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URL: https://journals.eco-vector.com/0002-3337/issue/view/924
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31857/S0002-333720195
Estimates of the lithospheric failure cycle parameters based on regional earthquake catalogs
Smirnov V.B., Ommi S., Potanina M.G., Mikhailov V.O., Petrov A.G., Shapiro N.M., Ponomarev A.V.
Based on the generalized magnitude-frequency relation, the failure cycle parameters are estimated from regional earthquake catalogs for the zones with different characteristic tectonic regimes: subduction and shear faults. For the subduction zones, the Kamchatka and Japan catalogs are used. The shear zones considered in the study are the San Andreas fault (Northern California catalog), North Anatolian fault (catalog for Greece), and Zagros shear zone (Iran catalog). The distribution maps for failure cycle duration and for parameter q characterizing the dependence of failure cycle duration on the size of the fracture area are constructed. It is shown that on average for each region, the q values are close to zero which indicates that the probability of fracture for structural elements of the medium does not depend on their size and that the strength and stress distributions by size of inhomogeneities are, on average, consistent with each other.
Intraregional spatial variations of parameter q exceed the statistical error of estimates, which can be interpreted as the presence of variations in stress distribution by size of inhomogeneities. The intensities of these variations estimated under the Zhurkov's kinetic fracture concept are comparable to the stresses released by the earthquakes.
Regional variations in the duration of failure cycle statistically range within approximately two orders of magnitude; the durations are inversely proportional to the region-mean velocities of relative plate motion along the fault zones. This indicates that the durations of failure cycle are mainly determined by the rates of tectonic deformations. The significant scatter in the durations of the failure cycle within regions testifies to the substantially heterogeneous intraregional distribution of the strain rates and strengths which is consistent with the up-to-date notions concerning the hierarchical structure of the geological medium and the mosaicity of the stress field.
Физика Земли. 2019;(5):3-21
Forecasting aftershock activity: 5. Estimating the duration of hazardous period
Shebalin P.N., Baranov S.V.
Continuing the series of publications on aftershock hazard assessment, we consider the problem of estimating the time interval after a strong earthquake that is prone to the aftershocks which may pose an independent hazard. The distribution model of this quantity is constructed which depends on three parameters of the Omori–Utsu law. With appropriate averaged parameter estimates, the model fairly closely fits the real (empirical) distributions of this quantity on the global and regional scale. A key parameter in the model is the expected number of aftershocks of a given magnitude. This number broadly varies from earthquake to earthquake which determines a wide confidence variant of the estimates based on the averaged parameters. Therefore, for forecasting the duration of the hazardous aftershock-prone period we propose to use two variants of the estimates. The first variant is based only on the averaged parameter estimates for a region under study and on the value of the magnitude of the earthquake. This variant is applicable immediately after a strong earthquake. The second variant employs information about the aftershocks that occurred during the first few hours after the earthquake, which improves the forecast considerably.
Физика Земли. 2019;(5):22-37
Declustering of seismicity flow: statistical analysis
Pisarenko V.F., Rodkin M.V.
The known methods for identifying the clusters of seismic events that are mainly formed by the aftershocks frequently include debatable initial assumptions or a complicated system of successive approximations. One of the most recent and the most logically consistent method for identifying the clusters of aftershocks is the nearest neighbor distance (NND) method which is however algorithmically most challenging. In this paper, we propose a new declustering method based on a generalized distance (GD) metric, which employs some assumptions of the NDD method but is as simple in practical implementation as the window methods previously proposed for this purpose. In analyzing and substantiating this new method, a procedure of random shuffling of seismic events with respect to time is used for generating a real catalog which is however free of genetic relations between different events. The efficiency of the existing window methods, the GD method, and the NND methods is compared by a number of the criteria for 17 regions. It is shown that the GD method is, on average, noticeably more efficient than the standard window methods and compares very favorably with the NND method. In the conclusions, a certain speculativeness of separating the events into main and dependent shocks is discussed.
Some problems of joint inversion of temporal gravity variations with data on land and seafloor displacements: a case study of the Tohoku-Oki earthquake of march 11, 2011
Mikhailov V.O., Timoshkina E.P., Khairetdinov S.A., Dmitriev P.N., Kartashov I.M., Smirnov V.B.
The methodology for joint inversion of various types of data on the Tohoku-Oki earthquake is presented. It is shown that data of satellite geodesy (GPS), SAR interferometry, and co-seismic GRACE gravity anomalies are overall fairly well consistent with each other. However, the resolution of these data is not high and the rupture surface model based on them is smoothed. Meanwhile, the measured and calculated data agree very well which creates the illusion that the resulting solution is close to the real process. The solution of the inverse problem based on displacements of the ocean bottom stations shows that the rupture surface models based on the measurement data on land and/or GRACE gravity anomalies alone may significantly differ from the real co-seismic displacement field. If the rupture surface is specified inaccurately, then the high quality of data fitting and the chessboard test do not guarantee high accuracy of the solution. A similar situation is also observed in estimating the degree of locking along the plate contact within locked segments of a subduction zone. In the paper it is emphasized that the accuracy of inverse problem solution mostly depends on how the geodynamic model matches the real process. For increasing the accuracy and degree of detail of the solution, the efforts need to be focused on a more adequate description of the physics of the co-seismic and post-seismic process in parallel with a more detailed description of the geological structure of a rupture area with allowance for the discontinuities of the medium and a more detailed assignment of the distribution of physical parameters.
Induced deformations of fault zones
Kuzmin Y.O.
Empirical data obtained by studying the Earth's surface deformations in the fault zones induced by exogenous, endogenous, and manmade processes are presented. It is suggested to analyze induced deformations in the fault zones caused by different factors using a unified approach based on the notions of parametric excitation of processes. Two variants (types) of the formation of induced phenomena are considered. In the first variant, deformational response of faults occurs linearly when an influence directly causes a fault to deform. The second variant is a nonlinear parametric amplifier when the deformational response of a fault zone is anomalously high and induced (excited) by small influences.
In accordance with this approach, definitions are given of exogenously induced, endogenously induced, and technology-induced deformations of the fault zones. The examples are presented when both scenarios of process formation, e.g., exogenous and exogenously-induced surface deformations, are simultaneously observed within a single measurement system.
Joint perturbation in geoacoustic emission, radon, thoron, and atmospheric electric field based on observations in Kamchatka
Rulenko O.P., Marapulets Y.V., Kuz`min Y.D., Solodchuk A.A.
Based on the integration and analysis of the published theoretical results and field observations, the possibility is considered of a joint perturbation in geoacoustic emission, radon, thoron, and atmospheric electric field before an earthquake. A scheme is proposed for the formation of this perturbation in the presence of near-surface sedimentary rocks at the observation point and their extension. For detecting such a perturbation, simultaneous measurements of geoacoustic emission, radon, thoron, and atmospheric electric field have been carried out for the first time in Kamchatka in summer and autumn of 2012–2013, and a joint anomalous perturbation in these parameters was recorded.
Studying the causes of similarity between blocking temperature spectra of chemical and thermoremanent magnetization by computer simulation
Shcherbakov V.P., Sycheva N.K.
Monte Carlo numerical simulation of the formation of chemical remanent magnetization (CRM) by the mechanism of the growth of volumes from superparamagnetic (SPM) to single-domain (SD) in the ensembles of magnetostatically interacting particles, thermoremanent magnetization (TRM) and the experiments on paleointensity determination by the Thellier–Coe and Wilson–Burakov methods are carried out. The obtained results agree with the Smirnov–Tarduno hypothesis (Smirnov and Tarduno, 2005) that the similarity of the spectra of blocking temperatures Tb of CRM and TRM can be due to the narrowness of the interval of the blocking temperatures Tb of CRM and TRM with a reserve that the similarity can be observed on a part of the total interval of the Tb spectrum provided that this interval accommodates a significant fraction of total CRM intensity. The analytical examination of the case of non-interacting particles (sparse concentration of grains) has shown that in this case, (quasi)linearity of the Arai–Nagata diagrams is due to the presence of a plateau on the curves of the derivative dCRM/dpTRM (pTRM is partial thermoremanent magnetization) which emerges at narrow spectrum of blocking temperatures. The results of the numerical experiments suggest that at particle concentration above 0.2% magnetostatic interaction leads to the practically full linearity of the Arai–Nagata diagram over a significant interval of the total spectrum of blocking temperatures for CRM. At the same time, on the remaining temperature interval, both the Arai–Nagata diagrams and the CRM(TRM) curves are substantially concave indicating the lack of similarity between the spectra of blocking temperatures for CRM and TRM. The analysis of the empirical data revealed their certain resemblance to the results of simulation but at the same time clearly demonstrated their noticeable distinction associated with the significant differences in the conditions of the numerical and laboratory experiments.
Физика Земли. 2019;(5):87-103
Meteotsunami manifestations in geospheres
Dolgikh S.G., Dolgikh G.I.
The results of processing synchronous records from two laser strainmeters, a broadband seismograph, a laser nanobarograph, and a laser meter of hydrospheric pressure variations are discussed. It is established that a sharp change in the atmospheric pressure which was recorded by the laser nanobarograph resulted in the generation of solitary waves in the hydrosphere detected by the laser meter of hydrosphere pressure variations. These waves were accompanied by intense deformational perturbations with periods of about 2–2.5 min observed by the laser strainmeters and broadband seismograph. The identification of this phenomenon as a meteotsunami is supported by the subsequent arrival of powerful 1.5-h oscillations in the zone of the location of instrumental complexes, which were recorded by the laser nanobarograph and laser strainmeter.
Физика Земли. 2019;(5):104-109
Infrasound strain perturbations caused by typhoons
Dolgikh G.I., Chupin V.A., Gusev E.S.
The paper addresses excitation of high-power infrasound disturbances in the 7–9 Hz frequency band associated with passage of tropical cyclones (typhoons) in the zone of operation of laser strainmeters installed at Cape Shultz in Primorskii krai.
Errors of Earth gravity models depending on seafloor morphology
Bekhterev S.V., Drobyshev M.N., Zheleznyak L.K., Koneshov V.N., Mikhailov P.S., Solov`ev V.N.
The empirical results on estimating the resolution and high-frequency noise in the Earth gravity field models are presented. The Schmidt Institute of Physics of the Earth of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IPE RAS) participated in the marine areal surveys in the Indian Ocean. Maps of ten regions with a total of 611 986 gravimetric points were obtained. The root mean square measurement error is within 0.27 mGal. The differences between the measured gravity field values and EGM2008 model predictions are calculated. The statistical processing of these differences has shown that they vary from –25 to 44 mGal on the shelf and continental slope and from –7.4 to 6.2 mGal on the abyssal plain with the root mean square value of 1.33 mGal. From the results of the experimental studies it follows that that gravity anomalies provided by the ultra-high-order gravity model can only be used for constructing gravity maps on a scale of 1:500 000 or smaller.
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TED talk parody shows how easy it is to brainwash us with formulas
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(Waking Times | Vic Bishop) Subliminal messages in advertising are but one tool available to public relations and propaganda professionals to manufacture consent, create unanimity, and encourage group-think. The use of formulas, scripts and rehearsals are also integral parts of the production process, and a look at how easily a formula can influence our perception of the information being presented shows us just how easy it is to be duped by well-presented nonsense.
TED Talks are ubiquitous on the internet, and their comfortably predictable formula lends them instant credibility. The well-produced, important sounding speeches featuring seemingly ordinary people with "Big" ideas have become a source of wisdom and knowledge, as important to our culture as 24 hour news pundits and Snopes.
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Group-think doesn't just happen. Conformity of thought and deed are cultural implants, brought into being by clever marketers, psychological change makers, and script writers. The TED formula works, and pretty much anyone can copy it, and in the era of fake news and intense propaganda, it's no longer acceptable to take media at face value.
Given the nature of the human mind, most people are unaware enough to separate the information being presented from the way in which it is intended to be received. Furthermore, much of what is presented to us as live broadcasting is actually well-planned, well-thought out, well-rehearsed and well-designed to not only plant ideas in our society, but to shape how we feel about those ideas.
Here, Luke Rudkowski of We Are Change offers insight into how this actually works in media organizations like The Huffington Post, telling of his invitation to a 'live' broadcast which turned out to be taped, rehearsed and well-manicured before being presented to the public as if it were truly live.
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Source: Waking Times, CBC, WeAreChange
Categories: Mind control
Tagged: (Verborgen) nieuws, Media, TV subliminale boodschappen
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Search Based Software Engineering (SBSE) is an emerging field in which Software Engineering problems are reformulated and modeled as optimization problems, and subsequently are solved using concepts, techniques, algorithms and search strategies. The search goal is to identify, among all possible solutions, one that is good enough according to appropriate metrics. The reformulation allows that problems, previously resolved by adopting intensively manual and intuitive methods, can be solved wholly or partially in a systematic and automated way. In addition, SBSE can provide solutions to problems considered intractable by other methods and techniques of Software Engineering, often leading to innovative solutions, not anticipated or even imagined.
In such a context, the aim of this project is to adopt, investigate, evaluate and develop SBSE concepts, algorithms, techniques and strategies in order to solve problems that arise in several areas of the Software Engineering discipline. The scope is widely open for different types of problems. However, initially, it focuses on developing approaches for composition, selection and allocation of software development teams, in both co-located and distributed settings. In particular, this project will take into account problems related to communication and coordination among software development teams, which are geographically distributed around the world. As widely known, such communication and coordination problems arises due to their different technical skills, and, mainly, conflicting cultural, social, organizational and even legal aspects, that, jointly, can significantly impact on software development cost, time and quality. Besides, the project also deals with problems related to search, selection and certification of software components in the context of Global Software Development (GSD) applied to Software Product Lines (SPL).
The paper "The Pro-PD Process Model for Product Derivation within Software Product Lines" was accepted for publication at the Information and Software Technology Journal (IST). This activity is part of the project "An Investigation of Methods, Processes, Tools, and Metrics for the Development of Software Product Lines (SPL)" — in portuguese, Uma Investigação de Processos, Ferramentas e Métricas para o Desenvolvimento de Linhas de Produto de Software.
The paper "A Platform for Smart Cities based on Internet of Things" (in portuguese) was accepted for publication at the VIII Simpósio Brasileiro de Sistemas de Informação (http://www.each.usp.br/sbsi2012/).
Valter Henrique de Souza Ferreira da Silva, Alexandre Alvaro, A Platform for Smart Cities based on Internet of Things, VIII Simpósio Brasileiro de Sistemas de Informação, São Paulo/SP, 2012.
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The examiners were Prof. Dalton Guerrero (UFCG), Prof. Guilherme Travassos (UFRJ), and Profs. Claudio Sant'Anna, Eduardo Almeida and Christina Chavez (UFBA).
Antonio's advisors were Christina Chavez (advisor) and Manoel Mendonça (co-advisor). His work was supported by an one-year Fapesb scholarship, a three-year CNPq scholarship and also by the INES project "Models, Techniques and Tools for Software Evolution" (2009-2011).
INES will be present at the 9th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2012), 02-03 June 2012, co-located with ICSE 2012, in Zurich (Switzerland).
INES will be present at the 20th IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC'2012), to be held in Passau (Germany), 11-13 June 2012.
The paper "Five Years of Lessons Learned from the Software Engineering Course – Adapting Best Practices for Distributed Software Development" was accepted for publication at the 2nd Collaborative Teaching of Globally Distributed Software Development – Community Building Workshop (CTGDSD) in Switzerland. This activity is part of the project "An Investigation of Methods, Processes, Tools, and Metrics for the Development of Software Product Lines (SPL)" — in portuguese, Uma Investigação de Processos, Ferramentas e Métricas para o Desenvolvimento de Linhas de Produto de Software.
The paper "A Traceability Tool for Mapping Features and Core Assets in Software Product Lines " – in portuguese, Uma ferramenta para rastreabilidade de core assets em linha de produtos de software, was accepted for publication at SBSI – Brazilian Symposium on Information Systems.
More details about the publication: SILVA, A. F. ; Garcia, Vinicius Cardoso . Uma ferramenta para rastreabilidade de core assets em linha de produtos de software. In: Simpósio Brasileiro de Sistemas de Informação, 2012, São Paulo. Trilha Especial – Aplicativos de SI – Ferramentas (Special Track – Applications of IS – Tools) – Full papers, 2012.
An important competitive differential for software factories is the ability to launch similar products customized to the clients, in a fast and cost-reduced way, without compromising quality. This has been possible through software product line engineering. A software product line (PL) is a set of related software products that are generated from reusable assets. Products are related in the sense that they share common functionality. Assets correspond to components, classes, property files, and other artifacts that we compose or instantiate in different ways to specify or build the different products. This kind of reuse targeted at a specific set of products can bring significant productivity and time to market improvements.
To obtain the benefits associated to the PL approach with reduced upfront investment, we can minimize the initial PL analysis and development process by bootstrapping existing related products into a PL. Through an extraction process, we separate variations from common parts and then discard duplicated common parts. A similar process applies to PL evolution, when, for instance, adding a new product requires extracting variations from parts previously shared by a number of products.
Although useful to reduce initial investments and risks, this extraction and evolution process can be costly and tiresome. Manually extracting and modifying different code fragments, besides other kinds of assets, requires substantial effort, especially for checking necessary conditions to ensure that the evolution can be performed in a safe way. Nonetheless, it can also introduce defects, compromising the PL benefits in other cost and risk dimensions.
We believe that the PL extraction and evolution process can benefit from semi-automatic refactorings, with formal basis, to ensure correctness and avoid running tests after the refactoring. Applying semi-automatic refactorings, guided by the developer, has the advantage of guaranteeing refactoring by construction. However, it imposes restrictions over the involved assets, such as the use of reflection, and demands from the developer the knowledge of the available transformations and the ability to identify which ones are better suited for a given situation. When the developer does not have such knowledge and ability, it is important to count with an alternative: verifying, 'a posteriori', that modifications to a PL really consist of a refactoring can be automatically performed in various situations, and approximated in the remaining ones.
However, existing refactoring notions focus on justifying the transformation of a single program into another, they do not consider transforming a PL into another, or a set of a programs into a PL. In fact, a PL can have conflicting artifacts, such as two classes with the main method, or two versions of the same configuration file, which makes the assets from a PL an invalid program. This prevents such assets set to benefit from existing refactoring notions. Beyond such program refactoring limitations – without mentioning requirements, tests and design models – in a PL, we tipically need extra elements to automatically generate products: Feature Models (FMs) and Configuration Knowledge (CK).
For these reasons, this project intends to propose, formalize, implement, and evaluate refactorings and refactoring checkers for PLs. In particular, we will define and implement refactoring catalogues, based on a behavior-preserving refinement notion. We will have catalogues that modify the PL as a whole, as well as individually modifying FMs and CK. Separate modifications to FM and CK are important to support compositional PL evolution. Besides that, we will reuse existing program and model refactoring catalogues for different languages. Similarly, we will have checkers for specific situations, such as when we modify only a single PL element (FM, CK, or assets), and checkers for changes that affect the PL as a whole.
Researchers from the Evidence-Based Software Engineering Project have a full paper at the Software Engineering in Practice (SEIP) track of the 34th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE). The paper is entitled "On the Proactive and Interactive Visualization for Feature Evolution Comprehension: An Industrial Investigation" and is authored by Renato Lima Novais, Camila Nunes, Caio Lima, Elder Cirilo, Francisco Dantas, Alessandro Garcia, Manoel Mendonça. ICSE is the flagship conference on software engineering in the world.


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Acumatica to play a key role in Hague Dental expansion
May 5, 2022 | News
Acumatica to play key role in Hague Dental expansion
Starting out as an engineering firm, Jim and Kirsty Hague established the dental equipment company in 1996. Today, with a team of 20, the company has grown organically, now specialising in the planning, design, and implementation of ambitious dental surgeries across England.
Measuring and improving for business growth
With investors and new managing director Mahdi Kazemzadeh in place, it's time to scale up, as Mahdi explains,
"I'm a big believer in management thinker Peter Drucker's theory that you can't improve what you don't measure and as the business is growing quickly it's increasingly hard to keep track.
Initially, we're looking to seek transparency around efficiency and profitability. We want to understand what we're doing well and where we could disrupt and do things differently."
Hague Dental Director of Operations Paul Churchouse, the company's very first employee and the first to implement ERP in the business, comments, "The system we had in place has worked for eight years but is now out of date and current access to data has become disjointed. Mahdi and I are working closely on the implementation of the new system."
Striving for a more informed approach to business planning and management, the company's aim is to implement one central data source for a business-wide overview of activity.
An article by an Acumatica advocate, Josh Schultz, in The Operator's Handbook fast-tracked the direction of the ERP system search to Acumatica, resulting in contact with business management solution provider Pinnacle.
Born in the cloud, Acumatica requires no installation on server or client machines and puts financials, reporting, and CRM in one place. Above all though, it provides flexibility and this is what particularly attracted Mahdi.
"There's nothing else in the UK that's anywhere close to what Acumatica can achieve," he comments, adding, "With other ERP systems you're tied into consultants that have to tailor processes for you.
Acumatica is designed to allow its users to create queries easily and that's very powerful."
Improving efficiency end-to-end
The company has already identified ways Acumatica will improve efficiency and help to avoid duplication of data entry, as Mahdi explains, "I see business automation as a real opportunity to bring savings to the business.
"We'll be able to design end-to-end internal workflows more readily – it's an incredibly interactive tool. Credit control is one area we can see an immediate opportunity whereby statements can be triggered and issued, and the same for service reminders. At the moment an administrator would have to create it, print it off, pop it in an envelope and send it or ring around booking services – it will free them up for other productive tasks. Likewise, when engineers are on site they will be able to approve purchases, upload images and produce invoices remotely via an App. It will all be traceable and we'll start to be able to gain greater insight on the profitability of our projects."
From initial contact in January 2022, Pinnacle has undertaken initial scoping work including an on-site visit to establish the drivers for the software investment and to fully understand the business' process from start to finish.
Also helping to pull an implementation team together at Hague Dental. Mahdi notes, "As a growing business, there are a lot of unknowns ahead. Often as a consultant, it can be difficult to really understand what it's like for a business owner. However, the Acumatica consulting team at Pinnacle, including Ian Briggs and Gavin Bell have been so supportive, upfront, and collaborative. Acumatica makes great sense, it's clear that the Pinnacle team is experienced in supporting a smooth transition and I can see we'll be able to scale up as we grow. I feel very optimistic about the future."
Pinnacle Business Development Manager, Ian Briggs concludes: "The Hague Dental team have been quick to get on-board with Acumatica, seeing its huge potential for their business. Once, we've completed the on-boarding process, they will be in a position to access high-quality, real-time information and be equipped to identify trends and issues within the business that will not only improve the way they operate but better serve their customers too."
About Pinnacle
Pinnacle is an experienced business software solutions provider deploying business management software solutions and IT services and support to over 1,000 SMEs throughout the UK and Ireland. As a leading Acumatica Gold Partner, Pinnacle assists ambitious companies nationwide to adopt Acumatica pure cloud software for enterprise resource planning to transform their business for success in the new digital economy.


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The Golden State Hands Wooden Nickel to US Veteran
by Craig DeLuz September 28, 2022 October 2, 2022
By Craig DeLuz
OPINION – It's no wonder 250,000 Californians are leaving the state permanently every year for places like Texas and Arizona. Sixty percent of moves in California beginning in 2020 were people leaving the Golden State. California state government officials must know what the ramifications are for hemorrhaging residents—major shakeups in the housing market, demographics, and corporate presence, not to mention a greatly-reduced tax base. This affects all of us who have chosen to stay in California despite its hostile business climate.
And yet, in the midst of all of this shakeup caused by the sudden lockdowns, government overreach, and health concerns, California's Department of Public Health inexplicably rescinded, without warning or even an open bidding opportunity, the multi-million-dollar contract for Covid-19 test kits it had with a locally owned and operated DVBE (Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise) and California Certified Small Business. In a shadowy, secretive process, the health department awarded the contract to a large Chinese-owned company Andon Health and its subsidiary iHealth.
Maclean Health, LLC, owned by disabled Navy veteran John Deterding, was awarded the original contract—in keeping with California's stated policy goals. Mr. Deterding ensured that his company was able to deliver an incredible 30,000,000 COVID test kits to the State, as well as many other types of critical health products, during one of the most challenging periods in California history in the midst of shortages and other supply chain issues. This locally owned business was able to remain agile, pivot when necessary, and maintain a perfect delivery record with the State. Even when prices of test kits soared, Maclean Health was able to successfully negotiate a reduced cost—saving California taxpayers millions of dollars.
Its reward? Our Department of Public Health, despite Maclean's superior and competitive performance, engaged in a secretive deal with a Chinese company while bypassing any semblance of a fair procurement process. The state has effectively removed Mr. Deterding's bread and butter in a time when the prices of both bread and butter are skyrocketing. The move is completely unfair, both to Maclean and its employees, as well as to taxpayers!
Yet, there is still time to reverse this terrible decision and the damage it will cause. State Assemblyman Ken Cooley recognized this injustice and has urged the Governor and Department of Public Health to publicly, and satisfactorily address Maclean's situation. The contract can be rescinded if swift action is taken. There will be a lot of other small business owners who currently contract with the state who are anxiously awaiting the outcome of that decision.
We must do everything we can to support and value our own disabled veteran-owned, California-based businesses, lest they follow the well-worn path to Texas, Florida and other business-friendly states.
To recap: the State had no complaints about Maclean's performance with regards to the quality of the test kits or their delivery. So, why was the contract cancelled with no warning? This does not seem to be an issue of better pricing offered by iHealth because the state refuses to release cost data so what is really going on? This sure smells like product dumping at the end of the pandemic. In fact, Ihealth donated test kits right before the contract terms were changed, but there was no mention of the donated product's expiration date in their press release. The parent company has made a fortune selling into US markets, and now appears to want to wring out every last drop of profit on the way out of the pandemic no matter the effect on small business.
Every month in California, at least six business headquarters leave the state and set up shop elsewhere. Elected officials had better be paying attention. This could completely decimate our state that is already in a deficit of nearly 3 million residents since 2000.
As one who works with and is related to many who have served our country via military service, I find this to be outrageous. Giving a sizable taxpayer-funded contract to a large company based in a hostile foreign country quietly says a lot about the government that made the decision to do so. That in so doing, the State took away a hardworking, disabled American veteran's bread and butter adds insult to what appears to be a very intentional injury—one who served his country, followed the rules, and had a perfect record of past performance.
If this can happen to him, it can happen to anyone. We demand to know who and what is driving this decision to hand a wooden nickel to one of our nation's finest. Californians deserve to know.
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El cantón de Bourgoin-Jallieu es una división administrativa francesa, situada en el departamento de Isère y la región Ródano-Alpes.

Composición
El cantón agrupa 14 comunas:
Bourgoin-Jallieu
Châteauvilain
Domarin
Eclose-Badinières
Les Éparres
Meyrié
Nivolas-Vermelle
Ruy
Saint-Chef
Saint-Marcel-Bel-Accueil
Saint-Savin
Salagnon
Sérézin-de-la-Tour
Succieu

Véase también
 Cantones de Isère

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Dynamic Funds gets a dynamic portfolio manager
We sat down with Eric Benner to talk about global equities and investment philosophy
By Joe Rosengarten
Eric Benner was always interested in the complex nature and array of unique challenges presented by the financial services industry. For Benner, who's now VP + Portfolio Manager, Global Equities at Dynamic Funds, entering Toronto's financial markets was a move that always seemed to be on the cards. Benner started his career on the investment banking side, but it wasn't long before he realized that the asset management space was where he'd most like to operate.
"For me, working on the buy side has meant a lot of time working in the pension fund industry," Benner says. "It's been an interesting way of getting to know and understand the world, and then expressing that knowledge through investment decisions."
Before joining Dynamic Funds earlier this year, Benner spent eight years at OMERS Capital Markets during which time he took on a variety of roles, including Managing Director & Co-Head of Equities at OMERS Capital Markets and lead manager of a multi-billion dollar Global Equity Income Portfolio. Although he's only been at Dynamic Funds for a relatively short period, Benner describes his time at the firm as "terrific".
"The type of investment style we use has performed well this year and over the last several years," Benner says. "We try to make investments in quality businesses at quality prices – it's what my team calls QUARP: Quality at a Reasonable Price. It is a good all weather investment strategy for many environments."
Benner sees the role that central banks play in dictating interest rates and asset prices as the biggest challenge for many modern investment professionals. "As much as possible, I try to focus my investment decisions, and the exposures of my portfolios, on the types of investments that are driven by my competitive edge," he says. "I focus on bottom up investing, which focuses on understanding the competitive advantages and valuations of individual companies."
Benner is positive about the future for the global equity side of the industry and encourages any ambitious wealth managers to enter space: "the shift towards global investing is a secular one and I think it has legs," he says.
Benner has three tips for any advisor or portfolio manager who wants to push their careers onto the next level.
Read. "We're in a golden age for fantastic books about investing, forecasting and everything of relevance in the global environment."
Talk to people. "Lots of people are willing to share their experiences if an aspiring student of global markets were to reach out to them."
Invest, and learn from your experiences.
"A key investment pillar for me is to take a very long-term perspective," Benner says. "Coming from the pension fund management landscape, that was core to my philosophy and it will be here, too. I try to take a global focus and then look two, three, five years ahead and understand the risk and reward that's on the table."
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ESG focus of investment managers could impact funding says Fitch


Choosing a father daughter wedding dance song can be somewhat challenging. It is important to select a song which both the bride and her father likes, which also gives a good portrayal of the relationship that they have with one another. Here are some tips for choosing the right song for a father daughter dance.
When choosing a song which can be an appropriate choice for a father daughter dance, it is ideal to consider memories. Did the bride and her father dance to a certain song when she was a child? Whether it was "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" or a song by a popular artist, it may be an option to consider. If a certain father daughter wedding dance song seems to stand out right away, it could be the right choice.
It is ideal to consider some of the songs which are popular for father daughter wedding dances. Although some of these songs may be a bit too cliché for some people, it is important to remember that they are popular for a reason. Something about these songs has touched daughters and their fathers enough to make them common choices. Here are some options to consider.
While popular father daughter dance songs are not the best option for everyone, some brides find that they are a perfect fit. It's important to determine whether the song can actually be applied to the relationship that the bride has with her father, or if she is just choosing it because it's popular. Finding a father daughter wedding dance song which is a suitable choice is important.
Some people do not want to choose a song which is overly popular for this wedding dance. Anyone who is looking for unique father daughter dance songs will want to take these into consideration.
There is no doubt that there are many great father daughter wedding songs to choose from. Whether it is a song which holds memories for the bride and her father or is a song which describes the relationship that they have with one another, there is a song which is suitable for every father daughter dance.


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Semianalytic solution for transport of a two-member decay chain in discrete parallel fractures
Scott K. Hansen
A wide variety of analytic solutions have been developed for 1-D contaminant transport, but to date the author is aware of none modeling a decay chain in parallel discrete fractures in porous media. In this note, the derivation is presented for a two-species first-order decay chain in such an environment, with an arbitrary concentration history specified upgradient, fracture advection, and diffusion into the porous matrix. The solution is presented in brief, followed by corroboration of its numerical implementation against two different existing numerical codes. An appendix contains a detailed derivation of the solution, and a Mathematica notebook that implements it and may be used by practitioners is enclosed as supporting information.
https://doi.org/10.1002/wrcr.20451
Published - 1 Sep 2013
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Hansen, S. K. (2013). Semianalytic solution for transport of a two-member decay chain in discrete parallel fractures. Water Resources Research, 49(9), 6105-6110. https://doi.org/10.1002/wrcr.20451
Hansen, Scott K. / Semianalytic solution for transport of a two-member decay chain in discrete parallel fractures. In: Water Resources Research. 2013 ; Vol. 49, No. 9. pp. 6105-6110.
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I was asked to pass along the following announcement by the editor of the Cup of Comfort series of books, so, here you go. It lists three separate books looking for story entries, one about writers, one about dogs, and one about single mothers. If you are interested, be sure to read the guidelines, submission deadlines, and submission instructions carefully! Doing otherwise is a quick way to not get published.
CALL FOR PERSONAL ESSAYS ABOUT DOGS, WRITERS, AND SINGLE MOTHERS
A Cup of Comfort is a popular anthology (book) series featuring inspiring
true stories about the extraordinary experiences of "ordinary" people. Now, we are
currently seeking submissions for three exciting new volumes:
A Cup of Comfort for Writers
Only another writer can truly understand what it's like to aspire to become and
to be a writer. For this anthology of true stories celebrating (and
commiserating) the writing life, we seek compelling, insightful, and
exceptionally well-written personal essays from writers of every persuasion and
level of experience. Possible themes include but are not limited to:
* Mentors or teachers
* Overcoming challenges in becoming a writer, your life as a writer, or the
* Milestone(s) in your journey to become a writer or as a writer
*Discovering and/or heeding the call to become a writer
* Writers groups / the camaraderie of other writers
* Why you write
* Transcending self-doubt and fear
* What writing has taught you about life
* What life has taught you about writing
* Your muse: what inspires your writing
* Best or worst writing experience and what you learned/gained from it
Submission Deadline: July 31, 2006
Please see submission specs, below.
A Cup of Comfort for Dog Lovers
As any dog lover will attest, dogs are, indeed, our best friends… and so much
more. They're also our helpers, heroes, champions, teachers, and beloved family
members. For this volume, we seek heartwarming true stories that speak to the
amazing bond between dogs and the people who love them. Stories can focus on any
experience/theme that demonstrates how a dog has inspired and/or enriched the
life/lives of a human(s). Possible themes include but are not limited to a
* Devotion and loyalty
* Courage
* Amazing feats
* Role as a member of a family or community
* Companionship
* Therapeutic effect on a human
* Unique relationship with a person
* Unique relationship with another pet or animal
* Inspirational effect on one or more people
* Amusing, endearing, exceptional ways
We do NOT want sad stories about a pet's suffering or death. However, stories
can be about the life of a dog that is now deceased and can include a fond
farewell to a lost pet—provided the story isn't solely about the pet's death.
Submission Deadline: August 31, 2006
A Cup of Comfort for Single Mothers
As Oprah Winfrey has often said, parenting is the most difficult and important
job in the world. It can be even tougher for single mothers, who face all the
usual parenting challenges plus another whole set of unique ones. But single
motherhood — whether by choice or by chance — also brings many untold rewards,
for both moms and children. For this collection of personal essays celebrating
single mothers, we seek uplifting true stories about the joys and the
difficulties of single mothering. The majority of stories selected for
publication will be written from the single mother's point of view, but we will
also consider stories written by the children of single mothers as well as by
third parties with intimate knowledge of (and the permission of) the single
mother and her child(ren). Possible themes include but are not limited to:
* Juggling the myriad responsibilities of single motherhood
* Raising sons or daughters solo / without fathers
* The support of family, friends, other mothers
* Dating / romance / socializing
* Hard lessons learned
* Busting myths about single mothering
* Defying stereotypes about single moms and/or children of single moms
* Overcoming adversity
* Self-acceptance and self-respect in a society that sometimes disparages
* Unconventional wisdom(s) gained
* Blessings, joys, and rewards of being a single mother or the child of a
* The unique bond between a single mother and her child(ren)
* The courage, resilience, ingenuity, devotion, accomplishments, and/or
integrity of a single mom
* Why you chose single motherhood (if by choice) and how you've made it work
* The unexpected and/or under-recognized advantages, joys, and/or rewards of
being a single mother or having a single mother
Submission Deadline: December 31, 2006
SUBMISSION SPECS
* $500 grand prize (one per book); $100 (each) for all other stories published
* Author receives one complimentary copy of book; upon publication.
* Stories must be original, true, uplifting, typed, and in English; narrative essay or creative nonfiction; 1st person or 3rd person (no 2nd person); and poignant, heartwarming, inspiring, and/or humorous.
* Unpublished material preferred; some previously published material is acceptable. We do not publish material that has been or will be published in a mass market anthology or widely circulated magazine.
* Manuscripts are not returned.
* Entrants pay no entry or reading fees.
* Each submission must include the following:
Author's full and legal name
Author's mailing address
Author's phone number
Author's email address (if applicable)
Story title
Story wordcount (approximate)
Choose one of these submission methods:
Email (preferred): In the subject line, cite the Cup of Comfort volume (i.e., Dog Lovers). Copy and paste (or type) the story into the body of the email (no attachments. One story
per email. Send to: cupofcomfort (at) adamsmedia.com
Mail: You can send more than one story per envelope. Include self-addressed,
postage-paid envelope for each submission. Send only the paper copy of the
story; do not send computer disks or CDs. Mail to:
Cup of Comfort
57 Littlefield St.
Avon, Massachusetts 02322, USA
Fax: On a cover sheet or at the top of the story's first page, specify "Cup of Comfort," the
volume for which you are submitting the story, and the number of
pages being submitted. Fax to: 1-508-427-6790
For sample stories and detailed writers' guidelines, visit the Web site: www.cupofcomfort.com and click on "Share Your Story."
Please direct questions and suggestions to cupofcomfort (at) adamsmedia.com. We cannot accept phone calls.
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Home CIA Did the CIA test LSD in New York City subway system?
Did the CIA test LSD in New York City subway system?
Olson was a research scientist assigned to the CIA's Special Operations Division, at Ft. Detrick, Md., who was performing top secret research relating to LSD-25, a powerful new drug whose properties were barely understood. Could psychedelic drugs be used to get enemy combatants to lay down their arms, or work as a truth serum on reluctant prisoners?
On Nov. 28, 1953, Frank Olson, a bland, seemingly innocuous 42-year-old government scientist, plunged to his death from room 1018A in New York's Statler Hotel, landing on a Seventh Avenue sidewalk just opposite Penn Station.
Olson's ignominious end was written off as an unremarkable suicide of a depressed government bureaucrat who came to New York City seeking psychiatric treatment, so it attracted scant attention at the time.
But 22 years later, the Rockefeller Commission report was released, detailing a litany of domestic abuses committed by the CIA. The ugly truth emerged: Olson's death was the result of his having been surreptitiously dosed with LSD days earlier by his colleagues.
The shocking disclosure led to President Gerald Ford's apology to Olson's widow and his three children, who accepted a $750,000 civil payment for his wrongful death.
But the belated 1975 mea culpa failed to close a tawdry chapter of our nation's past. Instead it generated more interest into a series of wildly implausible "mind control" experiments on an unsuspecting populace over three decades.
Much of this plot unfolded here, in New York, according to H.P. Albarelli Jr., author of "A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA's Secret Cold War Experiments."
"For me, in countless ways the Olson story is a New York City story," said Albarelli, a former lawyer in the Carter White House, who has written extensively about biological warfare and intelligence matters. "The CIA itself was created and initially composed of wealthy men who came from Wall Street and New York City law firms."
Olson was a research scientist assigned to the CIA's Special Operations Division, at Ft. Detrick, Md., who was performing top secret research relating to LSD-25, a powerful new drug whose properties were barely understood. Could psychedelic drugs be used to get enemy combatants to lay down their arms, or work as a truth serum on reluctant prisoners?
Albarelli spent more than a decade sifting through more than 100,000 pages of government documents and his most startling chestnut might be his claim that the intelligence community conducted aerosol tests of LSD inside the New York City subway system.
"The experiment was pretty shocking — shocking that the CIA and the Army would release LSD like that, among innocent unwitting folks," Albarelli told The Post.
A declassified FBI report from the Baltimore field office dated Aug. 25, 1950 provides some tantalizing support for the claim. "The BW [biological weapon] experiments to be conducted by representatives of the Department of the Army in the New York Subway System in September 1950, have been indefinitely postponed," states the memo, a copy of which the author provided to The Post
An Olson colleague, Dr. Henry Eigelsbach, confirmed to Albarelli that the LSD subway test did, in fact, occur in November 1950, albeit on a smaller scale than first planned. Little, however, is known about the test — what line, how many people and what happened.
The purported experiment occurred nearly a year before a more infamous August 1951 incident in the small town of Pont St. Esprit, in the south of France, when the citizens were hit by a case of mass insanity.
Over a two-day period, some 250 residents sought hospital care after hallucinating for no apparent reason. Thirty-two patients were hauled off to mental asylums. Four died. Mercury poisoning or ergot, a fungus of rye bread, was cited as the culprit. But ergot is also one of the central ingredient of LSD. And curiously enough, Olson and his government pals were in France when the craziness erupted.
Albarelli also introduces us to George Hunter White — a ne'er-do-well agent for the Bureau of Narcotics, a forerunner to the current Drug Enforcement Administration, he was on "special contract" with the CIA.
It was White, Olson's colleague Eigelsbach contends, who was behind the November 1950 New York City subway test — as well as a second test two years later, Albarelli claims.
"George White in 1952 did release a small amount of aerosol LSD in a subway car. He was pleased with the results as indicated in his diary, but his reports on the incident were destroyed by the CIA in 1973," he says.
But with the CIA's most important records on such matters destroyed or cloaked in national security claims, it remains difficult to prove whether these purported subway tests occurred.
Still, Albarelli's portrait of White — a gruff, chain-smoking, gin-swilling reprobate with an occasional fondness for opium, hookers and Mafiosi drug-dealers — makes it apparent that if anyone could have tested LSD on an unsuspecting public, it would be him.
White had set up a CIA safe house at 81 Bedford Street, in Greenwich Village, comprised of two apartments conjoined with a hidden two-way mirror and doorway. Posing as a seaman or artist, he would regularly recruit strangers for social gatherings there, where they would be plied with psychedelic drugs, often without their knowledge. The aim was to see if White could successfully extract information from them and to assess those results, according to one CIA document.
In between home experimenting, White was well known as a carouser. The safe house was down the block from Chumley's, a former speakeasy and now defunct bar, where White once took James Jesus Angleton, the former CIA head.
The good news for people of New York, was when they stumbled out of Chumley's, it was a short walk home — and they didn't need to ride the subway to get there.
CIA Requests its Own Documents from Author
In a bizarre about-face, the secretive Central Intelligence Agency has requested documents from an investigative journalist, even though the writer had earlier obtained them from the CIA itself under the Freedom of Information Act.
Walterville (Vocus/PRWEB ) December 16, 2009 — In a bizarre about-face, the secretive Central Intelligence Agency has requested documents from an investigative journalist, even though the writer had earlier obtained them from the CIA itself under the Freedom of Information Act.
The strange request was made last week to author H.P. Albarelli Jr., whose recently published book A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA's Secret Cold War Experiments, details a myriad of CIA drug experiments and exposes a large number of previously anonymous physicians and business officials who contracted with the agency. The experiments resulted in the deaths of a number of people and sent hundreds more seeking medical help.
"The caller, an agency official, who identified himself by a name I was quite familiar with from past requests," explained Albarelli, "asked if I would be so kind as to send by fax two documents my book referenced in its narrative and footnotes. I suppose I should have been bowled over by the request, but I wasn't. It happened once before."
"The crazy thing," added Albarelli, "is that all of the requested documents came from my FOI requests to the agency in the early 1990s."
The documents requested from Albarelli centered on two subjects. The first top-secret CIA document details a meeting between an official of the Sandoz Chemical Company and an undercover CIA operator. The document reveals a close relationship between the firm and the agency, and provides stunning details about a mysterious 1951 outbreak of "insanity" in a small French town, Pont St. Esprit. In a covert experiment, the village was surreptitiously administered the powerful hallucinogen LSD in an attempt to see if there was a viable method of waging war without killing people or destroying property. A related document appears to reveal that famed LSD inventor, Albert Hoffmann, maintained a close relationship with the CIA.
The strange request was made last week to author H.P. Albarelli Jr., whose recently published book A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA's Secret Cold War Experiments, details a myriad of CIA drug experiments… The second document requested reveals intelligence links between one of the criminals who murdered Frank Olson and the assassination of JFK, including a possible working relationship with suspected assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. About seven years ago, after an Internet article by Albarelli, an agency official requested that Albarelli send the CIA a copy of a top-secret report from the CIA's Robert Lashbrook to Dr. Sidney Gottlieb, director of its Chemical Division. The document concerned a Pentagon and CIA cover-up of the 1953 death of a patient at the New York Psychiatric Institute. That patient, Harold Blauer, was killed by an injection of drugs administered under a covert CIA contract.
A Terrible Mistake is published by TrineDay, an Oregon-based company that specializes in books that are shunned by mainstream publishers due to their controversial nature.
H.P. Albarelli Jr. has written a number of groundbreaking newspaper, magazine and Internet articles, including several on the Olson case, as well as topics such as anthrax, Cuba, child abuse and intelligence matters. His novel The Heap was published in 2005. More information on A Terrible Mistake can be found at: www.aterriblemistake.com.
SOURCEOriginally published at The New York Post by Philip Messing on 3/14/10
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Q: How to reference an opened not active workbook? I want to reference from code in an active workbook to another workbook,
I don't want to type path like that workbooks("path") , this reference should be flexible, is there something like array of already opened workbooks ?

A: You can assign an open workbook to a variable without providing the full path. You can then use the set object variable to perform any actions you wish.
Sub set_wb()
    Dim wb As Workbook
    Set wb = Workbooks("test_wb.xlsb")
    wb.Activate
End Sub

You can also iterate through each open workbook using for each
Sub wb_names()
    Dim wb As Workbook
    For Each wb In Workbooks
        Debug.Print wb.Name
    Next wb
End Sub

Similarly, you can use for to iterate through each workbook using their index (the index is dependant on which order workbooks were opened).
Sub wb_index()
    Dim i As Byte
    For i = 1 To Workbooks.Count
        Debug.Print Workbooks(i).Name
    Next i
End Sub

Hope this helps.

A: See this answer.
To reference an already open workbook, you can use
Workbooks("book_name.xlsx")

You can also iterate through the collection
Dim i As Integer

For i = 1 To Workbooks.Count
    MsgBox Workbooks(i).Name
Next i

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