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The MAGIC Telescopes detected the highest-energy gamma-rays from a Gamma-Ray-Burst following the alerts issued by Swift and Fermi. Credits: Superbossa.com and C. Righi.
On Jan. 14, 2019, the Major Atmospheric Gamma Imaging Cherenkov (MAGIC) observatory in the Canary Islands captured the highest-energy light ever recorded from a gamma-ray burst. MAGIC began observing the fading burst just 50 seconds after it was detected thanks to positions provided by NASA's Fermi and Swift spacecraft (top left and right, respectively, in this illustration). The gamma rays packed energy up to 10 times greater than previously seen. Credit: NASA/Fermi and Aurore Simonnet, Sonoma State University Download high-resolution images from NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio
Ground-based facilities have detected radiation up to a trillion times the energy of visible light from a cosmic explosion called a gamma-ray burst (GRB). This illustration shows the set-up for the most common type. The core of a massive star (left) has collapsed and formed a black hole. This "engine" drives a jet of particles that moves through the collapsing star and out into space at nearly the speed of light. The prompt emission, which typically lasts a minute or less, may arise from the jet's interaction with gas near the newborn black hole and from collisions between shells of fast-moving gas within the jet (internal shock waves). The afterglow emission occurs as the leading edge of the jet sweeps up its surroundings (creating an external shock wave) and emits radiation across the spectrum for some time — months to years, in the case of radio and visible light, and many hours at the highest gamma-ray energies yet observed. These far exceed 100 billion electron volts (GeV) for two recent GRBs. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
The fading afterglow of GRB 190114C and its home galaxy were imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope on Feb. 11 and March 12, 2019. The difference between these images reveals a faint, short-lived glow (centre of the green circle) located about 800 light-years from the galaxy's core. Blue colours beyond the core signal the presence of hot, young stars, indicating that this is a spiral galaxy somewhat similar to our own. It is located about 4.5 billion light-years away in the constellation Fornax. Credit: NASA, ESA, and V. Acciari et al. 2019


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Molecular dynamics approach is used to simulate hydrogen (H) diffusion in zirconium. Zirconium alloys are used in fuel channels of many nuclear reactors. Previously developed embedded atom method (EAM) and modified embedded atom method (MEAM) are tested and a good agreement with experimental data for lattice parameters, cohesive energy, and mechanical properties is obtained. Both EAM and MEAM are used to calculate hydrogen diffusion in zirconium. At higher temperatures and in the presence of hydrogen, MEAM calculation predicts an unstable zirconium structure and low diffusion coefficients. Mean square displacement (MSD) of hydrogen in bulk zirconium is calculated at a temperature range of 500–1200 K with diffusion coefficient at 500 K equals 1.92 10−7 cm2/sec and at 1200 K has a value 1.47 10−4 cm2/sec. Activation energy of hydrogen diffusion calculated using Arrhenius plot was found to be 11.3 kcal/mol which is in agreement with published experimental results. Hydrogen diffusion is the highest along basal planes of hexagonal close packed zirconium.
The behavior of zirconium and its alloys under various operating conditions in nuclear reactors has been extensively studied. Zirconium (Zr) is a transition metal with strong anisotropic physical properties due to a hexagonal close packed (HCP) crystal structure. It is used in nuclear reactors because of low thermal neutron absorption and good corrosion resistance at high temperatures . CANada Deuterium Uranium (CANDU) and almost all other nuclear reactors have structural elements made of zirconium alloys  making zirconium alloys the perfect choice for fuel cladding and pressure tubes in nuclear fuel channels.
The hydrogen generated during reactor operation has deleterious influence on mechanical properties of zirconium. The hexagonal close packed structure of zirconium consists of both tetrahedral and octahedral sites, and hydrogen is expected to diffuse and occupy these sites . Zirconium can dissolve up to 450 wtppm of hydrogen at a temperature of 500°C, but the solubility drastically decreases to 65 wtppm at 300°C and it further decreases to 0.05 wtppm at room temperature. The low solubility of the hydrogen with temperature leads to formation of brittle hydride platelets . These hydrides are brittle and crack on application of stress, which reduces life expectancy of nuclear components thereby increasing the cost of nuclear power.
Hydride precipitates play an important role in the hydrogen embrittlement of various zirconium alloys [1–10]. Fracture toughness tests under tension was performed on specimens of bulk δ-hydride obtained extremely low fracture toughness of ~1 MPa m1/2 at room temperature . Because hydride in Zr alloy specimens may contain defects, such as voids or microcracks, and there is often misfit stress between the hydride and zirconium matrix, the results obtained for pure hydride may not be directly applied to the hydride in the reactor.
These hydrides are seen to preferentially precipitate in  crystallographic orientation. Under the influence of stress the hydrogen in hydride starts diffusing and is seen to reprecipitate in a direction perpendicular to applied hoop stress . However the cause of diffusion of hydrogen into zirconium itself is not very well understood and is therefore of importance.
Hydrogen diffusion in zirconium was studied using diffusion sample method by Kearns . This method involves measuring the hydrogen concentration along the length of samples to hydrogen free studs at a temperature range of 548–973 K. The diffusion coefficient of hydrogen in zirconium was found to be cm2/sec with activation energy of 10.7 kcal/mole. Activation energy obtained by Sawatzky  using temperature gradient technique for hydrogen diffusion was in the range of 3.8–6.1 kcal/mole and values ranging between 1.6–6.0 kcal/mole was obtained by Markowitz  using similar approach. Further Johnston et al.  have reported the value of 6.4 kcal/mole, and the scatter of these results clearly indicates a wide range of inconsistency in determining the activation energy of hydrogen in zirconium. Theoretical calculations  using spherical solid model potential (SSMP) in α-Zr predicted the activation energy of 0.285 eV or 6.57 kcal/mole. However the accuracy of these activation energies is still questionable due to material compositions and metallurgical structures.
In order to understand problem of hydrogen diffusion in zirconium we need to analyze different empirical methods for zirconium-zirconium interactions and zirconium-hydrogen interactions and put forward the best potential of interaction. The goal of this work is to understand hydrogen diffusion in bulk zirconium using molecular dynamics.
Calculations were carried out using molecular dynamics (MD) approach with the interactions between atoms represented by the embedded atom method (EAM) [12–14] and modified embedded atom method (MEAM) . EAM hydrogen was previously used in calculation of diffusion coefficients in bulk and grain boundaries of Nickel . In this research we introduce EAM potential to calculate diffusion coefficients and activation energies of hydrogen in bulk zirconium.
Modified embedded atom method (MEAM) functions have been developed , and this method describes very well the energetic, structural, and mechanical properties of solid metals and gases. The MEAM is an extension of embedded atom method with the inclusion of directional bonding for interaction of gases with metal atoms. MEAM functions for zirconia and was developed [17, 18] as shown in Table 1 and was successfully tested for ZrO2 and ZrH2 using ab initio calculations . The cut-off radius for atomic interactions for MEAM is chosen as 4.5 Å.
Table 1: Parameters used for elements Zr and H are the cohesive energy (eV), the equilibrium nearest-neighbor distance (Å), the exponential decay factor α for the universal energy function, the scaling factor for the embedding energy, the exponential decay factors for the atomic densities, the weighting factors for the partial electron densities, and the atomic density scaling .
However the MEAM potential needs to be tested for zirconium and zirconium-hydrogen system for studying diffusion of hydrogen in zirconium. Results of both EAM and MEAM are compared for zirconium as well as hydrogen diffusion in zirconium and will be used to propose the best potential for the present calculation.
Both EAM and MEAM were used for the prediction of zirconium structure. It is well known that zirconium has HCP structure with different "" and "" lattice parameters. Lattice parameters are calculated using conjugate gradient (CG) algorithm at 0 K. An external pressure or stress tensor is applied to the electronic structure of zirconium and the energy is then minimized. At the lowest energy of structure with respect to the positions of atoms, the lattice parameters and cohesive energy which follows "universal of binding curve" were recorded .
The results presented in Table 2 indicate good agreement of lattice parameters of EAM with experimental data, and MEAM is seen to have a good agreement of with ideal ratio of zirconium which is 1.633 . This result indicates that there is a better agreement of experimental lattice parameters with EAM potential than MEAM potential. However, MEAM results agree better than EAM with the experimental value of cohesive energy.
Table 2: Calculated lattice parameters (Å) and cohesive energy (eV) for zirconium, in comparison with experimental data.
We know that zirconium and its alloys in the nuclear reactor core are exposed to very high temperatures; it is therefore important to test the methods at various temperatures and evaluate changes of structure and properties.
Minimized structure of zirconium with lattice parameter () is equilibrated to the constant temperature using NPT with a timestep of 0.001 ps. The average value of lattice parameter () is calculated in a temperature range 300–1125 K.
As presented in Figure 1 the increase of temperature shows the increase of lattice parameters of HCP crystal of zirconium predicted by both EAM and MEAM. The thermal expansion coefficient for EAM (1/K) and (1/K) and for MEAM (1/K) and (1/K). Experimental calculations by Goldak et al  indicate (1/K) and (1/K). This means the thermal expansion is higher along "" direction when compared to "" direction of zirconium and this is in a good agreement with the experimental data. The potentials show good stability even at higher temperatures. EAM has a better agreement with experimental data than MEAM.
Young's modulus and Poisson's ratio are the two most important properties considered in the design of engineering materials. The potentials must be verified by calculating these two properties in order to use it for other mechanical properties calculation. In order to obtain Young's modulus and Poisson's ratio the stiffness matrix has to be calculated.
The structure is subjected to positive (tensile) and negative (compressive) displacements and the resultant of the two is used for one row of the stiffness matrix . This process is repeated for 3D structure in order to obtain stiffness constants () using Voigt  average in different directions as zirconium structure has anisotropic elastic properties as shown in Table 3. From the obtained stiffness matrix the compliance matrix () is calculated as the inverse of the matrix. Thus Young's modulus and Poisson's ratio in two directions can be obtained from (1) and (2). The bulk modulus is calculated using (3). Consider where .
Table 3: Calculated stiffness (GPa) matrix using EAM and MEAM potentials for zirconium, in comparison with published literature and experimental data.
As indicated in Table 3 MEAM shows lower stiffness along the shear directions () of zirconium indicating weaker interactions along that direction. Table 4 shows the calculated mechanical properties. Although both potentials show anisotropic Young's modulus along the two calculated directions, lower Young's modulus is observed along the basal plane direction as compared to the experimental data. Further, the calculated bulk modulus for both potentials is in good agreement with experimental data.
Table 4: Calculated Young's modulus (GPa), bulk modulus (GPa), and Poisson's ratio for zirconium, in comparison with experimental data.
From the above tests for lattice constants, thermal expansion, and mechanical properties, we can conclude that EAM has a better agreement with literature than MEAM. Further, investigations are carried out to study diffusion of hydrogen in zirconium.
Hydrogen diffusion inside bulk zirconium is studied by modeling hexagonal crystal structure consisting of 6400 atoms of zirconium and 100 atoms of hydrogen as shown in Figure 2. Diffusion coefficients of hydrogen in zirconium are calculated using EAM and MEAM.
Figure 2: Zirconium (brown) atoms distributed inside hydrogen (blue).
The time-dependent diffusion coefficient was derived from mean square displacement. For the calculation of the diffusion coefficients of hydrogen, zirconium structure is minimized using energy minimization. NPT (constant temperature) equilibration is done until the constant temperature and pressure are reached. NVE (constant volume) conditions are then applied with timestep of 0.0001 ps for runs up to 2000 ps. Increase in pressure that follows the changes in the structure of zirconium in presence of hydrogen is observed for longer runs using MEAM potential as shown in Figure 3(a). Calculation using EAM potential zirconium structure is seen to be stable in the presence of hydrogen at higher temperatures of 1200 K as shown in Figure 3(b).
Figure 3: Unstable zirconium (brown) atoms in the presence of hydrogen (blue) obtained using NPT at 1100 K using timestep of 0.00001 ps. (b) Stable structure observed using NVE at temperature of 1100 K using timestep of 0.0005 ps for (a) MEAM and (b) EAM.
The diffusion coefficients () are calculated using Einstein relation as in the following equation: where ( is the average over all possible initial times) is the mean square displacement and is the dimensionality of space ( for bulk diffusion). Calculated diffusion coefficients of hydrogen increase with the increase in temperature as shown in Figure 4.
Figure 4: Logarithmic diffusion coefficients calculated using EAM and MEAM potentials for hydrogen in bulk zirconium at a temperature of 500–1200 K and compared with experimental data.
EAM potential of zirconium and hydrogen is seen to be in good agreement with experimental data. MEAM records some change of structure of zirconium and therefore lower hydrogen diffusion coefficients are obtained.
Activation energies () are calculated using diffusion coefficients for a temperature range 500–1200 K using the following equation: where "" is universal gas constant 8.31 J/mol-K and and are diffusion coefficients for temperatures and , respectively.
On comparison with various experimental results, as shown in Table 5, it has been seen that diffusion coefficients of hydrogen in bulk zirconium using MEAM potential are found to be in good agreement with experimental data. Table 5 shows calculated activation energy of hydrogen in zirconium using EAM that is in a good agreement with Kearns . Similar activation energy and diffusion coefficients are observed for hydrogen diffusion in Nickel which has a face centered cubic structure.
Table 5: Calculated activation energies (kcal/mol) of hydrogen in zirconium using EAM and MEAM potentials, in comparison with experimental data.
As noted above EAM potential for hydrogen in bulk zirconium has shown a good agreement of calculated diffusion coefficients and activation energies with the observed experimental data. The anisotropy of hydrogen movements during the diffusion is tested. Diffusion coefficients of hydrogen are calculated in 3 different directions of zirconium crystal , , and . MSD for hydrogen movements is calculated for a temperature of 500–1200 K and (4) is used in the calculation of the diffusion coefficients. As shown in Figure 5 hydrogen movements are higher along the two basal directions and which is more likely. These indicate preferential hydrides formation along these directions which are experimentally observed by Szpunar et al.  leading to preferential orientation of hydride along these directions.
Figure 5: Calculated anisotropic hydrogen displacements are seen to be higher along the basal plane for zirconium.
EAM used for zirconium structure and property calculation has shown a better agreement of lattice parameters and mechanical properties with available experimental data than MEAM method developed by Baskes . By using EAM potential, stable zirconium structure is obtained when hydrogen is placed in the interstitial sites of zirconium. MEAM potential is seen to make zirconium structure unstable when hydrogen is present resulting in lower diffusion coefficients. MEAM potential could be possibly used for predicting hydride structure. Diffusion coefficients and activation energies obtained through EAM for hexagonal close packed structure of zirconium are similar to face center cubic structure of Nickel .
(1)Good agreement of lattice parameters calculated using EAM with experimental literature data is obtained.(2)MSD for hydrogen is tested for timesteps ranging from 0.00001 ps to 0.0001 ps using both EAM and MEAM. Structure of zirconium in the presence of hydrogen at higher temperatures as calculated with MEAM potential was unstable.(3)Diffusion and activation energies for hydrogen diffusion obtained through EAM potential are in good agreement with the experimental data.(4)Anisotropy of hydrogen diffusion is predicted; diffusion is higher along the basal directions of zirconium crystal and this observation may be used to justify formation of hydrides along these directions.
The authors would like to acknowledge the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) for the financial support. Also, they are grateful to WestGrid (Compute/Calcul Canada) for computing resources. The authors would also like to thank S. M. Folies, M. I. Baskes for providing potentials.
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We have enjoyed , as always, your blog.. Loved the posts of your wanderings--uphill and down.. And through the slosh of rain !
Glad to see you have arrived safely home as we have seen you walking the neighborhood!


BART will run longer trains and extra event trains to ease crowding with additional staff on hand to help customers who need assistance during the World Series home games. BART anticipates serving 400,000-500,000 trips.
Large crowds are expected at Embarcadero Station and Montgomery for fans going to AT&T Park on game days. Powell, Civic Center and 16th Street Stations may also see increased traffic as a result of Giants enthusiasm. Additional BART Police Officers will be on the system and extra train technicians will be standing by to respond to any problems.
BART's two busiest days ever were the 2012 and 2010 World Series victory parades. Both celebrations pushed ridership above the half million mark for the first time ever.
BART wants everyone to have fun and get to the game on time. New riders need to know that everyone who rides BART needs a BART ticket or Clipper Card (www.Clippercard.com) to enter the system.
Here are a few tips to avoid the crush at the ticket machines: Load up your Clipper card with extra value, or, if buying a BART ticket, purchase a round trip ticket at the station you begin your trip, and plan your trip by using the BART QuickPlanner.


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Fed's Mester sees pickup in growth in 2016 and is not worried about risks
Published: Jan. 3, 2016 at 9:10 p.m. ET
Greg Robb
One of three Fed speeches Sunday to kick off New Year
Cleveland Fed President Loretta Mester said she fully supported the "prudent" December rate hike.
The economy should grow at a slight faster pace in 2016 than last year, and the risks to the outlook are small, said Cleveland Fed President Loretta Mester on Sunday.
In a speech to the American Economic Association annual meeting in San Francisco, Mester forecast growth at a 2.5% to 2.75% pace in 2016.
This is faster than the 2.25% pace seen over the first three quarters of 2015.
"Of course there are risks around any economic forecast...I see the risks as balanced and not overly large," Mester said.
On the downside, she said the dollar could strengthen further in foreign exchange markets or oil prices could drop further, which would push down already low inflation.
On the upside, consumer spending may get a boost from low gasoline prices, which could boost inflationary pressures, Mester said. She noted that over the past 15 years several highly regarded inflation models have underestimated actual inflation.
Mester said the improved outlook was one reason the Fed felt comfortable raising interest rates in December for the first time since 2006.
"I fully supported the FOMC's December action," Mester said.
"Based on the economic outlook, I thought it was prudent to take the first step on the path of gradual normalization of interest rates," she added.
Rates are only expected to move up gradually, Mester added. Policymakers shouldn't react "to every short-run change in the data," she said, instead focusing on changes to the medium-run outlook, she said.
Mester will be a voting member of the Fed's interest-rate setting committee this year. Economists view this year's rotation of regional Fed presidents as more hawkish than in 2015.
The other regional Fed presidents who become voters in 2016 are Kansas City's Esther George, St. Louis' James Bullard, and Boston's Eric Rosengren.
There were two other Fed speakers at the AEA meeting in San Francisco, although neither presented an economic forecast for this year.
San Francisco President John Williams and Fed Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer said that the economy might benefit from more government spending.
Williams told a panel that government spending might help an environment of persistently weak demand, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Fischer echoed this remarks, saying in a speech: "the need for more modern infrastructure in many parts of the American economy is hard to miss."
Fischer also said in his remarks that the U.S. central bank should be open to raising interest rates to combat bubbles.
Greg Robb is a senior reporter for MarketWatch in Washington. Follow him on Twitter @grobb2000.

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RAYMOND PALYS | LORRY PARKER | BRIAN WETTERS | DAVID HANCOCK | MICHAEL GOLDBERG
PAUL DAVIDOVITCH | BRIAN H. FASIG, Ph.D. | ALLEN JAY, M.D. | DON MERRITT
RAYMOND PALYS
Founder and Managing Director
Raymond Palys has more than 30 years of extensive business experience including twenty years as a consultant. As a consultant, he has advised more than 200 companies in the areas of strategic planning, organizational development and restructuring, financial controls, change management, executive coaching, leadership development, succession planning, and performance management. He has broad experience in a variety of industries including, service, manufacturing, construction, real estate, health care, and engineering.
In the early 2000's, he served as interim president in the launch of Lignan Research, LLC and its flagship product, Brevail®, the world's first over-the-counter nutraceutical product for proactive breast health. He also co-founded the Breast Cancer Prevention Foundation®, a non-profit foundation in memory of his late wife Deborah Demos Palys, to provide funding for scientific and clinical research in the area of breast cancer prevention.
Before becoming a consultant in 1994, he held senior-level management positions in health care and manufacturing. In health care, he was a regional manager for TriCare, a publicly held occupational health care company in Irvine, California. He also co-founded QMA, a medical management company, in San Diego, California. In manufacturing, he held management and staff positions in industrial engineering, operations, and marketing with Ryerson, the nation's largest steel distributor, in Chicago, Illinois.
He is a Founding Member of the Exit Planning Exchange (XPX) Chicago Chapter and is currently serving as President of this 125+ member non-profit organization. XPX is a community of professional advisors who work collaboratively to help business owners build valuable businesses and assist them in preparing and executing a successful transition.
He is a member of the Midwest Brokers and Intermediaries (MBBI). Member of the West Suburban Chamber of Commerce. Member of the Small Business Advocacy Council (SBAC). Past Senior Member of the American Society for Quality (ASQ) San Diego and Chicago Sections, Human Development and Leadership, Lean Enterprise/Advanced Manufacturing, and Six Sigma Forums and a national member of the Association for Talent Development (ATD).
He received his BS Degree in Industrial Management from Northern Illinois University and his MBA in Finance from Loyola University of Chicago.
LORRY PARKER, SPHR, SHRM-SCP
Director, HR Consulting
Lorry Parker is a Human Resource Professional with over 20 years of experience encompassing small privately-held organizations to Fortune 100 companies.
Her ability to balance being a strategic player at the table with the day-to-day tactical HR has allowed her to single-handedly build entire HR departments from the ground floor three times in her career as well as successfully lead HR initiatives of eight corporate acquisitions.
Her collaborative leadership with a natural ability to capitalize upon diverse human capital talent is proven by achieving corporate objectives through engaged employees and uncompromised company culture.
She holds the highest HR Certification of SPHR, has been a member of SHRM for well over a decade holding the SCP Certification, and is a Six Sigma Greenbelt.
Her passion for military veterans and her commitment to her community is evident with her volunteering efforts during her personal time.
BRIAN WETTERS, CPA, CMA
Director, Managerial Accounting
Brian Wetters has more than 37 years of broad finance and accounting experience, principally with a major integrated oil company, as well as with a petrochemical textile manufacturing concern. He has extensive experience within the areas of managerial accounting, including costing, budgeting, forecasting, performance management, and internal controls. He has previously held roles as a Manufacturing Plant Accounting Manager, Cost Management Manager, Cost Accounting Supervisor, and Business Information Manager, among other roles in Accounting and Finance. In addition to his consulting responsibilities he is an adjunct professor at Aurora University and Waubonsee Community College, teaching both Financial and Cost Accounting courses. He is a CMA and CPA, and Yellow Belt Certified (Six Sigma Process Improvements).
In addition, Brian is a co-owner, along with his wife Kathy, of a Right at Home Senior Home care franchise. He has extensive experience with Quickbooks, and financial management of a small business.
Also, Brian is Co-President of the Fox River Valley Chapter of IMA (Institute of Management Accountants), and won several awards for his service to IMA. He is a member of the Illinois CPA Society, as well as the AICPA. He previously contributed to an article published in the Journal of Cost Management on activity based management implementation. He is a member of both the Kiwanis and Lions service organizations.
Brian received his BS degree in Accounting from Indiana University and MBA degree from Valdosta State University.
DAVID HANCOCK
David Hancock has more than 35 years of extensive corporate and consulting experience as a banker, senior executive, owner, investor, and senior advisor to companies ranging in size from two employees to six thousand.
During his career, David has been a part-time instructor at Phoenix City College, Maricopa College, the American Institute of Banking, Kyrgyz/American University, a visiting professor at Kyrgyz Polytechnic University, and is currently an instructor at the ABC Institute (Associated Builders and Contractors, Inc.) in Anaheim and San Diego. David has designed and taught courses in human resources, effective management, international business, finance, strategic planning, leadership, effective customer service, and numerous other useful topics for modern owners and managers. He is a member of the ABC/Veterans Training Committee for San Diego State University.
Since 1996, David has worked as an adviser and teacher for private investment, entrepreneurial, corporate, and governmental organizations. In so doing, he has developed recognized specialties in the areas of planning, organizational structuring, recruitment, financial projections and controls, and capital acquisition. Additionally, he spent nine years as a senior executive with US Data Corp, an international data storage company. His management experience includes managing, at different times, diverse international companies based in London (England), Frankfurt (Germany), Barcelona (Spain), Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan), and Stockholm (Sweden). David also has experienced the trials and successes of the small business entrepreneur. For over ten years he was president and the prime source of the growth and success of Aztec Gas & Oil Corp.(a domestic US oil and gas production company) and Aztec-Talas, Inc., the exclusive partner with the State Energy Ministry for increased oil production in the Kyrgyz Republic.
David holds a BA in Social/Psychology and English from Wayne State University, an Advanced Certificate from the American Institute of Banking, and received a Masters Degree in Organizational Management in 2001 from the University of Phoenix. He is also certified to train supervisors in Sexual Harassment and Discrimination under California law, AB 1825.
Michael Goldberg is a Human Resources executive with more than 25 years of experience in the field. He spent 15 years at Jim Beam Brands Worldwide leading the HR function. As a previous Senior Vice President of a $2.5 billion global consumer product company, Michael brings significant experience in rebuilding human resources infrastructure after mergers, partnerships and acquisitions. He provides expertise in aligning human resource priorities with business strategy to integrate business goals with HR solutions. Additionally he possesses extensive background in organizational development, staffing, compensation and benefits.
Prior to his experience with Beam, Michael held various HR positions including corporate HR responsibility at United Stationers. This builds on his early Sales experience with Lanier-3M.
More recently Michael acted as Director of a Chicago non-profit animal welfare organization.
He received his BS Degree in Marketing and Economics from Northern Illinois University and his MA is Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Roosevelt University.
PAUL DAVIDOVITCH
BRIAN H. FASIG, Ph.D.
Director, Survey Services
Brian Fasig has extensive consulting and corporate experience in the development, implementation, analysis, and interpretation of organizational and marketing assessments in a wide variety of industries. He specializes in custom assessment and survey processes that leverage input from various internal and external sources, objective and subjective measures, and statistical analysis to identify organizational culture, employee, and client satisfaction issues and opportunities.
Brian's development of strategies to address findings and implement improvement efforts are firmly based on over 25 years of operations management, process improvement, and performance management in healthcare, utilities, wholesale, retail, construction, transportation, engineering, and manufacturing industries. His leadership of improvement efforts creating highly effective and collaborative organizations have ranged from extensive reorganizations to focused system refinements.
Brian received his BS Degree in General Psychology from San Diego State University and his Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from United States International University in San Diego, California.
ALLEN JAY, M.D.
Dr. Allen Jay has over 35 years experience in medical practice (internal medicine/cardiology), medical administration and the field of bioethics. He has chaired ICU, CCU, CPR, and Bioethics committees at various hospitals and has served on the Board of Directors of the San Diego Chapter of the American Heart Association. He has been a member of the American College of Cardiology since 1968.
Prior to joining the CoreStrata group Dr. Jay served as Chief Medical Officer with the California Department of Corrections where he instituted a number of practice and management reforms at various correctional medical facilities. Dr. Jay was instrumental in establishing medical departments at new prisons as well as revamping medical facilities at existing correctional institutions.
Dr. Jay maintained a successful private practice in Internal Medicine and Cardiology in San Diego, as well as serving as Medical Director for the Lehr Rehabilitation Institute, prior to his appointment to the Chief Medical Officer position. He established the Ad Hoc Committee on End of Life Care for the San Diego County Medical Society and chaired that committee from 1990 to 1997. He has chaired the Bioethics Committee at Alvarado Hospital and continues to serve on that committee.
Dr. Jay received his B.A. degree from Wesleyan University and his M.D. from The State University of New York College of Medicine in New York City.
DON MERRITT
Director, Organizational Development
Don Merritt has more than 25 years of broad and progressive management responsibility for directing the functions of human resources, operations and finance within the varied industries of electronics, manufacturing, retail, gaming and hospitality. He has extensive experience as an external consultant in providing clients with consulting advice on how to maximize effective planning and integration of internal human resources functions and operations to enhance the achievement of the business plan. He has also served in the role of executive coach to leaders in senior management positions. In addition to his consulting responsibilities he has been an adjunct professor at the University of Nevada - Las Vegas where he taught courses on Organizational Behavior.
Prior to rejoining CoreStrata, Don was most recently Director of Human Resources at the Trump International Hotel - Las Vegas, Director of Training & Development at The Venetian Hotel & Casino, and Director of Staffing and Development for Wynn Las Vegas, responsible for the opening of this new resort. His responsibilities included the overall direction of hiring 10,000 new employees as well as designing the learning process for the development and training of all Hotel employees.
Additionally, Don has held senior HR positions at Saks Fifth Avenue, Restaurant Associates, San Diego Chamber of Commerce, and Beam Inc.
He received his BS degree in Social Science and MS degree in Social Psychology from Pittsburgh State University.


These two undated, photomatic photos from the USA, of a young, possibly handsome, possibly weird looking boy, were probably taken in the 1940s. I can't make up my mind on his looks one way or another. Those chunky lips and bushy eyebrows are slightly suspect and take him in alternate directions of attractiveness depending on my mood. Today, I am sleep deprived and hungry, so my attitude isn't too positive towards him at this moment. That's it. I'm done. Nothing more to say.
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I'm in for weird. Something very odd about the photo on the left. Actually the same for the photo on the right, just a bit less so. If he had been my neighbor, If might have kept my child away from him.
Katherine, order a pizza. My treat.
Tee, hee! Thanks for the offer of pizza. I'd prefer toast or cornflakes. It is 8.30 am here. Breakfast time.
And coming on the fall for you. No pizza, no breakfast, I'll buy you lunch.
That's too funny. I know what you mean. Elements of his face are conventionally handsome, and yet the combination of parts is quirky. He has one of those faces that would depend a lot on his personality. If he's a great guy, then that's a face you could adore. But if he's got a crappy personality, then that's a face that could easily be irritating or even repulsive. Fun photos in either case.
Yes he could have turned out to have "a face you'd like to slap"! Ah, yes they are out there!!
I also think it's an intriguing look – and that if he was a nice guy, you could say he has a lovely face.
Get some toast down you.
Yep, I agree with you Helen. Another day and I am once again, tying breakfast-less. Toast and vegemite coming up!
There's a lot to be said about the aesthetic of the young man; however, one might imagine that he looks a little different now. Well into his 80's… ? We were all hansome once.
Isn't it a shame that these people become anonymous like this? Their memory discarded into a yard sale, thrift store, or probably more often, the rubbish heap.
If he's American, then I guess the betting is good that he never had Vegemite on toast for breakfast (or lunch).
I know you are Canadian! But that comment really confirms it. Do you do marmite instead of vegemite like other Commonwealth countries?
Well, I was born in the UK of British parents and move to Canada at age of one, so I do know what Marmite is though I never liked. Us Canadians (at least the west coasters) just don't do ___ite yeasty dressings for dried toast. Its not our way. But you can buy it here, must be enough expats to make it worthwhile stocking it.
Yes, I imagine the French influence would work against that particular Anglo vice! I am totally a "Vegemite Kid" as we say here. I have it pretty much every morning on my toast.
Very rich Sue. Well extrapolated.
And hopefully he got home safely! Thanks for the great comment, Sue!


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We often don't know what challenges are being faced by people we meet every day. As employers, we don't know what's going on in the lives of the people who work for us. We do, however, have what it takes to bring a glimmer of hope to them. We have the power to motivate and provide tools to inspire.
Even the most motivated of us can have our downs. It's natural. In fact, sometimes even thinking about turning the tide and making positive changes seems like an insurmountable task. That doesn't mean people should give up before even trying.


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How Giddings State School Is Giving Jailed Kids A Chance
One juvenile justice center in Texas is rehabilitating incarcerated youth with programs on empathy and education.
By Hady MawajdehSeptember 29, 2015 8:57 amCrime & Justice
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Giddings State School entrance.
Conscientious people who work in Texas' juvenile justice system have tried for years to find ways to rehabilitate young people in trouble – to help them escape what often becomes a downward spiral.
But, as of 2012, recidivism rates were still alarmingly high in the state. According to the state's juvenile justice department, 50 percent of young folks adjudicated to probation were re-arrested within three years.
That's the road Charleston White found himself on.
White was 14 years of age, guilty of first-degree murder, and sentenced to 12 years under Texas juvenile law. He spent seven years at the Giddings State School in the 1990s and when he turned 21 he was free.
Now he's looking to help kids that were in his situation with the HYPE program. White shares his experiences in juvenile detention and its different approach to kids in trouble.
White says the Giddings School took a different tack than we see today – they helped young offenders understand their lives, including any childhood trauma they may have experienced. Offenders had a close relationship with their overseers, in what White calls a "nurturing" environment.
"We didn't call them juvenile correctional officers – we called them house parents," White says. "They didn't treat us like criminals – they treated us like children who had been dealing with some severe life problems."
White says he credits that relationship and the school itself for helping turn around his life and those of his peers, whom most people "considered the worst of the worst."
"Our juvenile system back then gave us everything that we needed to get out here in life and be successful," White says.
He says his generation was the first to be sentenced after juveniles began being tried as adults. The Giddings School approach isn't common these days because lawmakers didn't know whether it was working or not.
"Out of fear and out of ignorance, in 2007 they did an overhaul of the Texas youth commission and transferred into the Texas juvenile justice department," White says.
Now we have politicians fighting to do away with the juvenile system, White says, and move it into the adult system.
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History is being written in these moments. Every Syrian citizen is taking part in the writing. It started not today, but years ago when the crisis and the war on Syria began."
I think that after the liberation of Aleppo we'll talk about the situation as ... before the liberation of Aleppo and after the liberation of Aleppo."
"Until recently, the militants controlled key oil fields and communications channels with Turkey in the Euphrates valley. Aleppo's liberation has undermined the economic base of terrorist groups and the supply routes to Raqqa, the capital of Daesh's caliphate. Now the Syrian Arab Army could focus on two regions, Idlib and Raqqa."
If it takes four armies to capture one city, Aleppo, in a period of many months, it's delusional to believe that the rest of the country is going to fall quickly.
Al-Assad and Russia's president Vladimir Putin received a taste of what they're in for this week when the so-called Islamic State (IS or ISIS or ISIL or Daesh) recaptured the city of Palmyra from Syrian and Russian forces last weekend. Not only that, but ISIS entered the big Russian-Syrian T-4 air base outside the town, carrying off substantial quantities of Russian armaments including assault rifles, ground-to-ground missiles, anti-tank missiles, and anti-air rockets.
Russia's troops, backed by massive airstrikes, had captured Palmyra in March of this year. Putin had declared the recapture a major victory in the war and a major turning point (which is what he's saying now about Aleppo).
Putin even held a triumphal, widely televised concert in Palmyra's Roman ruins on May 5, with the orchestra conducted by the internationally distinguished maestro Valery Gergiev. So ISIS's success in Palmyra is a major fiasco for Russia and a major humiliation.
According to reports, the way it happened is that Palmyra was originally recaptured from ISIS by Russia's special forces (Spetsnaz). Afterwards, the special forces were withdrawn from Palmyra and sent to Aleppo, where they are involved in the war there. According to Igor Konashenkov of the Russian defence ministry, ISIS immediately sent about 5,000 jihadists from Raqqa to Palmyra to achieve its victory.
Undoubtedly, once Aleppo is captured, Syria and Russia will turn back to Palmyra and recapture it again from ISIS. But will that leave Aleppo vulnerable? And if it took four armies to capture Aleppo, while losing Palmyra, how can they hope to recapture the entire regions of Syria that are under control of the Free Syrian army, al-Nusra, and ISIS, and keep captured areas under control?
In 1953, French forces under the command of Gen. Henri Navarre were fighting Ho Chi Minh's communist forces in Vietnam. Navarre said, "Now we can see [success in Vietnam] clearly, like light at the end of a tunnel." The French forces were decisively defeated at Dien Bien Phu in May 1954.
In June 1966 President Lyndon Johnson said "I urge you to remember that Americans often grow impatient when they cannot see light at the end of the tunnel - when policies do not overnight usher in a new order. But politics is not magic. And when some of our fellow citizens despair of the tedium and time necessary to bring change - as, for example, in Vietnam today - they are forgetting our own history."
The phrase "light at the end of the tunnel" was repeated frequently in the 1960s in reference to the Vietnam war, both by government officials and by antiwar activists mocking government officials. The Tet Offensive in 1968 turned public opinion negative towards the war, though it did not end until several years later.
This week, Bashar al-Assad and Vladimir Putin are talking about a "history in the making" victory. It's not exactly the same phrase as "light at the end of the tunnel," but it has the same flavor.
America was in a generational Awakening era. America's previous generational crisis war was World War II, which had ended explosively with the firebombing of Dresden and the nuking of Japan. These acts were so shocking that they ended the war shortly after.
America tried to repeat its WW II by bombing strategic targets in North Vietnam, but with little success. The rules of war are different in generational Awakening eras than they are in Crisis eras. Survivors with memories of the last crisis war are not so easily shocked.
In fact, America was hampered by its own lack of will to fight, something that almost all historians agree with today. Whereas America could use a nuclear weapon to end WW II, domestic and international political pressure forced America to use bombs carefully and sparingly, to prevent civilian casualties, and to take various humanitarian breaks, especially at Christmas.
Syria is in a generational Awakening era. Syria's previous generational crisis war was the Syrian civil war that climaxed in February 1982 with the destruction, by Bashar's father Hafez al-Assad, of the town of Hama. There had been a massive uprising of the 400,000 mostly Sunni citizens of Hama against Syria's president Hafez al-Assad. He turned the town to rubble and killing or displacing hundreds of thousands. Hama stands as a defining moment in the Middle East. It is regarded as perhaps the single deadliest act by any Arab government against its own people in the modern Middle East. It was a shocking act that ended the war.
Al-Assad is trying to repeat his father's 1982 success by repeating in Aleppo the same acts that his father committed in Hama. But the rules of war are different in generational Awakening eras than they are in Crisis eras. Nobody is shocked by what al-Assad is doing, only sickened and disgusted.
In fact, Syria and Russia are hampered by enormous international pressure to protect civilians and provide humanitarian aid. Just as America could have won the Vietnam war by dropping a nuclear bomb on Hanoi, al-Assad and Putin could probably win the war in Syria by dropping nuclear weapons on Aleppo, Idlib and Raqqa, but they're being held back by international pressure to prevent civilian casualties and to provide humanitarian aid.


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Senator Wyden's draft proposals target partnership tax rules
TAX ALERT | September 13, 2021
Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden has released a 'discussion draft' of legislation that, if enacted, would dramatically change the tax rules that apply to partnerships. It is key to note that this is only draft legislation and as such, it is difficult to anticipate whether these ideas and proposals will be considered in any ultimate tax legislation. However, it seems likely Senator Wyden will pursue these proposals, and with a $172 billion revenue estimate, it may be safe to assume at least some of these proposals will receive consideration.
Senator Wyden's 'discussion draft' includes an array of changes to Subchapter K of the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) – the major proposals contained therein are discussed in more detail below. In reviewing some of these proposed changes, taxpayers and their advisors may find that the proposals appear quite substantial but are actually more problematic in theory than in practice. Other proposed changes may appear minor, but would completely reshape the way partnerships are formed and operate.
For example, many may find the proposals to limit or prohibit 'special allocations' to be the most dramatic of the proposed changes. However, the language itself may not be as far-reaching as it may initially appear. On the other hand, the proposed changes to partnership debt allocations may, at first blush, appear to be of limited impact – indeed, these proposed changes were not even highlighted in Senator Wyden's summary. However, if enacted, they would dramatically alter the current regime.
The proposed changes include, among other things:
Requiring that partnership debt is allocated in accordance with profit
While some partnerships may already allocate debt in accordance with profit sharing ratios, many utilize allocation methods designed to align tax and economic treatment. If enacted, this proposal would result in a change in debt allocations for certain partnerships, leading to unexpected taxable gains to certain partners.
Mandating revaluations and the use of the 'remedial' method under section 704(c)
Several options exist with respect to how and when unrealized gain is taxed when partners contribute appreciated property to a partnership. If enacted, the proposal would mandate the use of the remedial method in all cases.
Moreover, partnerships currently have flexibility regarding whether or not to 'revalue' their assets. If enacted, the proposal would eliminate that flexibility, and (as discussed above) require the use of remedial allocations with respect to the 'reverse' 704(c) layer.
Eliminate 'Safe harbor' and 'Substantial Economic Effect' methods of allocating income
Although more complex 'target' allocation methods are increasingly common in the middle-market, many taxpayers still utilize 'safe harbor' agreements. The proposal targets perceived 'abuses' that can arise under this method, and while it is not certain that this change would result in a change in allocations for all partnerships, it may increase the complexity of the required computations and add administrative burdens.
Mandate pro-rata income allocations for partnerships owned by related corporations
The proposal also includes language requiring partnerships owned by two or more corporations under common control to allocate income in relation to each corporation's share of capital ownership. While this provision appears limited to a very specific subset of partnerships, the proposal also suggests that this group would be expanded further in the future via regulation.
Requiring section 734 and section 743 basis adjustments
Partnerships are generally required to make downward basis adjustments upon the sale or redemption of a partnership interest (and upon the death of a partner) when unrecognized losses above a certain threshold exist. However, if unrecognized gains exist, this basis adjustment is generally optional. The proposal would make these upward adjustments mandatory.
End guaranteed payments for current and retired partners
Payments to partners would either be taxed in a non-partner capacity (e.g. treated as interest, fees, wages, etc.) or as allocable shares of income.
Changes to 'mixing bowl' and 'disguised sale' rules
The distribution of assets that were previously contributed by a partner can often generate gain, but this rule does not apply if the asset is held by the partnership for more than seven years. The proposal would remove the exception for assets held more than seven years, resulting in the potential for gain any time such an asset is distributed.
Align treatment of inventory in sales and redemptions
Under current law, gains related to partnership inventory are taxed as ordinary income when an interest is sold. In a redemption, ordinary income treatment only applies if the inventory is 'substantially appreciated'. The proposal would remove the 'substantially appreciated' limitation and tax redemptions similar to sales.
Elimination of Publicly Traded Partnership status
Under current law, certain publicly traded companies are allowed to elect to be taxed as partnerships (so-called, publicly traded partnerships or PTPs). The proposed change would repeal this exception for all publicly traded partnerships.
This article was written by Nick Passini, Kyle Brown, Lauren Van Crey, Arlie Hudson and originally appeared on 2021-09-13.
https://rsmus.com/what-we-do/services/tax/federal-tax/partnership-tax-planning/senator-wydens-draft-proposals-target-partnership-tax-rules.html


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Israel's New Far-Right Gov't Entrenches Apartheid System with US Support
Far-right Israeli politician Itamar Ben-Gvir's Tuesday visit to the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem is being roundly condemned across the Middle East. Ben-Gvir is a key part of Benjamin Netanyahu's new far-right government, which includes ultranationalist and ultraorthodox parties that are calling openly for the annexation of the West Bank. "The international community has to speak with one voice in rejecting this extremism and rejecting those terrorists and those elements of fascists in the Israeli government," Palestine's ambassador to the U.N., Riyad Mansour, urged Wednesday. In 2007, Ben-Gvir was convicted in an Israeli court of incitement to racism and supporting a terrorist organization. In 2021, he relocated his parliamentary office to the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of Jerusalem, where settlers have attempted to violently evict Palestinian residents from their homes. As the newly sworn-in minister of national security, Ben-Gvir will now be responsible for border police in the West Bank.
We speak to Gideon Levy, an Israeli journalist and author, and Diana Buttu, a Palestinian lawyer and former adviser to the negotiating team of the Palestine Liberation Organization, about Ben-Gvir's visit, Netanyahu's new government and surging violence against Palestinians.
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom Signs Policing, Probation, Juvenile Justice Reforms
Limits on probation length, a ban on chokeholds, and a plan to dismantle a state juvenile prison system
Scott Shackford | 10.1.2020 3:40 PM
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California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom ended the legislative season by signing several criminal justice and policing reform bills into law, formally banning the use of carotid restraints by police statewide, mandating state investigations when police fatally shoot unarmed people, putting limits on probation terms, and adopting a plan to phase out state-run juvenile prisons.
A.B. 1196 and A.B. 1506 are modest but positive policing reforms. The first bans both carotid restraints and chokeholds by police officers. (It does not actually criminalize these restraints or impose a punishment for officers who violate the ban, but it does require law enforcement agencies to adjust their use-of-force policies to prohibit such holds.) The second creates a division within the state's Department of Justice to review agencies' use-of-force policies and make recommendations, but only if they ask. It also calls on a state prosecutor to investigate any police shooting that leads to the death of an unarmed civilian. The prosecutor shall investigate the shooting's circumstances, file a report, make recommendations for policy changes, and—if the prosecutor believes a crime occurred—initiate a prosecution against the officer.
These are simple, baseline reforms. They're not terrible, but they're not far-reaching either. Newsom actually vetoed a bill (A.B. 1299) that would have required better notification when a police officer fires or quits over a serious claim of misconduct, because he said he thought the "bill does not go far enough" and worried that it would "slow momentum for broader decertification measures in future legislative sessions." Efforts to actually pass those broader decertification measures failed in the Assembly in August because police lobbyists were mad they didn't have more control over it.
More impactful are the changes to how California deals with juvenile offenders. S.B. 823 will phase out the state's Department of Juvenile Justice, eventually stopping the imprisonment of most juveniles in state detention facilities. They instead will be held in county jails until they reach the age of 25, should their sentences extend that long.
The goal, which Newsom has been supporting and proposed in his January budget, is to keep young prisoners closer to their communities and to their families, in hopes that this will be better for rehabilitation. California's juvenile justice programs will be transferred to the state's Health and Human Services Agency. The transformation will be costly, because the state will be sending counties more money to assist in their new duties overseeing these juvenile inmates. The bill calls for $40 million for the next fiscal year and then a bit more than $500 million over the following three fiscal years.
Meanwhile, A.B. 901 will limit school districts' ability to refer students to probation officers and the courts over issues of truancy and insubordination. In California, juveniles can end up in the juvenile court system for "habitual truancy" and for being "habitually insubordinate or disorderly." These are not good reasons to put children and teens in juvie, and A.B. 901 will tamp down (but not completely eliminate) the state's authority to take such harsh measures.
A.B. 1950 will significantly reform the state's probation system by limiting the amount of time a person can be ordered to serve. Probation is supposed to be a tool to reduce or eliminate prison sentences by freeing people convicted of crimes, then monitoring for a length of time to make sure they don't commit new crimes. In practice, though, people on probation are subjected to years of monitoring under harsh terms; they can end up back behind bars not for committing crimes but for missed meetings with probation officers, failed drug tests (even in states where marijuana is legal), and "technical violations."
Longer probation terms haven't been shown to lead to better public safety, but there is evidence that the longer a person is on probation, the more likely it is that he or she will violate a minor rule and end up back behind bars.
Under A.B. 1950, probation for misdemeanor crimes will be cut back from a maximum of three years to one in most cases. For most felony charges, probation will be limited to two years, though there are exceptions for violent felonies such as murder, rape, robbery, and others.
The need for probation reform has gotten more attention in recent years, thanks to the treatment of rapper Meek Mill, who had to fight a Philadelphia judge with an apparent axe to grind against him: The judge attempted to use an arrest from when he was 19 to keep extending his probation, and she threatened to send him back to jail after he was photographed popping a wheelie on a dirtbike. After Mill won his fight, he and Michael Rubin, co-owner of the Philadelphia 76ers, joined with Jay-Z and Van Jones to launch the Reform Alliance, an activist group pushing for changes to the probation system. They are celebrating the passage of A.B. 1950 as a major victory, declaring that the new law "will help put hundreds of thousands of Californians on probation in positions to succeed and exit the criminal justice system for good."
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863 Buildings With Cracks Identified In Sinking Joshimath
The district administration has identified 863 buildings that have developed cracks. (File)Chamoli: Chamoli District Magistrate (DM) Himanshu Khurana conducted an on-the-spot inspection of the land identified in the Dhak village of Joshimath in Chamoli District, affected by the land subsidence on Saturday.The District Magistrate directed the Rural Works Department (RWD) to provide a contour map…
The district administration has identified 863 buildings that have developed cracks. (File)
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Chamoli District Magistrate (DM) Himanshu Khurana conducted an on-the-spot inspection of the land identified in the Dhak village of Joshimath in Chamoli District, affected by the land subsidence on Saturday.
The District Magistrate directed the Rural Works Department (RWD) to provide a contour map of the land in Dhak soon. After taking suggestions from the affected people, a detailed plan for displacement should be prepared by Central Building Research Institute (CBRI).
So far, the district administration has identified 863 buildings that have developed cracks due to subsidence in the Joshimath city area.
According to the District Magistrate, out of this, 181 buildings have been placed in the unsafe zone.
Chamoli District Magistrate Himanshu Khurana said that reports have been received that in a few areas cracks in buildings have widened after Uttarakhand received heavy snowfall recently.
Mr Khurana said that teams of the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) and police are on alert if any tragedy arises due to heavy snowfall in Joshimath.
Regarding the condition of the relief camps in Joshimath, he said that the team is working to provide all necessary facilities to the family.
"Due to heavy snowfall in Joshimath, reports have been received that in a few areas cracks in buildings have widened. Our team is working to provide all the necessary facilities like heaters, hot water, and others," said Himanshu Khurana.
He said that an executive-level engineer is present in the camp to monitor electricity problems in the relief camps.
"An executive-level engineer is present in the camp to monitor electricity problems in the relief camps," said Himanshu Khurana.
Earlier on January 20, Secretary of Disaster Management, Ranjit Kumar Sinha briefed the media about the rehabilitation and relief work being done in Joshimath and informed that an amount of Rs 4 lakhs has been allotted as immediate assistance to the affected eight tenants at the rate of Rs 50 thousand per family.
Meanwhile, more than Rs 3.27 crores have been distributed to 218 affected families in Joshimath as an advance relief, informed Mr Sinha.
Incidentally, along with Joshimath, the same phenomenon of land subsidence is also being reported from other areas of Uttarakhand including Uttarkashi, Tehri, Pauri, and Karanprayag.
Earlier on Friday, Secretary of Disaster Management, Ranjit Kumar Sinha briefed the media about the rehabilitation and relief work being done in Joshimath and informed that an amount of Rs 4 lakhs has been allotted as immediate assistance to the affected eight tenants at the rate of Rs 50 thousand per family.
He informed that more than Rs 3.27 crores have been distributed to 218 affected families in Joshimath as an advance relief.
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Grey literature and legal deposit: the approach of the Royal Library of Belgium
VANDEPONTSEELE, Sophie and ISBERGUE, Nadège (2019) Grey literature and legal deposit: the approach of the Royal Library of Belgium. Paper presented at: IFLA WLIC 2019 - Athens, Greece - Libraries: dialogue for change in Session S12 - Serials and Other Continuing Resources with National Libraries. In: Grey Literature: Scholarly Communication in a Digital World, 23 August 2019, Athens, Greece.
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The Belgian Science Policy Office, which the Royal Library of Belgium, no known as KBR, is part of, has launched an institutional Open Access Repository for Federal Organisations (ORFEO). KBR has been involved at two levels: firstly by the integration of the publications from its researchers and secondly as a partner for the development of the repository. In the context of the latter, an analysis is conducted in order to consider the future of ORFEO and its integration in KBR's collections. The analysis includes a reflection about how a national library, whose mission includes the legal deposit, can play a role regarding grey literature. This article presents the initiatives for Open Access at a federal level, the particularities and current situation of the Belgian legal deposit and how grey literature can be taken into account. Finally, the three approaches studied to take over ORFEO are detailed.
Session S12 - Grey Literature: Scholarly communication in a digital world - Serials and Other Continuing Resources with National Libraries
Division 2 Library Collections > Serials and Other Continuing Resources Section
VANDEPONTSEELE, Sophie Contemporary collections, Royal Library of Belgium (KBR) Brussels Belgium
ISBERGUE, Nadège Contemporary collections, Royal Library of Belgium (KBR) Brussels Belgium
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After driving out of Teustepe, (a town in Northern Nicaragua), for 45 minutes on a rocky path and crossing a couple dry rivers, we finally arrived in the small, dusty village of Agua Caliente. The landscape looks bleak due to the past two years of drought. A few underdeveloped crop fields are visible through the breaks in the trees.
Two small boys were among the first to run up to the pick up truck to greet us. Jose and Joan were soon met by more children who walked with us to the small unpainted quarry block house.
In Santa Fe, Nueva Guinea, community leaders wiggle with anticipation. They are just beginning a five-year process of accompaniment with CEPAD. They're not quite sure what to expect, but they are ready to push the opportunity to its fullest. They are now organized into the four different areas: Strengthening Families, Sustainable Community Organization, Food Security and Environmental Protection, and Pastoral Leadership Training. We talked with Pastor Alexander David Valdivia Masiz, the vice president of the Community Development Committee in Santa Fe, and with Dorys Gonsález, who will be learning to grow a small vegetable garden and learn crafts and skills so she can earn money to support her family.
CEPAD: What are some of the biggest challenges you face in Santa Fe?
Alexander: We need to learn how to help the young people involved in drugs and gangs. We hope this will happen both in the youth leadership program and through pastoral training, because there have been a lot of problems.
Dorys: I agree. We also need to expand our education and help youth get involved in better activities.
Record breaking droughts are ravaging parts of Nicaragua. Harvests are low, cattle and other livestock are dying, and rivers and wells are at 25 to 50 percent of normal water levels. The cost of a month of basic food supplies has risen by about $10 in the last year.
CEPAD farmers in the regions of Jinotepe, San Francisco Libre and San Jose de Los Remates feel the devastating impacts of the drought every day. In the 18 impacted communities in those regions, CEPAD works with 1,517 farming families who are experiencing food insecurity and economic instability because of very low harvests so far this year. Those families have lost 1,400 acres of corn crops and 1,100 acres of beans. Many farmers lost their entire planting of these two crops — meaning they not only lost their food for this year but the seeds and soil quality that they need to plant in 2015.
The price of beans in Nicaragua is triple what it was this time last year. For most of the people we work with at CEPAD, that means they and their children are eating more rice and fewer beans.
The causes include global market pressures that have increased exports and a year of devastatingly low rainfall because of the El Niño climate cycle and overall global climate change. Rainfall in Nicaragua has been up to 88 percent lower than normal. But in Cumaica Norte, a community in the San Jose de los Remates region, farmers are celebrating a beautiful bean harvest thanks to an irrigation system CEPAD installed and trained them to use.
Eduardo Orozco Rivas, one of the CEPAD community organizers in Cumaica Norte, couldn't wait to show recent visitors from Preston Hollow Presbyterian Church his beautiful beans. He explained that they lost a pepper crop to a disease but knew from CEPAD trainings that they could reuse the rich soil to plant another crop on top of the failed peppers.
Eduardo asked me to thank CEPAD's partners and supporters for providing the funds that brought the irrigation system to Cumaica Norte. Each system costs just over $2,000, and with the help of donors we have installed more than 20 of these systems. Thank you from Eduardo and all of us here at CEPAD! Your donation will make it possible for more of our farmers to grow the crops that sustain their families.


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Q: JavaScript button that deletes child object I'm new to JavaScript and I have a requirement for a button that will delete a child object based on a query. there are 2 objects, event and enrollment. enrollment has a lookup against event. We need a button on the event that will delete the enrollment where the event is on the current page and the user is the enrolled user on the enrollment. I don't believe the query is returning any results for some reason.
{!REQUIRESCRIPT('/soap/ajax/29.0/connection.js')}
{!REQUIRESCRIPT("/soap/ajax/29.0/apex.js")}

var result = sforce.connection.query("Select ID, name From SFDC_Enrollment__c Where  Event__c=     '{!SFDC_Event__c.Id}' AND Enrolled_User__c = '{!$User.Id}'", {
  onSuccess : success,
  onFailure : failure
});

  function success(result) {
var records = result.getArray("records");

for (var i=0; i<records.length; i++) {
  var record = records[i];
  sforce.connection.deleteIds(record.Id);
  window.location.reload();
    }
  }

  function failure(error) {
  alert('You cannot unenroll for: '+ '{!SFDC_Event__c.Name}' + '. You are not currently enrolled in this event.');
  }

A: You're passing a single Id string to deleteIds, when it's expecting an array of Ids. You should build an array of Id's in the loop, and pass it to deleteIds in a single call before calling window reload. Like this:
{!REQUIRESCRIPT('/soap/ajax/29.0/connection.js')}
{!REQUIRESCRIPT("/soap/ajax/29.0/apex.js")}

var result = sforce.connection.query("Select ID, name From SFDC_Enrollment__c Where Event__c = '{!SFDC_Event__c.Id}' AND Enrolled_User__c = '{!$User.Id}'", {
  onSuccess : success,
  onFailure : failure
});

function success(result) {
  var records = result.getArray("records");
  var idsForDeletion = [];

  for (var i=0; i<records.length; i++) {
      idsForDeletion.push(records[i].Id);
  }

  sforce.connection.deleteIds(idsForDeletion);
  window.location.reload();
}

function failure(error) {
  alert('You cannot unenroll for: '+ '{!SFDC_Event__c.Name}' + '. You are not currently enrolled in this event.');
}

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HTTP/2 Internet Protocol Will Speed Up The Display Of Web Pages
by EditorS1 February 19, 2015 Leave a comment
HTTP is one of the most important protocols of the web, if it is not the most important. This is what allows you to exchange data across the world, and the latest version has arrived: HTTP / 2 was finally completed. The news is even more exciting than the older version, HTTP / 1.1 was officially introduced in 1999.
In version 1.1, HTTP was no longer suited to what has become the web and multiple connections that sites require visitors. Thanks to improvements of HTTP / 2, we should see an acceleration time of loading of websites, and the difference could be very significant for some.
That is a fact. Mark Nottingham, who runs the HTTP Working Group of the Internet Engineering Task Force, announced on his blog. There are still many steps before the new standard is implemented in your favorite browser. But in terms of its functions, it's over.
The main improvement of HTTP / 2 is its ability to handle multiple connections at a time. When you request to load a web page, several things are delivered: the page itself, its design, its images, scripts, etc., and that's about it that was the problem with HTTP / 1.1.
With the old version, different objects were actually delivered one by one. Thus, if an object takes too long to load, it slowed down the loading of the other, making the whole page long to display.
HTTP / 2 can therefore manage demand more objects simultaneously, which means that large objects are delivered together with the little ones, and they are not handicapped by the size of the former.
HTTP / 2 accelerate the display of pages by reducing and optimizing TCP exchanges between the client (browser) and server (Web site). In particular, it can "multiplex" file transfers on a single TCP session and reduce bandwidth consumed by applications using compression.
The other over HTTP / 2, this is the compression of the headers that provide information on the content of the page itself. With HPACK these headers are compressed to transmit faster.
The Legacy of Google
HTTP / 2 doesn't come out of here now. It is actually based on SPDY, a protocol introduced by Google in 2012, already implemented in Chrome and Firefox, and used by many important sites, such as Facebook, YouTube or Twitter. Google has indicated that the support SPDY would disappear Chrome early 2016 in favor of HTTP / 2 whose support will arrive in the 40 version of the browser.
Regarding Firefox, Mozilla has already said that HTTP / 2 would be managed from the next version that will arrive next week, but this will not be the final version of HTTP / 2. It should be borne in Firefox from version 39 if all goes well.
Finally, Microsoft has also responded to the call with Spartan, which will include support for HTTP / 2. In short, everyone reacts fast enough, and this is very good news.
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Invisible Planets / Invisible Frameworks — Assembling an Anthology of Contemporary Chinese SF
Ken Liu
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I jumped on Twitter the other day to ask my followers what they wanted to see in a blog post about Invisible Planets, the first English-language anthology of contemporary Chinese SF. All sorts of interesting answers followed, but a common theme soon emerged: they wanted to know what made Chinese SF Chinese.
Aha, I thought, lucky me! There is already an essay in the anthology by the SF scholar and author Xia Jia addressing exactly that question. I guess I can just point to that essay and be done…
But it's always interesting to see more than one attempt at answering a question.
I've always believed that as a species, we're wired to understand the world through stories rather than data, and the fiction produced by a society can tell us a lot about the meta-narrative of that society, which is the story that people tell themselves to define who they are. Such an ur-story forms the invisible framework in which writers construct their tales and by which readers extract meaning from the stories.
Science fiction, in particular, seems especially well poised to serve this function of social myth-making because it is explicitly driven by genre convention to be about the future, to describe dreams.
Thus, when we look back on the science fiction of the 19th century, when the genre was in its nascent form in Europe, we see a great deal of justification and anxiety concerning the colonial project and European imperialism. The sense of wonder, which we so prize as an aesthetic quality, is rooted in the sublime ideal of Romanticism (cf. Shelley's Frankenstein), and serves as a justification for the dominance of the "civilizing" influences of the colonizers as well as a shield against the anxieties of the moral ambivalence of imperial destruction. (For more, see, e.g., Paudyal, Bed Prasad. Imperialism and the sublime in the science fictional works of Jules Verne, HG Wells, and Karel Čapek. Diss. UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI'I AT MANOA, 2013.) Sometimes these anxieties, the beams and columns of an invisible framework, are sublimated into aliens and "lost tribes," but often, as in the work of Jack London, the fear of the colonial subjects and the desire to subjugate, even by means of genocide, are made explicit.
And when we look at the Anglo-American science fiction of the "Golden Age" and subsequent decades, we see reflections of the ideological struggles and dominant concerns of each age reflected in the pages of the pulp magazines and the lurid images on their covers. The invisible frameworks are the dark matter behind the sparkling stars and gleaming spaceships.
I don't think science fiction can tell us much about the future, but it may provide a window on the societies that write and read it.
Crucially, the parsing of invisible frameworks requires nuanced appreciation for the complexities of the writers' cultural milieux and the benefit of historical hindsight. In the case of contemporary China, we in the West lack both. Our dominant framework for interpreting Chinese SF tends to be narrowly political. Because we believe contemporary China is a dystopia and a rival for American dominance, we tend to read contemporary Chinese SF as all dystopian and its conflicts focused on China's relationship with the West. Because we believe in the universal applicability of our concerns and judgments about class, identity, and "progress," we tend to seek similar concerns in Chinese SF. (Or we commit the opposite sin, which is to treat Chinese society as so different from ours, and so much an instance of the Other, that we interpret Chinese SF literally as written by another species, and read each exotic detail as more evidence confirming our fantasies about a society that we fear and find inscrutable.)
As readers, we have our own invisible frameworks that both give meaning to what to read but also prevent us from looking beyond. I don't claim to be free from these cognitive biases. But in editing this anthology, I've tried to be aware of them and ask that readers do the same.
So, back to the question of what makes Chinese SF Chinese: if there's one aesthetic quality that stands out in the body of Chinese SF collected here, it's a sense of imbalance.
Contemporary China is a complex society in transition, and the kinds of technological and social changes that took societies in the West centuries to move through have sometimes been experienced by a mere two generations in China. The anxiety of careening out of balance, of being torn by parts moving too fast and too slow, is felt everywhere. While entrepreneurs, researchers, and megacorps in Beijing and Shanghai are pushing the boundaries of advanced technology in areas like VR, mobile computing, and genetic engineering, sometimes far ahead of the West, just a few hundred miles away from these bustling metropolises, children left behind in rural villages by parents who have gone to the great cities in search of low-wage jobs grow up on bare concrete floors without toys, without books, without basic nutrition, without even the support of crumbling traditional extended families and folk beliefs. High-speed trains have reduced trips that in my childhood would have taken two days and two nights to four-and-a-half hours, but along the way they whoosh past rivers filled with undrinkable water and fields turning into deserts due to climate change. Urban professionals who live in luxurious apartments and vacation in France and Japan and converse as often in English as in Chinese find it impossible to talk to the migrant workers who are constructing the rising skyscrapers next door and who pick up and trash and carry the goods the apartment-dwellers order for instant delivery by phone.
We see this sense of imbalance, of living beyond the twenty-first century but also being mired in the nineteenth at the same time, in many of the stories in Invisible Planets. In Chen Qiufan's "The Fish of Lijiang," the imbalance is metaphorically transformed into a disease in our sense of time moving too fast or too slow. In Hao Jingfang's "Folding Beijing," the imbalance is literalized by three cities all named Beijing sharing the same space but completely divided from one another. In Tang Fei's "Call Girl," this imbalance in the moral order is resolved by the surreal narratives of a young woman who tells stories to paying clients.
The visions in these stories aren't utopian, but they aren't dystopian either. Or rather, they are dystopian for some segment of society, but utopian for some other segment of society. This is the reality of the psychological landscape constructed by the tales: tradition and modernity, stagnation and progress, political powerlessness and thrilling technological potential—all aspects of the same reality, a chiaroscuro of extreme contrasts in hope and terror. It is this quality of imbalance, I think, that represents the most Chinese aspect of these stories.
In the end, the story that may be most illustrative of the invisible framework of imbalance in the collection is perhaps Xia Jia's "Tongtong's Summer," a tale in which telepresence technology comes to the aid of the dissolving bonds of the traditional extended family, and the conflict between the past and the future is resolved by a conscious act of choice on the part of those who would otherwise be the victims of social transformation (in this case, the aged). It is the story in the anthology set nearest in time to the present as well as the most hopeful, and I'd like to think that its vision of snatching hope from the jaws of a collapsing imbalance is not only a meta-narrative for China, but the world as a whole.
Ken Liu (http://kenliu.name) is the author of The Wall of Storms, sequel to The Grace of Kings, a Locus Best First Novel Award winner and Nebula finalist. His collection, The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories, received starred reviews from both Library Journal and Publishers Weekly. He is also the translator for the Hugo-winning The Three-Body Problem, and Death's End, both by Liu Cixin. Invisible Planets is his first anthology as an editor.
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Snowden (2016) Reviewed By Jay
United States, 25 December 2015
Genre: Jay's Reviews, 2016
One of the most intriguing documentaries of 2014 was "Citizenfour," Laura Poltras' Oscar-winning report of her meetings with Edward Snowden and journalist Glenn Greenwald in a Hong Kong hotel; "Citizenfour" was Snowden's on-line name. For this scripted version of his story, the central issue is unchanged: the secret surveillance of American citizens by the NSA and its massive scope.
Writer/Director Oliver Stone (""Wall Street Money Never Sleeps") working from a script on which he collaborated with Kieran Fitzgerald, brings us his R-rated version based on two more books on the topic. Despite some ramped-up dramatic scenes, the story is the same, plus we now have a face for Snowden's girlfriend. By the way, Stone loves super-close closeups, so be prepared to see every scar, flaw, pore and whisker in many scenes.
His cast:
* Joseph Gordon Levitt ("The Lookout") is excellent as Edward Snowden, who lands in the world of international intrigue too bright, too young, too observant, and too honest. Not a good combination.
* Melissa Leo ("The Big Short") is Laura Poltras, the award-winning filmmaker who films the interviews and publishes her work. She also becomes a friend...
* Zachary Quinto ("Star Trek") plays journalist Glenn Greenwald, a multilingual journalist who blasts through a bureaucratic stone wall to help get Snowden's exposè published in a timely way.
* Rhys Ifans ("Madame Bovary") is Corbin O'Brien, this time my favorite Welsh chameleon plays American as apple pie, but his character serves to illustrate how gifted our hero is and shows why he was given such high-priority jobs at such a early age.
* Shailene Woodley ("The Divergent") is Lindsay Mills, a lovely young woman who loves to debate. With her yin to Snowden's yang; liberal versus conservative; adventurous opposed to cautious, she brings a lively sparkle to his life.
* Tom Wilkinson ("Selma" he played LBJ) Ewan MacAskill is with the Guardian, a trusted London newspaper. He feels it should back Snowden and is willing to pressure the powers that be.
* Nicholas Cage ("Left Behind") Hank Forrester is working on the next generation cryptologist after Enigma; he hopes Snowden can help....
* Timothy Olyphant ("This is Where I Leave You") CIA Agent Geneva shows greenhornSnowden "how things work."
* Ben Schnetzer ("The Book Thief") Gabriel Sol calls Snowden "Snow White" because he is so innocent and naīve. He keeps warning him to watch out for that poisoned apple.
* Scott Eastwood ("Suicide Squad") Trevor James is head honcho for a bunch of whiz kids who are supposed to find security flaws but who are then are derided as hackers (they hack the hackers!).
Snowden's major claim is that NSA is no longer fighting terrorism, but instead is amassing global information for economic control. NSA has created a Dragnet on the world, even though he has been told "A job can't be criminal when you're working for the government."
We do a double take when we realize that in the final scenes, the "real" Edward Snowden is playing himself. The casting by Lucy Bevan and Mary Vernieu is excellent! I realize that most of you haven't seen the documentary, in which case, you will find this movie both interesting and deeply disturbing.


Hey everyone! This blog has moved to my new website. You can catch up on my ramblings about art and life on my new website. See you there!
Post 144. Roughly three years ago I created this blog to track my progress. I've accomplished that goal and need to move forward. Lately I've been relying on digital media far too heavily. I don't like the direction I'm heading in, so this is it. No more posts. It was fun while it lasted. Thanks for all the support/critiques. Sorry if I've disappointed anyone.
Lately I've been working on a web site design for a very talented photographer friend of mine named Shannon. She loooooves the 1950's and all that encompasses that time period. So -- for the design aspects of her website we thought, why not give it an older, retro feel. The digi-sketches above are roughs for the navigation buttons used to browse each particular gallery. They are themed after old neon signs from Vegas. By the end of the process the site will have somewhat of a 3D feel. Imitate the Vegas strip maybe. Possibly some flash design. WHO KNOWS! For now, concept, concept, concept!
P.S. Design School is pretty intensive. Kind of intimidating. And very time consuming. I will try to post something related to my West Coast conversion soon . . . hopefully.
So I've touched down in Nanaimo and have happily moved into my new place. It's quite cozy. Once I give the place some good ol' Greg Dubeau swagger I'll post some photos. I begin new classes at a new school on Tuesday. More art. Graphic Design actually. And advertising. And some marketing. I have some videos that would better describe why I am taking this direction. Please check them out. They are from some of my personal heroes. Enjoy.
Between the end of my summer job and the beginning of school this fall, I have a period of two weeks to wrap up summer holidays. Little to say I haven't been doing very much. Although, I have been painting and drawing again. I had some old boards and scrap pieces of paper kicking around, so I decided to do a portrait and some experimentation with media. It was fun to have no expectations. Just do whatever and see what turns out. I should do this more often.
I have been working with Youth Zone for a little while now and have grown a fond appreciation for their type of youth programming. They commissioned me to update their logo, which they have been using for the last four years. Their previous logo looked like this. I approached the project by doing some research into youth programming around North America and how these programs chose to represent themselves. I decided the new logo needed to represent the program in a more dynamic way. At the same time I wanted to hint at a retro feel because the program has such a great history; hence, the combination of a very modern sans serif typeface (i.e. Arial Black), sleek, stylized shapes and simple varsity colours. I'm very happy with the outcome. This logo will take affect in January 2010.


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