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It’s been quite some time since I last featured some of New York City’s wonderful subway art, so I thought I thought I would show you the mosaics at the Christopher Street station today. These twelve mosaics, collectively known as “The Greenwich Village Murals,” show some of the interesting and diverse history of the Greenwich Village neighborhood surrounding this station. They were created by ceramic artist Lee Grozwol, in collaboration with fifth and six grade students from a local school (Public School 41).
The murals are divided into four sets of three murals each, with the following subtitles: Bohemians, Founders, Providers, and Rebels. There is a key for each set of murals on the wall nearby, helping visitors to identify each person featured in the murals.
Want to see these wonderful mosaic murals in person? Take the 1 train to the Christopher Street station. There are different panels on each platform, so you will have to switch sides to see them all.
What a diverse lot each group is! Startled to see Henry James there, but I didn’t know where Washington Square is! You are filling many abysses of ignorance for me. The images are in an interesting style – do they owe something to Native American art? Or am I just being ignorant again???
They really are an interesting style, but I didn’t find anything about the artist’s inspiration except for an interest in showing diverse people. There was a group of about 9 or 10 children who worked on the project with the artist – it’s possible that the style was influenced by them as well.
Beautiful as usual , Susan . Have you been away? Haven’t seen a blog from you in weeks. Welcome back .
Thanks! I haven’t been away, but work has kept me very busy. I’m an assistant dean at a law school, and I taught a class that started the last week of July and went through August. That, in combination with the start of the Fall semester, meant I had little extra time for a couple of months. I’ve still been exploring though, so there are a lot of posts coming soon!
They are all unique and interesting pieces of art. I love that they were done in collaboration with fifth and six grade students.
Me too. These student artists are now adults. I wonder how contributing to this project affected them. I wonder what they think of it now, looking back at the experience.
Love he categories–wonder if the kids helped in the selection. It is great how the artist was guided so much by the student artists. Is that Elvis in the American flag coat?
I think that one’s supposed to be Thomas Paine, although it certainly doesn’t look like 18th-century clothing he’s wearing.
Looking at all of the murals, I think they took quite a bit of creative license so that they could incorporate the symbolism they wanted and break down time barriers between the people they chose to feature. (But that’s just my guess.)
How wonderful, especially that children were involved and presumably some of the people featured were still alive when this was created?
I thunk a few people would have been still alive, but many came from much earlier in the city’s history.
This is great! Love the history and art lesson right at our fingertips. This would make a great outing for homeschoolers (or for any young students).
NYC is a treasure trove of resources for home schooling! There’s so much in plain sight, and I’m always amazed at how fee people pay attention.
Possible copper alloy coin weight. The obverse is decorated with a short cross, in each angle is an inwardly pointing double triangle with an annular at the tip of each. The reverse is undecorated.
An incomplete and worn copper-alloy Roman nummus from the House of Constantine, dating to the period AD 306-361. Unclear ruler or reverse type. The coin has been folded then snapped in half. This is evidence by edge which is ragged rather than a straight, clean cut.
A copper alloy radiate, unreadable emperor dated to AD 275-296 (period 14) Obverse: radiate bust facing right [...] Reverse: Male figure standing holding a cornucopiae [...] This coin appers to have been clipped
A worn copper-alloy Roman nummus of Constans (AD 333-350), dating to the period AD 347-348 (Reece period 17). VICTORIAE DD AVGGQ NN reverse type depicting two Victories standing facing each other holding wreaths, leaf between. Mint of Trier. As RIC VIII, p. 151, no. 185. This may be a contemporary copy due to the quality of the reverse design. The flan is also small with much of the legend missing.
An incomplete Post Medieval copper alloy Nuremburg jetton of uncertain issuer. Crown/orb type dating to c. AD 1550-1620. Inscriptions illegible. Jetton is incredibly worn across both faces and has been broken or cut away between 9 o'clock and 1 o'clock on the reverse. Overall dimensions: 20.1mm in length, 16.11mm in width, 1.23mm in thickness and 0.65g in weight.
A worn copper-alloy Roman nummus of Constans, dating to the period AD 346-348. Reece Period 18. GLORIA EXERCITVS reverse type depicting two soldiers holding spears and shields with one standard between them that has an M on the banner. Mint of Trier. RIC VIII Trier no.111
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Over the years, I’ve spent time in Saudi Arabia, the Bekaa Valley, Afghanistan, Jordan, and Kenya, among other vacation hotspots.
“Over the years, I’ve spent time in Saudi Arabia, the Bekaa Valley, Afghanistan, Jordan, and Kenya, among other vacation hotspots.”
After a generation of misrule under Mr. Hussein, who built a huge military infrastructure while neglecting civilian investment, and a dozen years of United Nations sanctions, Iraq’s unemployment rate tops 50 percent.
Also, most people read fiction as an escape – and I wonder whether my books aren’t a bit too grounded in reality to reach the widest possible audience.
Although not well known outside Wall Street, Freddie Mac and its corporate cousin, Fannie Mae, are two of the world’s largest financial institutions and play a crucial role in the housing market.
As a reporter, I embedded for modest stints with American soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq. When I’m asked about those experiences, I always say – and mean – that we civilians don’t deserve the soldiers we have.
At any moment, one company stands in the spotlight of the middle ring in the stock market’s never-ending circus. It may not be the biggest corporation in the world, or the most profitable, but somehow it both mirrors and leads the market’s broader action.
Automated call centers are only the most obvious way speech recognition will be used. The software is now becoming sophisticated enough to identify speakers through ‘voiceprints,’ akin to fingerprints, eventually reducing the need for personal identification numbers.
Because Genentech is a leading developer of cancer therapies, some doctors also fear that the company’s pricing plans for Avastin – around $8,800 a month – may encourage other companies to charge more for their own oncology drugs.
Big companies, which spend tens of billions of dollars annually on ‘call centers’ to take orders and provide customer support, increasingly rely on speech recognition not just to handle requests for information but to process customer orders.
Big swings in the wholesale price of electricity are not unusual in the summer, when high demand taxes generators’ ability to supply power.
Don’t expect Barton Biggs to be offering his market insights on ‘Bloomberg News’ anytime soon. His plumber, maybe.
Equity is the cushion that protects financial institutions from unexpected changes in the value of their assets. The greater the leverage, the smaller the losses required to wipe out a company’s equity, leaving it without enough money to repay the people who hold its debt.
Evidence of defendants’ lavish lifestyles is often used to provide a motive for fraud. Jurors sometimes wonder why an executive making tens of millions of dollars would cheat to make even more. Evidence of habitual gluttony helps provide the answer.
For a spy novelist like me, the Edward J. Snowden story has everything. A man driven by ego and idealism – can anyone ever distinguish the two? – leaves his job and his beautiful girlfriend behind. He must tell the world the Panopticon has arrived. His masters vow to punish him, and he heads for Moscow in a desperate search for refuge.
For more than two decades, Barry Diller has been among the most respected – and feared – figures in the entertainment industry.
For value investors, General Motors is a tempting target. The company’s share of the North American auto market has steadily declined for two decades, and analysts say the company suffers from weak management and unexciting cars.
I think in some ways what Snowden is, is he’s a mix of a cold war spy novel and post-9/11 spy novel.
I think when you have lawyers arguing over whether you can keep a detainee at 46 degrees… for two hours, that’s not torture. It may be unpleasant, it may be coercive… but let’s say what torture actually is, and that’s not it.
In general, great companies prefer to grow ‘organically,’ as Wall Street likes to say. That is, from the inside out, by finding new markets or by taking market share from their competitors.
In the short run, using militias might be the quickest and easiest way to improve order on Iraq’s streets and uproot the terrorists and guerrillas who routinely attack American troops and civilian targets.
Insider trading is hard to prove. To be convicted, a person must have bought or sold a stock based on material information that is both unknown to the general public and likely to have had an important effect on a company’s stock price.
It has been said that the Fed’s job is to take the punch bowl away just as the party gets going, raising interest rates when the economy is growing too fast and inflation threatens.
It’s no secret that big institutional investors have a lot of advantages on Wall Street. They get the first chance to buy hot initial public offerings. They get to meet in person with companies’ managements.
It’s one of the fundamental principles of the stock market: When interest rates go up, stocks go down. And along with financial companies and cyclicals, technology companies – with their sky-high price-to-earnings multiples – should be among the biggest losers in an environment of rising rates.
John W. Snow was paid more than $50 million in salary, bonus and stock in his nearly 12 years as chairman of the CSX Corporation, the railroad company. During that period, the company’s profits fell, and its stock rose a bit more than half as much as that of the average big company.
Many newly public companies are able to post a year or two of strong sales growth off a small base, but their growth almost always slows over time, thanks to what investment professionals call ‘the law of large numbers.’
Most unfortunately, Enron’s plunge into bankruptcy court also cost many of its rank-and-file employees their savings.
Mr. Snowden did not start out as a spy, and calling him one bends the term past recognition. Spies don’t give their secrets to journalists for free.
On the New York Stock Exchange, all buy and sell orders are routed through a single ‘specialist,’ guaranteeing that most small trades can be matched directly. But most larger trades are delivered to the specialist on the floor of the exchange by human brokers, a system that big investors view as increasingly inefficient.
One of the Internet’s highest-profile companies, Priceline once dreamed of transforming the way consumer goods are bought and sold by offering customers the chance to ‘name your own price’ for a variety of products, including airline tickets.
Robert M. Morgenthau, the Manhattan district attorney, has seen a few financial schemes in his time. As the lead local prosecutor in the world’s financial capital, he has battled frauds like the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, which stole billions of dollars from investors worldwide.
Shareholder meetings are not usually the occasion for utter candor – or for that matter, arch sarcasm – by chief executives.
Sochi started with the same problem as every Winter Olympics. Forget the crass commercialism, the fake amateurism, NBC’s refusal to televise important events live to all its viewers. As an event, the Winter Games fail on the most basic level. They’re lousy to watch.
The Fed’s ability to raise and lower short-term interest rates is its primary control over the economy.
The fact that we haven’t faced another major terrorist attack on American soil since Sept. 11 is a very significant achievement, and one that’s easy to forget – it’s the dog that doesn’t bark.
The market always, in theory at least, looks ahead. And it’s always trying to take in every bit of information that it can as quickly as it can. You don’t really care so much if the company made a dollar last year; you want to know what it’s going to make this year.
The most distinguishing element of my novels is that I try as hard as I can – within the context of a popular commercial thriller – to make them feel authentic. Drawing on real locations and real events is part of that authenticity.
Wal-Mart does not do big mergers, though it will buy much smaller competitors in so-called ‘tuck-in acquisitions.’
How do you compare two essentially equal products? That’s the challenge for anyone who is looking for a standard medical alert service that’s monitored and uses the old and reliable base station speakerphone technology.
As an example, I’ll compare Bay Alarm Medical to LifeStation, but I could be comparing any of a number of different companies. I just happen to like these two and I’ve heard from customers that they’ve had good experiences with them.
The differences are small. And in this industry the companies exaggerate small differences because it’s the only way to differentiate themselves from other companies.
Territory: Both services work anywhere in the US where you can get power and a phone connection (landline or VOIP), but LifeStation also works in Canada and Puerto Rico.
Customer Service Hours: Emergency monitoring is always 24/7 for both companies. For customer service and sales, Bay Alarm is open business hours only. LifeStation is open 24/7. (This makes LifeStation more convenient, but it’s not a dealbreaker. And you’re paying for it with higher monthly fees.)
Call Center Ownership: LifeStation owns and runs their own monitoring center. Bay Alarm uses contract monitoring centers.
Number of Call Centers: Bay Alarm uses two call centers in different parts of the country so if something goes wrong with one, the other one is still working. LifeStation just has one call center.
Number of Agents on Each Call: LifeStation puts two agents on each call so one can talk to the senior while the other activates emergency services. Bay Alarm Medical uses just one, but the caller is never put on hold (you can hear the agent talking to EMS).
No Monthly Fee Changes: Both companies keep your monthly fee the same for as long as you have the service, except if you’re paying month-to-month at Bay Alarm.
Refunds on Pre-Payments: For both companies, you can save money by paying for 3 or 12 months in advance. If you cancel, Bay Alarm doesn’t refund the rest of the money. LifeStation refunds you the remaining months. This reduces your risk, but as with the customer service hours, you end up paying more for this.
Over 3 years, which can be a typical length of time for people to have a medical alert, this is a difference of $252!
Accessories are also cheaper at Bay Alarm. They sell accessories outright, where LifeStation charges a monthly fee. This ends up being significant.
Take the extra pendant as an example. Buy one of these and your spouse can be covered just the same way you are. At Bay Alarm your total cost of ownership of the pendant is the flat fee of $34.95. At LifeStation you’ll end up paying $3.99 per month, or $143.64. That’s a big difference ($108.69) and it’s pure profit to LifeStation. Similarly, a lockbox that you can buy for $28 at the local hardware store will cost you $107.64 if you lease it from LifeStation for 3 years.
I made a table to compare the total cost of ownership over 3 years, assuming you buy the annual plan from each company, and add a lockbox, 1 extra stationary button for the bathroom, and an extra pendant for your spouse.
What you get for that extra $524 is the ability to use the service in Canada or Puerto Rico, longer customer service hours, and the refund of any unused months on your plan when you cancel.
Of course, if we really want to take the cancellation policy into account, let’s assume that at some point you’ll stop the service (due to death, relocation to a nursing home, etc) and we’ll arbitrarily say it’s the middle of the third year. That keeps your total payment to Bay Alarm the same (though you don’t get $113.10 worth of service you “paid for”), but you’d get a refund from LifeStation of $218, so the total difference in price is now $305.55. Still a big chunk of money!
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