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The Kiernans bought their four-bedroom home for $2.025 million, the highest price ever paid for a single-family home in Williamsburg, according to Jonathan Miller, president of the Miller Samuel appraisal firm. That makes this moment for Pat Kiernan a moment for the neighborhood, too.
There goes the neighborhood… đ
Pat Kiernan Brings a Familiar Face to a Brooklyn Neighborhood – NYTimes.com
The former [NYPD] captains spoke of an unrelenting, often unethical pressure to manipulate crime statistics. In addition, the professors studied [NYPD] police and health data and found weird divergences. [NY] City hospital data shows a 90 percent increase in emergency room visits for assaults from 1999 to 2006. But [NYPD] police data for the same period records a nearly 50 percent decrease in assaults.
The parties have become more polarized in recent decades, several academic studies have found. The demise of the conservative âDixiecratsâ in the 1960s and â70s made the Democratic Party more liberal, and Republicans have moved even further to the right than Democrats have moved to the left, the studies show.
Elections like Tuesdayâs suggest Democrats may be taking the Republicansâ cue, driven by the same activist forces that pushed them rightward. âIn civics class in high school, you learn there are 435 members of Congress, and every one of them could lose in the next election. Now weâre down to less than 100 who can ever get beat in a general election,â lamented Representative Mike Ross of Arkansas, a Blue Dog co-chairman who is retiring from Congress this year. âSo the Democrats run to their corner. The Republicans run to their corner, and as a result the country is being run by the extremes.â
âRedistricting,â he added, âhas been bad for the country.â
2 House Democrats Defeated After Opposing Health Law – NYTimes.comÂ
The century is going to suck.
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Today, a total of 54 bocce courts survive in parks and playgrounds across the city. Queens has the heaviest concentration with 18 courts, followed by Brooklyn (17), and the Bronx (10). While park officials do not track use â there are no bocce permits â they said about one-fifth of the courts are dormant.
Boys and Girls, this needs to change…
Turning to the audience of mostly MIT students, Stephenson said “maybe some of you people need to go into the insurance industry instead of writing code.”
Apple’s engineers spend 100% of their time making products planned by a small club of senior managers – and sometimes entirely by Jobs himself. The CEO appoints himself the de facto product manager for every important release; Jobs usually meets with the teams working on these new gadgets and apps once a week, and he puts their creations through the paces. “He gets very passionate,” Evangelist says. “He’ll say, ‘This is shit, we can do much better.’
‘Over the last several decades, there’s been an effort among those who define themselves as conservatives to clearly identify what it means to be a conservative,’ said the study’s lead author. ‘For whatever reason, this appears to involve opposing science and universities and what is perceived as the “liberal culture.” So, self-identified conservatives seem to lump these groups together and rally around the notion that what makes “us” conservatives is that we don’t agree with “them.”’
I stood on the corner that night and took it in: the bike, the street, the neighborhood and everything that surrounded it. The city where my aunt had died and the city where I last saw my father alive, the place where those memories now live. And this is how I knew I would never move away.
This is the beginning of the end. A new age of ignorance and suffering awaits us all, and our lovely glowing devices will mock us darkly as they pile in useless monuments to folly and denial.