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10 Hudson Yards in Manhattan. Courtesy ©Related-Oxford.
Thornton Tomasetti provided structural and façade consulting services for 10 Hudson Yards, a 52-story, 895-foot office tower. The tower is part of a mixed-use development consisting of residential, commercial, retail and public space, as well as 14 acres of open space. The site encompasses six city blocks totaling 28 acres. Two of the blocks are over active rail yards that will remain operational during construction.
With a structural system that consists of a concrete shear wall with concrete superstructure post-tensioned beams with filigree, 10 Hudson Yards is unique as one of the first concrete office buildings in New York City. The building is designed to achieve LEED Gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council.
Façade design services include a 200-foot-by-60-foot atrium cable wall and an 80-foot-by-200-foot lobby cable wall. The initial atrium study, which included cable-net systems and long-span truss systems, aimed at understanding the structural implications and façade issues involved in building a multistory atrium. The studies led to a one-way vertical cable system with intermediate beams supporting laminated glass panels through glass fittings.


Brian G. Henning is a professor in the Departments of Philosophy and Environmental Studies at Gonzaga University and serves as Gonzaga's Faculty Fellow for Sustainability. His work is focused on the intersection of metaphysics, aesthetics, and ethics, with a special focus on issues related to animals and the environment. Before coming to Gonzaga, he taught for five years at Mount St. Mary's University. Henning is the author of several books and articles, including the award-winning The Ethics of Creativity: Beauty, Morality and Nature in a Processive Cosmos. His latest book is Riders in the Storm: Ethics in an Age of Climate Change. He holds a BA from Seattle University and an MA, MPhil, and PhD from Fordham University.


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« Morning name: adipocere
Nothing says A like B »
going better with
Today's Zits:
Jeremy plays with the template
GBW (GoesBetterWith): Nothing goes better with X than Y
conveying something like 'X and Y go very well together'; either X or Y can be taken to be the primary component in the combination.
But for Jeremy in the cartoon, X = Y, so what he's conveying is that X is really really good. More bacon! More bacon!
GBW is a variation on an expression, but an expression that's only weakly conventionalized: it can straightforwardly be understood literally, but it comes with an air of familiarity. It's certainly not an snowclone, and it might not even count as a playful variation on some familiar expression. What would the model be?
Coke? I quickly googled up lots of instances of GBW. A few examples from this search:
Nothing goes better with baseball than peanuts!
Nothing Goes Better With a Cup of Coffee Than Therapy
Nothing goes better with a Laska's pizza than a bottle of Southern Tier Pumking [a beer]!
Nothing goes better with cheese than wine!
Nothing goes better with beer than a good story.
Nothing goes better with cookies than milk.
Pizza and beer figure prominently in the list, but Coke is very frequent, in both forms:
Nothing goes better with X than (a) Coke.
Nothing goes better with (a) Coke than X.
My favorite here is this slur on Italian-Americans:
For breakfast, lunch, or dinner, the best Guido meal is a slice and a Coke… Nothing goes better with a slice than a Coke. (Wiktionary on slice)
As far as I can see, Coke gets into it not through a direct use of GBW in its advertising, but through its use of the slogan
Things go better with Coke.
in the U.S. in 1963, and elsewhere and at other times as well. GBW is an amplification of this.
Two more examples: first, a double-header, with a snowclone-like lead-in followed up by GBW:
Nothing says summer like a delicious Picnic Pasta Salad, and nothing goes better with Picnic Pasta Salad than a perfectly grilled hot dog. (link)
"Nothing says A like B" followed up by GBW.
And then a deightful American Egg Board PSA starring Kevin Bacon: "Nothing goes better with eggs than a side of Kevin Bacon".
Playful allusions. One step up from weakly conventionalized expressions. From a LLog posting of mine from 9/23/07, "On the fringes of Snowclonia":
Chris Phipps asked me about "unsafe P any X", as in the title of a posting by Mark Liberman: "Journalists' questions: unsafe in any mood?". This, I replied, was just a playful allusion to Ralph Nader's Unsafe at Any Speed, and pretty much a one-shot deal at that: there's no significant collection of variations on the title, a collection that would suggest that there's a pattern available for general use here. Similarly in my use of the title "A child's garden of languages" for a recent posting; the title takes off on Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses.
Over the years I've posted several times about occasions on which all sorts of language play are prominent (in science writing, in teaser headings on the covers of porn magazines) [in various "ludic locales"] … my current point is that among the types of language play to be found in them are playful allusions, lots of them, and no one should want to label most of these as snowclones, since virtually any idiom, cliché, quotation, or title can serve as the basis for an allusion. Many of them combine some other feature of language play with the playful allusion, as in these two examples, where there's some phonological play: "Ground Control to My Imam" (feature title in Harper's, November 2006), alluding to David Bowie's "Ground Control to Major Tom"; and "Take the Money and Rue" (NYT editorial, 9/12/07), alluding to Woody Allen's Take the Money and Run.
Then last year Victor Steinbok e-mailed me about commercials for Pam cooking spray, with an assortment of language play in them:
The … commercial starts with a Dickensian snowclone. "I'm the ghost of foods past," [on snowclone, see below] then going into portmanteau puns ("foodtasm"), punching out with, "We can also do 'poultrygeist' if you use chicken." [This last a punning variation, a very nice one.]
One example, with a chicken speaking:
Use new Pam Cooking Spray to clean off unwanted residue on your pots and pans or else you may get a visit from the Ghost of Meals Past. Residoodle-doo! (link)
Victor reported several versions of the Dickensian bit: "I am the ghost of cookies past" (with a cookie sheet), "I am the ghost of meals past", etc.
My response:
"The ghost of foods past" is just a playful allusion or variation (on a familiar quotation, in this case); calling such things "snowclones" completely empties the notion of snowclone of its usefulness. I once spent some time arguing on LLog that playful variations should not be labeled as snowclones (though there is a transitional zone, in which playful variations are becoming fixed, conventionalized into formulas).
Otherwise, there are many millions of "snowclones" in the world, and new ones can be created (are created) every minute. There would then be no point in assembling a Snowclone Database.
The larger issue here is that "snowclone" is a cute and memorable name, so people want to use it very broadly. But that undercuts the original motivation for having a new technical term.
Same with "eggcorn", which a great many people now want to use as a label for any sort of word error, thereby reducing the term to vacuity. But it's a cute and memorable label. (On that point, see this eggcorn posting.)
It seems to me the GBW doesn't even reach the level of playful variation, though it does manage to sound sort of familiar.
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On Facebook, David Preston adds to "Things go better with Coke": "Everything's better with Blue Bonnet on it"; and "Everything tastes great when it sits on a Ritz".

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Guitar Lessons West Hampstead
Here at Bruce Music: Guitar Lessons London, we provide Guitar lessons in West Hampstead. Our fantastic guitar teachers offer guitar lessons, bass guitar lessons, ukulele lessons and mandolin/banjo lessons anywhere in West Hampstead, NW6, and the surrounding North West London areas.
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Three of our guitar teachers provide guitar lessons in West Hampstead and the surrounding NW6 area, including the Bruce Music founder Alex. All of our West Hampstead guitar teachers are friendly, highly skilled, DBS checked and expert in their area of study. You're in safe hands with our guitar teachers and here's why:
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Ben – West Hampstead Guitar Teacher
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Neli – West Hampstead Guitar Teacher
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West Hampstead Guitar Lessons with Alex
Alex – West Hampstead Guitar Teacher
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West Hampstead's Music History
The Beatles' Famous Decca Audition
Firstly, we couldn't possibly talk about the musical history of West Hampstead without mentioning Decca Records! Now a rehearsal space for The English National Opera, 165 Broadhurst Gardens spent 80 years as the home of Decca Records. Their studio here is where 'King of Skiffle' Lonnie Donegan recorded the album "Rock Island Line".
Decca Records is the home of the single biggest mistake ever to happen in musical history. Did you know on the 1st January 1962, The Beatles auditioned for Decca Records and were rejected?! This is widely regarded as the biggest error in the history of the Music Industry. Here's a well-updated Wikipedia page on the subject. It's hard to believe that The Beatles weren't snapped up by Decca isn't it?
Speaking of the fab four, don't forget that Abbey Road studios and the famous Abbey Road crossing is just down the road from West Hampstead. The main man himself, Sir Paul Mccartney was recently spotted walking over arguably the world's most famous zebra crossing. Sir Paul is one of many A-list celebrities who can be spotted in or around West Hampstead so make sure you keep your eyes peeled. You can also watch all the action live from the Abbey Road using the Abbey Road Cam.
The Railway Pub & The Klooks Kleek
The building next to the old Decca building was and still is The Railway pub, now best known as somewhere for football fans to congregate before heading up the Jubilee line to Wembley. The Railway pub has a fantastic musical legacy, as does the now closed Klooks Kleek club above, which hosted Jimi Hendrix, The Rolling Stones and Eric Clapton (who famously had a guitar stolen from there one night!) Read More About The Railway's Musical Legacy
West Hampstead current day music scene
West Hampstead has certainly changed a lot since the days of Decca records and the Klooks Kleek club as has its nightlife and music scene. For 38 years West Hampstead was home to 'Lately nightclub'. Sadly, the most eccentric music venue in West Hampstead has recently closed down, which means it's also lost its Thursday open mic night. It's been a difficult time for venues in NW6 with the closure of 'The Good Ship' – the venue which helped launch the careers of Adele, Kate Nash and The XX. Although one venue in Kilburn (a stone's throw away from West Hampstead) is still hosting an open mic night. The Brondes age pub hosts 'smokin mic' every Saturday.
Why not test out your new skills from your West Hampstead guitar lessons and give the open mic night a go! It's a great way to meet fellow musicians, build your performance confidence and make the most of your guitar playing. Your Bruce Music guitar teacher will be more than happy to support you working towards playing a local open mic night during your weekly guitar lessons, helping you develop repertoire, performance skills and confidence. If it's something you want to do, give it a go, you won't regret it!
West Hampstead musical residents
West Hampstead has been home to many musical greats including:
Joan Armatrading – Joan shared a flat with Helen Chappelle, in Cholmley Gardens when she joined a repertory production of Hair in 1968.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oag3I4VRXyM
John Paul Jones – lived at 7 Priory Road before forming Led Zeppelin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_AeMmTE2pc
Billy Idol – could be found residing in Tower Mansions, and 315 West End Lane with girlfriend Perri Lister, an actress and dancer in Hot Gossip. Billy later moved to New York and had huge success with his song 'White Wedding'.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAZQaYKZMTI
Olivia Newton-John – lived in West Hampstead in 1965, while she recorded her single, "Till You Say You'll Be Mine", at the aforementioned Decca records.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUNN52BrE5o
Slash – yes the guitar legend himself also lived in West Hampstead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1w7OgIMMRc4
Just a handful of the talented musicians who have resided in West Hampstead.
Well, that just about covers our musical round-up of West Hampstead. Don't forget – all of our guitar teachers are available to visit you at your West Hampstead home for guitar lessons. You can also choose to visit a teacher for lessons if preferred. All of our West Hampstead guitar teachers are expert, friendly, highly-skilled musicians who can help you or your loved-ones pick up a guitar and get playing today.