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A Word About Portfolio Rebalancing
Posted By Barry Ritholtz On January 9, 2013 @ 7:27 am In Investing | Comments Disabled
On Yesterday's Bloomberg Surveillance [1] show, Tom Keene referenced some of my bullet points from Keep Investing Simple [2]. (One bullet was to Ignore the Chattering Class [3], but I was not referring to Tom, whom I have a great deal of respect for).
Live TV being what it is, we briefly touched upon rebalancing, but gave it short shrift. A few emails from viewers and a comment from Econochat [3] later, it is clear that I muddied the waters rather than clarifying them. This post will hopefully correct that misadventure.
Whenever I reference rebalancing, I am referring to asset classes — Equities, Bonds, Real Estate, Commodities, etc. It does NOT refer to individual stocks.
[4]Take a portfolio model of 60% equities 40% bonds (60/40) primarily held through broad ETFs. After there was a hypothetical big quarter for bonds and a weak quarter for stocks, your 60/40 portfolio ends up looking more like 58% Equities and 42% bonds. The market action has led your holdings to drift away from your allocation. Rebalancing means that you are returning back to your original asset allocation model weightings.
Why do this? Because history teaches us that all broad asset classes will eventually mean revert. The goal of the rebalance is to take advantage of the short term volatility and price swings to move you back towards your model 60/40 allocations at more advantageous valuations.
In practice, it means you trim your bonds holdings after they had a good run and you buy equities after they have fallen. If you have more asset classes, you do the same, rebalancing to your model. A typical allocation may be that are 62% equities 31% bonds, 4% Real estate and 3% commodities 62/31/4/3. On a regular basis, quarterly, semi annually or annually, you rebalance back to your original allocation.
50/50 is a very conservative allocation, 60/40 more moderate, 70/30 more aggressive, 80/20 even more so. The original allocation decision you make is a function of your risk tolerance, assets, and time horizon.
If you own Berkshire or Visa or JNJ (as we do) and they are working, you lock them in your portfolio and let them run. With individual stocks, you DO NOT rebalance — but eventually, you may have to make a sell decision. That is an entirely different conversation.
Asset classes mean revert. Any stock can go to zero, but an asset class cannot. And the reason to own an individual name (versus an index) is that it has the potential to outperform that broad index. That's why you DO NOT rebalance them — it defeats the primary purpose of owning individual companies. .
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[3] Ignore the Chattering Class: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-01-08/the-chattering-classes
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And the Oscar Goes to....
I love the Oscars. I've been predicting the winners since I was a kid. Some years I've done well, others not so much. For the last couple of years, I've made a point to watch all the nominees in the major categories. I've seen all the movies this year except one. Javier Bardem is nominated for Biutiful. Because it is a foreign language film, he hasn't been widely released. A quick note before I predict. I believe strongly the best person should win. I don't like when people say "it's his time" (awarding someone because they've been snubbed before) or "she will have another chance" (basically she is young and will be nominated in the future). Ok, here we go.
Best Picture
127 Hours- good movie, intense
The Fighter- great movie, well acted
Black Swan- weird movie but good
Inception- Excellent movie after you watch it three times
The Kids Are All Right- ok movie, didn't love it
The King's Speech- good story, well acted
The Social Network- great movie, good score
Toy Story 3- this movie made me cry. I love the Pixar movies
True Grit- good movie
Winter's Bone- haunting movie, well acted, great story
Frankly, I think Inception was the best movie of the year but it won't win. Most pundits say it's between The King's Speech and Social Network. I think most Oscar voters will go with The King's Speech. I liked the movie but thought the Social Network was better. They took a boring subject matter and made it extremely interesting and fun to watch.
Will Win: The King's Speech
Should Win: Social Network
Best Actor
Jeff Bridges, True Grit- good performance but not Oscar worthy
Javier Bardem, Biutiful- didn't see it
Jesse Eisenberg, Social Network- great performance
Colin Firth, The King's Speech- great performance
James Franco, 127 Hours- unbelievable performance.
All the pundits seem to agree Colin Firth will win. I think James Franco gave a better performance. He blew me away. Firth is a great actor but I think he gave a better performance last year in A Single Man. Jesse Eisenberg was also memorable as Mark Zuckerberg. I am ok with Firth winning but think Franco gave the best performance of the year.
Will Win: Colin Firth
Should Win: James Franco
Best Supporting Actor
Christian Bale, The Fighter- great performance
John Hawkes, Winter's Bone- haunting and memorable performance
Jeremy Renner, The Town- ok performance, wouldn't get my vote
Mark Ruffalo, The Kids Are All Right- ok performance, wouldn't get my vote
Geoffrey Rush, The King's Speech- great performance, memorable
I am torn with this category. Most pundits say Christian Bale will win. He should. It was a great performance. But I thought Geoffrey Rush gave a really memorable performance. I think he stole the show. If he hadn't won an Oscar already, I think he would be more of a contender. Also, can't overlook John Hawkes' performance as a meth addict. One moment you hated him, the next you liked him.
Will Win: Christian Bale
Should Win: Geoffrey Rush
Best Actress
Annette Bening, The Kids are All Right- good performance
Nicole Kidman, Rabbit Hole- great performance. Bravo!
Jennifer Lawrence, Winter's Bone- wow, great performance considering she is only 20
Michelle Williams, Blue Valentine- heart wrenching performance. Will win an Oscar one day
Natalie Portman, Black Swan- great performance
Pundits say it's between Natalie Portman and Annette Bening. It's hard to believe Bening has been nominated four times and has never won but my vote is for Portman. Nicole Kidman was memorable in Rabbit Hole. I think she would be more of a contender if she hadn't won an Oscar already. Michelle Williams blew me away in Blue Valentine. She will win an Oscar one day. I hope to see more from Jennifer Lawrence in the future. She has a lot of potential.
Will Win: Natalie Portman
Should Win: Natalie Portman
Supporting Actress
Amy Adams, The Fighter- ok performance
Helena Bonham-Carter, The King's Speech- ok performance
Jacki Weaver, Animal Kingdom, haunting performance. This woman scared me
Melissa Leo, The Fighter- great and memorable performance
Hailee Steinfeld, True Grit, hard to believe this girl is only 14
This seems to be the most unpredictable category. Melissa Leo won the Golden Globe and SAG. She gave a great performance. My vote is on her but won't be surprised if she loses. To me, Jacki Weaver gave the most memorable performance but I don't think she will win. Hailee Steinfeld could end up picking up the award. She was great in True Grit but wasn't that a lead role?
Will Win: Melissa Leo
Should Win: Jacki Weaver

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Groovefest Rummage and Bake Sale to support summer music festival
The Groovefest Rummage Sale began in 2010 as part of the effort of raising much-needed funds that would go directly to paying the artistry who perform at the annual Cedar City event.The rummage sale's success has been so overwhelming that organizers, say the festival's officials, that they decided to continue the sale as an annual event.
The 11th annual Groovefest will be held next year from June 24 through June 30 in downtown Cedar City.
A children's version of the festival is being planned.The 2013 Groovefest will once again be joined by the Cedar City Arts Festival and be presented together on June 28 and 29.
Proceeds from the rummage and bake sales will not only supplement the many costs that are required to put on a festival such as Groovefest, but it will create awareness for the annual music and art event.
The Groovefest Rummage and Bake Sale will be held on December 8 at St. Jude's Episcopal Church at 70 N. 200 W. in Cedar City, from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. Questions about the Groovefest Rummage and Bake Sale can be answered by calling Tim Cretsinger at 435-867-9800.


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Photo: Prostitutes protesting in Argentina
A group of Argentine prostitutes on Tuesday held a "breast party" in front of Parliament in this capital to demand the approval of a law regulating sexual self-employment.
With their breasts bared and under rainy skies, the women demanded "that (lawmakers) begin to debate the bill to regulate sexual self-employment among women older than 18 who by their own decision practice this activity," the head of the Association of Argentine Prostitutes, Georgina Orellano, told Efe.
Orellano said that the bare-breasted demonstration was aimed at "making society aware of the violence" sex workers suffer "due to not having a legal framework" to govern their activities.
"(Theft) of our belongings, discrimination, mistreatment, ... abuse and police kickbacks" were all mentioned by the association in this context in the communique it issued announcing the protest.
In the statement, the group also said that "all this leads to making our lives more uncertain and condemns us even more to underground (activities) and criminalization."


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Phillies pitcher Joe Blanton was activated from the disabled list Monday after being out since May 16 with elbow inflammation.
But Blanton's activation was more of an emergency than an admission that he's fully ready to return.
The Phillies' bullpen was depleted after the 14-inning game Sunday. Kyle Kendrick, who was on paternity leave at the time, wasn't available. And Manuel wants lefty Antonio Bastardo to get a couple days off. ...


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Joe: Mumma! Mumma! Mumma! ARE YOU LISTENING TO ME?
Me: Yes, for heaven's sake. Don't shout. Talk like a person, Joe. I'm right here.
Joe (serious eyes): Mumma. Now. If you buy me more little legos, my will love you more. Way more. But if you don't buy me more little legos, my will not be happy and maybe not talk to you ANYMORE AT ALL EVER.
Me: Well, I'd settle for a few minutes of silence but if you need ANYMORE AT ALL EVER that's fine, too.
Joe: Really, Mumma. My mean it.
Me: Joe-bear, that is not how love works. If you're bad or mad or sad, do I stop loving you?
Joe: No. But you sometimes yell at me.
Me: Not the point, focus with me here. Okay. If you love someone, you don't only love them because of what they do or buy for you. You love them because you love them, period. That's how I love you, right? Always forever up to the moon and back, no matter what. So even if you're not making good choices, I still love you. If you're being good or bad, I love you. If you're sad or happy, I love you. If you're silly or sleeping, I love you. Love is deep and wide and always, Joe-sie.
Joe: That's right. You do. Love is always – even if I'm happy or bappy or sappy or cappy or…. (continues rhyming all the nonsense words of "-appy" for a while until I think I better wrap it up.)
Me: So. No legos today. And no legos tomorrow. You have plenty and that's that. And now you don't get to stop loving me because I didn't buy you legos today. And you don't love me more on your birthday if you do get legos. Got it?
Joe (thoughtfully): Got it. But Mumma, maybe for things like that, I'm just in the shallow end of love, not the deep end you said. Because my really love little legos in the always way.
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Suretrader Update
So just got of the phone with Guy Gentile CEO and Founder of Suretrader for our weekly update and to touch base. He is currently adding customer service staff as they are currently overwhelmed with applications. Seem like people these days do not want to be held back by the 25k pattern daytrading rule. More about this on a past post http://www.daytradingradio.com/pages/preferredbroker.
They now have over 10k symbols available for shorting including the cheap crap, Also they now offer 1% cash back on account $5,000 or more limited to $500.00. Kind of reminds me of Chase Credit Cards. LOL. Anyway for those who do not have $25,000 dollars this is still the best and only option out there. Not to mention to mention the 6-1 margin rates intraday which allows a small account to take advantage of some better quality scalps. I currently use the Suretrader account and trade with the 6-1 margin each day with my scalps. One thing is important and that is to remember this is intraday margin. And should be used to intra daytrade only.
Suretrader will go the extra mile for daytradingradio members meaning bonus promotional add on so be sure to mention daytradingradio.co or just follow this link https://www.suretrader.com/?a=6e7cfdb0-a5ec-486b-be92-b3c012c51afe


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Thursday, October 25, 2001 07:47 AM
I'm trying to use xalan-j_2_2_D11 to transform an XML document, which
holds text in the Greek language (ISO-8859-7), both to HTML and PDF
When I run the code for HTML, the Greek characters are escaped to
strings beginning with ampersand, which is handled fine by the IE 6 on
my PC, but of course it's not possible to edit the HTML code afterwards
by had.
When I run the code for PDF, the fo file produced doesn't display the
Greek characters correctly when opened with a simple text editor, and
the PDF produced by it is still doesn't display Greek.
What am I doing wrong?
Code fragments can be found at
(IE users view source) since adding XML/HTML
to JGURU is not a trivial task :-)
Re: Xalan and FOP for non-English XML (iso-8859-7)
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I found at the Apache Bug Database Bug #1639 which explains that Xalan escapes characters for ISO encodings other than ISO-8, for the time being. The person responsible for developing Xalan was quite polite and explained that the support for other encodings would arise performance issues, but she would look in to it.
The result is that for the time being you cannot use Xalan to do XSLT processing on XML containing Greek characters or any other ISO encodings except ISO-8!


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You Can Now Remote Play PS4 Games with the Vita TV
One of the coolest things about owning a PlayStation Vita is the ability to link it to your PS4 and play your PS4 games remotely. And now, with the latest firmware patch in Japan, the Vita isn't the only system you can remote play PS4 games on; you can stream to the Vita TV as well. »


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Summer's last by some of the best
By Vienna Catalani
They say the world is your oyster, but to a group of quirky foodies, it's much more than that.
You wouldn't find any store-bought cookies, GMO soy products or fruit trucked in from unknown origins here. There wouldn't be any Costco platters, or iPods playing indie rock.
What you would find are steamed oysters, freshly-pressed corn tortillas and a 75-pound pig roasted in a box trough. Highly sought-after grilled peaches, homemade ice cream, and various dishes made with hand-picked berries would grace the table.
And that secret recipe - the one that involves only the ripest Washington tomatoes and succulent Mediterranean mussels - well, if you're lucky, you might get a taste before the masses leave behind only broth.
Labor Day, the unofficial end of a Seattle summer, is rapidly approaching, and with it one of the year's last opportunities to lose yourself in a day of sunshine and waste a hot day by the water with great friends, music, and, of course, food.
So, what's a group of like-minded folks to do when the forecast reads 80+, and you've only had some odd 30 minutes of legitimate summer sunshine?
That's right, you picnic. In style.
It started years ago as a little gathering, a potluck picnic of homemade dishes with both wine and stories flowing freely. Since then, it has turned into an entire day of conviviality, a chance to taste fresh and delicious creations, immerse yourself in great conversations and truly indulge in the gems of the Pacific Northwest.
As a Texas native, I feel I have a unique perspective on the Northwest. Seattle's haute food culture and devout recycling habits have replaced the previous pot-smoking, flannel-wearing image I had initially read. Yes, Seattleites obsess over their coffee, and hibernate for nine months out of the year. They also happen to attack a day of sunshine with the kind of zeal you only see on the Discovery Channel, when a pack of lions go after a prey.
Instead of running from one air-conditioned building to another, you're able to embrace the day, feel the sea breeze cool your face, and gorge yourself on great local wines and food. Dave Smead, Ron Jones, Tamara Murphy, and Jon Rowley dreamed up a day when you could do just that -- embrace what might be either the first or the last hot day of summer, or the only one you can plan for.
This is precisely what this little lost Texan was privileged to take part in. The e-mail said to bring "your favorite potluck dish, or fruits/veggies from your garden, Farmer's Market, or beverage." OK, I thought, we've got a wicked blackberry bush in our alley, we'll bring a crisp and try to blend in. I've never really been one to blend in though, and the zeal for the day overwhelmed me upon arrival.
Oyster shucking had already commenced, and the smell of fresh corn tortillas filled the air. A fantastic jazzy band called Zizzy Zi Zixxy played along to some dancing, while master chefs chopped, flipped, grilled and prepped their dishes.
And then there was La Caja China.
La Caja China isn't just a roasting box; it's an experience. Where lambs and chickens had gone before it, a 75-pound pig lay splayed, crispy and brown. Tacos de pesca had already been devoured, and it was time for the lil' piggy to join its roasted chicken friends on the butcher block. Credit goes to Ron Jones, Billy Burton and Tamara Murphy for transforming this amazing porker into delicious chopped pieces of roasted meat. Placed upon one of Ruth Ishihara's tortillas and topped with other grilled veggies, and it really hit the spot.
Amid fish grilling and pig butchering was Jon Rowley, preparing his annual mussel dish originally crafted to showcase Taylor Shellfish's Mediterranean mussels. According to Rowley, the peak season for Mediterranean mussels is when our local tomatoes are ripe. The dish calls for mussels, tomatoes, sausage, corn and a little basil for color.
Rowley also showed off his peach-grilling skills, using Frog Hollow peaches for their high brix levels. If you want to be truly decadent, you can go ahead and just grill some peaches, and pair with champagne. At sunset, we topped our grilled peaches with homemade bay leaf, and coconut ice cream. Perfection.
The perfect outdoor picnic - it's really what Seattleites do best. The festivities made for what just may have been the best weekend of the summer.
When any given sunny day could be your last, why not embrace the day and the fresh ingredients around you?
According to meteorologist Scott Sistek, the rest of August and September are up for grabs, despite summer's official end on Sept. 21. Either way, the days are only getting shorter, so if you haven't truly "carpe aestatem," you'd better hurry and forge some sunny memories, and top 'em with grilled peaches.
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I'm moving to Ecuador for thirteen months to work with the non-profit Manna Project International and need your help raising funding.
Manna Project International (MPI) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that utilizes the passions and energy of young people to empower developing international communities through hands-on learning and service.
Our model is a collaborative community-based approach to development. By working within and alongside communities, our volunteers strive to promote each community's success while simultaneously learning from them. MPI's approach stresses holistic development, recognizing that the challenges facing these communities are multi-faceted. These challenges must therefore be addressed through a variety of disciplines, as well as a combination of direct service, local leadership, and broader policy change.
As one of the Program Directors in Ecuador, I am responsible for raising $8,900. In addition to covering my living expenses, these funds will be used to provide health, education, finance and sports programming to children and adults in the communities we serve.
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Running Time: 117 min.
Production Date: March 2001
Director: James DiGiorgio
Cast: Julie Meadows, Ava Vincent, Nikita Denise, Salena del Ray, Bridgette Kerkove, Brooke Hunter, Dynamite, Herschel Savage, Kyle Stone, Guy DiSilva, Dino Bravo, Don Hollywood, T. J. Cummings, and Trevor
Initial Expectations: Although most of the guys don�t give me much confidence here, the female line-up is impressive enough that this should be well worth watching.
Initial Reaction: It feels like what would happen if Michael Raven made some of his current films more wank-friendly, which is a very good thing.
Who Should Watch It : Anybody. especially couples, who likes their porn with a little supernatural darkness and plot
Who Should Avoid It: Anybody looking for extremely hardcore sex with a dark plot or raincoaters
Audio /Video Quality: The audio is very clear and well balanced with some nice extra sound effects that enhance the mood very well. The video has a slight grain and some nice shadow usage.
Music: The music has a very eerie and dark feeling to it which fits the movie extremely well. It�s very well balanced with the rest of the audio, but the level changes depending on the mood of the scene.
Menus: Unfortunately it�s the standard VCA menus. If you�ve seen a VCA DVD before odds are you�ve seen the main menu. It�s plain, unimaginative, and has an annoying song. It�s also the biggest problem with VCA�s DVDs. The chapter menu lets you choose the scene based on the leading female in the scene. It also lets you jump to several points in each scene that are all clearly labeled. The chapter menu shows a lot of thought and care. It�s too bad that the same thought and care aren�t put into the first menu you see, which gives you your first impression of the DVD.
The Feature: Julie Meadows sees things. Not dead people, but things that nobody else, such as her husband Herschel Savage, normally sees. While arguing about it on the way home from a party, Herschel hits somebody with their car, but they can�t find the body anywhere. They get back in the car and both see Ava Vincent in the road in front of them. Ava asks for their help and to take her home with them. She stays with them for a little bit, and almost immediately Julie and Herschel find themselves being drawn into their sexual desires as well as situations darker than their normal lives.
After bringing Ava Vincent home with them, Herschel Savage and Julie Meadows relieve some of the stress in one of the most time honored ways, especially in porn. Herschel strips Julie, one of the most enjoyable and enthusiastic blondes in porn to watch, out of her black bra and panties before licking and fingering her twat. Julie returns the favor by sucking Herschel�s cock, and uses almost no hand action while working him over. She makes both Herschel and the cameraman happy by starting out with a little reverse camera before laying on her side and letting Herschel spoon her. Finally, Julie lets Herschel fuck her from behind before unloading on her great ass. It�s a pretty hot scene that has nice chemistry. As usual, Julie shows some nice enthusiasm, and squeals like no other girl in porn. She also looks extremely cute here, and might even be getting better looking as time goes by.
After checking out Ava Vincent, Herschel goes to leave but finds that she�s suddenly naked and by the door. She lures him back to the bed where he eats her pussy before she sucks his cock and gives him extremely great eyes. Ava saves a horse by fucking Herschel cowgirl style, and then lays back for him to take her in a standing missionary. They finish it off with a nice pop on Ava�s all natural, all American tits. It�s a hot scene that�s helped out quite a bit by Ava and the nasty, almost evil look that so often fills her great eyes.
Julie explores her yearnings for being with another man with Dino Bravo, who looks a little like Joe Bob Briggs. Julie starts out rubbernecking Dino�s cock, and as usual looks like she�s really enjoying herself. Julie hops up on the counter to let Dino tongue her pussy and asshole. He comes up to fuck her, and has a smile on his face that makes it look like Dino normally runs jokes through his head to not cum rather than baseball stats. Julie also lets Dino fuck her from behind. As Dino fucks her, he changes to reveal that he�s really Ava Vincent. Julie gives a few scared looks now and then, making it look like she might realize what�s going on. Finally, a stunt dick puts a nice load on Julie�s great ass.
When going through a dark alley, Brooke Hunter, Herschel Savage, a show with bums Kyle Stone and Don Hollywood, who�s a combination of Randy �Leatherface� West�s apparent age and Ed �Ewwwww� Powers� looks. Brooke�s a slightly above average looking blonde with a very nice and fairly realistic body, decides to give her boss. She attacks Kyle�s cock as Don attacks her asshole with his tongue. She bends and lays over a barrel for the guys to take turns fucking her bald pussy. After a while, the bums realize that the nearby mattress hasn�t been puked or pissed on too much, so Don lays back and lets Brooke ride him before Kyle pulls into her ass to completely fill her up. Brooke really gets into it and gets really vocal as she takes both guys, and eventually takes Kyle�s pop on her nice tits. Don, however, doesn�t let go with a pop and was probably happy enough to just be able to get a hard-on at his age.
Julie Meadows goes after what she wants, which just happens to be Guy DiSilva when he and his wife, Salena del Ray, comes over for dinner. She crawls across the table like a cat as Herschel watches from across the table unable to stop her and Salena gets turned on watching. Julie raises her legs high in the air so Guy can lick her holes, and then invites Salena up on the table to join in on the action. The girls repay Guy by teaming up to suck his cock before Julie hops up on Guy�s cock as Salena watches and masturbates. Guy finishes himself off with Salena in a couple positions before Julie jerks him off on Salena�s ass. It�s another hot scene that has some very nice chemistry.
Dynamite, who has one of the stupidest names in porn, pleasures herself with her dildo while her husband is gone until she gets a visit from T. J. Cummings, her neighbor down the street. Thankfully Dynamite looks a lot better than one would expect from her name, and has a nice body including all natural tits. T. J. almost immediately replaces Dynamite�s toy, and goes down on Dynamite�s bald beaver. She returns the favor by giving him some nice slow head while he spanks her ass as well as stroking it a little for him. Dynamite turns around for T. J. to mount her from behind, but soon rolls over so her nicely natural tits can jiggle before taking it in her ass. They finish it up with T. J. giving Dynamite an average pop on her tits. It�s a fairly short and very average scene.
Finally, Herschel learns Ava�s secret. Ava takes him to Hell and introduces him to her pets Bridgette Kerkove, Nikita Denise, and Trevor, who almost immediately start pleasuring Ava. Bridgette breaks off of Ava to tempt Herschel into pleasure, as Nikita licks Ava�s pussy while having Trevor lick hers. Nikita also turns around to give Trevor a little pleasure while Ava licks her pussy, and then lets Trevor fuck hers. Herschel, meanwhile, does Bridgette Kerkove in each of her holes. Finally, both Nikita and Bridgette take their partner�s pops on their tits. It�s a borderline hot scene that has okay chemistry.
Succubus feels like Michael Raven decided to tone down one of his more recent features and make it much more receptive for anybody who wants to box the clown while watching some porn. It has some of the same dark eeriness, yet it takes a turn down the road of stranger supernatural situations and sex rather than the one that shows things like women having miscarriages. The plot is helped out quite a bit by the acting chops of Julie Meadows, who does a great job of playing the fun loving but repressed housewife, Herschel Savage as the highly flawed husband who�s zipper wants to fly apart, and Ava Vincent, as the evil succubus who instigates many of their situations. The sex is done just as well, and nicely travels between warm fuzzy couples sex with Herschel and Julie in the bedroom to dark, raw, back alley sex with Brooke Hunter and a pair of bums in the alley. If you like some nice supernatural darkness with your porn, make sure to check out Succubus.
Extras: Bios are included for Julie Meadows, Ava Vincent, Bridgette Kerkove, and Brooke Hunter. Each bio includes a link to the star�s scene, other VCA credits, and a littler personal information. They�re nicely done, but unfortunately share some of the stale sameness that�s ruined VCA�s main menus.
The photo gallery lasts almost two and a half minutes with seven seconds per photo. Each photo is full screen and looks extremely good. Trailers are included for all three Sopornos movies, which are also by James DiGiorgio, New Wave Hookers 6, Being with Julie Ashton, and the amazing The Devil in Miss Jones 6. There�s also a virtual tour, internet information, and contact information.
The behind the scenes featurette lasts 26 minutes, with camera work by Britt Morgan, who laughs quite a bit while filming as well as adding a comment here and there, and Jimmy D. There�s some amusing footage with James giving Herschel crap about getting married as well as a nice deconstruction of the poop shot. Ava Vincent also gives a few tips on things you can notice in adult films. There�s also some nice footage that focuses on both the scenes and the photos being shot. There�s even some footage of Ava getting her makeup put on for the final scene. It�s a nicely done behind the scenes that does a good job of feeling like it captures what�s going on all around the set. The main complaint I have about it is that the stars are never identified, which is a great touch for any fans who aren�t familiar with some of the stars.
Finally, there�s a full length commentary with director James DiGiorgio and producer Rob Spallone. James and Rob play extremely well of each other, both sounding very Italian, with Rob playing the idiot and James playing the genius. There�s quite a bit of humor through the entire commentary, and the guys seem to be fairly honest about the talent. There�s even a surprising mount of darker humor. There aren�t many commentaries when you hear the people wondering if the girls can feel the guys in them after being in the business a while. They�re just as up front about the guys, and even talk about bringing in stunt dicks. They also talk about some of the technical aspects, such as the lighting, music, and the camera angles. Although the commentary has a lot of the same type of information most other commentaries have, James and Rob�s style sets it apart very nicely, as well as they�re not seeming to be afraid of talking about most anything.
Themes: Straight, rimming (male > female), lesbian, group, spanking, anal, DP, inter-racial, masturbation, and toys
Raincoat Factor: Medium
Overall: Currently, Succubus can be found online for between $18 and $27 with a couple stores offering it near the bottom end. It�s a well done movie and DVD that�s easily worth the lower end as well as a couple bucks. Both the plot and sex are well done with a nice looking cast. The DVD is helped out further by having very good technical aspects and extras to round out the package.
Note to VCA: Nice job here, but PLEASE do something about your main menus. After seeing basically the same thing so many times, it makes it look like you don�t care with how little you do to change it from DVD to DVD.
Extra Note: I recently received an e-mail from VCA regarding their menus. They decided to use the standardized main menu format after some market research made them think consumers wanted simpler, easy to follow menus, which I can understand. They realize now that although it�s a good idea, the execution wasn�t the best here and say they are now working to make them much better in their more recent releases. I have to give VCA a lot of credit here. I�ve been very critical of their menus recently, and rather than acting like they can�t make a mistake, ignoring it, and going on with business as usual, they tried to clear things up. I think somebody once said that you can tell the character of a person by how they handle their mistakes, not how they handle success, which has always made a lot of sense to me. It also speaks very well for VCA and shows that they�ve still got a lot of the class they were showing a couple years ago.
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Young Mother Sewing, 1900
Mary Cassatt (American, 1844–1926)
Oil on canvas; 36 3/8 x 29 in. (92.4 x 73.7 cm)
H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H.O. Havemeyer, 1929 (29.100.48)
During the 1870s and 1880s, Cassatt often depicted women out and about in Paris, where she had settled in 1874. During the 1890s, she narrowed the range of her subjects to mothers or nurses caring for children and children alone. These themes reflected her affection for her nieces and nephews and her friends' children and her contemporaries' concern with motherhood and child rearing. Set in the conservatory of Cassatt's seventeenth-century manor house near Le Mesnil-Théribus, Oise, this painting depicts two of her favorite, unrelated models in the roles of mother and child. Louisine Havemeyer, who purchased the painting in 1901, remarked on its truth to experience: "Look at that little child that has just thrown herself against her mother's knee, regardless of the result and oblivious to the fact that she could disturb 'her mamma.' And she is quite right . . . . Mamma simply draws back a bit and continues to sew."


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Our Local Heroin Addiction
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- 4 charged in alleged bath salts ring in Elk Co.
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- Task force to deal with heroin planned in Centre Co.
- Cambria Co. woman pleads guilty to drug possession
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- Police investigating Blair Co. pharmacy robbery
- Battling prescription drug trafficking an ongoing effort
- AG Kane: Heroin problem in Johnstown is out of control
- Drug-related crimes causing prison population spike
- Jefferson Co. woman arrested, bond set at $5 million
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- Panel held at St. Francis focuses on emerging drug trends
- Heroin mixed with fentanyl is a deadly combination
- 12 heroin overdoses in 72 hours linked to same batch
- Police find large amount of heroin, fentanyl during bust
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4 charged in alleged bath salts ring in Elk Co.
By: Marc Stempka
ST. MARYS, Pa. -- Four people have been charged for allegedly dealing the highly addictive synthetic drug bath salts throughout Elk County.
Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane said Tuesday the four people were arrested as a result of an investigation between her office's North Central Municipal Drug Task Force and Elk County District Attorney Shawn McMahon's Office.
Kane said William Dilley, 55, and Jacob Dilley, 21, both of 1340 Poplar Rd., St. Marys, Jeremiah Dilley, 35, of 42 Dippold Ave., St. Marys, and Abby O'Rourke, 30, of 331 1st Ave., Johnsonburg, are facing charges in connection to the alleged drug distribution.
According to investigators, 943 grams of bath salts were seized, with an estimated street value of $200,000.
During William and Jacob Dilley's arrests Monday, an additional 105 grams of bath salts worth $20,000 was seized, Kane said.
William Dilley received a $25,000 unsecured bond and Jacob Dilley received $50,000 straight cash bond following their arrests, Kane said. Jeremiah Dilley and O'Rourke are currently incarcerated and will be arraigned in the coming days.
Kane said in addition to her office, St. Marys Police and investigators with the Elk County District Attorney's Office were also involved in the investigation.
More details on the charges against the four accused:
-- William Dilley: Charged with one count of possession of bath salts, one count of possession with intent to deliver bath salts and one count of criminal conspiracy to deliver bath salts.
-- Jacob Dilley: charged with four counts of criminal use of a communications facility and one count of criminal conspiracy to deliver bath salts.
-- Jeremiah Dilley: charged with four counts of criminal use of a communications facility, one count of criminal conspiracy to deliver bath salts and one count of dealing in proceeds of unlawful activities.
-- Abby O'Rourke: with one count of criminal conspiracy to deliver bath salts and one count of dealing in proceeds of unlawful activities.


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Electric fan heaters are two a dozen, cheap as chips, and pretty much resigned to the shelves of DIY shops around the globe. They are an "in case of emergency" or "it's too bloody cold" purchase.
Not so, says Sir James Dyson. Dyson and his engineers have used the same technology used in the company's fans launched in 2010, and made them spew out hot air instead of cold (you can still get cold air, but more on that in a mo).
Called the Dyson Hot (get it?) we've been testing and reviewing the new heater at Pocket-lint towers to see whether it can heat our office, and whether it's worth the £270 price tag.
Let's get the important bit out of the way first, the price. Yep you read that right; it's £270 for a heater.
While Dyson will try and justify the reasons for that King's ransom the real reason is that you are paying for something from Dyson, and that means it's beautifully designed, beautifully over-engineered, and something you'll want to show your not so beautiful friends rather than hide.
If you think of a £20 heater as a toaster with a fan attached, the Dyson Hot is a supersonic jet engine.
The crux of the Dyson Hot, put simply, is a motor adapted from its vacuum cleaner range that instead of sucking air pushes it through a small hole that, through some more trickery, pushes out a gust of air into the room.
Combine that with heating stones hidden within the design, that can't get dusty or overly hot, and you start to see some of Dyson's reasons for creating the Hot in the first place.
With ten air levels it's fairly quiet even on full-blast and there is a thermostat that will control the temperature up to 37 degrees Celsius. Once the room gets to the desired heat the fan switches off. That's not that special - all heaters do that.
There is also a cold mode for the summer, however it's not as effective as the company's dedicated Dyson fan already on the market.
As with a standard fan there is a swivel mode to spread the air, and therefore heat, and you can angle the Hot up or down to get your head or your feet.
Everything can be controlled via a remote control that can be magnetically attached to the top of the fan when not in use. The remote control looks funky - not one of those cheap Far East off-the-shelf models, and it's ideal if the fan is on the other side of the room (you lazy bugger).
Put simply, the Dyson Hot will be the best heater you've ever owned. It doesn't smell, it's easy to control, and it made our office toasty warm quickly.
But then for £270, roughly 200 quid more expensive than anything else on the market, you would bloody hope so, and that's going to be the biggest rub here. Like the iPad this is an emotional luxury product. You could buy a cheaper heater for a fraction of the price that does the job just as well.
If cost is in any way an issue then go for something cheaper, but then you knew that would be the case.
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On a monumental day in Boston's history, a terrorist or terrorists attacked the United States. This and all acts of violence perpetrated are from mental illness, regardless of the explanation of why someone did such. No one in their right mind can ever be excused for this act of violence toward innocent people.
This country must finally and completely now protect its citizenry, applying all necessary resources to prevent through rational means those who have no regard for human life. We have spent trillions on wars that did not directly protect our citizens. It is not a time to be passive and ignoring of suspicious activity wherever you notice.
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New York - US stock index futures edged higher on Monday, suggesting equities will extend their multi-year closing highs from Friday, but low volume and the absence of economic indicators on tap could make trading volatile.
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* US Airways shares gained 2.9 percent to $15.18 as it nears an $11 billion merger with AMR Corp that would create the world's largest airline.
* Three of Dell Inc's largest investors joined Southeastern Asset Management on Friday in objecting to a $24.4 billion buyout of the No. 3 PC maker led by Chief Executive Michael Dell, as opposition grows to the buyout, the largest since the start of the financial crisis. Dell considered many strategic options before opting to go private, the company said in a regulatory filing. - Reuters
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Diversity Dinner Wednesday at West Valley center
Published October 12, 2012 3:43 pm
This is an archived article that was published on sltrib.com in 2012, and information in the article may be outdated. It is provided only for personal research purposes and may not be reprinted.
The 6th annual Diversity Dinner to Promote Understanding is scheduled for 6 p.m. Wednesday at the Utah Cultural Celebration Center, 1355 W. 3100 South, in West Valley City.
Dinner is free to the public, said Rebecca Sanchez of the Salt Lake County Mayor's Office of Diversity Affairs, but participants must register in advance at http://www.diversity.slco.org and be willing to "share of their experiences. Each table will be carefully chosen to represent people from diverse backgrounds."
The goal, she added, "is to promote understanding, increase positive interactions within the community and build respect for our differences."
Program moderator Mary Dickson from KUED will pose questions to the crowd.
The Salt Lake Tribune


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Discussion Follows NYTimes Article on Supercomputers Altering Science
By Doug Ramsey
Ever since the New York Times published John Markoff's article, Digging Deeper, Seeing Farther: Supercomputers Alter Science, about the fundamental way in which high-performance computing and cyberinfrastructure are changing the way we do science, the April 25 story has touched off an ongoing discussion about some of its conclusions.
Calit2 figured prominently in the article, which included quotes from its director, Larry Smarr, and director of visualization, Tom DeFanti. Smarr told Markoff that the "profound thing is that today all scientific instruments have computing intelligence inside, and that's a huge change." But it was another quote that provoked the discussion, when Smarr argued that ...
Albert Lin Nominated for Asian Heritage Award
By Doug Ramsey
CISA3/IGERT research scientist Albert Yu-Min Lin has been nominated for an Asian Heritage Award in the "cultural preservation" category. Lin is leading the non-invasive effort to locate the tomb of Genghis Khan while preserving large areas of Mongolia in pristine condition for future generations. The Asian Heritage Society/Asia Media will announce the winners of awards in 14 categories on Aug. 20, at a gala dinner at Paradise Point Resort in Mission Bay. Lin runs the UCSD-National Geographic Engineers for Exploration program....
Dominguez at MIT, Electronic Disturbance Theater 2.0 and upcoming events
By Micha Cardenas
Electronic Disturbance Theater 2.0 in Digimag is out today:
We are Electronic Disturbance Theater 2.0 - EDT2.0. As a collective, we are already many. As a multiplicity, our goals, hopes and intentions are multiple. Our shared goals include the disturbance of borders: national, gender, genre, disciplinary, fiction/non, through the exploitation and re/performance of technology, poetry and the imaginaries of each... We create media viruses, dislocative border disturbance technologies and Electronic Civil Disobedience actions in order to imagine and bring about desired futures. We exploit existing media technologies in order to conjure spirits of mayan technologies and queer technologies in ...
b.a.n.g. lab researchers present at Art and Resistance Workshop in Chiapas
By Micha Cardenas
b.a.n.g. lab researchers Elle Mehrmand and Micha Cardenas are currently in Chiapas, Mexico teaching a two day workshop on "Digital Activism: From ECD to Mixed Reality". The workshop is part of the Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics' summer course Art and Resistance. Other presenting artists include Jesusa Rodriguez, 2boys.tv and the Fortaleza de Mujer Maya.
We're really enjoying participating in the workshop and the intense dialogue here with the rest of the artists and scholars at this event. You can read more about our workshop and the rest of the event at these sites:
Art and Resistance course blog (in English)
Arte y Resistancia blog by two participants from the Universidad ...
Media Frenzy over the Transborder Immigrant Tool
By Micha Cardenas
The Transborder Immigrant Tool was the subject of a whirlwind of media attention in the past week. The project has been developed by the Electronic Disturbance Theater, consisting of artists Ricardo Dominguez, Brett Stalbaum, Amy Sara Carroll and Micha Cardenas. The media coverage included television, radio and print stories including the Associated Press, BBC World, NBC, Fox, and the UCSD Guardian. While the actual stories are too many to list here, the following is a list of some of the major articles. Many media outlets improperly reported it as an Iphone app, others attempted to discredit the project saying it is illegal, and some interviewed Enrique Morones of the Border Angels, one of ...
Greening the Future
By Doug Ramsey
As noted in a news release from Calit2 this morning, Calit2's Larry Smarr, Tom DeFanti and Jerry Sheehan (with CANARIE's Bill St. Arnaud) have co-authored the lead article in the November-December issue of EDUCAUSE Review. It's an overview of the challenge facing universities in the age of 'global climatic disruption,' and provides a roadmap for campuses to help pave the way for a greener future. The article is accompanied by a backgrounder that EDUCAUSE is offering as a Web Exclusive, focused on the scientific basis for concern about continued carbon emissions into the atmosphere -- and how carbon regulation will impact universities financially.
The article was published in time for the ...
Recent Reviews and Articles about b.a.n.g. lab Projects
By Micha Cardenas
Calit2 artist/researchers working with the b.a.n.g. lab have had a number of reviews and articles published about their work this month.
The new article Micha Cardenas co-authored with Felipe Zuniga entitled "IO NON HO NIENTE DA DIRE (I HAVE NOTHING TO SAY)" is in the current issue Digimag, an italian new media magazine. Since its only in Italian, you can find english text here. The article discusses the Emergency - Emergent Agency / Emergencia - Agencia Emergente project, which Ricardo Dominguez was also a part of, for the Dialogos y Interrogantes portion of the Proyecto Civico exhibition at CECUT in Tijuana.
Facebook Makes News at Calit2 UC San Diego
By Doug Ramsey
When Facebook's VP of Technology, Jeff Rothschild, delivered a lecture at Calit2 Oct. 8 at the invitation of the Center for Networked Systems (CNS), he divulged some key statistics that made news in high-tech publications that follow the data center industry. Rothschild's talk was webcast live by Calit2 and the archived version of "High Performance at Massive Scale" is now available for on-demand viewing [Windows Media player and broadband connection required]. As the blog High Scalability reports, Rothschild divulged that "Facebook handles 30K+ machines, 300 million active users, 20 billion photos, and 25TB per day of logging data."
Then in the Oct. 13 issue of Data Center Knowledge, Rich ...
Mixed Relations / Technesexual - Mixed Reality Live Audio Performances and Workshops
By Micha Cardenas
CRCA researchers Micha Cardenas and Elle Mehrmand will be doing a performance entitled Technesexual that uses DIY biometric sensors that were made by hand to
create live audio which will be heard in real space and virtual space
at the same time. It is a Mixed Reality performance exploring
relationality between people and between people and technology.
B.A.N.G. Lab Researchers Summer Exhibitions
By Micha Cardenas
b.a.n.g. lab researchers at Calit2 have been very busy and have a handful of upcoming and recent exhibitions! Follow these links to find out more!
Transborder Immigrant Tool tool at ISEA 2009
The Transborder Immigrant Tool will be exhibited in 'Space is the Place' exhibition at the Gallery of the National College of Art & Design in Dublin, as part of the program of ISEA 2009 which takes place in Belfast and Dublin Ireland this year. The exhibition will run from the 27th August - 1st September 2009. The exhibition includes a number of video poems written by Amy Sara Carroll and designed by Calit2 researchers Ricardo Dominguez, Micha Cardenas, and CRCA researcher Elle Mehrmand. The voice ...
4K Film Premiere and Videoconference Link Calit2, Brazil, Japan
By Doug Ramsey
On Thursday, July 30 Calit2 and the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA) were part of the first super-high-bandwidth 4K feature film premiere streaming on three continents. The film by Brazilian director Beto Souza, "Enquanto a Noite nao Chega" (While the Night Doesn't Come), made its debut to a packed theater at the Electronic Language International Festival (FILE 10) world festival in Brazil. Simultaneously, the film (actually, 4K is a video format) was streamed in real time over high-speed optical networks to the Calit2 Auditorium in Atkinson Hall at UC San Diego, and to Keio University's Design Media lab in Yokohama, Japan.
With only ...
Micha Cardenas at Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics' Summer Encuentro 2009
By Micha Cardenas
b.a.n.g. lab researcher Micha Cardenas will be presenting a workshop at this year's Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics (HEMI) Summer Encuentro in Bogota, Colombia. The title of her workshop is "New Hacktivism: From Electronic Civil Disobedience to Mixed Reality Performance". The outline for the workshop is below. The Encuentro's theme is "Staging Citizenship". From the description of the Encuentro: "Our 7th Encuentro invites interested participants to investigate "cultural rights" and their complex relationship to citizenship in both historical and contemporary contexts. We understand cultural rights as a juridical figure, a technology of power and an articulation that brings ...
Honorary Ph.D. for the 'Da Vinci Detective'
By Doug Ramsey
On Monday, June 8, our own Maurizio Seracini, director of Calit2's Center of Interdisciplinary Science for Art, Architecture and Archaeology (CISA3), was in Canada to be honored at commencement ceremonies of McMaster University. They gave him an honorary Doctor of Letters degree, to add to his previous degrees in bioengineering (from UC San Diego, Class of '73) and electrical engineering (University of Padua). According to the Hamilton Spectator newspaper reporter covering the Calit2 scientist's address to the McMaster Convocation, Seracini "is a modern-day Renaissance man approaching problems in the same way Leonardo did five centuries ago."
Reporter Mark McNeil added that Seracini "urged ...
Freephone Art Project Provides Deported People with a Phone Call
By Micha Cardenas
GRAIN takes seed at UC San Diego
By Tiffany Fox
Talking Math
By Doug Ramsey
Calit2's chief scientist Ron Graham will take part in a bit of history-making next week. That's because on April 8, Graham will give one of five plenary lectures at the 61st annual British Mathematical Colloquium. The history? It's the first time that the Colloquium has been held outside the United Kingdom. This year, the British are teaming with the Irish Mathematical Society to hold a joint meeting at the National University of Ireland's Galway campus.
As for Graham's talk, it's on "the combinatorics of solving linear equations." A major branch of modern combinatorics, usually called Ramsey theory, studies properties of structures which are preserved under partitions. Its guiding philosophy ...
Composer in Residence Honored
By Doug Ramsey
Calit2's composer in residence at UC San Diego, Pulitzer Prize winner Roger Reynolds, is getting a rare concert honor: On March 29, "Roger Reynolds and his Proteges" will echo through a concert hall in Toronto, Canada, as part of the New Music Concerts 2008-2009 season. The aforementioned proteges include composers David Felder of SUNY Buffalo, Israel's Chaya Czernowin, Juan Campoverde from Ecuador, and Brazilian Antonio Borges-Cunha. All of the proteges are well-known composers who earned their Ph.D.'s under Reynolds in the UC San Diego Music graduate program in Composition.
The concert by the New Music Concerts Ensemble (with David Swan on piano and Robert Aitken on flute ...
Calit2 Artist Ricardo Dominguez Talks Sound, Science, Theory and Crisis
By Tiffany Fox
Calit2 aritist and Assistant Professor of Visual Arts Ricardo Dominguez has a busy month ahead of him, with appearances at two events in Los Angeles and Victoria, B.C.
Australians Talk about OptIPortals, Connectivity and Smarr
By Doug Ramsey
On his three-month sabbatical, Calit2 director Larry Smarr is Down Under, barnstorming Australia's major research universities to talk up why today's scientists need more optical networking and visualization facilities. Writing in The Australian newspaper, Andrew Trounson notes that "Smarr is visiting Australia on behalf of the Australian American Leadership Dialogue to exhort vice-chancellors and government to invest in, and adapt to using, the expanding bandwidth capacity to ensure Australian researchers continue to compete." The feature article is extensive, and highlights Smarr's belief that a social and cultural transformation is needed among researchers and universities, in order to take ...
Mind-Blowing Monkey Business at CARTA
By Tiffany Fox
Late Psychologist Lev Vygotsky is the "It-Man" at ISCAR
By Tiffany Fox
I've been listening in on a few sessions of the Second Congress of the International Society for Cultural and Activity Research (ISCAR) this week, and one conclusion I've come to is that Lev Vygotsky -- who died of tuberculosis in 1934 -- still has a loyal worldwide following.
BBC at Calit2: Bring on the Bandwidth
By Doug Ramsey
Peter Day, whose program "In Business" on BBC Radio has a wide following, spent time at Calit2 in San Diego recently. Now, his documentary "Bring in the Bandwidth" hit the airwaves last night in the UK, and will eventually play on BBC World Service as well... but you can already listen to his interview with Calit2 Director Larry Smarr (and eavesdrop on his tour of the StarCAVE at UCSD with Trish Stone) by downloading an .mp3 podcast of the program at http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio/worldbiz/worldbiz_20080904-2030a.mp3. Peter also mentions Larry and Trish in a preview on the BBC website, explaining how the story arose from his first interview with futurist George Gilder more than 20 ...
FILE 2008 Press Coverage
The Electronic Language International Festival, known as FILE, has officially closed. During its twenty-six days of exhibition, FILE has attracted over 37,450 visitors to the FIESP/SESI center in Sao Paulo. This event also caught the attention of press organizations from all over the world, including Rollingstone, Yahoo and Brazil's own O Globo television network.
A full list of FILE's press coverage can be found below.
UOL: Diversao e Arte [article / video]
Folha Online [article / video]
RollingStone: Brasil [article / video]
Epoca: Sao Paulo [article / video]
Limao [video]
Link: Sua Vida Digital [article]
Yahoo! Technologia: Brasil [article]
Dica de Teatro [article]
Revista ...
Swedish Parliament Visitors Experience American IT
By Anna Lynn Spitzer
Student Presentations via HD Streaming... from Down Under
By Doug Ramsey
Next Tuesday, August 19 at 5:00pm, you are invited to attend a special international HD video transmission linking mentors at Calit2 with undergraduate researchers spending the summer in Australia as part of the Pacific Rim Experiences for Undergraduates (PRIME) program, with primary funding from NSF and support from Calit2 at UCSD.
Seven students are working on cyberinfrastructure-related e-science projects involving visualization, bioengineering and other topics in Monash University's Faculty of Information Technology with professor David Abramson. All are working on projects that use Nimrod, a software tool developed at Monash that enables users to harness multiple, distributed computers ...
NLADR Assistant Director Discusses the Future of Scientific Workflows
By Tiffany Fox
Ilkay Altintas, assistant director for the National Laboratory for Advanced Data Research (NLADR) and manager of Scientific Workflows Automation Technologies (SWAT) at UCSD's San Diego Supercomputer Center, presented a lecture and slide-show this week to undergraduates at Australia's Monash University, where seven UCSD students are currently enrolled as part of the Calit2-based Pacific Rim Experiences for Undergraduates (PRIME) program.
Electronic Language International Festival (FILE 2008)
CRCA, Calit2 Make a Splash in Sao Paulo
By Doug Ramsey
Calit2 Artists Travel to Sao Paulo for International FILE Festival
By Tiffany Fox
Four artists affiliated with Calit2 at UC San Diego are in Sao Paulo, Brazil, this week for the
Electronic Language International Festival (FILE), an annual gathering of innovators within the fields of art and technology, including digital art, games, documentary films, electronic music and -- for the first time in the festival's nine-year history -- digital 4K cinema.
Wer suchet, der findet?
By Doug Ramsey
CISA3 director Maurizio Seracini discovered 'Cerca Trova' on a painting in the Palazzo Vecchio: 'Seek and Ye Shall Find' is the closest translation in English, and 'Wer suchet, der findet?' turns out to be the German translation. I only know that because it's the sub-title of a profile of Seracini's research on Germany's Monsters & Critics entertainment site. Actually, it's a review of the 2006 British documentary on Seracini's work on two Leonardo da Vinci masterpieces, including the search for his long-lost "Battle of Anghiari" -- a major project now of CISA3. The documentary aired last weekend in continental Europe on the ARTE cable network. If you speak German, read all about ...
SLAP: Silicone Illuminated Active Peripherals
By Jim Hollan
Here today and here tomorrow
By Ramesh Rao
Prime Minister Singh's remarks after securing the necessary votes on the "Vote of Confidence."
Perhaps my most memorable celebrity moment was an opportunity to exchange a few pleasantries with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at a reception in Blair House. This was about two years ago when he was in DC to secure the US-India Nuclear agreement. Today his government proved it had the votes to ensure passage of the agreement in the Indian Parliament. It was a cliff hanger and the PM's comments are worth reading....
Lapsing back into my own reverie, we in Calit2 have been looking for ways to help pave the way for a high level engagement ...
Head of Corporate Research and Technology at Carl Zeiss Visits Calit2 at UCSD
By Tiffany Fox
Frank Stietz, head of corporate research and technology at Carl Zeiss AG, toured Calit2's Atkinson Hall today as part of a one-day visit to UC San Diego (see a webcast of Stietz's presentation about Carl Zeiss).
Rediscovering Leonardo: UCSD Osher Lecture Now on YouTube
By Doug Ramsey
Calit2's Maurizio Seracini, director of the Center of Interdisciplinary Science for Art, Architecture and Archaeology (CISA3), was invited to give a lecture earlier this summer to participants in the UCSD Osher Lifelong Learning Institute program. Calit2 hosted the meeting, and UCSD-TV filmed the event, which is now airing at various times on the broadcast network (it premiered on June 16). The talk, "Rediscovering Leonardo", is also available on UC-TV's YouTube channel. Osher is part of UCSD Extension, and provides a wealth of opportunities for retirees and others age 50 or older. In his talk, Seracini noted the important role that donors are playing through "Friends of ...
Maurizio Seracini Documentary Airs in Europe
By Doug Ramsey
It was first produced and aired by Britain's Channel 4 in 2006, but the documentary about CISA3 director Maurizio Seracini's work on two Leonardo da Vinci masterpieces aired again this evening in Europe on the ARTE TV channel. The 80-minute film tracks Seracini's multispectral scans of the "Adoration of the Magi" painting in the Uffizi Gallery, and the 30-year search for the "Battle of Anghiari", a mural by da Vinci that disappeared from the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence 450 years ago. Originally aired in English as "The Da Vinci Detective", the documentary is airing in France as "Léonard de Vinci: Chefs-d'oeuvre masqués" or "Leonardo da Vinci: Masked Masterpieces"....
UK News Service Says, 'Now That's a Big TV'
By Doug Ramsey
A number of international reporters have been inquiring about Calit2's HIPerSpace, unveiled this week in all its 286 million pixels of glory. Marc Chacksfield of Britain's TechRadar online service calls HIPerSpace the "highest-resolution display systems for scientific visualisation in the world." (If you look closely at the words below the photo on TechRadar, the caption reads: "Now that's a big TV.") The writer ends his article with some dry humor: "And what are they displaying on the, er, display. Well, it's certainly not re-runs of Hollyoaks, more footage from the National Geographic and the like." Ironically, and apparently unknown to Chacksfield, the very first group treated to ...
PRIME Students Settling In Down Under
By Doug Ramsey
Seven of the students participating in this summer's Pacific Rim Experiences for Undergraduates (PRIME) program, funded by NSF with Calit2 support, are spending their ten weeks at Monash University in Australia. And based on a news release from Monash about the UCSD interns, they're off to a great start (and don't seem to mind that it's winter in Melbourne, and they're missing summer in San Diego!). The students are doing e-science and grid engineering research in the university's Faculty of Information Technology, with professor David Abramson. All are working on projects that use Nimrod, a software tool developed at Monash that enables users to harness multiple, distributed computers ...
BBC Radio Visits Calit2 at UCSD
By Doug Ramsey
An old acquaintance from my early days in broadcasting paid us a visit today. Peter Day (pictured), one of the top "presenters" at the BBC Radio 4 in London, who reports on business and technology, is doing a documentary on the future of bandwidth, asking the question: "Do we really need more pixels?" After a long interview with Larry Smarr, Peter got a good feel for super-high-definition conferencing on the 4K auditorium projection system, and was taken with the animation showing research network bandwidth across the world (courtesy of our OptIPuter partners at the University of Illinois). We also treated Peter to a "ride" in the StarCAVE, and he interviewed Kai Doerr in ...
Next Stop for Bioinformatics Undergrads: UBER-GRID
By Doug Ramsey
Earlier this week CASB director Pavel Pevzner's undergraduate bioinformatics program made headlines for an important publication on an emerging field in bioinformatics called comparative proteogenomics. The program is funded by Pevzner with his fellowship grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and in a feature story on the HHMI website, Pevzner says the undergraduate program will take their experiment on experiments to the whole world. Called UBER-GRID--the Undergraduate Bioinformatics E-Research Grid--it will be a platform for worldwide, distributed bioinformatics research projects, Pevzner says. "We will put all our projects on the web and invite every student in the world to ...
Former PRIME Undergrad Co-Authors Avian Flu Research
By Doug Ramsey
Lily Cheng went to Beijing in 2006 as part of the NSF- and Calit2-funded Pacific Rim Experiences for Undergraduates (PRIME) summer research program in cyberinfrastructure. Since then, she has continued that research on avian influenza with Wilfred Li, Peter Arzberger and others, identifying more than two dozen promising and novel compounds to combat bird flu. In the Flash video above, Lily talks about her research, just published (with Cheng as first author) in the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. For more, read the news release "UC San Diego Researchers Identify Potential New Drug Candidates to Combat Bird Flu"....
Italian Broadcaster Visits Calit2 - Watch Video!
By Doug Ramsey
One of the top TV anchors from Italy's largest broadcast network, RAI, spent half a day at Calit2 yesterday with his crew from Italy. Roberto Giacobbo interviewed CISA3 director Maurizio Seracini and associate director Falko Kuester, and shot HD video of some of the cool visualization tools -- the StarCAVE, HIPerSpace wall, 4K -- being used in the search for Leonardo da Vinci's long-lost mural, "The Battle of Anghiari". Giacobbo's video will be shown at the end of the project, in conjunction with the National Geographic Channel's documentary (for which RAI purchased Italian broadcast rights). Hover over image and click on the right arrow to watch a short clip of the interview with Seracini ...
Will You Take Beans With That Solar Cooker?
By Doug Ramsey
It was a strange site on the UCSD campus today, when an interdisciplinary collection of researchers got together to eat some beans -- cooked on a new type of solar cooker, designed primarily for use in developing countries. It's the brainchild of Ida Lunde Jorgensen who is collaborating with Lasse Lorentzen, a Danish researcher who is working at Calit2 in the lab of Ricardo Dominguez. Lasse and Ida have formed the collective project Innovative Reflections where they are working on re-inventing the solar cooker as their first project inventing a more sustainable product, process and business. Members of Calit2's India Initiative, including manager Srinivas Sukumar, participated in the demo. Pictured ...
Adolpho Muniz Heads to India for CISA3 Ethnographic Research
By Tiffany Fox
Archaeologist and UCSD lecturer Adolpho Muniz -- an affiliate of CISA3 at Calit2 -- is headed off to Tamil Nadu, India, this Sunday to complete ethnographic research for CISA3. The center is spearheading an effort to document and study the "lost wax" bronze-casting technique used among artisans in the village of Swamimalai.
National Geographic Visits Calit2 in San Diego
By Doug Ramsey


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A 40-foot-tall Christmas tree, reportedly the tallest in north Louisiana this holiday season, will be lit during a ceremony at 6 p.m. Thursday at Louisiana Boardwalk in Bossier City.
Course targets new business owners
An introductory business course will be offered from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays Nov. 26-Dec. 6 at Southern University Metro Center, 610 Texas St. in Shreveport.
The four 2 1/2-hour classes will introduce new and aspiring business owners to entrepreneurship, planning, budgeting, record-keeping, marketing, legal issues, and risk and financial management.
The cost of the training is $50. To learn more, contact Darrin Dixon, director of Southern University's Business and Community Development Center, by calling (318) 670-9700 or sending email to firstname.lastname@example.com or Ebony Mapp by calling (318) 673-5911 or sending email to firstname.lastname@example.com.
SHBA holding decorating contest
Southern Hills Business Association once again is accepting entries for its Christmas in the Hills business storefront decorating contest.
The competition is open to all businesses in southwest Shreveport. Storefronts will be judged Dec. 13.
The prizes are $200 for first place, $150 for second place and $100 for third place. Register by calling Jim Mabus at (318) 422-7489.
LSU to offer study in energy law
BATON ROUGE - The LSU Law Center is developing a specialized program in energy law in reaction to increasingly complex legal and regulatory issues.
The LSU Energy Law Center, which the Louisiana Board of Regents approved in August, plans to offer courses in geology, petroleum engineering, nuclear sciences, coastal sciences, environment science and chemical engineering. However, Chancellor Jack M. Weiss said, oil and natural gas will remain at the core of the program.
Robert Sloan - who has 40 years of legal experience worldwide and recently served as executive vice president, general counsel and secretary of Entergy Corp. in New Orleans - will serve as the initial director of the center.
John Laborde, an LSU alumnus and retired CEO of Tidewater Inc., has agreed to donate $2 million to the center. The money will be used to establish a distinguished chair in Laborde's name to attract leading figures in the industry to occupy the position; and to create a challenge fund to attract more donors.
The program is aiming for an official launch in two or three academic years, Weiss said.
P&G shifting some jobs to Pineville
Procter & Gamble officials say they are shifting the company's powdered detergent operations to Pineville from Augusta, Ga.
The move will add about 50 jobs to the Pineville plant, which already makes liquid detergent. It also will result in the loss of 160 jobs in the Augusta area over the next 12 to 18 months.
"This is an exciting win for central Louisiana and our state," Gov. Bobby Jindal says in a statement. "P&G decided to reinvest in Louisiana because of our strong business climate, unparalleled quality of life and, most importantly, our outstanding work force."
P&G completed a $100 million expansion of its Pineville facility in March to enable the plant and company to deliver one of its newest products, Tide Pods, which launched in February. The Pineville site, which opened in 1969, covers nearly 1 million square feet in building space on 112 acres.
To secure the expansion, Louisiana offered P&G a performance-based grant of $3.4 million to offset a portion of the costs for new training facilities, infrastructure and equipment, as well as use of the state's retention and modernization program, Jindal's office said.
P&G also is expected to use Louisiana's quality jobs and industrial tax exemption programs. In addition, P&G will receive a solution from Louisiana Economic Development's FastStart program to create a customized work force recruitment program, applicant screening and training development.
Home sales soar in Lafayette Parish
LAFAYETTE - Home sales in Lafayette Parish surged 51 percent in October over the same month a year ago, and total homes sales so far in 2012 have outpaced the past four years, Lafayette real estate companies say.
Sales through October also are only 3.5 percent below Lafayette's record housing market of 2007, said Bill Bacqué, CEO of Van Eaton and Romero.
Similar trends are seen in parishes surrounding Lafayette, according to figures from the Realtor Association of Acadiana.
October home sales for Lafayette Parish were at 247, compared with 164 in October 2011, according to Bacqué's monthly analysis.
Total Lafayette Parish homes sales for January through October are up 23 percent compared with last year, rising from 1,810 to 2,232, the report says. That same period during the record year of 2007 saw 2,314 sales.
The average number of days a home has sat on the market also has dropped, from 110 days the first 10 months of 2011 to 99 days the first 10 months of this year, according to the report.
The trend should continue because the number of pending home sales in October was up 49 percent compared with last year, Bacqué said. Construction accounts for 40 percent of the pending sales, according to the report.
"We feel very confident with the market right now," Acadian Home Builders Association President Mike Thompson said. "Everybody is busy."
- From Staff and Wire Reports


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Elyria, Ohio (AP) A judge in Ohio will start hearing arguments today over whether the state's lethal injection procedure is constitutional.
Two men facing murder charges -- and possibly the death penalty if convicted -- say the procedure doesn't give the quick and painless deaths required by law.
The major criticism is that the procedure could prove excruciatingly painful if not enough anesthetic is administered or if the executioner makes mistakes in injecting the drugs.
Two anesthesiologists are scheduled to testify -- one on behalf of the defendants, that other on behalf of the state.
Lethal injections are on hold nationally while the Supreme Court considers a challenge in a case from Kentucky.
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The Pistons' scrimmage Saturday at Oakland University was attended by about 1,000 fans. The sides were divided into blue and white teams, with John Loyer coaching the white team and Brian Hill the blue.
The scrimmage was divided into four 6-minute quarters. Here are some highlights:
OFFENSIVE FLOW: Public scrimmages can be pretty disjointed, but there was a nice flow Saturday. The team looked good with center Greg Monroe finding cutters from the high post. He found Tayshaun Prince for a nice give-and-go resulting in an easy lay-up. ...