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    Reality Bites-The Movie

    in Houston and the Media

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    Contemporary Youth Culture is a commercial form of anti-intellectualism orienting adherents to consumerism. The Frontlinepublic affairs television series documentary The Merchants of Cool (2001) describes how the advertising business transformed adolescents’ language, thought, and action (cliques, fashion, fads) into commodities, and thus engendered ageneration of intellectually disengaged Americans uninterested in progressing to adulthood.The US youth subculture originated from the post – Second World War economic prosperity allowing adolescents to work and have a discretionary income — whilst still dependent upon parents. In turn, their economic power allowed business to sell them popularity — an identity as a young person — something that once was not for sale, but self-created; to wit, the British blog writer Paul Graham likened youth culture to an occupation permitting little time for education and intellectual interests.[8]

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    Project Pegasus

    in Dallas/Fort Worth/Metroplex

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    The urban design component has also been initiated to enhance the transportation corridor environment for both the motorists and the adjacent property owner perspectives. The Urban Design process involves ultimate what-if items to be considered for future community cost-sharing such as signage, illumination, public art, landscaping, specialty pavement, community gateways, design of bridge structures, bridge column supports, and so forth. The implementation of urban design elements will require cost-sharing between the City of Dallas and TxDOT. A potential "River" concept or theme that could be used for the corridors.

    Is this Dallas' Big Dig?

    Downtown Office Market

    in Downtown

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    Nothing is official just yet. Still have to go to MEPS.

    The ASVAB test is basically an IQ and aptitude test covering things like mechanical ability' date=' organization and work efficiency, reading comprehension, and the like. It's designed to seperate the people able to re-wire a circuit board from the mouth breathers.

    ASVAB has quite a few different scores that it spits out once it's graded but I believe the 'G.T.' score is the one most look at as a basic indicator of the testees ability to perform brain surgery and/or put food in their mouth when they are hungry and dress themselves with their underwear on the inside of their clothes.

    I believe 60 is the low end and with a score like that you can pump gas, make a burrito, and point and fire your weapon in the general direction of brown people. Your essentially a high functioning excitable fixed gear enthusiast with a score like that but you're still good enough for the military.

    90 - 110 is above average and you're probably capable of doing just about anything in the military while 120 and above is way above average and you won't even be offered shitty jobs once you have your sit down with the recruiter at the MEPS station. You will be offered jobs that can be very lucrative in the civilain sector so you will be offered big bonuses tacked on to longer then average enlistments.

    Once your test has been graded you'll have a sitdown with a MEPS recruiter who will pull you back in an office cubicle and present to you a piece of paper with a bunch of jobs on it like 'helicopter rotor washer', 'fuel technician', 'chalk block'. Never select these jobs unless you want to make bread pudding all day, wash dishes, fill fuel tanks, or basically just stand around trying to look busy. these are 'Needs of the Military' jobs and they are offered to everyone who sits down.

    the good jobs are in the computer and you have to ask to see them. they will be dictated by your ASVAB score and there is no getting around this so even if you want to fly Apache's really really bad if you have an ASVAB score of 70 the closest you will ever get it filling it's fuel tank.

    as for how the different militaries dictate job placement i know this...

    Air Force - they will let you pick a career field dictated by your Asvab. You will not be able to pick a specific job. so say you really want to work in Network management on the IT side of things. you can pick that field but you might end up pulling and digging trenches for cat-5 cable through a war zone. air force...additionally everyone at one time or another wishes they had joined the air force instead of army/navy/marines/coast guard. their bases are always in big cities next to big airports or in amazing places like the mediterrain or some coastal tropical island.

    Army - you can pick your specific field and job. you will get stationed in shit holes through out your career. You will wish you had joined the air force.

    Navy/Marines - I believe you get to pick your specific field and job but i could be wrong. i didn't even talk to either of their recruiters because I know I don't like sitting on a boat in the middle of the ocean for 6 months out of the year and Marines are always deployed to conflicts and war first.

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    Crime Has Been Lost in Urban Discourse. We need to bring it back.

    in Crime and Punishment

    Posted

    Get a job already, I think your losing it bro.

    Wow.. I'm truly sorry if this offended you. I've recently been laid off and am just frustrated by the arch profession atm. I read that you have enlisted and I hope you do well on your ASVAB. Good luck and take care.

    As far as crime research is concerned perhaps organizing a study of high crime nabs could be done in pursuit of finding the positive deviance to construct a real time theory towards turning the tide of crime.

    Crime Has Been Lost in Urban Discourse. We need to bring it back.

    in Crime and Punishment

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    Demographics and value systems change over time, should 70's and early 80's developers been held to a more stringent code? Probably, or is it more likely that the resultant sprawl would have still conceded to entropic development and ended up as a high crime neighborhood ever further out from the city center than currently?

    Crime does equal part or whole of the idea of the urban form; but that is, if anything, a false connotation perpetually blared from televisions. It is a social problem, whereas to react with the skill-set of design is symptomatic of a communication breakdown on a societal level and only produces artifacts of fear. The prevalence of obliques, fractured symmetries, and a general lack of cohesion makes it a cakewalk for criminals to operate in this town. My misspent youth can attest to this.

    Crime is best dealt with by the idea of surveillance, check your RCP.

    Memorial Bend Mod - 12839 Butterfly

    in Houston Mod

    Posted · Edited by names

    I'm intrigued by the idea of restoring a home like this, not to it's original design but to it's original design intent. The colonial pastiche may be decoration but there are some rather momentous programmatic shifts in owners and their valuations. The facade is the most glaring example of programmatic shifts, and if I were to redesign the home I would have to seriously consider the based assumptions of the programmatic shifts as part of the home's evolution; even if those changes may have been on the surface ill informed. Beautiful home before, average home after, & perhaps beautiful again with the proper vision.

    Things getting harder for American architects.

    in Architects, Developers, Builders, and Designs

    Posted · Edited by names

    Most professional firms depended on foreign projects to get through the last year and a half. Now that most projects are in the construction phase, it seems most firms are on a steady diet of cutting ~10% of the workforce per quarter. Commercial firms have been cleaning house too but are more likely to close shop than to reconfigure operations. Artistic firms are simply wandering in the desert.

    Edit: It's actually a great time to be an architect worth his salt. All the bluffers, cheap skates, & phonies have been cleared out of the market.

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