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This graphic courtesy of Fox News from Monday morning shows Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have secured the necessary Electoral College votes to defeat sitting President Donald Trump. Biden is set to become the 46th president of the United States, while Harris will be the first woman vice president, as well as first vice president with Black and South Asian ancestry.
Unofficial 2020 election results
Biden set to become 46th U.S. president; Inslee secures third term
By Jessica Keller QA&Mag News editor
Based on unofficial general election results, Washington residents overwhelmingly voted for former Vice President Joe Biden and his running mate
Kamala Harris over sitting President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence. According to national news sources, Biden is projected to become the 46th president of the United States after securing the needed electoral college votes of at least 270 on Saturday.
In Washington, Gov. Jay Inslee declared victory over challenger Loren Culp, thus securing his third term.Gov. Jay Inslee has declared victory over challenger Loren Culp, thus securing his third term.
A measure requiring public schools provide students with comprehensive sexual health education with parental approval has also passed.
In Seattle, residents also overwhelmingly supported creation of
a six-year transportation benefit district that will fund transit and transportation projects.
In Legislative District 36, Liz Berry defeated fellow Democrat Sarah Reyneveld for state representative position 2. Berry will replace Gael Tarleton, who lost to incumbent Kim Wyman in the race for secretary of state.
In Congressional District 7, U.S. Rep. Pramila Jayapal will
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keep her seat after handily defeating challenger Craig Keller.
General election unofficial results, Nov. 7
View daily updated results at https://results.vote.wa.gov/results/20201103/king/ or https:// cd.kingcounty.gov/en/elections/ results.
FEDERAL
President (Statewide only)
Joseph Biden/Kamala Harris 2,303,430 votes, 58.41 percent Donald Trump/Michael Pence 1,514,563, 38.41 percent
Congressional District 7 — U.S. Representative (Statewide) (D) Pramila Jayapal 383,347 votes, 83.05 percent
(R) Craig Keller 77,127, 16.71 percent
STATE
Governor (statewide)
(D) Jay Inslee 2,232,001 votes, 57.02 percent
(R) Loren Culp 1,669,878, 42.66 percent
Lieutenant Governor (D) Denny Heck
1,609,637 votes, 46.04 percent
(D) Marko Liias
1,172,932, 33.55 percent
43.09 percent
Commissioner of Public Lands
(D) Hilary Franz 2,151,600 votes, 57.06 percent
(R) Sue Kuehl Pederson 1,615,393, 42.84 percent
Superintendent of Public Instruction (Non-partisan)
Chris Reykdal 1,899,663 votes, 54.9 percent
Maia Espinoza 1,541,987, 44.56 percent
Insurance Commissioner (D) Mike Kreidler 2,434,904 votes, 65.76 percent
(R) Chirayu Avinash 1,250,151, 33.76 percent
LEGISLATIVE
Legislative District 36 State Representative Position 2 (statewide results)
(D) Liz Berry 55,064 votes, 58.25 percent
(D) Sarah Reyneveld 38,518, 40.74 percent
Secretary of State (R) Kim Wyman 2,033,442 votes, 53.38 percent
(D) Gael Tarleton 1,771,523, 46.5 percent
State Treasurer (D) Mike Pellicciotti 2,030,006 votes, 53.73 percent (R) Duane A. Davidson 1,744,493, 46.17 percent
State Auditor (D) Pat (Patrice) McCarthy 2,199,209 votes, 58.38 percent (R) Chris Leyba 1,564,507, 41.53 percent
State Attorney General (D) Bob Ferguson 2,165,006 votes, 56.8 percent (R) Matt Larkin 1,642,599,
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Madrona resident and entrepreneur Megan Haas’s idea for a holistic healthcare platform that allows people to manage their health while connecting with other people and practitioners began percolating 15 years ago.
The need for that platform became even more of a priority when her daughter started experiencing food texture aversions that became debilitating. Haas said wished she had a space where she could share her burdens with others facing similar situations because she felt alone, with no one to talk to. When she joined Twitter, she saw many people felt the same way as she did.
“We want to connect, but there are so few authentic places for us to do that,” Haas said.
So, Haas did what she has years of experience doing: taking an idea, making connections with the right people, collaborating and transforming those ideas into a reality. Haas, who co-developed
the company Utilikilts, which specializes in making kilts, in 2000, is now focused on something even bigger: untangling the intimidating web of the healthcare system. With a skilled team of web designers behind her, Haas’s vision includes answering the questions of how do people build self knowledge around health, and how do they collaborate with others in the process?
For Haas, the answer to those questions is her online health platform Kinnected.
In an email, Haas said, with Kinnected, she is creating “a culture and a community-based, free, global public health system that does everything that the current ones don’t,” for example, by “developing the action steps toward helping people feel seen, hear, inspired, acknowledged and celebrated for their health journeys.”
Haas also took some inspiration from two unlikely allies: Mr. Rogers and Wonder Woman.
“Because I really feel you need a helper and a fighter at the same time,” she said.
“It’s a gentle, nonthreatening, non-clinical way of looking at healthcare.”
— Megan Haas Madrona entrepreneur
With Kinnected, Haas hopes to make healthcare more accessible and manageable for people by helping them take control of their own journey. Through the different elements of her website, Haas said, people can engage in their health in “a kind and supportive way.” The name Kinnected combines all the elements Haas wants the platform to stand for: kin, kinship and kinetic.
“We don’t have anything that creates a sense of worldwide kinship,” Haas said.
KINNECTED, PAGE 8
QA Helpline collecting Thanksgiving bags
Queen Anne Helpline is collecting bags of groceries that will be donated to older neighbors to ensure they have a good Thanksgiving. The goal is to collect at least 100 seniors in the community.
Bags should include: two cans of vegetables (one corn, one green bean); a package of mashed potatoes; a package of stuffing/dressing; a can/jar of cranberry sauce; a can/jar/packet of gravy; two fresh oranges; two fresh apples; a box of instant oatmeal; package of cookies; two individual serving boxes/cans of juice.
The Queen Anne Helpline provides fresh turkey and a slice of pie in each bag. People are welcome to donate to this cost. For more information, or to volunteer, go to www.queenannehelpline. org. Queen Anne Helpline is located at 311 W. McGraw in Queen Anne.
QA Chamber collecting donations for lights
The Queen Anne Chamber of Commerce is accepting donations for the Holiday Tree Lighting on the Ave 2020. Sponsors are needed to help light up all the remaining trees. Cost of a sponsorship is $225, which includes a sign that can be decorated to hang on trees. The deadline to donate is Nov. 18. Sign up at https://www.queenannechamber.org/upcoming-events/ holiday-tree-lighting.
SPR seeks input on Queen Anne park
Seattle Parks and Recreation is beginning the renovation of the Soundview Terrace Park, 2500 11th Ave. W., in Queen Anne. SPR is asking residents to participate in a short survey, https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/YGJ9R9H, to provide input on two proposed play area options.
As part of the project and to improve accessibility, the rubberized surface slope and engineer wood fibers will be replaced with new playground grass. The new play equipment will be installed in early
spring of 2021. Funding for this play area project is provided by the Seattle Park District. The Seattle Park District helps improve and rehabilitate community centers, preserves the urban forest, performs maintenance of parks and facilities, provides recreation opportunities for people from under-served communities, supports programs, and acquires and develops new park land. For more information visit https://www.seattle.gov/ parks/about-us/current-projects/ soundview-terrace-play-arearenovation, or contact Janice Liang at janice.liang@seattle.gov.
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Why do mushrooms grow in rings?
When you see a ring of mushrooms, it’s likely they are exploring for food under the ground.
Giant mushrooms in your backyard are not animals or plants. They are part of another class of living organisms called fungi. But like you and me, they do need food to survive.
That’s what I found out from my friend David Wheeler, an assistant professor at Washington State University, who knows a lot about fungi.
He said the mushrooms are just one part of fungi. The other part that explores the soil for food actually lives under the soil.
This part is called the mycelium and looks a bit like cobwebs or stretched out cotton candy.
Mycelium help the fungi explore different spaces and absorb nutrients from things like dead logs or decaying leaves.
Wheeler said we might think about the way a mushroom ring forms, including how the mycelium spreads out, as if it were a ripple in a pond.
Just as ripple starts with a raindrop or stone, a mushroom ring begins with a tiny spore.
To help grow new fungi, mushrooms will release spores, which are sort of like seeds. After a mushroom releases the spores, they float through the air and when they land in soil, the mycelium begins to grow beneath it.
It starts expanding outward from the place where the spore landed. This allows the fungi to cover a lot of ground on the hunt for food.
It’s at the outer edge of the mycelium where we see the ring of mushrooms grow up from the soil. I found out there are some mushroom rings that have been around for a really long time. For instance, one mushroom ring in France has been around almost 700 years.
As the fungi spread out in search of food, the ring got wider and wider. Now, the ring
is almost a half-mile wide. You would have to walk the length of eight football fields to get from one side to the other.
Even though fungi don’t have legs, they sure know how to go the distance. And a big part of that has to do with their mycelium.
“Every step you take in the forest, under one foot — even one kid foot — there could be lots of cells of mycelium,” Wheeler said.
Wheeler also told me that fungi sometimes compete for food. If you look at the mushroom ring in your back yard, you may notice something unusual about the grass around it.
Sometimes grass inside the ring may be
brown, and the grass inside the ring might be bright green. That’s because fungi and grass both like to eat the same thing. They are both after the nutrients in the soil. But as the fungi grow, they can steal nutrients away faster than the grass can handle. You know, it’s great to hear you are observing nature in your own backyard. It’s a good reminder that we can find science questions almost anywhere in this big, wide world — even in a ring of mushrooms.
Sincerely, Dr. Universe
Gaining a new sense of thanks
It may look otherwise to someone who has never tried, but it’s hard.
Nothing about a performance is easy. The atmosphere is focused and expectant and hyper-aware.
And no one but you is thinking about this.
And no one but you should be.
Because you, only you, must carry the room.
And if you tremble, you crash.
But once you begin you know, with heat spreading through your chest warm as tile in the sun, nervous or not, that you are not going to let yourself down. You are not going to botch this. You are not going to crash.
You put so much of yourself into this. You feel all your loose ends come together into one poised self. More than anything, you want the whole evening to work.
And it does. Face-to-face, it does!
Then the worst thing possible happened.
I woke up.
Suddenly, even the coziness of my bed seemed to belong to a previous time.
Here is what else I remember: Everyone looked happy, so happy, and the event felt like one of many like it and, yet, what made it different was that no one recalled such an upended, lava-lamp of a time like this.
We had forgotten all about the coronavirus. Or never heard of it. I could not tell which.
One woman held up a sign that read, “I
GAVE FEAR UP FOR LENT.”
It takes a strong stomach to laugh off fear in our time. Her knack for independence inspires. I wondered if she had come to tell me to stop worrying and live my life, wash my hands and be smart about contact, yes, but LIVE, and I thought maybe I should believe her.
She was only one voice, but sometimes one is enough. I suppose what you are reading into this is that I need one voice to be enough and you are right.
Then suddenly, like a dream within a dream, soft solar lights come up along the aisles adding to the magic, and my excitement leaps over the edge of the stage and does a cartwheel. And no one — well, maybe there was one person looking down — needs to Tweet about the cartwheel to feel that they have seen it.
I even remember wondering if the tweeter could hear what I was thinking: There will always be those who repeat the mistakes of the past. Or what the man beside her was thinking: When bad manners become the norm, most people don’t recognize it as bad anymore. But I do!
It was a dream, after all, a fairy tale. No, I am lying to you. I made that last man up for effect.
All I am trying to say is that some people long for lovers the way I long to sit next to you at a theater.
I may even want to hold your hand. It seems like the least I can do after all we’ve been through. I have never been remotely interested in not touching people — I mean, I don’t ever want to be that wary.
So, when the day arrives, by which I mean when we come close, closer, let us take to the edge again, which has never been safe. (Although, I may be a little sorry when we don’t have to wait in line at Trader Joe’s anymore. When that happens, I will be less apt to dress presentably.)
Let us get caught up in the thrill of liveperformance, increase our level of happiness, decrease our anxiety, come fully alive.
Let us pay for theater tickets because hope is always a luxury. And just as often costly. Let us morph into superior appreciators. Let us thank the production staff as they welcome us back like long-lost friends.
Let us thank our lucky stars. A thousand times a day and counting.
Let us note the parallel between joy and embracing, and how one lingering hug has never been more beneficial than now.
Let us remember that now is this — and we will get through this, we will — the past was that, and the years ahead will be something different.
And if this anticipation is not enough to be grateful for in this time of thanksgiving, well, then, I do not know what thanksgiving is.
— Mary Lou Sanelli has published three works of nonfiction, including “Among Friends.” Her first novel, “The Star Struck Dance Studio of Yucca Springs,” was recently released by Chatwin Books. For more information about her and her work, visit www.marylousanelli.com.
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In lieu of the regular annual Trick or Treat on the Ave. event, this year the Queen Anne Chamber of Commerce hosted a pumpkin-carving contest in which participants carved their best pumpkins or dressed up in their best costumes, which they then photographed and submitted for judging. Here are the first-place winners in their categories. For the complete list of winners and their pictures, go to www.queenannechamber.org. All photos are courtesy of the Queen Anne Chamber of Commerce. From top right, clockwise: Adult winner Andy Bergman; animal category winner (no names provided); 10-17 winner Talia (no last name provided); and 6-9 winner Adelie Alles.
KINNECTED, FROM PAGE 3
By using Kinnected, Haas
wants people to understand and manage their health in a nonthreatening way — by speaking with others and sharing their worries, experiences and successes, as well as keeping track of their own health history. In turn, people can go to practitioners informed and with better understanding of their healthcare options, thus reducing the guess work and burden placed on practitioners.
“It’s a gentle, non-threatening, non-clinical way of looking at healthcare,” Haas said.
Haas said all the tools on her site, current and coming, are meant to help people support themselves holistically.
An important element to that is communication, and in the next month, Haas said members will be able to reach out to other people they believe might offer them valuable insight or help based on profile information people want to share.
“You don’t have to be helpless,” Haas said. “You can walk someone through, or you can ask to be walked through.”
Another tool is the timeline, which keeps track of all the interactions and entries people make using Kinnected. Similar to that is a tool of which Haas is especially proud: the Care Profile, a collaborative timeline a user can set up for someone in their care. Haas said in an email, “the care profile allows the main caretaker to set up a proxy profile for someone
in their care and invite family or trusted friends in a dedicated space to witness and track care conversations, thus leading to greater offline support and helping establish a level playing field amongst a non-clinical care team when it comes to health improvements or developments.”
Another tool lets people search for all types of health practitioners, who register sign up for the platform using a different, professional path. Only practitioners pay for their membership, but it’s on a sliding scale, Haas said. People can search for practitioners using Kinnected, although they do not give advice. And, by signing up for Kinnected, practitioners can network with other professionals who specialize in their field or share similar interests, philosophies or practices.
While not all the elements on her website are live, Haas said she hopes people will be able to communicate with each other sometime in November, and the care profile and timeline will be ready by spring.
Haas said everything about Kinnected is aimed at making people feel safe and welcome. Members can share as much or as little of themselves as they wish, and everything is anonymous. No one is ever solicited, and within 24 hours, a person’s information is flushed out.
While Haas said everything she has done professionally has led her to this point, she is not rushing Kinnected. First, she does not have the funding to do so, she said.
“Another reason why it has taken so long is I have tried to put what is inside of me onto there,” Haas said.
She does, however, feel a sense of urgency as more COVID-19 cases sweep across the nation.
“I am truly hoping to make a difference as we go into this next surge by offering a solution to this lethal combination of depression, anxiety and loneliness,” Haas said in an email, adding that so many now are suffering from long-haul COVID symptoms. “Our grief has been magnified and marginalized — so much death, but without a common cultural infrastructure around these aspects of life, we cannot move through death and grief properly.”
While she has immediate goals for Kinnected, Haas said she would also like to expand her vision even further if the site begins to make money: by setting up free wellness center and by giving back to other women who want to advance themselves or their careers but don’t have the means to do so.
“So I want to be able to encourage. I want to be able to fund other women who have such incredibly narrow pathways to funding,” Haas said.
To learn more about Kinnected or to sign up, visit https://kinnected.org, or follow Kinnected on Twitter at https://twitter.com/ KinnectedO. To make a donation, go to https://kinnected.org/ donate.
To hear a speech Haas gave at a summit in Amsterdam about her vision, go to https://vimeo. com/375023105.
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Photo courtesy Megan Haas Entrepreneur Megan Haas has turned a vision for a safe, welcoming healthcare platform into a reality with Kinnected. org, which is
