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The Pazant Brothers playing at the MOMA in the mid-1970's with a heavy funk and blues, still the real stuff in music, the feeling of lives lived hard but even in that sorrow... joy, connection, and meaning.
It's time to say goodbye to NYC, the long road from moving here just before 9/11 and the changes in friends, loved ones, the loss of character in this place, and it's many ill paths... it's half passed time to move on.
Without this warrior here, without the intellectual, emotional, and artisitc values brought to my life, how can I stay. The haunt of the street, the early morning alley we used to sneak on, the ugly old buildings we shared a love for, it will never feel the same.
If it ever stops raining I'll will have another go at removing the grout. I think the more I remove the better it looks. You can certainly see those glass gems better where I've cleaned the grouting up and the mirror tile pattern :-)
How are you? Finally a break in the weather for golf etc. Hoping you are coping with your hearing and vertigo issues. Had a couple of friends pass away this past week and it reminds me we are lucky to wake up everyday. Note that Suns season begins this week and the wonderful WNBA playoffs continue. Vikes have a big test today. KU finally gets a win and the Jackrabbits fall to the Bison. We are getting settled in and we plan a trip up to see you guys soon. Hi to Emily. Rock Chalk!
Gary McClung (1941-2021) was a 40-year veteran with Ford Motor Company and co-owned Midway Ford Truck Center in Kansas City, which some say was the world's top Ford Truck dealership. He had money he did not know what to do with, he and his wife Lea loved golf and were members of Troon Golf and Country Club in Scottsdale. In 1998 from the City of Peoria McClung bought 828 acres of spectacular high Sonoran Desert land near the Hieroglyphic Mountains which run primarily east to west along the border between Maricopa and Yavapai counties. McClung obtained the water rights, power, sewer and fire protection from the City of Peoria. The land is really remote. The entire property had a feeling of privacy. It is 32 miles from the Peoria City Hall, 50 miles from Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport and 15 miles to the nearest gas station.
Through his contacts at Troon Golf and Country Club he was introduced to Rees Jones. Jones was able to lay-out the golf course first and the 280 residential home sites were configured after the course design was completed.
McClung received a development loan of $16.5 million from KSI a private lender based in Paramus, New Jersey for the development of two championship golf courses and a gated residential community. KSI specializes in problematic and opportunistic situations.
Quintero opened November 2000 as a private club with a $50,000 initiation fee. After Rees Jones Founders Course opened (managed by Troon Golf) the development focus turned to the future sister course, this one designed by Greg Norman. The owner and developer Gary McClung said " "Quintero has all the elements of America's finest country clubs - privacy, exclusivity and superbly crafted amenities, plus a natural splendor that is really quite extraordinary."
McClung's dream was to build two Top 100 golf courses on the site. McClung began to sell home lots and build homes. Only a handful of lots were sold. Alas, the Greg Norman course never happened. Private club memberships fell victim to the lack of home sales and the extreme remoteness of the club. In-fact the clubhouse was never completed.
From 2005-2010 Gary McClung's Quintero business entities fell into financial stress. McClung was unable to pay development contractors on time, and many had ceased working. Missouri investors in Quintero's real estate sued McClung for fraud claiming he was kiting checks and creating a Ponzi scheme. Hillcrest Bank had loaned McClung over $31 million during the years 2005-2008. The Kansas Banking Commissioner closed Hillcrest Bank and appointed the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) as receiver. Lawsuits claim that Hillcrest looked the other way as McClung ran the scheme through Hillcrest bank accounts. McClung died in 2021. His obituary does not mention his failed Quintero development. A receiver took over Quintero in October 2009.
On November 14, 2011, Quintero Golf and Country Club, was bought out by Infinity Capital Golf Resources. Elliot Lewis, managing partner of Infinity Capital Alliance, said his company took over the golf club and a few custom-home lots by buying from the lender McClung's promissory note at a fraction of the $54 million value.
By 2011 Quintero Golf and Country Club changed its name to Quintero Golf Club and became a semi-private club that also offered public daily-fee play. Non-equity memberships were sold for unlimited golf throughout the year with a $5,000 initiation fee, plus dues of $350 per month.
Lewis is the only partner in Capital Alliance who hails from Canada. He came to Scottsdale in 1995 with his company, Granite Golf, and managed clubs all over the country. He sold his interest in 2000, when the market turned, and the golf industry went through a downward spiral. Lewis is the Managing Partner of Scottsdale based Prevision Capital Strategies and Prevision Golf Ventures.
In 2013 Elliot Lewis did promote the Quintero’s Ultimate VIP package. For $3,000 the package provided for 4 golfers, a round of golf, lunch, drinks and round-trip helicopter transportation from the Scottsdale Airport.
Emily and I played Quintero on Oct 17, 2024. The course was exquisitely green and lush with each square foot perfectly maintained. The oddity was the 1st and 18th greens are 10-minute rides back to the clubhouse. The distance between holes is extreme and many of the bunkers needed step ladders to get out of.
I did all the basic edits like changing the exposure, vibrance, etc., but I mainly increased the contrast and the saturation to add more color to the photo and to make the plant stand out from the background.
today's coping skill, plants vs. zombies, has been brought to you by joe.
(joe actually raised his streak to an epic 23!!!...but i was in the bathroom at the time and therefore unable to document such an historic event.)
we live a pretty rock & roll lifestyle around here, let me tell ya.
10/15/10: home
50mm, sooc
Coping Graves:
Beem
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Rohler
T H Behme
Small - Breitling
Kelly
Bohler
William H Staub
Anne H Staub
Lafayette Cemetery No 1
Washington Avenue at Prytania Street
New Orleans, Louisiana
N 29° 55.748 W 090° 05.088
Lafayette Cemetery was established in 1833 in what is now known as the Garden District for "Les Americaines" (the Americans). In 1833, this area was known as the city of Lafayette. It was part of the Livaudais plantation which was subdivided into city squares in 1832. This city square was acquired from Cornelius Hurst and the cemetery was laid out by the city surveyor Benjamin Buisson.
So, I decided to run some Bluestone coping around the friplace to clean up the edges. They were in tough shape after the demolition for the radiant flooring.
In truth, I think this whol fireplace enclosure should be taken down and rebuilt by a qualified mason.
The person who assembled this knew just enough about masonry to be dangerous--and really make an ass of himself and present a hazard for others.
Dallas resting after we put the aluminum coping in place. We kept the construction covered in the plastic tarp till we could get the surface laid down.
A visit to Chirk Castle near Wrexham, a National Trust property in Wales.
Chirk Castle (Welsh: Castell y Waun) is a Grade I listed castle located in Chirk, Wrexham County Borough, Wales. It is now owned and run by the National Trust.
The castle was built in 1295 by Roger Mortimer de Chirk, uncle of Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March as part of King Edward I's chain of fortresses across the north of Wales. It guards the entrance to the Ceiriog Valley. It was the administrative centre for the Marcher Lordship of Chirkland.
The castle was bought by Sir Thomas Myddelton in 1593 for £5,000 (approx. £11 million as of 2008). His son, Thomas Myddelton of Chirk Castle was a Parliamentarian during the English Civil War, but became a Royalist during the 'Cheshire rising' of 1659 led by George Booth, 1st Baron Delamer. Mullioned and transomed windows were inserted in the 16th and 17th centuries; the castle was partly demolished in the English Civil War and then rebuilt. Following the Restoration, his son became Sir Thomas Myddelton, 1st Baronet of Chirke. The castle passed down in the Myddelton family to Charlotte Myddelton (on the death of her father in 1796). Charlotte had married Robert Biddulph, who changed his name to Robert Myddelton-Biddulph, leaving the castle on his death to their son Robert. It then passed down in the Myddelton-Biddulph family.
From before World War I until after World War II the castle was leased by Thomas Scott-Ellis, 8th Baron Howard de Walden, a prominent patron of the arts and champion of Welsh culture. In 1918 Chirk Castle was used as film location for Victory and Peace, directed by Herbert Brenon. The Baron opened up parts of the castle to evacuees during the later part of the Second World War. The Myddelton family returned to live at Chirk Castle until 2004. Lieutenant-Colonel Ririd Myddleton was an extra equerry to Queen Elizabeth II from 1952 until his death in 1988.
Chirk remained in the Myddelton family until it was transferred to the National Trust in 1981. The castle and gardens are open to the public between March and October, with limited opening dates in November and December. The castle is 1.5 mi (2.4 km) from Chirk railway station.
Grade I Listed Building
History
The original castle was probably begun soon after 1295, for Roger Mortimer, for the newly created marcher lordship of Chirkland, on lands formerly being that of the Princedom of Llewelyn ap Gryffydd ap Madog. The royal mason, Master James of St George from Savoy, was probably the originator of the plan form, as it resembles Beaumaris and Harlech in certain respects. He perhaps continued to act as advising master mason as in other royal castles in Wales. The first major stage of building probably extended until Mortimer's fall in 1322. It then passed through the hands of the Earls of Arundel, the Beauforts, and to Sir William Stanley c1475. It was then administered by the Tudors, with some large scale repairs taking place before 1529, until 1563 when it was granted by the queen to the Robert Dudley Earl of Leicester. In 1595 it was purchased by the merchant adventurer Thomas Myddleton, in whose lineage it has continued until the present day. The external shell of the building is early C13 in date; the E and S sides and the principal hall range within on the N side were rebuilt in the early C14. Within, on the N side, it is largely Tudor in date. After some damage during the civil war, followed by limited demolition, probably of the upper part of the towers in 1659, work was undertaken by Sir Thomas Myddleton, 2nd baronet in the E range in 1673-8 under the guidance of Lady Wilbrahim of Weston, Staffs, in the style of William Wynde. Richard Myddleton, the C18 owner, employed Joseph Turner, surveyor of Hawarden, to remodel the state rooms in 1766-78, supervised by John Cooper of Beaumaris, and further work was undertaken in the mid 1840s by A W N Pugin, who had been engaged by Col Robert, and who provided a facade for the E range and undertook internal alterations in collaboration with J G Crace. A W Pugin died in 1852, and the ongoing work was continued by his son, Edward W Pugin. The chapel was restored by Sir A Blomfield in 1894, and further work was carried out by Lord Howard de Walden in 1912-13. The castle was bought for the nation in 1978 and placed in the care of The National Trust. A detailed history is included in the house guide.
Exterior
The castle is in the form of a hollow square, with bold round towers at each corner, and central to each side rising from a battered plinth. The barbican is on the N side, between the NE tower and the centre tower, approached by a ramped bridge, a pointed arch of 2 chamfered orders. C19 ashlar parapet with ridged copings. The barbican itself has a tall outer arch, and within, an inner arch of 2 orders behind the portcullis drop. The mantled and supported Myddleton Arms, by A W Pugin, are set in a recess over. Two levels of small side arrowslits. Studded framed doors. Within the entrance, C19 doors with pointed arches each side and a timber joisted ceiling. The inner doors are set in another arch of 2 chamfered orders, on one the inscribed date 1669 TM. The doors are framed and set inside the arch.
The main towers are of 3 storeys, with stone mullioned and transomed windows and crenellated parapets added in the C19 after the upper stages of the towers had been demolished in 1659, and the C18 balustrade removed. In the plain stone curtain between the towers, a series of irregularly placed similar stone windows, some with horizontal hood moulds. The W elevation is similar, with similar windows, the crenels of the parapet partly blocked. A dog-leg external stair rises to a doorway, and further S, the base of a garderobe chute. Beyond the centre tower, the castle was demolished, the curtain stopping at an irregular break, now built up in the C14 in rubble as part of the rebuild of the S side, and continued further in the C19 to join the stables.
The S elevation is largely obscured for much of its length by the C18 and C19 stables and workshop additions, but beyond the W privy garden wall, the C14 character is apparent in the two 2-light transomed and cusped windows to the chapel and a further trefoil light to the left. Other windows of the C19. Two gabled buttresses.
The E elevation has a fine 5-light window to the chapel S of the central tower, created by Sir Arthur Blomfield in 1894 to replace one by E W Pugin, the wall deeply battered below. The curtain between the centre and the NE tower has similar stone mullioned and transomed windows with label heads, also repeated on the towers. Crenellated parapet.
Courtyard elevations: The W side is still largely medieval, of c1300, although the upper part of the N end is rebuilt. Low 2-centred door to the Guard Room, and adjacent, a trefoil-headed door. Above, bracketed out on corbels, a bellcote of 1609, refurbished by E W Pugin, and now with a clockface of 1960 over a 2-light window. Bell stage has 2 x 1 shoulded open arches and a hipped lead roof. To the left, the medieval Adam tower, crenellated with spiked coping to the merlins. Other windows mostly 3-light mullioned and transomed.
The S side is of 1529, 3-storey, with mullioned and transomed windows and doors with depressed arches. The imprint of 9 gables from the C17 roofs is visible, replaced in the C18 when the wall was taken up to a level parapet. Two light attic windows. The door to the Chapel, at the E end has a segmental pediment containing a large weathered winged putto.
The E side is of 1664-1678, a 2-storey range with 7 mullioned and transomed 3-light windows and parapet over, against which is built a single storey range by E W Pugin in c1846, buttressed between windows and a central porch with a crenellated parapet. Arms over the door.
The N side is of c1630-40 with later alterations. Irregularly placed mullioned and transomed windows. A 2-centred chamfered arch to the kitchen has an inscription over
THIS:NEW:BUILDING:/AND:THE:TOURE:WAS:BU/ILT:ALL:IN:ONE:YEARE:BY:TH/ OM MYDDLETON KNIGHT 1636. To the right, steps to a door by Pugin dated 1846.
Interior
Of the early medieval accommodation, no work survives outside of the towers and wall passages. The S range, which was rebuilt c1400 after the reduction of the size of the building, contains the great chamber on the first floor, and the chapel at the E end rising from ground to first floors. The kitchen and Cromwell Hall on the N side was the dining room in the C17, classicised in c1778 and re-medievalised by A W N Pugin in 1845-6 in association with the decorator J G Crace. This has a stone fireplace by Myers with painted arms in cusped recesses over, and a ceiling on moulded beams. An oak panelled screen at the lower end leads to the cross passage and buttery beyond, and from it access is gained to the grand staircase in the centre N tower. This open-well stair with its fine arcaded iron balustrade was designed by Joseph Turner in 1777-8 and has marbled Ionic columns at each corner supporting a beamed and moulded ceiling. This was restored to the C18 design in the 1950s. On the upper floor of this range, the state dining room, formerly the chamber over the buttery, is also in the classical taste by Turner, with coved ceiling, and panelled walls decorated with early classical moulded husk motifs, restored in 1963. Fine C18 chimneypiece of marble. The adjoining saloon, the great dining room in the C17, has a magnificently enriched 15-panelled ceiling incorporating cameo paintings by G Mullins, an Irish landscape painter. Marble Corinthian chimneypiece incorporating jasper by Bromfield of Liverpool, 1773. This room leads enfilade to the corner drawing room, completed in 1796 and redecorated by Pugin and Crace, and provides direct access to the long gallery in the E wing, 30m long, begun in 1670 for Sir Thomas Myddleton, 2nd bart, and completed in 1678, and probably by the same team employed by Lady Myddleton (Wilbrahim) at Weston Park, Staffs. Bolection moulded panelling and acanthus cornice and broken pediments over doors in the Restoration manner, and a panelled heraldic ceiling. Tiles by Minton and Hardman commissioned 1847-8. The Chapel, in the SE corner, originally fitted out in the 1670s. The chapel was restored and reroofed by Sir A Blomfield in 1894, and with further work carried out by Lord Howard de Walden in 1912 when it was converted to a music room. The E range contains much work by A W Pugin, since altered, and ceilings by Thomas Harrison. Ribbed ceiling to the library.
Reasons for Listing
Included at Grade I as a building of major national importance, being one of the series of Edwardian castles of Wales, adapted to become the seat of an important marcher landed estate, in which context, successive leading architects and designers were involved in the creation of a major country house within the medieval framework, of which fine work of the late C18 and mid C19 especially stands out.
The inner courtyard. Access to inside the castle, shop, stables, and second hand book shop, as well as the tower and dungeon.
Alaska Army National Guardsmen teach drug awareness and coping strategies classes to Colony High School Army Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps cadets in Palmer Nov. 4.
Fiberglass pool by Blue Hawaiian, installation done by Seasonal Solutions of Lewes, Delaware, using VASTEC USA's Coping For Fiberglass Pools.
This was just the other day at work. Look at how healthy my hair is. I haven't tried to change it because I am truly happy with how adorable my hair finally is. I love the look of this style on me and no matter how I style it, my hair is fierce. I look at this picture and see somebody who is finally thriving. I have a promise ring on my finger, I have healthy hair, and I am happy. My hair honestly represents my emotional health because I use changing it as a coping mechanism. I am in love with myself finally and in a great place in life and my hair shows that, honestly. I look healthy and happy and not like somebody who is going through a crisis. Society tells us wild hair is weird, honestly and my emotional stability shows that. I am finally happy and healthy though. I am working, just got into my major, talking about marriage and when kids will come. I am doing well.
Stages of Grief
They say there are stages of grief. Some of those stages include denial, depression, and acceptance. But one that many of us experience is anger.
While we most often associate grief with the emotions when a loved one passes away, we can go through grief about a lot of things.
People go through grief when their house burns down or when they lose a job or a pet. An area of loss that we don't often lump in with grief causes is the physical decline of aging.
You can detect that you or senior citizens you know are experiencing grief from their loss of youth from comments they make.
It is common to hear them look back with remorse at lost youth and with the loss of functionality and strength that happens when we age.
Declining Strength
As a senior citizen sees their strength decline and perhaps go through one of the many natural ailments of aging such as arthritis or problems with elimination, it is not uncommon to see a response of anger result from their impatience with these problems.
Nobody asked to get old. And I am sure that if we could put it to a vote, aging would lose the election to continue to be part of our lives.
As much as senior citizens hate to grow old, your loved ones hate to see it happen to you.
And while you as a senior citizen may not see it happen, your family is grieving the loss of the “young mom or dad” as much as you are.
Anger Problems
The problem with being angry about growing old is there is nobody to take it out on.
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I felt angry, sad and annoyed all together on Saturday. Just like that really, for no obvious reason. I don't like how often this happens. I really don't. But what I have learnt is the best way to avoid the feeling getting worse is to act on it. Go, go now, go out, go far, do something I know I can rely on and will make me feel better.
I headed to the movies, I needed someone's else's story.
It worked, once again.
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