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Direct Response, Meet Online Video Advertising
by Torrey Newman-Larson on Apr 29, 12:30 PM
Direct response in online video advertising is fast becoming a reality. Whether advertisers are looking to generate sales, sign-ups, coupon downloads, or any action, online video advertising is a new and effective way to enhance off and online DR efforts.
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Recently, I was asked to speak at a Digital Summit conducted by a major brand marketer for the benefit of its brand teams -- eager to learn more about how to use broadband video. Never reluctant to help educate and grow the category, I eagerly took the advertiser up on its invite. What was astounding to me, as I stared out into the audience of glassy-eyed brand managers, marketing managers, associate and assistant brand managers fresh off their latest TV campaign, sales promotion or packaging refresh, was the very baseline level of digital aptitude they had about interactive advertising overall.
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Agency Time Sheets Vs. Viewer Time Sheets
by Brian , Gregory Wilson on Apr 21, 11:00 AM
The meeting was starting to get interesting. The creative agency had just presented to the client what they would charge to come up with a concept for a 90-second, online video commercial. The cost-controller on the client side, who had been listening silently, now had center stage. Not surprisingly, he was making the best of it; slicing and dicing like a Benihana chef. Number of people on the job, hours against, agency time sheets, all being gutted by the cost-controller. The agency was taking a beating, and when the cost-controller finally sat down, the proposed fee lying in tatters, the ...
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New Ad Formats: Best Thing To Happen To Pre-Roll
by Eric Franchi on Apr 14, 12:00 PM
For a good two years now, pre-roll has been one of the most debated topics in blogs, trade publications, panel discussions and conference rooms alike. Pre-roll is one of those things that industry folks either love or hate. Recently, a new round of articles are proclaiming the format's imminent death. Concurrent with this trend has been the introduction of the "new" pre-roll --overlays -- that many (VCs included) are betting will be the future of online video advertising.
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Video Advertising: A Performance Medium by Any Measure
by Bill Todd on Apr 8, 2:45 PM
Video advertising is not just about pricing pre-rolls or overlays, inventory accessibility, sales lead cycles or debate over when critical mass of advertiser uptake will occur. Video advertising is about performance, whether an advertiser measures it by awareness, traffic or converting site visitors to sales or leads.
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by Jonathan Shambroom on Apr 1, 11:30 AM
Online video entertainment sites offer a variety of opportunities for advertisers to engage consumers. As the industry continues to develop, advertising creative should become more compelling and further integrated into the online experience.
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Hickenlooper also urged people to ramp up pressure on Congress to extend the wind-production tax credit. But he saved his strongest endorsement for a fuel that has stirred controversy in recent years.
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Gore Vidal called us "the United States of Amnesia." And now Lance Armstrong's televised cheating confession raises the question of whether, when it comes to fallen heroes, there's anything Americans won't forgive and forget.
From Bill Clinton (again toast of the Democratic Party) to Charlie Sheen (again a sitcom TV star) to Michael Vick (again an NFL quarterback), the bar for public redemption seems to have gotten lower and lower. Notre Dame star linebacker Manti Te'o — embroiled in his own personal drama over a fictitious girlfriend — could be next up in the groveling line.
"America," says Frank Farley, former president of the American Psychological Association and a student of hero worship, "is the land of second chances." All you have to do is ask — especially if you can throw a ball, sing a song, make a speech, coach a team or hold the camera.
Armstrong, though, tests even Americans' capacity for forgiveness; in addition to doping, for years the cyclist bullied others to dope; vilified his accusers and investigators; and used his cancer survivor-cum-superman-athlete saga to enrich himself and raise money for charity.
As a cyclist, Armstrong has climbed many hills. As a candidate for forgiveness, says John Cirillo, public relations consultant and former New York Knicks spokesman, "he has a Mount Everest to climb. He's become one of the most notorious liars in American sports history."
Yet experience suggests there is hope even for Armstrong. He just has to repent — or appear to.
How? In the Tour de France, Armstrong had to complete 21 stages in 23 days; the experts — psychologists, theologians, ethicists, agents, PR people — say that in his television interview with Oprah Winfrey, he had to complete four stages in two hours.
Here is your score card. See whether you think he did.
1. Confession:"I did it."
Some fallen heroes do not even make it this far. Roger Clemens (pitcher accused of doping) and Kobe Bryant (hoopster accused of sexual assault) have denied wrongdoing and prevailed legally. Others have proclaimed their innocence all the way to prison. They include "Queen of Mean" hotel owner Leona Helmsley, who by all appearances didn't want your forgiveness, anyway.
For celebrities, Winfrey's show is a popular confessional, having accommodated the likes of memoirist James Frey, who admitted fabricating facts, and David Letterman, who admitted office affairs.
2. Contrition: "I'm sorry I did it."
This might seem a small, obvious step. Even the rebellious Sheen, speaking at the 2011 Emmy Awards, made amends for some of his previous antics. But there are apologies and apologies.
Pete Rose, for instance, has never seemed all that sorry for betting on baseball games when he was a manager. He tried to explain why in his 2004 autobiography: "I'm supposed to act all sorry or sad or guilty now that I've accepted that I've done something wrong. But you see, I'm just not built that way."
His build didn't make him look contrite. Neither did the fact that, after 14 years of denials, he confessed three days before his book went on sale.
In it, he sounded more petulant than penitent: "I've consistently heard the statement: 'If Pete Rose came clean, all would be forgiven.' Well, I've done what you've asked."
Also, the apologist doesn't always stick to the apology. Missouri U.S. Rep. Todd Akin sent a mixed message last year in his Senate campaign when, after three days of expressing remorse for having said women rarely get pregnant in cases of "legitimate rape," he said there had been "a little bit of an overreaction" to his comments.
The best way to undercut an apology is to make it conditional, as in "I'm sorry if anyone was offended by what I … " The "if" implies that the insult, usually bad enough to penetrate the hide of a rhinoceros, was offensive only in the mind of the offended.
3. Conversion: "I will not do it again."
This seems implicit after the first two steps. But James Martin, the Jesuit priest and writer who often appears on The Colbert Report (and who uses the ecclesiastical term "purpose of amendment" for this step), says it can't stand alone.
It's something, he says, "people can feel in their bones." To be convincing, a promise to sin no more requires a final step.
4. Atonement: "I will do this because I did that."
Confession and contrition can't be assumed to have produced conversion unless it comes with penance.
Martin, who hears people's confessions and assigns penance — Catholics and some other Christians call it the Rite of Reconciliation — says penance has to be proportionate to the sin, and to be performed voluntarily and publicly.
Michael Vick, once in prison and in disgrace for his role in dog fighting, has worked with the Humane Society of the United States to combat cruelty to animals and spoken at inner-city schools to tell students of his mistakes. His rehabilitation has been commended by many, including the president.
Martin has considered some possible penances for Armstrong, such as 1) vowing never to cycle again; 2) turning his millions over to a charity other than his own creation, the Livestrong Foundation; 3) writing letters to all those from whom he raised money under what now appear to have been false pretenses.
But he said Armstrong's reported readiness now to testify against cycling officials who allowed or encouraged doping does not qualify: "Penance is not blaming others, or sending them to jail. That's like going into the confessional and telling the priest about other people's sins."
What is proportionate in Armstrong's case? Robert Parham, a Nashville-based ethicist who founded the website EthicsDaily.com, looks to the biblical story of Zacchaeus, a repentant tax collector. He told Jesus he would repay what he wrongly obtained — fourfold.
Assuming these four steps are followed, we will forgive our heroes (if not our relatives, neighbors or co-workers) almost anything, eventually.
Might Armstrong's forgiveness come sooner or later?
Counting against him is how long he cheated and lied about cheating, says Steve Rosner, founder of 16W Marketing, which represents former athletes such as Phil Simms, Howie Long and Boomer Esiason.
"If he hadn't been so adamant about his innocence for so long, it'd be a different story," Rosner says. "It will be extremely, extremely difficult for him to ever get any kind of corporate support."
The problem, agrees Cirillo, goes beyond the doping. "People are angry about just how long Lance stonewalled."
Other factors might conspire to lessen Armstrong's exile from public affection: 1) He's worked hard in the fight against cancer, the disease that almost killed him; 2) he was merely one of many elite cyclists who were doping and covering up; 3) he didn't hurt anyone in the manner of singer Chris Brown, who hit his girlfriend, Rihanna, or Bernard Madoff, who ruined many of his clients.
Cirillo adds this: How many Americans, members of what amounts to "a drug culture" — amateur bodybuilders on steroids, professional truckers on uppers, clubgoers on cocaine, housewives on pot — will cast a stone at Armstrong?
Many fallen heroes have repented and risen:
Bill Clinton: Rosner says Armstrong should regard the former president as the model for recovery from public scandal. This summer, 14 years after he told a grand jury looking into the Monica Lewinsky scandal that "it depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is," Clinton took the Democratic convention by storm.
How did he do it? Partly by confessing, notably in 1998 at a White House clergy prayer breakfast where — his eyes welling at times with tears — he said, "I have sinned" and "I have repented." Partly by good works, notably since leaving office and founding the Clinton Global Initiative. Parham, the ethicist, says he views Clinton's entire post-presidency as a form of penance for the havoc he wreaked by getting involved with Lewinsky.
Arnold Schwarzenegger: In 2011, the actor and former governor of California, admitted he had fathered a son more than 14 years earlier with his family's housekeeper. He said he told his wife, former TV personality Maria Shriver, but did not mention that he did so only after she confronted him.
Schwarzenegger subsequently announced that he was dropping or halting plans to resume his acting career, and devoted a chapter in his autobiography to the scandal.
This year, Schwarzenegger appeared in The Expendables 2 and next stars as an L.A. cop in a film called The Last Stand. He also will reprise his role as a certain Barbarian in the 2014 film, The Legend of Conan.
Bobby Petrino: The Arkansas football coach was fired in April after he lied about his motorcycle accident, which involved a female athletic staff member whom he had hired and with whom he was having an extramarital affair.
He apologized, and eight months later was hired by Western Kentucky University. His four-year contract, worth $850,000 annually, made him the highest-paid coach in the Sun Belt Conference.
Mark Sanford: In 2009, when he was governor of South Carolina, Sanford revealed he had had an affair with an Argentine woman. (At one point, when incommunicado while he was with his paramour, he said he was hiking the Appalachian Trail.)
In an interview, he said that although he'd been unfaithful to his wife, he'd die "knowing that I had met my soul mate." He and his wife separated, and he served out his term.
On Wednesday, Sanford announced plans to run for his old seat in Congress. He made no mention about the affair.
As of this writing, once-disgraced slugger Mark McGwire is a major league hitting coach. Rick Pitino, who admitted in 2009 that he'd been involved in a seamy extramarital sexual tryst that made him a blackmail target, is coaching the nation's top-ranked college basketball team. James Frey has a three-book deal with HarperCollins.
If neither Martha Stewart (convicted in 2004 in connection with a stock fraud case) nor Tiger Woods (exposed as a serial philanderer in 2009) have recovered their old dominance, it's not because they didn't get the chance.
So when it comes to the rich, famous and formerly heroic: Americans are forgiving and — except for obituary writers — forgetting. Good or bad?
Martin says he can't even agree with himself; on one hand, it's the essence of Christianity to forgive; on the other, you can forgive the thief, but you don't have to make him treasurer. Forgive, says Parham, don't forget.
The experience of another epic rogue cannot be very encouraging to Armstrong.
Madoff, the Ponzi financier, admitted to all charges. He did not even try to plea bargain. He apologized, saying: "I have left a legacy of shame, as some of my victims have pointed out, to my family and my grandchildren. This is something I will live in for the rest of my life. I'm sorry."
It was an apology few will ever accept for a crime few will ever forget.
Two years after Madoff was sentenced, his son Andrew said, "I'll never forgive him."
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Apple has issued a response to a lawsuit by Greenlight Capital fund manager David Einhorn accusing the company of being too stingy with investors. In a statement posted to its website on Thursday afternoon, Apple reiterated its (relatively new) strategy for paying out dividends and returning cash to shareholders.
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By early last year, Apple's cash balance had built to a point beyond what we needed to run our business and maintain flexibility to take advantage of strategic opportunities, so we announced a plan to return $45 billion to shareholders over three years. As of next week we will have executed $10 billion of that plan.
We find ourselves in the fortunate position of continuing to generate large amounts of cash, including $23 billion in cash flow from operations in the last quarter alone.
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Margaret* was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease ten years ago, at the age of 79. Here, her daughter describes her mother's condition, which led she and her sister to the difficult decision of admitting her to the Alzheimer's unit at a nursing home. Margaret worked in hospital administration for 32 years and spent many of her retirement years volunteering at the hospital and staying active in church and community activities.
What was your first sign that something was wrong? What symptoms did your mother experience?
She was forgetting more and more. She also became insecure in doing things she had always done, like paying bills, responding to her mail, fixing meals, normal things. She would say, "I just can't do that." She couldn't put things together in her mind anymore. It kept getting worse. She would be in the car going to the grocery store and realize she didn't know where she was. She would call my daughter or me and we would have to try to figure out where she was and talk her through getting back home. She had also started getting up in the middle of the night at 2:00 or 3:00 in the morning, she'd get her coat on, get her purse, and walk the streets.
What was the diagnosis experience like?
I was taking her to her doctor appointments at that time, and I told the doctor about how forgetful she had become. He wanted to understand what was going on, so he asked me for examples. I told him about how she was wandering out in the night, how she would get lost when she was driving, and sometimes, she would even forget where she was going.
The family doctor recommended that I take her to the nursing home for an Alzheimer's evaluation. They evaluated her and confirmed that she had Alzheimer's. At first they put her in a regular room, but within a few weeks, she started to wander off, so they had to put her in the locked area of the Alzheimer's unit.
What was your initial and then longer-term reaction to the diagnosis?
When we first took her to the nursing home she said she didn't want to be there, and wanted us to take her home. We told her, " Mother, we fear for your safety. We're afraid someone could hurt you, or you could hurt someone else." We told her she needed to stay there for a while to see if she could get stabilized to where she wouldn't wonder off. But the Alzheimer's just consistently got worse, so she ended up staying there for the long term.
It's been ten years since she was first admitted. She would cry a lot and get frustrated with herself and with us, but we would tell her that she needed to be there for her own protection. It was a few years before she settled down, and seemed content at the nursing home. Now, I think she would be uncomfortable if we took her out of the home—she feels safe there.
How is Alzheimer's disease treated?
My mom is on medications, but I'm not exactly sure what they are giving her now. There are certain medications I don't want her to have because of the side effects. They also do play therapy with the Alzheimer's patients. They have one room that has been made into a playhouse. Mom spends quite a bit of time in there just playing in the play kitchen and playing with the dolls. The staff will do play activities with them, like tossing a balloon back and forth or kicking a ball around on the floor with their feet. These activities help with their motor development.
They also have music therapy where they sing and move to the music. It's amazing that these people can't remember who they are, but can remember all the words to a song. I hardly ever find my mother in bed. She's always up doing some kind of activity, which I guess is a good thing.
Did your mother have to make any lifestyle or dietary changes in response to Alzheimer's disease?
The first big change was taking her driver's license away. She was so angry, but it was necessary. It was a few months later that we had her evaluated and admitted to the nursing home. She didn't really make any dietary changes for a while, but in the past year, she has to have her food pureed to prevent her from choking. Other than that, she eats a healthy, well balanced diet.
Did your mother seek any type of emotional support?
My sister and I are probably her main support system. My sister visits her three to four times a week and I usually visit her twice a month. Some of the grandkids are in town, and they visit her occasionally. She also has visitors from her church that see her off and on. Actually, I would consider the staff at the nursing home a good support system. They have really been good to mother. When we first took her there, one of the nurses told us that it would be a good idea to buy her a doll, or teddy bear, or some kind of stuffed animal. We bought her a doll, and she carries that doll around with her all the time and is very protective. She gets mad if anyone else picks it up or even touches it.
Does Alzheimer's disease have an impact on your family?
My sister and I were having to do a lot more for her, like paying her bills, answering her mail, and picking up groceries. We didn't mind of course, but it was hard to see her having to be more dependent on us. It was a difficult decision to have to put her in a nursing home. We knew how important her home was to her, but it got to the point where it just wasn't safe anymore. My sister had a harder time with it than I did. Until mother started walking the streets at night, my sister wouldn't even talk about a nursing home. She couldn't admit that mother was sick.
Sometimes mother will get hostile and moody. One time my sister bent over to kiss her goodbye, and mother slapped her face. My sister was so upset, but I told her she can't take it personally—mother can't be accountable for her behavior, she's sick. When she does things like that, she doesn't realize what she's doing. I think now both my sister and I feel relieved. We know she's in a safe place, and that her needs are being met. We don't worry about her getting out and wandering the streets at night or getting lost. She was so vulnerable. It's amazing nothing bad happened to her.
What advice would you give to anyone living with Alzheimer's disease in their family?
The most important thing is that you keep them safe and healthy, even if that means putting them in a nursing home. It's best if the family can stay united. You can't think about what you want, but you have to think about what is best for them. You also have to keep your sense of humor.
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The University of California, Irvine has been granted $1 million to develop a unique laboratory for the research of clean energy obtained from methane hydrates, an as-yet untapped source of methane gas that exists in huge quantities in some ocean-floor environments.
Methane hydrates are clathrate compounds, where the methane molecules are trapped in a lattice of water ice—hence their alternate names, methane clathrate and methane ice. They occur where methane and water are present at favorable combinations of low temperatures and high pressure. These conditions restrict clathrates to undersea locations at polar latitudes and along continental shelves, where they are distributed within the sedimentary bed.
Such environments are plentiful, of course, and so it's unsurprising that methane hydrate is thought to be abundant on planet Earth. However, as our understanding of methane hydrate formation has grown, our best guess as to the extent of the reserves has become smaller. Currently, the most conservative estimate is that there are between 500 and 2,500 gigatonnes of carbon in submarine gas hydrate deposits, the majority of which are in the form of methane.
Even at the low end, however, this is more than double the Earth's 230 gigatonnes of natural gas from other sources. According to the Department of Energy, methane hydrates are Earth's largest untapped fossil fuel resource. But quantity isn't everything; it's the size of the deposits that may one day prove commercially viable to tap that are key. This category of methane hydrates may prove to be a small proportion of the total.
Extracting methane hydrate poses certain logistical headaches, including the prevention of methane gas escape. Though shorter-lived in the atmosphere, as a greenhouse gas, methane is many times as effective as carbon dioxide (and typically ends up being oxidized to CO2 anyway). When it's used as fuel, carbon dioxide is the primary output.
The researchers at UC Irvine, led by Derek Dunn-Rankin and Peter Taborek, want to see if we could sidestep both issues. They plan on examining whether it might be possible to use the methane and sequester the resulting carbon dioxide, all at its undersea source. "There are, of course, tremendous challenges and uncertainty regarding the in situ utilization of methane hydrates, but the ultra high pressure environment of the deep ocean offers some new ways to think about clean power production," Dunn-Rankin told Ars.
To that end, the new laboratory will contain a combustion reactor vessel and a multiphase emission evolution vessel that will allow the combustion of methane from methane hydrate in simulated deep-sea conditions. "The point of the multiphase emission evolution vessel is to see how the presence of other combustion emission gases affects the CO2 capture and stability," Dunn-Rankin explained. "It is to look for the kinetics of hydrates and mechanisms that might enhance their stability." The methane hydrate used will itself be made in the lab.
So is there a plan to trap the carbon dioxide in a similar icy prison?
"It is not necessarily a new hydrate form," Dunn-Rankin told Ars. "The real issue is that if you put CO2 hydrate into surroundings that have no CO2 dissolved into them, the thermodynamics would force the CO2 to gradually try to equilibrate the surroundings—which means the hydrate would dissolve. This is shown to be the case in most laboratory tests and theory. The thing is, the methane hydrates should do the same thing and yet they are stable on very long timescales. The understanding of why this might occur, the kinetics of the processes, and the effects of small amounts of natural surfactants and other species is unknown."
The goal so far as methane hydrate is concerned, Dunn-Rankin explained, is to see if it makes any sense to use methane hydrate at the source. However, it's thought that the lab could also see use for broader energy-related research into fuel cells, obtaining hydrogen from methane, and water purification.
Given the focus of the research, we shouldn't expect that this new facility will handle all the unanswered questions surrounding the potential for methane hydrate exploitation. The role of methane hydrate in the stability of the ocean floor is not fully understood, and its extraction, by drilling or other means, may contribute to landslides on sloping sea floor. But the research does at least hint at the possibility of a more sophisticated approach to fossil fuel extraction and use.
Asked if he saw an inevitability to the use of methane hydrate as a source of energy, Dunn-Rankin's response is nuanced. "For me, the use of methane hydrate as a source of energy in the future depends more on what alternative sources of energy are available," he said. "The advances in the extraction of natural gas from shale seem to me also likely to dampen enthusiasm for more expensive and potentially riskier energy source utilization. This said, our efforts to understand hydrate dissolution and formation will always have value for the sequestration side of the problem and will allow rational considerations of methane hydrate utilization as well (we hope)."


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Mont Sainte-Victoire
Paul Cézanne, French, 1839 - 1906
Made in France, Europe
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25 1/2 × 32 inches (64.8 × 81.3 cm)Curatorial Department:
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1977-288-1Credit Line:
Gift of Helen Tyson Madeira, 1977
Made in France, Europe
Oil on canvasDimensions:
25 1/2 × 32 inches (64.8 × 81.3 cm)Curatorial Department:
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* Gallery 261, European Art 1850-1900, second floor (Resnick Rotunda)Accession Number:
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ProvenanceEstate of the artist, 1906; sold by Cézanne's son to Ambroise Vollard and Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, 1907 until 1938 [1]. With Wildenstein & Co., New York, by February 1944 [2]; Carroll S. Tyson, Jr. (1878-1956), Philadelphia, by 1947-until d. 1956 [3]; private collection, Philadelphia; partial and promised gift to PMA, 1977. 1. Vollard and Bernheim-Jeune purchased 29 paintings and 187 watercolors from Cezanne's son on February 12 and March 11, 1907 (see John Rewald, The Paintings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 1996, p. 18). The watercolors were immediately divided between them, but the paintings seem to have been owned jointly by the neighboring dealers. Vollard is identified as the owner in Venturi, Cézanne, son art -- son oeuvre (Paris, 1936, no. 799) and Novotny, Cézanne und das Ende der wissenschaftlichen Perspektive (Vienna, 1938, no. 89, p. 203). The painting was not exhibited, which is typical of those held by Vollard. At Vollard's death in 1939 his collection was divided in half and remained in storage until about 1945. The 1944 Toronto exhibition to which the painting was lent by Wildenstein suggests that it was not considered part of Vollard's estate. 2. The Art Gallery of Toronto, "Loan Exhibition of Great Paintings in Aid of Allied Merchant Seamen", February 4-March 5, 1944, no. 4, lent by Wildenstein & Co., New York. 3. Tyson lent the painting to the exhibition at Wildenstein & Co., New York, "A Loan Exhibition of Cézanne for the benefit of the New York Infirmary," March 27-April 26, 1947, no. 66.
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NEW YORK (AP) — NBA veteran Jason Collins became the first active male player in the four major American professional sports to come out as gay.
The 34-year-old center, who has played for six teams in 12 seasons, wrote a first-person account that was posted on Sports Illustrated's website Monday. Collins finished the season with the Washington Wizards and is now a free agent. He says he wants to keep playing.
"If I had my way, someone else would have already done this," he writes. "Nobody has, which is why I'm raising my hand."
Collins played in a Final Four for Stanford and reached two NBA Finals. His twin brother, Jarron, was also a longtime NBA center. Collins says he told his brother he was gay last summer.
"Jason has been a widely respected player and teammate throughout his career and we are proud he has assumed the leadership mantle on this very important issue," NBA Commissioner David Stern said in a statement.
White House spokesman Jay Carney called the decision courageous and former President Bill Clinton said it was "an important moment for professional sports and in the history of the LGBT community."
"I hope that everyone, particularly Jason's colleagues in the NBA, the media and his many fans extend to him their support and the respect he has earned," Clinton added.
His daughter Chelsea, who knew the player from Stanford, tweeted: "Very proud of my friend Jason Collins for having the strength & courage to be the first openly gay player in the NBA."
Collins was also college roommates with another member of an American political dynasty: Rep. Joe Kennedy III, D-Mass. In his account, Collins wrote that he realized he needed to go public when the congressman walked in Boston's gay pride parade last year -- and Collins couldn't join him.
Kennedy tweeted Monday that "I've always been proud to call (Collins) a friend, and I'm even prouder to stand with him today."Mostly a backup in his career, Collins has averaged 3.6 points and 3.8 rebounds for the Nets, Grizzlies, Timberwolves, Hawks, Celtics and Wizards. He was traded from Boston to Washington in February. Collins was the 18th pick in the first round of the 2001 NBA draft.Several NBA players voiced support, including Kobe Bryan, who tweeted that he was proud of Collins.
"Don't suffocate who u r because of the ignorance of others," his post said, followed by the words "courage" and "support."
Wizards president Ernie Grunfeld weighed in saying: "We are extremely proud of Jason and support his decision to live his life proudly and openly. He has been a leader on and off the court and an outstanding teammate throughout his NBA career. Those qualities will continue to serve him both as a player and as a positive role model for others of all sexual orientation."
Several male athletes have previously come out after they retired, including the NBA's John Amaechi, the NFL's Esera Tuaolo and Major League Baseball's Billy Bean. But Collins is the first to do so while planning to keep playing.
Collins wrote that he quietly made a statement for gay rights even while keeping his sexual orientation a secret. He wore the No. 98 with the Celtics and Wizards -- that was the year Matthew Shepard, a gay college student in Wyoming, was killed, and the Trevor Project, a suicide prevention organization, was founded.
" `Courage' and `inspiration' are words that get thrown around a lot in sports, but Jason Collins has given both ideas a brand new context," said Aaron McQuade, who heads the sports program for the advocacy group GLAAD, "We hope that his future team will welcome him, and that fans of the NBA and sports in general will applaud him. We know that the NBA will proudly support him, and that countless young LGBT Athletes now have a new hero."
In February, former U.S. soccer national team player Robbie Rogers said he was gay -- and retired at the same time. Rogers is just 25, and others have urged him to resume his career.
"I feel a movement coming," he tweeted after the Collins news broke.
Female athletes have found more acceptance in coming out; Brittney Griner, one of the best women's basketball players in the world, caused little ripple when she acknowledged earlier this month she was a lesbian. Tennis great Martina Navratilova tweeted Monday that Collins is "a brave man."
"1981 was the year for me- 2013 is the year for you," her post added.


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Advisors are overwhelmingly optimistic that a deal will be reached to avert a fiscal cliff, and that such a deal will include not only higher marginal tax rates for wealthy Americans but will also include curbs on deductions, according to a just-released poll conducted by the Financial Services Institute (FSI).
Nearly all (90%) of the 2,500 independent advisors polled also think a fiscal cliff deal should include both fundamental tax code and entitlement reforms. Over half also responded that the capital gains tax should remain at its current rate of 15%.
Advisors polled said they are also becoming increasingly opposed to the Department of Labor (DOL) reproposing its controversial rule amending the definition of fiduciary under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)–91% opposed in the just-released poll, which is up from 89% in August and 72% in February.
FSI president and CEO Dale Brown (left) said in a statement announcing the poll results that FSI's independent advisor members "have a unique vantage point on these issues as they work closely with Main Street American investors on a daily basis. While they recognize the need for compromise and reforms in order to make our country financially sound, they also see how many of these significant changes will impact their clients' ability to save for retirement, pay for their children's education or care for aging parents."
While 72% of advisors polled said they believed a deal will be reached and include not only higher marginal tax rates for wealthy Americans but also curbs on deductions, 70% of the advisors were against taxing those earning more than $200,000 at a higher rate.
Indeed, 68% of advisors said that putting a higher tax rate on those earning above $200,000 will dampen investing and savings rates.
Ninety percent of advisors polled also said that a deal avoiding the fiscal cliff should include fundamental tax code and entitlement reform.
As to the economic outlook next year, 52% of advisors believe the U.S. economy will remain flat next year, while 59% said 2013 would be a "neutral" year for equities.
Sixty-nine percent of advisors also said that increased regulatory and compliance requirements, enforced without cost benefit analysis, have resulted in worse service due to less time available to spend with clients.


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LOS ANGELES (AP) - Terry Notary is Hollywood's human shape-shifter. In a blink, he can become an elf, an ape or almost any other moving creature.
LOS ANGELES (AP) � Terry Notary is Hollywood's human shape-shifter. In a blink, he can become an elf, an ape or almost any other moving creature.
An expert in motion-capture performance, he specializes in bringing non-human characters to life on screen. He's played goblins in "The Hobbit," a Who in "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" and a winged, dragon-like banshee in "Avatar."
In "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes," opening Friday, Notary plays more than 100 primates. He also taught the film's stars and stuntmen how to find their simian side.
"He's like an ape Zen master," said director Matt Reeves. "He lives in every frame that has an ape in it."
Notary demonstrated his technique during a recent visit to the Hollywood dance studio he uses to prepare for films. The compact, muscular father of four visibly transforms as he describes how apes are gut-driven and grounded. His stomach softens, his neck and shoulders slouch, his lower jaw protrudes. His eyelids drop slightly as his eyes take on a present yet faraway quality.
He grunts and howls before springing from his chair and breaking into a quadruped run. He bounces around the empty studio on all fours, with "arm extensions" he developed allowing him to mimic ape-like movements. He stops suddenly, as though he's spotted a threat, and becomes even more animated, emitting loud wails of distress.
Then he's back being human again to talk about the process.
Notary aspired to compete in the Olympics while training as a gymnast at UCLA but then found work with Cirque du Soleil after graduating with a theater degree. He came to Hollywood as a stuntman and from there, developed into a sought-after movement coach for motion-capture shots, where actors are wired and their movements captured electronically for the building of computer-generated imagery.
He created the lithe, long-limbed motions of the Na'vi in "Avatar," taught the Silver Surfer how to ride in "Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer" and went ape in three films, starting with Tim Burton's "Planet of the Apes" in 2001. (He performed stunts in all as well.)
"I'm a good observer of movement and behavior," the 45-year-old said. "That's what my talent is, I think."
He begins with an image of the character. For imaginary creatures, he might picture objects from nature. When conceptualizing the Na'vi, for example, he thought of reeds swaying underwater, gracefully at ease with the energy around them. For a goblin, he thought of a piece of crumpled tin foil.
"If you throw it, it has hard edges," he said. "It's not going to be predictable. It's going to be edgy and sharp and not have any root."
To develop ape expertise, Notary hung out with a couple of chimps and spent a lot of time watching primates at the zoo, videotaping and studying their behavior.
"I just took every little video I could and dissected it into moments," he said. "And I just always watched the videos as though I was watching a person in an ape suit, playing an ape. It made me realize ... it's all in the subtleties."
Notary had six weeks to put the actors and stuntmen starring in "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes" through his ape training. The first step? Shed preconceptions and human conditioning and just "be."
"It's not about doing anything, it's about undoing," he said. "If you can start to get back to the base, neutral animal that we are, you're an ape."
Letting go of human tendencies can take weeks, but once the actors get it, "it's magic."
"You're tapping into your instinct," he said.
With a relaxed mindset and intention rooted in the gut, this would also include bounding about on all fours � with a little help from Notary's foot-long "arm extensions."
For the latest "Planet of the Apes" film, Notary even trained his two daughters, ages 9 and 11, in simian technique. "They're playing little kid apes," said Notary, who was on a media tour to promote the film.
Nearly every ape in the film, except the tiniest baby, was played by a human actor in a motion-capture suit. Tiny lights recorded their every movement, including a helmet with a face camera that tracked emotional expression. Animators at Weta Digital then transferred the data onto each of the computer-rendered apes in the film.
Now, Notary is off to New Zealand to work on the next "Hobbit" film, but it took a while for him to let go of his inner primate.
"It takes me about four months to get out of it," he said. "My wife's like, 'Can you sit up please? You're slouching.'"
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Gorillas are great apes and one of our closest living relatives. The Smithsonian Institution's Division of Mammals (http://vertebrates.si.edu/mammals/) houses many gorillas in its scientific collections.
This specimen, USNM 396937 (http://collections.mnh.si.edu/search/mammals/?irn=7048369), is a female gorilla (Gorilla beringei) from Rwanda. It was collected by Dian Fossey near Mount Karisimbi in the Virunga Mountains.
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The school is too poor to buy replacements. Those were bought several years ago on a fundraising drive from the band, and have been carefully kept up since then, at teacher and student's personal expense.
I know that in a world of crappy economy, a horrible earthquake in Haiti, wars, and famine, a few instruments in a school for underprivileged children (many of whom live in shelters) are minor compared to the big picture of human suffering.
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The Federal Reserve on Wednesday reaffirmed its commitment to a "highly accommodative" monetary policy, maintaining a near-zero federal funds rate at least through the end of next year. While that is great news for individuals and businesses taking on more debt—such as home buyers and refinancers—low rates remain a significant challenge to retirees and their financial advisors.
A new study by the consultants Howard Schneider of Practical Perspectives and Dennis Gallant of GDC Distribution Consulting examines the challenge of low rates (and other topics) in their report Trends in Advisor Delivery of Retirement Income – 2012. Schneider and Gallant presented their findings on a live webinar Wednesday sponsored by the Retirement Income Industry Association.
The Trends report, based on 377 completed advisor surveys, found that "85% of advisors perceive that low interest rates have impacted their ability to support retirement income clients." Low rates have impacted all advisor channels, though RIAs and insurance advisors appear less affected than wirehouse, regional, independent and bank advisors.
Indeed, the Trends report found that "nearly 9 in 10 advisors have taken specific action in response to low interest rates," adding that the most typical responses were the "increased use of dividend paying equities and expanded usage of guaranteed solutions such as variable annuities with living benefit income riders." Other common responses include increased use of higher-yield investments, alternative investments and non-traditional income solutions.
Notably, curtailing investment income because times have been unfavorable has not been an option for most retirement clients. The survey found that just one-fifth of advisors reduced income or cash flow to retirees.
The Trends report found that, in advisor responses to low rates, there was once again a difference between RIAs and insurance advisors on the one hand and everybody else. Wirehouse, regional, independent and bank advisors all stepped up dividend paying equities the most; guaranteed solutions were the second most popular response, followed by higher yielding investments.
In contrast, insurance advisors—naturally—put the emphasis on guaranteed solutions, while RIAs, who also favored dividend-paying equities, differed from the majority of channels in turning next to alternative investments and non-traditional solutions before looking into higher yield investments.
Schneider told AdvisorOne that "RIAs tend to have wealthier clients who may be less concerned about generating income [and] tend to be more total-return oriented." He added that insurance advisors who are already pre-disposed to annuity products have tended to be "very happy with annuities and riders set up over the past 10 years."
The Trends report also looked at the issue of market volatility and risk, and found that advisors' response to this concern has exactly matched their response to low interest rates—through increased usage of dividend-paying stocks and guaranteed solutions such as variable annuities. Once again, insurance advisors and RIAs were outliers. RIAs' top action in response to volatility has been increasing client cash. "This likely reflects the positioning of RIAs as money managers employing a more tactical orientation to asset management," the report finds. Insurance advisors turned first to guaranteed solutions. Bank advisors, along with RIAs, were unique in their greater willingness (25% of respondents) to stay the course by not responding to volatility.
Schneider told webinar participants that he saw an opportunity for annuity companies to create products that provide greater peace of mind to retirement clients. "We don't find any advisors that use [annuity products] universally," he said. Many advisors gripe about benefit features being cut back and worry about products they would like to use being pulled out of the marketplace, Schneider added.


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Sixteen emerging and established artists interpret a Whimsical Winter Wonderland.
These American and international artists' works will charm and delight the spirit of the child or the child within.
Curated by Lucy Aponte and Laura Alvarez.
Due to popular demand, it has been extended to February 22, with the closing exhibition on that date, from 1:00 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
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