Word has it that construction will begin about December. As a reminder, here are some examples of how it is situated. The external skin and roof have changed some since these renderings were made in 2012.
The collection of 800 Columbia Building views can be seen at https://1drv.ms/f/s!AoTphk7armFWhKoqDtoE7l-Bh1YaUA
Here’s “a unique webinar featuring author and family caregiver Lauren Simon sharing her surprising experience as an unexpected caregiver.
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Not only do cats love to perch in high places, but they love a nest-like concavity. The top of a suitcase, zippered shut, attracts them as it sinks under their weight to become concave.
Small computer printers also have a nice cat-sized concavity for the pages spitted out. It is even a little warm, an added incentive. Alas, cat hairs are left behind and some may gum up the works.
Here is one solution: a wire-mesh desk tray, turned upside down and stuck in place by those three adhesive black wire guides intended to hold cables in place.
The following link is to a PDF of the CEG meeting Notes for July 14th.
Another Skyline couple – look up and look down – go figure who??
… Well, I have a thought inspired by something my CUNY colleague Branko Milanovic wrote recently about civil wars. Branko – who knows something about Yugoslavia! – argues against the view that civil wars are caused by deep divisions between populations who don’t know each other. The causation, he argues, goes the other way: when a civil war begins for whatever reason, that’s when the lines between the groups are drawn, and what may have been minor, fairly benign differences become irreconcilable gulfs.
My suggestion is that something like this happened to America, minus the mass bloodshed (so far, anyway).
The radicalization of the GOP began as a top-down affair, driven by big-money interests that financed campaigns and think tanks, pushing the party to the right. But to win elections, the forces engaged in this push cynically appealed to darker impulses – racism first and foremost, but also culture war, anti-intellectualism, and so on. To make this appeal, they created a media establishment – Fox News, talk radio, and so on – which drew in many working-class whites. This meant that a large segment of the population was no longer hearing the same news – basically not experiencing the same account of reality – as the rest of us. So what had been real but not extreme differences became extreme differences in political outlook.
And political figures either adapted or were pushed out. There once were Republicans who would have reacted with horror to Trump’s embrace of Putin, but they’ve left the scene, or are no longer considered Republicans.
This has troubling implications for both the short and the long run. In the short run, it probably means that no matter how bad the Trump revelations get, most Republicans, both in the base and in Congress, will stick with him – because taking him down would be a victory for liberals, who are worse than anything.
In the long run, it makes you wonder whether and how we can get the country we used to be back. As Branko says, there was a time when Serbs and Croats seemed to get along fairly well, indeed intermarrying at a high rate. But could anyone now put Yugoslavia back together? At this rate, we’ll soon be asking the same question about America.
I do wish that the NYT had chosen not to use the word treason in the headline. It just encourages “You’re another” as a comeback. And civil war is a serious business: it takes centuries to re-establish trust.
She feels that no one could possibly recognize her. Can you??
A few weeks ago this Skyline couple celebrated their 50th. Can you guess who they are?
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Ed Note: If you happen to have a picture of yourself from years back at a special time, please consider submitting it to the editor of this blog. And FYI, the previous couple posted for their 50th was none other than Gwen and Neal Jacques!
On the nights of July 16-17 and 17-18, chances of seeing the aurora near Seattle are quite good; Sunday night will be clear, Monday night, partly cloudy.
Skyline’s 26th Floor Observation Deck has more than the usual amount of city lights, though it is worth a try; take a hat that can block lights to your left. There are places within Seattle (zoom in to see) that veteran aurora watchers recommend for stargazing in general but remember that you want a good view of the northern sky for the aurora, such as Green Lake:
The 35th Ave SW hilltop in West Seattle ought to have good northern views from side street. The park is open until 1130pm to get even farther away from streetlights.
At https://photos.app.goo.gl/Ro8fmYvrAzDFENgg1, you will find my suggested approach to the digital travelogue. It also demo’s the software, though a better example is my Italy Volcano travelogue at https://photos.app.goo.gl/tHcBhCiO9fD1FsXA2.
CRITERIA: I want 1) a solution where the user can view and select photos directly on their iPad or iPhone, without having to move to a laptop/desktop; 2) where the device can simply be plugged into a digital projector without a middleman, so the presenter can swipe their way through the slide collection in the same manner as they did when creating the slide show. Many an app with “Photo” in its name will do this, but few will also allow you to rearrange the order of the slides. The best is a web app that keeps your slides in the cloud: photos.google.com.
It also works on laptops and desktops, if that is your preferred workplace; for presentation, bring your laptop or just borrow any device that has a web browser and can plug into a projector. The slideshow itself is in the cloud; no need for thumb drives, etc.
Here’s a couple’s happy day from 50 years ago. Can anyone guess who these current Skyline residents are?
Also, if you’d be so kind, please send in your wedding picture or one of a special celebration – and we can continue the fun of figuring out who we once were!
Quoting Thomas B. Edsall in the NYTimes today:
Countless analyses have demonstrated that Trump won the election by combining support from traditional Republican voters with a surge in backing from constituencies that contemporary economic and cultural developments have left behind.
But Trump did not campaign against economic elites. Instead, he built a fire under animosity toward what has been called “the creative class” by Richard Florida, the demographer; the “plutonomy” by three analysts at Citigroup; and the “cosmopolitan class” by Robert Shiller, an economist at Yale.
In recent decades, this class has become increasingly influential in setting cultural standards and in shaping contemporary values. Its success has provoked deepening resentment, to say the least.
“The New Elite marry each other, combining their large incomes and genius genes, and then produce offspring who get the benefit of both,” Charles Murray, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and the author of “Coming Apart,” wrote in the Washington Post:
Far from spending their college years in a meritocratic melting pot, the New Elite spend school with people who are mostly just like them — which might not be so bad, except that so many of them have been ensconced in affluent suburbs from birth and have never been outside the bubble of privilege.
Chrystia Freeland, a journalist-turned-politician who is now Canada’s minister of foreign affairs, described this class during President Barack Obama’s first term as
hardworking, highly educated, jet-setting meritocrats who feel they are the deserving winners of a tough, worldwide economic competition — and many of them, as a result, have an ambivalent attitude toward those of us who didn’t succeed so spectacularly. Perhaps most noteworthy, they are becoming a trans-global community of peers who have more in common with one another than with their countrymen back home.
This is the 8th & Madison “M” Building. The management and residents obviously invest in their rooftop space, certainly in comparison to Skyline.
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Note the activities:
Note their rooftop furnishings:
Why, given eight years in which to do it, has Skyline failed to invest in the 26th floor Observation Deck (except when it is time to take pictures for marketing purposes)?
Below are the slides from Graham’s excellent presentation.
Here is the July 2017 Newsletter from the Seattle Opera Guild: L’Aria July 2017 Final
As we receive future newsletters or information about Opera, you can easily find these on the “Opera” Page above.
Skyline’s “Spotlight on the Arts” Presents
July and August Events in our Neighborhood!
First Tuesdays: Marceau Organ Recitals at Trinity Parish Church, 12:10pm.
July 3, 17, August 7, 21 & Sept 18: Works in Progress: Open Mic Hugo House Cabaret (poetry, fiction, memoirs, etc.), 7pm.
July 6: Cincinnati Boys Choir at St. James Cathedral, 12:15pm.
July 8: Write-O-Rama Workshop (choice of 5 classes) at Hugo House, 12-6pm.
July 14: Summer Organ Recital at St. James Cathedral, 7pm.
July 27: “Salish Textile Weaving” Lecture by Lydia Sigo at Frye Museum, 7-8pm.
July 28: Summer Organ Recital at St. James Cathedral, 7pm.
August 14: Summer Organ Recital at St. James Cathedral, 7pm.
August 18: Summer Organ Recital at St. James Cathedral, 7pm.
August 24: “Dis(re)putable Provenances” Lecture by Dr. Vikramāditya Prakāsh at Frye Museum, 7pm.
August 31: “Salish Carving and Woodworking” Lecture by Lydia Sigo at Frye Museum, 7pm
Posted by A. Milam and M.A. Hagan June 16, 2017
Please check out future updates on the “Spotlight and the Arts” Page above
In six years at Skyline, no one has ever asked me over to see their vacation pictures. It is only in the past year that I’ve seen a returned traveler pull out their iPhone and show off a few pictures around the dinner table. However, it is really the loss of the accompanying tale that I am bemoaning, not the pictures themselves.
Is offering a proper 20-minute travelogue deemed impolite, an imposition on others? Does the returning traveler feel that giving talks at Skyline requires an invitation from some administrator or resident committee? Let us hope not (though it was once true). Hence this preliminary exploration of how we might encourage Skyline residents to volunteer their travel tales.
A little cognitive backgrounder: Aristotle identified three segments of the good story. It has a beginning, an identifiable middle, and an end. The latter was not the modern “wrap” as the literary form of his times 2,400 years ago was tragedy (“end” usually meant someone had to die, for reasons explained by a Greek chorus or deus ex machina). How much of this beginning-middle-end expectation is sheer inborn instinct? A good stand-up comedian has a superb sense of managing expectations via timing—and that too says something about the “good story” instincts we humans are born with.
Experienced storytellers such as Marjorie Hemphill utilize these natural cognitive instincts as they craft good stories that will hold the attention even of children with short attention spans. The journey framework is not essential, but any tale framed by a journey already has Aristotle’s expectations built in: even when you are inexperienced at telling a good story, your audience will stick with you because the travelogue framework encourages them to anticipate the ending.
The returning traveler may perceive some social barriers to volunteering more than an elevator-length description. We can work on that, such as finding someone (perhaps some committee) willing to do the asking and scheduling for a proper talk. Social engineering and committees are not among my strengths but I can offer some suggestions for easing the other perceived barriers, such as getting print collections into the form needed for digital projectors.
My son handed me one of these $50 gadgets a few months ago and I remember thinking that is was one more potential dust collector. But we plugged it in anyway and connected it to our Wifi. That’s it. No programming or buttons to push. It’s a voice activated personal assistant that’s actually fun. A few of the possibilities are:
In one CCRC in California, a third of the residents now have an Amazon Echo or Dot (the latter is much cheaper and can be connected to your speaker system). Try it, you might become addicted too!
Below is a video of a program I’ve been involved with for the past 10 years giving presentations at Skyline and a variety of other venues. We all have the rights to make end of life choices and to have them honored. Dr. Robert Penfeld at Kaiser is carrying out research concerning the choices of people who are becoming cognitively impaired. Kaiser and Virginia Mason both offer classes, “Your Life Your Choices.” Check it out if your advance directives might need updating.
