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Today we take a look at the year so far in movies and try to assess, not only what was good or bad, but what has the possibility of lasting, of becoming a classic or near-classic.
Last year, I did a blog post about the six tendencies of movies that come to be regarded as classics. As I hastened to add then and hasten to repeat now, classics are classics NOT because they adhere to four or more of these tendencies. It's conceivable that you could make a classic with none of those tendencies. However, most classics do show a number of these six tendencies, and knowing what those tendencies are can be useful in guessing whether a modern movie will last.
Here are the six tendencies:
- Great movies were often topical when they were new, or in response to something going on in the world at the time.
2. Great movies usually embody timeless human values, things that mean the same today as they did 50 years ago and as they will 50 years from now.
3. Great movies often contain a great performance.
- Great movies almost always have at least one great, memorable scene.
- Great movies usually have some overarching consciousness bringing the elements into alignment – a director's vision, or a writer's personality.
- Great movies usually end on a note of complexity, not to be confused with ambiguity. Their endings usually are like the sounding of a chord, with one note perhaps dominant, but with several notes in play and coloring the tone.
I find that there are many good movies that have only one or two of these tendencies. But it's rare that I run into a great classic that doesn't have four or more.
With that in mind, I took a number of the most popular films of the past six months and looked at them with an eye to the future. Will these last? Along the way, I revealed what I think are the best films of the year so far.


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Professional Community for Car Dealers, Marketing, Advertising and Sales Leaders
How's your automotive sales career going? Making the money you want?
I know of only one consistent way for auto sales associates to start earning real money. This way is available to any associate who has the insight to hear and recognize a career-defining moment when it comes.
Here is how this defining moment usually happens. You get up one day, like all others, and go do what you've always done or what seems popular with the herd or huddle. Then something comes along and slams into your status quo like a defensive end into a quarterback.
The funny thing about defining moments is you can't plan for them so you usually can't see them coming. We don't see them coming because our habits, often unproductive and unprofitable for us, tend to blind and deafen us to change.
This next statement could be your career-defining moment. Ears open and eyes alert? The definitive way to achieve success in this business is to:
That's right. If you want to make successful living selling cars, leave the up traffic to those who'll settle for less. Nationally, just 5 percent of auto sales associates make a living taking ups. Instead, plan now to go after the business residing in your existing customer base.
A dealership's customer database is the most under-capitalized source of business in very dealership in America. Ninety percent of the customers a dealership engages will never hear from that dealership or that sales associate again, creating a rich opportunity for any associate who wants to chart their future for a profitable life selling cars.
See if the numbers don't speak for themselves. When I recently spoke to a group of 100 Midwest auto sales associates, of the 40 of them having been in the business for five years or more, only seven of them were making really good income – and they were doing that without taking ups! These guys had learned the secret to successful careers in auto sales I'm sharing today.
Here's why leaving showroom ups to the huddle-hangers and instead going after repeat customer business directly is smart:
Finally, if you haven't recognized your defining moment in this yet, consider these final points about why selling to your database is more profitable selling for you:
• Predictable sales numbers
• Predictable income numbers
• Predictable CSI
• Better grosses
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My defining moment came after training at the dealership and trainer said that this is how all before you prospected for business, friends, relatives and ups.
Decided those paths were so worn they are now trenches. After some research found a very lucrative credit union market. Started credit union car buying service.
Great comments! Thanks for contributing to the discussion. The problem is that we as an industry are willing to hire people who want to stand around most of the day, catch a quick up or two, and make a few hundred bucks. Like Chip said below, there just isn't any excuse for this with the tools that are available to us. We need to focus on hiring people who want a career and not just a job, and then we need to teach them and train them how…there's also no excuse for us not to do our part as managers.
When I saw that Edward Shaffer had commented, I made a beeline here to read what he would contribute... I was not disappointed. I have a high level of respect for Mr. Shaffer's experience and professionalism, and reading what he posted as a comment is essentially as true a reason for the cause of what I commented on, and the driving force behind what Patrick Kelly created this article about. I would like to add one more facet to what Ed commented about; when you create an organizational development plan around specialization of task execution by those who are most suited for the role, inevitably you end of saving money as an organization because you are no longer paying somebody for the execution of a task they are simply not doing. Plus, specialization allows you to hire the least expensive resources to get a particular type of work done properly.
The basic underlying reason for this apparent lack of motivation is a case of "can't do" vs. "won't do". It is not from lack of want that many sales consultants fail to make the most of the opportunities within their current customer database. It is the direct reflection of their personality profiles and the discomfort produced by these activities.
Most sales consultants are hunters and thrive on the immediate and tangible reward of the kill. What you are describing here is a farming activity which takes time, effort and patience to produce results. Prospecting the client base is simply a foreign concept to the hunter.
For example, although I was a proficient sales person in my day, I neither saw the benefit nor felt comfortable with simple follow up such as calling clients on their birthday. It basically feels insincere and disingenuous to me...with my personality profile...to perform these types of relationship building tasks. In other words, it is just not "natural".
The underlying concept of seeking business from within your client database is a sound principle. My belief is that it is the responsibility of the dealership to create business opportunities for the hunters. What we really need is a shift in philosophy to a more specialized model which places people in positions where they have the highest likelihood of success. What General Managers and Dealer Principals resist is making the investment in these changes...they firmly believe int he philosophy and are simply asking the wrong workforce to perform the tasks.
Here's what I don't get, why do Owners, GMs and Managers let this happen?
Sales reps work for the Owners, GMs and Managers - don't they?
Honestly, one of the biggest problems that I see at dealerships is that they are run by car guys, not true sales and marketing professionals. These Owners, GMs and Managers are lazy, ignorant or a combination of the two. They are either happy with what they are making or they don't know how to run a sales organization properly.
If they did, this would not be allowed to happen.
With all of the tools we have at our disposal today, there are no valid excuses.
There's gold in them there service drives!!!!
Good article Patrick...
These are great stats and its funny becuse they are the same as when I entered the car biz 16 years ago. I dont understand why some salespeople don't understand it. I hope they all read this and find realize this could be their career-defining moment!!!! Great article Thank You for posting.
Every dealership seems to have at least one salesperson that never takes a fresh up... This is the guy that when the sales manager gets on his case about going out and greeting a customer, when the store gets extra busy, always seem to say "I can't... I got an appointment that will be here in less than 15 minutes..."
I have often wondered why more sales people do not adopt the type of follow up and customer communication process that allows sales professionals to graduate from the showroom floor and become "Sales Executives" instead of lot greeters.
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The long low dirty-pink building is the former Stable Mews of the Moscow Palace Chambers.
The Stable Mews building of the Moscow Palace Chambers was built in the latter C19th. Today it's a wing of the Russian National Library. It houses the Library's Computer Information Service and the Publishing and Typography Centre.
Moscow is the capital of the ancient and modern Russian state. It has been playing crucial role for centuries. Here you can face all episodes of rich and gorgeous Russian history.
The city is full of historical buildings, monuments, cathedrals, museums and parks. It started many centuries ago from the Kremlin – medieval city-fortress overlooking the Moskva River. Now it is not only the government seat but open air museum. Behind the tall red brick walls palaces, cathedrals and museums are hidden. You can get there through one of the gates and walk along the streets that saw Ivan the Terrible, Boris Godunov, Peter the Great and all other Romanovs, and the Soviet leaders.
You can visit all the cathedrals on Sobornaya (Cathedral) Square, climb Ivan the Great Bell Tower, take photos of the Tzar Bell and Tzar Cannon, see state regalia, ceremonial vestments and gold and silver relics in the world-known treasury-house – the Armoury Chamber. To say more, the Kremlin and its vicinities are on the UNESCO World Heritage list.
We would like to advise you not to concentrate on the Kremlin only. Now you can get out of the Kremlin through the Spasskiye Gate and find yourself on Red Square – the main square of the country where Victory Day parades take place. In winter there is a skating rink with some kind of souvenir bazar. Red Square is famous for being the part of so called Kitai-Gorod – the second ring of fortified walls. Here you will see the beautiful fairy-tale St. Basil's Cathedral. It is open for tourists and it's worth visiting. Other places that pay tourists' attention are GUM (the main center for shopaholics), Lenin's Mausoleum, the State History Museum and the small Cathedral of the Kazan Icon of Our Lady. If you go along Nikolskaya Street, you will get to Lubyanka Square with the imposing buildings of former KGB and the biggest in Russia Children's World Department Store.
If you decide to go through the Resurrection Gate you will find yourself on Manezhnaya (Manege) Square at the entrance to the Alexander Garden. It's a large pedestrian open space and a nice place to walk and relax near the fountains. Underground Trade Centre "Okhotny Ryad" or "the Hunter's Row" is a paradise for shopping. You can continue your walk towards Arbat or Tverskaya Street. There are also fine buildings to visit and to take pictures of: The Shilov Art Gallery, hotels "Moskva", "Nationale", Pashkov's House, The Former House of the Moscow State Duma etc.
If you decide to turn round Georgy Zhukov's horse monument you'll occur on Revolution Square where you can visit the Museum of Patriotic War of 1812. From there it's very easy to get to Teatralnaya or "Theatre" Square limited by the Metropol Hotel, The Bolshoi and the Maly Theatres. In the center you will find a beautiful fountain by Vitali.
All these sites and even more you will be able to visit and explore with knowledgeable audio excursion with offline map from Your Audio Guide "Attractions around the Kremlin". You will find Moscow very pleasant for spending holidays.


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To mark the five-hundredth anniversary of Raphael's birth, many of his paintings have been technically investigated and cleaned. Two of these recently treated works – the Small Cowper Madonna in Washington and the Madonna of the Meadow in Vienna – are here compared in terms of their technique and their Leonardo sources. The Small Cowper Madonna is more loosely and thinly painted than the Vienna picture, which is in better condition. Both works have underdrawings revealed in infra-red reflectograms. The two paintings also share the same Leonardo sources. They belong to the initial phase of Raphel's involvement with Leonardo, in which he borrowed specific motifs from the older master's work.
The Humanism of Gentile da Fabriano
Lorenzo Lotto in Historical Context: Two Episodes Redocumented
A hypothesis has been put forth lately, by no means convincingly, that Lotto belonged to a community with Protestant leanings. In the present study, we reject a Manichean polarization into orthodox and heterodox and assert the middle-of-the-road position of the painter, who already in the early 1500's employed some of the " reformist " themes of the imitation of Christ and of the contemplative life, and then in the 50's and 40's quite prone to seek a position of mediation and conciliation, which he subsequently made explicit in the Redeemer in Vienna. In this framework the body of the article documents two episodes of interest regarding Lotto, showing that: 1) Girolamo de Bologna, author of the Operetta nova spirituale (Venice 1515) cannot be identified with Girolamo Bologni, the Trevisan humanist. 2) The "vinculo del san Joanne" which as the Libro di spese reports link of Lotto and Joan dal Saon, does not refer to a supposed heterodox community, but to the "vincolo di comparato" the baptismal bond, that unites them in the name of the godfather par excellence, John the Baptist.
Philip the Bold' innovative art patronage is emphasized in terms of secular architectural commissions. Enlisting Dreux de Dammartin and Jacques de Neuilly, and seeing to the for-mation of artist's workshops (including Jean de Marvielle, Claus Sluter, Jean de Beaumetz, Arnoul Picornet) and of highly competent masons and other craftsmen, the Duke ordered numerous transformations at the Dijon palace and in his chateaux principally Argilly, Rouvres, Montbard and Talant, while simultaneously occupied with the building of the Charterhouse of Champmol. Construction of Germolles dedicated to courtly sheep rearing and which was to include sculptures completed by Sluter of the ducal couple as shepherds was begun in 1381. Among Philip's residences in Paris, was the Hotel d'Artois, site of lavish fetes, enlarged and entirely refurbished. Works were also undertaken at chateaux in Artois and Flanders. Here too Philip fostered an architecture which was at the same time more pleasing and more functional.
Problems with Caravaggio Part 2
A) Notes on the Techniques of «Naturalism» in the 1600's from Caravaggio to «Manfrediana Methodus»
B) Caravaggio and His «Doubles». The Problem of His Possible Collaborators
A) The first paper tries to retrace the Lombard-Veneto (Giorgonesque) component in its full impact on the technical formation of the young Caravaggio and of subsequent interna-tional «naturalism». The investigation is based on biographical sources and works datable just before the public cycles i.e. to the end of the 1500's (the Contarelli Chapel in the Church of San Luigi dei Francesi in Rome, and the Cerasi Chapel in the Church of Santa Maria del Popolo in Rome [1599–1600]). The investigation then turns to the technical means of expres-sion in «naturalism» as interpreted by Bartolomeo Manfredi (and by his followers) and this especially in the light of the rediscovering of a series of The Four Evangelists of which only two renderings of St. Mathew and the Angel by other artists had been known of.
B) The second paper deals with up-dating the biographical sources and the catalogue of the works of Caravaggio documented as being in the collection of the noble family Mattei in Roma, of which other versions of very good quality have been recently rediscovered, besides the signed works already known of. Dealt with are the well known discussions on the version of St. John the Baptist in the Pinacoteca Capitolina in Rome, formerly belonging to the Mattei family versus the other in the Galleria Doria Pamphilij also in Rome; on the Supper in Emmaus in London formerly belonging to the family Mattei versus the rediscovered version in a collection in N.Y.; on the Incredulity of St. Thomas in the Bildergalerie Sanssouci in Potsdam versus the probable Mattei version formerly in the Eristoff collection in Paris. This updating (as well as the analysis of other problems in the paintings) helps clear up the problem of 1) copies by anonymous painters 2) those by other, known, painters, 3) of collaborators and «pupils», these last hitherto escaping any rational classification.
The changes in contemporary art are approached by analysing the evolution of the character of a work of art and its related concepts. The concept of the «open work» proposed by Umberto Eco is modified by representing the development of art as the process of a gradual liberation of the work from its limitations. Strict principles of interpretation have been given up in favour of free and variable readings. The next phase has been the liberation of the work from its status as an object - a modern artist is apt to leave some freedom to the performers as readers, allowing for a more or less free handling of his materially unfinished product. The most recent development has been the rejection of the rules which used to govern all artistic communication.
The author analyses two determinants of contemporary changes in the work of art. One of them is the substitution of the process for the object principle: a contemporary work is apt to be a phenomenon, a happening, a show.
Another factor which is claimed to be of essential significance is the random element in the process of creation and reception of art, appearing in three aspects: 1) random patterns, independent of the artists intentions, are included in a material artistic object; 2) random per-formance; 3) random reception is allowed, as the audience is expected to influence actively the structure of the work as an object, or even to cooperate with the artist. The analyses are supported by examples from music, visual arts, and film.


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The stage at St. Petersburg's Sergey Kuryokhin Modern Art Center was set for a blast of live electronic music, with seating for ten performers, each station equipped with samplers, laptops, and electric guitars. As the audience arrived the musicians tinkered with the controls; one stood near a huge glass jug, adjusting wires submerged in its murky liquid. But when the appointed time for the concert's start arrived, the performers retreated to the wings, and recorded music came up and continued for the next twenty minutes. It seemed almost like a wry comment on the detachment of the physical presence of the performer from the source of sound in electronic music. But in fact it was an unannounced presentation of past issues of Tellus, the 1980s journal of experimental sound produced by Harvestworks, selected by director Carol Parkinson. As it faded, the musicians took their places, at last, to perform Third Eye Orchestra, a piece written and conducted by Hans Tammen. It was a controlled improvisation, where Tammen lifted numbered cards indicating which of the score's instructions should be read at that moment. The musicians, all local recruits, visibly relished both the spontaneity and the monstrously loud sound that only an ensemble of many amplified electronic instruments can produce.
The Harvestworks evening was part of the program of the third edition of Cyberfest, an annual festival conceived and organized by Anna Frants, a New York-based artist and gallerist, Marina Koldobskaya, director of the St. Petersburg branch of Russia's National Center for Contemporary Art. The NCCA hasn't had a building in St. Petersburg since the branch was established six years ago--a problem played up the first night of the festival, when a new Cyland museum in Second Life was presented--and so the concerts and presentations took place in venues around the city. The festival's climactic event was a performance by Paul Miller, aka DJ Spooky, at the Hermitage Theater, a marble-studded auditorium built for Catherine the Great's private entertainment. Miller added a soundtrack to Dziga Vertov's 1924 film Kino-Glaz that he planned roughly in advanced but mixed live. Originally, the silent film was accompanied by live orchestras improvising arrangements of popular tunes of the day, but that wasn't Miller's primary concern. Rather, his project illustrates the already well-established connection between contemporary remix culture and the editing experiments of Soviet directors like Vertov and Sergei Eisenstein. His dance rhythms homogenized the haphazard sequence of Vertov's attempt at presenting reality; the lush sound and the virtuosic mixing brought a surfeit of dramatic expression to footage that Vertov prized for its plainness. The gap between film and soundtrack reduced Kino-Glaz to an exotic backdrop for a display of DJ skill rather than engaging it in counterpoint.
Kino-Pravda, another Vertov film, was played with Miller's music in a three-channel installation at the Manege, one of the exhibition sites for Cyberfest. That show also included Sergey Kotsun's Orchestrion, a screen with a two-dimensional, Nintendo landscape that bloomed with trees, clouds, and stylized floral patterns in response to the viewer's motion, and Nikita Tsymbal's installation Paralleloid, where the pendulous swings of a ball hanging in the room's center affected the intensity of the vibrations of black and white stripes projected on the wall. Alexandra Dementieva reconstructed her 2007 project Alien Space. The walls of its zig-zagging corridor were made of white balloons, which at the center held talking heads of anchors delivering news in sixty-seven languages. Depending on a body's position in the space, all but one voice would fall silent, and thus it turned the viewer into a human tuner in search of a familiar code. Behind it, eight slide projectors clicked to the rhythms of the first movement of Brahms' Double Concerto, as they flashed photographs of twenty years of exhibitions in St. Petersburg, a low-tech virtual museum of sorts to complement the one in Second Life. The system was credited to Frants, the concept of the content to Koldobskaya--a chance for the festival's directors to have their say.
In fact, several works both at the Manege and at Cyberfest's other exhibition venue, the education center of the Hermitage Museum, were credited in part to Frants and Koldobskaya. For the most part these repeated well-worn concepts from the media art arsenal: a choreography of images to sound (such as the Act or a Symphony for 8 Slide Projectors, described above), a headset that transports the wearer to another reality, and robots that react to audience movement. This might be explained either by the festival's pedagogical mission, or the relative paucity of artists engaging technology in St. Petersburg. But one also got the impression that the organizers neglected to take full advantage of available local resources. Whitney curator Chrissy Iles was in town to give a lecture on the history of video art at Pro Arte Institute in connection with the opening of a Rufus Corporation exhibition there; that might have made an interesting counterpoint to the lecture about the few Soviet counterparts by the director of the Prometheus Institute, who presented digitized versions of synaesthetic films by Bulat Galeev from the 1970s and '80s. Perpetual Art Machine, an artist-run online video-art database, came from New York, but Moscow's MediaArtLab, a comprehensive archive of Russian video, had no presence; there weren't even any Moscow-based artists working in related fields, such as Dmitry and Elena Kawarga. Koldobskaya might have invited her colleague Dmitry Bulatov, a curator at the Kaliningrad branch of the NCCA who recently completed an anthology of documentary films on biotech design, or Alexander Efremov, a Petersburg-based geneticist who has recently collaborated with artists in his laboratory. Such science-based practices would not have been entirely out of place, given the festival's loose usage of the cyber- prefix. The third edition of Cyberfest demonstrated the organizers' ability to make some interesting juxtapositions of ideas and involve a number of venues and organizations, but future endeavors will require more focus to convince its audience, both local and international, why "cyberart" and the Cyberfest itself matter now.


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Duplex / Townhome / Row House
A duplex is a stand-alone structure with two units that share a common wall, but separate entrances. A townhome or row house consists of a row of similar or identical dwellings that are individually owned. Townhomes are typically closer to that of single-family home ownership, without monthly dues or Home Ownership Associations. Each type of unit shares a wall with adjacent dwellings. Townhomes are common in dense urban spaces.
Elements of design:
- Multiple units built adjacent to one another with shared walls
- Units typically mirror one another
- Ownership similar to single-family dwellings
- Common in dense urban areas


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New this year to the basketball side of Razzball is updated tier rankings throughout the season. Every Wednesday morning I'll update my tiers on a rotating basis for guards, forwards, and centers (i.e. Guards this week, Forwards next week, etc.) The first run through of tiered rankings may not differ much from my original rankings because there haven't been many games played. Don't like it? Well there will be no vote on this since this is a dictatorship. However, you can destroy me in the comments as much as you please. I'll also go through a recap of the previous night's games as well since there are only a couple games on Tuesday nights. Here's what happened in the NBA last night…
Kyle Lowry – 2/1/4/1/1 going 1 for 4 from the field. I should mention that he only played 17 minutes because he sprained his ankle (day to day). Injuries stink. Like "don't go in the bathroom after your Dad on after Taco Bell" stink.
Jonas Valanciunas – During the game, Kendrick Perkins kept asking Jonas when he and his brothers are releasing a new album. Val, having been teased frequently about this, decided to torch Perkins for 18 points, 6 boards, 1 assist while going 6-6 from the line. If he can channel this anger every night like Gordon from dodgeball, I might start recommending him.
Hasheem Thabeet – I just threw up a little. He played 23 minutes and somehow scored 10 points while racking up 5 boards and 2 blocks. I can't believe I'm writing about him. I just threw up again.
Nikola Vucevic – Back to back double doubles while averaging 39.5 minutes in those two games. Love the potential and I hope I don't confuse him with Nikola Pekovic at some point. Actually, I think Orlando should trade him to Minnesota so they can build the foundation for their
all Russian all-white Montenegrin + Russian conglomerate team. Yes, Andrei Kirilenko and Alexey Shved are also on that T-Wolves team.
Kirk Robinson – A studly performance last night with 19 points, 7 rebounds, 11 assists, 3 steals, and two 3PM. Oh, you can't combine point guards? Shit. Kirk Hinrich and Nate Robinson essentially split the stats (and the minutes) which will lead to erratic results. Hurry back Derrick Rose.
Greg Monroe – 27 points, 10 boards, 2 assists, 1 steal, and 3 blocks while going 10-20 from the field (7-7 FT). On behalf of all owners that drafted you… thank you for finally showing up for the season.
Rodney Stuckey – After you dropped him, Stuckey went off for 17 points, 4 boards, 4 assists, and 1 block while nailing two 3's. He can't wait to see the disappointment on your face when you start him next game.
JaVale McGee – Has come off the bench while averaging 17.3 minutes per game behind Kosta Koufos (14/5/0/0/3). Until Coach Karl shows some more faith in him, it will be hard to count on lines like tonight (16/3/1/0/3). I hear he tells great jokes while on the bench though.
Wilson Chandler – Averaging 19.5 minutes this season, I'm beginning to think that Chandler will brush up on his Chinese again. As for fantasy owners… 5 points, 7 rebounds, and a single 3PM will make you want to deport him yourself.
Now for the tiers (Guards):
Point Guards
Top 3 overall, idiot: Chris Paul
Nom nom nom: Russell Westbrook, Kyrie Irving, Ty Lawson, Deron Williams
Nom nom: Goran Dragic, Brandon Jennings, Kyle Lowry, Mike Conley, Stephen Curry
Nom: Rajon Rondo, Tony Parker, Jrue Holiday, Damian Lillard, Jeremy Lin
Boom or Bust: Raymond Felton, Steve Nash, John Wall
Upside!!!!: Isaiah Thomas, Jeff Teague, Kemba Walker, Darren Collison
Upside: Mo Williams, Greivis Vasquez, George Hill, Mario Chalmers
Upside down: Brandon Knight, Luke Ridnour, Jameer Nelson
Downside: Andre Miller, Steve Blake, Kirk Hinrich, E'Twaun Moore, A.J. Price, J.J. Barea, Nate Robinson, Devin Harris
By the wayside: Ricky Rubio, D.J. Augustin, Jarrett Jack, Ramon Sessions, Jose Calderon, Eric Bledsoe
Shooting Guards
I now feel a lot better about this: James Harden, Dwyane Wade
The Kobe Bryant Tier: Kobe Bryant
Middling: Monta Ellis, Joe Johnson, Marcus Thornton
Oh Hell Yeah: Kevin Martin, Klay Thompson, Wesley Matthews, O.J. Mayo
Biting my toenails: Tyreke Evans, Manu Ginobili, Ray Allen, Lou Williams, Eric Gordon
Potential Teases: Gordon Hayward, Arron Afflalo, Dion Waiters, Jamal Crawford, Jason Terry
Will probably get burned: Jason Richardson, Bradley Beal, J.R. Smith, Rodney Stuckey
Your icepack for the previous tier: Jordan Crawford, Daniel Green, Alonzo Gee, Courtney Lee
Frostbitten: DeMar DeRozan, Vince Carter, MarShon Brooks, Tony Allen, Ben Gordon, Gerald Henderson, Chauncey Billups


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There's not meant to be any physical contact in this age-old, ritualistic melding of martial arts and breakdancing. Your instructor probably explained that, though unless you happen to speak Portuguese you probably didn't understand (and if you did, would you trust it to be true?). But you're ready to give it a whirl; who knows, you may even get to sing or play an instrument to help keep the beat – tambourine, drum, some kind of gourd with strung beads. Probably not the berimbau, a stringed bow struck while positioned against your stomach; that looks more difficult. In fact, it all looks difficult: how can the dancer-combatants fly and spin with such grace, spending as much time on their hands and airborne as on their feet? Maybe you should just passively observe, or head back to any number of street corners in Salvador, where capoeiristas cartwheel and kick encircled by onlookers. And save your own handstand prowess for another day.
The Associacao de Capoeira Mestre Bimba, Rua das Laranjeiras 1, is Salvador's foremost dance school and sometimes has classes open to tourists.
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Sally Ride, the first American female astronaut in space passed away today after a 17 month battle with pancreatic cancer. According to her website, Sally Ride Science:
Sally Ride died peacefully on July 23rd, 2012 after a courageous 17-month battle with pancreatic cancer. Sally lived her life to the fullest, with boundless energy, curiosity, intelligence, passion, joy, and love. Her integrity was absolute; her spirit was immeasurable; her approach to life was fearless.
Ride was a "trailblazer" in so many ways. In 1983 she joined the crew of the Space Shuttle Challenger at the age of 32. At that time she was not only the first woman in space, but also the youngest person to do so. The influence she had on her colleagues is so evident in the many quotes posted on NASA's website.
Sally Ride broke barriers with grace and professionalism – and literally changed the face of America's space program," said NASA Administrator Charles Bolden. "The nation has lost one of its finest leaders, teachers and explorers. Our thoughts and prayers are with Sally's family and the many she inspired. She will be missed, but her star will always shine brightly.
Sally was a personal and professional role model to me and thousands of women around the world," said NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver. "Her spirit and determination will continue to be an inspiration for women everywhere.
The selection of the 1978 Astronaut Class that included Sally and several other women, had a huge impact on my dream to become an astronaut. The success of those woman, with Sally paving the way, made my dream seem one step closer to becoming a reality," said Peggy Whitson, Chief of the NASA Astronaut Office.
Ride's influence on the world did not end with NASA. She went on to join the faculty at the University of California, San Diego, as a professor of physics and director of the University of California's California Space Institute. She later founded her own company Sally Ride Science, which encouraged girls and young women to pursue careers in science and math. She lived a very private life, but what she gave of herself was for the good of people and our world. Her dedication to education and teaching is truly exemplary.
As most of us know, pancreatic cancer is a particularly difficult cancer and so much more work needs to be done to beat this horrible disease. Sally Ride Science has set up a fund in honor of Sally Ride, which can be found at https://www.sallyridescience.com/sallyride/memory.


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PopUps: Here's Why Justin Bieber Wants Fox News Host Laura Ingraham Fired
Justin Bieber wants Fox News to fire its conservative host Laura Ingraham.
The singer's message came Thursday after Ingraham made comments about the rapper Nipsey Hussle, who was murdered earlier this month. During a segment about Nipsey's funeral on April 12, Ingraham started to laugh while talking about his life and Bieber wasn't having it.
"Laura Ingraham absolutely disgusting what you did on national television. How dare you laugh in the face of a person who has passed on. Doesn't matter who it is," Bieber wrote on Instagram. "But disrespecting someone's who was a pillar in the community and did right by people? Did you not think about the family who just lost a loved one and now have to see you mock him on national television It's absurd and you should be fired period."
As The Cut notes, Ingraham also confused Nipsey for rapper YG. After playing a clip of YG's song "FDT," which features Nipsey and takes aim at President Trump, the Fox News host says: "So ... the chorus it goes on and on. Is that related to the lowest unemployment ever basically for African-Americans?"
The Grammy-nominated rapper was shot and killed outside a clothing store he owned in Los Angeles on April 2. Bieber isn't the only celeb to call out Ingraham over her reactions. Rapper T.I. also took issue with the segment, calling it "disgusting" in an Instagram post. Jamie Foxx, The Game, Snoop Dogg and Meek Mill all said they'd like to see Ingraham off TV.
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Planets as small as Earth are hard to spot orbiting other stars; obtaining good data about their chemical composition is well beyond the abilities of our current instruments. However, a new study of four white dwarfs provides hints about the fate of planets like our own. It's not an especially happy one, as the astronomers found that the chemical composition of debris on the white dwarfs closely matches that of Earth.
These observations, which will be published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, focused on four "polluted" white dwarfs, which have traces of elements not usually seen in this type of star. B. T. Gänsicke et al. studied their ultraviolet spectrum using the Hubble Space Telescope, and determined they contained excessive amounts of silicon, aluminum, iron, and other elements, with abundances similar to those found on Earth. These results indicate that rocky debris has crashed onto the white dwarfs—debris that may possibly be from the destruction of a planet similar in composition to Earth.
White dwarfs are the cores of lower-mass stars that have run out of nuclear fuel and shed their outer layers. Our Sun falls into this mass category and will eventually experience that fate, so white dwarf systems provide potentially interesting glimpses into the evolution of the Solar System. White dwarfs are very compact: while their masses are still comparable to the Sun's, their sizes are closer to Earth's.
The combination of small size and relatively large mass means the gravitational field is strong. Thus, any heavy elements (including oxygen and metals like iron) will not collect in the atmosphere. Instead, they tend to sink out of sight into the white dwarf's interior, leaving an atmosphere of nearly pure hydrogen and helium. However, this sinking process takes enough time that astronomers can spot it happening, and any white dwarfs "polluted" with heavier elements can reveal aspects of the star system.
Gänsicke et al. examined the ultraviolet spectra of four polluted white dwarfs (euphoniously named PG0843+516, PG1015+161, SDSS1228+1040, and GALEX1931+0117). They looked at the specific signature of absorption by heavier elements, and compared the abundances of these elements both to typical white dwarfs and to other astronomical objects. They found elevated levels of silicon—an element common in terrestrial planets, the Moon, and some asteroids.
PG0843+516 also exhibited noticeable amounts of iron and nickel: the materials that dominate Earth's rocky interior. Not only that, the abundances of silicon and these other elements are consistent with those on Earth. At minimum, that suggests rocky asteroids were torn apart and accreted by the white dwarfs. However, the presence of sulfur and chromium hints that the destroyed object may have had a differentiated interior: a core and layers outside it, like Earth's mantle. (The terrestrial planets, the Moon, and the asteroid Vesta are known to be differentiated.)
Based on these data, Gänsicke et al. argue the chemical abundances are closer to terrestrial planet cores than to meteorites or other rocky debris. If this is true, then it is possible these white dwarfs devoured planets, and the "pollutants" are the remains of their cores.
To date, no white dwarfs are known to have planets. But given the large number of exoplanet systems, it seems only a matter of time before such a system is found. This study shows that some white dwarf systems may at least have the right elements in the right proportions, showing that they either maintain the environment needed for planet formation, or caused the death of a terrestrial planet.
MNRAS, 2012. Preprint: astro-ph.EP:1205.0167. This paper has been accepted for publication, though it has not yet appeared.


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My Aunt Louise and Uncle Ed have always fostered a warped view of success. They push their kids – my cousins – mercilessly. Their nagging is constant.
Make more connections. Get better grades. Score the perfect internship. Revise resume. Date a doctor's son. Put your name at the top of the list. Perfect resume. Schmooze passionately. Understand the system. Send resume to family, friends, strangers, neighbors. Wear the best business attire. Get your name on the door. Know the right people. Climb the ladder. Make us proud. Make our friends jealous.
They've never been shy to wedge their noses into my affairs, either. My aunt listed colleges that I should visit; my uncle recited the many perks of an out-of-state education. They ganged up against me, the Christmas of my senior year, to interrogate me on why I had picked the university I did and to strongly insinuate that I was much too stupid to go there. ...regardless of the fact that I'd been accepted before Thanksgiving.
I'll point out here that I graduated from that university that would be too challenging for me. In four years with two majors, I should add.
After my junior year in college, less than a week after I'd finished my exams and moved back home, Uncle Ed called me.
Where are you interning this summer? I'm not. Who are you writing for? I'm not. What are you doing with your life? I plan to open a business sharpening pencils, Uncle Ed. When it goes out of business, which it will inevitably do, I will work retail. After being fired for shoplifting, I will begin practice as an illegal, unlicensed cosmetologist until I am caught and prosecuted and put into jail where I will rot my life away and wish that I had listened to you in the first place.
Uncle Ed decided that this was not a good plan. He proceeded to assign me to write him an article. Uncle Ed recited me the synopsis of the feature he wanted me to write. He told me who to interview and how to write it. And he told me how his master plan would work. He would take it upon himself to get it into a newspaper. Make it this many words long. Have it to me in this many hours. He was absolutely serious.
I hung up the phone and I cried. I was already angry with myself for not getting a summer internship, despite filling out more than a few applications. I was anxious enough about life after college. I didn't want to write his stupid freelance piece. Hell, I didn't even want to be a journalist! I was frustrated and I really, really could do without him prying into my life.
He called the next day to congratulate Meg on a quite prestigious statewide scholar-athlete award that she had won. At the end of the message, he reminded me that I had 24 hours until the article that he had assigned to me was due.
I didn't write it. I never talked to him about it again.
For about a year, I responded to Uncle Ed and Aunt Louise's future planning/job ambition inquiries with polite but monotone one-word answers that were punctuated by my leaving whatever room he or she was in. Time has mitigated the pain of Uncle Ed's ambush; in the last six months, I've been more willing to have conversations about my future with Uncle Ed and Aunt Louise.
Yesterday was marked by Uncle Ed taking advantage of me while my guard was down. He's doing the advertising for a company in the field that I'm interning with. Print out your resume and a few samples of your work! I'll pass it on.
Along with a hell of a lot of unsolicited advice, I'm sure.
I will maintain that my decision to hand Uncle Ed my resume without being held at gunpoint was a stupid one.
And I will continue to do so until he gets me a job.
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Future Islands makes what they call "Post-Wave" music, bridging the gap between New Wave and Post-Punk, and their unique sound was born out of the departure of their drummer and the band's desire to remain a three-piece rather than search for a replacement.
"We just thought, 'hey we know how to do this, so let's just do this,'" Herring said in a recent phone interview form Chicago, where he was enjoying a little breakfast with the sound of the El train behind him. "We didn't want to add somebody only to have them leave, and then have another excuse for not making music"
Perhaps what draws listeners to Herring's voice and the music of Future Islands is that Herring sings of his own experiences. His lyrics are intensely personal, a revelation he doesn't shy away from. In fact, for the website Ragged Words, Herring broke down the meaning behind every song on Future Islands, many of which are about a difficult breakup he went through.
"I like mystery in music, but I also don't want what I write to be about politics or my opinions, so where is your territory?" explained Herring. "If you're not going to write about the events going on around you, then what are you going to write about? We believe that the personal is universal."
Herring said In Evening Air is the closest the band has come to capturing their live show. The band has been together in one form or another since 2003, so they've spent plenty of time on stage, but a lot less time in a studio.
"There's studio bands, and there's live bands, and what we know is the live show," he said. "It's always been the recording that's been the difficult thing for us. This is the first time that I think we have been able to capture in a recording what we do live."
Herring said he is happy that fans have something they can hold in their hand, but he still wants people to come see the band in person and see firsthand how passionate they are about the music they make. Fans will have a chance to do just that when Future Islands plays Silent Barn in Ridgewood on Saturday, June 12.
"I want people to come see us live," he said. " I want them to experience the music for themselves."
Silent Barn is located at 915 Wyckoff Avenue in Queens. Listen to "In the Fall" by Future Islands at www.queensledger.com.


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Sabrina the teen witch character started with Archie Comics in the '60s, move to an animated series, then became a weirdly awesome sitcom featuring Melissa Joan Hart and her dryly witty cat, Salem. But with an upcoming live-action remake, the new Sabrina will be "an origin story in the vein of Spider-Man, about a young girl coming to terms with her remarkable powers."
At first, it's like, damn, Hollywood Is Out Of Ideas Part MCCCXIII. But on second thought: Think of all the little girls who love magic and power and mystery and adventure and have to get by on Harry Potter and Disney Princesses. While the boys (and, um, Beyoncé) are dressing up in Spider-Man, Transformers, Jack Sparrow, Captain America and Wolverine costumes on Halloween, girls end up being princesses, crayons, or characters from movies made decades ago, like Dorothy. Don't get me wrong, I love Dorothy, but it seems like a great idea to reboot a franchise in which the lead is a girl who, quite literally, has power, and isn't just a girlfriend, a damsel in distress or a sidekick. (I know, I know, what about Hermione and Black Widow? Until they get their very own flicks they are still sidekicks.)
Plus, as we all know, Crazy Cat Ladies are the best, and cats win at life, and Sabrina's familiar is key in the story. According to Deadline:
While the tone of the movie will be edgier, they are keeping her talking black cat Salem, who here is a transformed prince creating unique love stories for Sabrina.
Fingers crossed, guys.
Meanwhile, remember when Britney was on?
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This is an extended version of the article that appeared in the July 2012 issue of Investment Advisor.
The search for natural gas and oil found through the process known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is fraught with controversy. Eager proponents of the process tout the supply of gas to be found in areas like the Marcellus Shale in Pennsylvaniaand upstate New Yorkas a means to become less dependent on imported energy sources, and property owners in areas with few opportunities for income are delighted with the financial boon that gas royalties can bring.
Meanwhile, environmentalists and property owners (some disillusioned after wells have been drilled on their land) point to drawbacks like polluted groundwater, illness, poisoned livestock, earthquakes and explosions.
With so many areas of contention, insurers are finding that fracking presents numerous areas of risk. How (and whether) that filters down to any of your clients depends on many factors, and since all the data isn't in yet, you should consider keeping an eye on the situation—particularly if you have clients who live or invest in areas where fracking is ongoing.
The Marcellus Shale isn't the only area in which fracking is carried out. Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Louisiana, Maryland, New Jersey, New Mexico, Ohio, Texas, West Virginia and Wyoming have seen the eager (and sometimes not so eager) embrace of the search for gas deposits via fracking.Vermontbanned the practice in May. There are fracking sites inCanadaas well.
The hydrofracturing process brings to the surface deposits that can only be extracted from surrounding rock by the injection of vast quantities of water to which a "cocktail" of chemicals has been added. The chemicals themselves are regarded as proprietary, and outside the industry, little is known about which chemicals are used and in what concentrations.
According to U.K.-based insurance broker Willis Group, insurers should be wary of the risks associated with fracking, since neither regulatory nor environmental standards have yet solidified, and the potential for high costs could be great. In its April "Energy Market Review," the company said, "[Insurance] buyers will have to differentiate their risk by proving adherence to best practice if cover is to be provided at an economic price. This is especially the case in the environmental impairment liability arena, which can offer the critical protection for the 'gradual' pollution liability risk associated with the hydraulic fracturing (or 'fracking') process."
Citing the rising public awareness of the practice and the Oscar nomination of the documentary "Gasland," which had critical things to say about fracking and its environmental effects, Willis said that fracking is "an industry that is here to stay, with risks that will need to be managed [or] insured in the usual manner." The firm pointed out that fracking operations take place not just in North America, but also in Australia, China, Africa, Europe and South America.
A New York Times report at the end of May said that increasingly, U.S. state and international governments are moving toward enacting laws requiring disclosure of the chemicals used in the fracking cocktail and that environmentalists are pressing for disclosure of the chemicals used not just for fracking but throughout the drilling process. The final version of an Ohio law passed in May did not contain the latter measure, but future actions may be more exacting.
Willis broke down the hazard categories involved with fracking into three general groups: contamination or disruption of the drill site and surrounding area (which would include chemical contamination and possible depletion of groundwater, thanks to the millions of gallons of water that are required for the operation); contamination of underground aquifers (New York City residents expressed concern over this possibility because of the drilling operations in the Marcellus Shale, close to the aquifer that supplies Manhattan's drinking water); and earthquake damage from fracking operations (Bloomberg reported in April that a wave of earthquakes in Arkansas was attributed to the disposal of millions of gallons of wastewater in disposal wells, spurring a shutdown of four disposal wells in the Fayetteville Shale).
While Willis acknowledges that there are risks in fracking, it also points out that the industry is 40 years old and that the use of best practices can minimize those risks. The firm enumerates a number of questions that should be considered when deciding whether coverage is appropriate and says that three areas of the insurance market stand to feel the most impact from fracking operations:
- Operator's extra expense (OEE) coverage, which indemnifies the costs of regaining control of a well following a blowout, including redrilling and the cost of cleaning up seepage and pollution. These costs can be high in the case of gas wells, since multiple wells are often drilled on the same pad, and in the case of a blowout it is likely that all the wells on that pad would be affected.
- Comprehensive general liability (CGL) and excess umbrella liability cover (umbrella), which cover damage to third-party property and bodily injury. One of the complaints that has surfaced regarding gas wells is the heavy traffic into and out of areas that causes excess wear and tear on roads. There is also the potential for damage and injury to neighboring properties and individuals, as well as crews, when wells are drilled in more populated areas.
- Environmental impairment liability (EIL), which covers legal liabilities arising out of the pollution conditions from operations or general pollution conditions at the site itself. The two chief coverages in this area are the expected pollution liability, purchased by the owner of the drilling site (or the mining company leasing the site from the property owner), and contractors' pollution liability, purchased by those actually doing the drilling – often a subcontractor to the mining company.
Clients who buy property in areas with gas wells may need to consider their own insurance needs, lest the presence of gas wells leads to gaps in coverage for everything from earthquake damage to contamination of drinking water or damage done by vehicles or equipment. As examples of some of the more unusual hazards being laid at the door of fracking operations are the case of a water well in Dimock, Penn.that exploded in 2009 due to high concentrations of methane in the water (other wells in the area are said to be contaminated as well) and cases of farmers whose livestock died after allegedly being poisoned by drinking contaminated water in Louisiana and Wyoming.
If clients are interested in the potential rewards of hosting a gas well or wells on land that they own, they should investigate before they sign on the dotted line to be sure that the companies they sign with have insurance against potential dangers. Not only the mining company but its contractors should be covered for the hazards mentioned above.


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Educators Encourage Census Participation
WASHINGTON - April 01, 2010 -
The U.S. Census Bureau mailed or hand-delivered approximately 134 million 2010 Census questionnaires to households in March. To date, just over half of those households have mailed back their census forms. The 2010 Census is a count of everyone living in the United States and is mandated by the U.S. Constitution. Census figures are used to apportion congressional seats to states, to distribute more than $400 billion in federal funds to tribal, state and local governments each year, and to make decisions about what community services to provide.
The following statement can be attributed to NEA President Dennis Van Roekel:
"As the elected representative of the 3.2 million-member National Education Association, I often visit communities and schools that are struggling to provide the most basic public education to their students. Through no fault of their own, students are asked to learn in buildings that have fallen into disrepair, without textbooks or even working computers. The 2010 Census gives us the opportunity to do something, now, that can help change schools tomorrow. Ten minutes of our time today, could mean a lifetime of education for our students. The NEA asks everyone to fill out a census form and mail it back. Our children can't afford to wait another 10 years."
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Pastor Barry Briggs
The Springs Church
135 N. Grant, Cedar Springs
It's that time of year again when we "go back." Kids go back to school. Students go back to college. People go back to work. It seems like everybody has something to go back to in September. Even the clocks are going to go back an hour in a few weeks. If you've been away this summer, chances are you're back now. Welcome back!
In addition to going back to school and work, now is also a great time of year to go back to church. Whether summer trips have had you out of town and out of the routine of attending church for a couple of months, or you've been away from church for a couple years (or even a couple decades), you should seriously consider going back to church sometime over the next couple weeks. If you're like most Americans, you have attended church before, but you haven't been to church in a long time. What better time than now to give it another try, especially this Sunday on the 10th anniversary of 9/11.
I want to encourage everyone reading this article to get back into the practice of attending church. If you're interested in going back to church but don't know where to go, browse the church directory on the left-hand side of this page. There are many great churches in Cedar Springs for you to visit. I realize that visiting a church for the first time can be intimidating, especially if you don't know anyone at first. But I think you'll be pleasantly surprised by how welcoming and friendly our area churches are. They are full of real people—just like you—who want to know their neighbors and grow in their faith.
I hope this fall you will find a church to visit and get connected to. On behalf of all the area pastors, I want to extend an invitation to you to visit our churches. You're invited! We hope you will come. And as you do, let me be the first to say, "Welcome back!"