My first job back in high school was as a press photographer. And so I cannot resist “That would make a good picture.”

Here is the foundation poured to anchor the tower crane, as of Friday afternoon, as seen from the 7th floor of the Harborview office building to the south.

Here is what the site looked like Saturday, mid morning. The tower is attached and built up with the tall temporary crane. They are starting to assemble the horizontal part on the ground.

For the rest of the assembly sequence, it is here.

From the NYT: “Every month, subscription streaming services add a new batch of movies and TV shows to their libraries. Here are the titles we think are most interesting for December, broken down by service and release date. Streaming services occasionally change schedules without giving notice.” Click here for their recommendations>

The NYTimes has a sobering story today

Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death BY NORIMITSU ONISHI In postwar Japan, a single-minded focus on rapid economic growth helped erode family ties. Now, a generation of elderly Japanese are dying alone.

The New Yorker’s Ryan Lizza:

Donald Trump is unique among modern Presidents in that he has no significant legislative accomplishments to show for ten months after taking office. Year one is when Presidents usually make their mark, especially if they came into office with unified control of the government, as Trump and his party did. Presidents in the first year of their first term are often at the peak of their popularity, have the biggest margins in Congress, and are free from the scandals and intense partisanship that start to gather around them later and make governing ever more difficult. By the second year, a President’s legislative agenda becomes complicated by the hesitancy of members of Congress to take risky votes as midterm elections approach, particularly if a President is unpopular. The math is stark: on average, modern Presidents have historically lost thirty House seats and four Senate seats in their first midterm elections.

Trump is governing well below the optimal levels of recent successful first-year Presidents. In 1981, Ronald Reagan’s first year in office, Reagan was so personally popular that he was able to convince a Democratic-controlled Congress to pass a major tax cut.

The rest is at https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/how-december-could-make-or-break-the-trump-presidency