near-term bias as clearly to the downside, we think we are near a point where we could see the index find its footing and reverse to the upside," he said in emailed comments.
- 9:38 am
- Stay the course
- by Victor Reklaitis
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Stovall also sees 2014 providing challenges, but nonetheless continues to believe that stocks will end higher.
"We continue to believe that while 2014 will be a challenging year, characterized by typical mid-term election year volatility, the S&P 500 will ultimately post a mid-single digit price increase," the S&P Capital IQ strategist writes.
"We think investors should stay the course, especially since the equity markets appear oversold to us and will soon initiate a counter-trend rally."
- 9:47 am
- Social movers
- by Victor Reklaitis
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Twitter is down 21% after its earnings report, but another social-media play, Yelp, is up 11%.
And Pandora is down 11%. That's from our short story on tech stocks' action today.
Deutsche Bank is accentuating Twitter's positives, says a Tell blog post by Barb Kollmeyer.
- 10:00 am
- Today's drivers
- by Victor Reklaitis
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Before the open, the government said the number of people who applied for unemployment benefits fell by 20,000 to 331,000 last week, besting the consensus forecast figure of 337,000.
On the central bank front, anyone looking for the European Central Bank to signal a rate cut is right around the corner were left disappointed. See our coverage here.
- 10:01 am
- Stocks strengthen
- by Victor Reklaitis
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Stocks have been continuing to climb to fresh session highs in the last few minutes.
Dow +114 points
SPX +12 points
Nasdaq +35 points
- 10:06 am
- Disney helps Dow
- by Victor Reklaitis
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The Dow industrials are getting a nice lift from Disney, which was last up nearly 7% — a pretty big move for an established company's stock.
"Across the board success" was seen in the entertainment giant's first quarter, reports MarketWatch's Russ Britt.
- 10:10 am
- Coke climbs
- by Victor Reklaitis
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Coke is no slouch today either in blue-chip land.
It was last up 1.4% for the fifth-best gain among Dow components.
MarketWatch's Steve Goldstein has a post on how Coke sees a quick nearly $500 million paper gain after that Green Mountain deal.
Green Mountain has been up more than 20%, and rival SodaStream is even gaining today.
- 10:15 am
- Akamai leads S&P
- by Victor Reklaitis
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Akamai has jumped 19% for the best gain by far among S&P 500 names.
The company, which helps speed the delivery of online content, is climbing after its upbeat quarterly earnings report.
O'Reilly, the car parts retailer, is the second-best performer in the S&P, last up 10% after its quarterly earnings report.
On the downside, GM is falling after its quarterly earnings report.
As always, you can read more about today's jumpiest stocks in our Movers & Shakers column.
- 10:29 am
- Why it's been rocky
- by Victor Reklaitis
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More from that note from S&P Capital IQ's Sam Stovall (who is shown in the adjacent photo).
He gives a nice recap on why stocks have endured a lot of selling lately:
Just when this economy sounded as if it was preparing to shift into a higher gear, the markets, along with investor optimism, hit a patch of black ice, as weaker-than-expected employment and manufacturing-oriented reports have been blamed on wave after wave of named winter storms. In addition, a decline in China's PMI, as well as fears over the health of the Fragile Five, continued to cast a pall over global markets.
The Fragile Five refers to five troubled emerging-market nations: Turkey, South Africa, Brazil, India and Indonesia.
- 10:34 am
- Support seen at 1,700
- by Victor Reklaitis
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And Stovall also provides some technical analysis. He suggests a drop below 1,700 is unlikely for the S&P 500.
Here's another excerpt:
In the bigger picture, we think the long-term upward trend remains intact and there are support levels just below. The 1700-1709 level is where the late 2012 rally began that pushed the "500″ above 1800. This is a logical level to look for support on any test.
Stovall adds: "Since 1700 is nice round number, this likely ensures that it will be on everyone's radar, and therefore represents significant support."
That's probably a typo by Stovall where he says "late 2012." He must have meant late 2013, when the S&P was near 1700. It wasn't anywhere near 1700 in late 2012.
- 10:44 am
- S&P 500 chart
- by Victor Reklaitis
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This six-month chart for the S&P 500 shows what Stovall is talking about — the index finding its footing, and that 1700-1709 range in late 2013.
- 11:03 am
- Dunkin' up 5%
- by Victor Reklaitis
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Other notable movers today include Dunkin' Brands, up 5% after its quarterly earnings report, as well as Vulcan Materials with an 11% jump on its report.
Vulcan has the second-best gain among S&P 500 stocks. More on today's movers here.
21st Century Fox is another earnings mover, last up 2% on its report. Its results beat forecasts, although the WSJ details how the company cut its outlook. Until last June, 21st Century Fox had been part of the same company as News Corp, the parent of MarketWatch.
- 11:13 am
- Home builders rally
- by Anora Mahmudova
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Home builder stocks are one of the biggest winners in today's session. The S&P 500 home builder sub index is up more than 4%.
Lennar Corp /quotes/zigman/232035/delayed /quotes/nls/len LEN +5.2%
D.R. Horton Inc dhi /quotes/zigman/224125/delayed /quotes/nls/dhi DHI +4.5%
PulteGroup Inc /quotes/zigman/129784/delayed /quotes/nls/phm PHM +3.1%
- 11:16 am
- What's helping stocks
- by Victor Reklaitis
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Stocks are getting a lift from the latest figure for weekly jobless claims, as mentioned earlier.
The number of people who applied for unemployment benefits fell by 20,000 to 331,000 last week, besting the consensus forecast figure of 337,000. Read more here.
Disney's jump after its earnings report is also helping the Dow industrials, as mentioned earlier. The entertainment giant was last up 5%, and a CNBC headline writer even went so far as to describe its latest results as "magical."
Some strategists are also suggesting there's been enough selling. S&P Capital IQ's Sam Stovall (quoted extensively in earlier posts) wrote late Wednesday that stocks "appear oversold to us and will soon initiate a counter-trend rally."
- 11:29 am
- More on builders
- by Victor Reklaitis
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The SPDR S&P Homebuilders ETF is up nearly 3% today, but it's still down 4.8% for the year to date — worse than the S&P 500′s 4.3% drop.
Lennar is among the individual builders faring well today, as our post at 11:13 a.m. Eastern noted.
Builder earnings reports have been coming out in recent days. MarketWatch's Ruth Mantell has written that prospective home buyers may want to check out these reports for clues about where the companies plan to construct new properties and whether prices will head higher.
- 11:33 am
- FT: "Twitter's honeymoon cut short"
- by Anora Mahmudova
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Twitter Inc lost nearly a fifth of its market share after disappointing quarterly results, its first report as a publicly-traded company.
The Financial Times explains how Twitter's honeymoon was cut short.
Investors got the jitters when they saw that the home of the 140-character tweet grew its monthly active users quarter-on-quarter at the same rate as Facebook, in spite of the latter being almost five times as large.
- 11:43 am
- Indexes
- by Anora Mahmudova
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26 of 30 Dow members are trading higher, with Disney and Intel leading the gains.
On the S&P 500 index, consumer discretionary and industrials sectors are the best performers, while telecoms is the only sector in red.
- 11:56 am
- About the jobs report
- by Anora Mahmudova
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It appears that the stock investors are not too nervous about the jobs report due out tomorrow.
Recent reports paint a picture of a fairly steady labor market, despite distortions due to bad weather. The trends are good, in one line.
More on the jobs report and what to expect, read Jeff Reeve's story.
If ever there was a report that could make or break a market, it is Friday's update on January job creation from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
- 12:03 pm
- Stock continue to climb
- by Anora Mahmudova
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Unlike yesterday, today's markets are calmly climbing higher. Weekly jobless claims data, which came in better than expected, set the tone in early session. Upbeat earnings from companies such as Disney, Green Mountain Coffee Roaster and Akamai Technolgies also helped lift the indexes.
S&P 500 /quotes/zigman/3870025/realtime SPX +1%
Dow /quotes/zigman/627449/realtime DJIA +1%
Nasdaq /quotes/zigman/12633936/realtime COMP +1.1%
- 12:13 pm
- Overseas markets
- by Anora Mahmudova
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In overseas markets, European stocks rallied on Thursday after European Central Bank President Mario Draghi reiterated that the bank has plenty of tools left to ease further if demanded by economic conditions.
In Asia, apart from the Japanese stock market, the rest closed higher. Read the recap of the stock market life blog.
- 12:36 pm
- Euro jumps after Draghi
- by Saumya Vaishampayan
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One of the exciting foreign-exchange moves Thursday is the move in the euro. The shared currency erased its earlier loss against the dollar as European Central Bank Mario Draghi indicated the central bank doesn't see a threat of deflation, emphasizing that inflation expectations are well-anchored. The euro /quotes/zigman/4867933/realtime/sampled EURUSD has jumped about one cent since the ECB's decision to hold policy steady, fetching $1.3605 from $1.3536 late Wednesday. That's the highest level since Jan. 29. Read more here.
- 12:37 pm
- Guggenheim's Minerd sees 'opportunity to buy'
- by William Watts
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Scott Minerd, chief investment officer for asset manager Guggenheim Partners, isn't sweating the recent pullback in stocks and rise in bond yields, despite coming when economic fundamentals are "as strong as they have been since 2011."
Minerd, a bull who had become a bit nervous about chasing the rally in U.S. stocks last fall, says in a note that he has seen nothing that suggests the market has established a major top:
The current sell-off feels more like a healthy correction, the first since the last major correction in 2011. I am somewhat surprised by the timing of the latest rout, given the typical seasonal strength in January and February, but the U.S. Federal Reserve is finally letting markets self-correct after years of intervention since the 2008 financial crisis. We will likely look back on this time as an opportunity to buy.
- 12:53 pm
- Emerging markets are final harbinger of doom: Albert Edwards
- by William Watts
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Tapering is tightening, says Albert Edwards, the ultra-bearish Societe Generale strategist, in his latest missive. The Fed's decision to scale back its bond purchases is putting the hurt on emerging markets, and the turmoil there is the "final tweet" of the canary in the coalmine, he says.
This will serve as a wake-up call to equity markets, which have been living in a dream fueled by quantitative easing. Even if the Fed reverses course and ramps up QE anew, it won't be able to save the day. Read more here.
- 12:54 pm
- Green Mountain: A glimpse of the short squeeze
- by Wallace Witkowski
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With shares of Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc. /quotes/zigman/54683/delayed /quotes/nls/gmcr GMCR rallying Thursday, Greenlight Capital's David Einhorn, who has been publicly bashing the company for over two years, can't be having a good day.
After hours Wednesday, shares of Green Mountain had jumped as much as 60% after the company announced it had entered a 10-year cold-drinks deal with Coca-Cola Co. /quotes/zigman/222647/delayed /quotes/nls/ko KO , with Coke buying a 10% stake in the company for $1.25 billion. At last check, Green Mountain shares were up 30% at $104.92.
With about 25% of Green Mountain's outstanding shares shorted, a fair share of that bump is likely being caused by covered shorts.
In October, Einhorn disclosed in a letter to investors that Greenlight had added to its short position on Green Mountain. At the end of September, total short interest on the stock was at about 31 million shares. By the end of the year, that had grown to 41.6 million shares.
Currently, 37.6 million shares of Green Mountain are shorted, or a quarter of outstanding shares, with 14 days to cover those positions, according to FactSet data.
Short interest on the stock peaked at 50.8 million shares in December 2012, but in the fourth quarter of that year, the stock jumped 74%. In January 2013, Greenlight Capital said it took a nearly 5% hit on the quarter alone and called losses on the Green Mountain short the "worst offender."
- 12:57 pm
- EM crises can be good time to buy stocks
- by William Watts
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Remember, past EM crises ('84, '94, & even '98) were good–not bad–times to buy stocks. 2014 more likely a correction than a systemic event
— Jerry Webman (@JerryWebman) February 6, 2014
- 1:23 pm
- Dow holds steady around 1% gain
- by Wallace Witkowski
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A larger-than-expected drop in jobless claims, a rise in European stocks after the European Central Bank left rates unchanged, and strong earnings from Walt Disney Co. /quotes/zigman/245568/delayed /quotes/nls/dis DIS all contributed to the Dow Jones Industrial Average's /quotes/zigman/627449/realtime DJIA effort to dig its way out of losses on the week.
With the Dow up 0.9% at 15,582, the index is 0.7% down for the week. Here's a quick look at some of the components doing the heavy lifting:
Disney: up 4.6%
Cisco Systems Inc. /quotes/zigman/20039/delayed /quotes/nls/csco CSCO : up 2%
Intel Corp. /quotes/zigman/20392/delayed /quotes/nls/intc INTC : up 2%
J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. /quotes/zigman/272085/delayed /quotes/nls/jpm JPM : up 1.9%
General Electric Co. /quotes/zigman/227468/delayed /quotes/nls/ge GE : up 1.7%
- 1:50 pm
- Aetna misses earnings expectations
- by Anora Mahmudova
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Aetna Inc. missed out on Thursday's stock market rally by reporting earnings that missed expectations, while its Chairman and CEO Mark Bertolini further unnerved investors by saying he expects the company to lose money on its public-exchange business in the first year.
Shares are off 1%.
- 1:52 pm
- After-hours earnings stocks looking optimistic
- by Wallace Witkowski
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After the bell, several companies post quarterly earnings, and the stocks of many are seeing above-average gains on the day heading into those reports. With the S&P 500 Index /quotes/zigman/3870025/realtime SPX currently up 1%, here are how the after-hours earnings reporters are trading:
LinkedIn Corp. /quotes/zigman/5131883/delayed /quotes/nls/lnkd LNKD : up 3.4%
MarketWatch parent News Corp. /quotes/zigman/18008449/delayed /quotes/nls/nwsa NWSA : A shares up 2.6%
Expedia Inc. /quotes/zigman/7619798/delayed /quotes/nls/expe EXPE : up 1.4%
Republic Services Inc. /quotes/zigman/225206/delayed /quotes/nls/rsg RSG : up 0.8%
Activision Blizzard Inc. /quotes/zigman/110164/delayed /quotes/nls/atvi ATVI :up 1.2%
Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. /quotes/zigman/242371/delayed /quotes/nls/lgf LGF :up 3.2%
Outerwall Inc. /quotes/zigman/18949186/delayed /quotes/nls/outr OUTR : up 2%
Tempur Sealy International Inc. /quotes/zigman/337470/delayed /quotes/nls/tpx TPX : up 3.5%
- 2:01 pm
- GM earnings
- by Anora Mahmudova
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General Motors reported its first quarterly results under the leadership of Mary Barra, and it is a bumpy start.
Less than a month into her new job as CEO of General Motors, she's already explaining why the company's fourth-quarter profit fell 13% from a year ago. For more read our Tell post.
Shares in the company initially fell, but edged up to trade 0.6% higher.
- 2:07 pm
- Ocwen drops
- by Anora Mahmudova
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Ocwen Financial Corp shares fell 4.6% on Thursday on news that a New York state regulator was halting its deal with Wells Fargo& Co. to purchase their mortgage-servicing rights, reports Sital S Patel.
- 2:24 pm
- Session highs
- by Anora Mahmudova
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Stocks are trading at session highs less than two hours before the market close.
Dow +1.1%
Nasdaq +1.2%
- 2:49 pm
- Wiping out $8 bln
- by Victor Reklaitis
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Twitter's tumble (last down 22%) has wiped out nearly $8 billion from its market cap.
MarketWatch's Ben Pimentel has more info here.
Twitter is still outpacing rivals like LinkedIn and Facebook when it comes to market-cap gains in the first 90 days as a public company, Pimentel notes.
On a similar note, MarketWatch's Steve Goldstein wrote earlier today about how Coke's jump handed it a paper gain of nearly $500 million.
- 2:58 pm
- A glimmer of sunshine
- by Victor Reklaitis
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Encouraging news… ICYMI:
The number of companies traded on major U.S. exchanges rose in 2013, the first time there's been a rise since 1999, says a story in today's Wall Street Journal.
"The rise, though small, is a sign that U.S. public markets have recovered at least some of the vibrancy of years past," the article adds.
"It's like a glimmer of sunshine, that one-year uptick," says Richard Sylla, an NYU financial historian quoted in the article. "That's what you would expect to see in a growing, vibrant economy."
- 3:20 pm
- Emerging bullishness?
- by Victor Reklaitis
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In other "glimmer of sunshine" news, one technical analyst suggests there might be some early signs of bullishness for emerging markets.
"While everyone appears to be turning bearish on this portion of the market, it seems the underlying internals may be giving us some clues to a shift in trend," writes Andrew Thrasher in a recent blog post.
But he also cautions: "The trend in emerging markets is firmly negative and just a few days of positive relative gains are unlikely to be enough to see money start barreling back into this depressed market."
The adjacent chart shows one of the big EM ETFs.
- 3:20 pm
- Main indexes
- by Anora Mahmudova
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Less than an hour before the closing bell, the main indexes are firmly in green and are set to finish with solid gains. Investors seem to be optimistic ahead of the important jobs report due to be released tomorrow at 8:30 a.m. Eastern.
Dow +1.1%
Nasdaq +1.1%
- 3:41 pm
- $SPX talk
- by Anora Mahmudova
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Some interesting tweets about today's markets:
Sellers stepping in intraday and selling off a lot of big gainers from this morning. Will anyone be buying this afternoon into NFP Friday?
— Bespoke (@bespokeinvest) February 6, 2014
Total short interest on $SPX components still near multi-year highs. http://t.co/f6cI6gi3c4
— Ryan Detrick, CMT (@RyanDetrick) February 6, 2014
When I posted this chart $spx everyone said why do u look at the 150day? (Because most don't) 🙂 $spy pic.twitter.com/U2ByyVeZAL
— Scott Redler (@RedDogT3Live) February 6, 2014
- 3:41 pm
- Best gain since taper
- by Victor Reklaitis
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As the current headline for this live blog notes, the Dow is on pace for its best gain in seven weeks.
The S&P 500 is in the same boat.
That big gain seven weeks ago came after the Fed's taper decision.
Our Market Snapshot column on Dec. 18 said:
Two U.S. stock indexes notched record closing levels on Wednesday as markets interpreted the Federal Reserve's decision to begin the tapering of bond purchases in January as confidence in the underlying strength of the economy and welcomed its commitment to low rates for a considerable time.
- 3:57 pm
- Close call for SPX
- by Victor Reklaitis
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It will be close for the S&P 500 in terms of whether it's the best gain since Dec. 18.
The index was up 19.99 points on Jan. 30, so it might just be the best gain since then if it doesn't finish strong.
- 4:05 pm
- How we closed
- by Victor Reklaitis
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U.S. stocks finished with broad gains
Dow +188 points
SPX +22 points
Nasdaq +46 points
- 4:08 pm
- Best gain since taper
- by Victor Reklaitis
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The 188 point gain for the Dow was in fact the best daily advance since the Dec. 18 taper, as the bulletin on MW's homepage says.
The S&P 500's rise of 22 points also counts as the largest point rise since Dec. 18 for that broader benchmark.
- 4:20 pm
- What helped stocks
- by Victor Reklaitis
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To recap today's drivers, they included:
- A larger-than-expected drop in jobless claims
- Strong earnings from Walt Disney Co., which closed with a 5.3% gain for the best advance among the 30 Dow components
- European stocks rallied after ECB news, helping sentiment
- 4:25 pm
- That's all, folks
- by Victor Reklaitis
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LinkedIn is diving after hours following its earnings report.
The After Hours column will have info on that and other movers.
That's a wrap for this live blog. Thank you for checking it out.
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One of thirteen loose leaf notebooks of photographs taken of nonacademic properties owned by Harvard University in Cambridge and Boston by Ira Hara, a freelance construction consultant with some training in architecture in 1977. The work was carried out as part of a survey to "determine the appropriate functions and costs for these properties." For correspondece, and now lapsed restrictions on the use of this collection, plesae consult the folder: library accessions: photographs -- Harvard Real Estate notebooks, filed in the wooden cabinet in the libray stacks.
The photographs in this collection are of average pictorial quality; however, their coverage of utilitarian aspects of a structure is unusual. Many views show furnaces, basements, back of buildings, etc. While restrictions on research or reference use of the collection lapsed in 1984, it would nevertheless be advisable for users to obtain permission from Harvard University's Dept. of Real Estate before publication or other widely disseminated use of the material is contemplated.
Vol 13 contains : Huntington Avenue; Park Drive ( Shattuck International house); Saint Albans Rd; Saint Alphonsus St; Tremont st ( Brigham Circle Shopping Center) (Boston) . Also 134 loose b&w identified photographs ( Cambridge).
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HARTSVILLE, S.C. – The Coker College softball team welcomes the Brevard Tornados in to town on Saturday (April 5) for a South Atlantic Conference doubleheader.
Offensively the Cobras are led by the hot bats of outfielders Sydney Weatherford and Katelyn Szupello. Weatherford, who brought home Coker softball's first ever SAC player of the week honors this past week, comes into the contest leading the team in nearly every offensive category. She leads the team in batting average at .357, hits with 35, RBIs with 35, doubles with eight and home runs with six. Her RBI, home run and triple totals are all top ten in the conference. Szupello is sporting a .353 batting average to go along with 24 RBIs and a team high four triples. The four triples are good enough for second best in the conference.
On the mound, the Navy and Yellow are led by senior Lauren Phillips who has an 8-8 record in 90 innings of work. She also has a team best 4.12 ERA.
The Tornados come to Hartsville with a 13-22 overall and 2-8 in conference record after splitting a doubleheader with Mars Hill. They are led by Casey Whitaker who is batting .343 with 28 RBIs and six homeruns. Brevard pitcher Jamie Hrobak leads the team with a 3.51 ERA and an 8-8 overall record.
Game one of the doubleheader is set to begin at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday at the Saleeby-Stokes softball field with game two slated to begin at 3 p.m. Live stats can be followed at www.cokercobras.com
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Hi guys.
I remember reading about smartphone security etc.
And somthing about ppl. faking 3g networks, so they would get nearby phones to connect, and thereby sniffing data from phones...
Is this me remebering all wrong (did some quick googling on it with no results).
or do anyone have some knowlegde about this?


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Today: Sunny, with a high near 62. Northwest wind around 6 mph becoming light and variable in the afternoon. Tonight: Mostly clear, with a low around 32. South wind 3 to 7 mph. Wednesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 62. South wind 7 to 12 mph increasing to 13 to 18 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 28 mph. Wednesday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 40. South wind 14 to 16 mph, with gusts as high as 24 mph.


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Joe Rogan is hosting a new TV show about Bigfoot, UFOs and ESP, and he says the show is teaching him "a lot about crazy people."
"The same pattern exists in people who believe in UFOs, or who believe in ghosts, or who believe in psychics," says Rogan — who performs stand-up on Friday at the Hard Rock Hotel.
The pattern is: True believers risk looking foolish, even if they are telling the truth, so they can get pretty defensive.
"If you really saw a UFO, and you tried telling people — how crazy would you sound, even if it really did happen? It would (mess) with your head because nobody would believe you," Rogan says.
Rogan is open-minded but values facts and truths over ideology. He gave me a five-minute primer on gigantopithecus and Homo floresiensis.
"There are real, legit anthropologists who believe in Sasquatch," Rogan says.
But some true believers in Sasquatch and UFOs ignore contradictory facts and evidence of hoaxes.
"They only see things that confirm their idea. It's called 'confirmation bias.' It's a real problem with people and ideas," Rogan says.
"Some people just get it in their mind there is a bigfoot, and then every time some dude in a monkey suit takes a blurry picture, they're convinced it's the best Sasquatch footage ever."
"Joe Rogan Questions Everything" debuts July 24 on SyFy.
"The show is becoming as much about psychology as it is about the ideas themselves."
On Friday, Rogan will perform at the Hard Rock Hotel with comedian Joey Diaz, "the funniest human being that's ever lived."
Earlier Friday, he and UFC broadcaster Mike Goldberg will do a Q&A at the UFC Fan Expo.
On Saturday, he will provide commentary during UFC 162 at the MGM Grand.
And if you are like me, you listen to his popular podcast, "The Joe Rogan Experience." Rogan is a fun and fascinating interviewer of people as diverse as scientist Neil deGrasse Tyson, Van Halen's David Lee Roth, psychedelics researcher Rick Doblin and UFC chief Dana White.
Rogan says the power of the podcast is freedom.
"I don't have a boss. I don't have a production company. So I don't have anybody telling me what would be best for ratings. I pursue only things I find interesting."
Exercising regularly and eating more healthfully doesn't sound sexy, but it makes you sexy. That's the bottom line for UFC octagon girl and magazine cover model Arianny Celeste, a Vegas native.
Celeste was studying fitness and nutrition at UNLV until the UFC hired her. So I asked her: If a woman wanted to look like her, how would she do that?
Celeste is not blessed with great metabolism, she says.
"I'm always conscious of what I'm putting into my body."
She doesn't even drink soda. And she works out routinely.
"Exercise is very, very important. It's something you have to be dedicated to, and work toward."
She trained herself to love healthful food. She doesn't miss fatty meals.
"If I go to a restaurant, I'm not going to order a big steak with buttery mashed potatoes on the side. I'm going to order a lean fish with vegetables. To me, that's delicious."
For more specific health tips, read her fitness blog at AriannyCeleste.com.
You can see Celeste from 1 to 3 p.m. today at Aria's Liquid pool; 4:30 p.m. today at Fight Shop in Planet Hollywood Resort; 7 p.m. today at Golden Nugget (with the UFC's Cain Velasquez and Urijah Faber); noon Friday at the UFC Fan Expo; 10:30 p.m. Friday at Aria's Haze nightclub; and noon Saturday at the UFC Fan Expo.
Doug Elfman's column appears Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. He also writes for Neon on Fridays. Email him at delfman@ reviewjournal.com. He blogs at reviewjournal.com/elfman.


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Now that Bella (Kristen Stewart) has delivered vampire baby Renesmee, Dr. Carlisle Cullen (Peter Facinelli) is officially a grandfather.
"It's weird being a grandfather at such a young age. I didn't quite like being called grandpa," Facinelli said, laughing. "But [Edward, played by Robert Pattinson is] a dad now. So we're all kind of growing up. It happens."
It sure does. Four years after "The Twilight Saga" franchise adapted from Stephenie Meyer's novels became a mega-squeal-inducing phenomenon, this weekend's "Breaking Dawn—Part 2" wraps it all up as the business hits the fan between the Cullen family and the powerful Volturi vampire collective.
The day after the film's L.A. premiere—from which Facinelli says he got home around 3 or 3:30 a.m. and woke up at 4:30 a.m.—the 38-year-old actor talked at the Dana Hotel about being asked to sign people's underwear, introducing his vampire self to the real world and if he's ready for all this madness to end.
See him: Facinelli's scheduled to appear 3 p.m.-10 p.m. Fri. at Hollywood Blvd Cinema in Woodridge; 2 p.m.-10 p.m. Sat. at Hollywood Palms Cinema in Naperville; noon-8 p.m. Sun. at Hollywood Blvd Cinema
I'm sure you're inundated with screams and posters while traveling around with this movie, but can you think of a surprising reaction you've gotten, one that stands out?
Screams are OK. The crying sometimes gets me. Sometimes people will cry and I feel bad. [Laughs.]
Are you ever moved to cry when you see them to balance it out?
No, I just give them a big hug and make sure they know I'm just a person.
I read at the premiere someone was holding a sign that was an enlarged photo of Rob's crotch.
I didn't see that. Was it the full-frontal crotch?
I assume not, but I don't know what photos are out there.
I've never seen that photo or Rob's crotch. I'm just going on record saying that. [Laughs.]
That's good to know. I'm sure people emphasize Rob, Kristen and Taylor, but what do people say specifically about you on posters?
There's always some kind of posters with the cast or me. Usually they just ask me to sign. The oddest thing someone asked me to sign, I think I was in London. Someone asked me to sign their britches, and I didn't know what that was. I was like, "Yeah, sure," and then she kinda rolled up her underwear. I was like, "No, I didn't know that was a britch. I'm not signing britches."
Was there anything in this last installment that felt new?
Yeah, we had all new cast members in the last one, which is kind of fun because I felt like we were like the seniors in high school and they were the freshmen coming in. They were wide-eyed and excited and we were like, we had done it already. They'd be going out and going, "Hey, come out with us," and we're like, "No, we're tired, we're getting some sleep." [Laughs.] We'd already been there, done that, and now we're just wanting to get to work in the morning. It was fun watching them come in and look at it from a different perspective because we had already been there, so it was like now they were getting the opportunity to come in and see it fresh, be a part of it fresh.
Were you asked for any advice, being that senior member?
No, no one ever asks me for advice. About anything.
When you guys were in town for the red carpet for "Breaking Dawn—Part 1" and I interviewed Nikki [Reed], she was telling me shooting in depressing places with lousy weather takes a toll on her. What effect did that have on you?
I wish I could get one of those seasonal disorder lights. If I had to do it again, I'd get one of those lights because it's like six months of rain every day and then you're on set, you're in hair and makeup and costume and you can't really do anything because if you're not working for a few hours, it's not like you're like, "I'm going to go to the gym." I can't even go to the convenience store because if you walk in as Carlisle Cullen, it's creepy.
Did you ever have that experience?
I walked into a 7-11. I had on my full hair and makeup. I actually had just come from working a couple hours and I was like, "Let's see, I'll test out Carlisle Cullen and see if people would actually freak out if they actually saw a vampire." The lady didn't even look up, so that made me feel good that the Cullens actually could walk around town and not be noticed.
I was impressed that it seems you've started your own dance craze on "Ellen." What inspired you to do that, and how do you feel about "Gangnam Style"?
Well, I had my dance before "Gangnam Style."
When did you come up with the driving-the-car dance?
Years ago. Years ago. But I've just now gifted it to the public.
Thank you. We're very grateful.
It's something I do behind closed doors. [Laughs.] When I'm with my kids. I love putting on records and having little dance parties with my kids. We have fun creating new dances.
How did you come up with that?
I don't know. The music flows and my body just takes over.
You weren't actually driving?
Nope, it just started happening. And then I gave it a name. I'm working on a new one now called "Flying a Plane." It's a good one.
Can we get a preview?
It's a lot of arm movements and running around. You've gotta sway a little bit. But I'm going to let the ["Driving the Car" dance] go for a while. Then I'll debut the "Flying a Plane."
I read the cast of "Twilight" played the "Twilight" board game. How did that game go? Were you playing your own character?
It's trivia. I thought I would fare really well because when we shot these movies I was like the Wikipedia. I did so much homework and so much research. The other actors would actually come up to me. They'd say, "When did you bite me?" I'd give them the exact date, time…
You remember it all?
I don't remember it now because it's been four years, but when we were actually filming the first "Twilight" I knew it front and back. I knew exactly the time of day it was, if it was raining. I love research, that's part of the fun of it. But then we played this board game and I thought I would do really well but there were a lot of parts of the movie that I realized I wasn't in. So there was a lot of high school in the question. I was like, "Oh, wait, I wasn't in that part." I wouldn't know the answers to the high school stuff. Ashley Greene actually ended up winning. I came in second place.
Out of how many?
It was me, Ashley, Kellan [Lutz], Jackson [Rathbone], the actor who played Riley, whose name [Xavier Samuel] escapes me right now because I only got an hour of sleep. But I think Ashley cheated because her character can read minds—or sees the future. Her character can see the future. I think she actually used that power to cheat.
You think you all adapted the powers of your character?
Yes, I have the power of compassion. So even though she cheated I forgave her.
It seems somewhat easier to have that than the power to see the future, don't you think?
I'd go with the reading of the minds and the future. I think those are cooler gifts. I talked with Stephenie [Meyer]. I was like, "I kind of got the short end of the stick with compassion." I was like, "Couldn't you have made him fly and have compassion?" You can't really smite the Volturi with compassion.
You could try!
The Volturi's coming at you, "I'm going to smite you with compassion! I will be the most compassionate man in the room if you don't …"
"We step down. Nevermind. We didn't realize you were so compassionate."
Actually, in "Eclipse" I do a lot of action sequences and I do a lot of killing and murdering of the other vampires, but I always said sorry in my head after.
It seems Kristen is pretty happy the series is over and ready to move on. How are you feeling about that?
It's bittersweet. I enjoyed the whole experience. I had a fun time. It's really powerful experience to have this fanbase that grew as we progressed to more of a family. You'd see these fans year after year and you got to know them by name.
Yeah. I'd be like, "Hey, you cut your hair this year." [Laughs.] it was a family on set, it was a family off camera with the actors, but it was also a family with the "Twilight" fans.
If there were five more installments, would you embrace that?
I love that character, so I would do it as long as I could 'cause I had such a fun time doing it. As an actor the one thing you know is your job is going to come to an end. Usually you do one movie, and I always have a little mourning for that character because you know you're never going to play that character again. And I feel really lucky that we were able to extend this for not just one movie but five. If anything, I feel lucky that we got to explore these characters for the last four or five years.
You mentioned having a certain level of seniority on set. You have considerably more acting experience than some of these people. Were you able to advise any of the cast on any of the tabloid nonsense in the last few months?
You know, there's no advice to be given on any of that. Like I said, I never give unsolicited advice or people never really ask me for advice anyway. [Laughs.] I'm proud of how they handle being under a microscope. As hard as it is, I don't think anyone can give you any kind of tips or advice on that. You deal with it the way you feel like you need to.
Have you seen any chance in the fan reaction because of what's going on in your personal life?
I haven't. Your personal life is your personal life. If people want to see your personal life they'd watch your reality show. They're there to see these characters and that has no effect on these characters nor the story.
These movies have been so successful and people love them. The reviews are all over the map. Do you think on any level, with movies like "Twilight" with a built-in audience, it almost doesn't matter if they're any good and people will go see them anyway?
You know, I never go to work thinking, "Ah, people are going to see this [anyway], who cares?" I always go to work, and I think all the cast went to work, trying to do the best job we could knowing a lot of the people were going to see them. I enjoy them. You can't please everybody. But I think for the most part when you have an audience come out like they have that says a lot. Hopefully they'll come out and see "Breaking Dawn—Part 2" and they'll enjoy it just as much. I really feel like this last one really gives you the sense of completion of these movies and I think a lot of the fans will be satisfied.
On Chicago: "I don't know. What's some good things to do in Chicago? Eat some good food, right? Have some Chicago deep-dish pizza. I've literally been here less than a couple hours. I had some chocolate covered almonds that were pretty good."
On road trips: "I love driving the RV and seeing roadside signs like 'The biggest ball of yarn.' And I saw 'The hometown of Superman, Metropolis, Illinois.' I was like, 'I have to stop.' … I loved Superman growing up. Spider-Man was my favorite. Superman was my No. 2. Any time you're driving through on your RV and you see fun roadside attractions, I'm there."
On animals he will or won't eat, in light of Carlisle Cullen surviving on animal blood: "I'm not interested in eating rabbits. They're cute little buggers, and I think they're better suited for carrying around Easter eggs and stuff like that … If they're cute and cuddly, I don't want to eat 'em."
The strangest thing he's eaten: "Alligator probably. I was in New Orleans and I had some alligator. It tastes like chicken."
On embracing immortality: "I don't know what I would do with all my free time. 'Cause you don't sleep. I think I'd read a lot. I'd watch a lot of movies. Go to a lot of museums. Immortality's a very appealing thing. I think that's one of the things that people find intriguing about vampires is they have eternity … I love life, so I'd like to live it as much as I can."
His favorite teen movies: "Well, my teen movies I grew up with was like 'Pretty In Pink' and stuff like that. Any of those movies were my faves. My go-to, I guess it's not a teen high school movie, but I loved 'Goonies' and 'E.T.' and those '80s movies."
On the upcoming "Loosies," which he wrote and stars in: "'Loosies' to me is more of a throwback to the '70s. I wanted to have this anti-hero, this kind of Steve McQueen kind of lead that led this carefree lifestyle and you still root for him even though he's a pickpocket. And we have fantastic actors in it, Joey Pants [Joe Pantoliano], Michael Madsen, Vincent Gallo. It was a real treat to be able to film that. Especially since I wrote it … I wrote it in three weeks. It took seven years to get made, but I wrote it in three weeks. [Laughs.]"
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The concept is pretty simple. Every year we spend more and more on Cyber Monday, and throughout the holiday season for that matter, trying to find that perfect present. But honestly, do you even remember what you got last year? Maybe it's time to alleviate some of the stress and make things simpler at the same time.
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I/O on Demand: The New Paradigm
One of the Goals of Human-Centered Design Is to Eliminate Unnecessary Work
Ever since the first direct digital control system was applied some half-century ago, input/output (I/O) has been essential to process automation system architecture. And for just as long, the engineering of that I/O has been complex, and the fruits of that labor rigid and inflexible.
First, take the specification of conventional rack-mounted I/O cards, each of which uses shared circuitry to deal with a specific number of similar input or output channels. Then add to that the design of associated controllers, marshalling cabinets, junction boxes and wire runs, and it's no surprise that the typical project incurs significant change-order expenses as inevitable late-stage design tweaks wreak havoc on delivery schedules.
Foundation fieldbus and other bus technologies essentially moved some I/O functionality out into the field devices themselves—easing the need for conventional I/O—but fieldbus segments are complex, and little reduction in engineering effort has been realized relative to conventional I/O practices.
The American Heritage Dictionary defines paradigm as "a set of assumptions, concepts, values and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality for the community that shares them." And in the case of I/O, the prevailing paradigm is that I/O is hard; I/O is inflexible.
But what if it wasn't so difficult? What if constant revisions to I/O specs didn't hamstring your project schedule? What if existing I/O spares didn't limit your ability to deploy new measurement points? What if I/O was more readily available, in any flavor needed, anywhere you needed it, and at any stage during a project—even after you're up and running?
That's the essential value proposition of I/O on Demand, Emerson Process Management's new way of thinking about I/O.
The Process Landscape
To better understand the genesis of the I/O on Demand offering, it's useful to first consider the broader context of the process industries and the increasingly global business environment in which they compete.
Across the process industries, sustainability and related environmental concerns show no sign of abating, especially as they relate to conserving increasingly expensive energy and limiting greenhouse gases. New regulations are being extended to include the protection of personnel and equipment. Control system security also is becoming more important, as the perceived threat of cyber incidents mounts.
Meanwhile, increasing scale and complexity constitute a growing challenge. On the one hand, plants are getting larger. Petrochemical plants, for instance, have become petrochemical complexes. This makes sense for efficiency reasons, but the entire operation becomes more complex because of unit interdependencies. Projects, too, are getting bigger and schedules are getting compressed. Hence more engineering work is getting pushed onsite for completion, sometimes with a marked effect on final project timing, cost and quality.
Against this backdrop are a record number of industry professionals at retirement age, who as they leave are taking a wealth of experience with them. Further, some industries are pursuing strategic workforce reductions. Centralized facilities, for example, are being developed in order to move more people out of hazardous or unsafe areas. The oil and gas industry is particularly adept at creating unmanned facilities, so when someone is sent onsite to troubleshoot, a true generalist—not a specialist—is required. And in growth markets, plants often are being built where there is essentially no ready-trained work force. Further complicating matters, few experienced people are interested in relocating to these remote locales.
So, we're left with fewer, less experienced people dealing with ever more complex processes and technologies. "It's a perfect storm," said Steve Sonnenberg, Emerson Process Management CEO, in his keynote address to the Emerson Global Users Exchange late last year in Orlando as he prepared to unveil the latest iteration (version 11) of the company's DeltaV digital automation system, the S-series.
From HCD to 'I/O on Demand'
Emerson Process Management decided some years ago that human-centered design (HCD) had to be a major part of the answer to this conundrum and set out to ensure that its process automation offering helps to accomplish three primary goals: eliminate work (where possible), reduce complexity for its users (let technology do the hard part), and embed knowledge (where needed).
"Frankly, automation suppliers have not designed products built around the actual ways projects are executed and the ways plants are run," says Sonnenberg. "Advancing products features is important, but designing products around how people use them is critical."
Task analysis, notes Peter Zornio, Emerson chief strategic officer, confirms that automation design is engineering-intensive (Figure 1). "That's all work," he says, "and one of the goals of HCD is to eliminate unnecessary work."
I/O on Demand (Figure 2) is essentially the result of Emerson's HCD development approach applied to I/O. It consists of a collection of new technologies as well as a range of HCD improvements all aimed at affording customers the greatest degree of flexibility in their I/O decisions with the least amount of effort and risk.
"I/O on Demand is 'what you want, where you want it, when you want it,'" continues Zornio. "This is an automation breakthrough that eliminates the intensive pre-engineered work associated with I/O."
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Advocates for low-income and Spanish-speaking New Jersey residents say the Christie administration is botching the distribution of Superstorm Sandy recovery aid.
Three housing and community advocates told a state Senate oversight committee that many residents are confused after having been wrongly denied housing assistance.
Others didn't receive information on how to apply or appeal for aid in Spanish.
Tuesday's hearing in Trenton follows revelations that 80 percent of post-Sandy housing grant applicants were wrongly rejected. The administration quietly fired its Sandy aid contractor, the Louisiana firm of Hammerman and Gainer.
Community Affairs Commissioner Richard Constable may appear before the panel soon.
The first of three public hearings on the state's plans to spend the next $1.4 billion in Superstorm Sandy relief funds will take place Tuesday afternoon in Galloway Township.
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OK, let's put aside the fact that the Far Cry 3 gameplay we've seen thus far has more in common with Uncharted than it does with the misunderstood-by-many, beloved-by-me Far Cry 2.
Let's overlook the fact that the protagonist's name is "Jason Brody". Even though there is a "bro" right there in his frickin name… no. Sigh. No. We are moving forward. Serenity now.
Because I have to say, after watching the videos in the run-up to E3, it seems clear that while Far Cry 3 won't be much like Far Cry 2, it sure does look like a pretty kickass video game. (And yes, I acknowledge that there are many out there who would say that the less Far Cry 3 is like Far Cry 2, the better.) Here is Ubisoft's latest teaser. I do believe I see a flamethrower? And a tiger. OK, cool. I can get with this tiger thing.
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And the businesses in the two adjoining coastal communities reflect the same. The slogan for Pacific Beach's business improvement district (BID) is: "It's all right here."
"And it really is," said Sara Berns, executive director of Discover Pacific Beach, the largest of San Diego's 17 BIDS and 18 micro-BIDS.
Pacific Beach's business district, which includes Grand and Garnet avenues between Mission Boulevard and Interstate 5, as well as Cass Street, Turquoise Avenue, Lamont Street and Mission Bay Drive, boasts more than 1,400 businesses.
"There's tons to do in PB, whether it's riding bikes on the boardwalk, skateboarding or surfing, playing beach volleyball, horseshoes or extreme Frisbee. It's an active, outdoor lifestyle and our businesses match that," said Berns.
Above all else, Pacific Beach has a great mix of businesses. Some are large. Others small. Some cater primarily to locals. Others serve mostly out-of-towners.
"There is a wide range of price points," said Berns. "You can come down and shop for a $200 pair of jeans or a $2 tank top."
Multitudinous skate and surf shops serve the needs of those coming down to indulge themselves in the beach lifestyle.
PB's business mix includes professionals of every stripe — doctors, lawyers, dentists, architects and acupuncturists. It also has big chain stores right alongside small businesses.
"I'm looking out my window at Office Depot and a sushi restaurant," said Berns. "Mom and pops, we've still got 'em. We've got a Maytag store here where you can still buy a washer and dryer."
The business community in Mission Beach is equally as diverse.
The home of Belmont Park, The Wave House and The Giant Dipper Roller Coaster, Mission Beach is perhaps best known for having great beach vacation rentals.
One such rental entrepreneur is Gina Champion Cain, who owns The Patio on Lamont Street and several pet-friendly vacation-rental properties on Mission Beach, as well as Luv San Diego Surf at 4439 Lamont St., a retail store in connection with the vacation rentals.
Champion Cain said Pacific Beach is the more commercial of the two coastal communities, whereas Mission Beach is more seasonal and "beachy."
"Mission Beach is clearly a hospitality-driven neighborhood, which has more the flavor of a tourist attraction," she said. "PB really has more long-term residents."
Guests of Champion Cain's beach rentals are pampered — and so are their pets, which are always welcome at her establishments.
"We rent like a hotel, charge by the day, have concierge service," she said. "We're pet-friendly and it's a big deal for us. We love our animals."
Being pet-friendly is "how we separate ourselves from everybody else," she said. "Ninety-eight percent of beach rentals in Mission Beach are not pet friendly."
Champion Cain's establishments also specialize in "supreme customer service."
"Our rentals are completely turn-key with food in the refrigerator, dog food treats and free coffee beans," Champion Cain said. "If you want to get tickets to the San Diego Zoo or SeaWorld, we can do all that for you."
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Pacific Beach and Mission Beach are both noted for a wide range of more than 100 restaurants catering to every imaginable taste and palette, such as The Mission at 3795 Mission Blvd.
The Mission's menu includes everything from classic pancakes and sandwiches to modern Chino-Latino cuisine, which, the website (themissionsd.com) proclaims, "has made The Mission a huge favorite among local San Diegans and travelers from around the world."
If your dining tastes run more toward the traditional, there's Luigi's At The Beach at 3210 Mission Blvd.
The restaurant, named for an Italian who opened it in 1985, uses a blend of "family secrets" to create a "dazzling, yet simple" menu.
If breakfast is what you seek, Kono's Café at 704 Garnet Ave. across from Crystal Pier offers outdoor seating, some with incomparable ocean views.
An iconic Pacific Beach eatery known for its breakfast burritos and other specialties, Kono's has long lines out the door during the busy summer peak season for good reason. Patrons would be hard pressed to find better quality, bigger portions or more reasonable prices.
If your culinary tastes run more toward the homegrown side, you can indulge yourself at three local farmers markets in Pacific Beach. One takes place Tuesdays from 2 to 7 p.m. on Bayard Street at Garnet Avenue. Another happens at 4150 Mission Blvd. at Pacific Beach Drive in the Promenade, and a third takes place at the Seaside Farmers Market from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Mission Bay High School, 2475 Grand Ave.
The community also abounds with retail delights. Pilar's Beachwear at 3790 Mission Blvd. is one place — among many — that offers PB-centric attire: beachwear.
"Pilar's Beachwear has been in Mission Beach since 1970," said Julie Wilkinson, the boutique's co-owner. "We are a family owned business that carries swimwear, beachwear, clothing and accessories for women of all ages and sizes. We pride ourselves on providing personalized customer service so our customers leave here feeling beautiful and good about themselves."
Wilkinson said Pilar's has been voted "best place to buy a swimsuit" several times, and recently moved to its expanded location at 3790 Mission Blvd.
If you're searching for a hotel, there are no shortage of options in either Mission Beach or Pacific Beach. Two excellent choices are The Bahia Hotel on a 14-acre peninsula surrounded by Mission Bay at 998 West Mission Bay Drive, and the Catamaran Resort Hotel and Spa at 3999 Mission Blvd.
The family friendly, Mediterranean-themed Bahia provides picture-perfect views from 314 spaciously appointed guestrooms. Gardenfront rooms inspire guests to relax in a tropical paradise while listening to the sounds of a trickling stream surrounded by palm gardens.
A trademark of the Catamaran with its 313 luxury guest rooms is its signature spa with its South Pacific-inspired menu of products with marine and botanical elements offering the finest in therapeutic skin and body treatments.
Besides a large assortment of beach cottages, there are more than 20 high-rise hotels in Pacific and Mission beaches from which to choose, Berns said.
Best of all about the beach communities is they're ageless and timeless, Berns said.
"There's something for everybody — kids, singles, couples, the elderly, whether you're coming here to do something active, or just to lay on the beach and sunbathe," she said.


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The Experts: Embracing the "Real"
By Mike Doherty
There's evidence all around us – whether it's watching someone gush over the sleek design of a new phone and then seek out the perfect hand-carved, petrified-jungle-wood case to put it in or the proliferation of farmers markets in big cities – people are looking for, and need, realness. There is a powerful urge to get in touch with what they believe is a more "real" world and it's leading us to a place where signs of realness take on greater value.
Is it because more of us are living in urban environments? Or is it because connection tools have reduced personal communication and kept us multi-tasking 24/7? Or is it because of a rise in health scares from food being mass-produced in unknown places?
There are many contributing factors, but the desire for "real" seems to be driven by things that are bigger and more lasting than the usual "trend and counter-trend" shifts that we often see.
Here is where the biggest shifts are happening:
The movement toward real food and drink isn't just about being a locavore. It's also been fueled by health and safety concerns. Increasingly people want to know where what they put in their mouth comes from and what's in it. In fact, Mintel Reports that despite the recession, sales of natural, organic food and beverages have increased 20 percent from 2009. And manufacturers have taken note…more than half (56 percent) of the food and beverage product categories in the US showed decreases in the average number of ingredients per product in the same period. Seattle's Dry Soda has reimagined soda and is a good example with only four ingredients. In the fruit juice segment, coconut water – which is perceived to be "nature's sports/health drink" – saw sales increase 164 percent from 2010 to 2011, with over 23 million U.S. adults claiming to personally drink it.
While we are more connected, it's clear that we aren't more social or having more personal interactions. In the U.S. we spend an average of 30 hours per week online and that only compounds when you add in smartphones. Melanie Howard of the Future Foundation reports that many consumers are also seeking the "simplification of complexity which is about the urge people feel to get in touch with what they believe to be a more real world." We have seen the importance of family meals steadily increase over the last decade and according to a study by CASA, the desire for real personal interactions is so strong that two-thirds of teens (65 percent) and three-quarters of parents (75 percent) say they would be willing to give up a weeknight activity if it meant they could have a family dinner.
There is also a shift in people's activities toward things that represent a more holistic and real lifestyle. This is supported by Mintel data showing a rise in cooking among young people. They found that 59 percent of 25-44 year-olds love cooking and do so as a way of connecting with their friends. Other creative and real activities like gardening and knitting have been on the rise for some time. The latest poll from supermarketguru.com shows vegetable gardening increased from 79 perecnt in 2011 to 85 perecnt in 2012. And while knitting has been on the rise for a decade, Google searches for 'knitting for beginners' rose by over 250 perecnt last year and sales of Rowan yarn have risen by 57 per cent worldwide over 2010 levels.
Consumers have been growing increasingly suspicious of labeling claims since the POM controversy. In fact, Mintel found that only 33 percent of U.S. adults feel beverage companies are making it easier to understand claims and only 41 percent believe what labels say about food and beverage products. People want openness, transparency and honesty and they want real benefits to help them maintain good nutrition. Restaurants serving functional smoothies have seen a 40 percent increase over the past three years as consumers seek a healthful snack for on the go. Consumers also appreciate drinks that help them meet their minimum daily servings of fruits and vegetables and are interested in drinks that contain ingredients known for other health benefits like Aloe Vera. Alo is a great example combining coconut water and Aloe Vera.
The rise of real in each of these areas presents opportunities for brands that can embrace the shift.
As people seek things that are more personal, worthwhile, and connected to the natural world, there's an opportunity for brands to create deeper more meaningful experiences. Years ago, car brands like BMW and Volvo started offering the opportunity to take delivery of your car at their factory so you could tour the countryside in your new car. But increasingly, consumers of all types of products expect to feel or experience something that they can't get online or even in-store. Companies can fulfill this desire for a real experience by offering new ways for people to see, touch and feel where the products they buy come from. "Consumer Safaris" enable people to travel to where a product is made to meet the craftspeople who make it. Cooking schools now offer trips to hunt and forage for the truffles and wild boar you'll spend the week learning to cook. And according to the International Ecotourism Society, "voluntourism" (or philanthropic vacations) is one of the fastest-growing markets in tourism today. Organizations like Artisans of Leisure and Conscious Journeys offer travelers the opportunity to have fun doing some good and really immersing themselves into the real culture of a country.
The rise of real has created new opportunities to help people achieve a more holistic and meaningful life. While brands like Jack Daniels have emphasized the slow, the real and the authentic in their messaging, there is an opportunity to inspire people in bigger ways…to think about your marketing through the lens of giving people something interesting to do. Pepsi created a "Live for Now" music program on Twitter that provided fans with an instant overview of the artists and music news trending on Twitter. In addition, they inspired living for now by offering free music downloads to @pepsi followers, staging pop-up concerts streamed live on the platform, and the opportunity for followers to influence the concert program by tweeting out the songs they wanted included.
The rise of real is already driving a myriad of new healthier drinks but the opportunity exists to satisfy consumers' desire for experimentation and newness by reinventing traditional flavors. Dry Soda not only has just four ingredients, but their flavors include epicurean tastes like lemongrass, juniper berry, cucumber and lavender. According to Mintel, consumers are less willing to accept a diet benefit if it is achieved through artificial means like artificial sweeteners. And there's an even bigger opportunity to ground your brand's mission in a place that supports people's desire for realness. Chipotle's "Food with Integrity" positioning is a good example as well as one of my favorites, Icebreaker Merino. Each Icebreaker Merino garment comes with a "Baacode" that lets you trace the merino wool in your garment back to the source in New Zealand where you can see how the sheep live, read about their growers, and follow its production through to the finished garment.
More and more, people want to get to know what's real and authentic to the culture and the people behind the products and services they use. The desire for real access is just one reason why sites like Etsy have a tribal following. Pinterest also enables brands to show who they are, not just what they offer. The Today Show has a board dedicated to "Anchor Antics" that allows people to see the anchors as just that – people. And, it's an opportunity to gain access to a part of the brand that most people can't experience first hand.
Whatever brands do to embrace the rise of real, it is more important than ever for brands to give people things to DO rather than just tell them what you have. More and more, consumers are seeking realness in the way they live and the products they buy. Even a grocery list is an expression of a person's values. Your ability to engage people with things to think about and do will not only inspire them but also make your brand more interesting in their eyes.
By Mike Doherty, President, Cole & Weber United, an ad agency owned by WPP.


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Higher April Retail Sales Could Raise Markets
April's retail sales figures came in higher than expected, which gave a pop to Dow futures Monday morning. Chris Dieterich reports.
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As Rolf Landauer observed in 1960, information is physical. As a consequence, the transport and processing of information must obey the laws of physics. It therefore makes sense to base the laws of information processing and computation on the laws of physics and in particular on quantum mechanics. This idea underlies the modern fields of Quantum Computation and Quantum Information Technology.
Electron spin is a particularly well-studied two level physical system that, in semiconductors, has been shown to remain coherent over remarkably long times [1]. This property, which results from the weakness of coupling of the environment to the magnetic moment of the electron, means that the information stored in a spin is preserved over relatively long times. This, combined with its simplicity, makes the electron spin potentially useful for quantum information processing in general and a good qubit candidate for quantum computing in particular [2]. The relative isolation of a spin from its environment, however, makes spin manipulation and especially single spin measurement very challenging. Long-lived information is of little use if we can't access it. The Pauli exclusion principle, however, causes the Coulomb interaction between electrons with parallel spins to be generally weaker than between electrons with anti-parallel spins. Since electrostatic forces are much stronger than magnetic ones, the prospect of controlling this exchange interaction has been envisioned as a basic element in many proposed applications in the emerging field of "spin-tronics."
In this talk, I will give a brief outline of some of the basic ideas of quantum information and quantum computing. I will describe our calculations of the electronic structure of artificial molecules or "double quantum dots," which are based on a unique hybrid of density functional and exact diagonalization techniques. I will attempt to show how basic quantum computing processes are proposed to be carried out within this system via manipulation of the exchange interaction between the electrons on the separate dots with either electrostatic gating or applied magnetic fields. I will finally attempt to indicate what the fundamental bottlenecks to future progress in the field are.
[1] T. Fujisawa et al., Science 282, 932 (1998)
[2] G. Burkard et al., Phys. Rev. B, 59, 2070 (1999).
Dr. Stopa receieved his B.A. for Astronomy from Wesleyan University in 1976. He was a Research and Teaching Assistant at Harvard University from 1977 to 1980. He completed his M.S. from the University of Maryland in 1982. He was a real time computer programmer at the System Development Corporation from 1982 to 1985. He worked with the Das Sarma Research Group at the University of Maryland from 1986 to 1990. He received his Ph. D. in 1990. From 1990 to 1992, he worked in the NTT Basic Research Laboratories, Tarucha group Riken. He collaborated with the Frontier Research Project from 1992 to 1997. He worked with the Walter Schottky Institute from 1998 to 1999. Since 2000, he has been with the Exploratory Research for Advanced Technologies (ERATO), Japan Science and Technology Corporation (JST), Tarucha Mesoscopic Correlaton Project.
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BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Thousands of Romanians demonstrated on Sunday both for and against a planned Canadian gold mine that would use cyanide in the extraction process. The project would create the biggest gold mine in Europe, razing four mountains to make way for an open pit mine.
Supporters say the mine would bring vital jobs and investment to the deprived area in northwest Romania. But opponents say it will present an environmental risk.
In the Romanian capital, thousands of people protesting against the mine shouted "Save Rosia Montana," referring to the town where it would be located and where gold has been mined for more than 2,000 years.
The anti-mine protesters in Bucharest's University Square urged lawmakers not to pass legislation that would approve the mine as a "special national interest" creating foreign investment and jobs in the deprived area. They later blocked a main road in the city.
Some 6,000 people rallied in the city of Cluj, which is near the mine, also urging parliament to block the legislation, Mediafax news agency reported.
In the town of Rosia Montana, thousands of miners used their annual rally on miner's day to urge Parliament to allow the mine to open, saying it would create jobs and investment, local authorities said. Rosia Montana Town Hall put the turnout at 10,000 people.
For the past week, there have been protests in Bucharest and other Romanian cities against the draft bill the government has put forward that would allow Canadian company Gabriel Resources to mine gold and silver there.


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I got to run on one of my favorite trails, the Siltstone Trail in the Jefferson Memorial Forest, just miles outside of Louisville. It is less than a 20 minute ride from my hotel.
I had high hopes for a nice trail run, sans snow, but even Louisville has been hit.
It was more of a work out than a run. There were some parts where the snow had been tamped down, but up on the ridges there were areas where I was post holing through snow.
About one mile after I started the run, I ran into ED! I knew Ed from Mohican, and Ed lives right around the corner here in Kentucky. We chatted briefly, and he was off on another section of trail. Then, to my delight, he ran up Siltstone and did some running with me!!!
It was great to have company out on the trails. Ed will be at Mohican again, and since I am crewing this year at Mohican, will run into him again. Thanks Ed, for your company today, it was very nice!!!
Ed turned back as I started up the Scott's Gap Trail, it is a 3 mile loop. This loop kicked my butt! Big climbs. The sun and mild weather was starting to melt some of the snow, so you would think the downhills would be nice to run—but they were getting dangerous. The ground was still frozen, but the thin layer of mud/leaves was totally slick. I found myself running in the snow instead of the mud because the traction was better.
I regrouped after Scott's Gap for the 6.25 miles back to the Welcome Center where the vehicle was parked. It was kind of tiring, but even hiking was good time on my feet. And even better for my pysche!!!


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Mississippi's second-year football coach Hugh Freeze poised to haul in big recruiting class
OXFORD, Miss. – Second-year Mississippi coach Hugh Freeze is poised to haul in a big recruiting class on Wednesday's national signing day.
The list of potential names is stunning for a program the caliber of Ole Miss, which isn't known for its ability to attract big-time prospects. A perfect storm of family ties, momentum and Freeze's recruiting experience has brought the Rebels to this point.
If Ole Miss lands all of its targets — which include many who are highly regarded by national recruiting analysts — it would be the most celebrated class in school history.
Freeze isn't celebrating yet. He knows that in the Southeastern Conference you can never count on landing a recruit until his name is written on a National Letter of Intent and faxed to the football office on Wednesday.
"Certainly, in this conference, there is no one that's bad at recruiting," Freeze said last week during halftime of an Ole Miss basketball game. "Everyone is very good at it. It gets ratcheted up a little tougher this week. We're certainly in on the right guys. We just need to be able to close on a good number of them."
Among the prospects strongly considering Ole Miss is defensive end Robert Nkemdiche — the top-rated recruit in the country according to almost every major media outlet that covers recruiting.
The 6-foot-5, 260-pounder from Loganville, Ga., might not normally look at the Rebels, but family could play a strong factor in his decision. His brother, Denzel Nkemdiche, had a breakout season for the Rebels in 2012, leading the team with 82 tackles, including 13 for a loss.
And with the younger Nkemdiche considering the Rebels, a host of other highly rated prospects have followed his lead.
Receiver Laquon Treadwell (Crete, Ill.) has already verbally committed to the Rebels, according to Rivals.com and Scout.com, while other highly rated recruits like offensive tackle Laremy Tunsil (Lake City, Fla.), safety Antonio Conner (Batesville, Miss.), defensive end Elijah Daniel (Avon, Ind.), offensive tackle Austin Golson (Prattville, Ala.) and defensive end Chris Jones (Houston, Miss.) are reportedly considering the program.
It's helped that Ole Miss had an unexpected amount of success under Freeze in his first season. The Rebels recovered from a disastrous 2-10 season in 2011 to finish 7-6, including a win over rival Mississippi State in the Egg Bowl and Pittsburgh in the BBVA Compass Bowl.
"I don't think we would be sitting here talking about this class that we're hopefully going to bring in without the momentum that was created by the end of the season," Freeze said. "Winning the Egg Bowl and being competitive in the big games — Alabama, LSU, A&M — and then winning our bowl game, certainly gave some credibility to our message to these recruits and their families."
It's also helpful that Freeze knows how to sell Ole Miss. The native of Senatobia, Miss., grew up just 45 minutes from the school, coached high school football in Memphis, Tenn., and was an assistant coach for the Rebels under Ed Orgeron from 2005-07.
Orgeron had a difficult tenure at Ole Miss from a wins and losses perspective, but is still regarded as one of the nation's premier recruiters.
Freeze was Orgeron's recruiting coordinator and helped the program land stars like Greg Hardy, Dexter McCluster, Kendrick Lewis and John Jerry, who are now all in the NFL.
Now that Freeze is back at Ole Miss, he's said his recruiting strategy is very similar to Orgeron's.
ESPN recruiting analyst Tom Luginbill said Freeze's familiarity with Ole Miss, his recent success and his ability to relate to high school players have sent a powerful message to recruits. It's a potent mix of advantages that doesn't happen every year.
"He's got to take advantage of this window that he has of surprising success and parlay that into recruiting success," Luginbill said. "I just think he's gotten creative. I think he's sold what he feels are the strengths of the program. He has sold a vision for the future of facilities, of a strong fan base."
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