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The culture wars are over. They lost.
That's it. That's exactly the sort of thing you need to keep saying.
Keep telling Australians that criticising neoconservatism is an attack on capitalism.
Keep saying that standing for nothing means asking why the Liberal and Republican parties dodge scrutiny and won't discuss hard policy.
And please – PLEASE – continue to sneer at the union movement for not accepting serfdom.
@Sancho I wasn't sneering at the unions. Unionists, as distinct from corrupt union officials and Labor politicians who use them as cannon and ballot box fodder, are productive. My point was that they, unlike Leftist academics and hangers on understand that they need capitalists for jobs and a decent life, so there's a limit to their toleration of nihilistic discontents whose hatred of capitalism would consign them to serfdom.
@John Dawson
Ah yes. The academics.
You also have my sincere encouragement to take the Republican cue and attack people like Nate Silver, on the grounds that mathematics and data analysis are a dark sorcery intended to mislead the faithful.
I rather like the idea of a "Wheel Tax".
We 'winners' could sell it by calling it a "Great Big New Wheel Tax". All wheels would be taxed. That way we could all go back to the dark ages, or better still somewhere even more dark and even more aged.
Under a Great Big New Wheel Tax all injustice in the world would be removed because the capitalist world can only operate with Wheels. Once we collectively organise to tax the Koch brother's Wheels so heavily that they stop being capitalists we can move on to small business owners and tax the wheels on their delivery bicycles so that they can no longer purvey their life-sucking evil small business model on the humble people who just want a bottle of milk or half a dozen eggs (Wheel free, of course).
Then, when we have successfully transferred all that Wheel-based wealth down to the shifty Wheel-less people we can start to build a new world. A world without Wheels. A world where rich people have to slave away for long hours and little pay in dangerous conditions just to ensure that we, the 99%, live a life of Wheel-less luxury sneering at them for wanting what we have.
Hang on, that doesn't make any sense. I'll have to start again on my Great Big New Wheel Tax theory…
The Kochs inherited their wheels and couldn't build one to save themselves, let alone a road to roll it down.
What the US election revealed is that most Americans don't mind if the Kochs have to release a bit of their wheel overstock to help out the people who were left without wheels when Wall Street destroyed the wheel industry by selling hollow rusty wheels advertised as AAA-rated chrome wheels, which promptly fell apart when relied upon for rolling anything.
Then the people with few wheels were forced to give up some of their wheels to bail out the Wall Street wheel crashers, who used the wheels to award themselves generous bonus wheels and go right back to selling shonky wheels.
We could go on rephrasing the facts that everyone but the right has wised up to, but this wheel thing is truly the most stupid analogy for anything ever. Next time try ponies.
Since we've probably got another 24 hours or so of schadenfreude, as indicated by this thread's title, before Obama does something disappointing, here's a little something I feel like sharing with the John Dawsons of this world: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48H34ukFe8g
Hmmm, "Great Big New Pony Tax" has a bit of a ring to it, but it might backfire – some people like ponies, but everyone knows only successful and intelligent hard-working people like Wheels.
Communists and Socialists and Leftists hate Wheels.
I've even seen them forcing their suffering ponies to drag around drays with wasteful, inefficient, arty post-modernist cubist square-shaped 'wheels'. Just to make their inefficient 'command-economy' point.
Is David Brooks conceding defeat, at least in one of the myths that Republicans spread about Obama's suppporters, in this article?
He writes
"But, each year, there are more Americans whose cultural roots lie elsewhere. Each year, there are more people from different cultures, with different attitudes toward authority, different attitudes about individualism, different ideas about what makes people enterprising.
More important, people in these groups are facing problems not captured by the fundamental Republican equation: more government = less vitality.
The Pew Research Center does excellent research on Asian-American and Hispanic values. Two findings jump out. First, people in these groups have an awesome commitment to work. By most measures, members of these groups value industriousness more than whites.
Second, they are also tremendously appreciative of government. In survey after survey, they embrace the idea that some government programs can incite hard work, not undermine it; enhance opportunity, not crush it."
Hmmm, good call from Brooks – on this part of the article – the rest of it is the usual self-serving, discredited assumptions about their 'philosophy' and how it is the real American way. But the comments set him straight; the comments are very good; much better than the article.
Yes JT.
And it is worth noting that Brooks' assertion about Americans' attitude to government is based on an historical fallacy.
In fact, the economy of the US grew at its quickest in the 1940s to the mid 1960s when the highest marginal tax rate was 91% and never fell below 65%!
Instead of investing in one of the most rapid economic expansions in history, why weren't these American tax payers salting their wealth in Swiss bank accounts?
Notice how the moment you got the slightest pushback on your claims, you defaulted to shouting about communists instead of trying build a sensible supporting argument?
The point of this thread is that that won't work – in the US at least – because after four straight years of Republicans trying to associate social democracy with communism, Americans went to the polls and overwhelmingly voted Democrat.
Australia is a different story for lots of reasons, but between now and the federal election you're going to need some very good arguments to explain why Americans want their nation to be more like Australia than vice versa.
Never thought we'd see that sort of fact-facing honesty from Brooks, of all people. Hope and change, lawl.
S.L.A.P=Strategic Ligitation Against Protesters
No, it's S.L.A.P.P – "Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation".
six of one half a dozen of the other?
and i know my privilege quotient is not high when i can't even spell privilege.
green feudalism?
wow! that's up there with the comment of the person who said outright that they are a torturer calling a green MP "stasi"
What on earth does motivation have to do with the soundness tax and spend policies?
In any case, the US Federal Debt is almost the same percentage of GDP in 2012 as it was in 1945 (approx 100%).
You really need to think before your fingers engage the keyboard.
John Dawson :If we who believe in free markets for free minds lost, what exactly did you collectivists win? Cuba? Libia? Greece? The Aboriginal Gulag? Green Tasmania? Postmodern Nihilism?
Where is there a free market? Is it some tribal market day in the highlands of Papua New Guinea??? or a hippie-fest selling cakes at Nimbin?????
You cannot have a free market under capitalism because you always end up with a Microsoft at one end and wage slavery at the other.
Wage slavery is not freedom. Capitalism is the foundation of wage slavery.
@Chris Warren You know Chris just because your teachers or peers nod sagaciously at that sort of stupidity doesn't mean it makes any sense. Calling freedom or wages slavery doesn't make them slavery. Slaves can't walk off the job and go looking for better wages next door.
Under capitalism workers freely trade their time and talents and efforts for money which they then trade for the time and talents and effort and goods of someone else. The reason Bill Gates has a billion times more money to trade than you or I is that he has been a billion times more productive. But if you don't want to trade with him no one is forcing you to mow his lawns or buy his programs. If you decide you can't live as you would like without the goods that he has produced, that doesn't make him your slave master, it makes him your benefactor; and if he paid millions of workers to produce those goods, that doesn't make them slaves, he had to pay them better wages than they could get elsewhere otherwise they would have worked elsewhere.
Laissez faire capitalism is the system that bans force from economic transactions, be it imposed by individuals or organizations or governments, which makes it the system of liberty, which makes it the only moral system.
A Poe!
I suspected, but on the whole the recent "John Dawson" comments have struck just the right tone to seem sincere.
Like most Poe trolls, it came unstuck when you tried getting too much good material into one post. You should have spread the Bill Gates and "moral system" stuff out to avoid becoming a caricature.
A fine job none the less.
Over at right wing RedState the fraud of the Romney campaign is being discussed
"he has been a billion times more productive"
What total garbage John Dawson. One could only be more productive a billion fold to some one or thing that has only had 3 productive seconds in their life time. Wealth accumulations of Bill Gates calibre are immoral and I think that a good argument could be mounted for the state to confiscate his surplus down to the 5 billion dollar level, and redistributed to in the form of better education for the US public.
The problem with the Libertarian dream is that it is open ended. If Libertarians wanted to be taken more seriously they could propose a close ended system. ie flat taxation, user pays for everything but once personal wealth reaches, say, 5 million dollars anything above that is passed directly to government. That way you have total freedom up to the level of a very comfortable living, and all endeavours above that are pure sport.
People could even have the choice at the beginning of their working life to follow a Libertarian tax theme or a Keynsean tax theme. Freedom to choose. Now that would have to appeal to the Libertarian Alpha mind set. There would be real competition on a number of levels.
I offer two articles that count as post-mortems on the US Presidential campaign. I found both interesting (without necessarily endorsing every claim made. (This is particularly so of the Salon article but in the case of the Forbes article my browser is plainly unable to complete the script and it keeps randomly displaying different blocks of text, but as far as I can piece it together, it makes some telling points.)
This extract stood out:
Allahpundit cites a Romney campaign worker's account of Project Orca, which the campaign described as "a massive undertaking – the Republican Party's newest, unprecedented and most technologically advanced plan to win the 2012 presidential election." It involved using smartphones on election day to figure out which precincts weren't producing enough voters, so help could be rushed to them to turn out the vote. But it was incompetently set up and planned for and was a wreck on election day, and according to that campaign worker:
"the end result was that 30,000+ of the most active and fired-up volunteers were wandering around confused and frustrated when they could have been doing anything else to help. Like driving people to the polls, phone-banking, walking door-to-door, etc. . . . If this had worked could it have closed the gap? I sure hope not for my sanity's sake.
The bitter irony of this entire endeavor was that a supposedly small government candidate gutted the local structure of GOTV efforts in favor of a centralized, faceless organization in a far off place (in this case, their Boston headquarters). Wrap your head around that.
And this from Salon
Liberals & the Culture Wars
The writer claims he is not doing false equivalence, but IMO, that's exactly what it is. That said, he raises some interesting information.
I found this amusing:
You may have seen a video that made the rounds last weekend, including here on Salon, in which a lefty sandbagger type interviewed a bunch of white people at a Romney-Ryan rally in Ohio. They wore discount-store clothing and drove pickup trucks, and roughly 100 percent of them appeared to belong to the class most likely to suffer under a Republican budget-slashing regime. Hardly any could come up with coherent reasons for choosing Romney over Obama beyond a few Fox News talking points about nonexistent higher taxes and weak leadership and some free-floating paranoia. (One lady suggested that a drone had followed her from her front door to the rally; whether Obama was operating it personally remained unclear.)
Observing the campaign through the web, this account seems entirely in keeping with what the Republicans were about. Those who weren't doing this madness themselves were smiling and indulging it every day. Romney's embarrassing effort on climate change and "invisible Obama" — while perhaps the best known examples of "enabling" — were as far as I can tell typical. I recall some woman interviewed holding a sign about Obama being a commun|st at some event who, when asked by the reporter about this could offer nothing more than "read up on it" as her fellow unhinged smiled in approval.
It does seem with hindsight that at least the heavy battalions of the GOP could do their malign work only with the "marching powder" of self-delusion (what rightwingers call "drinking the Kool Aid") but that this sustained effort in cognitive dissonance and self-delusion crippled their ability to respond to or even see the world around them even for its pertinence to their own ends. Indeed, it's not even clear beyond the desire to evict Obama from 4600 Pennsylvania Avenue that the footsoldiers (nearly 100% of whom would be part of the 47%) knew what those ends were. Beyond the vacuous and populist "taking back America" nonsense, which really was a classic blank slate onto which anything from legitimate r@pe to rule by old white men with guns and Ford Utilities could be inscribed and purely for the faithful, nobody on their sound could say what it was all about.
Nice one.
The Romney campaign was run by bullies, egomaniacs, and conmen. In others words, a perfect replica of Romney's Bain Corporation asset strippers. Except, this time, Romney was the mark and his assets got stripped. Oh, the delicious irony!
The result of all of these false numbers and inaccurate ground reports is simple: Mitt Romney was ill-prepared for the actual numbers on election day and his false sense of confidence directly translated into how the campaign operated in the closing weeks. In the words of one source, it was a con job. As David Mamet famously said, "If you're in the con game and you don't know who the mark is … you're the mark." Mitt Romney had no idea what was coming.
What Romney and the Republicans didn't have we're competent technicians with science-based competencies. Surely, there are some competent Republican scientists … oh, wait.
Oh well, looks like Romney was a victim of Darwinian processes.
I understand that most Republicans don't believe Darwin. But the alternative explanation is that the Romney Fail was a product of Intelligent Design. And that would be for them a pill much too bitter to swallow.
The Libertarian Ideal at work:
From the RedState article on the Romney Campaign……
"They say that the truth is the consultants essentially used the Romney campaign as a money making scheme, forcing employees to spin false data as truth in order to paint a rosy picture of a successful campaign as a form of job security.
Zac Moffatt, Digital Director for the Romney campaign, was specifically named as having "built a nest egg for himself and co-founder of Targeted Victory, Mike Beach," and that they "didn't get social" media and ignored objections from other consultants and staffers in the campaign.
People close to the campaign responded. "Anyone can have numbers, Neil Newhouse had numbers. Look where that got us. Zac just went off the rails a lot and made the Romney campaign a marketing vehicle for himself." Adding, "at least the other consultants kept their mouths shut."
Sources also said that arrogance played a big role, saying that the Romney campaign was a hostile battlefield of egos in which these consultants viewed any opposition to their world view as coming from an enemy. This apparently led to the ORCA program "receiving no stress test, no usage during super saturdays and no ability to have a Plan B or C when everything hit the fan.""
And wake up time from commenter 'rustyldgarand'
"We need to hold not only the Romney campaign accountable, but also the conservative press (specifically the Murdoch press – Fox was the worst of the bunch), and the establishment talking heads like Karl Rove and Peggy Noonan. We need to get clear about something: these people are selling us a product. They have been taking our money and telling us bedtime stories. We complain about the MSM, but can we honestly say that the conservative press has been more honest?"
Aint it Grand.
Katz, having a quick look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_war you were vey right that the culture war was over in 1974 or thereabouts. the agenda is getting shorter.
most of all, the revolutionary economic empowerment of women is the 20th century in almost all countries is a done deal.
Most of the war is about what James Buchanan called meddlesome preferences: "the elitist, who somehow thinks that his or her own preferences are 'superior to,' 'better than, ' or 'more correct' than those of other, tries to control the behaviour of everyone else, while holding fast to his or her own liberty to do as he or she pleases."
It is quite possible that in many jurisdictions, a majority of voters sooner or later might be found to pass each and every meddlesome preference into law. everyone will end up losing their liberty.
Sancho, the point is the meddlesome preference of each and every group finds its way into law.
Buchanan said everyone in the community is worse off with enactment and enforcement of most or all meddlesome preferences than he or she would be if none were enacted.
the culture war is about meddlesome preferences. power rotates so each side takes turns in enacting their own meddlesome preference then loses power and the other side enacts their meddlesome preferences.
Buchanan talked of a pandora's box that has opened with no signs of closing. Through the rotation of power from left to right, "each of our liberties, whether valued highly or slightly, is up for grabs".
see http://offsettingbehaviour.blogspot.co.nz/2009/09/buchanan-on-meddlesome-preferences.html
The cause of meddlesome preferences is the proximity of other people. The higher the population density the greater the preference intensity effect. You should be seeing the future shape up in your mind right here. Higher population intensity, the greater the degree of prefernce conflict.
There is only one cure. Move out of town. As did the Barclay Brothers.
Let's remind ourselves about the big cultural changes in the few years to 1974. They were much bigger than leaf burning and were hated by the Right:
End of Jim Crow
Equal voting rights
Australian and US governments found to be lying about Vietnam
Equal rights for women
Impeachment and resignation of Nixon
The lid blown off FBI and CIA illegal activities
All of these campaigns have altered in major ways the way of life and the operations of social and political institutions.
Ever since 1980 the Right has attempted to roll back these achievements, with minor and sporadic success.
@Katz If the following can be believed it was the Super Pacs that provided the incentive and the hard ball free market that provided the means.
What conservatives/libertarians fail to acknowledge is that it is the equality of the vote that is paramount not the $value of the vote.
If the following can be believed it was the Super Pacs that provided the incentive and the hard ball free market that provided the means.
What conservatives/libertarians fail to acknowledge is that it is the equality of the vote that is paramount not the $value of the vote.
Something that's evident in that Redtstate piece you posted above is that the free market ensured that conservative media and polling businesses provided their audience with a constant stream of false information about Romney's popularity, because that's what they wanted to hear.
Nate Silver was just one of many commentators and observers who got written off as biased Obama boosters simply because they suggested Romney may not be overwhelmingly popular.
Not that the market for centrist or left-leaning media was regulated in any way, just that, as the quote which went round said, "when you give conservatives bad news in your polls, they want to kill you. When you give liberals bad news in your polls, they want to kill themselves."
It's much easier to sell factual information to an audience that won't regard you as a traitor for not lying.
Unfortunately, the reversal of the Church committee reforms on secret state activities has been a bipartisan affair. But, on the other points, I think it's exactly right to see the culture wars as an attempt to roll back the gains from the mid-50s to the mid-70s, intermittently successful, but now defeated (conclusively, I hope) on most fronts
JQ, you're correct about the lack of change arising out of the Church Committee.
However, the world discovered what the security state was capable of and what is known cannot be unknown. This has limited the scope of action of the security state. The Hope Royal Commission ended the status of ASIO as a weapon of the political Right in Australia.
Looking at opensecrets.org which is the website for the Center for Responsive Politics it appears that 1) the candidate with the most cash wins 2) Repubs relied heavily on corporate and secretive sources 3) Dems relied on grassroots donations 4) Dems raised the most cash 5) Dems won
US Chamber of Commerce spent big and lost big on Repubs,
""It is ugly,"
"We learned you cannot address the fiscal and cultural differences in our society by throwing money at political dogmas that may have outlived their usefulness,"
Thanks again Rog.
The Keyboard Kommandos of various RWDB noise machines must be feeling unloved in the aftermath of this debacle.
I guess it's back to caching baked beans and hugging Rugers for them. Their mums' sleep-outs must be very desolate places right now.
@rog your link also says that "Although they heavily favored conservative candidates, many of whom lost…" 94% of karl Rove PAC-backed candidates lost, I think?
The republican primaries showed that the TV debates mattered more than ever. people with next to no money could survive and almost win if they did well in even one debate.
the greens in australia would get almost as many votes even if they spent nothing on Ads because their brand is so powerful.
Not quite.
What mattered was the hype around the debates. The public came away with an impression of which candidate "won" a debate, but no idea of what the content was. More horse race political reporting.
There's not much to be gained by speculating about what the US election outcome will mean for Australia, because the systems and cultures are so different.
The most impact it will have is that Liberal Party politicians parroting the Republicans will need to explain why their ideas are so great if even Americans rejected them.
Murdoch seems to have recovered from his loss and moved on – leaving Abbott behind
Regrettably, that might not have the same impact in Australia.
American elections are decided by the people who can be convinced to care enough that they'll go out and vote, in a country where the occupant of the White House significantly affects the living standards of the populace.
Australia is much more sclerotic but also much more stable, so we're not likely to see the same overwhelming rejection of neoconservatism, but it will certainly make low-information voters wonder why they should vote for ideas that Americans just overwhelmingly rejected.


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Hi, I've seen a picture of draperies where the top was tied (similar to a necktie). I've searched & searched for instructions but am not having any luck. I first saw the treatment in an ad in the Chicago Tribune. The only other place I have seen it is at this link shown below.
There are 12 pictures to the right on the page & the drapery I am referring to is the second one down in the right-hand column. If you click on the picture, they show a larger view. If anyone has any suggestions on how I can achieve this look, I would greatly appreciate it. I am probably an intermediate sewer at best & need all the help I can get 8~) |
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Hi: make your tab drapes the usual way only the tabs would be around 3" longer to make room for the scrunchy. For the scrunchy take a piece of fabric around 8" wide by 9 - 10" long. Put right sides together and sew down the length of the fabric making a tube. Turn right side out and press, so that the seam is in the middle of the tube. Run a gathering stitch down both ends of the tube. Gather them up to the depth you want the scrunchy to be and then sew them together (right sides), turn and slip over the tab and tack in place. Hope this makes sense. Bonnie |
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Bonnie, thank you for the help. I wouldn't have thought of making tab drapery first. I thought I would have to do several individual panels, hang in half on the rod & then put on some kind of scrunchy on each panel top. Once again, thank you. |
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Missed the Kickstarter? Wishing you had gotten a copy of one or both of the gorgeous HARDCOVER Erstwhile collections? Fear not! We now have BOTH BOOKS available for sale in our online store! They'll make a great gift for yourself or a loved one… or anyone who loves fairy tales!
In our last list we mentioned we were going to be doing Jorinda & Joringel after the conclusion of The 12 Huntsmen, but ended up going with Sweetheart Roland. A few folks have asked us why we chose to change the story lineup.
This was a development issue that started encroaching on the time sensitivity of the work. I (Gina) kept working on designs for Jorinda and Joringel and nothing was meshing. The script wasn't coming together. I was hating everything I was coming up with, and time was running out to get something started. After a while I went back to my fairy tale collections and started rereading tales, looking for inspiration. Sweetheart Roland immediately struck me and I was able to write up an adaptation easily and hammer out some character designs that I found fun and enjoyable to draw.
I discussed the choice with the other Erstwhile artists and agreed to change the story. Then we figured out the other stories we wanted to include in the eventual book three print collection. We may eventually revisit the idea of Jorinda and Joringel, but not for a while. Here is the list of stories to expect after Sweetheart Roland is completed.
The Leftovers (Louisa)
The Ungrateful Son (Louisa)
The Wolf & the Seven Kids (Elle)
Princess Mouseskin (Gina) **(Though Gina may change her mind again. There's no way to be sure.)
Elle will be at Rose City Comic Con in Portland, OR this weekend, September 20-21, 2014. She's going to be at Table G-11 in the Artist Alley with copies of Erstwhile and other comic goodies! Make sure to stop by her booth for happiness and fairy tales!
We're going to be making some more appearances at conventions this month! If you're going to be at these events please be sure to stop by our booths and say hello! We will be happy to sign your copies of Erstwhile or sell you ones if you don't have them yet!
LOUISA will be at two events.
August 22-24 – Montreal – Otakuthon (table Premium 234)
August 28-31 – Toronto – Fan Expo (table A159 in the Artist Alley, South Building)
GINA will be at one event.
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Greenwood project finds its footing
Excavators are scooping up mounds of black earth to clear the way for a new shopping complex that could recharge the heart of Greenwood...
Seattle Times staff reporter
How deep do you have to go to hit hard soil?
Seattle Public Utilities commissioned a study in 2003 in response to concerns in Greenwood about sinking soil. The study recommended that withdrawing water from the peat bog should be avoided, and that steps be taken to reintroduce water into the bog to maintain groundwater levels. The city has since prohibited developers from installing underground parking and other below-ground structures in the bog area.
How to read the map: "Cold" areas (shown in blue) have hard soil close to the surface and can support buildings. "Hot" areas (shown in red) do not have hard soil near the surface and may be unstable. The numbers indicate the depth at which geologists detect hard soil deposited some 15,000 years ago; the soil above that depth is not considered suitable for supporting buildings because it is loose to medium in density, consisting of sand, silt, clay and peat.
Excavators are scooping up mounds of black earth to clear the way for a new shopping complex that could recharge the heart of Greenwood — and the fragile peat bog beneath it.
Like much of the neighborhood, the site sits on an old bog that sinks under pressure from above or when the groundwater table is drained.
The tentatively named Town Center, one of the biggest redevelopments ever in Greenwood, is viewed by many residents as a much-needed face-lift for a dated business district but feared by others who say it could do to Greenwood what all the new condos and offices have already done to Fremont and Ballard.
"I think it's going to destroy this neighborhood," said Charlie Leytrowbridge, 24, a regular at Gary's Games & Hobbies. "I definitely feel there's going to be a yuppie invasion."
But Allen Rickert, owner of Top Ten Toys, said he's optimistic the project will complement Greenwood's eclectic mix of small, independent shops that still dominate the business district.
"I'm realistic that change needs to happen," he said, "and I'm hoping it's going to be a good change."
Motorists cruising down North 85th Street might recognize the 5.5-acre Town Center site by the chain stores around it: Fred Meyer to the west, McDonald's to the east and Blockbuster Video to the south.
The city has granted the developer permission to build five buildings, providing about 50 new apartment units and some 80,000 square feet of new and renovated commercial space, with surface parking for more than 300 cars.
Work began last month on the first phase, a three-story building with apartments on top and retail shops on the ground floor. It should open next year.
Town Center is the latest project for an old Seattle family, the Morrows, whose holdings in Greenwood go back more than a century and who now own some 13 acres of prime property in the middle of the retail district.
The development will bring new housing into the heart of Greenwood, create a pedestrian-friendly plaza and increase natural drainage — all improvements the community sought from the developer years ago, said Michael McGinn, former president of the Greenwood Community Council.
But Town Center sits on a part of the bog that geologists say is the least able to support heavy buildings. It will be the first commercial project to be built under new city requirements for such developments in Greenwood, meant to ensure soil stability and protect groundwater levels.
Among other things, builders will pour concrete pilings that penetrate the bog to support the weight of the complex and will create special ditches to allow rainwater to seep back into the earth.
Greenwood's sinking problem is a concern in the neighborhood, where locals still trade stories about homes and condos that sank after the new Safeway was built about five years ago on Greenwood Avenue North.
"They shouldn't be putting big buildings on the bog," said Cindy Benedict, 49. "It's not solid ground. If you stood here and watched a bus go by, you could feel the ground shake."
"Black Dirt Clan"
When Greenwood was platted in 1891, much of it was marshy swamp, unsuitable for building.
Geologists call the area the Greenwood bowl, a legacy of the last glacial push through the central Puget Sound area about 15,000 years ago.
As the glacier retreated, the basin filled slowly with runoff from surrounding ridges and with dead plants and animals, becoming a peat bog — a type of wetland that helped absorb floodwater and fed the headwaters of nearby Piper's Creek.
At the turn of the century, Peter Frank Morrow, a Ballard newspaper publisher, bought 10 acres, and the family developed a farm on one of the basin's knolls, raising chickens, cows and other livestock.
His granddaughter, Patty Ulrichs, recalls catching frogs as a child in the bog during rainy months. "We were called the 'Black Dirt Clan' because we sold black dirt," Ulrichs said. "It was really good, rich soil to grow things in."
By 1910, the Seattle-Everett Interurban Railway's trolleys brought commuters and shoppers along Greenwood Avenue North, and Morrow's land grew in value. But during the Great Depression, the family property was on the verge of foreclosure. Morrow's children collaborated to manage it. They became current on their loan payments, and the land remains in the family to this day. Peter Morrow's great-grandson, Gary Brunt, is property manager for Town Center.
After World War II, the family excavated parts of the bog and built small stores and parking lots.
More development followed, contributing to a hydrologic trend that city planners are only now dealing with: the sinking of the bog and everything built on it.
Peat is soft and must stay bathed in groundwater year-round to prevent it from compressing. As groundwater levels decline and the peat compresses, the settling that occurs cannot be undone.
Over the decades, groundwater levels in Greenwood have been declining — and correspondingly, more areas have been sinking — for two main reasons, geologists say:
With more development, there's less stormwater infiltrating the soil and recharging the peat. And well-intentioned pumps that prevent water intrusion into buildings contribute by extracting precious groundwater from the soil.
No surprise, then, that to the north of the Town Center site, houses have sunk several feet below the sidewalk. Parts of Palatine Avenue North between North 85th and North 87th streets have sunk so dramatically the city has installed barricades to prevent cars from entering that stretch of road.
Protecting the peat
To slow down the sinking, the city required Town Center's developer, Greenwood Shopping Center Inc., to protect groundwater levels.
The peat layer and groundwater start just 5 feet below ground, said Michael Whalen, the project's architect.
Town Center's builders will drill as deep as 33 feet through the silt and peat to reach hard glacial deposits and then fill those bore holes with cement, he said.
In addition, the project will install bioswales to increase the amount of stormwater draining into the soil. The shallow, planted ditches will capture surface runoff that now is diverted to municipal drainage pipes.
To further increase the amount of water getting to the soil, the developer also will use permeable concrete in the sidewalks and permeable asphalt on the parking lot, Whalen said.
On the northwestern corner of the site, the developer is exploring the possibility of an exhibit showcasing the bog and its ecological significance.
To encourage more walking, the developer also will construct a private road connecting Greenwood Avenue North with First Avenue Northwest. It will be called Greenwood Lane and will funnel more pedestrians into the shopping area.
Brunt, the property manager, said he would like small-business tenants to occupy the new retail space, in keeping with Greenwood's unpretentious and casual character.
The Green Bean Coffeehouse seems to exemplify that attitude. Inside the volunteer-run shop, young families cluster around wooden tables, community groups hold meetings and a small blackboard tells visitors to "sit long, talk much."
Nearby, just outside the Greenwood Academy of Hair, a student helps an elderly woman into a waiting car.
Steven Cole, who recently bought the beauty school, said the challenge is holding on to what makes Greenwood special while embracing the economic wave that has transformed Ballard and Fremont.
The neighborhood is watching to see whether chain stores take hold at Town Center. "I hope they give the little guys a chance," Cole said.
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It's Brick Friday!
Posted by Huw,Today is 'Black Friday' in the US, which means nothing to anyone outside of north America, but it's a good excuse for LEGO to give us some decent 'Brick Friday' offers over the weekend.
In the UK:
- 10% off all orders of £100 or more
- Free Limited Edition Christmas set (3300014) with orders of £50 or more.
- FREE Delivery on all orders of £25 or more.
In the USA and Canada:
- 10% off all orders of $149 or more
- Free Limited Edition Holiday set (3300014) with orders of $99 or more.
- FREE Shipping on all orders of $49 or more.
There are also some 'Sales and Deals' running over the weekend on both sides of the Atlantic, with 20% discounts on some items, mostly 'Gear'. Nothing to get too excited about, but you'll find a link to all the reduced items on the landing page when you click on the banner above.
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I'll pass....
Agreed, nothing to get excited about!
I just post this in the forum but I think this is a better place to post it.
What a shame this weekend offers don´t apply in some European countries. I just call Lego costumers service to complain and they said that this decision it due to marketing reasons.
Wait a minute!
There are no physical Lego stores in Spain. So there is no way to get the Christmas set free gift.
What kind of marketing reasons is that?
I left my complain record on the phone, so anyone else in the same situation, please call and leave your complain, I think that this is the only way to change "Lego marketing reasons" for the next time.
Lego free phone number 00800 5346 5555
Is this online only or are these prices in stores also? Id rather not shop online.
as I found this morning ..
rang the Manchester store .. ordered the £50 worth of stuff, got my free set, then the lady kindly scratched the cards for the mystery discount ..10% for me , added my VIP lego number and my mum is picking up later .. top result and all from the comfort of my sofa
Didn't we have the same "special" just a few days ago? Why is it the same again? I don't get it. And with all these offers, why on earth should I ever buy Lego at full price again, even from Lego itself?
Yes it is the same as last weekend, but that was only for VIPs and not publicised by the LEGO affiliate team, unlike these offers which are the same for everyone, VIP or not.
This is how it worked in Lego stores last year. At the cash till just before you pay, they hand over a Lego branded lottery-style scratchcard. (Quite a nice item, actually.) You scratch off the panel to reveal a discount of either 10%, 20% or 50%. I would love to know the probability of each score, but I got a 10.
Wish we had these in Oz - I'd go crazy - I'd buy heaps :3
I'm passing too. I was hoping for some 'real' sale prices!
I got 20% off the fire brigade this morning, my free Christmas set, the Xmas brickwall box and a Lego reusable shopping bag. Really pleased. I expected there to be a big line but there were about a dozen or so folk at the meadowhall branch. Lego win!
Whoa, what happened to all of the great deals? Very disappointed this year.
STAR WARS advent calendar $24.98 -- for that price I am buying one. Now to find something else for $25 to get the free shipping...
I was at toys r us, and there was like 200people in line. For "Black Thursday", I bet there's like 2,000,000 today.
Just a note about the 10% off. I had £20 of VIP points to use up. But this took my order below the £100 mark - however I still got 10% off, as the original ORDER was over £100! So 10% off, then £20 VIP points off AND a free Xmas set. Brilliant. It will be a merry Lego Christmas this year!
I called Lego Poland and we won't get this offer. Shame on you Lego!
The best deal for Shop.Lego.com last night was the Collectible Minifigure Series 7 & 8 for 50% off. Only deal I snagged while on the site, the rest of the discounts were dour considering those same sets will have deeer discounts later this season.
The 50% off minifigure deal was great and of course one of the first to sell out.
1 in 7 scratch card would give you 20% discount. 1 in 300 would give you 50%. I got 10% unfortunately. One guy from the store told me that they had only 2 people with the 20% (that was 1pm). One bought a keyring and the other one bought a really small set. Ridiculous! lol
20% off ALL LEGO at Canadian Zellers. I believe that the discount will go up in the coming weeks.
Bought 2 of those huge storage bricks :) $33 is a good price for a huge brick :P
Spent £50 at the Bluewater store and got a 10% off scratchcard, plus the free sleigh set, plus a free small PAB box for use after xmas. Not a bad deal. Better than the VIP-online deal last week - since that wouldn't have qualified for the 10% off nor the PAB box. Not many AFOL sets in the shop though - MMV & Maersk train all gone.
No deals for Hungary either :( Shame on LEGO.
I really want an exclusive christmas set! But I just can't get one from LEGO. Will have to buy one marked up by BrickLinkers :(
These promotions are the only thing worth buy directly from LEGO. If Hungary is not ivolved, I keep buying offline, anyway in toy shops I can buy LEGO 10-20% cheaper than in S@H.
For example today and tomorrow 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. Tesco runs a promotion: 50% of any toy purchase is given back as coupons. In Hungary Tesco's prices are marked up by 10-20%, so this means around 30-40% off RRP, which is a pretty good deal. Tescos were awfully crowded this afternoon, and assumably will be tomorrow as well. Shelves of LEGO were almost empty by the time I got there, but I managed to buy an X-wing, a TIE fighter and an Uruk Hai army.
Now I have to think about what to spend my coupons on between monday and 9th of December.
Actually, I was rather pleased to see Kingdom's Joust in my local LEGO store at 20% off. That combined with the scratch off ticket for another 10% off made it a decent deal.
Lego forget The Netherlands too, indeed shame on you, Lego! And that with a lot of AFOL's here in The Netherlands!
Wish I had known about the Joust since it's not online.
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Live performance is all well and good for the young and fearless, but not all hobbyists are made that way...
In August's edition of Sound On Sound, I read an excellent Leader by Editor in Chief Paul White, on the strong case for playing your latest composition to a live audience.
By the end of the article, my palms were sweaty and my blood pressure was up. Not because I was annoyed — the advice was very good — but more at the prospect of playing my composition in front of a live audience. Paul asserted that "it doesn't hurt to test your performance abilities and your material in front of real people." Well, I say it does! There are many reasons why some of us in the world of DAWs and bedroom studios don't choose to play live, and I'm going to tell you mine!
Reason number one is fairly obvious. A friend of mine once said there was only one reason he didn't make the grade as a professional footballer: total lack of ability. I'm not suggesting I have no musical skills, but not enough to carry off a live performance. In the studio, within my DAW and in my fantasies, my guitar playing is of the six-fingered style favoured by the likes of Pat Metheny. My keyboard solos reach speeds that would make Rick Wakeman hang up his cape. My drumming ... well, you get the picture. Even setting aside my limited ability, there are tricks that make some compositions impossible to play live, short of growing extra fingers or hiring a crack team of session musicians.
Reason number two: I'm no spring chicken. Who wants to listen to a 51 year-old bald bloke trot out a few tunes? Unless I'm mistaken, there hasn't been a huge change in the music market recently, and Justin Bieber is not older than he looks. There just isn't any interest in nerdy old studio blokes' songs, except from long-suffering wives and partners, who can readily hear the recorded versions, as opposed to live.
Reason number three: this is my composition, it's my baby and I like it. If you don't like it, well, that's tough. I make music not because I want to make huge amounts of money from it. I do it because I enjoy the process of composition, the construction of the tune, and the recording. The composition is the end in itself, and when it's complete there's a sense of disappointment that's only alleviated by the excitement of starting the next one — which, of course, will be better.
Reason number four: I don't have the time. I'm a happy amateur, and this is my hobby. I have a very sensible job that takes a lot of time, but earns me enough to buy the gear featured in Sound On Sound. I often compose and record late at night when the day's work is done. It's my relaxation. Why turn it into a source of stress with a live performance?
Reason number five is probably the major reason for a lack of live performance: stage fright! I'm not talking about the sort of stage fright that the great, the good and the successful talk about. You know the type — the star who says "I suffer from dreadful stage fright" and then goes on stage to give an amazing performance, loving every second of it.
No, I'm talking about the sort of fear that prevents your fingers from functioning, your mouth from emitting sound and your legs from doing their normal job of supporting your weight. I've played in front of real people, and I can remember looking at my left hand, thinking that it really shouldn't be making that E-chord shape any more, it really should have moved onto A-minor or possibly that D that I was sure occurred three bars ago. Forget about D9(b5)/F#! No, my fingers weren't going there at all. That hand was just frozen on E, and no-one really likes songs consisting of one chord strummed for three minutes! If I did manage to stay on my feet for long enough, that piece rehearsed privately with such serenity and grace went from a beautiful Miles Davis jazz tune to an Einstürzende Neubauten piece, complete with realistic drill and other industrial noises. The temptation to speed up, thrash it out or just 'get it over with' has ruined many a wonderful musical moment for me.
So in conclusion I would like to say: please let us studio nerds stay where we feel comfortable and safe, in the studio! .
Simon Woods is a deputy head teacher and a self-confessed studio nerd. He has played live and has frozen on stage but has never actually fallen over.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson - "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
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Please excuse the well-worn pun, but Sarah Calhoun had to learn the clothing business by the seat of her pants.
Frustration drove Calhoun to launch Red Ants Pants, a Montana company that produces rugged work pants for women, in 2006. She had a background doing physical work outdoors and had grown sick and tired of battling with boxy, ill-fitting work pants that were geared toward the male physique.
"When your pants don't fit, you can't move as easily," she said. "You have to put your tool down and keep pulling up your pants."
At one point, Calhoun wrote to clothing companies, asking them to consider designing pants that were tailored to fit women's bodies. After one company representative suggested that she should go into business for herself, she decided she would do just that.
She learned about clothing design, sizing, fabrics and manufacturing techniques, not to mention website design and selling merchandise online. Red Ants Pants are made in the United States, and they always will be, Calhoun says.
Billings Business profiled Calhoun, who lives in White Sulphur Springs, in 2009, just as her company was starting to garner regional and national attention. The rugged work pants are made in 70 sizes to fit the contours of women's bodies. They have garnered a cult following among women who work for a living, and some men are even partial to them.
Promotional photos show women in far-flung places such as Antarctica and Greenland wearing Red Ants Pants. The company remains a good example of a niche company that can prosper in the Internet age.
And success keeps coming Calhoun's way.
Last March the Montana Ambassadors honored Calhoun as Entrepreneur of the Year. In May, the U.S. Small Business Administration honored her as its National Women in Business champion.
Aside from the recognition, Calhoun's business has been growing. Sales have doubled from the previous year, she said.
Meanwhile, Calhoun has unleashed her energy on another project. These days, she's busy organizing the second Red Ants Pants Music Festival July 26-29, about three miles west of White Sulphur Springs. Emmylou Harris, Mary Chapin Carpenter and Taj Majal are this year's headliners.
The music festival benefits the Red Ants Pants Foundation, a nonprofit organization that aids women's leadership, family farms and rural communities.
So, not only is Red Ants succeeding financially, it's doing its part to help local communities. That's the way business should be.


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Valentine's Day brings with it the hopes of many that Cupid will help them find their perfect match. Just as most people have carefully and endlessly considered the ideal characteristics of their soul mate, business owners should be equally meticulous in their evaluation of potential buyers and investor groups. Careful consideration should be given to the various types of buyers and which ones would make the best fit for both the business owner and the company.
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For business owners seeking to retire and achieve maximum liquidity, a strategic buyer may be the love match. Strategic buyers typically do not require the business owner's leadership post-transaction. They typically have ample resources available and often can afford to pay a higher price, especially in synergistic situations. Though the seller may no longer have control or influence over the business they once owned, they now will have the time and money to spend their days sailing the world.
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In situations where business owners prefer to retain a majority control of the business, a minority sale to a financial partner often provides the best fit. This structure provides business owners sufficient liquidity to take out a dividend, make an acquisition or to buy out another shareholder. It provides additional resources to the business in terms of financial and strategic guidance, yet enables the business owner to maintain full operational control of the company. While the minority partner may have some negative controls, such as the ability to prevent a sale of the business or limit capital expenditure spending, they are not typically actively involved in the ongoing operations of the business.
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Saturday, October 18, 2008
Matthew 25 Network
I want to be happy about this, because my biggest political hope is that the religious right and the New-New Left (Obama's Left) will recognize their common goals, values, intellectual foundation, and join forces. There by leaving the right free to support unfettered, unregualated, uncompromising capitalism.
That's the hope, that's the dream. But damn, why does it have to be so scary!
Matthew 25 Network
Still I say, bring on The Great Rapprochement!
Small Favors
The one, albeit small, silver lining with the current economic crisis in the United States and the upcoming election (We're Screwed '08) is that environmentalism has temporary dropped of the map.
However, because I am for America's Anti-Man movement staying off the map permanently, I want to point you to a great series of articles at Capitalism Magazine: EPA Fascism
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
City of Ember
Here is a nice little escapist movie, I am recommending for this week.
I know nothing of the book, but the movie unlike everything that has come up the past two months was benevolent, fun, and had a decent, albeit underdeveloped moral.
Sunday, October 12, 2008
One another blog I run, I was given the following quote by Simon Barnes in article from the TimesOnline website in response to a position I had taken:
You don't go into parenthood to make sure that the benefits outweigh the deficits: you go into it out of — brace yourself but no other word will do — love...Parenthood is not about perfection, it's much more interesting than that: it's about making the best of what you have...
I think I came up with a pretty good response, but I am very interested in getting some more great lines on why people choose to be parents. I know 3 Ring Binder has at least a few; hopefully, she will share them with us.
Here is my response:
You do not go into parenthood for some sort of disembodied "love". You go into it, or should go into it, because you like the idea of teaching a child how to succeed in life. You go into because the idea of guiding a child is exciting and stimulating. You go into it because every single day of a child's life is about exploring and learning new things and you want to be part of that exploration.
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Don't get me wrong I love vaginas, just not these vaginas.
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Criticizing Obama Does Not Imply Racism
Witch Doctor Repellent has a insightful, ironic, deep and compelling two line post today: Fidel Castro's distraction
Fidel Castro: Racism in the U.S. keeps many away from Obama.
Reality: Communism in Cuba keeps many away from food.
This post plays nicely along side one from Patterico's Pontifications: Any Argument Against Barack Obama Is By Definition Racist
After eight years of Bush, almost two full years of campaigning for the next president, the past three-four months of government intervention and bailouts, I cannot tell you how much I want the Republican Party out, and how much I cannot wait to be able to tear into President Barrack Hussein Obama.
For eight years, I have been apathetic because to say anything negative about Bush and the Republicans was packaged with not defending America, our interests, and Capitalism. America, Capitalism and my private selfish life, are worth defending. And when President Hussein wins, I will be able to clearly and uncompromisingly make my position.
When making that position, when calling President Hussein a socialist, I will not be a racist. I will be speaking the truth. I will be an American.
Another Racist American...
Repeal McCain-Feingold
Gus Van Horn has a excellent piece on Repealing McCain-Feingold:
Repeal McCain-Feingold
First, I want to say, Here, here!
Second, I want to repost a quote from Atlas Shrugged that Gus uses in his piece. The quote which follows is one of my favorites and perfect in the context Gus uses it:
Did you really think that we want those laws to be observed?" said Dr. Ferris. "We want them broken. You'd better get it straight that it's not a bunch of boy scouts you're up against -- then you'll know that this is not the age for beautiful gestures. We're after power and we mean it. You fellows were pikers, but we know the real trick, and you'd better get wise to it. There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted -- and you create a nation of law-breakers -- and then you cash in on guilt. Now that's the system, Mr. Rearden, that's the game, and once you understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with.
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