Grammy Awards 2011: A Perfect Formula For Predicting The Winners - The Star-Ledger - NJ.com

http://onlywire.com/r/45228823 Article by at 2011-07-11 08:33:50 Categorized in Articles, Published: Sunday, February 13, 2011, 7:45 AM If Eminem doesn’t take the top prize — Album of the Year — at the 2011 Grammy Awards , it will be a surprise. I’m not making this prediction myself. I’m letting the numbers make the call. I’m not always emotion and pageantry — sometimes I’m detached and scientific. See, while my dad was a rock ’n’ roll musician, my mother was a math teacher. She always wanted a proof. And since the Grammys notoriously reward formulaic music, I’ve emerged from my dark twisted laboratory (steaming beaker in hand) with a formula for success. The rubric I’ve devised would have correctly guessed the Album of the Year winner in 15 of the past 18 years. We’ll discuss one it got wrong in the sidebar, and examine why that year was an outlier. This year probably won’t be one. It’s a straightforward, typical Grammy field, and one that ought to be easily handicapped by my sup

Valentine's Day: From Ancient Saints To Candy Hearts - Anniston Star

http://onlywire.com/r/45216729 Article by at 2011-07-11 05:23:40 Categorized in Articles, In tennis, love means nothing. A love seat was initially meant to seat one woman and her wide dress. Love handles are what you get from eating too much chocolate. Here, in honor of Valentine’s Day, is a look at love in all its many splendors. Will the real Valentine please stand up? Yes, Virginia, there really is a Saint Valentine — although nobody’s sure exactly who he was. The Catholic Church recognizes at least three different saints named Valentine. The most popular legend holds that Valentine was a priest in third-century Rome who performed secret weddings after the emperor outlawed marriage for young men, reasoning that single guys made better soldiers. Another legend holds that Valentine was martyred for helping Christians escape from Roman prisons. Another story has Valentine in prison, where he fell in love with the jailor’s daughter and wrote her a letter signed, “From your Valentine.” In 1835, what a