Maria Sakkari

 Maria Sakkari (Greek: Μαρία Σάκκαρη, pronounced [maˈri.a ˈsakari]; born 25 July 1995) is a Greek professional tennis player. She has been ranked as high as world No. 3 by the WTA (Women's Tennis Association), which she first achieved on 21 March 2022, making her the highest-ranked Greek player in history alongside Stefanos Tsitsipas. Her career-best doubles ranking is world No. 169, achieved on 9 September 2019.^[2]

Sakkari has won two singles titles on the WTA Tour, including a WTA 1000 title at the 2023 Guadalajara Open. She is known for her aggressive, all-court style of play, centered around her strong serve and powerful groundstrokes. She served the sixth most aces of any WTA player in 2020, with 144 aces served in 31 matches.^[3]

Sakkari reached the semifinals at the 2017 Wuhan Open, where she defeated Caroline Wozniacki for her first top-10 win.^[4] In 2019, she reached another Premier 5 semifinal at the Italian Open where she defeated, among other players, Petra Kvitová.^[5] In 2020, Sakkari reached the fourth round at both the Australian and US Opens. In 2021, she reached the semifinals at the French and US Opens, making her the first Greek woman to reach a major semifinal.

Paula Badosa Gibert

 Paula Badosa Gibert (Catalan: [ˈpawlə βəˈðozə ʒiˈβɛɾt]) (born 15 November 1997) is a Spanish professional tennis player. She has been ranked as high as world No. 2 in singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), which she achieved on 25 April 2022, and No. 124 in doubles, attained on the same date. She has won three WTA Tour singles titles, and produced her best performance at a Grand Slam tournament by reaching the quarterfinals of the 2021 French Open. Later that year, she won the Indian Wells Open, a WTA 1000 tournament and her biggest career title to date.

Ajla Tomljanović

 Ajla Tomljanović (/ˈaɪlə təmˈjɑːnəvɪtʃ/ EYE-lə təm-YAH-nə-vitch;^[1] Croatian: [âjla tomʎǎːnoʋitɕ];^[2] born 7 May 1993) is an Australian professional tennis player. She has won four singles and three doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 3 April 2023, she reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 32.^[3] On 5 January 2015, she peaked at No. 47 in the doubles rankings. Tomljanović was an accomplished junior player, having won the 2009 Australian Open girls' doubles title with Christina McHale. She reached a combined career-high junior ranking of world No. 4, on 30 March 2009.

Before 2014, Tomljanović played for her country of birth, Croatia. She began competing for Australia at the 2014 US Open after obtaining permanent residency in Australia. For the next four years she was required to represent Croatia at all non-Grand Slam events,^[4] until she was granted Australian citizenship in January 2018, allowing her to represent the country at all events on the WTA Tour.^[5]

Matteo Berrettini

 Matteo Berrettini (Italian pronunciation: [matˈtɛːo berretˈtiːni];^[5][6] born 12 April 1996) is an Italian professional tennis player. He has been ranked as high as world No. 6 in singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), which he achieved in January 2022, and world No. 105 in doubles, attained in July 2019. Berrettini has won seven ATP Tour singles titles and two doubles titles, and produced his best major performance by reaching the singles final of the 2021 Wimbledon Championships. He also became the first man born in the 1990s and first Italian man to reach the quarterfinals or better at all four majors after earning his first Australian Open semifinal in 2022.

全天下的骗子围剿中国老人

 论及诈骗，舆论场曝光度最高的是缅甸甚或泰国“噶腰子”的传说，传来传去，大多是捕风捉影。

但在我们身边，无孔不入的诈骗还是针对老人的：保健品、社保代办、以房养老、冒充公检法、抽奖中奖、免费旅游、理财陷阱、原始股投资……花样之多，套路之深，堪称中国乃至全球骗局博览会。

甚至有些骗局并不算违法。比如说无数老人中招的保健品，就是一个灰色地带，至多算是一个虚假宣传。老人求长寿心切，花的又是自己钱，保健品公司明码标价，儿女再不爽，又能怎么样？

老人为何如此容易中招？

最重要的原因，老人有钱，奇货可居。城市退休老人不仅手上有存款，有房子，还有一笔源源不断的退休金。对于骗子而言，这是一个取之不尽的目标用户，焉能不全力谋之。

其二，老人各有各的执念。有的老人退休后，最关注的就是所谓长寿养生，这自然是人之常情，但养生界本就是中西夹杂百家争鸣，各种玄乎的传说大行于世，再加上现在有社交媒体，很多伪科学和保健品神话也有了传播载体。

儿女们明明知道是假的，但你要去和老人争辩，往往不是对手。老人早就借助各种宣传，具备了极深的“理论素养”，能说得让你理屈词穷。

还有一种执念是“理财”。中国老人特别喜欢谈论理财，张口闭口就是“现在通胀严重，不理财钱就值钱了”，你想反驳，却发现人家这话似乎说得也没错。几乎每个老人都听说了各种版本的暴富神话，什么原始股，什么必买好房，什么免费养老，他们特别容易相信这世界上有免费的午餐。

特别是，很多理财项目也说不上是骗局，只是说高风险，或者性价比极低。但还是那句话，老人花自己的钱，相信自己的相信，儿女又能如何？你去劝阻他，父母很不屑地对你说：你们买房的首付还是我们赞助的，你们的股票基金亏了那么多，有什么资格来指导我们……

其三，老人的自信与尊严。坦白说，很多城市老人在退休前往往在各自的领域取得了不小的职业成就，在经济上对儿女往往又是馈赠方，在心理上本就处于居高临下的姿态。他们认为自己的社会经验和社会关系远比儿女强，吃过的盐比儿女喝过的水还多，很多陷阱往往就出自老人们引以为傲的人际关系网络。

而儿女呢，劝阻时往往会口不择言，过于贬低老人的社会经验和“智商”，这反而会激发起老人的心理防御机制，或者说，自尊心。他们一生的成就和尊严都来自于自己的社会经验与人际关系网络，到老了，又因为这个破财破家，倒也算是“自我得之，又自我失之”；他们宁愿瞒着儿女吃哑巴亏，也不愿意在儿女的批判下，看着自己一生的尊严被无视与践踏。

其四，亲情竞争。以我的观察来看，很多销售（骗子），特别是保健品一类的，往往都是以嘘寒问暖突破老人的心防，有的上门给老人修这修那，帮忙采购东西，听老人痛诉革命家史少年情史，过年过节过生日打一个感人至深的电话，叔叔阿姨甚至干爸干妈常挂嘴边。

对于儿女不在身边的老人，这种以商业为内核的亲情简直是及时雨；而对于那些儿女就在身边的老人而言，他们更是可以作出一个非常简单直接的对照：儿女对自己的关心还不如一个卖保健品的知心人。

在这个问题上，儿女出面干涉，反而会让本就心生不满的老人更加产生逆反心理：你们不关心我也就罢了，现在有人来关心我，你们还不让。你们不就是怕我的钱给别人不给你们吗，谁对我们好就给谁。

Monika Saksena | The Top 50 Women Leaders of New Jersey for 2022

 Monika Saksena

Director of Global Partnerships & Tools, Google

Monika Saksena is the Director of Partnerships Tools at Google, leading product, engineering and solution delivery functions to provide leading technology solutions to the Global Partnerships organization. With over 20 years of experience across technology and field leadership roles, Monika specializes in ratcheting businesses to the next level through process reimagination and technology innovation.

With an authentic and energetic leadership style, Monika holds a strong bias for action and outsized impact. She is passionate about diversity in the workforce. Before joining Google, she led the Corporate Card Business for US West and South at American Express. She has also held IT leadership positions at Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard. Saksena graduated from St. Stephens College, Delhi University, with an undergraduate degree in chemistry and holds a master’s degree in computer science from Florida Atlantic University.

Mountain Baker | Meet Shuwen Wang

I met Shuwen Wang when I hiked on mountain baker on Sept. 29, 2023. I was told to look up her name on facebook.com. I like to learn more about her.  

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Shuwen grew up in China and came to the States to pursue her Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences, which she received from Dartmouth Medical School. Next, Shuwen completed postdoctoral work at UCSF, followed by working as a researcher at Penn State College of Medicine in Hershey, PA.

In early 2014, Shuwen moved to the Spokane area and works at the WSU College of Pharmacy as an Associate Professor, teaching both Ph.D. and PharmD students. Shuwen currently lives in Liberty Lake with her husband, while her other family members live in California. 

Before she got into enjoying outdoor activities, Shuwen liked singing Karaoke once in a while and occasionally doing some contradance in her limited spare time. Now that she is so consumed with the outdoor stuff, she doesn’t sing or dance much. Instead, Shuwen enjoys reading, often finishing an average of 50+ books per year. 

Shuwen actually joined the Spokane Mountaineers "by accident" in the spring of 2014 because she wanted to climb Mount Rainier, since one of her PA friends had achieved that goal using an RMI guide. However, Shuwen quickly realized she was not qualified to take Mountain School due to lack of any previous hiking, climbing or backpacking experience. Therefore, Shuwen began her outdoor (and Spokane Mountaineer) experience by taking Backpack School, through which she completed her very first real hike with the club. Shuwen followed that up by taking Mountain School in 2015 and climbed Shasta and Rainier through the club with Brian Hoots as the leader.

Besides those big climbs, Shuwen has completed numerous adventurous hiking trips in a number of our western states, including WA, ID, MT, OR, UT, WY, etc. Her all time favorite is the Wind River Range South to North Traverse. Nearly all of these adventures were completed with her amazing hiking buddy Tyler Nyman, another Spokane Mountaineer and prior board member. For those of you who follow the Spokane Mountaineer Facebook page or look on the website, you probably have seen numerous photos from many of those adventures.

Shuwen says joining the club truly changed her life and transformed her into a real adventurer. To give back to the club and share her passion with others, she has been quite active with the club in the following activities: 

• Helping out backpack school each spring as an assistant instructor since 2015 
• Successfully co-directing the 2018 Backpack School with Tyler Nyman
• Serving as a member of the Hiking Committee 
• Leading group hikes and backpacking trips 
• Serving on the SMI Board for 2 years

Rite Aid 申请破产

 传统药店的危机

随着购物者越来越多地转向亚马逊、Target 等零售商，Rite Aid 等药店面临生存危机。

对于消费者来说在Target，沃尔玛 等零售商购买牙膏、洗发水和其他主食，价格往往更便宜，而且还能方便地送货上门。

Rite Aid 此前也一直在努力追赶其更大的竞争对手 CVS和Walgreen，但这两家公司已经转向以医疗保健为重点，并为此进行了大量投资。

CVS 开设了店内分钟诊所（类似于随到随取的紧急护理设施），并将更多的门店改造成 HealthHub，或提供更多医疗服务的场所。

通过收购最大的药房福利管理公司之一 Caremark、健康保险公司 Aetna 以及最近收购的初级保健公司 Oak Street Health，Walgreen扩大了其在医疗保健领域的影响力。

Walgreen还进行了高价交易，以扩大其在医疗保健领域的影响力。它已成为初级保健公司 VillageMD 的主要股东，并计划在许多药店旁边开设医生诊所。

资本雄厚的医疗保健新进入者也加剧了竞争威胁。

亚马逊今年早些时候以 39 亿美元的价格完成了对初级医疗服务提供商 One Medical 的收购，并于 2018 年收购了在线药店 PillPack。沃尔玛在其数千家门店中都设有药店，并在美国部分地区开设了不断扩大的医疗诊所网络。

如今连Costco也来分享这块点心，推出了29美元看病新会员服务。

阿片类药物危机

Rite Aid 的财务状况和竞争劣势还因其面临的多起诉讼而雪上加霜，这些诉讼指控该公司在知情的情况下开具不符合法律要求的止痛药处方，助长了全国阿片类药物的流行。

司法部今年早些时候对 Rite Aid 提起诉讼，称其违反了《受控物质法》，为芬太尼和羟考酮等受控物质开具了数千份非法处方。

Rite Aid 已要求法院驳回该部门的诉讼，并否认了其开具非法阿片类药物处方的指控。

Rite Aid今天的破产保护说明时代变了，如果你没有变，就会被所有的新旧竞争对手打败！

Prof Wang Shuwen | Washington state

 

Education

• Postdoctoral training in Development and Genetics, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
• PhD in Biochemistry, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire.
• Bachelor of Science in electrophysiology and biophysics, Beijing University, Beijing, China

Spokane

 Spokane (/spoʊˈkæn/ ^ⓘ spoh-KAN)^[9] is the largest city in and seat of government of Spokane County, Washington, United States. It is in eastern Washington, along the Spokane River, adjacent to the Selkirk Mountains, and west of the Rocky Mountain foothills, 92 miles (148 km) south of the Canadian border, 18 miles (30 km) west of the Washington–Idaho border, and 279 miles (449 km)^[10] east of Seattle, along I-90

工人薪资下滑 但美三大车厂CEO三年抱回10亿美元

 美国联合汽车工会（UAW）与底特律三大车厂的对峙悬而未决，所争执的议题其实并非新鲜事：工会说，车厂的贪婪阻止员工赚取公平的薪资，但福特、通用、Stellantis则双手一摊说，实在无法满足工会的要求。

尽管双方的说法都有一些道理，但一项不争的事实特别引人关注。彭博资讯报导，自2010年来，在美国三大车厂任职执行长的10位人士，合计领取逾10亿美元的薪酬，然而，美国的汽车工人，无论加入工会与否，在这段期间薪资下跌约17%。

在2022年，通用和福特工人的薪资中位数分别为80,034和74,691美元，总部在荷兰的Stellantis，去年的平均年资为67,800美元。根据彭博编制的数据，在通用和福特，这导致执行长与员工的薪资比高于美国大型上市公司的平均值。Stellantis说，执行长塔瓦瑞斯就任至今，已发放逾20亿美元获利奖金。

UAW要求加薪不是没有原因，根据劳工部统计局，自2003年，美国汽车工人的平均时薪下降约30%，主因是美国未加入工会工人所生产的汽车产量增加，UAW在2007年也同意降低新进员工的薪资。

尽管UAW的主席费恩说，部分成员的薪资让人落入贫穷，但相较于民间产业，车厂工人的平均薪资仍较高，不过差距正在缩小。UAW的成员也比非工会成员赚得多。

通用执行长巴拉说，公司在时薪方面的人力成本，比电动车大厂特斯拉多22美元，若依循UAW的要求，竞争劣势只会扩大。

至于美国车厂执行长所领取的10亿美元报酬，包含了薪水、奖金、股票奖励、附加福利，以及与退休或企业并购相关的特别报酬。Stellantis的发言人说，近来的并购案，为先前的多位执行长带来大笔的一次性报酬。

SQL Server Management Studio | 19.1.56.0 | Component name and version information

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Microsoft Analysis Services Client Tools                                                                                  16.0.20010.0

Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC)                                                                                        10.0.19041.3570

Microsoft MSXML                                                                                            3.0 6.0

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Hurricane Wilma | 2005

 Wilma was a classic October hurricane which struck South Florida as a Category 3 hurricane on October 24th, 2005. Wilma developed from a tropical depression near Jamaica, a typical source region for October tropical cyclones, on the afternoon of October 15, 2005.

白手套

 实践中，一些与国家工作人员关系密切的商人在“前台”负责“赚钱”，国家工作人员在“后台”为商人大肆提供帮助，做“影子股东”，此类案件中，商人实际上是国家工作人员的“代理人”，俗称“白手套”。

My turkey trot | Granville island turkey trot | 2023 | Oct. 9, 2023

 Here is my route:

Almost there, 2K to the end point. 

Science world, famous landmark in Vancouver city. My office is 4 blocks away here. I stopped by this place hundreds of times. But running this 10 K route is my first time. 

Granville island - Art work on the walls. Nice weather, even in the rain, it is just feeling perfect in the rain. 

Runners wear short pant and only a T-shirt. I wear three layers to keep myself warm. 

Those runners behind me are 60 minutes less for 10 K, they are good runners. 

Picture with bridge of Granville st. 

Beautiful scene. 

Join the running group for 10 K run. 

I took the skytrain to Burrad str station, and then walked to 10 K route near the false creek river. 

Howard Schultz

 Howard D. Schultz (born July 19, 1953)^[2] is an American businessman and author who served as the chairman and chief executive officer of Starbucks from 1986 to 2000, from 2008 to 2017, and as interim CEO from 2022 to 2023. Schultz also owned the Seattle SuperSonics basketball team from 2001 to 2006.

Schultz began working at Starbucks in 1982. He later left and opened Il Giornale, a specialty coffeeshop that merged with Starbucks during the late 1980s. Under Schultz, the company established a large network of stores which has influenced coffee culture in Seattle, the U.S., and internationally. Following large-scale distribution deals, Starbucks became the largest coffee-house chain in the world. Schultz took the company public in 1992 and used a $271 million valuation to double their store count in a series of highly publicized coffee wars. He stepped down as CEO in 2000, succeeded by Orin Smith.

During the 2008 financial crisis, Schultz returned as chief executive. Succeeding Jim Donald, Schultz led a mass firing of executives and employees and shuttered hundreds of stores. He orchestrated multiple acquisitions of American and Chinese beverage companies, introduced a national loyalty program, and enforced fair trade standards. His aggressive expansion in Chinese markets has been credited^{[by whom?]} with reconciling the country's tea-culture with coffee consumption in China. Schultz was succeeded by Kevin Johnson as CEO in April 2017 and Myron Ullman as chairman in June 2018.

Schultz has written four books on business. He is an outspoken neoliberal. Schultz publicly considered a candidacy in the 2012, 2016, and 2020 U.S. presidential elections as an independent candidate. He declined to join all three contests. His positions on domestic politics are socially liberal and fiscally moderate. In foreign policy, he is seen as a "liberal hawk", favoring American-led international affairs and neoliberalism. Schultz was named the 209th-richest person in the U.S. by Forbes with a net worth of $4.3 billion (October 2020).^[3] Schultz started the Schultz Family Foundation to help military veterans and fight youth unemployment.

On March 16, 2022, Starbucks announced that CEO Kevin Johnson was retiring and that Howard Schultz would take over as interim CEO until Laxman Narasimhan took over as CEO in April 2023.^[4][5] On March 20, 2023, Schultz announced that he would be stepping down early from the position.^[6]