Dogs Who are as Awkward as They are Adorable
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Source:http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2Sz5oh/FZfE+g2A:1Ohys4rO/news.distractify.com/megan-mccormick/18-dogs-who-are-as-socially-awkward-as-they-are-adorable/
Sunday, May 24, 2015
Adorable Dogs
Dogs Who are as Awkward as They are Adorable
Source:http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2Sz5oh/FZfE+g2A:1Ohys4rO/news.distractify.com/megan-mccormick/18-dogs-who-are-as-socially-awkward-as-they-are-adorable/
Wednesday, May 20, 2015
How To Create Yourself: Rewiring Your Brain
Dec 16, 2013
"Why do you have your beliefs? Who taught them to you and why do you hold it within you? How do you perceive yourself? How do you perceive others? Do you want to learn more about the world you experience and live in? Is there a habit you want to break? Listen to this and get an idea of consciousness. Old knowledge with a new perspective."
Joe Dispenza is the speaker.
"brain frequency create quantum reality"
mind consciousness communication evolution
Joe Dispenza is the speaker.
mind consciousness communication evolution
Link: https://youtu.be/l1NrSvY2lz4
Tuesday, May 19, 2015
Manhattan Apartment Bubble Goes Manic
A residential tower at 432 Park Ave., center, in midtown Manhattan. Demand for luxury dwellings is particularly acute in New York, reshaping its skyline to an extent few would have predicted during the real-estate bust. PHOTO: CLAUDIO PAPAPIETRO FOR THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Crowded At The Top——Manhattan Apartment Bubble Goes Manic
by Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2015
By ELIOT BROWN And JOSH BARBANEL at The Wall Street Journal
It’s getting crowded at the top of Manhattan’s apartment market.
As condo developers chase billion-dollar paydays through the construction of luxury dwellings, the cranes dotting the city are sparking fears of a supply glut.
Builders are plowing ahead with scores of condominiums priced above $20 million in skinny glass towers throughout Manhattan.
One building, the 66-story tower at 220 Central Park South, is listing more than 60 apartments above $20 million, according to filings made with the New York attorney general’s office. By comparison, in 2008, just 29 new condos sold for $20 million or more across all of Manhattan, according to appraisal firm Miller Samuel.
“There are a finite number of people that will buy these,” said Jonathan Miller, president of Miller Samuel. As for the developers kicking off projects now, “You are going to have haves and have-nots.”
The boom in the upper echelons of residential real estate is touching a handful of cities around the world, including London, Singapore and Dubai, where the global elite are pouring money into top-quality homes. But the demand is particularly acute in New York, reshaping its skyline to an extent few would have predicted during the real-estate bust.
The epicenter is the area surrounding Central Park’s southern tip, where big bets under way include a 1,050-foot tower next to the Museum of Modern Art financed largely by investors from Singapore, the Chetrit Group’s conversion of the upper floors of the former Sony Building on Madison Avenue, and a pencil-thin limestone tower being built by Zeckendorf Development that calls its units “mansions in the sky.”
The buildings, aimed at the world’s wealthiest buyers, are going up even as overall apartment construction lags behind historical norms.
That is skewing Manhattan’s traditional real-estate barometers. The average price of newly developed condos is expected to pass $7.2 million in 2017, up from $4.8 million in 2014 and $1.9 million in 2008, according to New York property-tracking firm CityRealty.
Land, meanwhile, has gotten so pricey that developers buying many new sites must expect to sell units at more than $3,500 a square foot to make a profit, real-estate experts say—three times the break-even level of a few years ago.
There are signs demand for this rarefied product might be nearing its limits. The 1,004-foot green glass tower One57 remained about 25% unsold for much of last year. Its builder, Extell Development Co., lowered its expected total revenue from the building by about 4%, or $100 million, in part because of the slowdown, according to filings made with the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange in Israel, where Extell has issued $300 million in debt.
With the market hot, pricey condominiums are filling the New York skies. Above, a rendering of a planned building on West 57th Street. ENLARGE
With the market hot, pricey condominiums are filling the New York skies. Above, a rendering of a planned building on West 57th Street.
But for now, times are good for developers. Last week, Vornado Realty Trust Chief Executive Steven Roth told investors his project at 220 Central Park South secured $1.1 billion in sales commitments in just six weeks on the market. With just one-third of the building committed, then, it has already paid for itself, according to calculations based on securities filings.
“We are doing beyond well,” Mr. Roth said.
At One57, Extell founder Gary Barnett said sales have picked up substantially in the past couple months. He declined to discuss specifics but said he hoped to fully sell out the tower by the end of the year.
Already, One57 is one for the record books. The building’s penthouse fetched $100 million in January, the most expensive sale for a single unit ever in New York City. The nearly 11,000-square-foot duplex on the 89th and 90th floors boasts 24-foot-high walls of glass on three sides and sweeping views of Central Park, New Jersey, Long Island and the Atlantic Ocean. It features six bedrooms, six baths, a curved staircase, two powder rooms and access to a pool at a Hyatt hotel in the building, according to offering documents.
All told, Extell expects the 1,004-foot building just south of Central Park to deliver a profit of about $1 billion to Extell and its partners from Abu Dhabi, according to filings.
Mr. Barnett plans an even larger tower just west on 57th Street, termed “billionaires row” given the rash of development. Anchored by a Nordstrom department store at its base, the building is projected to generate $4.4 billion in total sales proceeds, versus estimated construction costs of $2 billion, according to Extell’s filings.
While those costs could easily change, construction of the foundation is under way, and Mr. Barnett said he expects to secure financing in the coming months. The well of buyers is deep, he believes, at least for the best towers.
“Although supply is increasing, demand is increasing, too,” Mr. Barnett said of New York’s luxury market, adding he didn’t expect all projects to do well. “There is sufficient demand for projects that have everything going for them.”
But the precise factors driving demand for superluxury properties aren’t always clear. Developers and brokers attribute the soaring prices to a range of factors including the growing ranks of the superrich, a turn by the globally wealthy toward residential real estate, and low interest rates that have made investors look for higher returns than they can get from bonds. Many apartments go unoccupied, used only as investments.
Details on buyers are scant, since wealthy purchasers typically shield their names. That makes the fundamentals of the market more difficult to understand than the typical drivers of housing demand, like local income or population growth. Specifics on condo pricing also aren’t always easily accessible, making it difficult for developers to gauge their competition. Real-estate markets that lack transparency are prone to overbuilding, because developers don’t know the depth of the pool of buyers or when they will stop buying.
“There’s a problem when no one knows what housing demand really is,” said Charles Nathanson, a finance professor at Northwestern University who has studied real-estate pricing. “Very little information is actually getting into the market—everyone’s just copying each other,” he said. A frequent result: “You get an overshooting” as companies build more than the market can bear.
Even brokers who generally are bullish predict many units are likely to sit vacant despite an economy that could stay strong, given the flood of supply and the finite number of superwealthy individuals.
“Wealth creation has to keep abreast of the apartment creation,” said Leonard Steinberg, president of Compass, a New York-based brokerage. “The bottom line is everyone is going to have to expect that the time to sell will take much longer.”
Source: With Manhattan Luxury Property Hitting Highs, Some Fear Air Is Getting Thin – WSJ
The boom in the upper echelons of residential real estate is touching a handful of cities around the world, including London, Singapore and Dubai, where the global elite are pouring money into top-quality homes. But the demand is particularly acute in New York, reshaping its skyline to an extent few would have predicted during the real-estate bust.
The epicenter is the area surrounding Central Park’s southern tip, where big bets under way include a 1,050-foot tower next to the Museum of Modern Art financed largely by investors from Singapore, the Chetrit Group’s conversion of the upper floors of the former Sony Building on Madison Avenue, and a pencil-thin limestone tower being built by Zeckendorf Development that calls its units “mansions in the sky.”
The buildings, aimed at the world’s wealthiest buyers, are going up even as overall apartment construction lags behind historical norms.
That is skewing Manhattan’s traditional real-estate barometers. The average price of newly developed condos is expected to pass $7.2 million in 2017, up from $4.8 million in 2014 and $1.9 million in 2008, according to New York property-tracking firm CityRealty.
Land, meanwhile, has gotten so pricey that developers buying many new sites must expect to sell units at more than $3,500 a square foot to make a profit, real-estate experts say—three times the break-even level of a few years ago.
There are signs demand for this rarefied product might be nearing its limits. The 1,004-foot green glass tower One57 remained about 25% unsold for much of last year. Its builder, Extell Development Co., lowered its expected total revenue from the building by about 4%, or $100 million, in part because of the slowdown, according to filings made with the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange in Israel, where Extell has issued $300 million in debt.
With the market hot, pricey condominiums are filling the New York skies. Above, a rendering of a planned building on West 57th Street. ENLARGE
With the market hot, pricey condominiums are filling the New York skies. Above, a rendering of a planned building on West 57th Street.
But for now, times are good for developers. Last week, Vornado Realty Trust Chief Executive Steven Roth told investors his project at 220 Central Park South secured $1.1 billion in sales commitments in just six weeks on the market. With just one-third of the building committed, then, it has already paid for itself, according to calculations based on securities filings.
“We are doing beyond well,” Mr. Roth said.
At One57, Extell founder Gary Barnett said sales have picked up substantially in the past couple months. He declined to discuss specifics but said he hoped to fully sell out the tower by the end of the year.
Already, One57 is one for the record books. The building’s penthouse fetched $100 million in January, the most expensive sale for a single unit ever in New York City. The nearly 11,000-square-foot duplex on the 89th and 90th floors boasts 24-foot-high walls of glass on three sides and sweeping views of Central Park, New Jersey, Long Island and the Atlantic Ocean. It features six bedrooms, six baths, a curved staircase, two powder rooms and access to a pool at a Hyatt hotel in the building, according to offering documents.
All told, Extell expects the 1,004-foot building just south of Central Park to deliver a profit of about $1 billion to Extell and its partners from Abu Dhabi, according to filings.
Mr. Barnett plans an even larger tower just west on 57th Street, termed “billionaires row” given the rash of development. Anchored by a Nordstrom department store at its base, the building is projected to generate $4.4 billion in total sales proceeds, versus estimated construction costs of $2 billion, according to Extell’s filings.
While those costs could easily change, construction of the foundation is under way, and Mr. Barnett said he expects to secure financing in the coming months. The well of buyers is deep, he believes, at least for the best towers.
“Although supply is increasing, demand is increasing, too,” Mr. Barnett said of New York’s luxury market, adding he didn’t expect all projects to do well. “There is sufficient demand for projects that have everything going for them.”
But the precise factors driving demand for superluxury properties aren’t always clear. Developers and brokers attribute the soaring prices to a range of factors including the growing ranks of the superrich, a turn by the globally wealthy toward residential real estate, and low interest rates that have made investors look for higher returns than they can get from bonds. Many apartments go unoccupied, used only as investments.
Details on buyers are scant, since wealthy purchasers typically shield their names. That makes the fundamentals of the market more difficult to understand than the typical drivers of housing demand, like local income or population growth. Specifics on condo pricing also aren’t always easily accessible, making it difficult for developers to gauge their competition. Real-estate markets that lack transparency are prone to overbuilding, because developers don’t know the depth of the pool of buyers or when they will stop buying.
“There’s a problem when no one knows what housing demand really is,” said Charles Nathanson, a finance professor at Northwestern University who has studied real-estate pricing. “Very little information is actually getting into the market—everyone’s just copying each other,” he said. A frequent result: “You get an overshooting” as companies build more than the market can bear.
Even brokers who generally are bullish predict many units are likely to sit vacant despite an economy that could stay strong, given the flood of supply and the finite number of superwealthy individuals.
“Wealth creation has to keep abreast of the apartment creation,” said Leonard Steinberg, president of Compass, a New York-based brokerage. “The bottom line is everyone is going to have to expect that the time to sell will take much longer.”
Source: With Manhattan Luxury Property Hitting Highs, Some Fear Air Is Getting Thin – WSJ
NYC was Fear City
'WELCOME TO FEAR CITY' – THE INSIDE STORY OF NEW YORK'S CIVIL WAR, 40 YEARS ON
Monday 18 May 2015
Travellers arriving at New York City’s airports in June 1975 were greeted with possibly the strangest object ever handed out at the portal to a great city: pamphlets with a hooded death’s head on the cover, warning them, “Until things change, stay away from New York City if you possibly can.”
“Welcome to Fear City” read the stark headline on these pamphlets, which were subtitled “A Survival Guide for Visitors to the City of New York”. Inside was a list of nine “guidelines” that might allow you to get out of the city alive, and with your personal property intact.
The guidelines painted a nightmarish vision of New York; one that made it sound barely a cut above Beirut, which then had just been engulfed in Lebanon’s civil war. Visitors were advised not to venture outside of midtown Manhattan, not to take the subways under any circumstances, and not to walk outside anywhere after six in the evening.
----Tourists must have been baffled, if not horrified. They might have been even more shaken had they known that the men in casual clothes handing them these strange, badly set little pamphlets – with their funereal black borders and another death’s head leering at them inside next to the smirking wish “Good luck” – were members of New York’s police forces.
“A new low in irresponsibility,” fumed New York’s embattled mayor at the time, Abe Beame, who sent the city’s lawyers into court to try to ban distribution of the pamphlet. They failed. Justice Frederick E Hammer agreed that the members of “New York’s Finest” distributing the pamphlet were violating “a public trust” – but ruled that this was a “reasonable dissemination of opinion” under the US constitution, even if it struck at the heart of public confidence.
Near panic ensued. The New York Convention and Visitors Bureau immediately dispatched emissaries armed with slideshow presentations to London, Paris, Frankfurt and Brussels, to “prove” to European travel agents just how attractive the Big Apple still was. Tourism was one of the city’s few remaining industries, still drawing 10.5 million visitors to the city each year, despite reports of massive city budget cuts.
----New York’s fiscal crisis of the mid-1970s is surely one of the weirdest moments in the history of the city – indeed, of the United States. It was a time when the wholesale disintegration of the largest city in the most powerful nation on earth seemed entirely possible. A time when the American president, Gerald Ford – egged on by his young chief of staff, one Donald Rumsfeld – sought not to succour New York but to deliberately shame and humble it, and perhaps even replace it as the world’s leading financial centre.
----Many of the warnings in the Fear City pamphlet were, of course, ludicrous exaggerations or outright lies. The streets of midtown Manhattan weren’t “nearly deserted” after six in the evening, and they were perfectly safe to walk on. The city hadn’t“had to close off the rear half of each [subway] train in the evening so that the passengers could huddle together and be better protected”.
There were still many safe and secure neighbourhoods outside Manhattan, and there was neither a spate of “spectacular” robberies nor deadly fires in hotels.
----There was a pervasive sense that the social order was breaking down. Most subway trains were filthy, covered in graffiti inside and out. Often only one – and sometimes no – carriage door would open when they pulled into a station, and in summer they were “cooled” only by the methodical sweep of a begrimed metal fan that just pushed the sordid air about. The trains ran late, and were always crowded; their denizens included chain-snatchers, raggedy buskers and countless beggars, including at least two legless individuals, manoeuvring with remarkable agility between the cars on their wheeled boards.
The roads were in no better condition. Public restrooms were almost non-existent; dangerous and dirty when they were available at all. Men could often be seen pissing in the gutter down side-streets. Times Square’s venerable old theatres and spectacular movie palaces were torn down for office buildings or allowed to slowly rot away, showing scratchy prints of cheesy second-run films or pornography, which any casual visitor might have thought was the city’s leading industry.
“Welcome to Fear City” read the stark headline on these pamphlets, which were subtitled “A Survival Guide for Visitors to the City of New York”. Inside was a list of nine “guidelines” that might allow you to get out of the city alive, and with your personal property intact.
The guidelines painted a nightmarish vision of New York; one that made it sound barely a cut above Beirut, which then had just been engulfed in Lebanon’s civil war. Visitors were advised not to venture outside of midtown Manhattan, not to take the subways under any circumstances, and not to walk outside anywhere after six in the evening.
----Tourists must have been baffled, if not horrified. They might have been even more shaken had they known that the men in casual clothes handing them these strange, badly set little pamphlets – with their funereal black borders and another death’s head leering at them inside next to the smirking wish “Good luck” – were members of New York’s police forces.
“A new low in irresponsibility,” fumed New York’s embattled mayor at the time, Abe Beame, who sent the city’s lawyers into court to try to ban distribution of the pamphlet. They failed. Justice Frederick E Hammer agreed that the members of “New York’s Finest” distributing the pamphlet were violating “a public trust” – but ruled that this was a “reasonable dissemination of opinion” under the US constitution, even if it struck at the heart of public confidence.
Near panic ensued. The New York Convention and Visitors Bureau immediately dispatched emissaries armed with slideshow presentations to London, Paris, Frankfurt and Brussels, to “prove” to European travel agents just how attractive the Big Apple still was. Tourism was one of the city’s few remaining industries, still drawing 10.5 million visitors to the city each year, despite reports of massive city budget cuts.
----New York’s fiscal crisis of the mid-1970s is surely one of the weirdest moments in the history of the city – indeed, of the United States. It was a time when the wholesale disintegration of the largest city in the most powerful nation on earth seemed entirely possible. A time when the American president, Gerald Ford – egged on by his young chief of staff, one Donald Rumsfeld – sought not to succour New York but to deliberately shame and humble it, and perhaps even replace it as the world’s leading financial centre.
----Many of the warnings in the Fear City pamphlet were, of course, ludicrous exaggerations or outright lies. The streets of midtown Manhattan weren’t “nearly deserted” after six in the evening, and they were perfectly safe to walk on. The city hadn’t“had to close off the rear half of each [subway] train in the evening so that the passengers could huddle together and be better protected”.
There were still many safe and secure neighbourhoods outside Manhattan, and there was neither a spate of “spectacular” robberies nor deadly fires in hotels.
----There was a pervasive sense that the social order was breaking down. Most subway trains were filthy, covered in graffiti inside and out. Often only one – and sometimes no – carriage door would open when they pulled into a station, and in summer they were “cooled” only by the methodical sweep of a begrimed metal fan that just pushed the sordid air about. The trains ran late, and were always crowded; their denizens included chain-snatchers, raggedy buskers and countless beggars, including at least two legless individuals, manoeuvring with remarkable agility between the cars on their wheeled boards.
The roads were in no better condition. Public restrooms were almost non-existent; dangerous and dirty when they were available at all. Men could often be seen pissing in the gutter down side-streets. Times Square’s venerable old theatres and spectacular movie palaces were torn down for office buildings or allowed to slowly rot away, showing scratchy prints of cheesy second-run films or pornography, which any casual visitor might have thought was the city’s leading industry.
More
http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/may/18/welcome-to-fear-city-the-inside-story-of-new-yorks-civil-war-40-years-on
WEST SIDE ELEVATED HIGHWAY
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Side_Elevated_Highway
Monday, May 18, 2015
Berta, Berta
Uploaded on Jun 2, 2009
No one has a monopoly on being oppressed. This video shows African Americans and Chinese immigrant railroad workers. This video gives just a hint, the aroma of the deep oppression by dominant culture in America.
Negro Prison Songs / "Rosie"1947 [RARE]
Uploaded on Aug 8, 2008
..recorded at Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman in 1947..
..taken from italian version'wax L.P. from 1977 ALBATROS Records..
..taken from italian version'wax L.P. from 1977 ALBATROS Records..
Sunday, May 17, 2015
1959 The Year that Changed Jazz
Published on May 29, 2012
1959 was the seismic year jazz broke away from complex bebop music to new forms, allowing soloists unprecedented freedom to explore and express. It was also a pivotal year for America: the nation was finding its groove, enjoying undreamt-of freedom and wealth social, racial and upheavals were just around the corner and jazz was ahead of the curve.
Four major jazz albums were made, each a high watermark for the artists and a powerful reflection of the times. Each opened up dramatic new possibilities for jazz which continue to be felt Miles Davis Kind of Blue Dave Brubeck, Time Out Charles Mingus, Mingus Ah Um; and Ornette Coleman, The Shape of Jazz to Come.
Rarely seen archive performances help vibrantly bring the era to life and explore what made these albums vital both in 1959 and the 50 years since. The programme contains interviews with Lou Reed, Dave Brubeck, Ornette Coleman, Charlie Haden, Herbie Hancock, Joe Morello (Brubecks drummer) and Jimmy Cobb (the only surviving member of Miles band) along with a host of jazz movers and shakers from the 50s and beyond.
Four major jazz albums were made, each a high watermark for the artists and a powerful reflection of the times. Each opened up dramatic new possibilities for jazz which continue to be felt Miles Davis Kind of Blue Dave Brubeck, Time Out Charles Mingus, Mingus Ah Um; and Ornette Coleman, The Shape of Jazz to Come.
Rarely seen archive performances help vibrantly bring the era to life and explore what made these albums vital both in 1959 and the 50 years since. The programme contains interviews with Lou Reed, Dave Brubeck, Ornette Coleman, Charlie Haden, Herbie Hancock, Joe Morello (Brubecks drummer) and Jimmy Cobb (the only surviving member of Miles band) along with a host of jazz movers and shakers from the 50s and beyond.
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