There are only two markets, ultraluxury and subsidized housing,” said Rafael Viñoly, the architect who designed the tower on Park Avenue at 56th Street, which is called 432 Park.
— Boom in Luxury Towers Is Warping New York Real Estate Market - NYTimes.com
The Freedom Room goes by a similar concept by being compact, functional and adaptable. The collaborative group were able to create a working and dining area, a kitchen, sleeping areas, storage area and a bathroom within the 96-square-foot apartment space.
We have a fantastic academy … but if we don’t punish this kind of behaviour, how do they grow up? Thinking they can laugh about what they saw on the website picture? Maybe they think it’s fantastic; to be like a gangster. But what mentality are we going to deliver?
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Sunderland’s Paolo Di Canio slams ‘arrogant, ignorant’ players - footytube
It’s only the incredible Paolo di Canio
Open borders would be far more disruptive than everyone just getting a pay raise. They would probably lead in fairly short order to epic mass migrations. In the burgeoning cities of the United States and western Europe, there would be far more visible poverty than there is today. Of course, open borders would not create that poverty. In fact, they would improve it. But they would also make it visible to the rather complacent middle classes of America and Europe, for whom the border serves as a convenient blindfold.
— Why Erasing All The World’s Borders Would Double GDP | Global Citizenship on GOOD
By keeping out of the debate over how livestock should be kept, those of us who have advocated veganism have allowed the champions of cruel, destructive, famine-inducing meat farming to prevail. It’s time we got stuck in.
But “The Great Gatsby” doesn’t think that fantasies work that way. In “Gatsby,” everyone wants to be simpler than they really are. Everyone wants to give himself up to something that will define, constrain, and explain him—to be swept up into a fantasy that’s narrower than the life he really lives.
— The Serious Superficiality of The Great Gatsby : The New Yorker
Youth is when we do the most weighing and choosing, when we try out new personalities until they become exhausted or destructive. And in a consumer society, youth is extended. We’re increasingly free to pursue our fantasies, to buy the costumes and accouterments of the lives we’d like to have. The result is a kind of national carelessness that realizes itself economically, ecologically, and politically.
— The Serious Superficiality of The Great Gatsby : The New Yorker
Anybody want to buy a lot in the city and turn 55 with me?
When he finally slips through and scores, you get a jolt of what’s to my mind the best feeling in all of soccer, a feeling that the game’s evolution toward technique has made paradoxically rarer: the feeling of something beautiful triumphing over something strong.
DOWN BY THE RIVER Buddy Miles (by glenito Ross)
