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Cash America Warped
aborts deal
with Colortyme
FORT WORTH (AP) — A deal that
would have merged a chain of pawn
shops with the nation’s largest franchiser
of rent-to-own businesses fell apart after
the companies failed to work out their
differences over outstanding debt.
Cash America, a publicly held chain
of pawn shops, said Tuesday it aban
doned previously announced plans for a
$1.4 million stock swap to acquire Col
ortyme Inc.
“We were uncomfortable with the
debt they had,” said Eugene M. Estep,
Cash America vice president and direc
tor. “We . . . tried to restructure that,
and it was not successful, so we just
backed off.”
Cash America, based in Fort Worth,
signed a letter of intent last August to ac
quire Colortyme, the nation’s largest
franchiser of rent-to-own businesses.
Disagreement over how to handle a
$75 million debt that Colortyme carries
led to the breakdown in negotiations,
company officials said.
“They (ColorTyme) do their con
sumer financing through Chrysler Credit
Corp.,” Estep said. “The problem oc
curred when Chrysler and Colortyme
asked us to be the lender of second re
course, and we considered that to be
more than we wanted to take on. ”
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By Tim Davis
Reporter
A pictoral display of the evolution and
concentration of British art styles is on
display on the Texas A&M campus.
University Art Exhibits is featuring
“Aspects of British Painting 1550-1800”
in the Rudder Exhibit Hall. The exhibit,
which will be on display through Oct.
31, is from the collection of the Sarah
Campbell Blaffer Foundation.
Spencer A. Samuels, director of the
Art Development Program for the Foun
dation, wrote in the guide book for the
exhibit that after Blaffer’s death in 1975,
the trustees of the Foundation created
five major collections from the array of
works that she had accumulated.
The other collections are of Italian,
Dutch, English, French and Spanish
paintings.
Samuels said Blaffer, who was from
Houston, had a desire to share the beauty
of the great works of art with people in
communities far away from major mu
seums.
This exhibit will be shown throughout
Texas and out-of-state.
Mona Dayag, University Art Exhibits
director, said the exhibition reflects the
kinds of pictures that were being painted
and commissioned during the time the
show represents.
“This is not a ‘masterpiece’ show,”
she said. “It is a show that gives us the
total picture of what was occurring in the
15th through 18th centuries.”
Dayag said that although the concen
tration of the show is not on master
pieces, it does feature well-known art
ists.
“Some of the more popular and re
nowned artists in the exhibit are Joshua
Reynolds, J.M.W. Turner, and Thomas
Gainsbourough,” Dayag said.
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This painting by the 18th century British artist Joseph Nickolls will be in
cluded in the exhibition.
Since the exhibit is part of the Founda
tion’s collection, the University Art Ex
hibits office did not choose the paintings
included in the display.
“Not picking the content of the show
is in no way a bad thing in this case,”
Dayag said.
“The exhibit was put together to show
the development of British artists as they
developed their own styles, and it was
done very well,” she said.
“By the 18th century the British were
doing their own thing,” Dayag said.
“Prior to that time British artists looked
to the continent (Europe) for inspiration
and stylization. The show represents
very well the various styles that were
popular throughout the period.”
Prominent styles included portraiture,
landscape art, sporting art and historical
paintings.
“Historical painting was painting that
drew on ancient literature and Christian
imagery and made them historical
images rather than religious images in
their own right,” she said.
“Historical painting was the most el
evated art form at the time," she said.
“This was because the studios and Brit
ish Art Academy valued it so highly for
its purely aristic and classical merit.”
Of all the styles, however, portraiture
was the most popular in that time period,
Dayag said.
“The exhibit gives an excellent picture
of the evolution of the portraiture style in
British art,” she said. “One can see the
development from the earlier styles up
through the later images that the British
artists created as they became more com
fortable with their own styles and devel
oped their skills.”
Dayag said the earlier painted
characterized by the formal, rerrJ
positioning of the character uiltiii|
traits.
"The characters were separated’iij
Irom the viewer by using perspecd
images to push them further bacid
■ p.u c and aw ay from the never /
contact with the portrait figure wasa)
mal," she said.
“The later paintings in thiscteal
push the viewer so far away fromttej]
ure in the portrait,” she said.
The exhibition covers the k:|
British styles in the 15th throud;:
centuries in chronological groupiii; I
Dayag said it was important 1cm
hibit office to maintain the inteprl]
each individual piece as they wertii
for display.
“We have them displayed ingraal
for the most part, but some of the
were difficult to hang because ofi
large size and their were certain::]
that could only fit in one place, j
said.
“We tried our best not to manirj
the pictures by their positioning,' D:i
said. “When we do a show for ai]
demic campus we try our best mak]
wc furnish unmanipulated imaged
material, for students and obsenfi
draw their own conclusions."
Dayag said the turnout of
view the free showing, openfromitl
to 1 1 p.m, daily, has beenexcelleni
Additional support for the eitof
was provided by the Office offei]
of the College of Liberal Arts.tM
partment of English, the Depart®*]
History, the Department of Moheiil
Classical Languages, the Depart®*]
Philosophy and Humanities, iheDtfl
ment of Speech Communication
Theater Arts, and the Department if]
litical Science.
Team solves 100-digit code
AUSTIN (AP) — The hunt crossed
three continents and required hundreds
of computers, but a team of researchers
captured a prize few thought possible —
the prime factors of the 100-digit number
on mathematicians’ “most wanted” list.
The breakthrough could have impor
tant implications for governments and
banks, which use large-digit numbers in
security systems on the assumption they
provide a code too difficult to break.
But the pleasure of the hunt concerned
researchers more.
“Why did we go after it?” University
of Chicago computer scientist Arjen
Lenstra said Wednesday. “Because peo
ple compile lists.”
The number, which begins
9,412,343,607 . . . and stretches on for
90 more digits, defied all previous ef
forts to find its prime factors. .
The factors of a number are two num
bers that, when multiplied together,
yield the larger number. A prime number
is one that is evenly divisible only by 1
or itself.
The prime factors of 21, for example,
are 3 and 7. By comparison, the prime
numbers that solved the 100-digit num
ber are, respectively, 41 digits and 60
digits long.
Finding the prime factors of such large
numbers was thought to be so difficult,
in fact, that many security systems as
sume such computations to be beyond
the range of even the most powerful
computers being applied for long periods
of time.
Governments transfer secret messages
and banks transfer funds electronically
by encoding the information in large
digit numbers that require the receiver to
know its prime factors in order to deci
pher the information.
“Ten years ago, everybody suggested
80 digits were safe and nowadays that’s
trivial” said Lenstra, co-director of the
project with Dr. Mark Manasse of the
Digital Equipment Corp.’s Systems Re
search Center in Palo Alto, Calif.
“Ten years ago, everybody suggested 80 digits were
safe. Nowadays, that’s trivial . . . personally, I’d go a
little beyond 200 now.”
Arjen Lenstra
University of Chicago computer scientist
“I think 150 is reasonable,” he con
tinued. “But personally, I’d go a little
beyond 200 now. ’ ’
Computer scientists had theorized that
a single computer doing a million calcu
lations per second would have needed 25
years to solve the problem. Even a state-
of-the-art supercomputer such as the
Cray would need about 10 months of
constant computing — that at a cost of
thousands of dollars per hour.
Lenstra and Manasse, however, fac
tored the number in just 26 days.
They began their attack on the 100-
digit number by breaking the problem
into smaller tasks, then farmed them out
to about 400 computers in (lie l j
States, Europe and Australia tiro*
exisiting electronic mail network
All the computers used in Wl
worked on the factoring probtef
when they were not being used M
thing else. Each time a probM
solved, it was relayed by electro^]
to Digital’s Palo Alto lab.
The last sequence of numbers
to solve the entire problem flasbed-'J
a computer screen at 2:03 a
Tuesday.
“One of the really nice thinp^
this effort is that it cost us virtual)' 11
ing,” Lenstra said. “We c oll!i:
friends, other computer scientist
body that thought factoring was
got them to participate.”
Teacher volunteers to teacl
‘three Rs’ to young inmates
ANGLETON (AP) — Teacher
Gayle Stein has a captive, but appre
ciative class two days a week, be
cause cell doors open when the
school bell rings at the Brazoria
County Juvenile Detention Center.
“When I’m late they say ‘Why are
you late? Where were you? Do we get
to stay out an extra half hour now?”’
Stein, who drills the three Rs into
children who have run afoul of the
law, said.
Stein, who doubles as a counselor
for the juveniles held in cells of the
Brazoria County Courthouse, began
teaching the young inmates basic aca
demics earlier this month as part of
the Juvenile Probation Department’s
supplemental education program.
“This is possibly the only educa
tion some of these kids are going to
get,” she said.
From 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Tues
days and Thursdays, guards let the
teen-agers and pre-teens out of their
cells to practice basic mathematics,
language skills and reading with
books donated by the Angleton Inde
pendent School District.
Stein said the program uses sev
enth-grade books because of the dis
crepancies in ages of her students,
who range from 10 to 16 years old.
While some older students might find
the curriculum a little slow, she said
many benefit from the classes be
cause they are behind their peers in
academics.
“We concentrate on the life skills.
When one of them asks, ‘How is this
going to help me?’ I can say)
to be able to add and subtracl
a cash register at McDona
you have to be able to read a
to fill out a job application foi
“There’s not any job in
you don’t need to knowhow
write or do basic math,” sb
her charges.
And while some of the
are difficult to motivate, man; £f .
the classes because they offer 3 ’"';
from the boredom of sitting i* 3 "'
all day, she said.
Although the program is le^.'
month old, Stein said it hasg 101 :
tential to reach the kids who ^
get “lost in the shuffle.”