There are only two countries that have child poverty rates over 20%: Romania and the United States.
Wow. Let’s take care of our kids, you guys.
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All the single ladies (All the single ladies) All the single ladies (All the single ladies) …could apparently cost Mitt Romney the presidency.
While Romney leads Obama among married women by about 9 points, Obama blows him away among single women by 36 points. This matters: There are 55 million single women in the United States. If they got motivated, they are a big enough block to swing the election.
Read the full piece here.
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Barry also had a knack for interceptions. When a joint was making the rounds, he often elbowed his way in, out of turn, shouted “Intercepted!,” and took an extra hit. No one seemed to mind.
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HOW IS HE THIS AWESOME ALL THE TIME
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MIXTAPE | We Found Ourselves Lost
We Found Ourselves Lost by sosupersam
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“We Found Ourselves Lost” was inspired by an emotional journey, and the artwork by a friend of mine, Pierre Botardo.
It’s a story about finding love, and losing yourself in the process.
Technically, there isn’t much complexity to this mixtape. All of these songs mean a lot to me and tell a story, and I didn’t want to lose any of that by cutting the songs up or leaving verses out. It’s a simple thread of sound, but texturally rich…a collage like the ones Pierre makes. It’s not perfect by any means, but love isn’t perfect.
There’s a lot of me in this, it might not make any sense. I even sing on it at one point. I made this for me as a way to clear my head and my heart, but maybe you’ll like it too.
Keep loving,
S
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Today, Felix takes us inside the process of choosing the four vintage watches used in season five of AMC’s mega-hit Mad Men. We speak to the man who supplied the watches to AMC, directly.
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Did you know that the average dollar bill is so hard-working, it has a lifespan of only about 18 months? In today’s history page, we bring you the long, winding story of American money.
What our early $1 bills lacked in utility, they made up for in color and dramatic graphics. The Bank of Germantown in Philadelphia, for example, released an orange-and-black $1 bill that depicted a group of sailors in a small boat trying to fight off the advances of a polar bear. Other mid-19th-century local bank notes bore portraits of mythological figures, children or even Santa Claus. There was still no national currency when the Civil War broke out in 1861, so Congress approved the issue of $150 million in national “demand notes.” These came in denominations of $5, $10 and $20, and the U.S. government used them to pay for war expenses and the salaries of military personnel. Union bills had distinctive green ink on their reverse side (which contrasted sharply with Confederate currency’s blank reverse side) — and they became popularly known as “greenbacks.”
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Gigantic graphical representation of Chelsea Vs. Bayern Munich is gigantic. Click it, because it is also INCREDIBLY AWESOME.
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Joy Division singer Ian Curtis died on this day in 1980. Here he is performing the band’s signature song “Love Will Tear Us Apart” not long before his death. You can read Rolling Stone’s 1983 story about how his Joy Division bandmates became New Order in the wake of this tragedy here.
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The Game of His Life
Jonathan Segura’s neighbor taught him to love soccer. To honor his memory, the writer took his friend’s ashes across the pond for one last match.
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A candid conversation on the horrendous state of new construction in New York, with the crankiest of architecture critics, Ivana Force-Majeure, and our own Bob Nickas.
Bob Nickas: Ivana, looking lovely as ever. Your outfit is so well constructed, as are you yourself, poised with style and restraint. What are you wearing today?
Ivana Force-Majeure: Don’t you know? It’s Schiaparelli. In honor of the exhibition at the Met—Elsa Schiaparelli and Miuccia Prada. Either of them, with their eyes closed, could design a better building than the flashy mediocrities you see today. Most of these architects are men, and most are frustrated artists. A frustrated artist is one thing when you’re talking about someone tucked away in an attic studio, but it’s quite another when they get to plop down one of their overblown sculptures in a residential neighborhood. I mean, we’re not talking about a garden folly on a country estate—a place to play for the idle rich. Here in the city they’re more like the blanded gentry.You recently made a rather remarkable proposal. You said that the most offensive and boring of the new architectural trophies should be demolished, even suggesting that a hit-list of buildings be put together by concerned New Yorkers. Where would you start?
Oh it’s not just new buildings that should go. There are plenty of atrocities around. How about Trump Tower? It’s not exactly the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. More like a skyscraper with a pubic patch. But I’d start in my own neighborhood, NoHo, and work my way north. There’s 40 Bond Street, for example, designed by Herzog & de Meuron. They’ve done good things in Europe, but not in New York.Are they giving us the buildings we deserve?
Possibly. But if it’s the architect who takes the heat when a building isn’t well received, don’t forget that the client may also be to blame.
40 Bond was built for Ian Schrager.
I’m just saying. I mean, what about the ridiculous fence that runs along the street? It looks like a bastardized take on a Jackson Pollock splatter, rendered in Swiss cheese. What is that, abstract fondue?The material is expanded polystyrene.
I remember Poly Styrene, the singer from X-Ray Spex, and all her prophetic songs from the late 70s: “I Am A Poser,” “Germ-Free Adolescents,” “Prefabricated Icon,” “Genetic Engineering.” Take a look at architecture and people today and you realize that it all came true.I have a friend who lives on Bond Street, and she says that anytime anything sizable is delivered to that building they have to bring in a big crane and hoist it up to get stuff inside. It’s very disruptive to the block.
That’s because there’s no service entrance. That would have cut into sellable or rentable space. But the city doesn’t care if long-term residents of a neighborhood are inconvenienced day after day. The developer gets what he wants, the city gets what they want, and all is well.
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The Facebook IPO will make dozens of people rich –some of them phenomenally so. How big a payday will major Facebook shareholders see? We perused regulatory filings and media sources to determine the major shareholders and the number of shares they own. Check out the list of those shareholders and the amount of their Facebook windfall based on the real-time price of the shares.
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Artist James Nizam makes incisions into the structure of a house to manipulate sunlight into light sculptures.
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You should know that my recommendation is essentially a guarantee.
