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LEWISBURG, Pa. – Michael Payne, professor of English at Bucknell, will give the retirement lecture, "Late Style from Shakespeare and Bach to Edward Said," Monday, April 23, at 7:30 p.m. in the Forum of the Elaine Langone Center at Bucknell.
Payne, who will retire this spring, joined the Bucknell faculty in 1969. During his tenure at the University, he has served as Presidential Professor of English, John P. Crozer Professor of English Literature, and department chair.
He is the recipient of numerous awards including the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching and the Bucknell Class of 1956 Lectureship for Inspirational Teaching. He also served as director of the Bucknell University Press and associate editor for Bucknell Review.
He has been honored with several grants and fellowships including Bucknell faculty research grants, a National Endowment for the Humanities research fellowship, a research fellowship with the Folger Shakespeare Library, and a visiting scholar position with the Warburg Institute at the University of London.
Noted author
Payne has published several books and numerous articles. His most recent books include The Greenblatt Reader; Life.after.theory; Renaissance Literature: An Anthology; Reading Knowledge: An Introduction to Barthes, Foucault, and Althusser; Dictionary of Cultural and Critical Theory; Reading Theory: An Introduction to Lacan, Derrida, and Kristeva; and The Bucknell Lectures in Literary Theory, 12 volumes.
Recent Articles have appeared in College Literature, Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies, and Presses Univérsitaires François-Rabelais.
A graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, and Southern Oregon College, Payne holds his doctorate from the University of Oregon.
His areas of specialization are Shakespeare and Renaissance literature, literary theory and criticism, and Biblical literature.
Payne's regularly offered courses at Bucknell include Shakespeare, Renaissance Literature, Biblical Literature, Children's Literature, Seminar in Critical Theory, Foundation Seminar on Myth Reason, and Faith.
Posted April 12, 2007
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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — U.S. stock futures rose on Friday, encouraged by an upbeat German business-sentiment survey and signs that consumers are taking advantage of Black Friday sales.
Futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average US:DJZ2 rose 60 points, or 0.5%, to 12,860, while those for the Standard & Poor's 500 index SPZ2, +0.00% rose 6.90 points to 1,395.2.
Futures for the Nasdaq 100 index US:NDZ2 rose 14 points to 2,610.
U.S. markets were closed on Thursday for the Thanksgiving Day holiday.
Wall Street stocks on Wednesday reached two-week highs, buoyed by signs of easing Middle East tensions. The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +0.00% rose 48.38 points, or 0.4%, to 12,836.89 on Wednesday. Read: U.S. stock indexes rise on Gaza cease-fire
The stock market will close at 1 p.m. Eastern on Friday, and no economic data are on the calendar.
"I think volume will be light, but I think we have all of the ingredients for this post-Thanksgiving rally to develop into a Christmas rally," said Peter Cardillo, chief market economist at Rockwell Global Capital. He said the S&P 500 index SPX, -0.26% could be looking at its fifth straight gain if it closes higher on Friday.
Underpinning that positive sentiment was a German survey that beat forecasts. The German Ifo index of business sentiment, reported Friday, beat expectations with a November rise to 101.4 against forecasts that called for a drop to 99.5, according to media reports.
Cardillo said investors were also upbeat about a deal for Greece and also were playing catchup to Thanksgiving Day gains for Europe and Asia markets on the back of an upbeat gauge of China manufacturing.
HSBC's preliminary manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index rose to 50.4, marking the first time in 13 months that the index has surpassed the 50-point level, which separates expansion from deterioration. See: China manufacturing finally expanding, data show
Black Friday sales were also underpinning sentiment, according to Cardillo. "It seems a frenzy out there, but it does look as though people are looking at those bargains and buying them," he said. "That's encouraging going forward for holiday sales."
The biggest shopping day of the year, Black Friday, is getting underway. This year, retailers opened their doors earlier on Thanksgiving Day. The Tell: Black Friday frenzy begins for shoppers
Shares of Target Corp. TGT, +0.15% and Wal-Mart Stores Inc. WMT, -1.01% are among those that could be active as investors assess the status of Black Friday sales. Read also: Bharti Walmart suspends staff in antibribery probe
Among individual movers, shares of Research in Motion Ltd. US:RIMM jumped 12% in premarket trading. Some analysts have been getting bullish on the stock in anticipation of the Blackberry 10. Shares rallied in Canadian trading the prior day.
The euro EURUSD, -0.1950% gained against the dollar, rising above $1.29, boosted by the German Ifo survey.

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CHICAGO – White Sox pitcher Chris Sale and tough luck have gone hand in hand this season.
In only his second year in the Sox's rotation, Sale has established himself as one of the premier starting pitchers in baseball. Yet one glance at his record suggests otherwise. Sale was charged with the loss Monday against Detroit as the Tigers beat the Sox, 7-3. It didn't help Sale's cause that the Sox were facing right-hander Max Scherzer.
"Obviously, you've got to be a little bit more focused with a team like this, the talent they have over there and going up, pitching against Scherzer," Sale said.
The Sox struggled against Scherzer, who held them to two runs in eight innings. That resulted in Sale's record dropping to 6-9. Sale pitched at least eight innings for the fifth time this season. However, it's largely been wasted by the Sox with his 1-3 record and 1.76 ERA in those outings, with the offense averaging 2.2 runs.
"There are a lot of games we've had where we haven't stepped it up offensively to give Chris that kind of support," Sox manager Robin Ventura said. "And some guys are fortunate they do get those runs. Anyone who does what Max has done has had a little of both, kept the other team from scoring and gotten a few runs."
After Monday's loss, a morose Sale needed only 15 words to describe his start.
"I think I did all right. I could've done a little bit better, but stuff happens," he said.
Only once in Sale's 18 starts this season has the Sox offense scored six runs. Across the field, Sale's counterpart, Scherzer, has benefited from one of the league's best offenses, scoring six or more runs 11 times. Sale has the worst run support in the majors (2.61 runs).
"I know he's frustrated and I hope everyone in here is frustrated, too," Adam Dunn said.
Sale's frustrations showed after the fifth inning, when he was forced to intentionally walk Miguel Cabrera with a runner on third, first base open and lefty Prince Fielder on deck. Fielder walked on four pitches and both runners eventually scored on Victor Martinez's two-out RBI single.
After Sale escaped without further damage, he was visibly upset in the dugout, walking into the tunnel leading to the Sox's clubhouse. Ventura eventually followed Sale, who drew the attention of teammates in the dugout while talking to pitching coach Don Cooper.
"He does [have passion], but I'm the one making that call," Ventura said of Sale. "He needs to have a little more composure and get that guy and not worry about what happened before."
Sale's frustration – likely built up over the numerous starts – is understandable but probably won't dissipate anytime soon. Despite the potential to finish with a sub-.500 record, Sale deserves to be mentioned among the best pitchers in the game.
Scherzer's 14 wins are tied for the most in MLB while Sale's nine losses are tied for ninth most. But not only does Sale have a better ERA than Scherzer (2.81 compared to 3.14), he edges Scherzer on batting average on balls hit in play are nearly identical (.275 to .273) and Sale's wins against replacement (WAR) bests Scherzer's 4.5 to 3.8. Scherzer can claim an advantage in strikouts with 157 to Sale's 142, though both are considered to be among the best power pitchers.
• Meghan Montemurro covers the White Sox and Cubs for Shaw Media. Write to her at firstname.lastname@example.com. Read the Sox Insider and Inside the Cubs blogs
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Tigers 7, White Sox 3
Tipping point: With the Sox trailing Detroit by a run, shortstop Alexei Ramirez's error to start the fifth gave the Tigers an opportunity, and they took advantage. Victor Martinez's two-out, two-run single off Chris Sale extended the Tigers' lead to 3-0. The sloppy play didn't end there for the Sox. Two errors in the ninth, including another by Ramirez, led to three more runs and ended any realistic hopes for a comeback.
On the mound: Sale did his best to match Tigers starter Max Scherzer, who did not allow a baserunner through the first four innings. Sale allowed four runs (two earned) on seven hits. He needed 119 pitches to last eight innings, but he struck out 11 while walking three, taking the loss.
At the plate: The Sox managed only four hits against the Tigers, and their two runs came from solo homers by Conor Gillaspie and Dayan Viciedo. Off the disabled list, Paul Konerko went 0 for 3 with a strikeout in his first game since July 3.
Under the radar: Sale's 11 strikeouts marked the fifth time this season and ninth time in his career (47 starts) that he struck out at least 10. He has as many 10-plus strikeout games as former Sox pitchers Mark Buehrle and Jack McDowell combined (nine in 556 starts).


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Ok, I'm not a mathematician but when I read:
"What's odd is that this assertion looks on the surface extremely simple. In particular, it is true for any 2l which is divisible by 4, and is true for any 2l I can reasonably imagine... but in the cathedral of mathematics experimental evidence is no evidence at all.
Disclaimer: I am a physics graduate student, not an established mathematician by any means. This is the best I can grok the paper."
I wonder... perhaps the paper's author also thought it was simple and
There's a difference between types of incompleteness in proofs. The first type is when details are left to the reader, which can occur for a variety of reasons: it's too tedious to completely write up; they needed the paper to be shorter; they didn't want to lose sight of their main goal by getting lost in details; etc. This type is pretty innocuous, though it can make papers denser than they otherwise need to be. The second type is when the author doesn't notice the source of incompleteness. A good classic
Gauss' first proof of the fundamental theorem of arithmetic
Was this supposed to be "the fundamental theorem of algebra"? But I agree with your points.
In any case, let's stop making stories about preprints proving/falsifying famous conjectures. After they've been reviewed by some experts, great, make a story--just not until then.
This isn't the Washington Post or the New York Times. I don't think Slashdot needs to have the same journalistic standards as publications "of record." I don't think there's any harm in reporting these kinds of stories. Personally, I think it's pretty cool to see these kinds of attempts, even if they turn out to be WAY off base. And it's not like this story had a sensational headline--all it said was that a proof was "proposed." Anyway, that's my two cents.
I suppose my issue is that pretty much every day someone somewhere comes up with a "proof" of a famous conjecture. Most of these are patently nuts, but some are (on the surface, at least) reasonably serious. It seems a bit strange to single out some of these for special attention. It's also almost always a letdown to read these types of stories. "Oh, cool, it was solved? I wonder how they did--oh wait, the first high rated comment says there's a big hole." In this headline I disliked the subtitle, "Hailston
I think if this conjecture was proved a decade or so ago, we would know of it's existence, and of its proving and the surprisingly hard road to its proof in classrooms; just like we see the problem of findings median in linear time. But today, as we speak, we are in fact commenting on a blog entry which refers to the proof and are discussing the type of flaw it may have; even though we do in the end yield the matter to ex
That's not a fault in the strict sense, that's an omission. Besides, this IS a preprint - it's not been published, hasn't even been refereed or peer-reviewed yet, so it's not in the least bit surprising it's not perfect.
Remember Wiles' proof of FLT? That one went through quite a few iterations, and it took years until all the flaws were ironed out - big ones, in some cases, that required significant changes to the whole thing. But in the end, the proof stood.
Oh, the ignominy!
To have one's proof faulted is unfortunate; to have it faulted on the internet is simply mortifying.
The sequence ends in 1 rather than 1, 4, 2, 1, 4, 2..... by definition. A hailstone sequence has one additional rule, which is that the first 1 is the last 1, and the sequence ends.
...the conjecture could be more simply stated "Every hailstone sequence ends".
Or even more simply stated "Every hailstone sequence eventually contains a power of 2".
A hailstone sequence starts from any positive integer n the next number in the sequence is n/2 if n is even and 3n+1 if n is odd.
It wouldn't have taken any more time to properly punctuate this "sentence" once -- for everyone -- than it takes everyone to punctuate it in their heads in order to make sense of it. I realize they just cut and pasted the bulleted points -- minus the bullets -- but c'mon, they didn't put those there just for decoration.
You shouldn't feel the need to apologize. The people who are presumably being paid to act in an editorial capacity for Slashdot are the individuals who should be taking the time to ensure submissions are readable. They're clearly willing and able to edit submissions, yet have rarely shown any inclination toward putting effort into anything beyond adding subjective comments or making questionable changes that result in submitters having to point out what the editors have done.
This has been a problem for as l
I first heard about this conjecture many years ago (25?) and did what most geeks would do; I wrote a program to test all odd integer values and check that they did in fact reach 1.
The obvious approach is to remember the count for each value as you try them, then check any intermediate result against this table:
If found, just add that value to the current count and store the result.
This approach breaks down when you want to test starting values much larger than 2^32, because the space to store the table becomes larger than available memory.
One of the first optimizations is to realize that the result of taking 3n+1 starting from an odd (n) will always be even, so you can simply include the following n/2 (a shift) and increase the count, while getting rid of the multiplication by 3:
n = 2m+1
3n+1 = 6m + 4
(3n+1)/2 = 3m + 2 = n + (n>>1) + 1
In asm this can be simplified to:
shr eax,1
jz done
inc edx
jnc again
inc edx
lea eax,[eax+eax*2+2]
jmp again
A much more sophisticated step is to see that the next N operations are determined by the bottom N bits of the current value (as long as there are more than N bits available), basically allowing you to convert those N operations into a multiplication, an add and a shift right.
Next you realize that the intermediate values can very quickly overflow a 32-bit unsigned integer, and even using 64-bit values does not get you very far.
My approach back in those days was to use a variable number of 32-bit counters:
With a single counter I check for getting to 1 or overflowing so I need to use two counters.
With two (or more) counters I test for the top counter becoming zero, allowing me to reduce the number of counters, or for overflow forcing another incease.
All of this is of course much easier in asm than C,since you can use the ADD/ADC combination to perform arbitrary precision
I wrote a program to test all odd integer values
ALL odd integer values? Where'd you buy your computer? I gotta get my next one from there!
Well, doing it for ALL values is what the mathematicians are trying to do, right?
I hope it was clear from my post that I meant "as many odd integers as possible"!
It was obvious - and a nice write up. Thanks. That guy's a troll or a pedant.
And this is where you lose the thread. From the point of mathematic proof, "as many odd integers as possible" has *nothing* to do with "all odd integers" unless you stumble upon one that proves it false. Finding any finite number of odd integers for which it is true accomplishes nothing towards proving it true for all odd integers.
Never mind... http://hubrisarts.com/collatz.png [hubrisarts.com]
of the number's you searched
Working with starting points less than 1e9 you can try 670617279 which leads to a sequence of 987 steps.
Starting with 319804831 gets you close to 64-bit overflow, with an intermediate value of 1414236446719942480.
I realize they just cut and pasted the bulleted points -- minus the bullets -- but c'mon, they didn't put those there just for decoration
That depends. Were you referring to the bullets or to the
I know mathematicians study these mathematics for reasons entirely unrelated to any practical applications of them. And I know that most of the value in proofs and understanding is totally independent of any applications, as the applications' utility are typically of relatively brief lifetime while the math is eternal.
But I'm not a mathematician, nor am I immortal. I'm an engineer. So I'm always interested in whether these proofs (or new insights) have actual immediate or reachable applications. These are c
Well, it's a great example of a simple algorithm which may or may not halt. So it's useful for teaching algorithms, compiler design, and the halting problem (which is enormously useful).
But assuming it does always end in 1
But I'm not a mathematician, nor am I immortal. I'm an engineer. So I'm always interested in whether these proofs (or new insights) have actual immediate or reachable applications
Excuse me but aren't engineers supposed to be taking math and turning it into something useful. You sound more like a user - only using what is already there.
Well, that is pretty much what engineering is. You would be surprised on how little math is actually used in engineering.
Perhaps you are thinking about physicist that occationally have to do some major advances in math to be able to solve their problems. Notable examples are Newton and his integrals and Green and his theorem.
The math developed by pure mathematicians are seldom of use outside their field but still have an entertainment value for those in the field.
No, engineers apply known applications to problems they have to solve. Which is why we want newly known applications. And why those of us with problems for which there are no known applications for solutions are interested in the possibility of new applications when the bottleneck at the point of understanding has been passed.
Lots of us "take math" who aren't mathematicians. The vast majority of us, in fact.
Hey look buddy, I'm an Engineer, that means I solve problems. Not problems like 'What is beauty?', because that would fall within the purview of your conundrums of philosophy.
I solve practical problems.
For instance: How am I going to stop some big mean mother hubbard from tearing me a structurally superfluous new behind?
The answer: Use a gun. And if that don't work? Use more gun.
If that's your solution, you're a terrible engineer.
Agreed! EVERYONE knows that GOOD engineers use duct tape instead!
(You can solve ANYTHING with well-used duct tape!)
No immediate or even forseeable applications (and it has nothing to do with hailstones). But the guys who were working on number theory in the early 1900's (Hardy for one, who specifically refused to work on any maths that had real-world applications) didn't forsee the future uses in cryptography
Thanks for that explanation.
Offtopic: Is there any theory of solving hyperoperation [wikipedia.org] equations generally, or any theoretical work on why some types of hyperoperation equations are solvable by their respective formula but some aren't?
But I'm not a mathematician, nor am I immortal. I'm an engineer. So I'm always interested in whether these proofs (or new insights) have actual immediate or reachable applications. These are called "hailstone" sequences - is the math any use in weather or geology? Or any other?
I'm sure someone will call you a math philistine or something like that for your question, but I took it seriously. And as I read it, I thought "sure there must be. I bet a quick Google search would turn up some." But the only practical use I turned up was in the creation of graphs, charts and illustrations of the sequences themselves.
Some are pretty.
Sure. Its main application is an insomnia treatment for mathematicians.
These simple proofs are like Debian - by itself it's unconfigured so it won't play proprietary stuff. But they can be combined to form other results.
As a superfast dirty guess, there's a computing application here somewhere. The conjecture itself deals with binary division, and the +1 part of the other rule has something to do with a power of 2 result being one more than an odd number next to it.
Fast guesses for apps have to do with lowbyte-highbyte number encoding, etc as well as a bunch of other stuff. (F
Such sequences are called hailstone sequences because the values typically rise and fall, somewhat analogously to a hailstone inside a cloud.
While a hailstone eventually becomes so heavy that it falls to ground, every starting positive integer ever tested has produced a hailstone sequence that eventually drops down to the number 1 and then "bounces" into the small loop 4, 2, 1,
It lists as one of its sources this book [amazon.com] on the etymology of math terms in English. It looks interesting. Maybe I'll get a copy myself....
Thanks for the explanation of the name.
I had a use for a reverse "etymological mathematics dictionary" just this past week. I was trying to collect from people working on projects the "base projects" in the dependency network of all their projects. I was looking for the complementary word to "dependent" in the dependencies. After a while I discovered "pendent [wikipedia.org]", which is the thing on which a dependency depends, from geometry.
But I don't see myself ever again buying a printed dictionary of any subject, except
If anything the concepts necessary to reason about the problem are probably useful, even if the problem itself is not. Depending on the way the numbers spread in the algorithm, it may have applications for cryptography, or hashes and digests. Algorithms that either generate numbers with greater range from a simpler number, or calculate a simpler number from one of a greater range.
It is undoubtedly also possible to make datastructures and algorithms, that uses the sequence, though there is no guarantee it
Nobody asked mathematicians to slow down. And what's "extremely odd" is that you tried ranking what's more important with an obnoxious question after I explained why I'm interested in an application if it exists. What the hell is wrong with wanting an application in addition to humanity taking 1 step forward?
If you can't understand that from what I posted, I expect you have absolutely nothing to offer in helping solve the hailstone sequence. So just shut up. You're holding humanity back with your infinitesi
If you (metaphorically) go on the podium with your fly open and your dick hanging out, you deserve to be laughed off the stage.
I am waaay behind in my mathematics (since university), but even to me the paper looked rather fishy. If a problem has not been solved for decades, a prudent researcher would not push a paper like this out. And he surely wouldnt give interviews in the press talking how good he is and how he only recently started working on the problem...
Mathematics deals in certainties. An integer is odd (or prime, or divisble, or constant, or whatever), or it's not, by a very strict definition.
The problem stems from *proving* that. The mathematician (i.e. someone who studied mathematics at, say, degree level or higher) that can actually write a proof is surprisingly rare. The one that can write a perfect, undeniable, accepted, doubt-free proof in a single hit is would be seen as an absolute genius better than any other mathematician that's ever lived -
I'm not a math major, and I have very little experience with any proof. I've never written one. But I would first think this is a 3 part problem. One of n=even, n=odd and n=2^x. Proving all will become 2^x seems to be the goal.
Any even integer n divided by 2 is an integer half the value
Any odd integer n multiplied by 3 is an odd integer.
Any odd integer n plus one is an even integer
Through induction, any power of two in this sequence will end in 1. That is to say if n_0 is 2^x, then the sequence will always
An odd n + 1 will always be even, but it isn't obvious that this will eventually lead to a power of 2.
Looking at the partial Hailstone tree [hubrisarts.com] as a network, it's interesting that the tree can fork only at every other node, even for nodes that aren't on the "power of 2" limb. There's no case in which forks occur in neighboring nodes.
That would be a useful property to have in practical situations such as the generation of clock trees in digital integrated circuits. It would be interesting to see if similar rules could be applied to CAD systems.
Thus spake the master programmer: "When a program is being tested, it is too late to make design changes." -- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"


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For T. J. Wilcox: In the Air, the New York–based artist has created a remarkable new panoramic film installation, which fills up most of the second floor of the Whitney Museum of American Art. Here Wilcox revisits the "cinema in-the-round" panoramic presentations that appeared at the dawn of film history in the late 19th century, bringing the concept up to date with state-of-the-art technology to create an immersive cinematic environment.
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Jim Tracy, who currently represents state senatorial district 14, announced his candidacy for Congress Wednesday at the famed Reeves-Sain Pharmacy in Murfreesboro.
Tracy, a small business owner and conservative state senator, said he was running for Congress because government is both financially and morally bankrupt, and in order to get America back on the right track, the country needs leaders of character and integrity with a core belief in conservative principles serving in Congress.
"I am running for Congress because our government is broken – morally and financially," said Tracy (Rep., Shelbyville). "I am a conservative in word and deed. I have lived my life both personally and professionally in a way that is consistent with my core conservative values.
"If you give me the honor of serving you in Congress, I will work to implement solutions that cut spending, rein in government and keep taxes low," he continued. "I promise that I will never embarrass you with my personal conduct or compromise on my conservative principles. I have served my constituents for the past eight years in an honorable and consistent way. I will continue to do so if you give me the honor of serving you in Washington."
Tracy, a former teacher and coach, small business owner and life-long resident of the district, said he has a solid conservative record in the Tennessee State Senate where he has served for the past eight years. He has a 100% rating from Tennessee Right to Life and a 100% rating from NFIB.
He has been married to his wife, Trena, for 36 years and they have raised three sons, Chad, Craig, and Connor. He and his wife attend Fairlane Church of Christ where he is an active member and deacon.
Tracy said he shares the frustration of Tennesseans with the direction of our country, adding that he is committed to getting our fiscal house in order, protecting our Constitution, limiting the reach of the federal government and restoring the values that made America the greatest nation on earth.
"The only way we are going to get our fiscal house in order is with real structural reform," he said. "Spending is out of control, and our tax code is broken.
"We must pass a Balanced Budget Amendment to the Constitution and fundamentally reform our tax code. I won't rest until we do," said Tracy. "As a small business owner, I know it is imperative that we get government out of the way so that the private sector can create jobs. I will fight to eliminate job killing regulations and mandates so that the private sector can grow and create jobs."
Tracy will face incumbent Dr. Scott DesJarlais in the August 2014 primary. DesJarlais is a fellow Republican who, in the November election, faced controversy when he was challenged by Eric Stewart (Dem., Winchester).


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Early Sales Pay Off, for Now
Retailers See Strong Weekend Traffic but Worry Spending Could Falter; Online Booms
Retailers reported a big jump in consumer spending over the Thanksgiving weekend as shoppers flocked to stores, snapped up online discounts and, according to some merchants, paid repeat visits to the mall.
Related: Black Friday Shopping Tips & Tricks
But the overall increase wasn't as robust as last year's. And some indicators showed a decline in spending at stores on Black Friday itself, leading to questions about whether retailers' new tactics are simply shifting spending to different days and sales outlets.
Merchants with strong Web presences were positioned to be the big winners: for the first time, more than half of consumers said they shopped on the Internet over the weekend. Online spending on Friday alone topped $1 billion for the first time, according to the data-analysis firm comScore Inc.
Total spending for the weekend reached an estimated $59.1 billion, a 13% increase from a year ago, according to the National Retail Federation. Last year the group said sales rose 16% over the weekend.
A consumer survey conducted for the trade association by BIGinsight found that shoppers spent an average of $423 over the weekend, up 6% from $398 last Thanksgiving weekend.
A strong kickoff of holiday shopping isn't necessarily a sign that overall sales during the season will rise.
"I've seen it go both ways," said Beryl Raff, the chief executive of Helzberg Diamonds, a jewelry-store chain owned by Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
The Black Friday Arms Race
Heard on the Street: With retailers' Black Friday arms race spilling over into Thanksgiving Day, everybody might be better off with a dose of detente.
More on Holiday Shopping:
- Wal-Mart: Early Opening Drew More Families
- Furby, Tablets Top Buzz in Toy Aisle
- Mining Data to Keep Black Friday in the Black
- Home-Furnishing Retailers' Web Aspirations Struggle
- Earlier Start Has Restaurants Shifting Strategies
- Good Weather Means Few Excuses for Retailers
- Parking: The Risky Side of Black Friday
- Politics Counts: The Red/Blue Retail Divide
- CIO Journal: Retailers Use Social Media to Drive Store Traffic
- The Myth of the Black Friday Deal
- 'Doorbusters' Don't Hold Up
- Will Retailers' Black Friday Strategies Work?
Retailers fret that sales later this year will be soft. "I fear we are conditioning the customer to shop only on this one weekend," said John Abt, co-owner of Abt Electronics, a large independent electronics retailer based in Glenview, Ill., a suburb of Chicago. Its Black Friday sales jumped 22%, he said, and Internet sales rose 64% on Thanksgiving.
Last year, retail sales got off to a strong start in November, rising 6.7% compared with the previous year. But sales edged down a bit in December, according to the U.S. Commerce Department, and in the end sales excluding autos rose 6% in December compared with 2010.
The economy still worries consumers and retailers, who expect total sales to grow at a slower rate than last year. NRF estimates holiday sales for November and December will increase 4.1% to $586.1 billion, compared with a 5.6% increase last year.
The group said it might revise its numbers upward if Congress passes legislation in the next few weeks that would prevent automatic across-the-board tax increases and government-spending cuts in the New Year.
"If this drags on to Christmas Eve, there is a real possibility it could have negative consequences for the rest of the season," said NRF President Matt Shay.
Online sales on Black Friday increased 21% over last year, International Business Machines Corp.'s Smarter Commerce arm found, based on data from 500 retailers, including 50 of the 100 largest web retailers.
But while the number of orders jumped, the average order size per customer shrank 4.7% to $181.22.
IBM said the average number of items in an order also declined, by 12% to 5.6 items, reflecting free-shipping deals offered by online merchants.
"It takes fewer items in a consumer's basket to get them over that free-shipping threshold," said Jay Henderson, strategy director for IBM Smarter Commerce.
Mercent Corp., which helps facilitate online sales for about 500 retailers including Home Depot Inc. and outdoor clothier REI, said its clients reported a combined 23% jump in sales directly and through other sites including Amazon.com Inc. and eBay Inc. That is about the same as last year's results, said Mercent Chief Executive Eric Best. On Thanksgiving itself, Mercent's partners posted a 32% increase, up from an 18% increase last year.
"Consumers aren't stupid. They are going to research products online first and buy it online if it's cheaper than going to a store," said Mr. Best, whose firm is based in Seattle. "The data this year shows that consumers are buying more frequently online and earlier online than they ever have before," he said.
An Amazon spokeswoman declined to provide specific sales results, but she said the company expects to have the "biggest" holiday selling season in its history.
At physical stores, shopping on the evening of the Thursday holiday proved popular with families as giant retailers such as Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Target Corp. and Toys "R" Us Inc. opened as early as 8 p.m. An analysis of card receipts by Chase Paymentech, a subsidiary of J.P. Morgan Chase , said sales at brick-and-mortar stores shot up 70% from a year earlier.
But the next day, in-store sales declined by 7%, Chase said. A similar result was reported by ShopperTrak, which measures foot traffic and estimates sales. It found that while more people shopped on Friday than last year, actual sales that day declined almost 2%.
Retailers that opened Thursday said it was worth the added expense.
"Our guests stayed longer and shopped more of the store, so the initial reaction is that it was the right thing," said Sid Keswani, senior vice president of Target's Southwest region.
Wal-Mart said that shoppers who came for "door-buster" deals on electronics and toys stayed to snap up housewares.
"I never thought I'd see so much passion for sheets or Rubbermaid storage containers," said Duncan Mac Naughton, the company's U.S. merchandising chief. The Bentonville, Ark., retailer said it had 22 million customers Thursday between 8 p.m. and midnight.
In Dallas, Elizabeth Etier and her sister Emily McKenzie said they had heard that some consumers and workers were angry that stores were opening earlier than ever on Thanksgiving Day, but they said they were grateful for Target's 9 p.m. opening. That was early enough for them to take along Emily's 6-year-old daughter, Anna Claire, for her first Black Friday experience.
"This is good family bonding and more fun than the Dallas Cowboys getting creamed," said Brad McKenzie, Emily's husband.
—Shelly Banjo contributed to this article.
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Shoppers are pictured at CommuniGraphics in North Augusta, S.C. An earlier version of this article incorrectly said the store is in North Augusta, Ga.


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Citing a concern for the spread of foot and mouth disease to the state's livestock, the University of Georgia has cancelled the 2001 Georgia Tobacco Tour, originally scheduled for June 11-12.
"The Tobacco Team realizes the significant damage which may be caused from foot and mouth disease, and which may be inadvertently introduced into the area by tour participants who recently have visited infected areas outside the United States," says J. Michael Moore, University of Georgia Extension tobacco specialist.
The policy of the University of Georgia Animal and Dairy Science Department is that no U.S. citizen will be admitted to the department's production units if they have been in Europe or South America in the past 30 days. No one visiting from a foreign country will be allowed on the production farms if they have not been in the United States for at least 30 days.
Tobacco research and Extension plots continue to be conducted, and their results will be available in annual Research Extension Reports and through future meetings and seminars, according to Moore.


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One experiment that was purported to show a chemical basis for memory involved training planaria to solve an extremely simple "maze", then grinding them up and feeding them to untrained planaria to see if they would be able to learn more quickly. The experiment seemed to show such an effect, but it was later determined that the original planaria had left chemical tracks inside the maze itself that were not properly cleaned away before the next set of planaria were run.
It's not a complete explanation, but it implies that pathfinding behavior(e.g. getting out of a maze) had much more to do with following a chemical "bread crumb" trail than using memory alone.
More interesting still was his machine that took cell detritus and 'instant elsewhere'd' it to an adjoining chamber. The idea being to flush the junk from cells and cause a fountain of rejuvenation. FTA, it might be one day feasible to ride a cell of bad or junk RNA.
>>The way I understand it is that a large part of evolutionary theory ASSUMES that memory can't be inherited.
Maybe not memory per se, but certain phenomena have demonstrated Lamarckian style inheritance.
Mm, DNA can be methylated, which modifies its behavior. A fat pregnant mother will methylate the genes in the fetus, resulting in a kid much more genetically prone to being fat. Experiments with dutch prisoners of war during WWII showed that even when raised under similar conditions, kids from mothers who ate more when they were pregnant were much more prone to obesity.
There's also effects like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genomic_imprinting [wikipedia.org] which modify an offspring's genome on the fly between generation and generation.
Also Lamarckian style, or at least very flexible in the short term inheritance
http://www.nature.com/ejhg/journal/v14/n2/full/5201567a.html [nature.com]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetics [wikipedia.org]
One experiment that was purported to show a chemical basis for memory involved training planaria to solve an extremely simple "maze", then grinding them up and feeding them to untrained planaria to see if they would be able to learn more quickly.
This reminds me of VG Cats [vgcats.com].
So wrong..
I'd venture a guess that it's not correct (simply not enough evidence supporting it, but that has not yet been ruled out either [nih.gov].
The bottom line is that we do not yet fully understand memory, in much the same way that we do not fully understand synapse formation in the brain. We should just wait and see before jumping to any conclusions (and maybe write a grant proposal or two along the way).
A very simple answer is that RNA degrades *extremely* rapidly. Injecting RNA could feasibly give a short change in phenotype, but it is hard to imagine that RNA would be able to encode something as long-lasting as memory.
RNA is a copy of DNA created by an enzyme called RNA Polymerase [wikipedia.org]. All RNA Polymerase does is a simple copy. There is no mechanism for creating "new" RNA that contains data that is not already present in your genes. That is, your body does not contain any device that can write memory information to RNA strands.
Can you define instinct so we can talk intelligently about it?
Stimulus-response patterns that are inherited, not learned. Some might exclude mere reflexes (patterns where the stimulus creates the response before/without brain activity) but I'm not sure that modifies the definition in a helpful way.
It's really an interesting question. Seeming complex behavior patterns are clearly not learned, but present in each generation - where do they come from? This would seem to be software, not hardware, but where and how it it stored/passed on?
Raising both a two year old and a seven month old, there appears to be precious little instinct. Maybe dancing to music.
. . . A Human Genome Interpreter Project.
How long does it take to compute 42?
Oh wait, we already have 42. What was the question again?
What was the question again?
"What do you get when you multiply 9 times 5."
I thought we had those, and called them "mom"
Not only does God code in machine language, but it is all spaghetti. Thats probably why eventually malfunction and die.
Thats probably why eventually malfunction and die.
Some faster than others, apparently.
ha, just got that.
Thats probably why eventually malfunction and die.
Some faster than others, apparently.
I guess we live in the Age of the Killer Typo.
You have it backwards. God doesn't code in spaghetti machine language. The FSM itself coded God.
Well, what do you expect when you knock off a major project in under a week?
I bet that obscure comments in God's code would put Larry Wall to shame too
Think of it this way- if your protein-coding genes are the blueprints for a car, then epigenetics are the blueprints, operating procedures, and logistics for a mass production automobile factory. By reading your genes, you can find out the kinds of proteins that make you up. Similarly, car blueprints tell you how to make a car. A car, just one car. However, your cells are not putting out handbuilt cars. It's a modern Toyota factory going on in there, with continuous production and assembly. It's a marvel of mass production, with transcription, splicing, translation, post-translational modification, and relocation to the site of use all going on in multiple sites constantly. Production has to be carefully coordinated to make sure you have the right amounts of the right proteins delivered at the right times.
Epigenetics is the guy at the factory who knows how many cars to build this month, and the guy who makes sure that 10,000 cars have 10,000 steering wheels available to put in. Epigenetics is the guy who tells the line to hold up on building doors, because there's a surplus of doors in the warehouse already and we should use those first. Epigenetics is not the stuff you are made of, but rather a system of production control of that stuff.
As much as I was unpleasantly gobsmacked by the Midichlorians thing, I do recognize it as an earnest attempt on Lucas' part to match up his universe with the real one.
In Star Wars, the Force IS out there, like water in a river and we are all little row boats bobbing in the current. --To manipulate the water, (the Force), you need something to stick in the water. Like midichlorians, the more 'Oars' you have to work with, the more you can alter how the Force affects you. (Sorry. That's a horrible metaphor
The Force is everywhere, just as Yoda said. The ability for a sentient being to manipulate the Force comes only via midichlorians.
There's your explanation.
And yes, it's still retarded. Best to pretend that never happened.
Come on, intelligently designed Perl is quite readable.
Well, we thought She was doing it with regexes, some of them a thousand characters or more long, but still basically pattern matching. But now it turns out that She's doing some of it with evals and self-modifying code, which opens up an entirely different beastiary. And who can guess what other clever little tricks She is using?
The gene is dead. NYT confirms it...
Imagine: a little molecular salt on that embryo, and we could make Johnny a genius and 7 feet tall!!
He doesn't really refute anything in TFA, he just complains that this is old news, and gives his own summary.
Ya, consider my mind blown. Particularly the epigenetic factors.
...I'm not (yet) convinced of the value of the gene-mapping you can currently buy. $1000+ and you get back a description that is essentially meaningless because they don't really understand how the genes work yet. You get tested for a handful of conditions which have genetic links, but not all. (Genetic studies have shown there to be 7 forms of ME, according to the specific genetic cause, but very few labs will test for any of them yet.) Without knowing more about how genes work, it is impossible to know if what these studies reveal is even an accurate reflection of the genetics behind such conditions.
Alongside that is an argument in the reverse direction. If genes are not necessarily contiguous and/or can have ill-defined boundaries and/or can have components off the main DNA itself, then there is a definite possibility that there may be additional regions that could be useful for deep ancestry and genealogical DNA testing. This could help enormously as current research is pushing the limits of what is knowable using the regions and markers that are currently available. Entire haplogroup trees have been redefined because new information has revealed flaws in the previous models. More data, preferably more data that changes slowly, could be useful in getting these models right rather than continuously patching them.
Entire haplogroup trees have been redefined because new information has revealed flaws in the previous models.
Not just that, but the redefinitions have come about in large part due to the efforts of hobbyists [webalice.it] (the YDNA SNPs spreadsheet).
I recall people freaking out when the human genome project revealed that Humans only have about 30,000 genes rather than the previous estimate of 150K.
It always seemed to me that measuring Human complexity based on the number of our genes is a little like judging a book by the number of words it contains. It completely ignores the fact that words have Meaning.
Poetry is both the most compact and the most subtle form of written expression.
This latest finding suggests to me that something similar applies to our genetic heritage.
I recall people freaking out when the human genome project revealed that Humans only have about 30,000 genes rather than the previous estimate of 150K.
It always seemed to me that measuring Human complexity based on the number of our genes is a little like judging a book by the number of words it contains. It completely ignores the fact that words have Meaning.
Uh, I remember when they discovered that too, and I don't recall any scientists "freaking out" because the low number of genes implied we had low "complexity". Instead, I remember them being very excited, because they already knew there are far more than 30,000 proteins generated from our DNA, meaning that the 1:1 gene:protein mapping theory had to be wrong, and the mechanism was far more complicated than previously thought.
This sounds to me like a continuation of the line of inquiry opened by that discovery years ago, where now they're gaining a better idea of how the genes really code for proteins. With the extremely interesting aspect that some of this is controlled by things not part of the DNA itself, yet which can still be inherited.
To (ab)use your analogy, if the human body is a work of literature then proteins are the words, and genes are characters. The number of words hasn't changed, it's just that before we thought the language was like Chinese, where a single character mapped to a single word. Now we realize it's more like English, where the interactions between characters create different words. Oh and now we've discovered that there's also punctuation like apostrophes and hyphens which can significantly alter the meaning of the resulting words.
I don't recall the professionals as a whole 'freaking out' either, but when that 30,000 number began being bandied about, there were scientists who pointed out that some other species seemed to have a lot more than 30,000 genes (some amphibians in particular, had anomalously high numbers). I also recall comparisons to the numbers found in fruit flies, which led to comments that either fruit flies were a lot more complex than we had thought, or there was something else very strange going on.
Where you start in a code has an awful lot to do with the output, or if it runs at all. First of all, there are base triplet "synonyms" aplenty since there are many more base triplets than there are amino acids. This means there are a variety of ways to code the same protein, so it is possible to tweak a sequence without changing its function. What if you were to start some number of base pairs into a sequence -- might it also code for a valid protein? Would changing a base pair change the output of this ne
Can't be harder than programming a graphics card.
Does anyone else see the resemblence between DNA and crufted up old legacy software? Concepts about how heredity works get turned on their head once the mechanisms are examined in detail. I expect next it will be discovered that there are bugs in the DNA transcoding that are fixed by patches which in turn have patches.
Does anyone else see the resemblence between DNA and crufted up old legacy software?
Well, imagine that this software started out as a simple "hello-world" program, and that every time the requirements changed -- a frequent occurence -- it was updated by repeatedly making the smallest change required to bring it a bit more in line with the requirements, with no regard at all to readability or maintenance. Further assume that random changes are being made all the time, and are only removed when a customer registers a complaint.
The result would probably look something like DNA.
Actually, I was thinking of something even more confounding: superficial "fixes" that cover up an underlying problem, such that the the core problem can never be corrected because to do so will break the patch (and the patch of the patch). I see that sort of thing occurring where I work. (I'd run screaming, but they keep throwing benefits and bonuses at me. I sometimes wonder if I still have a soul.)
I expect next it will be discovered that there are bugs in the DNA transcoding that are fixed by patches which in turn have patches.
Already [icnet.uk] discovered [wikipedia.org].
I THINK MAN INVENTED THE CAR by instinct. -- Jack Handley, The New Mexican, 1988.


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Who's Afraid of the Cloud?
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This report will spell out the benefits and risks of the cloud for smaller and midsize businesses, based on interviews with a group of chief information officers and experts in cloud technology and common privacy and security concerns. It will also lay out questions company leaders should be asking when deciding whether to move IT applications and processing into the cloud.


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Legendary actor Pran's body, adorned with flowers, was taken to the Shivaji Park crematorium on Saturday morning.
The body was kept overnight at the Lilavati Hospital, where Pran, Bollywood's most loved villain, breathed his last late Friday evening. He was 93.
His last rites will reportedly be conducted at the electric crematorium in Dadar west around 12:30 p.m. Among the early attendees from Bollywood include veteran writer Gulzar.
Pran's film repertoire included over 400 projects in over six decades of his association with cinema.
He had not been keeping well since the past few months, and he was in and out of the hospital lately.
He is survived by his wife Shukla, sons Arvind and Sunil, and daughter Pinky, as well as his beloved grandchildren.
During his long and prolific career, Pran was marked for his roles as a villain, hero and even a character artist.
On May 10, he was conferred the coveted Dadasaheb Phalke Award for Lifetime Achievement, the highest honour of Indian film industry, at his home, by Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting Manish Tewari.


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ST. MARYS — Two marquee events will be bringing thousands of visitors to the region this weekend.
After a two-year hiatus, the Governor's Cup Regatta returns to Grand Lake St. Marys today and Sunday. The event, which features hydroplane boats racing on the lake, was canceled in 2011 and 2012 and was in jeopardy this year until the Lake Improvement Association stepped up with a $20,000. Auglaize/Mercer County Convention and Visitors Bureau Director Donna Grube said the event is a shot in the arm for the local tourism economy.
"State research shows that an average day visitor to a location spends $100 and an overnight visitor spends $300," Grube said. "So multiply that by the number of folks who come here and that's a lot of money. I've talked to two hotels in the area and they are full this coming weekend, if they are bringing in 20,000 to 30,000 people, which I've heard as an estimate, you are talking $2 million."
The regatta attracts participants and visitors from several surrounding states. Those visitors, Grube said, could serve as the best advocates for Grand Lake St. Marys and the surrounding region when they return home.
"We know that the interest is there," Grube said.
"What I really love is that not only am I happy that they bring money in the region, but these people can go back to their hometowns and say that the lake is fantastic, and that word of mouth is great."
The event, which is free, also draws a large local base — something Grube said is a credit to organizers.
"This weekend we have a lot going on," Grube said. "People should come out and enjoy the event. There have been donations to save it and people should come out and see why and help make it a success."
Riverside Bluesfest also returns after a brief hiatus. The event, which is held at K.C. Geiger Park in St. Marys, attracts some of the most popular artists on the blues scene.
"This year's event is a little different in that it's not on Labor Day weekend," said David Stilwell, an organizer of the event. "We have one big show on Saturday. We were always a Saturday and Sunday event in the past."
Like the regatta, Bluesfest attracts visitors from other states. That, Stilwell noted, is a huge financial benefit for the city.
"I think it's huge in that we do bring a lot of people to down and pump a little into the local economy," Stilwell said. "We hope we can do that this year ... We are back by popular demand. We had a lot of people who wanted us to do our show again and we already know we have people coming from Columbus, Dayton, Cincinnati and other states. It's a really nice draw for St. Marys and it gets people in here."
This year, organizers are focusing on attracting more local residents to the show. Local support, Stilwell noted, is vital to the festival.
"It's a fundraiser for K.C. Geiger Park," Stilwell said. "It would be great to support."
Throughout the years, the K.C. Geiger Park Improvement Committee has donated close to $150,000 for park improvements. This year, the group purchased a machine to line all the ball fields at the park.
"What we really want to do is have some type of permanent stage or amphitheater out here at the park," Stilwell said. "That way we can have multiple types of things — Sunday concerts by the Rotary Club or if they wanted to, they could have Waynestock out there ... That's our big, long-term goal."
The park opens at 10 a.m. today and musical acts hit the stage at 1:30 p.m. For more information, go to StMarysBlues.com.


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HAMILTON — Every time Paul Sparano takes the mound you can expect to see a gem.
Sometimes, like Wednesday, you are rewarded with watching a masterpiece.
Sparano, the multi-talented junior, who gets better the deeper he goes in a game threw his best Colonial Valley Conference as he went the distance against Steinert, scattering seven hits and striking out eight to lead Ewing to a 3-2 win at Rich Giallella Field.
"If that wasn't the best game he's pitched the only one close might have been against Princeton Day School last year," Ewing coach Kip Harrison said after Sparano got to 2-0 and the Blue Devils improved to 3-1.
Steinert (3-3) dropped to 3-2 in the CVC with its other league loss to Robbinsville (4-2).
"He is one of the best in the league," Steinert coach Brian Giallella said of Sparano. "We had good at bats against him, but others where we didn't give our all.
"I know what we have, but it's just a matter of using the right guys and getting good quality at bats."
Sparano finished strong, striking out four of the last five Spartans he faced. He walked Steinert leadoff batter Ed Ashley in the seventh, but the game ended one pitch later when Sparano's battery mate Justin Dempsey threw out Ashley — the third Spartan Dempsey caught stealing.
"Originally I was off a little in the beginning of the game, but once I started throwing curves over my fastball came along with it," said Sparano. "I played with seven of these kids on a summer team so I know what they can do.
"I'm such a competitor that if I'm not finishing strong my coach won't let me go out there. I was just trying to win, and Steinert is such a good team to beat," said Sparano, who knows what a confidence boost beating the Spartans can be.
After Mike Salvatore opened the game with a single to right and took second on a groundout, Dempsey drove him home with a double to the right-center gap. Steinert tied it with a leadoff walk then stole second and scored on DH Anthony Peroni's single to right.
Sparano singled in the third to start a two-run rally that got Ewing its winning runs. Dempsey got him home with a line single over the third base bag and quickly was wild pitched to second by Matt Moticha.
Evan Patrick singled to send Dempsey to third then got into a rundown between first and second, allowing Dempsey to cross before the Patrick was tagged out to end the inning.
Ewing got three hits off three Steinert pitchers after that, but none of the runners reached second. Steinert made it a one-run game when Jeff Mattonelli doubled in the fifth and scored on Ashley's flyout to right. Singles by Austin Constantini and Peroni put the Spartans in great shape to tie it again, but Dempsey burned them throwing out Constantini trying to swipe third.
Sparano did the rest, allowing only a Mastrangelo single to open the sixth but stranding him at second with two quick strikeouts to end the sixth and two more in the seventh.
"I probably threw 75 percent of my pitches in the last three innings," said Sparano, "I felt stronger as the game went on and at the end felt I was at the top of my game."


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Did you hear? Natalia Vodianova forgot to shave her legs! At an event where she was being honored for helping build playgrounds for children! Hussy.
Now, what is not news? This is not news! Well, maybe it's news that she builds playgrounds for children. That's nice. Okay, the rest of this is not news. In honor of Natalia Vodianova, here are ten other celebrities who were also able to rock some body hair.[ITPGallery]


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The lights are on
Little Big Planet
by Jeff Marchiafava
Like the first movies, LittleBigPlanet entrances players with the spectacle of seeing the familiar in a new light. Rather than trying to recreate our world with photorealistic graphics, the game employs bright, warm visuals that place an emphasis on texture not normally seen in digital mediums. Each object in the game is comprised of a basic material applied in creative ways: Grass is made from lush green felt, while clouds are fluffy white cotton. This simplistic representation of everyday objects feels new and familiar at the same time.
The game's main character, Sackboy, is equally fundamental. Similar to the actors of silent film, Sackboy is the embodiment of performance art, using exaggerated body language and facial gestures to convey basic emotions. Like Buster Keaton or Charlie Chaplin, Sackboy uses slapstick humor to drive the story's message of the importance of companionship. Without speaking a word, Sackboy has become one of the most unique and endearing characters of recent years.
LittleBigPlanet's symbolic representation of life and world is not simply an aesthetic choice, but a function of the game's core principle. LittleBigPlanet presents the player with a fantasy world born from imagination. This is not hyperbole, or the opening line of a fairy tale; the lands you explore are sculpted from primitive objects by their creators. The world's inhabitants are pieced together and rigged like marionette puppets, and the music, lighting, and color palette are customized to coincide with the ambiance of the level. While this is true of all video games, the levels in LittleBigPlanet are not created by programmers, but rather storytellers, artists, and most importantly, you.
All of the levels in LBP can be recreated with an easy-to-use toolset included in the game. When I first played the game, it took me an hour or two before I realized this – I knew LBP let you create your own content, but I didn't think levels made by players would be comparable to those created by the developers. When I saw that the user levels being shared online were just as intricate, professional, and creative, I understood that this game is more than a simple entertainment product; it's a new creative medium.
Wherever human beings are given the creative freedom to express themselves, there is art. Most players will only ever use LBP to make simple platforming levels, just like most Hollywood directors will only make romantic comedies or action movies. But already players are using LBP in more imaginative ways, uploading their own virtual galleries to showcase their inventions. Combining graphic design, sculpture, and engineering, the artistic craftsmanship taking place in LittleBigPlanet obliterates the standard definition of what a video game is. How something that fosters so much creativity and promotes the exchange of user-made creations and ideas could not be considered art, is beyond me.


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Business: Many Americans will not retire until they dieSource: 24/7 Wall St.
Why bother to retire when you can die at work? A new survey from Wells Fargo finds that, among middle class Americans, "37% Say 'I'll Never Retire, but Work Until I'm Too Sick or Die.'" While the information is shocking, it more quietly indicates why many younger people in the United States will find it hard to get jobs, or at least ones that pay well.


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You have probably seen athletes like David Beckham and Serena Williams sporting a mysterious colorful therapeutic tape called Kinesio Tex Tape. While it may not be as obvious at the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, athletes from skiers to ice hockey players are sure to be using the tape for its therapeutic properties.
It can be seen peeking out of the uniform of Boston Celtics basketball star Kevin Garnett. It's the brightly-colored adornment that caught international attention when American beach volleyball player Kerri Walsh wore it during the Summer Olympics.


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LEWISBURG, Pa. — Several members of the Bucknell University faculty were recognized at the annual American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) conference in San Antonio recently.
Michelle Oswald, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering, received the ASEE Civil Engineering Division Gerald R. Seeley Award, given to a civil engineering faculty member with five or fewer years of teaching experience, with the basis for selection being the quality of a paper submitted for presentation at the ASEE Annual Conference. || Related faculty story
Eric Kennedy, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, received the ASEE Biomedical Engineering Division Teaching Award given annually at the ASEE conference. Kennedy was cited for his enthusiasm within the classroom and mentorship provided to students outside of the classroom. "Having the privilege of working with Dr. Kennedy was one of my best experiences at Bucknell and has truly been one of the highlights of my research career thus far," wrote one of his former students. || Related Ask the Experts
Kelly Salyards, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering, received the ASCE ExCEEd New Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award, based on her outstanding teaching record as a new faculty member, her contributions to the academic and surrounding community, and her proven commitment to education. As a structural engineer, her research interests include vibration serviceability, experimental modal analysis techniques, dynamic behavior and computer modeling of structures. She also enjoys involving undergraduate students in her research.
Three professors — Margot Vigeant, associate professor of chemical engineering; Mike Prince, professor of chemical engineering; and Katharyn Nottis, professor of education; — were recognized with two awards. The ASEE William H. Corcoran Award honored the best paper in Chemical Engineering Education: "Development of Concept Questions and Inquiry-Based Activities in Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer: An Example for Equilibrium vs. Steady-State." Prince, Vigeant and Nottis were also honored with the ASEE Best Paper Professional Interest Council IV and Best Paper in the Educational Research and Methods Division. Their research paper on using inquiry-based methods addressing student engineering misconceptions presented ways to reduce student misconceptions.
Felipe Perrone, associate professor of computer science, was selected to present his project, "Public Service Announcement Movies Made with the Alice Programming Language," at the IEEE Real World Engineering Projects Workshop. Authors of projects selected for this program earn a $10,000 award and have their work included in the IEEE's online library of hands-on, team-based projects for first-year students. The same project was the core of the computer science seminar in ENGR 100 Exploring Engineering for two consecutive years.
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The Elder Scrolls Online has been in the making since Oblivion launched, and while developing an MMO is an enormous task in and of itself, apparently so is finding a suitable and marketable name for the game.
"The marketing department had a white board full of possible names that didn't make the cut," game director Matt Firor told Game Informer. Among them, The Elder Scrolls: Tamriel and The Elder Scrolls: Empires. Firor said they also discussed Origins, since the game is set a thousand years before Skyrim, but it didn't fit especially when future expansions were taken into account. "The Elder Scrolls Origins Second Expansion just doesn't make sense."
In the end the just went with the easy answer: "The Elder Scrolls Online, nice and easy. The title says it all."
Firor knows that expectations are huge for the game among fans of the RPG series, and that having the game set in the Second Era offers the development team a "blank slate" in building stories for the players. "No one knows really what happened in the Second Era because no one has experienced that in the game," he said. "It gives you all the characters and all the features, but none of the stories."


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Stonewall is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.
Stonewall may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective from 05/09/2011.
What we collect
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Texarkana's First Mardi Gras Celebration Happens this Saturday
With more than 50 floats, and 130 vendors, Texarkana's first Mardi Gras celebration and the Krewe of Koinonia parade is shaping up to be nothing less than SPECTACULAR!
It will be an all day celebration, beginning at 2 p.m. with the Krewe of Paws and Little Rascals Parade for kids with pets, or battery operated cars. Captain Joe and his band will be performing live music.
Food vendors will be serving up Crawfish, Gumbo, Jumbalaya and more Mardi Gras favorites. (Adult beverage sales will begin at 4 p.m.)
The Krewe of Koinona will kick off the main parade at 4 p.m.
The parade route will start at East Broad and Front Street going west to the Front and right onto Olive street. Then the parade will go north on Olive Street taking a right onto East Third Street, where it will continue and then turn left onto Hazel to an almost immediate right onto Fourth Street. Once on East Fourth, it will proceed east to Pecan Street then travel back south on East Broad to Senator Street.
After the parade the party will continue to 9 p.m..
For more information call 870-779-4970.


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How to use The Flyery, an online library for flyer distribution, in Middletown Township Public Schools:
Community Organizations
High School North Rich Veth Diamond Club First Pitch Pancake Breakfast on Sunday, March 9, 2014 from 8:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.@ VFW, Post 2179, 1 Veteran's Lane, Port Monmouth. The Pancake breakfast will include homemade pancakes, sausage, breakfast potatoes, fruit, juices, coffee, tea and milk. This fundraiser will benefit the Baseball Team at High School North and is sponsored by the Rich Veth Diamond Club. The Diamond Club is a parent booster club tasked with raising money to support the baseball program at North through field improvements, training equipment, and other supplies for the athletes that are not covered by District budgeted funds.
Girl Scouts of Jersey Shore To learn more about becoming a Girl Scout volunteer, contact Kelly McGraw at email@example.com or call 800-785-2090 ext. 131 or go to www.girlscoutsjs.org/register online. Create a foundation of greatness for your daughter. Join Girl Scouts today. Financial assistance is available. For more information, visit girlscoutsjs.org or call (800) 785-2090. Download the Information Flyer and Registration Form.
General information about Middletown South Travel Basketball League-Contact Matt Lenhard 917.697.3710 email at firstname.lastname@example.com or Glenn Misson # 848.207.7350
Contact firstname.lastname@example.com for more information.
Every Friday May until October.
At Veterans Park in Atlantic Highlands, NJ - off of First Avenue, across from the Borough Hall.
Presented by: Atlantic Highlands Chamber of Commerce
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GAATW and the Freedom Network call on the US House of Representatives to drop H.R.4703
The International Secretariat of the Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women (GAATW) and the Freedom Network (USA) condemn a new bill, introduced into the US House of Representatives by Congressman Hultgren, which seeks to put pressure on countries that "do not prohibit the purchase of commercial sex acts". If passed, bill H.R.4703 will amend the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 to demand that the State Department take a country's prostitution laws into consideration when determining its rankings in the annual Trafficking in Persons Report. Placement in the lowest tier of the Trafficking in Persons Report can trigger sanctions including the reduction or loss of non-humanitarian, non-trade-related foreign assistance.
GAATW and the Freedom Network believe that this move is not about preventing human trafficking or protecting its victims. Under the guise of addressing trafficking in persons, the amendment instead seeks to include efforts to eradicate prostitution. Creating such a strong link between prostitution and trafficking in persons is not uncommon but it is mistaken. GAATW has documented the harm done to sex workers, migrants and to people who have been trafficked by anti-trafficking laws, policies, programmes and initiatives that conflate the two.
There is no evidence that criminalising or otherwise penalising sex workers' clients has reduced either trafficking in persons or sex work. International law on trafficking in persons makes a distinction between prostitution and trafficking. The USA's international anti-trafficking work too makes this distinction plain, as several countries in the top tier of the State Department's Trafficking in Persons Report – i.e. those countries who meet the minimum standards for addressing trafficking – indeed do not criminalise sex work. If anything, we can look to the 14 years of the Trafficking in Persons Report as the evidentiary link that sex work and trafficking are not connected.
Debates in anti-trafficking work about demand need to be grounded in evidence in order to move beyond simplistic "supply and demand" analogies and misguided efforts to "end demand" for sex work, a framework that is not applied to trafficking in other labour sectors. GAATW instead calls on the US government, at home and in its international advocacy, to focus on ending exploitative labour practices across all sectors for all people and support labour organising, as part of a strategy to prevent human trafficking. This should include consideration of decriminalising sex work and practices around it, as a strategy to reduce the opportunities for exploitative labour practices in the sex sector.
The text of bill H.R.4703 is available here. The bill has been referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
GAATW has researched the limitations and impacts of "end demand" approaches in anti-trafficking work: Moving Beyond 'Supply and Demand' Catchphrases: Assessing the uses and limitations of demand-based approaches in Anti-Trafficking . GAATW's report, Collateral Damage: The Impact of Anti-Trafficking Measures on Human Rights around the World, reviews the impact of anti-trafficking measures on human rights and some of the negative consequences of those measures.
GAATW is a global network of over 120 independent NGOs. The Alliance takes a human rights-based and feminist approach to trafficking in persons. GAATW promotes rights of women migrant workers and trafficked persons and believes that ensuring safe migration and fair work places should be at the core of all anti-trafficking efforts.
The Freedom Network was established in 2001 to promote a human rights-based approach to human trafficking. The Freedom Network is a coalition of 40 service providers and individuals working directly with survivors of human trafficking across the United States. Freedom Network was established by a group of organisations and individuals who bring decades of experience from a diverse set of backgrounds, such as immigrant women and children's rights, victim and social services, migrant farm worker advocacy, and human rights activism. The Freedom Network recognizes that human trafficking is fuelled by complex and interconnected factors, including poverty and economic injustice, racism, gender-based discrimination, and political strife. At its core, the crime of trafficking is a violation of an individual's basic rights and personal freedom. Thus, we believe that a rights-based approach is fundamental to combating human trafficking and ensuring justice for trafficked persons.


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"From there, you're beginning to get ready for all the different stages of the offseason, the free agency and the draft and all that goes into that," O'Brien said in a radio interview with Marc Vandermeer. "It will be a whirlwind but it's an exciting time and I'm looking forward to it."
"Well it's a fantastic facility, no question about it," O'Brien said. "It's user friendly. You have the weight room right across from the locker room and the training room right there. There's a lot of great things about this facility. The practice fields and bubble look great. I'm just really excited to get started."
In his first week, O'Brien released 16 assistant coaches and kept defensive line coach Bill Kollar, who just completed his fifth season with the Texans.


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Mobile telcos to link IM networks
It's good to chat
3GSM A group of 15 mobile operators worldwide launched plans to roll out interoperable instant messages to mobiles in a move designed to emulate the success of text messaging in the 1990s.
Operators including Vodafone, Orange, T-Mobile, TeliaSonera, Telefonica and China Mobile plan to roll out services that operate across different networks. Five GSM operators in India have also been on board with the scheme.
Mobile operators plan to charge users on a "calling party pays principle", under which consumers pay to send messages but not to receive them. That compares to current IM services which typically operate as single operator silos where users pay both to send and receive messages. The GSM Association said the scheme, dubbed Personal IM, has a potential market of 700m subscribers. Operators omitted to give pricing details when the rollout plans were announced during a press conference at 3GSM conference in Barcelona on Monday.
Only recent handsets support IM. Mobile operators downplayed suggestions that mobile IM use would eat into SMS revenues. Personal IM is being positioned as an alternative to PC messaging in developing countries such as India and a different form of communication that will boost data calls in western Europe. T-Mobile chief executive Rene Obermann said "SMS is fire and forget, while IM is more chatty". ®
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Stefan de Vrij has moved to end speculation he could sign for Manchester United or Liverpool during the summer transfer window after the Netherlands international penned a new contract with Feyenoord.
The 21-year-old had been linked with a switch to the Premier League before the transfer deadline in August, but has resisted the overtures of prominent clubs in England to extend his stay in Rotterdam.
"It makes me happy to know I can continue to be part of this team and club for longer," De Vrij told the official Feyenoord website.
"I can see the potential here and of course I am pleased that Jordy remains for longer here too."
According to Sky Sports, Liverpool and Manchester United have both been pursuing the young central defender, while Everton have also been interested in acquiring his services.
David Moyes' interest in De Vrij could have fitted perfectly with Manchester United's transfer strategy, although the Scot will now have to look elsewhere if he hopes to bring defensive reinforcements to Old Trafford.
Liverpool are also reported to be in the market for new recruits in central defence during the transfer window, with Jamie Carragher's retirement prompting Brendan Rodgers to identify potential targets to bring to Anfield.
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Officer in Maryland beating to serve home detention
By The Associated Press
This article was published December 14, 2012 at 1:30 p.m.
UPPER MARLBORO, Md. A judge has sentenced a former police officer to 30 days of home detention for beating a University of Maryland student during a rowdy celebration following a Terrapin basketball victory over Duke.
The judge sentenced James Harrison on Friday to a year in jail on the assault conviction. He then suspended all but 30 days and ordered Harrison to serve those through home detention. Harrison had been a Prince George's County officer.
He was one of two officers charged with assaulting John McKenna. Another student captured the 2010 assault on video. The other officer was acquitted in October. Harrison had served as a policeman for more than 20 years.
Harrison's lawyer says he'll file a motion asking the judge to remove Harrison's conviction from his record.
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6. Rio Ferdinand - Manchester United
Manchester United have yet to open talks with Rio Ferdinand about a new contract, with the club waiting to see how the 34-year-old maintains his fitness in the final year of his deal, which ends this summer.
The central defender is keen to sign on again at the club where he has spent over a decade, but United may wait before starting negotiations.
Ferdinand has been the backbone of United's defence in recent years and the experience he brings to the side means he is worth offering a new contract.
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Warm Welcome Animal Enthusiast!Here are the updates from Animal Life for the week. Share your passion for animals by forwarding this newsletter along to other animal lovers.
Fresh Paws Off The Press!Bestiality Brothels
Is sex with animals a legitimate subculture or ideal predatory breeding grounds?
A Mighty Squeak!"Denouncing evil is a far cry from doing good."- Philip Gourevitch
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Rachel Ray is a free sample of Nutrish dog food. Be sure to get yours today before supplies are gone.
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BellaOnline has a wide assortment of free ebooks on how to successfully live a Green lifestyle. In addition to finding ways to recycle and conserve water, learn about environmentally sound ways of eating, decorating, body beautifying, and much more. The BellaOnline authors take great care in their works to provide common sense solutions to everyday issues. Check it out today!
White House Petitions
The White House has a little known petition area. Stop by, sign and support causes of interest. Let the White House know your thoughts!
Brainteaser! Find The Hidden Treasure!
We have a fun and exciting new brain game! Check in regularly for new challenges as this game grows. Feel free to add your own brainteaser or submit suggestions. Enjoy the random challenge this area brings to your day. We hope you enjoy it as much as we have enjoyed creating it!
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The Click That Keeps On Giving
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The Animal Roar!Dog Food Recall for Advanced Animal Nutrition
Advanced Animal Nutrition has updated information on a voluntary recall to include expanded lot numbers for several brands of dog food.
How to Prevent Animal Hoarding
Hoarding is not beneficial to the welfare of animals and is vastly different from providing responsible care.
Tar Sands Extraction Mutates Animal Life
Scientists have proven that oil sands extraction creates unnaturally accelerated mutations to marine life beyond the borders of the Tar Sands region.
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In 1939, as Canada joined World War II, a social crisis pulled apart the Mennonite communities of southern Manitoba. Thousands of young Mennonite men were forced to decide: in the face of 400 years of pacifist tradition, should they now go to war?
The controversy is brought to life as brothers Ted and John Friesen reflects on their choices. Ted became a conscientious objector, while his brother went into military service. Others were similarly divided, as the heart of Mennonite culture clashed with duty to one's country. Deep and raw, the rifts endured for decades.
Fifty years later, the town of Winkler dedicates its first war memorial and John begins to share his war experiences with Ted. Shedding light on the courage and conviction of both sides, this film features illuminating interviews with Mennonite author Rudy Wiebe, conscientious objectors, war veterans and a new generation of Canadian Mennonites. More than a half-century later, are the rifts beginning to heal?
More info on this film in NFB catalogue »»