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Infographic Of The Day: How Men And Women Differ When Making Big Sales
We all know that men and women approach most everything in life slightly differently—and sometimes, wildly differently. How does this affect the way they each do business?
Rarely do you get a data set that reveals much about that question, but here's a remarkable one from the data-viz wizards over at Trulia, the real estate listings website. They took a look at the gender balance between real estate agents across the country, and the results are pretty remarkable.The first thing to note is that real estate, in general, is a woman-dominated field; on average, in every state in the country, the ratio of women to men approaches 2:1. Now, you can hypothesize about all sorts of reasons why that is; for example, perhaps women come off as more trustworthy to women and less threatening to men, each of which can make all the difference in a life-defining purchase such as a home. Or perhaps women, with their edge in intuition and empathy, simply make better sales people. Or perhaps the dominance of women is about sociological pressures: Real estate, historically, might have been a more amendable profession to the demands of balancing worklife and child rearing, and one avenue where women never had their career advancement limited by their sex, since the profession is filled with free agents.
All of these are worth keeping in mind as we get into the data. Because the fascinating thing is that while women dominate the field, men tend to put up a greater number of houses for sale, while women put more expensive houses for sale. Here is what the state-by-state breakdown looks like for numbers of houses put up by men vs. women:
As the chart shows, in most states across the U.S., the average male real estate agent puts up at least 5-14% more houses for sale than his female counterpart; in many states, such as Nevada, Oregon, and Minnesota, male real estate agents usually put over 25% more houses on the market.
Meanwhile, here is what the chart looks like when you look at the average prices of homes listed by women vs. men:
The relationship is totally flipped. Women tend to sell houses that are markedly more expensive than those sold by men, and the trend is, in fact, even more intense across all states.
This is amazing data, and it's fun to think about what's driving it. Perhaps it takes a "high-touch" selling approach to sell more expensive homes—one which suits women more. And perhaps men adjust to their lower commissions simply by increasing the volume of their sales. Men may be great in increasing the volume of sales simply because they sell differently: Emphasizing relative prices and the market and data, perhaps. A more analytical approach, of course, would probably yield a quicker sale, since it's less about getting people to stretch a little for a more perfect home and more about a very straightforward comparison of data. (For anyone who wants to accuse me of sexism or gender stereotyping, I can list many, many studies that show that men, for example, make more buying decisions based on data while women emphasize personal connections.)
At the very least, you can surmise that the differences you see above are unlikely to be accidents. Whatever is driving them, they're more likely a function of men and women using their different strengths to approach sales differently.
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Interesting article but I am put off by the errors in language.
if I want to start a business, I want to be unique, I like to take my time to analyze, study and learn, because I want to be a worldwide success and I am sure to do whatever they tell me, Jimena Quiroga
Great insight again Cliff! You're consistently my favourite poster here. =)
Interesting. I wonder; are gender differences between buying agents and selling agents? Are these differences statistically significant (I imagine they are, but hey, you have to ask)?
What a fucked-up first paragraph. Yep, you just keep driving home that sexist programming.
interesting analysis. which gender nets more income overall?
and which more income per hour worked?
This information is timely and interesting, if not too surprising. It is great to see the way that gender roles seem to play a part in determining the volume and characteristics of home sales. It's probably the case that more detail would reveal a richer picture, but this is a great start.
This is interesting, but I'd like even more to know how actual selling prices, percentage of original listing prices, percentage of lost listings (no sale), and total agent incomes compare.
Great article, but you really confused me with the way you use "put up" houses. Do you mean to "list" houses for sale, thus put houses up for sale. Otherwise a very insightful piece, Thanks
This makes sense on many levels. Who makes the final decision on which home to buy? Who will be the "keeper" of the home (no, I don't mean house keeper)? It makes sense. But to go deeper into larger sales of other goods, in my work I see women connect at a different level than men do with prospects. Women, sorry for the broad brush, seem more interested in meeting the need than making the sale---empathy again.
One thing that men need to understand is that buyers of big items, including industrial equipment, are more often women that one might think. In fact, purchasing is nearly dominated by women. Women won't be sold over a couple baseball tickets or a few drinks.
Chris Reich
Invaluable data, Duane. May we ask how much your roommate's father-in-law makes working from his laptop for just a few hours? Thank you for your contribution.
Amazing stuff. We all of a sudden found out that women are gold diggers.
I am high maintenance, how many hit songs on the subject, Paul Mac Carthys
last wife demands...... and on and on and on.
Cliff, be careful if not yet married.SignedTwice divorced and paid in full.
More mistakes here Cliff: According to your map, it's Nevada, Minnesota and Washington--not Oregon--where males put 25% of homes on market.
Interesting and worthwhile article. We have a number of audiobooks relating to this subject on www.simplymagazine.com, under Business:
Mr. Kuang's thoughts would make an excellent addition. Part of this
relates to the Jane Austen approach to cooperation versus
confrontation. I find that women tend to be m0re supportive in a sales
process, less suspicious, calmer (just part of their life; we men often
make things too important), and that gets it done.
@jkirkb: is that the best you can do is publicly correct cliff's typo? you've got nothing else?
"ration of men to women approaches 2:1"
I'm sure you meant "ratio of women to men approaches 2:1"?


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Consider $.50. What does that buy these days? Not a cuppa joe--that'll cost you two bucks at Starbucks, and even McDonald's wants a dollar for a small. Nor will it get you a newspaper, a pack of gum, a shoeshine, or a bus token. And Walmart, which promotes itself as the palace of cheap, sells practically nothing for a half-buck.
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Each day, six days a week, letter carriers traverse four million miles toting an average of 563 million pieces of mail, reaching the very doorsteps of our individual homes and workplaces in every single community in America. They ride snowmobiles to reach iced-in villages, for example, fly bush planes into outback wilderness areas that have no roads, run Mail Boats out to remote islands in places like Maine and Washington state, and even use mules on an eight-mile trail to bring mail to the 500 members of the Havasupai tribe of Native Americans living on the floor of the Grand Canyon.
From the gated enclaves and penthouses of the ueber-wealthy to the inner-city ghettos and rural colonias of America's poorest families, the US Postal Service literally delivers. All that for 45 cents. And if you've written the wrong address or your recipient can't be found, you'll get your letter or package back for no charge. The USPS is an unmatched bargain, a civic treasure, a genuine public good that links all people and commu-nities into one nation.
So, naturally, it must be destroyed.
For the past several months, the laissez-fairyland blogosphere, assorted corporate front groups, a howling pack of congressional right-wingers, and a bunch of lazy mass media sources have been pounding out a steadily rising drumbeat to warn that our postal service faces impending doom: It's "broke," they exclaim, the situation "is dire," USPS "nears collapse," it's "a full-blown financial crisis!" This is the year, they insist, that the whole shebang will implode: The PBS Newshour recently alarmed viewers about "a complete shutdown this winter," and even the current Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe, has added to the din by declaring, "we'll be out of cash next August."
No, but the corporate privatizers will, if we let them. --Hightowerodotus, 2012 A.D.
According to this gaggle of gloomsayers, the national mail agency is bogged down with too many overpaid workers and costly brick- and-mortar facilities, so it can't keep up with the instant messaging of internet services and such nimble corporate competitors as FedEx. Thus, say these contrivers of their own conventional wisdom, the Postal Service is unprofitable, is costing taxpayers billions of dollars a year in losses, and is plummeting irreversibly into bankruptcy. Wrong, wrong, and wrong. I realize that the Powers That Be never allow truth to get in the way of their policy intentions, but--come on--three strikes and you're out! Let's examine:
UNPROFITABLE. So what? When has the Pentagon ever made a profit? Never, nor does anyone suggest it should. Neither has the FBI, Centers for Disease Control, FDA, State Department, FEMA, Park Service, etc. Producing a profit is not the purpose of government-- its purpose is service. And for two centuries--from 1775, when the Continental Congress chose Benjamin Franklin to be our fledgling nation's first Postmaster General--until 1971, when Richard Nixon's Postal Reorganization Act took effect--America's nationwide network of post offices was fully appreciated as a government service.
In fact, the Post Office Department was considered such an important function of public affairs that it was explicitly authorized by the founding document of our nation's government (Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution). The founders would've laughed their wigs off had anyone proposed that the existence of such an essential civic agency be dependent on its profitability. Be efficient and fiscally responsible, yes, but the bottom line for the Post Office was delivering a public service for the good of all the people.
But, Nixon happened. His presidency gave laissez-faire ideologues a long-sought opening to insert blasting caps into the structural framework of government. Their first big success was the 1971 "reform" that shattered the public service model by imposing a bottom-line profit mentality on the agency and installing a corporate form of governance over it. "Run it like a business," was the political demand of the right-wing think tankers, Nixonians, and congressional fixers.
So, overnight, the cabinet-level Post Office Department that was overseen by Congress and funded by taxpayers was transformed into today's Postal Service, overseen by a Board of Governors and funded by postage sales. Technically, USPS is an independent agency of the executive branch, but operational authority is in the hands of the 11-member board (whose acronym, aptly enough, is "BOG"-- as in a morass that prevents progress).
Will it surprise you to learn that the BOG tends to be quite corporate? From 2005 until last year, for example, one of its most influential members was James Miller III, who was Ronald Reagan's budget director and a longtime proponent of totally privatizing mail service. He's a product of such right-wing Koch-funded outfits as the American Enterprise Institute and Citizens for a Sound Economy (now called Americans for Prosperity) that are ardent pushers of postal privatization.
Also, prior to the 1971 transformation, the Postmaster General had status as a cabinet official appointed by the president and confirmed by the senate. Now, though, the top postal executive is hired (and fired) by the board. This helps explain why incumbent Donahoe--who started as a postal clerk and rose through the ranks to the PGship--has been a willing member of the sledgehammer crew that's out to "save the service" by demolishing it.
TAXPAYERS. The anti-government ideologues have had to concede that profit's not the point, but still they groan that USPS is losing billions of dollars a year. Why should hard-pressed taxpayers be expected to keep shoveling money from the public treasury into this loser of a government agency?
They're not. IMPORTANT FACTOID NUMBER 1: Since 1971, the postal service has not taken a dime from taxpayers. All of its operations--including the remarkable convenience of 32,000 local post offices (more service outlets than Walmart, Starbucks, and McDonald's combined)--are paid for by peddling stamps and other products.
But wait, what about those annual losses? Good grief, squawk the Chicken Littles, USPS has gone some $13 billion in the hole during the past four years--a private corporation would go broke with that record! (Actually, private corporations tend to go to Washington rather than go broke, getting taxpayer bailouts to cover their losses.) IMPORTANT FACTOID NUMBER 2: The Postal Service is NOT broke. Indeed, in those four years of loudly deplored "losses," the Service actually produced a $700 million operational profit (despite the worst economy since the Great Depression).
What's going on here? Right-wing sabotage of USPS financing, that's what. In 2006, the Bush White House and Congress whacked the post office with the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act--an incredible piece of ugliness requiring the agency to PRE-PAY the health care benefits not only of current employees, but also of all employees who'll retire during the next 75 years. Yes, that includes employees who're not yet born! No other agency and no corporation has to do this. Worse, this ridiculous law demands that USPS fully fund this seven-decade burden by 2016. Imagine the shrieks of outrage if Congress tried to slap FedEx or other private firms with such an onerous requirement. This politically motivated mandate is costing the Postal Service $5.5 billion a year--money taken right out of postage revenue that could be going to services. That's the real source of the "financial crisis" squeez-ing America's post offices.
But it's not the only hocus pocus that has falsely fabricated the public perception that our mail agency is "broke." Due to a 40-year-old accounting error, the federal Office of Personnel Management has overcharged the post office by as much as $80 billion for payments into the Civil Service Retirement System. This means that, far from being a drain on the public treasury, USPS has had billions of its sales dollars erroneously diverted into the treasury. Restore the agency's access to its own postage money, and the impending "collapse" goes away.
BANKRUPTCY. That's all well and good, claim postal agency opponents, but there's no disputing the fact that government-delivered mail is a quaint idea whose time has gone. They point out that USPS's first-class business has fallen by about 7.5 percent in each of the past couple of years, and even Postmaster Donahoe says flatly, "That's not going to change." This funereal school of despair breaks into two groups: "Kill it" and "Shrink it."
The killers are the outright privatizers who've pushed for decades to get the post office out of... well, out of our mailboxes. In the 1960's, AT&T chairman Fred Kappel headed a presidential commission on postal reform, and he told a congressional panel, "If I could, I'd make the Post Office a private enterprise." He couldn't, but he did set down the marker that remains the Holy Grail of the corporate elite. Unsurprisingly, FedEx CEO Fredrick Smith (a former board member of the Koch boys' Cato Institute) has been the leading corporate champion for, as he put it in 1999, "closing down the USPS."
The greater danger at the moment, however, are the shrinkers. They propose to fix the proud public service by cutting it down to size (they mean "fix" in the same way veterinarians use the term). Postmaster Donahoe is presently the shrinker-in-chief, having put forth a plan that will:
Republican Senator Susan Collins of Maine is among the people of common sense who recognize that the post office "cannot expect to gain more business, which it desperately needs, if it is reducing service." Likewise, Fredric Rolando, head of the National Association of Letter Carriers, sees that compromising "high-quality service" is a boneheaded business move: "Degrading standards not only hurts the public and the businesses we serve; it's also counterproductive for the Postal Service because it will drive more people away from using the mail." Such drastic cutbacks, consolidations, and eliminations create a suicidal spiral that will slowly but surely kill USPS.
The attack of the shrinkers and killers is another sad (and shameful) product of our nation's current crop of no-can-do "leaders" (see December 2011 Lowdown). They've given up on America's Big Idea of creating a democratic society united by pursuit of the common good and energized by the spirit of "together we can." Instead, corporate elites are out to shove America's greatness into a shriveled ethic that says, "I got mine, you get yours."
While it's certainly true that emails and tweets are faster than mail, there remains a vast demand for postal services, especially where broadband internet does not reach (50 percent of rural residents, 35 percent of all Americans), as well as when hard copy and physical delivery are essential. FedEx has its place, but its self-serving priority is always to go after maximum profit--it has no interest in or ability to deliver universal service at an affordable price to the whole nation.
Postal privatizers and downsizers have reams of data on the price of everything USPS does--yet they are completely unable to calculate value. They don't give a whit either that their model of "service" would leave out entire groups of people, communities, and businesses, or that they'd be taking away much more than mail from millions of fellow citizens. Despite the right-wing denigration heaped on the this public service, ordinary folks still feel personally attached to their post office and mail carriers. Sure, there are complaints and some horror stories, but there are many more (though less reported) stories of extraordinary service and simple human kindness by postal workers, which is why the agency has been named the most trusted in government for six straight years.
The post office is more than a bunch of buildings--it's a community center and, for many towns, an essential part of the local identity, as well as a tangible link to the rest of the nation. As former Sen. Jennings Randolph poignantly observed, "When the local post office is closed, the flag comes down." The corporatizer crowd doesn't grasp that going after this particular government program is messing with the human connection and genuine affection that it engenders.
But then, all you need to know about that crowd's sensitivity to our people's deeper values is that the list of 3,700 postal facilities suggested for closure includes the historic Franklin Post Office in Philadelphia. It is located on the very site of Old Ben's house in Franklin Square, right next door to the US Postal Service Museum. And, get this, in an especially tender touch, the Franklin office received notice that it was going on the chopping block last July 26--exactly 236 years to the day in 1775 when the Continental Congress enacted Franklin's proposal to establish a national post office for our fledgling democracy.
The biggest lie of all is that USPS is an antiquated, unnecessary, failing civic institution that simply must give way to electronic technology and corpo-rate efficiency. This is nothing but ideological hogwash spewed by private profiteers and political quislings. Obviously, the Postal Service is no longer the only player making the rounds, and it must make some major adjustments to find its proper fit and new opportunities in the marketing and public service mix. But this requires top management and polit-ical overseers to be a bit more creative and business- like than constantly cutting, closing, outsourcing, eliminating--and giving in to the bashers and slashers.
This is the time to innovate, offer new services and products--don't shrink, expand! Start with three phenomenal assets that USPS has: (1) that network of 32,000 retail outlets (many of them historic and even works of art) that form the most extensive local presence of any business or government in America, drawing more than seven million people into them each day; (2) an experienced, smart, skilled, and dedicated workforce of nearly 600,000 middle-class Americans who live in the communities they serve and are brimming with ideas and energy to move the Postal Service forward--if only those at the top would listen and turn them loose; and (3) the general good will of the public, which sees their local post office and its employees as "theirs," providing useful services and standing as one of their core civic insti-tutions (in a 2009 Gallup Poll, 95 percent of Americans said it was personally important to them that the Postal Service be continued).
Let's build on those big pluses. This is one government program that really works for the people, but it can work better and do more. Here are just a few ideas:
America's postal service is just that--a true public service, a grassroots people's asset that has even more potential than we're presently tapping to serve the democratic ideal of the common good. Why the hell would we let an elite of small-minded profiteers, ranting ideologues, and their political hirelings drop-kick this jewel through the goal posts of corporate greed? This is not a fight merely to save 32,000 post offices and the middle-class jobs they provide--but to advance the BIG IDEA of America itself, the bold, historic notion that "Yes, we can" create a society in which we're all in it together.
That's worth fighting for, which means that you and I must add our voices and grassroots activism to those who're daring to confront the cants and greed of the privatizer elite. It means standing up to them, but most importantly standing up for ourselves, our values, our country.

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I appreciate the commentary on the Nadal "sandbagging" techniques. You're correct - hardly anyone talks about it but it is seems to be his M.O. It has this intangible unsportsmanlike quality. It's a "well, if I lose, I told you so" kind of approach. Poor form. Much prefer the athletes who play their hearts out and, win or lose, congratulate their opponents by simply acknowledging they were outplayed on that day. No excuses, no sandbagging in advance...simply good sportsmen.
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Hey barry, i happened to meet Ryan Harrison at Wimbledon last year when not too many seemed to know who he was. I've been keeping an eye on his progress and I reckon he could be a top ten player in the future. I'd like to hear your opinion on him, as well as other rising stars, such as Tomic, Raonic, and Dmitrov,a lthough as i look at their talents now and where I see they may progress to, I don't see a particular great rivalry emerging from any of them but what do you think?
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Hong Kong Flower Show opens tomorrow at Victoria Park
The Hong Kong Flower Show 2007, organised by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department, will be held at Victoria Park from tomorrow (March 16) to March 25, from 9am to 9pm.
More than 350,000 flowers will transform Victoria Park into a colourful wonderland at the Hong Kong Flower Show. The show's theme flower is the Geraniums with the theme of "Spring Blossoms for Celebration".
The event has attracted 185 organisations from 20 countries showcasing exotic flowers, landscape and floral art displays. These organisations are from the Mainland, Australia, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, the Netherlands, the Philippines, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, the United Kingdom, Sweden and Indonesia.
In celebration of the 10th Anniversary of the establishment of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, the department is presenting a spectacular floral display on the theme of "Happy Reunion". It is made up of more than 30,000 stems of flowers in three sections. The top is a revolving globe of blooming glory consisting of more than 5,000 stems of kalanchoes, impatiens, cigar flowers and irises. It is surrounded by water jets that form a diaphanous ring in the second tier. Both the water and the globe are in constant motion to suggest perpetual energy. At the bottom is a rotunda of geraniums, the theme flower of this year's Flower Show, which is made up of more than 20,000 stems of 60 plus species. The entire display - a striking visual of rotundity in concentric circles – is rich in meaning in Chinese culture, synonymous with "perfect happiness".
On display at the Special Exhibits corner is the Wollemi Pine (Wollemia nobilis). Known as "a living fossil", it is one of the world's oldest and rarest trees. The oldest known fossil dates back more than 90 million years to the age of the dinosaurs. It was discovered in 1994 by David Noble, a New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife officer in a rainforest gorge within the Wollemi National Park about 200 km west of Sydney. With dark green foliage and spectacular bubbly bark, the Wollemi Pine is also first on display in the tropical area of the Northern Hemisphere.
A spectacular sea of flowers made up of more than 15,000 tulips, measuring 180 sq metres, adds colour and fragrance to the showground.
Other highlights are scented Geranium; a floral wall made up of 1,500 stems of flowers displaying East Asian Games emblem and the slogan; a spectacular display "Joyful World" by 500 students featuring 12 delightful sculptures of bee, butterfly, etc created from some 50,000 colourful plants; the scented plants display by the Institute of Horticulture (Hong Kong); the spectacular displays by Shanghai Landscaping Administration Bureau, the Bureau of Urban Utilities and Landscaping of Guangzhou Municipality, and Shenzhen Municipal Agriculture, Forestry & Fishery Bureau.
More than 60,000 stems of Geranium of more than 90 species are on display at the showground. The Geranium, an excellent ornamental plant, is cherished by flower lovers for its rich variety of colours and long flowering period. It blooms gorgeously in a profusion of colours with exuberant verdant foliage, with flower clusters like balls made of silk strips. The flowers contain five petals and come in a rainbow of colours. Single or double florets in clusters will be produced when the plants are blooming. The inflorescence is in terminal umbels bearing a few to a dozen small flowers.
Geraniums have a long flowering period that runs from November to April and they are normally in full bloom in March and April.
Geraniums (Pelargonium hortorum) are members of the genus Pelargonium of the family Geraniaceae. They are herbaceous perennials indigenous to South Africa. There are some 230 species of geraniums worldwide which are widely cultivated throughout the world as ornamental plants.
A series of fringe activities complement the 10-day flower show for the enjoyment of visitors. They include music and dance performances, tree work demonstrations, floral art demonstrations, plant care workshops, horticultural talks and fun games.
Admission tickets will be sold at the entrance to the showground at Victoria Park throughout the show period. They are also available until March 25 at the department's District Leisure Services Offices, and venues with Leisure Link services.
Admission for adults is $14. Children aged four to 14, students, senior citizens aged 60 or over and persons with a disability pay half price. Senior citizens and persons with a disability have free admission on weekdays and adults in a group of 30 or more admitted at the same time will pay half price on weekdays.
For enquiries, please call 2697 8030, fax 2691 7264 or visit the department website at
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Brookbank, 31, has spent the past four seasons with the Anaheim Ducks. Last season, he played in a career-high 80 games, recording 11 assists and 14 points.
The Hawks needed defensemen and Brookbank figures to be part of their third pairing. He had a 120 hits and 110 blocks last season.
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Fresh off the Ultimate Guide to Cylinder Heads, our set of Brodix ST 5.0R lungs is bolted onto a supercharged small-block and produces spectacular results.
"One of the best features of the ST 5.0 is that it is not limiting," said Mark Fretz of Brodix. "A guy can buy these for his street car and as it gets faster, the heads have room for larger valves and porting. Our heads usually cost more than our competitors', but the quality of the casting can withstand lots of boost and nitrous."
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Prior to the cylinder heads, the high-mileage Windsor engine picked up nearly 40 rwhp with an Edelbrock Performer intake manifold, and we knew that a set of good heads would be worth quite a bit as well.
After the head installation, we tooled on down to LaRocca's Performance in Old Bridge, New Jersey, where we strapped the GT to the dyno to get some numbers. We've had the crew there tune our ProCharged pony since we put the blower on it, and had been there to establish a baseline prior to the cylinder head installation. Those baseline figures were 383.5 hp and 407 lb-ft of torque at the wheels. Before we could make a full run though, Jim LaRocca had to retune the custom chip, as the improved airflow made the air/fuel ratio extremely lean.
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We couldn't make any passes that day, but on Halloween we trekked back to E-town for some runs on our drag radials but neither the tires nor the track could hold up to the brute power.
The following week we returned for a track rental with some 26x10.5/16 M/T ET Streets in hand. Both the Buick and its owner were on hand to witness the 11.47 and 11.43 passes at over 123 mph. We played it off as fresh head gaskets and a good tune-up, but the 8-mph improvement told otherwise. Did we win the shootout? That's still being debated on a daily basis here at the office. We did, however, come out on top thanks to our Brodix M2-ported ST 5.0R cylinder heads.


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Here's what Angie has to say about being dark skinned (I prefer to say chocolate) in the entertainment industry.
"Well, you know it goes back to the very beginning. If you were light skinned you were in, if you were dark skinned you were out. It very well works that way in the industry. You see very [few] dark skinned people on top of the game. Most of the superstars are very fair or mullatto people. You can check your stats. It works that way in the film world too. I have lost almost every single opportunity to star in a film to Macy Gray or Jill Scott because they're light and I'm dark. I've been told so many times that it's a certain look that they're looking for. So you can't even use weight anymore. You can't use age because everybody's over 35 that's running around doing it. It comes down to what is more appealing. I'm only good for the pro political stuff that will afford all of my people from the hood to vote for the right president – or to support whatever because I'm more on their level, so to speak. So to me it hasn't changed much. Slavery has just taken on a whole new different direction but it's the same process." {Source}
Preach Angie! This is definitely an issue in the industry. However I do not think Jill and Macy are considered "light" but I guess it depends on your views. Also, I would like to see Angie acting skills before I assume that being a chocolate woman is the only reason why she is not being picked for certain roles. Now don't get me wrong I understand where she is coming from, but if she can't act then Angie it's not just the color of your skin! I don't know about you but if Angie auditioned for "Why Did I Get Married" then Angie I'M SORRY BUT JILL OWNED THAT ROLE! SHE WAS THICKSATIONAL IN THAT MOVIE! BUT I STILL LOVE YA ANGIE KEEP YOUR HEAD UP THICKETTE AND DON'T GIVE UP!


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The MobilePro mount allows you to adjust and articulate your Apple display or iMac to any position – height, depth, tilt and portrait-to-landscape orientation. Its adjustable arm provides for a considerable vertical lift of 16 inches/40.6 cm. Plus, the integrated cable management channels keeps everything neat, tidy and out of the way. This universal design features a no-tension adjustment system for maximum safety and support of your Apple hardware.
- Accommodates any Cinema Display or iMac that accepts a VESA adapter bracket and weighs 14.1 kg or less
- Position your display for maximum ergonomic comfort to relieve eye, neck and back strain
- Free up more workspace on your table or desktop
- Add more ergonomic adjustments to your Apple hardware
- Rotate screen between portrait and landscape viewing
- Cable management channel keeps everything neat, tidy and out of the way
- Easy-to-use, simple installation and effortless operation
- No-tension adjustment system for maximum safety and support
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- Weight: 4.2 kg
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- Compatible with Macs and Apple Displays when used with the Apple VESA Mount Adapter Kit (not included). Proper installation requires a solid surface that is between 0.5 and 1.125 in./1.3 and 2.9 cm thick. Solid surface must be secured to a table base or something similar.
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How is this mounted on a desk? Is it necessary to drill holes on the desk?
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The stand utilizes a mounting plate which requires five holes be drilled through the desktop. Four s The stand utilizes a mounting plate which requires five holes be drilled through the desktop. Four small holes at 9/32" and one large 5/8" hole. …
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Can this hold two thunderbolt displays, one on each side of the pole? and understood that i have to buy another monitor arm. Thanks.
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does this work the newer model iMac 2012/2013
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You need to order the VESA version of the iMac, you cannot use this with the 2012 model iMac that do You need to order the VESA version of the iMac, you cannot use this with the 2012 model iMac that doesn't ship with the vesa mount rather than the desk stand. …
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Has anyone actually used this product with a 2010 24-inch LED Cinema Display?
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- 05-May-2010
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Tarkovsky worked extensively as a screenwriter, film editor, film theorist and theater director. He directed most of his films in the Soviet Union, with the exception of his last two films, which were produced in Italy and Sweden. His films are characterized by Christian spirituality and metaphysical themes, extremely long takes, lack of conventional dramatic structure and plot, and memorable cinematography.
Following high school graduation, from 1951 to 1952, Tarkovsky studied Arabic at the Oriental Institute in Moscow, a branch of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. He did not finish his studies and dropped out to work for the Academy of Science Institute for Non-Ferrous Metals and Gold as a prospector. He participated in a year-long research expedition to the river Kureikye near Turukhansk in the Krasnoyarsk Province. During this time in the Taiga Tarkovsky decided to study film.
The early Khrushchev era offered unique opportunities for young film directors. Before 1953, annual film production was low and most films were directed by veteran directors. After 1953, more films were produced, many of them by young directors. The Khrushchev Thaw opened Soviet society and allowed, to some degree, Western literature, films and music. This allowed Tarkovksy to see films of Italian neorealists, French New Wave, and of directors such as Kurosawa, Buñuel, Bergman, Bresson and Mizoguchi. Tarkovsky absorbed the idea of the auteur as a necessary condition for creativity.
Tarkovsky's teacher and mentor was Mikhail Romm, who taught many film students who would later become influential film directors. In 1956, Tarkovsky directed his first student short film, The Killers, from a short story of Ernest Hemingway. The short film There Will Be No Leave Today and the screenplay Concentrate followed in 1958 and 1959.
During his third year at the VGIK, Tarkovsky met Andrei Konchalovsky. They found that they had much in common as they liked the same film directors and shared the same ideas on cinema and films. In 1959, they wrote the script Antarctica - Distant Country, which was later published in the Moskovskiy Komsomolets. Tarkovsky submitted the script to Lenfilm, but was rejected. They were more successful with the script The Steamroller and the Violin, which they sold to Mosfilm. This film became Tarkovsky's diploma film, earning him his diploma in 1960 and winning him the first prize at the New York Student Film Festival in 1961.
In 1965, he directed the film Andrei Rublev about the life of Andrei Rublev, the 15th century Russian icon painter. Andrei Rublev was not immediately released after completion due to problems with Soviet authorities. Tarkovsky had to cut the film several times, resulting in several different versions of varying lengths. A version of the film was presented at the Cannes Film Festival in 1969 and won the FIPRESCI prize. The film was officially released in the Soviet Union in a cut version in 1971.
He divorced his wife, Irma Raush, in 1970. In the same year, he married Larissa Kizilova (née Egorkina), who had been a production assistant for the film Andrei Rublev. Their son, Andrei Tarkovsky Jr., was born in the same year on August 7.
In 1972, he completed his film Solaris, an adaptation of the novel Solaris by Stanisław Lem. He had worked on this project, together with the screenwriter Fridrikh Gorenshtein, as early as 1968. The film was presented at the Cannes Film Festival and won the Grand Prix Spécial du Jury and the FIPRESCI prize and was nominated for the Palme d'Or. From 1973 to 1974, he shot the film The Mirror, a highly autobiographical film drawing on his childhood experience and incorporating some of his father's poems. Tarkovsky had worked on the screenplay for this film since 1967, under the consecutive titles Confession, White day and A white, white day. From the beginning the film was not well received by Soviet authorities due to its content and its perceived elitist nature. Presumably these difficulties made Tarkovsky toy with the idea of going abroad and producing a film outside the Soviet film industry.
During 1975, Tarkovsky also worked on the screenplay Hoffmanniana, about the German writer and poet E. T. A. Hoffmann. In December 1976, he directed Hamlet, his first and only stage play, at the Lenkom Theatre in Moscow. The main role was played by Anatoly Solonitsyn, who also acted in several of Tarkovsky's films. At the end of 1978, he also wrote the screenplay Sardor together with the writer Aleksandr Misharin.
The last film Tarkovsky directed in the Soviet Union was Stalker, inspired by the novel Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. Work on this film began in 1976. The production was mired in troubles; improper development of the negatives had ruined all the exterior shots. Tarkovsky's relationship with cinematographer Georgy Rerberg deteriorated to the point where Tarkovsky hired Alexander Knyazhinsky as a new first cinematographer. Furthermore, Tarkovsky suffered a heart attack in April 1978, resulting in further delay. The film was completed in 1979 and won the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the Cannes Film Festival.
Tarkovsky returned to Italy in 1982 to start shooting Nostalghia. He did not return to his home country. As Mosfilm withdrew from the project, he had to complete the film with financial support provided by the Italian RAI. Tarkovsky completed the film in 1983. Nostalghia was presented at the Cannes Film Festival and won the Grand Prix Spécial du Jury, the FIPRESCI prize and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury. Soviet authorities prevented the film from winning the Palme d'Or, a fact that hardened Tarkovsky's resolve to never work in the Soviet Union again. In the same year, he also arranged the opera Boris Godunov at the Royal Opera House in London under the musical direction of Claudio Abbado.
He spend most of 1984 preparing the film The Sacrifice. At a press conference in Milan on July 10, 1984 he announced that he would never return to the Soviet Union and would remain in the West. At that time, his son Andrei Jr. was still in the Soviet Union and not allowed to leave the country.
During 1985, he shot the film The Sacrifice in Sweden. At the end of the year he was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. In January 1986, he began treatment in Paris, and was joined there by his wife and his son, who were finally allowed to leave the Soviet Union. The Sacrifice was presented at the Cannes Film Festival and received the Grand Prix Spécial du Jury, the FIPRESCI prize and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury. As Tarkovsky was unable to attend due to his illness, the prizes were collected by his son, Andrei Jr.
Tarkovsky kept fairly regular diaries from 1970 until shortly before his death. The last entry was on December 15, 1986. His last words are "But now I have no strength left - that is the problem". The diaries are sometimes also known as Martyrolog and were published posthumously in 1989, and in English in 1991.
Tarkovsky died in Paris on December 29, 1986. He was buried on January 3, 1987 in the Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery in Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois in France. The inscription on his grave stone, which was created by the Russian sculptor Ernst Neizvestny, reads To the man who saw the Angel.
Tarkovsky's first feature film was Ivan's Childhood in 1962. He then directed in the Soviet Union Andrei Rublev in 1966, Solaris in 1972, Mirror in 1975 and Stalker in 1979. The documentary Voyage in Time was produced in Italy in 1982, as was Nostalghia in 1983. His last film The Sacrifice was produced in Sweden in 1986. Tarkovsky was personally involved in writing the screenplays for all his films, sometimes with a co-writer. To Tarkovsky a director who realizes somebody else's screenplay without being involved in the creation of the screenplay becomes a mere illustrator, resulting in dead and monotonous films.
Tarkovsky was, according to Shavka Abdusalmov, a fellow student at the film school, fascinated by Japanese films. He was amazed by how every character on the screen is exceptional and how everyday events such as a Samurai cutting bread with his sword are elevated to something special and put into the limelight.
In 1972, Tarkovsky told film historian Leonid Kozlov his ten favorite films. The list includes Diary of a Country Priest and Mouchette by Robert Bresson, Winter Light, Wild Strawberries and Persona by Ingmar Bergman, Nazarin by Luis Buñuel, City Lights by Charlie Chaplin, Ugetsu by Kenji Mizoguchi, Seven Samurai by Akira Kurosawa and Woman in the Dunes by Hiroshi Teshigahara. Among his favorite directors were Luis Buñuel, Kenji Mizoguchi, Ingmar Bergman, Robert Bresson, Akira Kurosawa, Michelangelo Antonioni, Jean Vigo and Carl Theodor Dreyer.
With the exception of City Lights, the list does not contain any films or directors of the early silent era. The reason is that Tarkovsky saw film as an art as only a relatively recent phenomenon, with the early film-making forming only a prelude. The list has also no films or directors from Tarkovsky's native Russia, although he rated Soviet directors such as Boris Barnet, Sergei Paradjanov and Alexander Dovzhenko highly.
Tarkovsky's films are characterised by Christian and metaphysical themes, extremely long takes, and memorable images of exceptional beauty. Recurring motifs in his films are dreams, memory, childhood, running water accompanied by fire, rain indoors, reflections, levitation, and characters re-appearing in the foreground of long panning movements of the camera.
Tarkovsky included levitation scenes into several of his films, most notably Solaris. To him these scenes possess great power and are used for its photogenic value and its magic inexplicability.
Water, clouds, and reflections were used by him for its surreal beauty and photogenic value, as well as its symbolism, such as waves or the form of brooks or running water.
Bells and candles are also frequent symbols. These are symbols of film, sight and sound, and Tarkovsky's film frequently has themes of self refelction.
Tarkovsky developed a theory of cinema that he called "sculpting in time". By this he meant that the unique characteristic of cinema as a medium was to take our experience of time and alter it. Unedited movie footage transcribes time in real time. By using long takes and few cuts in his films, he aimed to give the viewers a sense of time passing, time lost, and the relationship of one moment in time to another.
Up to, and including, his film Mirror, Tarkovsky focused his cinematic works on exploring this theory. After Mirror, he announced that he would focus his work on exploring the dramatic unities proposed by Aristotle: a concentrated action, happening in one place, within the span of a single day.
Several of Tarkovsky's films are shot both in color and black and white, including for example Andrei Rublev which features an epilogue in color, as well as Solaris, Mirror (Zyrkalo), and Stalker, which feature monotone sequences as well as in color. In 1966, in an interview conducted shortly after finishing Andrei Rublev, Tarkovsky dismisses color film as a "commercial gimmick" and doubts that contemporary films meaningfully use color. He claims that in everyday life one does not consciously notice colors most of the time. Hence in film color should be used mainly to emphasize certain moments, but not all the time as this distracts the viewer. To him, films in color are like moving paintings or photographs, which are too beautiful to be a realistic depiction of life.
Under the influence of Glasnost and Perestroika, Tarkovsky was finally recognized in the Soviet Union in the fall of 1986, shortly before his death, by a retrospective of his films in Moscow. After his death, an entire issue of the film magazine Iskusstvo Kino was devoted to Tarkovsky. In their obituaries, the film committee of the Council of Ministers of the USSR and the Union of Soviet Film Makers expressed their sorrow that Tarkovsky had to spend the last years of his life in exile.
Posthumously, he was awarded the Lenin Prize in 1990, one of the highest state honors in the Soviet Union. In 1989 the Andrei Tarkovsky Memorial Prize was established, with its first recipient being the Russian animator Yuriy Norshteyn. Since 1993, the Moscow International Film Festival awards the annual Andrei Tarkovsky Award. In 1996 the Andrei Tarkovsky Museum opened in Yuryevets, his childhood town. A minor planet, 3345 Tarkovskij, discovered by Soviet astronomer Lyudmila Georgievna Karachkina in 1982 has also been named after him.
Tarkovsky has been the subject of several documentaries. Most notable is the 1988 documentary Moscow Elegy by Russian film director Alexander Sokurov. Sokurov's own work has been heavily influenced by Tarkovsky. The film consists mostly of narration over stock footage from Tarkovsky's films. Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky is 1988 documentary film by Michal Leszczylowski, an editor of the film The Sacrifice. Film director Chris Marker produced the television documentary One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich as an homage to Andrei Tarkovsky in 2000.
Tarkovsky is widely considered to be one of the greatest film makers of all time. Ingmar Bergman was quoted as saying "Tarkovsky for me is the greatest [of us all], the one who invented a new language, true to the nature of film, as it captures life as a reflection, life as a dream". Film historian Steven Dillon claims that much of subsequent film was deeply influenced by the films of Tarkovsky.
Art is born and takes hold wherever there is a timeless and insatiable longing for the spiritual." -Andrei Tarkovsky


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The Symphony No. 4 would eventually be performed in the early 1960's (in this country Eugene Ormandy made a splash with the work) and the piece is now firmly recognized as one of Shostakovich's most striking and original works. But there was more material than is contained in the work's three movements. The fragment of a symphonic movement, marked Adagio-Allegro non troppo, can definitely be linked to the main work. This fragment was first performed in February 1998 with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Shostakovich's close friend and colleague, Mstislav Rostropovich.
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Works DetailsShostakovich, Dmitri : Symphony no 4 in C minor, Op. 43
- Conductor: Oleg Caetani
- Ensemble: Verdi Grand Symphonic Orchestra Milan
- Notes: Composition written: 1935-36.
- Running Time: 61 min. 23 sec.
- Period Time: Modern
- Form: Orchestral
- Written: 1935-1936
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I've always been crazy about old movies. When I was growing up, my mom and I used to watch them together on Saturday afternoons. To this day I'll stop to watch anything with Cary Grant in it. And I can never resist a story that revolves around a house! So it makes sense that Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House would be one of my all-time favorites.
The story starts in New York City, where the Blandings (Cary Grant and the fabulous Myrna Loy) live with their children in a small apartment:
Mr. and Mrs. Blandings sleep in twin beds in the small master bedroom.
The dining room is so cramped there's hardly room for both his daughter's birdcage and the maid!
So they go looking for a bigger place in the country. Jim Blandings earns a good living as an advertising exec, we're told–a whopping $15,000 a year! I ran across an old review of the film from when it came out in 1948 that said:
"It's hard to feel sorry for a man trying to make ends meet on $15,000 a year when most people earn considerably less."
This is the first place they see, known to the locals as the old Hackett place:
The real estate agent knows a couple of suckers when he sees them. He tells them a story about how the house is an historical landmark because General Gates stopped to water his horses here during the Revolutionary War.
This is how Mrs. Blandings imagines fixing it up:
And how Mr. Blandings envisions it:
Their imaginations are so good that they buy the old Hackett place, only to discover that it's a tear-down. It can't be saved. (And that's only the beginning of their troubles!)
They decide to build on the land instead, but the plans from the architect end up being much more than expected. The new house, he says, will cost $12,500 to build. Jim and Muriel are in shock. How could it possibly cost that much? They already spent $13,000 just on the lot and tearing down the old house.
The architect shows them the rendering of how it will look when it's finished and the music swells. The Blandings decide to bite the bullet and build it despite the soaring costs.
A real house was built for the film. According to CaryGrant.net:
In 1948, RKO Studios needed a rural setting in which to film exteriors for their comedy "Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House." Their neighboring studio, 20th Century Fox, had 2,000 acres of dramatic landscape in the Malibu hills that served as their location ranch, so a deal was made and construction began.
Despite all of the problems, the headaches, the mixups, and the soaring costs, the house is finished and moving day finally arrives:
Jim carries Muriel over the threshold:
And right across the wet varnish on the hardwood floors.
"Oh, Daddy! Look at this!"
The windows on the side of the house aren't in yet! It's gonna be a chilly night in the new house. . .
One of my favorite scenes is when Mrs. Blandings gives instructions to the painter on moving day, patiently explaining:
"First, the living room. I want it to be a soft green. Not as blue-green as a robin's egg, but not as yellow-green as daffodils. Now, the dining room. Not just yellow–something bright and sunshiny. If you send one of your workers to the grocer for a pound of butter and match that, they can't go wrong." Etc, etc., with detailed descriptions of each room's color.
As soon as she leaves the room, the painter turns to the guy next to him and asks, "Got that, Charlie?"
"Uh-huh," he says. "Red, green, yellow, blue, and white."
We get a glimpse of the dining room, but we never see the kitchen:
The living room:
Just as Jim is about to give up on ever coming up with a promotional strategy for WHAM (it's a Whale of a Ham!), his housekeeper Gussie (Louise Beavers, who also played Mamie in Holiday Inn with Bing Crosby–another favorite of mine!) saves the day. When Jim asks for HAM for breakfast instead of WHAM, Gussie says:
So he keeps his job, he keeps his house, and everybody's happy.
In the final scene we see him holding the book he has published about his adventures in house building:
Here's the real book, written by the real Mr. Blandings–Eric Hodgins. He based the story on his own trials and tribulations with a house he built. The actual house built by Hodgins still stands in the town of New Milford, Connecticut. It sold in August 2004 for $1.2 million.
According to an article in the Washington Post, Hodgins and his wife began construction in the classic New England small town in 1939, anticipating a budget of $11,000. It ultimately cost $56,000 to finish and nearly drove him into bankruptcy.
After living in their dream house for only 2 years, they were forced to sell and downsize. (Isn't that sad?)
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, Hodgins said, "wrote itself." It was published in 1946 and was immediately a bestseller. He made $200,000 on the movie rights alone, and the film was a hit. Hodgins wrote a sequel called Blandings Way, published in 1950.
As a promotion for the film, 73 full-scale replicas of the house were built in various locations in the US and raffled off. Here's one such house in Fresno, California (via the Providence Journal), as it looks today.
Patricia Shackelford (aka Mrs. Blandings, who named her popular blog after Myrna Loy's character in the movie) wrote an interesting post about it and the movie promotions here.
The house from the film is still standing. In 1974, Fox sold the ranch to the state of California. The land is now part of Malibu Creek State Park, and the house is used for the administrative offices for park employees. Here's how it looks today:
But maybe it's best to remember it as it was. . .
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