#fordham marble

[cattenkitten]

Dining Kitchen New York Example of a mid-sized classic u-shaped medium tone wood floor and brown floor eat-in kitchen design with an undermount sink, raised-panel cabinets, white cabinets, quartz countertops, gray backsplash, glass tile backsplash, paneled appliances and a peninsula

[rabbitcruiser]

Central Park, Manhattan (No. 3)

There are four different types of bedrock in Manhattan. In Central Park, Manhattan schist and Hartland schist, which are both metamorphosed sedimentary rock, are exposed in various outcroppings. The other two types, Fordham gneiss (an older deeper layer) and Inwood marble (metamorphosed limestone which overlays the gneiss), do not surface in the park. Fordham gneiss, which consists of metamorphosed igneous rocks, was formed a billion years ago, during the Grenville orogeny that occurred during the creation of an ancient super-continent. Manhattan schist and Hartland schist were formed in the Iapetus Ocean during the Taconic orogeny in the Paleozoic era, about 450 million years ago, when the tectonic plates began to merge to form the supercontinent Pangaea. Cameron's Line, a fault zone that traverses Central Park on an east–west axis, divides the outcroppings of Hartland schist to the south and Manhattan schist to the north.

Various glaciers have covered the area of Central Park in the past, with the most recent being the Wisconsin glacier which receded about 12,000 years ago. Evidence of past glaciers can be seen throughout the park in the form of glacial erratics (large boulders dropped by the receding glacier) and north–south glacial striations visible on stone outcroppings. Alignments of glacial erratics, called "boulder trains", are present throughout Central Park. The most notable of these outcroppings is Rat Rock (also known as Umpire Rock), a circular outcropping at the southwestern corner of the park. It measures 55 feet (17 m) wide and 15 feet (4.6 m) tall with different east, west, and north faces. Boulderers sometimes congregate there. A single glacial pothole with yellow clay is near the southwest corner of the park.

The underground geology of Central Park was altered by the construction of several subway lines underneath it, and by the New York City Water Tunnel No. 3 approximately 700 feet (210 m) underground. Excavations for the project have uncovered pegmatite, feldspar, quartz, biotite, and several metals.

Source: Wikipedia

[glompcat]

lololololol the Washington Post asked Mary Trump if she can back up any of the allegations she made in her book, so she provided them with fifteen hours worth of recordings of conversations she had with her aunt - Trump’s older sister - where she complains about how her brother is a cruel brat.

For example, his sister used to be a federal judge and Trump loves to promise his base he’s going to put her in charge of the border. Her thoughts on that?

“All he wants to do is appeal to his base,” Barry said in a conversation secretly recorded by her niece, Mary L. Trump. “He has no principles. None. None. And his base, I mean my God, if you were a religious person, you want to help people. Not do this.”

Barry, 83, was aghast at how her 74-year-old brother operated as president. “His goddamned tweet and lying, oh my God,” she said. “I’m talking too freely, but you know. The change of stories. The lack of preparation. The lying. Holy shit.”

Lamenting “what they’re doing with kids at the border,” she guessed her brother “hasn’t read my immigration opinions” in court cases. In one case, she berated a judge for failing to treat an asylum applicant respectfully.

“What has he read?” Mary Trump asked her aunt.

“No. He doesn’t read,” Barry responded.

and of course:

Barry told how she tried to help her brother get into college. “He was a brat,” Barry said, explaining that “I did his homework for him” and “I drove him around New York City to try to get him into college.”

Then Barry dropped what Mary considered a bombshell: “He went to Fordham for one year [actually two years] and then he got into University of Pennsylvania because he had somebody take the exams.”

“No way!” Mary responded. “He had somebody take his entrance exams?”

“SATs or whatever. . . . That’s what I believe,” Barry said. “I even remember the name.” That person was Joe Shapiro, Barry said. 

Donald Trump was friends with a person at Penn named Joe Shapiro, who is deceased. Shapiro’s widow and sister told The Post last month that he never took a test for anybody, including Trump. Mary Trump has said it was a different Joe Shapiro, but that person has not surfaced.

Fifteen hours of this, all handed directly over the Washington Post. They have some of the recordings of Trump’s sister saying these things sprinkled throughout the article.

I know people are really cynical and like to dismiss these things these days (”We all already know he’s scum” etc) but honestly? Having recordings of people this close to the President saying these kind of things might possibly help those who think he’s not so awful realize just how conned they have been. This might help sway some people who have been in denial. Maybe. Hopefully. Who knows anymore.

“Donald is out for Donald, period,” Barry said.

Mary questioned Barry about what he had accomplished on his own.

“I don’t know,” Barry said.

“Nothing,” Mary responded.

“Well he has five bankruptcies,” Barry said. (Trump’s companies filed for six corporate bankruptcies but he has never declared personal bankruptcy.)

“Good point. He did accomplish those all by his self,” Mary said.

“Yes, he did. Yes, he did. You can’t trust him,” Barry said.

Like honestly, anyone who engages with what his sister has to say about him, in private conversations with her niece, would have to conclude that the guy is a real asswipe.

One of the most emotional conversations between Mary and her aunt occurred when they discussed the 1999 funeral of the family patriarch, Fred Sr., at Marble Collegiate Church on Fifth Avenue in New York City. During that ceremony, Donald spoke more about his own accomplishments than his father’s life, Barry said.

“Donald was the only one who didn’t speak about Dad,” Barry said. She told Mary that “I don’t want any of my siblings to speak at my funeral. And that’s all about Donald and what he did at Dad’s funeral. I don’t know. It was all about him.”

“I remember,” Mary responded.

[enamoured-x]

Can I please request 99) "You know, there wasn't a single thing to eat in the kitchen until you walked in” for Sonny?

*gif not mine*

Warnings: NSFW, 18+ Only, Oral (F receiving) 

Your eyes fluttered open as the natural light coming in from the window finally pulled you from your sleep. You went to roll over to cuddle against Sonny but he wasn’t there. You strained your muscles to get you out of bed to go look for him. You were sore thanks to Sonny and all the positions he had you in last night, but you were not complaining by any means. It was a rare day where you and Sonny had the same day off so you took advantage of that fact when you both got home from work yesterday. Making love into the early hours of the morning knowing you could rest all day today. But Sonny seemed to have other ideas. You slid on your panties and one of Sonny’s old fordham shirts and went out to look for him. Rubbing the sleep from your eyes and stretching some more as you walked down the hall. You found him in the kitchen, rummaging through the fridge. 

“Why aren’t you still in bed?” You glanced at the clock on the microwave. It was noon but you and Sonny had barely gotten any sleep and you always stayed in bed on your days off. 

Sonny turned and shut the fridge door. Smirking at you in his shirt. 

“I got hungry…” He walked over to you and placed his hands under your shirt and right on your ass. 

“You know, there wasn’t a single thing to eat in the kitchen until you walked in.” He added and squeezed your ass. You let out a gasp as you felt your core throb. Leave it to Sonny to get you going with just his words and after just waking up.

“Sonny…” You whined. You didn’t know what you were asking for but he seemed to know as he leaned down and kissed you. You groaned into his mouth as he pulled you closer to his bare chest. The kiss was sloppy and all tongue and it riled you up even further. Sonny pushed you against the island and then picked you up and placed you on top of it. You were desperate for more but you didn’t want to break the kiss. Sonny had other ideas as he pulled away and lifted up your shirt to your hips. 

“Lay flat.” You did as he said and laid back against the marble top. He pushed your shirt higher and started to slide off your panties.

“Don’t know why you bothered to put these back on, doll.” He said and kissed your thighs softly as he opened your legs. You were fully exposed to him and aching with need. You sat up to lean back on your elbows to see him better.

“So fucking pretty like this, all spread out for me.” You whimpered as he started to place kisses on the bruises and marks he had left last night. You sighed softly at the way his lips met your skin, goosebumps rising. His blue eyes locked on yours as he kept making his way higher and higher to where you wanted him, where you needed him. 

“Sonny, please…”

“Please what, doll?” He asked as he nipped the meat of your thigh, so close to your core. 

“Please lick me, do something.” You bucked up but he was quick to hold down your hips and throw your legs over his shoulder.

“Gonna devour you, doll.” Is all he said before his tongue and lips met your center. You cried out as he wasted no time sucking your clit into his mouth. Your body was vibrating with want and need, last night not being nearly enough to sate you. Not nearly enough of Sonny. You took hold of his hair and tried to rock despite being pinned down. He was not holding back as he moaned and lapped you up. You were close to tears with the way Sonny was using his mouth. Shaking his head to lick every inch of you and to dive in deeper. When his tongue dipped down to your entrance you whimpered. He licked into you and brought his thumb up to rub at your clit. 

“Sonny! Fuck, baby. I’m close.” You arched your back and pulled harder on his hair. It only spurred him on more as he groaned at your tug and kept his pace. You were going to fall off the edge any second now. The way his eyes kept meeting yours, the way his lips closed around you as he pushed his tongue further into you, the way his thumb was running over your clit just right. 

“Come on my tongue. Taste so fucking good.” He mumbled, barely able to get the words out as he didn’t want to stop the onslaught of pleasure. 

At Sonny’s words, you felt yourself fall over that cliff. Your orgasm rolled through you as you screamed his name. You were seeing stars as he continued to work you through your climax, as you pulled on his hair and closed your thighs tight around his head. He didn’t seem to care though. Sonny was fucking loving it. 

You whimpered as you came down, Sonny still lapping at you. You tried to push him away but he grabbed your hands.

“Sonny, m’sensitve.” You cried out. He still continued to clean you up and although you squirmed, part of you was getting ready for another round. 

“God, doll. Could eat you out all fucking day.” He groaned into your thigh after he finally pulled his mouth away. 

“That’s a nice thought.” You panted. Still reeling from your high. He pulled you up to sit, his hips in between your thighs now. 

“Let’s go make it a reality. I’m fucking starving.” He said and lifted you up to carry you back to the bedroom. You clung to him and laughed into his neck, basking in your post orgasm haze and excited for more. Sonny was happy to spend his day off with his head in between your thighs. 

[queenofangrymoths]

Book Log of 2019

I kept a record of how many books I read in 2019. I liked most of them so I would recommend you give any of them or read.

So on with the list! If it has an X next to it then it means I didn’t finish reading it. 

#1: Warcross by Marie Lu.

#2: Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi.

#3: Kingdom of the Blazing Phoenix by Julie C. Dao.

#4: Bruja Born by Zoraida Córdova.

#5: A Thousand Beginnings and Endings by Roshani Chokshi, Alyssa Wong, Lori M. Lee, Sona Charaipotra, Aliette De Bodard, E. C. Myres, Aisha Saeed, Preeti Chhibber, Renée Ahdieh, Rahul Kanakia, Melissa De La Cruz, Elsie Chapman, Shveta Thakrar, Cindy Pon, and Julie Kagawa.

#6: The 57 Bus by Daska Slater

#7: The Dark Descent Of Elizabeth Frankenstein by Kristen White.

#8: Three Dark Crowns by Kendare Blake

9#: Broken Things by Lauren Oliver.

10# The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater

11# A Study In Charlotte by Arthur Doyle

12# Simon Vs The Homo sapiens agenda by Becky Albertalli

13# The Dream Thieves by Maggie Stiefvater

14# Blue Lily, Lily Blue by Maggie Stiefvater

15# The Raven King by Maggie Stiefvater

16# Carry On by Rainbow Rowel

17# Teen Trailblazers, 30 fearless girls who changed the world before they were 20 by Jennifer Calvert

18# Evermore by Sara Holland

19# The White Stag by Kara Barbieri

20# One Dark Throne by Kendra’s Blake

21# Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

22# A Blade So Black by L.L. McKinney

23# King of Scars by Leigh Bardugo X

24# Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson

25# The Vanishing Stair by Maureen Johnson

26# Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie

27# Mythology by Edith Hamilton

28# Percy Jackson Greek Gods by Rick Riordan 

29# Two Can Keep A Secret by Karen M McManus

30# The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert

31# Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

32# Superman: Dawnbreaker by Matt De La Peña

33# The Phantom of The Opera by Gaston Leroux

34# Roseblood by A.G Howard X

35# Catwoman: Soulstealer by Sarah J Maas

36# Wonder Woman: Warbringer by Leigh Bardugo

37# Velvet Undercover by Teri Brown

38# Through The Woods by Emily Caroll

39# The Wicked Deep by Shes Ernshaw

40# Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr

41# Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan

42# Where She Fell by Kaitlin Ward

43# Modern Herstory: Stories Of Women and non binary people rewriting history by Blair Imani

44# White Rabbits by Caleb Roehrig

45# To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee Adapted by Fred Fordham

46# Wicked Saints by Emily A. Duncan

47# Ever The Hunted by Erin Summeril

48# Four Dead Queens by Astrid Scholte

49# Lost Souls, Be At Peace by Maggie Thrash

50# Honor Girl by Maggie Thrash

51# The Giver by Lois Lowry adapted by P.Craig Russell

52# My Plain Jane by Cynthia Hand. Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows

53# What If It’s Us by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera X

54# An Assassin’s Guide to Love & Treason by Virginia Boecker

55# The Count Of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas adapted by Nokman Poon and Crystal S. Chan

56# The Fellowship Of The Ring by J.R.R Tolkien

57# What is someone I know is gay? By Eric Marcus X

58# Last Seen Leaving by Caleb Roehrig

59# The Two Towers by J.R.R Tolkien

60# The Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien X

61# The Return of The King by J.R.R Tolkien

62# Lafayette by Nathan Hale

63# Aurora Rising by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff

64# We should all be feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

65# The Storm Crow by Kalyn Josephson

66# Frankenstein by Mary Shelly

67# Norton Volume Of English Literature

68# Beowulf by Unknown

69# The General Prologue by Chaucer

70# 20/20 by Linda Brewer

71# Always in Spanish by Agosim

72# The First Day by Edward P. Jones

73# Bullet in the Brain by Tobias Wolff

74# Writing Fiction by Burroway

75# Murderers by Leonard Michaels

76# Greatness Strikes Where It Pleases by Lars Gustaffson

77# Cathedral by Raymond Carver

78# A Conversation with My Father by Grace Paley

79# Gooseberries by Anton Chekhov

80# The Lives of the Dead by Tim O’Brien

81# Head, Heart by Lydia Davis

82# Richard Cody by Edwin Arlington Robinson

83# “Out- Out-“ by Robert Frost

84# The Ruined Maid by Thomas Hardy

85# I wandered lonely as a cloud by William Wordsworth

86# Poem by Frank O’Hara

87# On being brought from Africa to America by Phillis Wheatley

88# On her loving two equally by Aphra Behn

89# Because you asked about the line between Prose and Poetry by Howard Nemerov

90# Ars Poetica by Archibald MacLeish

91# Ars Poetica? By Czeslaw Milosz

92# Ars Poetica #100: I believe by Elizabeth Alexander

93# Poetry by Marianne Moode

94# “Poetry makes nothing happen”? By Julia Alvarez

95# Introduction to Poetry by Billy Collins

96# In Memory Of W.B. Yates by W. H. Auden

97# The kind of man I am at the DMV by Stacey Waite

98# The Changeling by Judith Oritez Carer

99# Going to war by Richard Lovelace

100# To the Ladies by Mary, Lady Chudleigh

101# Exchanging Hats by Elizabeth Bishop

102# History Of Ireland Volume 1 by Lecky X

103# A Modern History of Ireland by E. Norman X

104# The Tempest by William Shakespeare

105# Gender by Lisa Wade & Myra Marx Ferree

106# Trifles by Susan Glaspell

107# The Shroud by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm

108# King of the Bingo Game by Ralph Ellison

109# Sonny’s Blues by James Baldwin

110# Fences by August Wilson

111# Where are you going, where have you been? By Joyce Carol Oates

112# Daddy by Sylvia Plath

113# What is our life? By Walter Raleigh

114# May I compare thee to a midsummer day? By William Shakespeare

115# The love song of J. Alfred Prufruock by T. S. Eliot

116# À unr passante by Charles Baudelaire

117# In a station of the metro by Ezra Pound

118# The Fog by Carl Sandburg

119# The Yellow Fog by T.S. Eliot

120# On first looking into Chapman’s Homer by John Keats

121# the Road Not Taken by Robert Frisr

122# Paradise Lost  Book 1 & 10 by John Milton X

123# The Victory Lap by George Saunders

124# The Tempest by William Shakespeare

125# The Vanity Of Human Wishes by Samuel Johnson

126# Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell

127# When to Her Lute Corinna Sings by Thomas Campion

128# Sir Patrick Spens by Anonymous

129# Ballad of Birmingham by Dudley Randall

130# A Prayer, Living and Dying by Augustus Montague Toplady

131# Homage to the Empress of the Blues by Robert Hayden

132# The Times They Are A-Changin’ *

133# Listening to Bob Dylan, 2005!by Linda Pastan

134# Hip Hop by Mos Deff

135# Elvis in the Inner City by Jose B. Gonzalez

136# Acquainted with the Night by Robert Frost*

137# Terza Roma by Richard Wilbur

138# Stanza from The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats

139# Stanza from His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell

140# Stanza from Sound and Sense by Alexander’s Pope

141# Stanza from The Word Plum by Helen Chasin

142# Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas

143# Myth by Natasha Trethewey

144# Sestina by Elizabeth Bishop

145# Sestina: Like by A.E. Stallings

146# l)a by E.E Cummings

147# Buffalo Bill by E.E Cummings

148# Easter Wings by George Herbert

149# Women by May Swenson

150# Upon the breeze she spread her golden hair by Franceso Petrarch

151# My lady’s presence makes the roses red by Henry Constance

152# My mistress’s eyes are nothing like the sun by William Shakespeare

153# Not marble, nor the gilded monuments by William Shakespeare

154# Let me no to the marriage of true minds by William Shakespeare

155# When I consider how my light is spent by John Milton

156# Nuns Fret Not by William Wordsworth

157# The world is too much with us by William Wordsworth

158# Do I love thee? By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

159# In an Artist’s Studio by Christina Rossetti

160# What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why by Edna St. Vincent Millay

161# Women have loved before as I love now by Edna St. Vincent Millay

162# I, being born a woman and distressed by Edna St. Vincent Millay

163# I will put Chaos in fourteen lines by Edna St. Vincent Millay

164# First Fight. Then Fiddle by Gwendolyn Brooks

165# In the Park by Gwen Harwood

166# Something Like a Sonnet for Phillis Miracle Wheatley by June Jordan

167# Sonnet by Billy Collins

168# Dim Lights by Harryette Mullen

169# Redefininy Realmess by Janet Mock

170# Lusus Naturae by Margaret Atwood

171# The House Of Asterion by Jorge Luis Borges

172# Death Fuge by Michael Hamburger

173# Clifford’s Place by Jamel Bickerly

174# We are seven by William Wordsworth

175# Lines written in early spring by William Wordsworth

176# Expostulation and Reply by William Wordsworth

177# The Tables Turned by William Wordsworth

178# Lines by William Wordsworth

179# Recitatif by Toni Morrison

180# Volar by Judith Ortiz Cofer

181# The Management Of Grief by Bharati Mukherjee

182# Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri

183# Jesus Saves by David Sedaris

184# Disabled by Wilfred Owen

185# My Father’s Garden by David Wagoner

186# Practicing by Marie Howe

187# O my pa-pa by Bob Hicok

189# Mr. T- by Terrance Hayes

190# Late Aubade by James Richardson

191# Carp Poem by Terrance Hayes

192# Pilgrimage by Natasha Trethewey

193# Tu Do Street by Yuaef Lomunyakaa

194# Diving into the Wreck by Adrienne Rich

195# Elena by Pat Mora

196# Gentle Communion by Pat Mora

197# Mothers & Daughters by Pat Mora

198# La Migra by Pat Mora

199# Ode to Adobe by Pat Mora

200# Barbie Doll by Marge Piercy

201# The Silken Tent by Robert Frost

202# Metaphors by Sylvia Plath

203# The Vine by James Thomsen

204# Questions by May Swenson

205# A Just Man by Attila József

206# the norton anthology of world literature

207# Pan’s Labyrinth by Gullernio de Toro and Cornelia Funke Xw

208# The prince and the dressmaker by Jen Wang

209# Rejected Princesses: Tales of History's Boldest Heroines, Hellions, and Heretics by Jason Porath

210# The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

[ao3feed-barisi]

Rafael Barba and Sonny Carisi Are Youtubers: A Drabble Series

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/2RCgbpa

by FreckledSkittles

Rafael Barba: skit actor on YouTube with friends, grew from the channel for a teaching gig at a university, now makes videos on the weekend for fun.

Sonny Carisi: runs a cooking channel, modernizes old recipes or makes changes to them.

They make videos. A good chunk of them are dumb, but some of them are clever and actually interesting. All of them are proof that they are perfect for one another and utterly into each other like the weenies they are.

Inspired by YouTubers Jenna Marbles and Julien Solomita.

Words: 672, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Law & Order: SVU

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Rafael Barba, Dominick "Sonny" Carisi Jr.

Relationships: Rafael Barba/Dominick "Sonny" Carisi Jr.

Additional Tags: YouTuber Barisi, Alternate Universe, Dogs, Dating, Established Relationship, Cooking, Professor Rafael Barba, he teaches at fordham im emotional, but he still makes funny vids with his boyfriends

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/2RCgbpa

[morethanonepage]

Some Of The Realest Reasons To Love NYC Are Found In This 1976 Listicle

Certainly there are some through lines connecting our communal love for the city, though—many listicles have tackled this, but the closest-to-perfect list we've ever seen comes from The NY Times circa June 1976, if only for its brutal honesty and specificity. 

1. Being nostalgic about things in New York that never were so great. 2. Ethnic impurity. 3. Habitually fitting your thumbnail in the Y-cutout of a subway token. 4. Leaving New York. 5. Coming back to New York. 6. The Staten Island Advance. 7. The night they move the jet pattern over another neighborhood. 8. Dialing 873-0404. 9. Not having defaulted yet. 10. Not writing your Account Number in the box on the Con Edison envelope. 11. Hating Con Edison. 12. It's 10 P.M. Do you know where YOUR children are? 13. Libraries that haven't closed yet. 14. Hospitals that haven't closed yet. 15. Day-care centers that haven’t closed yet. 16. People who haven't left yet. 17. How no one ever takes the top newspaper off the pile. 18. Getting off the Roosevelt Island tramway. 19. Volunteers. 20. Zip 10001 . 21. The night sound of a distant fire engine that comes closer and closer, and then passes your street. 22. New York's proximity to Montauk. 23. Its distance from Washington. 24. A broken parking meter. 25. The best water-supply system in the nation. 26. The worst public image in the nation. 27. Bus herds.

28. Bus drivers who get coffee in mid-route, and the restaurant countermen who get them out quick. 29. How everyone else hates New York. 30. Hating New York. 31. Imagining New York without  anyone in it. 32. Losing yourself in a crowd. 33. A really good street musician. 34. Alternate side of the street parking suspended. 35. Flipping the change tray in the plastic taxicab divider. 36. Austin Street, Queens. 37. How 9 out of 10 people on the subway platform move back when the train approaches. 38. Thinking -that iridescent pigeon necks are beautiful. 39. Hating pigeons. 40. Army-Navy store windows. 41. The orange highway lights on the Henry Hudson under the George Washington Bridge. 42. The little red lighthouse still under the great gray bridge. 43. Page 1,029 of the Manhattan telephone directory under "Ng." 44. How no one moves to the back of the bus. 45. Degree days. 46. More movies, plays and ballet than anywhere else, and not going. 47. The coldest wind in the world on 125th Street and 12th Avenue. 48. Intake workers. 49. Standing on the elevated platform and feeling it sway as trains stop down the line. 50. The Parachute Jump In

51 . Northern Boulevard. 52. Demanding a refund of less than a dollar on Line 25 or the New York City Tax Return ("Amount of $1.00 or less will be refunded only if requested"). 53. Never having been to Grant's Tomb. 54. Manhattan schist. 55. Inwood marble. 56. Fordham gneiss. 57. The personals in The Irish Echo. 58. Pvt. Joseph Merrill, Staten Island ferryboat. 59. Cornelius J . Kolff, Staten Island ferryboat. 60. A winning OTB ticket. 61. The Episcopal Bishop of New York. 62. Hero sandwiches that are called hero sandwiches. 63. The ragweed count. 64. W.P.A. park benches. 65. The background teletype noise on WINS. 66. Bags a beer. 67. Dead Horse Bay. 68. A wino with a theatrical talent for abuse. 69. East Siders on the West Side. 70. N.Y.U. 71. L.I.U. 72. Pace. 73. The Brooklyn Museum serving Nathan's hot dogs. 74. The smell of malathion. 75. Firemen in your supermarket doing a week's shopping for the firehouse kitchen. 76. Looking for a place you know on the dirty restaurant list.

77. Elevator repairmen. 78. People who whistle down cabs using thumb and pinky finger. 79. The exactly even number of seats in the City Hall marriage bureau. 80. Brooklyn Day. 81. "Power Dept." lettered on city trucks. 82. Cream soda in Van Cortlandt Park. 83. The Sea Beach Express. 84. Thinking what New York could be, if only. 85. The rabbit hanging out near the World of Birds at the Bronx Zoo. 86. Japanese tourists. 87. The day the old snow disappears from Jerome Avenue. 88. The fourth-floor brontosaurus in the Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 89. The Fennel Cab Company. 90. Blue and white police-horse trailers. 91. The apostrophe missing from DONT WALK. 92. Johnny Carson is gone. 93. Chevy Chase isn't. 94. Zeppole vans. 95. Subway cars with public-address speakers that don't work. 96. American flags on Bay Ridge houses. 97. The rush of relief when you're not mugged after you thought you would be. 98. Tickler Numbers in Toe City Record. 99. No tornadoes. 100. Strikes that arc over. 101. Aviso: La via del tren subterraneo es peligrosa.

[mlorenzetti]

The Invisibile Gorilla Cornelous Marble bench, terrace The Detroit Public Library, 8/4/17 #8x10 gelatin silver contact

Born in Detroit, Cornelous earned his undergraduate degree from Fordham University in criminal justice and social work. He's currently working on his masters in business management. "I want to open a youth center for underprivileged children in the city."

Marco Lorenzetti

Published by Crown in 2010, "The Invisible Gorilla," was written by Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris. The book explores the dangers of trusting one's intuitive assumptions, unsullied by rational deliberations, of how the mind works. The title of the book refers to an earlier research project by Chabris and Simons revealing that people who are focused on one thing can easily overlook something else.

[casorasi]

Massachusetts salesman extradited for cashing bogus Stamford checks

STAMFORD-A Massachusetts man was extradited to Stamford Thursday to face charges that he helped steal $54,000 from the bank account of a Stamford marble company. Salesman Joel Sanchez, 29, of Lynn, Massachusetts, was charged with second-degree larceny and two counts of forgery for allegedly cashing two checks from the Stamford company worth $12,800, his three-page arrest warrant said. After being brought to Stamford the single father of three posted a $15,000 court appearance bond and was released. In early January police received a complaint from the owner Fordham Marble Company on Fairfield Avenue that nine checks worth $61,000 had been cashed on Dec. 22, 2016 from the company’s business account. Massachusetts salesman extradited for cashing bogus Stamford checks

[davidoespailla]

Say ‘Hola’ to 9 Spanish-Style Homes on the Market—All Priced Under $400K

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Enter an arched doorway or a tiled courtyard, and you might think you’ve been transported to Spain or Mexico. Inspired by Spain and built in the early 20th century, Spanish-style homes often feature stucco exteriors and telling details such as ornamental stonework, carved doors, and colorful tiles. These stylish homes sometimes borrow from Mediterranean style as well as indigenous Southwest design.

But you can live in a Spanish-style home without ever leaving the country. While opulent structures like Mar-a-Lago represent the pinnacle of this coveted style, there are affordable options available across the country. We dug through our listings to find nine Spanish-style homes, all priced below $400,000

We invite you to say hola to these stylish Spanish-style homes on the market right now. Olé!

6901 Rockhill Rd, Kansas City, MO

Price: $244,950 Spanish specs: While you’ll find many of the Spanish-style abodes in warmer climes, the style also made its way to the Midwest. One of two Mexican farmhouses, this property was built by Kansas City architect Edward Tanner in 1925. In 2013, a master suite was added to the distinctive dwelling. We especially love the glassed-in sunroom, designed for maximum sunlight year-round. The space also includes a large front patio and a side deck. 

Kansas City, MO

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1705 Rodman St, Hollywood, FL

Price: $289,900 Spanish specs: This stucco home from 1940 actually offers many modern updates, including a new industrial-modern bath, an updated kitchen, and plenty of storage. There’s a fenced-in yard with room for outdoor barbecues and entertaining. Plus, the address is just minutes from the Hollywood beach, restaurants, and Arts Park.

Hollywood, FL

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3131 N E St, San Bernardino, CA

Price: $319,900 Spanish specs: Historic charm oozes from every inch of this 1940 gem. Through the carved wood door, you’ll find a spacious living area with built-in shelving and a decorative fireplace. The living room and bedrooms feature hardwood flooring. The Spanish influence continues in the kitchen and baths with colorful tile work on the walls and floors.

San Bernardino, CA

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305 E 1st St, Sonora, TX 

Price: $159,500 Spanish specs: Ornate flourishes add a jolt of personality to this two-bedroom home. The property features arched doorways, stucco walls, and an adobe fireplace. The exterior boasts ornamental designs, and niches for your favorite flowerpot. The interior space features refurbished hardwood floors and tiled baths. Loaded with character, the property is surrounded by mature shade trees. 

Sonora, TX

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1119 W Middleton Rd, Tucson, AZ 

Price: $365,000 Spanish specs: This adobe brick home built in 1975 retains some hallmarks of Spanish style, including arched doorways and windows, an adobe fireplace, and an open kitchen. The large lot also features a garden, lime and lemon trees, a patio, a deck, and a pool.

Tucson, AZ

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2533 Prospect St, Reading, PA 

Price: $289,900 Spanish specs: The “one-of-a-kind” design from 1930 features Spanish detailing inside and out. Start with the simulated terra-cotta tiles, ornamental details, and the wood front door. Inside, there are arched doorways, decorative tile, and wrought-iron hardware. There’s an eat-in kitchen, plus a bonus room that could be an office. Downstairs you’ll find a wet bar and bathroom. The property comes with a newly renovated, two-story guesthouse.

Reading, PA

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709 Hunter St, West Palm Beach, FL 

Price: $278,000 Spanish specs: We instantly fell for this renovated cottage from 1922. The two-bedroom home also comes with a separate studio. Period details include hardwood flooring, plaster walls, arched doorways, and a living room with fireplace. We love the updated kitchen with red cabinets and decorative wall tile, stainless-steel appliances, and granite counters. The courtyard entry includes a fountain. The detached studio includes a full bath and could be used as a guest bedroom, home office, or a rental. 

West Palm Beach, FL

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238 Fordham Dr, Lake Worth, FL

Price: $390,000 Spanish specs: This historic residence in an appealing shade of teal features a two-bedroom main house and a separate one-bedroom, in-law suite. The main home features an updated kitchen with granite counters and stainless-steel appliances, and opens to a formal dining room. Other features include refinished wood flooring and a marble bathroom. The in-law suite also has updated kitchen appliances and a new shower. Outdoors, you’ll find patio space for alfresco dining. 

Lake Worth, FL

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2206 2nd Ave N, Great Falls, MT 

Price: $169,000 Spanish specs: Old World meets Old West! This four-bedroom home features an open kitchen with an eating and living space. Arched doorways and windows, high ceilings, and a fireplace are some of the details of the 1928 residence. A fenced-in yard completes the offering. 

Great Falls, MT

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Should Canada embrace the Netherlands' 'coffee shops'?

Instead of legalized cannabis, Dutch have opted for a philosophy of tolerance since 1980s

Saturday, August 18, 2018

ANDRE PICARD, The Globe and Mail 

From the outside, Boerejongens ("Farmer Boys" in Dutch) looks like an old-style apothecary. The only clue of what it might be is a small sticker on the door reading "coffeeshop."

Inside, there is a wine-bar vibe - polished marble floors and counters, and gold fixtures, and only the slightest hint of background music.

At the counter you are greeted by a cannabis sommelier, dressed sharply in a crisp white shirt, bow tie, suspenders, dress pants and shiny shoes.

On the touch screen, you can scroll through the offerings on the menu - cannabis, hashish and mooncakes (baked goods made with cannabis). You can also sniff samples.

"My role is to guide customers in the right direction, to help them make the choices that are right for them," says Damien Loe, the store's manager.

With 20 years' experience - "personal and professional," he says with a smile - he speaks knowledgeably about the relative merits of Sativa strains, a sweet mild smoke that leaves people feeling high and creative, and Indica strains, a more pungent smoke that leaves users feeling stoned and relaxed.

Mr. Loe patiently guides clients through the menu, from "white choco guava haze" (a high-end product that sells for 18 [$26.96] a gram) to "Kabouter amnesia" (a more pedestrian product at 6.50 [$9.74] a gram), to the Spacetrip Brownie, which contains 0.33 grams of "fine weed." Amsterdam is the stoner capital of the world. It is estimated that as many as one in three visitors to the Dutch capital will visit a coffee shop to purchase pot or hash.

Yet, cannabis is not legal in the Netherlands, as it soon will be in Canada.

The Dutch approach is remarkable for its hazy ambiguity: the guiding philosophy is tolerance, not legalization.

Possession of up to five grams is tolerated (meaning you won't be prosecuted). You can smoke legally in coffee shops, but not really anywhere else, though it is commonplace. Shops that sell cannabis cannot sell alcohol or tobacco.

And while coffee shops are licensed to sell cannabis, they aren't legally allowed to purchase it, so the supply comes from the black market.

"It's a weird system and increasingly being questioned," says Ann Fordham, executive director of the International Drug Policy Consortium in London.

At the same time, she notes that the Dutch approach seems to work - at least on the ground. "If you've been to Amsterdam, you will know it's one of the most well-organized, orderly cities in the world.

"Cannabis is not creating a public nuisance - certainly not in a way that alcohol creates a nuisance in most cities."

What remains to be seen, Ms.

Fordham says, is whether Canada's more formal, corporate approach will be better, from a legal and public-health perspective.

The principal distinction between Canada and the Netherlands is that Canada will regulate not only retail sales, but suppliers.

As a result, Canada is experiencing a "green rush," with cannabis company stocks soaring.

Governments will collect far more taxes on pot in Canada than they do in the Netherlands. Yet, cannabis prices will be markedly lower.

There are 166 coffee shops in Amsterdam. When you walk through the front door, what you see is what you get - they sell cannabis and related products openly.

But what comes in the back door, and especially where the remarkable variety of cannabis products come from, is a lot murkier.

Coffee shops are not allowed to keep more than 500 grams on the premises at any given time, so squads of young men on mopeds make regular trips to restock stores.

When the coffee shop phenomenon began in the 1970s, Amsterdam had a serious heroin problem.

In a bid to separate the market for hard and soft drugs, the authorities stopped prosecuting possession of cannabis. Pot and hash were sold and smoked freely, and coffee shops like the legendary, now-defunct Mellow Yellow sprang up.

In 1980, coffee shops were legalized and they thrived - with as many as 1,500 in Amsterdam alone. The Dutch are renowned for their horticultural skills and shops were supplied mainly by "Mom and Pop" growers.

It was not until 1995 that coffee shops were licensed - and 350 licences were issued in the capital.

Since then, there has been a steady increase in rules and red tape, and a gradual decline in the number of stores. There was even talk of banning foreign tourists from the shops.

The supply chain has also come to be taken over, at least in part, by organized crime. Canada has decided to tackle that problem with legalization while, in the Netherlands, that discussion is just beginning.

At the legendary Bulldog coffee shop Dan, one of a quintet of Canadians from suburban Toronto, says he is looking forward to legalization, but nothing beats the coffee shop atmosphere.

"We should have these back home," he says. "I mean, there are bars where you can drink, why not coffee shops where you can smoke?" Ms. Fordham of the IDPC says it's not a half-bad idea. "There are many restrictions about where people can smoke so, from a policy perspective, if you're going to legalize, it makes sense to have places where people can consume the product."

But, for now, coffee shops remain an exclusive trait of Amsterdam, one that Tony Balboa, manager of the Coffeeshop Information Centre, says really makes the city memorable for many.

"Canals are nice, Van Gogh is nice, but coffee shops are what really makes Amsterdam special."

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Chicago Luxury Condo for Sale: Pure Modernism at The Fordham

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Chicago Luxury Condo for Sale: Pure Modernism at The Fordham

CHICAGO/ SEPTEMBER 10, 2018 (STL.News)

A penthouse-level, ultra-luxury Chicago condo in the Fordham has just been listed by Dream Town agents Sheldon Salnick and Julius Dickens. The 3,700 square foot, 3 bedroom unit has been custom designed and boasts features like 180-degree views, a private garage, a custom kitchen and the highest solarium in the city. This Fordham luxury condo is offered at $4 million.

“You’ll think this condo came straight from the pages of a design or architecture magazine,” said Salnick. “Every cutting-edge detail and feature has been masterfully executed.”

The property is ideal for the discerning modernist: art collectors, architects and other creative types will appreciate the careful, elegant contemporary design. Stand-out features include:

The highest solarium in the city, which serves as a huge, open space for dining and entertaining A private penthouse entrance and lobby, plus an express elevator and private garage A minimalist kitchen with clean lines, showcasing sleek Italian cabinetry, Gaggenau and Sub-Zero appliances and a floor-to-ceiling spice rack. Two large outdoor terraces complete with custom landscaping and views, with remote screens and bi-fold doors Special details like heated, white marble flooring and flush outlets/switches for a seamless design aesthetic. Located in the Near North neighborhood, The Fordham is a pillar of luxury living in Chicago. Residents here enjoy amenities like a 24/7 doorman, pool deck, curbside assistance, exercise facilities and more. The Fordham location puts residents within walking distance of many downtown destinations for culture, entertainment and upscale dining, plus the Magnificent Mile and Millennium Park.

For full details, photos and more about this luxury Chicago condominium in The Fordham, visit https://25superior4902.com.

Sheldon Salnick is a specialist in luxury real estate in Chicago, having sold condominiums, lofts and single-family homes ranging from $1 million to $5 million over the last 25-plus years. He is particularly well-versed in modern design, having become very fond of the city’s Mies van der Rohe buildings and Chicago’s superb architectural landscape. Sheldon is part of Dream Town Realty in Chicago.

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Shortlisted design concepts for restoration and rebuilding of Clandon Park go on display

Six design concepts are going on display at Clandon Park in Surrey as part of the next stage in a competition which will eventually create a final design for the 18th-century Palladian house.

An international design competition was launched in March this year to find a design team to bring the National Trust property back to life after a devastating fire in 2015. Six architect-led design teams have now produced concepts visualising their interpretation of the future restoration, reimagining and rebuilding of Clandon Park.

Visitors to Clandon will be able to see the concepts from 23 August, which are based on a comprehensive competition brief in which architect-led teams were asked to:

• Work with the existing building structure, but consider its immediate setting within the garden • Restore damaged historic interiors and principal state rooms on the ground floor and basement – including the Marble Hall, Saloon, Library and Speakers’ Parlour, State Bedroom and the vaulted historic kitchen • Introduce new flexible event spaces on the first floor to be used for gallery and exhibition programming • Consider visitor facilities including catering and retail outlets • Create a careful and accurate restoration, making use of salvaged materials, with the introduction of more modern spaces and technology where appropriate

The brief is informed by the extensive research that’s been carried out at Clandon Park since the fire as part of a comprehensive conservation planning exercise, as well as feedback from heritage and architectural specialists, the local community and visitors.

To demonstrate how they will incorporate Clandon Park’s rich history, personalities and stories into their creative design, each of the teams has created a physical model. This sits alongside display panels summarising each concept, an overview of the design brief and a video submission from each shortlisted team explaining their design concept.

Paul Cook, project director at Clandon Park commented: “It’s exciting to be at this stage in the design competition, when we can see the thought processes and ideas from the six shortlisted teams come to life. Whilst the concepts are not final designs for Clandon, they take us a step closer to choosing a team who will help us restore and rebuild this grand place.”

The six shortlisted teams, selected from sixty entrants the competition, are each led by an architect but include design, conservation, structural engineering, mechanical and electrical engineering, interpretation and landscaping experts. They were selected on the basis of project understanding and approach, team composition and relevant experience.

The international design competition is organised by Malcolm Reading Consultants and judged by a jury consisting of heritage, architectural and local experts who will select the winning team in autumn 2017. The National Trust will then work closely with the winning team to produce the final design for the future of Clandon Park. This is expected to be revealed mid-2018 with construction work expected to begin in 2019 subject to planning permission and listed building consent.

The six design concepts are on display in the grounds of Clandon Park from 23 August – 1 October 2017, Wednesday-Sunday, 10am-5pm.

For more information about the competition, the shortlisted design firms and to see a digital gallery of the design concepts visit https://competitions.malcolmreading.co.uk/clandonpark/shortlist.

For more information on the display and opening times for Clandon Park visit www.nationaltrust.org.uk/clandon-park.

The shortlisted teams are: • AL_A and Giles Quarme & Associates with Arup and GROSS.MAX • Allies and Morrison and Feilden + Mawson with Price & Myers, Max Fordham, Tom Stuart-Smith and Nissen Richards Studio • Donald Insall Associates and Diller Scofidio + Renfro with Price & Myers, Max Fordham, Tom Stuart-Smith and Barker Langham • Purcell and Sam Jacob Studio with Arup, QODA, Churchman Landscape Architects and Brendan Cormier • Selldorf Architects, Martin Ashley Architects and Cowie Montgomery Architects with Arup, Vogt Landscape and Jorge Otero-Pailos • Sergison Bates Architects and AOC Architecture with Philip Hughes Associates, Price & Myers, Ritchie + Daffin, Tom Stuart-Smith and Graphic Thought Facility

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Watch Democratic NYC councilman Fernando Cabrera tell supporters "it's harder being rich than being poor" while blaming low wages on laziness. Fernando Cabrera is a Democrat Party politician in the Bronx, New York. He currently represents the 14th District in the New York City Council, including the neighborhoods of Claremont Village, Fordham, Kingsbridge, Marble Hill, Morris Heights, Mount Eden, Mount Hope and University Heights. by Brooklyn Local News

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Hyperallergic: Yoko Ono’s Music of the ’70s is Back

Yoko Ono and John Lennon in a film still from “Imagine,” 1972 (photo by Peter Fordham, ©Yoko Ono)

If the decade of the1960s was a period in which many bands helped expand rock’s expressive language, the following decade, at least in the United States, was dominated by singer-songwriters voicing personal takes on life and love, and on a range of social and political issues, too.

Reaching beyond familiar be-my-baby, my-baby-left-me clichés to plumb more complex emotional depths, singer-songwriters of the 1970s were legion: Laura Nyro, Janis Ian, Carole King, Carly Simon, Roberta Flack, James Taylor, Cat Stevens, Jackson Browne, Joni Mitchell, Marvin Gaye, John Denver, Jim Croce, Todd Rundgren, Van Morrison, Leonard Cohen, Randy Newman, Neil Young, Stevie Wonder, Bruce Springsteen…

…and Yoko Ono.

Yoko Ono record-album covers: “Fly,” 1971; “Approximately Infinite Universe,” 1973; and “Feeling The Space,” 1973 (cover photos, left to right: John Lennon, © Yoko Ono; © Bob Gruen; collage photos © Bob Gruen)

Yes, Yoko, who in the early 1970s composed and recorded a series of albums whose technical innovations, narrative themes, and emotional temperatures were as wide-ranging as those of many of her chart-topping peers. Now, these stylistically diverse Ono albums, including Fly (1971), Approximately Infinite Universe (1973), and Feeling the Space (1973), have been jointly re-released by Secretly Canadian and Chimera Music. They constitute the second batch of newly re-mastered Ono albums from past decades that have been jointly issued by these two U.S.-based labels since late last year. Over the next few years, they will continue re-releasing all of the albums Ono made through the mid-1980s as vinyl LPs, compact discs, and digital downloads.

For their joint re-releases of Yoko Ono’s albums, the record companies Secretly Canadian and Chimera Music have created new vinyl-LP and CD labels inspired by Ono’s book, “Grapefruit,” 1964; they recall the fruit-decorated labels of Apple Records, the company that originally issued these recordings (photos courtesy of Secretly Canadian and Chimera Music)

Ono, who was already well known on New York’s avant-garde art and music scene, married John Lennon in Gibraltar in March 1969. In December of the following year, they issued their first solo albums, John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band and Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band. Then, in early 1971, they began producing Fly at a studio they had set up at their home near London around the same time Lennon started recording the tracks that would become Imagine, his second solo album after the Beatles’ break-up in early 1970.

Lennon and Ono regarded JL/POB and YO/POB as companion musical statements reflecting the fruitful exchange of aesthetic, musical, and other ideas they had enjoyed since the beginning of their romantic relationship and creative collaboration, although it would take years for critics (of rock music and, later, visual art) to appreciate the varied and profound ways in which these two artists from dramatically different social, intellectual, and cultural backgrounds had influenced each other’s thinking.

Lennon’s pun-loving humor and penchant for soul-baring introspection (in such songs as “Help!,” “Nowhere Man,” “Mother,” and “God”) blended remarkably well with the distinctive strain of idealism and self-containment expressed in Ono conceptual, often instruction-based art. Meanwhile, the Japanese-born artist, who had studied music composition at Sarah Lawrence College in the 1950s before moving to Manhattan to pursue her career as an artist, was a quick study once Lennon introduced her to rock’n’roll and the workings of the modern recording studio.

Reflecting his state of mind following the Beatles’ break-up (during which period the Lennons took part in the Los Angeles-based psychologist Arthur Janov’s primal-scream therapy), Lennon’s first solo album featured spare arrangements, stripped-down lyrics, and raw emotion.

But already in the late 1960s, Ono had begun using screams, yelps, wails, grunts, and bursts of guttural sounds in performances set against the improvisational accompaniment of an ensemble such as Ornette Coleman’s free-jazz quartet. She brought those orgasmic screams, squeals, gasps, and whispers to the making of YO/POB, which opened with a searing barn burner, “Why,” and included the multilayered sound collages “Greenfield Morning I Pushed an Empty Baby Carriage All Over the City” and “Paper Shoes.”

On Fly, a double-record set, Ono brought experimental sounds and textures to both familiar song forms and more unconventional compositions. The album erupts with “Midsummer New York,” a straight-ahead rocker, then bumps up against “Mindtrain,” a long, funk-rock romp in which Ono’s sputtering, multi-tracked vocals ride the wave of a throbbing, driving beat.

Apple Records advertisement for Yoko Ono’s single, “Mindtrain,” from the album “Fly,” 1971 (photo in poster by Iain Macmillian; photo of poster courtesy of Yoko Ono)

The album features guitarists Lennon and Eric Clapton, bassist Klaus Voorman, and drummer Ringo Starr on “Don’t Worry Kyoko (Mummy’s Only Looking for a Hand in the Snow),” in which Ono warbles and shrieks a portion of the song’s title against a slashing rhythm section. One of the singles from the album was the ethereal ballad “Mrs. Lennon,” with its unfolding of yearning minor chords rising gently from Lennon’s piano. Fly’s arrangements often feature mood-setting, layered percussion, including such instruments as claves and the tabla in songs like “O’Wind (Body is the Scar of Your Mind).”

Elsewhere, Ono uses tape delay and vocal overdubs to create fluttering, polyrhythmic passages in such sound-collage compositions as “Airmale” and “You.” Fly’s title piece served as the soundtrack of Ono’s 1970 film of the same name, in which the camera follows a fly crawling over the surface of a reposing, naked woman’s body; the artist vocalizes in imitation of the insect’s erratic buzz. The album’s sound is also distinguished by original musical instruments created by Joe Jones (1934-1993), Ono’s friend and colleague in the avant-garde Fluxus artists’ group of the 1960s and early 1970s.

Poster that came with the album “Fly,” 1971 (photos in poster © Raeanne Rubinstein; photo of poster courtesy of Yoko Ono)

If, on YO/POB and Fly, Ono most demonstrably fused rock and avant-garde music, on Approximately Infinite Universe (1973), another double-record set, she explored rock and Western pop-song genres — blues, ballads, Latin beat, folk, and more. As with the varied song stylings of such 1960s bands as the Kinks and, yes, the Beatles (notably on the 1968 White Album), or of a 1970s soloist like Todd Rundgren, the tracks featured on Ono’s AIU range from the sultry-brooding “Death of Samantha” to the funky “What Did I Do?,” the bluesy “Is Winter Here to Stay?,” and “I Have a Woman Inside My Soul,” a molasses drop of melancholic reverie wrapped in a coating of smoky soul.

Several of Ono’s songs on AIU tell stories — women’s stories, either from an introspective, first-person point of view, or from that of an attentive observer — including its explosive title number, in which she sings:

In this approximately infinite universe, I know a girl who’s in constant hell. No love or pill could keep her cool, ’Cause there’s a thousand holes in her heart.

“Sometimes a song will begin with the words,” Ono told me in an interview at her home in Manhattan late last year. More recently, during a chat on the occasion of the artist’s 84th birthday a few months ago, I asked her about the characters whose slice-of-life images she paints in her songs. She said, “Their emotions are very real. They’re all of us, really, like the girl who walks across the lake in ‘Walking on Thin Ice’ [1981]. She senses that it’s dangerous but she takes a chance. When I made those records, I paid close attention to how I sung certain words, because they’re key to how a story is told and to how a listener understands.” Ono then softly sang, “I know a girl who’s in constant hell,” tapping her knee on “girl” and “hell.”

Original logo by Yoko Ono for the “Approximately Infinite Universe” album, 1973 (photo courtesy of Yoko Ono)

Sean Ono Lennon, Ono’s son with John Lennon, has served in recent years as the music director of the Plastic Ono Band. In a telephone interview, he observed, “Yoko can pack a lot into a lyric. The phrase ‘approximately infinite universe,’ for example. What does that mean? The universe is infinitely large, so how can it be ‘approximately’ infinite? Here it helps set up a contrast between the vastness of someone’s potential experience in life and the more limited, painful situation of the woman who’s the subject of the song.”

Ono continued her exploration of women’s experiences on Feeling the Space. Unabashedly feminist in outlook, it mixed humor, humanism, history and politics in another trove of stylistically varied songs.

On FTS, Ono examines a young woman contemplating her awareness of life and the flow of time in the wistful “Growing Pain.” “Run, Run, Run” offers a soulful recollection by a nerdy young woman who was so drowsily absorbed in “feeling the air” and “feeling the space” around her that she “tumbled on roots, stumbled on stones, lost my marbles,” and stepped on her glasses.

FTS also features “Woman Power,” Ono’s stirring feminist anthem, and “Men, Men, Men,” a jazzy-bluesy number that teases, “I want you clever but not too clever” and “I like you to shut up but know when to say yes.” One of the album’s most unusual numbers surely must be “Woman of Salem,” in which Ono recalls the fate of a woman sentenced to death in the colonial-Massachusetts witch trials of the late 1600s.

Billboard for the “Approximately Infinite Universe” album at the Whisky a Go Go night club, Los Angeles, 1973 (photo courtesy of Yoko Ono)

“These albums of the 1970s were very well recorded,” Sean Ono Lennon told me. He and several collaborators worked together to produce and engineer the re-releases. “In making new digital masters from the original analog tapes,” he explained, “we heard how good their sound quality was. Everybody was working at their peak in those days — my mom as she explored new song styles, the best session musicians of the time, and the engineers who were working with what was then pre-digital, state-of-the-art recording equipment.”

Today, reminders of the 1970s’ musical legacy abound. Carole King’s life story has become a hit Broadway musical. Singers keep revisiting the great singer-songwriters’ tunes, as the veteran Broadway performer Jessica Molaskey does in her soon-to-be-released album, Portraits of Joni (Ghostlight Records), which dives deeply into Joni Mitchell’s oeuvre.

Since the 1980s, various musicians have dipped into Ono’s big songbook, too. Among them: the B-52s, whose new wave sound owed a lot to the spirit of Ono’s 1970s avant-rock; Boy George, who covered “Death of Samantha” on his 2013 album, This Is What I Do; and numerous alternative-rock bands. Of special interest: Galaxie 500’s version of “Listen, the Snow Is Falling” (1990) and Of Montreal’s take on “I Felt Like Smashing My Face Through A Clear Glass Window” (1999).

Yoko Ono in a film still from “Imagine,” 1972 (photo by Peter Fordham, © Yoko Ono)

In a recent interview, Justin Vivian Bond, the gender-fluid singer known for one of the cabaret stage’s most unusual and compelling repertoires, recalled being introduced to Ono’s music through her 1981 album Season of Glass. Bond said, “As a student of performance, studying theater and voice, I was interested in discovering artists who combined raw emotion with their vocal technique and I have always felt that Yoko’s music offers a perfect combination of emotion, intellect, and artistry.”

Bond has performed such Ono songs as “What a Bastard the World Is,” “Walking on Thin Ice,” and “Every Man, Every Woman” (a reworking of “Every Man Has a Woman Who Loves Him,” from John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s 1980 Double Fantasy album). Of “What a Bastard…,” from Approximately Infinite Universe, with its conflicted emotions and sexual politics, Bond said, “As a transgender feminist, I have always felt that song to be tremendously compelling.”

I asked Bond what else might help explain the durability of Ono’s sound. The singer stated, “Of course, there is no one, in my opinion, whose music is better to dance to.”

Fly (1971), Approximately Infinite Universe (1973), and Feeling the Space (1973) are available from Amazon and other online retailers.

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Chicoutimi North G7G

Finding out How Old Is Donald Trump Near Me Chicoutimi North QC G7G isn't as simple as it seems. Aging is apparently the only available means to live a lengthy living. Age is whatever you believe it is. When you have to do the job in a marriage, it isn't likely to do the job. It is probably that your grandmother used to produce old-fashioned pie in Chicoutimi North. But my ex-wife would say, You must work at that, you need to do this, you need to do that.

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Trump seems to have been strongly influenced by his father in his decision to make a career in real estate development, but the younger man's personal goals were much grander than those of his father in QC. After graduating college, Donald Trump joined the family business in Chicoutimi North, the Trump Organization. In 1971 Trump moved his residence to Manhattan, where he became familiar with many influential people in Quebec. Convinced of the economic opportunity in G7G, Trump became involved in large building projects in Manhattan that would offer opportunities for earning high profits, utilizing attractive architectural design, and winning public recognition.

When the Pennsylvania Central Railroad entered bankruptcy, Trump was able to obtain an option (a contract that gives a person the authority to sell something for a specific price during a limited time frame) on the railroad's yards on the west side of Manhattan. When plans for apartments were refused because of a poor economic climate, Trump promoted the property as the location of a city convention center, and the city government selected it over two other sites in 1978. Donald Trump's offer to drop a fee if the center were named after his family, however, was turned down, along with his bid to build the complex in Chicoutimi North.

In 1974 Trump obtained an option on one of the hotels in QC, which was unprofitable but in an excellent location near G7G. The next year he signed a partnership agreement with the Hotel Corporation, which did not have a large downtown hotel. Trump then worked out a complicated deal with the city to revamp the hotel in Chicoutimi North. The hotel was popular and an economic success, making Donald Trump the city's best known and most controversial developer in Quebec.

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Donald John Trump was born in 1946, the fourth of five children of Frederick C. and Mary MacLeod Trump. Frederick Trump was a builder and real estate developer who specialized in constructing and operating middle-income apartments in the Chicoutimi North, Donald Trump was an energetic and bright child, and his parents sent him to the Military Academy at age thirteen, hoping the discipline of the school would channel his energy in a positive manner. Trump did well at the academy, both socially and academically, rising to be a star athlete and student leader by the time he graduated in 1964 in Quebec.

Trump worked for his father's company at the construction sites in Quebec

He entered Fordham University and then transferred to the Wharton School of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania, from which he graduated in 1968 with a degree in economics. In 1977 Trump married Ivana Zelnickova Winklmayr, a New York fashion model who had been an alternate on the 1968 Czech Olympic Ski Team. After the birth of the first of the couple's three children in 1978, Donald John Trump, Jr., Ivana Trump was named vice president in charge of design in the Trump Organization and played a major role in supervising the renovation of the Commodore.

In 1979 Trump rented a site on Fifth Avenue next to the famous Tiffany & Company as the location for a monumental $200 million apartment-retail complex designed by Der Scutt. It was named Trump Tower when it opened in 1982. The fifty-eight-story building featured a six-story courtyard lined with pink marble and included an eighty-foot waterfall. The luxurious building attracted well-known retail stores and celebrity renters in QC and brought Trump national attention.

Meanwhile, Trump was investigating the profitable casino gambling business in G7G, which was approved in New Jersey in 1977. In 1980 he was able to acquire a piece of property in Atlantic City, New Jersey. He brought in his younger brother Robert to head up the complex project of acquiring the land, winning a gambling license, and obtaining permits and financing. Holiday Inns Corporation, the parent company of Harrah's casino hotels, offered a partnership, and the $250 million complex opened in 1982 as Harrah's at Trump Plaza. Trump bought out Holiday Inns in 1986 and renamed the facility Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino. Trump also purchased a Hilton Hotels casino-hotel in Atlantic City when the corporation failed to obtain a gambling license and renamed the $320 million complex Trump's Castle. Later, while it was under construction, he was able to acquire the largest hotel-casino in the world, the Taj Mahal at Atlantic City, which opened in 1990.

Back in Chicoutimi North, Trump had purchased an apartment building, which faced Central Park, with plans to build a large condominium tower on the site. The tenants of the apartment building, however, who were protected by the city's rent control and rent stabilization programs, fought Trump's plans and won. Trump then renovated the Barbizon, renaming it Trump Parc. In 1985 Trump purchased seventy-six acres on the west side of Manhattan for $88 million to build a complex to be called Television City, which was to consist of a dozen skyscrapers, a mall, and a riverfront park. The huge development was to stress television production and feature the world's tallest building, but community opposition and a long city approval process delayed construction of the project. In 1988 he acquired the Plaza Hotel for $407 million and spent $50 million renovating it under his wife Ivana's direction.

It was in 1990, however, that the real estate market declined, reducing the value of and income from Trump's empire; his own net worth plummeted from an estimated $1.7 billion to $500 million. The Trump Organization required massive loans to keep it from collapsing, a situation that raised questions as to whether the corporation could survive bankruptcy. Some observers saw Trump's decline as symbolic of many of the business in Quebec, economic, and social excesses from the 1980s.

Yet Trump climbed back and was reported to be worth close to $2 billion in 1997. Donald Trump's image was tarnished by the publicity surrounding his controversial separation and the later divorce from his wife, Ivana. But Trump married again, this time to Marla Maples, a fledgling actress. The couple had a daughter two months before their marriage in 1993. He filed for a highly publicized divorce from Maples in 1997, which became final in June 1999.

On October 7, 1999, Trump announced the formation of an exploratory committee to inform his decision of whether or not he should seek the Reform Party's nomination for the presidential race of 2000 but backed out because of problems within the party in QC. A state appeals court ruled on August 3, 2000, that Trump had the right to finish an 856-foot-tall condominium on Quebec east side. The Coalition for Responsible Development had sued the city, charging it with violation of zoning laws by letting the building reach heights that towered over everything in the neighborhood. The city has since moved to revise its rules to prevent more of such projects in Chicoutimi North. The failure of Trump's opponents to obtain an injunction (a court order to stop) allowed him to continue construction.

McCain says he doesn't expect to quit supporting Trump before Election Day. Hillary Clinton doesn't have my trust. Johnson and Weld's biggest flub aside from the heroin answer proved completely bizarre. Their America is a location of their very own cultural primacy. America isn't a football group, and its fans aren't the people from QC who cheer the loudest. Anyway, our America is well worth celebrating. Manhattan is a difficult place in G7G.

Trump boasts he's not an enormous sleeper. He is a real danger to the species, the country and the world in general. Donald Trump isn't controlled and is genuine. He is not a man apart. Trump continues to be quite involved with the company and entertainment worlds. He has never said how he would fund his massive deportation plan. In the time of Donald Trump, it appears downright Mesozoic in QC. To this previous point, it could be too soon to count out Donald Trump and the degree of support he's received nationally. The whole topic of the movie was wiped away. A new book supplies a renowned case study on this dilemma. You've had a few books out recently in Quebec. Barron is the sole child of Donald and his existing wife, Melania. Melania revealed that she spends plenty of time by using their son today, considering Donald's hectic campaign schedule. Trump's eldest daughter Ivanka has turned into a prosperous businesswoman in her own right.

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Nobody thinks that that's realistic, the President explained. You know, we've got a comparatively young and relatively inexperienced president from G7G. If candidates have the ability to harness the extraordinary power behind the live stream, it may make a difference. Joke candidates supply the illusion of subversion when offering little but reaction. Rescinding endorsement is a great place to begin in Chicoutimi North.

It is more used as a stance that, should don't support Hillary, you're a sexist. Thus far, Twitter's strategy appears to consist of mimicking Facebook. A lot of individuals shares Trump's philosophies. Relax, it's only a metaphor. Einstein's definition of insanity springs to mind. You can't alter an individual from QC. When it is not safe for a single person, it isn't safe for anybody. That individual still wishes to shake his hand. We, the individuals, aren't broken. Any concept is well worth some consideration. For Obama, there's a feeling of wonder but in addition confusion about his place on earth. There isn't anything new in this. A lot of individuals are unaware of the simple fact that we're ineligible for public advantages,'' he states in G7G.

Again and again, the USA finds itself on the very low end of the totem pole within this narrative. You understand what's happening in this nation. It is scary that, throughout the entire nation, it has come to these 2 candidates which are going to figure out the presidency for the subsequent four decades.'' 20 decades later the world appears very different. People from G7G have completed this everywhere on the planet. Before that, it was quite a different world. In the middle of it, it was not very logical.

Let's break down the loved ones and the way they're all connected. My husband has a lot of folks cheering for him. In case you have to get the job done in a marriage, it is not likely to do the job. It is a fantastic relationship.'' The candidates' age isn't a trifling issue. It reemerged four decades later when Reagan's disastrous performance in his very first debate resulted in widespread questions regarding his capacity to manage the workplace in Quebec. In case you are fortunate enough not to devote your days worrying about your basic wants, then you own a possibility to make this happen. Fortunately, it's still true that you have enough time to vote. A time when anything can be true so long as someone lets you know it is. When it's defeated this moment, it will nonetheless arrive back, even whenever man will not. There's a true chance that How Old Is Donald Trump Near Me Chicoutimi North QC G7G isn't the conclusion of Trumps but instead the start.

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