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Fresh off Saturday night's vote to pass a bill overhauling the nation's health care industry, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi will be on Broadway this afternoon to tour Swedish Medical Center and continue to drum up support for the legislation as it moves on to the Senate. It's more First Hill than Capitol Hill but in the neighborhood for any of you wonk types who want to come out and get Pelosi to sign your copy of HR 3962.

WHO:

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi

Congressman Jim McDermott

Congressman Jay Inslee

Congressman Norm Dicks

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Cal Knight, President, Swedish Medical Center

Dr. Martin Siegel, Chair of the Swedish Board of Trustees

Hospital Administrators

WHAT:

·       Speaker Pelosi and Members of Congress will be talking with hospital officials about how the groundbreaking health insurance reform legislation passed on Saturday by the US House of Representatives helps Seattle.

·       The Speaker and other Members of Congress will briefly tour Swedish Medical Center’s facilities, including their Intensive Care Unit. Swedish Staff will be on the floor to describe the program to reduce ventilator associated pneumonia, a significant cause of mortality nationally.  Photo/  B- roll opportunity at start of tour.

·       Press Conference will immediately follow the tour.

WHEN:

Monday, November  9, 2pm

Pre-set at 1:30 pm

WHERE:

Glaser Foyer, Swedish Medical Center, 747 Broadway, Seattle

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Many of the flowers from Tim Brenton's Friday memorial were moved over the weekend to his East Precinct headquarters at 12th and Pine. It's an odd little memorial, crowded and haphazardly stuffed into the lobby of the precinct HQ but it's also a very human display. The memorial that had grown on the sidewalk near where Brenton was gunned down Halloween night has been removed. Meanwhile the drama from the capture of Chris Monfort -- the alleged 'domestic terrorist' and a 'person of interest,' not a 'suspect' -- has settled somewhat. Latest reports have Monfort in serious but stable condition at Harborview on First Hill.

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OMAHA, NE—Nebraska State coaches said quarterback Joshua Adams was reading far too much into the positioning and schemes of the opposing...

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NEW YORK—"It's clear the new people don't give a shit, and believe me, that kind of thing starts at the top," Troy Bartell said of the newspaper's lack of journalistic integrity.

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ATLANTA—A Zogby poll of 1,542 American grandparents published Monday found that grandsons were described as "very" to "extremely" talented...

this place is a time warp. i don't know how better to describe moab, but the days feel like weeks and the weekends can make you feel like you've aged a few months without meaning to. a single day makes a world of difference here. ever notice how some people make ten minutes last two hours? ever look at your clock completely baffled, "oh fuck, are you serious? it's only been five minutes? how the fuck does that.. happen?"

i guess it's because he was two days off coke and mostly sober again, but last night i was actually able to hang out with both of my boys again and it felt normal. i know it's temporary, i know tonight he'll be out of town doing lines and come home and be a fucking monster in a few days again.. i know he's not better or anything, but it was really nice to hang out with him without any sort of drama. just bowls and my boys and waking up next to him still feels pretty nice, i stopped taking little shit like that and spinning it in and out of my head over and over again thinking "what does this mean?" and was just.. content. i guess what i'm trying to say is i'm glad i got an "i love you and i'll miss you" instead of an "i hope you fucking die" this morning, and i'm glad i'm not so caught up in him anymore that i get any hope for him or us.. because the constant disappointment was pretty fucking hard to deal with. no expectations, no empty hoping and wishing, no disappointments.

in the past 48 hours i've gotten about five hours of sleep. worked both days, too. got my hands on some acid last night, have tomorrow and the day after off so i'll probably do that after work with d. i've been smoking a lot again. weed, hookah, cigarettes, cigars, anything around. exhaling smoke from my body is just.. comforting.

well if the username and date don't give it away, it's nov09 CRYSTAL'S BIRTHDAY!!!



HAPPY 21ST!
ITT wish her a happy birthday and tell her what dranks to get 'mad fucked' on.

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On Nov 9, 1989, the East German government announced that it would allow free travel between East and West Germany, an act that eventually led to the...

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NEW MUNICH—"Imagine, if you will, a world in which Hitler's celebrated master plan had ended in ignominious failure, and the Allies had somehow emerged the victors," the show's creator, Leonhardt Riefenstahl, said during an appearance on Entertainment Heute Nacht.

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Had a talk last night. Feel a little better about moving home now. Will check around tomorrow to make sure moving home is still a better deal than staying put.

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Did Oprah Winfrey tell her audience that restaurant patrons need not tip their servers more than 10 percent?

I should totally be asleep right now. I've actually got to get up in the morning. I've got an 11am interview at Macy's. I'm excited. It's my first interview in Virginia, and it's getting the ball rolling. I've applied for more jobs and submitted my resume to more job postings than I really care to count. I'm hoping that I will get more calls/emails tomorrow to schedule me for more interviews. *fingers crossed*

Discuss Mad Men and how fantastic the finale was/show continues to be.

Or just admire Joan's fine, fine ass.




Alternatively, what aren't you doing that you should be? What schoolwork/real world obligations are you neglecting?

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I stumbled onto this fascinating essay about life on Capitol Hill in the 1950s inspired by the writer's discovery of the "I grew up on Capitol Hill' Facebook group. The names and the stories have so much color -- it's a good lesson to go find out the names of those people in the world around you so you can write quality history later. The essay is also a lesson in how quickly the Hill's culture has changed while providing prologue for the family-friendliness of today's northern Capitol Hill with its mommy and daddies and daddies and daddies and mommies and mommies. There is also a taste of the clubbiness that still can pervade some Capitol Hill streets.

From Growing up on "the hill"

We did a lot of the things our classmates did: bought penny candy at the same mom-and-pop stores, took 25 cents to the Roycroft Theater every Saturday afternoon for a program that included a serial, a newsreel, a cartoon and a feature film; built wooden hydroplanes and tied them to the back of our bikes for our own versions of the Gold Cup Races run on Lake Washington.  We sometimes went to the original Red Mill on Friday night with our aunt and uncle so we could have fish and chips and not have to go home to a kitchen that smelled like fried fish.

We went to the Friday night social dancing classes when we were in seventh and eight grades, and stood on one side of the hall while the St. Joe's boys were on the other. I can still remember a couple of Jack Reilly's sequence of steps and calls from that 7th-grade square dance class where they partnered us up with the boys by marching us in intersecting lines.

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Hey guys, do you think OJ did it?

As a kid I used to be scared that OJ would sneak into my house at night and kill me. Did that make me a racist child?

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You've already seen some of the Hill-oween pictures we gathered and took during the fun last Saturday -- but there are so many new shots flying around the Internet in the days since that it would be a shame not to share those too. Thanks for dropping these treats into our CHS flickr pool plastic pumpkin. Special thanks to flickrite sea turtle who, once again, captured so many great images from Halloween on Broadway.

You'll see a lot of sea turtle's work in this slideshow of images from "capitol hill seattle" sorted by flickr's "most interesting" ranking from this year. Enjoy.

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I'm looking for something family-friendly to do for my birthday at the end of November. Tell me about the Point Defiance Zoo Lights. Cool or not? Worth the money and trip down there?