CORNER BAKERY LUNCH.

PUENTE DE BROOKLYN.

Con mucho cariño para ti Lemuel.
Eres alguien muy especial para mi.
Felicidades por tus excelentes notas en tus
estudios universitarios.
Muy pronto serás un gran Ingeniero
con especialidad en puentes y carreteras.
Te amo hijo,

tu papa Manuel.

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*disfruta del video.

Los sueños que parecen imposibles pueden ser logrados

con determinación y perseverancia, sin importar las probabilidades.

Aún el sueño más distante puede ser alcanzado con determinación y persistencia.

El puente de Brooklyn que conecta la isla de Manhattan

con el barrio que lleva su nombre, cumple 125 años.

Mundialmente conocido por sus cables de acero entrelazados,

fue el primero que se construyó con esta técnica, producto de la

obra del ingeniero alemán y alumno de Hegel, John Augustus Roebling.

La obra diseñada por Roebling fue toda una proeza para la

época y con más de 1.800 metros de largo tardó 13 años en construirse.

Las obras se iniciaron en 1870 y terminaron en 1883.

Augustus Roebling falleció al principio de las faenas y

fue su hijo Washington Roebling, quien tomó las riendas

del pedido encomendado por el alcalde de Nueva York.

Este último también tuvo un accidente mientras trabajaba en los

pozos de cimentación en el East River y entonces su mujer,

Emily Warren Roebling asumió la dirección transmitiendo

las órdenes que daba su marido postrado en cama pero

con una estratégica vista para supervisar las obras.




El emblemático puente es una de las estructuras más

representativas de la ciudad de Nueva York y ha servido

como telón de fondo a una gran cantidad de películas como

Manhattan, de Woody Allen o Godzilla. Por el robusto

puente circulan centenares de miles de personas diariamente.

El Puente de Brooklyn

nos muestra que los sueños que

parecen imposibles pueden ser logrados con determinación

y perseverancia, sin importar las probabilidades.

Aún el sueño más distante puede ser

alcanzado con determinación y persistencia.

LONG BEACH.

Thanks God today is friday!

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Long Beach is your perfect place.
From The Pike to Pine Street, this coastal oasis serves up dining,
shopping and plenty of bold-faced attractions.
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come to Long Beach.

LUXURY ITEMS: No-Sale Situations

· Damien Hirst's

'For the Love of God'

Price: $100 million

Sold For: Asking price to an investment group including the artist

Controversial artist Damien Hirst has pickled sharks and other animals in formaldehyde, but his decision to cover an old skull in platinum and diamonds may turn out not to have been one of his smartest moves. Hirst attempted to sell it for $100 million. Finding no single collector to pick it up, the skull sold to an investment group, of which Hirst is a member, for the full $100 million.

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· Shaquille O'Neal's House

Price: $29 million

Sold For: Not sold

Basketball player Shaquille O'Neal has been trying to sell his home on Miami's prestigious Star Island off and on since 2005.The home has eight bedrooms, an indoor basketball court, gym, steam room and sauna. The 2.5-acre grounds include a tennis court, six-car garage, dock, two-bedroom guest house and Shaq's pool, complete with Superman logo. He has chopped a few million off the price but may have to go a bit lower if he wants to sell in the depressed real estate market.

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· 'The Wheat Fields' by Van Gogh
Price: Estimated between $28 to $35 million

Sold For: UnknownUsually

Van Gogh is a hot seller at auctions by the big auction houses, but that wasn't the case at the Sotheby's Impressionist and Modern art sale in November 2007. Van Gogh's 'The Fields (Wheat Fields)' was estimated to bring in between $28 million and $35 million, but bidding stalled out at $25 million and the painting did not sell. In the days after the auction, shares of Sotheby's stock fell sharply because of the embarrassment.

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· Lesotho Promise Diamonds
Price: $50 million

Sold For: Not sold

The huge 603-carat Lesotho Promise rough diamond was bought by diamond dealer Laurence Graff in 2006 for $12.36 million, with the hopes of making a huge profit. Graff had the stone cut into 26 smaller diamonds. Graff is looking to sell the stones to a single buyer, and recently he had all the stones set into one blockbuster necklace which went on display in Monte Carlo. No word on what the price for the necklace is yet, but this will guarantee that they will be sold in a set, which was Graff's desire all along.

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· Portrait by Picasso
Price: Estimated to sell for $60 million

Sold For: Not sold

Andrew Lloyd Webber planned to put his Picasso portrait, 'Portrait of Angel Fernandez de Soto,' up for auction in 2006, but the painting was pulled due to a dispute by a man named Julius Schoeps, who claims that the painting was lost by his family in a 'forced sale' by Nazis. The painting was to be sold to benefit Lloyd Webber's philanthropic efforts. In late 2007, the lawsuit was dismissed, so this painting will likely get a second chance at sale soon.