tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4168226467276398541.comments2021-10-22T04:57:16.903-07:00Preserve Lincoln ParkMark Ahlnesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17272987393319865752noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4168226467276398541.post-79358168212274343702021-09-08T21:19:47.860-07:002021-09-08T21:19:47.860-07:00Free Blackjack Play blackjack for fun with greater...Free Blackjack Play blackjack for fun with greater than 35 free blackjack video games on this <a href="https://jancasino.com/" rel="nofollow">우리카지노</a> web pageRonald Bobbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15656093407976173540noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4168226467276398541.post-81650885571238482812021-09-08T08:03:04.923-07:002021-09-08T08:03:04.923-07:00There is also 카지노사이트 a number of Video Poker varia...There is also <a href="https://jancasino.com/" rel="nofollow">카지노사이트</a> a number of Video Poker variants that awaits youKathy Leannehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09791419655078745013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4168226467276398541.post-61074045958923132112021-09-08T03:39:39.745-07:002021-09-08T03:39:39.745-07:00You can play most slot video games, variations and...You can play most slot video games, variations and themes at no cost together with a few of the huge names like Star Trek, Monopoly, Twilight Zone <a href="https://jancasino.com/" rel="nofollow">카지노사이트</a> and othersBillie Sarinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15332984413823156620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4168226467276398541.post-84980667925500293242012-07-12T08:09:11.077-07:002012-07-12T08:09:11.077-07:00Nice job Siobhan! 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So well written...she must have had good teachers!Denisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12936958001429748389noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4168226467276398541.post-39752005717587795602012-07-09T23:46:06.241-07:002012-07-09T23:46:06.241-07:00Yes, donate here:http://seattleparksfoundation.org...Yes, donate here:http://seattleparksfoundation.org/rebeccahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07691646160796842491noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4168226467276398541.post-23193318201895695812012-07-09T09:55:51.785-07:002012-07-09T09:55:51.785-07:00Just. Emailed - I think Rob's about to call......Just. Emailed - I think Rob's about to call....<br /><br />-TrileighAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4168226467276398541.post-28232866877134613782012-07-09T09:36:12.652-07:002012-07-09T09:36:12.652-07:00I just sent an email in...I just sent an email in...Mark Ahlnesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17272987393319865752noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4168226467276398541.post-61480130198119903182012-07-09T09:18:59.804-07:002012-07-09T09:18:59.804-07:00the mayor is on KUOW weekday right now. will anyo...the mayor is on KUOW weekday right now. will anyone call him and ask him about this Go Ape proposal? (I would but I'm at work)Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01521862309445158614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4168226467276398541.post-91627835809324914492012-07-08T08:31:20.547-07:002012-07-08T08:31:20.547-07:00I'd like to offer another bit of wording when ...I'd like to offer another bit of wording when talking to people that is sure to elicit a more consistently negative response to the plan. The city has a plan to give the British Go Ape corporation 6 to 9 acres of Seattle's most pristine natural forest here in Lincoln Park to "commercially develop" into a privately run pricy treetop zipline and Tarzan swing course (or "Tarzan theme park", as I like to call it). I believe using the term "commercially develop" is both quite accurate and will get 99% of those hearing it strongly opposed.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07784630752552908148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4168226467276398541.post-81259670340710465192012-07-08T07:31:39.067-07:002012-07-08T07:31:39.067-07:00I totally agree. I also feel that one of the ways...I totally agree. I also feel that one of the ways to fight it is to acknowledge the funding difficulties the parks are having and see if there is a constructive way to address that. Ie don't just fight 'em, join 'em.Mary Zartshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01509805692507053027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4168226467276398541.post-82351210235271483322012-07-08T07:13:10.274-07:002012-07-08T07:13:10.274-07:00If funding is the key issue here, perhaps this wil...If funding is the key issue here, perhaps this will provide a nexus for figuring out an alternative. I would donate every month...a small amount. Is there a way to do this? in other places I've lived (like Salt Lake City) they have had a sales tax that supports Zoos, Arts and Parks, but WA is so top-heavy with sales tax already, it seems like another method would be needed...just thinkin'.Mary Zartshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01509805692507053027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4168226467276398541.post-91670375823000505522012-07-07T19:33:13.399-07:002012-07-07T19:33:13.399-07:00I have now repeatedly seen the Go Ape thing at Lin...I have now repeatedly seen the Go Ape thing at Lincoln Park called the “zipline”, or the “ropes and zipline course”. I'd like to say that I don't think this clarifies the strong negative nuance to a high enough percentage of our audience. Some would call the cable that kids slide down at the playgound at the south end of the park a “zipline”, and that “zipline” doesn't look so terrible. I will argue that “framing” is very important to getting the response you most want from your audience. “Framing” is how we phrase and present our wording so that that audience gets as much of the spin you intend as possible. (there is a book by George Lakoff “Don't Think of an Elephant” that discusses this) Similarly, the Republican strategist Frank Luntz is famous for using “focus groups” to study wording to decide which phraseology will give them the response they want, which helps them then deliver their “talking points” to the media people and legislators that they control. These carefully chosen “talking points” are a critical part of their success in getting people to accept their side of the arguments.<br /><br />So I will argue that we do our best to always choose phrasing that most clearly and strongly delivers the negatives of this project to the audience we are: talking to; writing to; or broadcasting to - the best we can, without adding too many words or being so negative that our audience shuts us out. For example, I prefer to call it the “Tarzan theme park”. Alternately we can talk about the city of Seattle “giving” “6 - 9 acres” of “the most pristine remaining natural area left in Seattle” to a “private” “British” “corporation” for a “pricy” “Tarzan theme park”, that will “take up most of the remaining available parking” and “fill the park with the sounds of screaming” kids and overgrown kids using their ziplines, and Tarzan swings. While rich kids will be able to swing and zip for $35 a turn, the kids without $35 will be able to watch.<br /><br />I then tell people that the project “WILL go through if each of us waits for others to stop it, but that it WILL be STOPPED if YOU contact the mayor and one or more city council people starting with Parks Committee chair Sally Bagshaw, and deliver the message loud and clear to these representatives that we strongly oppose it and we will long remember if they fight it and long remember if they do nothing, and you then get the message out to enough additional people to take the same action. I then end it with “Can you call the mayor and City Council Parks Committee Chair Bagshaw?” (if a “yes”, I respond with a strong “thanks!”)<br /><br />And remember, we can use whatever wording we choose, so I will recommend we use the wording that best delivers the message with the nuance and spin we want, and best promotes the actions we want.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07784630752552908148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4168226467276398541.post-51675850205190050032012-07-07T18:52:30.025-07:002012-07-07T18:52:30.025-07:00I agree totally. This forest is a precious rarity ...I agree totally. This forest is a precious rarity that most cities would give anything to have. How short-sighted to sell it off for a few bucks. What would this say about our city? To ruin a forest in favor of the recreation equivalent of junk-food is not worthy of Seattle.Denisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12936958001429748389noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4168226467276398541.post-59018499844657894872012-07-07T09:14:24.917-07:002012-07-07T09:14:24.917-07:00(I tried to post this before to no apparent avail,...(I tried to post this before to no apparent avail, but now that I am a member I expect it will show up on this blog) <br /><br />I posted the below comments to the above West Seattle Herald article that I thought would be worth re-posting here:<br /><br />I have to add some critically important points to the above article. There is no mention in the article of the price the British Go Ape corporation charges to take a turn on their tree top ziplines, swings, etc. They charge $55 for adults and $35 for a kid. They say that they will give some free tickets to some disadvantaged kids, but you can be sure that most kids who don't have $35 who are watching the rich kids play in the trees won't get one of those free tickets. The free tickets are merely tokenism to distract from the exclusive nature of this operation and the harm it will to do our priceless natural area. <br /><br />They also claim they will do some invasive weed removal - more tokenism. They will certainly do more to degrade this uniquely intact bit of wild than any handful of weeding events will make up for. Other Go Ape operations have left the areas under them denuded of vegetation. <br /><br />Another point, this Go Ape corporation looked at all of Seattle's parks and chose this spot in Lincoln Park to site their contraptions in the trees. The reason they chose this spot is that it is the most pristine spot left in Seattle, that would make the best backdrop for their “Tarzan Theme Park”. I did the vegetation survey in Lincoln for the Seattle Parks Department 12 years ago and, on a volunteer basis, I have been weeding the weeds and monitoring the vegetation since then. I can attest that this spot has more of the diversity of indigenous vegetation that was here before European settlement than any other park in Seattle, and with it about our richest diversity of our least common birds. <br /><br />What Go Ape would do is take the last, best remnant of our local “Eden”, that I would argue is worth more than any amount of money, and turn it into a commercial operation that they profit from. Then they would externalize the costs, so both our human community and the natural community here would pay the price for it. They would then send the profits out of our community to Britain. Between the added need for garbage collection that the parks department would pay for, and the cost that Go Ape saves in free parking spots they take from Seattle residents, there would be far more than $40,000 to $65,000 in costs to Seattle that the Go Ape corporation says they will give Seattle in revenue from this operation. That would not count the tens of millions of dollars worth of damage they would do to our most valuable of natural areas.<br /><br />The whole concept of commercializing this last, best bit of Eden, comes from a mentality that nature has no value, that you need to make money off of it before it has value. It is the mentality that “undeveloped” land us unused and useless.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07784630752552908148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4168226467276398541.post-49284497648964322872012-07-05T23:24:24.384-07:002012-07-05T23:24:24.384-07:00http://saveitchenvalleypark.webs.com/newsupdates.h...http://saveitchenvalleypark.webs.com/newsupdates.htm<br /><br />This from Trileigh's research. Very interesting publication from UK about their experiences with the GO APE company.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14062210953399721982noreply@blogger.com