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I am holding onto my MIL Apt. in Ravenna at just under $800.00 for as long as I can. And PRAY my landlord does not sell the house.......
Except that people who make the median income are getting priced out of the city too.
If it's in the interest of the city to have people of all different incomes live here, then we'll have to subsidize every class that can't afford to live in the city.
Otherwise, you end up with the very rich and the very poor, and the middle class in the suburbs. Not somewhere we want to be.
"the plan for renters would set rents below market rate."
Highly unlikely.
What people usually fail to mention is that if you get a subsidy to build for 80 percent median affordability in a neighborhood like Rainier Beach, then the government is essentially paying you to develop above market rate housing, to accelerate the displacement of poor renters by driving rents up. The averages actually hide what's really going on. The Nickels plan would blow this loophole wide open.
MHD I challenge you to show that there has been a net increase in people below 30 or 40 percent median renting in Seattle over the past 10 years-- not 30 percent median subsidized units, but 30 percent median renters. I don't think you can. All this crap about the very rich and very poor threatening to leave Seattle without a middle class assumes that the poor have lots of rental options in Seattle right now. They don't. And building essentially market rate housing will hardly help the "middle class", who mainly live in the burbs because they don't want to rent in the first place.
Using the traditional 4x income calc, a $350k condo is 'affordable' to those making $87k, not $75k. Insane either way, but I'm just sayin.
I don't see where it is that you think I claimed that the number of renters from low income brackets was increasing over 10 years or any other time frame. In fact, as traditionally poor neighborhoods have become more desirable to upscale people, I'm sure the opposite is true.
What I am saying is that, thanks to subsidized housing, there is a certain floor below which the population of low-income people in Seattle will not fall.
What are you trying to accomplish with subsidized housing? Is it to achieve a diversity of income levels, leading to a more vibrant city? Or do you want everyone who would like to live in the city to be able to afford to?
If the latter, we might as well repeal all zoning height restrictions now, because we've got some building to do. Otherwise, there will always be less housing than there is demand, and prices will go up. Only various government schemes will allow the poor and lower middle class to live in the city at all.
The mayor's move simply establishes a floor for those lower middle class people as well.
Josh -
The reason that the City needs to find ways to support housing for the 60% to 120% median income is because the Feds won't do it (programs cut off at 60%) and the developers won't do it (with construction costs as high as they are - thanks unions - they don't pencil). Fox can scream all he wants for funding below 50%, but those programs already exist - there's already Billions of federal, state and city dollars flowing into them. Meanwhile, there's no safety net for the "average" guy (and remember, 100% median income is about as average as you can get). As MHD correctly points out, without prgrams like the Mayor's we're going to end up with neighborhoods full of the very rich and the very poor.
I wish my salary kept up with the pace housing prices in Seattle. Just saying
It's not that I've got a problem with a program that helps renters who make closer to the median in its own right.
The problem I see is this: Nickels is responding to the failure of a program that's designed help lower income people by shifting it to help someone else. As I said: He's not addressing the problem. He's just changing the measure.
What's your definition of a successful low-income program?
This is like when you're playing Sim City and trying to do things to make people with higher incomes move in and increase the value of your housing.
Except this approach isn't sound in real life and it makes you look like an aristocrat.
I think it's clear that Nickels doesn't give a shit about protecting low wage resident. He wants to maiximize tax revenue, and getting richer people to move in and shove out poorer people is the way to do it.
#6: Residential development is mostly non union, and in fact, employs a lot of under-the-table labor, including for white 20-something dudes. Second, the people buying/renting the 60-120% median rates are those in the 120+ crowd. The arbitrary nature of credit checks and the ability to discriminate based on income seals the deal. Finally, your own business press (outside of the pundits) is attributing the demand for housing to the credit bubble, not taxes or labor or "burdensome regulations".
Santa Barbara recently built city subsidized, "affordable" condos (only $500K? I'll take 2!) for people making up to like $175,000 because the average price of a home there is around $1 M and even doctors, lawyers, etc are priced out. Boggles the mind.
@5: "thanks to subsidized housing, there is a certain floor below which the population of low-income people in Seattle will not fall."
That floor meets less than one tenth the demand for it. It's specious to claim that that problem is solved and that we need to turn our attention to a different one. It's criminal to say it's solved and then take money from services for the poor to give money to people who aren't struggling in the name of diversity. The original affordable housing movement wasn't about diversity. It was about justice for people who otherwise wouldn't have any housing at all. We've got over 2000 people on any given night who can't even find a shelter bed. Why the FUCK are we even talking about "affordable condos"?
@6: "Fox can scream all he wants for funding below 50%, but those programs already exist - there's already Billions of federal, state and city dollars flowing into them."
Average taxpayer have you heard of Reagan? He cut HUD's budget by 80 percent almost immediately. There have been federal rollbacks ever since, with HOPE VI as the coup de grace. Meanwhile, there isn't much state money going into affordable housing. King county has systematically cut its human service spending over the last ten years. City government generally provides a fraction of what's needed for any given city. Now you're asking for even that crumb from the pie to be split up to create a "safety net" for people who aren't in trouble of falling into homelessness and who are well above the poverty level?
For me, politics like this are an indication of decades of displacement's effects on our city's politics. Gentrification is making this a yuppie city in which people talk about diversity instead of justice, and think condo ownership should be an integral part of our social safety net.
12. Make you wonder who out there is buying these homes and where their money is coming from.
This whole thing is a troubling idea. People don't have a right to live in the city. If they can't afford it, there are plenty of cheap places to live elsewhere. Why should it be desirable to force an artificial diversity of income in an area?
There are people who utilize programs like these who are not particularly needy. They are fresh out of college, and want to live in the city because of the activity. I have no problem with them wanting to do that, but that is not something I want to subsidize. When we only use income as qualification, then it is prone to abuses like this.
If a plan like this were to be useful, then it should be more selective. I'd oppose it in any case, but it would be more palatable if applicants were asked to present a case for why they needed to live in the city as opposed to elsewhere.
This is a huge state. We don't all have to be living in the city of Seattle.
Trevor @ 13,
If you're strictly looking to put roofs over the head of people, does it make sense to put them in the most high-demand and expensive places to do it, or in more distant spots with good transit access to jobs in the center (e.g., Burien?)
For the homeless, it's not a question of affordable housing, it's a question of free housing. If you want to divert the whole housing budget into shelters, fine, but subsidies are about keeping the working poor in the city instead of having them move out to the cheaper periphery.
Ryan @15,
You're right that we don't all have a God-given right to live in the city limits. However, if no one below the median income lives in the city, you get Redmond with skyscrapers. No thanks. What makes a city vital is the economic activity and nightlife that tends to serve the young and poor (or at least, less-rich).
Right, those 2,000 people would certainly have homes if only they had access to affordable housing.
16. Or you get San Francisco or New York City, where a la glass ceilings, you get glass walls, where if your income isn't at a certain level, you don't get to live close to the action.
I don't see anything wrong with the nightlife moving to cheaper areas. That could potentially lower the cost of living in Seattle, and it would naturally (rather than artificially) allow people to move back in.
You mentioned high rises in Redmond, but Redmond is more expensive than Seattle in a lot of areas. Still, I wouldn't be opposed to high rises there, but I don't think they would go for it. There are other cheap places to live though. There is plenty of cheap housing in Eastern Washington.
This is the crux of the issue. Why should we be paying for people to be close to the action? That sounds like a luxury, and not a need.
Ryan @19,
You completely misunderstood my metaphor. What I mean that is if all the low income people leave Seattle, Seattle becomes a version of Redmond, except that it has skyscrapers.
There are two main reasons people want to live in Seattle: it's close to work, or because it's not bland like Redmond. Not having income diversity destroys the latter reason; as citizens, we don't want our city to lose the characteristics that we loved in the first place, so we pay for subsidized housing.
You are correct, Josh.
Which is why I will recommend - again - that we build 100-story inexpensive residential apartment buildings with open (non-gated) mini parkland along all major arterials, with 25 percent very low (25K or less), 25 percent low (50K), 25 percent market (75K or less), 25 percent upper (above 75K).
Like Vancouver.
Half solutions won't work.
Most suburbs specifically do not zone for the kind of density that would allow true affordable housing. And even if they did, if you factor in the cost of owning a car, which is a necessity in the burbs, and paying for gas and insurance and maintenance and all that, the affordability of these areas is not as great as you think.
You guys make it sound like a mere quality of life issue, a personal preference, for a person who doesn't own a car to live within an hour's commute (walking, waiting, bus, transfers, etc) of their work (Seattle's service industry workers have to live somewhere). Then try to juggle it with childcare, or access to a grocery store, etc. This isn't about using proletarians to make Seattle hip, for Christ's sake. It's about Seattle being surrounded by a landscape that is even more difficult for low-income people to survive in. We can talk about changing the burbs as part of the solution, about sane city planning and public transportation. But until that change happens, Seattle needs to do its best to really preserve and expand its 50 percent median and below housing stock.
By the way affordable housing includes transitional housing, for those who think that the issue is somehow unrelated to homelessness. You might not solve homelessness by investing a few million dollars on it, but at least you're not giving it away to someone who doesn't need it, or subsidizing someone's investment in the housing market without even getting a return on your money.
I did miss the metaphor, and I now understand what you mean.
You make a very good point, and I assume that you would be in favor of the changes Nickels is proposing. His plan does increase income diversity, and does address a real problem for some people. I would think it would be difficult for anyone making $49,000 a year to live in Seattle with the rising costs of housing.
I do think you overestimate the influence of wealth on nightlife however. Part of the reason Redmond is dull in comparison to Seattle is the ratio of families to singles. If you go to a country town with low incomes, there is not a thriving nightlife. Poor people don't necessarily party harder. Single people do (or even couples without children).
Ryan @24,
You're right; strictly from a perspective of nightlife, marital status > income. But I'm using that as a shorthand for a lot of things, such as having an immigrant population that's part of the city's life.
To be honest, I haven't completely thought through all the benefits of income diversity of the city, but I believe it's a valuable thing to have.
Right, Ryan. Living in Seattle is a luxury. My poor uneducated foreign ass belongs in Federal Way and the daughters of educated whites belong in Fremont. Thanks for clearing that up.
But it is a quality of life issue! Living in the suburbs is possible without a car, it's just incredibly inconvenient.
If you want to define the need for subsidized housing narrowly enough to only capture those who can't afford cars, there's plenty of it to go around. Many of the families that live across the street from me in Section 8 housing have a car.
Given that there are a finite number of places in the city, I'm not sure I see the moral content in spending government dollars to allocate one of those places to a very poor person over a lower-middle-class one, which is the ultimate effect of many of these programs.
That is a pretty racist thing to say. To suggest that only whites can make the money to live in Seattle is a slap in the face to every non-white person. While being uneducated might be a reason living in an expensive place is out of reach, being non-white or foreign born certainly isn't.
There are plenty of educated people who can't afford to live in Seattle either. What's wrong with that? Living in Seattle isn't a right. If someone wants to be there, they should have to earn it. Just like anything else.
Besides, its not like living in Federal Way (your example) means one can't commute to Seattle. It is just less convenient. Should convenience really be subsidized?
If you think a person earning $49k is a lower middle income individual worthy of government subsidy - there are still tens of thousands of unsubsidized renters who are hanging on in Seattle paying $800 or less per month in rent who would surely beg to differ with you.
This new subsidy will pretty much guarantee that it's more profitable to tear down their homes and build new $1100+ per month apartments (and only 70% of the units even have to go for that). We should not subsidize the displacement of what is left of the truly affordable rental housing stock in this City, and that's EXACTLY what this developer giveaway does.
This proposal is fucking obscene - pure and simple.
Whatever, Ryan. Take a look at Belltown condos and Wallingford neighborhoods and tell me what you see.
Predictably, Ryan, you desperately are trying to deflect discussion away from your stuck-up philosophically classist commentary.
Why live in Seattle if you can't live IN Seattle? If I wanted to take a 45 minute bus ride to go hang out somewhere, I'd have lived somewhere else.
This isn't about rights, it's about the Mayor actively trying to price out the working and middle classes. Everyone has the right to live in Seattle. It's a matter of affordability. No greater power has the authority to decide whether or not I deserve to live in Seattle, and you sure as hell don't.
Quit trying to derail the discussion with philosophical irrelevance.
Mr.X @ 29
I don't think anyone is "worthy" of a government subsidy unless there is no place in the region that they can truly afford to live. I don't ascribe some magical notion of livability to the city limit.
However, I think any community benefits from having all income levels present - 10% 30%, 50%, or 90% of the median. If the prevailing market rate prices any of these groups completely out of the city's neighborhoods, I'd like my government to do something about it.
I'd certainly agree, also, that the long term solution is boosting density to increase the housing stock and bring prices down, as Will In Seattle said.
I don't particularly buy into social classes based on income levels. Let's say you have someone who makes $100K a year. Now, let's say they lose their job and for whatever reason can only find employment that offers $30K a year. Are they suddenly a different person? Of course not.
As for deserving to live in Seattle... No one deserves to live in Seattle. It is a place to live, and it costs a certain amount to live here. Why should a certain set of people get a free pass just because they don't earn as much?
I've heard the magic number of $800/month for rent thrown around here. It is possible to live in Seattle right now for less than that without subsidies. If you are willing to live with roommates any determined person who wants to live here can make it work.
And I think it's lunacy to create production/density incentives that DESTROY what is left of the housing that is actually affordable - without any government subsidies - for working people in this City.
I'm all for subsidizing housing at below 30% of median (as those are the people who are most at risk of being priced out of Seattle, and exist at an income level that most good government types have traditionally agreed actually IS worthy of public subsidies), but to force longtime residents to subsidize housing that would be built anyway (have you noticed a shortage of cranes around town?) through tax breaks is just wrong, and to force them to subsidize policies that encourage their own displacement is doubly idiotic.
Put it this way - should someone who lives in a one bedroom apt in an older building and pays $650 per month be forced to subsidize the construction of new units that will rent at almost $1200 per month? Because that's EXACTLY what this proposal does.
When the Mayor's flacks talk about this subsidy being aimed at units that will rent for $50 a month less than what market rates would be - people need to understand that is they are talking about the market rate for BRAND NEW housing - not the rental levels at which tens of thousands of older units are priced.
Will in Seattle is sadly mistaken if he thinks that we can produce our way out of that problem - once you tear down those $600-800/month units, it will take literally decades for the rental price of new units to fall to comparable (inflation adjusted, of course) levels.
Like I said, fucking obscene.
'Deserve to live' is a better choice of words for you point than 'have a right to live', Ryan, so I have to give you credit there. I can agree with that assessment: no one deserves to live anywhere.
And I will admit that I have met the magic number, but not by much: I pay less than $800 a month for my place here in Seattle, and that's after having my rent recently raised.
I don't consider controls so much a subsidation as a reeling in of out of control prices set by external forces (namely, brokers and owners trying to abuse a rising demand and force out the incumbent population in the name of pulling a few extra bucks). No one's suggesting we hand out anything, only that we keep pricing within a reasonable scope for most of the population instead of letting it get to where you have to be in the top 10% of earners just to afford a place.
Last time I checked, and this was about 5 years ago, there was a wait list of over 10,000 people for section 8 vouchers, and sha wasn't taking new people on the list. Checking in again today, I guess the've triaged the wait list down to about 4000, and they don't plan on adding to it for at least another year. Hardly the "plenty" you describe, or anywhere close to meeting demand.
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Mr. X @ 33,
Upon further reflection, you're right. The scenario you describe is flat out obscene. As is often the case, market-distorting subsidies lead to all kinds of unintended consequences.
A sensible amendment to the Mayor's policy would disallow the tax break when it involves destroying even lower-income housing, unless there's a dramatic increase in the number of units.
I still think living in the city is a privilege, but subsidising your own eviction is criminal.
Trevor @35,
That's not what I said. Obviously, many Section 8 renters own cars, and therefore could live in the suburbs without extraordinary inconvenience.
I suspect that if you turfed out those that owned cars, those 4000 people would get their vouchers.
Thanks for taking a minute to try and understand the point I'm making. So many young Stranger readers (and, more unfortunately, their writers) have bought into a trickle-down view of housing supply and demand - and it pains me to see otherwise progressive people buying into supply-side arguments that would do David Stockman (the man behind "Reaganomics") proud.
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He may be the new face of the Sharks, but the soft-spoken Couture isn't likely to be their voice -- unless he's singing. Should he ever DJ in the dressing room, expect to hear a lot of Drake, a fellow Canadian and Blue Jays fan. "Drake can sing, he can rap and I like the lyrics," says Couture, who often tweets Drizzy's lyrics to his almost 157,000 Twitter followers and occasionally even croons along -- quietly. "He keeps it kind of low," says teammate Jason Demers. "I wouldn't say he's Michael Jackson, but he's not terrible."
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This course was chosen as one of Golf Digest's Best Places to Play.
Home to catfish, walleye, northern pike, bass, pan fish, picnic and recreation.
This site's 5,500 acres make up one of the largest and most used hunting and field trailing areas in the state. It also offers camping, picnicking, boating, fishing, two small natural areas and 12 miles of equestrian trails with cross-country jumps.
Largest open space in northeast Illinois.
The Gemini Giant is a landmark statue on U.S. Route 66. The 30 foot tall statue is named after the Gemini space program and holds a silver "rocket ship" in his hands, while sporting an astronaut's space helmet that looks more like a welding mask.
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Forest preserve nature center designed to educate the public about the importance of wildlife and our environment.
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Cemetery Trail in Palos lives up to its name with narrow tracks that snake through dense foliage. A must ride for any thrill-seeking trekking enthusiast.
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Are you a mini golf pro? Bring the family to Tinley Junction, an 18-hole miniature golf course with a garden railroad theme. All Aboard!
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For the Record
Emergency Notes
Published: Monday, November 7, 2005 at 4:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Monday, November 7, 2005 at 12:00 a.m.
Henderson County fire calls
The Henderson County Fire Commission reported the following alarms between noon Saturday and noon Sunday:
Blue Ridge, routine, no address listed, 1:20 p.m.; structure fire, 92 Cedar Bluffs Drive, 2:33 p.m.; respiratory distress, no address listed, 4:23 p.m.; assist invalid, no address listed, 8:22 a.m.
Dana, structure fire, 92 Cedar Bluffs Drive, 2:28 p.m.; respiratory distress, no address listed, 4:23 p.m.; emergency, no address listed, 5:43 a.m.
Edneyville, public service call, U.S. 64 East, 2:13 p.m.; structure fire, 92 Cedar Bluffs Drive, 2:27 p.m.; auto accident, Laycock Road, 9:56 p.m.
Etowah-Horse Shoe, victim down, no address listed, 1:25 p.m.; auto accident, Holly Springs Road, 8:05 p.m.; victim down, no address listed, 10:12 p.m.; victim down, no address listed, 12:51 a.m.
Fletcher, lifeline call, no address listed, 12:36 p.m.; broken bone, no address listed, 2:20 p.m.; all other, 417 Terry's Gap Road, 8:01 p.m.; victim down, no address listed, 11:53 p.m.
Mills River, auto accident, 103 Perfection lane, 2:12 p.m.
Mountain Home, structure fire, 92 Cedar Bluffs Drive, 2:29 p.m.; victim down, no address listed, 3:28 p.m.; health/welfare check, no address listed, 6:03 a.m.; suspicious person, no address listed, 10:37 a.m.
Saluda, routine call, no address listed, 3:42 p.m.
Valley Hill, missing person, no address listed, 1:33 p.m.; victim down, no address listed, 4:38 p.m.; emergency, no address listed, 8:01 p.m.
Hendersonville fire calls
The Hendersonville Fire Department responded to the following calls from noon Saturday to noon Sunday:
Structure fire, 92 Cedar Bluffs Drive, 2:28 p.m.
Broken bone, no address listed, 5:17 p.m.
Henderson County EMS
The Henderson County Emergency Medical Service reported the following calls between 5 p.m. Saturday and 5 p.m. Sunday:
Nine routine transports.
12 medical emergencies, 12 people transported.
Two motor vehicle accidents, two persons transported.
Three calls ambulance not needed.
Crime Report
Henderson County Sheriff
The Henderson County Sheriff's Department responded to 270 calls Saturday. Deputies served four warrants and provided two assists to other agencies.
Hendersonville Police
The Hendersonville Police Department reported 143 calls Saturday. Officers made 20 arrests, investigated two accidents and provided no assists to other agencies.
Henderson County arrests
The Hendersonville Police Department and the Henderson County Sheriff's Department reported one felony arrest Saturday:
John Sandlin, 41, of South Jones Street, charged with failing to heed light or siren, driving while license is revoked, careless and reckless driving, $3,100 secured bond.
The following crimes and incidents were reported Saturday, according to law enforcement records:
Henderson CountySheriff's Department
Breaking and entering and larceny, Connelly Road, 10:51 a.m.
Domestic call, Rugby Drive, 11:12 a.m.
Domestic situation, no address listed, 11:40 a.m.
Larceny, S. Mapleton Drive, 12:34 p.m.
Larceny, Glover Street, 2:18 p.m.
Domestic situation, no address listed, 5:19 p.m.
Other investigation, Anderson Lane, 5:23 p.m.
HendersonvillePolice Department
Accident, property damage, Oak Street, 3:30 a.m.
Security check, Main Street, 4:43 a.m.
Security check, 7th Avenue East, 5:14 a.m.
Larceny, U.S. 25 North, 6:51 a.m.
Larceny, West Allen Street, 7:45 a.m.
Disturbance, Goldfinch Drive, 2:06 p.m.
Drug activity, Duncan Hill Drive, 4:35 p.m.
Accident, property damage, hit and run, Upward Road, 8 p.m.
Fletcher Police Department
Traffic stop, U.S. 25North, 12:03 a.m.
Traffic stop, Fanning Bridge Road, 12:57 a.m.
Traffic stop, U.S. 25 North, 3:09 a.m.
Suspicious vehicle, Fanning Bridge Road/U.S. 280, 6:50 a.m.
Traffic stop, U.S. 25 North, 8:43 a.m.
Assist other agency, Westfelt Park, 10:20 a.m.
Traffic stop, Airport Road, 3:04 p.m.
Traffic stop, U.S. 25 North, 8:05 p.m.
Traffic stop, Fanning Bridge Road/Ag Center, 8:59 p.m.
Suspicious vehicle, Underwood Road, 9:35 p.m.
Traffic stop, Mills Gap Road/Borg Warner, 10:04 p.m.
Traffic stop, U.S. 280/Fletcher BMW, 11:48 p.m.
Prowler, 104 Riverbirch Drive, 12:04 a.m.
Extra security, St. Johns Marketplace, 12:45 a.m.
Assist other agency, Airport Road/Old Fanning Bridge Road, 1:15 a.m.
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Pretty sure stock is 550 all the time.
Are you kidding? I'm guessing within two weeks it's rooted again.
This is how I do it. Make sure you've got your old one backed up.
adb shell
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Try the app "Missed Reminder" -- works good for me.
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Your sig made me lol.
I think there is an OTA update going around, but I don't think it's 2.1 yet. I heard it's some sort of maintenance update, just fixes and...
I think if you're back to the stock recovery then you'll get the OTA updates. It was my understanding that it was the custom recovery...
What version of sprecovery are you running?
What audio? I have a droid and their is no audio on bootup. Does the Nexus have audio?
I dont think so -- the 2.1 update most likely wipes out the SPrecovery with the standard recovery console, meaning any nandroid backups you've...
Yeah I don't think it'll let you delete the old browser.apk unless you have root. Or maybe it will? I'm honestly not sure. I'd root anyway. It...
I had this problem when I first did it too. I'm not sure what the .odex file is, but it didn't seem to make a difference for me either.
I'm just telling you what I heard. Google is your friend.
It's been known that the nexus live wallpaper hasn't worked for awhile now.
If I understood it correctly, multi-touch was not enabled in the software because of patent issues with Apple.
Milestone's browser is multi-touch enabled.
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Want to edit the footer in Forever theme but cannot find how to do this despite spending hours trying to google a solution.
Can anyone help me please?
Want to edit the footer in Forever theme but cannot find how to do this despite spending hours trying to google a solution.
Can anyone help me please?
What exactly are you trying to make happen in the footer area? Are you trying to change the content or the style, for example?
Hi Tareq,
I am wanting to edit the Powered by WordPress bit and also add a couple of lines of my own text. (happy to keep the credit to the theme designer).
btw thanks for responding so quickly :-)
No problem, this is really testing my knowledge though!
I will have to get back to you, I'll try not to be too long!
Found it,
The code you'll need to edit is in
colophon.php - you can get to that file in the editor, or if you're using an FTP program, that'll work too.
Basically remove:
Proudly powered by WordPress
from that file and save!
Then if you refresh the page it will only show the credits for the Theme Author.
Have you made a Child Theme or are you editing the main Theme files?
Hi Tareq,
Thank you SO much! Colophon.php was probably the only file I didn't check. Typical.
You are a life saver. I have spent too many hours trying to solve this - should have asked here first.
Thank you so much, I can't express my gratitude for not only the time you've taken to help me, but for responding so quickly. Much appreciated.
btw just learning this stuff so have no idea what you mean by Child Theme. But will endeavour to educate myself on this.
You're welcome. Glad I could help!
In short, a Child Theme is a copy of the Main Theme directory. It's important especially if you're theme were to be updated (without a child theme, you would have to re-edit the code/CSS).
More info here.
If there's anything else I can help with, let me know and I will do my best.
hi, i am also new to web building.
i would like to edit the default wordpress footer on my forever themed webpage to say "copywrite mais la 2014"
i also looked into child themes and have no idea where to find those files after much searching.
any assistance is much appreciated!
my site is maisla.com
You should start a new support request really but as you're here, I will help.
You won't find a child theme as an actual product, you have to create this yourself or use a child theme plugin from the repository.
Once you have done that copy the
colophon.php from within the Theme's Folder 'forever' into your child theme, then edit that file to your requirements.
thank you so much for your guidance
i installed
Child Theme Configurator into my plug ins.
i have copied the colophon.php from the editor page
which of these do i drop it into?
sorry, i have NO CLUE what i am doing.
thank you again
thank you for your help, i am starting a new topic on the forum...
my apologies, i should have read over the forum etiquette first!
Nah it's not a problem, just it will show up with 1 post (your original post) and more people will look at it and try to help!
P.s. drop colophon.php into the root of the child theme directory.
In your case it would be in the folder:
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Not perfect, but it is an improvement over a BCS system that was an improvement
over the previous decades - good step for the NCAA.
Can't imagine Utah or BYU will get here very much, if ever. 12-0 or 11-1 Utah teams in the PAC 12 seems unrealistic, and while independent 12-0 BYU seems more possible, the committee will likely weed them out based on strength of schedule in years like that.
- 10:29 a.m. April 24, 2013
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A playoff with what, 4 teams? That ain't a playoff. Only when they have at least a 16-team playoff will I call it a playoff.
- 10:42 a.m. April 24, 2013
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I think they should make an 8 team playoff, with the winners of the 6 "significant" conferences each earning an automatic bid, and the remaining 2 being the highest 2 remaining teams from "significant" conferences.
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Now I can see it what they are up to. Boise State not going to like it if they stay with mwc and BYU will stay at Independent. The bcs system does allow one more for have nots getting in but this new 4 team playoff will keep them out along others (conferance usa, mwc and etc.). I can see it coming sometime 20 years later having 8 team playoff and still will not allow those have nots. Oh well, might as well forget about college football all together. Can you tell those Commish smiling in front of the camera.
- 11:14 a.m. April 24, 2013
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Money speaks louder then anything. If you look at March Madness they are trying
to add more teams every year...because they want more money.
As soon as they see a potential for more money they will expand. I predict 5 years from now we will see an 8 team playoff and no more then 10 years there will be a 16 team playoff.
Money from a 16 team College Football Playoff will put March Madness to shame. I don't see how they can resit that.
- 11:42 a.m. April 24, 2013
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What the four team playoff means is that no school other than Oregon or USC is going to have a shot at the championship. Same with the B1G (Ohio State, Michigan and Nebraska). Until it expands, it still means that BYU and Utah will be left out.
- 1:28 p.m. April 24, 2013
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No, they should make it an 8-team playoff with the 8 highest ranked teams, regardless of conference. If the PAC 10.2 champion isn't good enough to be ranked in the Top 8, they don't deserve to be playing in the national championship tournament.
Regardless, the Utes will never be a "significant" contender, so you needn't worry yourself about Utah's prospects of receiving a berth in the playoff.
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@ utebusters..."Regardless, the Utes will never be a "significant"
contender, so you needn't worry yourself about Utah's prospects of
receiving a berth in the playoff."
Neither will the cougies so not sure what your point is. Nice screen name by the way shows how obsessed you are with everything Utes, I love it!
- 8:26 a.m. April 25, 2013
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Chris B:
"I think they should make an 8 team playoff, with the winners of the 6 'significant' conferences each earning an automatic bid."
There are only 5 "significant" conferences. The Big [L]East had already been talked about being downgraded to mid-major status. And rightly so. The MWC was a better football league since at LEAST 2008, and THAT was the OLD Big [L]East. Seriously...had you SEEN what the Big [L]East will look like next year?
Cincinnati, Temple, UConn, USF, UCF, E. Carolina, Memphis, Tulsa, SMU, Houston, and Tulane?
And they'll eventually add Navy, but even then, you couldn't honestly rank THIS league in the same company as Pac-12, Big 12, B1G, ACC, or SEC. They're nothing more than a glorified C-USA outfit.
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Jarrahdale is a delightful little historic town right in the Darling Range 47km south east of Perth. The town?s name came about because of the surrounding best Jarrah Forrests in Western Australia. During the 1870?s there were a large number of timber concessions granted in this area and because of it, some 50 houses were built (mostly from cut offs) and a small community evolved. A store and workshop opened, then a mill followed by a school. The railway finally came into the area to transport the timber through Mudijong to Rockingham. The town thrived although it took some time for the government to declare Jarrahdale a town and that didn?t happen until 1913.
This historic little town which was official classified in 1997, has some lovely old heritage buildings and museum collections. There are plenty of arts and crafts and tea gardens to enjoy. There are also some beautiful walk trails through the parks in the area not to mention lovely picnic spots. You can find some wonderful accommodation also in the B & B?s in the area. Unique in themselves is the modified and restored railway carriages which sleep two to four people. This beautiful rural area has inspired many artists and crafts people to make Jarrahdale their home. The Jarrahdale Heritage Park is well on the way to becoming a major Western Australian tourism attraction.
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I love this small places, bit of wine, chestnut tree's, the old cottages. very nice here ..great page
Nice simple place :-)))
Great page on this little town from down under! Looks like some great hiking trails, fun stuff and wine tasting too!Thanks :o)
A good and well thought out historical percepective. This makes for a very interesting reading, excellent pictures!
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Historical Traveler Reviews Beacon Inn 1750 Brookline
The most stressful part of my wedding weekend was the Beacon Inn
I reserved rooms at the 1750 location for my out-of-town guests at for my wedding, and a room for my husband and I the night after the wedding. We settled on a special group rate with a manager, but when guests called to reserve their rooms, they were given different rates. Finally, the day before the guests were due to arrive, I called to confirm the rooms, that my grandmother had a ground floor room, etc., and discovered that they had given away rooms that were supposed to be reserved for wedding guests, leaving several of my family members with no rooms 2 days before the wedding! They offered no help in finding extra rooms. Later, the night after the wedding, my husband and I arrived late at the hotel to discover that our parking spot had been taken, and we had to park about a half mile away and walk to the hotel! When we finally settled in to sleep, we heard loud noises in the stairwell and music coming from another room (around 3-4am!). I finally went to investigate, and discovered that it was the DESK STAFF that was having the party!!! When some of our guests complained to the desk the next day that they had been awakened, the desk staff told them it was the bridal party making the noise! This place was really too bad to be belived. I wrote the manager and he did refund one night of my stay, but I would never, ever go back there. My husband and I were exhausted for our morning-after brunch, and guests had to travel back home with little sleep. I wish we had stayed in our own apartment for our wedding night - it would have been more peaceful, more romantic, and we would have gotten much, much better sleep. The displaced guests stayed at the Holdiay Inn Brookline, which seemed to offer a much better experience, and they were certainly much more organized about blocking rooms for a large party, though most of our guests mistakenly stayed at the Beacon Inn.
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No breakfast is served....rooms were not clean....I was charged $10.00 to store my luggage for 2 hours after checkout.
Transportation is a hassle....nothing is close to the Beacon Inn although the subway is a short walk. If you are sightseeing this is not the place to go.
For the price I easily could have gotten a nice hotel room downtown. Staying at the Beacon was the worst part of my family's trip.
Inn Despair
We spent a weekend at the Beacon Inn recently and were terribly disappointed. We reserved a specific room, called the day before to be certain that we had the room specified and were told we did. When we arrived, we were taken to a different room which was also the emergency exit. When we questioned why the switch, we were told that it was to best accommodate all guests. Having stayed at B&B's before, it is pretty standard that when you reserve a room, the room is then taken off the market. Not so here. In speaking with others at the Inn that weekend, they also did not get the room requested. It would appear it is a bait and switch technique. We requested to speak to the manager who was unavailable and remains so to this day. We were offered the option of staying in a room next door which we looked into but it appeared we were going from bad to worse - strong odor of methane gas or a decaying animal in the room. We had reservation for later in the year which we immediately cancelled. There is no sense of accommodation to the customer - it is their way and no deviation. As for the review that spoke of fresh baked blueberry muffins - was that even at the same inn??? In spite of the convenient location, this is not a place that I consider safe to stay in, not terribly clean and certainly not at all interested in being accommodating.
Hated the Beacon Inn in Brookline!
I stayed at the Beacon Inn in April 2005, during the Boston Marathon weekend. I was very disappointed with the hotel! The front desk staff were highly incompetent, the hotel manager was overtly rude, the rooms looked nothing like they do on the website, and the "free breakfast" is a joke (they set out a plate of english muffins on a table - there is no breakfast room).
Although the location of the hotel is very convenient, one can stay at a Hilton or a Marriot for the price of a room here - The Beacon Inn is a complete rip off - next year when I run the marathon, I will definitely stay somewhere else!
The best hotel in America
We arrived in Boston to much confusion over accomodation. The tourist information was less than helpful, and we were stuck in the cold with nowhere to go. From out of nowhere however, a stranger suggested the 'Beacon inn' on beacon street, and we looked it up. We arrived to cheery staff, an excellent room, and a gracious offer to use their laundry facilities, free of charge! The next day, we chose to extend our stay, and moved to a larger room. Not only did they let us keep the incredible rate, the room was fanstastic. Well kept, great location, what more can you ask of a hotel. All in all, great stay, and will stay again.
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Great stay at 1087 Beacon Street
I stayed at the Beacon Inn during the Head of the Charles/World Series weekend and was pleasantly surprised. The historic building is quite nice, the rooms were clean, and the T stopped across the street. The location is excellent and the price is amazingly cheap considering how close you are to Fenway Park, the Charles River, the Museum of Fine Arts and the T.
The innkeeper was extremely helpful and friendly to all guests. He even mailed me a few souvenirs which I accidentally forgot in the lobby.
In response to the Nov. 4 review, the breakfast was not advertised as a full meal and the inn is a budget accommodation. The muffins, bagels and coffee provided were fine. If you are expecting more then pay twice as much for the same room at another hotel.
Great Place, Great people!!
My husband and I just came back from a wonderful July trip to Boston and we will definitely be back to the Beacon Inn time and time again! We stayed at the 1087 location just five blocks from Fenway Park! A beautiful historic building with the most hospitable staff one could ask for. They truly cared for our every need and we greatly appreciated it. The warm smell of blueberry muffins baked by the Innkeeper and his wife, woke us in the morning with a fresh cup of gourmet coffee and we were given endless sightseeing ideas from the wonderful staff! The Innkeeper made us feel so welcome and really gave us an authentic feeling of Boston. If you're looking for the unique Inn experience instead of a bland hotel, we recommend the Beacon Inn at either of it's locations. Thank you so much for a memorable time and we'll be seeing you all soon!!
No help at the Beacon Inn
We stayed at the Beacon Inn, 1087 Beacon Street, Brookline, MA, influenced by the website, which proclaims, "We pride ourselves on our unique setting, convenient location and high level of service." We were satisfied with the setting and the location, but the service left much to be desired, and left us with bad memories of our stay.
The Inn had lost its parking spaces before our arrival, but the manager informed us that they could park our car at the Inn's other location, which was about a "5 minute trip" on the T (Boston's public transit), and would only take 20 minutes to retrieve. We were somewhat disconcerted to learn that we would be charged a $15 nightly fee for the convenience of having our car parked over 2 miles away, but it was too late to demur (we had been told nothing about this beforehand).
We wanted to make a trip out of town, and gave the manager an hour's notice that we needed the car. An hour passed...no sign of the car. He first maintained that his wife was en route, but it transpired that she was shopping, and had not yet set off. We had wasted enough time, and so we elected to take the T, and retrieve the car ourselves (a process that in fact took between over 40 minutes). We found the car at the other location, but were mortified to find that it car had been left in a public alley, unlocked, with the key in the ignition. Upon our return, we were further inconvenienced by the manager's assurance that the T to return us to our hotel would run until 1:30am; as we waited at 1:00am, a passerby informed us that the last T had passed at around 12:30. We took a cab back to the hotel.
We checked out the next day, but the manager was less than enthusiastic about fetching our car for us...apparently the ridiculous parking situation was our problem! I politely requested one day's parking fee refund, given that we had wasted over an hour of our time, but he refused on "company policy" and offered no apology for the lack of care which the hotel's employees had shown.
Great disappointment.
The Beacon Inn, 1087 Beacon Street, Brookline.We chose this inn from many on the internet. What a huge disappointment. Dirty room, appalling bathroom with black mould on the shower curtain. Lethal electtrics around the room and 'managed' by youngsters who were not allowed to give out the name of the owners. No breakfast snacks or fresh coffee available, nor even a member of staff present to attend to it.A clear case of an establishment totally misrepresented by its website. We had difficulty in finding alternative accommodation but fortunately managed to do so after hours on the phone before our return to Boston.We have written to the hotel but do not expect mugh in the way of a reply.
Very Pleasant
We recently spent a long weekend in Boston and found out about the Beacon Inn browsing online. The room was very quaint, as was the whole building. It is a very simple hotel, no breakfast, but great resturants were just a block away. It was great for the relativly low price, and the location, not right in Boston, worked out well because it was very quiet. We'd definitley stay there again!
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Swinging by the Chanel Boutique in Beverly Hills, California, while doing her daily shopping, Rachel Bilson looked chic in a Levi's denim jacket and black skinny jeans. I love her Chloe Horsehoe bag, it's not even in stores yet!
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Brittany Snow and one of her good friends Vanessa Hudgens were having a girly day out in Los Angeles, California. They had manicures and pedicures at their local nail salon and then enjoyed some Starbucks drinks. Brittany was wearing a pair of Levi's jeans tucked into some black boots with a brown leather jacket. She looks pretty good, I like the colour differences in her outfit. Vanessa looks cute too in those lace printed pants.
Matthew McConaughey in Levi's
The hot and sexy Matthew McConaughey was playing football with his son in Pasadena, California, wearing a washed out pair of old Levi's jeans. I find it so cute that his son is called Levi! I'm a huge fan of Matthew's movies, I love the romance stories that he normally stars in. Looks like he is having a fun time!
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"Doctors are Handing Out these Drugs like Pez."
Perhaps even more frightening than the news that popular sleep aid Ambien apparently causes people to get out of bed, get in their cars, and urinate in the street, is this warning label on the latest sleep drug to be widely marketed in the US, Lunesta:
Lunesta should only be taken immediately before bedtime. Be sure you have at least eight hours to devote to sleep before becoming active. You should not engage in any activity after taking Lunesta that requires complete alertness, such as driving a car or operating machinery. You should use extreme care when engaging in these activities the morning after taking Lunesta.
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Sleep medicines may cause a special type of memory loss or "amnesia." When this occurs, a person may not remember what has happened for several hours after taking the medicine. This is usually not a problem since most people fall asleep after taking the medicine. Memory loss can be a problem, however, when sleep medicines are taken while traveling, such as during an airplane flight and the person wakes up before the effect of the medicine is gone. This has been called "traveler's amnesia."
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Microbes often infect the uterus and particularly the endometrium of animals. Infections are most commonly associated with natural service, pregnancy and the post-partum period, leading to inflammation with the elaboration of cytokines, chemokines and prostaglandins. Clinical diseases such as metritis, endometritis and abortion are important causes of infertility. The adaptive immune response to infection has been characterized previously, so the present review aims to highlight the emerging role for innate immunity in the endometrium. The detection of microbes and the innate immune response depends on the detection of pathogen-associated molecular patterns by pattern recognition receptors. The main families of pattern recognition receptors are Toll-like receptors (TLRs), nucleotide oligomerization domain-like receptors, retinoic acid-inducible gene I-like receptors and C-type lectin receptors. These receptors are most often expressed by hematopoietic cells, but the epithelial and stromal cells of the endometrium also possess functional receptors. For example, endometrial cells express TLR4 for recognition of the lipopolysaccharide endotoxin of Gram-negative bacteria, leading to secretion of IL-6, IL-8 and prostaglandin E(2) . It is likely that the epithelial and stromal cells provide a first line of defence in the endometrium to alert hematopoietic cells to the presence of microbes within the uterus.
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Beautycard holders can collect points with almost every purchase in Superdrug and the points can be spent in any Superdrug store or online. It's similar to the Boots Advantage card, which is widely regarded as one of the best loyalty schemes on the high street. But are Superdrug's rewards as good?
For every £1 spent in Superdrug you get one point which is worth 1p. Spend £20 and you get 20p in points. And as a special promotion for the launch you'll be able to get 10 points per pound spent online at Superdrug until Tuesday 7 June.
You can start spending Beautycard points by presenting the card in-store, but only when you've reached 100 points or £1, so you'll need to have spent £100 before you can take advantage of your points.
And you can only redeem the points in 100-point increments, which means you won't be able to get a £1.99 item with 199 points. You'll need 200.
The Boots Advantage card offers bigger rewards with 4 points - or 4p - per pound spent in the store.
Although this sounds much better than the Superdrug deal, you'll need to work out which store is cheaper to be sure of getting the best deal. But because the different stores will be cheaper for different items you'll have your work cut out if you want to do a price and points comparison for everything you buy.
Some of the other best known loyalty schemes are run by major supermarkets. Tesco Clubcard holders earn two points for every pound spent in Tesco or at partners such as energy provider E.ON.
Each point is worth a penny if used for in-store shopping, and they're sent out in vouchers (minimum £1) every three months.
However, Clubcard's big selling point is the reward vouchers scheme. This allows normal vouchers to be traded in for reward vouchers which are worth three times as much. Reward vouchers can then be spent on things including train tickets, days out, travel, gifts and hotel rooms.
Tesco Clubcard's rival is the Nectar card. You can earn Nectar points in numerous places including Sainsburys, BP, Debenhams and Amazon. Every £1 spent usually gains two points. Points are worth an average of 0.5p and can be spent on days out, gifts or shopping discounts at member stores.
However, while these loyalty schemes sound great in theory, it's a good idea to keep an eye on what you're actually getting for your loyalty.
For example, last year Tesco devalued Clubcard points by a quarter - shoppers used to be able to exchange £10 of Clubcard vouchers for £40 of reward vouchers but now it's only £30.
Meanwhile Coca Cola's loyalty scheme, Coke Zone, recently downgraded lots of the items it gives to members. It used to give away a limited number of ipods and cameras. But recently the reward scheme changed and the high value gadgets are gone. Loyal coke drinkers can now only earn items like Coke t-shirts or baseball caps, which aren't so appealing.
So, are loyalty cards worth it? Well, it depends on how often you use the store in question and whether it's cheaper than rivals. If you're a regular user of a certain retailer already then it makes sense to be rewarded for your loyalty.
For example, if you spend £100 a week at Tesco, you'll earn 200 points each shop, or 10,400 points a year. That works out at £104 a year in grocery vouchers or £312 worth of Clubcard rewards.
Spending just a tenner a week in Boots would earn you 40 points a week, or 2,080 points a year. That's £20.80 annually – enough for a nice treat.
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