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There is no shortage of earthquakes in Southern California. On any given day this area sees numerous earthquakes, though most are barely even felt. The concern here is what will happen when another earthquake occurs in a large dense area such as Los Angeles County, California. One question concerns earthquake preparedness of residents in this region. Do residents know what to do in order to prepare for an earthquake? Are residents prepared for a medium to large sized earthquake? Another question is, how prepared are buildings when it comes to the shaking from a medium to large earthquake? Will these buildings protect residents and employees, or do they pose a severe threat when faced with another earthquake?
The following paper is on the economic effects of the Cascadia subduction fault line earthquake. This earthquake is predicted to happen within the next fifty years, and it's predicted to devastate everything west of Interstate 5. The earthquake can range from a 8.0 magnitude to a 9.2 magnitude, and will impact "some hundred and forty thousand square miles... and some seven million people" (Schulz).
Have you noticed the amount of natural disasters that have occurred lately? Recently, natural disasters have been happening such as hurricane Harvey, Irma, and the 7.1 magnitude earthquake Mexico experienced. Sadly, California could be next to be hit from an earthquake.
The 9th of February 1971 an earthquake occurred in the lower parts of the San Gabriel Mountains in southern California. The San Fernando earthquake was measured to have a magnitude of around 6.5, which caused severe damage to buildings and major freeways in the Los Angeles area. Two huge health care buildings in San Fernando caused the majority of deaths when they collapsed at both sides. The epicenter of the earthquake was located in the mountains and the most severe damages occurred in northern San Fernando Valley. However, the event impacted other densely populated areas in Los Angeles and caused huge difficulty for transportation as a result of failure in several roadways and freeway interchanges.
On August 24, 2014 a magnitude 6.0 earthquake occurred in and around the city of Napa, CA. The earthquake killed one person and injured over 150 people. And these people were treated at Queen of the Valley Medical Center in Napa . More and more earthquakes occurred on this earth. So this grasps people’s attention.
The San Andreas Fault is one of the most widely studied faults in the world. Scientists use an array of methods in collecting data and providing analysis of fault characteristics both past and present. Presently there are many differing hypothesis and models used to describe crustal movements and deformation within the Pacific and North American plate boundary. Historical earthquakes along this fault have proven to be rather large and devastating. This is important since the San Andreas Fault runs along many highly populated areas throughout Northern and Southern California. Through further research and analysis of this fault system scientists hope to solve
There have been impacts of natural hazards on Sandy throughout the city’s history. There have been many records of floods in the past and some very minor earthquakes. There are still dangers of floods and earthquakes, and many people live on the fault line, where it is expected to have a huge earthquake in about 50 years. This large earthquake could destroy many homes and neighborhoods and will cost the city a substantial amount of money to repair all of the damages.
Northern California. High intensity shaking was felt stretching from Salinas Valley to Eureka on the North Coast. The San Francisco earthquake of 1906 was one of the worst and most fatal earthquakes in both California’s and the United States’ history.
Every time the earth shakes or I see bubbles in a glass of tap water the question comes to mind, why? Growing up in California earthquakes are a common occurrence, people from other states joke about California falling off into the ocean. This is something most of us Californians have accepted and continue to wait for the big one to happen. As with earthquakes, I never gave a second thought about our drinking water until now. I find I question the taste of it and make sure the filters are changed out on a regular basis. Now reading and listening to the news reports about what’s happening in different parts of the world regarding Hydraulic Fracturing or Fracking and what it’s doing to the earth and ground water in those areas is disturbing.
California’s unique geography as a state makes it a very appealing place to call home. From the odd east to west transverse San Gabriel mountain ranges of the Los Angeles Basin, to the bumpy coastal ranges of the Bay Area, any person can find a compatible topographic terrain to their liking. California may seem to be the perfect place to live with its ideal climate and extensive geographic features. However, due to California’s location over the shifting continental plates, coupled with its enormous and also multiple faults, at any time this great state can fall victim to a seismic disaster. After examining evidence from both Rong-Gong Lin’s II Los Angeles Times article of April 18, 2016 and the NOVA videos Killer Quake ( 2006), Earthquake (2007), as well as Geologic Journey II – Episode 3 (The Pacific Rim: Americas) – Part 3 (San Francisco) and The Great San Francisco Earthquake (American Experience ~ 2005), one can take a comparative account of the three major earthquakes of California’s past. Although each earthquake was very devastating on is own; the Great Quake 0f 1906, the Loma Prieta quake of 1989, and the NorthRidge quake of 1994 each amounted to an extensive forfeiture of property and life. Each of these earthquakes created much suffering and loss. It is imperative for each citizen of this great state to understand the damage that a California quake can actually do and be prepared; for the threat of one always looms.
Fault. As I researched, the reality of the potential effects to our state came into light. To be perfectly honest, I don’t think I had ever even heard of the New Madrid Fault. It could have been mentioned in my 7th grade Earth Science class, but that’s been a few years ago. As my internet investigation into the New Madrid Fault unfurled, the predictions of a massive earthquake happening in the region within the next 50 years was mentioned a number of times. So I thought I would begin my research into the history of the New Madrid Fault in regards to our state. Which lead me to think is our state prepared for an earthquake? What would the response be, not only from an emergency management point of view, but I will draw from my experience as a member of the Air National Guard.
Have you ever been in a deadly earthquake? In 2013, the people of the Philippines experienced one. A 7.1 magnitude earthquake that affected around 43,000 people with 2,211 aftershocks that ended up killing a total of 185 people. Earthquakes are known as one of the most dangerous natural disasters. This horrific event happened October 15th, 2013. The earthquake hit hardest in the central Philippines, it was reported to be caused by the East Bohol Fault. People act in a response to a natural disaster by gathering resources, spreading word, and government aid.
The Northridge earthquake in southern California used a bottom up process. The local and state government reacted swiftly and then the federal Government stepped up immediately after. The earthquake reached a magnitude of 6.7 and the rumblings were felt across the state impacting 214,000 square Kilometers. Rescue missions and inspections were done right after the quake and directed local citizens to safe areas. Even though the government reacted appropriately there was a small gap between the population and the governmental action. Citizens overestimated the relief efforts and felt that they were unable to address some of the critical issues cause by the earthquake. People in California were used to disasters and handled the situation to the
My inference is that California is at a very high risk from earthquakes and needs better earthquake safety for buildings and houses. This is because California is located to be a fault line named San Andreas.The type of plate boundary that this fault is on is a transform tectonic plate.This fault line is lined up all around the coast of California and is the sliding boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate.Although.According to an article named the San Andreas fault by David K. Lynch “And despite San Francisco’s legendary 1906 earthquake, The San Andreas Fault does not go through the city. But communities like Desert Hot Springs, San Bernardino, Wrightwood, Palmdale, Daly City, lies squarely on the fault and are sitting
Although some of their earthquakes killed more than expected and caused more damage, San Francisco has learned from these mistakes and have designed stronger and more earthquake proof buildings and bridges. They have opened an Earthquake Simulator at the California Academy of Sciences to show what earthquakes actually feel like. US $400 million were lost due to the damage done in the earthquake.


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Last Update on: May 25th, 2021 at 11:22 am
Indian seamer Sandeep Warrier was one of the first cricketers to test positive for Covid-19 in the now-suspended IPL 2021.
The Kolkata Knight Riders cricketer tested positive for Covid immediately after his teammate Varun Chakravarthy got infected with the contagion.
In a recent interview with News18, Sandeep Warrier opened up about the entire ordeal.
The seamer said that he had no idea from where he got infected with the virus. He revealed that he was not feeling well on the morning of the RT-PCR test on May 02 and while he did return negative, he knew something wasn’t right.
His biggest fear became reality soon afterward after his wife Aarthi, who, besides being a doctor, had got infected with Covid 6-7 months ago, suggested to him on a video call to take another test as she believed that he had Covid.
Warrier said that he immediately informed the KKR management after he once again returned positive, post which he was shifted to a non-bubble floor.
“I have no idea how it started. On May 2, we had an RT-PCR test. That morning itself, I was not feeling well. So I quarantined myself after informing KKR. That test came negative for me, I guess it came positive for Varun Chakravarthy. He was quarantined on another floor. Since I was negative I thought it will be just a normal viral fever,” revealed Sandeep Warrier.
“But since Varun came positive, we took another test, and I turned positive. By then, I realized it was COVID because my wife (Aarthi) is a doctor. She told me you have covid, and the next test result will be positive for sure. She had covid six-seven months back. She had the same symptoms. She saw me on a video call and knew it was covid,” he added.
*I informed that to the team doctor. The next test was positive, and they took me to the non-bubble floor,” said Warrier.
Sandeep Warrier on how KKR management and co-owner Shah Rukh Khan supported him during his ordeal with Covid
When asked if the KKR management was supporting during the phase, Sandeep Warrier responded in the affirmative.
He revealed that co-owner Shah Rukh Khan got in touch with everyone after the IPL was called off and he assured everyone that they return safely to their respective homes.
Sandeep Warrier further added that SRK was particularly adamant that someone should stay back with him and Varun Chakravarthy until they returned negative.
And, as a result, while Venky Mysore stayed back for three days, the team doctor, manager, and logistics head only left once the returner negative.
“Our team doctor, Shrikant, and our manager,(Wayne Bentley), and Raju (logistics) was staying back for me and Varun. They left only after we came negative. So we were fine,” revealed Sandeep Warrier.
“After we tested positive, we had to isolate the whole team. The next day, IPL was called off. We had a virtual meeting in which everyone was asking about me and Varun. Shah Rukh sir also spoke to everyone saying you all will be taken back home safely and that there is nothing to worry about. For me and Varun, he was very adamant that there should be someone with us for the whole one week or 10 days after the tournament ended. Venky (Mysore, CEO) sir also stayed back for three days,” he added.
On his post-Covid recovery, Sandeep Warrier said that while he has resumed training, he is still feeling the effects of Covid.
“I’ve been training for the past week. I am feeling a lot better now. The advantage was that, even in the first test where I came positive (for COVID-19), my reading was very low,” said Warrier.
“In the first RT-PCR test itself, my reading was around 25. By the second test itself, it came to 31. In the subsequent tests, it came negative. The COVID effect was not very high, but I feel the post-covid has affected me quite a bit. I have been training for the last one week, and that alone is taking a toll on me,” he revealed.
Also Read: Tim Seifert Breaks Down While Narrating His Covid-19 Ordeal In India

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Report: Delta, Continental in Talks
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ATLANTA (AP) â€” Delta Air Lines, the nation's third-largest carrier, and Continental Airlines reportedly have begun talks about a merger in which Continental would acquire the much larger Delta.
The discussions are ``very informal'' and ``in the very early stage,'' an industry source told The Washington Post on condition of anonymity.
Neither Atlanta-based Delta nor Houston-based Continental, the fifth-largest carrier, would comment Sunday.
``Delta has a longstanding policy of not commenting on rumors regarding mergers or consolidation,'' spokesman Reid Davis said. A Continental spokeswoman referred questions to a statement it gave the Post, whose report came out on Saturday.
``Continental has had and anticipates it will continue to have discussions with third parties regarding strategic alternatives,'' spokesman Dave Messing said.
The talks are a response to airline industry consolidation.
United Airlines, the country's largest airline, proposed an $11.6 billion merger last year in which it would buy Virginia-based USAirways. Last month, American Airlines agreed to acquire financially ailing Trans World Airlines.
Both Delta and Continental have said they prefer to stay independent but would consider a merger or some other alliance if competitors' mergers are approved.
On Jan. 26, Delta Chairman Leo F. Mullin met with Northwest Chairman Gary L. Wilson to explore Wilson's reaction to a Delta-Continental merger and whether Northwest would try to veto a Delta bid for Continental, sources told the Post.
Under a marketing agreement with Continental, Northwest retains veto power over any deal to acquire Continental. Wilson told Mullin that Northwest wouldn't waive its veto power under any circumstances, the Post reported.
Northwest officials are confident they can block a merger even if Continental initiates it. If a deal with Continental fails, the Post reported, Delta would seek some form of alliance or merger with Northwest, a less preferable option because Northwest's fleet of aircraft is aging and the company has had union troubles.
A Northwest spokesman said the airline would not comment on the reports.
A Continental-Delta merger would give the combined airline 26.7 percent of the airline passenger market. A merger of Delta and Northwest would capture 29.3 percent of the market.
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The 12 year old boy from Florida that was infected with the brain eating parasite has died. A Facebook page that has been giving details and updates from Zachary Reyna’s family indicated that the boy died on Saturday afternoon.
The rare parasite, Naegleria fowleri has claimed most of the people that have been infected by it in history. Zachary was treated with an experimental medication that was the same treatment Kali Hardig was successfully given after being infected in Arkansas. She is only the third person to have survived the infection in the last 50 years.
According to Zachary’s family, he was active. He had been kneeboarding with his friends in a ditch filled with water near his house on August 3 before he became ill. The next day he slept all day long, and his mother took him to the emergency room. Zachary then had brain surgery, which led doctors to diagnose him with “primary amoebic meningoencephalitis.”
Health officials in Florida and across the country have been warning people to avoid swimming in fresh water that is warm and low because this is the perfect place for this type of amoeba that is rare, but extremely deadly.
There have been only 32 cases of Naegleria fowleri between 2001 and 2010 in the US, and most of those cases have been seen in the Southeast part of the country. It is found in hot springs and warm fresh water and enters the body through the nose. People who drink contaminated water are not at risk of infection.
According to Dr. Dirk Haselow with the Arkansas Department of Health, this infection is one of the worst kinds known at this time. He has said that 99 percent of those that get it lose their lives to it.
The first signs of the infection show up between one and seven days after being infected and they include stiff neck, fever, vomiting, nausea, and a headache. After the symptoms begin, the disease moves quickly and can cause death in about one to 12 days. Later symptoms are loss of balance, hallucinations, seizures, lack of attention to surroundings and people and confusion.


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WASHINGTON (REUTERS) - President Barack Obama's pick for CIA director, Mr John Brennan, promised senators who will vote on his nomination more openness about US counter-terrorism programmes, saying the closely guarded number of civilian casualties from drone strikes should be made public, according to his written responses to questions released on Friday.
Mr Brennan was questioned sharply by Democrats and Republicans alike during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on his nomination last week.
Along with harsh interrogation techniques, Mr Brennan was questioned about drone strikes against terrorism suspects in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen and elsewhere. These strikes have increased under Mr Obama and included the killing in Yemen of a US-born cleric suspected of ties to Al-Qaeda and his US-born son.
The US government, without releasing numbers, has sought to portray civilian deaths from these strikes as minimal. But other organisations which collect data on these attacks put the number of civilians killed in the hundreds.
"I believe that, to the extent that US national security interests can be protected, the US government should make public the overall numbers of civilian deaths resulting from US strikes targeting Al-Qaeda," Mr Brennan wrote in response to a question from Senator Dianne Feinstein, the committee chairwoman.
"In those rare instances in which civilians have been killed" reviews are conducted and, if appropriate, condolence payments are provided to the families, he wrote.
Such casualties from drone strikes have created profound anger among civilian populations overseas and severe tension between the United States and Pakistan and Afghanistan.
During last week's hearing, Ms Feinstein said she had been trying to speak publicly about the "very low number of civilian casualties" and to verify that number each year has "typically been in the single digits". However, she said she was told she could not divulge the actual numbers because they were classified.
The New America Foundation said the number of civilians killed by US drone strikes in Pakistan was 261 to 305 from 2004 to 2013.
A former intelligence official said the reason for the discrepancy between the US government's apparently lower figures on civilian deaths and those collected by other organisations may be due to what is counted as a civilian death.
The government assumes "military-aged" males in the proximity of a drone strike are combatants unless it finds out otherwise, the former official said.
Asked whether the government could carry out drone strikes inside the US, Brennan replied: "This administration has not carried out drone strikes inside the United States, and has no intention of doing so."
US legal authorities have not limited the geographic scope to a war zone for using force against Al-Qaeda and its affiliates, he noted, adding: "This does not mean, however, that we use military force whenever or wherever we want."


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It’s clear that Kristine Sorensen loves the art of storytelling. The executive director of In Progress, Sorensen has spent her career capturing stories on film and teaching others to do the same.
Sorensen always knew she wanted to be a teacher, even as a 3-year-old, but her love for film making came later. She made her first Super 8 films when she was about 10. In college, she focused on getting her teaching degree, but quickly became disillusioned with the education system.
“School was more about conformity than it was about learning,” Sorensen says. “It really wasn’t affording (teachers) the ability to help young people excel. At that time (early 1980s), most young (teachers) I knew were quitting the field.”
Sorensen decided, instead, to go to business school and eventually landed a summer job at Target Corp., where she managed a number of young people, many in their teens. It was the beginning of an early career, but something was still missing for Sorensen. That’s when she turned to film school.
Initially she thought she’d focus on the business side of film making, but then an opportunity came along that changed her life. She was given the chance to teach a video class that involved taking a group of young people who were in the a treatment facility up to the source of the Mississippi River and, along with science and art teachers who came along, she was tasked with helping them document their own stories.
“It just blew my mind,” she says. “At that moment, I knew what I was going to do for the rest of my life and everything since then has been about how we facilitate young people having a voice.”
In 1987, Sorensen went to work for Film In the Cities, a media arts center that provided educational and production opportunities to Midwest artists. She eventually became an education director, developing media arts programs with schools and community groups throughout Minnesota. One of those opportunities included partnering with Ronald Buckanaga, director of an alternative program for Indian youths living on the North Side of Minneapolis. Sorensen helped develop and implement a summer video arts program for the program.
In 1993, Film In the Cities closed shop. Sorensen started her own video production business while looking for opportunities to work with young people again. Her next opportunity came from The McKnight Foundation, which provided support in transitioning Film In the Cities’ media programming to Native American communities.
That’s when Sorensen began working with Native Arts Circle’s Executive Director, Juanita Espinosa.
“The conversation was all about how to encourage a different train of thought,” Espinosa says. “There were no rules about how you take a picture and the more you knew about how to dissect and understand the power of what you had, the stronger your story could become.”
To watch Sorensen, a Caucasian, come into the Native community and encourage that understanding when others had come into the Native community before her and defined the story and the pictures for themselves — instead of from the perspective of Native people — made a distinct impression on Espinosa.
Sorensen developed a reputation with many in the Native community and beyond for helping, but not hindering, those working to share their own stories. She would work late into the evening with students, all-the-while managing not to give into the temptation to finish the project for them.
“So often when people are doing projects they kind of get tired and it’s like, ‘I want to rest now, let me just finish that up for you,’ but she didn’t do that. She kept encouraging them to tell own their story,” Espinosa says.
In 1996, Executive Director of the Center for Arts Criticism Bienvenida Matias invited Sorensen to partner with her to teach a workshop for Latino youth living in Crookston, Minn. The collaboration marked the birth of Fresh Voices, an ongoing media arts program that is now a national model.
In 1998, as Fresh Voices continued to grow and expand, a 14-year-old aspiring media artist named Sai Thao approached Sorensen with her interest in teaching and pursuing a career as a media artist.
“She was the first one that said how can I do what you do?” Sorensen recalls. “I said go over to this place and go intern over here and see what happens. She did all those things and came back and said, ‘All right, I did that. How do I do what you do?’ ”
Upon receiving a St. Paul Companies Leadership In Neighborhoods grant to travel and expand her knowledge of how media arts learning and media production takes place, Sorensen took Sai Thao, along with five others, to Chicago. Through that experience, Sorensen and the young artists learned about each other and began the first discussions about how to further opportunities for young media artists. Following the Chicago trip, youth artist Mina Blyly-Strauss introduced the name “In Progress” and, under Sorensen’s leadership, a nonprofit was born.
In Progress began to receive national recognition for its artists, with photo and video exhibits in New York, California, Arizona, and other states. Today, In Progress continues to work in partnership with communities and schools, such as the Four Directions Charter School in Minneapolis, which has implemented a permanent media arts program that serves more than 100 students each year.
In September 2003, In Progress moved into a studio in St. Paul and by the end of 2004. In Progress was serving 1,000 young artists annually.
“Sometimes dreams take generations to achieve,” Sorensen says. “I worked with a young man who said it’s hard to have a dream when you’ve never seen anybody achieve their dream.”
Over the past few decades, that’s the leadership role Sorensen has been playing — helping young people from disadvantaged or minority communities achieve and share their dreams. Her success is evidenced by the fact that some of the students who were sharing their stories through video and photos in the 1980s are the adults who are leading in their communities today.
Sorensen continues her work at In Progress, often hunched over a video-editing workstation with a student or tucked in the basement studio helping a student record a rap song. She embraces the state of being which most others casually dismiss as a burden: The state of being “in progress.”
It is in growing, encouraging, teaching and developing the artists around her that Sorensen thrives.
Note: This is another in a series of profiles by The UpTake of leaders whose names may not be widely familiar but whose leadership makes our neighborhoods, cities and states better places. — Nick Coleman, Executive Editor, The Uptake

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Consultants’ price a good investment for city so far
The City of Williamsport’s economic development plan for the next two years will include two consulting firms as part of the strategy.
At a cost of $300,000.
City Council renewed contracts and the two consulting firms recently at a cost of $150,000 a year.
For that price, the firms seek grants and work on business opportunities with a variety of investors and stakeholders in the city on the City of Williamsport’s behalf.
It’s easy to question this expenditure. After all, $300,000 is a lot of money.
But Councilman Jonathan Williamson, chairman of the city finance committee, said Penn Strategies and Rettew Associates were a big help in the city’s success in obtaining a $3 million state Redevelopment Capital Assistance grant for downtown economic projects.
Councilman Randall J. Allison said the companies have worked well with key stakeholders in the area and are interested in recruitment of diversified industries, gas industry-related and otherwise.
Councilman N. Clifford “Skip” Smith said the consultants are easily accessible, much more so than a previous consultant that the city “fired.”
If all this is true – and we have no reason to think otherwise – the $300,000 is probably money well invested by the city. That’s particularly true if the consultants are instrumental in getting the city’s multiple plans for the coming years to fruition.
Given the economic development grant competition these days, a city the size of Williamsport needs the networking ability and grant application savvy of consultants on its side.


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A large batch of new BMP-3 infantry fighting vehicles entered service with the Western Military District. The press service of the Western Military District announced the arrival of the equipment.
According to the report, the batch of BMP-3 entered service with the motorized rifle regiment of the army corps of the Baltic fleetstationed in Kaliningrad. In total, 30 combat vehicles were delivered to the regiment as part of the state defense order in accordance with the rearmament plan for modern models of military equipment.
The BMP-3 received a new chassis, engine, weapon system, hydromechanical transmission, crew protection was significantly increased. (...) water jets are installed on the machine (...)
- said in a statement.
It is reported that the regiment's servicemen have already begun to master the new equipment and soon the infantry fighting vehicles will be involved in the combat training of personnel.
Earlier, the military department confirmed plans for rearmament from BMP-2 to BMP-3 units and subdivisions of the Western Military District. Rearmament will depend on the rate of delivery of new and modernized vehicles. In addition, it was announced about the further modernization of the BMP-3 with the installation of a new engine and observation devices.
The BMP-3M infantry fighting vehicle is armed with a 100mm gun - a 2A70 launcher with a 30mm 2A72 automatic cannon and a 7,62mm PKTM machine gun. BMP is designed to transport personnel to the front line, increase the mobility, armament and security of military personnel on the battlefield in conditions of the use of nuclear weapons and joint action with tanks in battle.


Just 14% of men and 24% of women believe the bill should be split. This isn’t as lopsided as it sounds, owing to biological sex differences.
Joe Pinsker at The Atlantic points out that according to Steve Petrow at the Washington Post, gay men and women use this rule where there are no sex differences: “You invite, you pay.”For straight couples, the territory is trickier to navigate. In fact, women generally admire men who take the initiative in all sorts of ways.
And, although the results of his gentlemanly behaviour are usually positive, his genuine gestures are sometimes mistaken for male-chauvinism.
This friend of mine, to be clear – he’s a normal guy. My chivalrous guy friend once held the door open for a woman, as is in his nature to do, and her snarky response was: “you just did that to check out my butt.” And I must confirm, she did not say it playfully, but seriously, with an accusing tone.
In the complex world of dating, it’s sometimes confusing to know whether to accept a generous act or to politely decline or in some worst case scenarios: feel totally creeped out.
What to do About Chivalry Don’t worry if all this sounds too complex to handle. Below you’ll find how to interpret the high-minded random acts of kindness otherwise known as “chivalry” that men sometimes perform while dating.
I’ve been a dating coach for thirteen years, and in that time I’ve been privileged enough to converse with hundreds of men and women about dating. According to nearly every woman I’ve asked, the answer is a resounding “no.” Yet, many guys I have coached believe chivalry is dead. I will attempt with objectivity to clear things up in this blog posting.
As women, we love our modern independence, but deep down we want guys to treat us like ladies. That being said, sometimes a guy’s attempt at chivalry goes wrong and the entire notion of its existence is called into question.
Perhaps he was in his 30s, just as I am, and was the product of an ever-changing society where gender roles weren't concrete, and where men and women weren't entirely sure how to act in relation to one another.
Perhaps, like me, his senior year of high school included dancing to Destiny's Child at prom, and listening as the three ladies whine in their hit song, "Bug-A-Boo" about how annoying it is when men call them too often.
A new study explores the question of who should pay for dates and the results confirm what all recent research has found: Both men and women believe men should pay for dates.
In fact, men believe this even more strongly than women do. Chivalry and dating clash in today’s dating marketplace.
As a young, modern woman, I had a mixed reaction to his words.


In our daily life, we are surrounded by radioactivity, from natural or artificial origin. Most of the radioactivity in the environment results from natural elements. In fact, there are radioactive elements in many foods and drinking water. But… How do these elements reach drinking water?
The radionuclides or radioactive isotopes are naturally present in the rocks of the earth’s crust, being the uranium mines a good example of this phenomenon. The content of these natural radionuclides varies between different rocks and soil types, with granite formations being one of the ones with the highest radionuclide content. When groundwater is in contact with these subsoils, it progressively degrades the rocks, dissolving and dragging radionuclides that can be integrated in his chemical composition in concentrations that exceed the standards required by Council Directive 2013/51/Euratom of 22 October 2013. The radionuclides that may be present in drinking water are mainly radon (222Rn), uranium (238U, 234U) and radium (226Ra), among others.
In Spain, the control of radioactive substances in water for human consumption is established according to Royal Decree 140/2003, which indicates the radioactivity parameters to be measured and the maximum values allowed. This RD quotes “all the data generated from the controls of radioactive substances in drinking water or water for the water production for human consumption must be notified in the National Information System on Drinking Water (SINAC)”.
But, do citizens really have access to information about the radiological quality of drinking water? During the development of one of the transversal activities of the LIFE ALCHEMIA project, it has been concluded that, really, the answer varies greatly depending on the country. This European project, co-financed by the LIFE Programme of the European Union, aims to demonstrate the feasibility of environmentally sustainable systems based on oxidations with manganese dioxide and bed filters to removal/reduce the natural radioactivity in water, and minimize the generation of Naturally Occurring Radioactive Materials (NORM) in the purification stages.
The LIFE ALCHEMIA project is developing databases that show the levels of natural radioactivity in treated water in drinking water treatment plants throughout the European Union, and it has been observed that in countries such as France or Estonia, citizens have free access to this information, while in countries like Finland or Sweden this information is not public or is not easily accessible. Spain is within this second group. In fact, looking at the SINAC (National Information System on Drinking Water), it is verified that the information on the radiological quality of water, is not accessible to the citizen.
Therefore, hundreds of water managers and City Councils have been contacted to request information, but only a few have responded to this request. This situation is more worrying when the high levels of uranium and thorium present in the subsoil of provinces such as Almería (province where LIFE ALCHEMIA is operating three pilot plants), Pontevedra, Ourense, Salamanca, Cáceres or Badajoz are verified.
This lack of transparency may be due to the fact that the concept of radioactivity does not have a good reputation due to the different catastrophes associated with it, so it is thought that radioactivity is indicative of “death”, even though these catastrophes have no relation to natural radioactivity.
As a final reflexion, three questions:
- Did I know that water from my tap may contain natural radioactivity?
- Do I know the radiological characteristics of water I drink daily?
- And if I want to know them, do I know where I have to go and can I really get that data?
If you try to answer these three questions, you can draw your own conclusions about how this environmental problem is addressed in your locality.
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Volkswagen is planning to put the NMC Concept into production as the model in question will be rivaling models such as the Mercedes-Benz CLA.
The German based automaker Volkswagen will be introducing a production version of the recently unveiled NMC (New Midsize Coupe) Concept, which will become a rival to the Mercedes-Benz CLA. The model in question will be based on the MQB architecture and it will be assembled in Mexico. Despite being similar to the Audi A3 Sedan, the VW vehicle won’t steal sales from its brother because the pricing strategy will be making a lot of difference.
The Volkswagen New Midsize Coupe Concept was officially unveiled during the 2014 Beijing Motor Show and it has a familiar VW face, with a simple grille and LED headlights. The model in question is also getting fameless doors, a curved roofline, a notchback-style rear inspired from the CC. The NMC is wider than a Passat and lower than a Jetta, coming with a Dragon Red paint scheme and 20-inch wheels, wrapped in low profile tires. Power is provided by a 2.0L TSI four-cylinder engine, producing 220 HP (162 kW). The 0 to 100 km/h (62 mph) acceleration is made in 6.5 seconds and top speed is 244 km/h (151 mph).


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In a 4-3 loss to Cuba on Thursday at the Tokyo Dome, eliminating Australia from the 2017 World Baseball Classic, starting pitcher Warwick Saupold turned in a strong performance.Saupold, a 27-year-old right-hander in the Tigers organization, tossed four scoreless innings, scattering four hits while walking one and striking out four.::
In a 4-3 loss to Cuba on Thursday at the Tokyo Dome, eliminating Australia from the 2017 World Baseball Classic, starting pitcher Warwick Saupold turned in a strong performance.
Saupold, a 27-year-old right-hander in the Tigers organization, tossed four scoreless innings, scattering four hits while walking one and striking out four.
:: 2017 World Baseball Classic ::
Cuba mounted a threat against Saupold in the fourth, loading the bases with one out. But the right-hander got Carlos Benitez to hit a ground ball back to the mound, where Saupold began a 1-2-3 inning-ending double play.
Saupold was relieved in the fifth by Lachlan Wells, who surrendered a grand slam to Alfredo Despaigne, the game's decisive blow.
"We're under strict instructions [Saupold] wasn't to go over 50 pitches," said manager Jon Deeble. "We would have loved to have had him out there for another inning. That changes the game. ... He did a great job. I thought he threw the ball very, very well."
Saupold made his Major League debut for Detroit last season, appearing in six games overall. He gave up eight earned runs in 9 2/3 innings (7.45 ERA).
In 18 appearances (11 starts) for Triple-A Toledo in 2016, Saupold posted a 2.30 ERA and 1.16 WHIP.
The World Baseball Classic runs through March 22. In the U.S., games air live exclusively in English on MLB Network and on an authenticated basis via MLBNetwork.com/watch, while ESPN Deportes and WatchESPN provide the exclusive Spanish-language coverage. MLB.TV Premium subscribers in the U.S. have access to watch every tournament game live on any of the streaming service's 400-plus supported devices. The tournament is being distributed internationally across all forms of television, internet, mobile and radio in territories excluding the U.S., Puerto Rico and Japan. Get tickets for games at Marlins Park, Tokyo Dome, Estadio Charros de Jalisco in Mexico, Petco Park, as well as the Championship Round at Dodger Stadium, while complete coverage -- including schedules, video, stats and gear -- is available at WorldBaseballClassic.com.
Manny Randhawa is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter at @MannyOnMLB


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a recording of a short set i performed at the che in san diego, on saturday, september 25th. my primary tools were supercollider, matlab, and logic. i also used soundhack and audacity. all original unreleased material, slated for free digital release with abattoir records in new york sometime this year.
tracklist (times are approximate):
refuge 0:00 - 10:10
antonym 10:10 - 17:45
dayglo 17:45 - 26:56
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What follows is a brief description of each piece, mostly from the poietic (maker's) perspective. If you'd like a better esthesic (listener's) description, write a review! I will try to expand on the more significant ideas in later posts.
Refuge is a 1 dimensional cellular automaton, following rule 150, which generates oscillating Serpinski Triangles. Starting with a simple phrase, the rhythmic patterns expand and contract according to the states of the cells in each row. The scale is derived from a just approximation of 5tet overlaid with a just approximation of 7tet. The vocals are mine- I'm saying a Tibetan Buddhist prayer for taking refuge. I'm using wavesets to alter the "gender" of my voice independently of the fundamental pitch. The metallic percussion that comes in midway through the piece came from contact mic'ed springs and other metal objects, and follows a more complex variation on the pattern provided by the cells.
Antonym is a remix of a track from my previous LP Codecs, 2007-2008. Much of the sound comes from spectral grains, the result of a time-domain constant-q transform. The remix uses a liberal amount of spectral dynamics processing to add some depth, and sidechained non-windowing convolution for negative space. The end of the piece melts into a sound I recorded in the canyon behind my house in California, which I believe is a car transmission.
Dayglo is a sonification of the first l-system Lindenmayer discovered, which describes the growth patterns in algae. The sounds used are a combination of contact mic'ed objects (such as a coffee pot), and single-cycle gabor wavelets. Through non-windowing convolution, I smear the melody into intervals and then into chords.


Should I hold the harmonica in my left or right hand?
The reason many people hold the harmonica with their left hand is because they keep the low notes of the harmonica (holes, 1,2,3) on the left hand side, and high notes on the right side.
Since the low notes are used for bending and vibrato a lot, holding the harmonica with the left hand allows a player to create a more airtight seal around the lower holes and their lips. Similarly, people who hold the harmonica upside down (low notes on right side) hold the harmonica with their right hand.
If you feel comfortable holding the harp with your right hand, and find the left-handed grip unnatural, just stick to whatever feels natural to you.
However, if you keep the low notes of your harmonica on the left side, and use a right-handed grip, I do think it would be a little difficult to get deep "wah wah" sounds on the low notes.
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After a trip to Aruba I finished setting up the Spring loom to begin weaving. It required learning new skills to get this far. Yes, I’ve been weaving for over 30 years but there are always new things one can learn about ways to use equipment.
Back to front, Front to back, how do you put on your warp. I had been warping from the front for over 30 years. It started when I was using mixed warps. Then I just got comfortable with doing it that way. So with the Spring I forced myself to learn once again how to warp from the “Back”. The raddle with all the small divisions on the Spring seemed tedious, but that warp sure wound on nice. Threading texsolve heddles is quite different than metal heddles. After threading almost 500 Heddles I seemed to find a way to hold them to make threading more efficient.
Monday I sat down to weave. Of course 3 threading errors had to be fixed before continuing. My first 3 weft throws were good. Then I depressed the 4th treadle, or so I tried. I could not get a shed. I was perplexed. Everything appeared fine. What had I done. The loom is tied up like a countermarche loom. Every heddle gets tied to a treadle whether used or not. Here in lay the problem. That particular harness had been tied to both a rising and sinking Lamm. A harness should only be tied to one or the other. Problem found and solved.
My first warp on the loom is for these cheerful towels. The warp and weft are both 8/2 cotton threaded 24 ends per inch. An 8 harness overshot. By the time the warp is woven off I should be much more familiar with my new friend.
The view from our room in Aruba. The hotels were all along the beaches on this side of the island.
On the other side of the island the beaches are covered with dead coral. The water here is much rougher. The second picture is a large volcanic rock.
The sunset made for a beautiful evening dinner. The next two nights were cloudy, so this was our best sunset.
It is so nice to be able to weave again. The work is completed on the house, (sigh of relief). I have almost finished washing all the crystal and china to put back into the cabinets. It makes me wonder why I collect depression glass.
On the loom is an 8 harness shadow weave. They will be towels when completed. The 8/2 cotton is from Webs in a black and light gray. The colors alternate in the warp and weft, except at pattern block transitions where 2 shots of black are used. Keeps me on my toes. I really like the business of the pattern.
I was surprised at the size of this bubble bee collecting pollen from the snap dragons in pots on the deck. With temps the last few days in the upper 80’s those snapdragons are beginning to fade . Soon some summer annuals will be planted to replace.
If this shawl had been started after the awards ceremonies earlier this month it’s inspiration could have been all those beautiful metallic gowns worn by the celebrities attending. But my inspiration was from a previous project, a scarf woven in this pattern with a different metallic yarn.
The warp is an 8/2 Tencel sett at 20 epi. The weft is a gold metallic sewing thread sold for quilting.
The shawl is off the loom and having the fringe twisted and beaded. My fringe twister broke on finishing the previous shawl. One of the two alligator clips broke. It surely broke from over use. Luckily a second twister had been bought when the other had been misplaced for a short time. I could not live without this must have tool.
Normally I will weave a lot at this time of year. I have been distracted by preparations for my daughters upcoming wedding. Distractions also came in December from having a water connection break in an upstairs bath which proceeded to rain downstairs. Repairs from this will begin in a few weeks. This has meant moving my large loom to the center of our living room to initially dry carpet underneath. Soon it will be moved temporarily to an unknown space so new carpet pad Installed with carpet relaid and cleaned. Painting will also be done. I’m planning a project for a bateman study group. Hopefully that will be on the loom before long.
Varigated warp, Solid weft
Huck Lace is traditionally done the same solid color in both the warp and weft. The floats that create the design, are more visible with a solid color scarf. But why always follow tradition in your weaving, explore! So that is exactly what I have done with these two scarves. The weave structure is the same Huck lace pattern used in the previous post Love that huck.
The first scarf used a Varigated 8/2 Tencel warp. The weft was a solid color to coordinate with the darker color in the warp. The second scarf used a metallic quilting thread as the weft. Here the same warp was used as in the first scarf. The metallic weft created texture in the scarf after washing.
Varigated Tencel warp. Metallic quilting thread weft.
I’ve been busy weaving Huck lace scarves. It is one of my favorite weave structures. The first were these lovely purple tencel ones. I modified the draft from one for 12 harnesses to weave on 8 harnesses. But it still creates a nice pattern.
Being happy with the first 2 scarves, I tied on a new warp. These used a silver-gray tencel for the warp and weft. Later I played with the extra warp making samples for possible later projects. Using different types of yarn for the weft, as well as a different weave structures to create a crimp weave samples too.
When the metallic quilting thread was used for top of sample in photo 1, it remained soft after washing. This same metallic thread was used in the second sample photo. The crimp process gave a rough hand which would not work for a scarf. The third photo an 8/2 poly was used in weft giving a much nicer hand for this crimp weave sample.
If you’ve read this far I hope you enjoy the sunset at the beach in Cancun, Mexico, taken on a recent vacation.
Ok, I’ve been offline for a long time. Life got in the way. Some good and some bad , but I’m going to try to get back in the groove of posting more often. These Rep weave pieces were woven with the warp from Rosalie Nielson’s workshop last October.( I don’t yet have another warp on that loom.) They were all done using the same tie-up. The different looks were created using treadling variations and weft differences. The first is a traditional rep weave, an original design. Applying the design tools learned in Rosalie’s workshop made creating an original design a breeze.
This runner does not have the thin weft in between each thick weft. It gives a totally different look. The weft is also half the thickness as the traditional rep runner. Below is a close up of a sample piece with this technique.
I’ll close with these Spring flowers from a recent trip to the Dallas Arboretum.
Weaving simple works when one can’t weave on your floor loom. These rag weave coasters were woven on a 2 harness peacock table loom. They will be gifted to a neighbor whose dog ate their last coasters.
I’ve started to weave on the remaining warp from the Rosalie Neilson workshop I took in October. I’ve designed a new runner with what I learned in the workshop. When the rep weave runner is off the loom and hemmed I’ll share the final results. The runner is woven but there is still another yard of warp I want to weave. With any luck the weaving will be completed yet this week.
This red Amaryllis bought in the after Christmas sales is now blooming, brightening up this gray overcast day.
So I skipped threading the heddles and sleying the reed, by tying on a new warp to the last warp on the loom. From earthy Autumn to Jewel tones the warp has changed. These colors just made me feel happy as I wove. There will be 5 Cottolin (cotton and linen blend yarn) towels.
One of the towels will be for me and the remaining four are for sale in the Gallery at the Contemporary Handweavers of Houston, Guild House . The color in the photo on the loom is better than of the finished towels. Funny how different light sources affect the captured image.
This Santa ornament was added to our Christmas tree this year. It was made from a Mill Hill beaded counted cross stitch kit. The kits contain everything one needs to complete the project. The beads add sparkle to the piece. I’ve started stitching a new ornament for next year. The tree is decorated for Christmas and awaiting packages to be placed beneath.
The completed Autumn inspired runner is from the Rosalie Neilson weaving workshop I took last month. The runner will be gracing my dining room table at Thanksgiving. Of course once all the food is placed on the table it maybe hard to see. There will be the traditional turkey with all the extras, green bean casserole, candied sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes and gravy, asparagus, cranberry sauce, and yeast rolls, followed up by pumpkin pie. We’ll be hosting my daughter and her boy friend. My son and his fiancé will be at her families dinner.
The remaining two motifs woven were published in the previous post, “Designing with Rep Weave.”
The bounty from our little orange tree. The top of the tree suffers from freezing last winter. Yet it produced 10 oranges much better than last years crop of zero. May you all enjoy the bounty and fellowship of Thanksgiving.
It’s that time of year again. The temperature cools. The garden stores are selling mums and the trees will begin turning colors. I have often chosen to weave fall colors into my woven pieces. Shades of burgundy, oranges, golds, browns and green yarns are selected. I work off of memories of Fall in Minnesota, since here in Texas most of the trees won’t change for several months.
The weaving above will be towels of cottolin (a cotton linen blend). They are woven as an 8 harness broken twill, also called false satin. A true satin weave requires more than 8 harnesses to weave and so I can not do on my loom.
Every time one of these towels is picked up I will think of going for walks amongst maple trees changing colors and leaves crunching under foot.


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With a registered capital of ¥2 billion ($321.2 million), Wuhu Kaiyi Automotive Co., Ltd., a joint venture between Anhui Jiangbei Development Co., Ltd., Chery Commercial Vehicle Co., Ltd. and Wuhu Construction Investment Co., Ltd., was established in late January.
Kaiyi Auto, also known as Chery’s “Jiangbei Project” since it will be based in the Jiangbei Industrial Zone near Wuhu, Anhui Province, where Chery is based, will engage in the development, production and sales of light commercial vehicles (excluding passenger vehicles with less than nine seats) and related parts and components.
It is essentially a spinoff from Chery utilizing its assets.
Talents and assets from Chery
Three out of the six board members of Kaiyi Auto are former Chery executives. They are Lu Jianhui, former manager of the Cowin Business Department of Chery, Li Congshan, former finance director of Chery, and Xu Hui, former director of the Legal Department of Chery.
Most of the team members in the Cowin Business Department led by Lu have joined Kaiyi Auto. Setting up the new project may be good for Chery in retaining top talents and minimizing instabilities caused by the “One Chery” strategy adopted last year.
The assets of Karry, a microvan brand under Chery, have been integrated into Kaiyi Auto. The Cowin line, which was eliminated as a result of the “One Chery” strategy, will probably be reborn in Kaiyi. Besides existing commercial vehicles, newly designed MPV and SUV models under the Cowin brand may also be produced at Kaiyi Auto. In this respect, Kaiyi Auto is more like a recycle bin or processor of Chery’s outdated models and technologies than a new automaker.
Kaiyi Auto will be a manufacturer of both commercial vehicles and passenger vehicles, reported 21st Century Business Herald, citing a person close to Chery. “Karry brand models and low-end passenger vehicles under the Chery brand will be Kaiyi Auto’s main products,” the person was quoted as saying.
Karry’s product portfolio may be expanded beyond microvans, micro trucks and light trucks to passenger vehicles similar to SAIC-GM-Wuling’s Baojun brand, according to the person.
SAIC-GM-Wuling announced in May that it would sell some Baojun models at select Wuling dealerships in an attempt to promote the Baojun brand by utilizing Wuling’s huge customer base. Karry sells less than 100,000 vehicles a year, far behind Wuling’s annual sales volume of more than 1 million vehicles. Kaiyi Auto is far behind in terms of distribution network compared with Wuling and it remains to be seen whether Kaiyi can develop and be promoted into a new passenger vehicle brand similar to Baojun amid such poor sales of Karry.
Passenger vehicle development has become Chery’s top priority in recent years, leading to a lack of competitive commercial vehicles. Transferring some passenger vehicle technologies to Kaiyi Auto may be conducive, to some extent, to model upgrade and market expansion of the commercial vehicle brand, according to a 21st Century Business Herald’s analysis.
Chery has been attempting to go public in recent years but progress has been slow due to weak profitability. Stripping non-performing assets and integrating Karry into Kaiyi could help Chery overcome obstacles on its IPO path, according to 21st Century Business Herald.
Kaiyi Auto is a result of government and corporation tie-up, wrote Jiangnan Xiaosong, a local automotive analyst, on auto.sina.com.cn.
Automobile and equipment manufacturing are pillar industries for the economy of Wuhu. Kaiyi Auto is formed because the local government wants to build a new automotive project to further stimulate economic development of the city’s Jiangbei Industrial Zone.
Chery’s expertise, technologies and assets may help Kaiyi Auto avoid detours in the initial stage of brand building. However, these properties will also be Kaiyi Auto’s burden because Karry and Cowin, two low-end brands of Chery, are weak in brand image and are not competitive in the market, according to Xiaosong.
Boosting sales of the Karry and Cowin brands will be very difficult for Kaiyi as local brands face increasingly difficult market environment in China. According to China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM), China sold 596,900 local brand passenger vehicles in April, down 11.15 percent from the previous month. The sales accounted for 37.09 percent of total passenger vehicle sales in China, declined 2.19 percentage points month-on-month and 2.53 percentage points compared with the same period of last year.
Xiaosong believes that Kaiyi Auto is unlikely to attract customers just on price alone. A price war among local brands is escalating. Many of the brands are suffering heavy losses. Besides, leading multinational automakers such as Volkswagen and Nissan are planning to launch vehicles below the ¥50,000 price range in China. As a new brand, Kaiyi probably cannot survive the price war.
Kaiyi Auto could repeat the failures of the Riich, Rely and Karry brands – brands that Chery has decided to ditch – if its development only relies on Chery’s outdated technologies and marketing measures without innovation.


Bosnia will today bury 409 victims of the Srebrenica massacre - among them a newborn baby - on the 18th anniversary of Europe's worst post-war atrocity in which Bosnian Serb forces slaughtered some 8000 Muslims.
Thousands of people were expected to attend a mass funeral of the victims whose remains were found in mass graves in the eastern Bosnian Srebrenica region and only identified almost two decades after the 1995 mass killing.
On the same day, the UN Yugoslav war crimes court was to rule on an appeal of the decision to drop a charge of genocide against Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic, who faces other counts including masterminding the Srebrenica massacre.
"This year we are going to bury the youngest victim of the genocide, the Muhic family's baby" whose remains were exhumed from a mass grave last year, said Kenan Karavdic, who is in charge of the burial ceremony.
The baby, who died shortly after her birth in July 1995 at the UN base in Potocari, near Srebrenica, "will be buried next to the grave of her father Hajrudin, killed in a massacre", Karavcic said.
Ahead of the funeral services, columns of simple wooden coffins, covered with green cloth, were aligned in a vast hall as relatives were searching for their loved ones. At the cemetery in the memorial centre in Potocari, amid rows of white marble columns, were freshly dug graves with green wooden signs where the coffins were to be laid.
The remains of 5657 victims, identified through DNA tests, have already been buried in the memorial centre in Potocari since the process started a decade ago. Their remains - often only a handful of bones - were found in more than 300 mass graves in the area.
8000 Muslim men and boys were slaughtered in Srebrenica by Serb forces, an act the International Court of Justice called genocide.
100,000 Lives were lost in the 1992-95 Bosnian war.


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ABIM Foundation recognizes Washington Health Alliance as a model for building trust in health care.
SEATTLE – Today, the Washington Health Alliance (Alliance) is being recognized as a leader in collaborating with organizations across health care by ABIM Foundation, best known for its Choosing Wisely® program to reduce unnecessary tests, treatments and procedures. The Alliance’s Quality Improvement Committee (QIC) is one of several organizations recognized by ABIM Foundation in its new effort, Building Trust, created to enhance medical professionalism and improve patient care. “The Alliance is honored to receive this recognition from this well-respected foundation. Trust and collaboration are critical components of the Alliance’s mission and our efforts to improve Washington’s health care system and the Alliance’s QIC plays a vital role,” said Alliance Executive Director Nancy Giunto.
The Alliance issues trusted and credible reports on health care quality using its voluntary All Payer Claims Database. The QIC, made up of about two dozen physician and clinical leaders from major medical groups, integrated delivery systems, hospitals, and health plans across the state, engages deeply in the development of all reports, offering clinical and methodological advice. Beginning with the first Community Checkup report issued in 2008, the QIC has played a major role in selecting the measures, how patients are attributed to providers, statistical reliability, and reporting thresholds.
“We are fortunate in Washington state to have this kind of reporting and the QIC is pleased to be recognized for our role in helping lead these efforts on the Alliance’s behalf,” said current chair of the QIC, Dan Kent, Chief Medical Officer of UnitedHealthcare Community Plan. “The Alliance’s commitment to careful stewardship of the data from multiple providers, with total patient confidentiality, has created trust among providers and users of the reports,“ Kent continued. “Users appreciate the ability to see variation among providers and communities, across many quality of care measures, with analyses for Medicaid and for people with commercial health care coverage.”
One example of the role of trust and the QIC is the First, Do No Harm report released in October of 2019, using the Milliman MedInsight Health Waste Calculator™ (Calculator) to review the use of 47 tests, procedures, and treatments commonly recognized as overused by the Choosing Wisely® campaign and the medical community. In its analysis, the Alliance found that of the more than nine million services examined for both the commercially and Medicaid-insured in Washington state, 51% were determined to be low-value, meaning they were either wasteful or likely wasteful. This resulted in an average of 846,973 people receiving at least one low-value service each year (that’s equivalent to approximately 11% of the total state population), at a total estimated cost of $703 million.
When the Alliance previewed the overall results of the analysis with the QIC, the members asked whether the results could be reported by individual medical group. After re-running the data and providing blinded results, the QIC was asked whether the Alliance should publish the results without identifying the medical groups or should identify them, Giunto was struck by the members’ response. “They were unanimous in their support. ‘Not only should you release them,’ they said, ‘You are obliged to.’ That level of trust is the foundation of the QIC.” The result was the first report in the nation on waste at the medical group level using the Calculator.
The QIC recently created a new streamlined method for ranking medical groups and clinics, using 29 measures considered strong indicators of primary care to produce one weighted score. The idea came from a QIC member and took more than a year to develop. In March 2021, the Alliance released medical group and clinic level results for the Quality Composite Score, providing extensive detail on each measure.
About the Washington Health Alliance
The Washington Health Alliance (Alliance) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit nonpartisan organization working collaboratively to transform Washington state’s health care system for the better. The Alliance brings together more than 185 committed member organizations to improve health and health care by offering a forum for critical conversation and aligned efforts by health plans, employers, union trusts, hospitals and hospital systems, health care professionals, start-up companies, consultants, consumers, and other health care partners. The Alliance believes strongly in transparency and offers trusted and credible reporting of progress on health care quality, value, pricing, and overall spending. The Alliance publishes its reports at WACommunityCheckup.org and provides guidance for consumers at OwnYourHealthWA.org so that individuals can make informed health care decisions.
Date: May 21, 2021
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STONY BROOK, N.Y. – For the sixth-straight season, Albany and Stony Brook will meet for the America East women's lacrosse title after the Great Danes and Seawolves each won their semifinal contests Friday at Stony Brook LaValle Stadium.
Top-seed Stony Brook and second-seed Albany will play in the final on Sunday at noon on ESPN3. The winner will receive the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. Recap Friday's semifinal action below:
For the sixth-straight year, Albany has reached the America East title game after defeating UMBC, 14-13, in the semifinals on Friday night.
Dakotah Savitcheff led the Albany attack with five goals while Sarah Martin notched nine points with three goals and six assists.
The Great Danes scored the first two goals of the game and help the lead throughout.
After the Great Danes led 5-2 midway through the first half, UMBC scored the final two goals to cut the deficit to 5-4 at halftime.
Albany started to pull away late after Savitcheff scored with 10:43 left to make it 13-9.
The Retrievers scored four of the next five goals to get within one goal at 14-13.
After UMBC's Carolyn Jamison scored with 1:01 remaining, the Retrievers retained possession due to a foul called on the goal. UMBC had a shot in the final 30 seconds that could have tied the game, but it was blocked wide by the Albany defense.


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Three decades ago, conservative ideologues at The Heritage Foundation produced a primer on the Reagan Revolution entitled Mandate for Leadership, which offered an overarching philosophy against the role of government and in favor of markets.
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The “Economic Meltdown Funnies” are a co-production of Jobs with Justice and the Institute for Policy Studies' Program on Inequality and the Common Good. Authors Chuck Collins and Nick Thorkelson provide a humorous, easy-to-follow guide to the many factors that led to the current financial crisis.


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9th International Symposium on Ultrasonic Doppler Methods for Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Engineering
From the 27th to the 29th of August 2014, Ubertone has organised, in collaboration with the ICube laboratory, the 9th edition of the International Symposium on Ultrasonic Doppler Methods for Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Engineering.
The main objective of this biennial event is to allow researchers and engineers to present and exchange about the techniques and applications of the velocity profile measurement based on pulsed ultrasonic Doppler (more info on isud-conference.org).
We would like to thank the school of environmental hydraulics ENGEES that hosted the symposium, this year, in Strasbourg. This reinforces the increasing place of the ultrasonic profile measurement in hydraulics , especially for environmental applications. Thus, it was straight forward to open the symposium by an environmental flow session introduced by the keynote lecture of Dr. David Hurther. In his paper entitled Underwater acoustic scattering and its application to sediment transport physics in coastal and river flows he present his outstanding work on multistatic Doppler profilers for high-resolution flow and sediment transport measurement.
Of course, activities in fundamental flows, historically the first field of application for Ultrasonic Velocity Profiler in Fluid Mechanics, were not in rest. The session were introduced by Dr. Yuji Tasaka from Hokkaido University with a keynote on Extraction of fluid flow information from spatio-temporal UVP data obtained in rotating configurations
Another well represented field was signal processing applied to ultrasonic Doppler measurements. One of the papers presented during this session has been awarded by the scientific committee.
Last but not least, the "applied flow" session was introduced by Prof. Erich Windhab who is a pioneer in the UVP-PD method. More generally, he has largely contributed to the characterization of non-Newtonian fluids and suspensions in food processing industry by the use of velocity profile measurement. His keynote lecture presents the Potential of Ultrasound-Doppler in process flow measurements along the food value chain.
Ubertone is proud of having got the opportunity to organize this symposium, especially because we are actively working in many of the topics presented within ISUD. Ubertone continuously improves the UVP technology and methods in order to help scientists and engineers working with flowing liquids.
Overall, 54 delegates coming from 15 different countries around the world followed 43 oral presentations. Most of those presentations were of a high standard and allowed the share of knowledge and best practice between the auditors who actively interacted with many constructive questions. Thus, we would like to thank all the participants for having joined the 9th ISUD.
All the papers from the conference are available for free download here.
To remember their stay in Strasbourg for the 9th ISUD, the delegates were invited for a photo of the group that was taken in front of the « Palais Universitaire de Strasbourg ».
Classified as a historic monument, the building was used during several decades as the centre of the new imperial University of Strasbourg. It is a large, neo-Renaissance style building, inaugurated in 1884 by Wilhelm I, Emperor of Germany.
The last event of the symposium was the visit of the fluid mechanics laboratory of ICube.
IMFS (Institut de Mécanique des Fluides et des Solides) is a department of the Icube Laboratory. Created in 2013, ICube brings together researchers of the University of Strasbourg, the CNRS, the ENGEES and the INSA of Strasbourg in the fields of engineering, computer and medical science with imaging as unifying theme. The Fluid Mechanics research team is divided in three project groups : « Urban Hydraulics », «Two Phase Instability and Turbulence » and « Sewage Treatment and Rheology ».
The participants could discover different experimental setups with detailed explanation from the researchers of the laboratory.
Student Paper Award
The ISUD is also an opportunity to promote the work of young researchers.
During the symposium, the Scientific Committee has evaluated the papers and the oral presentations of the registered students.
The ISUD-9 Student Paper Award winner is Cesar Ofuchi, from the Federal University of Technology Paraná (UTFPR, Brazil), for his remarkable paper "Extended Autocorrelation Velocity Estimator Applied to Fluid Engineering"
This work present an extended autocorrelation method (EAM) which combines both autocorrelation and cross-correlation estimators applied to fluid engineering. This method allow to estimate velocities beyond the Nyquist limit with an efficient computational cost.


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Neighborhood Allies and ELDI Hosted “A New Era of Economic Development” BreakfastLeave a Comment
Wednesday, September 16th, we co-hosted, with our friends at East Liberty Development Inc. (ELDI), an event dedicated to the NEW era of economic development.
Over 50 individuals, representing community organizations, the foundation community, business owners, workforce development entities, and the like, came out to learn more about and discuss one simple question: What will it take to reduce poverty and prepare people to succeed?
Circles USA, an organization dedicated to inspiring and equipping families and communities thrive, has been doing this work locally here in Pittsburgh for years. The founder of Circles, Scott Miller, brought his friend and colleague Mark Lautman, an accomplished Author, Speaker and Economic Architect, to Pittsburgh to discuss the critical and overlapping strategies of increasing the pool of qualified workers and reducing poverty and how we, as a city, can position our residents and communities to grow and thrive economically in the future.
“To go forward, job creation, workforce, educational and philanthropic efforts must be integrated at an entirely new level. While government and community-based programs can help provide assistance, people need long-term relationships to retain jobs and advance into middle-skill jobs.”
Locally, we’re making good progress by creating and supporting organizations and programs that are addressing this issue. Neighborhood Allies is leading and supporting a number of initiatives that are helping to create meaningful, well-paying jobs as well as putting systems in place to help connect folks with ladders of opportunity, to get themselves out of poverty. In 2015, we launched three Financial Opportunity Centers, that help low and moderate income families build assets and attain financial stability and upward mobility. We have funded and supported a number of creative job training/placement programs including: CARE Ownership’s, Larimer Landlord Training Pilot, the Trade Institute of Pittsburgh, Community Empowerment Associations, Strategic Training Employment Program (STEP), Made Right Here’s Larimer Youth-Maker Training Pilot, and Vibrant Pittsburgh’s Ready Now/Ready Future Program.

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