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Catullus, in full Gaius Valerius Catullus, (born c. 84 bce, Verona, Cisalpine Gaul—died c. 54 bce, Rome), Roman poet whose expressions of love and hatred are generally considered the finest lyric poetry of ancient Rome. In 25 of his poems he speaks of his love for a woman he calls Lesbia, whose identity is uncertain. Other poems by Catullus are scurrilous outbursts of contempt or hatred for Julius Caesar and lesser personages.
No ancient biography of Catullus survives. A few facts can be pieced together from external sources, in the works of his contemporaries or of later writers, supplemented by inferences drawn from his poems, some of which are certain, some only possible. The unembroidered, certain facts are scanty. Catullus was alive 55–54 bce on the evidence of four of his poems and died young according to the poet Ovid—at the age of 30 as stated by St. Jerome (writing about the end of the 4th century), who nevertheless dated his life erroneously 87–57 bce. Catullus was thus a contemporary of the statesmen Cicero, Pompey, and Caesar, who are variously addressed by him in his poems. He preceded the poets of the immediately succeeding age of the emperor Augustus, among whom Horace, Sextus Propertius, Tibullus, and Ovid name him as a poet whose work is familiar to them. On his own evidence and that of Jerome, he was born at Verona in northern Italy and was therefore a native of Cisalpine Gaul (Gaul This Side of the Alps); he owned property at Sirmio, the modern Sirmione, on Lake Garda, though he preferred to live in Rome and owned a villa near the Roman suburb of Tibur, in an unfashionable neighbourhood. According to an anecdote in the Roman biographer Suetonius' Life of Julius Caesar, Catullus' father was Caesar's friend and host, but the son nevertheless lampooned not only the future dictator but also his son-in-law Pompey and his agent and military engineer Mamurra with a scurrility that Caesar admitted was personally damaging and would leave its mark on history; the receipt of an apology was followed by an invitation to dinner "the same day," and Caesar's relations with the father continued uninterrupted. (Suetonius cites the episode as an example of Caesar's clemency.)
Catullus' poetry reports one event, externally datable to c. 57–56 bce, a journey to Bithynia in Asia Minor in the retinue of Gaius Memmius, the Roman governor of the province, from which he returned to Sirmio. It also records two emotional crises, the death of a brother whose grave he visited in the Troad, also in Asia Minor, and an intense and unhappy love affair, portrayed variously in 25 poems, with a woman who was married and whom he names Lesbia, a pseudonym (Ovid states) for Clodia, according to the 2nd-century writer Apuleius. His poems also record, directly or indirectly, a homosexual affair with a youth named Juventius.
Such are the stated facts. The conjectural possibilities to be gleaned mostly from the internal evidence of Catullus' poetry extend a little further. It is accepted that Catullus was born c. 84 bce and that he died c. 54 bce. His father's hospitality to Caesar may have been exercised in Cisalpine Gaul when Caesar was governor of the province, but equally well at Rome—Suetonius does not indicate time or place. Catullus' Roman villa may have been heavily mortgaged (depending on the choice of manuscript reading of one poem). A yacht retired from active service and celebrated in an iambic poem may have been his own, built in Bithynia, in northwestern Asia Minor, and therefore available to convey him on his way home to Sirmio after his tour of duty. His fellow poet Cinna may have accompanied him to Bithynia. For the governor Memmius, himself a litterateur (to whom the Roman philosophic poet Lucretius dedicated his poem on the nature of things, De rerum natura), such company might be congenial, and it is possible to speculate that Cinna was on board the yacht. The brother's grave could have been visited en route to or from Bithynia.
The poet's Clodia may have been a patrician, one of the three Clodia sisters of Cicero's foe Publius Clodius Pulcher, all three the subject of scandalous rumour, according to Plutarch. If so, she was most probably the one who married the aristocrat Metellus Celer (consul 60 bce, died 59 bce), who in 62 bce was governor of Cisalpine Gaul. It may have been at that time that the youthful poet first met her and possibly fell under her spell. She is accorded a vivid if unflattering portrait in Cicero's Pro Caelio, in which the orator had occasion to blacken her character in order to defend his client against Clodia's charge that as her lover after her husband's death he had tried to poison her. The client was Marcus Caelius Rufus, conceivably the Rufus reproached by Catullus in poem LXXVII as a trusted friend who had destroyed his happiness (but if so, the Caelius of poem C is a different person). This identification of Clodia, suggested by an Italian scholar of the 16th century, has found support in some uncertain inferences from the Lesbia poems: the poet's mistress besides being married perhaps moved in society, enjoyed fashionable amusements, was cultivated and witty, and was licentious enough to justify Cicero's attack. On the other hand, the poet twice appears to have included the protection of his own rank among the gifts he had laid at her feet.
The poetry
A consideration of the text of Catullus' poems and of its arrangement is of unusual interest. Its survival has been as precarious as his biography is brief. Not being part of the school syllabus, from roughly the end of the 2nd century to the end of the 12th century, it passed out of circulation. Knowledge of it depends on a single manuscript discovered c. 1300, copied twice, and then lost. Of the two copies, one in turn was copied twice, and then it was lost. From the three survivors—in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, and the Vatican Library in Rome—scholars have been able to reconstruct the lost "archetype." Incorrect transcription in the preceding centuries (some 14 instances are beyond repair), however, has invited frequent and often uncertain emendation. Depending on whether one poem is divided or not, 113 or 114 poems survive. In the printed total of 116, numbers XVIII to XX were inserted by early editors without proof that they were written by Catullus. In 14 instances gaps are visible (eight of these of one or more lines), and in possibly six poems fragments of lost poems have been left attached to existing ones. Ancient citations indicate the existence of at least five more poems. The surviving body of work is therefore mutilated and incomplete and (in contrast to the Odes of Horace) cannot in its present published form represent the intentions of either author or executors, despite the elegant dedication to the historian Cornelius Nepos that heads it. With these qualifications, it permits the reconstruction of a poetic personality and art unique in Latin letters.
The collection is headed by 57 "short poems," ranging in length between 5 and 25 lines (number X, an exception, has 34) in assorted metres, of which, however, 51 are either hendecasyllabic—that is, having a verse line of 11 syllables (40 such)—or iambic—basically of alternate short and long syllables (11). These rhythms, though tightly structured, can be characterized as occasional or conversational. There follow eight "longer poems," ranging from 48 lines to 408 (number LXV, of 24 lines, is prefatory to number LXVI) in four different metres. The collection is completed by 48 "epigrams" written in the elegiac distich, or pair of verse lines, and extending between 2 and 12 lines, a limit exceeded only by two poems, one of 26 lines and the other of 16.
This mechanical arrangement, by indirectly recognizing the poet's metrical virtuosity and proposing three kinds of composition, justly calls attention to a versatility disproportionate to the slim size of the extant work. The occasional-verse metres and the elegiac distich had been introduced into Latin before his day. Traditionally both forms, as practiced by Greek writers after the 4th century bce and their Roman imitators, had served for inscriptions and dedications and as verse of light occasions, satirical comment, and elegant sentiment. Catullus and his contemporaries continued this tradition; but in some 37 instances the poet uniquely converts these verse forms to serve as vehicles of feelings and observations expressed with such beauty and wit, on the one hand, or such passion, on the other, as to rank him, in modern terms, among the masters of the European lyric—the peer of Sappho and Shelley, of Burns and Heine—but exhibiting a degree of complexity and contradiction that the centuries-later Romantic temperament would scarcely have understood. The conversational rhythms in particular, as he managed them for lyric purposes, achieved an immediacy that no other classic poet can rival.
In his longer poems Catullus produced studies that deeply influenced the writers and poets of the Augustan Age: two charming marriage hymns; one frenzied cult hymn of emasculation; one romantic narrative in hexameters (lines of six feet) on the marriage of Peleus with the sea goddess Thetis; and four elegiac pieces, consisting of an epistle introducing a translation of an elegant conceit by the Alexandrian poet Callimachus, followed by a pasquinade, or scurrilous conversation, between the poet and a door (of poor quality, perhaps a youthful effort), and lastly a soliloquy (unless indeed this be two poems) addressed to a friend and cast in the form of an encomium, or poem of praise. The Augustan poet Virgil is content to imitate Catullus without naming him, even going so far, in the Aeneid, as thrice to borrow whole lines from him. Horace both imitated Catullus and criticized him. Tibullus, Propertius, Ovid, and later Martial both imitate and affectionately commemorate him.
In his lifetime, Catullus was a poet's poet, addressing himself to fellow craftsmen (docti, or scholarly poets), especially to his friend Licinius Calvus, who is often posthumously commemorated along with him. It is now fashionable to identify this coterie as the poetae novi, or "Neoterics" (the modern term for these new poets), who preferred the learned allusiveness and mannered and meticulous art of the Alexandrian poets to the grander but archaic fashion of Ennius, the father of Roman poetry. The school was criticized by Cicero and by Horace, who names Calvus and Catullus. To the degree that Catullus shared such conceptions of what might be called poetic scholarship, he is to be numbered in the company of Gerard Manley Hopkins, T.S. Eliot, and Ezra Pound rather than with the Romantics.
For the general reader, the 25 Lesbia poems are likely to remain the most memorable, recording as they do a love that could register ecstasy and despair and all the divided emotions that intervene. Two of them with unusual metre recall Sappho, the poetess of the Aegean island of Lesbos, as also does his use of the pseudonym Lesbia. As read today, these two seem to evoke the first moment of adoring love (number LI, a poem that actually paraphrases its Sapphic model) and the last bitterness of disillusionment (number XI). On the other hand, the poems of invective, which spare neither Julius Caesar nor otherwise unknown personalities, male and female, may not have received the critical attention some of them deserve. Their quality is uneven, ranging from the high-spirited to the tedious, from the lapidary to the laboured, but their satiric humour is often effective, and their obscenity reflects a serious literary convention that the poet himself defends. Between these two poles of private feeling lie a handful of transcendent and unforgettable compositions: the lament at his brother's grave; the salute to Sirmio his beloved retreat; the exchange of vows between Acme and Septimius; his elegy for the wife of Calvus; and even that vivid mime of a moment's conversation in a leisured day, in which the gay insouciance of a few young persons of fashion, the poet included, going about their affairs in the last days of the Roman Republic, is caught and preserved for posterity.Eric Alfred Havelock
Learn More in these related Britannica articles:
Latin literature: Epic and epyllionCatullus inset the story of Ariadne on Naxos into that of the marriage of Peleus and Thetis, and the poem has a mannered, lyrical beauty. But the story of Aristaeus at the end of Virgil's
Georgics, with that of Orpheus and Eurydice inset, shows what…
textual criticism: From Politian to Cobet…seen in the edition of Catullus by J.J. Scaliger (1577), in which the possibilities of the genealogical method, already understood in principle by Politian and other Renaissance scholars, were exemplified by the demonstration that all the extant copies derived from a lost manuscript, whose orthography and provenance Scaliger was prepared…
light verseSuch Roman poets as Catullus, singing of his love's sparrow, and Horace, inviting friends to share his wine, set patterns in light poetry that were followed to the end of the 19th century.…
neōterosAmong them is Catullus, who, during the Ciceronian period (70 to 43
bc) of the Golden Age, wrote finely wrought love lyrics and epyllia in Latin and Greek. Catullus's 95th poem hails the obscure epyllion Zmyrnaby Gaius Helvius Cinna as a model text of the new movement.…
epithalamium…Latin epithalamiums are three by Catullus (
c.84– c.54 bc). In the most original, Catullus tried to fuse the native Fescennine verse (a jocular, often obscene form of sung dialogue sometimes used at wedding feasts) with the Greek form of marriage song.…
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The dead bodies of two homeless people were discovered in separate Costa Mesa locations Tuesday, and city workers said they were taking emergency measures to shield those most at risk from the cold.
There were no unusual circumstances surrounding the deaths,
Costa Mesa Police Lt. Bryan Glass said.
Though police and the coroner's office did not release the victims' names, service providers who work with the homeless identified them as Robert Collins and Rita Stehnach, both believed to be in their 50s.
It was unclear whether cold temperatures, which dipped to 43 degrees Monday night, had something to do with the deaths. Autopsies will be performed, according the Orange County coroner's office.
A passerby discovered Collins' body at about 2 a.m. in the 500 block of West 19th Street, Glass said.
An employee from a nearby boxing gym found Stehnach's body near a Dumpster at about noon in the 100 block of East 17th Street.
Though the coroner's office did not release any identifying information, including ages, pending notification of the next of kin, Becks Heyhoe of the Churches Consortium, a homeless outreach program, identified Collins and Stehnach.
Collins hailed from Boston and was known as "a bit of a character here in Costa Mesa" for the last 10 years, Heyhoe said.
"His presence will be missed," Heyhoe said.
Stehnach was known to spend time on 17th Street, largely keeping to herself.
Both had health issues that could have played a role in their deaths, Heyhoe said.
"These are people who had been in our community for over a decade — who lived on our streets," Heyhoe said, "and the city is moving in a good direction, but we still need services and we need housing for people who are highly vulnerable."
As cold temperatures were expected to continue overnight, Assistant City CEO Rick Francis said that police planned to check in on the homeless during their shifts by visiting the locations they frequent.
In addition, he said, the city planned to pay for overnight motel stays for those most in need.
"...From my perspective, what matters is we've got people dying," Francis said. "If it's weather-related, how do we respond to that?"
City CEO Tom Hatch authorized the temporary motel measure, he added, saying that the city would reevaluate whether to continue the program based on weather conditions.
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OTL – Oilers 5, Maple Leafs 6 – Game 5 – 2013-10-10 @ 5:00 PM MST – CBC
Call this the reverse-Corsi battle. The Oilers are doing quite well in "Corsi" (Google that if you don't know what it is.. but basically the way "stats guys" prefer to measure how well a game is going for a team), the Maple Leafs are not. The Maple Leafs are winning… the Oilers are not. So the "stats guys" predict a rise for the Oilers, and a drop off for the Maple Leafs eminent. It's rare to see the "stats guys" talk in a positive light about the Oilers, so it will be interesting to see how this pans out after 82 games. The Oilers are also doing very well in one regular stat.. face off percentage. The Oilers are 3rd in the league with a team 56.8%. I believe this is due to a better "team" focus on faceoffs. The wingers are just as important to winning a draw. I also believe that Gordon is phenomenal at this skill, and his knowledge is likely Continue reading 'OTL – Oilers 5, Maple Leafs 6 – Game 5 – 2013-10-10 @ 5:00 PM MST – CBC'»


text: On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Mike Eggleston wrote: > Has this been asked for? Can we have a quick, informal poll > on what os/distribution/rpms/etc is running on people's nodes? RH 7.3, custom kickstart installation. Several hundred nodes (and lan workstations) in our department, but there are other departments who may or may not be using the same Dulug Beowulf group below as there are lots of clusters on campus now. Mostly dual nodes, both PIII and Athlon. See below (with encrypted root pw edited out:-) our "beowulf" ks file, and below it the relevant additions to the standard comps file to define the dulug beowulf group. Pretty straightforward -- sundry math/stats including blas/lapack, lam, pvm, gsl, xmlsysd/wulfstat to facilitate node monitoring, and a workstation-like install elsewhere. We (re)wrap everything local including proprietary site-license software in rpm form and restrict access accordingly. Perhaps this is a bit fatter than strictly necessary (installing X just so one can run x-tools on a node:-) but disk is "infinite" these days, our department network is basically flat wrt the cluster, and so who cares? We have a second image that doesn't create a rest-of-the-disk xtmp directory for use on small disk systems. Note that 3 GB is plenty for our OS image at least so far, and having a rest-of-disk, non-backed-up xtmp on each node provides many GB of scratch space for users without needing to know much about the node's specific disk other than it is bigger than 5 or 6 GB. There is also sundry magic worked in the post -- security, access, grub, and more. Note that a lot of this is due to Seth Vidal, our local linux genius who has set up and runs the dulug server(s). Anybody on campus (with a duke.edu address:-) can install linux consistently in a manner of minutes, automagically updated to the latest updates nightly via yum. This supports undergrads and grads, individual faculty at home (with duke.edu or proxy/tunnel) or in departments, department admins for their department lans, cluster owners and their clusters. Anybody on campus can install using the dulug beowulf group (and their own %post and additions/subtractions). Any admin who learns to use kickstart, grub, dhcpd and pxe can install or reinstall any cluster, cluster node, PC or workstation in a matter of minutes per node, where most of that time is spent waiting, not working. Just one person (Seth) does ALL the toplevel grooming of the actual distributions and support of the requisite tools. This scales pretty close to the theoretical maximum as a consequence, especially given that Seth's primary job ISN'T maintaining this, but running the physics department LAN. One fraction of an FTE (admittedly, a cosmically >>talented<< FTE:-) can and does maintain the entire tree structure that supports an entire University's use of linux -- thousands of systems -- including the completely automated distribution of e.g. security or functional updates as they are released. Seth actually provides a lot of detailed support for individual users and other linux admins via the dulug mailing list, as well, although there he has at least some help from the rest of the expert user base. All this and a real job too, gee! I'd like to see a single MCSE attempt this. Ever. Makes me want to laugh hysterically just thinking about it -- tracking the licenses alone for 1000+ systems would eat an FTE, and then, one has to pay for all those licenses. With Win(X < 2000) I think it would be openly impossible. With Win2000, there are at last some tools in MS for remote installs, but I suspect that server scaling and rising costs would utterly destroy you long before you could install a single 100+ node cluster, let alone a dozen LANS from a single common webserver. rgb Robert G. 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You know how I value me-time. In fact, I stand firm that it is the most unselfish act you can perform. When you take care of yourself and treat yourself to a special time that is just for you, to relax, recharge, or just buy a pair of pointy-toed fuchsia shoes without comments, you are actually doing the world a favor.
Yes you are!
You are making sure that you cultivate the most good-natured, thoughtful, and sane version of yourself to interact with other humans. Really now, who can fault you for that?
And any me-time, should also have me-food. French toast, Nutella, pancakes, cream sauces, chocolate, bone marrow, fancy-pants food in tiny but painfully pretty portions, a bowl of truffle mac n cheese as big as my head, bacon/egg/mayo sandwiches.
And peas.
Yes, peas! For the most part, at least among those I see often, I am alone in my pea-love. But I don't let that hamper my passion. I simply enjoy them on my own.
Bacon & Peas with Orzo
- 1/3 cup orzo (about 70 grams)
- 1 cup frozen peas
- Olive oil
- 2 strips of bacon (about 50-60 grams), chopped
- A pinch of fresh mint leaves
- A generous grating of pecorino
– Cook the orzo in salted boiling water as per package directions. About 5-7 minutes before the orzo is done, chuck the peas into the pot. When orzo is done and peas are soft drain in a colander.
– While the orzo and peas are cooking, heat a skillet over medium high heat. Add a scant amount of olive oil to the hot pan, swirl, and lay your bacon in. Cook bacon until almost crisp. Drain excess oil from pan (save those bacon drippings!) but leave some (about a teaspoon full…maybe a bit more, I won't tell) in the pan.
– Add the orzo and peas to the hot pan with the bacon. Toss a few time and transfer to a bowl. Add the mint leaves to the warm orzo/peas/bacon and toss again. Top with a generous grating of pecorino. Enjoy!
– Serves 1 happy camper 🙂
Peas and bacon are a match made in the heaven I believe exists (along with hot showers + cold sheets, okra + shrimp paste, and good books + pajama naps). For me there is really something special about the pairing of smoky/fatty pork and green veggies. They complement each other perfectly in taste and balance each others' intentions. And orzo, oh orzo, a pasta that looks like rice…I'm sold! Make sure to keep some extra pecorino on the side because you may just need an extra dusting when you're at the middle of your bowl.
When C saw the photo of this dish he sat up with surprise saying, "Where did that come from?". "I made it for my lunch while you were at work." "Is that special food?", he says. "No, it's just something I made for myself…it isn't really your type right?". Not one for false flattery, he looked at me and said, "Not really" with a sheepish smile.
Afterwards though, I realized, it is special food…it's mine. And if you're a pea lover, it can be yours too 🙂 Happy weekend!


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So I set up a new address for my brother on the domain name that I manage with a control panel (set it up three days ago). It sets up fine. I use it all the time and he now receives mail ok.
My address is, say, firstname.lastname@example.com
So I set up firstname.lastname@example.com
However when I try to send email to firstname.lastname@example.com I keep on getting "550 unknown local part in <email@example.com>" errors.
But if I go back to the same email message and change the target address to email@example.com it goes fine.
THEN I go to my yahoo address and it sends the firstname.lastname@example.com email fine and he gets it...
Any ideas what this is ? I know it is an ISP mail server message I assume... but I don't really understand it.
Any ideas ?


text: Joe Landman wrote: > Prentice Bisbal wrote: > > [...] > >> Getting back to hardware, I've always been impressed with the robustness >> of HP Proliant hardware > > Of course, the dirty little (not so) secret of tier 1 systems are that > they are all built by the same 2-3 contract manufacturers, from the same > parts troughs ...... > > .... there is an economic reason for this. I'm sure. The bike business is the same way. For the most part (there are exceptions), a handful of bike factories make all the bikes for the different bike companies, the country of manufacture determines the cost of manufacturing and price: Japan: Highest quality and price Taiwan: Middle quality and price China: Lowest quality and price Usually the highest-end models are made in-house, so this doesn't apply the them. Even at the same factory, each vendor can specify the quality of manufacture (quality of materials/components, tolerances, and thoroughness of Q/A testing), and pay accordingly. I'm sure even in the computer world a similar rule applies. $ = cheap components, $$= better components, etc. -- Prentice


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As you can see its already got 960 something visitors and its growing. I will need this script to make the site look better because at the moment I don't have the money (hey Im just 14) to get a domain. Thanks in advance


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Lady Gaga and Polaroid made a paparazzi-worthy splash by announcing a creative partnership during last year's Consumer Electronics Show. And while their first product, a co-branded printer, later landed on a number of best-of lists, with CNet declaring it "made mobile printers sexy again," two more gadgets also announced at the confab have yet to materialize.
Meanwhile, at the same Las Vegas confab, fans mobbed a booth where rap artist 50 Cent touted his entry into the crowded headphone category with a product called Sleek by 50.
Within months, though, that deal soured and Sleek by 50 never arrived at a Best Buy near you.
CES has long tried to make its tech cool and, as a result, has increasingly found itself in the celebrity game.
Just look at press conferences for Sony and Yahoo, in the past, that brought out Tom Cruise and Seth Rogen, while this year, Sony and Yahoo featured Will Smith and Tom Hanks.
But CES is learning what Hollywood knows all too well: where stars go, drama follows.
That's not necessarily a bad thing. A celebrity contingent, after all, brings with it increased visibility and media attention, which can be a boon to technology companies that work with actors, musicians and filmmakers.
But the jury's still out on just how effective some of these alliances are, even though it's no surprise that they keep happening given that they're a sure-fire way to generate heat, at least initially. (Nikon and Ashton Kutcher are still going strong, and BlackBerry has boosted its brand with such famous pitchmen as Adrian Grenier and Common).
"CES has become the Super Bowl of tech marketing," said David Schwab, managing director of Octagon First Call, which helps brands assess celebrity value for ad campaigns. "Like brands use athletes to launch products at the Super Bowl, tech companies are doing the exact same thing with stars at CES."
If there's a gold standard from recent years, it may be Beats by Dr. Dre, a partnership that premiered in 2008 pairing up the hip-hop mogul, with record executive Jimmy Iovine and audio gear company Monster Cable Products.
Though exact figures aren't available, estimates pegged the product's retail sales at $50 million for fourth quarter 2009, after Best Buy set up in-store Club Beats destinations.
Not only has the Beats line grown significantly over the years, the product has reached into other industries with innovative crossover deals. The headphones are incorporated into a $2,300 Hewlett-Packard laptop and into Chrysler's redesigned 300 sedan, for example.
"Beats has become synonymous with a certain level of quality," said Jonathan Geller, editor of the influential tech blog, Boy Genius Report. "And they're a fashion statement for the young audience they're marketed to."
Dr. Dre, who wore the headphones in a popular Dr. Pepper commercial, in which he starred, could be within reach of Iovine's prediction that he'd be to headphones what Michael Jordan has been to sneakers.
The hip-hop artist surely benefitted by being first in the category, which has since become crowded with other famous faces.
Jay-Z, with his RocNation Aviators from Skullcandy, and Soul by Ludacris from Signeo now battle it out with Beats' own JustBeats (associated with teen heartthrob Justin Bieber) and DiddyBeats (rapper P. Diddy). The latter, according to published reports, may be earning about $1 million annually for the artist-businessman.
Bieber will be at CES to promote TOSY Robotics' new robot.
As for the closely watched Lady Gaga-Polaroid deal from last year's CES? There's still an instant digital camera on the horizon, which has been delayed but is reportedly coming out sometime this year. (An alternative version went on sale in November). The future is less certain for a pair of futuristic camera-glasses that were all the rage among those gathered last January. Launch date: still undetermined.
To make a winner, the tech product has to be excellent, industry watchers said, high profile spokesman or not. And the association between star and gadget has to make sense to consumers. In that way, technology is no different than sports drinks or clothing brands.
Also key to success may be the celebrity's hands-on involvement in the product, if the tech company is shilling it as "made by" or "designed by" the star.
That's why 50 Cent (born Curtis Jackson) scrapped his prior headphones deal and decided to make his own product via SMS Audio, a company in which he now owns a majority stake and serves as CEO– similar to his connection to VitaminWater.
"Consumers know when somebody's stuck a name on a product or when they're really invested in it," said Brian Nohe, president of SMS Audio, which recently released the wireless headphones, Sync by 50, and wired version, Street by 50. "50 is invested personally and financially."
Because the headphones category has been growing as much as 20% percent annually for the last several years, Nohe said he isn't worried about oversaturation. He also said he thinks 50 Cent's global appeal — not to mention his 3.8 million Twitter followers — will separate the new product from the rest of the pack.
"Dre was able to present a clear rationale for consumers to buy stylish, better quality headphones — he blazed the trail," Nohe said. "We believe our product will work, too, because 50 is unique in the marketplace."
In keeping with Jackson's charitable efforts, like his Street King energy drink contributes to the U.N. World Food Program, there's a tie between SMS and Feeding America, with the company donating portions of proceeds from headphone sales to the domestic food bank.50's line, which will introduce ear buds and DJ-ready swivel headphones at this year's CES, plans to expand into laptops, speakers and home entertainment, Nohe said.
The rapper will be signing autographs Thursday at the SMS Audio booth (LVCC, South Hall, #20818) and discuss his wireless headphones with editors of TechCrunch at the AOL Studio and CNET today."This is intended to be an audio company, broadly defined," Nohe said. "Headphones, because of 50's expertise in music, are the natural place to step into it. But that's just the start."


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Due to the rain, Milestone will be closed today. We will be open tomorrow and the tracks will be dialed for you guys! Tomorrow we will be hosting the 1st round of the 2011 CMC Fall Finale MX Series so all tracks will be open except for the main tomorrow! Use today to get those bikes prepped for tomorrow!


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text: Theri movie have been released and celebrated in a grand way by vijay fans, As like audio celebrations which was released long back, As much many expected Songs are rocking in visuals too. GV Prakash's 50th Musical Film is Theri. Atlee has handled vijay's commercial tag in a right way and delivered a good commercial film. GVP has given different genre of songs for Theri. Peppy, Folk, Melody, Emotional and Thara Local Kuthu Songs are available on Theri Album. Its gonna be a Treat for Vijay fans to watch it on screen when Vijay shakes his legs for the songs. Theri audio release event happened in Sathyam Cinemas on March 20th. Vijay fans also celebrated the Theri audio release function in grand manner across Tamilnadu. Nellai Ram Cinemas made Live Telecast of the function too and they also kept 140 feet cut out during the movie release. Fans in social media are going gaga over the movie and sharing the happiness by creating many Theri movie hit celebration memes, Here is the collection of Theri movie hit, trailer and audio celebration memes


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Brazilian mining giant Vale SA will pay two and a half months' salary to workers in Argentina as part of an agreement signed on Friday allowing the miner to exit the $6 billion Rio Colorado potash project.
The payments will go to about 4,900 subcontractors, a spokeswoman said on Saturday, declining to give further details on the cost of the accord.
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The agreement could put an end to months of uncertainty for Vale, which suspended work on the fertilizer project in December and announced its intention to pull out in March.
Since its decision to exit, Vale and Argentina's government have been at loggerheads over the fate of workers at the site.
People familiar with Vale's plans have said the company, the world's second-biggest miner, planned to sell the project in efforts to recoup the $2.2 billion it has already spent on the mine and on railway and port improvements needed to move the potash to market.
(Reporting by Brad Haynes; Additional reporting by Sabrina Lorenzi in Rio de Janeiro)


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1967 Ford Mustang - Personal Tribute
This Mustang project started as a tribute Shelby, but in time, took a very personal turn
"I'm always looking for Mustangs," said Floridian, Kerry Kufner. "I was looking for something to make a clone Shelby, or what they now call a tribute Shelby." Upon further conversation, he pointed out that his goal was to create a clone, but with a twist. Tired of working on fastbacks, he opted to focus on a coupe, however, that was only after abandoning his original plan of creating a '67 Shelby G.T. 350 convertible tribute car. He explained that, "the '67 is my favorite year for the Shelby. I always wanted to do a clone convertible because they didn't make them from the factory, but every '67 convertible I came across was a piece of junk."
Since he couldn't find a convertible that satisfied his needs, the '67 coupe you see was actually destined to have its roof cut off when it was found. According to Kerry, after searching online, this was the best candidate that popped up. It was an Arizona car that was heavily optioned, and as an added bonus, the owner was moving to the Orlando area, and would bring the car with him.
Once money exchanged hands and the car was in his possession, Kerry began the transformation. As with many car projects, this one was not going to be a one-man show. It was a collaborative effort with both of Kerry's sons, Kyle and Clay. It didn't take long for them to tear the car down to a bare shell, but as that took place, the overall condition of the body became quite clear. Kerry explains the dilemma by pointing out that, "As far as rust was concerned, that was one of the cleanest Mustangs that I've ever disassembled. The more we tore into it, and saw the wonderful shape it was in, the more we realized that we couldn't cut the car apart."
With the car torn apart, and the body media blasted, the project headed in its new roofed direction. With the at-home work done, it also headed to a new spot for its rebuild. Kerry had a bunch of good friends that he was going to lean on for help, so a quick phone call to Sean Crockett quickly secured a spot at Crockett Auto Body in Orange City, Florida, for the needed assembly space.
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After the Mustang arrived at the body shop, Kerry began collecting the parts for the transformation. Reproduction Shelby pieces were ordered from Tony Branda for the exterior. Once those were installed, and the bodywork completed, Sean laid down the Matrix System basecoat/clearcoat paint. Kerry went with Secret Blue and a white stripe combination for the exterior.
For the interior, Kerry's friend, Tom McFadden, at Bitchin Stitchin in Deltona, Florida, was asked to do the reupholstering, while TC's in Volusia County, Florida, would do all the glass replacement. The plan for the interior was to install leather seats, and add Cobra emblems and simulated snakeskin inserts, along with an aftermarket Ford-style steering wheel, and a full complement of Auto Meter instruments.
An increase in engine displacement was also on the menu. With the original 289 mill shelved, the recipe called for the addition of more cubes. For that, Kerry built a 351 punched out to 408 cubes. That was the mill in place when the reassembly was taking place.
The work continued on the Mustang, with both of Kerry's sons, and a small group of friends helping move things along. However, as is often the case in life, we are sometimes faced with personal circumstances that force us to reevaluate things, like life itself, and deflate the significance of any material objects we place a value on, like a car. This was the case with Kerry. While all the work was taking place, Kerry suffered the blow that no parent ever wants to experience, with the tragic loss of his son, Clay. As a result of this set of events, he recalls, "I just wanted to park the car in the garage and forget about it."
And that is what he did. He walked away. However, the guys that had been working on the car realized the difficult hardship he had just faced and decided to complete the car on their own. At that point the car was almost back together, with only the interior and some odds and ends needing to be completed. Looking back, Kerry explains, "They called me one day and told me to come pick up my car. I asked if it was in the way, and Sean said, 'No, it's done.'"
When Kerry picked the car up, it was about 99 percent completed. There were still a few bugs left in it, however, his engine choice proved to be a colossal mistake.
"I originally built the super radical 351 stroker," he recalls. "It was such a monster of a motor that you could not drive the car on the street." As a result, it was pulled and sold, and a tamer mill planned. The starting point for that new engine was a 302 small-block stroked to 349 cubic inches, with a Scat forged crank, Scat forged connecting rods, and SRP forged 10.25:1 compression pistons. Express Engine in Deland, Florida, performed this work. Kerry and his friend, Woody Woodruff, did the rest of the reassembly. They added a set of Pro Comp aluminum heads, Edelbrock RPM aluminum intake, and a Demon carburetor. This combination, while much tamer than the previous one, has proven to have the right balance of performance and road manners.
While the Mustang was originally destined as a Shelby tribute, for Kerry, it is now a tribute to both of his sons. The subsequent loss of his younger son Kyle, has made the car even more precious. It is, for him, a material possession that is more than the sum of its parts. The memories of the time spent with both of his sons working on the car are priceless.
The Details
Kerry Kufner's '67 Mustang Tribute Shelby G.T. 350
Ford 302 small block, bored, decked, stroked to 349 cubic inches
4.030-inch bore
3.40-inch stroke
4340 Scat forged steel crankshaft
Scat forged connecting rods, 5.4-inches-long
SRP forged pistons
Hastings piston rings
10.25:1 compression ratio
Comp Cams roller camshaft
Pro Comp aluminum cylinder heads, decked, ported
Milodon valves, 2.05-inch intake and 1.60-inch exhaust
Comp Cams dual-coil valvesprings
Comp Cams pushrods
Liberty roller rocker arms
Edelbrock RPM Air-Gap aluminum intake manifold
Demon Carburation Speed Demon 750-cfm four-barrel carburetor
MSD distributor with super coil
Engine work by Express Engine, Deland, Florida
Assembled by Kerry Kufner and Woody Woodruff
C4 transmission
Boss Hog Street Bandit 10-inch torque converter
B&M Transpak Shift Kit
Ford 9-inch
Ford Racing 3.55 gears
Stock 28-spline axles
Hooker Headers, 15⁄8-primary tubes, 3-inch collectors
3-inch custom stainless steel exhaust
MagnaFlow mufflers
Front: Koni shocks with lowering springs, manual steering box
Rear: Koni shocks with lowering springs
Front: 11-inch Boss 1970 discs, drilled and slotted rotors
Rear: Stock Ford drum brakes
Front: Coys Wheel C-67, 17x8, matte and aluminum finish, 4¾-inch offset
Rear: Coys Wheel C-67, 18x10, matte and aluminum finish, 4¾-inch offset
Front: Hankook Ventus HRII, P225/45R17
Rear: Hankook Ventus HRII, P245/45R18
Restored original style leather interior upholstered by Tom McFadden at Bitchin Stitchin (Deltona, FL), original seats with added Cobra emblems and simulated snake skin inserts, aftermarket Ford style steering wheel, Auto Meter instruments, aftermarket Ford style radio, Rayon weave carpet
Matrix System Secret Blue basecoat/clearcoat by Sean Crockett at Crockett Auto Body (Orange City, FL); Tony Branda Shelby trunk, hood, nose, quarter extensions, sidescoops; glasswork done by TC's Glass (Volusia County, FL)


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|Fraternities at Wabash College
More than half of the students at Wabash live in the 10 national fraternities that have chapters at Wabash. All chapter houses are located close to campus, and all fraternities have their own dining plans and establish their own room and board rates. Study rooms and sleeping accommodations vary from house to house, though all fraternity houses have general common areas, computer rooms, and study rooms, and all have laundry facilities.
Wabash is in the process of constructing new or renovating all of the College-owned houses, part of the $30 million Fraternity Partnerships Campaign.
All 10 of Wabash's national fraternities host open houses during Honor Scholarship Weekend and again during Orientation Week in the fall. These open houses are designed to allow fraternity men to get to know prospective members and for new students to get to know the fraternities.
Most Wabash fraternities also host summer rush events, which provide good opportunities to get to know brothers away from campus.
Fraternities across America have been criticized much of the last decade for poor behavior and low grades. At Wabash, we're proud of our fraternities and the young men who live and learn in them. The fraternity chapters at Wabash help to develop in young men good study habits and provide countless opportunities for leadership and community service. Fraternity members also form relationships that endure long after graduation. Combined, Wabash's fraternities boast grade point averages of 3.0 or higher and contribute hundreds of hours of community service each year.
Please review the various chapter websites. We think those sites — and conversations with Wabash fraternity men — will help educate new students about fraternity life and the entire fraternity rush process at Wabash. Click here to read a student and parent guide to Wabash fraternities.
Just as fraternities at Wabash are different than at many colleges and universities, each fraternity chapter at Wabash is distinctive from the others. We hope these web pages help you make an informed decision about whether to pursue Greek life or choose to live in a residence hall during your time at Wabash.
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As promised, Jen and I tasted a sampling of seven gins, in honor of the 40th anniversary of the death of Dorothy Parker. These were remnants of bottles bought and mostly drunk over the last several months, so there was no real logic to what gins we were sampling. In alphabetical order, we tasted
- Aviation
- Bombay
- Bulldog
- Hendricks
- Junipero
- Plymouth
- Tanqueray
The gin was served neat, at room temperature, in identical glassware. It was a blind tasting for Jen, but not for me since I poured the gins and kept them in an order where I'd be able to identify them later. We took rough notes and in tasting the gins, we came to realize some of the shortcomings of the methodology I used.
First, I don't think serving the gins neat was the right choice. The Hendricks, for example, was tighter at room temp than it was, later, with a slight chill. With the chill, it released the rose and cucumber nuances for which it is well known. None of those came out at room temperature. For this reason, I'm a little reluctant to write up our tasting notes. I'm just not sure how faithful they are to each gin's character.
When the New York Times held a gin tasting, back in early May, the tasters chose to sample gins in martini form, and this seems to me a wise choice.
Also, I wonder whether seven gins were too many to taste at one time. I think comparing three or four at one time might help fight palate fatigue.
I am eager to start doing regular taste tests for various spirits. I feel like I learn more about the characteristics of spirits in comparison than I do when sipping an Aviation or an Old Fashioned. So we'll revisit this soon and taste-test various martinis.


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Now even the Palestinians are fighting back against the decision by the European Union to boycott any Israeli businesses with a presence in the so-called "occupied territories."
A senior Palestinian Authority official who spoke on condition of anonymity told Israeli media that the European decision was not all that popular in Ramallah, despite ostensibly being made in service to the Palestinian nationalist cause.
"We have a number of officials at the European Union who are trying to reverse the decision," the unnamed source said.
The new directive, which forbids nations in the euro zone from doing business with "Jewish settlers," will not only weaken those Israeli companies, but will have a major negative impact on the Palestinian economy, as many thousands of Palestinian Arabs work for those very same companies.
Expressing the concerns of many, Sammer Darawsha, a Palestinian employee of at a Jewish-owned greenhouse near the settlement of Halamish, said, "The decision affects everyone, whether Jew or Arab. If they (the EU) take away our livelihood, what kind of peace will then prevail here?"
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STATS: Science Teaching Art Teaching Science
SCMRE Education programs were for the first time making a focused effort at developing Material Culture and Technology curricula for secondary school classrooms. Our long-term plan was to develop a complete curriculum package integrating the nature and utilization of materials from both the artifact and analysis perspectives. The first step in this process was the initiation of a workshop series with students selected from a local school, Suitland High School, with the emphasis on the materials used in the creation of artifacts. The first half of the series would be enhanced with another series. Plans were under development to complete an analysis aspect to the study of material culture, to be initially offered parallel to the artists' materials sessions. Eventually, the two paths would converge into a unified program of study, the curriculum for which will be available from SCMRE for all secondary classrooms.
SCMRE staff began a pre-collegiate education program with Suitland Center for the Visual and Performance Arts (SCVPA). The goals of this workshop and series were to increase and diffuse knowledge through lectures and demonstrations on the nature of artifact, and on the materials and techniques for creating, evaluating, and restoring works of art. The SCVPA's goals for the project were to broaden and deepen the students' view of the world of art by working with SI specialized professional staff, to seek opportunities for the students to interact with adult professionals and to learn about traditional and modern artists' materials and techniques by working with SCMRE conservators, to have SCMRE provide lectures, and hands-on demonstrations in art techniques and art preservation, and to add new and repeatable programs to the SCVPA curriculum that can be adopted by or adopted for other academic programs at about the same level. The structure of the course included six lectures/studio sessions at SCMRE from 3:00 pm to 5:30 pm every other Tuesday. These units are: 1) painting media, 2) painting in wood (marquetry), 3) egg tempera, 4) compo, 5) paper, and 6) gold-leaf.
A Program for Students of the Suitland Center for the Arts, Suitland High School, Suitland, Maryland
This program, a study of technology and method of artists' materials, was conducted beginning October, 1995. The content emphasized the nature and use of materials in the creation of artworks both in the past and presently. SCMRE provided studio facilities and instruction, course supplies and tools, and reference and other materials for student consumption.
The purpose of these exercises was to explore the material technology of art and artifacts, to understand the nature and context of materials and techniques, and through practical studio exercises, to acquire a "feel" for the problems and opportunities of working with a variety of materials. Throughout the course an emphasis was on "looking at things," that is, the employment of observation and knowledge to understand the character of artifacts: what they are, how they were created, what their condition is, what problems lie in their future. We hoped to change the way students think about the things around them; art and artifacts, everyday things, even their own work, and to introduce and employ the systematic approach to problem-solving as it relates to creating and preserving cultural materials.
Following the conclusion of the SCMRE series, students will employ their new knowledge of materials and techniques to create artworks of their own choosing. Later in the school term an exhibition of these works will take place, with critiques by faculty of the Suitland Center for the Arts and SCMRE staff.
The Workshops
The structure of the course included six bi-weekly lecture/studio sessions at SCMRE for approximately 2 1/2 hours each, from 3:00 - 5:30 every other Tuesday afternoon. Each unit covered the nature and use of individual materials from the following topics:
Painting Media - Along with concept of making painting, the good craftsmanship is equally important. Each painting techniques has few fundamental rules for proper physical construction. Within theses rules, there are a broad range of manipulation depending on the painting media. Without the understanding of painting media, the painting will not survive well. In this section, traditional oil paints and the contemporary acrylic paints were the focus of study. Exercises were made to further the understanding of each paint's unique properties, both working and stability. The benefits and drawbacks of each paint were discussed and this will allow the student to make better informed decisions.
"Paintings in Wood" (marquetry) - The technique and practice of creating polychrome pictorial images in wood veneer dates back centuries. The process begins with the selection (or creation) of the image to be achieved, followed by the selection and assembling of the wood veneer stack from which the image will be cut using a jeweler's saw with thread-sized blades.demonstration and execution of the image. Suitland students completed the exercise of cutting out the images, selecting image elements for among the pieces cut, and assembling the jigsaw puzzle-like final product.
Egg-tempera paintings on wood panels - This traditional painting technique can be traced back to the twelfth century. The painting technique lends itself to a delicate and subtle process, which is capable of highly detailed and complex visual development. Examples of egg tempera painting on wooden panel can be seen in museums and galleries today, and most of them have survived in good conditions. The section starts with preparing panels from raw wood through the finished, ready-to-paint gessoed surface. A demonstration of tempera techniques led the student to execute a self-portrait in the Italian Renaissance style.
Composition ("compo") - This versatile decorative sculptural material, a mixture of animal glue, linseed oil, and chalk, gained widespread prominence as an alternative to carved wood or cast plaster ornaments. The exercise included creating molds from decorative objects, mostly carved elements, from modern silicon rubber. Once the molds had cured, compo castings were pressed into the molds and the completed compo elements were complete. These castings were used in the following gilding session.
Paper and Bookmaking - With help from a SCMRE-produced commercial video entitled "Rescuing Records: Recognizing Problems in the Preservation of Documents," students reviewed the different ways paper can be made (hand- vs machine-made); how to identify the different types of paper substrates, media, and book formats; and the different ways paper and books deteriorate. In the workshop, the students learned how to identify paper characteristics like fiber type (using microscopes), and watermarks and grain direction (using raking and transmitted light). Each student was given a vat with a specific type of pulp slurry (cotton, bast, groundwood...) with which to cast paper on molds having two different screen impressions (laid and chain, and wove). (Teaching with Paper-making) The papers, decorated with additives of flowers and seeds, were dried by air-drying (which can cause paper to curl) and by press-drying (which produces flat paper). The students were next shown how paper could be bound to make different kinds of books and albums, using book sewing frames and various bookbinder tools. Finally, they were shown how to preserve their papers and books by making enclosures such as folders, mats, polyester film encapsulations, and four-flap book boxes.
Gold leaf - The compo elements created in a previous session served as the foundation for applied gold-leaf, or gilding. The elements were applied to wood, and gilded surfaces were created, beginning with preparation of the grounds by application of gesso and bole (special gilding clay mixed with animal glue)through the final burnished appearance with traditional water gilding techniques.


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Koch spent more on finding out that the story was bogus than he did on the wine itself but there's more millions where that came from and, not to worry, Koch can still go on with his collecting. Some of Koch's collection was on exhibit last year at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, which said:
Maybe the person who sold Koch the wine is the same person who sold him the story about James Lawrence being his ancestor. James Lawrence was survived by one daughter, Mary, who was born about 1811. She married Lt. William Griffin in 1838.
At the core of the collection is Koch's ancestor, Captain James Lawrence, a naval hero of the War of 1812. Captain Lawrence's bravado expressed in his dying words "Don't Give Up the Ship," later became the motto of the United States Navy. The Koch collection of marines includes several paintings devoted to Lawrence.
Tracing Koch's ancestry back to the early 1800s lookng for Griffins or Lawrences turned up Koch's great-great-grandmother Marie, who was born in 1812 to Isaac Lawrence, and who married William Ingraham Kip.
Turns out Isaac Lawrence and Captain James Lawrence both had ancestors who came to Long Island from Hertfordshire, England in the 1630s. I would not be surprised if the two Lawrence guys from Hertforshire are related. But even if they were brothers, that would make William Koch something like 10th cousin, 4 times removed to Captain Lawrence. Hardly an ancestor.
I am more closely related to Madonna than Koch is related to Captain Lawrence and there is not a single portrait of her in my collection.
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Evernote is another idea. It's a tool which you can use to store your notes, ideas, plans and interesting snippets of your favourite websites and other online material. You can then install another copy of Evernote on a different computer, and the first thing it does is synchronise your notes back on to this machine. Better still, there are version of Evernote for Windows, Mac and your mobile, so you are never far from your notes. You can also store your notes online, so if you are on a host computer where you aren't able to install new software, simply open your web browser and access your Evernote account.
With Evernote, you can store and synchronise text notes, images, grabs, your photos, media and most other files. You can categorise your information so you can quickly find the files across every machine.
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Demi Lovato Gives Revealing Interview (and Photo Spread!) in ELLE
She's had to deal with a lot of personal challenges over the last couple of years — especially for someone so young — but in her darkest moments, Demi Lovato has been impressively honest about her struggles.
Now that she's getting ready to promote her upcoming album, whose release caps a year in which she and her mother went to rehab, Lovato is continuing her revealing streak with an in-depth interview and gorgeous photo spread for ELLE.
The article, which appears in the magazine's September issue, finds Lovato offering a disarmingly frank perspective on the events leading up to her time away from the spotlight. Looking back on last summer's tour with the Jonas Brothers, which she left mid-run, she refers to herself as "out of line" and "ungrateful."
She also talks about the plane brawl she engaged in with one of her backup dancers, offering the following wisdom: "When you punch someone on a plane, enough is enough."
Lovato's as-yet-untitled third album, scheduled for a September 20 release, features her hit single 'Skyscraper,' which topped the iTunes singles chart and entered the top 10 of Billboard's Hot 100.


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Analysts at Goldman Sachs favored commodities amid other asset classes, calling for returns of 18.2% in the next 12 months for the S&P GSCI Enhanced Commodity Index . Energy and industrial metals would be the top gainers.
The gains for the index, would include a 26.5% rise for energy, a 10% increase for industrial metals, and 6% for precious metals. Agricultural commodities were the only projected laggard according to Goldman's index predictions, forecast to be off 5% within the index.
"Apart from being attractive in its own right, we also continue to see an overweight in commodities as a hedge against the risk of the impact of sharply higher commodity prices on economic growth and other asset classes, if oil supplies were to disappoint against a backdrop of very limited spare capacity," the analysts wrote in a note to clients released Monday.
For oil, sanctions against Iran have tightened supplies and with that even a modest global growth assumption will be enough to keep that tightness into the second half of the year, they said. Copper, an industrial metal, has suffered from weak demand outside China, but that has been offset by "solid growth in Chinese construction-related demand growth," the analysts said.
The analysts also forecast the S&P GSCI Enhanced Commodity Index would rise 9% over the next three months.
Commodities will outrun other assets such as bonds and equities, Goldman said. Goldman called for returns of 9% for equities within a year, and of 2% for five-year corporate bonds. Ten-year Treasurys are seen as losing 3% in the 12-month horizon.
Commodities were taking part of a broad market sell-off on Monday, giving back some of their recent gains as investors worried about Spain and other countries in the periphery of the euro zone.
Oil for November delivery CLX2 declined $1.36, or 1.4%, to $91.54 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Copper for December delivery was down 5 cents, or 1.3%, to $3.74 a pound, while December gold retreated $11.50, or 0.7%, to $1,766.30 an ounce on the Comex division of the Nymex. The S&P 500 retreated 0.2% at 1,456.52. Exchange-traded funds linked to commodities were not faring any better, with the SPDR Gold Trust , the largest ETF backed by gold, down 0.5%. The U.S. Oil Fund was down 1.7%.
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"This grant seeks to accomplish four primary aims:
1. To constitute four collaborative research clusters that will demonstrate by means of innovative research projects how digital manuscript resources change the nature of and methodology for scholarship involving medieval codices. The results of these projects will be integrated into interoperable environments that will be available to the public through such repositories as the Johns Hopkins Digital Library of Medieval Manuscripts and Stanford University's Parker-on-the-Web.
2. To conceive and demonstrate how traditional scholarship in this field can be enlarged and extended by the new kinds of questions that the aggregated data mass of digitized resources obliges scholars to formulate.
3. To approach these questions from an interdisciplinary perspective within four different sub-disciplines of medieval studies in order to "seed" new approaches across a disciplinary span not traditionally associated with one another. In this case: Medieval Latin, vernacular literature, musicology, history of the book, and a range of sacred texts (particularly illuminated Latin and vernacular Bibles).
4. To involve research teams from North America, the U.K., and Europe to assure that the innovative research the project will develop can be introduced more or less simultaneously in the main centers of medieval studies in Middle Europe, Europe, the U.K., and North America. The research teams will consist, in large measure, of younger and mid-level scholars to assure that the methodology, theoretical and critical perspectives developed by the clusters will be implemented by a younger generation of scholars who will continue to practice, revise, renew, and teach the new methods and discoveries in the foreseeable future."


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FOX Business: Capitalism Lives Here
U.S. equity markets drifted higher Friday as traders digested the better-than-expected October jobs report.
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Today's Markets
As of 12:00 p.m. ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 84.8 points, or 0.54%, to 15679, the S&P 500 advanced 15.2 points, or 0.87%, to 1762 and the Nasdaq Composite climbed 52.8 points, or 1.4%, to 3910.
The Labor Department said the American economy added 204,000 jobs in October, widely beating estimates of an increase of 125,000. The unemployment rate rose by 0.1 percentage point to 7.3%, matching forecasts. The labor force participation rate – a measure of the proportion of the population employed or seeking employment – dropped to 62.8%, the lowest level since March 1978.
A report from the Commerce Department showed U.S. consumer spending ticked up by 0.2% in September, matching expectations. Meanwhile, personal income climbed 0.5%, topping estimates of a 0.3% advance.
Separately, analysts at Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) said they expect the U.S. economy to grow at an annual pace of 1.5% in the fourth quarter, down from a previous assumption of 2%, as the impact of the shutdown weighs.
The data have come under additional scrutiny recently as traders try to determine when the Federal Reserve will begin paring back its vast bond-buying program.
At the same time, traders will get another report on consumer income and spending. At 9:55 a.m. ET, the markets will get a look at consumer sentiment. Both gauges are important as the key holiday-shopping season kicks off.
On the European front, Standard & Poor's chopped down France's credit rating from "AA+" to "AA." The ratings company cited weak economic growth and what it called "fiscal constraints." The move sent the country's CAC 40 index tumbling more than 1%.
Germany's exports, meanwhile, surged 3.6% on a year-to-year basis, with the economic giant's trade surplus hitting a record high.
In corporate news, Disney (NYSE:DIS) posted fiscal fourth quarter earnings that topped Wall Street's expectations.
Elsewhere, U.S. crude oil futures rose 13 cents, or 0.14%, to $94.33 a barrel. Wholesale New York Harbor gasoline edged up by 0.4% to $2.513 a gallon. Gold was little changed at $1,308 a troy ounce.


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Prospects Daily: US treasuries gained and the benchmark 10-year bond yield edged down
Financial Markets…US treasuries gained and the benchmark 10-year bond yield edged down 1 basis point to 1.66%, after rising as high as 1.7% earlier, while the 30-year bond yield slid by 2 bps to 2.83% in early Friday session after a government report on wholesale price in September showed domestic inflation remained muted.
The euro advanced 0.3% to $1.297 after dropping to a 10-day low of $1.283 yesterday, and it gained 0.4% to 101.7 yen amid speculation that a downgrade of Spain's sovereign rating would put pressure on the government to finally request a sovereign bailout.
Spanish government bonds rose and 10-year Spanish bond yields fell 9 basis points to 5.67%, gearing for the lowest level in nearly a month, on the prospect of European Central Bank intervention to support its debt.
High-income Economies…Euro Area industrial production rose 0.6% (m/m) in August, the same pace as that recorded in July, with increases in France (+1.5% m/m), Italy (+1.7%), Spain (+1.3%), and Greece (+2.5%) offsetting a 0.4% fall in Germany, Eurozone's largest economy. Despite the monthly increase, Euro Area industrial output was 2.9% lower in August compared to the same month in 2011.
The US Thomson Reuters-University of Michigan consumer sentiment index rose to 83.1 in October, the highest in five years, from 78.3 in September as consumers' optimism about the overall economy improved.
US producer prices rose 1.1% (m/m) in September following a 1.7% rise in August, mainly due to an increase in gasoline prices. On a year-on-year basis, however, overall PPI inflation edged up to 2.1% from 2.0% in August. Core PPI which excludes food and energy remained flat compared to the previous month.
France's current account deficit widened to 4bn euros in August from 2.6bn euros in July, as the trade deficit rose with an increase in energy-led imports offsetting an improved exports performance.
The Netherlands' trade surplus narrowed to 2.2bn euros in August from 2.95bn euros in July, as imports rose +2.2% (m/m) from robust domestic demand, while exports fell 0.5%.
Singapore's GDP growth slowed to 1.3% (y/y) in the third quarter from 2.3% recorded in the second quarter, pulled down by a 1.5% (q/q) contraction driven by a decline in the manufacturing sector's electronics cluster due to weak external demand.
Slovakia's consumer price inflation eased to 3.6% (y/y) in September from 3.7% in August led by a slower pace of increase in utility prices.
Developing Economies…Bulgaria's consumer price inflation accelerated to 4.9% (y/y) in September from 3.9% in August, partly due to a sharp increase in food and fuel prices. Prices continue to advance rapidly in the second half of 2012 following an earlier period of decline.
India's industrial production increased 2.7% (y/y) in August following a 0.2% contraction in July, led by a 5% growth of consumer goods production. India's consumer price inflation eased to 9.7% (y/y) in September from 10.0% in August driven by a small decline in food inflation.
Malaysia's industrial production declined 0.7% (y/y) in August following a 2.9% increase in July, as manufacturing sector continued to struggle in the face of weak external demand.
Mexico's industrial output growth slowed to 3.6% in August from 4.9% (y/y) in July, pulled down by a 0.8% (m/m) contraction in August, mirroring industrial developments in the United States.
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ARLINGTON, Va. — Antilock brakes for motorcycles are working as designed to reduce the chances of crashing, removing some of the risk that comes with riding on 2 wheels. A new study by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety indicates that motorcycles with antilocks versus without are 37 percent less likely to be in fatal crashes per 10,000 registered vehicle years. Bolstering this finding is a separate analysis by the affiliated Highway Loss Data Institute (HLDI) of insurance claims filed for damage to motorcycles. Bike models with antilocks have 22 percent fewer claims for damage per insured vehicle year (a vehicle year is 1 vehicle insured for 1 year, 2 insured for 6 months, etc.) than the same models without antilocks. Two additional new reports by HLDI underscore the real-world benefits of helmet laws that apply to all riders and raise questions about the safety benefits of state-mandated training for young riders. A new Institute survey of riders examines rider views of antilocks, helmets, and helmet laws.
Crash avoidance technology like motorcycle antilocks is especially important because more people are taking up riding and more are dying in crashes. Rider deaths topped 5,000 in 2008 — more than in any year since the federal government began collecting fatal crash data in 1975. Motorcycle registrations rose to 7.7 million in 2008, up from 4.3 million in 2000, according to R.L. Polk and Company data. The upswing in motorcyclist deaths comes amid record lows for fatalities in car crashes, prompting the Institute and HLDI to look harder at measures to stem motorcyclist deaths.
"It's a troubling trend," says Anne McCartt, Institute senior vice president for research. "No one wants to begrudge motorcyclists the opportunity to ride for fun or to get around town on a bike. As the number of new riders continues to increase, though, it's becoming more important than ever to lower the crash risk."
One answer might be to equip more motorcycles with antilocks. Stopping a motorcycle is trickier than stopping a car. For one thing, the front and rear wheels typically have separate brake controls. In an emergency, a rider faces a split-second choice to either brake hard, which can lock the wheels and cause an overturn, or hold back on braking and risk running into the emergency. This is when antilocks can help by reducing brake pressure when they detect impending lockup and then increasing the pressure again when traction is restored. Brake pressure is evaluated multiple times per second, so riders may brake fully without fear of locking up. Antilocks won't prevent every motorcycle crash. They won't help a rider about to be struck from behind, for example.
Antilocks are gaining traction among manufacturers and riders. More than half of motorcycle owners recently surveyed by the Institute said they would get antilocks on their next bikes. Buyers can find them on at least 60 new models (see list below).
Institute researchers compared the fatal crash experience of antilock-equipped motorcycles against their nonantilock counterparts during 2003-08. HLDI did the same for insurance losses for the same group of motorcycles. HLDI also looked at injury claims.
FATAL CRASHES per 10,000 motorcycle registrations, with and without antilocks, 2003-08
INSURANCE CLAIMS percent reductions in collision losses for 2003-08 models with antilocks
Under medical payment coverage, motorcycles with antilocks registered 30 percent lower claim frequencies than bikes without this feature. Claim frequencies were 33 percent lower under bodily injury liability coverage.
"Motorcycle antilocks do make a difference," McCartt says. "They help make traveling on 2 wheels less risky by reducing the chance of overturning a bike and crashing. Passenger vehicles still are safer, but if you're going to ride, we'd recommend getting a motorcycle with antilocks."
A new HLDI analysis of insurance claims data examines the effectiveness of universal helmet laws covering all riders, and another looks at the impact of state-mandated training for young riders. Key findings include:
The Institute surveyed 1,818 riders by phone in 2009 to get a picture of nationwide trends in motorcycling. More than half of riders the Institute surveyed said they believe antilocks on motorcycles enhance braking safety, compared with conventional brakes. Fifty-four percent said they would get antilocks on their next bikes. When it comes to crashes, 43 percent said they had been in at least one. Often motorcycle crashes are blamed on other vehicles, not riders, so it is noteworthy that almost two-thirds of the reported crashes involved a single vehicle, and it was the motorcycle.
Seventy-three percent of riders surveyed said they always wear a helmet, and 9 percent said they often wear one. Five percent said they never do. Riders of sport, supersport, and sport touring bikes were most likely to say they always wear a helmet. Riders 18-29 and those 50 and older were more likely to say they always ride helmeted, compared with motorcyclists in their 30s and 40s. Fifty-seven percent of respondents who don't always wear helmets said they would wear them if required by state law. About half of motorcyclists surveyed said they don't favor universal helmet laws, mainly because they want to choose for themselves. Still, 76 percent said helmets make riders safer.
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Don't expect Giants to match Dodgers' dollars
Scottsdale, Ariz. --
Larry Baer's philosophy on how the Giants should react to the Dodgers' virulent spending comes straight out of the tortoise-and-hare fable. Baer believes the Giants can win the race with slow and steady payroll increases and feel they can catch their rivals without opening the vault.
Some fans will roll their eyes and argue that the Giants president is just rationalizing ownership's reluctance to tap into growing revenues following the two World Series titles, but Baer was adamant that the team is spending enough.
"We're mindful of the Dodgers. We'd be crazy to say we're not," Baer said before the Cactus League opener Wednesday. "Maybe it's a little bit like New York and Boston in a lot of the years. We're fine with not matching them dollar for dollar because when it comes down to it, it's an art, not a science, and it comes down to judgments."
In Baer's view, the Giants won the 2010 and 2012 World Series because of drafting and development plus narrower, targeted free-agent acquisitions. He noted that the Giants' payroll was as much as $30 million to $40 million higher than the Dodgers' before new owners in Los Angeles decided to spend their way into contention. It worked in 2013; the Dodgers won the NL West.
Their Opening Day payroll is expected to be about $250 million, the Giants' about $150 million, or $10 million more than last year.
"We think we can get it done with a plan where, each year, as long as business stays strong, we can go up," Baer said. "But we're not looking for wild swings up, because usually what that necessitates is wild swings down."
Baer promised to give general manager Brian Sabean more money for midseason acquisitions if the Giants are in the race, saying, "There's some firepower left if warranted."
Baer reported the Giants have sold 2.6 million tickets for 2014 and could reach 3 million by Opening Day. He expects the team to sell out every game again.
He also said ownership is "open-minded" about a contract extension for Pablo Sandoval, but talks have not begun.
Romo, Petit rocked: Yusmeiro Petit allowed four runs in a 35-pitch inning and Sergio Romo was rocked for six runs in his inning in the Giants' 10-5 loss to the A's. Romo faced a lot of left-handed hitters and was working on his changeup. He was not throwing his signature slider.
"Those are two command guys," manager Bruce Bochy said. "If you're not on here, you're going to get hit in the Cactus League."
Pitcher injuries: Left-hander David Huff was supposed to start a split-squad game against the A's on Friday but was scratched because of a tender shoulder. Bochy said the medical staff does not believe it's serious.
On the other hand, doctors cannot divine exactly what is wrong with reliever Sandy Rosario's legs, despite an MRI exam and several examinations. He moved gingerly inside the clubhouse.
Bumgarner reaction: Madison Bumgarner said he was surprised to get the Opening Day assignment.
"With the starting staff we've got here, being named Opening Day starter is unbelievable," Bumgarner said. "It's a humbling feeling. I feel blessed and thankful just to get that opportunity."
A's 10, Giants 5
Notable: A's catcher John Jaso, making his first appearance since July after missing the final two months of last season with a severe concussion, was hit by a J.C. Gutierrez pitch in the third inning and did not come back in for defense. "It was hard to bend my arm," said Jaso, who had baseball stitch marks visible on his right elbow. ... Stephen Vogt, who took over for Jaso, hit a two-run triple in the fourth. ... The Giants were held to three hits and a run until the ninth, when Adam Duvall hit a solo homer and Ehire Adrianza a three-run homer, both against Deryk Hooker. ... Lefty Dan Runzler, whose career has been sliding, entered with the bases loaded and nobody out in the third inning and retired Eric Sogard on a groundball.
Quotable: "I don't think I've ever seen anybody go up that high on the wall here, and he did it twice."
- Giants manager Bruce Bochy on Josh Reddick's two homer-robbing catches on Michael Morse drives.
Thursday's game: A's: (Tommy Milone) vs. Brewers (Marco Estrada), 12:05 p.m. PST. Radio: oaklandathletics.com. Giants: Off.
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