Reuters reported on 9th Nov 2007 that The Mark Hotel on East 77th Street, New York is converting several top floors into apartments designed by French decorator Jacques Grange.

It overlooks Manhattan’s posh Upper East Side.

Price: USD150 million, according to New York real estate brokers.

Even for the Big Apple, that price is amazing. While the city can easily attract buyers for multimillion dollar pads, a 3-figure sum is unusual.

Probably because of its uniqueness.

The most expensive apartment currently listed in New York is a USD70 million unit at the The Pierre Hotel.

Specs:
- 3-stories
- 30,000 square-feet
- 26-feet-high ceilings
- a library with fireplace
- a gym
- a spacious terrace with a rooftop pavilion.

So far, Leonard Blavatnik, 50, a Russian oil and real estate magnate, has signed a letter of intent to buy the place. He’s worth USD7 billion according to Forbes (read: he can afford it).

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The Star, 9th Nov 2007
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Better Caring is UK-based service for those who wants to find more about nursing homes for themselves or members of their family.

It was established in 2001 and currently wholly owned by care specialist OLM Group.

In this site one can do the following:
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Markus Frind said back in June 2006 that his more than USD900,000 Adsense cheque in February 2006 is nothing compared to the “USD20 million a month like the other sites my size” but has the other sites been identified?

Sabahan.com reported that ShoeMoney, in March 2007 made more than USD700,000 from affiliate marketing via Commission Junction. Has a bigger income from this stream ever been claimed?

On 30th April 2007, model Kate Moss, 33 did so, during the launch in Oxford Street’s TopShop, of a collection of clothes she designed.

She appeared for all of 12 seconds in the shop window modelling a red dress from the collection just before the shop was opened, like this:

While outside, everybody’s going crazy:

For that, she was paid a reported GBP3 million (RM20 million).

I guess it’s all worth it for Topshop, as people queued for up to 5 hours to get into the shop afterwards.

But what I found funny is that she was photographed looking so exhausted afterwards, still wearing that dress:

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