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Author Archives: Jim deMaine
1000+ units, 2 more towers, a 747 fuselage, a music venue and a Trader Joe’s – at Stewart and Denny (not 9th Ave!)
Thanks to Jeff E.
Posted in Architecture, In the Neighborhood, Music, Shopping
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Meet the 1,300 librarians racing to back up Ukraine’s digital archives
Thanks to Pam P. By Pranshu Verma in the Washington Post A public library damaged by shelling in Chernihiv, Ukraine. (Olga Korotkova/AP) In early March, two weeks into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Carrie Pirmann stumbled upon a website dedicated to Ivan … Continue reading
Northwest Coast Art – fraud and theft
Thanks to Ed M.
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Tchaikovsky’s house destroyed by Russian army in north-east Ukraine
Thanks to Ann M. so alerting us. So sad. Click here for the story.
A message from the Ukraine Library
Thanks to Mary Jane F.
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Past, present and future
Thanks to Mike C.
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Patient booster scheduling for UW Medicine
Thanks to Al MacR. To schedule your second booster, please call 844.520.8700. Appointments are available at UW Medical Center – Montlake, UW Medical Center – Northwest, Harborview Medical Center, Valley Medical Center, and UW Medicine primary care clinics. We also … Continue reading
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First Hill Mega-Project: St. James Cathedral Makes Deal with “Visionary” Developer
Thanks to Mary M. for finding this article. The neighborhood is facing yet another very large building! 🙁 Westbank will purchase the building which contains St. James’ pastoral outreach center at 907 Columbia as well as the archdiocesan chancery around … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, environment, In the Neighborhood
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Instead of a Wall, a Binational Park To Be Built on Border of Texas & Mexico
Thanks to Pam P. – from the Goodnewsletter Only two years ago, the border town of Laredo, Texas, was bracing itself for the construction of the towering steel and concrete border wall that threatened to cut off the city, its … Continue reading
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Scientists support the benefit of a second booster for COVID-19
Thanks to Ed M. Ed note: Second booster shots are now available in many pharmacies. Most recommend calling or going on their web site to make an appointment.
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Tobacco Road Prepares for Basketball Nirvana — or Apocalypse
There are rivalries, then rivalries. This is one of the best in basketball. Read the commentary in the NYT here. Thanks to Mike C.
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Recent UW Symposium on COVID
COVID Symposium XXVI Airborne Transmission in Indoor Spaces – Krystal Pollitt, PhD, Epidemiology, Yale School of Public Health The Pulmonary Side of Long COVID – Molly Billings, MD, PCCSM, HMC Changes in Smoking Prevalence During COVID-10 – Adam Gaffney, MD, … Continue reading
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The Day Dostoyevsky Discovered the Meaning of Life in a Dream
The Marginalian (formerly Brain Pickings) by Maria Popova Ed note: This is a rather “heavy” entry but a friend who’s in the midst of a crisis, sent this story. It brought me back to a Russian lit course in college … Continue reading
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The cycle of life
Thanks to Sybil-Ann
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Second Booster
From Linda W. As you no doubt read, those of us over 50 (ha!) are now eligible to have a second booster. Bartells (and likely many other sites) are offering this service (as the vaccine becomes available – not at … Continue reading
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Job interview – how’d it go?
Thanks to Mary Jane F.
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On a Sunday afternoon
Yesterday, the people seemed to outnumber the blossoms. Everyone was enjoying a peaceful and pleasant touch of spring.
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Volunteers fly into Seattle’s spider web on homelessness
Thanks to Ed M. By Danny Westneat Seattle Times columnist With 171 years of life experience between them, including about 80 managing hospitals and rocket systems, Ruth Benfield and John Pehrson have seen a thing or two. Benfield was a vice … Continue reading
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Stop the masks!!
Thanks to Mike C. Ed note: No comment! Add your own!
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Down by the Riverside – Grandpa Elliott and more
Thanks to Mary M. – an uplift we all need