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My Hometown Is Better Than Yours
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My hometown not only has a sound. A king called Frederik decided it was so awesome, he named it after himself: Frederikss(o)und.
Apart from that we have nothing.
Sorry, no sun. 'Nuff said
Shut Up Luke….that's just what we want you to think.
My hometown (which I moved to 2 years ago from California) is better than yours.
Love this. Bet you'd like http://www.putaplaneonit.com. Go Jet City!
Love these pics & commentary. So Seattle….
Those airplane fuselages are not 787s, they are 737s.
yeah, I saw that. lame. oh well. this post still rocks.
We have a monopoly on those too……
Seattle, where the general citizenry can identify fuselages, and will point out your mistake.
only someone from seattle could tell the difference between 787 and 737 fuselages!!
…and another correction: the Jewish community is larger than 6 and isn't Episcopal in the least.
I think that comment was a joke, laurierose. I think some of the others may have been jokes as well. I could be wrong, of course. I mean, the ground floor of that other church IS a Starbucks, after all.
(Has anyone mentioned the Lenin statue yet, incidentally?)
Portland is better.
Portland, where young people go to retire….
Seattle, where those confused youngsters return to get real jobs
You do know why all the trees in Seattle lean towards Portland, right?
Cause they are addicted to Meth and Heroin?
portland sucks donkey balls
Put a bird on it.
Portland? I've heard of that. Is it some place in Maine?
Finally, someone making sense. The part about Seattle traffic being good? BULLSHIT!
Portland is like San Francisco….. If San Francisco quit its day job to focus on its music.
And picked up the requisite drug problem and STDs, yes.
Can you please clarify why Portland is better than Seattle? I have to inquire because I have a few friends who have either lived in Seattle or are originally from Seattle, and they have told me that Portland would be a better city for me than Seattle.
Portland is not better than Seattle. Which is probably why your friends think you should live there. But, don't worry. Portland will contort itself to convince you that it's better than Seattle. And you'll believe it. I know this because you even had to ask.
Go West Seattle
That's a cathedral, not a synagogue.
I had that same thought. St. Mark's Cathedral on Capitol Hill, right?
yes… it's St. Mark's, I went to a free spaghetti feed in the basement there once.. it too was delivered by seaplane.
it is indeed St. Mark's Episcopal Church
Yes, that's the Episcopal Cathedral on Capitol Hill, I believe.
Absolutely — St Mark's — went there for years. Lovingly called the "Holy Box".
The fact that there are more or less six Jews in Seattle is one reason why Seattle is SO NOT the place to be.
Um, actually, I think Seattle has the largest Jewish population of any US city west of the Mississippi. Including any of the northern suburbs of Los Angeles.
I believe that's part of the joke.
These pictures are funny, not a documentary, right?
That's also the federal court, not the municipal court.
That's the defunct Federal Court. The real one is a new building at 8th/Stewart.
That's the Appeals Court. Federal Courthouse is 7th and Stewart
and we also don't sky-drop hot dogs.
Portland is weird and is stuck in a time warp from the 90s. Seattle is far better.
now that is some funny stuff! HA! Thanks for the snorts and chuckles.
But you forgot to mention that we also have the grave of BRUCE-FRICKIN-LEE, who undoubtedly protects us in his ethereal state.
But seriously, this was the highlight of my morning. Bravo!
Those are *NOT* 787 fuselages on that railroad! 787 fuselages are entirely composite, and have no temporary protective coating (TPC) on them, and are delivered to Everett via what's called "The Dream Lifter"! A VERY modified 747, and there's four of them in the world! The only Boeing fuselages delivered here by railroad are 737's…..
Aww this just shows how nerdy we are and why I love Seattle. Jay you are correct 🙂
And I bet they aren't going to Xzibit's house to be pimped out either. Whoever wrote this is a Goddamned liar!
oh come on now. let this be fun. dont ruin it for the rest of us because you are a grumpy gus!!
Was about to say the same thing.
When they get to Xzibit's house he's going to pimp them into 787's. Then he's going to deliver some pizzas.
in a seaplane.
Yep – 787 seaplanes
Totally true
Oh I needed this laugh today! The weather is driving me mad. Gotta love the mountains, though. Don't forget to mention that we have the alps only an hour away.
seattle is my adopted hometown. forever.
Seems nice, but how is the rest of Oregon?
….Try again! Washington.
I'm gonna punch you right in the throat
Holy shit, I was literally laughing for 2 minutes straight from this reply. Well done. 🙂
I can't tell if that's supposed to be a burn or a sign of ignorance. Seattle is in Northern Washington. Oregon is a state southern to Washington.
Seattle is in northern Washington. Oregon is a state IN southern Washington. 😉
Seattle is in Washington…
Well played. 😀
Much like Seattle, this article is totally awesome. Now I have to call in a seaplane for some pizza.
Seattle rocks. Portland sucks more than Tacoma. OK, that's not fair. They're tied.
Ah Seattle bashing from Portlanders.. Being a Seattle native, I've always loved our little sister to the south, but really.. it's kind of like "hey guys me too, right?" Yes Portland, you too. Stay weird. 🙂
Thank you for the best writeup about Seattle that I've ever seen. We're moving soon (living fulltime in an RV), and this post will be a great reminder to look back on whenever I start missing it!
Seattle has a troll under a bridge!
its me
Question: Are there two giant, 300 foot statues of Jimi Hendrix and Bruce Lee (both of which are buried in the area) fighting Godzilla-Rodan style in downtown Seattle?
Answer: No, there are not.
Ergo, Seattle isn't living up to Its potential and sucks.
Maybe there, and maybe there aren't. If you're not from Seattle, you don't get to know.
Jimi Hendrix is buried in Renton
No, just a giant hammerin' man. Who gets a ball and chain around his ankle from guerilla artists on Labor Day.
He used to always have a ball and chain. It was removed around the turn of the century (2000).
Oh, I was in Seattle then. That was epic. I miss Seattle. No, it didn't always have the ball and chain. These kids today….
Jimi was a lover, not a fighter. Philistine.
The city council is trying to make this happen actually but can't find a design that is good enough to capture exactly how awesome it really is.
I thought Godzilla ate up Tukwilla, then he went and ate Renton for dessert…
……and then took a crap in Tacoma.
…at which point Godzilla got completely sick and threw up. That's how we got Kent.
No Lee, the crap Godzilla took is the Experience Music Project.
This is incredibly funny. I'm glad Seattle lets me come work in it.
This post is awesome and gave me maximum smiles and work-disrupting giggles. It's so close to perfect that I have to make one of those nit-picky grammar corrections, so it can be truly, completely perfect. "Seattleites consist entirely on smoked salmon and cougar-meat." Use 'subist' instead of consist as you cannot "consist on" anything. Tx again, LOVE THIS POST!
And to correct myself, that's SUBSIST…geez.
The best aspect of Portland is that it's only 2 hours by car from Seattle.
Try 3
If you're driving 120 MPH. Clearly you don't drive to Portland very often.
Seattlites noses are so far up in the air they can probably smell Tacoma.
I just read your name as "TacoMan" instead of like, someone from Tacoma. I just wanted you to know that.
That's why the cappuccino vapor clouds come in handy: they mask that Tacoma smell.
Thanks for the insight, Taco Man…
My hometown is so awesome we don't need people to riot about it 😛
OK. Now. Lets be honest here. There are two serious issues with this post. 🙂
1) It's worth mentioning that you took those beautiful photographs on one of the 30 days a year where it's not raining and it's clear enough that you can see past the end of the street and actually SEE that big volcano next door. So you're engaging in a bit of false advertising. 🙂 Although, it's pretty hard to beat Seattle though in summer. Almost impossible. No bugs. Never hot enough to need an air conditioner.
2) And secondly, you broke the Seattle "Fight-Club" Rule. You're not supposed to tell people how wonderful it is. Then they move here and ruin it. Especially those ridiculous Californians — who already ruined their own state. 🙂 Tell them to go to Austin instead.
Hey, I'm a pesky Californian, but I'm not spoiling it! I love Seattle and treat it with such oh-so tender lovin' 😀
NEVER hot enough to need a/c? Not quite! The 2 weeks a year when you do need it, I was the happiest & most well-rested person at work every day because I paid extra to have it put in my house. No one else had slept for days because they were too hot and the stores were all sold out of fans. Worth every penny. I had people queuing to stay in my guest rooms every time we had a heatwave.
Spoken like a true Seattle native. As an Arizona native who spent a summer working in Seattle I can attest that it is a waste of money to buy an a/c. Of course, my co-workers did make fun of me for wearing a jacket to work everyday while I was there…so there's that…
Having visited Seattle for PAX and having taken part in the Magical Mystery Tour there, I'm forced to agree that it is all true! The only bits that need adding are the Sci-Fi museum that has Red Dwarf and Dr Who, and the aquarium – both amazing! Manchester just cannot compare.
Love this!!
Although Seattle is awesome, its not all sugar and spice: it's got it's head lodged up its ass politically. And let's talk about public transportion…oh yeah, we're about 30 years behind on that…try getting anywhere without a car. Which brings up another point: our most horrible traffic. And that library?..try spending a day there and not get repulsed by the homeless crowd or getting lost in the corkscrew design.
You also forgot to mention the high suicide rate and the high number of serial killers from the area.
Our shit pro teams (except soccer) and the Starbucks CEO that let our NBA go to Oklahoma.
3 mountain ranges? Sorry, only there are only 2. The Cascades and Olympics. Those are still awesome though.
that's not completely true either,
Most political problems are in Olympia
We don't need public transportation because everything is delivered by plane
The library was designed that way to scare away the illiterate
The "homeless" are actually actors put there to ward off visitors
The suicide rate is only caused by people being told they had to leave Seattle permanently
Soccer (the REAL football) is the only sport played in the states professionally that is worthwhile anyway
and I am pretty sure you forgot to count the underwater mountain range in the puget sound…. so that makes 3.
Most voters are from Seattle (and surrounding metropolitan area). Your head is truly in the clouds if you think we don't need a public transportation system.
No, the homeless are homeless, they're worse than I experienced living in NYC.
While I like playing and watching Soccer (which I agree is the real football, I call american football "hand-egg") I enjoy watching baseball and basketball live.
There is no Puget Sound mountain range. It is more a fjord system resulting from the last ice age. It runs primarily north-south, carved out as the last glaciers receded.
yes, now I am trolling. I have a strong love-hate relationship with this area. Something only one who lived hear for decades can understand.
ROFLMAO- great response! right on
Have to agree with this one, especially the political comment. It's as if everyone purchases their pat political- and world-view from the same generic (NPR left) Stepford lifestyle shop (this "tolerant" city can be surprisingly hostile to any dissent from the lockstep, and it is eaten up with the cancer of political correctness). Of course, that's probably true everywhere, the only difference being in the details and severity–I'd just expect more from Seattle since the populace is alleged to be more educated and intelligent there. Ah well, I love Seattle anyway, weather and all pro sports teams included.
Have you ever lived in another major city like LA, Chicago or New York? Because until you've experienced traffic in LA, or the homeless of New York, or the BS of Chicago politics, your views on all these awful things seem a bit provincial.
I grew up in the Chicago area, and moved to Seattle for a year and a half, just having moved back to Chicago for family reasons. I've also spent time in NYC and LA. While I was not in Seattle long enough to comment on the political side of things, it seemed like a pretty damned open-minded city. I lived in First Hill and hardly ever drove unless I was going to work on the Eastside…and if that's what you're talking about in terms of poor transportation…how do you propose they change that? Should they build a chunnel through Lake Washington? Or would you like a train that goes North or South of the lake?
As far as sports, the Seahawks have been pretty decent in recent years (despite this season) and the Sounders are AWESOME (about to get more awesome with new rivalries in Vancouver and Portland starting up). No comment on the Mariners.
Oh, and in terms of the suicide rate? They're high, but not even close to the highest…35th out of 51 (including D.C.). Here's the link: http://www.mentalhealthamerica.net/go/state-ranking Turns out Utah is the most depressed state, and Nevada and Alaska are at the highest end of suicides.
I have reported you to "Always describe Seattle as Cloudy Bureau" you will be forced to live somewhere else until you repent.
As to hills for each neighborhood we had too many and flatten a few so out of state folks moving here to drink coffee, enjoy are fine city and write software had a place to live. Including the now very trendy Belltown
But actually we took out a total of about 60 hills just to make everything smoother…
Seattle has Bruce Lee in a waiting slumber should we need his protection.
Bwaaaaahahaha AWESOME.
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That's not the fuselage of the 787. Rather, it's the 737 being shipped in via rail. 787 fuselages are built in one piece in Japan and are flown to the United States via the Dreamlifter, a modified 747 that can swallow the entire fuselage of its baby brother in one gulp.
…or 35,000 Jews. It's ok, we keep a low profile and apologize for Seattle's lack of delis and bagel shops to alert you to our presence.
I never signed a non disclosure agreement when I left..
I grew up in the NW and continue to live here, for now. Seattle is great but has MANY downfalls, most notibly is the absolutely AWFUL climate. 300 days of clouds a year, a constant drip. People are depressed often and rarely look on the bright side. (No pun intended.) I miss Denver, 300 days of sun, seasons…Mountains.
You got it, Patrick! Don't underestimate the power of the damp & grey to make people depressed, cranky and avert their eyes! Sunshine rocks!
And then there are those of us who moved away from Denver TO Seattle to get away from the gawdawful constant, bright sunlight. It's like constant laser beams into your brain.
I love the rain and clouds and it never makes me depressed, unlike everyone whining about how cloudy it is in the rainiest city in the country.
OMG me too. Glenwood actually but I got so despondent from all the sun I had to come here.
Unlike Colorado, Seattle keeps a light cloud layer so that God doesn't burn it down.
There's no way it's better than MY hometown: http://www.historiadorio.com.br/images/rocinha8.jpg
In Seattle, the four food groups are pho, hummus with pita, beer, and coffee. This diet is why Seattlelites have the sexiest physiques in the world.
Love you for saying this because it is so true.
two years in Seattle almost convinces me you are right, except of course I'm from Melbourne so I know you are only 'almost' right.
i happen to like tacoma. and portland, get over yourselves; yes we notice you're there too.
Don't worry you'll love Seattle when you get out of rehab!
Portland is what Seattle thinks it is…or was…
Seattle is better than my birthplace (Brooklyn) & the place I was raised (Miami) combined! I love this place! LUCID Jazz Lounge in the U-District has great LIVE Music for Free! Love it!
great pics—too bad most of the year these images are unseen due to the gloom and doom that is Seattle. I was there at Christmas and had to take refuge under an ultra bright lightbulb at the Seatac airport to get my Vitamin D levels up to something other sub zero. And Seattle IS my hometown (I now live on the E Coast). But seriously, great pictures.
Since this post comes out of the corner swinging, I'll just have to respond back with a couple of swings of my own.
This is kind of a misleading post. Looks as if the photos were only taken during the non-raining season. So that means, this is what Seattle looks like 25% of the time.
Your music scene is lightyears ahead of the rest country and you have Uwajimaya but let's not get carried away here. Better than the town I grew up in? I respectfully disagree. My 2 years in Seattle would have been better well spent in a dentist chair getting an x-ray of my mouth and have the technician come in and tell me, "We need to retake those", for 730 days straight but instead I was forced to waste that time waiting for ferries.
That Jetson's House, which I consider a scar on Seattle's face, is one of the most hysterical landmarks I have ever seen. I half expected a scientist (lab-coat, clip board and all) to greet me outside the Space Needle and say "Welcome, to the AAAAAAMAZING FUTURE!" Your inability to make pizza, hotdogs or basically anything other than seafood is just mind-blowing. The common Seattleite's inability to drive in the rain (you guys should really have a handle on that), some how grander inability to drive on a clear sunny day, and your "F*** IT, there's a quarter inch of snow on the ground, better abandon my car on the interstate" driving technique is terrifying. The roads are modeled after a ball of tangled yarn and what the hell is with the injecting a named street in-between the numbered streets? You can only ride a bike in one direction (down hill) and if you want to get back you'll have to grab a cab… BUT that's impossible in the city of Seattle because there are only 6 of them in the entire city!
The only mode of transportation I enjoyed out there was the light rail. Because it took me directly out of Seattle and dropped me off at SEA-TAC. That NDA they tried to make me sign wasn't necessary. I spit on it and said "Don't you worry. I'll actively tell people to never go there."
In this post you should have posted a sound bite of a hipster scoffing at someone considering to eat bread that isn't gluten free.
So enjoy your "superior hometown". I'll be having a grand old time in my home town Chicago. Riding my bike to and from places, not having that fear of being struck by a driver because "The sun was in their eyes", eating some of the best food in the country and going to one of our many bars that doesn't do last call at 12:30am. A place where the women keep their sweatpants at home and I can actually hail a cab.
Just a warning for any of you considering moving to this place. Don't do it!!! You should definitely visit. Hike Rainier, hang in Ballard, eat some sushi but for the love of everything that is sacred in this world, DON'T LIVE THERE!!!
You sound bitter and I'm guessing it is because you suck at life.
Seattle rain is gorgeous. Seattle is just beautiful.
Wow. You're kind of a whiner. It's a joke. Get over yourself.
Yes, because all the Chicago drivers really know how to handle cyclists. (I've lived in ChiTown for 3 years now.)
Seattle is better than Chicago because we understand snark. You missed the point of his post.
So, so true. I'm from Chicago, and lived in Seattle for a little while…when walking and riding those hills, I'd never felt so healthy and in shape! And his comment on food is pretty ridiculous, too. Yes, Chicago does have some world-class chefs and restaurants, but does it have late-night happy hour for food and drinks? And I have had more than a few friends get hit by riding their bicycles throughout Chicago. You're lucky as hell if a road has a real bike-lane. This guy sounds like a pretentious yuppie from Lincoln Park or Old Town who works in the Financial District.
Seattleites can drive in the rain its the transplants that can't.
Name another major city that has as many hills as us and gets snow.
With ya on the cabs and last call part….. lalalalame.
Seems like you wussed out, only the strong survive here.
730 days straight of waiting for ferries?
plainly, that means you didn't even live in seattle.
thus, you were targeted for non-admittance status during your brief term here.
you probably only got a d-level clearance – which means you never found our grass fed beef burger joints, our warm and dimly lit drinking nooks with world class bourbon offerings, and you most assuredly never pre-funked a yacht party before a huskies game.
this also explains why you, subsequently, spent 2 years looking, in vain, for a decent hotdog…
enjoy biking chi-town. minus 37 degrees is super fun…
A few thoughts…
Don't be sour Chicago didn't come up with the Needle. Soon Chicago will try and build one, only to learn that it will not ever meet the standards of Seattle's genius.
Speaking of genius, have you had a Cream Cheese hotdog?
As far as pizza goes…you can take your monstrosity deep dish pizza along with high cholesterol and poor physique. Seattle flies pizza to Italy during shortages since we are the only ones who know how to make a true pizza.
Those bad drivers…not from Seattle.
Seattlites are in good shape…it takes a superior gene pool to be able to bike back up our hills.
Don't be frustrated that you don't understand the logic of our streets…soon Chicago will learn.
Seriously? You live in Chicago and you try and play this? I might have bought it if you lived in New York or Philadelphia or San Francisco, maybe but NOT Chicago — the place they call the Windy City? You can ride a bike there for the 7 days it isn't so hot and humid you turn into a limp rag or cold and snowing that your bike chain freezes. Next time you want to go mano a mano with Seattle, change your hometown first!
Did we not server your latte at the right temperature? Such a bitter response. We're proud of our quirky "little" city. Be proud of yours too, but don't waste your time or ours bashing ours.
The only thing sadder than someone claiming that " makes the best pizza in the world and it's vastly superior to the pizza from ", is when ANYONE claims that Chicago style pizza is even "pizza", much less edible.
Best I can figure is that some Bears fan (da' Bears) decided that he couldn't get fat enough eating an honest pizza, unless he added 20 layers of cholesterol based ingredients.
Chicago??Chicago!?! After spending the 3 worst years of my life in that hell hole I've never been happier in my life in Seattle. There are maybe 7 days a year you can actually go outside in Chicago…so unbelievably cold, way too hot in the summer and there is no such thing as fall or spring. I HATED it. I don't own a car in Seattle and bike and use public transit to get around everywhere with no problem. This is the first January of my entire life that I've actually been able to go outside and go biking without nearly freezing to death. Oh yeh it's cloudy? Boo hoo, the temperate is fantastic year round and the rain never gets in the way of any run or bike ride. I have yet to even use an umbrella. Seattle is the best!!
No one uses an umbrella….it's Seattle. We leave that shit to the Portland hipsters and don our Marmot/Columbia/North Face/Patagonia/Mountain Hardwear/etc. raincoats in a variety of bright colors.
so far it all seems to be true.
Yeah. About the Union Dock Workers. They actually went to Andy's Diner to get "lunch" and never made it back to work. Oh how I miss Seattle. Pics are beautiful. Should be a coffee table book.
Andy's is a Chinese restaurant now…bummer!
As a Seattle native, I agree with this entirely.
Except, I have to shame us a bit – truth is, our brother to the north, Vancouver, is just like us except slightly better in every way (except their university is uglier!).
Nahh! I posit that the two cities are in many ways very different; also, my opinion is that Seattle is in some ways better than Vancouver (for example, Vancouver's built environment, i.e., architecture and streetscape, is *significantly* more generic and sterile throughout the city and suburbs).
Seattle and Vancouver may be nearly identical in size and climate, with some geographic similarities, but they have their own very distinct identities and specific characteristics and geographic details. People outside the region think of them as twins and don't know the difference when the latter subs for the former in film and tv (Seacouver), but we all know better.
Both cities have pros and cons, and I'd say both come out equal if different in quality. But let's not forget, both cities are bigger and better than Portland (nice little town, but why settle when you're so close…).
(I don't really have a beef with Portland, I just know they're sensitive, kinda like Atlanta, the original useless, "me-too" city. Makes it fun to tweak them. At least Portland is a moderately desirable locale–Atlanta, not even remotely.)
Vancouver is actually a several magnitudes larger than Seattle. Nearly 4x the population at 2.3 million.
I like Portland. What Chicago is to New York, Portland is to Seattle, sorta (and more accurately; Seattle is to Vancouver). Geographically and environmentally similar, they differ on the social and economic level.
@go gadget go Vancouver's population is 578,041 according to the 2006 Canadian Census, whereas Seattle's is 608,660. You looked at the numbers for the Vancouver metropolitan area (Vancouver plus the surrounding suburbs) and compared them to the numbers for Seattle's city limits. Seattle actually has a larger metropolitan area at 3.4 million. The disparity in census years discredits the 30,000 difference in population since in four years Vancouver could've easily gained that much. They're roughly equal.
We're missing some cool stuff that you have, like the market and the U district, but we also missed Nirvana. It's about even.
If Portland is our little sister, then Vancouver is our little brother. What is up with the smell of urine adorning all that is downtown Vancouver?
Seattle is to Portland as New York is to New Jersey. Think I'm wrong? Go to a gas station and try to pump your own gas 🙂
Actually, Portland's always reminded me of Tacoma more than Seattle.
U R kewllll!
Oh gods – You have officially gone viral.
HILARIOUS stuff. The clouds being formed by cappuccino steam… brilliant.
almost as nice as vancouver
Um, yeah, this is fucking rad. I live in belltown and wouldnt leave this place for all the money in the world….instead, I would buy it, kick all the bums out, move all the buildings closer to the water and have awesome gatherings with the 5 million people I have yet to meet. Nice work on this.
I got tired of how special Seattle was and moved away. I'm happier now.
Hee hee… working on that one myself. Good riddance GREY & RAIN!
Seattle averages less rain per year than New York City, New York City, Atlanta, Boston, Baltimore, Portland, Maine, and Jacksonville, Florida, and isn't even on the list of top 15 rainiest cities in America.
So, so funny. And I make no argument against any of it, as my hometown is in Jersey.
Hilarious! I didnt even grow up there but this post makes me miss Seattle
We also have pirates thank you very much
Favorite line…"Ferries…Yeah, that's how we get to 7-11″
Love this. Seattle is more than anyone could ask for.
It would be more awesome if you could simply get a decent pizza. Seriously, Pagliacci is dollar for dollar, the most overpriced food/quality product on the planet. I love virtually everything about Seattle, but am seriously stunned at how terrible the pizza is….
have you been to serious pie?
This blog is very un-Seattle like!!! You should be too cool to post something like this. Seattle folks know Seattle is better because they are enlightened beyond caring. Leave it for the junior high humor that exists in Portland.
Great photos of Seattle and the surrounding area but the photos of the Boeing planes are the 737 not the 787. The 787 is a composite body and is not green.
In Portland you can watch naked women dance while enjoying a cocktail. In Seattle? Not so much.
Nobody here wants to go to the strip clubs. Hot girls are everywhere but there.
Bruce Lee was an UW graduate, therefore we all know martial art. No one can fuck with us! 😛
You forgot the Fremont Troll! No other city in the world has it's *very own troll*, two stores tall and sitting under the Aurora ridge, eating a real Volkswagon bug!
Seattle is also the only city cool enough to have it's own superheroes.
Chief Sealth let Mother Nature begin here!
Best comment EVER!!!!!!!!!
…wait a minute i live in la.
No Portland hate please. Both cities are lovely. Vancouver B.C. is too. We should all have city-citizenship in all three regardless of which one it is that we call home. Seattle is bliss and so is Portland and Vancouver. San Francisco… not so much… but it has that crazy energy border towns have. 😛
"…border town…" LMAO!
Cascadians unite!
its going down…..
But then everyone from both Portland and Seattle come to the Bay Area and find out quickly what they got wrong. We made y'all. YEEEEEEEE!!! Also, Seattleites have tried to tell me that they invented "hella." Don't be ignant.
Lot of nice pictures there, but that hideous monstrosity of the downtown SPL branch kinda ruins your argument 😛
We still play Bball in Oregon
You are correct. The NBA, least interesting pro sport, maintains a disproportionate presence in smaller, less significant markets such as PDX. Note, for example, they abandoned both Seattle and Vancouver, much nicer and more significant cities than Portland, for Oklahoma City and Memphis.
…BTW, "Shawn Kemp's son", have you met any of your countless half-siblings scattered all across this great land?!
Yeah but you guys are watching Seattle players (i.e. B. Roy and Jamal Crawford)
Sheet, I realize this is a joke but some poor slob in Kansas is probably thinking this reaffirms her life goal to get to Portland or Seattle where everything will just click into order for her–naturally. To that slob I say be very wary of this part of the country. The people and the opportunities aren't that great. Do some research and visit at various times of the year. My advice is go big first and then if you don't like that go fizzle out out in the drizzle in the NW. Good Luck!
What an excellent photo tour and explanation of Seattle!
Seattle also has a big part of my family and, that really makes it better than your hometown.
Tongue planted firmly in cheek…
You forget to mention Swedish Hospital where everyone in Seattle was born.
You got that right. Anyone who would have a kid in Harborview should be convicted of child abuse.
And Nascar's for sissies who can't handle Hydroplanes!
Seattle is the second best city in Washington. The best one is where the sun shines almost 270 days a year. It offers many of the amenities of Seattle other than the sound, but there are over 100 lakes within 30 miles of it. People still say hello to people they walk by on the streets. Traffic jams last 30 minutes in the morning and afternoon and they delay you for about 10 minutes at the most. You don't need over $100K salaries to afford a decent home. Those of you that live in Washington will know the city I am talking about. I prefer to keep it a secret so it stays like it is.
You gotta be joking me right? Spokane is a SH*t hole. What else do they have that seattle has? They have no jobs, no pride in home ownership, no self respect, no activities that Seattle doesn't, no decent food.
There are NO 100k+ jobs there so I hope you dont need one to get by. Housing is supply and demand, housing is cheap there because nobody wants to live there, and even if they did want to, where would they work? Retail or fast food? Maybe construction? They also have more fast food per capita than any city in America, so there clearly aren't a lot of good looking people either.
Please dont call your rolling hills mountains.
Eastern WA is a dump.
Me thinks you speak of Spokane, but only because of the first comment is derivative of the animosity that is common of eastern Washingtonians towards west. But I might be wrong.
Where else, he mentioned sunshine, all the other cities in Washington with "amenities" have nearly identical weather to Seattle being all clumped together along the sound.
If it's Spokane they left out the part where you can't drive anywhere for the other 95 days because of all the fucking snow.
I love the elk crossing sign (have never seen one there in 30+ years BWAAA) right before the sunniest city in Washington, and it's on the way to my favorite place on the Olympic Peninsula, Sol Duc Hot Springs!!! My son and I took Flat Stanley there. FS chilled and had a cheeseburger at the grill – next to the 3 hot pools and one fabulous cold pool. Best back and forth temperature-torture you can put yourself through! Flat Stanley didn't play that s**t though. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah…we were talking about Seattle. I digress…whew – I need a vente frappe, gonna go get one five minutes from home…in any direction. Oh, and GO HAWKS!!! And for you Bronco, 49ers. Ariz. Cardinals fans, South Kitsap Cheerleaders could kick all your butts!
Very nice photos. If I could convince my wife to move I would be gone in a minute. Seattle is overcrowded, way overpriced and the people are pretentious and rude. I have been here 25 years and that is about 24 years too long.
Agreed, I lived there for 18 years and had more than my fill. I'll take the sunny Bay Area any day of the week. Seattle can have it's yearly two weeks of absolutely beautiful weather, I'll take my daily dose. Most Californians believe the hype, go ahead and move up there and enjoy your disappointment.
I can't hear over the sound of awesomeness here in Seattle
Awesome! Check out this video, on the same theme: "Seattle WA, The Best City in the World".
Agree with you mostly but no matter what, it will always be a poor man's Vancouver…
Yes, Seattle is gorgeous. But the people? Beneath the lovely cloudy vapors lies a very homogenous and milquetoast population.
Oh, I completely agree. Seattle is a beautiful city, but in my nearly 9 years here I find the people to just be…bleh. I am a transplanted east coaster, so maybe I'm just used to friendlier people (even though everyone thinks we're rude!). The Seattle freeze is definitely in effect here, and I don't like it one bit. I'm established here now with my career and family, otherwise I'd leave in a heartbeat. The views would still be here when I came to visit, but I wouldn't have to deal with boring, passive-aggressive people every day.
Every word is true.
Wait….so we have NO synagogues?
Since I moved here from NYC, I have hated Seattle with the fire of a thousand suns. I clicked through preparing to hate this, but it made me laugh until I fell down. I also now understand why I got brained with a hot dog a few months back. Y'all really ought to put something about that in the welcome packet.
Bruce Lee likes Seattle better than you town!!!!
You forgot to mention Seattle has the world's best french fries, at Dick's.
ive been told of a magnificent welcome sign that states… "welcome to seattle.. we're better than you!"
Love the pictures. Love the captions. I am fortunate to live in one part of Seattle that is 15 minutes away from everything! From downtown, Ballard, Alki, Lake Washington, Boeing field, and the mall. Yeah, Seattle is wonderful and yeah, Seattle has its problems. Running a business is a challenge, traffic can be a huge issue, the weather is just something you get used to. We have the threat of earthquake but virtually no tornadoes, no hurricanes, summers not too hot and winters not to cold (usually-but as with everywhere there are exceptions to every rule.) When it does snow, yeah, it gets crazy-but you try to drive these hills in the snow, even with chains. And, because of the hills, mountains and convergence zones, it can literally be clear at my house and 1 mile up the street, be snowing. It is just the way it is. Seattle is wonderful. I believe this post was meant to brag about some things, and per the captions, bitch about some of the others. We are not perfect, we never claim to be, but we definitely have a lock on the best and most beautiful city in the Northwest.
You are becoming legen-(wait for it)-dary among my Seattle Facebook friends for this. Thanks for lots of chuckles! Our hyperbole in the Northwest is better than everyone else's.
So true! Seattle is THE BEST hometown! (Despite it's awful local government.) And for all of you who don't like it here: shut up, pack up & move away!
In Seattle you can paddle your kayak to go get tacos.
Hopefully this blog gets more people (Californians) to move to Seattle instead of filling up Portland ;P
j/k I love you too Emerald City from Portland with love.
Okay, that's some funny stuff. Too bad the Sonics had to leave… We could've had Kevin Durant! lol
Honestly, Seattle is super overrated. I went there once and not only was it raining but nobody had an umbrella to lend me! Have yet to navigate the downtown area without paying at least $7 in bus fare. Pretty mountains do not make a "good hometown".
Thank you!
My hometown is New York City. You lose, motherfuckers.
My colon is cleaner than your home town. And Derek Jeter is overrated, motherfucker.
New York is like a rich loser who can't get laid at home, so he has to pay for it at other places!!! "A-rod, Ichiro, Freddy Garcia, Raul" We still got the better end of the deal with Buhner. It's ok you guys couldn't get past 3rd base so you picked up Seattle's sloppy seconds. Anytime you want to hop on one of Boeing's planes and come visit our far superior city feel free. Just make sure you tell people "The Bone sent ya" or we might send you a little south to take a trip down the Green River.
And why is everyone hating on Tacoma, when we have those "horse whispers" up in Enumclaw. You sick Fucks. Seattle would be more than happy to buy your plane tickets to New York. Maybe their mounted police can give you a proper New York beating.
P.S. Bones
My truck payment is going to be a little late, do to the fact I somehow miss placed my wallet at Hempfest…
You are a total knob.
This type of smug, self absorbed arrogance is everything that's wrong with Seattle. This kid has obviously never lived anywhere else or he would know that people on the East coast can't point Seattle out on the map….cause they don't care
I can't point New York out on a map. See what I did there, Einstein?
I'm actually rather amazed that the EMP wasn't in there. Makes even the library look aesthetically pleasing by comparison.
This is the greatest blog post of all time
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FALSE: The Puget Sound is actually not a sound. It was misnamed. But Seattle is still cool.
Thanks Eric! Love this!
Portland is Seattles meth addicted, haggard old hooker.
Portland gets molested each year, on Thanksgiving, in the guest bedroom by Tacoma.
It is true that when I moved I had to sign a disclosure and I have obeyed said closure.
You all Seattle borns- live on happy pills. You all lie to yourself about how great the clouds look.
Beautiful city- very depressing weather.
Seattle, nirvana of the self congratulatory.
We get our pizzas delivered by 787 sea planes. They make it in the plane en route.
Boom. Gametime.
.KEvery word is true!!! This is exactly why I love and miss Seattle!
(Posted from po-dunk Kentucky where they have no teeth, no education, no mountains 😦 …and definitely nothing delivered by seaplane.)
That was totally awesome! I cannot wait till I finally make it there to live!
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I lived in Seattle for 11 years…about 10 years too long! thank goodness for So. Cal sunshine!!! miss the green, some restaurants & my Seattle friends…but have facebook to stay in touch…enjoy the grey and the rain for me…give me SUNSHINE 360 days of the year!
Of course it looks nice! Those pics where taken on a rare sunny day! There is literally no sun and it really does rain all the time! So for that Seattle sucks and that is why I left! Especially being from CA. Sure if you are from there it doesn't bother you- you don't know anything else!
Except Seattle wishing it was San Francisco .. 😛
For those complaining about the lack of good pizza in Seattle, go straight to The Northlake Tavern ~ on Northlake Avenue, near Ivars. It's awesome!!
Seattle is my hometown and I love it; in all it's pretentious, hyperbolic glory! 🙂 If you can't take your coffee black and your skies grey you won't like Seattle. She is quirky and cool, down-home snootsville and you've gotta love her for all her uniqueness and nonconventionality. Seattleites are a wacky bunch, but we can laugh at ourselves and our kookie kitsch.
Whoever did this, thanks for making me laugh! 🙂
Yes Seattle is the absolute best. This post is for everyone I meet who says "ew, it rains a lot in Seattle" or "I'd be so depressing to live in Seattle" or "I hear that Seattle has a high suicide rate".
Why all this fuss about irrelevant cities like Seattle? I say mark it ground zero and start over.
Irrelevant? LOL. Kids these days and their glib ignorance. You probably typed that using software that was invented and designed in Seattle.
Seattle is named for a Native American Chief. Suck on that Milwaukie
was born in texas; moved everywhere; ended up in seattle for 6 years. been back nd forth between seattle; texas; and los angeles….cali is warm…. but way more busy than my home. ive been in seattle the longest outta every state and city ive lived in; and i jus turned 21. seattle is a great place for life options.
As an ex-pat from the Pacific Northwest, I LOVED this! Thank you so much. It made me homesick!
To the haters- If you can't take a joke or understand hyperbole, we're glad you left and are never coming back.
I'm living in a gorgeous Italian city now, and yet, I still think the beauty of our city rivals some of the better known most beautiful places in the world. On a clear summer day, when the water is shining, and the trees are lush, and the mountains are out – I think it is hard to find anywhere more beautiful. Maybe as beautiful, but not more. Thanks!
So true! Thank you Heather!
Seattle has a Stanley Cup. 1917
I've been to 18 different major cities in the U.S. and lived in 5 of them. All of these place were somewhat nice but, none of them come close to Seattle as far as I'm concerned.
Thank you for showing us on the east coast what we've been missing.
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These pictures clearly explain why my girlfriend is merciliessly asking that we move to Seattle. Apparently,she believes that Seattle > NYC, and after seeing your pics and reading your descriptions (lakes and mountain ranges!), she may have a valid point. Thanks for posting the pictures, and allowing her arguments to creep evermore into my head.
Lovely! I really like the city shots.
Miss you, Seattle! We desert rats can always remember wistfully…
Love your pictures of Seattle! Very cool city…never been but want to visit.
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Beautiful, yes. 29 years of cold and wet was enough. Hail SoCal!
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Seattle sounds really great. I live in Phoenix (that's in Arizona). We get our pizzas by camel.
Does that make Phoenix a ho'-asis?
After looking at your photos, okay, I believe you – your hometown is perhaps better than mine. ;p
Your city pictures are fantastic! really nice 🙂
those pictures are spectacular
We've enjoyed Seattle. There's one eyesore: the I-5 cuts across Seattle's waterfront. This is why Vancouver, BC is alot more scenic. 🙂
Hilarious! I just moved to Renton a few months ago and I still have much to learn. My favorite line: "This is a totem we erected to protect us from Courtney Love."
I always wondered if people want to get arrested to stay on the 5th Avenue?
Seattle is superior. Get used to it. 5 billion Scandahoovians can't be wrong, ya sure, ya betcha!
Great shots/ You've inspried me to do the same thing in Sydney:)
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I love this! Denmark is next on my list of places to visit now.
Have any of you lived in Seattle? I was relocated there for work and stayed in Ballard / Capitol Hill for my 3 years. These pictures must have been taken in summer, as a majority of the year it's overcast and light rain. In my time there, I made some good friends. For the most part, people sucked. I assume the weather had something to do with it.
Personally, I think Portland is a way cooler city. Admittedly, I'm a people person, and I LOVE cities where people are laid back / chill / friendly. Seattle is just too big for those "chill" people to surface. For the most part, the size and weather has rendered Seattle a sad sad city. I remember my first week in town I went to a bar / restaurant and asked for recommendations for a small portion, as I was not starving. The server told me "you only eat what you want to eat". Then he left to help someone else. Like I just asked for an explanation of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. Small things like this would happen more often than I care to remember. Eventually you become numb to it and just go about your business. If you want the "emerald" beauty of Seattle without the shitty attitudes, head to Portland. Beware though for Portland has many, many homeless.
I lived in Seatte. I was a city full of poop. People had poop inside their heads and they drank poop and worked at Poop. All of their poop was green and wet and sticky. Seattle sure knows how to poop on a Saturday night!
Ok – to this blog post is becoming something of a personal joke. Now whenever something great happens in Seattle, I think, what would RottenInDenmark have said about that? As in: In Seattle we don't have snow. We have a holy second coming of Jesus replete with horsemen and seals. Don't mess with Snowmageddon.
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I love this and hate this post. It reminds me of everything that is good and beautiful about my hometown and that where I am now just doesn't compare – not even a little. If you are from Seattle, do not for any reason move to St Louis, MO.
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Awesome thread and hilarious post\thread! But … no mention of the underground?! (No not the night club). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Underground
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This really makes me want to move to Seattle..nevermind NYC.
I'm from Tacoma and hate Seattle. But only because my GF lives there and I have to drive an hour every day to see her. God knows she isn't moving to T-town and my kids live south… Everything else pretty much rocks.
Up here in Seattle we got so tired of seeing those incessant "Portlandia" birds everywhere that we decided to take action. Check out http://www.PutAPlaneOnIt.com and https://www.facebook.com/PutAPlaneOnIt. Go Jet City!
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Yes sir,
That's my place.
This is biased, I live here and have never heard of some of the things!
In order for a city to be truly interesting you have GOT to be able to list more than two places of interest! That sad space needle & Pike Place FARMER'S MARKET (EVERY CITY HAS ONE OF THOSE) just don't cut it, sorry!!
These are amazing pics. I'll be moving to the area in June, can't wait
If North Korea decides to nuke USA, Seattle is the first target!
I reference this post often…you can add Mammoth's to the list:
Fantastic blog/pics/comments!
It's lost some of its innocence over the past 30 years, but Seattle has kept its sense of humor and still rules the planet!
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HINT: It's probably NOT due to poor diet, a sluggish thyroid, or iron-poor blood, or a sluggish thyroid.
Are you tired every day? Can you get through the afternoon without taking a nap? Is your memory as clear and sharp as it used to be? Do you quickly become depressed over things that never would have bothered you a few years ago?
A good place to start is to have your doctor order a blood test that checks for specific levels of stress hormones.
Dr. Frank Shallenberger says "What you may not know is that you have all the classic symptoms of one of the most overlooked health problems facing Americans today."
It's a condition that's largely ignored by mainstream medicine. Even worse, the few doctors who do recognise it don't do nearly enough to treat it!
Meanwhile, this condition causes millions of people to suffer from unexplained fatigue … brain fog … depression… food cravings … and low immune function. Allergies, headaches, and difficulty bouncing back from stress are common signs, also."
The problem is your adrenal glands. These walnut-sized glands produce over 50 different hormones, many of which are essential for energy and stamina, a healthy libido, a strong immune system, and a sharp mind. But the #1 function of your adrenal glands is to help your body deal with stress.
Once your stressful event is over, your adrenaline level drops quickly. Other stress hormones help refuel your body and bring it back into balance. This is fine if the stress you're dealing with is sudden and short-lived.
Today, modern life has a devastating effect on your adrenal health because you're faced with stress 24/7.
Such simple things like traffic jams, a difficult commute, long checkout lines, all jolt your adrenal glands. Then factor in environmental toxins, infections, pain, processed foods, insomnia, and allergies, and it's no wonder why your adrenal glands are crying out for help!
The more stress you experience, the harder your adrenals must work to protect you. All this stimuli month after month, year after year and eventually you're running on empty.
When your adrenal glands stop working, the first thing you notice is that your symptoms start to intensify. You can't sleep at night, you feel irritable or depressed and you become forgetful.
Other signs of adrenal fatigue include headaches, especially in the afternoon, weight gain, elevated blood sugar levels, and slow recovery from a cold or flu, etc.
Adrenal failure makes you feel exhausted and it's a fatigue that isn't just about feeling tired or sleepy. It's causes you to feel completely drained — and usually hits around 2 or 3 in the afternoon.
Little wonder why so many complain of chronic fatigue, allergies, depression, or other health problems actually suffer from overworked adrenals.
Your resiliency, energy, endurance and your very life all depend on healthy adrenal glands.
Adrenal failure affects a huge number of people when you consider society's insatiable addiction to coffee and energy drinks. Roughly 80% of people experience adrenal fatigue at some point, but mainstream medicine barely knows it exists!
Here's some good news: adrenal fatigue does not have to be permanent. You can restore your adrenals to perfect health within a few months. Just nourish and strengthen your adrenals while giving them a chance to rest and rebuild.
First, there are four particular nutrients that directly support adrenal function. They work together to help restore and repair your adrenals.
1) It's one of the most important nutrients for anyone with adrenal failure and also known as …. the "Anti-Stress Vitamin", vitamin B5 (Pantothenic Acid).
People with adrenal failure are nearly always deficient in this key nutrient. This member of the "B" family helps increase levels of important stress hormones like cortisol and progesterone.
Another thing pantothenic acid does is relieve that extra anxiety you feel when you're "stressed out". This is because it helps boost dopamine levels in the brain, the feel good hormone that improves your state of mind.
Pantothenic acid is also one of the best nutrients for cellular energy production. So it can help your heart and your brain get the fuel they need to do their job every day – while keeping your entire body energized, too.
While pantothenic acid is the first recommendation for supporting adrenal health, you should also know about this additional re-energizing "partner."
Keep stress hormones in healthy balance — naturally!
Licorice root is a rich source of a compound called glycyrrhizin, which gets converted to glycyrrhetinic acid (GA) in the intestine. GA helps slow down the body's breakdown of cortisol, giving your adrenals extra support.
What's more, Licorice root also balances levels of aldosterone, an adrenal hormone that helps keep your blood pressure, fluid levels and electrolytes in balance.
When aldosterone gets too high, your blood pressure skyrockets and your potassium levels decline. This causes muscle aches and numbness in your hands and feet.
But when aldosterone gets too low — which is common in many people with adrenal problems — your blood pressure plummets. This leads to palpitations, dizziness when you stand up, and overall fatigue. So licorice root keeps you more in balance and better able to cope during times of stress. It soothes nervous stomachs, too.
As you can see, pantothenic acid and licorice root can have a profound impact on your adrenal health and energy levels. There's also a third nutrient that's crucial for keeping adrenals in top-notch form. Yet you'll rarely find it in any adrenal formula.
Did You know that overworked adrenals affect liver function also?
It's true. When you protect your liver, you boost the health of your entire body, but especially, your adrenal glands.
Constant exposure to pesticides, heavy metals, food chemicals and air pollution means your liver and adrenals are constantly fighting off toxins.
Glandular therapy — also known as live cell therapy — has a history that goes back as far as the Ancient Greeks, and it's still used in TCM (Traditional Chinese medicine). But it became popular in modern medicine about 100 years ago, when Swiss doctor Paul Niehands found that dried thyroid gland could help an under-active thyroid and dried adrenal gland likewise could relieve Addison's Disease.
Some research centers have once again begun studying the effects of glandular extracts, and especially their effects on the immune system. When your adrenals aren't producing enough hormones, supplementing with adrenal cortex extract gives your glands the basic raw materials they need to jump-start adrenal function.
Pantothenic acid, Adrenal Root, Adrenal Cortex and Licorice Root are the four top nutrients for helping repair and restore adrenal failure.
In order for the adrenals to really improve, you have to protect yourself against the constant onslaught of stress. This means eating a healthy diet with no sugars or stimulants. It also means reducing pain, getting enough sleep, and doing some light exercise.
It's also wise to take adaptogens — herbal compounds that can be both energising and calming; they protect the immune system and fight off infections. Adaptogens function according to what your body needs in the moment.
The first adaptogen is an age-old herb that TCM used for centuries as a revitalising tonic for kidney, lung, and heart problems is Cordyceps.
Scientists discovered that cordyceps increases energy, stamina and physical performance. ATP is the molecule your body uses to store energy. One study found that cordyceps increased ATP in the cells by a whopping 55% and improve the way your body utilizes oxygen. One study found that cordyceps increases oxygen absorption by 40%.
If you tend to catch colds easily or if they hang around for a long time when you do, Cordyceps can deliver the extra protection you need.
Also known as Siberian Ginseng, Eleuthero helps protect against stress by helping your adrenal glands produce stress hormones more effectively. Here's how.
When you face a "flight or fight" situation, your adrenal glands pump out cortisol and adrenaline. But once these hormones are depleted, your body can no longer fight and becomes exhausted. What eleuthero does is allow a slower, more efficient release of stress hormones — so your body doesn't become so tired.
How well does eleuthero work? In one recent study, scientists decided to measure the effects of eleuthero on stress response in 45 men and women. First, all the volunteers were asked to take a very difficult memory test, while scientists measured their blood pressure. Sure enough, the stress of taking the test caused both heart rate and blood pressure to dramatically increase in every volunteer.
Then, half the group was asked to take eleuthero, and half took a placebo. After 30 days, the entire group took the test again.
Research shows that eleuthero can increase alertness, boost immunity, and improve athletic performance. In fact, Soviet athletes and cosmonauts used eleuthero to keep up their energy and stamina.
It also regulates certain neurotransmitters in the brain. These neurotransmitters are important in decreasing Anxiety, improving sleep and reducing irritability.
A remarkable herb, eleuthero. But that's not all. I also want to tell you about another remarkable adaptogen—that's also very powerful—especially when it comes to adrenal health.
The Centuries-Old Nutrient That Relieves Grinding Fatigue, Anxiety and More…
Ashwagandha is an East Indian herb that has been used in Ayurvedic medicine for more than 2,000 years. Traditional healers used it as a whole-body energy tonic. And modern clinical trials show that ashwaganda can also ease tension and fatigue .… increase concentration … and boost overall
Ashwagandha is so effective because it helps the body process stress, rather than just masking it. As a result, your adrenals don't have to work as hard. Here's how.
Ashwagandha increases DHEA. DHEA is the "feel good" hormone that's critical for jumpstarting hormone balance. It's also the precursor to sex hormones like testosterone, estrogen and progesterone which are important for libido and for keeping your muscles strong.
In one clinical trial, people taking ashwagandha reported higher energy levels, better sleep and increased feelings of well-being. What's more, blood sugar levels decreased — and cortisol plunged by 26%!
Ashwagandha also reduces levels of the stress hormone, cortisol. That's important, since high levels of cortisol trigger many stress-related health problems. These include elevated blood pressure, weight gain and memory problems.
And as far as that nervous stomach you get when you're under stress, ashwagandha can help there, too. In some studies, it's shown to be as effective as some conventional remedies for relieving anxiety.
Ashwagandha is an essential part of any adrenal-health program, along with the 6 other nutrients mentioned above.
Listen: Adrenal fatigue is running rampant in today's society. It's a root cause of fatigue, memory loss, weight gain and even blood sugar problems.
In order to keep your adrenals in top working form — and help your body deal with stress over the long run — try to decrease as much of the stress in your life that you can. Eat better. Stay away from coffee and energy drinks and go to bed earlier.
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The OEA applauds Governor Fallin for her determination in vetoing the abysmal budget passed today. The members of the OEA and those who support public education and core services have stood strong for a plan to move Oklahoma toward a more responsible budget. We implore legislators to get back to work immediately. It's both a gift and a tremendous responsibility to have within your power the ability to address or exacerbate the problems facing our state. Legislators should take this opportunity to resolve our funding crisis without putting the burden on working Oklahomans or ignoring tax windfalls for Big Oil. Oklahoma's students and the future of our state hang in the balance.
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Southasian elephant December 2011
|Photo: WWF
The BBC has decided to pull the rug from under its South Asia web portal, even as the 17th SAARC Summit got underway in Addu Atoll in the Maldives. The Corporation seems to have felt that a regional outlook was no longer a paying proposition – and well might it have thought so, given that its managers do not live here and do not have to think about building a Southasian future. But for those of us who do, Southasia is an increasingly real proposition, and done to be nurtured and developed to match the evolving times and accompanying economic, cultural and geopolitical possibilities.
Himal has always proposed that Southasia be understood as something more than the SAARC formula of seven (and eight, since Afghanistan joined) nation states. It is a matter of definition, and our proposition has been that this vibrant, diverse, vast Subcontinent should not be restricted to a single classification. The moment one goes beyond a single characterisation – and seek to reflect the historical, perhaps, or the geographical, demographic and economic realities – Southasia begins to become a real, exciting place.
Speaking of diverse definitions, let us start by reaching out to the Southasian penumbra: Chinese-ruled Tibet, which is indeed also part of East Asia while being Southasian, and the newly democratising Burma, which can simultaneously remain a member of ASEAN while being one of us. Let us challenge the unwieldy centralised nation states of India and Pakistan, and demand that the states and provinces of these countries be given more federal powers, to be free to make and learn from their own mistakes.
There is no reason why a bilateral, trilateral or quadrilateral collaboration should not fall under the rubric of a full 'Southasian' activity. Meanwhile, the smaller countries must not feel demeaned in developing links with the neighbouring states of India – sovereignty can remain sacrosanct even as Nepal develops links with Bihar or the various parts of Uttar Pradesh, for example. The most important consideration for Southasian regionalism, after all, is that it would deliver a more efficient economy, and lead to prosperity, particularly where the land borders meet: Nepal-Bihar-Purvanchal, Bangladesh-Indian Northeast, Rajasthan-Punjab/Punjab-Sindh and so on.
Only when the larger countries become less centralised will there be a proper structure for Southasian regionalism, where internal governance is more accountable and inter-regional links securer. As such, a truly federal India and Pakistan are the key to regionalism in Southasia. Creating truly federal structures in these countries would deliver the kind of units and entities – sovereign and otherwise – that can work closely together.
Another key to Southasian regionalism is the importance of local-level governance, from the provincial/state level right down to the grassroots. Hence, the end-November proposal by the Mayawati-led government in Lucknow for a four-way division of Uttar Pradesh is to be welcomed from the perspective of a more real Southasia. Not only is the massive size and
strength of India a matter to consider in the attempts to build regionalism, so too is the sheer size of Uttar Pradesh (a state that would be among the largest countries in the world if it were sovereign).
Stretching across the region
We must somehow find a way to rise above the petty ultra-nationalisms and beggar-thy-neighbour attitudes that drag down the entire regional economy. Six decades after Independence, the ruling establishments of the region's larger countries now have an urgent need to mature, in action and outlook. New Delhi and Islamabad must shed their animosities, knowing that a rapprochement will do wonders both for themselves and for the rest of Southasia. This one amelioration of tensions alone will result in a multi-faceted peace dividend: in trade, people-to-people flows, developmental exchange and economic efficiencies. Once the concept of Southasia begins to kick in, the entire Subcontinent will begin to experience a level of global clout that, currently, we can only imagine. Let us also recognise that the region is nuclearised, and that a nuclear war between India and Pakistan will drag all of us up with the mushroom clouds. Indeed, the animosities of Southasia are primarily to be found in North Southasia, in a straight line from Quetta to Chittagong.
|Photo: Adam J West
The people of Southasia must learn to function collectively: for example, working together to seek the departure of NATO from Afghanistan, which would require a regional plan for tackling al-Qaeda and the Taliban. The fact that drone warfare is being experimented with in our region should give us all pause. The presence of Western forces in the northwestern theatre is a destabilising element that puts a spanner in the plans – or even impetus – for Southasia to sort out its own problems. The quicker that the international forces leave, the better for all of us.
To build a practical, energetic regionalism, India will need to resist the temptation to throw its weight around. Every other country, meanwhile, must desist from the automatic, self-defeating anti-Indianism that is currently worn like a badge. In the new and effective regionalism that we seek, the idea is not to supplant the nation state but to complement it by giving the people and the polities an additional dimension to their identities – a dimension that is both historical and psychologically energising. As Southasian regionalism grows with a multi-faceted, realistic formula, the region will be increasingly able to respond to and collaborate with the superpower that China is destined to become. It is not the Indian but the Southasian Elephant that would engage the Chinese Dragon, in ollaboration and in competition.
The global recession has jostled the economies of Southasia, enough for each country to realise the need to open up its borders. Sri Lanka and India showed the way as far back as 1998, when they signed a free-trade agreement; since that time, their economies have interlinked in such a way that the smaller country has benefited without losing any of its sovereignty. The last two years of rapprochement between India and Bangladesh similarly herald great changes for the larger Brahmaputra-Ganga basin, including the Indian Northeast, West Bengal (Paschim Banga), Bhutan and Nepal. Subregional activities too, including those of the BIMSTEC grouping, can energise different parts of Southasia.
In the 15th year since Himal became a Southasian magazine (after ten years as a Himalaya-focused publication), we remain bullish on Southasia. The BBC, meanwhile, may just have missed the boat on this one. Perhaps this was because the BBC insists on spelling Southasia as 'South Asia'. We mean this only half-facetiously: South Asia signifies a geographical placement of the region, a name given to us by others. We can convert this to our own purpose by keeping the spelling of our region as Southasia – a name we can clutch closer to our hearts and an identity we can all create together.
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Children of Southasia 5 March 2012
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Aruna Roy interviewed by Kanak Mani Dixit
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By N Manohar Reddy
A new book on Telugu film shows that the cultural industry was tied up with caste and regional politics.
The art of statelessness 10 February 2014
By Rudra Rakshit and Lora Tomas
Fragments of the lives of the Rohingya refugees in Jammu
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A recent talk on the need for democratic mobilisation of resources and a politics of self-reflexivity in rebuilding Sri Lanka's...
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A look at the difficulties and implications of trying a military ruler in Pakistan as Musharraf prepares to leave the country....
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By Taran N Khan
Reflections on the recent attack targetting a Kabul institution, the Taverna du Liban restaurant.
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New queer writing from Southasia suggests shifts in attitudes since 2009.
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By The Editors
In celebrating the reissue of Himal's first print quarterly, we offer a series of articles on the state of archiving in...
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Courting prospects 9 January 2014
By Sreedeep
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Autonomy under siege 7 January 2014
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By Smriti Mallapaty
The use of modern seeds stands to erode the genetic diversity of local seed varieties in Nepal
Himal Southasian is relaunched in print!
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Penguin India withdraws The Hindus
On 11 February 2014, Penguin India decided to recall and destroy all remaining copies of Wendy Doniger's book The Hindus: An Alternative History. The decision was part of an agreement between them and Shiksha Bachao Andolan, a Hindu campaign group that filed a case against the publishers in 2010, arguing that the book was insulting to Hindus and contained "heresies".
From our archive:
Diwas Kc reviews The Hindus: An Alternative History. (March 2010)


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While scientists continually looks for ways to create better disease resistant crops, fungicide applications are considered as a potential solution for present problems such as fusarium head blight (FHB) and deoxynivalenol (DON) contamination.
Both Europe and the U.S. have set strict limits for mycotoxin limits including DON contamination in raw grain, which influences the export markets and therefore has the potential for global consequences each and every growing season. As a new season begins, a recent study was published that looks into fungicide applications for Reducing FHB and DON.
The study involved wheat crops over the course of several years, and scientists studied different application mechanisms for spraying wheat with fungicides for controlling FHB and DON. The different mechanisms include spraying by airplane, helicopter and ground.
Results from the experiments showed that aerial application was equivalent to a specific ground application. In addition, the study also looked at best uniform ground applications and found that the present technologies used resulted in very low and uneven coverage by the fungicides.
The study's authors evaluated several spraying technologies and found that the back of the head seldom received more than 10% coverage, and the front normally about 20%. The study also demonstrated that the traditional and newer spraying technologies generally give low coverage, normally not better than 10%, while aerial application gave only 1–3%.
However, results showed that best uniform ground application was with back-forward nozzles as there was poor coverage with nozzles that were faced forward only. Speed and direction of wind is also important and boom height is critical to counteracting wind effects, the study states.
The author's of the study concluded that this data indicates that poor coverage may be a major cause of the generally poor efficacy experienced in many fungicide trials. For these reasons, the author's felt that farm scale testing of better nozzle types was very important.
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Dell Launches Upgraded AIO Printer
The 948, which lists at $149, has a print speed of up to 28 pages per minute (ppm) monochrome and up to 25 ppm color. It has a 25-sheet automatic document feeder (ADF) and an integrated duplexer for automatic two-sided printing.
The 948's flatbed scanner has a maximum optical resolution of 1,200-by-1,200 dpi. The all-in-one has memory card slots, and you can also print from a USB key or PictBridge-enabled camera. With an optional internal Wi-Fi card, you can print from a wireless network.
Get more printer news and reviews in our Printers Product Guide.


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Prior to his death, Richard Hamilton was planning an exhibition for the National Gallery. One year later, works by the artist inspired by figures from Balzac to Duchamp are on display in the gallery's Sunley Room.
This highly personal exhibition by one of Britain's most influential artists traces an intriguing path leading to his unfinished and unseen final work, Le Chef-d'oeuvre inconnu – a painting in three parts.
Up until his death at 89, Richard Hamilton (1922-2011) was planning this major exhibition of recent works conceived specifically for the National Gallery and including work never before seen by the public. The exhibition as a whole encapsulates many of the significant directions Hamilton's art had taken over recent decades, when his international reputation soared.


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I have seen these on other blogs before, but I decided to find them and put them into a presentation...
April 16, 2010
Important Instructions for Parents
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- Anonymous4/16/2010 7:30 PM
Ha, I showed this to my 2 older boys and we got a kick out of it.ReplyDelete
It has even more meaning with a new addition to the family.
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BAA Yorkshire Regional Meeting
11.00 Welcome (Sam Lear & Emily Balmer, BAA Yorkshire Reps)
11.15 HTA report on the feasibility of the school screen (Mara Ozolins, Research Fellow, Nottingham)
11.45 Are we using RECD's in Paediatrics correctly? (Anne-Marie Dickinson, Lecturer in Audiology, Manchester)
12.15. Phonak Sponsor Session
12.30 Lunch and networking
13.00 The Sheffield Approach to screening and management of APD difficulties (Michelle Foster, Clinical Scientist, Sheffield).
13.30 Mental Health and Deafness (Alison Lawson & Martin Brown, NDCS)
14.15 Comfort break
14.30 Theory of mind and deaf children (Helen Clinton, Manchester University)
15.15 Question and answer session
16.00 Round up & close
This is a free event. CPD points will be awarded by BAA. Lunch will be provided.
Please confirm attendance by April 7th, as spaces are limited
.Contact: firstname.lastname@example.com or email@example.com (or phone 0114 2717454) to confirm attendance.