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…and a last word (for now) on link spamming
The Register's latest letters bag has some people who are angry about link spamming. Very angry. And who would like me to give up the person's name I spoke to so they can visit some anger upon them, in the manner of Samuel L Jackson in Pulp Fiction.
First: sure, link spam is annoying, to say the least. I too have better things to do than delete spam about p*ker. I'd prefer to throw this blog open to comments from people who want to comment on its content from all over. But - can't. That's how it is. To win a battle (or a war) you have to understand your opponent's mind. To them, it's nothing personal; it's just money.
Second: I'm really, really not going to go back on what journalism should be about, which is revealing the stories of people who should be heard and keeping any promises made to them along the way that enabled those stories to be told, just so some people with anger-management issues can get emotionally incontinent.
Now let's move on.
- These posts might be related (the database thinks..):
- Club Mobile, you are spamming liars.. Not! (3 August 2004; score: 40.44%)
- Ho hum, more spammer collateral damage: trackbacks are off (1 February 2005; score: 36.26%)
- Nothing personal: an interview with a "link" (and blog) spammer for The Register (31 January 2005; score: 34.84%)
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Yusuf Smith Says:
February 3rd, 2005 at 6:39 pm
I wish there was some blogging software - and not just big portal packages like Drupal, PHPnuke etc. - that allowed readers to register before they could post comments. I have a MT blog and at one point I made it necessary for commenters to use TypeKey in order to comment without moderation. But some people said they couldn't use it, and it killed off the life on the blog. Nowadays I make fairly regular trips to the nearest computer, in order to get rid of any spam. It's frustrating, but at least there's somewhere in London now (other than home) where it's free. I'm not sure if the guys at WordPress have this feature in version 1.5 which is in beta now, so I hear.
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February 3rd, 2005 at 10:15 pm
Wordpress already has a feature where you can make people register before they can post comments. But I thought it's better to let people just post - that's how I like to use other blogs. The problem is that it works too for link spammers.
But the answer to that is just better anti-spam stuff which can deal with trackbacks too. I'll sort that out pretty soon and have trackbacks back on too.


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Revamping Goldman's board
In all the bellyaching about the governance of the biggest banks, and the fact that their boards were spectacularly unqualified to provide any kind of oversight of what they were doing, Goldman Sachs has gone largely unmentioned. But what's true of Merrill Lynch and Bank of America is true of Goldman too: its executives need some kind of adult supervision, seeing as how they work for their shareholders, rather than just for themselves.
Yet this interview with one Goldman board member, Ruth Simmons, hardly instills in me the confidence that she can or will understand what Goldman is doing, stop them from acting in a reckless manner, or keep a close eye on compensation as she wears her hat as a member of the compensation committee:
Simmons said she originally joined Goldman's board at the recommendation of Smith's Board of Trustees around the time that she started a center for financial literacy on campus.
"We had a big push to think about how we could improve the knowledge and ability of women to manage their financial affairs," she said. "At the same time, there was a good deal of interest in the fact that women have not done so well in the financial sector and on Wall Street."
Simmons has moved on from Smith, and is now the president of Brown University. But of all the reasons to join the Goldman Sachs board of directors, improving the ability of women to manage their financial affairs has got to be one of the worst: that's simply not something that Goldman board members do. Instead, they're meant to represent Goldman's shareholders and oversee Goldman's management.
But rather than bring any kind of financial or economic expertise to bear on her job, it seems that Simmons was happy to simply sit back and receive the gift of wisdom in such matters from the Squid:
Simmons said her service on Goldman's board gave her the economic savvy to take certain risks that she might not have taken otherwise, such as the introduction of need-blind admissions.
This seems to me to be both an admission that she was lacking in economic savvy when she joined the board, and an admission that being on the Goldman board made her more prone to taking financial and economic risks than she was before. Is this really the kind of person that Goldman's shareholders want representing their interests as an overseer of management?
There's no indication in the interview that Simmons takes her fiduciary responsibilities to Goldman's shareholders particularly seriously; instead, there's a great deal of talk about the effect of the directorship on her and on Brown, not to mention a fair amount of standard-issue ass-covering:
"There are lots of things in a complex institution that go on," she said. "You're not in charge of everything that your friends do and every policy that organizations that you're affiliated with issue."
It seems to me that the days when Goldman Sachs could fill its board with these standard corporate board types — the college president, the management consultant, the business-school professor, even the long-time chairman and CEO of Fannie Mae — have surely come to an end. It's made a stab at beginning to reform its compensation practices, and I'm quite sure that's entirely a decision of management rather than of the compensation committee. Next up, it should get to work on the board, appointing people who will look hard at managerial business decisions, and won't allow themselves to be snowed by Lloyd. Indeed, he should welcome the extra set of eyes and a few tough questions: it's good, in his position, to be forced to know what you're doing and be on your toes.
The Simmons interview is egregious, certainly. But your shots at the management consultant and business school professor are less accurate. Rajat Gupta ran McKinsey for years and Bill George turned Medtronic into a world-leading company. Neither may be financial titans, but I'd be confident saying neither would be snowed by Blankfein or anyone else. They're not mere adornments on the board. I suspect they will be as tough as anyone else they could fine (which, in the atmosphere of public company boards, generally doesn't mean tough enough — agreed).
So after the defense, the barb. Follow George on Twitter, http://twitter.com/Bill_George, and it's easy to wonder if he ever met a CEO he didn't admire. The other day he lauded the choice of John Thain for CIT.
Sure, it's easy to lampoon Simmons as a hood-ornament Board member, but different Board members bring different kinds of expertise. That's as true for a Church Board as it is for Goldman's. Perhaps Ms. Simmons brings expertise in higher education finance. With experience at Brown, Smith, Princeton, Spelman, Radcliff, GWU, and USC she certainly has seen the inside of an administration building.
Such experience might not be relevant to structuring CDS IFSA contracts, but it might be relevant to HR, client finances, public finance, and the rock-star culture that attended investors like David Swensen at Yale.
Give public companies back to the shareholders.
At a minimum we need to ban bondholders from holding positions on the board of directors on companies in which they hold bonds.
Shareholders are the best people to look out for their interests in the companies they are supposed to be the owners of.
It seems to me that management did a remarkable job and deserve the bonus that they recieved. They did not lose anything when the crash came as they had the fore sight to insure their bad risks with AIG, who took the lose. Goldman recieved 100% coverage on the sub-prime instruments and got billions of low cost money from the government to use in further investments and have already repaid that money. A remarkable feat to say the least in this economy.
To the prior commentator – I'm not sure that emerging from the crash with it's assets intact qualifies as good financial management. Saying, "My business model allows us to generate substantial profits, so long as the government steps in to take up the duties of our counterparties and then exits their positions at a substantial taxpayer loss," may work, but it's not the thing which management genius is built upon.
I've never bought the Goldman line that they had adequately insured themselves against the crash without government involvement. A world in which the government didn't stabilize financial institutions is not a world where AIG pays out. Goldman's unwillingness to admit at much is naked contempt bordering on idiocy.

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- Calories: 96
- Calories from fat: 18%
- Fat: 1.9g
- Saturated fat: 0.5g
- Monounsaturated fat: 0.9g
- Polyunsaturated fat: 0.5g
- Protein: 3.3g
- Carbohydrate: 16.4g
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There is something amiss here. By my simple calculation and I am using a Chinese made calculator, if an individual needs 2000 RMB per month then they would need 24000 RMB per year and for 20 years this would work out to be (20 x 24,000 RMB) 480,000 RMB. Can you say where you got the sum of 3.14 million RMB. There is a vast difference between your figure and mine. 3.14 million RMB over 20 years would equate to having an annual income of 157,000 RMB or 13,083 RMB per month. Now come on, what's the game here………..
oh and I forgot to say that I live and work in North Western China and know how much people earn a month in my province and it certainly isn't 13,000 a month.
The gist of the article is that China is a greying society, pensions are harder to fund because there are fewer workers per pensioner, and some Chinese EMIGRATE for a better retirement.
Another piece of the puzzle is that China needs to consider IMMIGRATION as a way to rebalance the worker-to-pensioner ratio.
The country is planning to fund social insurance in part using taxes from foreign workers. The Rectified.name blog explains that under newish provisions of the social insurance law, foreign workers will be guaranteed retirement benefits after they (and their employers) contribute to the system for fifteen years. However, during those fifteen years there is no interest on foreign workers' contributions (acutally, a net loss due to inflation). Most foreign workers have no intention to stay in China for 15 years, and the government has promised to refund their contributions upon meeting certain conditions, but I wouldn't bank on it. In sum, the government will either be borrowing or comandeering foreign workers contributions.
It doesn't seem coincidental that China has also just enacted, on June 30, a new Exit-Entry Administration Law, seeking primarily to more strictly enforce rules against foreigners illegally entering, working in, or living in China. Such foreigners could be evading the social insurance laws.
Some related provisions of the new Exit-Entry Law and how it will be enforced:
* The Ministry of Public Security says it's time for China to build special detention facilities for foreigners residing or working illegally.
* The law encourages Chinese citizens to "report clues" regarding foreigners illegally living or working in China.
* Foreigners seeking residence certificates must provide fingerprints and "other biometric data" to the Public Security Bureau.
* The Public Security Bureau may restrict foreigners residences to specified locations.
My (very) preliminary analysis of the new Exit-Entry Law is here: http://lawandborder.com/?p=1381.
Lazy Chinese swines….worse than the Greeks!!!
Didn't you know? Lillian Lin flunked 1st grade math, so much for WSJ credibility.
2000 yuan per month seems extremely low. Especially considering old people get sick more often, and healthcare is expensive. Unless the implication is that this 2000 per month would be supplemented by income from a child?
Plus there's inflation…I think this 3 million yuan number was computed with these things in mind. Elderly living on 2000 a month is too low.
@John Smith
Learn some basic Finance 101 and use a financial calculator if you never heard about it.
As for Lilian Lin, let's see which country will increase the retirement age first, US or China? And which program will catch the fire first US social security system or China Pension program.
A ) Look at the number of Chinese leaving the motherland to live in Canada, New Zealand, and United States to take advantage of the retiement benifits these nations have to offer instead of staying in mainland China as an example of why your social security system will break before long!
B ) Look at China's Central Bank, who released information that China's social security fund will be depleted of 18 to 20 trillion yuan by 2013 alone! By 2035, China's social security fund shortfall is expected to require 40% of China's GDP to stay in operation to 2035!
C ) Lastly, look at the data the Bureau Of Statistics uses to come up with this $315.00 a month calculation! Of course, the information is 'OFF THE MARK' as the 'Bureau' uses unchanged variables such as changing interest rates, mortality rates, and lack of salary growth rates to come up with that figure! Many citizens on Sina Weibo don't even address those numbers, as they are worried just about inflation costs in China, economic slowdown in China, the expensive medical treatments in China, and the high housing costs in China! Liao Shupeng, head investigator of the BOC research team has stated the dangers of relying on the oft 'OFF THE MARK' Bureau Of Statistics numbers will leave many younger Chinese workers with nothing!
John Smith, I feel bad for you.
1 you never learned to do basic math on paper
2 you can't afford a better calculator
@ Jimmythefish
To lazy to use the space bar.
WSJ put the wrong picture. There is supposed to be a group of miserable looking old Chinese. They don't even look 80 years old, by which Americans can retire.
Does it mean that in order to have 2000 RMB/month retirement benefit in TODAY's value 20 years later, you need 3.14 million RBM in TODAY's value when you retire 20 years later? It does not make any sense whatsoever if you assume the mean survival rate of Chinese retirees is 20 years after retirement.
With the air is so toxic and the rivers full of poisons, not to mention a good percentage of people who smoke, many won't it threw through their retirement. They will have to funnel the money from elsewhere into heath care –– that is, if they have proper heath care coverage.
Stupid. It's the most populous country in the world and the life expectancy is on par with any developed country and it is rising. So yeah, the pollution must be killing everyone, right?
Another airhead that's never traveled further than 20 miles in their entire life.
Americans used to do better than everybody. Now, not so much but certainly very good at talking ohers down. Definitely has talked China down a lot for the past ten years.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) – China's worsening air pollution, after decades of unbridled economic growth, cost the country $112 billion in 2005 in lost economic productivity, a study by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has found.
The figure, which also took into account people's lost leisure time because of illness or death, was $22 billion in 1975, according to researchers at the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change.
The study, published in the journal Global Environmental Change, measured the harmful effects of two air pollutants: ozone and particulates, which can lead to respiratory and cardiovascular diseases.
"The results clearly indicate that ozone and particulate matter have substantially impacted the Chinese economy over the past 30 years," one of the researchers, Noelle Selin, an assistant professor of engineering systems and atmospheric chemistry at MIT, said in a statement.
Ground-level ozone is produced by chemical plants, gasoline pumps, paint, power plants, motor vehicles and industrial boilers. Inhaling it can result in inflammation of the airways, coughing, throat irritation, discomfort, chest tightness, wheezing and shortness of breath.
Past studies have shown that high daily ozone concentrations are accompanied by increased asthma attacks, hospital admissions, mortality, and other markers of disease.
Particulates — spewed out by power plants, industries and automobiles — are microscopic solids and droplets so tiny they penetrate deep into the lungs and can even get into the bloodstream.
Lengthy exposure can result in coughing, breathing difficulties, impaired lung function, irregular heartbeat and premature death in people with heart or lung disease.
The researchers made their calculations using atmospheric modeling tools and global economic modeling, which were useful in assessing the impact of ozone, that China started monitoring only recently. Using this methodology, they were able to simulate historical ozone levels.
Kelly Sims Gallagher, an associate professor of energy and environmental policy at Tufts University's Fletcher School, who was not involved in the study, said the findings revealed the problem was even worse than thought.
"This important study confirms earlier estimates of major damages to the Chinese economy from air pollution, and in fact, finds that the damages are even greater than previously thought," Gallagher said.
China is a large emitter of mercury, carbon dioxide and other pollutants. In the 1980s, China's particulate concentrations were 10 to 16 times higher than the World Health Organization's annual guidelines, the researchers said.
Even after significant improvements by 2005, the concentrations were five times higher than what is considered safe.
Chinese authorities are aware of the devastating effects of the degradation to the environment and are taking steps to tackle it.
This month, authorities announced plans to reduce air pollution by 15 percent in the capital, Beijing, by 2015, and 30 percent by 2020 through phasing out old cars, relocating factories and planting new forests.
(Editing by Robert Birsel)
More and more old people.
Less and less young people.
PLA will be using senile soldiers in no time.
A Chinese saying says that China will get old before it gets rich….
With one child policy, current aging and development stage, it makes more and more sense…
China's evolving legal system is a study in contrasts: the Party is taking new steps toward legal reform, but they coexist with the Maoist practice of show trials and public confessions.
The recent study examining the lives and labors of Communist party cadres in Shandong province is noteworthy not only because it shows that many Chinese officials have a tough time staying clean. It's also a telling example of the tension within China's political circles about the best way to wage war against corruption.
The removal from office of a long-serving police chief in Tianjin, one of China's largest cities, is a vivid example of the problems facing Chinese law reform, writes veteran China legal scholar Stanley Lubman.
A 'Top Gun'-like confrontation between a Chinese fighter jet and a U.S. Navy P-8 surveillance plane raises questions about how the U.S. military manages its relationship with the People's Liberation Army, write Andrew Erickson and Emily de La Bruyere
Does Chinese leader Xi Jinping really want to be the next Mao Zedong? Or is it Deng Xiaoping, the pragmatic architect of China's market reforms, that he's modeling himself after?
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Did you mean angles? If you've got angels in your house you should be running it as a tourist attraction, not remodeling.
Since you don't sound like you care for any of it, I'd do a total rip down, just be sure to budget for all new drywall for behind that top part, it probably won't come off clean. If you can't do that right now maybe clean the lower stone and paint the top stone the same color as your walls and hang a large piece of art or mirror on the wall next to it to redirect attention.
It's useful to know what style you are aiming for. Funnily enough, the first thing I thought of was... wood paneling! And then I realized that that sounded even more 70s. But what I had mind was a much more textured wood like (faux) zebrawood or cocobolo, that can play off the stonework as an "exterior" material, only on the fireplace wall (which can then be focal). You'd probably need to drop the chair rails, and ditch the beige in favor of something that is either: [1] more stark in color, e.g., white or gray which can create a modern/organic contrast or [2] more natural in color like a light "forest" green which plays off the nature more strongly.
As a second alternative, it's actually fairly easy (but slightly tragic) to simply cover up the fireplace with a wall.
As a third alternative, if you plan on doing some remodeling (e.g., w/the electric insert), you might as well get a contractor to handle the rest, e.g., resurface the fireplace etc. It's not too much work and once again you're at much greater liberty to design to our own whims (and not the fireplace's).
I would definitely say rip out (best case) or paint the fieldstone. Like honey oak, that look is never coming back. Plus it's on a really bad angle (puzzling), plus it's completely overwhelming. The concrete brick isn't too too bad. If you ripped off the fieldstone, is it flat enough to maybe reuse as a path or patio outside?
Another option might be to box over the fieldstone. That might be easier and cheaper. Then paint it out like the walls.If you do box it out, run the box up straight to the ceiling, don't follow the angle of the stone. You could even do a deeper (wood?) mantel under the box.
There's a nice example of a stuccoed fireplace here: http://ths.gardenweb.com/forums/load/decor/msg0813295813493.html
I like the worn, gray bottom of the fireplace very much! It would create a cozy corner in your room. It seems that creating a space there was the original idea with lighting placement.
I agree about the dark top--it's way too much. Without it, you have a soothing background pale color values that I think work well together.
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I would go the simple route and tear out the weird angled bit of stone above the fireplace. See if that doesn't improve things before doing anything else. You may end up liking the fireplace better.
We had a similar situation only it was brick above the fireplace (not even real brick - just decorative thin bricks) and it was an easy DIY demo (although we did have a contractor replace the sheetrock).
Those hanging pendant lights would drive me crazy - I would replace them with ones that hung at the same level rather than having one higher than the other.
I would say rip out the stone over the fire place and reconstruct as a smooth wall and keep the bottom (mantel and below). The stone, because of how it appears, could be flat stone put on edge as a veneer. That may make it easy to remove.
Or, box it out, square it off and build it up, maybe even stucco or plaster it. Get rid of the balustrades over the window, chair rail, and remove the popocorn stucco ceiling and replace with smooth one. Have brass ones, and go for it!
Yeah, I personally really like the fireplace as is, and would just have the stone above removed. I don't think the color you/the seller picked does it any justice. Pain the walls a light gray, or a light beige from the fireplace stone, and just that will make the place looks much better.
Besides that just change the screen to something like this and the pendants to something more your taste.
Is it a wood burning fireplace that just needs some minor repairs?
If so, I would spend the money to have it fixed. There is nothing as lovely as a real wood-burning fireplace; I know that is a feature we've always looked for in houses that we have bought, and so suspect it might have higher resale value.
Then, I would rip off all the stone, and reface the fireplace, either with large single slabs of stone (marble or slate), or with Heath tiles, like so:
It's a strange place to hang pendants; I would switch to a row of wall-washers sink into the ceiling instead. Since the textured ceiling already has a large patched spot, I would re-drywall the ceilings to get rid of the plastered texture. We had popcorn ceilings and covered them all with new wallboard; I know it is a hassle, but it makes a huge difference, and is really worth the effort.
Good luck and have fun with your new house!
If it isn't a wood burning fireplace, I would rip everything out, and re-center the fireplace on the wall; it's location squished in a corner will make furniture placement difficult.
I was confused about "angel stone" too. Not really sure if you meant angle or something else.
My recommendation is to paint the walls first, then see how you like the fireplace. It's an interesting layout and I think it could be really nice if you got rid of the tan walls. I'd paint it gray and then take a look at the fireplace.
While wood fireplaces are fun in theroy, I can tell you that the only time my childhood home fireplace was used was on christmas day. otherwise it was too much of a pain to get wood, get it going, wait for it to die out so it was safe to leave over night and then clean up after. I would highly comend the upgrade to electric or gas (the kind you turn off with a switch). I'm sure people will be horrified by that...
Anyways on to your delema. i think you should remove the stone above the fireplace and resurface the stone below (remove it and pick a nice tile or other stone to replace it). Get a chunkier mantle and either leave the wall above smooth or box it out slightly. Then on the right hand side where there are shelves in the fireplace, add new built in shelves that either end where the mantle is (if you don't box out the top, or continue up a little ways if you do box out the top).
I would definitely get lights that are the same height and remove the chair rail (it makes the room look short). I would either consider adding a layer of drywall to the ceiling to cover up the stucco and paint it white or you might want to consider adding wood planking to the ceiling to give the room some architectural detail. You can either keep the wood "woody" or paint it white. Don't forget to move the curtains up to just below ceiling height (which will also make the room look taller)
it also looks like you've got an opening with spindles... you might want to consider changing out the spindles to something different or paint them a darker colour so they don't stick out so much. Right now it screams "Look at me! I'm a set of spindles randomly floating in the middle of nowhere!"
I, too, vote for getting rid of the stone above the fireplace. I think after that, it will be just fine. The nicotin stain paint on the walls - I hope it's going, too. I would paint in some light stone colour that goes with the fireplace.
I like the room, I think it has great potential.
Everyone will tell you not to paint it as you can't remove the paint later. Here's our thought when faced with the similar conundrum. If we hate it the look and color of the stone now we'll probably hate it later and have no desire to see it again. So, after investigating our options, we decided to paint it! We had a similarly large rocked fireplace that was at close glance, a lot of grout. We knew that ripping it out was the $1000 option but painting could work and be only around $100. Sure enough, it's gorgeous and now a stunning part of our living room. A coat of white masonry primer and two coats of white paint later, we are no longer dying to take a sledge hammer to it. If you want a first shot at the easier, cheaper solution, you have little out of pocket to lose. Good luck!!
I don't like the beige and grey together. I also don't like the trapezoid angle thing going on with the rock. Is it possible to get more rock and make it square and then find a nice grey for the rest of the room. And perhaps get rid of the faux wainscotting line across the middle of the room? That style clashes with the fireplace.
Having a large red stone fireplace in my 1970's home for fifteen years (red) I learned you can either pay someone to eradicate it or embrace it. First time I remodeled and thought I could just do what I want and it would somehow go away. It doesn't. You can't fight the bones of the house. Other unit owners have done HIDEOUS things like paint the stone. Don't do it. Either pay a contractor to rip it out completely OR embrace the 70's. Get some nice WARM mid century modern furniture-think handcrafted modern-Pearsall sculpted wood tables with glass on top. Cork lamps and chrome. Imo, the stone at the bottom is Ok and works with the beige paint..it really looks like the grey flagstone was added later and clashes with the rest of the space color wise. I'd spend a weekend rip it down the flagstone and have someone put up new drywall or just continue that stone from the bottom all the way up. Most mid century homes had that flat stone but the fireplaces went all the way up to the roof peak. Look at Atomic Ranch magazines and get a feeling for what your home might have looked like before someone started mixing styles.
Be really careful. There is probably gas lines or something behind it. I wonder why it's boarded up. I'd have it inspected before using.
I believe your fireplace probably looked like this originally-stone went all the way up. For whatever reason...probably a remodel where someone took out the chimney, etc...they took out the top. Is this gas, wood, or what? Does it vent anywhere?
How about the shelving and color blocked paint behind this fireplace in this MCM LA home? Gorgeous....
Well...this actually is probably what your fireplace actually looked like originally before the flagstone was added at the top. I'd see about recreating this look. I just don't understand where the chimney has gone. If they took out the chimney all together and this is no longer a functioning fireplace, take it out completely and have a contractor thread in more oak flooring.
Sheetrock right over the grey stone and while you are at it square up that icky angle. Replace the pendant lights with recessed lighting, or if that is not an option perhaps track lighting or no lights at all up there.
I doubt the fireplace and rock wall above it were put in at the same time. Looks like a 60s era fireplace that someone thought could look groovier with that rock above it in the late 70s. Neither is really so awful on its own but they don't go together at all. Also, the chair rail looks like a recent addition and it also doesn't suit the style of the room. I'd remove it.
Window treatments are going to be a challenge in that room with the heater below those big windows. The drapes look like a fire hazard to me. Roman or cellular shades might be a good idea.
Hi, I'll get rid of it and replace it by a stove. I don't know if it's your style, but I am in love with the scandinavian stove like those : http://homeofbambou.blogspot.be/2012/10/scandi-week-swedish-real-estate-and.html
p.s. About the opening with the railings -- if you are going to be doing drywalling, you may as well close up that opening. Even though we can't see the whole wall, such a small opening, filled with spindles, adds nothing to the room, and breaks the flow of the wall, creating an odd shape.
Also, remove the chair rail, and switch out from Kraft-paper brown to something lighter, a shade of white.
Since you are going to be slapping up wallboard on the ceiling (!), you can work on the wiring, and run a box to the middle of the room (in addition to the wall-washers), and hang a gorgeous pendant.
This one -- the Moooi Random Light -- would be amazing (in the largest size available), although a cluster of 3 or more would be even more magical:
I would cover the stone on the wall with wood planks, panels, squares, whatever.
Change out those hanging lights for cans
Paint the walls bright white or very dark
Removing the chair molding will make the space seem larger and less choppy
I personally really like the fireplace proper -- it is probably that the current setting makes it seem dingy and oppressive. I would opt to keep it, and focus on addressing the things surrounding it. The fireplace has a bit of a rustic and dark feel to it, so I think you could balance it out by going with bright colors and sleek design. It's hard to say what kind of design you prefer, but here is what I would do:
- Tear down the blue stones above the fireplace.
- Tear down the molding to put emphasis on the height of the space.
- Get rid of the pendant lights.
- Can you do anything about the popcorn ceiling?
- Paint the walls in a lighter color (I think white would look quite nice).
- Not sure what kind of furniture you guys are bringing in, but modern, simple furniture with sleek lines would go well against the rough fireplace. I would suggest simple colors in the white/black/gray group.
- Update the fireplace accessories with modern-looking ones.
- Heavier, textured curtains to balance out the room given that the fireplace is in the farther corner of the room.
- Textured rug for warmth.
- A lot of light fixtures.
- Above the fireplace I would put a large mirror with a nice, rich border.
I am imagining this room in a lot of white, gray and black major elements, so you could play with warm colors in the form of throw pillows, candles, etc.
That's all from me. Best of luck!
For those asking about "Angels"... she's correct: the brick around the fireplace is called "angelstone". Google "angelstone brick" and you'll see images of the grey/cream, faceted brick in the surround.
Honestly, I think you should keep the surround... I have a problem w/the fieldstone above - perhaps just building out a drywalled area above the mantle would suffice? Then you can paint and decorate however you want. Cleaning up the angelstone is pretty easy and it's true to the age of the home. I like it - especially those built-in shelves to the right. It can be updated w/a new insert/screen and look great.
I'd get it professionally torn out and sheetrocked over, resulting in an ordinary wall. It's (sorry) an ugly fireplace and in an inconveninet corner. So, since it's non-working anyhow, I'd make it go away.
But that's just me...
(I, by the way, have a gas fireplace centered on a wall in my living room, which is a nicer layout. I like it, but it throws off a ridiculous amount of heat for a small room, so we seldom turn it on. I love the ambience, not the heat!)
You might look to www.retrorenovation.com for some inspiration. You could end up embracing the mid century vibe of the surround.
At least have the upper angled rock removed and sheetrocked professionally. I'd keep the lower original fireplace part and just give it a pro cleaning. Remove the chair rail in the room - that kind of wood work is totally wrong for the architecture of this house. I would repaint the room to a non-muddy color. I'd go fresher and whiter to harmonize with the ceiling - Abalone from Benjamin Moore is a really soft neutral that works with both tans and grays.
that fireplace is awesome! don't rip it out or cover it! just remove that hideous rock veneer(?) above it, replace drywall, paint all walls (current color is nasty) and then invest in a nice looking screen. it could look great!
you guys are AWESOME! Yes, we are going to paint (this is the original vendor's colours), and are planning on ripping down the stone above. The lights are hideous and I don't know what to do with those.
Regarding the ceiling, I would love to have raw wood beams up there and yank that stucco out, but it's not in our budget right now. The spindles are also an eyesore and I'm not sure what to do with that at this time except knock the spindles out and make it open.
We have lots of funky art, lots of colours, but are thinking a white modern room would be lovely, but wonder if it would draw attention to the stucco? We're also big bright, colour fans too but would like something smart and cool looking. We both work in the arts and want a cozy but creative space with lots of light.
Thank you all for your ideas!!
love all of the ideas!
I would LOVE to have a plank ceiling, but it's not in the budget right now. It is a wood burning fireplace which is great in theory (I believe the chimney- which is behind the wall) would need a new liner, but I wouldn't use it that much and my home insurance would be higher. wonder what to do with it instead?


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We decided to escape the constant blinging of the slot machines for a couple of days in search of some hidden Gems further afield. It was quite bizarre to see the time on our telephones change, particularly as back in the UK we only have one time zone. Anyway, we're just across the next time zone in Arizona right now looking at some of the trading posts and visitor villages. OK, well we haven't found much in the form of Visual Merchandising, per se, although we have found some wooden structured buildings painted in the most delicious colours which we've captured for our records. We did come across the local undertakers and some interesting examples of POS however. Well, 'it does what it says on the tin' kind of scenario and brought an ironic smile to our faces at least. While we weren't that surprised not to find the most cutting edge 'stuff', this really is a most stunning area to visit nonetheless.
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GRAVY TRAIN DERAILMENT: Another day, another 700 point crash.
Ho-hum...it couldn't come soon enough or happen to a more deserving crew.
It's quite interesting to see the tears streaming down the faces of stock market and real estate investors as they watch all their so-called wealth eddy down the toilet.
"Oh woe is me- all that money we 'worked' for years to accumulate is gone- how will retire at 50? How will we send our kids to an Ivy League college? How will we travel the world.... we had p-p-p-plans."
But none of them mention the elephant in the room- the fact that these greedy bastards didn't have any compunction about making all their magic money during the last 10 years doubling and tripling meager investments by sitting on their butts and doing nothing but checking the stock and real estate listing every day.
With dollar signs in their eyes they watched as they did nothing to actually earn their untold paper riches and made all their nowhere p-p-plans for nobody.
What makes them any different than a Las Vegas lunatic who was "up" an hour ago and now has lost it all including their house?
Nothing. They counted those chicken before they hatched and when they did hatch they came home to roost.
And they want us to commiserate with them because all that free money they thought they had- and of course weren't satisfied with- is now gone?
Well our hearts pump dirty dishwater because they got exactly what they deserved.
Where do they think all their stock market money came from?
It came from sociopathic corporate CEOs who took productive enterprises and ran them into the ground just to jack up the stock price. It came from those who busted the unions, fired half the workers and halved the wages of the rest in order to keep their books looking good and then bailed out just before it was time to pay the piper.
And if you owned stock it's likely you were complicit. But because you were getting rich off the misery of working people you didn't care- you wanted more and more and more with no end in sight and no judgment day a'comin'.
And even more galling are the people who are now blaming the victims who were loaned more than they could ever repay for houses that were double what they were worth.
A loan is not a one sided proposition. The person taking out the loan has always taken it out with the knowledge that the person who was loaning them money thought the loan could be repaid.
Who loans money to a bad risk? Every borrower relies on the fact that the answer is "no one".
Until recently there was an understanding that the people making loans, usually banks, wouldn't make the loan unless they thought someone could and would repay it.
The loaner would check out your job, your bank account, your credit record and even ask you neighbors about your trustworthiness. And they checked out what you were buying to make sure that they had the security of collateral.
Tell us, when was the announcement made that the lenders were loaning any deadbeat any amount to buy overpriced houses they couldn't afford? We certainly didn't get the memo.
Used to be that applying for a loan was easy and getting one was a stamp of approval from the person with the money saying you were a good risk. But somehow in the past few years anyone and everyone could suddenly own their own home whether they could afford it or not.
Many were told not to worry- housing prices were going up up up and it would never go down down down. And if the "experts" were saying it, who were they to disagree?
So if you just lost you shirt in the stock market remember what you did to get that easy money- nothing except essentially steal it from the people who worked for the companies that you raided, raped and left for dead.
And those who bought "investment properties" and now find themselves owning virtually worthless property are getting exactly what they deserve.
They didn't "make" money. Rather a delusional view of the world combined with their greed to screw themselves just as they deserved for running up the housing prices forcing working people to live on the beach or pay exorbitant rents.
For many it was either that or fall for a scam run by mortgage brokers and real estate agents to loan them money they couldn't afford, to keep propping up the inflated prices.
But because of the wild deregulation mania of the 80's and 90's, by the '00's they had set up a convoluted system to take the risk out of loaning money for anyone along the chain of fools.
The mortgage broker and real estate agent could take a cut and then pass on the bad debt they created to an intermediary who then sold the bad debt to a company that bought "insurance" against their own stupidity for buying them... is it any wonder AIG and the insurance companies are eating it now?
And for those who are out on their ass because they paid too much for the "pride of ownership" (what is that they say about what follows where pride goeth?), welcome back to reality. You had a good run for a couple of years. You trusted those in charge of the monetary system to know what the heck they were doing.
You're back where you started. Your problem is simply that you "believed in" the free market, free enterprise predatory capitalism system like it was a religion, many times defending it with all your might with no rational basis.
Maybe you've learned something but judging by what we hear on TV news and in the newspapers, we doubt it. If you want to go down with the ship, be our guest.
It was all just there on paper anyway- easy come, easy go.
Despite the garbage some have swallowed the American Dream it is just that- a dream... which is something that is not real in case you forgot.
And each of those who created an American Dream for themselves also produced two or three others living the American Nightmare- working long hours at starvation wages so they can live in their cars in a polluted wasteland and beg at the food bank
If you've "lost it all" over the past few weeks- or are about to lose it in the coming weeks- welcome back to the reality you created for those who were on the losing end of all those years of your undeserved and unearned prosperity.
Those who have been on the losing end of your avaricious scams have been waiting for you.
We just wanna know what took you so long?
Thursday, October 9, 2008
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- Reuven said...
Please! Everyone needs to fight back against the Government! They've declared War on Savings! Don't let them give free houses to deadbeats.
- October 9, 2008 at 6:25 PM
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European Modernism, in Hebrew
With a rediscovered 1930s novel, Viennese Romance, Austrian writer David Vogel becomes a key figure in the creation of Modern Hebrew literature
The development of Modern Hebrew literature is full of contradictory and competing narratives of national identity. The bespectacled Jewish writer, carrying with him the traditions of biblical Hebrew literature as he negotiates the fast-paced capitals of Europe, narrowly avoiding anti-Semitism lurking around every corner, is thinking of Palestine. The Modern Hebrew novel features protagonists who address themes steeped in land, sun, sweat; literature is understood as an extension of the project of building a new state.
Yet, there are Hebrew writers who kept their focus on Europe, or even the United States, and in the process modernized the ancient language for use in the secular world. One writer in particular, David Vogel, who has largely remained invisible in the United States, developed an Austro-Viennese literature in the Hebrew language free of nationalist themes and connotations: He is now credited by some in Israeli academia as playing a crucial role in the development of secular Hebrew literature—a pioneer of a modern Hebrew language unmoored from nationalism.
Two years ago, an Israeli scholar named Lilach Nethanel was riffling through the stuffy spaces of the Genazim, the archive of the Hebrew Writer's Association in Tel Aviv. Researching a thesis about Vogel, Nethanel stumbled across what appeared to be an innocuous manuscript of Vogel's classic 1934 novella Facing the Sea. The book, written in Paris in the early 1930s, tells of a young couple's summer on the French Rivera. Awash in sun, sand, and sea, the book highlights Vogel's lyrical talents as one of the 20th century's greatest Hebrew poets while tackling the eternal complexities of romantic relationships.
As Nethanel inspected the handwritten manuscript, the descriptions of street lamps, a typical fixture of Vogel's other novels set in Vienna, caught her attention. Struggling to decipher the tiny script, which lacked margins and required a magnifying glass to read, Nethanel realized that she was not reading Facing the Sea but an entirely new manuscript, one that scholars had speculated about but had actually never seen. An entirely original unpublished novel has been found in the quiet Genazim archive. Left untitled, the manuscript has just been published in Israel to much fanfare under the title Viennese Romance.
David Vogel was born in May 1891, in the city of Satanov, in what was then part of the Russian Pale of Settlement. Like others, he made his way to Vienna, where the smoke-filled cafés and anonymous bustling streets became a home for his largely futile writing habit. A former yeshiva student in Vilna, Vogel barely made a living by tutoring Hebrew in Vienna. While he had command of German, he was never able to write fluently in the language of his adopted home and was thus pushed to an existence on the periphery of the dominant cultural circles in the city.
The influence of European modernism on Hebrew literature has not received the proper treatment it deserves in Israel and the academic establishment, but this is changing. While Europe played a crucial role in the fermentation of Hebrew literature, most, if not all of the continent's Hebrew-language writers ended up moving to pre-state Palestine. For some this was an ideological choice, while others fled to Palestine a step ahead of the Nazis. Yet it was in Europe that the first Hebrew-language novels addressing overtly sexual and psychological issues first began to appear. Free from Hebrew's burden as a standard-bearer of Jewish nationalism, Jewish writers used the language as if it was German or French to create works exploring the individual's place in the modern world.
In his recent book Literary Passports: The Making of Modernist Hebrew Fiction in Europe, Shachar Pinsker, a professor of Hebrew literature at the University of Michigan, describes how Hebrew functioned for young writers' mobility in Europe. What emerges from Pinkser's research is a Hebrew literary canon free from ideology and infused with the Diaspora Jewish experience. David Vogel played a leading role in this development.
"In some ways, Vogel is like an early Woody Allen," Pinkser told me recently at a windy outdoor Jerusalem café. "He was introverted, consumed with sexual hang-ups and lived as a perpetual outsider, a character closer to an American Jew than a Zionist pioneer."
In 1929, Vogel was invited to Tel Aviv at the request of the Zionist federation with the special attention of the famed Hebrew writer and poet Uri Zwi Greenberg. So keen was Greenberg to have Vogel in Mandate-era Palestine that he had the federation take care of all of Vogel's visas, not a small task at the time, and set him up with a comfortable position teaching Hebrew at the Herzliya Gymnasium, the most prestigious school of the period. Yet Vogel left Palestine after only a year, noting that the climate was too harsh for his taste.
"I think that he was not a Zionist but he was not an anti-Zionist," Nethanel told me during a break from research at Tel Aviv University. "One of the modernist components of writers is that they were always one step removed. This is Vogel in virtually all aspects of his life, politically, theoretically, and in his love-life. He hated regular work and preferred to be poor than hold a steady job." Upon returning to Europe, he was granted an Austrian passport that listed his profession as "writer." With it, Vogel moved to Paris and continued writing until he was caught by French authorities at the outbreak of World War II. His story ends in a Nazi death camp sometime in 1944.
Vogel's best-known novel, Married Life, is a snapshot of a tragic relationship in 1920s Vienna. Rudolf Gurdweill, a poor Jewish writer accustomed to spending his days writing in one of Vienna's many literary cafés, marries Thea von Takow, an Austrian baroness. From the very start of their tortured relationship, von Takow showers Gurdweill with insults, sleeps with his friends, and attempts to have Gurdweill believe that their son was conceived with another man. Yet, Gurdweill deals with the abuse by finding solace walking the streets of Vienna with no sense of purpose or destination. Isolated in his sadomasochistic relationship and connection to Vienna, he barely takes note of Lotte Budenheim, a young Jewish woman who has fallen desperately in love with the aspiring writer. Consumed with her love of Gurdweill, Budenheim commits suicide after attempts to capture his attention. Death is a theme throughout the novel, which opens with Gurdweill passing the scene of a suicide and ends with the protagonist killing his wife.
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