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The Spurs' majority owner is Peter Holt, managing partner of Spurs Sports & Entertainment, which also operates the team's arena, the Frost Bank Center. Last May, Viera bought a 5% stake in the Spurs for an undisclosed enterprise value. Partial team owners can get major discounts when they buy small pieces of teams that give them less control over decisions. Businessman Paul Viera is increasing his stake in the San Antonio Spurs from 5% to 11%, CNBC has learned, as NBA valuations climb and make teams more attractive assets for investors. NBA teams are hot assets thanks in large part to the league's new $76 billion, 11-year media deal.

Persons: Peter Holt, Holts, Michael Dell, McCombs, David Robinson, Viera, Earnest, Paul Viera, Victor Wembanyama, Junior Bridgeman, Dee Haslam, Marc Lasry's, Bridgeman, Grant Hill, Penny, Hardaway, Robinson, Dwyane Wade, Elliot Perry, Michael Jordan, Wyc Grousbeck, Aramark Organizations: San Antonio Spurs, Golden State Warriors, T Center, Spurs, Spurs Sports & Entertainment, Frost Bank Center, Dell Technologies, Sixth Street Partners, Earnest Partners, CNBC, NBA, Southwest Division, Milwaukee Bucks, Bucks, Atlanta Hawks, Memphis Grizzlies, Utah Jazz, Grizzlies, Charlotte Hornets, Boston Celtics, Grousbecks, Celtics Locations: San Antonio , Texas, Atlanta

Ulysses “Junior“ Bridgeman attends Day 2 of 2023 Invest Fest at Georgia World Congress Center on August 27, 2023 in Atlanta, Georgia. Businessman and former NBA player Ulysses Lee "Junior" Bridgeman is buying a 10% stake in the Milwaukee Bucks, according to three sources familiar with the deal. The transaction will value the team at $4 billion. NBA owners will be notified of the sale in a memo Thursday, added the sources, who asked to remain anonymous because the details of the deal are not public. Bridgeman and the Bucks did not immediately respond for comment.

Persons: Ulysses “, “ Bridgeman, Ulysses Lee, Junior, Bridgeman, Ebony Organizations: Invest, Georgia World, Center, NBA, Milwaukee Bucks, Bucks Locations: Atlanta , Georgia

☆ Businesses add $90 billion in surprise 'junk fees' each year, and it's starting to backfire
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-08 | by ( Thibault Spirlet | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Businesses are adding $90 billion in fees to consumer's bills each year, according to one estimate. US consumers spend more than $650 a year per household on "junk fees," per the CEA. AdvertisementBusinesses are adding $90 billion in surprise "junk fees" to customers' bills each year — and it is starting to backfire. Junk fees are hidden costs that are added to product prices. Last June, President Joe Biden said his administration had taken steps to crack down on junk fees.

Persons: —, Noelle Weaver, Bradley Walker, Walker, Merrilee Bridgeman, Joe Biden Organizations: Service, White House Council, Economic Advisers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Wall Street, Democratic Locations: New Orleans, Charlotte , North Carolina

☆ A company is turning former cruise ships into floating hotels — see inside its largest 'floatel'
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-17 | by ( Brittany Chang | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Bridgemans ServicesGroup operates a fleet of former cruise ships turned into hotels. Its "floatels" are designed to house workers during long-term projects. AdvertisementSome old and unwanted cruise ships meet their demise at ship-breaking yards, where they are disassembled and sold for scrap. Canada-based Bridgemans Services Group buys and charters former cruise ships to turn into "floatels," outfitted with standard cruise amenities like daily housekeeping, buffets, and relaxing lounges. But the ships aren't designed to transport tourists from one destination to another anymore.

Persons: Bridgemans ServicesGroup, —, Bridgeman Organizations: Service, Bridgemans Services Group Locations: Canada, Europe

☆ 7 times a total solar eclipse revolutionized science
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-06 | by ( Jenny Mcgrath | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

In the middle of the afternoon, day will shift to night, as a total solar eclipse touches 15 states. We know now what causes a total solar eclipse. Here are seven times a total solar eclipse has helped advance human science. Culture Club/Bridgeman via Getty ImagesOn March 14, 189 BCE, a total solar eclipse swept over what is now northern Turkey. Corbis via Getty ImagesGemini 12 astronauts Jim Lovell and Buzz Aldrin were the first humans to see a total eclipse from space.

Persons: —, China's emporer, Edmond Halley, De, Anaxagoras, Hipparchus, Nicaea, Edmond, Halley, Isaac Newton's, Norman Lockyer, Pierre Jules César Janssen, Janssen, Lockyer, James Craig Watson, Vulcan, Albert Einstein, Einstein, Corbis, Jim Lovell, Buzz Aldrin Organizations: Service, Business, Getty, Alexandria . Culture Club, Bridgeman, Science, Society Picture Library, Sun, Mercury, Wallops, Smithsonian Magazine, NASA Locations: Ireland, China, Alexandria, Turkey, Egypt, England, India, French, Guntur, Brazil, Principe, Africa, Virginia, Peru

☆ Marie Laurencin, the 1920s painter who hid sapphic symbols in her portraits
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-10 | by ( Jacqui Palumbo | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

Fondation Foujita/Artists Rights Society, New York/ADAGP, Paris/Christie's/Bridgeman Images/Courtesy Barnes FoundationA portrait of Marie Laurencin by Man Ray, 1925. Fondation Foujita/Artists Rights Society, New York/ADAGP, Paris/Bridgeman Images/Courtesy Barnes Foundation"The Woman-Horse (La femme-cheval)," from 1918. Fondation Foujita/Artists Rights Society, New York/ADAGP, Paris/Courtesy Barnes FoundationBut as definitions of femininity have expanded in recent decades, so too has appreciation for Laurencin’s idyllic, women-only world. She often titled her portraits of women “Friends” or “Two Friends,” leaving the exact nature of their intimacy unclear. It’s almost like a radical utopia… a world of women, for women, by women,” Kang said.

Persons: peintre, modèle, Christie's, Marie Laurencin, Man Ray, CNN — Marie Laurencin’s, ”, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque —, Simonetta Fraquelli, ” Fraquelli, “, Laurencin, Cindy Kang, Barnes, Francisco Goya, Kang, don’t, ’, Académie Humbert, wasn’t, Rachel Silveri, Adrienne Monnier, airheads, Mademoiselle Chanel, — Picasso, Jean Cocteau, Paul Rosenberg —, Coco Chanel, Maud “ Emerald, Jacques Faujour, Dove ”, Nicole Groult, “ It’s, ” Kang, Natalie Clifford Barney, Gertrude Stein, Berenice Abbott, Otto von Waetjen, Guillaume Apollinaire, Suzanne Moreau, —, Musée de, Herve Lewandowski, — Laurencin, Marshal Philippe Pétain, Moreau, Masahiro Takano, Albert C, hasn’t, we’ve Organizations: Foujita, Artists Rights Society, CNN, grays, Barnes Foundation, Palais, Art, Fraquelli, Groult, Museum, Marie, Marie Laurencin Museum Locations: New York, ADAGP, Paris, Philadelphia, Sapphic Paris, Spain, Musée de l'Orangerie, Vichy France, Japan, Tateshina, Japan’s Nagano, Tokyo, “

☆ ‘The Iliad of Homer’ Review: Emily Wilson Makes Achilles Modern
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-14 | by ( James Romm | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Fresco from Pompeii, Italy, from the first century, showing the entry of the Trojan horse into Troy. Photo: Luisa Ricciarini/Bridgeman ImagesThe “Iliad,” a poem about war, death and suffering on the plains of Troy, has taken a back seat in recent decades to the other Homeric epic, the “Odyssey,” in some ways its sequel. Since the “Iliad” deals with raw violence and a violent fighter, Achilles, whose rage at his own commander centers its loosely organized plot, the less savage and more linear tale of Odysseus’ homecoming has seemed more in tune with the times. Modern writers and filmmakers usually turn to the “Odyssey,” not the “Iliad,” for adaptations, from James Joyce’s “Ulysses” to Uberto Pasolini’s film “The Return,” scheduled for release next year.

Persons: Fresco, Luisa Ricciarini, ”, Achilles, Odysseus ’, James Joyce’s, Ulysses ”, Uberto Locations: Pompeii, Italy, Troy

☆ Will the Real Shakespeare Please Stand Up?
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-08 | by ( Willard Spiegelman | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Shakespeare’s funerary monument in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. Photo: Brian Seed/Bridgeman ImagesIn the final act of “The Tempest,” the wizardly Prospero may have drowned his book of spells. But of making books about Shakespeare there is no end. In particular, a set of questions about the writer—concerning identity, authorship, legitimacy—has vexed readers for centuries. Of Shakespeare, we know a few things, but lack of knowledge has never prevented people from speculating, sometimes wildly.

Persons: Brian Seed, Prospero, Shakespeare, —, William Shakespeare’s, George Bernard Shaw Organizations: Avon Locations: Stratford, Avon, England

☆ ‘Some Unfinished Chaos’ Review: Looking for Mr. Fitzgerald
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-08 | by ( William H. Pritchard | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

Reception room at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in New York City, ca. Photo: Museum of the City of New York/Bridgeman ImagesIn one of his epigraphs to this compact book on F. Scott Fitzgerald, Arthur Krystal invokes Lytton Strachey’s advice to the successful biographer: Instead of the “direct method of a scrupulous narration,” the biographer must “attack his subject in unexpected places; he will fall upon the flank or the rear; he will shoot a sudden, revealing searchlight into obscure recesses, hitherto undivined.” The evocation of Strachey in connection with Fitzgerald is surprising since they seem an unlikely pair, but Mr. Krystal quotes him in order to distinguish “Some Unfinished Chaos: The Lives of F. Scott Fitzgerald” from the always-growing list of Fitzgerald biographies that began in 1951, with Arthur Mizener’s “The Far Side of Paradise.” In choosing the plural “Lives,” Mr. Krystal wants to open up his subject to multiple interpretations rather than opting for the “direct method” of settling on the singular explanatory one. His other epigraph is from Fitzgerald himself: “There never was a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn’t be. He’s too many people if he’s any good.”

Persons: Scott Fitzgerald, Arthur Krystal, Lytton, Strachey, Fitzgerald, Krystal, Scott Fitzgerald ”, Arthur Mizener’s “, ” Mr, couldn’t, ” Organizations: Ritz, Carlton Locations: New York City, City of New York

☆ ‘Virtuous Bankers’ Review: Accounting for a Nation
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-07 | by ( Adam Rowe | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Interior view of the Bank of England by Joseph Michael Gandy. Photo: Sir John Soane's Museum/Bridgeman ImagesDuring the 18th century, the British Empire rose to global dominance by developing a new model of organized government, one that proved especially effective at converting the wealth of a free society into the power of a fiscal-military state. At the heart of this system was the Bank of England, “the grand Palladium of Public Credit,” as the Bank’s inspectors described it in 1784.

Persons: Joseph Michael Gandy, Sir John Soane's Organizations: Bank of England, Sir John Soane's Museum, Public Credit, ” Locations: British

☆ Family questions death of domestic violence victim whose case made it to Supreme Court following yearslong custody battle
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-26 | by ( Julianne Mcshane | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +10 min

Narkis Golan outside the Supreme Court after the unanimous decision in her domestic violence case. But domestic violence victims, advocates and experts say that today, abusers and judges weaponize the clauses to punish women who flee domestic abusers to protect themselves and their children. Though there are no definitive statistics, research estimates that domestic violence could be a factor in up to 70% of Hague Convention child abduction cases. Both Fidler and Weiner criticized the ruling, alleging it did not take into account the realities of domestic violence. Golan also hoped, once her custody battle was over, to establish an organization to help protect kids and their mothers from domestic violence, Morin said.

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