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Using the terms “frank” and “open” resonated with the rhetoric of contemporaneous AIDS activists, who wanted to instigate discussions about the way people actually had sex. Instead of shying away from talk of same-sex sexual practices, Koop wanted to “deal with [ homosexuality, promiscuity of any kind, and prostitution ] , but [ do ] so with the intent that information and education can change individual behavior, since this is the primary way to stop the epidemic of AIDS.” ( 5 ) This informational responsibility was best met by the federal government, so long as it never utilized certain forms of intervention, in particular compulsory testing and quarantine. Koop concluded that his work was a central feature of his identity as a Christian. In his memoir he writes, “My position on AIDS was dictated by scientific integrity and Christian compassion. I felt that my Christian opponents had abandoned not only their old friend [ Koop himself ] , but also their own commitment to integrity and compassion.” ( 6 )

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MARIJUANA POSSESSION: Someone driving with a suspended license and no insurance was in possession of eight grams of marijuana in the 16900 block of Aurora Ave. N.
LARCENY: $250 worth of traffic signs was stolen from the 19200 block of Aurora Ave. N.
ASSAULT: A 20-something, white man pointed a black handgun at a man waiting at a stoplight, at the corner of N.E. 155th St. and 15th Ave. N.E. He asked, “Should I shoot you?” then laughed and drove away, in a white 4-door car with a dented passenger door.
ASSAULT: A couple became involved in a physical altercation.
NOV 22
VANDALISM: An unknown person slashed two tires on a 2003 Mitsubishi Eclipse in the 15800 block of 28th Ave. N.E.
LARCENY: Two middle school girls stole cold medicine, food and gift cards from QFC.
PROSTITUTION: Two females were removed from the Rodeway Inn parking lot on Aurora Ave. N.E. for prostitution.

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Consider it Audit Protection? Seattle IRS Office Overrun By Alleged Bedbugs
Something is sucking the life out of the employees of the Seattle branch of the Internal Revenue Service, and it’s not tax cuts for the wealthy. It’s bedbugs, which are widely known to be the grossest urban plague of all time.
Worse than crack, worse than prostitution, bedbugs are truly a blight on those of us who live and work close together. They’re icky, they’re creepy, and they’re super-itchy. And now, they might be draining the blood of the busy number-crunchers at the IRS, who work on a few floors of a downtown building. Which, some who are less tactful than myself, might consider mildly ironic.
According to the Seattle PI, OSHA received reports that IRS employees had complained of being bitten at work.

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And there are a handful of formal portraits of newlyweds and families. Personally, I loved these and wished for more — it was immensely touching to witness the universal hope conveyed in the faces of wedding couples from Auburn and Moxie and Ritzville as they began their lives together. It also was moving to see the pride and identity expressed by the family groups, dressed in their finest and gathered in photography studios from Seattle, Fort Simcoe, and elsewhere.
And the letters! Voices from decades past still speak with candor and poignancy: a Spokane prostitute writes to her boyfriend, a World War I doughboy corresponds with the special girl back home in Issaquah, and a Japanese-American schoolboy, newly banished from home and friends in Bellevue and sent to a California internment camp during World War II, writes back to his former teacher.

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… Recently, human trafficking has surfaced as a pressing issue in the Pacific Northwest,” Lori Patrick, communications assistant to Mayor McGinn said in an e-mail. This was a problem discussed at the I-5 Corridor Public Safety Summit in November.
The November summit was an initial gathering, and a framework for how the various partners will work together is evolving.
“Children—particularly young girls—are moved up and down the I-5 corridor by individuals involved in the human trafficking trade. This movement makes detection by law enforcement more difficult,” Patrick said.
Human sex trafficking often involves young girls who may have run away from home, due to abuse or other issues. The traffickers lure young girls, who they see as easy to manipulate, into prostitution—at times by pretending to care about them or befriending them, or sometimes by force.

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Homeless women speak out, sharing tales of grief and joy
by: Joe Martin , Guest Writer
BOOK REVIEW: No Room of Her Own: Women’s Stories of Homelessness, Life, Death, and Resistance
In 1985, Desiree Hellegers went to work at the Compass Center in Seattle’s Pioneer Square. There she encountered an astonishing and diverse array of women whose lives had been shattered. Poverty, unemployment, underemployment, poor education, imprisonment, prostitution, childhood abuse, spousal abuse, addictions, loss of family and friends and physical and mental illness had entangled and stunted these lives. Deep abiding troubles were amplified by homelessness.
In her cogent introduction to “No Room for Her Own,” Hellegers declares that “anyone who’s experienced homelessness can attest to the fact that homelessness can, and does, cause mental illness and drive people to drink. Lose your housing in the United States and you run the risk of losing both your mind and your life.”

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One of the videos, “Wings,” garnered a tremendous amount of Internet attention for the group, as it hits the dialectic between sneaker culture and giddy sneaker-heads, and the materialism induced by, as Haggerty puts it, “just another pair of shoes.”
Haggerty wasn’t initially trying to write a critique of Phil Knight and company at Nike headquarters in Portland.
“I was more just trying to write a song about shoes,” he said.
As the song developed, it grew more critical.
“It brought up stuff with me and made me think about consumerism and all this stuff that I just want to buy,” Haggerty said
“Wings” isn’t the only song Haggerty has used as positive advocacy. His song “Otherside” hits on the destructive culture of “purple drank” and the drug lean, which has become very prevalent in hip-hop culture despite prominent rapper Pimp C dying from overdosing on a mixture of lean and other drugs in 2007.

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During one of the gun deals, the motel owner allegedly told the informant if he was caught with the gun, “I don’t know you.” Police found that the gun was reported stolen in May, SPD records say. The owner also told the informant he wanted to get rid of all his guns so he could “get legal,” police say.
Following the stings, police raided the owner’s home on November 10th and seized gun parts, two suspected meth pipes, cash, and scales, and booked the man into jail.
Prosecutors have not yet charged the man in the case, but this isn’t the first time police have looked into alleged crimes at the motel. Earlier this year, police investigated whether staff at the motel were charging drug users and johns a $5 cover charge for each visit they made to dealers and pimps staying at the motel.

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Hello rock peeps around the world! This is Rev, the lead singer from the band Underride out of Seattle, WA. We’re currently out on tour with Tantric, Man Made Machine and Eve to Adam playing songs from our new record “Distorted Nation” [available on iTunes].
To give this tour a kick in the @ss, we decided to pimp out one of our favorite tracks, “Blinded By You”. I chose this song because it showcases many common ingredients we like to use when we cook up songs. “Blinded By You” has great energy and power from heavy guitar riffs and anthemic vocals to a fiercely melodic guitar solo.
The “Distorted Nation” era of Underride began with two new guitar players who approached our brand of “Camaro Rock” differently from the guys before them. “Blinded By You” was one of the first songs that Princess and Suzuki Sixx threw at me. I cranked it on my speaks and it just blew me away. Immediately, I sat down and wrote the vocal part in about a half hour. I know it sounds cliché, but the song kind of wrote itself.

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You probably know Rainn Wilson as Dwight Schrute from the NBC show “The Office,” or maybe as wanna-be superhero Frank Darbo in the movie “Super.”
Now, you can know him for real — if only for the time it takes to buy a ticket a pose for a photo.
Wilson, a former Seattleite, will be “pimping out” tickets at the Paramount Theatre box office Friday afternoon. He’s trying to sell out a Saturday benefit show for the Seattle-based Mona Foundation, an education non-profit that works with kids around the world.
If selling out means sitting down in the box office and posing for a few pictures, so be it. I wish I could guarantee he’ll be in character and wearing a theater uniform, but I doubt that.

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