The penguin and the orca

Posted on September 3, 2022 by Jim deMaine

Thanks to Rosemary W.

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Remember your first car?

Posted on September 3, 2022 by Jim deMaine

Thanks to Pam P.

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Update

Posted on September 3, 2022 by Jim deMaine
Signed print of my New Yorker cartoon Can We Talk image 1
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Newsletter from the Memory Hub

Posted on September 2, 2022 by Jim deMaine
Your monthly update of news and events from the UW Memory and Brain Wellness Center and the UW Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (ADRC)

Have you visited the nearby Memory Hub yet and learned about all their resources to support both research and care for those affected by memory loss. Click here for the latest Newsletter which shows their extensive outreach into the community–caring, supporting and coordinating.

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Why?

Posted on September 2, 2022 by Jim deMaine
That's Right Poster featuring the drawing I Don't Understand Why They're Being So Mean by David Sipress
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A remarkable historian comments on the present

Posted on September 2, 2022 by Jim deMaine

Heather Cox Richardson is a Professor at Boston College who teaches nineteenth-century American history at both the undergraduate and the graduate level. Her PhD is from Harvard where she studied under David Herbert Donald and William Gienapp. Her early work focused on the transformation of political ideology from the Civil War to the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt. It examined issues of race, economics, westward expansion, and the construction of the concept of an American middle class. Her history of the Republican Party, To Make Men Free (2014) examines the fundamental tensions in American politics from the time of the Northwest Ordinance to the present. She is currently working on an intellectual history of American politics and a graphic treatment of the Reconstruction Era.

Click here for her web page and please note that you can subscribe to her newsletter for free. It’s fortunate to have historical perspective given the current turmoil in American politics.

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Food as Medicine: Exploring the intersection between the nutritional sciences, medicine and the culinary arts

Posted on August 31, 2022 by Jim deMaine

This conference is open to the public and has some wonderful outside speakers from Harvard and Tufts, as well as the head chef at Canlis giving cooking demonstrations. The cost is $25 to watch online. Sadly it is all just online this year.

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Dr. Oz Claims That Eating Classified Documents Was Essential to Trump’s Healthy Diet

Posted on August 30, 2022 by Jim deMaine

Thanks to Pam P.

By Andy Borowitz August 29, 2022

Dr. Oz with Donald Trump onstage during a rally.

PITTSBURGH (The Borowitz Report)—Eating classified documents was “an essential part of President Donald Trump’s super-healthy diet,” Dr. Mehmet Oz has claimed.

Oz, the longtime television host and, more recently, Pennsylvania’s G.O.P. nominee for the U.S. Senate, said that “classified documents, including the nuclear codes, provided the roughage necessary to keep President Trump’s digestive system humming along at the highest possible level.”

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Not recommended while in quarantine

Posted on August 28, 2022 by Jim deMaine

Thanks to Sybil-Ann

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Not dreaming about this

Posted on August 28, 2022 by Jim deMaine

Thanks to Sybil-Ann

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Homeless solutions – Seattle’s unique collaboration

Posted on August 28, 2022 by Jim deMaine

By Maia Szalavitz in the New York Times

Thanks to Mike C.

The needs of homeowners and businesses and those of people who are unsheltered often conflict. Community leaders, faced with increasing crime and disorder, frequently see police sweeps as the only answer, while advocates for homeless people argue that this response is merely a stopgap that does more damage than good.

But what if there was a way to stop shifting ‌‌people from encampments to jails to shelters to hospitals and back again? In Seattle a unique collaboration among businesses, neighborhood groups, the police, advocates and nonprofits is fighting cynics and misperceptions driven by politics to cut homelessness.

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A historic speech and a challenge to a duel

Posted on August 28, 2022 by Jim deMaine

A history lesson from Heather Cox Richardson

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Caregiver survey

Posted on August 26, 2022 by Jim deMaine

Friends,

Santa Clara University’s Bioinnovation and Design Lab is partnering with Maude’s Ventures to address the challenges of caregiving for patients and family members with dementia. They are gathering perspectives from individuals who have first-hand experience caring for people with dementia. They will use this anonymous data to identify major areas of concern for caregivers and to generate ideas on how to help caregivers. This research will lead to the design of a new service or product for caregivers.

We invite you to complete the survey at your convenience by September 15, 2022. Please use the following link to reach the survey.

Any questions may be directed to Julia Scott, Senior Research Associate for the Bioinnovation and Design Lab at jscott1@scu.edu.”

Thank you.

Karen M. Winston, MSW

Sr. Planner, Aging and Disability Services
City of Seattle, Human Services Department
O: 206-684-0706 | M: 206-684-0660

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They’re MINE!

Posted on August 26, 2022 by Jim deMaine

Many theories on Trump’s secret files, but not yet one to rule them all

David Horsey is a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist for The Seattle Times. His latest book is “Drawing Apart: Political Cartoons from a Polarized America.”

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Spectacular Hibiscus in our Roof Garden

Posted on August 25, 2022 by Jim deMaine

Thanks to Ann M. Lots of buds still to open, so don’t miss this tropical beauty!

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Roof Garden Views

Posted on August 24, 2022 by William Calvin
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Gala for the Asian Hall of Fame

Posted on August 23, 2022 by Jim deMaine

November 18, 2022 5:00 – 8:00 PM

Sky View Observatory
700 4th Ave, Seattle, WA 98104

Join some Skyliners, have a superb dinner, listen to great music and a have chance to celebrate and honor the Asian community.

Click here https://www.asianhalloffame.org/tickets for more information.

18th Asian Hall of Fame celebrates Pacific Northwest Inductees at the landmark Sky View Observatory in Seattle, Washington. Concert performers are Artist Ambassadors Danny Seraphine (Chicago), Robby Krieger (The Doors), Krist Novoselic (Krist Novoselic), Hiro Yamamoto (Soundgarden) featuring Tony Grant (The Temptations) with Musical Director Ed Roth (Annie Lenox).

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Political update from Heather Cox Richardson

Posted on August 23, 2022 by Jim deMaine
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The Long COVID Conundrum

Posted on August 23, 2022 by Jim deMaine
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Dolly Parton celebrates her Imagination Library program

Posted on August 23, 2022 by Jim deMaine

Tyler Buchanan

From Axios thanks to Pam P.

Dolly Parton reading her book, "Coat of Many Colors."
Dolly Parton during a 2018 celebration of Imagination Library’s 100 millionth donated book. Photo: Shannon Finney/Getty Images

Dolly Parton never imagined her book giveaway program would amount to much more than helping children in her native Sevier County, Tennessee, learn to read.

  • But over the past 27 years, millions of young children across the globe have enjoyed a free “Dolly book” every month.

Driving the news: The entertainment icon visited Columbus yesterday to promote her Imagination Library program and thank county sponsors from all over the state.

  • Her appearance alongside Gov. Mike DeWine and First Lady Fran DeWine also served as a celebration — Ohio now has the most enrollees of any U.S. state.
  • The governor also declared Aug. 9 “Dolly Parton Day.”

Why it matters: Few government programs are as universally praised as the Imagination Library, which mails free books to Ohio children ages 0-5.

  • And few celebrities are as universally beloved as Dolly, a self-described lover of reading who takes pride in being known by younger generations not as a country music icon, but as “The Book Lady.”

Between the lines: The Imagination Library is an unmitigated success for the DeWines, whose statewide travel promoting new sign-ups coincides with the governor’s reelection efforts.

By the numbers: 48% of eligible Ohio children receive books, or more than 343,000 kids in total, though Franklin County’s participation rate is considerably lower.

  • Fran DeWine’s goal is for the state to reach 50% by the end of the year.

Zoom out: A total of 186 million books have been mailed out since Parton launched the program in 1995, around 3 million of which have gone to Ohio families.

What she said: Dolly has earned countless honors in her life, but hopes this program will be her true legacy.

  • “I’ll be as proud of this as anything I’ve ever done. When they lay me down, I’ll be thinking of the Imagination Library.”
  • She also admitted to wanting people in 100 years to say about her, “Golly, she looks good for her age.”

Words of inspiration: Dolly performed two songs to close out her visit, including “Try” — a theme song for the reading program about making an effort to better yourself and the world.

  • It’s a lesson she’s learned since mailing out her first book in eastern Tennessee.
  • “I’m always doin’ something. It’s just one dream after another.”

Dolly’s quote du jour: “The DeWines. I love that name, don’t you? Please pass DeWine.”

Dolly Parton singing at a charity luncheon at the Ohio State University ballroom.
Dolly Parton singing at Tuesday’s charity luncheon promoting the Imagination Library. Photo: Tyler Buchanan/Axios
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Corporate deliberations with Russell Wilson gone

Posted on August 23, 2022 by Jim deMaine

Thanks to Pam P.

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Privacy on line

Posted on August 21, 2022 by Jim deMaine
On the internet, no one knows you're doggo
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Speaking of religion

Posted on August 21, 2022 by Jim deMaine

Thanks to Ed M.

At a memorial service yesterday the officiant quoted an active politician speaking about his view of religion. He chose not to mention the person or their political affiliation so the ideas expressed could be considered:

“Before you speak to me about your religion, first show it to me in how you treat other people; before you tell me how much you love your God, show me in how much you love all His children; before you preach to me of your passion for your faith, teach me about it through your compassion for your neighbors. In the end, I’m not as interested in what you have to tell or sell as I am in how you choose to live and give.”

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Not found on any label

Posted on August 20, 2022 by Jim deMaine

Thanks to Rosemary W.

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