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For immediate release -- Tuesday, November 9, 1999. Contact Bob Brammer -- 515-281-6699
DES MOINES-- The Iowa Attorney General's Consumer Protection Division and the Iowa Chapters of the National Society of Fund Raising Executives are joining forces to fight back against consumer fraud schemes that target generous Iowans with questionable charitable solicitations.Attorney General Tom Miller and representatives of the Central Iowa Chapter of the National Society of Fund Raising Executives (NSFRE) announced publication of a new brochure to raise awareness about wise giving. "Charitable Donations: A Consumer's Guide to Giving Wisely" provides tips and questions to ask when a consumer is being solicited for a donation. The brochure is available from the Consumer Protection Division and cooperating organizations.
"The year-end is a crucial time for caution on charities," Miller said. "It is estimated that about half of all charitable giving is done in the last three months of the year. That means look-a-like or fraudulent charities want to get in the mix with other organizations competing for consumer donations."
According to the NSFRE, $175 billion were given to charitable causes in the U.S. in 1998. The Federal Trade Commission estimates that one per cent of all giving goes to fraudulent charities.
Joining Miller at the news conference were Karen Anderson of the Hospice of Central Iowa; Karen Kane of Big Brothers and Big Sisters; and Mark Reed of the Make-A-Wish Foundation. The three are leaders of the Central Iowa Chapters of the NSFRE. The graphics firm Erickson McLellan contributed the design and graphic work for the brochure and poster.Miller said there are many fine charities soliciting contributions in Iowa, and that his office is eager to stop scams and uphold the integrity of our system of giving.
"Charity scams waste people's donations, divert money from reputable organizations, and squander money needed to help people in need," Miller said.
"Donor, beware. That's our watchword," he said. "Consumers need to be on guard to avoid losing their money to questionable charities."
National Society of Fund Raising Executives, 800-666-FUND Philanthropic Advisory Service, Council of Better Business Bureaus, (707)276-0100 National Charities Information Bureau, (212) 929-6300
Consumers who believe they have been a victim of a fund raising "scam," or who want a copy of the brochure "Charitable Donations: A Consumer's Guide to Giving Wisely," should contact the Iowa Attorney General's Consumer Protection Division at (515) 281-5926 or e-mail at email@example.com
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To compare the performance of the DDA scheme and other deadlock detection algorithms we have implemented a simulation system simulating a distributed system of autonomous object managers. So far we have compared the DDA approach to a so-called edge-chasing distributed deadlock detection approach, the one that seems to induce the lowest number of messages within this class of algorithms. The two algorithms perform alike for system loads with a low conflict rate while the DDA approach outperforms the other algorithm when loads with high conflict probabilities are considered.
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Bill Clinton's Solution for 'Too Big to Jail' Banks
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- President Bill Clinton believes there is an economically productive way to make use of the billions of dollars in Wall Street fines and settlements that flood into the U.S. Treasury annually since the financial crisis.
Instead of putting the billions that the Department of Justice and Securities and Exchange Commission squeeze out of Wall Street banks for their misdeeds during the housing bubble into a general account with the U.S. Treasury, President Clinton said at the annual Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) on Monday that the money should be put into a national infrastructure bank to support investment in renewable energy and other critical capital projects.
Clinton recommended that if fines paid by Wall Street went to an infrastructure bank instead of a general Treasury account, it could be both good public relations for the financial services industry and a much-needed start-up investment in renewable energies like solar power.
The comments addressed both Clinton's perspective on how the nation's financial services sector could improve its image five years after the financial crisis and his concern about a lack of investment that continues to overhang a tepid U.S. economic recovery.
"That's the way we ought be thinking," Clinton said of his hypothetical.
The idea, while unlikely to be carried out, is on the minds of taxpayers.
Earlier in November, U.S. attorney Preet Bharara was pressed by reporters on where the DoJ would put $1.2 billion in funds it won as part of a guilty plea by hedge fund SAC Capital Advisors for a host of insider trading violations. Bharara noted that funds would be put into a general Treasury account; a standard.
Using Wall Street settlements and fines to invest in innovations like renewable energy could also prove to be a more palatable way for the ordinary American to understand a lack of prosecutions of top financial services executives in the wake of the crisis.
At least, tens of billions in settlements would be invested into tangible projects that lack financing and not into government bureaucracy.
If major financial firms are in fact "too big to jail," a notion U.S. attorney Bharara rejected when unveiling SAC Capital's guilty pleas, a better channeling of investment could be more popular.
Is Wall Street too big to jail?
We are likely to find out any time soon. The DoJ continues to investigate SAC Capital and prosecute traders of the once-mighty hedge fund. The big question is whether founder Steven A. Cohen will be implicated in the U.S. attorney and FBI's multi-year insider trading probe. Currently, Cohen has not been accused of wrongdoing.
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In the December Viewpoint I referenced the way that radio as an industry can ensure that digital radio is accepted and used by listeners. I basically said that every radio receiver needs to be a digital radio receiver; The consumer shouldn't have to choose between analog or digital radios. If they're all digital, the debate ends.
We're obviously not at that stage yet. What surprised me is that I received many comments countering that radio's future success is not reliant on digital radio, but rather on improving the programming choices being offered. One typical letter is in the Reader Feedback section of this issue on page 60.
A common theme focused on the current homogenous radio formats as the cause of radio listener erosion. Many of the comments long for the heyday of radio with big-name jocks and varied playlists, and note that installing digital transmission equipment will not help bring listeners back to terrestrial radio.
Let me start by clarifying one point. I never said that digital radio — whether it's HD Radio, FM Extra, DRM or any other system — on its own will fix radio. I offered the "do nothing" litmus test as a measure of the success of a digital radio roll-out. The purpose of digital radio has never been to apply a simple fix to radio broadcasting.
It's puzzling that the comments pit digital radio vs. content as an either-or choice. They are separate issues, and there's no reason to choose one or the other. We should pursue both. By developing and implementing a digital terrestrial transmission system, stations can offer enhanced services to listeners. These enhancements will allow terrestrial radio to keep up with other digital media technologies already in place.
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How close are the Royals to the Tigers?
General manager Dayton Moore is on the verge of a trade that could change the fate of the organization for at least the next seven years. Â If you are reading the tea leaves he has received a message from ownership to either win this year or face the possibility of losing his job. Â With that possible fate Dayton Moore is doing what most people would in similar situation, he's trying to make a drastic move that will help him in the short-term. Â Unfortunately he's not looking at reality in the short-term either.
If his only goal is to get over .500 then yes adding Jon Lester or James Shields should get the Royals close to achieving that goal. Â If his job is to win a division or compete for a playoff spot then I think he'll still be quite far away from the 2012 division winning Detroit Tigers. Â Just compare.
#1 Justin Verlander Last 3 yrs rWAR (6.67)
#2 Max Scherzer (2.7)
#3 Doug Fister (2.7)
#4 Drew Smyly(1.5 WAR only 2013)
#5 Rick Porcello (0.4)
If the Tigers add no one their rotation appears to be a 14 brWAR rotation just based on the last three seasons.
In comparison the Royals rotation would look something like this.
James Shields (1.7) or Jon Lester (3.1)
Ervin Santana (1.2)
Jeremy Guthrie (2.3)
Bruce Chen (1.4)
Luis Mendoza (1.3 2012)
Depending on which starter the Royals sign they look to be anywhere from a 8-10 brWAR rotation. Â That number is giving plenty of benefits to Lester, Chen and Santana for their '10-11 seasons while also giving Mendoza credit for what looked like a change last season. Â This rotation could very well be a 5 WAR rotation if things go badly.
If you don't like WAR I'm sure old school numbers will show a similar disparity.
Just on paper (yes former players and coaches I know you "play the game on the field") the Tigers rotation is significantly better.
The Royals make up some of that gap in the bullpen and on defense but the Tigers with the additions of Torii Hunter and Victor Martinez easily out gain them in the hitting department. Â The Royals could get close if everything went perfect with a couple MVP seasons out of Sal Perez, Eric Hosmer or Mike Moustakas while Franceour returns to past solid seasons along with Butler and Gordon hitting like they have the past couple of seasons. Â That is quite a bit to ask for from young and inconsistent talent.
The Royals should be more concerned about just getting better in 2013, answering questions of what they have in Moose, Hos, Myers, Cain and trying to find out if they can get to .500 with the current roster. Â If they are 100% committed to acquiring a starter then I'll give a list tomorrow of pitchers they should be interested in that wouldn't cost them a possible right-field star.
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The Royals franchise could look very different if just one or two prospects make a move to the rotation and they have pieces that could find a way there in Lamb, Odorizzi, Ventura and Will Smith.
Hell if Paulino and Duffy just bounceback a rotation of Guthrie, Paulino mix of '10&'11 and Duffy is significantly better than what they had last year.
Clint I couldnt agree more with this. there are just to many question marks on this team to think that one Ace pitcher is going to get us to the playoffs. GMDM gave us 6 years of talking about the process and I can't believe that trading young controlable players for 2 years of good pitching to possibly make a run prior to even breaking .500 is not what I thought was the "Process". I will be looking forward to your breakdown of possible pitching targets.
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I live in agribiz central, the home of Archer Daniels Midland and Tate & Lyle North America. ADM mills cottonseed and sells it through independent dealers, many of which are local farmers. I'd seen where John in St Jo, Missouri, has used this and really, really likes it. Has anyone else tried it? If so, do they have to be ground up, or can the unground hulls be used?
So, I'm browing the dealer list and find one that's located on my daily commute. I check their website, and recognize the name.....the farmer's wife works at my company!! Small world. She's checking into availability and pricing for me.
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- Posted by karl_bapst_rosenut 5a, NW Indiana (email@example.com) on Wed, Oct 6, 10 at 19:54
I don't know how big the hulls are but as a mulch I think size doesn't matter. Used as a soil amendment I would think you'd want them ground up. |
I use lots of cottonseed meal (ground-up hulls?) as top dressing around my azaleas, rhododendrons and boxwood. Occasionally, I incorporate it as a soil amendment in my rosebeds. Cottonseed meal is an acidifying agent, so you might want to determine the pH of the soil in your beds before using it. |
Years ago I wasn't happy with the growth of my modern roses so I decided to first grow stronger bushes and then worry about the size of the blooms on them. So...I ignored the organic fertilizer components that were supposed to make bigger blooms and put several cups of cottonseed meal on each rose and half a cup of blood meal (quick N start in the spring.) By midsummer, I had much larger and stronger canes than in previous years....and the bloom were improved as well. The one thing to watch for (depending on the quality of your help) is not to pour them right over the bud union, but to work them into the soil and make sure that they either get good rainfall or that you irrigate them. That fall, I found where my helper had just dumped some on some other roses, and the irrigation system was underneath the hulls, and it had been a dry summer, and the hulls hadn't broken down at all. |
- Posted by flaurabunda 5b (My Page) on Thu, Oct 7, 10 at 9:47
Thanks--- Yes, I do need the acidifying qualities. My soil, before doing anything else to it but digging, is alkaline. I had to do a couple of applications of ammonium sulfate this spring before planting. Interesting that I heard of RFD-TV the other day that this problem is becoming more & more common as a result of cleaner air. We used to get sulfur for free from pollution-caused acid rain. Now we're all having to add sulfur back in. I'm hoping that it's a little less painful to get stuck in my crocs while working in the beds. I love the look of wood mulch, but I'm tired of having shards of wood in my shoes. |
Cottonseed or cottonseed hulls? Two different things--one an amendement for better soil tilth and texture, one a slightly acidifying fertilizer The hulls are light and fluffy. If you can compost them and then dig them into your soil you will really improve your soil. They are too light and fluffy to be mulch--the wind can blow them away pretty quickly--at least here that happens. Really good stuff for the soil, though--I envy your availability. The seed is heavier and is used as an organic fertilizer. I think they squeeze out the valuable oil, and the seeds are the leftovers from that sold as fertilizer. Good stuff too! |
- Posted by flaurabunda 5b (My Page) on Thu, Oct 7, 10 at 15:51
It's the hulls that I'm getting. They are milled like soybeans, corn, etc by crushing & separating the seed from the hull. The seeds have the oil extracted, and the hulls become feed by-product for livestock when pastures don't provide enough fiber. There are 3 main forms: the seed, the hull, and pelletized hulls. My daddy & my daddy's daddy worked in the mills here their entire lives. :) The hulls are, as you said, a very good acidifying fertilizer that also boost nitrogen when used in compost. However, I did a lot of reading outside of this forum regarding their use as a compost material. Apparently, when they are wet down, they form a mass & will not blow away. I saw a lot regarding their use in bonsai, but wondered if anyone other than John had played around with them in the rosebeds. I'm at least going to try it & I'll let you all know how I like it. |
Apparently, when they are wet down, they form a mass & will not blow away. That's the difference between there and here...here nothing stays wet very long. 15" of rain per year makes for a lot of blowing rice hulls. I used to get a product called "Topper" which was for a long time mostly composted rice hulls. It was wonderful stuff for the soil. But they stopped putting rice hulls in "Topper", and it's not as good now. |
- Posted by Pat(firstname.lastname@example.com) onWed, Mar 2, 11 at 15:18
I had great success with using cottonseed hulls for mulch in my flower beds for 15 years while living in OK. Now, I live in NC and cannot find a source for cottonseed hulls. Any help? |
- Posted by mike_rivers z5 MI (My Page) on Wed, Mar 2, 11 at 19:58
Flaurabunda, you should read Hoovb's first post again. It's the seed or the meal made from the seed that is a good fertilizer and also mildly acidifying. The hulls, on the other hand, are essentially worthless as a fertilizer (The National Cottonseed Products Association lists the NPK value of hulls as 0.62/0.14/1.00) and have essentially no effect on soil pH. |
- Posted by flaurabunda 5b (My Page) on Thu, Mar 3, 11 at 14:56
Not a problem---I still used them last fall as a top dressing for a new rose bed I'll be planting this spring. They stayed in place all winter long and the bed still looks spectacular. Kept me from having a big, muddy splotch in the backyard all winter. |
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Every few months, as another Opec meeting rolls into view, a flurry of stories about comments from member states makes its way into the news.
Any time a journalist gets near an Opec member's oil minister, they pop the question about what the next decision on production quotas might be. Ministers usually oblige with some sort of reply, either about their own views on what Opec policy should be, or what they think the cartel will actually decide.
My colleagues Carola Hoyos and Javier Blas, who've been to dozens of Opec meetings between them, generally pay little attention. All those comments in the preceding weeks count for nothing in the meeting itself, which is when the ministers thrash out a decision. Some of the comments are deliberate red herrings. Other times, they just reflect the country's position within Opec.
Saudi oil minister Ali al-Naimi, however, is a slightly different kettle of fish. Members take turns holding the presidency of Opec, but Naimi is its de facto chief, because his country not only holds the biggest oil producing capacity but is the most enthusiastic Opec member – it adheres to quota reductions and sometimes even takes a bigger share of reductions, to offset the effect of those members who 'cheat' and produce above their quota levels.
Saudi Arabia is also a big swing producer – in otherwords, it tries to keep a significant amount of spare capacity. At the moment it says it has in the region of 2m barrels per day of spare capacity, and another 2.5m in development.
Morgan Downey says however Saudi's case has been weakened by last year's oil price spike. This is his guide to speaking Opec:
OPEC: Speculators are causing higher prices.
Means: OPEC wants, needs and causes higher prices by cutting output and creating an oil supply deficit. OPEC is the only group of oil producers with spare production capacity and has co-ordinated control of over 40% of global oil output – currently worth around US$3 billion per day, or US$90 billion per month.OPEC: We think prices at US$70-US$80 are fair.
Means: OPEC will not increase oil production until oil trades above US$90 per barrel. OPEC members' target is US$70-$80, which means OPEC will increase production when oil trades above this range (perhaps to US$85-$95) to allow for some slippage. OPEC members do not want to encourage consumer efficiency or risk another recession with US$100+ oil, which is a psychologically important level for oil consumers.OPEC: We cannot find buyers for our oil.
Means: OPEC members almost can't believe consumers are buying this line…but it actually worked when oil traded above US$100 last year because OPEC members had run out of spare capacity and were unable increase production.OPEC: We do not want to increase production while OECD inventories are at record highs.
Means: Don't look at non-OECD inventories which are falling due to rapid demand growth in the developing world. Why do you think oil has risen from US$32 to US$80 over the past 10 months? If OPEC can keep consumers focussed on OECD inventories this allows OPEC to blame speculators and say "OECD inventories are high…it can only be speculators bidding oil prices up."OPEC: Floating storage of oil is at record highs.
Means: It used to be that floating tankers were expensive and only used for storage when land-based tanks were full. Now these floating tanker owners are in such a bad way with a glut of tankers available that they are directly competing with land-based storage even though there is plenty of land based storage available. OPEC needs to point to any full barrel or container as an excuse not to increase production.OPEC: We have almost 6 million bpd spare capacity.
Means: OPEC members have 2.5 million barrels per day (bpd) of spare capacity. The global oil consumer called OPEC members' stated spare capacity bluff in 2008.
Related links:
Oil demand peaksin the developed world, but natural gas comes into play (FT Energy Source, 27/10/09)
More gloom about oil prices and the recovery (FT Energy Source, 27/10/09)
Opec still has storage concerns (FT Energy Source)


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If it ain't broke, don't tear it down and build condos
The planned redevelopment of Capitol Hill's signature Bauhaus block highlights the need for more control over the life and death of Seattle's street life.
Having just returned from working away from Seattle, it feels good to be back. One of the pleasures of extended stays abroad is experiencing our home city with fresh eyes. But reentry this time was marred by news that the Bauhaus Block on Capitol Hill is to be developed, with only the building's façade to be left.
This bit of news raises a larger question about the city's role in development. Does the city of Seattle have a responsibility to protect small businesses, popular culture, and the vitality of its street life? Or should it only be responsible for upholding the 'rights' of developers?
For decades here in Seattle, through mayor after mayor, the litany has been the same — if 'we' don't give developers what they want, they'll go elsewhere. It's quite difficult to know whether this dictum is true, since the opposite strategy has so rarely been tried here, but looking around the city it's easy to see what this trend has cost Seattle: Its vaunted quality of life, its standing as a 'green' city, and its general appearance.
For some time now, and for a variety of reasons, Capitol Hill has been an attractive center for young people as a place to shop, dine, and live.
Of late, it's not just young people who have been so attracted, but so have developers. A plethora of perfectly viable, even interesting buildings have been torn down, the people living in them and the retail establishments at street level sent packing.
Almost without exception, for-lease signs rather than new businesses have filled the shiny new windows of the much taller buildings built in their place. These signs tend to stay for a long time and pitifully few takers step up to fill these spiffed-up spaces. For months and years, many have remained empty — an apparently tolerated and even expected write-off against the healthy profits engendered by the living quarters above.
No doubt the economic slowdown is partly responsible for the high vacancy rate of new retail spaces, but this pattern began long before the local economy took a nose-dive. Supporters of this new surge in development would likely argue that if a developer wants to demand high enough rent for retail spaces that they price themselves out of their own market, it's their business — and their problem.
But it becomes all of our business when the street life of Seattle suffers. People are attracted to urban neighborhoods the world over for their diversity; for the variety of opportunites to spend time and often money. With that attraction comes greater density and enough people to keep those ground floor establishments in business.
Density in attractive neighborhoods in cities like LA, NY, Chicago, Paris, London, Bologna, Stockholm, and Vancouver, is often much higher then in Seattle and yet is accomplished without the wholesale clearance of existing buildings and the tenants above and the shops below. Maintaining a healthy and appealing mix of old and new, fancy and funky, those well-off and less so, has long been a formula for keeping people living in and coming to those neighborhoods to shop, dine, and be entertained.
In Capitol Hill (and in South Lake Union), the developer-driven approach is very obviously creating a different mix and a very different reality. Up above the newly expensive retail, building after building features several stories of mediocre or just plain bad design.
Often now 'articulated,' the facades pretend that a block-long building is really a bunch of smaller ones (which often it was). A hodge-podge of materials is appliqued — corrugated metal, brick veneer, ersatz stucco, wood — sometimes all in the same building. The colors are frequently a weak pastel or some other sea-sick palette. Most all of these tawdry new buildings look as if they came from the same easy-to-use computer program.
Looking more closely at the Bauhaus block brings up other issues too. Currently, the buildings on Pine between Bellevue and Melrose offer potential customers Mud Bay, Edies, Le Frock, Wall of Sound, Spice and Crown, Scout, Vutique, and the Bauhaus café. We don't live there or even nearby and yet have for years bought books, clothes, and music (at the utterly fabulous Wall of Sound) on the block, often punctuated with a cafe at the venerable Bauhaus. Our porch sports two vintage steel chairs from Kansas bought there long ago.
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Posted Wed, Apr 25, 10:18 a.m.
As a longtime Capitol Hill resident and regular customer at Bauhaus (and LeFrock), I see this development scheme as nothing less than a blight on my neighborhood. It will undoubtedly have the effect of lowering the quality of life there. But because there seems to be no regulatory or governmental means of pushing back against such predatory, neighborhood-busting practices, our only hope--I guess--is for the 'invisible hand' to work even more of its black magic in the marketplace. I mean, we've gotta pray for another financial meltdown that will stop this development in its tracks. (See what happened to B & O Espresso, whose building was supposed to be torn down several years ago, but has had its lifetime prolonged by the effects of the 'Great Recession.') Maybe the election of a Socialist French president will start the dominos falling..?
Posted Wed, Apr 25, 10:55 a.m.
Amen, cocktails! And kudos to the writer for pointing out the obvious. The secondary effect, alluded to in this piece is that since the neighborhood boasts lively and flourishing businesses, it's become desirable to developers. Developers will move in and build the ugly and soon-to-be-under reconstruction buildings. Those buildings will have higher rents and retail at street level, also at higher rents. The result will be, as the writer notes, empty storefronts. The other result, that I tnink the writer misses, is that if this contagion spreads to the whole neighborhood, as seems likely, everything that makes it lively and flourishing now will move elsewhere. The lively and flourishing neighborhoods tend to develop where rents are affordable and where creative business people make charming and useful businesses that appeal to their neighbors. When you have soulless and ugly condos with big mortgages and the added monthly HOA fees, not only do the former businesses flee, but so does their customer base. Both priced out of their places. I find S. Lake Union, the latest example, quite soulless and filled with places I'm not interested in visiting. I'm sure the residents don't mind that, but for me, it's another part of my city that has made it plain that I am not wanted. Sad. The end result of this density mania will be a balkanization of our neighborhoods such that one will not be allowed, or able, to visit other neighborhoods. And since the newly built neighborhoods will be assemblages of cube hells, why would we want to visit? I don't know who will want to live like that, but it doesn't excite me.
Posted Wed, Apr 25, 11:05 a.m.
The Fels's affection for Capitol Hill informs their questions of how the texture of a city can change before our eyes with little resistance from the local population. Their article warns Seattleites not to sleepwalk through the cityscape as the colorful neighborhood landmarks disappear. They alert us to what we relinquish as citizens when we capitulate to the idea of inevitable development on terms dictated only by financial considerations. Both writers should themselves be considered regional treasures. They are inspiring, courageous, original thinkers who invite us into a dialogue about how we live in the modern world. They have no easy answers, but instead focus on asking difficult questions about the process of living in community, bringing to the table their deep understanding of art, architecture, history, global politics, and economics. We might consider their approach a guide for 21st century living. For further inspiration I suggest Crosscut readers check out Don Fels' site and view the 2009 Emmy-award KBCT documentary on his work. Thank you Crosscut for providing us with such thought-provoking writing.
Posted Wed, Apr 25, 11:13 a.m.
Eloquent statement about the fading quality of life in Seattle. Yes, all to often land use decisions impacting the city for generations are left to the "highest bidder" and a developers sense of the market place. One only need look at the demise of Pioneer Square to see what happens when landlords push aggressively for the highest and quickest return on their investment. Pioneer Square has basically been flushed of most of the tenants that made the district interesting. There a few pockets here and there still PSquare but s neighborhood that took decades to build up was undone seemingly overnight. To often the public is only concerned with their neighborhood not sensing that one happens there will eventually happen here.
Look at how few rallied to save Seattle's last downtown hardware store, the very last place to buy nails and hammers and glue guns, etc....when the PDA evicted from the Pike Place Market Rainier Hardware? Anyone?
They were replaced by an expanded version of Market Optical, one of Seattle's more expensive and exclusive eyeglass frame shops. In my opinion the market is not a good example of the power of regulation to forestall the wrecking ball or even gentrification. Practices in the market are so far from original intent that the market charter is basically hidden from the public, land-use meetings are rarely publicized, tenants have little if any support. Even the best intended regulation will be subverted.
Direct action, including rallies, protests, boycotts and the like appears to be the only hope for persevering. Anything else and you just end up in a contained "free speech zone", mired in red tape. Or you end up with unintended consequences like the 619 Western Building protest where citizen outcry led to the saving of a marginal building but not the artists whose studios made up 100% of the building occupants. They were evicted on short notice. The regulations that have led to the demise of so much of the important to pedestrian life buildings on capitol Hill came about as the end result of an exasperated business community that was dying on the vine, street people seemingly having taken over the Broadway business district of that era. Remember when Safeway left? So the Broadway/Capitol Hill business groups rescinded the controls that kept Broadway and Capitol Hill construction human scale. Builders were left to fill in 100% of the site footprint, no setbacks required. The thinking was greater density would overwhelm the street people problem....and to some degree that has worked. Much of Broadway and Capitol Hill si a raving success from a business point of view. But the Bas Haus block isn't the only egregious example of choosing developers dollars over neighborhood values. Look at the way the convention center has cut off Capitol Hill from downtown, even blocking the view of the Pike Place Market! And they getting ready to expand again! Notice buildings creeping into the view corridor along Lake Union. Anyone notice that Deluxe Junk, a 3 decade tenant of the Fremont district, was given 60 day notice. The owners have caved in, they rallied for a while but the hand writings on the wall, the quality of Seattle's neighborhoods and thus the quality of life in general, goes to the highest bidder. And that my friends is that.
Posted Wed, Apr 25, 11:38 a.m.
I note that one of Queen Anne's most beloved and best patronized coffee shops is in a four story 1990s building of no particular merit. The essence of the Bauhaus is not the building (at least I hope not); it is or should be the character of the space, the furniture, the proprietors, the customers and whatever hangs on the walls. The implied argument that satisfying and successful entities like the Bauhaus cannot function in commodity buildings is clearly wrong; see Manhatten, South of Market, or countless businesses in our own downtown. The seeds of this protest were planted over years of low rent, subsidized by an owner who was paying taxes based on a high market valuation; then said owner opts to develop his property to something like the envelope the City of Seattle has ordained. The rent subsidy will then disappear or at least be interrupted for several years. The protesters seek to make this a clash of values. I have to ask whose values? what's the alternative, City seizes land, saves coffee shop?
Posted Wed, Apr 25, 2:41 p.m.
In 1961 Jane Jacobs argued for neighborhoods with a mix of older buildings, including some run-down buildings, for economic reasons. She pointed out that odd ethnic restaurants, bookstores, unusual galleries, etc., could not survive in new construction because the price for space in new buildings was too high. She noted that shopping malls all have chain stores because those are the only kinds of stores that can afford the cost of new construction. The changes in Capitol Hill likely reflect the same forces at work--new construction may prove too expensive for the kinds of places that could survive in the lower rents of older buildings.
The difficulty of protecting the character of areas in Seattle like Capitol Hill is exacerbated because Washington State has a history of protecting private property rights and the State Supreme Court has made decisions to support the rights of private owners. As a result, in Seattle, public officials have very little discretion in approving or rejecting land use applications. Whatever is not prohibited by the Land Use Code (and Zoning) is what is allowed. Zoning is a very blunt tool. (Landmark legislation was written to protect specific buildings of unusual merit, but is not really aimed at the nuances of neighborhood character.)
It is actually quite difficult to write land use legislation that addresses specific sites such as Bauhaus or that protects neighborhood character. Whereas the legal system in some places (for example, Boston MA) allows public officials discretion in making land use decisions, and therefore in addressing neighborhood character, under Washington State law there is little or no discretion. Something like "neighborhood character" can only be protected if it can be put into explicit legal language. This is why design review is often ameliorative, but rarely, if ever, addresses fundamental concerns like numbers of parking spaces, height, bulk, etc., that are already set by ordinance.
Further, the Comprehensive Plan and/or the Neighborhood Plans that feed into the Comp Plan may speak to neighborhood character, but Washington State courts have held that the Comprehensive Plan presents guidelines only and is not considered authoritative when specific land use decisions are rendered. For the Comprehensive Plan and/or Neighborhood Plans to be effective in protecting neighborhoods, their language must be transformed into specific legal protections that are incorporated in the Land Use Code.
Finally, the pressure for redevelopment of sites such as Bauhaus Books ultimately comes from the Growth Management Act which mandated that cities, such as Seattle, accept growth. Seattle opted to concentrate growth in neighborhood centers that could be served by transit--this is a reasonable choice. This approach was embodied in the city's zoning ordinance. When a site like Bauhaus Books is zoned for additional height, its value (a reflection of development potential) is effectively increased, and the pressure for redevelopment follows.
Until Seattle finds a way to write land use ordinances that protect neighborhood character and can be approved and enforced within the framework established by Washington State court decisions, places like Capitol Hill and sites like Bauhaus books will remain vulnerable.
Posted Wed, Apr 25, 3:49 p.m.
"...I'm sure the residents don't mind that, but for me, it's another part of my city that has made it plain that I am not wanted..."
Which is why I now live in Bellingham...
Posted Wed, Apr 25, 4:10 p.m.
When a megaquake hits Seattle, an inevitability, what will happen to all of these "historic" buildings? Many will crumble and small businesses like Bauhaus will need find a new home...probably in one of the newer buildings built with some seismic protections. They might even enjoy lower utility bills in these new spaces as new building are also much more efficient.
If Bauhaus and others are truly successful small businesses, they will be able to survive a short move and a modest rise in rents. In fact, they will have planned for the scenario as any business must when operating in a facility they do not own. Would you move into a rental house without some sense of where you would go if the house was sold?
We need to come to grips with the fact that not every old building is of historic value. Some are just old, drafty, energy guzzling wrecks built in a time when we didn't value resources in the same way we do today. Hence, the reason we ditched the 5 MPG Impalas for much more efficient means of transport. The reason they are torn down is the cost to retrofit and rehabilitate the building far exceeds the cost of new construction.
Some might say, well, let's raise money to rehab this jewel of a building. Really!?! With the number of other social issues on the table - thousands of homeless on the street, subpar public schools, to name a few - we are spending our time and money trying to polish turds?!?
I don't get it.
Posted Wed, Apr 25, 5:57 p.m.
The problem with Mr. Oschsner's response, is the very problem with Seattle's response. The article doesn't call for a protection of neighborhood character. Rather it calls for a different approach to the GMA and density. It is not an abrogation of property rights or private property to ask something from developers in return for the right to go higher. The fact is that for decades the City of Seattle has caved into nearly all the demands of the developers. Just because it has done so, doesn't actually mean that is the only thing we can and should do. We can and should have density. But we shouldn't have to give up everything else as a result. Mr. James says there will be an earthquake in Seattle (and there will be)- but once again that is besides the point. Nobody is saying that all old buildings are great. But neither should we be saying that all new ones are. Nobody in fact knows how the new buildings will actually fare in a major quake. We don't need to pass the plate to save the Bauhaus, this is actually not about public expenditure of money. What it is about is whether developer greed should be allowed to determine the shape of the city. Seattle purports to be a different kind of city than those corrupt ones around the world. But the corruption here is of a different sort, wherein our officials don't challenge the status quo. The overdevelopment of the city is a problem. And problems always have solutions.
Posted Wed, Apr 25, 7:58 p.m.
Wendell Berry says it almost as well as the authors of this piece:
Posted Wed, Apr 25, 10:10 p.m.
I just want to say that I appreciate the thought and effort that is going into this discussion, as well as the civil and constructive tone. It seems rare these days... so thank you!
Posted Wed, Apr 25, 10:51 p.m.
"Why is it presumed to be 'green' or even okay to tear down sound buildings, old and stout, and send all that perfectly good material to the landfill? The cost to the environment of manufacturing, mining, and deforesting for new replacement materials is enormous and surely won't be justified by the short life-span of the new buildings, most all of which are designed to last only about two decades.
And what about the greening of culture? Why don't we have laws in place that factor in the existing use of a building and its contribution to our cultural richness? ...This is not progress."
And studiously avoided in the Seattle Climate Action Plan outlined by TAGs (technical advisory groups and presented to Council on Monday so as to advance to tightly orchestrated public participation over the summer. In the world at large, people lose their lives, gain little, yet continue to stand up to dictators and Chicago style economists. Here we cower in fear of green-washers branding us selfish. All but forgotten is that public participation is state law because public participants worthy of the phrase demanded it.
Oschner states the issue succinctly: "Whatever is not prohibited by the Land Use Code (and Zoning) is what is allowed." Then goes on to make excuses. Nobody said writing code was easy and it makes it harder if one focuses on accommodating those who demand "design freedoms" centered on upzones then complain about "things not penciling out." Elected officials wre once unbidden enough to know better. Elsewhere, unbidden or not, public officials are managing to know better again.
Today's Seattle Times notes that housing prices were up over last year in only five cities: Denver, Miami, Minneapolis, Detroit and Phoenix.
The first three, as Chuck feared, stole Seattle's message and advanced to zoning in context, e,g.: http://www.denvergov.org/planning/BlueprintDenver/tabid/431883/Default.aspx
Detroit, a case unto itself, fell to an unescapable bargain. Phoenix, I know little about.
Posted Thu, Apr 26, 4:06 p.m.
If you're interested in getting involved to push back on this development as well as fight for developmental restrictions and a community voice in development then check out the facebook page
and/or the twitter feed @XtianGunther
Posted Fri, Apr 27, 4:26 p.m.
The person who signed himself or herself "thoughts" wrote as follows: "The article doesn't call for a protection of neighborhood character. Rather it calls for a different approach to the GMA and density." QUESTION -- What is that approach? If the article is not calling for protecting neighborhood character, then what, exactly, is being sought?
"Thoughts" also wrote: "It is not an abrogation of property rights or private property to ask something from developers in return for the right to go higher." This statement would be true if the height legally allowed on the Bauhaus site was limited to the height of the building in which Bauhaus Books is located. However, zoning in this area allows more height. Therefore, under current law, and the history of litigation in Washington, the owner of the site already has the right to build taller. Unless some kind of legal provision such as Transfer of Development Rights is able to be applied to this site, it would "abrogate" the rights of the owner/developer to limit construction to less than what the current zoning allows. On the other hand, if the owner/developer is asking to exceed the height allowed under current zoning then it would be possible to "ask for something ... in return."
"Thoughts" also wrote: "The fact is that for decades the City of Seattle has caved into nearly all the demands of the developers." The blame here lies only partly with the City. The State of Washington, and specifically on the history of cases before the Washington State Supreme Court, sets the legal context in which the city must operate. This context is one that protects property owners and allows city officials almost no discretion.
"afreeman" writes: "Ochsner states the issue succinctly: 'Whatever is not prohibited by the Land Use Code (and Zoning) is what is allowed.' Then goes on to make excuses." I do not believe that I "make excuses." I do speak to the very real difficulties of advancing land use legislation to protect neighborhoods in the current legal context in this state. A neighborhood organization to which I belong has been involved in land use litigation and has worked on proposed land use code changes. In our experience, it's a very tough legal environment in which to try to protect neighborhoods from incompatible development.
Posted Tue, Feb 19, 2:41 p.m.
"There are a couple well-known Seattle-based 'historic preservationists' who in fact make good business out of representing developers who have bought older buildings. As enablers for the developers, they often nominate an existing building for landmark status, and then argue successfully why it shouldn't be preserved and should be torn down."
I was told recently that "historic preservationists" like these are just being "professionals." I do not agree with the comment, but an interesting take on this situation
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I am currently working on small projects in my home. My problem is that I have a closet in the master bedroom that is opposite the bathtub in the main bath. I have owned this home for 10 years and there is a smell that has always been a problem in the closet. In the bathroom is the tub, a linen closet and the water heater along the same wall as my closet. More recently the real problem is I have a cat who I can't get to stop urinating in the tub and the smell moves into the bedroom along with the previous smell. Is there anything I can use to block smells from one room into another? Please don't lecture me on the cat, He is 13-years old and a spotless litter box makes no difference and if I close the bathroom door he urinates somewhere else. Better to rinse than replace. Anyway, I would really like to eliminate the smells from the bathroom to my closet. I'm not sure where the original smell originates from unless it could be under the tub or due to the water heater, which can't be relocated. Any advice for the walls? |
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- Posted by hollysprings (My Page) on Sat, Apr 20, 13 at 13:40
The most likely culprit for smells next to a bathroom is mold from the water damage behind the walls due to a slow leak or a improperly waterproofed shower or tub/shower. The solution is not to attempt a bandaid. It's to find the source of the problem and fix it. That will mean ripping out walls or floors and isn't simple. I have a cat that does the same thing in our master shower. She's 17 though and just doesn't want to travel the 100 foot distance from the master to the litter box located in the utility room. We put a litter box in the master, and she used it, but it and the litter box "shakeoffs" got in our way. So we resigned ourself to living with cat pee in the drain in the shower. Frequent flushing of the drain with water will carry the urine through the pipes away from the drains. If you don't flush water through it, it collects in the P trap and will start to smell. A frequently used shower shouldn't really have this issue because the P trap is being flushed out. If your tub is infrequently used, take a couple of cleaned out milk jugs and fill with tap water and a couple of table spoons of baking soda and use that to pour down the drain several times a day. The reason I suggest that rather than just turning on the tub to flush it is the other water infiltration issue that you are dealing with. It could be coming from the drain, but it's most likely coming from the supply end, or from the shower not being adequately waterproof. |
You need to eliminate the source of the smell. Has the water heater been inspected? If it's not leaking and causing mold or mildew, it could have other problems like buildup of hard water residue which can smell funny when heated in the hot water tank. Cats urinate outside the box 99% of the time due to medical problems. I'm not "lecturing" but I do want you to be aware that cats generally seek out cool, smooth bathtubs when they experience burning pain when urinating, due to an infection, crystals or ideopathic urinary tract inflammation. If you feed your cat any dry food, eliminate the dry food and feed only wet food. Wet food is the only way to keep a cat properly hydrated - no cat can possibly drink enough water to compensate for eating dry food. Imagine eating dry cereal with no milk on it for every meal. Getting enough water into the diet will increase urination frequency and dilute the urine, reducing the chance of bacteria growing in it and crystals forming in it. BTW my cats are 19 and 18 years old and use the litter box consistently. They are fed a high moisture raw meat diet. To eliminate the smell in the drain, get an enzyme cleaner from the pet store meant for cat urine and pour it generously down the drain, allow to sit overnight before using the tub/shower. Bonus is the enzyme cleaner will help clean out other gunk from the drain without harming the environment or your pipes and leave the drain smelling fresh. (Works great for garbage disposals too) http://www.catinfo.org./?link=urinarytracthealth |
I will change his food. I guess even the high priced stuff can cause problems at times. As far as the bathroom goes, I have installed a new water heater twice in the past five years and no leaks were found. I have removed the sheetrock between the closet and the bathroom and the smell is still there. I mentioned the cat because everything I use in the tub to flush and clean it really smells strong in the bedroom too. While it would make sense that this is due to some missing sheetrock, I did not remove the cement board surrounding the tub so there is still substantial wall between the two. When you say waterproofed what exactly does that mean? I am trying to do as much as I can myself simply because I have spent so much on repairs elsewhere I just don't have money to keep hiring people. just had the house completely re-plumbed due to constant pipe breakage. Just in past month have had running water after a year and a half without. (Had to rent a house while trying to get all that done). Would I need to remove the tub completely to check for proper sealing? It is a very old cast iron job and sealed in on three sides. Thanks so much for the responses! |
A couple of other things I forgot are that this smell was here when I bought the house. I thought it was just old carpet--nope. I have removed all flooring in the entire house. Also my sweet kitty has done this since the first week we brought him home at 12 weeks of age. Vet said the kitties were probably box trained in a tub so he sees it as part of a litter box. But the part about eating dry cereal with no milk got to me. I have tried wet food with him several times and he just doesn't seem to like it but I'll give it another try. It's worth a try to maybe decrease the smell. I did try one of those electric self-scooping boxes but he is so big he went too much and it kept locking up. Now they put a weight limit on them, which him being a Ragdoll, he is too large for them He did go in it as long as it lasted. Sure wish they'd increase the size of those. Lol. I'm thinking I may tear out the little closet that is between the tub and the water heater and see what's going on there. Everything is built in-no premade cabinets in this old house so they are difficult to remove--especially in the limited space. Also, GREAT suggestion on the enzyme cleaner. Will head to town tomorrow to get some. Has anyone heard of the Odoban products? I was wondering if using it on the wood framework before putting the sheetrock back up would seal in any smell that may be hiding in the wood. I just don't see me tearing down studs. |
- Posted by SouthernCanuck (My Page) on Sun, Apr 21, 13 at 10:34
You say, A couple of other things I forgot are that this smell was here when I bought the house I would be interested to know the location of your vent line, a small leak would tend to manifest itself in some of the odors you describe. |
I really wonder about leaks in the tub drain, the smell should wash away when you flush water down there. It could be some slow leaking around the drain causing mildew and smells under the tub and in the walls. Can you replace the tub drain pipe, or at least the drain flange? |
For the cat diet change, try a raw frozen or freeze dried (you just add water at meal time) diet. Stella and Chewy's is a good one. One of my cats never liked canned food but when I switched them to raw 8 years ago he liked it fine. I make home made as it's best quality and also less expensive than buying the premade stuff, but to try it out you can buy it at most pet stores and online. I use a recipe similar to Dr Pierson's on that website. |
I was wondering about the vent stack too. It would make no sense that the cat urine going down the drain should cause a smell. In my opinion the tub drain would be a perfect place for a cat to pee :) It is washed down the drain and away. I am not a plumber but I know that vent stacks are hidden in walls and maybe yours could be cracked. There is only air to go through the stack, so if cracked you wouldn't have any visible sign. |
- Posted by grandmaof3 (My Page) on Sun, Apr 21, 13 at 16:17
I was going to ask also, how often do you use the tub? Maybe the water has desolved out of the trap and that lets sewer gas (odor) come up through the stopper. Pour water and maybe cloryx down the drain and see if the smell goes away.....then make sure water goes down the drain every week or so. |
- Posted by Renovator8 (My Page) on Thu, Apr 25, 13 at 10:07
In addition to leaks, an improperly vented sink or tub trap would cause odors. So would a blocked vent stack. Look for a birds nest before tearing the house up. |
I attributed the endlessly stinky bathroom in a rental I owned to the five co-eds sharing it. When they moved and I gutted the room, the plumber found the vent terminated in the wall--never even went to the roof. As above, check the vent first. |
Some cats see a hole and use it. Be glad it's not the kitchen sink. I think a cat using a drain is quite civilized! If the smell is cat pee, you know it. Nothing smells like that (except maybe boxwood). |
Actually some types of mold smell like cat pee, which is why a leak is a possibility as well. Juniper bushes, too! |
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Juniper bushes smell like cat pee because cats love to pee on them, as well as the tires of my truck! I love when someone comes here, asks a question and then disappears, usually new members that forgot where the site is or lost password. |
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When the willows sway in South Barrington, the evangelical world notices. So Willow Creek Community Church provoked headlines in 2006 when leaders said they would end Axis as everyone knew it. As recently as 2001, about 2,000 young adults had gathered on Saturday nights for alternative music and relevant teaching. But before temporarily closing in 2006, Axis attracted fewer than 400 twenty-somethings. How could a trend-setting ministry decline so severely in just five years?
Due in no small part to Willow's example, ministry leaders across the country once viewed separate, age-targeted services as the key to reaching a generation largely absent from the churches built by their Boomer parents. Little more than 10 years after Willow launched Axis in 1996, many of these once-prosperous twenty-something ministries have folded, spun off, or morphed. Leaders from these ministries have learned differing lessons from the experiment. Some are now advocating new messages for reaching the emerging generation. Others have changed their ministry's structure. Still more want better biblical preaching and radical discipleship. All have been provoked to think deeply about the nature and implications of the gospel and have seen their ministries leave lasting effects on the larger church.
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Only one thing surprised Dan Kimball about the Axis reorganization: it took 10 years. Kimball, who teaches and oversees the Sunday gatherings for Vintage Faith Church in Santa Cruz, California, has tracked many young adult ministries over the years. He estimates that 90 percent of worship services targeting a younger generation run into serious trouble after three years. One factor is the way these age-specific ministries isolate young people from the rest of the church.
He talked to Axis leaders, including Nancy Ortberg, for his 2004 book Emerging Worship. Ortberg told him that the Axis staff interacted little with other Willow Creek leaders. As Axis participants aged, few connected with other Willow Creek ministries. Trouble was brewing. Kimball questioned whether a ministry based on generational preferences could long survive.
"If we are talking about a mindset, then to make someone switch to another approach to spiritual formation and worship when they reach a certain age is a difficult undertaking," Kimball wrote in Emerging Worship. "It would be like birthing a Korean worship service that uses Korean language, Korean music, and a Korean mindset in all their communications, and then—when they reach a certain age—telling them they can't worship as Koreans anymore."
Kimball learned this lesson the hard way. In the mid-1990s he served as the young adults pastor at Santa Cruz Bible Church where he began experimenting with a new worship gathering. He darkened the room, arranged the chairs, lit candles, and served coffee. While these moves seem cliché today, they were radical for the time. Within a few years, Kimball's experiment had become the church's largest worship gathering. Then the questions started. When will the twenty-somethings start coming to "normal" church?
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