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DONALD TRUMP: MOBBED UP AF - A RETROSPECTIVE
(by @saradannerdukic)
1970s & 1980s: wave of Russian criminals arrive in New York and begin interfacing with established American organized crime networks (La Cosa Nostra/The Five Families aka Bonanno, Genovese, Colombo, Lucchese, Gambino) (source)
1977: KGB reportedly opens file on Donald Trump (source).
1979: Construction begins on Trump Tower. Trump purchases overpriced concrete from mafia bosses Anthony “Fat Tony” Salerno and Paul Castellano of the Genovese and Gambino crime families (respectively). (source)
1980: Trump's mentor, Roy Cohn, introduces Donald to Roger Stone. (source)
1982: New York City Housing Commissioner Anthony Gliedman received what he described as an “abusive and profane” call from someone angry that Gliedman had opposed Trump’s request for a $20 million tax abatement. Gliedman reported the call to the FBI, saying the caller was “threatening his life.” (source)
June 3, 1983: Rudy Giuliani becomes US attorney for SDNY
January, 1984: Vladimir Alexandrovich Kryuchkov, First Chief Directorate of the KGB arm responsible for gathering foreign intelligence, urges his officers to be more creative with agent recruitment - and to use money and flattery vs. alignment with Soviet ideology. Additionally, he gives the directive to find "U.S. targets to cultivate or, at the very least, official contacts...The main effort must be concentrated on acquiring valuable agents." (source)
1984: Russian émigré David Bogatin pays cash for five apartments in Trump Tower. (source). Bogatin's brother ran a $150 million stock scam with Russian mafia boss Semion Mogilevich (source)
1985: Trump reportedly “apoplectic” when he loses bid to re-develop the Coliseum at Columbus Circle to Salomon Brothers-backed Mort Zuckerman. (source) More on Trump’s proposal here.
October 1985: Trump's helicopter pilot indicted on drug trafficking charges. Trump doesn't fire him. Instead, he leases his personally-owned unit in Trump Plaza Apartments to him with an agreement of half the rent is to be paid in cash, the other half in unspecified helicopter services. Trump also writes a letter on behalf of his pilot (Weichselbaum), calling him "a credit to the community.” Who does the case end up with? Federal judge Maryanne Trump, Donald's sister. (source)
Autumn, 1986: Trump meets Soviet ambassador Yuri Dubinin. And per Trump's own account in Art of the Deal, “One thing led to another, and now I’m talking about building a large luxury hotel, across the street from the Kremlin, in partnership with the Soviet government.” (source)
1986: Trump makes the rounds in the news offering to negotiate with the Russians (source), and also angles for a Soviet posting in the Reagan administration (source)
March 16, 1987: Bogatin (who had purchased multiple apartments in Trump Tower for cash) pleads guilty to taking part in a massive gasoline-bootlegging scheme with Russian mobsters. The government seized his five condos at Trump Tower, because he'd used them to “launder money, to shelter and hide assets.” A Senate investigation into organized crime later revealed that Bogatin was a leading figure in the Russian mob in New York. (from New Republic)
April 3, 1987: Trump excluded from bidding on Australian casino deal because of mafia connections (per Australian police) (source)
July 4, 1987: Trump flies to the USSR for the first time after being personally invited - the trip is arranged by the Soviet government (source).
1987: Trump talks extensively in an interview about nuclear bombs, and states that his pilot used to work for Qaddafi. In the same interview, Trump describes the type of bomb he thinks will be possible in the future: "Carry it in your briefcase, right. I’m not even talking about airplanes and missiles. You’ll walk in with your damn tape recorder,” he says, pointing to my innocent Sony, “and you’ll say it’s a tape recorder and nobody will be able to tell the difference. I mean, that’s where it’s going to be in 20 years.” (source)
1988: Trump starts talking about running for president on Oprah (source).
1988: Trump purchases a yacht from Adnan Khashoggi, the uncle of Jamal Khashoggi (source) (source)
1988: American Media Inc. (AMI) comes into being after Enquirer owner Generoso Pope dies. (source) Among the interested parties are Robert Maxwell (source), the father of Ghislaine Maxwell - Jeffrey Epstein's partner. (source). Among the trustees of the Pope estate are Peter G. Peterson, a partner in the Blackstone Group (source) - a private equity firm founded by Steven Schwarzman (source). (More on Schwarzman and his relation to Trump here). According to Pope's son, Paul, The Enquirer was started with a $75,000 loan from the mafia (source).
October 11, 1989: helicopter crashes with 3 Trump casino execs aboard (source). Trump claimed he was supposed to be on it, but then changed his mind at the last minute. (source) After their deaths, he blamed them for the failure of his Atlantic City casino (source) The helicopter's pilot was identified by the state police as Robert Kent of Ronkonkoma, L.I., and its co-pilot as Lawrence Diener of Westbury, L.I. b/b
1990: Wall Street bond house Salomon Brothers advises institutional clients to sell bonds issue from Trump's Castle Casino in Atlantic City, due to debt and performance concerns. (source)
1991: Trump declares bankruptcy (source)
1991: Trump sells his yacht to Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal (source) (source)
December 17, 1991: Fred Trump gives Donald an interest-free loan by purchasing $3.5 million worth of casino chips at Trump Castle casino, circumventing bankruptcy rules and enabling Donald to make the interest payment due on his bonds. (source)
1992: Trump declares bankruptcy an additional 3 times stemming from various properties he's over-leveraged. (source)
1994: Trump allegedly rapes and beats a 13-year-old girl at a party with Jeffrey Epstein, multiple times. In the filed complaint, the 13-year-old was threatened to be "disappeared" like another young girl had been if she told anyone. (source)
October 20, 1994: Christine Seymour, Roy Cohn's secretary (Cohn was Trump's mentor), who was set to publish a tell-all book, dies in head-on collision with tractor trailer (source)
1995: Trump reportedly in Moscow to discuss matters related to Okhotny Ryad underground mall on Manezh Square. (source)
The trip is also reference in this article: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1997/05/19/trump-solo
1995: Trump sells Plaza Hotel to Alwaleed bin Talal (source) Barbara Corcoran brokers the deal (source)
June 8, 1995: Vyacheslav Ivankov arrested (source). Ivankov was known to be a notoriously brutal gangster in the upper echelon of the Russian mafia. (source) After having difficulty finding him, the FBI picked up his trail at Trump Taj Mahal, and then discovered that Ivankov had a luxury condo in Trump Tower. (source) According to Robert Friedman in his book, Red Mafiya, Friedman viewed Ivankov's personal phone book containing "a working number for the Trump Organization’s Trump Tower Residence, and a Trump Organization office fax machine." (this is listed as a citation at the end of the book). Ivankov is also mentioned in this 2003 DOJ paper on organized crime, with a forward by Bruce Ohr (pp 49).
1996: Trump goes to Russia with Howard Lorber (source). Lorber later donated to the Trump inaugural fund (source).
1998: Trump Taj Mahal fined for currency transaction reporting violations (source)
February 1999: Evercore Capital Partners L.L.C., headed by former Deputy Treasury Secretary Roger C. Altman, acquires American Media, Inc. and places David Pecker at the helm. (source)
1999: Trump's first run for president (source)
2000/2001: Mark Burnett in negotiations with Putin for a show called "Destination Mir." (source)
October 2001: AMI offices in Boca Raton are attacked with anthrax (source). Later, in 2004, a cleaning company owned by Rudy Giuliani is contracted to clean up the anthrax, with his company, Bio-One, slated to rent/occupy the building after cleanup. (source) The contract later ended in a feud. (source)
2002: Mark Burnett begins talks with Trump regarding The Apprentice. (source)
2002 - 2011: The Bayrock Group partners with the Trump Organization on developments including the Trump SoHo hotel (source). Principals in the group include Felix Sater - believed to be connected with Semion Mogilevich (source) - and Tevfik Arif (source).
2004: Trump declares bankruptcy again. (source)
Spring 2004: The Apprentice debuts (source)
May 2004: Diamond dealer and former Trump Tower tenant (1 year prior he'd lived right below Kellyanne Conway) Eduard Nektalov is shot on 6th Avenue (source). He was reportedly cooperating with federal authorities on a money laundering investigation (source) More on money laundering and Trump properties here.
2005: at the same time Trump is unable to get a 25 million pound loan from Bank of Scotland due to being a credit risk (source), Deutsche Bank (who later is hit with massive fines for money laundering) loans Trump nearly one billion dollars. Trump's banker at Deutsche Bank is Justice Kennedy's son. (source).
2006: Felix Sater escorts the Trump children during their trip to Russia (according to Sater) (source). Later, in emails to Michael Cohen, Sater says that he'd arranged for Ivanka to sit in Putin's chair. (source).
2006: Paul Manafort buys unit in Trump Tower (source).
2006 - 2009: Trump makes multiple attempts (and fails) to get a loan from the Bank of Scotland to purchase Hamilton Hall. The bank executive "expressed concern that Trump would hold the bank to 'future ransom'” (source)
2007 - 2016: Buyers tied to Russia make 86 cash purchases at Trump properties. (source)
2008: Soviet-born (Moldovia) Orly Taitz helps bring suit regarding Obama's citizenship/birth certificate. (source)
2008: Junior brags that they're getting a lot of money from Russia. (source)
2008: Russian oligarch buys a Palm Beach mansion from Trump, paying twice the value (source).
August 27, 2008: a small-time scam artist transfers a Beverly Hills, California, mansion to Donald Trump for $0. (source)
November 2008: Unable to meet his obligations for the nearly 1 billion dollar loan they gave him, Trump sues Deutsche Bank saying he shouldn't have to make good on his promise because of the economic crash. (source)
2009: Trump declares bankruptcy again. (source)
2009: a lawyer representing Trump Atlantic City casino creditors says he got threatening phone calls. The FBI traced one of them to a payphone outside the “Late Show With David Letterman,” where Trump was appearing.
“My name is Carmine,” the caller told the lawyer, Kristopher Hansen. “I don’t know why you’re fucking with Mr. Trump but if you keep fucking with Mr. Trump, we know where you live and we’re going to your house for your wife and kids.” (source)
July 23, 2009: Stormy Daniels' political advisor's car explodes (source). This was approximately 3 years after her affair with Trump (source).
August 2009: After multiple tries dating back to 2006, Trump denied a final time for loan for 25 million pounds from Bank of Scotland because the bank considered it "too risky." (source)
2010: Tevfik Arif, a principal of the Bayrock Group - which at this time is partnering with the Trump organization on a variety of projects - is arrested in a Turkish prostitution sting. (source). Charges were later dropped by Turkish authorities.
July 25, 2011: President Obama issues executive order declaring organized crime a national security emergency. (source)
2011 - 2015: Deutsche Bank, who 5 years previous had given Donald Trump nearly 1 billion dollars when Bank of Scotland wouldn't loan him 25 million pounds, is laundering billions of dollars with the help of Russians. (source)
2011: Eric Trump brags that they have access to millions of dollars from Russians. (source)
2011 - 2015: Donald Trump begins paying for his properties with hundreds of millions of dollars in cash. (source)
January 1, 2012: former Trump bodyguard dies from apparent overdose (source).
2013: Trump walks out of a BBC Panorama interview when asked about his connections with Felix Sater. (source)
April 16, 2013: Preet Bharara, then US attorney for SDNY, announces charges against massive Russian organized crime ring operating out of Trump Tower. (source)
June 16, 2013: Trump announces Miss Universe pageant will be in Moscow. (source)
November 9, 2013: Miss Universe pageant (source). One of the fugitives indicted in the Trump Tower organized crime ring in April, ALIMZHAN TOKHTAKHOUNOV, is a guest of honor there. (source)
2014: Steve Bannon, while at Cambridge Analytica, orders testing on Putin messaging with Americans. (source)
February 10, 2014: Trump praises Putin on Fox & Friends. (source)
March 6, 2015: Trump Taj Mahal fined for money laundering. (source)
2015: Michael Cohen threatens a reporter covering Trump's divorce with Ivana. “I’m warning you, tread very fucking lightly, because what I’m going to do to you is going to be fucking disgusting,” the Daily Beast’s Tim Mak, recalled Cohen telling him. “You write a story that has Mr. Trump’s name in it, with the word ‘rape,’ and I’m going to mess your life up … for as long as you’re on this frickin’ planet.” (source) (source)
April 18, 2015: Trump's former pilot dies in head-on collision (source).
November 3, 2015: Felix Sater, who is believed to work for Semion Mogilevich (source) writes Michael Cohen stating that he'll get buy-in from Putin and that they'll engineer Trump's presidency. (source)
November 5, 2015: former head of RT Mikhail Lesin found dead in DC hotel room with blunt force trauma to head, neck and torso. He had a meeting with DOJ scheduled for following day. (source)
January 23, 2016: Trump tells the crowd at a rally that he could shoot someone in the middle of 5th Avenue and not lose voters. (source)
February 23, 2016: Trump tells the crowd at a rally that he'd like to punch a protestor in the face, and "I love the old days. You know what they used to do to guys like that when they were in a place like this? They’d be carried out on a stretcher, folks.” (source)
March 29, 2016: Paul Manafort joins Trump campaign. (source)
April - May 2016: George Papadopoulos in communication with “high ranking Russian official” in an attempt to set up meetings between Trump team and Russian reps, w/the promise “that the Kremlin had 'dirt' on Hillary Clinton in the form of “thousands of emails…” (source)
May 2016: Stephen Schwarzman flies to Riyadh to meet with Mohammed bin Salman - then the deputy crown prince of Saudi Arabia - about infrastructure, and presumably the $20 billion fund that's announced a year later. (source) More on Schwarzman's relationship with Trump, and Saudi Arabia here. More on Schwarzman's links to Russia and Rosneft here.
Summer 2016: Stefan Halper, an FBI informant, approaches Trump campaign officials. (source)
June 9, 2016: Trump Tower meeting with Russians, Manafort, Kushner, Don Jr.. (source). Present at the meeting was Nataliya Veselnitskaya, who at the time was representing Prevezon (source), a company implicated in a money-laundering case at SDNY (source)
June 14, 2016: News breaks that the DNC has been hacked by Russians. (source)
June 14, 2016: Michael Cohen cancels his planned trip to Moscow to discuss Trump Tower Moscow (source)
Sometime after July 19, 2016: Trump warned by FBI that Russians will try to infiltrate campaign. (source)
July 2016: FBI opens counter intelligence investigation into Trump campaign. (source) (source)
September, 2016: Trump and Cohen discuss hush money and contingency for if guy gets hit by a truck. (source)
October 31, 2016: Mother Jones reports "A Veteran Spy Has Given the FBI Information Alleging a Russian Operation to Cultivate Donald Trump"
November 7, 2016 (one day before election day): Connie Watton, maid of Stephen Schwarzman - a Trump AND Kremlin friend - is pushed in front of a subway. (source) The woman who pushed her is assigned defense attorney Mathew Mari, known for his legal work for the Bonanno crime family. More on Schwarzman's relationship with Trump, and Saudi Arabia here. More on Schwarzman's links to Russia and Rosneft here. Schwarzman had also financed Kushner projects and gave Jared Kushner a loan (source).
November 8, 2016 (election day): Russian diplomat Sergei Krivov found unconscious at the Russian Consulate in New York and died on the scene. (source)
December 2016: FSB officers arrested in Russia. (source)
December 2016: Jared Kushner instructs Michael Flynn to sabotage US foreign policy. (source)
December 1 or 2, 2016: Kushner tries to set up secret back channel with Russians using Russians' secure facilities. (source)
December 1, 2016: Jared Kushner and Michael Flynn meet with Sergei Kislyak at Trump Tower (source)
December 13-14, 2016 (date not confirmed): Jared Kushner meets with Sergey Gorkov, "a graduate of the academy of the Federal Security Service, or FSB, the domestic intelligence arm of the former Soviet KGB, who was appointed by Putin to the post less than a year before his encounter with Kushner." (source)
December 19, 2016: Russia's ambassador to Turkey, Andrei Karlov, is killed. (source)
December 19, 2016: Russian diplomat to Latin America, Peter Polshikov, is killed. (source)
December 20, 2016: Methbot white paper published. (source)
December 26, 2016: Ex-KGB chief Oleg Erovinkin, who was suspected of helping draft the Trump dossier, found dead in the back of his car. (source)
December 29, 2016: Obama expels 35 Russian diplomats. (source)
December 29, 2016: KT McFarland sends email stating that "If there is a tit-for-tat escalation Trump will have difficulty improving relations with Russia, which has just thrown U.S.A. election to him," (source)
December 29, 2016: Flynn calls Kislyak to discuss the expelling of the diplomates and asks that the Russians not retaliate. (source)
January 6, 2017: Trump, McFarland, Pence, Flynn, Priebus, Pompeo and Bossert briefed with classified intelligence report by Brennan, Clapper, Comey. (source) That same day, DNI releases this report.
January 9, 2017: Russian Consul in Athens, Greece, Andrei Malanin, found dead in his apartment (source)
January 10, 2017: Buzzfeed publishes Steele Dossier. (source)
January 24, 2017: Peter Strzok interviews Michael Flynn. (source)
January 27, 2017: Russia's Ambassador to India, Alexander Kadakin, dies. (source)
January 30, 2017: New York State Department of Financial Services fines Deutsche Bank $425 million for massive Russian mirror trading scheme. (source)
February 2017: Trump's bodyguard, a Trump Organization lawyer and a third man raid Harold Bornstein's office, taking Trump's medical records. (source)
February 20, 2017: Vitaly Churkin, Russia's ambassador to the UN, dies suddenly in New York (source)
March 2, 2017: Ukrainian businessman with links to Trump found dead from undetermined causes. Oronov was Michael Cohen's brother's father-in-law, and Cohen did business with him. (source)
March 11, 2017: Trump fires Preet Bharara, who as US Attorney of SDNY had led the breakup of a massive Russian organized crime ring operating out of Trump Tower. (source)
March 16, 2017: laptop stolen from Secret Service agent's car while parked in her driveway. The laptop contained highly sensitive information including floor plans and evacuation protocol for Trump Tower. (source)
March 20, 2017: It's learned that the FBI had launched a counter intelligence investigation into the Trump campaign and Russian links in July of 2016. (source) (source)
March 21, 2017: A lawyer for a Putin-foe, Nikolai Gorokhov, reportedly thrown from a window in Moscow. Gorokhov was set to testify as a U.S. government witness in a money laundering case initiated by SDNY (led by Preet Bahrara). (source) "The alleged vehicle by which these dirty assets were washed clean was a Cyprus-registered company called Prevezon Holdings Ltd." (source) Prevezon is represented by Nataliya Veselnitskaya at the time that she attends the Trump Tower meeting in June of 2016. (source)
March 23, 2017: former Russian MP, Denis Voronenkov, shot dead in Kiev. (source)
March 30, 2017: FBI raids Trump-linked casino in Saipan. (source)
March 30, 2017: Mike Flynn asks for immunity. (source)
May 1, 2017: Scott Christianson, investigative reporter for McClatchy, publishes this:
May 9, 2017: Trump fires FBI director James Comey. (source)
May 2017 (date unclear): FBI opens counter intelligence investigation into Trump. (source)
May 10: 2017: Subpoenas issued to Michael Flynn by Senate Intelligence Committee. (source)
May 10, 2017: closed-door meeting in Oval Office with Russians. (source)
May 10, 2017: Roger Ailes falls in his home at Palm Beach Country. (source)
May 11, 2017: FBI raids GOP consulting firm in Maryland. (source)
May 14, 2017: Scott Christianson dies after falling down the stairs at his home (source)
May 14 2017: Republic operative Peter Smith found dead in Minnesota 10 days after speaking with WSJ (source)
Smith had said he'd been working with Michael Flynn (source).
May 17, 2017: Robert Mueller appointed special counsel (source).
May 18, 2017: Roger Ailes dies from head injury he'd sustained 8 days earlier (source).
May 20-21, 2017: Trump takes his first overseas trip as president to Saudi Arabia. During this trip, it's announced that Blackstone, led by Stephen Schwarzman, will manage Saudi Arabia's $20 billion investment fund. (source) Most of the investment will be in US infrastructure (source) During that trip, Trump also meets with Kirill Dmitriev of VEB bank (source)
July 4, 2017: body washes up on shore of Trump golf course in California. (source) (source)
July 26, 2017: Paul Manafort's home raided (source)
July 27, 2017: George Papadopoulos arrested. (source)
August 3, 2017: Secret Service kicked out of Trump Tower (source).
August 23, 2017: Russian ambassador to Sudan, Mirgayas Shirinsky, found dead. (source)
September 1, 2017: fire at Russian consulate in San Francisco (source).
September 14, 2017: Junior ditches Secret Service to go to Canada (source).
September 25, 2017: Richard Beckler, Trump's appointee as General Counsel of GSA dies (source). Beckler is the GSA staff member who'd assured Trump that requests for materials/emails from special counsel would not be honored (source).
September 27, 2017: Paul Horner, fake news writer who took credit for Trump’s win, dies of apparent overdose (source)
October 2017: Trump muses that he'll likely get to place 4 justices on the Supreme Court because of future health issues they may have (source).
October 16, 2017: Panama Papers journalist killed with a car bomb. (source)
October 25, 2017: Jared Kushner leaves on unannounced visit to Saudi Arabia.
October 26, 2017: Investigator (Catherine Hunt, a former FBI agent) working on behalf of 9/11 families suing Saudi Arabia interviews Jamal Khashoggi. Khashoggi texted Saudi officials that same day.
(as claimed by the lawyer working on behalf of the families)
October 28, 2018: Jared Kushner returns from unannounced visit to Saudi Arabia.
October 30, 2017: Papadopoulos guilty plea revealed (source)
November 3, 2017: Alex van der Zwaan is interviewed by the FBI. (source)
November 4, 2017: Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman consolidates power and arrests several princes, including Prince Alwaleed bin-Talal. (source) Trump had previously sold his yacht (1991) and the Plaza Hotel to Alwaleed bin-Talal (source).
November 2017: Trump picks fights with North Korea. (source)
November 17, 2017: Brett Kavanaugh added to short list of SCOTUS nominees. (source)
December 1, 2017: Michael Flynn pleads guilty to lying to the FBI. (source)
December 5, 2017: It's reported that Deutsche Bank received subpoena from Robert Mueller (source) In-depth Rachel Maddow segment on Deutsche Bank and the subpoena here.
December 16, 2017: Trump learns that Mueller has in his possession all of their transition emails on the .gov domain, obtained via the GSA. (source)
December 22, 2017: House Intelligence Committee interviews Rhona Graff
December 30, 2017: Fire at home linked to Ivanka's diamond business (source).
January 8, 2018: Fire at Trump Tower (source)
January 20, 2018: Former spokesman for Rick Gates, Glenn Selig, dies in Afghanistan hotel attack. Selig was a well-known Tampa Bay Area TV anchor. (source)
January 25, 2018: It's learned that Dutch intelligence had infiltrated Russian hacker group Cozy Bear and witnessed in real time as they attacked the State Department as well as the DNC. (source)
January 27, 2018: Steve Wynn resigns as RNC finance chair amid sexual assault allegations (source).
January 31, 2018: chartered train carrying GOP lawmakers to retreat crashes into truck (source).
February 16, 2018: Indictment of 12 Russians, outlining their methods of election interference (indictment sealed). (source)
February 20, 2018: Alex van der Zwaan pleads guilty to making false statements to FBI. (source)
February 22, 2018: Paul Manafort and Richard Gates indicted. (source)
February 23 - 27, 2018: Trump Tower Panama standoff with physical altercations and armed guards (source).
Week of March 4 - 10, 2018 (date unclear): FBI raids Trump-linked casino in Saipan a second time. (source)
March 4, 2018: Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia, found poisoned on a park bench in Salisbury. (source)
March 16, 2018: FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe fired. (source)
April 7, 2018: ANOTHER Trump Tower Fire - art dealer Todd Brassner dies (source); Michael Cohen texts Dennis Shields with a warning to "get out ASAP" (source).
April 9, 2018: FBI raids Michael Cohen's home, hotel room, and office (source).
April 13, 2018: RNC Finance Chair Elliot Broidy resigns in midst hush money payoff scandal (source).
April 15 or 16, 2018: Matthew Mellon (finance chair, NY RNC, and who made his fortune in cryptocurrency) dies of apparent overdose (source). Note - original link/story is now gone; here are alternate sources for that story: https://twitter.com/business/status/986135482013769728
April 24, 2018: Devin Nunes sends classified letter to Jeff Sessions regarding FBI informant (source) who is later revealed to be Stefan Halper. (source)
April 28, 2018: Fire at Trump Tower Azerbaijan (source).
Week of April 29, 2018: Devin Nunes issues subpoena to DOJ seeking information about FBI informant (later revealed to be Stefan Halper). (source)
June 20, 2018: New York State Department of Financial Services fines Deutsche Bank $205 million for "unlawful, unsafe and unsound conduct in its foreign exchange trading business." (source)
June 22, 2018: Trump-backed Katie Arrington seriously injured in head-in collision (source).
June 27, 2018: Justice Kennedy, whose son was Donald Trump's banker, unexpectedly announces retirement. (source) Trump and Kennedy reportedly had a special relationship (source).
July 4, 2018: delegation of Republicans go to Moscow. (source)
July 9, 2018: Brett Kavanaugh nominated to SCOTUS. (source)
July 14, 2018: Indictment of 12 Russians/internet research agency unsealed (source).
July 16, 2018: Maria Butina criminal complaint unsealed. (source)
July 16, 2018: Trump meets with Putin in Helsinki. (source)
July 17, 2018: Secret Service agent dies in Scotland. After falling ill at Trump's golf course in Turnberry, he died the day after the Helsinki meeting (source) (source). (obituary)
July 25, 2018: dead body found in waters off Trump NYC golf course (source).
August 6, 2018: Rand Paul goes to Russia. (source)
August 10, 2018: Dennis Shields - the same guy Cohen texted back in April - found dead in Trump Tower (source)
August 15, 2018: Trump revokes John Brennan's security clearance. (source)
August 16, 2018: mystery case before grand jury initiated. (source)
October 2, 2018: Jamal Khashoggi murdered on orders from Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. (source) Trump later disputes the findings of the CIA and stands with MBS, stating that too much money is at stake. (source)
October 3, 2018: Nikki Hailey resigns, but resignation is not yet publicly announced. (source)
October 3, 2018: The Russian deputy attorney general (Saak Karapetyan) who reportedly directed Natalya Veselnitskaya (the lawyer who met with the Trump campaign in Trump Tower) dies in a helicopter crash (source). It was later reported that the pilot of the helicopter had been shot. (source)
October 9, 2018: Internet Research Agency (aka the troll farm) named in DOJ indictment (unsealed July 14, 2018) set on fire. (source)
October 9, 2018: Nikki Haley announces resignation.
October 9, 2018: New York Times reports that Saudi Arabia had ordered Khashoggi's murder.
October 17, 2018: Don McGahn resigns. (source)
October 19, 2018: "Project Lahkta" (Russian election interference) criminal complaint unsealed (source)
October 21, 2018: John Bolton goes to Russia to meet with Putin. (source)
October 22 - 27, 2018: week of terror begins with bombs at the home of George Soros. (source). It was followed by bombs sent to Bill and Hillary Clinton (Oct. 23); Barack Obama, CNN, John Brennan, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Eric Holder and Maxine Waters (October 24); Robert de Niro and Joe Biden (October 25); and Cory Booker, James Clapper, Kamala Harris, and Tom Steyer (October 26). It ends with mass shooting at Tree of Life synagogue on October 27 (source).
October 30, 2018: Whitey Bulger killed. (source)
November 21, 2018: head of GRU agency accused of DNC hacks and Skripal poisoning dies, reportedly after a long illness. (source)
November 27, 2018: Methbot indictment unsealed at EDNY. (source)
November 28, 2018: Miami Herald publishes Perversion of Justice investigative report.
November 29, 2018: Michael Cohen pleads guilty. (source)
November 29, 2018: Massive raid at Deutsche Bank. (source)
November 29, 2018: FBI raids offices of Trump's former tax attorney, Chicago Alderman Ed Burke. (source)
December 4, 2018: Epstein trial set to begin. It is settled at the last minute, avoiding testimony from witnesses. (source)
December 13, 2018: FBI allegedly raids Chicago Alderman and former Trump tax attorney Ed Burke's office a second time (FBI neither confirms nor denies whether raid took place) (source).
December 22, 2018: Government shuts down. (source)
January 8, 2019: it's learned that Manafort passed polling data to Kilimnik in the summer of 2016. (source)
January 11, 2019: it's learned/reported that the FBI had opened a counter intelligence investigation into Trump in May of 2017. (source)
January 23, 2019: Michael Cohen postpones testimony before Congress, saying it's because Trump has been threatening him. (source)
January 25, 2019: Roger Stone arrested and indicted. (source) (source)
February 21, 2019: Judge rules that federal prosecutors (including Trump labor secretary Alex Acosta) broke the law in Epstein case. (source)
February 27, 2019: Michael Cohen testifies before Congress that Trump had directed him to threaten people as many as 500 times when he worked for him. (source) He also testifies that Felix Sater's office had been located on the 26th floor of Trump Tower - the same floor as Trump's office - and, in the location that would eventually become Cohen's office. (source)
And let's not forget the acid in Steve Bannon's bathroom: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/bannons-vacated-florida-home-had-a-bathroom-destroyed-by-acid-washington-post-report-985356
Or how Michael Cohen threatened this reporter: https://twitter.com/cherijacobus/status/974831949285031936
Or the threats Stormy Daniels received: https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/25/politics/stormy-daniels-threat-60-minutes/index.html
A short history of Donald Trump's threats: https://www.propublica.org/article/a-short-history-of-threats-received-by-donald-trumps-opponents
#politics#donald trump#republicans#russia#money laundering#mobbed up#maria butina#ron paul#treason#traitors#tre45on#russian mafia#russian mob
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"I'll Be Waiting"
Summary: “Her eyes are a soft color. A delicate green like the expensive jade bracelets all the heiresses of the Earth Kingdom wear. He loved the sound those bracelets made as they rattled against each other and jingled softly. He decided then that he liked her too.”
Notes: What do y'all think ? I kind of wanted to write some cute teenage LinZolt and write about dancing because of my own background. Also how would you feel, about smutty chapters later ? What direction should I take this happy ending or sad ending ? Also I want to flesh out Ember Island, and establish it as having it's own unique culture and dialect. How do we feel about some French-speaking LinZolt ? (translations will be provided of course).
Critiques: Do y'all have constructive criticism ? I'm still developing my sense of style and I have no writing experience and have never taken a creative writing course in my life so I need all the help I can get.
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/51405040
Chapter 1:
Kenzo or as his friends liked to call him “Zolt '' was new to Little Caldera. Frankly, he never imagined himself living in such a nice area. Solidly middle class, with the best schools and entertainment to be found in Republic City. Unlike the other boroughs every shop, residence and school there had electricity. Located just on the cusp of old cranefish town, and just outside of downtown, it was a short walk from Yue Bay. The harbor brought in all sorts of business. Little Caldera had a special character to it, its own unique appeal. Spotless and crime free but with great nightlife. High end restaurants and cheap seafood were both in abundance. Contradictory. Perfect. Well, nearly perfect but Caldera’s flaws didn’t touch the likes of Zolt.
Through some stroke of luck his mother managed to find a job as a dance instructor. The position came with lodging right above the studio. It was a small space but more luxurious than either of them had known previously. Two closet-sized bedrooms, a kitchen that was more of a hallway and an entry way that just barely managed to fit a genkan, coat closet and an armchair.
The apartment while small was by no stretch of the imagination shabby. It was well maintained despite its age. The walls were freshly painted and papered. The entryway in a rich cream, the kitchen was a sunny yellow, the bedrooms sported white and crimson wallpaper with a sun motif. They had real hardwood floors. The kitchen appliances were brand new, and for the first time in his life Zolt experienced the pleasure and convenience of an ice box.
They even had their own private bathroom, which was surprisingly large compared to the other rooms. The toilet portion was walled off from the bathing area and the sink stood in between the two. The bath was wonderfully deep, made to be soaked in. To his surprise, the first night he spent in the apartment and drew himself a bath the water heater actually worked. He had discovered this when he reflexively heated up the water with his bending and nearly boiled himself like a dumpling. At his previous home the promise to repair the heater was never actually met. Over the years he had taught himself to warm the water, a skill he no longer needed here.
Every day he discovered a new luxury. The apartment even had underfloor heating, his need for slippers was gone. Despite the lessons going on at all hours of the day and night below them and their close proximity to their neighbors it was surprisingly quiet. The thick walls muffled the sound.
The views were perfect. The windows were large and spilled in bright wonderful light, only obstructed by the glorious shade of the Sakura trees planted all over his neighborhood. From the kitchen he could take in the view of the perfectly manicured street in front of the studio. His bedroom had an especially nice view. Behind the studio there was the nicest apartment building he had ever seen. It was built in a u-shape around a huge courtyard, complete with a fountain, pool, turtleduck pond, rose garden and a playground. It stood five stories tall and was built in a traditional style. The countless balconies were all decorated with paper lanterns and fire lilies. The fire escapes would actually be handy in case of emergency, unlike the rusted ones he knew. He had never seen the Imperial Palace of the fire lord, but he imagined it to look just like this, elegant and overflowing with flowers. It was his newfound vision of paradise.
The end of summer was fast approaching, but he still needed something to fill the last of the golden weeks with. He ends up brushing up on his dancing skills, not that he needed to, he was a natural. His mother had made sure of that. Before he could walk, he could dance. Since toddlerhood he had studied every type there was, from the Fire Nation to the Water Tribes. He was well versed in traditional and contemporary forms. His technique was precise, he was fluid, a master of the countless skills each genre demanded. The head of the studio quickly figures this out and offers him a deal. He signs on as a student teacher, requiring him to be at the studio at least twice a week. In exchange he receives free lessons, and they’ll cover his private school tuition. His mother is overjoyed at the thought of sending him to “Avatar Roku High School” -the best in the city. She squeals in delight when he takes the offer. His summer was very quickly filled with rehearsals, costume fittings, lessons and performances.
He’d taught groups before but this is his first time teaching a private lesson. For the life of him he couldn’t remember her name. What did Asuka say it was ? It had an “r” in it somewhere. The girl is staring at her form in the mirror, warming up. He assesses her. She is a sleek little thing, like a cat strutting through an alleyway at night. Her skirt is red and has a slit making it easier to see her motion. Her tiny top matches it and reveals her abdomen. Judging by her curvy build and outfit she must be from Ember Island like him. She’s practicing her fa’arapu. Tui and La, she has the speed down. She’s nearly perfect. He can easily fix this.
He approaches her and introduces himself, he encourages her to continue warming up. After a while he comes up behind her. She stops, he places one hand on her stomach and the other on one of her delicate shoulders. “You’ve got the motion, muscle control and the flexibility. You're just stiff and your posture is bad. You're tucking in your spine like this” he says demonstrating. “ and you’re hunching your shoulders, like you’re trying to make yourself smaller” he explains as he gently adjusts her position. There, now she’s perfect. “Don’t do that, you’re a pretty girl. Have some confidence” he continued. He didn’t mean to say that last part out loud.
He looks up into the mirror, taking in her face for the first time. She really is a pretty girl. Her cheeks are flushed pink, she is biting her lip. It is a cute nervous habit, it makes her lips even redder.
He catches her gaze in the mirror. Her eyes are a soft color. A delicate green like the expensive jade bracelets all the heiresses of the Earth Kingdom wear. He loved the sound those bracelets made as they rattled against each other and jingled softly. He decided then that he liked her too.
#legend of korra#lin beifong#lightning bolt zolt#linzolt#ao3#meet cute#dancing#francais#french language
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“I love the idea of opening up a child’s imagination and challenging a child’s mind,” she says. “That’s always been something I’ve gravitated towards, and it makes the job even more fulfilling than just creating a beautiful visual.”
Abigail Nesbitt has been featured on Variety's Top 10 Animators To Watch of 2023 sponsored by Nickelodeon
As the supervising director of Disney Junior’s “Pupstruction” — a pre-K animated series about a team of canine construction workers — Nesbitt sought inspiration from a plethora of real-world sources, learning about engineering, hydraulics, and industrial machinery to make the show’s tot-friendly world as tangible as possible. Fortunately, she didn’t have to go far.
“Here in my apartment on 9th Street in Brooklyn, they’ve been building a subway immediately outside for the last three years,” she says. “So if I need to check out how a particular truck works, I just have to go outside.”
With a decade-plus career as a storyboard artist for kids’ animation projects like “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” and Sesame Street’s “Abby’s Flying Fairy School,” Nesbitt moved up into storyboard directing for Disney Junior toons “Goldie and Bear” and “T.O.T.S.” — the latter of which introduced her to “Pupstruction” creator Travis Braun. Though it sometimes doesn’t get the same respect as animation aimed at older kids and adults, working on preschool-targeted shows allows Nesbitt the opportunity to indulge her imagination while still grounding fantastical worlds in real-life mechanics that a child can comprehend.
“I love the idea of opening up a child’s imagination and challenging a child’s mind,” she says. “That’s always been something I’ve gravitated towards, and it makes the job even more fulfilling than just creating a beautiful visual.”
Taking on her first role as a supervising director, Nesbitt credits “Pupstruction’s” close-knit team with helping her make the transition seamlessly, and she hopes to use her position to extend the same sorts of opportunities to other budding female animators.
“I hadn’t actually seen another woman in the position of some of the jobs I worked on. So I love the idea of mentoring and coaching and helping other female animators and artists, letting them know that there are so many opportunities and stories for them to tell as well.”
Abigail Nesbitt has a series of her own on development at Disney Junior Educational Resource Group for Disney Junior
#Abigail Nesbitt#Goldie And Bear#Goldie & Bear#T.O.T.S. Tiny Ones Transport Service#T.O.T.S#Pupstruction#Disney Junior#Disney Jr#Variety#Nickelodeon
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Had a dream I flew to Czechoslovakia by plane (for some reason the airport was in a shopping mall, like just one of those side stores that had a plane gate) and arrived in a developing and bustling city that was trying to replicate the feeling of an older major city like Prague or Budapest or Paris, with those long continuous walls of apartments and shops running along the sides of cobbled streets, and these buildings were painted some kind of lighter coral color. And I was marveling at how the dimensions of the streets and placement of buildings made it so walkable and open and how it felt safe and easy to navigate. It felt like a good home despite being a newer city still under construction. And I walked into this big hotel with a gothic church facade and it turns out there were two or three classes of college students visiting from some ivy league school in America staying at the hotel, and they were all wearing sweater vests and blue blazer uniforms. And suddenly they all started walking out the hotel as a big streaming pack of students joking around and being loud but also orderly, and this trio of friends, two guys and a girl, they all had black curly hair and the guy and the girl were taller than me and the other guy shorter than me. They must've thought I was some lonely kid from the same school and so two of them hooked their arms around mine and took me with them. And we walked along the wide streets and they talked across me and wondered where my uniform was and we walked into another large coral-colored building which split the road down either side of it. I had arrived at a giant cafeteria hall and they literally dragged me into the bathroom and all gathered around the tiny white sink as I washed my hands before the meal (they didn't wash their hands) and they were joking around between themselves and having a good time and I never was able to get a word out the whole time but I was having fun if a bit overwhelmed. And as we then walked to an empty table I began to explain to them that I actually didn't belong here I woke up.
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Construction in The Baltic Triangle. Lomo LC-A+.
The Baltic Triangle and Jamaica Street area is one of my favourite places to spend time in the city. Since creative businesses moved in and some rather cool coffee shops and bars became established this former warehouse district has become the place to be.
However this state of affairs has had its drawbacks. Developers are now building blocks of small and overpriced apartments. Experience has told many people in this city that noise complaints follow as the people who move into them object to the noise and disruption that made the area "cool" in the first place.
#liverpool#liverpoollomo#lomo#lomography#analogue photography#lomo lc a+#lomo kompakt automat#russian camera#expired film#35mm flim#35mm camera#35mm colour film#film photography#baltic triangle#south liverpool#jamaica street#construction#gentrification#film is not dead#don't think just shoot
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Thalman: ‘I Believe I'm the Best Person for the Job’
He’s watched the sausage be made. He’s even tossed in a few ingredients of his own over the past eight years as the council representative for Ward 1 and while serving as the city’s vice mayor.
And, as his campaign slogan exclaims, Chad Thalman wants to continue the comeback as the next mayor of Wheeling. He’s one of six candidates who wish to follow Glenn Elliott, a two-termer who’s now campaigning for the Democrat nomination for the U.S. Senate race in November, and he’s a firm believer he is the best candidate on the ballot.
Since Thalman was elected in 2016 to represent Ward 1, he’s supported a number of paving and demolition contracts, the construction of the new fire headquarters and creation of the new police HQ, a number of projects related to parks and recreation, and he voted in favor of the purchase of the Ohio Valley Medical Center campus, the implementation of the User Fee, and has been a part of the development of the current streetscape project.
“I don’t think I realized when I was preparing to run for city council back in 2015 how much time it takes to get projects moving and to make improvements we wanted to make,” said Thalman, who was appointed vice mayor eight years ago. “But we’ve accomplished a lot, and I’m proud of that fact.
Thalman was sworn into office at West Virginia Independence Hall in downtown when he was re-elected in 2020.
“I’ve been involved with the past eight years and I’m the guy best equipped to the city move forward. I think the current mayor and most of the members of council would agree that I’m the best person for the job,” he said. “I don’t want to be the mayor of any other city than Wheeling because it’s my hometown and it’s where I plan to live the rest of my life. If I don’t try to help Wheeling right now, I think I would regret it for the rest of my life.”
The winner of the Friendly City’s 2024 mayoral election will inherit an under-construction downtown that has a number of vacant storefronts and buildings, an economy centered on the professional, service, and healthcare industries, and a shrinking population, but Wheeling also is a city poised for residential and commercial re-development from border to border following a $223 million rehabilitation of Interstate 70, more than 60 citywide demolitions, and the $32 million state-fund streetscape along Main and Markets streets.
Plus, the trend of downtown living has grown with the completion of The Doris apartment complex by The Woda Group, and the schedules for entertainment at both the Capitol Theatre and Wesbanco Arena have been steadier than ever.
“We have a lot of momentum right now because so much has moved forward, and that’s because the people in Wheeling have refused to quit making the city a better place,” Thalman said. “During my time on council, we have engaged and interacted with the public as much as possible so they could share with us their ideas and that’s been a great process.”
Chad's parents, including his mother, Vicki, were thrilled when he dediced to move back home more than a decade ago.
Happy Homecoming
He was one of them.
He grew up in Wheeling, went to college in 2000, and then found a job in a city pretty far away just like so many other high school grads have done since the 1970s. It took place so often, in fact, it became expected among members of a few generations and that’s why a city that topped out at 61,000 citizens in the 1940s is now the home of only 27,000.
Thalman, however, became another kind of “them” when he decided to move home and pursue his social services career here instead of there.
“I decided to come back to Wheeling in December of 2006 after a couple of years because I think living in Morgantown for four years for college and then in Maryland for another two years made me appreciate Wheeling even more than I did when I lived here,” he admitted. “I was working full-time with (the W.Va. Department of Health and Human Resources) and taking classes during the evenings at Wheeling Jesuit for my MBA. After that I started teaching business classes as an adjunct and kept working full-time.
Wheeling's vice mayor has volunteered in local schools for several years.
“But then I started working at Warwood Armature, and that’s a company that was started by my great grandfather back in 1927 out of his garage in Warwood,” Thalman explained. “We fix and sell electric motors, and I handle the sales, customer service, and a lot of the door-to-day operations of the business.”
His professional transfer from the public to the private sector, Thalman firmly believes, allowed him to be a more effective city councilor.
“It wasn’t until I started working with my father that I started looking at things with that business mindset, and I think it’s helped me with my role with the city. I can look at issues from the business perspective and that makes me want to know if there’s a good return on the investment,” Thalman said. “It’s all been a learning experience, and now I feel I’m ready to take our city into a very positive future.
“The Doris Apartments is a great example of seeing a return on an investment made by the City of Wheeling because the City owned the parking lot where it was constructed,” he said. “Sure, we gave WODA the property but consider what the economic return will going to be when those apartments are full. It’s going to be much more significant than what an ugly surface parking lot gives us.”
Thalman is proud of his work to add recreational opportunities in Wheeling, including the dog parks now in three areas of Wheeling.
Moving with Momentum
Gloria Delbrugge retired from serving on Wheeling’s council following her third term in 2016, and the late representative was known to be feisty and fiery when fighting for the Warwood, North Park, and Upper Glenwood neighborhoods.
Thalman, thanks to Delbrugge’s tutorials, knew the residents – pronounced “voters” – would expect the same from him.
“After I knew I was going to run for council, I started attending the meetings for about 15 months, and I also talked to Gloria, so I got a good sense of how things worked,” he recalled. “But when I started serving, there was still a pretty good learning curve, and it takes a little bit of time to get the experience the job needs.
“There’s a lot more to how the City functions as far as what the council does, and what the city staff does. When it comes to city business, I think the typical resident assumes the elected officials are calling all the shots, and that’s not the case when it comes to day-to-day operations,” he explained. “That was a big part of the learning curve for me, even with all of the meetings I attended and all the talks I had with Gloria, I still had to realize about how the City really operates.”
Even after learning the City of Wheeling’s “sausage” recipe and working with local, state, and federal officials over the last eight years, Thalman did not envision a campaign to become Wheeling’s next mayor.
“In 2015, I made the decision to run for City Council, and I started preparing,” he said with a smile. “And here I am today doing something I never thought I would do during my lifetime.
“And I believe I'm the best person for the job. I really love Wheeling, and I want to do everything I can do to help us all move forward,” Thalman insisted. “It has been an honor and a privilege to have the opportunity to serve the residents of the city of Wheeling, and I believe we have a lot of momentum right now and I’m the person who knows how to keep us moving forward.”
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I want to dismantle the blocky and claustrophobic infrastructure construct that America has adopted. In reality I’d like to run away from it all and go elsewhere where the preservation of nature is still a prevalent subject at the forefront of leaders’ minds. But I believe that is hard in any developed country. I want to destroy the problem at the root. I want to take my fists and crush all of these buildings and skyscrapers and reduce everything to rubble and force humans to face adversity, and help everyone rebuild our structures with more space and land for everyone to enjoy. I can’t even find a peaceful area with enough area to scream my lungs out without another person being inconvenienced by my expression and feeling the need to call the authorities. I live in an apartment where I share walls with 4 different families. I need land of my own to frolic in and plant a garden in. But I shouldn’t need to feel stuck in a certain profession to be able to obtain that kind of necessary space. I want to create spaces where community is important, recreational 24 hour spaces that are actually well-funded and well-kept. Similar to a group home but for everyone to enjoy. I can remember countless nights, and days, as a child, where I was yearning to be everywhere but the home I was supposed to be at. I would spend time with people who would spend their days smoking it away in their cars and in the streets. But I wasn’t old enough to, nor did I want to go to a nightclub to spend my time at. I wished there was a place where I could learn trades and crafts as a young teenager and adult. I felt so lost, and alone, and the connections between parents and children are only going to continue polarizing in two extremes- positive and the negative. The parents who stop negative cycles and the ones who repeat them. And everything in-between those two. Humans need to grow up with a sense of connection to this earth and the people in their community. Nature needs to be more available to access. Humans shouldn’t need cars to be able to go somewhere. This land is everyones land and we must be taught respect. Children need to grow up in nature, outside. With animals. Love needs to be taught and shown in school. Women and men shouldn’t have to hide and cover our bodies for modesty/Christian reasons. God made us perfectly. But there are a lot of people who use God to defend their evil. The road to Hell is paved with good intentions. But actions speak louder than words. A lot of people can point out issues in this country, but there are few if any that are willing to create radical change in this country. Young and old people balance each other . Female and male balance each other. We should be learning and taking ideas from both to establish change. Older people may think they are infinitely smarter than the young because of their longer life experience, but I find that with age comes more complacency. Youth are full of fire and have nowhere to go. Their ideas of change and opportunity are constantly shot down instead of being taken seriously. Opposite sexes constantly feel separated and so different from one another. Our roles are being shifted every single day. We could find a better equilibrium if we were exposed to a more naturalistic society. But males can learn strategies for inner passive strength from women. And women can learn strategies for outer action strength from men. The feminine and masculine is within us all. It is imperative we learn the importance and beauty of both within us. Oh how I long to live in a world where I can travel and live wherever I please, and not have to obtain a visa to be able to live on another part of the land where all of our ancestors have been. I am so tired. We should not have to work like slaves for the majority of our lives to barely survive and eat every day. Our happiness and wellness is not prioritized. The system feeds off of our exhaustion. Work us til we die. And we will try our best to have meaningful connections with others who are systematically separated from us in the meantime.
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TOD: The Barriers, the Failures, and the Successes
Often Transit Oriented Development is opposed by the local community that already exists in the area where the transit is going to be or was just built. This can be for both valid and selfish reasons such as worrying that more residents will bring more traffic, more crime, and raise rents. Additionally, homeowners know that their homes will increase in value because of the transit line, and even more if no development is built because the demand rises but the supply doesn’t so therefore the price rises. People also worry that new development will “change the neighborhood’s character” which I’d argue will happen whether or not one tries to stop it, so instead of stopping the development, one should work to channel the development to bring the change they want or can tolerate. People use the term NIMBY to describe people who oppose development. NIMBY is an acronym for “Not in my Backyard.”
Sign against new development: https://twitter.com/nathanallebach/status/1631030670045659136?s=46&t=dtDnRh9ui5x2CNf8aafHKA
NIMBY’s often can block development by trying to prevent the zoning code in the area from changing. In order to build a new pattern of development, the zoning code has to change in most of the United States, so if the local municipality decides not to change the zoning code for whatever reason, TOD won’t be able to be built.
Finally, construction is expensive, so private companies might decide to not develop in places even if the zoning code allows for it. To make the opportunity attractive to developers, the city must either increase the expected profit or decrease the cost of construction. To increase the expected profit, the city could increase the demand to live or work in the development by building services in the area to make it more attractive or it could make the transit better through operational improvements to make it more attractive to potential residents. Additionally, the city could allow the development to build denser or higher in order to allow them to have more apartments to sell or rent. In order to decrease the costs of construction, the city could subsidize the development or give the development tax abatements.
The Tide Light Rail line in Norfolk Virginia has very low ridership. In 2022, it had 620,000 riders. By comparison, the Cincinnati Streetcar had 850,000 riders. The line’s alignment was chosen to be constructed cheaply along a rail and highway right of way. Because of that decision, there are few people who actually live or work along most of the right of way giving the light rail line such little ridership. To remedy this, Norfolk could have built Transit Orientated Development along the line in order to boost its ridership and allow more people to access this important piece of transportation infrastructure. However, there is not a single piece of TOD along the whole line which is a real pity. They also haven’t made the stations easy to access from the current development in the area.
Aerial View of Ballentine Broad Creek Station served by the Tide Light Rail Line in Norfolk Virginia: Taken from Google Maps
So how can we make good TOD?
What makes good TOD is the proximity to the transit station and the development around the transit station. Good regulation around the TOD is needed to encourage healthy development in the area. Discouraging the use of cars is very important so that there's enough room for people to live healthy lives, the easiest way to do this is to ban street parking in the surrounding areas and to end parking minimums and even add parking maximums to enable the most people to live close to the transit. Development around the transit should be mixed-use to increase business opportunities in the area. Ensuring everybody is within 15 minutes of walking time of most necessities and services is important to complete the TOD. Multiple transit options should be available just from the exit of the transit stop, having bike share for last-mile trips or local buses stopping right outside of the transit stop is extremely important to let people travel from the transit stop without a car. These factors help create good TOD developments.
The Rosslyn-Ballston Corridor southwest of Washington D.C. is a good example of TOD, stepping right outside of the D.C. metro station you're met with a calm street and rideshare bikes to help people get to their destinations and a bus stop for people that live a little farther away. The Rosslyn-Ballston Corridor also has dense mixed-use development near the stations creating a lot of housing near a subway that allows people to commute to D.C. and Arlington Virginia easily. There are also plenty of businesses in the surrounding area giving people places to spend money and get food without the need for a car or another bus ride. Bike lanes are on most of the main roads to give commuters and cyclists a safer way to get around. Parks and plazas are incorporated into the city to give people a place to have chance meetings and to meet strangers. Good TOD needs to have all of those and more to make it an attractive area to live in and the Rosslyn-Ballston Corridor does it quite well.
Aerial View of Rosslyn-Ballston Corridor served by the Washington D.C. Metro
By James McDermott, AJ Earlywine, Dylan Gomez, and RT Atkins
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REALLY HOW TO FIGHT WITH SUCH RESIDENTS???
WHAT WE GOT TO MURDER!
WHAT DO THEY ENTER THROUGH THE BALCONY?
IT'S SO DIFFERENT TO WALK ON THE STAIRS!
AND NO ONE WANTS TO REMOVE!
WHAT THERE ARE SEVERAL RESIDENTS WHAT THEY SPIT IN THE PODEZDE!
AND HOW MANY ARE THESE IN EACH ENTRY??
SCIRBISANII ZABALOSI THIS IS HOW I CALL THEM!
OR WHAT THEY WALK WITH GLASSES😎😎😎😎🥸???
AND IT'S BEEN FOR YEARS!!
VIDEMA SUCH HAVE NO CONSCIENCE AND EDUCATION!!!
AND THIS IS WHY IN THE INVOICES THE FEE COMES INTO THE APARTMENT FOR THE CLEANING!
And NOBODY FROM housing and communal services IS REMOVED!!!
AND HOW TO DO IF THE APARTMENTS ARE PRIVATED!
AND WHEN NO ONE WANTS TO COLLECT MONEY FOR REPAIRS!
AND WHEN THE ANTENNA IS PUT ON THE ROOF, THEN THEY QUICKLY RISE!
THEN WHOSE ROOF COMES OUT???
OR WHAT VIA TV TO SEE YOUR STAIRWAY???
IF THE BLIND DONT SEE THEIR BLUE WHAT WILL NOT BE REMOVED FOR A FEW DAYS!
AND TO NOT FLOOD YOUR APARTMENTS THEN DEMAND FROM DEVELOPERS TO BUILD THAT I OFFER YOU IMPROVEMENTS OF THE QUALITY OF APARTMENTS!
AND YOU WILL NOT LIKE THE SHOES OF THE FEET OF THE SHOE OR THE KNOCK OF THE FEET WHILE WALKING!
AND YOU WILL NOT HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THE LOWER APARTMENTS PROBLEM QUESTIONS!
AND MUCH MORE!
BUY FROM MY IDEAS WORKS PROJECTS.
AND THE APPEAL TO THE COUNTRY OF RUSSIA THAT THE EARTH IS BIG THAT THE DEVELOPERS START BUILDING NEW CITIES AND EXACTLY SUCH PROJECTS WHAT I OFFER!
THAT THE PEDESTRIAN WAS SAFE ESPECIALLY FROM CHILDREN!
WHAT IN THAT SECOND YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE GOING FOR AND FOR WHOM!!!
AND DURING THE CHASE, THE HIjacker DOES NOT CLEAR WHAT'S ON THE MIND!
WHAT WHEN THE POLICE IS CHASING, IT IS NECESSARY TO FINISH THE PLAN OF THE CHASE!
AND HOW TO BUILD WITH FOUNDATIONS THAT THERE ARE NO PARKED CARS ON THE CITY STREETS!
SO WHEN CONSTRUCTING A BUILDING, TO BUILD PARKING IN SEVERAL FLOORS OF UP TO 500 CARS DEPENDS ON THE LAND OF THE BUILDING!
DEVELOPERS BUY VERY NEEDED NOW TIME IS LEAVING
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ДЕЙСТВИТЕЛЬНО КАК БОРОТЬСЯ С ТАКИМИ ЖИЛЬЦАМИ???
ЧТО ДОСТАЛИ ЧТОБ МУРАРИЛИ!
ОНИ ЧТО ЧЕРЕЗ БАЛКОН ЗАХОДЯТ?
НАСТОЛЬКО ПРОТИВНО ХОДИТЬ ПО ЛЕСТНИЦЕ!
А УБЕРАТЬ НИКТО НЕ ХОЧЕТ!
ЧТО ЕСТЬ НЕСКОЛЬКО ЖИЛЬЦОВ ЧТО ПЛЕЮТ В ПОДЕЗДЕ !
А СКОЛЬКО ТАКИХ В КАЖДОМ ПОДЪЕЗДЕ??
SCIRBISANII ZABALOSI ВОТ КАК ИХ НАЗЫВАЮ ТАКИХ !
ИЛИ ЧТО ОНИ В ОЧКАХ ХОДЯТ😎😎😎😎🥸???
И ЭТО УЖЕ ГОДЫ!!
ВИДЕМА У ТАКИХ НЕТУ СОВЕСТИ И ВОСПИТАНИЯ !!!
И ВОТ ПОЧЕМУ В ФАКТУРАХ ПРИХОДИТ ПЛАТА ЗА ПОДЕЗД ЗА УБОРКУ!
А НИКТО ИЗ ЖКХ НИ УБЕРАЕТ!!!
И КАК СДЕЛАТЬ ЕСЛИ КВАРТИРЫ ПРИВАТЕЗИРОВАНЫ!
А КОГДА НА РЕМОНТ СОБИРАТЬ ДЕНЕГ НИКТО НЕ ХОЧЕТ!
А КОГДА АНТЕНУ ПОСТАВИТЬ НА КРЫШУ ТО БЫСТРО ПОДЫМАЛИСЬ!
ТО ТОГДА ЧЬЯ ВЫХОДИТ КРЫША???
ИЛИ ЧТО ЧЕРЕЗ ТВ ЧТОБ УВИДЕЛИ СВОЙ ПОДЪЕЗД???
ЕСЛИ СЛЕПЫЕ НЕ ВИДЯТ СВОИ БЛБВОТИНУ ЧТО ПО НЕСКОЛЬКО ДНЕЙ НЕ УБЕРАЕТСЯ!
И ЧТОБ НЕ ЗАТОПИЛО ВАШИ КВАРТИРЫ ТО ТРЕБУИТЕ У ЗАСТРОИШИКОВ ЧТОБ СТРОИЛИ ЧТО Я ПРЕДЛАГАЮ ВАМ УЛУЧШЕНИЯ КАЧЕСТВА КВАРТИР!
И НЕ БУДЕТ ВАМ СЛИШЕН РОШОХ НОГ ОБУВИ ИЛИ СТУКИ НОГ ПРИ ХОДЬБЕ!
И НЕ БУДЕТ ВАМ ПРОБЛЕМЫ С НИЖНИМИ КВАРТИРАМИ ПРОБЛЕМНЫЕ ВОПРОСЫ!
И МНОГОЕ ДРУГОЕ!
КУПИТЕ ИЗ МОИХ ИДЕИ РАБОТ ПРОЕКТОВ.
И ОБРАЩЕНИЕ СТРАНЕ РОССИИ ЧТО ЗЕМЛИ БОЛЬШАЯ ЧТОБ ЗАСТРОИЩИКИ НАЧИЛИ СТРОИТЬ НОВЫЕ ГОРОДА И ИМЕННО ТАКИМИ ПРОЕКТАМИ ЧТО ПРЕДЛАГАЮ!
ЧТОБ ПЕШИХОДЫБЫЛ В БЕЗОПАСНОСТИ ОСОБЕННО ИЗ ДЕТЕЙ!
ЧТО В ТУ СЕКУНДУ НЕ ЗНАЕШЬ ЧТО ЩА ПОГОНИ И ЗА КЕМ!!!
А ВО ВРЕМЯ ПОГОНИ У УГОНЩИКА НЕ ПОНЯТНО ЧТО НА УМЕ!
ЧТО ПРИ ПОГОНИ ПОЛИЦИИ НАДО ДОРАБОТАТЬ ПЛАН ПОГОНИ!
И КАК ПОСТРОИТЬ С ФУНДАМЕНТОВМ ЧТОБ ПО УЛИЦАМ ГОРОДА НЕ БЫЛО ПРИПАРКОВАННЫХ МАШИН!
ЧТОБ ПРИ ПОСТРОИКЕ ЗДАНИЯ ПОСТРОИТЬ ПАРКОВКИ В НЕСКОЛЬКО ЭТАЖЕЙ ДО 500 МАШИН ЗАВИСИТ ОТ УЧАСТКА ЗЕМЛИ ЗДАНИЯ!
ЗАСТРОЙЩИКИ КУПИТЕ ОЧЕНЬ НУЖНЫ СЕЙЧАС ВРЕМЯ УХОДИТ
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WIE KÄMPFT MAN WIRKLICH MIT SOLCHEN EINWOHNERN???
WAS WIR ZU MORDEN HABEN!
WAS BETRETEN SIE DURCH DEN BALKON?
ES IST SO ANDERS, AUF DER TREPPE ZU GEHEN!
UND NIEMAND WILL ENTFERNEN!
WAS ES MEHRERE EINWOHNER GIBT, WAS SIE IM PODEZDE SPUCKEN!
UND WIE VIELE SIND DAS IN JEDEM EINTRAG?
SCIRBISANII ZABALOSI SO NENNE ICH SIE!
ODER WAS SIE MIT BRILLEN GEHEN😎😎😎😎🥸???
UND DAS SEIT JAHREN!!
VIDEMA SOLCHE HABEN KEIN GEWISSEN UND BILDUNG!!!
UND DESHALB KOMMT IN DEN RECHNUNGEN DIE GEBÜHR FÜR DIE REINIGUNG IN DIE WOHNUNG!
Und NIEMAND AUS WOHNUNG UND KOMMUNALSERVICE WIRD ENTFERNT!!!
UND WIE TUN, WENN DIE WOHNUNGEN PRIVAT SIND!
UND WENN KEINER FÜR REPARATUREN GELD SAMMELN WILL!
UND WENN DIE ANTENNE AUF DAS DACH GESETZT WIRD, DANN STEIGEN SIE SCHNELL AUF!
WESSEN DACH KOMMT DANN HERAUS???
ODER WAS ÜBER FERNSEHEN, UM IHRE TREPPE ZU SEHEN???
WENN DIE BLINDEN IHR BLAUES WAS NICHT SEHEN, WIRD ES FÜR EIN PAAR TAGE NICHT ENTFERNT!
UND UM IHRE WOHNUNGEN NICHT ZU FLUTTEN, FORDERN SIE DANN VON ENTWICKLERN ZU BAUEN, DASS ICH IHNEN VERBESSERUNGEN DER QUALITÄT DER WOHNUNGEN BIETE!
UND SIE WERDEN DIE SCHUHE DER FÜSSE DES SCHUHS ODER DAS KLOPFEN DER FÜSSE BEIM GEHEN NICHT MÖGEN!
UND SIE HABEN KEIN PROBLEM MIT DEN PROBLEMFRAGEN DER UNTEREN APARTMENTS!
UND VIELES MEHR!
KAUFEN SIE BEI MY IDEAS WORKS PROJEKTEN.
UND DER APPELL AN DAS LAND RUSSLAND, DASS DIE ERDE GROSS IST, DASS DIE ENTWICKLER BEGINNEN, NEUE STÄDTE ZU BAUEN UND GENAU SOLCHE PROJEKTE, WAS ICH BIETE!
DASS DER FUSSGÄNGER SPEZIELL VOR KINDERN SICHER WAR!
WAS IN DIESER SEKUNDE WEISST DU NICHT, WAS DU WILLST UND FÜR WEN!!!
UND WÄHREND DER VERFOLGUNG RÄUMT DER ENTFÜHRER NICHT, WAS IM VERSTAND IST!
WAS, WENN DIE POLIZEI Verfolgt, IST ES NOTWENDIG, DEN PLAN DER VERFOLGUNG ZU FERTIGEN!
UND WIE MAN MIT FUNDAMENTEN BAUT, DASS ES KEINE GEPARKTEN AUTOS AUF DEN STRASSEN DER STADT GIBT!
BEIM BAU EINES GEBÄUDES HÄNGT DAS PARKEN AUF MEHREREN ETAGEN FÜR BIS ZU 500 AUTOS VOM GRUNDSTÜCK DES GEBÄUDES AB!
ENTWICKLER KAUFEN SEHR BENÖTIGT JETZT IST DIE ZEIT VERLASSEN
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VRAIMENT COMMENT SE BATTRE AVEC DE TELLES RESIDENTS ???
CE QUE NOUS AVONS À ASSASSINER !
QU'ENTRENT-ILS PAR LE BALCON ?
C'EST TELLEMENT DIFFÉRENT DE MARCHER DANS LES ESCALIERS !
ET PERSONNE NE VEUT ENLEVER !
QU'IL Y A PLUSIEURS HABITANTS QU'ILS CRACHENT DANS LE PODEZDE !
ET COMBIEN SONT-ILS DANS CHAQUE ENTRÉE ? ?
SCIRBANII ZABALOSI C'EST COMME JE LES APPELLE !
OU QU'ILS MARCHENT AVEC DES LUNETTES😎😎😎😎🥸???
ET C'EST DEPUIS DES ANNEES !!
VIDEMA TELLES N'ONT AUCUNE CONSCIENCE ET ÉDUCATION !!!
ET C'EST POURQUOI DANS LES FACTURES LES FRAIS ENTRENT DANS L'APPARTEMENT POUR LE NETTOYAGE !
Et PERSONNE DU LOGEMENT ET DES SERVICES COMMUNAUX N'EST ENLEVÉ !!!
ET COMMENT FAIRE SI LES APPARTEMENTS SONT PRIVÉS !
ET QUAND PERSONNE NE VEUT COLLECTER DE L'ARGENT POUR LES RÉPARATIONS !
ET QUAND L'ANTENNE EST POSEE SUR LE TOIT, ALORS ELLES MONTENT RAPIDEMENT !
ALORS DONT LE TOIT SORT ???
OU QUOI VIA LA TV POUR VOIR VOTRE ESCALIER ???
SI LES AVEUGLES NE VOYENT PAS LEUR BLEU CE QUI NE SERA PAS ENLEVÉ PENDANT QUELQUES JOURS !
ET POUR NE PAS INONDER VOS APPARTEMENTS ALORS DEMANDER AUX PROMOTEURS DE CONSTRUIRE QUE JE VOUS PROPOSE DES AMÉLIORATIONS DE LA QUALITÉ DES APPARTEMENTS !
ET VOUS N'AIMEZ PAS LES CHAUSSURES DES PIEDS DE LA CHAUSSURE NI LE COUP DE PIEDS EN MARCHANT !
ET VOUS N'AUREZ PAS DE PROBLÈME AVEC LES QUESTIONS SUR LES PROBLÈMES DES APPARTEMENTS INFÉRIEURS !
ET BEAUCOUP PLUS!
ACHETEZ DE MES PROJETS IDEAS WORKS.
ET L'APPEL AU PAYS DE RUSSIE QUE LA TERRE EST GRANDE QUE LES DÉVELOPPEURS COMMENCENT À CONSTRUIRE DE NOUVELLES VILLES ET EXACTEMENT CES PROJETS CE QUE JE PROPOSE !
QUE LE PIÉTON ÉTAIT SÉCURISÉ SURTOUT DES ENFANTS !
QU'EST-CE QUE DANS CETTE SECONDE VOUS NE SAVEZ PAS POUR QUOI VOUS ALLEZ ET POUR QUI !!!
ET PENDANT LA POURSUITE, LE HIjacker N'EFFACERA PAS CE QU'IL A EN TÊTE !
QUAND LA POLICE EST EN CHASSE, IL FAUT FINIR LE PLAN DE LA CHASSE !
ET COMMENT CONSTRUIRE AVEC DES FONDATIONS QU'IL N'Y A PAS DE VOITURES STATIONNÉES DANS LES RUES DE LA VILLE !
ALORS LORS DE LA CONSTRUCTION D'UN BÂTIMENT, CONSTRUIRE UN STATIONNEMENT À PLUSIEURS ÉTAGES JUSQU'À 500 VOITURES DÉPEND DU TERRAIN DU BÂTIMENT !
LES DÉVELOPPEURS ACHÈTENT TRÈS NÉCESSAIRE MAINTENANT LE TEMPS S'ÉCHAPPE
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GERÇEKTEN NASIL BÖYLE SAKİNLERLE MÜCADELE ???
ÖLDÜRMEK İÇİN NE YAPACAĞIZ!
BALKONDAN NELER GİRİYORLAR?
MERDİVENLERDE YÜRMEK ÇOK FARKLI!
VE KİMSE KALDIRMAK İSTEMİYOR!
NE VAR BİRÇOK SAKİN PODEZDEDE NELER Tükürürler!
VE HER GİRİŞTE BUNLAR KAÇ KAÇ VAR??
SCIRBISANII ZABALOSI BEN ONLARA BU ŞEKİLDE DANIYORUM!
YA DA GÖZLÜKLERLE NELER YÜRÜYORLAR😎😎😎😎🥸???
VE YILLARDIR OLDU!!
VİDEMA VİCASI VE EĞİTİMİ YOKTUR!!!
VE BU NEDENLE FATURALARDA TEMİZLİK ÜCRETİ DAİREYE GELİYOR!
VE KİMSE KONUT VE TOPLUM HİZMETLERİNDEN ÇIKARILMAZ!!!
VE DAİRELER ÖZEL İSE NASIL YAPILIR!
VE KİMSE ONARIM İÇİN PARA TOPLAMAK İSTEMEZSE!
VE ANTEN ÇATIYA YERLEŞTİRİLDİĞİNDE HIZLA YÜKSELİYORLAR!
SONRA KİMİN ÇATI ÇIKIYOR???
YA DA MERDİVENİNİZİ TV İLE GÖRMEK İÇİN ???
KÖRLER MAVİLERİNİ GÖRMEZSE BİRKAÇ GÜN İÇİNDE ÇIKARILMAYACAK ŞEYLER!
VE DAİRELERİNİZİ TAŞIMAMAK İÇİN, GELİŞTİRİCİLERDEN SİZE DAİRE KALİTESİNDE İYİLEŞTİRMELER SUNDUĞUMU İNŞA ETMELERİNİ İSTEYİN!
VE AYAKKABININ AYAKLARININ AYAKLARININ YA DA YÜRÜRKEN AYAK VURUŞLARINI SEVMEYECEKSİNİZ!
VE ALT DAİRE SORUNLARINDA SORUN YAŞAMAYACAKSINIZ!
VE DAHA FAZLASI!
FİKİRLERİM ÇALIŞMALARIM PROJELERİMDEN SATIN ALIN.
VE GELİŞTİRİCİLERİN YENİ ŞEHİRLER İNŞA ETMEYE BAŞLAMASI İÇİN RUSYA ÜLKESİNİN DÜNYANIN BÜYÜK OLDUĞU İHTİYACI VE TAMAMEN BU TÜR PROJELER SUNDUĞUMUZ!
YAYANIN ÖZELLİKLE ÇOCUKLARDAN GÜVENLİ OLDU!
BU SANİYEDE NE İÇİN VE KİME GİTTİĞİNİ BİLMİYORSUNUZ!!!
VE TAKİP SIRASINDA, Korsan AKLINDAN NE OLDUĞUNU TEMİZLEMİYOR!
POLİS TAKİP ETTİĞİNDE, TAKİP PLANINI BİTİRMEK GEREKİR!
VE ŞEHİR SOKAKLARINDA PARK EDİLMİŞ ARAÇ OLMAYAN TEMELLERLE NASIL YAPILIR!
BU NEDENLE BİR BİNA İNŞA EDERKEN, 500 ARAÇA KADAR BİRKAÇ KATTA OTOPARK YAPMAK BİNA ARAZİSİNE BAĞLIDIR!
GELİŞTİRİCİLER ŞİMDİ ÇOK İHTİYAÇ SATIN ALIYOR ZAMAN AYRILIYOR
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REALMENTE CÓMO LUCHAR CON TALES RESIDENTES???
LO QUE TENEMOS PARA ASESINAR!
¿QUÉ ENTRAN POR EL BALCÓN?
¡ES TAN DIFERENTE CAMINAR POR LAS ESCALERAS!
¡Y NADIE QUIERE QUITAR!
QUE HAY VARIOS VECINOS QUE ESCUPEN EN EL PODEZDE!
Y CUANTAS SON ESTAS EN CADA ENTRADA??
SCIRBISANII ZABALOSI ¡ASÍ LOS LLAMO YO!
O QUE ANDAN CON GAFAS😎😎😎😎🥸???
¡¡Y HAN SIDO DURANTE AÑOS!!
VIDEMA TALES NO TIENEN CONCIENCIA Y EDUCACION!!!
¡Y ES POR ESO QUE EN LAS FACTURAS LA CUOTA ENTRA EN EL APARTAMENTO PARA LA LIMPIEZA!
Y NADIE DE VIVIENDA Y SERVICIOS COMUNES SE SACA!!!
¡Y COMO HACER SI LOS APARTAMENTOS SON PRIVADOS!
¡Y CUANDO NADIE QUIERE COLECTAR DINERO PARA REPARACIONES!
¡Y CUANDO LA ANTENA SE COLOCA EN EL TECHO, ENTONCES SE SUBEN RÁPIDAMENTE!
ENTONCES DE QUIEN SALE EL TECHO???
O QUE VIA TV PARA VER TU ESCALERA???
¡SI LOS CIEGOS NO VEN SU AZUL QUE NO SE QUITARÁ DURANTE UNOS DÍAS!
Y PARA NO INUNDAR SUS APARTAMENTOS ENTONCES EXIJA A LOS DESARROLLADORES PARA CONSTRUIR QUE YO LE OFREZCO MEJORAS EN LA CALIDAD DE LOS APARTAMENTOS!
¡Y NO TE GUSTARÁN LOS ZAPATOS DE LOS PIES DEL ZAPATO NI EL GOLPE DE LOS PIES AL CAMINAR!
¡Y USTED NO TENDRÁ UN PROBLEMA CON LAS PREGUNTAS DEL PROBLEMA DE LOS APARTAMENTOS INFERIORES!
¡Y MUCHO MÁS!
COMPRAR DESDE MIS IDEAS OBRAS PROYECTOS.
¡Y EL LLAMAMIENTO AL PAÍS DE RUSIA QUE LA TIERRA ES GRANDE QUE LOS DESARROLLADORES EMPIEZAN A CONSTRUIR NUEVAS CIUDADES Y EXACTAMENTE TALES PROYECTOS LO QUE OFREZCO!
QUE EL PEATONAL ESTABA A SALVO ESPECIALMENTE DE LOS NIÑOS!
QUE EN ESE SEGUNDO NO SABES PARA QUE VAS Y PARA QUIEN!!!
¡Y DURANTE LA PERSECUCIÓN, EL SECUESTRO NO ACLARA LO QUE PIENSA!
¡QUÉ CUANDO LA POLICÍA ESTÁ PERSIGUIENDO, HAY QUE TERMINAR EL PLAN DE PERSECUCIÓN!
¡Y CÓMO CONSTRUIR CON CIMIENTOS QUE NO HAY AUTOS ESTACIONADOS EN LAS CALLES DE LA CIUDAD!
POR ESO AL CONSTRUIR UN EDIFICIO, CONSTRUIR ESTACIONAMIENTOS EN VARIOS PISOS DE HASTA 500 AUTOS DEPENDE DEL TERRENO DEL EDIFICIO!
DESARROLLADORES COMPRAN MUY NECESARIO AHORA SE VA EL TIEMPO
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ΑΛΗΘΕΙΑ ΠΩΣ ΝΑ ΠΑΛΕΥΕΙΣ ΜΕ ΤΕΤΟΙΟΥΣ ΚΑΤΟΙΚΟΥΣ;;;
ΤΙ ΕΧΟΥΜΕ ΝΑ ΣΚΟΤΩΣΟΥΜΕ!
ΤΙ ΜΠΟΥΝ ΑΠΟ ΤΟ ΜΠΑΛΚΟΝΙ;
ΕΙΝΑΙ ΤΟΣΟ ΔΙΑΦΟΡΕΤΙΚΟ ΝΑ ΠΕΤΑΠΑΜΕ ΣΤΙΣ ΣΚΑΛΕΣ!
ΚΑΙ ΚΑΝΕΙΣ ΔΕΝ ΘΕΛΕΙ ΝΑ ΑΦΑΙΡΕΙ!
ΤΙ ΕΙΝΑΙ ΑΡΚΕΤΟΙ ΚΑΤΟΙΚΟΙ ΤΙ ΦΤΥΝΟΥΝ ΣΤΟ ΠΟΔΕΖΝΤΕ!
ΚΑΙ ΠΟΣΑ ΕΙΝΑΙ ΑΥΤΑ ΣΕ ΚΑΘΕ ΕΙΣΑΓΩΓΗ??
SCIRBISANII ZABALOSI ΕΤΣΙ ΤΟΥΣ ΛΕΩ!
Ή ΤΙ ΠΕΡΠΑΤΟΥΝ ΜΕ ΓΥΑΛΙΑ😎😎😎😎🥸???
ΚΑΙ ΕΧΕΙ ΧΡΟΝΙΑ!!
VIDEMA ΤΕΤΟΙΟΙ ΔΕΝ ΕΧΟΥΝ ΣΥΝΕΙΔΗΣΗ ΚΑΙ ΠΑΙΔΕΙΑ!!!
ΚΑΙ ΓΙ ΑΥΤΟ ΣΤΑ ΤΙΜΟΛΟΓΙΑ ΙΣΧΥΕΙ ΣΤΟ ΔΙΑΜΕΡΙΣΜΑ ΓΙΑ ΤΟ ΚΑΘΑΡΙΣΜΟ!
ΚΑΙ ΚΑΝΕΙΣ ΑΠΟ οικιστικές και κοινοτικές υπηρεσίες ΔΕΝ ΑΦΑΙΡΕΤΑΙ!!!
ΚΑΙ ΠΩΣ ΝΑ ΚΑΝΕΤΕ ΑΝ ΤΑ ΔΙΑΜΕΡΙΣΜΑΤΑ ΕΙΝΑΙ ΙΔΙΩΤΙΚΑ!
ΚΑΙ ΟΤΑΝ ΚΑΝΕΙΣ ΔΕΝ ΘΕΛΕΙ ΝΑ ΣΥΛΛΟΓΕΙ ΧΡΗΜΑΤΑ ΓΙΑ ΕΠΙΣΚΕΥΕΣ!
ΚΑΙ ΟΤΑΝ ΒΑΛΕΙ Η ΚΕΡΑΙΑ ΣΤΗ ΣΤΕΓΗ ΤΟΤΕ ΣΗΚΩΝΟΥΝ ΓΡΗΓΟΡΑ!
ΤΟΤΕ ΠΟΙΟΥΣ ΒΓΑΙΝΕΙ Η ΣΤΕΓΗ;;;
Ή ΤΙ ΜΕΣΩ ΤΗΛΕΟΡΑΣΗΣ ΓΙΑ ΝΑ ΔΕΙΤΕ ΤΗ ΣΚΑΛΑ ΣΑΣ;;;
ΑΝ ΟΙ ΤΥΦΛΟΙ ΔΕΝ ΒΛΕΠΟΥΝ ΤΟ ΜΠΛΕ ΤΟΥΣ ΤΙ ΔΕΝ ΘΑ ΑΦΑΙΡΕΤΑΙ ΓΙΑ ΛΙΓΕΣ ΜΕΡΕΣ!
ΚΑΙ ΓΙΑ ΝΑ ΜΗΝ ΠΛΗΜΜΥΡΙΣΟΥΝ ΤΑ ΔΙΑΜΕΡΙΣΜΑΤΑ ΣΟΥ ΤΟΤΕ ΑΠΑΙΤΗΣΕΙΣ ΑΠΟ ΤΟΥΣ ΠΡΟΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΙΣΤΕΣ ΝΑ ΧΤΙΣΟΥΝ ΝΑ ΣΟΥ ΠΡΟΣΦΕΡΩ ΒΕΛΤΙΩΣΕΙΣ ΠΟΙΟΤΗΤΑΣ ΤΩΝ ΔΙΑΜΕΡΙΣΜΑΤΩΝ!
ΚΑΙ ΔΕΝ ΘΑ ΣΑΣ ΑΡΕΣΟΥΝ ΤΑ ΠΑΠΟΥΤΣΙΑ ΤΩΝ ΠΟΔΙΩΝ ΤΟΥ ΠΑΠΟΥΤΣΙΟΥ ΟΥΤΕ ΤΟ ΧΤΥΠΗΜΑ ΤΩΝ ΠΟΔΙΩΝ ΕΝΩ ΠΕΡΠΑΤΑΙ!
ΚΑΙ ΔΕΝ ΘΑ ΕΧΕΤΕ ΠΡΟΒΛΗΜΑ ΜΕ ΤΑ ΚΑΤΩ ΔΙΑΜΕΡΙΣΜΑΤΑ ΠΡΟΒΛΗΜΑΤΑ ΕΡΩΤΗΣΕΙΣ!
ΚΑΙ ΠΟΛΛΑ ΑΚΟΜΑ!
ΑΓΟΡΑ ΑΠΟ ΤΙΣ ΙΔΕΕΣ ΜΟΥ ΕΡΓΑ ΕΡΓΑ.
ΚΑΙ Η ΕΚΚΛΗΣΗ ΣΤΗ ΧΩΡΑ ΤΗΣ ΡΩΣΙΑΣ ΟΤΙ Η ΓΗ ΕΙΝΑΙ ΜΕΓΑΛΗ ΠΟΥ ΟΙ ΠΡΟΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΙΣΤΕΣ ΑΡΧΙΣΟΥΝ ΝΑ ΚΤΙΡΙΖΟΥΝ ΝΕΕΣ ΠΟΛΕΙΣ ΚΑΙ ΑΚΡΙΒΩΣ ΤΕΤΟΙΑ ΕΡΓΑ ΤΙ ΠΡΟΣΦΕΡΩ!
ΟΤΙ Ο ΠΕΖΟΣ ΗΤΑΝ ΑΣΦΑΛΗΣ ΙΔΙΑΙΤΕΡΑ ΑΠΟ ΠΑΙΔΙΑ!
ΤΙ ΣΕ ΕΚΕΙΝΟ ΔΕΥΤΕΡΟ ΔΕΝ ΞΕΡΕΙΣ ΤΙ ΠΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΓΙΑ ΠΟΙΟΝ!!!
ΚΑΙ ΚΑΤΑ ΤΗ ΔΙΑΡΚΕΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΚΥΝΗΓΗΣΗΣ, Ο αεροπειρατής ΔΕΝ ΞΕΚΑΘΑΙΝΕΙ ΤΙ ΕΧΕΙ ΣΤΟ ΜΥΑΛΟ!
ΤΙ ΟΤΑΝ ΚΥΝΗΓΕΙ Η ΑΣΤΥΝΟΜΙΑ ΕΙΝΑΙ ΑΠΑΡΑΙΤΗΤΟ ΝΑ ΤΕΛΕΙΩΣΕΙ ΤΟ ΣΧΕΔΙΟ ΤΗΣ ΚΥΝΗΓΗΣΗΣ!
ΚΑΙ ΠΩΣ ΝΑ ΧΤΙΣΟΥΜΕ ΜΕ ΘΕΜΕΛΙΑ ΠΟΥ ΝΑ ΔΕΝ ΥΠΑΡΧΟΥΝ ΣΤΑΘΜΕΥΜΕΝΑ ΑΥΤΟΚΙΝΗΤΑ ΣΤΟΥΣ ΔΡΟΜΟΥΣ ΤΗΣ ΠΟΛΗΣ!
ΛΟΙΠΟΝ ΟΤΑΝ ΚΑΤΑΣΚΕΥΑΣΕΙ ΚΤΙΡΙΟ, ΤΟ ΝΑ ΚΤΙΣΕΙ PARKING ΣΕ ΔΙΑΦΟΡΟΥΣ ΟΡΟΦΟΥΣ ΕΩΣ 500 ΑΥΤΟΚΙΝΗΤΑ ΕΞΑΡΤΑΤΑΙ ΑΠΟ ΤΟ ΟΙΚΟΠΕΔΟ ΤΟΥ ΚΤΙΡΙΟΥ!
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Module 4 Assignment
The name of the sculpture pictured above is called Al Filo. It is part of a large collection (23 sculptures) created by Columbian artist Edgardo Carmona in 2016. All of these iron sculptures can be located in Downtown Fort Myers. While reading about this collection I found the inspiration for creating these were to be part of a successful marketing campaign for a developer located in Miami. The developer's goal was to build two waterfront luxury apartments located on First Street. This of course never happened as it was a failed attempt. These pieces are yet to be replaced, despite public art consultant Tom Hall and council members recommendations for replacements of the artwork. The agreement they have seerned to come up with is simply to move it around to different locations all still located downtown. After diving deeper into my research, I had fould that the company Jaxie Construction attempted to pull out of the luxury towers on first street after accepting the failed project. When the artist accepted the failed attempt, he had been given the option to either find a buyer for all 23 sculptures or pay to return all of them to Colombia. This then caused the council members to take action and buy them for $55,000. This sculpture captures historical times when knife cutters were very common to find in restaurants. Nowadays it is uncommon to find these tools as it has been normalized to simply throw away dull cutlery. According to the artist this sculpture is a personal time capsule for the artist from when he was a child, as he claims to remember the growl of the stone wheel and sparks coming from it as sharpened knives and scissors. The artist shares in order to find another life size statue of a maker and or sharpener you would have to travel 3,300 miles away located in Frosolone, Italy. Not only does Frosolone have similar pieces, but an entire well-known museum, dedicated to scissor-making and knives.
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So, I generally take cues from real life in my stories. Older roads in my area flood when it rains as they have no/very poor drains but the newer roads have drains and rarely flood. Does that mean when the old roads were built--they didn't plan for floods? Or might it something more like budget? Drainage technology? Or could it be due to change of climate? Why does this happen and what should I know to design roads for my story?
Tex: You’ve spotted a lot of the major factors involved in deciding where and how roads are built. Drains, while a very old concept (Wikipedia), can sometimes be disregarded due to budgetary concerns.
Climate is an interesting aspect, partially because our understanding of climate and how it impacts our infrastructure, has only grown over time due to a lot of research and funding being concentrated on it as politics dictate. The usage of a grid plan (Wikipedia) typically indicates a planned city, which contrasts organically-settled areas that usually follow trade and water routes.
A lot of your worldbuilding will depend on the source cultures and eras that you’re drawing from. For example, how the Iroquois League develop the land in what’s now known as New York in 1500 will differ from how the Dutch settled colonies in the 1600s, which will look entirely different to how a construction company will decide where to put new apartment buildings in the 2020s.
It’s still the exact same area, but the different time periods and whomever is the majority culture will dictate completely different perspectives on what’s important in terms of permanent vs temporary infrastructures. This can come across as polar opposites, which may seem contradictory outside the context of local history.
In terms of changing climate, that’s as much a function of history as it is technology. Yes, some old roads might flood, but some also might not, and that’s entirely dependent on contemporary meteorological patterns, anticipated changes, and how much effort was expended to effectively “future-proof” said roads.
A lot of that will invariably come down to politics, because that’s where the funds will typically come from - if it’s an important road to an area, in terms of high throughput in trade or politically important people/places, then more resources will be expended to make a sturdier road that will anticipate even unlikely scenarios, such as flooding in an area that typically doesn’t flood.
Drainage has more benefits than just flood mitigation, however - it also helps keep a road or street cleaner, by making it easier for debris to be washed away from the road. This can help reduce the amount of traffic accidents caused by mud or even snow, as well as any detritus that can be swept up by heavy rain, such as loose vegetation.
I think examining your sources and seeing their geographical context might help clear up how they approached settlements and development of their cities and towns, as well as the time periods you’ve selected for how they typically decided to allocate resources like finances and manpower. I’ll list some extra links that should be helpful, although admittedly some of them can be US-centric.
Further Reading
Land Ordinance of 1785 (Wikipedia)
Urban planning (Wikipedia)
Street hierarchy (Wikipedia)
Land use (Wikipedia)
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It’s Hard to Find a Good Lamp
Donald Judd
1993
In the middle 1980s I wrote that in the middle 1960s someone asked me to design a coffee table. I thought that a work of mine which was essentially a rectangular volume with the upper surface recessed could be altered. This debased the work and produced a bad table, which I later threw away. The configuration and the scale of art cannot be transposed into furniture and architecture. The intent of art is different from that of the latter, which must be functional. If a chair or a building is not functional, if it appears to be only art, it is ridiculous. The art of a chair is not its resemblance to art, but is partly its reasonableness, usefulness, and scale as a chair. These are proportion, which is visible reasonableness. The art in art is partly the assertion of someone’s interest regardless of other considerations. A work of art exists as itself; a chair exists as a chair itself. And the idea of a chair isn’t a chair. Due to the inability of art to become furniture, I didn’t try again for several years. However, I’ve always been interested in architecture and continued to sketch ideas.
Of course if a person is at once making art and building furniture and architecture there will be similarities. The various interests in form will be consistent. If you like simple forms in art you will not make complicated ones in architecture. “Complicated,” incidentally, is the opposite of “simple,” not “complex,” which both may be. But the difference between art and architecture is fundamental. Furniture and architecture can only be approached as such. Art cannot be imposed upon them. If their nature is seriously considered the art will occur, even art close to art itself. The mistake I made with the table was to try to make something as unusual as I thought the work of art to be. Back of this was the assumption that a good chair was only a good chair, that a chair could only be improved or changed slightly, and that nothing new could be done without a great, strange effort. But the furniture slowly became new as I dealt easily with the reality. A good chair is a good chair. The particulars slowly created the general forms that could not be directly transferred. I can now make a chair or a building that is mine without trying to derive forms from my own works of art. After a few years I designed a pair of sinks for an old building that I bought in New York City and for which I’ve designed much subsequently. These were designed directly as sinks; they were not a conversion; I didn’t confuse them with art. The basin of the sink is an ellipse, which so far I’ve never used in art, instead of a circle, which I do use. I also designed a large table with chairs, somewhat like benches, to be made of folded one-eighth-inch stainless steel, brass, or copper. These were never made because the fourth floor of the building in which it was to be is very open, primarily two planes, floor and ceiling, while the table and chairs are very closed. The latter would ruin the space. I later made some bookshelves for the third floor.
I kept the building but moved to West Texas with my two children, where I rented a small house on the edge of town. The house was quartered into eleven-by-eleven-foot rooms. There was no furniture and none to be bought, either old, since the town had not shrunk or changed much since its beginning in 1883, or new, since the few stores sold only fake antiques or tubular kitchen furniture with plastic surfaces printed with inane geometric patterns and flowers. The two small children played and slept in one of the four rooms. In order to give them each an area of their own notwithstanding the one room, I designed a bed which was a closed platform of one-by-twelves with a central, free-standing wall, also of one-by-twelves. The bed was designed so that the lumberyard could cut the few different lengths to size and I could then nail them together in place. I liked the bed a great deal, and in fact the whole house, for which I made other furniture. Later, in a large place in town, I designed desks and chairs for the children using the same method of construction. More furniture developed from this beginning.
It’s impossible to go to the store and buy a chair. In North America since the “Mission” style became unfashionable in the 1920s and in England since the similar furniture derived from William Morris also became unfashionable, there has been no furniture which is pleasurable to look at, fairly available, and moderate in price. The only exception is the bentwood furniture developed by Thonet, which became less fashionable in the 1920s but has continued to be made until now by Thonet and others. This is still not expensive but it is not down the street in the store. The furniture designed in the 1920s by the well-known architects that continues to be made is expensive for most people, although not as expensive as the materials and the construction imply, and is hardly nearby to purchase. Neither is all of it agreeable. Mies van der Rohe’s is still the best and should not be considered as only a worn status symbol. As bad ideas should not be accepted because they are fashionable, good ideas should not be rejected because they are unfashionable. Conventions are not worth reacting to one way or another. Most of the other furniture in production, such as Breuer’s Wassily chair and Le Corbusier’s furniture, is an early civilized and almost forgivable sentimentalizing of the machine. The chairs of both architects are derived from the better camping and military chairs of the nineteenth century. Old good ideas made new and shiny are now a dismaying precedent. Sentimentalizing the machine is now a malignity of the century. This is present in most available furniture and in most buildings. It is extreme in Pompidou and Lloyd’s. In furniture this puerility is usually combined with the puerility of domesticity, the societal progress of the machine with personal progress in the society.
Almost all furniture made since the 1920s and much before in any of the “styles,” “modern” and “traditional,” has been junk for consumers. As I’ve written, the ornate and overstuffed furniture of the last half of the nineteenth century, crowded into corresponding rooms, was not supplanted by simple and functional modern furniture. Instead, this was turned into Victorian furniture, also crowded into matching rooms. Decoration isn’t just applied; a chair is decorated. Modern, progressive furniture has been corrupted into the opposite. Primarily, “traditional” furniture, Victorian furniture, continues. It’s ordinarily what’s in the store. This is what most people have to choose from, whether in Yellowknife or New York. As in politics, this furniture is not traditional and conservative but is an imitation of past furniture. The appearance of the past represents status by invoking a higher class in the past than the purchaser is in in the present. The imitation old furniture symbolizes up and the imitation modern symbolizes forward. Usually the first is in the home and the second is in the office, sometimes one or the other in both, and seldom the reverse. Good office furniture is also difficult to find. The bizarre and complicated “modern” office of the rich executive, who has photographs on his desk of his wife and children in their traditional setting, is a summation of the surrounding corporate headquarters. Since he or his wife is on the board of the museum, it must look progressive, like the headquarters, but with a touch of tradition, for her, for upward mobility to the past, for something better than business, such as learning, although there is nothing better, and, generally for the gentility of art, which symbolizes all of these. Then, also, he may be on the town council, or he builds shopping centers, or he builds apartment houses, giving the people what they want, to go with the furniture in which they had no choice. Upward and forward, and lower every year, not only in architecture and art, but economically and politically, since reality is equally absent. Anyway, what kind of a society is it when you can’t even buy a chair?
Architects, designers, businesspeople, even politicians, say that they are giving the people what they want. They are giving the people what they deserve, because of their negligence, but they are presumptuous to claim to know what they want. What they want is what they get. An exception to imposing upon the public what they want, or perhaps a rare good guess, is the design of Sony television sets and other equipment of some other Japanese companies and of some European companies. This has no relation to traditional Japanese architecture, which is fortunate, because if it did the new version of the old would be just as debased as it is in the United States. Department stores in Osaka are floor after floor of kitsch, as they are in New York. And always surprisingly, and always everywhere, new Japanese and Korean architecture show no fundamental lessons learned from their past architecture, the same as in Paris. In the United States the television machine began disguised and continues as at once the myth of the machine and the myth of the old home. The Americans gave the Americans what they wanted; they didn’t want it. Neither did anyone else. In addition to the success of Sony’s design, there is the smaller success of Braun, whose design must be the model, somewhat better, as earlier usually is, for Sony’s design. A few months ago there was a curious article in Lufthansa’s magazine justly praising Braun and its chief designer, Dieter Rams, praising “German” design of course, but explaining that “German” design was now second to “Italian” design (consumer products are not where nations differ in design) but that Germany would catch up. This means become worse. “Designer” Italian furniture is the world’s worst. The only things as bad are the plastic bottles for liquid soap. It is an exception and a possibility that you can go down the street and choose a TV and enjoy looking at it when it’s turned off. In Texas, when I made the first furniture, I wanted a television set. This wasn’t down the street, but almost so, twenty-five miles away. All the sets were American, all were made of plastic imitating wood, some like your Anglo grandmother’s sideboard, some like your Italian grandmother’s credenza, some like your Latino grandmother’s aparador. I chose an Anglo set by Zenith. Again as usual, the design and the technology were congruent. The color was that of the first colored comic strip, printed during an earthquake.
Most of the furniture that I have designed remains fairly expensive, because of its methods of construction, and it is not easily available. We have made a serious effort to lower the prices but the furniture is handmade, basically even the sheet-metal pieces made by Janssen, one by one. These would be cheaper made by hundreds but still there would be considerable handwork. The wooden furniture cannot change. Lower prices require great numbers, which require a large distribution. This usually leads to the department store. The distribution of furniture, and of books, probably of most things, are monopolies against diversity, which eliminate exceptions and complication, which have an invariable scheme for production and for costs, and of course for appearance, and, for books, subject matter. For both furniture and books the designer and the author absolutely receive very little. The production cost of furniture is not as fixed as the cost of the designer, but it is low. The cost of the designer must have developed from that of real modern furniture, since the architect was always dead. The producer, not the factory, and the retailer, or both as one, receive the most money, some as profit, some for the expenses of the distribution and the salesroom. This makes an impossible price. And of course it seems that the middleman should get less. The larger the distribution the more to the middleman. Therefore the best method is a small distribution, which is what we do. And, importantly, we are the producers, which combines that profit and my profit into one, leaving only the retailer as extra. Our furniture goes around the world, but only one by one. Most things could be made in the area in which they are consumed, eliminating the big distributor, often one company charging for three functions, instead of two for one as in our case, charging three times as the distributor, the producer, and the manufacturer, that is, profiting as corporations. Almost anything they can do anyone can do anywhere. And obviously even cars and TVs could be made by any large city or small country. I have always thought it strange that there are no cars built in Switzerland. I have heard that there was once a company. Why should Texas import cars and trucks from Michigan? The oligarchy of monopolies of distribution prevents innovation, invents only restrictions, and raises blank walls. The flat and boring society is a maze of blank walls just above eye level. This prevents new and real inventions, so obviously there is no chance for only a new chair or a little book. The purpose of big business is to maintain its oligarchy rather than to do anything else, for example, to fulfill two of its biggest claims, competition and innovation. Efficiency is another claim, part of progress, efficiency for profit, not necessarily for production, and not for the public. Only in the mythical “progress” is there a suggestion of benefiting society. Most businesspeople think that such slight altruism is part of their advertising. And “free enterprise” is a slogan of the Pentagon.
Noam Chomsky writes:
Free trade is fine for economics departments and newspaper editorials, but nobody in the corporate world or the government takes the doctrines seriously. The parts of the US economy that are able to compete internationally are primarily the state-subsidized ones: capital-intensive agriculture (agribusiness, as it’s called), high-tech industry, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, etc.
The same is true of other industrial societies. The US government has the public pay for research and development and provides, largely through the military, a state-guaranteed market for waste production. If something is marketable, the private sector takes it over. That system of public subsidy and private profit is what is called free enterprise.
My experience is that both furniture distribution and book distribution are impossible. On the other hand the art business is such a one-horse business that something larger seems better. But this is perhaps because the context for art is so weak. The only possible way, perhaps, to make cheap mass-produced furniture is to start with a construction cost and to design accordingly. At present we would have to debase the construction of the existing furniture for mass production. Beginning from a fixed construction cost still leaves the questions of too little to the designer and too much to the producer-organizer-wholesaler and to the retailer.
The roughly made pine furniture made by me and others in Texas was made first, with a few exceptions. So far this has not been made for sale. Next, well-made furniture in fine solid wood was made for my building in New York and then in small numbers to sell, as it still is. The wood and the craftsmanship make this the most expensive. In 1984 I designed some chairs, benches, a table, and some beds in sheet metal, which were painted one color to a piece. There were also a couple of chairs and a table made of copper. This was for myself but also was the first furniture to begin as furniture to sell. Since this was sheet metal and the construction is common, I thought it would be cheap enough to be used outdoors in public, but there is still too much handwork. Until then, except for the first pine chairs, all of the furniture was somewhat heavy. Five years ago I designed some light chairs and two tables in solid wood. These are simply but well made in Yorkshire. Similar ones were made recently for outdoors in galvanized steel and of granite, again heavy, and also in Texas in painted steel and of slate. A few years ago, first for use, then for sale, desks, tables, and a bench were made in Cologne of clear plywood. The sheets of plywood are cut as little as possible and are slipped together, interlocking, like a children’s toy, an old idea. These also, sometimes with the plywood coated commercially with a color, as well as chairs like those in pine, are made in New York.
I am often asked if the furniture is art, since almost ten years ago some artists made art that was also furniture. The furniture is furniture and is only art in that architecture, ceramics, textiles, and many things are art. We try to keep the furniture out of art galleries to avoid this confusion, which is far from my thinking. And also to avoid the consequent inflation of the price. I am often told that the furniture is not comfortable, and in that not functional. The source of the question is in the overstuffed bourgeois Victorian furniture, which, as I said, never ceased. The furniture is comfortable to me. Rather than making a chair to sleep in or a machine to live in, it is better to make a bed. A straight chair is best for eating or writing. The third position is standing.
First published: Donald Judd Furniture: Retrospective, exh. cat. (Rotterdam: Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, 1993), 7–21.
Donald Judd Text © Judd Foundation
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Can you suggest some of your fav fanfic recommendations of untamed, from lwj's pov?
Thanks 💕
ANON!!!!!!!! Sure! So, what I have are AUs. I tried to limit this list to 13 and to my most recent read/bookmarked. Please mind the tags on each fic in case some themes make you uncomfortable.
1. Of all the hands - typefortydeductions - I love this! 5 years after the defeat of the Wens! And one of my favorite tropes of arranged Marriage. What would happen if WWX did not die and just continued to gain more power. This has some other people’s POV on it but mostly LWJ.
Five years after the end of the Sunshot Campaign, the Yiling Patriarch has only grown in strength. Desperate to avoid another war, the Emperor proposes that he marry his younger brother, Lan Wangji, hoping to consolidate his power and take the Stygian Tiger Seal for the throne. He doesn't realise that Lan Wangji has never stopped being in love with Wei Wuxian, or what this marriage will mean to them both.
2. This love is all for you - mdzsed - this is a very short and sweet one featuring bookshop owner LWJ! being as usual, with a huge crush on WWX.
Lan Zhan thinks of romance novels, of longing and finding love, and wonders if this is how he meets the love of his life: in a small town, in a bookstore, between bookshelves and hundreds of love stories.
3. A sorta fairytale with you - YilingJessa - I am weak for fairytale AUs and this is one of those. Also LWJ + bunnies is always a win for me. WWX as the mysterious witch and their pact w/each other was cool too.
A modern-day fairy tale, where Lan Wangji's new bunny might be more than he appears, and the witch in the woods has a happily ever after in mind
4. Crystalized - gusuvibes - Oh how I love this entire universe. This entire premise. I always like stories where LWJ is just quietly living his own life and thinking that everything is fine. He is okay on his own but then here comes the hurricane that is WWX and everything changes. Their interactions here are very sweet! How whipped WWX is for him is also a treat. Baker LWJ please!
nurse wwx runs into lwj's bakery one evening and then...just keeps coming back
5. Soil soaks our skin - YunmengLotus - rich LWJ going to meet WWX and his life takes a different turn. <3
Lan Wangji is the CEO of the Lan development corp, Lan Qiren sends him out to acquire the last bit of land on the outskirts of town so they can develop a mall. Wei Ying owns said land, a meager farm that he takes pride in and absolutely refuses to sell. Will Lan Wangji be able to seal the deal?
6. Cut through the clouds - phnelt - It’s the pilot LWJ x flight attendant WWX fic I never though I needed. A very caring LWJ always gets me!
Lan Zhan knows Wei Ying is trying to live off of plane food and the continental breakfast at the bland airport hotel and anything cheap he can scrounge -- vending machine chips, dollar pizza, street food if they're in a place where the water is safe to drink.
7. Found family - fyredancer - A younger WWX and LWJ against the world. LWJ literally taking WWX out of an abusive household because he loves and cares for him so much. Bonus badass LXC!
The Lan family routine is a series of ordered routines. One morning, Lan Xichen realizes their routine has been broken because Lan Wangji hasn’t risen after 5 a.m. When he checks on him, he discovers his brother’s school friend Wei Wuxian sleeping atop him. A Wei Wuxian who wasn’t there the night before.
8. Smother - PaPaYa_Bites - SMUT! That is all your honor.
Lan Zhan has a close encounter with his favorite wrestler and has a request.
9. An imperfect memory - xantissa - One of my all time favorites. This reads like a dark fairytale, one with the romance, blood, tears and a really good core story. I like stories that build up on a lore of it’s own. You are taken into LWJ’s POV and what he sees, only to find out later that everything is not as it seems. It’s a very rewarding read.
When a creature of darkness comes with a shocking offer, there’s really no question. Second Jade of Lan, in exchange for water for his people. Body and soul, in exchange for his clan's survival. He is prepared to die for them. He is not exactly prepared for what being a sacrifice means.
10. Crazy in love series - w_wxsparkles - wangxian D/s. this is my absolute guilty pleasure you have no idea! 🥲 LWJ here is an absolute dream!
A BDSM universe in which Lan Wangji seeks stress relief with his dominant, Wei Wuxian, and they fall in love because it's what they do best.
11. Read between the lines - wangjiluv - I like this trope! I would think LWJ can be a really good fanfic writer. The type that completes fic bingo challenges and always does the best smut. lol.
What do you do when the idol you wrote self-insert fanfiction about reads the aforementioned self-insert fanfiction during a live interview? Lan Zhan finds out.
12. Window shopping - thunderwear - OMG THEY WERE QUARANTINED! And bunnies as a plot device are very popular to me. I see it, I click.
Lan Wangji didn't look out across the other apartment building often, but now, as he scooped up his escaped rabbit, he looked over only to see a piece of paper taped to the window of the apartment across from him. It was written on purple construction paper in big block letters, like a child had written it. WHAT'S YOUR BUNNY'S NAME???
13. Pop and prejudice - flowerofgusu - This one has an interesting premise but still plays on the familiar theme of LWJ and WWX being old friends/rivals and then meeting again. seeing each other in a completely different light.
Popstar Wei Wuxian "Xianxian" and music critic podcaster Lan Wangji have a long-standing rivalry. Why, then, would Wei Wuxian suddenly agree to an interview with Lan Wangji, who so vehemently wrote that bad review of his debut album?
I hope you find something here that appeals to you Anon! Enjoy! 😊
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P2 A Nice Catch
Part 1 here
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Oooh, A Nice Catch was *chef's kiss*. Could you continue it? Maybe completely, not thinking straight, grief-stricken villain goes after Supervillain and the supervillain hurts him because the villain is very dangerous/angry and then maybe the Supervillain has to caretaker because they have a bleeding, sobbing villain at his feet.
Sorry if that seems bossy or specific, but i really loved the piece and my brain went haywire with all the possible endings. But do whatever you want to.
Not bossy at all <3
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Flashing red lights on a Saturday. Supervillain sighed. The sound was probably the most obnoxious part of it all. No matter. Needs to be dealt with. Even his thoughts were gruff and tired. He would never admit it to anyone else but tracking down that little rat and weakening her was difficult. No wonder Villain struggled with her so much. Doesn’t explain how he developed feelings for someone so righteous though.
‘I don’t know what your life has entailed but there are other ways of healing. I can help you.’ Hero had said to him upon being captured.
Healing. Supervillain scoffed as he urged himself off the couch, turning the television off, and flipping off the lights, trying to make the quarters look vacant. There were various other electronics still on, but they were necessary for security- which was currently blaring.
I don’t need healing. I need power. Power to take down all those shitty, rich neighbourhoods. What good were they when so many people were left on the streets, starving, and begging for pocket change? The rich didn’t care, and for it they would perish. Villain used to agree.
Now, Villain was bent on a ‘The rich are a necessary part of the economy. Without them, there would be a middle class and the rest of the economy profits off the middle class,’ idea.
With a grumble, Supervillain left his lounging area, walking instead to the monitor room.
“Camera one, good. Camera two, fine. Cam three. Four. Five. Six. Then why the hell are the alarms going off?”
Not a single room revealed even a twitch of movement or a breeze to rattle lobby plants.
Ker-pshhh. The radio. The only other people working right now were part of the security faction. Meaning, Supervillain needed to respond, especially since the radio was going off. He grabbed the speaker off the side of the metal box and brought it to his mouth while holding the button. “What is it?” It no doubt had to do with the alarms.
“Sir? There’s been a breach in Building 2, third hall monitoring room. One body confirmed to be dead.”
“Any others?”
“No response from Radios 8 through 13. I’m in room Fourteen now…Sir? I think I’m next.”
Supervillain pinched his brow. “Have you gotten into contact with Buildings 3 and 4 yet?”
“No response from them. I’d gotten the alert from Radio 21 and sent it to Building 1 as soon as I got it. I don’t know who it is, Sir, but if they’ve made it as far as they have then I’m afraid-”
There was a crash on the other end of the radio before it cut out. Supervillain cursed under his breath before slamming a hand on the counter before him. He squeezed the button on the radio. “Whoever you are,” Supervillain growled into the speaker, “you’re dead.”
Silence.
Silence.
Silence.
Ker-pshhh.
“Oh, I’m very much alive,” a voice said. A voice which made Supervillain groan and slap his forehead with the blunt of his hand.
“Villain, what the hell are you doing?” His voice was more disappointed than anything and he released yet another groan. “Don’t tell me this is because of the rat.”
It didn’t take a second for Villain to respond. “She isn’t a rat.”
Isn’t. Oh boy, this was a case of grief, wasn’t it? “You didn’t dress her up and put her in your kitchen to eat breakfast with, did you?” Supervillain joked. “Probably had to spritz her with some of your cologne a few times, huh? Would smell like rotten meat otherwise.”
“You must want me to kill you. It’s why you tried to kill her, isn’t it? Isn’t it? You’re sick of living this sad and vengeful life, so you did the one thing that would piss me off enough to do this- to sabotage your own business.”
“Villain, old buddy, you’re in over your head.” A sigh. “I killed her, alright? She’s dead.” Supervillain refrained from calling Hero a rat for another time, seeing as it sent Villain over the edge. “And it was for your own good. You were becoming weak, and your business was falling because of it. Do you even realize how much fell apart all because you let her slither into your heart?”
“The old boxing pit on Third Street,” Supervillain explained, “underwent construction shortly before you were about to buy it. You know what was left at the scene- what the media didn’t cover? A mallet with Hero’s DNA on the handle. She smacked at the foundation, Villain, until it was bad enough to need repaired. What’d you go and do then? You bought a greenhouse instead- reported to your employees that it would benefit them because they wouldn’t need to go buy a lunch for themselves. She manipulated you, Villain, into someone you’re not.”
“She helped me become the best person I could be,” Villain gritted out, but his voice sounded with an echo. Supervillain paid it little mind.
“The rat changed your priorities.”
“They needed to be changed.” Supervillain squeezed his eyes shut, grimacing at the door slamming against a wall as Villain came crashing in. Well, that’s why I heard his voice twice. Once through a radio, and second through the door.
“That’s gonna cost you, but I tell you what.” Supervillain spun on a heel and told Villain, “You go in halfsies and I’ll let this whole thing slide.”
Nothing could have stopped the fist which Villain sent towards Supervillain, one nearly bone-crushing. One which sent Supervillain staggering back into his radio, pushing it up against the wall with a bang.
“I’m the one in the position to grant mercy, not you.” Villain began walking towards Supervillain as he regained himself but as Villain raised a fist, his old friend launched a hand of his own forward, grasping it tightly. In Villain’s shock, he lacked the response to pull away, and was instead pulled towards Supervillain while being turned, his back flush against Supervillain’s chest, his arm skewered behind his own back.
Of course, Villain fought against his old friend, wanting nothing other than to send another fast-flying fist in Supervillain’s face…or his groin.
“Villain. Villain, hey!” This made the more vengeful of the two cease his struggle. “Look, I know you’re mad, alright? You loved the ra- Hero, and you were blinded by that love, so much so that it clouded your judgement. It happens to the best of us, Villain.”
“You killed her.” Villain gave another jerk, this time with a tear in his eye. Realizing such raw emotion was leaking out, he corrected himself with a shout, “She was everything I had!”
Supervillain sighed, tightening his grip as Villain continued fighting him. “Yeah…you said that one before.” Supervillain let go, not waiting a moment before pushing Villain’s back, causing him to stumble forward, nearly passing through the door which he left open when he so rudely barged in. “Villain, listen to me, bud. You are better off without her. That love you felt was going to cause you to lose everything you worked so hard to build, and even if that weren’t the result, you would always have this internal conflict- to do-”
“To do the right or wrong thing?” Villain seethed, righting himself against the doorframe which Supervillain pushed him towards. “Supervillain, we’ve been doing wrong this whole time! Nothing we have done has been good by any moralistic means. We kill people.”
We kill people. Supervillain could almost laugh at the irony. “You killed at least one of my men today. One, which was confirmed out of twenty-eight. You’re just as bad as me.”
“Because you killed the one person in this world I could ever find myself loving.”
“You depended on her dammit! Don’t you see what I’m seeing? You don’t even know who you are without her coaxing her own ideas into your ear. You needed this. You needed her gone.”
“I needed her.” Villain’s voice finally broke like the day Hero was killed, when she was shoved through without remorse, discarded like a candy wrapper, and called a ‘rat’ without pause. “I needed her, and you stole her from me.”
Can’t bring her back, now, can I? But Supervillain didn’t say this, for he knew it was entirely pointless. Villain would just keep repeating those same few phrases, which Supervillain heard as, ‘I’m sad. You’re a monster and I can’t acknowledge myself as one. I miss my crutch and my ankle is always broken. Blah. Blah, blah. Blah, blah.’
“You need someone who you can rely on, who can rely on you just as easily, Villain.” Now onto the more sensitive topic once again. “I don’t remember you stepping forward to help Hero when she was shaking beneath my arm. You loved her, but not enough to sacrifice what we have here. We’re friends, Villain. We’ll always be friends. No one knows you as well as I and no one knows me as well as you.”
“Come sit down with me,” Supervillain finished. “In the lobby. I’ve got a few fridges, one with your name on it- literally. You stopped coming around, but I keep a stock of that weird soda you like.”
Supervillain was so casual, so friendly. It was as if he actually cared, had wanted to continue being friends, and had done everything he could to be friends. As much as him killing Hero hurt, as much as Villain wanted to hate him for it…it seemed as though Supervillain did it to help. Because Villain did rely on Hero, didn’t he? He looked to her for everything- even what food to buy. And the timing of the boxing pit was odd; what if Hero really did destroy it so that Villain would buy something else? Something that catered more to her own thoughts and reasoning than his own?
“I’ll sit down for one soda,” Villain said. “One.”
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@digitalart-tw I considered being kind and bringing the Hero back. I really did. But the evil runs rampantly through my veins and knows no end.
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hi, just wondering if you'd be willing to break down that quote you liked from biopolitics of disability? I felt like I understood the first half (ish) but I'm not really sure about the second.
Is the idea that research on disabled bodies is profitable, or that disabled people will become nondisabled and join the workforce, or is it arguing that like this research is done out of genuine care and concern for disabled people? I can't quite grasp it.
obvs if you don't feel like answering I won't be a dick, just thought since your tags seemed enthusiastic you might have things you might wanna say about it.
absolutely, thank you for asking! it’s a somewhat dense quote that could easily be confusing if you don’t have familiarity with certain texts & concepts. i’ll just take it in sections, but i totally invite other commentary & insight! any emphasis is my own.
Rather than social pariahs, disabled people increasingly represent “research opportunities” in the sense that medical race sociologist Aihwa Ong means when she argues that “treating” ill and disabled Cambodian refugees in the United States increasingly “became the justification for state and local clinics to obtain much-needed funding from the federal government” (96).
historically, the goal of biomedical interventions in disability has been to eliminate non-normative bodies. the concept that all disabilities require medical intervention (often framed as an approach that is in opposition to creating an accessible society) is referred to as the medical model of disability. it argues that our bodies (i use the term broadly, inclusive of minds) need to be fixed and that eradicating disability is a good thing.
this quote expands on that prior scholarship and argues that biomedical research into disability exists not only to bring disabled bodies into the sphere of normalcy but also as a way for clinics to obtain funding—funding which only exists because of the government’s panic that people, especially immigrants, may become recipients of services like SSI and Medicaid due to disability.
Rather than a former era’s economic “burden,” disabled people have become objects of care in which enormous sectors of postcapitalist service economies are invested. In the terms of recent political economy, disability has been transformed into a target of neoliberal intervention strategies—a “hot” ticket item for potential research and policy funding schemes. Disabled people, once thrown out of the labor system on the basis of their lack of normative productivity in a competitive labor market, now find themselves “at hand for [the] purposes of accumulation at a later point in time.
to rephrase this in a very bitter and sarcastic way, disabled people used to be rejected from society because we aren’t as productive as abled people, but under neoliberal capitalism, we can be good little consumers just like everybody else! even initiatives that aim to increase disabled people’s autonomy and independence focus on us as consumers of disability-related services and our right to make financial decisions in a capitalist marketplace (link to a bit more on that here).
i’m not saying financial autonomy isn’t important—for many people, it’s the difference between life and death, and i’ll include a quote below with more perspective on that than i can provide. but under the current system, it results in corporations vying for disabled people’s money and watered-down activism arguing that businesses for which we are “objects of care” shouldn’t abuse us because then we won’t pay them.
in a broad political sense, it’s a reactionary rather than revolutionary mindset; sort of like how modern gay rights organizations in the US & other countries push for threatening politicians that they’ll lose the “gay vote” if they support a dangerous homophobic policy. it gives us a sort of power, but one that we only need because we’re living under a deeply broken system. but again, that’s not to say that financial independence isn’t vital for disabled people in the here and now, it just shouldn’t be the biggest we can dream. my goal for our people is liberation, not increased consumption.
“It is about time for revolution. We, people with disabilities, have to claim the decision making power and the financial means that are set aside by the taxpayer for disability policies. We have to gain control of our own lives, our own physical rehabilitation, our own personal assistance. We are the experts, we have to build up our own expertise and know-how. We don't need medical doctors, bureaucrats and social workers to decide what our needs are. We know what our needs are and how they can be fulfilled. We ask services that respond to our needs. We don't want to be the object, but the subject of these services.” —Huys Jos, “From Object of Care to Subject of Services,” Rethinking Care—From the Perspective of Disabled People (link to source pdf)
Put in the language of contemporary postmodern political theory, we might say that capitalism necessarily and always creates its own ‘other’” (Harvey, Neoliberalism 141). The historical production of others situates bodies in a position tantamount to un(der)explored geographies: they come to be recognized as formerly neglected sites now available for new opportunities of market extraction that fuels so much of the production end of neoliberal capitalism.
essentially, disabled bodies are Antarctica: left alone by the capitalist marketplace for a long time out of a vague fear and repulsion, but now everyone’s eying us, wondering what profit they can extract, and we aren’t protected nearly as much under global treaties. neoliberal capitalism demands constant expansion, constant profit growth, so instead of being rejected from the (literal and proverbial) marketplace, we’re catered to in a flimsy way that risks hiding the true state of discrimination we experience.
think of the recent erupting discussions around pride month merchandising and advertising; incredibly discriminatory, oppressive companies change their logos rainbow because they’ve realized lgbtq+ people are profitable. similarly, entire sectors of the market start salivating when you mention the US’s aging population because of all the assistive technology people will need. it’s not access as a human right, it’s access for a profit.
Such developments arrive, inevitably, with their own contradictions intact, but they also provide opportunities for rethinking disability as not only alternatively social, but also nonnormatively material, subject.
the social model of disability argues that disability is created by an inaccessible society; what is disabling is not, for example, someone’s paralysis which requires them to use a wheelchair but rather the fact that the apartment buildings in their area don’t have elevators, the streets don’t have curb cuts, and the stores don’t have automatic doors. this excerpt argues that not only is disability constructed through these social means, it also has a nonnormative materiality, in the sense of dialectical materialism; disabled people are uniquely affected by socioeconomic interactions in ways that affect the conditions of our lives.
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Some can be more intelligent than others in a structured environment—in fact school has a selection bias as it flavors those quicker in such an environment, and like anything competitive, at the expense of performance outside it.
Although I was not yet familiar with gyms, my idea of knowledge was as follows. People who build their strength using these modern expensive gym machines can lift extremely large weights, show great numbers and develop impressive-looking muscles, but fail to lift a stone; they get completely hammered in a street fight by someone trained in more disorderly settings. Their strength is extremely domain-specific and their domain doesn't exist outside of ludic—extremely organized—constructs. In fact their strength, as with over-specialized athletes, is the result of a deformity.
I thought it was the same with people who were selected for trying to get high grades in a small number of subjects rather than follow their curiosity: try taking them slightly away from what they studied and watch their decomposition, loss of confidence, and denial. (Just like corporate executives are selected for their ability to put up with the boredom of meetings, many of these people were selected for their ability to concentrate on boring material.)
I've debated many economists who claim to specialize in risk and probability: when one takes them slightly outside their narrow focus, but within the discipline of probability, they fall apart, with the disconsolate face of a gym rat in front of a gangster hit man."
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
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