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[transplantella]

Here’s another cache of found stolen stuff in west Seattle, posted on Reddit today-

https://www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/comments/3o500r/west_seattle_anyone_get_their_purses_lifted_these/

[PangolinPie]

It would be great if people would just post photos of the things they’re selling or giving away, instead of asking people to email them for photos. I guarantee that your thing or things will find a new home much faster, too.

There are a lot of free image hosing sites, and one of the easiest to use is Imgur.

https://imgur.com/

Just go there, click on the blue “Upload images” button at the top left, and drag your images onto the screen, or click “browse your computer” to upload. Then click “Start upload” and wait a moment. When the uploading is done, you get a new URL (up there at the top of your browser window) which you can copy and paste into your post. It really could not be much easier.

[PangolinPie]

I saw an article about an app that’s like Uber but for hauling stuff, from a Seattle-based company. They provide a truck and assistance lifting and moving things in and out of the house. The minimum is $30 but that seems pretty reasonable if the alternative is hitting up your friends for help or truck borrowing privileges.

I’ve seen some posts here asking for help moving things so I thought I’d mention this; I’m not affiliated with the company, it just sounds like something I’d personally use. It’s at https://dolly.com/

If anyone has the chance to try it, or knows of good alternatives, let me know.

[miws]

A sky lantern, maybe?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_lantern

They are occasionally reported about on the WSB Main Page.

Don’t know if they generally burn in red, or any other colors.

Mike

[JTB]

Curate, are you familiar with task rabbit

[JoB]

JKB

there is a whole lot of information here …

follow the links to get the full picture

https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/race/news/2012/03/13/11351/the-top-10-most-startling-facts-about-people-of-color-and-criminal-justice-in-the-united-states/

[WSB]

This is near an area where we reported on a car-prowl case last weekend.

West Seattle Crime Watch: Police, helicopter search for armed car prowler

Will cross-reference this in the next Crime Watch. – TR

[JanS]

this guy…many years experience…good guy…nice guy…lol..actually, his name is Guy ;-) I would have to look for his Phone contact, but if you’re on Linkedin, you can contact him through there…and tell him Jan is West Seattle recommended him, if you contact him.

https://www.linkedin.com/pub/guy-harley/5a/5b3/427

[sunshine]

I was incredibly happy with Green Zone LLC. Very clean and efficient – I think they only do one job at a time. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Green-Zone-LLC/301182113326547?sk=reviews

[Caffeine_Queen]

Hotwire Coffee is currently seeking local artists for their 2016 monthly artist showcase.

If you would like to apply, please simply complete our form for consideration.

https://hotwirecoffee.wufoo.com/forms/hotwire-coffee-artist-submission/

Thanks!

-Lora

[Talaki34]

Why are blood banks in such dire need of blood and its components? Because donations are down. Pretty simple, right? Wrong.

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• A healthy adult can donate 1 pint of blood approximately 6 times a year. This pint can be used whole (all the components intact) or the individual components can be separated and used for several purposes. Most people don’t realize they can donate this often or that you don’t have to give just whole blood. There are options.

• Older adults are more likely to donate than younger adults are. As the population ages and the current donors become unavailable to donate, supply is reduced for blood recipients. So why don’t younger adults donate? The following article written in 2012 is a fair assessment of why they aren’t. https://thebloodblog.wordpress.com/

• World in crisis. Most of us don’t stop to think about the larger picture. In a disaster blood can be shipped anywhere.

• In the last 30 years the number of people who can donate has also dropped. The impact from the increase in drug use and the complications that come from it is a huge problem. Even clean and sober, IV drug users cannot ever donate. Then there are illnesses that preclude people who would like to donate, but can’t or are limited when they can donate. Sometimes there are waiting periods after procedures or when medications are stopped.

• Excuses. This is the biggest reason of all. No time, errands to run, work, the dog or the cat, gymnastics, softball, anniversary or birthday, lack of knowledge…We all have the excuses lined up and most of us use them.

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Good news! Easy fix!

You can schedule an appointment to fit your routine. Think of donating as part of your personal or your family’s healthy lifestyle.

Before assuming that you cannot donate, check. Just because you are taking medication or have something medical going on, does not mean you can’t donate. Most people can. If you are turned down, don’t give up, it is usually not forever. Ask why you can’t and when you can return.

Got a question? Ask it. Knowledge is everything. Anxious about the process? Talk about it. Many long time donors were afraid the first few times.

Take a friend with you. Make it a family affair. Kids 16/17(Parent consent and meeting weight restrictions) and older can donate. For the little ones it is a great teaching opportunity. Literally, you are giving of yourself to those in need.

Here are two sites that will answer most questions people have about donating blood.

http://www.redcrossblood.org/donating-blood

https://www.bcw.edu/bcw/Blood-Donation/all-about-blood/index.htm

This site has a great list. Look for FAST FACTS.

http://bloodcenter.stanford.edu/press/press_kit.html

Still have questions? Call the Red Cross or stop by the Bloodmobile.

[WSB]

Published this yesterday:

https://westseattleblog.com/2015/09/yellow-water-heres-what-seattle-public-utilities-says-is-going-on/

[lazybeard]

Good day ya’ll, I’m trying to sell my teak dining table & chairs (4). There are photos listed in the CL ad below. If you have any questions or are curious to check it out, please let me know.

https://seattle.craigslist.org/see/fuo/5225330611.html

[motorijder]

We are hosting a multi family gear sale at 38th Ave at SW Juneau Street this Saturday from 10am to 4pm. Outdoor gear related clothing, packs, stoves, mountain bikes, tents, sleeping bags, etc.

We’re hosting a multi family gear and garage sale on Saturday September 26th from 10-4. Below is a short list of items for sale, but in general you’ll find: 2 mountain bikes, skis, ski boots, climbing shoes, climbing boots, climbing equipment, tents, sleeping bags, backpacks, gloves, jackets, pants, cooking pots, stoves, bike parts and much, much more.

http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/gms/5235742816.html

https://post.craigslist.org/manage/5237410273/aii3t

There will also be household goods (kitchen/grill stuff) and a small selection of building hardware (anchors/expansion bolts) and some hand tools (these are definitely limited).

Prices will be marked. The pics attached don’t match the list below, so more stuff is available than what is shown in the images and we’re still gather more stuff, so you’ll have to come day-of to see what’s for sale.

Mountain Hardwear Ratio 15 dridown Long $140

Big Agnes Seedhouse 2 – $45

Brooks Range Propel 2D – $140 obo

Endura cycling tights size large

Time mountain bike pedals and carbon road pedals

Ski pants — prices as marked

Swix ski boot bag – $25

Swix ski bag, holds two pair, no wheels but extends

Marmot Precip pants large long- $10

Other misc bike parts, Ultegra derailleur, stems, etc. price as marked

Mens Misc running shorts, tights, shirts — $3 each

Other misc outdoor gear and apparel, beanies, warmers, gloves, etc.

Older Rossingal Scratch skis with bindings $30 168cm

Deuter 90 plus 10 NOLS Expedition Pack

Gregory Alpinisto 50

Marmot Scree Pack 45 (maybe 50 not sure)

Bike seats by San Marco, Fizik, Selle italia

Misc mens size large running shorts by New Balance

Camelback lobo no bladder

outdoor Research horizon jacket

other misc items

Sleeping bag liner

Platypus reservoirs

Petzl Lynx modular crampons like new

Mavic Krysrium front wheel decent shape

Mavic Krysrium rear wheel, bent rim probably ok for parts

Continental trainer tire (orange)

EMS down vest size large

Kryptonite bike lock with 2 keys

Probably going to sell my GoPro Hero 3 plus as well and a few mounts including the suction cup mount

Dakine Impact Vest for kite sailing asking $30 missing the bar, black and red

I’ll try and check my email throughout the day if I can answer any questions before you drive over just let me know!

Thanks!

[JanS]

this is from the front page. Because of the accident today on the Aurora Bridge, and the vast number of injured, the bloodbank needs more donation. Please consider :(I can no longer donate)

https://schedule.bloodworksnw.org/DonorPortal/Default.aspx

[Ken]

Somewhere in Texas a small town is missing their village idiot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usury

Usury (in the original sense of any interest) was at times denounced by a number of religious leaders and philosophers in the ancient world, including Moses,[22] Plato, Aristotle, Cato, Cicero, Seneca,[23] Aquinas,[24] Muhammad,[25] Jesus,[26] Philo[citation needed] and Gautama Buddha.[27] For example, Cato said:

“And what do you think of usury?”—”What do you think of murder?”

Interest of any kind is forbidden in Islam. As such, specialized codes of banking have developed to cater to investors wishing to obey Qur’anic law. (See Islamic banking)

As the Jews were ostracized from most professions by local rulers, the church and the guilds, they were pushed into marginal occupations considered socially inferior, such as tax and rent collecting and moneylending. Natural tensions between creditors and debtors were added to social, political, religious, and economic strains.[28]

…financial oppression of Jews tended to occur in areas where they were most disliked, and if Jews reacted by concentrating on moneylending to non-Jews, the unpopularity—and so, of course, the pressure—would increase. Thus the Jews became an element in a vicious circle. The Christians, on the basis of the Biblical rulings, condemned interest-taking absolutely, and from 1179 those who practiced it were excommunicated. Catholic autocrats frequently imposed the harshest financial burdens on the Jews. The Jews reacted by engaging in the one business where Christian laws actually discriminated in their favor, and became identified with the hated trade of moneylending.[29]

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That same Old Testament you wingnuts use to pick and choose your bigotry from had this to say:

Exodus 22:24 (25)—If thou lend money to any of My people, even to the poor with thee, thou shalt not be to him as a creditor; neither shall ye lay upon him interest.

Leviticus 25:36— Take thou no interest of him or increase; but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee.

Leviticus 25:37— Thou shalt not give him thy money upon interest, nor give him thy victuals for increase.

Deuteronomy 23:20 (19)—Thou shalt not lend upon interest to thy brother: interest of money, interest of victuals, interest of any thing that is lent upon interest.

Deuteronomy 23:21 (20)—Unto a foreigner thou mayest lend upon interest; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon interest; that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all that thou puttest thy hand unto, in the land whither thou goest in to possess it.

Ezekiel 18:17—that hath withdrawn his hand from the poor, that hath not received interest nor increase, hath executed Mine ordinances, hath walked in My statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father, he shall surely live.

Psalm 15:5—He that putteth not out his money on interest, nor taketh a bribe against the innocent. He that doeth these things shall never be moved.

Christianity

Christ drives the Usurers out of the Temple, a woodcut by Lucas Cranach the Elder in Passionary of Christ and Antichrist.[33]

The New Testament contains references to usury, notably in the Parable of the talents:

“Well then, you should have put my money on deposit with the bankers, so that when I returned I would have received it back with interest..”

— Matthew 25:27

“…Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee, thou wicked servant. Thou knewest that I was an austere man, taking up that I laid not down, and reaping that I did not sow. Wherefore then gavest not thou my money into the bank, that at my coming I might have required mine own with usury?”

— Luke 19:22-23

The following scriptures teach about lending:

“Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you.”

— Matthew 5:42

“And if you lend to those from whom you expect repayment, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, expecting to be repaid in full. But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.”

— Luke 6:34-35

“Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.â€�

— Luke 6:38

Shall we mention all the ethnic groups over the years which have not been allowed to borrow money or to buy homes outside of ethnic enclaves? Many of us live in one now. So which ethnic minority were your ancestors Mrtrollseattle? Irish? Italian? French?

I thank all of you who bother to apply facts to wingnuts even though their factual immune system will discard them in the very next troll post.

[Sue]

Besides, the Forum rules for this section state that employers need to post their contact info. In part:

“*NO “BLIND” ADS. Please include your business’s name, and a contact name/e-mail (and/or phone number) in the listing. Job-seekers need to be able to connect with you directly, not just post a reply for all the world to see.

*ADDED 3/2/13: Reiterating, you must post your contact information. Job listings are not discussion topics – someone with questions needs to be able to contact you directly, off the site. If a listing does not include contact information, we will delete it.

CLARIFICATION, AUGUST 2015: Posting a “listing” that consists of a link to a listing on another website does NOT qualify as “including contact information.” Please do not point people to other websites unless it’s your company’s own site and it has supplementary information beyond the basic listing. Listings here MUST include, in the text of the WSB listing, the basic info about the job, and your contact info. “

https://westseattleblog.com/forum/topic/please-read-before-posting-in-jobs-offered

[WSB]

Thanks for asking about sponsors, Gina:

In addition to Endolyne Joe’s and Salty’s, as mentioned above, brunch is also offered by Greenbridge Café, just south of Highland Park and *lots of parking* every time we go by (parallel parking along 8th St.) … brunch is at the bottom of the menu on the GC website:

http://www.greenbridgecafe.com/GreenbridgeCafe/Greenbridge_Menu.html

As for Endolyne Joe’s, might we recommend the caramel apple french toast.

https://www.chowfoods.com/endolyne-joes/menus?page=1

And Chaco Canyon Café is on the sponsor team too. No eggs or meat. Breakfast and brunch toward the bottom of the menu; I’ve only lunched there (Thai peanut rice bowl!) so don’t have any suggestions.

http://chacocanyoncafe.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/2015.09-West-menu.pdf

TR

[redblack]

yeah, sure, JKB. i’m in.

i should have called godwin on this thread about 50 posts ago.

mrseatttle’s opening salvo suggested that a vote for bernie sanders is a vote for authoritarianism and genocide.

maybe it’s just me, but i can see how some people might find that offensive. and, like i said, anyone who has heard what bernie sanders has to say would know that he’s as far from a commie-sympathizing megalomaniac as one can get.

but if you believe that taxing corporate america at a fair rate will lead directly to gas chambers, i guess that’s your right.

[WSB]

Hi, “freecitizen” – thanks for joining the Forum!

Just for clarification’s sake:

There was no “small group of people” involved here. This is a Seattle Department of Transportation project. And if you want ultimate accountability, it goes up to the mayor (who was in attendance at the July community meeting where the final plan was shown).

If any group of community members could have made changes on 35th, it likely would have happened years sooner. We have been covering 35th SW concerns for the entirety of the eight years we’ve been in operation as a news publication. It’s had more than 1,000 crashes in the past 10 years, and multiple rallies, community-meeting discussions, petitions – NOT even involving the same people – this story dating back to 2007 involved a community group that doesn’t even exist any more:

“35th is not I-35,” neighborhood activists say

If you missed the many stories reported here along the way – this one is probably the best to read for backstory. It followed a discussion after a walk in memory of the fifth person killed in seven years on 35th SW:

35th SW memorial walk, report #2: Another death, another meeting – will major safety improvements follow, this time?

That was more than a year and a half ago.

Three weeks later – in February of 2014 – city leaders announced the launch of a “multi-year traffic-safety corridor project” for 35th.

‘I-35’ no more? City leaders announce ‘multi-year’ 35th SW traffic-safety project

The city did not make the decision lightly. In some of our other past stories, SDOT reps – including Jim Curtin, current project manager – had been quoted as saying they were concerned 35th volume might be too heavy for rechannelizing. Here’s a story from 2011:

How to slow ‘I-35’? SDOT @ West Seattle Crime Prevention Council

The “design alternatives” finally were announced back in March of this year, and because of the volume concerns, they did not include the most-traveled section of the road – which isn’t where the deaths had occurred, incidentally:

AS-IT-HAPPENED COVERAGE: 35th SW safety project ‘design alternatives’ unveiled, both lowering speed limit to 30 mph

After much feedback, more meetings, even walking tours, the city then announced its plan in July – to rechannelize just to upper Morgan and then evaluate.

AS-IT-HAPPENED COVERAGE: What SDOT announced for 35th SW: Two-phase plan, starting with rechannelization this year between Roxbury and Willow

Here is the full slide deck if you haven’t seen it via our story or somewhere else:

http://www.seattle.gov/transportation/docs/35thSW/35thSW_July2015FINAL.pdf

The work is NOT all done yet. Some repaving on the south end, plus restriping, came first. Toward the end of the slide deck, you’ll see the mentions of other things they are going to do.

As we’ve been reminding others voicing concerns, feedback can and should go to the project manager at SDOT, jim.curtin@seattle.gov – I expect to be publishing a followup early this week on where the actual work on 35th SW (and Roxbury) stands, and what’s next.

thank you

Tracy

[mpento]

I was fishing around for possible harmonica stuff and came cross this site https://takelessons.com/ I have not used it so can’t say if it is good or bad. You might also try dusty strings in Fremont, yes their focus is on stringed instruments but they seem to have a strong music community and you might find someone there. Good luck

[transplantella]

From the Intercept, Glenn Greenwald’s news site –

Leaked Seattle Audit Concludes Many Mortgage Documents Are Void

Leaked Seattle Audit Concludes Many Mortgage Documents Are Void

2015-09-18

A Seattle housing activist on Wednesday uploaded an explosive land-record audit that the local City Council had been sitting on, revealing its far-reaching conclusion: that all assignments of mortgages the auditors studied are void.

That makes any foreclosures in the city based on these documents illegal and unenforceable, and makes the King County recording offices where the documents are located a massive crime scene.

The problems stem from the Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems (MERS), an entity banks created so they could transfer mortgages privately, saving them billions of dollars in transfer fees to public recording offices. In Washington state, MERS’ practices were found illegal by the State Supreme Court in 2012. But MERS continued those practices with only cosmetic changes, the audit found.

That finding has national implications. Every state has its own mortgage laws, and some of the audit’s conclusions may not necessarily apply elsewhere. But it shows how MERS reacted to being caught defrauding the public by trying to sneak through foreclosures anyway. Combined with evidence in other parts of the country, like the failure to register out-of-state business trusts in Montana, it suggests that the mortgage industry has been inattentive to and dismissive of state foreclosure laws.

Christopher King, a Seattle-area real estate professional who makes short films about the foreclosure crisis at MortgageMovies.net, confronted the City Council at its Monday night meeting. King has been among several Seattle-area activists demanding that council members pay attention to fraud in the public records, even inviting them to public seminars on the issue.

“Some of you have attended my seminars and acknowledged that there’s criminal activity going on,� King told the council. “I want to have the taxpayers have confidence in the City Council that we’re going to address the problem, because it’s right here.�

King, who said he received the audit from fellow activists, published it on Scribd, an upload site for large documents.

The council had commissioned the audit from McDonnell Property Analytics, a forensic analyst of mortgage documents. It surveyed assignments from the first half of 2013 involving MERS, which is owned by big banks Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

The Washington State Supreme Court’s 2012 decision in Bain v. Metropolitan Mortgage Group found that MERS violated state law by foreclosing on homeowners on behalf of a lender. The court ruled that MERS is not a “lawful beneficiary� because it never held the promissory notes.

In every one of the 195 mortgage assignments reviewed by McDonnell Property Analytics, MERS attempted to transfer legal interests in the mortgage, which the Washington Supreme Court says it does not hold, to another entity.

MERS changed the language it uses in Washington — calling itself the “nominee for the lender� rather than the beneficiary — but not its practice. In other words, the changes are only semantic. “Regardless of the artful wording,� the audit states, “if the assignments serve the same purpose as before, the problem remains.� The audit uses the Latin phrase nemo dat quod non habet, “No one can give that which he does not have.�

By pretending to transfer interests that MERS does not own, the assignments are fraudulent under Washington law, the audit concludes. And all subsequent filings, and subsequent foreclosures, depending upon that invalidated assignment, are similarly void. The audit cites state law that makes filing false or forged documents to public offices a felony, with penalties of up to $5,000 and five years in prison.

“The city is not being proactive in the face of ongoing lawlessness,� Christopher King wrote on his website, announcing the release of the audit.

The audit’s recommendations include enforcing the felony laws, enacting mortgage fraud statutes with higher monetary penalties for filing false mortgage documents, and requiring all transfers of mortgage notes to be recorded. It even suggested trying to suspend MERS’ license to operate in Washington.

“Both legislative and prosecutorial action is necessary to protect the public,� wrote Marie McDonnell, author of the audit. “The flooding of void title documents into public land recording offices throughout Washington must be stopped, as swiftly and surely as the public works department would stop the flow of waste water from a broken artery that threatened the public’s health and safety.�

McDonnell Property Analytics is also performing an audit of land records in Maricopa, Pima and Pinal counties in Arizona, for plaintiffs in a federal court case.

Lowell Aldrich, an aide to Seattle council member Nick Licata, who initially requested the land records audit, said that they are striving to address the findings at the next meeting of the City Finance Committee on September 23.

This discussion on reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/comments/3lgyoa/leaked_seattle_audit_concludes_many_mortgage/

[PangolinPie]

Her recent blog post, for those following the story:

https://meanderskitchen.wordpress.com/2015/09/18/raw/

[service dog academy]

I have helped to train over 1000 pet dogs in West Seattle and helped to train over 150 service dogs (including 115 medical alert dogs) around the world. The dogs I have personally helped to train keep alive children, mothers, fathers, aunts, uncles, grandfathers and grandmothers on a daily basis. My service dogs help people regain their independence and become contributing members of society again. I have won national and local awards for my dog training, am a published author and a featured speaker for the 6000+ member Association of Professionals Dog Trainer Conference on the topic of service dogs. In order to continue to help people, I now need the help of the community I have served so faithfully. I have started an indiegogo campaign to help with the expenses of purchasing a commercial property to run my service dog classes out of. Donations are very much appreciated, but sharing the campaign with your friends and colleagues helps too. I thank you in advance for helping me help the disabled have a better quality of life.

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/diabetic-medical-alert-dog-training-facility#/story

Mary McNeight, CCS, BGS

Director of Training and Behavior

Service Dog Academy – http://www.servicedogacademy.com

Diabetic Alert Dog University – http://www.diabeticalertdoguniversity.com

Featured Speaker at Association of Professional Dog Trainers Conference 2013

Winner of Dr. Robert Curran New Trix Award 2012

Winner of PAWS Hero Pet 2012

Winner of APDT Train Your Dog Month 2011

[waynster]

can anyone say Western State a fine place for the wondering delusional mind…… what oh no !!! lmao

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnzHtm1jhL4