Seattle Vacation 2013 (Space Needle, EMP Museum, Science Center, Ferris Wheel, Aquarium & More!!!)
A recap of our week in Seattle, August 25-31, 2013.
Seattle Travel Tips: 8 Things to Know Before You Go
Everything YOU need to know before you travel to Seattle Washington. With a population of 750,000, Seattle is located in the Pacific Northwest. Surrounded by water, evergreen forests, and mountains. The official nickname for Seattle is Emerald City, for all the trees. Also known as the Gateway to Alaska because it’s the closest big US city to Alaska. A major departure point for Alaska cruises. Seattle is home to major US companies like Microsoft, Amazon, Costco, and Formerly Boeing. Seattle is the birthplace of many iconic music acts like Jimi Hendrix, Nirvana, and Pearl Jam. Seattleites have a rep for being cold and standoffish. It's known as the Seattle Freeze.
2 - Weather
150 days of rain a year, with an average rainfall of 37 inches. It's generally not a huge downpour, but more of a steady drizzle. Make sure to bring a raincoat and umbrella.. Although you generally wont see the locals using an umbrella, just a raincoat. And if it's not raining, it's usually cloudy. Don't expect blue skies and sun here. Cloudy 201 days out of the year and partly cloudy 93 days. Winter is quite cold. Averages about 5 inches of snow per year.. If its snowing, don’t plan on going much of anywhere. The city mostly shuts down.
3 - Getting in
Flying in you’ll likely land at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SeaTac for short)
Home to Alaska Airlines
Take the light rail in to downtown. Takes approximately 40 minutes from the airport to downtown.
Amtrak trains
Coast Starlight from LA via Portland
Cascades runs from Vancouver, through Seattle, to Eugene Oregon
Empire Builder comes in all the way from Chicago
Driving in, it’s about 3 hours from Portland or Vancouver
4 - Getting around
Lots of water around. Which makes getting around slow.
Seattle traffic is awful.. I personally still get a rental car.
Don't want to rent one for the whole trip? Use Car2Go.
Seattle has one light rail line. Trains arrive every 6 to 15 minutes.
2 street car lines. Fares are $2.50 for adults.
1 Monorail line, from Westlake Center to Seattle Center. It’s a 2 minute ride for $2.50
Lots of bus lines too.
Oh and I mentioned water.. There’s also water taxis, and ferries.
Uber and Lyft are plentiful
Walking is the best way to get around.. but it's quite hilly. Maybe even more so than San Francisco. So bring your hill climbing shoes.
5 - Food
Just like NYC, Seattle has lots of very good restaurants, but they are expensive. Known for seafood. Locally caught Salmon and Crab. Shellfish, oysters.
Eat a Geoduck (gooey-duck) Clam, native to Washington. Popular in Asian cuisine.. 50% of all geoducks get exported to China. somewhere between chewy clam and a tender abalone, though crisper in texture than either”
Seattle hot dog.. with grilled onions Cream Cheese
Fast food of choice is Teriyaki
Adding to Seattle’s well-known hipster status it has a wide variety of micro-breweries. Over 200 breweries
6 - Coffee
Seattlite love coffee, and coffee shops. The coffee shop is like an extension of most people's homes, they study, they meet people, oh, and they drink some coffee.
Starbucks started in Seattle. There are more Starbucks per person in Seattle than in any other city. In Pike Place they call it the original.. But the original one is no more. If you are a fan of Starbucks visit their flagship Starbucks Reserve Seattle Roastery on Capitol Hill.
Bikini Baristas started in Seattle too.
7 - Hotels
I think the best place to stay is in the heart of downtown. Then you won’t have to fight traffic, or deal with the lousy public transit because you can walk to most things. Expensive during the weekend. Try visiting on the weekend when all the business folks are gone.
Want something a little quieter? Try the Queen Anne Neighborhood by the space needle. Still close, and probably a bit cheaper. Just not in the middle of it all.
Bainbridge Island for cheaper hotels
It's a 35 minute ferry ride in to Seattle for a cheap $8 round trip.
Or even around Seatac Airport
8 - Big attractions
Pike Place Market, Seattle Space Needle, the Waterfront.
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I was in shock and so thankful that Josh made is safely down from Boston.
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How to Pass your Driving Test First Time - No Critical Errors
How to Pass The Driving Test on your First Try Without Making Any Critical Errors. I thought showing how to pass the driving test in California or any where else to get your license could be a pretty interesting video for many people so VOILA! (NEW Part 2) - How to Parallel Park to Pass your Drivers Test:
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When you take the behind the wheel test at the DMV, you need to be prepared. On the day of the driving test when it is your turn to take the test, you will have tp pull up to the test person. Who ever is accompanying you will have to get out the vehicle, and then the test person will proceed with the Pre-Drive Checklist:
The Pre-Drive Checklist: The instructor will check to see if the following things work and if you know how to use them:
- Turn on the blinkers: left & right
- Horn / does the horn work
- Brake / does the brake light work
- Arm signals / Do you know them
- Headlights - Do you know how to turn them on
- Windshield wipers / Can you turn them on
- Emergency brake / Do you know where it is & how to turn it on
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Here's what it says on the sheet the examiner is using to test you:
To pass you must have no more than 3 errors in the pre-drive checklist, no Critical Error mistakes, and no more than 15 errors while driving on the road.
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Alien UFO Surgery Art Bell Dr Roger K Lier Implants alien Abduction
Let's talk Aline UFO SURGERY with Art Bell and Dr. Roger K Lier and what about Alien Implants, Alien Abductions and MORE.
This is his Art Bell Dark Matter Files with the late great Dr. Roger K Leir Dr. Roger K. Leir was an American podiatric expert and ufologist best known as an analyst of insisted untouchable supplements. Leir made books, for instance, The Aliens and the Scalpel, and appeared on changed radio and TV programs, including, ensuring he had discovered confirmation of non-terrestrial experimentation on man.
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Leir formed The Aliens and the Scalpel in 1999, depicting his implant surgery. His next book, Casebook: Alien Implants and Alien abductions, was dispersed in 2000. He began appearing on changed radio and TV programs and talked at UFO social affairs. In 2001, an essayist heading off to his office in Ventura, California reported that it contained UFO magazines and a rack stacked with bug-took a gander at pariah dolls. In 2003 he made an excursion to Varginha, Brazil to investigate the charged crash of a pariah carry, and conveyed a book in 2005 titled UFO Crash in Brazil.
His enthusiasm for extraterrestrial-related wonders developed in his initial youth. His want to discover answers identified with this mysterious subject generated a journey enduring about twenty years. Dr. Leir, a Podiatric Surgeon, kept up a private practice in Ventura County, California for over forty years. He ended up entranced with asserted outsider embeds subsequent to expelling a remote question from a patient's foot in 1995. He shaped a non-benefit association called An and S Research Inc. to explore these bizarre items. He and his surgical group performed fifteen surgeries on claimed alien abductees, bringing about the expulsion of sixteen articles they accept are outsider inserts.
Dr. Leir additionally investigated UFO cases, including the 1996 Varginha, Brazil case in which an extraterrestrial was purportedly observed by various witnesses and caught by the military, and the 2007-2009 UFO sightings in Kumburgaz, Turkey. He additionally created a few UFO/ET-related books.
A few witnesses introduced declaration to a board of previous Congress individuals at the National Press Club in Washington, DC on a 2013 occasion titled the Citizen Hearing on Disclosure. Dr. Leir was among the witnesses.
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#29: Mystery Babylon 1: The Dawn of Man
This is Part 1 in a series of live broadcasts by William Cooper on the Hour of the Time shortwave radio program on Mystery Babylon.
There are only two religions in the world, Mystery Babylon and Christianity, and those of the Mystery Schools believe that Christianity is a perversion of their true religion and seek to destroy it. As the program progresses you will plainly see that Satan has carefully and deceitfully crafted a Pagan Religion of the Dying and Rising god that counterfeits the Religion of Christ BEFORE the advent of Christ, for Satan was not unaware of the prophecy of the coming Son of Man first prophesied in the Garden of Eden.
#30: Mystery Babylon 2: Sun of God 53:04
Bill explores the Sun god of ancient times and paganism.
#31: Mystery Babylon 3: Egyptian Magic 1:42:24
This is Part 3 in a series of live broadcasts by William Cooper on the Hour of the Time shortwave radio program on Mystery Babylon.
Understanding the Religion of Mystery Babylon and it's codification in Egypt.
#32: Mystery Babylon 4: Isis and Osiris Part 1 2:30:09
This is Part 4 in a series of live broadcasts by William Cooper on the Hour of the Time shortwave radio program on Mystery Babylon.
How the Mystery Religion of the rich men and kings of the earth evolved in Egypt and the parallels between Christianity and the Mystery Religions Dying and Rising Sun-god.
#33: Mystery Babylon 5: Isis and Osiris Part 2 3:21:27
This is Part 5 in a series of live broadcasts by William Cooper on the Hour of the Time shortwave radio program on Mystery Babylon.
Delving deeper into the esoteric and exoteric meaning of the story of the Mystery Religion's Dying and Rising Sun-god. Vital basics in understanding the beliefs of the secret societies and the world's rulers.
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America was founded by slave owners who wanted to be free. So they killed a lot of white English people in order to continue owning their black African people, so they could wipe out the rest of the red Indian people and move West and steal the rest of the land from the brown Mexican people giving them a place to take off and drop their nuclear weapons on the yellow Japanese people. - George Carlin
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The Future of the AIDS Memorial Quilt and Archive Collection
Ahead of World AIDS Day 2019, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Congressman John Lewis join other congressional leaders to make a very special announcement about the future of the AIDS Memorial Quilt and Archive Collection live from the Library of Congress. Learn more
Program:
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- Welcome from Carla Hayden, Librarian of Congress
- Remarks by Julie Rhoad, President & CEO, The NAMES Project Foundation
- Remarks by John Cunningham, Executive Director, National AIDS Memorial
- Remarks by Congresswoman Barbara Lee, Chair of the HIV/AIDS Caucus
- Remarks by Congressman John Lewis
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Lake Chelan 2012, August Fun On The Water
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TESLA Autonomy Day Event
TESLA Autonomy Day Event . It’s a big week for Tesla, and it’s kicking off with “Autonomy Investor Day” on April 22. Tesla Autonomy Day is on Mon, April 22nd – watch the event Livestream @11am PDT.
What is Autonomy Investor Day, you ask? The details are vague, but it’s supposed to be a demonstration that explains and showcases Tesla’s autonomous driving technology.
Tesla is holding an event today called ‘Tesla Autonomy Investor Day’ at its headquarters in Palo Alto. Follow along here to get all the details about what is being announced.
The automaker claims to be making a lot of progress in developing its fully self-driving software and it plans a ‘deep dive’ to give everyone a deep dive today:
“Tesla is making significant progress in the development of its autonomous driving software and hardware, including our FSD computer, which is currently in production and which will enable full-self driving via future over-the-air software updates. With a number of very exciting developments coming in the weeks and months ahead, Tesla will host investors on the morning of April 19th at our headquarters in Palo Alto to provide a deep dive into our self-driving technology and road map.”
CEO Elon Musk put it a bit more dramatically when he tweeted earlier this month: “On April 22, Investor Autonomy Day, Tesla will free investors from the tyranny of having to drive their own car.”
Tesla will live-stream the event, which is being held at its headquarters in Palo Alto, at 11 a.m. PT at livestream.tesla.com. You can also watch it on the Tesla YouTube channel.
Later this week, Tesla will report first-quarter earnings (on April 24). The following day is the deadline for Tesla and the Securities and Exchange Commission to report back to a judge on an escalating fight over Musk’s recent tweets, which allegedly violated an agreement between the two parties that was reached last year.
Like so many events surrounding Tesla, there is already drama attached to autonomy day. Tesla was granted a temporary restraining order Friday against a short seller and vocal Twitter critic who recently photographed a Model 3 that was being filmed ahead of the autonomy investor day.
PlainSite.org posted the restraining order, in which Tesla claims Randeep Hothi “stalked, harassed and endangered” employees driving in a Model 3 bearing manufacturer plates and mounted with camera equipment. Tesla claims the individual followed the vehicle for 35 minutes and at one point swerved so close to the vehicle that the side collision avoidance safety feature was triggered.
Tesla vehicles are not considered fully autonomous, or Level 4, a designation by SAE that means the car can handle all aspects of driving in certain conditions without human intervention.
Instead, Tesla vehicles are “Level 2,” a more advanced driver assistance system than most other vehicles on the road today. Musk has promised that the advanced driver assistance capabilities on Tesla vehicles will continue to improve until eventually reaching that full automation high-water mark.
Tesla offers two different advanced driver assistance packages to customers: Autopilot and Full Self-Driving. Autopilot is ADAS that offers a combination of adaptive cruise control and lane steering and is now a standard feature on new cars. The price of vehicles has been adjusted higher to reflect the addition of Autopilot as a standard feature.
Full Self-Driving, or FSD, costs an additional $5,000. (And, to be clear, vehicles are not full self-driving driving.) FSD includes Summon as well as Navigate on Autopilot, an active guidance system that navigates a car from a highway on-ramp to off-ramp, including interchanges and making lane changes. Once drivers enter a destination into the navigation system, they can enable “Navigate on Autopilot” for that trip.
Tesla continues to improve Navigate on Autopilot and the broader FSD system through over-the-air software updates. The company says on its website that FSD will soon be able to recognize and respond to traffic lights and stop signs and automatically drive on city streets.
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