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What to Expect from EBay's Earnings
EBay's shares have been on a tear over the last year. Will this quarter's earnings continue to please investors? Spencer Jakab discusses on digits. Photo: Ebay.
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... I ... back to Digits ... Dateline Simon Constable what is in store for the day's earnings ... report after the Dow stocks up on that one percent now ... to get a sneak peek week Spencer Jacob he is the head of the Tape columnist here the Wall Street John and thank you for coming on the show that didn't ... come ... the bank ... Macquarie quite a company of the company will commence but ... in a lot of people this time last year wondrous made the day they ... did really did seize the growth potential with all that was ... somewhat kept out they've discovered this guy which was a bit of a black eye even though they made money on it ... they didn't see how much more growth was in the air in there they're core auction business and that they're looking foolish now the stock is up seventy three percent ... over the past year down there has been best shot and is actually a phenomenon in its bid them and no real pullbacks disliked than often Omani people that you did very well ... you would ... be out ... of the seats on some immobile this can be on time because of the future of the veteran ... they think Somme the bets is likely to be you know you think of it and it was one of the day early ... e-commerce pointed ears and what they got into was options with summer scalable business ... and you still think who does that mean you don't think you so go there and and be gone ... surrounded by the monks know as are out there weeding for the boss or something now don't lie you did on off hours ... this enraged on to my house ... you know that the thing is that there ... it's it's ... just as much ... care is just much potential for them ... as as everyone else as it does for Amazon as it goes for anyone else involved in e-commerce and that's that without making a big push ... and ... because this especially the nature of their business where you have these these options we are regularly notified you don't someone on on the go ... um ... having that that mobile connection having a good mobile platform is is particularly important for them ... now when when the county to report earnings and investors like to nominees to the earnings they also like to see the mention of what's found that business in heaven mansion second what you will be looking for ... aam and that discussion ... well the really getting their fingers that there are fewer e-commerce player ... for example of a little over a year ago the governor the final chunk ... of stock ... and at the same time the ball ... on a company that specializes in helping other companies' other very large companies that you've heard of ... manage their back office operations ... but ... another more portly that they have their fingers in e-commerce is through payments through PayPal ... and through the financing of payments to me later ... and that that is that they're actually becoming a of the small of consumer finance company on the side is a very lucrative business for them and they do have charge offs there are people who don't pay that there's fraud and isn't that but it's ... you know that when it comes out on the wash to making ... quite a bit of money and that and just one piece of this just on the PC does matter back to look at the of the marketplace business which includes auctions ... and ... the ... wine business of buying a bike down things that they that they sell all of you ... that was probably two thirds of the business back in two thousand and nine ... by next year should be less than half ... so that the payments businesses ... and the e-commerce consulting businesses are growing a lot ... a lot more quickly ... one thing I have medicine ninety days is still on EPU the full size I mean it you go on and you can find stuff buddy's mom I'm it's not all that the UT of songs I sometimes think oh one uses it was just lovely ... Keith endeavoring an upgrade resigned to become reason we like the Craigslist only to buy Texas I was I was that I this is the key is drawn to the bayonets like that everyday so that they they keep their were to look it looks like I mean I look at the Bay sometimes I think um like come on and fifty six K dial up modem looking at it back in ... nineteen ninety seven it looks not very different thing to read awesome man is my quest item and that's just the spot or fail the guy that is what underlies the site is is a lot more complex obviously than ... the met ... coal which else they only show at the time the afternoon show which I'll Ripoll the zoning thank you Brian much I did check up ... at a tackle with him at the ... will Street gentle the guys on in the paper regulate


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Opinion:Should GOP Filibuster Obama?
Editorial page editor Paul Gigot on whether Republican senators should put holds or filibuster President Obama's nominees. Photo: Getty Images
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... I'll think we should allow threatened ... to go forth for the C I a director she up ... a goal to be confirmed to sector defense until the White House ... gives us an accounting get depressed than ever pick up the phone ... and call anyone in the Libyan government help these folks what did the president did and what do you plan to do that they don't give you an answer you gotta put a hold on the spot on MNA yes yes ... yes um inasmuch colleagues just like the day with John Bolton ... 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DES MOINES, Iowa – Recent MIT graduate, Jacqui Wentz, took part in the USA Outdoor Track & Field Championships over the weekend, as she was entered in the Women's 3000m Steeplechase. The meet, which was held at Drake University, featured some of the top competitors in the country, including former Olympians, Division I athletes and World Champions. Wentz fared extremely well, qualifying for the event final and ultimately finishing 8th overall in the Steeplechase.
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Floating point numbers
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1 Question
Why do floating point numbers behave so strange? Why is
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This has nothing to do with Haskell, but exclusively with the underlying implementation of floating point numbers in your system.
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mooncake623 wrote:I guess you're right but that's only saying that these guys aren't that smart... seriously How smart is it to buy this thing to resell? you're not getting much out of it if you're doing the math. there's so many alternatives "retail, Takara, HK exclusive"
Well, based on the ones with "Buy it Now" options, they are hoping to at least double their money. And I'm sure there are enough people who aren't as knowledgeable bout the import market who will happily pay those outrageous prices.
So a sad combination of stupidity and greed basically means less SDCC Metroplexes for reasonable prices.
mooncake623 wrote:you shoudl buy from BBTS its cheaper.
He's also the same price at TFSource. And I already had a bunch of stuff in my order stack there, so I just added a Metroplex preorder to the pile.


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In the late 90's I worked with Ed Olkkola, Venu Shamapant and Blaine Wesner. I really liked working with Ed specifically. AV provided a term sheet to fund our Series A, but the signature line included an addition to my title that I wasn't so excited about: "Interim" CEO
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A Meadowcroft Dyeworks handpainted sock yarn in sunny yellows, marigold and mustard, flame orange, cinnabar, and richly textured toasty browns. A true sock yarn, this high-twist four-ply gains durability from its 25% nylon content without compromising the luxurious softness of its superwash merino base.
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NEW YORK — Halliburton's net income spiked 50 percent in the final three months of 2011 as the world's biggest oilfield services company shifted its focus from natural gas to oil, with a barrel of crude again trading near the triple digit mark yet again.
Energy companies are capitalizing on new technology to reach crude that was once prohibitively expensive to pump, especially in the United States, and Halliburton has benefited immensely.
The Houston company posted earnings of $906 million, or 98 cents per share, for the fourth quarter. That compares with $605 million, or 66 cents per share, for the same part of 2010.
Excluding a $15 million charge for an "environmental-related matter," Halliburton Co. earned $1 per share in the quarter. Revenue increased 36.9 percent to $7.06 billion.
The boom in shale drilling across regions of North America boosted Halliburton's 2011 earnings to
$2.84 billion, or $3.08 per share, compared with $1.84 billion, or $2.02 per share, in 2010. Annual revenue increased 38.1 percent to $24.8 billion.
Hydraulic fracturing, still a relatively new technology, has allowed energy companies to get to oil in fields that had been left behind with most of the remaining resources trapped in rock. Halliburton and others use a mix of highly pressurized water and chemicals to break apart those shale formations and free the resources contained within.
That has reshaped the industry enormously in recent years and those changes continued Monday with the announcement that oil and gas producer Apache Corp. would buy privately held Cordillera Energy Partners III LLC in a deal valued at $2.85 billion. Apache wanted access to Cordillera's approximately 254,000 net acres in the Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle, areas rich with potential for shale drilling.
Those companies need Halliburton to service wells, increasingly oil wells rather than natural gas.
"In 2012, we expect revenue growth in excess of rig count growth in both the Eastern and Western Hemispheres," said CEO Dave Lesar. "We are proactively moving equipment from dry natural gas to liquids plays in North America in response to recent rig moves. We believe strongly that we will not experience a collapse of margins in North America and, as a result, we expect revenue and operating income will increase in 2012 in North America."
Oil prices increased more than 10 percent in the fourth quarter while natural gas prices dropped by 13 percent.
Halliburton also saw an increase in drilling in Gulf of Mexico during the fourth quarter. Operating income also grew in Latin America, while falling in Europe and North Africa and holding steady in the Middle East.
Overall, the company's completion and production business increased profits 58 percent while its drilling and evaluation business increased profits by 35.6 percent.
Schlumberger Ltd., another major oil services firm, reported a 36 percent jump in fourth-quarter profits last week.
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Andrew Stewart set out to make a documentary about Gaspee Days, but he ended up creating a film he hopes will open people's eyes to Colonial Rhode Island's involvement in the slave trade.
The 27-year-old Rhode Island College (RIC) graduate has made a documentary entitled "Aaron Briggs and the H.M.S. Gaspee," a film that tells the story of a young slave forced to take part in the Gaspee Incident by John Brown and his master Captain Samuel Tompkins. The 22-minute documentary claims the burning of the Gaspee was not a blow for freedom but "a blow to white slaver freedom."
Stewart certainly did not set out to uncover what he calls the darker side of a celebrated historical event. In fact, the idea for the documentary came from where all great ideas come, Stewart's mother. Living near the end of the parade route on Anderson Street, the story of the Gaspee is literally at his doorstep and his mother suggested the parade be the subject of his first post-graduation film.
"It's right at the end of the driveway," said Stewart, recalling watching the parade every year growing up.
So after he graduated from RIC with a film studies degree in 2009, Stewart began researching Gaspee Days to put together his first independent documentary film with the help of his friend Cait Armitage, who served as cinematographer.
While researching, he crossed paths with RIC Anthropology Professor Richard Lobban, a fellow Pawtuxet Village resident. The two began to talk about Stewart's project when Lobban brought up the fact that John Brown, who is credited with organizing the Gaspee incident, was a trader of rum and slaves.
According to a RIC press release about the documentary, Lobban believes the Gaspee incident was not motivated by patriotic freedom, but commercial freedom.
"The issue of the day was taxation without representation, which meant taxation of the slave trade and rum business," said Lobban.
Lobban and his wife Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban, another anthropology professor at RIC, have studied John Brown, the slave trade and the relationship to Briggs and the Gaspee burning.
In the film, Lobban says, "We always wanted this story to be told; not just the truth, but all parts of the truth."
According to the film, Briggs was enslaved by Tompkins and pressed into service on the night of June 9, 1772. The film also says Briggs is rumored to have either shot Gaspee's Captain William Dudingston himself, or handed the rifle to whoever did.
The Lobbans claim that Briggs bore witness against the conspirators in an attempt to earn his freedom; had his masters been convicted of treason, he would have been freed.
City Historian Henry Brown has knowledge of Briggs but says his involvement is slightly different from the Lobbans' story. Brown says Briggs was a slave who lived on Prudence Island and was simply picked up by the group from Bristol who participated in the events that night.
"He did testify, but it was overruled and not put on record," said Brown, regarding Briggs' involvement in the January 1773 trial in Newport.
Brown also says it was 16-year-old Ephraim Bowen who fired the rifle, not Briggs.
Col. Ron Barnes of the Pawtuxet Rangers has viewed the documentary and said it was interesting, but he would want more proof of Briggs' involvement.
"I would think, if he was a slave, he wouldn't have had any credibility [at that time]," said Barnes.
Brown says had Briggs' testimony been used, it would have likely been damaging to the Gaspee raiders.
"We are very proud of the fact that [the Gaspee burning] happened here, before the Boston Tea Party. It was actually a much more militant act," says Fluehr-Lobban in the documentary. "But the person of African descent who was enslaved is really on the horns of a dilemma of being faithful to his master but also wanting freedom."
Fluehr-Lobban says Briggs' story is very compelling and should be told. In the documentary, she says she wonders each year if a teenager of African descent will portray Briggs in the parade.
Stewart says as anthropologists and not historians, the Lobbans provide a "deeper but much darker outlook" on the celebrated incident.
"It's something completely foreign to people," said Stewart about the idea of a slave trade existing in Rhode Island.
While he admits slave trade and the cruel treatment of people of African descent is often a difficult topic to "throw in people's faces," Stewart believes these stories need to be included not just in the parade celebration but in school curriculums.
Stewart knows that his education about Gaspee began in Warwick schools. He attended St. Peter's Catholic School, Wyman Elementary, Aldrich Junior High and eventually Bishop Hendricken High School. But he explains that the books he read in school about the Gaspee were different from the books he has read as an adult. He now has learned the darker side of history, and believes children should be taught that from the beginning.
"There is a healthy place for anger to say we need to fix this because we risk repeating history," said Stewart, adding that he feels a moral obligation to tell this side of the story in his documentary.
Stewart is adamant, however, that he is not attacking the Gaspee Days celebration or the committee that puts on the event.
"I know it's a carnival. I know it's a party," he said, adding that he believes the story should be told with pride for Rhode Island's role in the fight for independence. However, he believes there is a "covering up" regarding the treatment of this young slave during the celebration.
It took Stewart three years to complete the documentary, which also features Ray Rickman, a Providence-based rare book collector with insight in the Brown family's slave trade business. The young filmmaker, who was inspired to get into filmmaking during his Hendricken Senior Experience internship with the Rhode Island International Film Festival, had a showing of his documentary at O'Rourke's Pub in Pawtuxet Village earlier this summer. There was an audience of about 40 people, and Stewart says the reaction from those who view the film, including members of the Gaspee Days Committee, has been very positive.
Stewart's hope is that his documentary, which features archived footage of 1940s news reels, images from the Lobbans' research and footage from "Birth of A Nation," can be used in schools to introduce young students to slavery in Rhode Island.
"I think it's very possible for school-aged children to understand," says Stewart. "There is enough of a skeleton in Warwick's curriculum to stick it right in."
Stewart feels this material can be taught to students at the same point as Mark Twain's "Huckleberry Finn" and the Civil War, which covers similar material. Stewart believes students at the junior high and high school levels would be able to understand.
Brown agrees with Stewart on this.
"They should be taught the whole picture," said Brown, including the fact that in colonial times, slavery wasn't seen as it is today. "It was a business; it wasn't considered evil."
Barnes also sees Stewart's documentary as an overall positive thing.
"I think it's great," said Barnes. "Anything that shows another viewpoint and sheds more light is great."
Stewart's documentary and additional educational resources he used to make the film can be found on his HASC Films website, http://tinyurl.com/HASCBriggsWeb.


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Editor's note: The following Johnson City Press story is the fifth in a series of six daily features profiling the 2013 ETSU Athletics Hall of Fame class, leading up to the induction ceremony Sunday at the Millennium Center in Johnson City. The event will begin at 5:30 p.m., and tickets may be purchased by calling 423-439-4343 . ETSUBucs.com is providing an excerpt from each day's story courtesy of the Johnson City Press.
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Keith "Mister" Jennings will officially become a Hall of Famer at East Tennessee State this weekend, but he's been a legendary figure in these parts for as long as many can remember.
The little point guard from Culpeper, Va., was certainly one of the most popular athletes in ETSU history when he walked off the basketball court here for the last time in 1991. His stature has only grown in the two decades since.
Now 44, Jennings will be inducted into the Athletics Hall of Fame with five others in ceremonies Sunday night at the Millennium Center.
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Sweetwater faced Snyder in three separate District 5 Little League all-star tournament games on Thursday and managed just one win.The 9-10 year-old all-stars were the lone winner as they beat Snyder, 11-5, to stay alive in the tournament. They will play Clyde in Clyde at 8 p.m. today. If Sweetwater wins, the team will play either Cisco or Abilene Dixie on Saturday.The 11-12 year-old all-stars lost to Snyder 13-3 to end their all-star tournament run, while the 13-14 year-olds lost for the first time, 10-9, against Snyder. Sweetwater is now facing a losers bracket game against Abilene South Blue that will be played at Wylie's field at 7 p.m. today. If Sweetwater wins, it will play Abilene North Gold or Abilene North Black on Saturday.


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UTC alumnus Bradley McKeown had no idea a surprise was waiting in his campus mailbox at the University of Virginia where he's studying for a doctorate in Chemistry. He received a letter informing him he had won The International Precious Metals Institute's (IPMI) Bright Futures Award.
By Megan Davis, University Relations Intern Dr. Will Sutton, Dean of College of Engineering and Computer Science, challenged student organizations in the College of Engineering and Computer Science to engage in community service projects that directly impact citizens in Chattanooga. The student chapter of American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) responded and volunteered for Habitat for Humanity.
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Opponent Watch: Week 7
About Last Weekend:
Illinois 0, Michigan 45
Michigan State (4-3 overall, 1-2 B1G)
Last game: Iowa 19, Michigan State 16 2OT (L)
Recap: That this game went into double overtime should have been an NCAA violation. If not the NCAA, then at least the FCC, because gratuitous ugliness is just as indecent as sex and four-letter words.
Ace has the breakdown in his weekly FFFF. If you haven't read it yet, here's a visual summary:
Sometimes humor is controversial. Thankfully, dinosaurs are not.
The highlight of the game was the botched call at the end of the first half where half the team is running off the field, then running back on, then the offensive line shuffles (because that's helpful), and then a guy who isn't even the quarterback attempts to spike the ball as time expires.
The best part of the sequence is that Iowa's defense is all like, LOL, and celebrates like they're not down 10-3 with 20 yards of total offense or anything.
Your Quarterback Throws Like Denard*: Andrew Maxwell -- 12/31, 179 yards, 5.8 ypa, 1 INT.
BONUS Your Quarterback Throws Worse Than The Quarterback Who Throws Like Denard: James Vandenberg -- 19/36, 134 yards, 3.7 ypa, 1 INT.
This team is as frightening as: A large rock.
Fear level = 5.
Michigan should worry about: Right now, with Michigan State's playcalling as imaginative as a law school textbook and with how well Michigan is playing on defense, it's hard to see the Spartans moving the ball much at all. Although Le'Veon Bell will probably convert a couple short third downs here and there and Maxwell will maybe complete a bomb or two to Keith Mumphery or Aaron Burbridge, the maddening 80-yard, 13-play drives probably won't happen.
The Wolverines defense has been so good despite not having super duper talent is partially due to their preparation. Like any smart coordinator, Greg Mattison coaches to tendencies. The problem with rivalry games is teams often break tendency (see 2011 Ohio State), especially if what they've been doing previously hasn't been working (see 2011 Ohio State).
I wouldn't be shocked if Michigan State comes out pretending to be Northwestern. If they're smart about it, they should.
Michigan can sleep soundly about: Northwestern scored 21 points against Minnesota by pretending to be Michigan State.
When they play Michigan: If I were Michigan State, this is what I would do (on offense, because defensively they'll be just fine):
- Stop sucking.
- Use a lot of four-wide, one-back sets and throw screens and quick passes. Pass on first down when Michigan is keying on the run. If anything, this mitigates Michigan State's offensive line problems. "But Michigan defended the dink and dunk offense so well against Purdue!" That's because Purdue never had a run game to threaten the middle of the defense. The Spartans, on the other hand, have …
- Le'Veon Bell. Get him going with counters and halfback draws. Illinois early success running against Michigan appeared to result from their offensive line screwing with the Wolverines' keys. One of their biggest gainers on the ground was a halfback draw when the offensive line showed pass and fooled the linebackers into dropping into coverage.
- Throw deep to Burbridge when he's one-on-one with Raymon Taylor. I fear this will be a frustrating matchup for Michigan.
- Quarterback draw with Andrew Maxwell. It would be the most epic trolling of all time.
Next game: @ No. 24 Big Brother
*There was an MSU College Gameday sign a couple weeks ago that read: "Braxton Throws Like Denard." This was supposed to be some sort of insult.
Nebraska (4-2 overall, 1-1 B1G)
Last game: BYE
Next game: @ Northwestern
Minnesota (4-2 overall, 0-2 B1G)
Last game: Minnesota 13, Northwestern 21 (L)
Recap: There's not a whole lot of relevant information about Minnesota from this game. There was no way they were going to win this game without QB MarQueis Gray at 100% (he ended up getting injured again in the third quarter), and the score doesn't really do justice to show how unclose this game was.
To no one's surprise, the Gophers couldn't figure out how to defend Venric Mark (20 carries, 182 yards, 2 TD), who won the game by himself, basically. Northwestern's version of Dennis Norfleet accounted for 2/3 of the Wildcats offense; he's not even a quarterback. QB Kain Colter was perfect through the air (10/10, 63 yards), but the passing game was not much more than an afterthought.
Miinnesota was able to get some yards (327 total, 169 passing, 158 rushing) against the perennially suspect Northwestern defense, but three turnovers proved costly. Because obviously.
After the game Gophers head coach Jerry Kill suffered a seizure and had to be hospitalized. Thankfully it wasn't serious, and it sounds like he's doing fine these days.
This team is as frightening as: The soft rain pitter-pattering against the windowpane. 2.
Michigan should worry about: Did I leave the stove on … Did I leave the stove on … Hmm. No. I don't think so.
Michigan can sleep soundly about: A big comfy couch, wool blankets, fluffy pillows, and a piping hot mug of hot chocolate spiked with peppermint schnapps. Mmm.
When I look into your eyes: I can see a love restrained.
Next game: @ Wisconsin
Northwestern (6-1, 2-1 B1G)
Last game: Minnesota 13, Northwestern 21 (W)
Recap: Northwestern is the only team is the B1G that's bowl eligible right now. Although, why anyone in the B1G is in a hurry to play in the postseason is beyond me. All this really means is that the Wildcats will have another great opportunity to overachieve once again in another heartbreaking loss to a better team.
Northwestern came into this game being all like, we're going to win with Running the Football and Play Defense (What is Defense?). They ran 51 plays the entire game. It was bizarre.
RB Venric Mark did his thing (20 carries, 182 yards, 2 TD), and it was the only thing. QB Kain Colter threw 10 passes and completed all of them. Meanwhile other QB Trevor Siemian went 1/7 for 4 yards -- his only completion was to Colter -- but Northwestern was like so whatever about it.
WR Kyle Prater caught zero passes, continuing to make me the saddest panda in the world.
This team is as frightening as: Michigan Lite. Diet Wolverines. iDenard nano. Fear level = 5.
Michigan should worry about: Starts with V. Rhymes with Henrik Snark.
Michigan can sleep soundly about: Starts with Norf. Ends with 1337.
When they play Michigan: Battle of the greased up midgets.
Next game: vs. Nebraska
Ahahahah! How droll.
Iowa (4-2, 2-0 B1G)
Last game: Iowa 19, Michigan State 16 (W)
Recap: This is just awesome. Ahem:
Through six games, quarterback A has completed 66.4% of his passes for 1273 yards, 12 touchdowns, and 4 interceptions. He has a passer rating of 161.3 and is averaging 8.7 yards per attempt.
Meanwhile, quarterback B has completed 57.4% of his passes for 1134 yards, 2 touchdowns, and 3 interceptions. His passer rating is 106.6, and he is averaging 5.8 yards per attempt because his offensive coordinator is deathly afraid of calling pass plays farther than three yards beyond the line of scrimmage.
One of these quarterbacks carried the title of "best passer in the league" and has been compared to NFL-caliber players such as Chad Henne. The other is Taylor Martinez. Which is which?
AIRBHG Update: The title of walk-on fullback was successful in concealing Mark Weisman's true identity for a few weeks, but the secret was compromised by an informant to AIRBHG, who smote him late in the game with a leg injury. After several days of doubtful status, Weisman has been cleared for Saturday, but is continuing to play really a good idea?
This team is as frightening as: A leper colony. Try not to touch them. Fear level = 3.
Michigan should worry about: They can be cured if they get a hand on Denard's jersey.
Michigan can sleep soundly about: What hand.
When they play Michigan: Body parts. Everywhere.
Next game: vs. Penn State
Spelling is importint.
No. 1 Ohio State (7-0)
Last game: vs. Illiteracy (W. Barely. Indiana, why you gotta tease us like that.)
Recap: TO IS OR NOT TO IS THAT ARE THE QUESTION.
Next game: vs. Torn ACLs.
Objects in Mirror:
No. 1 Alabama (6-0 overall, 3-0 SEC)
Last game: Alabama 42, Missouri 10 (W)
Recap: Barrett Jones plays the violin while opposing teams weep.
Next game: @ Tennessee
Air Force (3-3 overall, 2-1 MWC)
Last game: Air Force 28, Wyoming 27 (W)
Recap: There was some squabbling between the coaches over a non-timeout when QB Connor Dietz took his sweet time getting off the field after his helmet came off in the fourth quarter. Wyoming's coach claims the extended jaunt allowed the Falcons to plan their next play without taking a real timeout. Air Force's backup QB scored the next play for the win.
"That's a damn shame." - nobody.
Next game: vs. New Mexico
UMass (turrible)
Last game: BYE.
Next game: vs. Bowling Green
No. 5 Notre Dame (6-0)
Last game: Stanford 13, Notre Dame 20 (W)
Recap: "God loves Notre Dame."
Next game: vs. Brigham Young
Purdue (3-3 overall, 0-2 B1G)
Last game: Wisconsin 38, Purdue 14 (L)
Recap: Doing good things for Michigan's SOS here.
Next game: @ No. 1 Ohio State


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MOBILE, Ala. — As tugboats towed a stranded Carnival cruise ship through the Gulf of Mexico and slowly back to shore Wednesday, relatives of the more than 4,200 passengers and crew trapped aboard appeared at this Alabama port, eager for news or a glimpse of the ship.
Mary Poret, 46, of Lufkin, Texas, arrived early, having driven overnight with friend Kim McKerreghan, 40, also of Lufkin. Both hoped to see their daughters, who are trapped on the Carnival Triumph with their fathers and a friend since Sunday.
"We're not informed; we don't know the conditions — just somebody tell me something," Poret said as she stood outside the port's cruise terminal in a light rain, the skies gray and the waves empty — no ship in sight.
U.S. Coast Guard officials said the cruise ship was still more than 100 miles off shore late Wednesday and not due in Mobile until Thursday afternoon. The ship left Galveston, Texas, for a four-day trip to Mexico's Yucatan peninsula last Thursday with 3,143 guests and 1,086 crew. It became stranded after an engine fire Sunday.


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Friday and Saturday's Sports Calendar and Upcoming Area Events
Today. Terrebonne at Thibodaux, 7 p.m.
Today. New Iberia at South Lafourche, 7 p.m. (Radio: 100.3-FM, 1600-AM)
Today. Central Lafourche at Westgate, 7:30 p.m.
Today. E.D. White Catholic at St. James, 7 p.m.
Today. Houma Christian at Country Day, 7 p.m.
Today. Covenant Christian Academy at Berwick, 7 p.m.
Today. Terrebonne at Thibodaux, 6 p.m.
Today. New Iberia at South Lafourche, 6 p.m. (Radio: 100.3-FM, 1600-AM)
Today. Central Lafourche at Westgate, 6 p.m.
Today. E.D. White Catholic at St. James, 6 p.m.
Today. Houma Christian at Country Day, 6 p.m.
Today. Covenant Christian Academy at Berwick, 6 p.m.
Today. Division III first round, No. 32 Houma Christian at No. 1 Isidore Newman, 6 p.m.
Today. Division I first round, No. 27 Central Lafourche at No. 6 Catholic High at Burbank Field 4 in Baton Rouge, 7 p.m.
Today. Division I first round, No. 23 Terrebonne at No. 10 Northshore, 5:30 p.m.
Today. Division II first round, No. 20 Opelousas Catholic at No. 10 E.D. White Catholic, 7 p.m.
Saturday. Nicholls State at Central Arkansas, 4 p.m. (Radio: 100.3-FM, 1600-AM)
Saturday. LSU at Mississippi State, 4:30 p.m. (TV: FSN; Radio: 96.7-FM)
Saturday. Nicholls State at Central Arkansas, 2 p.m. (Radio: 91.5-FM)
Saturday. Nicholls State at UNO, 9 a.m.
Saturday. Xavier vs. Nicholls State, at Renaissance Health and Racquet Club in Houma, 4 p.m.
Saturday. Nicholls State at UNO, 9 a.m.
Saturday. Xavier vs. Nicholls State, at Renaissance Health and Racquet Club in Houma, 4 p.m.
Today. Hornets at Nuggets, 8 p.m. (TV: FSNO)
Saturday. Hornets at Timberwolves, 7 p.m. (TV: FSNO, NBATV; Radio: 640-AM, 1490-AM)
Today. The Thibodaux Express AAU boys basketball program is seeking head coaches and assistant coaches for the 2013 AAU basketball season. Experience is not necessary, but enthusiasm and dedication are required. If interested, call Brian Rhodes at 438-0953.
Today-March 1. The Terrebonne Parish Recreation department will soon start registration for its baseball and softball leagues. Registration will begin on Monday through Thursday and Feb. 11-14 at area gyms from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. It will also be held at the TPR office from Monday through March 1 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. The baseball league is for boys ages 7-14, while the softball league is for girls ages 7-18. There is a fee and birth certificate is mandatory at registration. For information, call 873-6584.
Today. Thibodaux resident Jason Matherne will embark on a 126.2-mile solo ultra marathon on Feb. 8 in raising money for the March of Dimes. The mission of the March of Dimes is to help mothers have full-term pregnancies and research the problems that threaten the health of babies. Matherne, 38, hopes to finish the race (called Rouge-Orleans), which begins in Baton Rouge and ends in New Orleans and follows the Mississippi River levee system, in 28-30 hours, only stopping at designated aid stations along the way. Matherne is in the Lafourche Parish Sheriff's Deputy reserve unit. To pledge a rate per mile donation or a lump sum, contact Matherne at 985-859-7613 or Kristen Pitre at 985-665-1470 or check out his Facebook page.
Today. The Terrebonne Parish Sportsman's League has a variety of events upcoming. The League will host a general membership meeting on March 11 at the East Park Recreation Center at 8533 E. Park Ave. in Houma. There will also be a children's rodeo at the Point-Aux-Chene Marina on May 4 and a crawfish boil for members on May 14 at the East Park Recreation Center. For more information, contact Sportsman's League vice president Jason Magee at 688-3405 or secretary Troy Bonvillain at 804-7504.
Today. Travel team tryouts set Individual tryouts for the XLR8 8U spring travel baseball showcase team will end Feb. 9. Players cannot turn 9 before May 1, 2013 and for an individual tryout those interested can call 381-5743. LR8 Sports Showcase Teams are designed for the dedicated athlete with dreams of playing baseball at the college or professional level. Space is limited. For information visit xlr8sportsclub.com.
Today. The Louisiana Magic girls softball travel organization is looking for a couple 11-12-year-old players to fill out its roster for the upcoming spring/summer season. The players cannot have turned 13 after Jan. 1, 2013. For information, contact Deanna Cunningham at 209-7789.
Today. The Cajun Youth Athletic Association is holding registration for its Cal Ripken (9-12 by May 1) and Babe Ruth (13-15 by May 1) local spring/summer baseball season in Houma. The cost is $50 for the Cal Ripken league per season and $60 for the Babe Ruth league per season. For information, contact president Roy Himel at 791-9803, secretary Tracy Bourg at 232-3329, Cal Ripken director Shawn Chaisson at 637-4727 or Babe Ruth director Aaron Dazee at 709-3131.
Feb. 8. The annual E.D. White Catholic Cardinal alumni prayer breakfast will be held from 7 to 8 a.m. Feb. 8 at the Envie banquet room in Thibodaux. The cost is $12 per person and Nicholls State head baseball coach Seth Thibodeaux will be the guest speaker. Those interested are asked to respond with payment to the E.D. White Alumni Association at 555 Cardinal Drive, Thibodaux La,, 70301, by Feb. 1.
Feb. 9. The Nicholls State baseball team will kick off the 2013 season with its annual Alumni Game and First Pitch Banquet on Feb. 9 with the morning festivities taking place at Ray E. Didier Field in Thibodaux before moving to Cypress Columns in Gray for the banquet with featured guest speaker Skip Bertman later that evening. Tickets for the banquet are $60 for the general public and $30 for baseball alumni. Patrons will get to meet and greet the 2013 players and coaches, as well as bid on a variety of auction items with all proceeds going to the Nicholls baseball team. Food and drinks will be provided and the event is slated to begin at 7 p.m. Current and former Nicholls baseball players will come together at Didier Field that morning to take part in two exhibition games, the first beginning at 10 a.m. with the Old Timers game. After that, the 2013 Colonels will take on the Colonel Alumni team beginning approximately at noon. A fee of $25 dollars will go toward paying for jerseys, hats, food and drinks for the day, and can be paid with a a check payable to the Nicholls Foundation/Baseball. For information, call the Nicholls baseball offices at 449-7149.
March 15. The 26th Annual LSU Fighting Tigers Celebrity Golf Tournament will be held March 15 at Ellendale Country Club in Houma. The tournament, sponsored by the Bayou Bengal Booster Club Inc., will be an 18-hole, five-man team scramble (four amateur golfers with either an LSU coach, past athlete or celebrity). It begins with shotgun start tee times at 7:45 a.m. and 12:45 p.m. The cost is $850 per team or $210 per player. Also a mulligan has been added to the entry fee, which includes golf cart, green fees, lunch, beer and soft drinks. The deadline to enter is March 7. Prizes will be awarded to the low net and low gross scores for both tee times. Prizes will also be awarded to closest to the hole on Nos. 4, 8, 13 and 17, longest drive on No. 16, straightest drive on No. 2 and hole in one. For information, call Eddie Pullaro at 868-3500 or Darryl Brue at 852-1625.
March 23. The 21st Annual Eric T. Andolsek Memorial Bass Tournament will be held on March 23 at Bob's Bayou Black Marina in Gibson. The tournament is presented by the Golden Tigers Club and the Eric Andolsek Chairtable Fund. For information, call Reggie at 225-265-7766, Andy at 447-3826 or Ruffin at 447-7042.


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Lalique's Allure
- By Nicholas M. Dawes
- | From Premier Issue, Autumn 92
The hammer slammed down. 1.32 million Swiss francs! A round of vigorous applause greeted the winning bid of about $1 million from a consortium of American and European dealers and collectors going up against an equally high-spirited Japanese dealer at the Christie's Geneva sale room on November 11, 1990. The prize was unusual: A glass fountain, one of a pair designed by René Lalique in 1926 for the Galeries des Champs Elysées, a covered shopping arcade in Paris. The piece had stood peacefully in a French provincial garden for several decades before being thrust into the auction spotlight--the location of its twin remains a mystery.
The world record bid delighted Christie's, the anonymous consigner and collectors around the world, who had grown accustomed to the regular shattering of Lalique sale records during the late 1980s. Most recently, the record for a Lalique vase was reset when a Japanese buyer paid two million French francs (about $375,000) for a vase made in the cire perdue or lost wax casting process at an auction of 250 works by Lalique held last October at the Drouot Montaigne saleroom in Paris. Another cire perdue vase from the same auction went to Japan at a price of 1,750,000 French francs (about $327,000) and Americans took home the better production pieces, including a rare green vase which found a new home in Detroit for 300,000 French francs (about $56,500). A glass and bakelite lamp designed in 1920 sold for 810,000 French francs (about $152,000).
Prices realized in this, and subsequent sales, have proved that there is shortage of money or competition for the finest pieces of René Lalique's remarkable glass. The global economic recession of the last two years took considerable wind out of the sails of prominent art and antiques dealers, and the markets they represent. But not so for Lalique, except for a slight downturn during the Persian Gulf war that satisfied some critics who thought it overinflated. While not totally invulnerable to the downturn, the Lalique market has been buoyed by the loyalty and enthusiasm of established collectors, new buyers including museums and the relative scarcity of extraordinary pieces.
The Lalique mystique also benefited from a series of international museum exhibitions. The Galeries des Champs Elysées fountain, authentically restored, gracefully gurgled and splashed water on the red carpet at a retrospective at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, which opened last October. The carpet had been laid out for Jacques Lang, the French Minister of Culture, and tens of thousands of eager visitors last October. The exhibition was among the most successful held at the Paris museum in its 100-year history. The turnout was so strong that the show was extended by several weeks before traveling to Tokyo, where it appeared at the Museum of Modern Art in June and July.
René Lalique, who died in 1945 at the age of 85, began his career as a jewelry designer in Paris over a century ago. He worked in a unique, Art Nouveau style which made him the most heavily patronized and celebrated jeweler in the world by 1900. At 50 years of age, he devoted his attention to glassmaking, producing a legacy of extraordinary designs which collectors have pursued with increasing fervor over the last 15 years. The manufacture of impressive cast works was made possible by Lalique's modern factory in Alsace, completed in 1921. The facility, largely unchanged, is the site of the modern production carried on under René Lalique's granddaughter, Marie-Claude, whose most recent contribution to the innovative family legacy was the glass and metal medals designed for the Albertville Winter Olympics. René Lalique's commercially produced ware at Alsace ranged in scale from monumental architecture to exquisite glass jewelry, and provides collecting opportunities for most budgets and tastes. Vases, particularly those of rare design or color, top the list of desirability and value with prices that can rise over $100,000.
Lighting devices and illuminated decorative glass also were an important part of Lalique's commercial empire by the peak period of production in the late 1920s, and the boldest examples are in short supply and high demand. Like vases and Lalique's glass sculpture, lighting has the market advantage of appealing to interior designers and general collectors of decorative arts from the years between the great world wars.
Many Lalique collectors choose to focus on one area of the artist's output. Perfume bottles, which are among the earliest commercially designed glass by René Lalique dating from his collaboration with parfumer Francois Coty in 1907, are still made in large quantity and variety by Lalique. Most René Lalique examples sell for less than $2,000 each but the rarest models command as much as a Mercedes 560 SEL ($100,000). The typical perfume bottle enthusiast takes a conventional approach to collecting by trying to amass many of them. Collectors of René Lalique's glass automobile mascots (or mascoteers as they are known to dealers) also typically attempt to "collect the set," limited to 28 models. Providing they had survived the rigors of being bolted onto radiator caps in the golden age of motoring, the rarest examples can be worth considerably more today than the automobiles they originally graced, although most models are valued between $2,000 and $10,000.
The modest collector can focus on the range of superbly designed glass boxes, most of which can be found for less than $2,000, or smaller vases in common colors and tableware. Specialized collections exist in the United States in René Lalique's inkwells, clocks, candlesticks, ashtrays, cigar humidors and cigarette boxes. The wealth and design diversity of Lalique's drinking vessels and decanters appeal to oenophiles. Many examples can be found at reasonable prices.
Advanced collectors focus on rarities including the unique cire perdue cast glass that exhibited the artist's talent as a master glassmaker, and were not for commercial sale. The number of cire perdue pieces in existence is estimated to be less than 200, over half of which are in permanent museum collections. One of the attractions of cire perdue has been its impressive performance as an investment: A six-inch high sculpture of a crouching cougar which sold for a record price of $39,000 at a New York auction in 1980 changed hands less than six years later for over $300,000. Small vases in the technique, which fetched an average of $4,000 each in the early 1980s, highlighted auctions later in the decade with prices climbing over $150,000.
"I have had more fun collecting Lalique over the last five years than I had building my business during the previous 30 years," comments Marvin Kagan, the recently retired president of the Milgra- Kagan Corporation, a shoe store chain based in greater Chicago. Mr. Kagan may not be aware that "fun" is a euphemism for financial profit in the antiques business, but he has had considerable financial success during his relatively brief encounter with Lalique. Mr. Kagan's best deal was in 1990 when, at the highpoint of the market, he sold the bulk of his 250-piece collection to a Japanese collector for over $2 million. In that year, art and antiques was the fifth largest U.S. export to Japan.
For many Americans, however, Lalique glass collecting offers the opportunity to have real fun. "It is hard to beat a walk around the Paris flea market on a chilly spring morning, pausing for vin chaud or café au lait," according to a Midwestern collector. He is only too well aware that the days of finding cire perdue among the crates of brocantes or fancy junk are long gone. But the Marché aux Puces is one of the many exciting, and sometimes exotic locations frequented by Lalique enthusiasts. They also dart in and out of museums with Lalique collections, a feat easily accomplished in most every European capital. Lalique cannot be purchased from museums, although many dealers have tried. Therefore, it is the auction marketplace that represents the front line of collecting. Even so, a fruitless excursion to a flea market, antiques fair, a gallery or an auction has the same rewards for the enthusiast that a good day's fishing with no catch brings to a serious angler.
A day in Paris "on the hunt" can begin with the delights of the flea market. It can include the purchase of an extraordinary object, a first-class, lengthy lunch, a friendly argument in Franglais, and endless gossip about the fortunes of colleagues. In fact, the relationships developed on these expeditions often are one of the biggest draws for the collector and dealer alike. The day usually ends with a generous and elegant dinner--after all, this is France--at an hour when most Americans are watching The Tonight Show. "Before I started collecting Lalique, I couldn't speak a word of French," a New York collector said recently. "Now, I can argue in the flea market."
Most collectors don't need to explore the back alleys and tight nooks and crannies of the French flea markets. The world's fine art auction houses are an important forum for buying and selling Lalique glass. Among the most elegant are the regular sales held at Sotheby's in Monte Carlo, which provides an attractive weekend retreat from, say, Milwaukee. Lalique turns up regularly at Sotheby's and Christie's auctions worldwide, and at sales held in Paris by several French auctioneers. The largest French auction company is Ader Tajan, which holds an occasional auction dedicated to Lalique in the serene atmosphere of Tokyo's Okura Hotel. These auctions are held in French and Japanese, with live action telecast by satellite to bidders in Paris. Such sales are a far cry from the provincial events in Britain and the United States, which are often the source of the best bargains. Enthusiasts are especially advised to monitor the Lalique auctions held every fall at the delightfully English family firm of Bonham's, headquartered in a Georgian building just a stone's throw from Harrods in London.
Ask any auctioneer, dealer or collector about the problems of buying Lalique and they are likely to recount the abundance of fakes and forgeries that litter the marketplace. There are very few deliberate forgeries, but it is common to encounter glass made in the style of René Lalique which has had his signature added for purposes of deception. The novice can avoid such pitfalls by following the golden rule of art and antiques collecting: Never let the signature authenticate the object; always allow the qualities of the object to authenticate the signature.
Nicholas M. Dawes, a New York antiques dealer, is the author of Lalique Glass, a standard work on the subject.


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Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106A [covering the exclusive rights of a copyright holder], the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright. In determining whether the use made of a work in any particular case is fair use, the factors to be considered shall include:
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Stanford University Libraries, Overview of Fair Use
University of Minnesota, Working With Fair Use
University of Texas, Crash Course in Copyright: Fair Use