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Drives: 2014 VW GTI
Join Date: Jun 2017
Location: Rock Hill, S.C.
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Maloneyy's 2014 GTI
Hello all,
I'm gonna be starting a very slow, yet hopefully picture full, build thread. I tried doing so with my last car and well, that forum just became a nut house and I never cared to post or even browse there at all. Just from browsing here these last few months, this place is kinda cool. I've owned a decent amount of cars, MK3 GTI, B4 Passat manual VR6, e46s, an e36 vert, EG hatch, Ruckus, Bagged and Bodied Standard cab Hardbody just to name a few, over the past years of my driving life and although some were very short, some lasted a good while. Mainly my Miata << Story of my life.
I owned it since June of 2009, and it was completely stock when I purchased it. It was a car I learned to wrench on, customize, and make my own. From the countless sets of wheels, coilovers, being painted over and over again, I don't think I left a bolt untouched on that car. I drove this shit out of it and never missed a chance to slide with the friends on late night shenanigans and burnouts where it wasn't sketchy. Everyone literally knew me becuase of that car and still talk to me about it and how I shouldn't have sold it. I sold it in February of 2017 and I had my eyes set on a GTI (starting back from my first SOWO experience in 2014.) I've always liked these cars but I test drove a 2015 at the dealership I actually bought my 2014 at.
Picking it up June 22, Ironically the same day I got my Miata in 2009.
2014 GTI Certified Pre-Owned, Deep Black Pearl, DSG Wolfsburg Edition with 18,202 miles on it when I test drove it.
My only requirements are I wanted the plaid interior, DSG so the wifey can drive it, lower mileage, 4 door, no sunroof, not red. I got what I wanted.
Only Mods so far is me building my stealthbox. I am coming from a 1996 VR6 Passat wagon GLX 5 speed that honestly, I loved but I wanted newer and better. I had a loud system that was stupid clear and you could here from a while away. I had a JL Audio XD800/8v2 amp running in 4 channel mode to Hertz Hi Energys with a JL Audio XD1000/1v2 powering a pair of JL 12W3v3 subs in a 5 cubic foot box tuned roughly to 32 hertz. It was what I wanted and I kinda miss it. But the OEM upgrading that I have done so far is suiting my needs
On to photos of said box:
I sold my XD800/8v2 to fund my new amp an XD700/5v2 and a JL 10tw3v3D4 sub, grille and bass knob. Amp is under the driver seat kinda placed there for now. Will be doing more down the road so it's fine.
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I tinted the windows with Llumar Ceramic film at 15% light passage and installed my Escort Passport IX radar with smart hardwire cable.
I also work at Freemans Car Stereo, so custom-ish stuff is what I like to do. I don't get to work on my own cars very much, but I plan to be thorough on this car. It's not going anywhere anytime soon. I loved this car before I bought it and anyone who knows me knows how bad I have wanted it.
Future plans will be determined mainly by what money I save, but a house is first on my list. I mainly want Air, wheels, stage 2 tune with extra requirements, exterior goodies and quite a lot of other things as well.I know doing it right the first time means waiting and I'm not 17 anymore with no bills that wants instant success. Hopefully I can add to this forum and make it better than it was!
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Drives: 2011 White GTI 4DR 6MT
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Location: Bend, OR
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Looking forward to watching your thread and build move along. Like you, I fell in love with the GTI, but I'm still looking for the right one. I like to hear your methodology of going about the build. Doing it right (but maybe slower) is refreshing; with a wife and two young kids, I know exactly how you feel.
I bet that system is killer BTW!
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Nice! Looking forward to seeing what you have planned for the GTI, considering how your Miata ended up. Subscribed.
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Drives: 2014 VW GTI
Join Date: Jun 2017
Location: Rock Hill, S.C.
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Small update. I got my iPad dash about 90% done. I ordered a flocking kit so it has a suede look under where the iPad goes when it's not docked in the dash.I need to find a better color that matches that OEM flat surface so I don't have to go and pint everything else that touches this panel.
I started by pulled the air duct, ac controls and trim and center dash bucket out and placing it on the table and started mocking.
Got it in, and started moulding it and finished in some SEM trim black we had laying around hoping the color would match. It does, but, it doesn't.
Mounted in the dash.
I also got rid of my aux input in the center console to mount my bass knob (which is a volume control for time being)
As of right now, that's it. Nothing big. Gonna start working on my door speakers since I have everything I need. Just need to plan a few things on what I might or might not due. Once I make my move further south and purchase a house, they cooler mods will come like tuning and mechanical upgrades. Which i've very much excite about!
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Drives: 2014 VW GTI
Join Date: Jun 2017
Location: Rock Hill, S.C.
Posts: 14
Been a little busy with work and life. Got a badgeless grille and took the emblems off the back and got the gloss black VW emblem as well as the glass style rear wiper delete.
Got a Unitronic intake from a buddy since I did the sub enclosure and false wall in his 2010 CC. It makes such awesome turbo noises now, I couldn't be happier.
And then this past weekend we got a few guys together for some mountain runs (Couple of M3s. gt350r, another GTI, Miata, Subaru, Mazdaspeeds and some others. Definitely gonna be going more of the functional route with this car. It handles great for stock, I can't wait to get better suspension and more power. Only downfall was the fog this weekend. Oh well, theres always the next time which will be soon!
I took the iPad out and put the factory back in for reasons. It got old pretty quick and I really just enjoy that OEM feel for now. Later I'll get something a little nicer.
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Drives: 2014 VW GTI
Join Date: Jun 2017
Location: Rock Hill, S.C.
Posts: 14
I took advantage of Black Friday deals and got me a CTS 3 turbo back. Install took roughly 2 1/2 hours to do and honestly was super easy. Only grip its really close to the rear (subframe I guess?) and it has a very slight rattle. I cant adjust it out no matter how much I try but the tone and sounds make it ok. Ill get some header wrap and make it go away soon.
I also won a Kenwood DNX994s at our company Christmas party and put it in today.
And now I have (some) gauges!
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Join Date: Jun 2016
Location: Nj
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Nice car man
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Drives: 2012 VW GTI - Black and Plaid
Join Date: Apr 2017
Location: Salt Lake City, UT
Posts: 14
How did you set up the gauges in the stereo touch-screen? It's pretty neat.
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Drives: 2014 VW GTI
Join Date: Jun 2017
Location: Rock Hill, S.C.
Posts: 14
Basically with iDatalink you tap into the data wires on the OBD2 port and it reads the vehicles canBus system. It only allows on the screen what the car allows. They have an assortment of other vehicles it works with and a lot of aftermarket radios allow the use of this module vs other data boxes.
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Drives: 2014 VW GTI
Join Date: Jun 2017
Location: Rock Hill, S.C.
Posts: 14
Maloneyy's 2014 GTI
Small update.
Went Stage 2 with the COBB AP
Got my DSG fluid and an oil change at 35k miles.
Swapped my XD700/5v2 amp out for a new JL Audio VX1000/5i. Processing is so much better.
Other than that not much has changed. Getting new tires tomorrow and throwing the Terrible OE PZeros away finally. Getting the Firestone Firehawk Indy 500s. Excited to say the least.
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Nice iPad install for sure
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On June 19, 2007, the New York State Assembly passed a bill to legalize gay marriage after a three-hour floor debate that ranged from apocalyptic to heart-wrenching. We are witnessing the twilight of our civilization, warned Bronx lawmaker Michael Benjamin. Teresa Sayward, an upstate Republican assemblywoman, told a story about how she came to accept her gay son's wish to live a normal life that left Assembly staffers in tears. Let's search our hearts tonight and do the right thing, she urged.
Ultimately, the bill passed, 85 to 61, making it the second time that a legislative body in America had approved such a law. But when it came to the State Senate, which at the time was controlled by Republicans, the longtime majority leader, Joseph Bruno, didn't bring it up for a vote. We're not going to spend hours debating an issue that, you know, is not going to be of consequence, he said. Bruno's not anti-gay, but enough of his members were against it that he didn't feel the need to go out on a limb.
The Republican Senate's refusal to bring same-sex marriage to the floor two years ago set the stage for the very peculiar politics that are today paralyzing New York government. The finish line is tantalizingly close but impossible to cross.
Democrats have a two-to-one advantage in New York, but the legacy of partisan redistricting helped keep the Senate Republican for all but one year since 1939. However, with Eliot Spitzer's landslide, and the national mood tilting liberal, many Democrats saw an opportunity to grab it.
In 2007, after Bruno refused to take up the measure, the Gill Action Fund, arguably the most powerful gay-rights group in America, decided to intervene. The fund, started by Colorado software mogul Tim Gill in 2005, had turned the art of flipping legislatures into a science. In states with narrowly divided statehouses like Iowa, Colorado, New Hampshire, and Oregon, it was able to help surgically remove threats of gay-marriage bans and build momentum behind same-sex marriage laws and other gay-rights legislation, by injecting millions of dollars from a vast network of donors into select races. The targets of Gill's money often didn't realize they were in the crosshairs until they were voted out of office.
Gill's political director, Bill Smith, a former Karl Rove associate, began working with the Empire State Pride Agenda, the state's long-standing gay-rights lobbying group, led by former labor operative Alan Van Capelle. They came up with a plan to help the Democrats take the Senate and advance a gay-marriage bill in 2009.
Neither Gill nor the Pride Agenda are expressly partisan. Sayward and two other Assembly Republicans who had voted for the marriage bill in 2007 were flooded with out-of-state, Gill-directed donations, and got reelected in 2008. Yet Democratic control seemed a prerequisite to pass same-sex marriage.
In the spring of 2008, Gill and the Pride Agenda began hatching an Albany plan. In March, Spitzerwho'd promised to clean house, take the Senate, and press for gay marriagewas forced to leave office in humiliation. But his replacement, David Paterson, had supported gay marriage since 1994. Also, his powerful chief of staff, Charles O'Byrne, was gay.
By late summer, they decided to pour $1 million into defeating several vulnerable Republicans, especially Serphin Maltese in Queens and Caesar Trunzo in Long Island. Still, before the checks were mailed, the Gillites and the Pride Agenda needed reassurance. The Senate's Democratic leader, Malcolm Smith, a small-time real-estate developer from Queens, had risen to power under the wing of former congressman Floyd Flake, a minister and staunch opponent of gay marriage. In October 2006, days after Smith was elected minority leader, he had broken with Flake over this issue. This fulfilled a promise he'd made to Tom Duane, the gay Manhattan senator. Smith, a black moderate, had edged out other contenders in large part thanks to Duane's endorsement. It was a progressive imprimatur, says Duane.
In fall 2008 rumors were circulating that Senator Jeff Klein was conspiring to overthrow Smith. The Gillites met with top Democrats, and, according to a senator present, wanted Smith to agree to bring the marriage bill to the floor in 2009, in exchange for their support. Smith, says a source at the meeting, slammed his hand on the table: Absolutely. It's done. They also wanted assurances that Smith had the party's confidence. (A Gill aide denied holding any meeting to pressure the Democrats.)
In November, Democrats picked up two seats, electing Brian Foley in Long Island and Joseph Addabbo Jr. in Queens (both of whom were publicly undecided on gay marriage) and entered the year with a 32-to-30 majority. Smith became majority leader. Democrats say Gill's money probably put them over the top.


text: i saw them yesterday, heres a mini review... IPOD TOUCH IS NOT WORTH IT!!!!!* thin, light, the aluminum edges are SHARP! nano is smaller than you would expect, due to its size, its very uncomfortable, and the click wheel is too small*, although screen is good for video playback, the new colors are very nice, and so is the new UI, this is a buy for elementary-middleschoolers, you dont get so much space for videos(8gb max). ipod classic (my personal fave), well size and space is nice, the anodized aluminum didnt feel so good (on any of the ipods except shuffle for sum reason), compare to an aluminum mac, and you will see. the ui wasnt responsive (AT ALL!!!!!!!!!!), but after the update, it shud get better, nothing to say about shuffle the itunes wifi store is great, works fine, and very snappy *if you are an ipod nano type of person and love the iphone, and like the ipod ui like the one in the iphone, this is a good buy, just be aware, this ipods screen is for videos, but space is limited. the ipod touch can be used as a pda some way using the web apps made for iphone as they also work on the touch's safari. *im just a freshman in highschool, and my fingers arent big at all!


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Japanese photojournalist Go Takayama and two Cambodians were released from jail yesterday following a hearing in Siem Reap Provincial Court, during which charges of producing pornography and photographing teenage sex workers were withdrawn.
"The court has dropped its charges against Go Takayama and two Cambodians after [yesterday's] hearing," said provincial prosecutor Ty Soveinthal.
Takayama and two Cambodian colleagues, a male and female, were arrested on November 24 and charged with producing pornography after they were accused of photographing teenage sex workers in a brothel in Siem Reap.
Jessica Lim, coordinator assistant for the Angkor Photo Festival, said that the verdict was a welcome relief for the accused and for the festival, which supported Takayama in the project he was working on in Siem Reap at the time of his arrest.
"It is certainly very unfortunate what happened, but we are very happy with the court's decision," Lim said yesterday following the court's verdict.
"Clearly, there was a misunderstanding of the context of the photos, but we are glad that the court's verdict shows us that they understand.
"The lawyer explained to the court the project Mr Takayama was working on and the photos he was taking, and fortunately the court understood the context of his work."
Lim said earlier this week that the photos at the heart of the case consisted exclusively of clothed shots of a married couple, and were shot as part of a project for the festival based on the Cambodian folktale "The Seven Colour Princess".
Takayama's female subject posed in a T-shirt and sarong, later removing the T-shirt to reveal a bra, while the male subject posed in shorts and no shirt.
Chea Heng, deputy chief of Siem Reap's anti-human trafficking and juvenile protection office, said Takayama had hired the couple to help him shoot illicit photos.
"He has taken many naked photos of teenage women in brothels in Siem Reap," Chea Heng said earlier this week.
Sours Vanarin, a provincial monitor for the rights group Adhoc who represented Takayama and his colleagues in court, was satisfied with the verdict.
"I warmly welcome the court's decision in dropping the charges against these suspected people, and I think that this decision brings justice to them," he said.
He added that police would return all seized equipment and photographs to Takayama.
Lim said the incident would have little impact on the annual festival's efforts to bring photographic artists together and support new work.
"We will continue holding the photography workshops as we have done for many years, and we strongly believe in bringing together Asian photographers in Siem Reap; that is not going to change at all."
The case against Takayama drew the attention of the Committee to Protect Journalists, which issued a statement earlier this week urging the Cambodian government to release him and saying that "it seems clear that he is a responsible photographer caught up in a misunderstanding, and should not be treated as a criminal".


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Brittany Murphy: The Last Five Minutes of Her Life
Recently, if you missed it, Larry King devoted an hour to her recent death. Her husband, Simon Monjack, a photographer, described her last five minutes of life. It was pretty amazing, yet uneventful.
Brittany was hypoglycemic, meaning, she had to eat the right foods at the right time or she would tend to get dizzy, see stars, act spacey. One can actually faint if the feelings signaling are ignored. Hypoglycemia is the body's inability to properly handle the large amounts of sugar found in just about anything. Thus, the person's blood sugar plummets to where symptoms appear and if ignored, can cause fainting.
Her husband indicated that Brittany was acting odd 10-15 minutes before. Her eyes going off in odd directions, spacey. She was lethargic, tired. She was talking with her mom and husband and then feeling not well, she went into the bathroom. Within seconds, Simon heard something and went to check and found Brittany on the floor. Her mom rushed in and held her in arms. Her mom looked at her, Brittany then said, " mom, hold me, I'm going to die". Then she passed out and Simon began CPR over and over. Her mom dialed 911 and was not able to get through immediately, minutes passed as Simon gave CPR over and over. Finally, the 911 call went through and the ambulance arrived 8-9 minutes after. Way too late. The response is usually three minutes. She was dead at the scene.
Brittany did have a benign heart murmur, many do. Usually, they cause no issues unless they simply get worse. According to tabloids and TMZ, the medications included Topamax (anti-seizure meds also to prevent migraines), Ativan (anxiety med), Biaxin (antibiotic), Methylprednisolone (anti-inflammatory), Fluoxetine (depression medication), Klonopin (anxiety med), Carbamazepine (treats Diabetic symptoms and is also a bipolar medication), Vicoprofen (pain reliever), Propranolol (hypertension, used to prevent heart attacks), and Hydrocodone (pain medication).
Simon states there was no OD of any drugs. Many of the above were in his name, not Brittany's. Some were her mom's. Simon has a heart condition. Weeks prior to this, he suffered a heart attack and was rushed to the hospital. Her mom has battled cancer twice. Since Brittany was diabetic, the only medication for it was Carbamazepine. Most of the other medications were Simon's, such as Propranolol.
Thus, the death of Brittany was natural probably compounded by her diabetes and low sugar count which might had been deadly low. Something she might not have been aware of despite the obvious symptoms that she knew well all her life. Maybe she simply was ignoring them not realizing the real danger she was in. But it is telling what she told her mom. She knew she was going to die. Thus, within seconds of her falling and her mom holding her, something paranormal occurred, something or angel told her she was going to die and to say goodbye. This revelation does occur with those on their death beds, it is as if an angel visits them to calm their fears about dying and not to fight it. It seems when one enters a coma and returns from it while on the death bed, this happens. It happened with me and my mom. There was a sudden peace about dying when she said, "I've had a good life".
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In the Summer of 2017, We started to notice reliability issues with SpyStealth . We currently recommend that you choose mSpy or Flexispy instead.
Did you know that it is possible to use spyware to protect your cell phone? Once it's installed onto your smartphone, the SpyStealth spy app can serve as an anti-theft device.
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This feature alone makes SpyStealth an essential tool for many people who own smartphones – and it comes standard with the purchase of the SpyStealth app.
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distressed foiled stamping
Hello my fabulous friends!
I have a confession to make...
I like shiny things.
I love the Minc foils and how pretty and shiny they make things! Naturally, I wanted to incorporate that in my stamping...
Stamps: Altenew Vintage Flowers, Vintage Roses, Oriental Orchids
Ink: Altenew Mocha, Frosty Pink, Coral Berry, Ruby Red, Grapevine, Frayed Leaf, Forest Glades, Evergreen
Other: Heidi Swapp Minc foil, Reactive Mist
Step 1: Stamp the branch from Altenew's Vintage Flowers with brown ink. It's best to use a stamp positioning tool for this because we are going to stamp this same image again later. I'm using my MISTI, and just leaving the stamp right where it is for now.
Step 2: Start stamping flowers. These are also in the Vintage Flowers set
Tip: If you have the dies, go ahead and die cut a bunch of blanks... You can then play around with the placement and sizes before you commit to ink.
Step 3: Keep building the layers...
Step 4: Add leaves... I love the tiniest leaf and it's layers on the Vintage Roses set with these tiny flowers.
Ok.. Now to add the foil...
Step 5: Create your own ink pad by cutting a piece of Rangers' Cut-N-Dry foam and spread on some Heidi Swapp Reactive Mist. You don't need a ton, just unscrew the spray top and use the long tube to smear some on white foam.
Step 6: Remember how we left the branch stamp in the MISTI? Here's why. Ink the branch up with your Reactive Mist ink pad and stamp over your branch. You can also stamp the centers dots of the flowers with the Reactive Mist. Let this dry COMPLETELY.
Step 7: Once completely dry, cover with a piece of Minc Foil and send it through your Minc machine or laminating machine.
So pretty!!!
*NOTE: When you use the Mist to create a stamp pad, the liquid will pool around the edges of the stamp. You will not get a solid stamped image with this medium. However, I wanted the distressed look of the edges being foiled.
So there you have it.. A way to incorporate hints of foil in your stamping....
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|by David Luberoff
Senor Associate Director
Given today's debates about housing, transportation, and other issues related to urban development and urban policy more generally, it's instructive to look back at Moses' remarks, which were given at the predecessor of today's Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies. Moses, whose language was florid and at times supercilious, asserted that most major municipal problems could be solved "by genuine courage as distinguished from braggadocio, empty millennial problems, buck passing to Washington and yielding to every obstructionist group, every Johnny-Come-Lately planning expert, every editorial pundit, and every racial, religious and sectional minority. Water supply, sewage and waste disposal, roads, parking, schools, hospitals and health, all are the same category of works requiring an honest, factual, fearless approach and attack by officials with at least a thirst for martyrdom and an instinct for the jugular."
|Robert Moses
The remarks and the harsh judgments are particularly striking because Moses – whose importance is sometimes compared to Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann's impact on 19th century Paris – was a singularly important figure in New York specifically and American cities generally. Working from a series of appointed state and city positions (many of which he held at the same time), Moses oversaw the construction of 13 bridges (starting with the Triborough Bridge, now known as the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge), 416 miles of highways (including the Long Island and Cross-Bronx Expressways), 658 playgrounds and parks (including Jones Beach State Park), key cultural and non-profit institutions (including Lincoln Center and the United Nations), and 150,000 mainly high-rise housing units for the city's low- and moderate-income residents (including Trump Village, a 3,800 unit complex in Coney Island built by Donald Trump's father). These changes not only transformed New York, they also provided a template for redevelopment and highway projects throughout the country.
|Image by Hassan Tahir (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0 ], via Wikimedia Commons
However, such changes came at a huge human cost. In The Power Broker, a critical and seminal biography of Moses that won the Pulitzer Prize in 1974, Robert Caro estimated that taken together, Moses' road, bridge, housing, and urban renewal projects displaced about 250,000 people, most of them poor and many of them blacks and Puerto Ricans. Moreover, Moses strongly supported policies that did not allow blacks to move into many of the new housing projects, such as Stuyvesant Town in Manhattan – a private moderate-income housing development built on land cleared by a city entity that Moses oversaw.
By the time that Moses spoke at the Joint Center, his power had begun to wane largely because of increasingly intense disputes about his aggressive approaches to urban development and growing feuds with key elected officials, particularly then New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller. His opponents, who included Jane Jacobs, author of The Life and Death of American Cities, had stymied his efforts to radically transform lower Manhattan via the construction of an elevated expressway from the Hudson River to the East River and to use urban renewal powers to clear parts of Greenwich Village for high-rise middle-income housing developments. As a result, by the time he gave his Joint Center talk in 1966, Moses, who once simultaneously held 12 separate city and state positions, had only one official post, chairman of the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority, a self-financed public entity that he had chaired since he had led the effort to create it in the 1930s. When Moses spoke at the Joint Center, the authority owned and operated nine bridges and tunnels, including the Verrazano-Narrows, Throgs Neck, and Bronx-Whitestone bridges as well as the Brooklyn-Battery and Queens-Midtown tunnels.
In his remarks, Moses – who was fond of the French aphorism (sometimes mistakenly attributed to Joseph Stalin) that "you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs" – made it clear that his recent defeats had not changed his views. He began by hailing the approach to urban problems taken by Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who headed the Joint Center from 1966 to 1969 and who went on to several prominent posts, including serving as one of New York's U.S. Senators from 1976 until 2000. "I like Mr. Moynihan's approach to our municipal problems," Moses said, "because it is honest and forthright at a time when solutions are mainly the province of demagogues screaming for perfection, smooth politicians with new catchwords and slogans appealing to every racial, religious, sectional and economic faction and minority, image makers, fanatics, self-appointed wowsers, reformers with direct links to Higher Regions, far-out critics with long claws and venomous serpent's tongues, ponderous editors, computer analysts, and just plain nuts."
Moses went on to endorse his support for what had become a common, but inaccurate reading of "The Negro Family: The Case for National Action," the controversial report Moynihan had prepared in 1965 while working in the Johnson Administration. Moses began by restating – and expanding – the report's best-known assertion. "If I understand him," Moses said, "Mr. Moynihan says, and quite rightly I believe, that family, church, and other ancient responsibilities and disciplines must be restored if we hope to meet the problem of negro, Puerto Rican, and other slums and ghettos."
However, like many conservatives who embraced Moynihan's assessment of the state of black families, Moses did not repeat Moynihan's assertion that the problems were largely caused by "three centuries of unimaginable mistreatment" of blacks by whites. Nor did Moses support Moynihan's proposals to address those problems via large-scale government programs focused on strengthening black families. Instead, Moses asserted that responsibilities to family, church and other institutions had to "come first, ahead of improved housing, schools, recreation, the Four Freedoms, integration and even human rights." He added, "But our political and opinion-making leaders don't go for such simple and sane reasoning because it represents restraint and, like charity, begins at home."
Moses, who was forced out of the TBTA in 1968 when the agency became part of the newly formed Metropolitan Transportation Authority which used some of the TBTA's revenues to subsidize the region's subways and commuter rail lines, concluded with a somber assessment of the then-current urban policy landscape. "Almost no one in high office wants to be told that a motorized civilization is bound to glut the roads and that the best we can do will not meet the problem short of approaching much more drastic regulation which will require sacrifice," he said. Then he returned to some familiar critiques of others' ideas, asserting, "Careless experts say we shall meet the demands by preferring rails to rubber, substituting regionalism for states, master planning, super duper departments run by administrative giants of an elite corps of experts who are also seagreen incorruptibles, trained to be public tycoons, more business in government, the repeal of Parkinson's Law, rebuilding everything without hurting or discommoding anybody, and combining immediate, uncompromising slum clearance with revolutionary social objectives."
Moses, who died in 1981, concluded by noting, "Here endeth the lesson, if I have any to offer, and the beginning of the interrogation which will enable you to get even with me." While we haven't yet found a transcript of that discussion we're sure that, like Moses' remarks, they not only would be an informative historic artifact but also would highlight many of the urban issues that we are wrestling with today.
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the beginning of November
Photography: Charlie Rubin
Styling: Siri Thorson
Model: Stephanie Lee @ Elite
I had another opportunity to get together with photographer Charlie Rubin a couple of weeks ago--only this time, I got to take a turn (mostly) behind the lens, styling up the gorgeous Stephanie Lee from Elite. I've said it once, and I'll say it again: there's nothing more simultaneously exhilarating and infinitely depressing than seeing a professional model rocking the shit out of your own wardrobe. Ha! But Steph was a doll, and working with Charlie always proves to be an adventure (in the best possible way.)
You can find a few more shots from the set featured on Fashionising--and you can also take a peek at some of my past styling work over on my tumblr "portfolio" (tumblolio?? The future is now!)
21 comments:
- Megan said...
You did a great job. Love that navajo print coat. Been looking for one forever now. Is it vintage or new?
- November 11, 2010 at 4:17 AM
These photos are gorgeous. I love your coat!
- November 11, 2010 at 7:43 AM
- Maya • Fashion Illustration blog said...
Hahaahah... I love that about model rockin your wardrobe! :-)
- November 11, 2010 at 9:44 AM
- Dalilahday said...
It's a very cool blog. I look all of it. Lovely post !
And sorry for ask, but Can you tell something about my photographs ?
- November 11, 2010 at 10:09 AM
- E-BAD said...
MY YARD! Yay!!!! good coat in the first photo
- November 11, 2010 at 10:24 AM
- E-BAD said...
Oh on that link one of the pics also prominently displays one of Weegee's old dog bones on my green wall. Awesome.
- November 11, 2010 at 10:29 AM
- Cindy said...
gorgeous! great job siri. i adore your coat in the first pic, amazing.
- November 11, 2010 at 12:19 PM
- anja louise said...
They look awesome dude! Nice one.
- November 11, 2010 at 1:42 PM
- Kennedy said...
you did an awesome job, the styling is impeccable!
- November 11, 2010 at 7:01 PM
- Justyna said...
the pictures are gorgeous! that cardigan in the first shot is quite amazing....
- November 12, 2010 at 11:36 AM
- virg said...
I love your blog!
Thanks for your posts, Siri!
- November 13, 2010 at 10:23 AM
- Robyn said...
These are brilliant. I especially love the first one, and the play on depth with the ladder one.
- November 14, 2010 at 10:55 AM
- javiera isidora said...
it worth it, the result si nice! beautiful colors, compositions and your wardrobe so cool!
- November 14, 2010 at 7:02 PM
- t_ said...
Hey. If you're looking for work how about: http://www.thestylerookie.com/2010/11/its-happening.html
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- November 15, 2010 at 9:09 AM
- Roma said...
this shoot was very well put together i love what the model is wearing
- November 15, 2010 at 4:42 PM
- Burcin said...
that model is great I love her face : )
- November 16, 2010 at 11:40 AM
- Annushka said...
Hi! Very beautiful post, i like it)
lovely dear.
- November 16, 2010 at 5:28 PM
- Samantha said...
you did such an amazing job!
- November 17, 2010 at 1:45 PM
- hannah, heart city said...
wow great job! love the jackets. hello dream job??
- November 17, 2010 at 3:55 PM
- Ringo, have a banana! said...
Thank you everyone!!! The jacket is vintage Ralph Lauren, and sadly it actually belongs to a friend. Amazing, no???
Sorry for the absence, this past week has been truly, truly INSANE. But--I've got exciting things brewing!
- November 17, 2010 at 11:46 PM
- ailsa said...
mmmm yum. good job.
on a somewhat related (not really related at all) note, i bought one of the duck bags from baggu after seeing it on your blog, and it's probably the best canvas tote i have ever encountered. so much so that my mum made me order her one after seeing it. so thank you!
- November 19, 2010 at 1:28 AM


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On Mahatma Gandhi's 145th birthday, the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi launched Clean India campaign - Swachh Bharat a countrywide campaign to clean up India and asked people to take a "pledge to affirm to remove garbage, dirt, pollution etc".
I think as a Gandhi Stamp Collector we need to clean up all Forgeries, Bogus , Fake postmark, special cancellation from the philatelic covers.
Don't you think this is very small task compare to Clean India campaign - Swachh Bharat!!
It's Mahatma Gandhi's Vision for Indian Society to clean India and he was also doing it everyday in order to achieve it.
What we can do to help Prime Minister of India to clean India campaign.?
In order to achieve true result of clean India we need to start cleaning every where not only just picking litter or dirt.!!
Clean India means to stop corruption, injustice, greediness etc and which all is wide spread or involved in stamp collection.
I think we can do this cleanup in our stamp collection by just exposing Bogus or Forgery item so we can be proud of it.
Of course cleanliness start from home and Gandhi Stamp Collection is our home.!!
So let's cleanup if you have in your STAMP EXHIBIT, Handbooks, Philatelic books, magazine, yearbook etc instead of glorifying and trying new collectors to invest in stamp.!!
Write in your yearbook or philatelic blog about this bogus stamp instead of getting SCARED from other collectors.
Look at following picture of our (gandhi stamp collectors) HERO how hard he was working.
Following is one of the cleanup I would like to do.
India GANDHI SERVICE STAMP issued in 1948.
FAKE OR BOGUS because it was never overprinted by Indian Post and Telegraph but it is widely glorified as a RARE stamp and it is selling for $200,000.!!!
If this money is used in Clean India campaign - Swachh Bharat it can cleanup 10 small villages in India and also have toilets in every home.!!
Recently I revisited my previous blog post about letter of Jal Cooper (famous philatelist and dealer) selling 1948 Gandhi SERVICE stamp.!!
We know that 1948 Gandhi stamp was 4th stamp issued by India in 1948 in set of four.
But there were very few printed with overprint SERVICEon it specially for Governor General of India.
(we have read only in philatelic handbooks, magazine, yearbooks, exhibit as we don't know exactly what happen during that time)
Not sure who printed this overprint as I read on some stamp exhibit that even Indian Postal Department were opposed to printing overprint SERVICE on stamps as per philatelic evidence.
You cannot rely on philatelic evidence such as Handbooks or pamplets or philatelic yearbook or stamp exhibit or even catalog because everyone wants money.!!
Chances are that Indian Postal Department might be not aware of this SERVICE overprint stamp.!! (all underground activity, and no one cares.!!)
I don't believe this oveprint SERVICE stamps are real. It's an interesting story and I certainly respect people who believe these are literally true, but I don't. I see no evidence for this SERVICE overprint stamp.
Can't believe it how to turn a piece of paper with overprint in to $200000, What a brilliant idea.
In past I wrote blog post about this India 1948 OVERPRINT Gandhi SERVICE stamps.
Click to read and than decide what's going on with your collection.!!
Overprint stamps - 1948 Gandhi SERVICE stamp selling are BOGUS ?
Governor General was thinking he was KING ?
Most Expensive stamp of India as well as world ?
Governor General was not using GANDHI SERVICE stamp.!!
Why not first stamp of India had OVERPRINT SERVICE on it.?
Most Valuable stamps - R U Kidding.!!
India First Stamp after Independence Flag with SERVICE stamp
My personal opinion is that Governor might even don't know about this OVERPRINT Gandhi SERVICE stamp.!!
But some how Jal Cooper was selling this stamp and making huge money at that time.!!
Not sure how Jal Cooper was selling government property.
Not sure how Jal Cooper got hold of this stamps as per philatelic evidence (which is full of lies/incorrect info) it was very limited quantity printed and NOT FOR SALE TO GENERAL PUBLIC OR POST OFFICE.!!
It was only for Governor General of India usage.!!
Did Jal Cooper have any license to sell ?
THINK THINK!! what happen and you will never want this stamp in your collection!!
As we know (or we have read fantasy story about it) Gandhi SERVICE stamp was printed specially for Governor General of India for administrative purpose.
We all are stamp collector and we always get unique idea to create some rare philatelic cover to make it unique and rare.!!
So this might be someone idea to create unique and rare stamp.!!!
So whose idea was this to create Overprint stamp of Gandhi ?
Did someone overprint it instead of Indian Postal department or Swiss printer Courvoisier who printed this 1948 Gandhi stamps. ?
So how someone got this stamps ?
Did someone stole it from Governor General PO ?
Did someone bribe it ?
Did someone created it (printed) it?
It's up to you to decide.
My personal opinion is that there was no official overprint SERVICE stamp of Gandhi.
It's nothing but fantasy story which is glorified by stamp collectors, Philatelic Handbooks, stamp magazine, blogs, website, auctioneer etc.
Some investor think this as a stamp INVESTMENT !!
I consider a piece of paper.!!
This is how everyone makes money.!!
To me this proves that GANDHI SERVICE Stamp is nothing but BOGUS.!!
Jal cooper was making lot of money in 1949 by just selling SERVICE overprint stamp.
Rupees 15 per copy or block of four for 50 rupees.!!
Look at the profit Jal Cooper got by selling this stamp. 1 1/2 anna ( 10 paise) which is 1/10 of the rupee and got 15 rupees in a year.!!
If this much money was made I will also forged this stamp and start selling in 1949.!!
In 1948 gold price was 95 rupees for 10 gms.!!
Even magazine cutout & letter was sold for $400 by eBay seller "rohit98103"
Did eBay got it's commission $40 from this sell ? Because in past I saw buyers were not paying to seller or it was just shill bidding.!!
Did someone created this Forgery of Jal Cooper letter ?
To make fantasy story more interesting there were covers made with stamps.
Following are some of the FORGERY cover or piece of paper made with stamps by applying FORGERY OR BOGUS rubber stamp of Governor General.
It's a fantasy story about a Gandhi SERVICE stamp and we all think it's REAL like all princess story.!!
To know more about this kind of activity read my following blog post and think what are the possibilities in cheating, glorification, SHILL bidding, FAKE, Forgery etc.
1) 1948 Stamps False hope of Riches?
2) 1948 Gandhi Stamps: Are False hope of Riches - Part II ?
3) 1948 Gandhi Mourning Private FDC : Are False hope of Riches - Part III?
4) 1948 Expensive Gandhi FDC : Are False hope of Riches - Part IV?
5) 1948 Gandhi Stamps Early Usage cover : Gandhi Stamps Are False hope of Riches - Part V?
6) Maxi Card sold for $5100 with 1948 Gandhi Stamps - False hope of Riches - Part VI?
7) Indian Philately Exposed
8) Indian Philately Exposed - Part II
9) Gandhi SERVICE overprint stamp price fell from $1009 to $1.!!
10) How can you tell that Gandhi SERVICE stamp is FAKE or Forgery ?
So let's cleanup if you have in your STAMP EXHIBIT instead of glorifying and trying new collectors to invest in stamp.!!
Gandhi Stamps Club


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In the previous days, I've received confirmation that I achieved the new certification
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A valuable post in the "Born to Learn" site describes the changes and the transition options available from the existing MCSD.
The new certifications will not have an expiry date, and there will be the possibility to re-earn them by passing every year an additional exam taken from a list of electives.


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Junta-Style Transition in EgyptWritten by Stephen Lendman Subject: Philosophy: Fascism
by Stephen Lendman
Events remain fluid. They're fast-moving. Interim President Adly Mansour appointed Hazem Beblawi prime minister. He's a technocrat. He's an economics PhD. He and Mansour are pro-Western stooges.
From 1965 - 1980, Beblawi held academic positions at the University of Alexandria and elsewhere. From 1980 - 1983, he was an Industrial Bank of Kuwait manager.
From 1983 - 1995, he was Export Development Bank in Egypt chairman and CEO. From 1995 - 2000, he was UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) executive secretary.
From 2001 - 2011, he served as an Abu Dhabi-based Arab Monetary Fund advisor. After Mubarak's ouster, he was an Egyptian Social Democratic Party founding member. Democracy in Egypt is verboten.
In July 2011, Beblawi was appointed deputy prime minister for economic affairs and finance minister. He succeeded Samir Radwan. After four months he resigned. He did so after security forces killed Coptic Christians.
SCAF pressured him to stay. He did so until December. Momtaz Saeed suceeded him. On July 6, state media announced Mohamed ElBaradei as new prime minister.
On July 7, transition hit a speed bump. Egypt's Salafist Nour party rejected his appointment. Two days later, Beblawi's was announced. ElBaradei was appointed vice president for foreign relations.
A previous article profiled him. He's safe. He's pro-Western, anti-populist, business as usual neoliberal. He and Beblawi assure continuity.
SCAF General Abdel Fatah al-Sisi warned against disrupting Egypt's "difficult and complex" transition.
"The future of the nation is too important and sacred for maneuvers or hindrance, whatever the justifications," he added.
Discussions are underway to select new ministers and complicit apparachiks. Subservient pro-Western ones alone are considered.
Mansour said he stands by his constitutional decree. It was prepared secretly. It represents junta power. It reflects despotism writ large, It has 33 articles.
It usurps unchecked power. It does so irresponsibly. It does by diktat. It includes a sharia law provision strongly opposed when Islamists proposed it last year.
It dictates constitutional amendment procedures and what's proposed. It gives regime leaders virtual total authority. SCAF has final say. Mansour serves at its pleasure. So do Beblawi, ElBaradei, appointed ministers, and complicit apparachiks.
Mansour and Beblawi will announce what generals decree. They take orders from Washington.
A state of emergency exists. On expiration, it'll be extended three months. It's renewable. It's potentially indefinite.
SCAF's word is final. It's beholden to Washington. Strings are pulled there. Democracy's a convenient fiction. It's nowhere in sight.
Mansour's declaration decrees a constitutional referendum in about four and a half months. Parliamentary elections are supposed to follow around six weeks later. Presidential elections will be about six months from now.
Schedules are fluid. SCAF has final say. So-called transition can be interminable. Rogue states operate that way.
Mansour heads a separate National Defense Council. He'll oversee security, Egypt's military budget, and laws relating to its armed forces. Doing so assures junta power rule. It bears repeating. Democracy's a convenient fiction.
Al-Ahram is Egypt's leading broadsheet. It's state controlled. It quoted White House spokesman Jay Carney saying:
"We are cautiously encouraged by the announcement by the interim government that it (has) a potential plan for moving forward with a democratic process and elections, both parliamentary and presidential."
"We call on all parties to engage in a dialogue about that process and not to, you know, refuse to participate."
Al-Ahram said Obama "reached out to several key leaders in the region, calling Qatar's new emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani and Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al-Nahayan."
"(H)e urged (them) to use their influence in Egypt to press each side in the political standoff to avoid violence and to hasten the return of a democratic government."
Muslim Brotherhood officials reject constitutional changes. They're against SCAF's timetable. They call Morsi's ouster illegitimate. New elections bring Egypt "back to zero," they said.
MB denounced Beblawi's selection. Spokesman Gehad el-Haddad said he represents traditional elitist rule. MB officials call Tuesday's appointments and others to follow illegitimate actions of unelected leaders.
Freedom and Justice party member Hamza Zawbaa said what happened is "not our business. We have nothing to do with that."
"It's a military coup, and we don't negotiate with military leaders."
Beblawi's selection shows SCAF's true agenda. It's "anti-revolution enshrined by a military coup."
MB member Bassem Ouda was ousted as supply and internal trade minister. He was surprised about Beblawi's appointment. In 2011, he resigned from Egypt's rocky transition. He rejected Morsi's premier offer.
Nour party hardliners approved Beblawi. They rejected ElBaradei for premier. They're considering his vice presidential appointment. They'll say when ready whether or not they approve.
On Tuesday, Saudi Arabia and the UAE pledged billions of dollars in emergency aid. Washington's aid will continue. It comes with strings. So does Saudi and UAE money.
Beblawi's first order of business requires pain. Most Egyptians reject it.
Bread and butter issues matter most. Protests reflect what's ignored. Widespread poverty, unemployment and extreme deprivation enrage people. They want long neglected issues addressed.
Beblawi assures greater neoliberal harshness. Convincing people won't be easy. He's got "sour medicine" in mind. Morsi didn't have "guts" enough to go as far as he wants.
Doing so assures no honeymoon. Egyptians oppose business as usual. They're tired of sacrifices they alone make. Beblawi's dismissive.
"The thing is we have a situation whereby we have to tighten the belt," he said. "And this means we have to pay a price."
"And it is difficult to ask people to sacrifice, particularly after the 'revolution,' where everyone was expecting to get rewards for past experiences."
Beblawi's notion of "sacrifice" matches Obama's. Ordinary people alone are burdened. Robbing poor Peter to benefit rich Paul is policy. Western diktats demand it.
Beblawi and ElBaradei appointments reflect business as usual. Inflicting more pain when help's badly needed assures greater public outrage.
Most anti-Morsi National Salvation Front (NSF) members reject what's proposed. So do Tamarod campaign supporters. Their leaders weren't consulted.
A twitter comment said it's "impossible to accept (Mansour's decree) because it founds a new dictatorship. We will hand over to the (military-installed interim) president our amendments to the declaration."
MB officials remain undaunted. They'll challenge what they call illegitimate. They urged "an uprising against those who want to steal the revolution with tanks."
Senior advisor Jihad Haddad said they'll put their lives on the line. "If our blood is the price that is needed for this country's conscience to wake up or for the rest of the world's conscience to wake up, we would be gladly giving it," he said.
No one wants another Syria. Avoiding it remains to be seen. More blood on the streets looks certain. At issue is how much for how long.
A Final Comment
Broken clocks are right twice daily. Give credit when deserved. Media scoundrels rarely merit it. Washington Post editors are no exceptions.
On July 9, they headlined "Egypt's generals, President Obama double down on failed policies."
Long-suffering Egyptians deserve much better. Worse ahead is planned. Democracy's a convenient fiction. Generals have final say.
They're "repeating the same abuses and authoritarian practices that preceded the rise to power of the Islamist government they ousted."
"(B)rute force" shows it. A "little-known judge (was) appointed president." Doing so was illegitimate.
Mansour "issued a constitutional decree." It was "prepared in secret….without the agreement of (other) political forces."
"The governing document contains the worst elements of the constitution the military suspended, and adds more."
It usurps "unchecked power."
"Egypt desperately needs a political compromise to avoid further violence, not another diktat."
Morsi and other Freedom and Justice party members are under house arrest. Secret deals are arranged. People have no say.
"This crude and counterproductive behavior should come as no surprise to Egyptians." It's been de rigueur for decades.
"The Obama administration is doubling down on its own failures."
"During 2011 and 2012, it refused to respond to the military's abuses by reducing or suspending aid."
"For the past year, it remained publicly silent and passive while the Morsi government abused its powers."
"Now it is contending that a cutoff of US aid - required by law following any ouster of an elected government in which the military plays a decisive role - would not be in the US interest."
"By refusing to follow the law even after the military's brutal and autocratic actions, the administration is sending the message that nothing - short of war with Israel - will lead to a rupture with the Egyptian armed forces."
"That will merely encourage the generals to continue their reckless and counterproductive behavior."
Too bad all WaPo editorials, commentaries and articles aren't this candid. Rare ones deserve credit. Maybe they'll encourage more.
Doing the right thing is its own reward. So is good journalism. An open letter to New York Times editors urged trying it sometime and see.
It said try publishing "All the News That's Fit to Print" for real. Doing so may encourage never another way. That's how things are supposed to be.
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Kendall Jenner enjoyed a lot more than music following the AMAs over the weekend, so could this be the beginning of a new flame?
Kendall clearly got the best of both worlds, when last night's 'AMA' celebration turned into a whole lotta 'PDA.'
Kendall Jenner may have found love (or maybe just lust) in a hopeless place last night following the American Music Awards. The supermodel arrived at Drake's AMAs after party held at Los Angeles club Delilah, and what seemed like a girls night out with close pals Karlie Kloss, Justin Skye and Kourtney Kardashian, eventually took a total 180 when LA Lakers Jordan Clarkson walked in.
Witnesses from last night revealed that the girls packed into a booth, while dancing and singing along to the DJ, but as soon as Jordan made his way over, Kendall greeted him with a hug just before he was seen putting his arm around her waist as they spoke. The source also stated that Jordan was also seen resting his hand on Kendall's inner thigh or her hand would be on his leg, and at one point, Jordan even gave her a bunch of kisses on her cheek, telling E! News, QUOTE, "You could see that they're really into each other and they certainly weren't hiding it. They were very touchy-feely!"
The source went on to say that Kendall was laughing the whole time, and that, "She was super giddy and loving every minute of it. It was obvious that they have a very playful, fun relationship. They were extremely affectionate and sweet towards one another. It's obvious he makes her so happy!"
Although the eyewitness stated that the two refrained from kissing, they did mention that QUOTE, "You could tell that they didn't care about anyone else and, to each other, they were the only two in the room." Ok, so we know, we know, don't get our hopes up yet as this may be nothing serious at all, but sources say Kendall and Jordan have a good understanding of their liking toward each other and that they're "on the same page," so fingers crossed for much more good news to follow.
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In the words of Pope John Paul II, "The Gospel of Life is the heart of Jesus' message...it is to be preached with dauntless fidelity as 'good news' to the people of every age and culture".
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Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Four Plus Hours at the Indianapolis Airport
My travels, or travails, have taken me from my beautiful country home to the big city. Indianapolis isn't as large as some cities, but the airport is just as big and boring as a lot of them. I am not necessarily enjoying this adventure.
My flight today left Dulles International at 12:15. I arrived in Indianapolis just about 2pm. I came here for meeting that is to take place in Terre Haute, Indiana tomorrow morning at 8:30 in the morning. I am to meet my boss, but he does not arrive until 6:30, about two hours from now.
Not long after I got off United Airlines' flight 7803 in Indy, I proceeded as slowly as I could to the baggage pickup area. I really had little to no idea how I would spend the four hours until Big Daddy arrives. It didn't take me long to explore every nook and cranny of this airport seeking a venue in which to sit my butt down and wait. Fortunately, or unfortunately, however you see it, I found a very nice bar just outside one of the concourses. I took a seat at the bar, perused the bar's menu of delectable appetizers, which was made up of numerous types of deep-fried fare and other nasty sounding things.
You all know I am particular about the beer I will drink. This bar just happened to serve Sierra Nevada Pale Ale and assorted mass produced industrial swills: you know-Bud Light, Miller Lite, Michelob Ultra – the usual crap some people believe to be "good" tasting beer. God must have a special purpose for these poor, gullible, unfortunate souls.
I decided to have a Sierra and some chips and salsa. Time to go: three hours, forty-five minutes. I knew pacing my consumption was in perfect order, but for those who know how quickly I can put this stuff down my esophagus, pacing is nearly a Mission Impossible. About thirty minutes into my wait I have polished off three Sierras, all the fritos y salsa I had ordered, and knew number four would not serve me well. I paid the bill and skedaddled. I went on a search to find a quiet place to work. Don't laugh: This is work.
Here I sit in a secluded corner of the baggage area of the Indianapolis Airport writing BS for my Hell-Of-A-Guy.Com website so wanting to go back up to the bar and enjoy another Sierra, but it would not be prudent, especially with His Majesty coming in to Indy in a little under two hours. It will be bad enough I have beer breath; a buzz will not be a good thing to have as I greet the guy who keeps me employed.
The experience has caused me to make some notes to self:
1. Never drink five beers while waiting your boss.
2. It is very difficult to hide a $60.00 bar tab on your expense report.
3. Four and half hours in an airport is not a fun time.
And that is all I have to say about that…
Monday, March 26, 2007
A New Theme, A New Vision
I have made a huge, life altering decision. When I first began to post things I have written for this website it was my intention to compose only humorus stuff, stuff one can laugh at. Somewhere along the line I stuck a few philosophical pieces in and also some sad stuff. No more! From this point on it is my intention to only post happy stuff. From now on this will be known as the "Happy Shit Site" and not the "Sad Shit Site." So, stay tuned for good shit from me. But first I have to come up with some good shit.
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Life Comes at You Fast…
You have all probably seen the series of commercials on TV with the tag line "Life Comes at You Fast." Well, ain't it the truth?
A friend called me and told me about a handsome, young friend of his, a bank teller in New Mexico. This particular young man at age twenty-three worked his way through college with an impressive 3+ GPA, his dream, to go further with his education and a goal of getting certification as a physical therapist. As with a lot of people he got it in his head he would not be able to do it – you know, money, circumstances, the load of "what ifs," "I can'ts" and "maybes."
My friend – in fact one of the best, if not the best – doesn't quite look at life that way. For him, it's Katie bar the door, full speed ahead; take no prisoners, no getting off the train until the last stop in Brooklyn. There is no "surrender" in my bud's vocabulary. He knew if the young man really wanted to go further, he could do it. My friend found the young man a school offering the program he wanted to attend, but in Nevada, not New Mexico. With a gentle push my friend inspired the young man to apply to this school. He did and was he accepted, and he was given the chance to go on a scholarship. The young man's life was falling into place. Could it be any better than this?
This young man had grown up on a tough road. Life comes at you fast, but it isn't always great and it isn't always easy. This kid had it stacked against him from the beginning, but it did not stop him from aspiring to be something. He worked hard to rise above his humble beginnings and have the future the American Dream promises is available to anyone willing to work for it. My friend is proud of what this young man accomplished, and was willing to give support to this young man to get to the top, to realize his dream.
Life comes at you fast! Never lose sight of that. One never knows what lay ahead. In cosmic time we are but here for a very brief time. Life is tenuous at best. We live never knowing when the thread of life will come to its end or snap. Life comes at you fast! Live it now. Don't hang back there somewhere…forget what happened yesterday and live for today, in the "now." This young man, so full of promise, was thrown from a moving car and his young life ended. How very sad. Life came at him fast.
And that is all I have to say about that…
Friday, March 16, 2007
Up or Down
I have an office in a small building in Beautiful Downtown Berkeley Springs, WV (aka Town of Bath), population 711. The primary tenet/owner is an attorney. The other tenets include a lady using one office on the second floor and another rented by a very handsome, somewhat older, pudgy, balding guy…also known as a "Hell of a Guy." The building, just to create a mental picture for you, is a former residence and probably about eighty- to ninety-years old. Its condition borders on "soon-to-be-condemned" to "a-good-wind-will-blow-it-away." Three to four hundred thousand dollars in improvements might bring it up to a condition of something worth looking at. Trust me; it isn't pretty, but it suits my purpose. The second floor of this less than palatial edifice has four offices (formerly bedrooms) and a bath – technically called a "restroom" in an office building. Only two of the offices are occupied. No other business person in his or her right mind would rent space in this dump, but, again, it serves my purpose.
Most of the time the only people who use the unisex "restroom" on this floor are the lady tenet and me, and with that bit of information, herein lay the issue.
All of my adult life it has been my rule – and I am the king – to put the lid, not just the seat, on the toilet in the down position. I opine that if the damn thing has a lid, it must have been put there for a reason, and the reason is for it to be down. My floor mate must have been raised otherwise. She never puts the lid down. I always put it down.
Occasionally I hear her office door open and hear the "restroom" door close. The walls in this building are not very soundproof. Sound carries. I hear her having to lift the lid, and the nefarious side of me loves to hear the little thump it makes as the lid strikes the water closet. Thump! Smile.
I believe she plays the game with me in reverse. I bet she chuckles to herself each time she hears me shut that door, because she knows the lid is up. She knows I hate it, and I do I hate it. Put the damn lid down!!!
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Am I doomed? This makes book number three from my favorite authors that bombed. Kenyon penned an extremely predictable short (and I mean short) story that pissed me off. Until Death do us part, we meet the only married pair of Dark-hunters that were converted together. Esperetta, the daughter of Dracula, fell in love with her family's mortal enemy, Velkan. To make a long story short, they were going to pull a Romeo and Juliet but Dracula stabbed Esperetta in the heart before torturing Velkan to death. Esperetta awakens in a grave, claws her way to the surface, and finds her husband killing her father and giving his head to the Turks. Esperetta can't forgive Velkan for murdering her father and leaves him.
Five hundred years later, Esperetta is tricked into returning to Romania, sees her hubby, and Bam! they're back together. Esperetta sucks as a heroine because she doesn't stick with what she says. Not only that but after five hundred years I don't believe that a couple is going to make up in a couple of days.
L. A. Banks wrote Ride the Night Away in a style that I can appreciate. I love the way she writes dialogue because I believe it. The words are ones that I can relate to and that makes me extremely comfortable. So what's the problem? I just didn't like the story. This guy has been dreaming of a girl and vv. One dark night evil erupts from a building where said guy is painting a mural. He flees and on his way sees a girl being attacked. He goes back for her and saves her. Flash forward to unbelievable sex scenes meshed with tender vows before they are told they can't be together, yet. I forced myself to finish this story because it just wasn't a story line that I cared for.
Susan Squires The Gift. It's time to say this, I don't like regency romance novels. They bore me to tears and so did this. There were many sex scenes involving the hero and a vampire queen, the antagonist. The heroine is determined to save the hero and embarks on a life altering path. I'm not saying anything else other than, I didn't like this short story either.
Finally just when I thought I was going to make it through the book I run into The Forgotten One by Rhonda Thomas. This book is a small portion of the Wulf series and if you liked that series maybe you'll like this (doubtful). This story is about Anne Baldwin and her stable master Merrick. It is extremely formulaic and predictable making me feel as if I read this story a thousand times. Enough said, I'm going to give this book 1 star out of 5. The one star is because normally I like these authors just not today.


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And then there were nine.
And one of those nine is Greg Merson.
The University of Maryland dropout from Laurel qualified Monday night in Las Vegas for the finals of the World Series of Poker's main event. He'll play this October for the $8.5 million grand prize.
"I don't even think I realize what's happening," he said in the voice of a typical 24-year-old trying to hold the phone to his head while laying horizontally and talking to someone calling from a 9-to-5 job. "I just feel super lucky."
Merson's play in the tournament Monday night, including an amazing straight-over-straight win early on, garnered headlines that used the word "legend." Superstar Olympian Michael Phelps gave him props on Twitter. And ESPN color commentator Norman Chad told me, "This kid is pretty impressive."
"He just seems to be in a zone," Chad continued. "He's on an incredible run, a once-in-a-lifetime run."
Merson knows that. Earlier this week, he told me that winning the main event was a total "crapshoot." In the crapshoot department, he joins a handful of Marylanders to pop into the final round on hot streaks, including Darvin Moon and Steve Dannenmann, who both finished second.
I asked Dannenmann earlier today whether there was something about Maryland that helps produce unbelievable, dramatic, come-from-nowhere streaks. He said, "It's probably just dumb luck."
Merson has been living in Toronto for most of the past year so he can play legally online. That's how he makes his living. (His routine: Wake up, play poker, have lunch, work out, shower, play poker.) He is headed back here today — home.
"I've been super homesick this year," he said, sounding a little perkier. "I think this will all sink in when I see my parents. I can't wait to hug my mom. This is awesome for me, but it's nice to make my parents proud."
More from The Washington Post:
Md. casino deliberations to continue a few more days
Smoking outlawed at the University of Maryland
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While I wait for the initial copies of Cree Star Blanket to arrive at my doorstep for a preliminary evaluation, I've decided to finally start a personal project of mine that I've been thinking about for a few months. People like Steve Simon, Zack Arias, Chase Jarvis, and David Hobby all put a lot of emphasis on personal projects. Having just completed one, I know the feeling. That was more of a magazine piece in a hardcover book, though. The writing and the fact-finding was just as important, if not a little bit more important than the photos. There were two kinds of photos in Cree Star Blanket — photos that documented the actual project, like the mosaic or archive photos of the Chalk Talk activity (most of which were not taken by me as I could not create the book while the project was actually happening) and portraits of teachers and students that were involved with the project to provide some "faces of the project", if you will. This time, however, I'm aiming for something that is far more skewed to photos than writing, though there will inevitably be a few sentences here and there.
So, what is this project? Well, a few months ago, I decided to see how interested my friends were in letting me document them in their personal spaces, like their offices, garages, bedrooms, etc. I sort of did a "proof of concept" a few months ago when I documented Michael's dorm room before he dismantled it. It showed promise. I was too occupied with Cree Star Blanket to really take on another project at the same time, but I didn't want to give up on the idea, so I'm starting it again. I might make it a series of short photo essays (one essay per subject), all focused on the idea of being young, and how different people go about it. There is not one way of being a teenager, but there is a general idea of youth that older people sort of rally around. Sometimes it's positive, but often it's negative. When it is positive, it's usually just a list of accomplishments from someone labeled a wunderkind meant to give the viewer an inferiority complex. The subjects of these often "softer-than-soft" news snippets aren't really portrayed as real, multifaceted people. I hope to go beyond that.
I might approach this like an old LIFE story, following a person around for a few hours of their day, with a majority of that time spent in the personal space that means most to them. The room/office/garage would serve as a visual anchor for the rest of the story, a repeating motif that unifies the project. I don't think I could pull a Gene Smith and follow someone around for 3 weeks. Not yet, anyway. Somewhere in the middle of the project, I might incorporate video into it, if I feel comfortable enough with the medium (that's after I get a dSLR that can shoot video that isn't awful).
Do you have a personal space that you would like me to document and show to the world (on this blog or elsewhere)? Does this space have "you" written all over it? Would you mind being casually interviewed? If so, drop me a line and tell me briefly why you should be considered. I'll be contacting a few people as well. I can't guarantee that everyone will have a chance, but I'll consider every entry.


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I combined the Paper Players sketch and the colors from Colour Q this week.
I felt like some of my patterned paper from this fall's Flirty CTMH kit went great with this color scheme. I decided to make a not-so-traditional Valentine's card. I {heart} doing that for Christmas, so why not give it a whirl now?
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Personal SummaryOver 30 years experience in a wide range of sales and marketing roles, including a family business, several Fortune 100 companies, a Big 4 consultancy and a start-up, which I took from just me to 50 people and £38 million in sales.
I have now exited in a trade sale and am looking at consultancy and non-executive roles as well as investment opportunities. I post regular thoughts on Sales and Marketing on my blog at http://www.theinvisibleceo.com
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These solar-powered row houses in Örebro, Sweden are 150m2 flats designed for growing families. The site is an L-shaped corner of a larger city block and it is this L-shape and its solar orientation that determined the form of the project. Because we wanted to line the roofs with solar panels and because we wanted the solar panels to face south, we broke the project up into two parts: one part with a north-south orientation and one part with an east-west orientation. The roofline was then designed to articulate each flat individually and each flat with a south-facing plane at an angle between 25° to 45°. 4 row houses are grouped together with an east-west orientation. These flats have a saw-tooth roof with an east-west ridgeline and a 45°angle for the solar panels. This roof was designed, even its appearance to be a rack for the solar panels. The perforated metal triangle in the façade is the rack while the white plaster shows the actual roof plane. The remaining 6 row houses have a north-south orientation but also have an east-west ridgeline. To articulate each flat individually the ridgeline is placed asymmetrically and then mirrored to create two versions of the same roof. This technique creates individuality for each flat while maintaining a cohesive appearance for the overall project. The façade materials also follow the same logic. All of the facades that face east or west are treated with white plaster. All facades that face north or south are covered in dark-silver steel. This technique creates façade variation and individuality for the residents while maintaining a visually cohesive project. Another façade layer of wood lattice was added outside the steel-cladding on alternate flats to further articulate them individually and to add texture, warmth, and dimension.