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Million-dollar Super Bowl bets are in the works in Las Vegas.
Jay Rood, vice president of MGM Race and Sports, says he's received inquiries from gamblers wanting to bet seven figures on Sunday's game between the Baltimore Ravens and San Francisco 49ers.
"We always get inquiries, but the money doesn't always show up," said Rood. "Last year, we didn't take any real, real significant bets (on the Super Bowl). Some six figures, but nothing more."
John Avello, executive director of the Wynn Race and Sports Book, said he took the first million-dollar bet of his career on last year's Super Bowl between the New England Patriots and New York Giants.
"It was on the favorite," Avello said. The underdog Giants won.
In a 2011 interview with 60 Minutes, prominent professional sports bettor Billy Walters said the biggest bet he ever made was $3.5 million on the underdog New Orleans Saints in Super Bowl XLIV.
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Rood estimates he has taken 10 seven-figure bets over the last six years and plenty more during his 20-year sports book career in Vegas.
When he was just starting out as a ticket writer at the MGM Grand, he had to count a $2 million bet that was made in cash.
"It was on a (Mike) Tyson fight. He was a huge favorite," remembered Rood. "He laid something like $2 million to win $50,000, or something like that."
The majority of million-dollar bets are on the Super Bowl, though, and they're not made in cash.
Big bettors usually make arrangements through casino hosts to wire money to the cage, said Rood. They are then given chips to the sports book.
"Up to $200,000 transactions are usually done in cash," Rood said.
Todd Fuhrman, a former sports book analyst at Caesars Palace, remembers customers coming in with backpacks or brown paper sacks full of money. The biggest bettors were almost always more organized.
"When you're talking $100,000 bets, it doesn't come in singles," said Fuhrman. "It's usually in stacks of $10,000, fresh from the bank."
As of Thursday morning, the MGM had received two six-figure bets on Sunday's Super Bowl, one on each team.
Avello said Wednesday that he had received two six-figure bets — both on the Ravens.
More big bets are certainly on the way.
Avello estimates he'll take 15 to 20 six-figure bets on the Super Bowl this week.
"There will be a lot more $50,000 and up," Avello said. "Some people will bet $95 (thousand), $80,000 flat. There's going to be some pretty big bets come in over the next couple days."
Like most Vegas sports book managers, Avello and Rood are very protective of their biggest bettors' identities. Asked if the six-figure bets usually come from celebrities, Avello replied, "All I can tell you is that I wouldn't put them in any category. They are people with more money in their pocket and more willing to bet it than you and I."
Rood said, "It's not necessarily a famous guy, it's not necessarily anyone that anyone would know. Realistically, I don't really know much about their background and how relevant the size of the wager is to them. It could be like betting five bucks for you or me."
Avello did estimate the average age of a gambler who bets six figures on the Super Bowl is in their "mid-40s."
Six figures is obviously a wide range. One-hundred thousand dollars is a lot less than $999,000. Las Vegas book managers rarely get more specific.
But the six-figure mark does trigger some upper-level communication.
"When they get into the upper six figures and especially when seven figures starts getting floated around, I have to go talk to someone (one of his bosses) when it gets like that," said Avello.
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The East India Company is, or rather was, an anomaly without a parallel in the history of the world. It originated from sub-scriptions, trifling in amount, of a few private individuals. It gradually became a commercial body with gigantic resources, and by the force of unforeseen circumstances assumed the form of a sovereign power, while those by whom its affairs were directed continued, in their individual capacities, to be without power or political influence. — Bentley's Miscellany 43 (1858)
One of the strangest parts of the history of the British Empire involves that commercial venture generally known as the East India Company, though its original name when founded by royal charter on the very last day of 1600 was the Governor and Company of Merchants of London Trading into the East Indies. As its name suggests, the company was the enterprise of London businessmen who banded together to make money importing spices from South Asia. For centuries the valuable spice trade with the East Indies (as they were long known) relied on land routes across Asia and the Middle East, but by the sixteenth century, the superior navigational technology and skills of the Portuguese for the first time permitted Europeans to cut out intermediaries and hence make themselves far greater profits. The Spanish and Portuguese had a monopoly of the East Indies spice trade until destruction of the Spanish Aramada in 1588, which permitted the British and Dutch to seek their share of this wealthy import business.
The company with the long name first entered the spice trade in the form of an old-fashioned or early capitalist venture, essentially conducting each voyage as a separate business venture with its own subsribers or stock-holders. This approach lasted for a dozen years, and then in 1612 the company switched to temporary joint stocks and finally to permanent joint stocks in 1657. Supposedly a monopoly, the company evenentually faced competition from another group of English investors and merchants, and the two merged in 1708 as the United Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies.
According to the Encyclopedia Britannica,
The company met with opposition from the Dutch in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) and the Portuguese. The Dutch virtually excluded company members from the East Indies after the Amboina Massacre in 1623 (an incident in which English, Japanese, and Portuguese traders were executed by Dutch authorities), but the company's defeat of the Portuguese in India (1612) won them trading concessions from the Mughal Empire. The company settled down to a trade in cotton and silk piece goods, indigo, and saltpetre, with spices from South India. It extended its activities to the Persian Gulf, Southeast Asia, and East Asia.
The company's encounters with foreign competitors eventually required it to assemble its own military and administrative departments, thereby becoming an imperial power in its own right, though the British government began to reign it in by the late eighteenth century. Before Parliament created a government-controlled policy-making body with the Regulating Act of 1773 and the India Act eleven years later, shareholders' meetings made decisions about Britain's de facto colonies in the East. The British government took away the Company's monopoly in 1813, and after 1834 it worked as the government's agency until the 1857 India Mutiny when the Colonial Office took full control. The East India Company went out of existence in 1873.
During its heyday, the East India Company not only established trade through Asia and the Middle East but also effectively became of the ruler of territories vastly larger than the United Kingdrom itself. In addition, it also created, rather than conquered, colonies. Singapore, for example, was an island with very few Malay inhabitants in 1819 when Sir Stamford Raffles purchased it for the Company from their ruler, the Sultan of Johor, and created what eventually became one of the world's greatest trans-shipment ports.
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Being the biggest pop diva in the world is hard work, people! Madonna's body may be as tight as a drum but not even she is immune to the bumps, bruises, scrapes and scars that go with the territory. The singer shared photos of the nasty bruises she is nursing as a result of rehearsals for her upcoming world tour. You know you lead a charmed life when dancing is an occupational hazard! Even so, those injuries look incredibly painful. The Material Girl bleeds (internally) for her fans.
Madge posted the shots on her Facebook. There's one of her bruised leg, swollen lip and her rump.
She posted that she got "bruises on my leg from rehearsal" and then shared "Cut my lip from rehearsing 'Girl Gone Wild.'" Ouch. That's a doozy.
Leave it to Madonna to post a photo of an "artistic" wound. She posted a photo of a "heart-shaped bruise on my a–." If you check out the photo above on the far left, the butt bruise does indeed look like a heart. Let Taylor Swift make heart shapes with her two hands. It's Madonna who gets one imprinted on her patoot because she's going nuts while preparing for her tour. We love that even her work-related wounds look good.
The images prove that Madonna is working her a—off, literally. She's taking a beating so her fans are fully entertained. That's why she is the best ever!
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According to recently published research conducted by a leading international market research company, Global Research & Data Services, the expansion of the global plasterboard industry is forecast to reach 4.1% p.a. in the coming years. Between 2007 and 2013 the market increased with an average annual growth of 4.8%. Currently, paper reinforced plasterboards account for 63.6% of the global demand while other plasterboards have a 36.4% share of the market.
China, France, Germany, Italy and the United States represent the largest plasterboard markets while the strongest annual growth is forecast to occur in Bangladesh (19.1%), Bolivia (16.3%), Ethiopia (12.9%), Ecuador (10.7%) and Panama (10.0%).
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A good choice for a driver's first car, the Chevrolet Aveo offers high-tech gadgets and youthful paint colors marketed toward young drivers. Originally sold for just under $10,000, the Aveo remains an affordable option for drivers.
The Chevrolet Aveo was introduced in 2004 as a competitor in the subcompact market. Its major competitors included the Honda Fit, Nissan Versa, and Hyundai Accent. Originally designed by GM Daewoo and produced in South Korea, Chevrolet sold the model worldwide under various names.The Aveo has been a surprising success for Chevrolet. For the 2012 model year, it has been greatly improved, redesigned and renamed the Sonic, though that is considered a separate model. It offers good fuel economy, efficient maneuverability, and a decent ride.
Equipped with standard 14-inch steel wheels and sporting GM's Ecotec 1.6-liter, 108 horsepower engine, the Chevrolet Aveo comes with a standard five-speed manual transmission. It can go from zero to 60 mph in 10.7 seconds. Drivers may prefer to purchase the optional automatic transmission. The car experiences brisk acceleration at city speeds but does not contain the horsepower to speed up and pass on highway access ramps. However, many believe that the manual transmission does give the car a bit of an edge in this department.
Mileage estimates for the Chevrolet Aveo are 27/35 mpg city/highway with the manual transmission. Automatic transmission gas mileage is 25/34 mpg city/highway. This falls short of some of the Aveo's competitors.
The Aveo offers MacPherson strut front independent suspension and torsion beam rear suspension. Additional features in the Chevrolet Aveo include a tilt-adjustable steering wheel, 12-volt front power outlet(s), power steering, hands-free calling, roadside assistance, destination guidance, and destination download. OnStar is provided for six months at no charge; a subscription is required for continued use.
Two distinct trim packages are available for the Chevrolet Aveo: LS and LT.The LS trim package includes air-conditioning, cruise control, keyless entry, CD/MP3 player, sunroof, anti-lock brakes, power windows, 15-inch steel wheels, and carpeted floor mats. The LT trim package, available only on the Aveo sedan, includes most of the LS options as standard items and an upgraded audio system and leatherette seating.
The Aveo offers ample head room due to its height. The 60/40 split folding rear seat increases room for cargo. The trunk provides 12.4 cubic feet of storage space. The Chevrolet Aveo5 is the name of the hatchback model.
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The following year, Aveo sedans were made three inches longer but maintained the same wheelbase. These cars boast updated interior and exterior styling. They include a new audio system and center armrest. All sedans also include a digital audio player plug-in as a standard. Additionally, the basic SVM 2007 model comes only as a four-door hatchback and isrenamed the Aveo5.
In 2008, Chevrolet began offering 15-inch wheels on its LS sedans. The next year, the brand restyled the hatchbacks and began offering OnStar assistance standard with every vehicle. The four-cylinder engine also has modifications to increase fuel economy. Then, in 2010, the entire line received a slight (2 horsepower) increase.
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2009 Chevrolet Aveo
While Chevy may not be primarily known for its small cars, the 2009 Chevrolet Aveo continues to attract interest as an affordable subcompact sedan.
2008 Chevrolet Aveo
The Chevrolet Aveo, a subcompact car, first entered production in 2002 and replaced the Chevrolet Metro in the North American market and the Daewoo Lanos in South Korea.
2007 Chevrolet Aveo
Compact, Hatchback, Sedan
2006 Chevrolet Aveo
Today's passion for small vehicles may have been powered by the 2006 Chevrolet Aveo and other cars in its class.
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The 2005 Chevrolet Aveo serves as a very competitive subcompact car with a surprising amount of room.
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A May study from Business Communications Co. Inc. reports that the worldwide value of uninterruptible power supplies (UPSs) reached $6.1 billion in 2000. The study, titled "Uninterruptible Power Supply: Continuous Data and Network Services," also concludes that the market will cross $11 billion by 2005, based on an expected average annual growth rate (AAGR) of 12.7%.
In addition, the value of worldwide shipments of UPS equipment reached $5.3 billion in 2000, the study says. The value of traditional static or electronic devices totaled $5.1 billion in 2000, while rotary and flywheel devices reached $230 million. With an AAGR of 13%, total shipments would reach $9.8 billion by 2005.
The study found that the computer industry continues to be the major driving force for UPS system growth, while communications services are the second largest user of these systems. Areas for potential growth include the medical, laboratory, and security systems markets.


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Bad Voodoo For LA Sports: The Curse Of Landon Collins' Momma
A few weeks ago, everything was wonderful in the world of Louisiana sports. The University of Louisiana had won their first New Orleans Bowl in dramatic fashion, the Saints and Tigers seemed unbeatable, and to top it off, the Tigers had just secured the services of high school senior Gunner Kiel, the top QB recruit in the country. Things were looking up.
Then it happened.
Just days before the BCS National Championship game, in front of God and everybody, top defensive back prospect Landon Collins announced his plans to leave his home state of Louisiana by selecting rival Alabama over LSU as his college of choice. Seconds after hearing her son's decision, Landon's momma took the national spotlight by immediately voicing her displeasure with her son's decisions, and proclaiming her love for LSU. In the process, she turned the short ordeal into a viral sensation, ignited a heated online debate, and cast all kinds of bad voodoo all over the state.
The voodoo wasn't happy, and when the voodoo ain't happy, ain't nobody happy.
What followed a few days after was one of the most disappointing displays in a national championship game in recent memory. The Tigers' loss was bad. It's real bad, and despite the lesson we should have learned from Landon's momma, we didn't take it real well...
Long before the final whistle blew on the game, fans began voicing their displeasure. Internet message boards and sports radio phone lines began lighting up with disgruntled fans letting their disappointment be known. Social media sites Facebook and Twitter nearly melted with hateful words and tactless arguments. Then, things got worse.
The low point of the entire ordeal had to be the negative national story that resulted from former Saint QB turned broadcaster, and father of an LSU lineman Bobby Hebert's embarrassing post-game press conference soliloquy he delivered at Les Miles' expense. The audio from the interview was played over and over across the country and painted a sad light on Tiger fans as a whole.
In the aftermath, there were many casualties. LSU starting QB Jordan Jefferson actually deleted his personal Twitter account as a result of the many hateful death threats and racial slurs he was receiving.
Next up, LSU junior receiver and former highly sought after recruit Russel Sheppard shocked fans by announcing his intention to forego his remaining collegiate eligibility by declaring early for the NFL draft. Whether the negative social media backlash had any impact on his decision is unknown.
At this point, the bad voodoo was so think in the air you could taste it. And if you had access to a radio or a computer, you could hear it and read it as well. Unfortunately for citizens of Louisiana, the curse wasn't over. Its next victim would be claimed halfway across the country as the Saints headed to San Francisco to take on their old rival 49ers in a highly anticipated playoff match up.
The Saints had a dominant team. Coming into the game, they were touted as Superbowl favorites, but as good as the Saints were, they had no answer for the bad voodoo. Five unexpected and uncharacteristic turnovers later, the Saints still had a chance to win the game with only seconds remaining on the clock, but much like the '72 Dolphins, bad voodoo is undefeated. After a miraculous last minute drive lead by maligned 49er QB Alex Smith and a miraculous game winning catch by promising, but under achieving tight end Vernon Davis, the Saints' season was over. The voodoo was merciless, but it still wasn't finished.
In the days following the game rumors began to circulate surrounding the Saint's highly respected defensive coordinator Gregg Williams' likely move to St. Louis. News of the move was very disappointing to Saints fans as Williams' defensive scheme is widely regarded as one of the main reasons why the Saints were able to win their Superbowl in 2010.
The final defeat came in the form of Gunner Kiel, top QB prospect and LSU recruit, deciding he'd rather stay in his home state and attend Notre Dame after all.
Louisiana, we've had a rough couple of weeks. So close to glory only to have it all ripped away.
Is it over? Who knows?
Maybe there is some Louisiana American Idol contestant that's about to unknowingly contract laryngitis. Maybe the Hornets are on their way out. Maybe it will rain on Mardi Gras...
Whatever happens, I hope we grin and bear it. I hope we've learned our lesson, because in sports, you can't always win. Sometimes another team is better than you. Sometimes the better team loses. It happens, and it is no reason to publicly humiliate or threaten young athletes, especially if those athletes are not getting paid to play. We've really embarrassed ourselves lately, and it's time for a change, because I for one have had enough of this bad voodoo.
Things have begun to brighten, if only a little bit. Only days after declaring for the draft, Russel Sheppard decided he will return to LSU. And in the aftermath of the negative posts and comments on QB Jordan Jefferson's social media pages, many fans have banded together to promote Tiger pride, and thank the players that worked so hard for them this season.


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It is a nagging, unspoken question in many relationships: how often should we be having sex? WSJ "Bonds" columnist Elizabeth Bernstein has the latest research, and Chris and Afton Mower share their personal experience on Lunch Break. Photo: Getty Images.
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I did it! (I can't believe I did it...) I rented a building for my book store!
If you've read this blog before, you know about my obsession with books and how they seem to (ahem) follow me home. I guess I've dreamed for years about owning a book store, but I consciously didn't think it would ever happen. My subconscious, however, has been acquiring books by the hundreds over the past few months.
As I worked at the newspaper last summer, a couple of neighboring stores left and I watched the empty spaces. Months passed. I knew I could get a decent rent, and last week I finally contacted the realtor.
You may be thinking: Beth, didn't you just start your dream job as an archives assistant last week? Yes. I love that job! But here's the catch — it's only 10 hours a week. Oh, I have a couple of other jobs, including freelance writer and proofreader, but they're sporadic. I'm hoping to build this shop into something steady. And as the owner, I can set the hours around other commitments.
It's pretty scary, though. I'll have a lease (I'm committed, now!). I need carpet, shelves... electricity, phone... a long list of expenses and things to do. Here's what it looks like: almost a blank slate.
The space next door had more outlets (I looked at that for you, writer buddies!) and water options, but I liked the character of this space better, including the arch on the right and a small storage room. This one needs more work, but it has a more comfortable, homey feel.
I'm not worried about inventory, although that could change after I set things up and actually see what I have. I've already lined up a couple of venues where I can get more, including a large book sale later this month. I can't wait to get the boxes of books out of my house and put everything in order for people to enjoy.
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Christian Audigier, the man behind the brand Ed Hardy, is one of the most successful men in fashion. And also one of the least respected. He is the man who brought us the $100 trucker hat, Von Dutch, and those hoodies covered in tattoo-y images of dragons and skulls, with slogans like "Love Kills Slowly" printed in rhinestones. Is it schlock? Maybe. But that's not keeping him up at night
In the summer, a short 32-year-old man with long sideburns and the docile face of an overgrown infant became the most famous man in America. It happened, as these things do, after an unpredictable turn of events that can never be replicated. I had a baby this summer, so I missed pretty much the whole life cycle, but here's how I understand it: First he had eight kids, then he got a show on a cable channel about it, then he and his wife had a kind of public breakup on the show. And then all hell broke loose. Jon and Kate Gosselin became this peculiar kind of famous, infamous more like, where the people who are obsessed with you complain all the time about how you shouldn't be famous. At what might have been the very apogee of his famousness, at the moment he commanded the most attention he will likely command for the rest of his life, Jon Gosselin appeared in the Côte d'Azur with his new 22-year-old girlfriend on the yacht of a fashion designer named Christian Audigier. During a photo session on the streets of St-Tropez, Audigier announced he would be designing a children's line with Gosselin (something he later said he won't actually do). This was just a few months after Audigier announced a joint clothing venture with Madonna. Which was not long after he was seen shopping with Michael Jackson, who, it seemed, was living in a house owned by Audigier's CEO at the time of his death. Audigier was designing clothes with Michael Jackson, too.
In the next few days, Christian Audigier became even more visible than he normally made himself—standing next to Gosselin in photographs, in a pink T-shirt, pink jeans, short-cropped gray hair, and the kind of tan you normally have only if you're 97 and have been sitting by the pool in Boca Raton for three decades. Many people, like myself, did not really know who Christian Audigier was. We live a sartorially sheltered life. A life of muted colors and subtle designs. An existence with the first fashion principle of offending no one. Christian Audigier, though, is arguably the most successful independent clothing designer of the past decade. His most popular brand is called Ed Hardy. Or more accurately, Ed Hardy by Christian Audigier. The aesthetic is what he describes as tattoo lifestyle—mostly extremely expensive "luxury" T-shirts and sweatshirts drenched in layered images of bulldogs and jaguars and skulls and roses and cryptic phrases, especially love kills slowly, not to mention bright colors, metallic overlays, sequins, and rhinestones. Last year, he says, he did in the neighborhood of $80 million in business.
Christian is also the man (mostly, or maybe partially) behind the infamous brand Von Dutch. The man who claims to have brought us the modern trucker hat, or at least the idea that you could sell them for more than $100 each on a mass scale. The man who claims to have invented the idea that to market a brand, all you need to do is put clothes with big logos on celebrities. Regardless of how you feel about the product, Christian Audigier started two unpredicted and very popular trends in succession with basically no traditional marketing budget. He could be said to know something about us and what we want.
As soon as I'd found out who he was, it was like I'd always known. It was like I had been willfully blind to Christian Audigier, the French king of denim and bling. I realized I'd been seeing people everywhere wearing his clothes, though I'd pretended not to. Men in rhinestone-skull trucker hats, women in sweatshirts jungled in Christian Audigier's initials, with little grenades sprouting gold-leaf angels' wings with crowns hovering over them. It's like a veil was lifted. I saw dead people.
And it is a kind of blindness, really. The rest of the fashion world also denies the existence of Ed Hardy and/or Christian Audi-gier. Barneys, Saks, even New York Fashion Week, where American designers have their fashion shows—in none of these places are the names Ed Hardy or Christian Audigier breathed. The fact that he sells this stuff—not just literally tons of T-shirts and caps but tons of luxury-priced status items unapproved by the luxury-status complex—reflects something about ourselves that people in positions of fashionable power would rather not admit. Christian Audigier is an inconvenient truth.
On the home page of his Web site, Christian Audigier appeared in a photograph, naked from the waist up, in a swimming pool. On his back was a giant tattoo, which reads christian audigier est. 1958. I found the "contact us" link on the site and sent off a message—can I come out and interview Christian Audigier? As a writer for GQ, I send out e-mails like this every day. Many of them—like the e-mail I sent to Bernard Madoff's lawyer asking if I could come over to the penthouse for an interview—simply disappear into the Internet. I think it was about thirty-eight seconds later that I got an e-mail response from a woman who worked for Christian named Nicole. She said yes, I can come interview him. How about next week, or maybe the week after? Yeah, sure, either week, that works. Can I come to his office? Yes. His trade show (which is, seriously, called When I Move You Move)? Yes. Will he fly me to the show on his private jet? Sure. Can I make love to his really tall Brazilian wife on the white fur bedspread at their Topanga Canyon ranch? Totally. Everything (except of course that last bit, which I didn't ask) she said was totally fine. All I had to do was show up.
If you want evidence of what Christian Audigier has made himself into, look no farther than his new offices in Beverly Hills. A far cry from Avignon, motherfuckers. A far cry from being a 14-year-old dropout working at the Jean Machine shop in the South of France in the '70s, where he began his long, recursive climb through the world of denim sportswear. (If you invented a name for the place Christian Audigier came from, you couldn't do better than the Jean Machine. Or, wait, I think I may have done it: Frenchy Pimptown.)
Audigier Brand Management is housed in what you'd more likely call a palazzo than an office building. A freestanding brick mansion with grand filigreed stone casement windows, a mansard roof, a driveway where your Bentley is parked in a designated space. The door is heavy and wood, with iron detailing; the front desk is paneled in leather; there's a perfectly weathered Ralph Lauren–like heavy bag in the waiting room, a large moody black-and-white R&B-record-cover-style portrait of Christian in the entryway. And once I entered and could take in the whole balustraded open floor plan straight up to the skylight, I saw laid out on the white marble floor a stuffed albino peacock, a long leather bench with a fur thrown over it, and what appeared to be a precise replica of the chopper from Easy Rider, with the Stars and Stripes carapace and everything. It was not immediately clear what any of these items meant, but it did give you a feeling. It made you feel rich and male; it made you feel like drinking champagne with a beautiful prostitute. It brings to mind the kind of place that makes us wonder, once the IRS comes to seize everything, how could we not have known about the fraud? Which, let me be clear, is not what I'm accusing Christian of—whatever fraud he's perpetrating is not the secret kind.
It wasn't long after the tour of the building that Christian had us assembled in the office of his personal assistant, Carol Leffler—me, Carol, Christian, a guy named Tracey, whose job it is to be friends with rappers and professional athletes, and Nicole, the woman from marketing who said I could come here in the first place. Christian smelled great. He was even tanner than he is in his publicity shots. He's built low to the ground, with a wide nose and black eyes buried deep in his face. If he was never on a rugby team or in the Russian Mafia, he really missed his calling. He was wearing dark jeans and a cream-colored long-sleeve T-shirt. He almost never wears the clothes he designs, which leads some people to wonder whether he actually likes them.
"I'm going to be in a movie with 50 Cents!" he said, sitting in Carol's office. He probably realizes he doesn't always get the plurals right in English, but fuck it. He never took any English classes or anything, but that never stopped people from understanding him. And maybe there's no one better positioned to exploit the fact that we, as a society, have moved past the importance of meaning than the European denim-sportswear designer.
"Seriously?" I said. "You're going to be in a movie?"
"Yeah!" he said. "I will play a French designer with a troubled past. 50 Cents play my bodyguard." As he was giving a plot synopsis, he dialed his cell phone and had me talk to an agent named David Weintraub, who was producing the movie. Christian grinned at me as we spoke. Weintraub is known for both producing and being in reality TV shows that are called things like Sons of Hollywood and Sober House; he will subsequently become the spokesperson for that lady who was in the naked video with Eric Dane and Rebecca Gayheart. Weintraub told me it was he who'd introduced Ed Hardy clothes to his dear friend Tori Spelling a few years ago, and that it had basically saved her birthday party.
"It's going to be 48 Hrs. meets Shanghai Knights,"he said.
Can he act?
"The guy is a natural," David said. And then he said Christian Audigier was going to kick people's asses in this movie. "Christian is into fighting, boxing, martial arts. And he wants to show people that side. That skill set." (By the end of the summer, David Weintraub would no longer be working with Christian. Carol and Nicole would also be replaced.)
When I had given him his phone back and he'd wiped off the ear grease on his jeans, he told me that he was also putting out an album. His intermediary needed only five minutes to sell Universal on the idea. (Of course, that deal would later get cloudy.) He would call the album My American Dream. Kanye was going to be on it, and 50 Cent.
"I am not shy," Christian said. "I have a vision. The industry of music is dead. The industry of film is dead. So I am going to go full-in to create something new."
It was afternoon in Beverly Hills. Yellow sun fell through the heavy wood slats and onto the marble floor. Christian sat on the sofa and played with his lighter. Carol looked at him and just couldn't keep from smiling. What I'd notice, being with Christian, is that he's always surrounded by devotees. People seem to understand that their job might only be to hang around Christian and smile at him. A man in a white server's jacket and black tie came in carrying crystal glasses filled with water.
I asked everyone what his favorite perk of working here was—like was it the free clothes, or the private chef, or going to Las Vegas for trade shows, or waiters bringing you crystal glasses of water in the afternoon? I figured this would be a good topic for people who worked in what looks like an episode of MTV's Cribs. But somehow it turned into this game where everyone went around the circle saying what it is they loved about working with Christian Audigier.
Nicole spoke first. She used to be a Laker Girl. Christian met her when she was working at a restaurant and hired her on the spot. "If you're hungry and you believe in him," Nicole said, "he'll let you shine."
Christian beamed at her, as if he were just discovering that she could turn into a parrot and then turn back.
"Christian really does believe in us," his assistant, Carol, said. She's pretty, the kind of fortysomething woman who wears spandex leggings, which is what she was wearing. He hired her out of a restaurant, too. "All he asks is that you believe in him and you don't ever tell him, 'No, I can't.' "
A film crew came into the room then and stuck a boom mike over Carol's head while she talked. For the past five years or so, Christian has employed a film crew to follow him around wherever he goes. He says someday he will make a documentary about his life.
"Christian gave me an enormous amount," Tracey said. The camera crew shifted toward him. Tracey is the brother of a former NBA player and Lil Bow Wow's uncle. He introduced Christian to Puff and Kanye and lots of other people. "I never thought of my friends as a way of business. Christian showed me how to do that."
Christian's makeup artist, who I guess keeps him camera-ready during all his waking hours, came in, opened her tackle box, found a little sponge, and touched up his nose as he smoked his cigarette out of the corner of his mouth.
"People say I am a mégalo_!_" Christian said then. I think mégalo is French slang for, you know, narcissist. "I am not a mégalo. I am an artist. That's it. Putting my face on a poster. Going onstage. That is what artists do."
It's amazing how many people don't think he's French French. Like, isn't he really Moroccan? Or Iranian? One of _those _kinds of Francophones? At least Jewish? I don't know what it says about us that we don't think French people are capable of selling really loud clothes at a huge markup.
But as far as I know, he is French French. I'm going to gloss over most of the early biography. The childhood in Avignon, the absconding of the father at an early age, the period in which he worked at the Jean Machine and became the greatest salesman that little town had ever seen. I'll gloss over the part where he becomes a jeans designer at age 15; his precipitous rise to the station of King of Denim (an actual phrase used to describe him) and freelance designer for twenty different brands; his precipitous fall and bankruptcy (forgot about the payroll tax!) and the five-year hiatus in Bali, to which he'd escaped with enough money to open a few stores and bars and restaurants. Other events I'll gloss over: his first two marriages and the birth of his first child, Crystal Rock Audigier; the fateful afternoon when he was with Jean-Claude Van Damme in Cannes (dude, think about that for a minute) and he met the very tall, very beautiful Brazilian woman who would bear him three children and to whom he is now married. We'll pick up the thread at the famous Las Vegas trade show known as Magic, in the year 2002, when a former Tae Kwon Do champion from the Netherlands, who had just licensed the work of an obscure '50s car-culture artist and rumored neo-Nazi named Von Dutch, hired Christian to design a denim line for him.
"I was thinking I make this into Levi's," Christian said. "I was dreaming all my life of America, of the blue jean, of Marlon Brando. And the trucker hat."
Marlon Brando. And, you know, the trucker hat.
The thing about the trucker hat that no one had taken advantage of, Christian said, is that you can see the logo really clearly when it's on the head of a famous person in a photograph. If Lindsay Lohan were wearing 7 for All Mankind jeans when she crashed into a Pinkberry and got her picture taken doing a sobriety test, who would know? Not the case if she were wearing a Von Dutch hat. One afternoon, after he'd designed the line and they'd opened the Von Dutch boutique on Melrose, he saw Britney Spears shopping and chased her down. One thing Christian can do is talk to famous people. He does it with just the right mixture of enthusiasm and brazenness and ass-kissery.
"And three weeks later," he said, "she split with Justin Timberlake. They was on People magazine, both of them, with the page cracking, you know. Was her with the cap Von Dutch, was him with the cap Von Dutch, and Fred Durst who she was dating at the time with the T-shirt Von Dutch. And—" he snaps—"this is where the story start." (Von Dutch was all over magazines like _People _and _US Weekly, _but this particular story doesn't appear to exist.)
I asked him who the first label was to put clothes on celebrities as a market strategy.
"I was."
"At this time this kind of pop culture is completely new. Remember, it is just ten years ago that start reality shows and video clip and all this stuff—same time as Von Dutch. L.A. was the city for it. I get specialize on celeb over here."
He continued. "My demo is tabloid magazine. I am different from the other designer. Because what they say they hate, I love. They say they hate it but they always looking at it. We all look at OK! magazine. We pretend to don't be. But we all want to see."
Just like, most likely, Jon Gosselin, Von Dutch was extraordinarily popular for a time and then virtually disappeared. A microfad, extreme in its intensity and brevity.
What was the error Von Dutch made? Why doesn't it really exist anymore?
"Their mistake? To let me go. When I left, we were at the top of the moon. Now they are crash."
Tonny Sorensen, the Netherlandish Tae Kwon Do champion, said that Christian believed Von Dutch was his brand. He wanted to change the name to Von Dutch by Christian Audigier. Things got tense on Melrose. The Netherlandish former Tae Kwon Do champion says the man from the Jean Machine gave an ultimatum: It's my brand, or I leave.
Ed Hardy was born not long thereafter, nine weeks after Christian had quit Von Dutch, after his heart attack just days later (the aftermath of which was filmed covertly at the hospital), after the period of quietude and self-reflection that followed. As he tells it, he bought a T-shirt on Melrose with the image of a tattoo by a once semi-obscure counterculture artist who lived in Hawaii named Ed Hardy. And when he wore the shirt out that night, everyone went so apeshit over it that he went back to the store the next day, found out who designed it, then flew Ed Hardy to Los Angeles and, in fifteen minutes, licensed his work for a new brand.
That's what he told me, anyway.
He told the head of fashion at Macy's (which does an obscenely enormous Ed Hardy business) a different story, about how a guy named Caleb introduced him to Ed Hardy. And Ed Hardy himself says that Christian told him another story, that he'd been obsessed with Hardy's designs and searched him out. He recently settled a lawsuit with Ed Hardy about, besides the question of royalty payments, the fact that Ed Hardy didn't understand that he no longer really controlled his name and his images anymore—essentially the same problem Christian had with the Tae Kwon Do champion. It's kind of like the story Christian told me about how he funded Ed Hardy. He said he used money he'd saved from his time at Von Dutch, while Tonny Sorensen might have claimed the seed money came from Christian's having put in extremely large requisition orders to suppliers before he left the company, with no paperwork, in exchange for kickbacks—alleged in another lawsuit. That suit has been settled, and neither party is legally permitted to discuss the terms of settlement.
Now, I'm not saying who's right and who's wrong. But I'm not sure getting the story straight is Christian's primary concern. It's not a new idea, perception being more important than, and arguably defining, reality. But Christian Audigier seems to have internalized this idea uncommonly well, or to have appeared on earth with the idea already installed in his brain. Consider the giant photographs of Christian being interviewed by Larry King on the walls of both his offices, even though those episodes were never on television. Or the tattoo he has on his actual person saying that his Christian Audigier brand was established in 1958. Or that Ed Hardy is actually a man, and a man who isn't Christian Audigier. If he can be said to be lying, it's not Clintonian, the kind of passionate lying in which the person lying has hypnotized himself into actually believing what he's saying. It's more like: Being too interested in the actual facts kind of insults what I'm doing here.
For a long time on Sunday morning, they didn't arrive, and we were waiting—me, the pilot, the flight attendant. And then all at once they stormed out of black Denalis and onto the plane, seven aging Frenchmen, a wash of bergamot-top-noted aftershave and denim, a mound of Goyard bags, at least one pair of black wraparound shades per man, a dozen packs of Marlboro Lights, gray hair—gel-spiked and slicked back and long and grizzled. We all buckled ourselves into the leather sofas, and the pilot climbed into the cockpit and took us onto the runway and up and out of Van Nuys.
Joe, with the long gray hair and the assassin sunglasses, who could look no more like he'd been sucked through a wormhole from St-Tropez were he sitting here oiled up in a gold lamé bikini, was next to Christian. When we got to cruising altitude, he said, "Look, I get Botox."
"Bullshit," Christian said. "If you get Botox, it didn't work. You get your money back."
Everyone laughed. Cigarettes were lit. Christian called for a round of espressos. We were living a French remake of Wild Hogs.
This was a chartered jet for the VIFs (pronounced veefs and meaning both "Very Important French" and "fast ones"), an accordioning group of five to ten guys whom Christian has known for most of his life. The flight to Las Vegas, where When I Move You Move, his trade show, would start tomorrow, took almost no time at all, barely long enough to eat some cured salmon and read Le Monde. Somewhere over the desert, the inhuman landscape unspooling in the windows, we got to talking about photo treatments for this story. This whole journalistic enterprise, this profile of Christian Audigier, was an unusually collaborative effort. After every little thing that happened, he'd call me over, "Darren, Darren, this is cool, right? You gonna make a beautiful story?" Or he'd sit me down and start scrolling through his cell-phone contacts, telling me whom I should interview. Britney Spears. Stallone. Puff. Randy Jackson. "Here's Larry King's number. You call him in the morning; he's great in the morning. Say, 'I am Darren from GQ.' " (I never did get him to call me Devin, though I did get him to call me GQ instead of Darren.)
"How about this idea for a photo," Christian said, two plane windows in the big lenses of his sunglasses. "I am sitting in the corner of a plane smoking my cigarette, and the pilot is there, and the door is open to a desert. My motorcycle is strapped into the plane like I am going to take my bike to the desert to ride."
I acknowledged that this evokes a certain kind of manliness.
"Or something like this," he said. "Me on a horse. And there are ten horses around me with no one on them. On Melrose Street. Something like this."
He's a good designer, Christian had said, but his real knack is marketing. To him, the most important principle in marketing is getting people to notice you.
"Is like Obama," he said. "Obama was 200 percent advertising. I promote myself to sell my brands. Because now I am a kind of celeb. I have paparazzi on me, I have all of that. I am in a different world than the fashion industry. I am with Mick Jagger, Michael Jackson, Madonna. I build me as a celebrity."
There were a lot of us waiting for Christian to come onstage. Me and the French guys and the inner circle of Dedicated Audigier Ladies, we were all sitting on leather sofas in the VIP section inside the Augustus Ballroom at Caesars Palace. It was day three of When I Move You Move. The first two days of the show were epic (colossally boring, too—it's an apparel trade show). The theme was Audigier Ranch, and he'd flown in wooden fence posts and an entire fake saloon and silver rhinestone cacti and a mechanical bull and faux hay bales and twenty black stallions made out of some kind of glossy epoxy which all inexplicably had their genitalia exposed (each identically hung like a horse). The Pussycat Dolls performed at the show every day (they're a "cabaret" act from Los Angeles; one of them works for Christian). At other times, there was a guy who'd put volunteers in really tight Ed Hardy T-shirts and then cut away most of the fabric with shears, making elaborate shirt-bikinis. It was mesmerizing. There were fashion shows every day in which the models dressed up like cowboys and Indians, where a man might walk onstage in, and this is a real example, a tattooed hoodie, a dead wolf, and a bathrobe. Every night Christian would take us all—the VIFs, other assorteds, Ramses III (his personal hairdresser)—to dinner at the same overpriced seafood restaurant at Caesars, I think because they treated him like a king and there wasn't likely to be anyone more important who'd show up and Bigfoot us. One night, Joe the VIF brought two very attractive prostitutes to the table and said, "One for me and one for you, Christian." It was just a joke. Another night we were eating when we saw Bill Clinton walking through the casino, and we staked him out while he perused a trinket shop until Christian could negotiate a photo with him, which went immediately onto his Web site.
But this concert was the grand finale of the show. Christian was going to perform his new song, "My American Dream," live.
Dave Stewart came out first, and the DJ gave him a rolling intro. Most of the people I talked to didn't know who Dave Stewart was—he's the guy from Eurythmics (and also a crack songwriter for people like Gwen Stefani and Christian Audigier). Stewart was leather-pantsed, bearded, pale, in big iridescent glasses, looking like he should be smoking weed and writing songs for Katy Perry at a house in Laurel Canyon. His sequined blazer was from the line he does with Christian called Rock Fabulous. He warmed up the crowd while reminding them who he was.
He played a few bars of "Sweet Dreams" and mumbled into the mike, "I think you'll recognize this one as it builds." At the end of the set Christian came out from somewhere in the dark behind the stage. He was in a black motorcycle jacket and nice jeans and black leather boots, looking like a man who'd been momentarily separated from his Aston Martin. He was tanner than I'd ever seen him, and he looked like he smelled fantastic, even if you couldn't smell him from here. He stepped to the mike, which had a long gold Ed Hardy scarf tied to it à la Steven Tyler, and addressed the crowd.
"I am going to sing you a song," Christian said. "When I come here I was dreaming of this! To perform like this for you! This is my American dream!"
Stewart struck a few anthemic chords. The backup singers, all three of them terri-fyingly talented and assertive performers, addressed themselves to their task. And then…nothing.
"This is the most smash-hit single ever to be sung in French and English," Dave Stewart said. "But we need someone to put the fucking words on the prompter."
The band stopped playing, and someone ran across the stage in a booty pack, presumably to fix the teleprompters. Christian disappeared into the shadows backstage. In ten minutes, Christian strutted out again, like he'd never seen the crowd before, like it hadn't just been revealed that he didn't know the words to his song, and started to sing—mostly in French, except for the chorus: Nah nah-nah-nah-nah / My American dream! You couldn't call him a virtuoso, but the man was in control of the crowd.
"This is my dream," he screamed. "This is your dream! My American dream!"
All the people working the show watched from their booths. They were mostly young women, sitting with samples of one Christian Audigier–affiliated product or another: tees, hoodies, denim, bags, sunglasses, suits, something called velour sets, watches, barware, dresses, "ecological fur," underwear, leather jackets, ties, scarves, bathing suits, children's clothes, crystal cell-phone cases called Icing, snowboards featuring topless ladies, snowsuits in tiger camo, Ed Hardy Smart cars—there were three parked in the Augustus Ballroom. (And that's not including the licensees Christian has that weren't part of the trade show: rosé wine, tequila, vodka, motorcycles, boats, energy drinks, bedsheets, something called structured water, limousines. He'd also like to start an airline, a hotel chain, and a bank. There was a deal in the works to make dildos, too—you know, not those schlock ones; the, as he says, Chanel of dildos. It's not like he's worried about diluting the brand; it's more suggestive of a guy who realizes there's a horizon on this stuff and he might as well cash in now. On everything.) Nicole and Carol and the intern from Arkansas who was in a micromini and took her internship deadly seriously, even while moving fake hay bales—they all screamed their heads off as he pushed on toward the song's crescendo. Next to me, a woman in an Ed Hardy silk bikini fitted with a western gun holster shivered in the air-conditioning.
In the Augustus Ballroom, everyone had the perfect breasts she deserved and a fresh French manicure. This is what the world would look like if it were populated only by Christian Audigier's people. There are folks who are very scared of this proposition. At some of the more picky clubs in Los Angeles, for instance, they will not let a customer in if he or she is wearing anything Audigier. I talked to someone about this, Darren Dzienciol, who opened the exclusive Guy's, a club in Hollywood. He said he simply thought the clothes were déclassé and invited the wrong kind of customer.
"I'm not going to name any races," Darren said. "But you do see a lot of Muhammads getting out of [Mercedes] SLRs in them."
The knock against the clothes is that they're "too L.A." in that kind of off-duty-stripper way. That they appeal to people who have more money than taste.
"That's good," Christian said when I asked him about this impression. "The strip club is full of people! I know all of them when I go over there. Who don't go to strip club when they are in L.A. or in whatever city? Las Vegas. I believe there's no bad people."
After the show, he was still keyed up. We all trailed him through the giant corridor behind the event space, past the forklifts and the Ed Hardy Smart cars being packed off. He'd had a lot of screwdrivers to take the edge off, and he ducked into a doorway and peed right there in the hall. I guess when you're paying a million and a half dollars to put on a show, casino security will let you pee where you want to.
"You see what I do?" Christian said when we were moving again. "Everywhere I go, buzz. It's like addiction. If they are not here, they feel stupid. If you go to that other trade show instead of this, you suicide yourself!"
The night ended at 3 a.m., in the casino. He sat with a few thousand dollars of chips in front of him. He gave two of the women who worked for him some chips so they'd sit next to him and gamble. The VIFs, the Dedicated Ladies, some of the licensees in their going-out dresses—we just stood by and watched. But if you had asked anyone the next day what they'd done last night, they would have said, I went gambling with Christian Audigier and it was crazy. Christian played roulette. He'd put all his chips, $6,000, down on, say, the number 23 and lose everything, then borrow more money from whatever VIF was nearby.
"My name is Christian Audigier," he yelled, standing up at his stool after he lost. "And I will own this fucking casino!"
Devin Friedman is GQ*'s Senior Correspondent*


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Net farm income is estimated to reach a record of $100.9 billion this year. According to USDA's latest report, "Farm Income and Costs: 2011 Farm Sector Income Forecast," the projection is 28% higher than net farm income last year. The report estimates that crop receipts will rise over 16% in 2011, while livestock receipts are expected to rise nearly 17%. Cash receipts for corn are estimated at $60 billion, a 34% increase over 2010, while oil crops will reach $38 billion, an 8% increase. Cash receipts for pork are estimated at $39.4 billion and cattle at $62.3 billion. Total production expenses for 2011 are expected to reach a record $320 billion. Government payments paid directly to producers are expected to total $10.6 billion in 2011, which is a 14.4% decrease from 2010 payments. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack said, "A strong U.S. agricultural economy means more opportunities for small business owners and jobs for folks who package, ship and market agricultural products. Our farmers and ranchers have worked hard to keep their debt low and to capitalize on a broader economic recovery. Their willingness to adapt, innovate and embrace new research and technologies have ensured their success and can be a blueprint for the rest of the country's economic recovery."
Coalition Asks Congress to Review Renewable Fuel Standard — A coalition of hunger organizations, agricultural groups and environmental groups are asking the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee to hold a hearing on the impacts of the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS) on the environment, food price volatility and the economy. In a letter to the committee, the coalition said, "The RFS is failing to achieve its intended goals of bringing about truly environmetnally and economically sustainable alternative transportation fuels, while mandating massive volumes of harmful fuels like corn ethanol." Those signing the letter included Freedom Action, Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, Milk Producers Council, Oxfam America, Public Citizen and state dairy groups from New Mexico, Utah, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon and Washington.
Congress Returns to Unfinished Business — Congress has a number of items to complete by the end of the year. There are nine remaining FY '12 appropriations bills that need to be completed by Dec. 16. The agriculture appropriations bill was signed into law by President Obama in November. A key issue for the Senate Democratic leadership is a renewal of the payroll tax cut. If this provision is not extended, it is estimated the average family would pay an additional $900 in federal taxes, annually. Extending federal unemployment compensation will also be considered. There are a number of expiring tax provisions that are important to business, such as the research and development tax break, which need to be addressed by the end of the year. The Senate is expected to vote on the House-passed balanced-budget amendment before the end of the year.
Meat Industry Injury and Illness Rates Record Low — The Bureau of Labor Statistics' latest report shows that the meat industry's workplace injury and illness rates remain at a record low. Total recordable injury and illness rates for 2010 were at 6.9 cases per 100 full-time employees. This compares to a rate of 14.7cases per 100 full-time employees per year 10 years ago.


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A new agreement signed this week has pledged the support of the IUCN SSC (Species Survival Commission) Invasive Species Specialist Group to help combat invasive alien species that are threatening ecosystems and livelihoods.
As governments and scientists gather in Hyderabad, India, to discuss solutions to the world's current biodiversity crisis, a Memorandum of Cooperation was signed at the launch of the Global Invasive Alien Species Information Partnership. The initiative is chaired by Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), and supported by a number of international partners, including the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) and the Centre for Agricultural Bioscience International (CABI).
The Memorandum of Cooperation, which is co-signed by; Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias; Jane Smart, Global Director IUCN Biodiversity Conservation Group; and Piero Genovesi, Chair of the IUCN SSC Invasive Species Specialist Group (ISSG), formally acknowledges that ISSG will support the work of the CBD on invasive species.
The ISSG have committed to provide information and data on invasive species to support the CBD Parties to meet the provisions of Aichi Target 9 that calls on states to strengthen work on invasive species. ISSG offers considerable expertise to this role and hosts the Global Invasive Species Database which is globally acknowledged as the most authoritative information source on invasive species.


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Jan. 20, 2007
Sometimes it is not one game that is most important. Sometimes it is the process that matters the most.
As the Lipscomb Lady Bisons move closer to the half-way point of their season improvement can be seen in a team that has dealt with its share of setbacks this season.
Even in Saturday evening's 72-55 loss to Belmont at Allen Arena there were positives.
"We are getting better," Lipscomb coach Frank Bennett said. "We just have to finish better around the basket. We have some good 3-point shooters. We have to also get some more contributions from the players off of the bench. We are not consistent getting points from there."
Junior point guard Catie Woods scored a game-high 19 points, the sixth time this season she has led the Lady Bisons in scoring. Junior guard Dana Carrigan added 13 points, her third straight double figures game and fourth out of her last five games.
"We are in pretty good shape in the conference," Bennett said. "We have to win some more games to move up a little higher in the seedings. It is very important for us to try to steal some road wins. After Belmont and ETSU the conference is going to be pretty jumbled up."
Jessica Bobbitt scored on a jump shot for Belmont for the first points of the game. Belmont, 7-0 in the Atlantic Sun, never trailed in the game.
Belmont led by as many as 18 points in the first half, but the Lady Bisons fought back going on an 11-2 run that cut the lead to nine at 31-22 on a lay-up by center Penny Jones with 5:32 left before intermission. Belmont went on a 6-2 run to lead 37-24 at the half.
In the second half Belmont led by as many as 21 points, but again the Lady Bisons clawed back cutting the lead to 10 points (48-38) on a pair of free throws by center Katie Rollins with 10:17 left to play.
"We made some runs," Bennett said. "We missed a lot of shots around the basket. If we could have got some of those in it would have helped us out a lot.
"We kept battling back. But we would make a run and not shoot our free throws well. That sort of takes it out of you."
Belmont responded pulling ahead again and controlling the game the rest of the way.
The Lady Bisons committed 17 turnovers. Belmont made 16.
"We had a relatively low turnover game," Bennett said. "It is not great, but 17 in a game probably leads the conference on average right now. We have gotten off of that 25-to-30 turnover threshold." The Lady Bisons hit 33.3 percent from the field (18-54) and 32 percent from 3-point range (8-of-25). They hit 11-of-20 free throw attempts (55.5 percent).
Three Belmont players scored in double figures. Amber Rockwell led with 16 points. Alysha Clark scored 13 and also grabbed a game-high 15 rebounds for a double-double. Bobbitt added 10 points.
Belmont hit 28-of-66 shots from the field for a 42.3 percent rate and eight of 26 3-point shots for 30.8 percent. Belmont hit eight-of-13 from the free throw line.
The Lady Bisons are 5-12 overall, 3-4 in the conference. Belmont is 13-4 overall.
The Lady Bisons head to North Carolina for games at Campbell on Jan. 25 and at Gardner-Webb on Jan. 27.
"I warned our team that after playing a rival game it is very easy, whether you win or lose, not to play very well the next time out," Bennett said. "That is not uncommon. You get too high or too low. It makes it hard to get ready for the next game."


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Retractable Bow Centreboard: After watching his yacht miss line honours in the 2011 Rolex Sydney Hobart race, octogenarian Bob Oatley was convinced that one of the primary reasons for the yacht lacking speed in light winds was the drag caused by the two daggerboards which were fitted just prior to that race – and he was right.
After extensive testing back in Sydney, and three months of hull surgery, Wild Oats XI was relaunched carrying the same daggerboards, but with another retractable centreboard fitted on the centreline three metres aft of the bow. Mark Richards, the yacht's skipper, explained this modification: 'We weren't able to trial the two new daggerboards prior to the last Hobart race, so it was only during the race that we realised we had a speed problem in light winds.
'When the yacht returned to Sydney we did a series of tests using extremely accurate GPS readings so we could analyse the yacht's performance, and that led to us designing a symmetrical and retractable centreboard to be fitted near the bow.
'We now use that centreboard when sailing upwind in winds of up to seven knots, then we go through a transition phase as the wind increases in strength to a point where the centreboard is eventually fully retracted and one of the two existing daggerboards is completely down. When sailing downwind all three appendages are retracted to reduce drag.'
Code Zero Headsail: If there was one thing missing in Wild Oats XI's sail arsenal last year it was the very latest and largest possible Code Zero light-weather headsail – but that will not be the case this year. Bob Oatley has had made especially for this year's race a headsail of gargantuan proportions – 535 square metres … larger than two tennis courts. It is so large that the foot (bottom) of the sail will extend from the tip of the bowsprit to a point that is three-quarters of the way along the deck of the 30-metre long yacht. The sail, from North Sails in Sydney, is made using the very latest technology. The ultra-lightweight 3DI fabric comprises carbon, aramid and Dyneema yarns.
Mark Richards, who has skippered Wild Oats XI to all five of her Rolex Sydney Hobart race victories, gave his overview on the changes to the yacht: 'Last year's line honours result confirmed that every second counts, even in a race over 628 nautical miles, so this year we have gone in search of where we can gain seconds as well as, possibly, hours.
'The winglets on the keel will make us just that little bit faster in all weather, and the new retractable centreboard will give us more speed in light winds, as will the huge Code Zero headsail. That sail is like replacing a rifle with a canon.
'As was all too evident for us last year, we can't control the weather, but we can go into the race knowing that we can do no more when it comes to having the fastest possible yacht, and that is the case this year. Thanks to Bob Oatley's commitment, Wild Oats XI has never been better prepared for a Rolex Sydney Hobart race. Now it's up to us – the crew – and the weather to decide the outcome.'
The critical nature of these improvements is seen in the fact that had Wild Oats XI been just one second per mile faster in last year's race she would have completed the course almost 11 minutes faster than she did – more than three times the difference between line honours and second place!


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Michelle Duncan played Portia in the 2007 production of The Merchant Of Venice.
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