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This is the results breakdown of the local elections held in Andalusia on 25 May 2003. The following tables show detailed results in the autonomous community's most populous municipalities, sorted alphabetically.

Overall

City control
The following table lists party control in the most populous municipalities, including provincial capitals (shown in bold). Gains for a party are displayed with the cell's background shaded in that party's colour.

Municipalities

Alcalá de Guadaíra
Population: 58,351

Algeciras
Population: 106,710

Almería
Population: 173,338

Antequera
Population: 41,197

Benalmádena
Population: 35,946

Cádiz
Population: 136,236

Chiclana de la Frontera
Population: 63,719

Córdoba
Population: 314,805

Dos Hermanas
Population: 103,282

Écija
Population: 37,900

El Ejido
Population: 57,063

El Puerto de Santa María
Population: 77,747

Fuengirola
Population: 53,270

Granada
Population: 240,522

Huelva
Population: 140,862

Jaén
Population: 112,921

Jerez de la Frontera
Population: 187,087

La Línea de la Concepción
Population: 60,951

Linares
Population: 57,800

Málaga
Population: 535,686

Marbella
Population: 115,871

Morón de la Frontera
Population: 27,786

Motril
Population: 51,928

Ronda
Population: 34,470

San Fernando
Population: 88,333

Sanlúcar de Barrameda
Population: 61,908

Seville

Population: 704,114

Utrera
Population: 45,947

Vélez-Málaga
Population: 57,457

Notes

References

Andalusia
2003


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↑ Branson Airport is not listed in the 2011–2015 NPIAS (no enplanements in 2008), but is commercial service – primary based on enplanements in 2009 and 2010.
↑ Cape Girardeau Regional is listed as general aviation in the 2011–2015 NPIAS (based on enplanements in 2008), but is commercial service – nonprimary based on enplanements in 2010.
↑ Kirksville Regional Airport is listed as general aviation in the 2011–2015 NPIAS because it had less than 2,500 enplanements in 2008.
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Longtime paramedic rushes into the contest to replace outgoing county commissioner
When county commissioner Amy Scott Galey steps down to assume her seat in the N.C. state senate, the county's Republican Executive Committee will be charged to name a replacement. More than a half dozen candidates have announced their interest in taking her place.
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Tomas Murawski
A paramedic on the verge of retirement is the latest contender for a vacancy that will appear on Alamance County's board of commissioners next month when outgoing commissioner Amy Scott Galey takes her place in North Carolina's state senate.
Paul Williams, a long-time employee of Alamance County's Emergency Medical Services, has told The Alamance News that he has added his name to the growing list of contenders for Galey's position, which will ultimately be filled by an appointment from Alamance County's Republican Party.
Because Galey won her seat on the board as a Republican, state law entitles the party's local leadership to nominate her successor. The responsibility for making this choice resides with the local GOP's 45-member executive committee, which is expected to meet some time in January to select a replacement for Galey.
Although Williams has never previously sought public office, the 57-year-old native of Alamance County insists he'd be a good fit for Galey's position due to his decades of service as a first responder. In addition to his three decades with EMS, Williams has also spent 34 years as a volunteer firefighter in the Ely Whitney fire district. Now, with his career as a paramedic nearing its end, Williams sees a spot on the board of commissioners as a natural way for him to continue his service to the community.
"I've never run for anything," Williams acknowledged. "But I've been helping the people of Alamance County for over 34 years, and I want to continue to help the people of Alamance County. My heart is with Alamance County, and when people try to mess with our county, I don't like it."
In addition to Williams, at least seven other people have openly declared their intentions to seek the executive committee's appointment to succeed Galey. Among those who've formally submitted their names for consideration are local attorney Craig Turner, who currently serves as the local party's first vice chairman; Green Level councilman Michael Trollinger; and Henry Vines, a farmer from Snow Camp an a veteran of several commissioner races who defected from the Democratic Party earlier this year.
Other contenders for the impending vacancy are retired brigadier general Blake Williams, who also serves as the vice chairman of ACC's trustees; Burlington planning board member James Kirkpatrick; long-time Republican Roger Parker, who briefly served on the board of commissioners after the party tapped him for another vacant position in 2016; and Robert Turner, the co-owner of ACE Speedway in Altamahaw.
Overnight break-in at Burlington mini mart
Sheriff suspends out-of-county fingerprinting
Property values up 80%; commissioners pledge to support revenue neutral tax rate to offset
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Commissioners burst gas supplier's hope for extension on county incentives agreement
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February 14, 2021 February 14, 2021 scotthgilliland
Ashes in the Snow is a heartbreaking tale of losing one's innocence in the worst way imaginable, by a regime that cares as little for you as it does its soldiers. What should be a home run of a film struggles to remain compelling despite some particularly strong performances.
Talented young artist Lina (Bel Powley) is anxiously waiting to be accepted into a prestigious art college in 1941 Lithuania. Just as her letter arrives the Soviets come and remove her family and others out of the country and into work camps. Lina, her mother Elena (Lisa Loven Kongsli) and her brother Jonas are separated from their father as they endeavour to return to him one day and to live beyond their torturous captivity from the Russians.
Few films broach the subject of the atrocities that Stalin enacted during his reign, which makes Ashes in the Snow vitally important viewing. Sadly the film fails in making what should be very compelling material (the film is adapted from Ruta Septeys's novel Between Shades of Gray) and with countless accounts of what occurred during this time it should not be difficult to find a character to cling to and want to see make it through this horror. Yet as we explain later on the film focuses far too much on another character to make us fully feel for Lina.
For a film that centres so much of the story on Lina, Ashes in the Snow stops us from viewing a fulfilling character development. We start the film by seeing that this is a young woman who is happier drawing in her bedroom than socialising with others her age. The one time we continually see her around others in flashbacks, she is too shy to strip and run naked into the water with the others, but she is confident enough to steal the clothes from a boy to get his attention. We are not given more than that from her. We get the idea that she is fairly innocent and what happens in the next year's horrendous events form her into a tougher woman. This morphing into a tougher person happens, but there is a struggle somehow to make a strong connection with Lina, which is puzzling.
Martin Wallström's Nikolia Kretzsky on the other hand seems to have also be positioned as almost a joint lead. The events of Lina and her family are continually tied to him. He has a stronger arc, whether that is on purpose or accidental it Is unsure. We see a part Russian, part Ukrainian man seemingly forced into service, made to kill innocent men and women and slowly lose his humanity and morals. At the beginning of Ashes in the Snow, he is doubtful of everything. He knows these people and he wants to help them, but in his eyes, he is as much a prisoner as the tortured souls he watches over.
As the film progresses, we see a man lose everything he had pre-war in his emotional and mental state and by the time he is shipped off to Siberia with a group containing Lina's family. He knows he is sent to die, a cog in the machine. He has nothing left as a man or a person and ultimately spirals because of it. This arc is everything we should see with Lina, we feel for him despite hating what he does. By having two different integral arcs interwoven into the story, we lose the power of Lina's story. Simple moments as her learning Russian from her mother and a book given to her, so she can communicate in one of the final scenes, should be filled with power. However, we are struck more by how hapless and lost Kretzsky is. Ashes in the Snow needed to decide on who should be central to the film and it failed at it here.
The film for some reason gives us a long unrealised love story between Lina and fellow prisoner Andrius. There is no build-up to this or it was left on the cutting room floor, as other than a few looks between the two, we are suddenly presented with the two constantly doing things for each other. There is no reasoning for it and it costs us precious time with Lina on matters that should be of greater concern.
It is the older cast who shine here with Lisa Loven Kongsli being astonishing as Elena. Her utter defiance is slowly but surely broken down as Ashes in the Snow progresses. She is being strong for her family, her community, her country. But one person can only be so strong for so long and the pain and torment get her to a heartbreaking finale in Siberia. Martin Wallström is particularly strong as Nikolia and makes a character who we shouldn't want to really feel anything for, feel more so than our lead due to some particularly wooden big-eyed acting from Powley.
Ashes in the Snow has all the potential to be a jarringly blunt look at Soviet control of Lithuania and other countries. Yet, it falls in the script by not being confident enough to focus more on one character and costs itself the chance of really opening the eyes for those who knew little of what happened.
Signature Entertainment presents Ashes in the Snow on Amazon Prime Video 19th February
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Dr. Niki Samborski
Veterinarian – Medical Director
Years in Practice: 10
Education:University of Wisconsin – Madison
Dr. Nicole Samborski is a graduate from the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine in 2009. Before practicing veterinary medicine, Dr. Niki was in the human medical field working as a cardiac physiologist in cardiopulmonary rehabilitation.
My Pets: Yukon (dog)
My Family: My husband Mark, and my daughters Ellocin and Mollie.
What I like most about working at Hartford Animal Clinic: I enjoy my patients and the wonderful team of people I work with.
What I like to do when I'm not caring for pets and their families: I like to spend time with my family and run when I have the time.
Dr. Elizabeth Larson
Dr. Elizabeth Larson is an alumni of The University of Findlay (Bachelor of Science, 2011) and The University of Wisconsin-Madison (Doctorate of Veterinary Medicine, 2015). Following graduation, she returned to her hometown to practice in the Cedarburg area for a year and ultimately began at Hartford Animal Clinic in 2016. Outside of the clinic, she spends most of her free time with her husband and daughter. She has several four-legged family members (horses, dog and cat) to takes care of and enjoys after her workdays end!
Dr. Caley Chambers
Education:University of Wisconsin – Madison University of Minnesota School of Veterinary Medicine
Dr. Caley Chambers attended University of Wisconsin, graduating in animal science in 2009. She attended veterinary school at the University of Minnesota, earning her doctorate in 2014. She practiced medicine at a mixed animal practice in Menomonee WI before coming to Hartford Animal Clinic.
My Family: my children Jax, Maddie, Buddy, Avery, Benny, Happy, and Leggs
My Pets: Maddie (Goldendoodle), Jax (Wire haired pointing griffon), Buddy (Teddy Bear), Avery (cat), Benny, Happy and Leggs (off the track Thoroughbreds)
What I like most about working at Hartford Animal Clinic: All of the animals of course! I enjoy being able to give the best quality medicine with a passionate and hardworking team.
What I like to do when I'm not caring for pets and their families: I enjoy everything outdoors, especially activities I can do with my dogs and horses.
Dr. Kerri Kontny
Dr. Kerri grew up in the Ashland area of northern Wisconsin. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire where she received her Bachelor of Science in Biology with a minor in Finance. She attended Veterinary School at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Kerri has special interests in preventative medicine and ophthalmology. Outside of the clinic she enjoys spending time with her family and friends, spending time outdoors, cooking, baking, reading, and gardening. She shares her home with her two cats- Ivy, a domestic short hair that she adopted while in school and Olive, a feisty calico and former barn kitten.
Education: Madison Area Technical College Veterinary Technician Program
My Pets: Jack: Jack Russell Terrier
My Family: Troy: Husband
Rachel grew up in Slinger, Wisconsin. She graduated from Madison Area Technical College in May of 1998. She began working at the Hartford Animal Clinic on June 15, 1998. In 2019 she became an Instructor at the Milwaukee Medical College and currently is the clinic's Relief Technician. Outside of the clinic, she keeps herself busy with her husband and two children. She enjoys hanging out with family and friends, camping, cooking, baking, gardening, and playing sports. She has three cats Mike, Vivian, and Daisy and a Guinea pig named Gidget at home that brings a lot of joy to everyone.
Carrie has been in the veterinary field for 25+ years! She started with cleaning kennels in a clinic at the age of 15. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where she received her Bachelor of Biology with a minor in Chemistry. She later sat for state boards to get her Certified Veterinary Technician license. She enjoys the constant challenge in veterinary medicine and that two days are never alike. Outside of the clinic, Carrie enjoys spending time with her family and friends, being outdoors, camping and crafting. She has a precious Brittany named Libby, and a trouble-making feline, Tater Tot.
Education: UW Milwaukee – Biological Sciences
My Pets: Cuddles, Toby, & Mouse (dogs), Aladdin (cat), Spike, Spec, & Pretty Bird (birds), Marley (red-tailed boa), and 2 fish tanks
My Family: I love my big extended family, my husband, and my fur, fin, & feathered children!
What I like most about working at Hartford Animal Clinic: I really enjoy working with very knowledgeable people who I can learn a lot from. I also love working with animals and their people who are dedicated to their health and well-being.
What I like to do when I'm not caring for pets and their families: I enjoy bird-watching! I volunteer banding birds for a study in Milwaukee through the Urban Ecology Center. I enjoy hiking, canoeing, Frisbee golfing, and playing any kind of game. I also enjoy training my dogs and cat to do tricks. Hangin' with friends and family are also a must!
Education: Madison Area Technical College Veterinary Technician Program and UW – Madison Zoology & Psychology
My Pets: Demitri and Minnow
My Family: my husband, Brent
What I like most about working at Hartford Animal Clinic: Spending each day working with animals and their human companions, and working with a team of people that are dedicated to their care.
What I like to do when I'm not caring for pets and their families:Outdoor activities, attempting home improvement projects, and spending time with family and friends.
My Family: Kyle, Aubri, & Sam
My Pets: Molly (Great Dane)
What I like most about working at Hartford Animal Clinic: I love being a member of a team that is dedicated to giving our patients the best medical care possible and treats each pet as if they were their own.
What I like to do when I'm not caring for pets and their families: Amateur photography, hiking, cooking, DIY projects, and gardening.
Kristen K.
My Family: Travis & Florence
My Pets: Valentine (Shepherd mix) and Estes (American bull dog mix) and chickens!
What I like most about working at Hartford Animal Clinic: I enjoy working with clients and their pets to keep their companions healthy and happy. I also love working with a great team who are friendly and professional.
What I like to do when I'm not caring for pets and their families: Playing frisbee with the dogs, hiking, cooking, and gardening.
Education: Globe University – Veterinary Technician Program
My Family: Pat & Debbie (parents) Kelsey & Connor (siblings)
My Pets: Kiara (dog) and Simba, Ziggy, & Boo (cats)
What I like most about working at Hartford Animal Clinic: I like being able to come to work knowing two days will never be alike; always a new adventure to challenge my amazing team and I. I enjoy being part of a knowledgeable team that cares for the wellbeing of pets.
What I like to do when I'm not caring for pets and their families: Traveling, camping, fishing, watching Packer games, and spending time with family, friends, and pets.
Client Service Representative
Linda started working at Hartford Animal Clinic in the fall of 2017 after being a client for almost 20 years. It is great working with such a dedicated team. When not working, Linda loves spending time with her family and dogs and enjoying the outdoors.
Malaynna
Malaynna completed the veterinary assistant program through Milwaukee Career College in May of 2021. She started working at HAC in June after completing her externship here.
She has always had this strong connection to animals, so that is why she decided to go into veterinary medicine. Malaynna's favorite part about working at HAC is getting to know each patient and client, as well as learning something new all the time. Outside of the clinic she enjoys spending time with friends and family, camping, and playing tennis! Malaynna shares her home with Penny, a chihuahua terrier mix and Mama, a DSH cat.
Taylor grew up in Waukesha. She graduated from UW-Waukesha with an associate degree in Biological Sciences in 2016, then earned a Veterinary Technician degree from Milwaukee Career College in 2017. Taylor joined HAC in August of 2019. She chose veterinary medicine because she knew she could learn something new every day and be the voice for her patients and give them the best care possible. Outside of clinic life, Taylor enjoys riding and competing with her horse Gia, baking, and spending time with her other pets and family.
Reagan started as an extern from Milwaukee Career College in 2020. She completed the Veterinary Technician program in February 2021 and joined the HAC family as a full-time assistant, working towards her certification. Reagan has 2 dogs Ellie Mae and Zoey.
She enjoys spending her free time with her family and friends. She also enjoys horseback riding, kayaking, training and grooming her dogs, and visiting National Parks.


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Blue 11 has the flavor profile of blue raspberry popsicle fresh from the neighborhood ice cream man. The inhale consist of a little hint of blue raspberry with a cool sensation of menthol. Upon exhaling is when the blue raspberry really comes to life and coats the taste palate with fruity perfection. Also included in the exhale is even more menthol which really gives the popsicle experience to this e liquid.
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Q: What are pure actions in React Redux? I'm learning redux saga but don't get what the author means by the below:

Contrary to redux thunk, you don't end up in callback hell, you can
test your asynchronous flows easily and your actions stay pure.

Any examples of "callback hell" and "pure actions" would be much appreciated.

A: Pure Functions
Pure functions are a type of function that, when given the same arguments, will always produce the same result, and doesn't modify any variables that are outside of its scope.  For example,
function addTwoIntegers(a, b) {
    return a + b;
}

If we pass a=2 and b=3, then the result will always be 5.  Nothing else is changed.  This is a good thing, because it makes testing that function much easier - we know with certainty what they output will be for a given pair of inputs.
Contrast this with, for example, a function that loads data from an API and assigns it to a variable:
let result;

function AddIntegerToNumberFromServer(a) {
    fetch('api/numberGenerator').then(function(res) {
       result = a + res.data.number;
    });
}

In this case, we can call the function with the same argument multiple times, and not be certain of getting the same result.  The consequence of this is that the function is much harder to test - we probably have to create a mock of the api.  We also have to be certain what the initial value of result was in order to know if our function worked as planned.
Callback Hell
As you probably know, callbacks are functions that we pass as arguments to another function, so that we can defer execution of some code until the second function has completed.  Callback hell occurs when we get many layers deep into this - as commented by someone above jQuery seems to invite this style - for example:
$(function() {
    $('#element').click(function() {
        $(this).fadeOut(function() {
            $('#anotherElement').fadeIn();
        }
    }
}

The issue here is primarily one of human understanding of the code, and ease of readability.  Imagine if this went more layers deep (not uncommon) how difficult it could be to work out what is happening and when.
Redux-thunk is far from the worst offender when it comes to callbacks, and the readability factor can be mitigated by using promises instead of callbacks.

A:
... your actions stay pure ...

My best guess is that this is a mistake.  In the redux-thunk README there is no action creator that is impure let alone an action object that is somehow impure.  Perhaps "impure actions" is referring to a pattern by which "higher level" action-creators like makeSandwichesForEverybody contain multiple side effects and are therefore very hard to test.

... end up in callback hell ...

Again makeSandwichesForEverybody contains many nested promises which might become harder to fathom as the async work flow becomes more complex.  What I can't yet comment on is how much simpler / complex this would be implemented in redux-saga.
function makeSandwichesForEverybody() {
  return function (dispatch, getState) {
    if (!getState().sandwiches.isShopOpen) {

      // You don't have to return Promises, but it's a handy convention
      // so the caller can always call .then() on async dispatch result.

      return Promise.resolve();
    }

    // We can dispatch both plain object actions and other thunks,
    // which lets us compose the asynchronous actions in a single flow.

    return dispatch(
      makeASandwichWithSecretSauce('My Grandma')
    ).then(() =>
      Promise.all([
        dispatch(makeASandwichWithSecretSauce('Me')),
        dispatch(makeASandwichWithSecretSauce('My wife'))
      ])
    ).then(() =>
      dispatch(makeASandwichWithSecretSauce('Our kids'))
    ).then(() =>
      dispatch(getState().myMoney > 42 ?
        withdrawMoney(42) :
        apologize('Me', 'The Sandwich Shop')
      )
    );
  };
}

As an aside I have used "impure action creators", which I call dispatchers in the form of functions that acts as action creators, dispatcher and has side effects.  I have found this to be a good pattern for managing async work.  However it makes isomorphic apps harder / impossible to implement and is not easy to test.

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Leaderless Organizations
What can leaderless organizations tell us about leadership in the future? There is a growing phenomenon of leaderless organizations that is chronicled by Ori Brafman and Rod Beckstrom in their recent book The Starfish and the Spider. The title refers to the contrast between two animals that, at first glance, appear to be quite similar but…
If you cut off a spider's head, it dies; but if you cut off a starfish's leg, it grows a new one, and that leg can grow into an entirely new starfish. Traditionally, top-down organizations are like spiders, but now starfish organizations are changing the face of business and the world.
The authors cite Wikepedia, Skype, Kazaa, Linux and other open source projects, along with Alcoholics Anonymous, the abolitionist movement and the Apache tribe as all being "starfish" or de-centralized organizations. The point is, decentralized organizations have been around for a long time, but recently, with the advent of the Internet, these organizations are making in-roads into industries traditionally dominated by top-down centralized companies.
One strategy put forth in the book is to find the "sweet spot" between a centralized organization and a de-centralized organization. The authors cite eBay, Toyota and even IBM (with their embrace of Linux and Apache) as successful examples of this strategy.
But who is behind these "leaderless" organizations? There must be someone behind the scenes pulling the strings right? Well, the authors say "no", but there is a new type of leader they call a catalyst who typically spawns and then carefully guides the leaderless organization until it reaches a point where it can self-replicate and no longer needs a leader. The catalyst leader is contrasted with the traditional CEO. The CEO is rational, powerful, directive and uses command-and-control to lead the organization; while the catalyst is inspirational, collaborative, and behind-the-scenes, using trust and emotional intelligence. A catalyst is able to emotionally connect with organizational members, drawing them in and inspiring them to contribute and get involved. When it comes to AA and the Apache tribe, this kind of member-involvement is understandable, but to inspire people to contribute to an encyclopedia or build commercial-grade software? Wow, the world is changing and business needs to take notice.
My hunch is that the skills that make catalysts successful (trust, emotional intelligence, humility, collaboration) are exactly the leadership skills we need to be cultivating in our corporations to ensure they survive the coming wave of starfish attacks. With that in mind, the stories about Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia and Craig Newmark of Cragslist are especially important for leadership development professionals to read.
And when I say starfish "attacks" I don't just mean figuratively. There is a dark-side to starfish organizations. Another example of a starfish organization cited by Brafman and Beckstrom is Al Queda. And the catalyst? You guessed it, Osama Bin Laden.


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Lionel Messi must accept defeat and show respect: Tite
Brazil coach Tite. PHOTO: REUTERS
Brazil coach Tite told Lionel Messi to show some respect, following claims from the Argentina captain that the Copa America had been "fixed" so the hosts would win.
Brazil clinched the Copa by defeating Peru 3-1 at the Maracana yesterday morning (Singapore time), with goals by Everton, Gabriel Jesus and Richarlison, but Tite felt that his side had been hard done by in some refereeing decisions and said Messi's words had weighed on the officials.
"He has to show some respect, he must understand and accept when he's defeated," said Tite, whose side beat Argentina 2-0 in a controversial semi-final.
"We've been affected in many matches, even in the World Cup, so be very careful. He puts a lot of pressure because of how great a player he is.
"Everyone has their own problems and you have to be respectful."
Messi had hit out at South American football's governing body Conmebol, accusing them of "corruption" after he was sent off in Saturday's third-place play-off in which Argentina beat Chile 2-1.
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He'd also claimed after Argentina's semi-final defeat that the tournament hosts were "managing a lot in Conmebol these days".
Argentina had been angered that VAR wasn't used on two occasions to check the validity of their claims for a penalty that hadn't been seen by the referee.
Messi was then harshly sent off against Chile following a tangle with Gary Medel in which he seemed to do nothing wrong.
The Barcelona star claimed afterwards he had paid for his previous criticisms.
"My words had repercussions, but you must always be sincere," he said.
Tite agreed with that, claiming that Peru's penalty in the final - converted by their captain Paolo Guerrero - should never have been given.
"Today it wasn't a penalty. You have to be careful and show respect, as we respect others," said Tite.
Peru coach Ricardo Gareca, who is Argentinian, agreed with his Brazil counterpart.
"Messi is a voice of authority but that doesn't mean I agree with what he said," Gareca added. - AFP


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Visit the Tacoma Chinese Reconciliation Park
The Tacoma Chinese Garden and Reconciliation Park is a joint project of the City of Tacoma and the Chinese Reconciliation Project Foundation.
Park address: 1741 N. Schuster Parkway, Tacoma, WA 98403
Chinese Park Fact Sheet and Site Plan 9-24-15
History of the Park – in Chinese
Initiation of the Park Project
Dr. David Murdock, in his submittal of the Citizen Suggestion Award Program application to the City of Tacoma on August 22, 1991, proposed that "since the eviction [of the Chinese populace] was from the Old Town waterfront, it would be appropriate to set aside an area of reconciliation (small park with a Chinese motif) and a monument acknowledging the incident, noting Tacoma's regret and desire to move ahead in unity and respect." On November 30, 1993, the Tacoma City Council passed Resolution No. 32415 to reconcile the historic tragedy of the Chinese expulsion in 1885, set aside the former National Guard site on Ruston Way for the "Chinese Commemorative Park and International Pavilion", and authorize the expenditure of $25,000 for preliminary site plans, preliminary cost estimate and project programming for the project.
Project Location and Site Description
The park is located at 1741 N. Schuster Parkway, Tacoma, WA 98403. It lies at the eastern end of the Ruston Way Shoreline area, confined to the north by Commencement Bay, to the south by railroad tracks, to the west by the Jack Hyde Park, and to the east by the Tahoma Salt Marsh, which is a Natural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA) project.
The 3.9-acre park site is part of the 7-acre site that was created in the late 1800's for industrial purposes by filling with concrete debris, sawdust, dirt and other materials. It has approximately 1,100 lineal feet of shoreline on the Bay. A succession of various industries occupied this site leaving behind environmental contamination. In 1996-1997, the site was cleaned up and transferred to the City of Tacoma by the National Guard for public purposes.
The site is within a hundred feet of the site of a former lumber mill where many Chinese workers were employed in 1885 and within ½ mile of a former Chinese settlement called Little Canton. In 1885 the shoreline was located approximately where the existing railroad tracks run today and there was a raised roadway/wharf that was used by people to travel along the waterfront. Each day over 100 Chinese workers walked along the waterfront to their jobs. Yet their lives changed suddenly in the cold Northwest morning of November 3, 1885 as they were forced out of Tacoma and their homes burned down.
Today this beautiful waterfront property commands sweeping views and few indicators of the busy, smoke crusted, muddy, log and clipper ship dotted waterfront of 1885 and nothing remains of the settlement many Chinese workers called home, nothing that hints of the Chinese contribution or suffering. This will change with the completion of the park.
The design of the Chinese Reconciliation Park is a mixture of traditional Chinese garden and beautiful natural waterfront setting. The park design creates a variety of spaces carefully defined by walls, mounds, rockwork, landforms, interpretive displays, native and exotic plants found in Chinese gardens, pavilions and classrooms of a Chinese architectural style, and a fresh water pond that is approximately 6,000 square feet.
Since the site is long and narrow, visitors will enter from the far west end, so that the experience of the park unfolds as people move through the park from west to east, creating the illusion of a larger site. The story of the Sojourners' journey to America, work and lifestyle, tragic expulsion, and opportunities for reconciliation are all explored within the context of the Chinese garden.
There are three features that are very unique to the site: the grotto, the trails, and the shoreline. The grotto is exquisitely designed to provide a functional and beautiful intertidal area, and with a Chinese bridge crossing over, will provide an excellent location for the public to view sea life including possible endangered species at certain times of the year. The waterfront trails are crushed rock, 10 to 20 feet in width, and continue the Ruston Way trails that presently end at Jack Hyde Park and provide pedestrian access to the site. The shoreline improvements include cleanup, protection and restoration, resulting in a seawall constructed on the westerly portion and a gently sloping cobble beach on the easterly portion.
The park's layout follows the design principles of the scholar's gardens, such as the Lan Su Chinese Garden in Portland, Oregon, rather than the imperial style gardens, such as the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Chinese Garden in Vancouver, British Columbia. It will be much more subdued in color as compared to the red and gold found in the imperial gardens.
The park design as illustrated in the current Master Site Plan was done in late 1990s by a team of landscape architects and planners led by the J. A. Brennan Associates.
Some reviews from TripAdvisor
Peaceful Park Commemorating a Painful History
This is a peaceful park to walk through and enjoy the beautiful views of the bay and port area, while contemplating a painful part of our history. It is nice to see us face up to the reality of what was done to the Chinese in this area and at least make an effort for some reconciliation with the memories on display here.
A Nice Place for Quiet Reflection
Walked past this park on the waterfront — it offered a nice, calm place to reflect and enjoy quiet sounds while watching the river traffic. It marks a dark period in US history — to make amends for the expulsion of Chinese immigrants from Tacoma in 1885. Worth a visit.
Peaceful Visit to Tacoma Chinese Reconciliation Park, Tacoma, WA
We went to Tacoma Chinese Reconciliation Park. Last time it was going through some reconstruction, so it was nice to see that done Its along the waterfront area of Tacoma.
Very well done explanation of a sad bit of history. The gardens area is simple but nice
Odd setting between the railway and the water and under an elevated highway but it's worth looking for. The explanation of the 1885 expulsion of the Chinese from Tacoma is handled as tastefully as something like that could be described. The park itself is very nice and offers great views of the bay, distant mountains and downtown for photographers.
Learning experience for all
Having driven past the park several times, we found the entrance and stopped to investigate as the park looked very serene. It was a pleasant walk and offered great educational opportunities to enlighten all to the struggles endured by the Chinese who came seeking a better life. Very tranquil.
Truly a place of healing!
Tacoma's Chinese Reconciliation Park is a beautiful anchor point to begin your journey along Tacoma's waterfront District. Its a wonderful place to spend some time walking your dog, having a picnic lunch or sitting on one of its numerous benches reading a good book.
The views are spectacular from the harbor to the Olympics. Whether you go to watch the sunrise in the morning or the sunset in the evening it just doesn't get more magnificent.
The Chinese Reconciliation Park is an anchor point that begins a nicely maintained walkway along the waterfront stretching for miles. You will pass by many wonderful restaurants with outdoor seating to quiet piers and parks with picnic tables to enjoy your bag lunch watching the sailboats dance with the big shipping barges.
The wide walkway allows for all sorts of people and pets to enjoy strolling along the waterfront. From groups of running mates to fathers jogging with a stroller. Dog walking girls or lovers holding hands and enjoying a little romantic walk. Whatever brings you to Tacoma this has been one of the best investments the City has made into revitalizing the city. Its wonderful places like this that make me proud to call Tacoma home.
Take some time to read the signs
The Chinese Reconciliation Park is on the shoreline of Commencement Bay. It was refurbished and the garden area expanded in September 2015. The park is intended to educate it's visitors about a time when the Chinese of Tacoma were driven from the city by workers that believed the Chinese were taking their jobs. The park is recognition and apology for one of the numerous shameful things that Americans have done to minorities, None the less this is a very nice park and there is a great view of Commencement Bay
Quiet, romantic park on the water
On 3 November 1885 in a sordid act the city of Tacoma forcefully removed its Chinese population. The Chinese Reconciliation Park is a newly constructed and long overdue park which serves as a reminder and acknowledgement of that event. It's a lovely spot on Puget Sound – quiet, serene and a wonderful place to watch the sunset over the Olympic Mountains. It's not a huge park but wonderfully designed, with gravel paths, standing stones, grassy slopes, benches, bridges and of course the beach. At the eastern end is a Ting which was donated by the City of Fuzhou, China. All the materials came from Fuzhou and the Ting was completed in 2011. It's a wonderful place to sit and read or visit with friends. There is a small parking lot underneath the overpass as well as many other parking spots along the waterfront and in Old Town. For a great afternoon pick a sunny day, go for a nice long walk along the waterfront and have a bite to eat along the way. Head for the Reconciliation Park in the late afternoon and enjoy the sunset. Wonderful!
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NEW NOISE: GUS DAPPERTON
The rising star from Warwick, New York.
"I'm doing good, just woke up a little while ago," Gus Dapperton tells me over a Skype call from NYC, despite the fact that when I ring it's nearing 3pm there. When I ask what he's doing with the rest of his day, he tells me about his plans to sneak into the Panorama music festival on Randall's Island. "Frank Ocean is headlining so we're gonna try and finesse our way in and see if we can see him. We're just gonna pretend we're really important and try to walk right in."
Chances are that soon the New York native won't have to sneak his way into festivals. Putting out music steadily over the last year, his delightful indie-pop stylings and incredible voice are about to propel him into the spotlight where he belongs, and hopefully that'll come with some festival appearance perks.
With his new EP, "Yellow And Such", ready to drop tomorrow – 4th August – we found out all you need to know about the indie's latest heartthrob.
So I've been watching your video for "I'm Just Snacking" on YouTube and I'm obsessed. What was the inspiration for the song?
I usually take phrases that people say, like people that I'm close to, and I usually take the situation that we're in and develop the song around this one phrase. So my ex-girlfriend and I were going to dinner one time and she was eating food and I was like "Yo, what are you doing? We're about to go for dinner, why are you eating?" and she was like "I'm just snacking." And then I took that and just made it into this whole thing about two people who are in love but don't have the courage to be together. That's essentially what it's about.
What was your creative process when making the song?
Usually, I'll have like a bunch of stuff. I write loads of things in my notebook that might not even turn out to be a song. I'll come up with the music before it and then I'll write the lyrics from some experiences that I've written down in my notebook already. So I'll write the music, write the lyrics, write the melody and stuff and then I'll produce it and come up with other parts when I'm producing it.
What are you working on at the moment?
Well actually I'm releasing an EP really soon. I'm just gonna kind of drop that. I've had it done for like a really long time, it's like a four song EP. "I'm Just Snacking" is on it. Other than that, I've just got a bunch of other music that I'm working on. I'm also producing a little bit for my sister, she's a singer. I've been writing songs with her and producing her.
So music is a family trait?
Well it's just me and my sister. My parents are like total opposite of artists. They're like really smart business people, but they're really supportive.
What can you tell us about the new EP?
It's called "Yellow And Such" and in the last like five/six months I've been really inspired by primary colours. Yellow is my favourite colour. It kind of sums up the whole EP and just relates to the whole like last year of my life. I really wish I had a better way to describe that, I usually describe songs really well but I don't really have a way of describing the whole EP right now.
What's your fave song?
Damn, good question. Maybe "I'm Just Snacking", but I think it might change.
Who influences you musically?
When I was growing up my dad played a lot of Bruce Springsteen and The Beatles and The Beach Boys and stuff. Also on the hip hop side, 50 Cent and J Dillon. So growing up I guess I listened to a lot of 60s rock and what not and then towards middle school/high school I got really into hip hop and nowadays it's like 60s rock, 80s nu wave and hip hop. A particular couple of artists that really mean a lot to me are like David Bowie, The Smiths and The Beach Boys.
I saw your Sofar Sounds gig and it was amazing. What's your favourite thing about performing live?
Well the people who come to see my shows, I don't have that big of a following, but the people who do follow me really enjoy it. The people who come to the shows are always hyped so it's really fun. I never get really too nervous because it's just a whole family vibe. I know everyone there and it's so fun. And I love performing with my band and messing around with them on stage. I guess just connecting with everyone that's watching and connecting with my band up on stage is just really fun.
Any plans to come over to England?
Yes, I've actually been dying to. I want to move there at some point in my life.
We'll be sure to show you around if you do. Thanks Gus!
New Noise
Gus Dapperton
Taller Than Your Average
Days of Candy
New Noise: Mikala
New Noise: Piers James
Norwegian rising funk-pop star jens on new EP "Call Me Back When You Get A Moment", and his unexpected K-pop collaboration.
Rising star Sam Johnson talks forthcoming EP "Are We There Yet?", new song "Peter Pan" and My Bloody Valentine's Kevin Shield.
Rising R&B star Jamilah Barry drops sultry new single "Glitter" and talks forthcoming EP "Romance Me".
Rising star August Wahh talks new EP "VIVID", supporting Erykah Badu and all the releases she has planned for next year.
Columbus-hailed rising star KIITA on her early inspirations, songwriting process, and dreamy alt-pop track "Thinking About You".
Nashville-hailed rising star Ivory Layne on the beauty of the changing seasons, and her new floral fever dream visuals.
Hip-shaking R&B is here courtesy of New York rising star Alex Mali with "Control".
New Noise: George Maple
New York-hailed rising star DEVON drops her fizzingly euphoric pop song "Just Begun".
Toronto-hailed rap rising star KILLY on his creative process and escaping the clutches of an alien femme fatale in the trippy visuals for his new track with Y2K "OH NO".
Oklahoma-hailed rising star Thunder Jackson on his rollicking new track "Institution" and the cathartic songwriting experience.
Swedish rising star Nova Miller aka "the next 1960's pop star" is here with her soul-stirring live performance of her track "Man's World".
New Noise: Malika
New Noise: Stella Donnelly
New Noise: Eau Rouge
New Noise: Astrid S
With captivating and soul-stirring lyrics, meet rising alt-pop duo Sour Face.
Rising west London-hailed singer Nat Slater talks new single with Ziezie and early beginnings .


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Testing the "wide walls" design principle in the wild
Seymour Papert is credited as saying that tools to support learning should have "high ceilings" and "low floors." The phrase is meant to suggest that tools should allow learners to do complex and intellectually sophisticated things but should also be easy to begin using quickly. Mitchel Resnick extended the metaphor to argue that learning toolkits should also have "wide walls" in that they should appeal to diverse groups of learners and allow for a broad variety of creative outcomes. In a new paper, Benjamin Mako Hill and I attempted to provide the first empirical test of Resnick's wide walls theory. Using a natural experiment in the Scratch online community, we found causal evidence that "widening walls" can, as Resnick suggested, increase both engagement and learning.
Over the last ten years, the "wide walls" design principle has been widely cited in the design of new systems. For example, Resnick and his collaborators relied heavily on the principle in the design of the Scratch programming language. Scratch allows young learners to produce not only games, but also interactive art, music videos, greetings card, stories, and much more. As part of that team, I was guided by "wide walls" principle when I designed and implemented the Scratch cloud variables system in 2011-2012.
While designing the system, I hoped to "widen walls" by supporting a broader range of ways to use variables and data structures in Scratch. Scratch cloud variables extend the affordances of the normal Scratch variable by adding persistence and shared-ness. A simple example of something possible with cloud variables, but not without them, is a global high-score leaderboard in a game (example code is below). After the system was launched, I saw many young Scratch users using the system to engage with data structures in new and incredibly creative ways.
Example of Scratch code that uses a cloud variable to keep track of high-scores among all players of a game.
Although these examples reflected powerful anecdotal evidence, I was also interested in using quantitative data to reflect the causal effect of the system. Understanding the causal effect of a new design in real world settings is a major challenge. To do so, we took advantage of a "natural experiment" and some clever techniques from econometrics to measure how learners' behavior changed when they were given access to a wider design space.
Understanding the design of our study requires understanding a little bit about how access to the Scratch cloud variable system is granted. Although the system has been accessible to Scratch users since 2013, new Scratch users do not get access immediately. They are granted access only after a certain amount of time and activity on the website (the specific criteria are not public). Our "experiment" involved a sudden change in policy that altered the criteria for who gets access to the cloud variable feature. Through no act of their own, more than 14,000 users were given access to feature, literally overnight. We looked at these Scratch users immediately before and after the policy change to estimate the effect of access to the broader design space that cloud variables afforded.
We found that use of data-related features was, as predicted, increased by both access to and use of cloud variables. We also found that this increase was not only an effect of projects that use cloud variables themselves. In other words, learners with access to cloud variables—and especially those who had used it—were more likely to use "plain-old" data-structures in their projects as well.
The graph below visualizes the results of one of the statistical models in our paper and suggests that we would expect that 33% of projects by a prototypical "average" Scratch user would use data structures if the user in question had never used used cloud variables but that we would expect that 60% of projects by a similar user would if they had used the system.
Model-predicted probability that a project made by a prototypical Scratch user will contain data structures (w/o counting projects with cloud variables)
It is important to note that the estimated effective above is a "local average effect" among people who used the system because they were granted access by the sudden change in policy (this is a subtle but important point that we explain this in some depth in the paper). Although we urge care and skepticism in interpreting our numbers, we believe our results are encouraging evidence in support of the "wide walls" design principle.
Of course, our work is not without important limitations. Critically, we also found that rate of adoption of cloud variables was very low. Although it is hard to pinpoint the exact reason for this from the data we observed, it has been suggested that widening walls may have a potential negative side-effect of making it harder for learners to imagine what the new creative possibilities might be in the absence of targeted support and scaffolding. Also important to remember is that our study measures "wide walls" in a specific way in a specific context and that it is hard to know how well our findings will generalize to other contexts and communities. We discuss these caveats, as well as our methods, models, and theoretical background in detail in our paper which now available for download as an open-access piece from the ACM digital library.
This blog post, and the open access paper that it describes, is a collaborative project with Benjamin Mako Hill. Financial support came from the eScience Institute and the Department of Communication at the University of Washington. Quantitative analyses for this project were completed using the Hyak high performance computing cluster at the University of Washington.
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Ralph Eberhart
TomT Fri, 09/09/2016 - 12:15pm
9/11 Suspects: General Ralph Eberhart by CorbettReport
Commander-in-Chief
Homeland Defense in the Global War on Terrorism
Infocon
North American Aerospace Defense Command
Richard Myers
TRANSCRIPT AND SOURCES: https://www.corbettreport.com/?p=19707
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrhJA2QWrRU
The official story of 9/11 is a lie. But Eberhart's story is a lie within that lie, designed to absolve himself and other members of the US military charged with defending American airspace that morning from the most catastrophic failure in that mission in their history. And not only did Eberhart survive with his career intact, he was praised as a "9/11 hero" and moved into the private sector after leaving NORAD in 2004, as chairman and board member of a number of companies that directly benefited from the post-9/11 police state and the post-9/11 war on terror.
Shoestring Fri, 03/11/2016 - 7:05am
New 9/11 Timeline Entries: Training Exercises, NORAD's Commander on 9/11, United Airlines' Response to the Attacks, and More
From the History Commons Groups blog:
Many entries have been added to the Complete 9/11 Timeline at History Commons, which describe a variety of events relating to the 9/11 attacks, with numerous entries revealing new details of the events of September 11, 2001.
Training Exercises Were Held in the Run-Up to 9/11
Several new timeline entries describe training exercises that were held in the years and months before 9/11. In May 1998, an exercise was held at the Pentagon called Cloudy Office, which was based around the scenario of a terrorist attack at the Pentagon involving chemical weapons.
In February 2001, the FBI's Washington, DC, field office started sponsoring training with local fire department and law enforcement commanders on how emergency response workers and the FBI should coordinate their actions if there was a terrorist attack in the Washington area. Just two or three days before 9/11, the Washington field office and various other agencies held an exercise in Northern Virginia, based around the scenario of a terrorist attack involving chemical weapons.
And United Airlines, which had two of its planes hijacked on September 11, held a surprise exercise 12 days before 9/11 in which employees were led to believe one of their planes had crashed.
Shoestring's blog
RL McGee Sat, 01/12/2013 - 1:49pm
The Case Against Ralph Eberhart, NORAD's 9/11 Commander
http://digwithin.net/2013/01/12/eberhart/
By Kevin Ryan
In a 2004 U.S. Senate hearing, Senator Mark Dayton remarked that "this country and its citizens were completely undefended" for "109 minutes" on 9/11.[1] Dayton went on to clarify that officials within the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) had covered up the facts about the lack of air defenses by lying to the 9/11 Commission, to Congress and to the American people. And they were not held accountable.
One man was most responsible for both the air defense failures and the lying that covered it up. U.S. Air Force General Ralph Edward Eberhart had taken over command of NORAD from General Richard Myers in February 2000. The position included leadership of all air defense operations in North America and, also, the U.S. Space Command. Therefore, on 9/11, Eberhart was the man most responsible for failure to intercept the four hijacked aircraft over a period of nearly two hours.
RL McGee's blog


Because Indico has benefited so much from hard work in the open-source community, we like to make sure a portion of our time is spent giving back. As part of this initiative, we're releasing Enso, an open-source python library for benchmarking document embeddings and transfer learning methods.
In addition to providing a framework for benchmarking embedding quality, we've also included 24 open-source datasets for you to use in your own experiments.
Although there are other effective approaches to applying transfer learning to natural language processing, the current version of Enso is built on the assumption that the approach to "transfer learning" adheres to the flow listed below. This approach is designed to replicate a scenario where a pool of unlabeled data is available, and labelers with subject matter expertise have a limited amount of time to provide labels for a subset of the unlabeled data.
Currently Enso is limited to benchmarking tasks that rely on static representations outputted by pretrained models. We'd eventually like to extend Enso to support benchmarking for model fine-tuning approaches as well. We're in the process of incorporating the model finetuning work of our advisor, Alec Radford, into Enso, so stay tuned!
In addition to supporting the model fine-tuning workflows, we'd also like to add support for benchmarking tasks other than classification (comparison, multiple-choice, textual-entailment, etc.) and a broader range of input types (image, audio).
We've used Enso internally to test whether or not adding new optimizers or new embeddings to the Indico platform is worthwhile, and we hope Enso also enables others to test what methods are good fits for industry application.
If you'd like to help add any of this functionality or are looking for a machine learning project to hack on, check out the Enso wishlist or reach out to <madison@indico.io> for more information.


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Bergen School Museum - Bymuseet i Bergen
Lille Øvregate 38, Bergen
www.bymuseet.no
skolemuseet@bymuseet.no
Category: Attraction & Culture
From catechism to flannel boards - Norways oldest school building.
The School Museum is one of Bymuseet i Bergens museums, located in the old Latin school in Lille Øvregate, right next to the Cathedral.
On the first floor you can see what the school might have looked like in the 18th and 19th centuries. On the second floor changing exhibitions are presented in an exhibition with beautiful school plans. Its one of the oldest school buildings in Norway. It was built after the big city fire in the early 18th century. There was also a school here before the fire, and the history of this school goes all the way back to the 12th century. The first schools were for those who were to become priests and eventually for rich sons. In the 19th century, it became more common to attend school, and towards the end of the 19th century most people received some education in Norway.
In the School Museum we show what the old Latin school from 1706 to 1840 may have looked like. The school consisted of several classrooms and housing for the principal. It was the students from the upper class who went here, and they were taught Latin, religion, mathematics and other important subjects. The oldest students were taught by the principals. Many of those who became important in Bergen at this time attended this school. The famous author Ludvig Holberg also went here.
For schools and groups please contact us e-mail: skolemuseet@bymuseet.no
If you buy a full-price ticket at the first museum, you get 50% discount on the admission fee to all of our other museums throughout the year.
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A UCR study found that participation in a wellness program increased average worker productivity by more than 5 percent.
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (www.ucr.edu) — Corporate wellness programs have been shown to save companies money by reducing absenteeism and health insurance costs. Researchers at the University of California, Riverside, UCLA, and Washington University in Saint Louis, Mo., have now quantified an additional benefit to companies' bottom line, showing that a wellness program they studied resulted in higher productivity for all participating employees. This improvement was dramatic: approximately equal to an additional productive work day per month for the average worker.
Titled "Doing Well by Making Well: The Impact of Corporate Wellness Programs on Employee Productivity," the study's first author is Timothy Gubler, an assistant professor of management in the School of Business at UCR. It is forthcoming in the journal Management Science.
Almost 90 percent of companies use some form of corporate wellness programs, with the most comprehensive offering biometric health screenings, nutritional programs, fitness classes, and educational seminars on topics ranging from smoking cessation to work-life balance. A recent meta-analysis found that each dollar spent on wellness programs saves $3.27 in health care costs and $2.73 in absenteeism costs.
To quantify the additional benefit to companies through improved motivation and productivity, the current study examined individual productivity and medical data collected over a three-year period at five plants of an industrial laundry company in the Midwestern United States. The voluntary program was offered to workers, free of charge, at four of the five plants; the fifth did not participate because it used a different health insurance plan, providing a control group for the study.
Employees who signed up for the program (about 85 percent of the staff) were offered access to a simple health exam that included drawing blood, taking blood pressure, and a health survey. Three weeks later, participants attended an educational seminar where a registered nurse presented them with a personalized health packet detailing their current health status and providing recommendations for improving their health. About two thirds of employees had a medical condition at the time of screening, according to an analysis by physicians hired by the researchers to evaluate the health data.
Sick employees whose health improved during the program showed increased productivity levels that averaged 11 percent.
Healthy workers whose health improved during the program showed increased productivity levels that averaged 10 percent.
Healthy employees whose health did not improve during the program showed increased productivity levels that averaged 6 percent.
Sick employees whose health did not improve did not show increased productivity levels.
While unable to precisely identify the mechanisms driving improvements, Gubler said the increase in productivity was consistent with two factors: First, increased employee motivation that stemmed from higher job satisfaction and gratitude from those who discovered an undiagnosed illness; and second, improved capabilities due to improved physical and mental wellness. Employees who improved exercise and changed their diet saw the biggest increases in productivity.
"By showing concern for workers, organizations can strengthen employees' loyalty and commitment to the company. When workers discover unknown health problems through the program they may feel increased gratitude toward their employer and reciprocate that by increasing their efforts. Additionally, when programs help employees make healthy choices this can positively impact their wellness, mood, energy, and ultimately increase their productivity through increased capability," Gubler said.
Gubler said the findings add to a growing body of management research on the relationship between employee wellbeing and organizational performance. However, this is the first study to show a direct "causal link" for improvements in productivity through wellness programs, and employees improving their health.
"Our research suggests that corporate wellness plans can boost employee satisfaction by offering a tangible benefit that empowers them to take care of their health in a way that's integrated into their busy lives. The result is healthier and happier employees who are not only less expensive and less absent, but also more productive," he said.
In addition to Gubler, authors on the paper are Ian Larkin of UCLA's Anderson School of Management, and Lamar Pierce of Washington University's John M. Olin School of Business.


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2021 Grammy Award Nominations: See The Full List Of Nominees
November 25, 2020	Entertainment Daypop, Pop Daypop
The 2021 Grammy nominations were announced on Wednesday, with Beyoncé leading all artists with nine total. "Black Parade" earned nominations for record of the year, song of the year, best r&b performance and best r&b song categories. Her duet with Megan Thee Stallion, "Savage," is also up for record of the year, best rap performance and best rap song. Beyonce tops off her nominations with best music video ("Brown Skin Girl") and best music film (Black Is King.)
Taylor Swift, Dua Lipa and Roddy Rich each earned six nominations. Swift's Folklore is up for album of the year, and best pop vocal album, "Cardigan" will compete for song of the year and best pop solo performance. Swift is nominated alongside Bon Iver for best pop duo/group performance for "Exile" and for best song written for visual media for "Beautiful Ghosts," from Cats.
Dua Lipa's Future Nostalgia is up for album of the year and best pop vocal album. "Don't Start Now" appears in the record of the year, song of the year and best pop solo performance categories. Lipa is also nominated in the best pop duo/group category with J Balvin, Bad Bunny and Tainy for "Un Dia (One Day)."
Roddy Ricch is up for record of the year ("Rockstar"), song of the year ("The Box"), best melodic rap performance and best rap song for both "Rockstar" and "The Box."
See the full list on nominees in the link below.
2021 Grammy Awards nominees announced with Beyonce leading with 9 nominations
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SCAFO's 60th, Diamond Anniversary Celebration took place on the historic Queen Mary Cruise Ship in Long Beach. The Queen Mary first set sail in 1936, the same year that SCAFO was being formed. This formal banquet featured the true crime author Ann Rule, whose bestsellers include, Small Sacrifices and the chilling story of the 1985 Southern California murders in, If You Really Loved Me. Many of the members spent the night on the Queen Mary for a cost of $90.00 to $130.00.
The August meeting took place at the Downtown Deli Café in Covina. Gilbert Aguilar, LAPD, spoke on a murder victim identification using the friction skin on the soles of the feet.
Lou served with the Riverside District Attorneys Office during his Presidency.


The Gods Will Hear Us Eventually is the debut novel of Jinny Koh. A riveting read, The Gods is heart-wrenching: 7-year-old Anna's sister goes missing and she is riddled with guilt. Meanwhile, her mother obsessively and desperately searches for her sister. Called "a majestic and beautiful novel", The Gods Will Hear Us Eventually is a suspenseful and psychologically acute story of a family tragedy. Read the prologue here!
Nai Nai swore she once knew a girl who had a tree growing from her head.
Anna folded her arms, a shadow of uncertainty passed over her eyes. Old Chan was the fruit seller at the market who had a "tumour". That was what her sister said. Could she be wrong?
"Like this?" Anna lifted her short hair up in the air, giggling as she imagined a tangle of scraggly roots hanging down her ears like thick ropes.
Anna squeezed her grandmother tight and then switched off the light. As she left the room, she glanced at Nai Nai's willowy figure on the bed, her body shifting with the gentle rustle of leaves. Surely the girl with the mangosteen tree was just a myth, yet something about that story unsettled Anna, and it was only later that year did she fully grasp her grandmother's words.
When she learnt that even myths can have a kernel of truth.
The Gods Will Hear Us Eventually is forthcoming and will be available for sale online, and in bookstores, after its launch date, 2 November 2018.
Jinny Koh's stories and essays have appeared in Pembroke Magazine, The Carolina Quarterly, Kyoto Journal, Columbia Journal, Best New Singaporean Short Stories: Volume 2, and Litro, among others.
Her short story, "Close To Home", was recently shortlisted for the 2017 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Jinny graduated Phi Kappa Phi with a Master of Professional Writing from the University of Southern California, where she was the Fiction Editor for The Southern California Review.
Currently a freelance writer based in Singapore, The Gods Will Hear Us Eventually is her debut novel.


Seeing opportunities, acting on them and developing yourself as well as our business are the key to our success. Our expectations are high, but we trust that you will take responsibility. At Al Yasra Foods we focus on development at all levels of the organization. So no matter where you are, we expect you to set the direction for your career and take responsibility for your development. In our dynamic business environment and with our continuous growth, there are always plenty of opportunities for you to build a career and unleash your full potential – you just have to grab them. Your development is our success. It's important to us that you develop because it goes hand in hand with innovation. We strive to be best in class when it comes to development efforts, and we see your development as critical to reaching our business goals.


Danny Price's article ("Sims' electricity ideas will force prices up not down" May 16) is as bizarre as it is wrong. His claim that the National Energy Guarantee provides 'little prospect of a decline in prices' contradicts his own modelling, for it was his firm, Frontier Economics, that showed wholesale prices would reduce by 23 per cent under the NEG and that households would benefit by on average $120 a year.
It is one thing for his byline to acknowledge that his firm recently produced a report for Gentailer AGL on vertical integration, but it is another to dismiss the benefits of increased competition and transparency that will obviously flow from the Energy Security Board's proposed changes to the contract market under the NEG.
Price also claims I have 'confessed' that the regulator 'has broken the law on more than 30 occasions in recent times'. This is complete rubbish. If Price is referring to the now abolished Limited Merits Review process where networks had successfully appealed against the interests of consumers 31 times, then there is no apology. While the lawyers, consultants and the networks did very well for themselves out of this process, on not one occasion did Australian families and businesses benefit.


Where is Villa Triagoz – Villa Triagoz, a luxury villa for rent in St. Barts.
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For all those who are really excited about the holy and blissful week of Easter 2019 to begin, there is some exciting update. This time around, you can make it extra special for your loved ones through Easter Quotes 2019 in this week of Easter. The gist of Easter is to get closer to God and there is no other better way to do it than to please His mankind.
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Mark Bowles Takes Over as PlayStation UK Marketing Director
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Earlier today, it was announced that Mark Bowles would be taking over as the new marketing director for PlayStation UK, taking over for Rich Keen, who left the company last year to become the COO of Mind Candy.
Bowles is no stranger to the world of PlayStation, as he previously joined the company in 2006 (via GamesIndustry.biz) as European brand manager for Gran Turismo before becoming Senior Brand Manager for PlayStation 3. He also served as the head of product marketing in the build-up to the launch of PlayStation 4, so his background in gaming and in marketing should speak for itself.
After leaving the company in 2013, Bowles returns and will immediately oversee all of PlayStation's hardware, software, and services offering in the UK. "Mark re-joins the UK team having broadened his experience significantly during his tenure with two of our key partners; The BBC and Dixons Carphone," said Warwick Light – VP and UK MD – in a statement. "He knows our business well and will be able to hit the ground running, whilst bringing valuable insight and learnings gained from his spell away from PlayStation."
In a brief statement regarding the move, Bowles seemed happy to announce his return. "I am thrilled to be returning to PlayStation UK and to have the opportunity to re-join this this iconic brand as it builds on the momentum of the last few years. I'm looking forward to working with Warwick and the rest of the team to deliver truly impactful campaigns that really are for the players."
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Q: Unit test from google test no longer found after adding header with boost::filesystem I have a unittest project which using google test framework and my tests was working fine. However now I added boost::filesystem header like #include <boost/filesytem.hpp> and after that my project linking and compiling fine, however no tests found at all and when I run tests it's give me -
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it works perfectly fine and find failed testcase, but if I add boost header like this:
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after that nothing found. I use cmake/clion/cygwin based env. Will be appriciated for your ideas how to fix those problem.

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(see What does error code 0xc0000135 mean when starting a .NET application?)
My guess is you used Google test with a dynamic library to contain the tests. Since you added Boost Filesystem it will now be linked with Boost System and Boost Filesystem DLLs.
However, the test runner cannot load these dependencies (leading to the error shown). Either install the boost DLLs system wide, copy them to the output directory for the test runner target (or wherever the testrunner is started) or use manifest files to indicate the DLL locations.
UPDATE As the commenter added, of course NOT linking to the DLLs will also make the problem go away.


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What if We Smashed the Biological Clock?
August 12, 2020 Sue Fagalde Lick childbirth over 40, childlessness, Uncategorizedbiological clock, Courtney Shane, fear of missing out, First Time Moms Beyond 35, Isabel Prosper, late-life babies, pregnancy over 40, pressure to have a baby, ready to have a baby?
What if age was not a factor in whether or not to have a baby? What if you could have a baby any time in your life, so there was no pressure to do it before you got into your 40s? How would you feel about your childless-by-marriage situation then? What would you do differently?
No, I don't know of a new way to postpone menopause. But let's think about this for a minute.
Last night I listened to a podcast titled "Baby Making and the Fear of Missing Out," the Aug. 8 episode in a series called "First Time Moms Beyond 35," hosted by Isabel Prosper. We might not want to listen to most of the episodes because they get into having babies, parenting, and all that stuff we childless people are not doing. But this one really spoke to me.
Guest Courtney Shane, who is an actress, is 43. After several relationships with women and a busy career that made her feel she didn't have time for motherhood, she married a younger man five years ago and started thinking about having children. At age 40, when she mentioned it to her then-gynecologist, the female doctor laughed and informed her that her chances were poor. Her bedside manner was so bad Shane found a new doctor, a man who encouraged her to go ahead and try.
She had her IUD removed and has started a regimen of daily ovulation checks. But she admits she's still not sure about her desire to have a baby. The timing is not good. Because of the pandemic, work is scarce, and she doesn't feel ready. But it's now or never. "If I was 33, I wouldn't be trying, no way," she admits.
In an effort to find others who are feeling like she feels, she went online and found lots of wanna-be mothers trying to conceive. She had to search harder to find women who would admit they were not certain they wanted to do this but the biological clock was counting down the minutes until it would be too late. Once she confessed her own feelings, others began to admit they feel the same way. Shane is still looking for people who want to talk about this situation. She invites us to connect with her on Instagram or Facebook at @itscourtneyshane.
Perhaps because she is an entertainer, this 23-minute podcast was really fun to listen to, but it also addresses an important issue for us here at Childless by Marriage. How does age factor into our situations and our decisions?
We have received some great responses to last week's guest post. You can read them here. Do you want to tell your story at the Childless by Marriage blog? I'm looking for personal stories, 500-750 words long, that fit our childless-by-marriage theme. You could write about infertility, second marriages, partners who don't want children, stepchildren, feeling left out when everyone around you has kids, fear of being childless in old age, birth control, and other related issues. Tell us how you how you came to be childless "by marriage" and how it has affected your life. Or you could write about someone else. We love stories about successful childless women. We do not want to hear about your lovely relationship with your children or how happy you are to be childfree. Not all submissions will be accepted, and all are subject to editing. If interested, email me at sufalick@gmail.com.
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