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In the shoes of a data scientist with Bloomberg's Gideon Mann
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By 2020, the number of data science and analytics job listings is expected to reach 2.72 million, according to a joint study by Business-Higher Education Forum, Burning Glass Technologies and IBM. What exactly do data scientists do and why are they being highly sought after? Gideon Mann (pictured above), Bloomberg's Global Head of Data Science, sheds light on those questions, and shared how his company is using data science.
CIO Asia: Since the data scientist role is still fairly new, can you share with me what a data scientist's typical day looks like?
Gideon Mann: The data scientist typically has three main functions:
1. Data analysis and modelling
2. Programming and implementation
3. Thinking about business goals
A data scientist needs to be thinking about what kind of business goals he/she is trying to achieve. What is the data that I need to collect? How do I take one of the models and push it out?
Bloomberg is a bit unusual in the data science space in that we have many strong programmers. Our core product is a software product. Unlike a pharmaceutical company or a retailer, a big part of what we deliver to clients is software. The data scientists we have are therefore mainly involved in delivering software. We can call them quantitative machine learning people, as opposed to business analysts.
What are the common misconceptions about data science/scientists?
The usual way companies think about the data science function is how to build this group in isolation, but that doesn't quite work. Data scientists need to be in the middle of product development. People don't always appreciate how important programming is to data science. In fact, many academic departments produce data scientists who are predominantly statisticians, and they can't be that effective.
What are the essential skills a data scientist should have in order to be successful?
In addition to having a sense of business and being able to communicate these priorities, a data scientist must be able to do modelling and programming. The other essential skill they should have is a curiosity to learn new things and be able to go outside his/her comfort zone to collect data. Things are changing so rapidly, so you can't afford to just stick with what you know.
Specific to your company, what is Bloomberg using data science for?
One of the areas of data science that Bloomberg has invested in is natural language processing (NLP), which is machine learning methods applied to text. We use NLP in many ways - to improve our operational efficiency around text processing, document structuring and extracting information from documents and news.
We are also using data science and machine learning to improve the usability of our infrastructure and software platform, transitioning from mnemonics to more natural language search interfaces.
Finally, we are using data science to develop new products. For example, we have some leading-edge news and social media sentiment products that enable clients to get a holistic and real-time view of chatter and sentiment analysis around a particular company or industry sector.


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Boardwalk Empire Recap: Forbidden Fruit
"Everyone wants what they're not allowed to have."
This week's episode was a master class in expertly crafted conversation, where the only violence (save for a couple of roundhouses) was accomplished through verbal cunning. No one said what they meant, or dared voice what they desire, right up to the last five minutes, when poor, drunk Eli took a swing at his brother, and Nucky took Margaret (finally) into his embrace.
We start with Margaret, in bed, awakened by a beer truck, then making breakfast, her quotidian world quickly juxtaposed with Nucky's glamorous life at the Ritz. He grouses about Saint Patrick's Day: the annual festival of "crying, arguing, and public drunkenness." Margaret appears to offer him soda bread; after their dance at his birthday, she has every expectation she'll be warmly received, not coldly rebuked. But oddly, Nucky brushes her off.
In Chicago, Jimmy nurses Pearl, her face bandaged to hide a Frankenstein scar. They still talk of California — note how Jimmy squeezes her a glass of imported O.J. — but any escape to palm trees and sunshine is limited to the laudanum bottle. "Everyone wants what they're not allowed to have," says Nucky in a following scene, counting bootlegger's money, and that's the theme this week: not allowed to have, or forbidden to have, or want what was simply ripped from them forever by the point of a gangster's blade.
Margaret, having dust-binned the soda bread, heads to the Temperance League and rats out Nucky's beer warehouse. She and Lady Temperance set out for a sit-down, and in a smart scene, we get to see Nucky at work. A representative of the little people hired to dance as leprechauns comes to ask for a raise. Nucky's tactic: divide and conquer, playing the rep's greed off against the interests of his fellow midgets. Rather than paying all eight of them ten dollars, Nucky offers the de facto foreman twelve, with seven each for the other leprechauns and twelve back into Nucky's pocket.
But if Nucky proves a master negotiator, Margaret's his equal at manipulation: "Did you enjoy the soda bread?" she asks, knowing full well she dumped it in the trash. Nucky returns the volley later: "My birthday party must have been difficult for you," he says flatly, when informed she is shocked — shocked! — by the bootlegger's beer warehoused behind her house.
Johnny Torrio's the only one who speaks forthrightly, pronouncing, "She gotta go" of the now-scarred Pearl. She's a useless commodity: "If she was a filly, we'd shoot her." And she's certainly not headed to Hollywood — she's not even allowed to go downstairs, though she does, later, doped to the gills, in a wrenching scene in which Capone snarls, "Get her out of here." She whispers to Jimmy, "Who's going to love me now?"
After Nucky rebukes Margaret a second time — failing to close down the beer warehouse — she marches to see Van Alden at the post office, where he's busy ineffectually sticking pins into a map. Nucky won't do anything, and Van Alden can't. "I've been lectured a great deal today by men who speak boldly and do nothing," Margaret says. Van Alden presses her for a name. She gives up the ward boss, Neary. "He works for Mr. Thompson," she says — and sets in motion at least a glancing blow.
At the Celtic dinner — a beautifully cinematic scene that reminds us again of this series' insane production values — Nucky cedes the podium to Eli, who promptly riles up the crowd with a boilerplate anti-England speech. Nucky steps in to defuse the riot. In Chicago, a different speech, much more tender, is unfurling: Jimmy's half-mythologized tale of his mother seducing a wealthy suitor on Egg Island, under a bullet-riddled Stars and Stripes. It's part nostalgic, part heartbreaking — all women in this era, on some level, are forced to do what they can to survive. (To that end, we later see Jimmy's mother and his abandoned wife bickering over raising the son that likely isn't his — and the wife, later, retreating to the studio of her photographer paramour.)
Now, raise your hand if you thought this tender moment between Jimmy and Pearl would end with Jimmy tenderly snuffing her out? Instead, she pulls the trigger when he steps out (to scrub the sunshine from his pants). This is the second time the show's had a chance to complicate Jimmy's character and flinched — first, when his mistress turned out to be his mom, and now as Pearl conveniently removes herself from his equation. We were a little disappointed by this resolution, but maybe others found it tragic. It was sad enough to send Jimmy straight into the arms of an opium bowl.
And Van Alden comes bursting through the doors of the Celtic dinner, dropping some loud-mouth lawyer with a cross to the jaw. This is his first triumph (symbolic as it may be) but, of course, it's Margaret's revenge. In response, Nucky bangs on her door late at night and ... well, the two finally consummate their simmering attraction. All their maneuvering led them to each other.
One question: Why did Nucky rebuke her to begin with? We've seen the theory floated (and it makes sense) that he didn't want to sully her in his dirty world. Once she proved she could fight dirty, too, he could no longer resist her. In an earlier scene, Rothstein's lawyer explains how Rothstein should react to an article accusing him (rightly, it seems) of conspiring to fix the World Series. When you get mud on your pants, you don't rub it in, you let it set, then brush it off, the lawyer explains. Or, in this world, wear it proudly.


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Bloomberg Philanthropies and Living Cities' CFE Fund Announce Five Cities Selected for $16.2M in Financial Empowerment Center Grants
Investment from Bloomberg Philanthropies' Mayors Project Will Help Low-Income Families and Individuals Reduce Debt and Build Assets
Jan 08, 2013, 09:00 EST
NEW YORK, Jan. 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Bloomberg Philanthropies and Living Cities' Cities for Financial Empowerment (CFE) Fund today announced Financial Empowerment Center grants to five cities to replicate New York City's evidence-based Financial Empowerment Center model. The model provides free, one-on-one financial counseling by trained professionals to low-income residents both at new local Financial Empowerment Centers and by integrating counseling into the delivery of municipal services.
The Financial Empowerment Center initiative is the latest investment from Bloomberg Philanthropies' Mayors Project, the government innovation program which seeks to spread proven and promising ideas among cities. Through a $16.2 million investment in Living Cities' CFE Fund, Bloomberg Philanthropies will provide grants to Denver, CO; Lansing, MI; Nashville, TN; Philadelphia, PA; and San Antonio, TX, and enable extensive technical assistance to help each city replicate and customize the model. Centers will be open for service in March of 2013 and expect to serve more than 30,000 people over three years. By investing in these five cities, Bloomberg Philanthropies seeks to further demonstrate the effectiveness of the model, making a powerful case for even more cities around the country to begin taking up this important work.
"The innovative financial empowerment initiatives we pioneered here in New York City have been an important part of our work to help New Yorkers weather the national economic downturn," said philanthropist and New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg. "The Mayors Project at Bloomberg Philanthropies spreads effective solutions to challenges that many cities face, and we know that mayors are increasingly seeking strategies that will help their residents achieve long-term financial stability. We are excited to bring this model to five cities and hope this innovative, data-tested program spreads to even more cities nationwide."
In 2008, Mayor Bloomberg announced that the City of New York would pilot Financial Empowerment Centers as part of a broad effort to test and refine new approaches to alleviating poverty. While initially privately funded, the Centers became publicly funded after their data-proven impact. Since the pilot commenced, the program has grown to nearly 30 Centers, helping more than 19,000 New Yorkers reduce their debt by more than $9 million and save nearly $1 million. Financial counselors help their clients reduce debt and build savings in tangible and measurable ways, including: erasing erroneous debts and correcting credit histories; advocating with creditors directly to lower old fees and penalties; negotiating with creditors for more favorable payment plans, total debts owed, and ongoing interest rates; identifying new sources of income such as unclaimed benefits like the childcare tax credit, the earned income tax credit, and others; and creating budgets and payment plans that facilitate realistic savings plans.
Denver, Lansing, Nashville, Philadelphia, and San Antonio were selected to receive Financial Empowerment Center grants through a competitive process in which nearly fifty cities applied. These cities exhibited the most thoughtful, creative approach, as well as committed leadership and strong partnerships for replicating the model in their local contexts:
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Projected Clients Served*
Michael B. Hancock
Benefits enrollment, family stabilization services, workforce training, job placement and housing services
4,500 people
Virg Bernero
Capital Area Community Services
Emergency services, housing services, workforce development, asset building, Head Start and prisoner re-entry
4,000 people
Karl Dean
United Way
Public benefits enrollment, housing assistance, and local nonprofit agencies focusing on self-sufficiency
5,000 people
Michael A. Nutter
Housing initiatives, job placement organizations, legal aid, utility assistance, and other existing social service organizations
8,900 people
San Antonio
Julian Castro
United Way &
Family Services Association
Public benefits enrollment, job seeker supports, homeless services and homeless prevention, senior services
7,900 people
*Estimated projected clients served over three years
"Financial Empowerment Centers are a nationally recognized model of success with a proven track-record in New York, providing better, faster, and less costly outcomes," said Living Cities President Ben Hecht. "Living Cities' CFE Fund is focused on changing the way municipal governments are thinking about social service delivery, particularly in this time of decreased resources. We are thrilled to partner with Bloomberg Philanthropies to bring these solutions to more cities and their residents in need."
According to a 2011 survey from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, more than one in four U.S. households are either unbanked or under-banked, and almost 30 percent of households do not have a savings account. This presents an ongoing challenge to save and build wealth, especially since those who lack access to credit or have bad credit may be prevented from getting a job and can fall deeper into poverty without savings when an emergency strikes. Local data from Denver, Lansing, Nashville, Philadelphia, and San Antonio suggests that high percentages of residents live below the federal poverty line and have a critical need to improve their financial condition. The Financial Empowerment Centers provide a safe haven and preemptive solution to such consumer protection challenges.
To learn more about the Living Cities' CFE Fund grants, visit www.cfefund.org. Join the conversation on Twitter using #FinancialEmpowerment.
About Bloomberg Philanthropies
Bloomberg Philanthropies works primarily to advance five areas globally: the Arts, Education, the Environment, Government Innovation, and Public Health. In 2011, $330 million was distributed. Government Innovation efforts, including the Financial Empowerment Centers, are part of the Mayors Project, which seeks to spread proven and promising ideas among cities. Other Mayors Project investments include Cities of Service, Innovation Delivery Teams, and the Mayors Challenge.
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Founded in 1991, Living Cities is an innovative collaborative of 22 of the world's largest foundations and financial institutions. In nearly 20 years Living Cities' members have collectively invested almost $1 billion, helping shape federal funding programs, redirecting public and private resources, and helping communities to build homes, stores, schools, community facilities and more. For more information, please visit: http://www.livingcities.org/.
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Formula Ford: Racing in the footsteps of Senna, Webber and moreXCAR throws its hat into the ring and competes in the single-seater racing series that saw Ayrton Senna take his first steps in professional motorsports at Brand's Hatch.
1996. As an 11 year old kid, I sat in this very seat watching the Formula Ford Festival here at Brands Hatch. Mark Weber took victory and I had my family around me. We used to do it every single year and it was an important part of my motor sport upbringing. Never in a million years did I think that I would be participating in a Formula Ford race on this Brands Hatch Indy circuit, until now. [MUSIC] I'll be racing one of the most competitive single seated championships in Britain, still with considerable support from the Blue Oval. My rivals have been thrashing around the Indy circuit for months. Some of them not even alive when I watched that chiseled Aussie wonder mount that podium in 96. The Formula Four Championship of Great Britain is now in its 48th year and it's the only single seater championship backed by a manufacturer in the U.K. It can boast champions such as Damon Hill. Eddie Irvine. Andy Davidson. And Johnny Herbert. And even my hero. Ayrton Senna. The car has changed quite a bit since the early 70s. And the 2014 spec machine showcases the very latest in road car technology from Ford. Starting with the engine. This 1.6 liter turbo charged eco boost engine is exactly what you find in the Fiesta ST and kicks out an awesome 197 horsepower. Coupled to its Cheebla frame sashy and carbon fiber crash structure, this car only weighs 475 kilos. And that's why it's the fastest single seated Junior Championship in the UK. In the cockpit, I can just about see my Dunlop racing slick tires. In my mirrors my fully adjustable aerodynamics. And of course in my right hand, a six speed sequential gear box. I don't even need to use a clutch. The electronics blip the engine for me. [MUSIC] This was the first time I'd every raced a single seater, let alone a formula Ford. I would need every little bit of help I could get. [MUSIC] Too much wheel spin at the start from the powerful turbo, and going into the first corner Louise went past. A few laps later, breaking into druid, and Greg Holloway managed to find a way through as well. My pace was well off. I could keep the car on the track. But as the laps grew on, I got tireder and tireder. Then the nail in the coffin. In a 25 minute race, the leaders came through to lap me. Four pace and P12 did not feel good. [MUSIC] Tricky race. Really tricky race. Just having the confidence to throw your car down Patago Bend at a 110 120 miles per hour, has to come from your brain. That was only, a qualifying session really in terms of experience. I don't have it in me yet, the confidence to just do that, and know that it'll stick, and know that I won't go back into the wall. With no power steering the g forces will throw me to the outside and it makes it this tough roller coaster. As I contemplated my fate, I should introduce you to my team. Richardson Racing is a family run team put together to run son Andy who is my driver coach and team managers again and Louise who is my team mate. Dad, Gwen, the boss, and mom, Lindsey look after other drivers when they can. And this weekend, it's me. There was a glimmer of hope for me this weekend. The car had an in-built telemetry system which tells my coach what I might be doing wrong. If we take Louis's best lap, and compare it to mine, we can see why I simply can't keep up. You just go to correct it a little bit and you just be patient and wait. You don't want it come off. And now, to put all that into practice for race two. A much better start and for the first few laps I can hold on to the cars in front. Progressive acceleration was the key, not getting too much over steer out of the corners and accelerating down the straight. But then fatigue starts to set in. The vicious nature of driving the car flowed my pace and I started to be [UNKNOWN] My brain couldn't keep up. My forearms really injured from the crops single seater and again I dropped back to end the race P12. To take my mind off my plight for a moment, I wondered off towards the circuit to watch the British touring cars in qualifying. [NOISE] One of the greatest things about the Formula Ford Championship is the British touring car build. And that means from the crowd the [INAUDIBLE] An also live television coverage, national TV coverage [INAUDIBLE] before. It adds an extra element of pressure though, to the drivers. Which means they have to deal with the media, interviews, and television cameras at every point. Forcing every single mistake that they make. And that adds pressure, but also develops you as a driver, as you move towards Formula 1. The crowds slowly depleted as the day drew to and end. Had I bitten off more than I could chew? I kept being haunted by my first moments in the car on a wet test day, punished by the turbo's power and stiff suspension. My confidence was shattered. [NOISE] Well, I thought there was a big crowd on Saturday, but there are throngs of people arriving here on Sunday morning. It really adds to the sense of occasion. [MUSIC] Race three was to be broadcast live on ITV4. So 30,000 people at circuit and then nearly half a million on TV were watching. [MUSIC] Vital to the start of the race is warming the brakes and tires to have confidence going into that first corner. Another great getaway, and with a staller to my inside, I had a chance to hang on to tenth going through Padec the first time. Suddenly, a new experience. The drivers around me snapping at my heels, flicking from wind mirror to wind mirror, like a jet fighter in battle. I just had to try and keep Connor Mill behind even if he did hit me. Another crash. Ricky Collard and Mack Marshall tangle and the safety car was needed. It allowed me to catch up and to have a small rest as well before the blast to the flag. I finished 12th again, and most importantly improved on my previous pace. The car, so much fun to drive and participating as part of the British Touring Car Package quite an incredible experience. I'd learned so much thanks to the way Ford have conceptualized the championship, it really is the best place to learn single seater across. I was bruised, battered, mentally and physically shattered. But it's an experience I'll never forget.


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An unlikely club produces untold benefits
Volunteer Melissa Frost, left, helps auto body student Racquel Tom plan her quilt
Students plan their quilts
This isn't your grandmother's quilting circle. Body & Sew, an after-school quilting club at Windward Community College, draws its members from Auto Body Repair and Painting, an Employment Training Center program formerly located at Honolulu Community College. Students are detailing more than cars; they're applying their creative drive to the world of sewing and it's taking them for an enlightening ride.
Body & Sew is the handiwork of Don Frost, assistant professor of auto body repair and nationally certified master technician who boasts quilting as a hobby. Frost started the program with his wife Melissa in 2007 when, after showing his students some of the quilts he had made, they each asked him to make one for them.
"We decided to teach them to make their own," says Frost. "Melissa agreed to help teach them if they would agree to make at least one quilt or item to donate, to learn community service." The first projects went to children at the Mānoa Ronald McDonald House. Subsequent projects are reaching other facets of the community. This year, the students are providing quilts to the Windward CC Employment Training Center's nursing program; the nursing students will donate the quilts to their patients in care homes.
Keiki and kupuna aren't the only ones who benefit. Frost sees changes in club members as well—the experience teaches them to give. "For these kids it's something to learn, because nobody's ever given to them," he explains. "These are students who don't have much themselves, but they get the greatest satisfaction out of giving away their work." Some of his quilters have minimal reading and math skills and live with physical and/or learning disabilities. Some have been homeless or live in shelters. Some are gang members, arrive fresh out of rehab programs or have served jail time as felons. They may never have seen a sewing machine before, but Body & Sew fulfills their yearning to learn and socialize in a safe place off of the streets.
"We're able to use Body & Sew to teach the students basic math, how to read a ruler, how to follow instructions, how to work together as one group or 'like a family' and to be creative and think on their own," says Frost. "We're teaching them a life skill, and they're learning to think outside the box, to make their own decisions and be accountable for such, to help the community and to be respectful."
Todd Snyder is an auto body graduate and one of the original members of Body & Sew. He got involved at a time when hours away from class meant getting into trouble. "I used to be one bad kid," he says. Snyder now works fulltime at a local auto repair shop, but his day job doesn't prevent him from continuing to be creative. "I sew on Saturdays and Sundays and now I'm working on a t-shirt quilt out of old shirts that I don't wear anymore," he says. One of the most important things Body & Sew taught him is to not be afraid of trying new things. "At first sewing was so scary. Now it's easy and I do it at home." Snyder's sentiments are shared by many of the students who have fallen under the Frosts' influence. A class poll asking students to describe Body & Sew in their own words elicited responses including "giving back to the community," "family network," "helps me not to drink," "stay away from fights" and "Body & Sew keeps me out of trouble."
"The students want to learn to sew everything," observes Melissa Frost. "We both have full-time jobs and what we can do with Body & Sew is limited to our time off work, but it is so satisfying that we could do it full time." The Frosts hope to one day accommodate students from every curriculum who would like to learn how to sew and have a safe, after-school place to express their creativity. For now, Body & Sew is limited to auto body students because lack of space has the club bursting at the seams.One thing that isn't lacking, though, is community support. When word of the club spread, the local sewing community responded. Fabric donations have come from fabric and quilt stores, manufacturers and local residents. "A lady coming to Hawaiʻi on vacation packed an old suitcase full of her fabric and carried it all the way from Arizona to donate to us," Frost marvels. "We have gotten offers of people wanting to help teach and pass on their knowledge of years of sewing," he adds. "We are going to take them up on their offers." The spirit of giving and love of learning are the common threads that bind this atypical group together and to the community. It's been said: when life gives you scraps, make a quilt. In Body & Sew, Don and Melissa Frost help individuals who might have otherwise been relegated to the remnant pile create productive lives.
Body & Sew Wish List
The quilting club seeks the following items for quilt-making or auto upholstery. Email Don Frost, or call 808 636-0270.
- Fabric (especially Hawaiian prints)
- Thread
- Rotary cutters and blades
- Quilting rulers and cutting mats
- Sewing machines
- Embroidery machines
- Industrial sewing machine
- Vinyl and upholstery tools and threads
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- Room to expand classes
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Local and regional governments are proving that 100 percent renewable energy in conjunction with energy efficiency and conservation is technically doable. It means more reliable and secure energy systems, more clean jobs, health benefits and financial savings. Renewable energy has grown rapidly in terms of investment, deployment, but it's not fast enough. To prevent 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming, we need to get to 100 percent renewable energy and phase out all fossil fuels by 2050. That means decisive action now.
Los Angeles spent $57 million to retrofit its traditional streetlights with LED bulbs. That will result in savings of $9 million a year in electricity charges and will slash CO2 emissions by 60,000 metric tons — the electricity savings equivalent for about 8,860 homes. That's a good return on investment. Why can't we do that here you may wonder? PNM.
Not only is PNM committed to using coal and nuclear for the long haul rather than than solar and wind, it has consistently opposed the attempt by the cities of Santa Fe and Albuquerque to replace streetlights with LEDs. In fact, that's another issue in this rate case. PNM's formula is to rely on obsolete climate-altering and radioactive fuels, constantly raise our rates, and prevent municipalities from exercising the most energy efficient and technologically appropriate modernization efforts.
Why is PNM doing this? Because it can and, thus far, the PRC has let it get away with it. But we have to work around this barrier to change.
Let's use the city of Santa Fe's Verde funds to make solar available to low-income households who make the largest reductions in their electricity bill. This will eliminate participants' electricity bills and shrink our carbon footprint. Let's solarize not just 25 percent of the city's buildings — move to 100 percent, aggressively. There should be a city and county ordinance that requires that every new home be outfitted with solar — it has been done successfully elsewhere. Let's create jobs here. It would demonstrate global leadership in our commitment to clean energy and protect ratepayers from the increasing costs of PNM's carbon-based fuels.
I strongly support the resolution pending before the city of Santa Fe that opposes more coal and nuclear in PNM's rate case. Let's go the next step and become a municipal utility, and begin to produce renewable energy for our residents.
Organizations like GO100re.net are connecting renewable energy advocates worldwide to build a global 100 percent renewable energy alliance, proving that being powered by 100 percent renewable energy is achievable. Let's build awareness that a 100 percent-renewable-energy pathway is feasible and beneficial not only for ourselves, but for our grandchildren.
Aaron Leventman is an actor and playwright who lives in Santa Fe and curates for film festivals in addition to working in the real estate business.


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50 reasons why NYC is the greatest city in the world
Narrowing down to 50 the reasons we love New York City was a difficult task—inevitably, some of the things that make Gotham great were left out. But here you'll find a curated list of facts that prove NYC's civic superiority, spanning everything from our superlative pizza and our expansive arts and culture scene to our place in history as an incubator of innovation, be it architectural, technological or sartorial.
Written by Sarah Bruning, Andrew Frisicano, Ethan LaCroix, Tim Lowery, Marley Lynch, Amy Plitt, Jenna Scherer, Jonathan Shannon and Allison Williams
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Because we have the most iconic skyline
New York may not be the birthplace of the skyscraper—Chicago holds that distinction—or even home to the world's craziest super tall buildings. No matter: When people talk about skylines, we bet that midtown Manhattan—home to the cloud-piercing spires of the Empire State and Chrysler Buildings—is what they're imagining. Other noteworthy structures, including the Woolworth Building and the Twin Towers (whose absence is being filled by the rising One World Trade Center), helped cement Manhattan's skyscraper supremacy throughout the 20th century. And not only do we have an entire institution—the Skyscraper Museum—devoted to tall towers, but Gotham is also the birthplace of the word skyscraper. Take that, Chicago.
Because of Manhattan's grid
The Commissioners' Plan of 1811, which proposed NYC's pattern of numbered avenues and streets, led to many changes: Real estate began to be packaged in easy-to-sell units, fueling the city's development; eminent domain was established as a tool for grand projects (um, yay?); and Manhattan became easy enough for any mouth breather to navigate. But more than that, the grid amplifies and feeds the relentless pace of life here. In a 2012 interview, legendary street photographer Joel Meyerowitz said that Manhattan's streets "run for miles straight ahead, and so the energy on the street is funneled this way. And when you participate in that, you become part of the energetic dimension of life on the streets." If antiquated cities like London and Paris are for meandering, then New York is for purposefully charging forward.
Because our bars are open until 4am
When do your watering holes close again, London? What's that? We couldn't hear you. Oh, 11pm?!? Bloody hell! (Okay, fine, some pubs are open until 1am. Still.) Not that we necessarily condone drinking in the wee hours—or telling anyone about doing so; that's too much bro bragging for our tastes—but there's something oddly comforting about knowing that you can do just that on weekends. Typically, American cities (Chicago, for example) are peppered with a few places for the post-2am crowd—which are almost impossible to get into after regular joints' last call. In the world's greatest city, however, late-night spots are the rule, not the exception, which means that an array of choices—hookup spots, dives, and bars for both cocktail and beer snobs—are waiting for you come 3am.
Because the Manhattan cocktail was invented here, and we'd like to see someone try to make it better than we do
New York is the birthplace of many a great concoction, including the iconic, rye-whiskey-based tipple. Legend has it that the drink was created by Dr. Ian Marshall in 1874 for an event at the Manhattan Club (hence the name), though some liquor historians claim that it was actually the handiwork of a bartender nicknamed Black, who worked at a Soho lounge. Regardless of the origins, this cocktail is replicated in countless watering holes across the world, but there's no better place to enjoy it than its hometown. You can find top-notch versions at Milk and Honey and the Flatiron Lounge.
Because New Yorkers live longer than almost anyone else
The third oldest person in the country is Susannah Mushatt Jones, a 113-year-old New York City woman who was born in the 19th century and has seen MTA fares rise from a nickel. This proves that city life isn't just better, it's lengthier: NYC residents live about two years longer than the national average. In 2010, a New Yorker's life expectancy at birth topped out at 80.9 years. Maybe it's that after surviving the job hunt, the apartment search and calorie-count menus, the rest seems easy. (That we walk more than other Americans and eat fewer trans fats also probably helps.) To quote Dorothy Parker, "As only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you'll live through the night." And she died at the ripe old age of 73, despite drinking like a fish.
Because, believe it or not, you can still find a rent-stabilized apartment in NYC
Yes, the holy grail of urban real estate is indeed out there—for those intrepid enough to find it. According to the New York City Rent Guidelines Board, there are approximately 1 million (!) rent-stabilized living spaces in Gotham. Adopted in 1969, the city program was created to shield tenants from steep cost increases enacted by greedy landlords. And thanks to a 2011 state law, those lucky leasers are in safer waters than ever: A stabilized apartment's monthly rent has to climb higher than $2,500 before it can be deregulated. (As for those stories of crazy-rich renters with super cheap spaces, they're largely bunk: A recent New York Times piece reported that the median income for tenants in rent-stabilized apartments is $36,000.) So don't lose hope, home hunter; the rent isn't always too damn high.
Because we invented hip-hop and still do it better than any other city
There's no hip-hop hall of fame—not yet, anyway—but if you're searching for rap's birthplace, look no further than the rec room of 1520 Sedgwick Avenue, an unassuming Bronx apartment building close to the Major Deegan Expressway. That's where Clive "DJ Kool Herc" Campbell and MC Coke La Rock first mashed up break beats and Jamaican-style toasting at a back-to-school shindig 40 years ago, inventing a genre that's since come to dominate popular music. Rap's evolution has taken place largely in the five boroughs, through the work of originators such as Grandmaster Flash and the Sugarhill Gang; golden-era hip-hop artists like Big Daddy Kane, the Beastie Boys and Run-D.M.C.; and '90s kingpins such as the Wu-Tang Clan, Nas and the Notorious B.I.G. (And let's not forget Long Island–bred MCs like De La Soul, LL Cool J and Public Enemy.) Despite the rise of West Coast hip-hop and regional scenes throughout the South and Midwest, New York still dominates: Jay-Z, A$AP Rocky and Nicki Minaj continue to top charts, while up-and-comers such as Action Bronson and Joey Bada$$ line up to snatch the crown. View our list of the 50 greatest NYC hip-hop artists here.
Because our LGBT scene is actually an LGBT scene
Our mixed parties, such as Hey Queen!, Scissor Sundays and Rebel Cupcake, draw diverse crowds from all points on the gender and sexuality spectrums. Sure, there are still shindigs for specific scenes (glamour lesbians, bears)—as there should be—but in the wake of gay marriage, gay people all over TV and the like, NYC queers embrace and celebrate their outsider status as a diverse community.
Because bands blow up after playing here
It's becoming an increasingly common tale: Scrappy outfit plays a tiny DIY space in Williamsburg; that same now-buzzed-about band returns months later and sells out a much bigger venue in town. Just look at U.K. postpunk sensations Savages, who graced Bowery Ballroom having made their U.S. debut at Glasslands. So why does this happen more here than anywhere else? It could be the large contingent of press and industry people at shows. Or that NYC is typically the first stateside stop for a budding foreign rock band. And the CMJ Music festival, held each October in downtown Manhattan and Brooklyn, certainly doesn't hurt. But the fact remains that as much as this is an incredibly tough town to be a musician in, it's the best place to see one—any night of the week offers the possibility of peeping the next bbig thing on a tiny stage.
Because New York is the home of the musical—which we still do better than anyone else in the world
The song-and-dance show has come a long way since The Black Crook, a five-and-a-half-hour-long pageant considered to be the world's first musical, took primordial Broadway by storm in 1866. In the intervening century and a half, New York City has more than earned its name as not just as musical theater's birthplace, but the spot where it's done better than anywhere around the globe. Sure, the spectacle-drenched tuners of London's West End (Les Misérables and The Phantom of the Opera) get exported to our shores. But many of the most innovative, memorable musicals of our time came to maturity on the Great White Way, from the golden age of Rodgers and Hammerstein and the rise of Sondheim to the unorthodox, form-reinventing hits of the past decade like Avenue Q, Spring Awakening and The Book of Mormon. Many of shows, such as Wicked, are now performed internationally, but Broadway is still the mecca for bright-eyed hoofers, who flock here like moths to a lit-up marquee.
Because in the summer, you can see tons of world-class music and performance art without spending a dime
Come T-shirt weather, New York positively explodes with free cultural fests. Among the multitude of offerings, you've got the River to River Festival, featuring a huge variety of art, theater, dance and music along the lower Manhattan waterfront; Lincoln Center Out of Doors, which transforms the entire campus of the venerable cultural institution into a performance space; and the City Parks Foundation's SummerStage, which presents stellar free concerts and more at green spaces citywide, with offerings ranging from Wilco to the Metropolitan Opera. The Public Theater's much-loved Shakespeare in the Park series mounts a pair of performances in Central Park each summer, attracting big names from Broadway, Hollywood and beyond to tread the boards. You can also catch free film screenings in Bryant Park and Central Park, and for lit fans, open-air readings from prominent authors via Books Beneath the Bridge at Brooklyn Bridge Park. Our advice: Bring sunscreen and an open mind.
Because of bodega cats
Yes, many cities allow fluffy creatures to hunker down in shops and other venues—we'll admit to being jealous of Japan's cat cafés—but New York's bodega cats are an altogether scrappier, more interesting breed of feline. Typically kept on the premises for the purpose of rodent control, these corner-store kitties have inspired all manner of tributes, including several blogs and a short documentary. But what makes them so beloved? Like knowing the best time to visit your regular watering hole, or having the scoop on the cheapest laundromat near your apartment, knowing your local bodega cat is another way to show your NYC bona fides. It's a point of pride for New Yorkers to know their neighborhood's quirks, and bodega cats fall squarely—and adorably—under that description.
Because it's impossible to feel nerdy here
"I'd rather be nine people's favorite thing than 100 people's ninth favorite thing," goes a lyric in the Off Broadway musical [title of show]. And while we couldn't agree more with the song's message—that truly great artistic efforts tend to be divisive—thinking up one movie, song, play, technological finding or whathaveyou that doesn't have a fervent fan base in NYC seems pretty…impossible. Like David Lynch? Bashes and even burlesque shows celebrating the man's work have happened at Le Poisson Rouge and Parkside Lounge. How about astrophysics and '90s Disney musicals? The Bell House in Gowanus hosts boozy fetes for both. Are you a cult-film buff? Spend hours sifting through the selection (organized by auteur and country!) at Kim's Video. Only use vintage fabrics to make your clothes? Too many stores to count have you covered. The point is that you're in New York, not high school: Obsessions of all sorts are embraced.
Because unlike other metros, our subway runs 24/7
It's fitting that in the city that never sleeps, the subway doesn't either. Tokyo's trains pull a Cinderella, conking out a little after midnight. In London, the Tube calls it quits between midnight and 12:30am, while Paris's Metro manages to hold out until a relatively late 1:15am on most nights (2:15am on Fridays, Saturdays and holidays). What's more, our setup has the most stations (a whopping 468) of any public transportation scheme, as well as the largest amount of track (660 miles dedicated to passenger transport). We're also the only city with a "love conductor," Erika Christensen, who plays matchmaker for straphangers throughout the boroughs. So not only is our underground transit system bigger and better, it's also more romantic.
Because even though some cities claim to have better coffee, New York has the most coffee
There is no shortage of ways for New Yorkers to get a cup of joe: Outdoor carts hawk highly caffeinated and overboiled mud in iconic Anthora containers; sit-down establishments brew cups to order from a $16,000 Japanese siphon machine (see Blue Bottle's Chelsea shop for this experience); and there are more than 250 Starbucks outposts throughout the five boroughs. And while Chicago and Portland, Oregon may have birthed great roasters like Intelligentsia and Stumptown, Gotham trumps all in terms of sheer number of places where you can sate your coffee craving.
Because NYC is one of the most linguistically diverse cities in the world—and we're working to keep it that way
We've forgotten more languages than other cities have even heard of, since as many as 800 tongues are spoken in the five boroughs. There's even an Endangered Language Alliance, founded by professors from CUNY, NYU and Columbia to preserve the fragile Garifuna, Mamuju and Nahuatl languages. Just how rich is the city's oral tradition? Experts think there is more Bukhari spoken here than in its home countries of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. Census takers found that a whopping 49 percent of New Yorkers speak something besides English at home—mostly Spanish, but also French Creole, Armenian, or Yiddish. It only took one Hurricane Sandy to make a superstar of one of the city's many multilingualists, Lydia Callis; the effusive sign-language interpreter instantly put Mayor Bloomberg's woeful Spanish to shame.
Because space constraints mean we get creative with our cultural hot spots
Iconic institutions like the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the American Museum of Natural History are lovely, but going to one doesn't necessarily feel like discovering something odd or special. But a museum located in a former subway station, or one in a elevator? That's pretty unique. And those examples aren't hypothetical: The New York Transit Museum opened in 1976 in an out-of-commission IND station, and just last year, the itty-bitty Museum—which bills itself as the smallest such institution in the city—debuted in a Tribeca freight elevator. Thanks to the city's general sense of crammed-in-ness, planners often seek innovative solutions, reclaiming disused or run-down spaces and transforming them into cultural-landscape enrichments. Socrates Sculpture Park, for example, opened atop a former garbage dump in Long Island City, while one of the city's most ambitious projects—the development of Freshkills Park—will turn what was once the world's largest landfill into NYC's largest green space.
Because you can eat pretty much anything at any time
In a metropolis with 7,966 sit-down restaurants, countless mom-and-pop takeout shops and hundreds of food trucks, it's no surprise that New Yorkers have access to just about any edible they want, whenever the whim strikes. Late-night or early-morning options in most other towns are limited to whatever's on the menu at 24-hour diners or fast-food drive-throughs, but our round-the-clock culinary clout extends far beyond rubbery omelettes and greasy, overcooked french fries. If you're craving lamb and rice at 2am, you can hit the Halal Guys on 53rd Street and Sixth Avenue—or any of the other street vendors who soldier on through the wee hours. When you need your pierogi fix at 4am, hightail it to Veselka for six different varieties of the Eastern European dumplings. Jonesing for pastrami at 3pm? Stop by Katz's or the 2nd Ave Deli. And for those times when you're too tired, cold or hungover to venture out, you can dial up one of the 9,056 places that deliver—and that's just on MenuPages—while laughing at the comparatively few choices in Washington, D.C. (749), Chicago (1,676) and L.A. (1,693).
Because NYC inspired Bob Dylan—and some downtown movement called punk
There are too many great songs and albums written about New York to list here (we dedicated a whole cover story to that very subject last year, remember?), but here's a CliffsNotesian rundown of a few seminal moments in Gotham's musical history—all rooted below 14th Street: Bob Dylan arrived in the Village in 1961 and eventually became the face of folk music—only to smash that legacy by going electric on three locally recorded albums (Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde on Blonde). That three-album run is perhaps the most fruitful of all time (all three were recorded within just over a year—talk about a New York work ethic) and, you know, changed music forever. That same year (1966), the Velvet Underground gigged in the East Village, are billed as part of Andy Warhol's traveling Exploding Plastic Inevitable shindig, and created cacophonous, exhilarating and distinctly New York music that nobody knew what to make of. A decade later, carrying the primitive torch handed down by the Velvets, punk blew up on the Lower East Side and across the pond (although our bands were clearly better), with back-to-basics rock & roll (the Ramones) and envelope-pushing minimalism (Suicide) acting as much-needed antidotes to the guitar-god-dominated rock culture.
Because Sesame Street was invented and takes place here
It's unclear exactly which Manhattan nabe inspired the setting for the greatest kids' TV show ever—people involved with the program have claimed the Upper West Side and Alphabet City. Nevertheless, the 44-year-old series couldn't be based anywhere else, with Gotham touches like brownstone steps, a subway, wildly diverse residents, a newsstand and even a bodega popping up throughout the show. Sesame acted as a career launchpad for Jim Henson and has remained clever, pop-culturally savvy (Robert De Niro, Paul Simon, Richard Pryor, Feist, Amy Poehler and Seth Rogen have all put in guest appearances) and, above all, educational since debuting in the late '60s.
Because there's room for innovation and tradition to coexist
New Yorkers respect the newest new just as much as the tried and true; for example, there's enough room here for $3.50 tres leches treats at Doughnut Plant and $1.10 old-fashioneds at Donut Pub. If anything, New Yorkers have a hunger to see which city innovations can hang around long enough to become tradition: which newfangled dish will become the next menu staple (like eggs Benedict, invented in NYC), or which nascent musicians will spark the next big genre shift. But in a city that has seen plenty of standbys disappear from the landscape—everything from Shoot the Freak to Filene's Basement to the Twin Towers—we know that, as much as it's important to embrace the new, it's equally important to not take the classics for granted.
Because the power of our pizza draws in thousands—including former heads of state—to sample both classic and innovative pies
One of the few things uniting hapless tourists and die-hard locals is an appreciation for the peerless New York slice: the scorched, thin crust; the heavy mantle of tomato sauce; and the molten blanket of creamy mozzarella. The handheld meal became legendary after Gennaro Lombardi obtained the first U.S. pizzeria license in 1905 for his Spring Street grocery store. Since then, countless imitators—along with Lombardi's disciples John Sasso (John's), Patsy Lancieri (Patsy's) and Antonio Pero (Totonno's)—have served pies to the masses. Recently, new-breed pizzaioli have created modern iterations, with spots like PeteZaaz, Franny's and Roberta's bringing quirky toppings and locally sourced ingredients to far-flung locales like Crown Heights and Bushwick. (Bill and Hillary Clinton even gave Roberta's their stamp of approval last year.) In a city whose very fabric is made of novelty and dynamism, we can't even predict what tomorrow's slice will look like.
Because, for as little as $50, you can own a piece of New York City. Sort of.
We have to give Robert Moses some credit: As the driving force behind the 1964 World's Fair, the controversial figure was, in some way, responsible for the creation of a number of New York City landmarks, including Shea Stadium (RIP) and the iconic Unisphere. But our favorite relic of that grand affair is The Panorama of the City of New York, the 9,335-square-foot scale replica of the five boroughs. Permanently located in the Queens Museum of Art, the breathtaking attraction features approximately 895,000 NYC structures—including the Empire State Building, Central Park and the Brooklyn Bridge—and new models that are added periodically (Brooklyn Bridge Park was the most recent, in 2012). In 2009, the QMA launched the Adopt-a-Building program as a way to help offset maintenance costs for the attraction: You can stick your name on your old apartment for $50, or shell out $2,500 to claim a whole neighborhood or park. (Hey, it's cheaper than buying a real apartment.)
Because you can see A-list comics for cheap in intimate spaces nearly every night of the week
Recently, Chris Rock and Dave Chappelle caused a stir by performing an impromptu, nearly hour-long set together at the Comedy Cellar. It's not the first time the iconic West Village club has been unexpectedly visited by big-name stars: Louis CK and Jerry Seinfeld are among the comedians who occasionally drop by to perform in the intimate space. The best part? These drop-ins often happen during the weekly shows (Rock and Chappelle showed up on a Tuesday night), where the cover charge is only $12–$14. (L.A.'s Comedy Store has a similar setup and prestige, but shows are slightly more expensive.) Plus, between the two Upright Citizens Brigade outposts and a network of well-regarded indie theaters and bars that host shows in Brooklyn and Queens, you never know when you'll see one of the stars of The Office, Parks and Recreation or Saturday Night Live for next to nothing.
Our warhorses take a licking and keep on ticking
New Yorkers are a notoriously tough bunch; the same goes for many of Gotham's monuments and iconic venues. To wit: The Grand Central Oyster Bar, which opened a century ago in February 1913, went bankrupt in '72 and burned down in '97, but it still thrives today, selling 5 million bivalves each year. The iconic Central Park eatery Tavern on the Green embodies the city's fighting spirit too. Built on the site of a sheepfold, controversial Parks commissioner Robert Moses ordered the landmark restaurant's construction in 1934. It shuttered for the first time in 1974, was acquired and renovated by local businessman Warner LeRoy that same year, and reopened in 1976. When LeRoy's lease ended in December 2009, the venue went dark once again and pieces of its elaborate decor were auctioned off. In August 2012, Philly-based restaurateurs Jim Caiola and David Salama won a competitive bidding war to revamp the space, with a tentative opening set for this fall. We love Frank Sinatra and Jay-Z's NYC anthems, but maybe we should throw Chumbawamba's "Tubthumping" into the mix.
Because we have both a publishing capital (Manhattan) and a writers' residential capital (Brooklyn)
There's a reason aspiring writers still flock to New York in droves: The Big Six (soon to be Big Five) publishing houses—Simon & Schuster, Macmillan, HarperCollins, Hachette and the soon-to-be Penguin Random House—have headquarters in Manhattan, which means much of the industry is centered here. The borough is also home to many indie companies, including W.W. Norton, Perseus Books Publishing and New Directions, along with industry must-reads like Publishers Weekly and The New York Review of Books. But in the past few years, Brooklyn has also established its bona fides as a nucleus for book fiends. Kings County is home to small presses like Melville House and Akashic; journals like Vol. 1 Brooklyn, The Coffin Factory and n+1; and, increasingly, writers themselves, with Martin Amis, Jennifer Egan, Colson Whitehead, Jonathan Ames, Jhumpa Lahiri and countless others putting down roots in Brooklyn. You can see the borough's lit community in action during the annual Brooklyn Book Festival, which has grown exponentially since its founding in 2006.
Because the city is in the throes of an independent-bookstore renaissance
Between the demise of Borders in 2011 and the proliferation of e-readers, cultural trend predictors were poised to hammer nails into the printed word's coffin. New York responded with a resounding eff-you in the form of an indie-bookseller scene that's stronger than ever, with many ventures focused on—and sometimes funded by—the surrounding community. Just look at recent success stories, like Washington Heights' initially temporary, volunteer-run Word Up, which became so popular that the store is reopening for good this spring on the strength of donations. LGBT-focused pop-up the Bureau of General Services–Queer Division recently announced an indefinite partnership with Strange Loop Gallery, and operates out of that space. Dumbo's powerHouse Arena recently opened an outpost in Park Slope, and Greenpoint's WORD is expanding to a second spot, in Jersey City. Plus, many shops—including Fort Greene's Greenlight Bookstore, McNally Jackson and Housing Works in Soho, and Boerum Hill's BookCourt—have thrived thanks to author readings, book clubs and lit-themed parties that bring book fiends together. Long story short: NYC is a bibliophile's dream town.
Because, for most New Yorkers, Jean-Luc Picard is just another dude who lives in Park Slope
Unlike elsewhere, our A-listers don't live in walled-off fortresses. Increasingly, they don't even live in Manhattan: On any given day, famous folks like Patrick Stewart and Steve Buscemi can be found strolling through Park Slope, or complaining about the 'hood's atrocious cable-and-Internet provider, as Stewart did on Twitter last September. Point being, for New Yorkers, celebrities are like tourists and crosswalk signals: We ignore them, and defiantly so. Ferris Bueller is just another guy in line at Dean & DeLuca, and Jack Donaghy is the dude who just stole our cab.
Because New York City is responsible for some of the world's most useful—and, okay, frivolous—inventions
Two words: Toilet. Paper. New Yorker Joseph Gayetty is responsible for creating a commercial version of the bathroom staple, and for that alone, NYC deserves props. But plenty of innovators have called Gotham home, bringing indispensable creations to life here. A short list: Scrabble, invented by Jackson Heights resident Alfred Butts; gelatin, patented by Peter Cooper (also famous for founding Cooper Union); air-conditioning, invented in Williamsburg by Willis Carrier, an engineer; and Foursquare, launched in 2009 by Dennis Crowley and Naveen Selvadurai—they worked on the social-media program at Crowley's East Village apartment.
Because other cities often copy projects that started or were perfected here—look at the High Line
Because the city's water supply gives New York some of the best-tasting tap water around
Those claims about NYC's H20 making our pizza and bagels better? Probably not true. "The fact is, our tap water has changed quite a bit since that rhetoric started making the rounds a few decades ago," explains Scott Wiener, who runs Scott's Pizza Tours. "Believe me, I wish it was true; it would mean all the pizza in New York would be amazing—but we all know that just isn't the case." Fair enough. (Although someone may want to give New York Pizza Water—which hawks bottles of the stuff based on that myth—a heads-up.) But that doesn't change the fact that NYC's water is superior: Our water supply, which comes largely from upstate reservoirs, is nearly lead-free (any of the substance that does appear most has likely leeched in via old pipes). And the city's aqua is routinely cited as among the country's best-tasting, having placed second in the American Water Works Association's nationwide taste test in 2010. So go ahead and fill those water bottles with abandon.
Because you can travel the world without leaving the boroughs
Between the still-sluggish economy and our workaholic tendencies, Gothamites can't always prioritize vacations—especially ones that involve traveling halfway (or all the way) across the globe. Luckily, we can feast on traditional dishes from destinations near and far by simply hopping on the subway (or the Staten Island Ferry). Even beyond the well-known enclaves (Flushing for Chinese cuisine, Elmhurst for Thai), there are myriad countries represented in our own backyward: In Jackson Heights, you'll find Colombian arepas (the Arepa Lady) right around the corner from dozens of Indian and Bangladeshi eateries, and in Greenpoint you can sup on Polish borscht and blintzes (Pyza). Vietnamese banh mi can be sampled in several different 'hoods (Hanco's in Boerum Hill, Banh Mi Zon in the East Village), while a trip to the Upper East Side yields both German and Burmese dumplings (spaetzle at Heidelberg, phet-htoke at Café Mingala). Feel like Canadian poutine or smoked meat? Mile End represents Quebec's staples with aplomb. You can also spend a Sunday afternoon comparing a half-dozen Mexican tacos or swapping Benedicts for pork buns and other dim sum delicacies without ever leaving Sunset Park. And when you're in need of a noodle fix, you don't have to look far for top-notch ramen whether you're in Manhattan (Ippudo, Hide-Chan), Brooklyn (Ganso, Chuko) or Queens (Hinomaru). The best part: no passport required.
Because we have the most theaters in the world—by a long shot
Smell that greasepaint? Hear that crowd roar? The numbers don't lie. In 2012, the World Cities Culture Report did a survey of 12 key metropolises across the globe, and found that NYC far and away has the highest concentration of theaters: 420, with Paris a distant second at 353 and that other legendary performing-arts city, London, trailing in fourth (behind Tokyo) at 214. What's more, on Gotham stages, upwards of 43,000 performances took place in 2012 alone. And no wonder: Between Broadway, Off Broadway and Off-Off Broadway—plus marathons for newcomers, like the New York International Fringe Festival and the New York Musical Theatre Festival—you can see countless actors speaking the speech (trippingly, on the tongue) in venues ranging from grand old proscenium houses to downtown parking lots.
Because New York City is the most recognizable pop-culture reference point
Quick: Think of a hummable song about Indianapolis or Newark or Tallahassee. Now think of all the memorable songs about NYC—heck, TONY listed the 100 best songs about Gotham without breaking a sweat. Imagine The Age of Innocence or The Catcher in the Rye or From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler without Manhattan as a pushy, protective character. And even as New York has become a major producer of great TV, home to both Carrie Bradshaw and Liz Lemon, plenty of shows filmed in Los Angeles still pretend to be in the Big Apple (we were never fooled, Friends). In the 2011–12 season alone, 23 series were filmed here—and not all of them were Law & Order—along with 188 films; the $420 million the state gives in tax credits helped. But there are no tax credits in comic books, and the big three—Spider-Man, Batman and Superman—all get heroic in approximations of New York City. What, did you think Gotham City and Metropolis were based on Cleveland?
Because NYC has the second-largest Jewish population in the world—a massive influence on the city's identity
Are we living in the Promised Land? Considering what a huge chunk of the Jewish diaspora has settled in New York City, we may as well be. According to the North American Jewish Data Bank, the city was home to 1,538,000 Jews as of 2012—that's the largest concentration of Chosen People anywhere outside of Tel Aviv, representing a staggering 14.9 percent of the group's worldwide population. Jewish culture has had a huge hand in shaping the identity of the city, ever since progrom-fleeing Russian Jews arrived in NYC in droves in the late 19th century. Many of the city's most cherished cultural and culinary associations—Woody Allen's oeuvre, Seinfeld, the 2nd Ave Deli, Irving Berlin, Simon and Garfunkel, Bob Dylan, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Zabar's, bagels and lox—bear the Semitic stamp. The culture and the metropolis are inextricably linked, and both are the richer for it.
Because our lack of space promotes a creatively willful ignorance
When you're having an intimate conversation in a restaurant, you imagine the couple next to you aren't listening. When you're the other couple, you pretend you're not eavesdropping. You can have your cake and eat it, too. Plus, just walking down the street keeps you honest: You will see people in every compromising emotional or physical position imaginable (how many times have you walked by people fighting on the street, or seen someone crying on the subway?). The beauty of this is that New Yorkers don't judge this type of behavior—because we know that we might be there ourselves in the near future.
Because New York is truly a 24-hour city
In his 1997 drama, Closer, playwright Patrick Marber calls Gotham "a twenty-four-hour pageant called Whatever You Want." Although the implicit showmanship and excess in that statement may not always be present, there's no denying that New Yorkers actually can have pretty much anything at any time, day or night. Hair Party 24 Hours goes beyond its name to offer manis and pedis, massages, waxes and more at any hour; multiple pharmacy chains (Duane Reade, CVS, Walgreens) have locations throughout the boroughs that always keep the lights on and doors open; and continuously running bodegas keep us supplied with everything from Cheetos to laundry detergent. What's more, no matter where or when you wander around town, other people are out doing the same thing—some with purpose, some content to just explore.
Because countless songwriters created their masterpieces here
What is it about New York City that inspires musicians to create some of their most complex, brilliant works? We don't rightly know, but we do know that some of the most compelling musical moments of the past century have been composed or recorded here. We outlined 100 of these in our recent list of the 100 best NYC songs, but here's a short list of the songs and albums created in Gotham: George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" (written when the composer was a sickeningly young 25), Miles Davis's Kind of Blue, Bob Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited, Patti Smith's Horses, Nas's Illmatic, the Magnetic Fields' 69 Love Songs and Jay-Z's The Blueprint. And that's not even taking into account Carole King, Ellie Greenwich, Neil Diamond and the many artists who composed classics in the Brill Building era. The point: Our songwriters are better than your songwriters.
Because of the breadth of our movie screenings—NYC has an array of venues catering to every different taste
No, we're not L.A. (and thank god for that), but just because Hollywood happens to be on the opposite coast doesn't mean we aren't the best city to watch a movie in. Gotham boasts great theaters for retrospectives and talks (Film Forum, BAM), and arty, indie, envelope-pushing fare (IFC Center, Anthology Film Archives), not to mention a new crop of dine-and-drink theaters (Nitehawk Cinema, Videology, rerun Gastropub Theater). And come summertime, NYC holds plethora of free outdoor screenings in locations both classic (Bryant Park, Central Park) and unconventional (Coney Island beach, Lower East Side rooftops).
Because you can hear first-rate jazz performers—both seasoned veterans and hot contenders—playing live every day of the week, 365 days a year
Indie-rock might hog a lot of the press, but this is still a thriving jazz town. Really thriving, actually: Any night of the week offers the option to see, say, jazz vets jam in the 78-year old downtown staple the Village Vanguard, genre heavyweights in super-classy environs of Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola or Blue Note and free-jazz innovators pushing the envelope at the Stone.
Because NYC has the best menswear designers
Dudes don't get the short end of the sartorial stick here: New York is home to a number of cutting-edge mens clothing purveyors, including Tim Coppens, Ovadia & Sons, Todd Snyder and Saturdays Surf NYC. Plus, a few of our favorite menswear blogs—including A Continuous Lean and Dapper Lou—are based in NYC; the Sartorialist, meanwhile, often captures photos of well-dressed gents out and about in the city, proving that Gotham truly is nirvana for dedicated followers of fashion.
Because you can visit independent shops, high-end designers and legendary department stores in one day
New York City is a fashionista's playground, with a plethora of sartorial destinations available for those inclined to seek them. All you need is a MetroCard to find several shopping malls' worth of unique, interesting emporiums. Fifth Avenue has long been the city's premier shopping destination: Many big department stores, including Lord & Taylor, Tiffany's and Saks Fifth Avenue, have been around for more than a century, and they share an increasing amount of space with mass-appeal shops like H&M and Uniqlo. Madison Avenue is still a haven for high-end designers (Chanel, Dolce & Gabbana), and neighborhoods like Williamsburg and the Lower East Side pack plenty of hip indie stores. And yes, our vintage shops and markets may be pricey—but we challenge you to name a city where the selection is larger or more diverse.
Because the absurd and the mundane coexist harmoniously here
Recently, we asked comedian Chris Gethard to tell us a New York story; his involved wandering around midtown at 3am, a hot-dog purveyor and a guy coming out of a peep show looking very pleased with himself. In Gethard's words, "If you can both come and eat a hot dog at three in the morning on the same block, what dream can't you make into reality in NYC?" And that sentiment—if not, you know, the specific scenario—is one of the wonderful things about New York: This city is so huge, and teeming with both totally boring and utterly bizarre elements, that it often feels like you can do pretty much anything here.
Because New York was a pioneer in modern engineering
No mere river crossing, the Brooklyn Bridge is an elegant reminder of New York's history of architectural innovation. When it opened in 1883, the landmark, designed by John A. Roebling, was a feat of engineering: It was the first structure to cross the East River and, at the time, the longest suspension bridge in the world. It also made use of galvanized steel-wire cables, which had never been implemented before (although the use of wire ropes on bridges was first conceived by Roebling in 1841). The Brooklyn Bridge is just one example; many so-called modern marvels—things like super-tall skyscrapers, the subway and public water supply systems—were developed or perfected by New York City engineers. (That's something to think about the next time you ride across one of the many bridges spanning the East and Hudson Rivers.)
Because NYC is the media epicenter of the world, with enough room for both staid institutions and innovative publications
Boston may be the birthplace of the American newspaper, but in the 19th century, New York quickly became the nucleus of the country's nascent media industry.. And while that industry has grown ever-smaller in the past few decades, this is still the best place for ink-stained wretches. Many major publications—The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Associated Press and The New Yorker among them—started and are still headquartered in Gotham, while key players in the digital realm, including the Huffington Post, BuzzFeed and Gawker Media, also call the city home. And thanks to a robust network of hyperlocal bloggers throughout the five boroughs, you don't have to look far to find news about your specific neighborhood.
Because indie and public radio still have a place here
In an increasingly homogenized communications landscape, it's refreshing to see that some forms of independent or audience-supported media can exist. In the five boroughs—and, okay, Jersey City—outlets like WNYU, WFUV, WFMU and the comparatively large WNYC are still plugging away, though perhaps not as robustly as in the past. Other cities would likely argue that their offerings are bigger and better—and sure, stations like Los Angeles's KCRW and Seattle's KEXP are better known—but we wouldn't trade the erudite musings of Leonard Lopate or the eclectic stylings of WFMU's Cherry Blossom Clinic for anything.
Because we have a gay funplex in midtown
Because we have more culture than anyone could possibly see in one week—maybe even one lifetime
We've already waxed ecstatic about the films, concerts, book readings and other events available to New Yorkers at any given time. And while we love all of these different offerings individually—obviously—we'd argue that their combined effect is even more important. Thanks to the sheer number of places to visit in the city—more than 700 galleries; nearly 600 nightlife venues; more than 1,700 parks; and that's barely the tip of the iceberg—New York is simply one of the greatest cultural powerhouses in the world. To paraphrase the noted '90s rock band Harvey Danger, if you're bored living in New York City, then we're afraid you might be boring.
Because New Yorkers come together—in ways small and large—after crises
New Yorkers have somehow garnered a reputation as callous and cranky, but for anyone who has lived through catastrophes here—events like the various blackouts, or Hurricane Sandy, or even 9/11—you know that's an exaggeration. In the aftermath of Sandy alone, there were countless stories of New Yorkers helping one another, whether it was someone with electricity rigging up a charging station for neighbors without power, or good samaritans descending on Red Hook, the Rockaways, Staten Island and other hard-hit areas to help clean up. Occupy Sandy came together nearly overnight to provide assistance to devastated neighborhoods, and its members can still be found doing work in the Rockaways and elsewhere. So we call bullshit on those who would dismiss New Yorkers as mean or uncaring—all you have to do is look at how the city comes together when we've been knocked down, hard.
Because we're arrogant enough to do this list in the first place
One of the things that makes New York City better than any other city is our unwavering devotion to this town. Yes, we know how expensive it is; yes, we know that it's chaotic and imposing and occasionally unfriendly; and yes, we know that from the outside, it can seem like the reasons to not live here outweigh the reasons to live here. But that doesn't matter to us—we're New Yorkers, and we think New York is better than your city, and if you don't like it, well, tough!


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The endless possibilities for making works of art today cater well to our need for creativity and innovation. This kind of thirst for productivity has allowed us to execute the art of visual creation in many different and diverse ways, among them being the interesting fusion of different mediums, techniques and methods. An example of this versatile and experimental working style comes in the form of the messy masterpieces made by Florian Nicolle.
Florian Nicolle is a French visual artist who has significant professional experience in areas graphic design, web design, branding and print, whose work and personality has been featured in numerous publications. His most eye catching and stunning works of visual art however, have been keenly spotted in his work as an illustrator. Florian Nicolle is a 25 year old digital artist who has worked with several large brands such as NIKE, Puma, LA Times, ESPN, Warner Bros and many more. Nicolle claims he knew he wanted to become a graphic designer since the tender age of 15, taking pride in his own unique style of work he has been working on, developing and growing into for the past decade. Florian Nicolle's unique style of work is a result of the culmination and experimentation with various different mediums through a process of manual and digital manipulation. The artist creates his illustrations by layering ink, paper and paint manually by hand, and then renders and subtly manipulates the illustrations using digital software, revealing a layered, somewhat messy looking, scribbly yet beautifully rendered illustrations. The drawing itself is spared no detail, enhanced and amplified with the use of specially selected paint and paper together with careful Photoshop rendering .
Florian Nicolle on his style of work, "I try to create an image that retains its freshness of the first paint stroke, the expressions of the line have to be very free and spontaneous, while keeping a rigorous drawing. So I use fast techniques, like a big large brush…I do my drawing with either colored ink, china ink, brush, pen, marker or tria marker. Then I scan my work and I work again the illustration using Photoshop, where I apply textures such as carton or typography." Have a look at some of Florian Nicolle's mind blowing illustration art below.


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About This Activity
What is the Healthcare Classic 5K?
The Healthcare Classic 5K Run/Walk was created in 1989 by University of Louisville medical students to promote physical fitness among classmates, healthcare professionals, and citizens of the community. More importantly, all proceeds from this event benefit the Healing Place, which is an indespensible addiction recovery program in Louisville.
What is the Healing Place?
The Healing Place is a highly successful residential addiction recovery program in Louisville, KY. The mission of the Healing Place is "to reach the homeless, offer recovery for the addicted, and help restore productive lives." All of the Healing Place's services are free of charge to clients. Because of this reality, the Healing Place relies on donors like you!
The Healing Place phone: 502-585-4848
Website: www.thehealingplace.org
Why should I run/walk in the Healthcare Classic?
1. It's for a wonderful cause! You're helping people in need by running or walking.
2. It's a nice and short 5K (3.1 miles) route along a scenic course. Water will be available at the 1.5 mile mark.
3. Snacks, refreshments, music!
4. T-shirts for registered runners and walkers
5. Awards and prizes for the top 3 overall male, female, and youth finishers
Event details and schedule
Saturday March 25, 2017
Registration begins at 7:30 am
Race/Walk begins at 9:00 am
After all racers have finished running, we will have a testimonial by a resident of the Healing Place and we will give out prizes for the top three finishers in adult men, adult women, and youth age groups.
Cherokee Park (745 Cochran Hill Rd., 40206)
Participants should meet at the Pavilion at Hogan's Fountain (signs will direct you to this location).
The race will run along the Cherokee Park scenic loop on Cherokee Park Road.
Parking Info:
Parking is available at Hogan's fountain and along part of Cherokee Park Road, but parking is limited, so try to carpool, get dropped off, run in, or take public transportation to the park.
What to wear:
Wear comfortable running clothes and bring layers if it is still chilly. Make sure to wear comfortable running shoes.
Check in:
Be sure to find the registration table under the gazebo at Hogan's Fountain. We will check you in and give you your racing bib on the morning of the race.
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Drawing from the traditions of abstract painting, Carolyn Cole works intuitively, with particular interest in color, texture, and expressive forms. Each of Cole's canvases is the product of complex layering: she typically begins by collaging materials onto her canvas—such as pages from books, letters, and envelopes—then adds successive layers of paint, pencil, and charcoal, sometimes scraping through surface layers to those underneath with a palette knife. The resulting images, with their softly defined blocks of color, convey a captivating sense of rhythm and lyricism.
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UK born Dot Rotten released his debut single "Keep it on a low" on 4 November 2011 and by December 2011 he had been nominated for the BBC's 'Sound of 2012 poll'. His passion for aesthetics, feng shui, photography, literature and writing lyrics in his head means he's not your average rapper, producer or songwriter.
Tell us about your music and how you got into music?
My Name is Dot Rotten, I am 24 years old from south west london. I am a artist/producer/video director and sound engineer.
I first got into music as a young child my uncle was a producer and had a studio set up at that time it was about samplers he had one and was using an Atari to produce and he always had me in the studio and slowly and surely I'd learn what sounds good by ear. I've been musicaly inspired the majority of my life and had the chance to be around loads of amazing artists, which also helped to develop my skill.
I've been using FL Studio since the old Fruityloops 2 and I've grown with it all the way. I've used other products and production tools but FL is the only one that is not limited to anything but how much your computer can take. So if your computer is super fast your at an advantage the way you can put down ideas is great, and you can now record vocals in it, which is epic and I always learn something new while using it.
It pushes me as a producer, it never fails me, its also a program that helps create success. Over the years I've used different VSTs in the program, never had problems with it I can load files from 5 - 6 years ago no problem, its very reliable.
Tell us about your production environment?
To be fair I dont have much production tools around me. I've had keyboards and hardware in the past but at this moment I just have FL on my laptop.
I use the mouse to key in my beats. Untill I have my new studio setup, this is how I'm using the program and I still get amazing instrumentals out of it.
Do you have any links you would like to share?
Dot Rotten's website is the perfect launch pad for all his social media
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Our company has been fortunate to have hosted many SIS practicum students over the years. At the local level, we see a practicum as a learning/working experience and it is also a kind of "long term interview."
When a position opens in IIa, both the company and the student know whether we will have a good match. In the broader context, the bottom line is that when we hire, we now often look for practical, hands-on experience like that provided by the SIS Practicum Program.
Bonnie Carroll
Information International Associates (IIa)
Oak Ridge, TN
For my Practicum, I worked at the Smithsonian's National Postal Museum. I worked with a team at the Collections Management Department to conceive, develop, and create the museum's new online collections research database called Arago™. An innovative component of this new database, the Research Participant Program, invited volunteers to research and compose descriptive text for the online collection's objects.
As the Arago Project Assistant, I organized the Research Participant Program. The most interesting aspects of this project were enrolling the museum volunteers, developing orientation and procedural documents, corresponding with researchers—both national and international—editing research text, and preparing the text for publication.
I worked closely with my supervisor and peers and was encouraged to make meaningful contributions to the project. I was comfortable with—and really enjoyed—collaborating with a team, thanks in part to the collaborative projects I undertook in my coursework at the School of Information Sciences. My confidence increased with experience, and this experience has significantly clarified and advanced my career goals.
I recently accepted a job at the National Geographic Library and Information Services as Senior Analyst!
Lisa M. Metzer (SIS 2006)
Arago™ Project Assistant
Collections Management Department
National Postal Museum
Smithsonian Institution
For my practicum experience, I worked in the reference department of the Lawson McGhee Library in Knoxville under the supervision of Janet Drumheller (SIS 1977).
It was a great experience for me, and I learned that I was cut out to be a librarian. I was treated like a professional, worked the desk as a reference librarian answering a broad range of questions, dealt with all walks of life in the main library, worked on collection development and weeding projects, and taught computer instruction classes.
Most importantly, I looked forward to going to work every day and had a wonderful time with the people I worked with. My practicum made me more confident in my ability to be a good librarian than any other experience I had during graduate school. When I went out looking for my first professional position, I had no worries as to whether I would be able to do well in a library environment.
Sarah Wright (SIS 2005)
Reference Department
Lawson McGhee Library
Knoxville, TN
My practicum experience gave me a competitive advantage when applying for my present position at Blount County Public Library – even though my practicum was at UT's Preston Medical Library.
Even though I knew I wanted to become a public librarian, working in a medical library allowed me to learn so much about libraries in general. I become immersed in consumer health reference, which is invaluable knowledge for a reference librarian, and I gained valuable experience with scholarly research on PubMed and in finding research articles for interlibrary loan patrons via Docline and ARIAL.
Teaching computer classes gave me more confidence in creating and implementing my own training sessions at Blount County Public Library. I have to say also that the working conditions were a great benefit, particularly in working with veteran librarians Doris Pritchard (SIS 1971) and Martha Earl (SIS 1985), both of whom had walked in my shoes as a SIS student and have taken leadership roles in the state.
Pat Thompson (SIS 2001)
Consumer Health Reference
Preston Medical Library
Knoxville, TN
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Purina dog food is owned by the Nestle Purina Petcare company, and they can boast about having some of the best and most quality dog food and pet products on the market. Since the merger of Ralston Purina and Nestle's Friskie's company in 2001, the dog food manufacturing industry has been reshaped and molded into Purina Petcare's image. Purina dog food products come in both wet dog food and dry dog food, and they're available in a variety of products for dogs depending on the dog's age, weight, breed and overall health. Some of the products that are put out by Purina Petcare dog foods are Purina ONE, Purina Dog Chow, Purina Pro Plan and the ultra nutritious Beneful brand.
The early part of the merger's history was historic for dog owners even if they weren't aware. Purina Beneful shifted much of its dry food manufacturing out of the cities of Saint Joseph, Missouri, Jefferson, Missouri and Arden Hills, Minnesota, and it transferred a lot of those responsibilities to New York. This is significant because those three major factories were originally Friskies' factories, and two of the major factories are located in Missouri, and Saint Louis, Missouri is where Purina Petcare decided to locate its new headquarters after the Federal Trade Commission approved the historical merger. After the dry Purina dog food manufacturing was shifted to th company's liking, they decided to shift the manufacturing of the wet dog food mainly to the Saint Joseph factory. Then, the company unified their Latin American and North American operations, and they restructured that under a new division called the Nestle Purina Petcare Americas. One of the last major changes made in the early part of the Purina Petcare company's existence was taking over and managing their own distribution in Asian counties instead of keeping it under the old adage of being "dealer controlled" which was a good thing because it allowed for better quality control, and there were better recipes developed for the food.
Purina dog food is marketed well, and part of that marketing is due to the philanthropy of the Purina Petcare company. Often times, philanthropy and marketing go hand in hand, and that does sort of make it an advertising cost for the maker. Many people might call the philanthropy a ploy, but it really doesn't matter as long as dogs and their owners get help and benefit in times of need. When Hurricane Charley struck in 2004, it was Purina Petcare that sent 80 tons of food and over $100,000 to animal shelters. There was also a joining of Purina with the Canine Health Foundation to further the science of veterinary medicine and nutrition for dogs.
Purina's Beneful Brand has always been marketed as being the most healthy dog food a dog owner could purchase on an average income. This is a statement that Purina has been able to validate through recommendations by vets, and the Food and Drug Administration also approves and endorses this brand. Purina dog food products are the superior products on the market.


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