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World News - Parents found guilty in caged kids case
A couple accused of forcing some of their 11 adopted special-needs children to sleep in chicken wire cages were convicted Friday of endangering and abuse.A jury found Michael Gravelle, 57, and his wife, Sharen, 58, each guilty of four felony counts of child endangering, two misdemeanor counts of child endangering and five misdemeanor counts of child abuse. Each was acquitted of 13 other charges.The parents argued during their three-week trial that they needed to keep some of the youngsters in enclosed beds rigged with alarms to protect them from themselves and each other and stop them from wandering at night.The couple face one to five years in prison and a maximum fine of $10,000 for each felony count. The misdemeanor penalties carry no jail time. ...
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Iraq tribes 'taking on al-Qaeda'
A group of Sunni tribal chiefs in Iraq say they have caught more than 100 al-Qaeda members in recent months. The tribal chiefs in the Iraqi province of Anbar joined forces in September in an attempt to defeat al-Qaeda. They set up the Salvation Council for Anbar and claim to have reduced the numbers of weapons and foreign fighters coming into the area. The restive Sunni dominated area has been a centre of activity for foreign jihadis linked to al-Qaeda. The head of the council, Sheikh Faisal al-Goud, told the BBC, however, that there were still thousands of al-Qaeda fighters operating in al Anbar province alone. "We are fighting the terrorists because they have caused the violent chaos in the country, the instability. They are killing innocent Iraqis and killing anyone who wants freedom and peace in Iraq," he explained....
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Toyota 'to overtake GM in 2007'
Japanese car firm Toyota is on course to overtake US rival General Motors as the world's biggest carmaker in 2007, according to the firm's own figures. Toyota said it expected to raise global car production by 4% to 9.42 million vehicles next year. GM plans to build 9.181 million vehicles this year. However, analysts do not expect the firm to increase production significantly in 2007. GM has plans to cut 30,000 jobs and close several factories by 2008. Toyota, meanwhile, has announced plans to build six more factories around the world by the end of the decade. ...
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Chinese Christians in riot trial
Eight Chinese Christians are going on trial in the eastern city of Hangzhou charged with instigating violence and interfering with the law. The charges relate to an incident in the village of Che Lu Wan in July. There were violent clashes when riot police moved in to demolish a church being built without official approval. All churches must be registered and sanctioned by the state but millions of Chinese Christians worship in unofficial or underground churches. 'Wider crackdown' Local Christians had been trying to get permission from the authorities to build the new church. But they got tired of all the delays involved and decided to go ahead anyway, without official approval. Hundreds began construction work. Then, a few days later, riot police were sent in to demolish the church. There were violent clashes between the two sides. Now, as a result, eight Christians involved - seven men and one woman - are standing trial. ...
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Iraq town has little faith in U.S. trial of Marines
Iraqis in Haditha, where 24 unarmed civilians were killed last year, said on Friday four U.S. Marines charged with their murder should be executed, a penalty they will not face in the United States."They should hand them over to us so that we can kill them. They do not deserve a trial," said one young man who refused to give his name. Khaled Salman, whose sister Asmaa was among 24 people killed in Haditha, gathered with friends in the early hours of Friday to watch television coverage of the charges being announced. "Those soldiers killed 24 people. They killed women and children, isn't that enough for them be executed? Just so that the family can have peace," said Salman, 41. "It's a political trial and it will not bring our rights back," said Salman, visibly angry. ...
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U.S death toll in Iraq creeps closer to 3,000 mark
The U.S. military reported the deaths of five more soldiers on Friday, bringing the U.S. death toll closer to 3,000, as Defense Secretary Robert Gates ended a two-day visit aimed at finding a new strategy for Iraq. Four U.S. servicemen were killed in action on Thursday in the restive Anbar province, heartland of the unrelenting Sunni insurgency against U.S. forces and the Iraqi government and the most dangerous place in Iraq for American soldiers. A fifth was killed and another wounded west of Baghdad on Friday when their patrol came under machinegun and mortar fire. At least 71 U.S. soldiers have died so far this month. The deaths brought the total U.S. death toll in Iraq to 2,960, creeping closer to the 3,000 mark and adding more pressure on President Bush to find a strategy that will allow the eventual withdrawal of 135,000 U.S. troops. Bush has said he will announce a new strategy in January after listening to the advice of ...
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Cherry Coke Does Colorful MySpace Page, Back Button Still Useless
In one of the better makeovers of the horrific-looking MySpace, Juxt has created a Cherry Coke MySpace Page Design contest that places the winning design on the MySpace homepage. As part of the contest, there's all sorts of Flashtastic goodies for people to embed within their own sites, screensavers, wallpapers and all the rest of the usual stuff.
Unfortunately, as with most Flash creation, the browser Back button is rendered useless causing one to continuously back off the promotional page by mistake. Would it really be so hard for Flash to enable or for designers to make possible the use of the browser back button within a Flash page? Or to prevent the entire Flashurbation from also rendering useless the right click menu? Flash can make beautiful things but it also has a nasty tendency to fuck with established web navigation methods.
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Syncrude – Guilty for the Deaths of Over 1,600 Ducks!
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Global Moratorium on Commercial Whaling Upheld
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Nature Art, Photography and Writing Contest Winner
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Winebot, Pass The Wine and Cheese
Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Smart Home, Misc. Tech, Science, Toys
NEC and Mie University have teamed up in Japan to create the 2-foot Winebot, a cute little bugger that can not only discern good wine from bad, it can also name the brand and suggest a cheese.
"There are all kinds of robots out there doing many different things," said Hideo Shimazu, director of the NEC System Technology Research Laboratory and a joint-leader of the robot project. "But we decided to focus on wine because that seemed like a real challenge."
Speaking in an underage voice, the robot names the brand and adds a comment to its taste. It can also be programmed to recognize wine that its owner prefers. Because of its ability to analyze the chemical composition of wine or food placed next to it, it could caution its owner about such health-related factors as fat or salt content.
Winebot doesn't come cheap. "Buying one of these would cost about as much as a new car," Shimazu said. "We'd like to bring that down to 100,000 yen ($1,000) or less for the tasting sensor if we were to put it on the market."
We figure that if you can afford the wine and cheese, you can afford the Winebot.
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LOS ANGELES - As far as Tim Burton's concerned, you can't keep a good dog down. And you can't keep a good, old-fashioned form of animation down, either.
Burton's boy-and-his-dead-dog tale "Frankenweenie" is Hollywood's latest resurrection of stop-motion animation, a century-old style that still creeps on to the big-screen now and then in an age of computer-generated cartoon blockbusters.
It's a simple concept - inanimate objects moved infinitesimally and photographed a frame at a time to create an illusion of motion. But with elaborate miniature sets and puppets whose innards are intricate gears to create movement and expression, it's a painstaking process requiring dozens of animation teams and years of work.
The result is something that looks like a loose, lumpy caricature of reality yet can feel more concrete and genuine than its slick computer-animated cousin.
"It's a more pure form, stop-motion," Burton said. "You try to put the form with the right story, and this one, just because you're reanimating something, there's something about moving a puppet that just works with that idea."
A feature-length version of Burton's 1984 live-action short film, "Frankenweenie" tells the story of a boy genius who pulls a Frankenstein and brings his beloved dog back to life after a car accident. Burton expanded the story to include a menagerie of resurrected monsters, including a were-rat, a mummy hamster and a Godzilla-like giant turtle.
Hollywood can go years without a stop-motion film, then deliver them in waves. "Frankenweenie" is the third one this year, following "ParaNorman," from the makers of 2009's stop-motion tale "Coraline," and "The Pirates! Band of Misfits," from Aardman Animations, the British outfit behind 2005's "Wallace & Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit," the only stop-motion cartoon to win the Academy Award for feature animation.
"Wallace & Gromit" came out the same year as Burton's "Corpse Bride," the filmmaker's second stop-motion flick after he revived the format with 1993's "The Nightmare Before Christmas."
Burton's ghoulish sensibilities - ghosts, goblins and other creatures from beyond - somehow make a nice fit for the slightly clunky, chunky stop-motion style. Along with "Coraline," "ParaNorman" and "Curse of the Were-Rabbit," the upcoming stop-motion demon comedy "Hell & Back" also has an otherworldly bent.
"Stop-motion has always had a macabre side to it, and I think that goes back to the tradition of it as a medium. If you look at the people who really drove it forward early on in short films, they were animating bones and dead chickens, lord knows what else," said Chris Butler, who worked on "Corpse Bride" and "Coraline" and wrote and co-directed "ParaNorman."
"Then you have to always come back to `Nightmare Before Christmas.' That set a tone, I think, for the whole thing."
Like "Frankenweenie," "ParaNorman" is a story about reviving the dead, centering on a misfit boy whose ability to talk with ghosts makes him an unlikely hero after his town is besieged by zombies raised from their graves.
Stop-motion animators have been creating ghostly magic since the early years of cinema on such short films as 1907's "The Haunted Hotel," which showed a dinner being prepared by invisible hands.
In live-action movies, stop-motion was used to create dinosaurs in the silent adventure "The Lost World," the great ape of the original "King Kong" and fighting skeletons and other creatures in films from special-effects master Ray Harryhausen. James Cameron used stop-motion to animate the creepy metal endo-skeleton of his "Terminator" killing machine after its coating of Arnold Schwarzenegger flesh was burned away.
Stop-motion also has had a more family-friendly history with such TV favorites as "Gumby," "Davey and Goliath" and "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer."
While two-dimensional hand-drawn animation that once ruled the cartoon world has mostly vanished on the big-screen, stop-motion's puppets and miniature sets are a natural in today's world of digital 3-D cinema.
"It's a great marriage," said "ParaNorman" co-director Sam Fell. "It's always been so tactile, stop-frame. I remember being young and watching Harryhausen. I always wanted to take one of those skeletons home and just reach in and touch the stuff inside. The 3-D just makes it even more tangible and invites you in even more. You become more immersed in the craft of it."
Along with digital 3-D photography, stop-motion films now are peppered with computer-animated visual effects to add to the spectacle.
Yet the basic idea is the same as it ever was.
"It's a guy behind a black curtain, pushing a puppet one frame at a time. So it really hasn't changed in a hundred years," said "Frankenweenie" producer Allison Abbate. "It's still embracing that old-school, handmade, handcrafted technology that I think you feel when you watch the movie. It feels like a labor of love, and you can see it on screen."


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version 0.010
This module lets you describe a bunch of input fields you expect. For each field, you can specify validation, a default, and multiple places to look for a value. The first valid value found is accepted and returned in the results.
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store - a coderef to store accepted values
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Marlins fall to Nationals in Eovaldi's brief outing
Right-hander tagged for five runs in three bumpy innings
MIAMI -- Nathan Eovaldi brought the heat on Saturday night, ramping up his fastball to as high as 98 mph. But it was Ryan Zimmerman who delivered the knockout punch.
Zimmerman belted two home runs and drove in three, helping lift the Nationals to a 9-2 victory over Miami at Marlins Park.
A night after Jose Fernandez and the Marlins combined for a two-hit shutout, a more energized Nationals squad took out their aggression on Eovaldi, who was tagged for five runs on nine hits in three innings.
"Eovaldi was up in the zone and they squared him up pretty good," Marlins manager Mike Redmond said. "It wasn't his night. That's kind of tough after a nice win last night. It would have been nice to go out there and get another nice pitching performance. It just wasn't in the cards. We got out of the game early, getting down 5-0. We couldn't really muster anything until the seventh."
Zimmerman's 12th multi-home run game of his career provided immediate support for right-hander Tanner Roark, who threw six scoreless innings.
For his career, Zimmerman now has 21 homers off the Marlins, his most against any team.
"They've got some guys in there who can do some damage, especially if you don't get the ball down in the zone," Redmond said. "They've got guys who can put it in the seats. You've got to execute. You've got to get ahead, and make pitches. Tonight, we just weren't able to do that."
The Marlins trailed by seven entering the seventh before they scored two runs off Ross Ohlendorf. Adeiny Hechavarria and Jeff Mathis each had RBI singles.
With the game out of reach in the eighth inning, Giancarlo Stanton was replaced due to a sore right foot.
Last Sunday at Atlanta, Stanton rolled his ankle while stepping on first base. He played through some discomfort for a week, but he said he experienced more pain about the second inning.
An X-ray taken after Saturday's game came back negative. The slugger is listed as day to day, but chances are he will not be available for Sunday's series finale.
"Today, it hurt, I don't know why, more than almost the first day that it happened," Stanton said. "I'm just calling it a bad day right now."
Coming off eight shutout innings against Atlanta, Eovaldi matched his shortest outing of the season.
"I just wasn't locating really any of my pitches," Eovaldi said. "My fastball command was off, and I really wasn't throwing any of my breaking pitches for strikes.
"In Atlanta, I was locating my fastball to both sides of the plate. Today, I was struggling to locate it to one side. When I needed to make my pitches, I wasn't. I was leaving them right down the middle, and they were putting good swings on them."
The hard-throwing right-hander last worked just three innings on Aug. 16 at home, when he gave up 11 runs (nine earned) on 12 hits.
"No. 1, [Eovaldi's] command isn't as good on all his breaking stuff," Nationals manager Davey Johnson said. "Fernandez's breaking stuff separates him a great deal, because he can throw his breaking stuff over at any time and attacks the hitters. Eovaldi is still learning to get his pitches over and command them. He's got a good arm and sometimes that comes a little later."
The Nationals came out aggressively against Eovaldi, grabbing a two-run lead two batters into the game.
Denard Span led off with a single, extending his career-best hitting streak to 18 games. After falling behind 1-2 in the count, Zimmerman blasted a drive to deep center. The ball bounced off the top of the wall, deflected upwards off the base of the stadium's home run sculpture, and made its way back onto the field.
Since the umpires didn't have a clear view, they didn't know the ball had actually left the ballpark. Initially ruling the ball was still in play, Zimmerman settled into second with a double. He signaled for a home run, and Johnson asked for a review.
The umpires, directed by crew chief Gary Cederstrom, exited the field to check the instant replay. Minutes later, they returned and overturned the double, giving Zimmerman a two-run homer.
"It looked like it was a home run," Redmond said. "To me, it looked like it hit the back wall. That's a long way. They checked it and got it right."
Two innings later, Zimmerman connected again, but this time it was a no-doubter. Zimmerman led off the third inning with an opposite-field homer, triggering a three-run inning.
Wilson Ramos added a two-run single in the inning, breaking open a five-run lead before the Marlins had a baserunner.
Roark was perfect through three innings before Chris Coghlan opened the fourth with a single to center.
"We had a couple of chances," Redmond said. "It looked like [Roark] was moving the ball around a little bit. It looked like he had a little late life to his fastball, and he kept us off balanced. He was pitching with a five-run lead, basically. That always helps."


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The changing entertainment marketPosted: July 24, 2012 Filed under: Digital life | Tags: Amazon, Apple, Apps, Asda, CDs, downloads, DVDs, Ebooks, Game Group, games, HMV, iTunes, Kantar Worldpanel, Kindle, Morrisons, Online retail, Play.com, Sainsbury's, Tesco 1 Comment
Retail Week, The Grocer, The Bookseller and others have all reviewed Kantar Worldpanel's latest analysis of the UK entertainment market, which focuses on the 12 weeks through to mid-June.
Despite all this coverage, there is a some vagueness as to what is and isn't included in their definition of entertainment. As far as I can tell, however, we are looking at:
– CDs (and other recorded music)
– DVDs (and other video content)
– console and PC games
– downloads
It looks as "downloads" includes ebooks, but the sector definition as a whole doesn't include pbooks.
It's unclear how broadly downloads are defined – all apps, or just those that have some kinship to traditional formats? If so, that would be a "yes" to Angry Birds, but a "no" to business apps.
It's also unclear whether all subsidiaries are properly accounted for – so, for instance, are LoveFilm downloads included in Amazon total?
Still, whatever the definition, it all makes for a good story. The changes in percentage point share are pretty predictable – Amazon up, HMV down, Game Group – with multiple store closures following administration – well down.
But I am interested in the scale of some of the gains. Of course, the overall size of the market fluctuates, but for iTunes to move from 6.0% to 8.8% represents an increase in penetration of nearly 50%. And, LoveFilm or not, Amazon's growth continues powerfully, with no reason to assume it will slow down in the foreseeable future.
Tesco's tribulations and Sainsbury's progress are both graphically illustrated here – indeed, if these numbers are a microcosm of current trading at Tesco, that would be a concern.
Meanwhile, Play.com sees its share slide, as it loses consumer visibility. Amazon isn't just taking sales from bricks and mortar retailers…
That the "Others" are growing their share suggests diversity in the market. I wonder who they might be?
Christmas trading 2011: results table – Wednesday (and final?) updatePosted: January 25, 2012 Filed under: General retail | Tags: Argos, Asda, ASOS, Barratt/Priceless, Blacks, Blue Inc, Boots, Carphone Warehouse, Christmas 2011, Clinton's, Comet, Cooperative Group, Currys/PCWorld, D2, Debenhams, Dixons, Dunelm, Findel, Game Group, Garden Centre Group, Greene King, Greggs, Halfords, Hawkins Bazaar, High streets, HMV, Homebase, House of Fraser, JD Sports, JD Wetherspoon, JJB Sports, John Lewis, Kesa, La Senza, Lush, Majestic, Maplin, Matalan, McArthurGlen, Morrisons, Mothercare, New Look, Next, Ocado, Online retail, Original Factory Shop, Oxfam, Past Times, Pets at Home, Primark, QD Stores, Retail parks, Shop Direct, Shopping centres, Signet, Slurp, Superdrug, Ted Baker, Tesco, The Entertainer, The Perfume Shop, Theo Fennell, Thornton's, Topps Tiles, Waitrose, WH Smith Comments Off on Christmas trading 2011: results table – Wednesday (and final?) update
25th January 2012
WH Smith traditionally brings the Christmas results season to a close, and here they are, down 6% in the high streets and 3% at their Travel division. Although this was accompanied by the usual statements about the entertainment categories (CD, DVD, now an infinitesimal part of Smith's mix), and "resilience", "challenge" and "cost controls" all made their usual appearances, there was little indicating retail progress. Strong categories? Kobo and online? Former British Bookshops stores? You can manage a business for cash for so long (and it's been so long that it's remarkable), but at some point you have to sell more product, to more customers, more often. That's what we want to hear from WHS, and it's what's missing again.
19th January 2012
I've been on the road for the past couple of days, and quite a few gaps in the table have been filled during that time. Strong sales from Primark and Matalan indicate that there's still a desire for value when it's done well. Of course, you might say the same about Peacocks, which by all accounts remained operationally profitable, but has been crippled by debt and forced into administration, threatening the biggest one-off loss of retail jobs since Woolworths in 2008.
The Centre for Retail Research in Nottingham has published a sobering schedule, detailing retail failures from 2010-2012. They state that, over the five years 2007-2011, 173 retail businesses folded, comprising a breathtaking 18,342 stores, and over 150,000 jobs. Questions please to the CRR –here's the link.
Back to Christmas 2011, and at the other end of the fashion scale, Burberry and Mulberry have announced excellent growth, but it's been unclear whether the numbers have referred specifically to UK retail, so I've omitted them.
No such qualms with not-retailers-at-all Greene King and JD Wetherspoon. Looks as though we still have money to spend on a night at the pub! And animals had a good Christmas, even if their owners cut back, with Pets at Home up 4.9%.
I posted a like-for-like book sales for Oxfam last week, and this has been followed by a flurry of other figures, reported in the Guardian.
Biggest news from the mid-week period has been from the electricals retailers, with Dixons (Currys/PCWorld) hailing -7.0% as a relative success, and Comet's -14.5% a reflection of the grim condition of a business struggling through a sale process, and pretty much disowned by Kesa.
However, I think there are good things to be said about Dixons, but they need a separate blog – watch this space…
16th January 2012
Just three additions today – Boots and The Perfume Shop, both looking good; and the McArthurGlen outlet centres, which appear to have had an exceptional season. It's worth bearing in mind that Christmas historically has peaked early at outlet "villages" like Swindon and Cheshire Oaks – outlet customers search out the best bargains early, and then complete their shopping in traditional malls and high streets – from memory, the final weekend in November was typically the best in the run-up to Christmas.
Who are we still waiting for? Of those who made Christmas trading announcements last year: Electricals – Currys/PCWorld and Comet; books/media – WH Smith and Waterstones (though the latter is now privately owned, so is under no shareholder pressure to announce); fashion: Primark, Matalan; DIY: B&Q (though Christmas is hardly a prime season for them, it'd be good to benchmark their performance against Homebase and GCG).
Who would we like to hear from? Big, successful private businesses like Arcadia and River Island; PE-owned growers like Pets at Home and Hobbycraft; discount grocers like Aldi and Lidl, and bargain retailers like Poundland; niche successes like Jack Wills and Cath Kidston; mega-brands like Selfridges… It's a long list, and any analysis of published numbers is inevitably just a snapshot of a sector which is far less plc-dominated than in the past.
13th January 2012
A quick final update before the weekend is upon us. Has Tesco had enough press coverage? As Twitter noted last night during News at Ten, you'd think they'd called in the administrators… Still, Philip Clarke has been very candid about the challenges Tesco faces, and has been reminded (as The Times editorial today emphasises) that no company stays at the top forever. I'm thinking hard about Tesco Extras, and a separate blog might follow…
Nils Pratley on The Trouble at Tesco
Harry Wallop on Is This the End of Tesco Dominance? (QTWTAIN)
Meanwhile… Good numbers from Original Factory Shop, The Entertainer and Superdrug, but another tough season for Theo Fennell. Nul points to Asda and Ted Baker for announcing total growth for Christmas, but not like-for-likes. Of course, I appreciate they don't have to announce anything at all, but if I had shares in Wal-Mart, I'd want to know what was what.
12th January 2012
After a positive start to the week, things have turned ugly with poor results from Tesco spooking the markets, and throwing fresh doubt over the sector.
As you can see from the table above, Tesco has performed significantly worse than other supermarkets (and M&S food, which has been broken out separately in reporting, and which saw a like-for-like increase of 3%).
House of Fraser has posted some remarkably good numbers, but it isn't clear whether they're inc or ex-VAT. For the record, I'm a committed ex-VAT person – including a variable rate of tax in your sales is no way to accurately reflect like-for-like shopper behaviour.
(At Borders, 75%-80% of our sales were VAT-free – books, newspapers and magazines – and the remainder was VATted – stationery, CDs, DVDs, toys etc. We also paid a "special rate" of VAT, where eg a CD-ROM was attached to a book on computing or language learning, which reflected the fact that part of the whole product was zero-rated. I'd like to think that the HMRC officers required to create and police these rules, and audit the proceeds, cost rather more than the total tax take.)
Anyway, back to Christmas 2011, and as expected, times were tough at the likes of Halfords, Thorntons and Mothercare. Argos had a particularly grim set of results – for how long will 750 stores be sustainable?
Some more variances to reporting periods, highlighted in green. These were the reporting periods twelve months ago:
- Tesco LY: 6 weeks to 8th January
- JD Sports: 5 weeks to 1st January
- New Look: 15 weeks to 8th January
- House of Fraser: 5 weeks to 8th January
FTSE 100 retailers are now shown in bold.
10th January 2012
Plenty of results added to today's table, including a couple of outriders that you may not have seen reported elsewhere!
Game takes over at the unhappy end of the chart; their LY numbers are highlighted because of a change in reporting period – for 2010, they reported five weeks to 8th January, this time around, an additional three weeks pre-Christmas were included. The Co-op also made a change – the prior year numbers relate to a 13 week period, October – December.
There's some inc-VAT (Debenhams) and ex-VAT (Majestic) differentiation, which given the rate jump from 17.5% to 20% has a bearing on different companies' numbers. And of course, these are just sales – not profits. The rumbling undercurrent – "of course, their margins will have taken a hit" – accompanies many of these announcements.
Nevertheless, it's great to see many more pluses than minuses on the schedule – long may it continue…
9th January 2012
And they're off.
It looks as though this year, every media source and his dog is going to be publishing regular updates on Christmas trading, so I'll keep this brief, and update it as required.
I've included last year's numbers, where I have them – and as this is a busy office, I haven't dug out LYs where I previously didn't have them – I'll try and infill if Edwin Drood becomes unwatchable.
Worth noting that, where comparisons exist, the order of companies is exactly the same as last year. (The reporting periods are all similar, so these are good comparisons.)
It's worth remembering that bad results always take longer to calculate than good ones…
And for the many hundreds of you who enjoyed my "8o towns" blog from last week, I've shown store numbers. Counting stores is always an inexact art, but most of the chains are on multiples of eighty. Some will stay that way – supermarkets, Next. But there's restructuring in the air.
Just to keep us all honest, this article from the Telegraph highlights some of the more imaginative ways that Christmas performance can be characterised.
And, lest we forget, the following chains probably won't be providing Christmas trading updates:
Barratts Priceless, Blacks, D2 Jeans, Hawkins Bazaar/Tobar, La Senza, and Past Times. Ask not for whom the bell tolls, but let's hope stores can be rescued, and jobs maintained.


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What a night, what a night! While we didn't see the fireworks of say, a QB drafted by San Diego saying he'd only play for the Giants, but we had some interesting reaches, some surprising fallers, and one very happy/newly re-acquainted Hornets fan!
The crew and I had a blast tweeting through the draft, so I have a few other thoughts sprinkled in the first round recap below. It didn't go quite (read: at all) like Slim and I's mock draft, but here's how the draft went down, with a fantasy outlook for these rookies for the 2014-15 Fantasy Basketball Season:Please, blog, may I have some more?


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We had two parties to go to this weekend. The first was a birthday party for friends' son. He wanted spiderman so I found 2 recipes that were spider themed! The first one was Saucy Spider with Hairy Leg Sticks. Mine was a little on the fat side … yeah no comments we won't go there but I think he was still cute! I did make my own pizza dough.
Next on the spider theme was Spider "Eggs", I started first with EatingWell Deviled Eggs and then cut black olives to look like spiders.
And for a superbowl party I found this yummy Jalapeno Popper Dip that was so yummy I could probably eat it all .
I hope you found a recipe you may like to try. I didn't have time to make up the fun little recipe cards (if any one has an easy way to add to blogger let me know). FOR you who want to answer … lol no one on spot … What is for dinner tonight?


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LIVE REVIEW: Kodaline w/ Gavin James, New York, NY
There's nothing to clear up the sinuses quite like a room packed with 3,000 swooning girls and 150 minutes of guitar-driven torch ballads. Just four years old, Kodaline is already at the peak of its game– putting on a tightly-wound, 16-song set list for all the feisty ladies of Manhattan. The indie-rock Irish quartet has been on the road for the better part of three years now to support their critically acclaimed debut, In A Perfect World, and follow-up album, Coming Up for Air, where they blended emotionally charged and radio-friendly anthems with Euro electronic synths (a…Read More


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ATLANTA (AP) — The Atlanta Hawks suspended top-scorer Josh Smith for Wednesday night's home game against the Brooklyn Nets for "conduct detrimental to the team."
The one-game suspension, which comes with an undisclosed fine, was announced Wednesday by Hawks general manager Danny Ferry. The Hawks did not reveal the conduct that led to the suspension.
Smith was called for a technical foul in Monday night's 97-58 loss at Chicago. Only a late basket by Jeff Teague saved the Hawks from setting their lowest scoring total in franchise history.
The Hawks have lost six of seven.
"Clearly I am competitive and was frustrated by our recent losses," Smith said in a statement released by the team. "I understand and respect the team's actions and just want to get back on the court to do whatever is necessary to help my teammates. I apologize for letting them down and apologize to our fans for not being available for tonight's game."
The 27-year-old Smith leads the team with 16.5 points and 2.3 blocked shots per game. He also is averaging 8.3 rebounds and 3.7 assists.
Smith, an Atlanta native and nine-year veteran, set career highs with his averages of 18.8 points and 9.6 rebounds last season.
Ferry said he expects a positive response to the suspension from Smith.
"Josh and I discussed the issue and he understood and accepted this course of action," Ferry said. "We are confident that he will respond positively, learn from this experience and come back with a renewed sense of purpose to the team moving forward."
Smith can be a free agent after the season, and his future with the team is a key for the Hawks. Ferry could decide to trade the 6-foot-9 forward, especially if the Hawks keep falling in the Eastern Conference standings.
Ferry traded guard Joe Johnson and forward Marvin Williams before the season.
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The title of this article is conjectural. Although it is based on canonical information, the actual name is a conjecture and may be supplanted at any time by additional information released from canonical sources. If this occurs, please move this page to the appropriate title.
- "We're off to the village, there's a very pretty girl working in the paper shop who thinks my card tricks are something marvellous...almost like real magic..."
- —George Weasley in 1996[src]
A very pretty Muggle girl worked as a shopgirl at a paper shop in Ottery St Catchpole.[1]
During the Christmas holidays of 1996, she was visited by Fred and George Weasley; the latter showed her card tricks that she found extremely impressive, unaware that George was using real magic.[1]
The Weasley twins mentioned her to Harry Potter and their younger brother Ron when they announced that they were leaving the Burrow for the village, and refused to assist Harry and Ron in peeling sprouts. This was partly because Ron had thrown a knife at Fred, who taunted him about his romance with Lavender Brown, suggesting that she must have suffered "extensive brain damage" to be dating him.[1]
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A MAN who allegedly told a 13-year-old girl to "wear something sexy" before they met has been convicted of meeting a child following sexual grooming.
Luke Southam, of Cornish Road in Chipping Norton, was found guilty by a jury at Oxford Crown Court yesterday after just one hour and 19 minutes.
The 21-year-old denied meeting the girl – who cannot be named for legal reasons – following sexual grooming on March 11 last year, during which it is alleged he kissed her on the lips.
But the jury found him guilty following a three-day trial and the case has now been adjourned for a pre-sentence report to be prepared by the probation service.
Judge Tom Corrie told the defendant that probation would consider "all options" including custody, ahead of his sentencing hearing on March 28.


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Fifteen seconds later, you receive a reply that reads: "OK."
It's hard to squeeze much satisfaction out of that two-letter response. Would a "nice job!" or "great to hear!" have been too much to ask?
While there's a reasonable chance the boss' terse response was a side effect of a busy schedule, unbalanced email exchanges like this may also reflect our more deeply rooted sense of positioning in the workplace power structure. Whether we're communicating face to face or through the winding tubes of the Interwebs, we remain creatures evolved from apes, and our behavior can still mirror that of primates.
Dario Maestripieri, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Chicago and author of the book "Games Primates Play," writes: "Although our high-tech way of communicating might seem to preclude a strong influence of our evolutionary past on the way we act, the rules regulating primate relationships resurface even when we sit down at our keyboards to catch up with friends or reply to work memos."
(Insert your own "I always thought my co-workers were a bunch of chimps" joke here.)
I spoke with Maestripieri, and he said email exchanges remind him of the way primates communicate, particularly with regard to the role of dominance in a relationship.
The long, thoughtful email a worker sends to his boss is akin to a lower-status chimp starting to groom a more dominant one. The low-status chimp will spend a long time cleaning the boss chimp, hoping the dominant creature will return the favor.
But, Maestripieri said, "Usually the dominant one waits around a bit, and then maybe grooms the subordinate for a short period of time and then stops."
Thus the boss' short reply to a worker's detailed note.
"You can tell whether there's a difference in status from who starts the conversation, from how quickly the reply occurs," Maestripieri said. "Even though we use emails, it's about how long our messages are, whether we start a conversation unsolicited. That all reflects dominance. It's not random."
These apelike tendencies are certainly not restricted to the email arena.
Consider this reader's problem: "I hate it when people sit on my desk. I find it disrespectable and, because I eat lunch at my desk, gross. I tell them not to; they forget. I get out the Formula 409; they ignore it. I've covered most of my desk with a gigantic calendar, but the chronic desk sitters just push it out of the way or sit on it. Suggestions?"
You could try saying, "Hey, you know how Sir Mix-A-Lot liked big butts? I don't, so get yours off my desk." (That's some alpha-monkey talk right there.)
I also would be inclined to encourage the use of thumbtacks, but as a workplace-advice columnist I've taken an oath of nonviolence.
What's really at issue here is an invasion of personal space, something many office workers can relate to, whether it's a desk sitter or a loud phone talker or someone who reaches over and grabs a potato chip off your plate without asking.
These may simply be poorly mannered people, or it may be that subconscious assertion of dominance.
I spoke with Pattie Hanmer, a personal space expert based in Washington who counsels people about the home and work areas they inhabit.
"Anybody standing over you, talking or giving instructions, that person's own power position is multiplied," Hanmer said. "It's certainly not being very respectful. And it's also possible that the person behind the desk doesn't have a great sense of respect for themselves in their own personal space, so it's very easy to encroach on them."
The good news is you can learn to assert some dominance.
Hanmer said it's not good enough to tell someone not to improperly invade your space.
"You have to give them a reason. You can't just say, 'Don't sit on my desk.' You need to say something like, 'Please don't sit on my desk because it really upsets me, and if I'm upset, I'm not able to get my work done.' Say why it doesn't work, what you'd like them to do about it, and what the consequences are. Then you're making it very clear."
Hanmer said a client is dealing with a similar problem. Co-workers keep popping into her cubicle, asking questions, chatting and being generally disruptive.
Hanmer's advice was to tell each problem person individually: "This doesn't work. If you have questions, I need you to come into this space only during certain hours."
"So she has given them some restrictions," Hanmer said. "She also changed the position of her desk so she can make direct eye contact with anyone coming in. Now she can see them straight away and give some body language that says, 'Not now. Not appropriate.'"
Most of us need a space of our own, whether it's at home or at work. It provides a bit of comfort and security amid all the nuttiness we face.
"The more comfortable you can feel in your own environment, the more productive and happy you're going to be," Hanmer said. "It can either excite you or deplete you."
So don't let the big-butted apes get away with making you uncomfortable in your own workspace. Stand up and beat your chest a little.
And if that doesn't work, there are always thumbtacks. I think deep down most apes would approve.
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Archbishop Lori: Labeling Knights of Columbus Partisan Is an Injustice
At bishops' meeting, head of religious-freedom committee responds to a reporter's question about funding.
ATLANTA -- Archbishop William Lori of Baltimore argued that it is an "injustice" to imply that the Knights of Columbus' support for defending religious freedom creates a sense of partisanship.
At a June 13 press conference at the U.S. bishops' spring general meeting in Atlanta, the archbishop was questioned by Jerry Filteau of the National Catholic Reporter about funding for the bishops' campaign to defend religious liberty.
Filteau said that he had heard "rumors" that much of the funding for the bishops' effort is coming from the Knights of Columbus, whose head, Carl Anderson, is a former Reagan administration official.
He suggested that there may be "a partisanship aspect to the whole thing."
"Oh my goodness, Jerry," Archbishop Lori responded.
"Think of what the Knights of Columbus does for the Catholic Church and for many other humanitarian causes," he said. "To try to say that is in some way partisan is, in my opinion, sort of an injustice."
"It seems to me the Knights have been very generous to a whole variety of causes," the archbishop observed.
He acknowledged that the organization has contributed to the bishops' religious-freedom efforts, but added that "other groups have as well," including Our Sunday Visitor, the Order of Malta and many others.
"So it is not just one group," he said. "It is not in any way partisan, either in its spirit or in its funding."
Archbishop Lori added that "the generosity that we've experienced has been heartening."
Recent months have united Catholics from across the country in efforts to defend religious liberty from numerous threats, including a federal mandate that will require employers to offer health insurance that covers contraception, sterilization and abortion-inducing drugs.
The mandate has drawn widespread criticism for violating religious liberty. The bishops have worked with individuals and groups of various faiths to speak out against the regulation and ask the Obama administration to respect the rights of those with religious objections.
Among the bishops' efforts to protect religious liberty is the upcoming "Fortnight for Freedom" event in which Catholics and other believers are invited to engage in prayer, education and advocacy for a restoration of respect for fundamental religious rights.
"The question that we're addressing is a question of religious liberty," said Bishop John Wester of Salt Lake City. "It's not a question of birth control."
"And the only reason we're addressing it now is because it came up now," he added in response to questions about it being an election year.
He explained to the media that the bishops did not choose to raise the subject now, but, rather, the Obama administration did by issuing the mandate.
The bishops are "simply responding" to a single, "very focused point, and that is that the government cannot define religion for us," he said. "It's not about us mandating birth control or anything like that."
Bishop Wester acknowledged that the topic "is certainly political," but added that "that's not something that we intend it to be."
Instead, he said, the bishops and other Catholics are "very grateful" for the religious liberty they enjoy in America, and they realize the "need to be vigilant" and to "address these issues as they come up" in order to prevent "a slippery slope."
Bishop Stephen Blaire of Stockton, Calif., chairman of the bishops' Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, also commented on the question of partisan intent.
"We are trying to speak about principles, but principles do have traction," he said.
Whether the topic is religious freedom or the economy, the bishops must address issues as they arise and cannot wait for "a perfect, non-political time," he said.
Bishop Blaire observed that "it is always a challenge to bring the Gospel into the real world" so that it connects with people's "everyday experiences as individuals, as a society, as a government."
However, it is the job of the bishops to "try to bring Catholic social teaching to bear on the real world," he stated.
Unfortunately, when the bishops do this, Bishop Blaire said it often happens that some people create "an interpretation that maybe is not intended."


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