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Q: Is there a way to apply the synonym token filter in ElasticSearch to field names rather than the value? Consider the following JSON file:
{
  "titleSony": "Matrix",
  "cast": [
    {
      "firstName": "Keanu",
      "lastName": "Reeves"
    }
  ]
}

Now, I know in ElasticSearch, you can apply a synonym token filter to field values as given in the following link: Elasticsearch Analysis: Synonym token filter.
Hence, I can create a "synonym.txt" file with Matrix => Matx, then if I search for titleSony:Matx, it will return the documents with Matrix as well.
Now, what I would like is to create a synonym for the field name titleSony. For example - titleSony => titleAll, such that when I search for titleAll, I should get all documents with titleSony as well.
Is there any way to accomplish this in ElasticSearch?

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Now, what I would like is to create a synonym for the field name "titleSony". For example - titleSony => titleAll , hence when I search for "titleAll", I should get all documents with "titleSony" as well.

Yes, somewhat. Elasticsearch has some default behavior very similar to this, which I'll touch on in a bit.
The feature you're looking for is called "Copy to field." It allows you to specify that the terms in one field should be copied into another. This is useful for consolidating terms you expect to match into a single field, to help simplify your query when you would like to match against any one of a number of fields.
In this example, you would specify in your mapping that the terms in the titleSony field ought to be copied into the titleAll field. Presumably you'd have other fields (say, titleDisney) which also copy into that field as well. So a search against titleAll will effectively match the other fields whose terms are copied into it.
An excerpt of your mapping might look something like this:
{
  "movies" : {
    "properties" : {
      "titleSony" :   { "type" : "string", "copy_to" : "titleAll" },
      "titleDisney" : { "type" : "string", "copy_to" : "titleAll" },
      "titleAll" :    { "type" : "string" },
      "cast" : { ... },
      ...
    }
}

I mentioned earlier that Elasticsearch does something like this. By default it creates a special field called _all into which all the document's terms are copied. This field lets you construct very simple queries to match against terms that occur in any field on the document. So as you see, this is a fairly common convention in Elasticsearch. (Elasticsearch mapping: _all field.)


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VI : The Lovers – Represents love, relationships, desire, pleasures and choices. It generally indicates an impending decision about a current relationship, rather than a new relationship.
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XV : The Devil – Represents lust, hedonism, temptation, physical attraction, pessimism and doubt. It usually implies that the querant is holding on to an idea or ideology that limits self-growth.
XVI : The Tower (or Donjon) – Represents chaos, sudden change, disillusionment, a downfall or ruin. This card may imply that the querant is holding onto a false illusion, but it is also linked to the transition while meditating from an alpha state (mind-centred) to a theta state (mind-stage centred).
XVII : The Star – Represents calm, hope, tranquillity and optimism. This card generally implies renewed hope or optimism.
XVIII : The Moon – Often represents lack of clarity, illusion or deception. It usually implies a need to calm the animal nature of the mind, but it can also symbolise nightmares.
XIX : The Sun – Represents optimism, splendour, happiness and positive energy. It usually reflects happiness or a positive outcome, and is considered one of the most well-favoured cards in the Tarot deck.
XXI : The World – Often represents fulfilment, prosperity, completion, wholeness or contentment. This card represents the ending of the cycle of life, or the pause before the next great cycle of life which begins with The Fool (in the Rider-Waite deck).
0: The Fool – In the Rider-Waite Deck the Trump Cards represent the journey of life undertaken by The Fool. It typically represents being unencumbered, but one common interpretation of The Fool appearing in a spread of trump cards is that it is an instruction to strip down the interpretation of the neighbouring cards to bare essentials, and attempt to shed all obfuscating emotions or thoughts about the divination attempt.


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Home / Mumbai News / 13 farm schemes, loan waiver, SMART project get state nod
13 farm schemes, loan waiver, SMART project get state nod
The cabinet gave its nod to waive off ₹66.56 crore worth of loans taken by 46,735 farmers from 1,393 private money lenders.
mumbai Updated: Sep 09, 2019 23:37 IST
The loans were given to the farmers by the lenders out of their allotted periphery and, thus, were declared as illegal lending.(HT Photo)
Ahead of the upcoming model code of conduct for the Assembly polls, the state cabinet on Monday announced sops worth more than ₹4,000 crore for farmers by widening the scope of the loan waiver, launching direct benefit transfer (DBT) for 13 welfare schemes and introducing effective market platform for farm produce.
These agrarian measures were among the 37 decisions that the state cabinet cleared in its meeting on Monday.
The cabinet gave its nod to waive off ₹66.56 crore worth of loans taken by 46,735 farmers from 1,393 private money lenders. The loans were given to the farmers by the lenders out of their allotted periphery and, thus, were declared as illegal lending. The state, in an exceptional decision, has decided to pay off the loan amount to the lenders, to free up the farmers' loan accounts and make them eligible for fresh credit.
The state also brought 13 farmers-related schemes on the DBT platform to plug leakages and avoid the assistance from going to wrong beneficiaries. By avoiding the human interface, the state government expects the benefits to go directly to the farmers, without any political interference. The scheme would also help entitled farmers to apply for multiple schemes without any hassle.
"The 13 schemes, worth more than ₹2,100 crore, have been brought under the DBT today. With benefits directly going to farmers' accounts, ineligible farmers will get weeded out and lobbying for government grants for farm equipment and schemes will also be curbed," said Anil Bonde, agriculture minister.
The minister said that farmers would have to apply for the scheme online with the help of common services centres at village level. "Since the information is linked with the Aadhaar number, the verification of the farmers becomes easier. We are also planning to integrate the information of the beneficiaries to reduce the time required for the verification," said SVR Srinivas, principal secretary, department of information and technology.
The state cabinet also gave its nod to the ₹2100-crore State of Maharashtra's Agri-business and Rural Transformation (Smart) project assisted by World Bank to enable farmers to get fair price for their farm produce without the intervention of middlemen. The project, which covers 1,000 of the state's villages, aims at enhancing institutional capacity for agribusiness reforms, supporting enterprise growth, market access and building risk-mitigation mechanism.
Bonde said that the government has already singed memorandums of understanding with the corporate houses dealing in farm produce. "We are implementing Smart in 300 projects across the states by involving self-help groups run by women, cooperative organisations, farmer producer companies by funding their value-chain projects. We expect the farmers would fetch at least ₹1,000 more over the minimum support price announced to the produce," he said.
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Liberal Studies Professors Feel Exploited, Some Want to Unionize
WSN has learned that LS professors, who are generally paid less and have shorter contracts than those at other schools, want to unionize to improve current circumstances.
Julia McNeill
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Emily Dai, Contributing Writer
Some Liberal Studies professors are looking to unionize, citing lower pay and a lack of resources and job security.
"Liberal Studies faculty are regarded as second class faculty," said one LS professor, who spoke to WSN on the condition of anonymity due to fear of retaliation by the university.
Founded in 1972, LS was initially a program created for students who may have difficulty keeping up with the academic demands of another NYU school. The two-year program emphasizes an interdisciplinary curriculum and small, seminar-style classes. At the end of their sophomore year, LS students transfer into the school of their chosen major. Since its inception, LS has grown into the second-largest undergraduate program and no longer has any specific admissions criteria.
However, some LS faculty believe that NYU has failed to keep up with the program's transformation and does not allocate it sufficient resources.
"Professors in CAS have much more access to resources in terms of research, funding and teaching development funding," the anonymous professor said. "They have access to paid sabbaticals, so they can develop their research in particular […] so there's a lot of opportunities in the university that Liberal Studies faculty don't have."
Multiple professors who spoke to WSN said unionization efforts are in progress within LS due to some of these complaints. Job stability is another area the anonymous professor pointed to — no LS professors are tenured, and some are employed semester-by-semester.
David Lamoureux, an adjunct instructor teaching economics, is one of many hired semester to semester. Generally, he is happy with LS but did say the lack of job security is stressful.
"I have been rehired every semester, but there's no guarantee that will happen, so that's unsettling," Lamoureux said. "More secure employment is preferable."
Unsurprisingly, Lamoureux is far from the only one in the department with this preference.
"[LS professors] want the criteria for retention to be clearer so it's not just some political decision in a meeting," the anonymous professor said. "If you do certain things, you will be retained; and if you do other things, you won't. They want clarity around retention."
LS professors also say the length of retention is too short. Non-adjunct LS professors are normally recruited on a three-year contract and then on rolling five-year contracts. These rolling contracts have caused some to feel like their positions are subject to volatility.
"One of the things LS faculty are kind of keen to change is that they want to be retained on longer contracts, and that's one of the reasons why unionization is going on," the anonymous professor said. "It's because the clinical faculty want to be retained on longer contracts."
LS professors are also paid much less than other NYU professors. Unlike other faculty's salaries, LS professors' salaries are capped at a certain amount.
WSN obtained a report done by four LS professors last spring called the Salary Subcommittee Report that interviewed full faculty members anonymously. It confirmed that LS professors receive lower salaries — the average salary of a male, associate tenure-eligible professor is $126,681, while the average salary of a male, associate LS professor is $76,687.
The average salary of a male, full tenure-eligible professor is $202,221, while the average salary for a male, full LS professor is $83,212.
"Considering my publications, teaching, years in the program and credentials, I make considerably less than colleagues at other institutions," one LS professor quoted in the report said. "Especially when you adjust for the cost of living in [New York City]."
Another professor quoted in the report said the lower pay made them feel that they were considered to be less successful.
"My salary indicates that the university thinks of contract faculty as 'failed academics,' a phrase I have actually heard used by senior administration to describe contract faculty," the professor said.
University spokesperson John Beckman said there is no prohibition on contract faculty, including LS professors, applying for tenure-track positions. Additionally, Beckman said the comparison of LS professors' salary to that of other professors is a comparison "one cannot make."
"The LS faculty are highly respected members of NYU faculty, and the university recognizes the importance of the work they do and the contributions they make to the educational enterprise," Beckman said in a statement to WSN. "[But the] academic labor market is highly complex and variable. Across the higher education sector, there is significant variation between universities, between schools, and between disciplines."
Lower salaries have forced 43% of responders to the report's survey to take up a second job or extra work in order to supplement their salaries. In the report, professors claimed this affects the quality of LS curriculum.
"It takes energy away from my own scholarship and my responsibilities at Liberal Studies," one professor said. "Teaching 3-3 every year [three courses in both the fall and spring semesters] — I've never had a semester release — is a burnout risk as it is, and additional work doesn't help. I'm living extremely conservatively."
This lower salary has caused many LS professors to express that they feel exploited and unfairly compensated for their labor.
"Though we think of ourselves as smart, in reality, we must be stupid to remain in LS," one LS professor reported. "We are treated like 3rd class faculty (after tenured, and tenure track professors), work harder than most faculty at NYU, and are paid less."
A version of this article appeared in the Monday, October 27, 2019, print edition. Email Emily Dai at [email protected]
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5 Ways to Bootstrap PR for Your Next Startup
Lessons from a serial product creator.
By Robbie Abed@robbieab
Pieter Levels.
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Everyone wants to launch a new product with a lot of fanfare. Unfortunately, it's not as easy as it seems.
Pieter Levels, a Dutch entrepreneur, and self-proclaimed "serial maker," has mastered the art of launching products that get noticed by the press and used by thousands of users on launch day.
His latest project, Hoodmaps is a crowd sourced neighborhood map. It was number one on Product Hunt's homepage and email list, on top of "Show HN" on Hacker News, and hit the front page of Reddit.
On launch day, Hoodmaps was used by over 100,000 people, and at peak had 795 people on the website at the same time. A week later, over 300,000 people have used the app and it's been covered by press worldwide. For someone with little-to-no marketing budget, this was a big launch.
However, this success didn't come as pure luck. I reached out to Levels and asked if he could share some knowledge. Here are five things he says you should do when bootstrapping your next product launch:
1. Solve a problem you have yourself.
Levels travels quite a bit, and says he always struggled to understand what the neighborhoods were like in new cities:
"I'm from Amsterdam. And when people visit my city, they mostly end up in the tourist areas, instead of the ones where actual locals hang out. Simply because they don't know which neighborhoods to go. And I'd have the same problem repeatedly when visiting cities while traveling. So I made Hoodmaps, which lets everyone contribute data visually about where to go in a city."
I've seen many entrepreneurs create products that they wouldn't use themselves and it's an early sign of failure.
No matter how great you think your product is, if no one has any use for it, it won't get press. It's that simple. Start with solving your problems.
2. Build fast and in public.
Many entrepreneurs wait until their product has all the kinks worked out and looked beautiful with finishing touches. Levels does the exact opposite. He live-streamed himself building the site on Twitch from day one, and it was live on day two. It got tweeted every part of the way.
From the creation of the first page to launch, he allowed the public to see what he was building. Not only is this a great way to get feedback from your audience, but it's also a great marketing tactic. Why wait until something is ready to launch when you can get an early group of people who felt like they were part of the creation of the product?
3. Make a press list with the help of your community.
Since the neighborhoods are 100 percent crowd sourced, he needed locals to create accurate representations of their city on the website. To get the attention of locals, he knew he needed local publications to cover him.
So, Levels did what you would expect him to do. He reached out to his community to create a crowd sourced press list for every major city in the world.
The result was the ability for him to understand local press outlets he wouldn't be familiar with.
4. It's okay to spend money on a great .com domain.
Once he settled on Hoodmaps, he did some research and found out that hoodmaps.com was already purchased, but it was up for sale.
A few days later, he bought Hoodmaps.com for $1,795.
"I already owned hoodmaps.io, .net, .org and to be honest it's not necessary to own .com. Especially since it was an unproven product and I didn't know it would be worth it. But it would instantly make the product more credible."
5. Build a community before launch.
It may seem on the surface that Levels is asking a lot of his followers to crowd source his PR list and then on top of that, fill out all the neighborhoods.
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The Barbaresco
The story of a family
A clear philosophy
The seasons of wine
Cellar tours
Everything began in the Albesani vineyard in 1953. A long succession of rows of vines, cultivated by our grandparents and used to make wine.
The Busso philosophy was clear right from the start: to make wines that expressed their terroir. The estate was established in 1953 by Guido, Piero's father. As time went by, our idea of wine became more and more precise. Following Guido's untimely death, at the end of the 1970s, Piero Busso, who had always been closely bound to the area, took over as head of the winery, producing the first bottle of Albesani Barbaresco in 1982. An important step, which clarified the direction to be taken by our production from that moment on.
The wine we strive to bottle is a wine that respects the land, the vine and the fruit. A wine that is able to draw out the characteristics of all three, without distorting them and without forcing things.
With the purchase of new Cru vineyards, we expanded the range of wines produced. In 1985, it was the turn of Barbaresco Bricco Mondino, vinified from grapes grown in the Balluri area (here in Neive). The next addition was Barbaresco Gallina, in 1999, followed twelve months later by San Stunet (Treiso).
Barbaresco is the page on which we continue to write our idea of wine, respectful of the suggestions that come from the terroir, the exposure and the peculiarities that characterise its spirit.
In 2010, in memory of Grandpa Guido, who believed so strongly in the greatness of the Albesani Cru, Barbaresco Albesani Viti Vecchie was born. We make this wine exclusively with grapes from vines planted in the 1950s.
We have always pursued an approach linked to respect for the earth, which goes beyond the organic certification attained, choosing to use no herbicides and no chemical products, employing sustainable treatments and a green attitude well before environmental awareness became as widespread as it is today.
Our working life reflects our family life: in terms of size and characteristics, our winery has always been like this. Piero, his wife Lucia and their children, Pierguido and Emanuela, take care of everything. From work in the vineyard to harvesting, from winemaking to sales. Every aspect of daily life in our winery passes through the hands and in front of the eyes of one of us. With the same passion and the same enthusiasm as always!
Today, the Busso family runs the winery in Neive, with 10 hectares of vines.
Barbaresco has always been the heart of our production.
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I am considering trying the strict diet but am unsure about it due to the limited protein sources. I cannot eat eggs – Despite my attempts I cannot stomach them or eat them without gagging. I can tolerate them in baked goods but not on their own.
For those who have done the forum's strict diet, how have you used the ground hemp seeds?
Also, where do you buy spirulina and chorella? How do you prepare it? Specific brands to look for?
I despised eggs and never ate them in 25 years prior to this diet. When I decided to start this protocol, my health came first so I tried to eat eggs — I would scramble them extremely well or make a well omelet with LOTS of vegetables. It's almost been 2 months, and now I eat scrambled veggies + eggs daily for breakfast and love it. I cook in coconut oil on medium heat; I use onion powder, pepper, and sea salt. The flavor is delicious! I cannot believe I went 26 years fearing eggs when taste buds change and I have adapted to now enjoying eating them.
I cannot attest to spirulina or chorella. You could try hemp protein powder, and add to dishes for additional protein. Do you eat any probiotics sources, such as greek yogurt? That is a staple for me. I use nonfat Fage greek yogurt and one serving is close to 20g of protein.


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Q: Symfony2: Actually integrating FR3DLdapBundle with FOSUserBundle is problematic Has anybody actually integrated the two?  I'm working on doing so now and I don't get how to get past the issues I'm having.
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*FR3DLdapBundle 1.5.x

What is not a problem at the moment is getting the ldap bundle to contact my ldap server and authenticate a user.  That works fine.
The problem is when it comes time to persist the user.  Here's what my user Entity looks like
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namespace JWT\EufonyBundle\Entity;

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use FR3D\LdapBundle\Model\LdapUserInterface;
use FOS\UserBundle\Entity\User as BaseUser;

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 * @ORM\Table(name="user")
 * @ORM\Entity(repositoryClass="JWT\EufonyBundle\Entity\UserRepository")
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class User extends BaseUser implements LdapUserInterface
{
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  /**
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   * {@inheritDoc}
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  public function setDn($dn)
  {
    $this->dn = $dn;
  }

  /**
   * {@inheritDoc}
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  public function getDn()
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    return $this->dn;
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}

This is what the resulting MySQL table looks like
mysql> describe user;
+-----------------------+--------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
| Field                 | Type         | Null | Key | Default | Extra          |
+-----------------------+--------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
| id                    | int(11)      | NO   | PRI | NULL    | auto_increment |
| username              | varchar(255) | NO   |     | NULL    |                |
| username_canonical    | varchar(255) | NO   | UNI | NULL    |                |
| email                 | varchar(255) | NO   |     | NULL    |                |
| email_canonical       | varchar(255) | NO   | UNI | NULL    |                |
| enabled               | tinyint(1)   | NO   |     | NULL    |                |
| salt                  | varchar(255) | NO   |     | NULL    |                |
| password              | varchar(255) | NO   |     | NULL    |                |
| last_login            | datetime     | YES  |     | NULL    |                |
| locked                | tinyint(1)   | NO   |     | NULL    |                |
| expired               | tinyint(1)   | NO   |     | NULL    |                |
| expires_at            | datetime     | YES  |     | NULL    |                |
| confirmation_token    | varchar(255) | YES  |     | NULL    |                |
| password_requested_at | datetime     | YES  |     | NULL    |                |
| roles                 | longtext     | NO   |     | NULL    |                |
| credentials_expired   | tinyint(1)   | NO   |     | NULL    |                |
| credentials_expire_at | datetime     | YES  |     | NULL    |                |
+-----------------------+--------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+

The problem comes from all the columns inherited from FOS\UserBundle\Entity\User - specifically all the NOT NULL columns for which I'll never have values when a user authenticates with LDAP.
So what's the solution here? I can't "fake" values for columns like user.salt or user.password.
I checked the class hierarchy from FOS\UserBundle\Entity\User on up and the requirement for columns like password are in FOS\UserBundle\Model\UserInterface (hierarchy below)
FR3D\LdapBundle\Model\LdapUserInterface <------------------------+
                                                                 |
Symfony\Component\Security\Core\User\UserInterface               |
  ^                                                              |
  +- Symfony\Component\Security\Core\User\AdvancedUserInterface  |
       ^                                                         |
       +- FOS\UserBundle\Model\UserInterface <---+               |
                                                 |               |
FOS\UserBundle\Model\UserInterface <-------------+               |
                                                 |               |
                                      implements |               |
FOS\UserBundle\Model\User -----------------------+               |
  ^                                                              |
  +- FOS\UserBundle\Entity\User                                  |
       ^                                              implements |
       +- JWT\EufonyBundle\Entity\User --------------------------+

This tells me that I actually can't implement LDAP authentication for user's persisted by something that extends FOS\UserBundle\Entity\User, which feels like the same thing as saying "doesn't integrate with FOSUserBundle at all" despite the fact that this seems to be the whole purpose of FR3DLdapBundle.
And if my user class doesn't extends FOS\UserBundle\Entity\User, then I lose all the role/group goodies that FOSUserBundle provides out of the box.
Did I miss something in the documentation? I don't get how to make this work.

A: I don't understand what is your problem. If you set a password and storage it in the DB then the authentication will be against the DB instead of Ldap.
You should have the following providers under the "chain provider" key:
providers: [fos_userbundle, fr3d_ldapbundle]
The order of the providers matters, you can play omitting some of their but NEVER fr3d_ldapbundle can go before fos_userbundle
(https://github.com/Maks3w/FR3DLdapBundle/blob/master/Resources/doc/index.md#6-enable-fosuserbundle-as-user-provider)
If you have some special need to fill some user attribute when the user is created then you can follow this cookbook and setup your own values.
https://github.com/Maks3w/FR3DLdapBundle/blob/master/Resources/doc/cookbook/override_ldap-manager.md
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Latvia still has highest unemployment in EU
By Editor. 01.02.2010
The average seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate in Latvia last December was 22.8 percent, as Latvia registered the highest unemployment rate in the European Union.
Gallery: Unemployment increased
For the fourth month in a row, according to the latest data from the EU statistical office "Eurostat".
Up until last September, unemployment in Latvia was the second highest in the EU, second only to Spain, while in 2007 and the first half of 2008 it was among the lowest in the EU, and lower than the average for the EU as a whole, informs Leta.
The next highest unemployment rates in December were registered in Spain (19.5 percent), Estonia (15.2 percent - third quarter), Lithuania (14.6 percent - third quarter), Slovakia (13.6 percent) and Ireland (13.3 percent).
The lowest unemployment rates were recorded in the Netherlands (4 percent), Austria (5.4 percent), Cyprus (6.1 percent), Luxembourg (6.2 percent), Slovenia (6.8 percent), and Malta (7.2 percent).
In December, the average seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate in the 27 European Union (EU) member states was 9.6 percent, compared to 9.5 percent in November. The unemployment rate in the eurozone reached 10 percent, up from 9.9 percent in November.
In comparison, in December of 2008 the unemployment rate in the 27 EU member states was 7.6 percent, and 8.2 percent in the eurozone.
The unemployment rate over the last year has risen in all EU member states, but the greatest rises were in Latvia (from 11.3 to 22.8 percent), Estonia (from 6.5 to 15.2 percent), and Lithuania (from 6.5 to 14.6 percent).
The lowest rises in unemployment over the year were recorded in Germany (from 7.1 to 7.5 percent), Luxembourg (from 5.3 to 6.2 percent), and Belgium (from 7.1 to 8.2 percent).
"Eurostat" data on unemployment levels in EU member states are based on labor force survey results, including people aged from 15 to 74. A person is considered unemployed if he/she is not working at the moment, is ready to start work in the next weeks, and has been actively looking for work for the previous four weeks.
According to data from the Latvian State Employment Agency, the registered unemployment rate in Latvia at the end of December stood at 16 percent.
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'The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt' Native 1800 upscaled to 4K graphics in 1.51 update
The native 1080 resolution for 'The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt' is upscaled to 4K with 1.51 update. Image Credit: PlayStation/YouTube
1.51 update for 'The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt' upscaled native 1080 resolution to 4K graphics.
by Matthew King (article) and Milos Kitanovic (video)
October 5, 2017 at 6:39 AM Updated on October 5, 2017 at 11:00 AM
The game of the year and multi-awarded action RPG, "The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt" has just received a new update that brings an upgrade from the native 1800 resolution to 4K graphics and more.
In an official statement reported by WCCFTech, game developer CD Projekt RED confirmed that the new 1.51 update is now available for "The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt." It added that the latest patch allows players to take advantage of the additional power provided by the Sony PS4 Pro.
It means the main game and all the additional content feature now offer support for the 4K resolution and a small boost to performance when players play on PS4 Pro system.
The patch size
On Wednesday night, the new update went live and initial reports indicate that the new patch has a 140 MB file size. It is packed with the PlayStation 4 Pro support, which the studio promised earlier and it appears that CD Projekt RED has now fulfilled that promise.
On the other hand, the developer assured the same thing for players who will grab the soon-to-release Xbox One X. The company president Adam Kicisnki announced in September that it will also provide Xbox One X support before the end of 2017.
"We've prepared a 4K version which will be available on PlayStation Pro in just a few days and by the end of the year, it will be available on Xbox One X," Kicisnki said.
"The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt" is currently available to play on PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One consoles.
Gamers received "Blood and Wine" as the second and final expansion in May 2016 before the entire team shifted to focus on its next title called "Cyberpunk 2077."
Other exciting tidbits
Speaking of CD Projekt RED's upcoming open-world RPG, recent news indicates a slew of interesting tidbits about the futuristic video game. Featuring both single-player and multiplayer modes, the title is currently under intensive development that involves a substantial increase in production costs.
An insider also leaked that this title will have a world that is four times bigger than the third installment of "The Witcher" series. Based on hints from the game developer itself, the next game will likely launch before June 2019.
The Witcher 4 coming?
Because of the phenomenal success of Geralt's adventure game series, many are still wondering if "The Witcher 4" is in the works.
Apparently, voice actor Doug Cockle, who takes on the titular role, said he does not know anything about a fourth game.
He revealed, however, that he likes to also get involved in "Cyberpunk 2077" as he enjoys working with the development team. Cockle shared that they joked about it a lot but he has not received a call just yet.
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Americans seek $1 bil. in damages over Fukushima nuclear disaster
A U.S. Marine assists Japanese Self-Defense Force members in removing debris from the grounds of Minato Elementary School in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, in this file photo taken on April 1, 2011.
TOKYO (Kyodo) — Some 200 U.S. residents filed a suit against Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. and a U.S. firm seeking at least $1 billion to cover medical expenses related to radiation exposure suffered during the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, the utility said Monday.
The lawsuit was filed last Wednesday with U.S. federal courts in the Southern District of California and the District of Columbia by participants in the U.S. forces' Operation Tomodachi relief effort carried out in the wake of the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami that crippled TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.
Many of the plaintiffs are suing TEPCO and the U.S. company, whose name was withheld by TEPCO, for the second time after a similar suit was rejected by the federal court in California in January.
They are seeking the establishment of a compensation fund of at least $1 billion to cover medical and other costs, the utility said.
The plaintiffs claim that the nuclear accident occurred due to improper design and management of the plant by TEPCO. They are also seeking compensation for physical and psychological damage suffered as a result of the disaster, said the utility.
In Operation Tomodachi, which began two days after the natural disasters, the aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan and other U.S. military resources and personnel were deployed to deliver supplies and undertake relief efforts at the same time as three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi complex suffered fuel meltdowns.
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20180320/p2g/00m/0dm/023000c
March 21, 2018 Posted by dunrenard | Fukushima 2018	| Sailors Fukushima Suit, Tepco, USS Reagan | Leave a comment
Court rejects call to suspend nuclear reactors in southwestern Japan
The No. 3 (right) and 4 reactors at Kyushu Electric Power Co.'s Genkai Nuclear Power Plant are seen in Genkai, Saga Prefecture, on March 13, 2018.
SAGA, Japan (Kyodo) — A district court in southwestern Japan on Tuesday rejected local residents' request to suspend the planned restart of nuclear reactors in Saga Prefecture over safety concerns.
Some 70 people sought an injunction to halt the restart of the Nos. 3 and 4 reactors at the Genkai nuclear power plant of Kyushu Electric Power Co., scheduled for Friday and May, respectively, questioning safety standards and citing the risks of a volcanic eruption in the region.
But the Saga District Court's Presiding Judge Takeshi Tachikawa said the utility's safety measures are "reasonable" and that the court found "no specific risk of (the reactors) causing serious damage."
The decision was in sharp contrast with a Hiroshima High Court ruling in December to halt the planned restart of a reactor of Shikoku Electric Power Co.'s Ikata plant on the grounds of a possible eruption of Mt. Aso.
As the 1,592-meter volcano is located some 130 kilometers from the Ikata plant, almost the same distance as from the Genkai plant, attention was on how the Saga court would evaluate the risk.
During the trial, the plaintiffs from Saga, Fukuoka, Nagasaki, Kumamoto and Yamaguchi prefectures expressed doubt about the credibility of the new safety standards introduced after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, saying they were compiled when the Fukushima crisis had yet to be resolved.
The plaintiffs also claimed that there is no measure to respond to a catastrophic volcanic eruption which cannot be forecasted.
Kyushu Electric argued it has taken safety steps and that there is no imminent danger of a serious accident.
In June last year, Judge Tachikawa dismissed a similar request from a different group of local residents for an injunction to stop the restart of the two Genkai plant reactors.
Separate from the lawsuits seeking injunctions, some 10,000 people in Japan and abroad have filed a suit demanding suspension of the Genkai reactors.
http://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20180320/p2g/00m/0dm/057000c
March 21, 2018 Posted by dunrenard | Japan	| Court Decision, Genkai NPP | Leave a comment
Fukushima evacuee asks for support at UN
A Japanese woman who evacuated Fukushima after the 2011 nuclear accident has called for international support at the United Nations Human Rights Council.
Akiko Morimatsu delivered a speech at the Council in Geneva on Monday. She moved to Osaka with her 2 children after the accident.
Morimatsu criticized the Japanese government for focusing only on policies that encourage former residents to return to the affected areas.
She called on the international community for support to protect children from further radiation exposure.
A Japanese official said the government will do all it can to expedite reconstruction, keeping in mind that those affected still face difficulty in their daily lives.
The Human Rights Council recommended last November that Japan should continue to support affected residents and voluntary evacuees, in line with requests from Germany and other member states.
The Japanese government says it accepts Council recommendations related to the accident. But it also says it has been providing necessary support in accordance with laws.
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20180320_06/
March 21, 2018 Posted by dunrenard | Fukushima 2018	| Evacuees, Fukushima, United Nations | Leave a comment
Hakodate court rejects plea for injunction to halt construction of Oma MOX plant in Aomori
The Oma nuclear plant (right) is shown under construction Monday in the town of Oma, Aomori Prefecture
HAKODATE, HOKKAIDO – A court has dismissed a request from residents of Hakodate, Hokkaido, for an injunction to halt the construction of Electric Power Development Co.'s nuclear power plant in the town of Oma, across the Tsugaru Strait in nearby Aomori Prefecture.
Handing down the ruling Monday at the Hakodate District Court, the presiding judge, Chikako Asaoka, said it is "difficult to assess the particular risk of a severe accident right now" because it is uncertain when the Oma plant will enter operation.
The ruling also noted that the plant being built by Electric Power Development, also known as J-Power, is undergoing Nuclear Regulation Authority screenings under new standards set after the March 2011 triple core meltdown at Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s Fukushima No. 1 plant.
"It's not reasonable for a court of law to conduct safety examinations without waiting for the NRA screenings," the judge said.
The plaintiffs plan to appeal the ruling, which was the first on a nuclear plant under construction since the Fukushima disaster.
"It's a terrible ruling that makes light of us," said Toshiko Takeda, 69, the leader of the plaintiff group. "How did the court reflect on the Fukushima accident? It's really mortifying."
Construction on the Oma plant started in May 2008. It is about 23 km south of Hakodate, on the other side of the Tsugaru Strait.
In July 2010, a group of citizens including Hakodate residents sued the state and J-Power over the issue. The number of plaintiffs has since risen to 1,164.
The main issue in the lawsuit was the safety of the Oma plant, which will only burn mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel — a blend of uranium and weapons-grade plutonium extracted from spent fuel. The Oma plant will be the world's first fully MOX-powered plant.
The plaintiffs demanded that the project be canceled, arguing that a MOX plant will pose a higher accident risk. They also claimed that the new regulatory standards are inadequate and that there are geographic faults around the plant site.
J-Power insisted that the use of MOX fuel will not necessarily make it difficult to control the reactors.
The Hakodate court admitted that an injunction against the Oma project could be issued if the regulatory standards contained irrational points. But it concluded that the standards could not be deemed to have such points.
Speaking to reporters in Mutsu, Aomori Prefecture, Oma Mayor Mitsuharu Kanazawa welcomed the ruling.
"We've awaited this result, as we hope to proceed steadily" with the nuclear plant project, Kanazawa said.
Separately from the citizens' lawsuit, the Hakodate Municipal Government took similar action at the Tokyo District Court in 2014, unconvinced by the central government's explanations about the Oma project.
A municipal official working on the Tokyo lawsuit said that an accident at the Oma plant could devastate the local fishing and tourism industries.
Hakodate Mayor Toshiki Kudo issued a statement saying that the ruling by the Hakodate court is very regrettable. "We will check details of the ruling to draw lessons for the city's case."
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/19/national/hakodate-court-rejects-plea-injunction-halt-construction-oma-mox-plant-aomori/
March 21, 2018 Posted by dunrenard | Japan	| Construction, Oma NPP | Leave a comment
Why renewable energy is beating nuclear – an unexpected alliance
In effect, we are now seeing an egalitarian-individualist alliance against the conservative hierarchists.
even hierarchists cannot ignore economic reality entirely. The South Carolina project has beenabandoned and the Georgia project only survives through a very large federal loan bailout.
Contrast this with casino complexes in Nevada like MGM Resorts not only installing their own solar photovoltaic arrays but paying many millions of dollars to opt out from the local monopoly electricity supplier. They have campaigned successfully to win a state referendum supporting electricity liberalisation.
The unholy alliance that explains why renewables are trouncing nuclear http://reneweconomy.com.au/the-unholy-alliance-that-explains-why-renewables-are-trouncing-nuclear-96079/ By Dave Toke on 20 March 2018 The Conversation
If recent trends continue for another two years, the global share of electricity from renewables excluding hydropower will overtake nuclear for the first time.
Even 20 years ago, this nuclear decline would have greatly surprised many people – particularly now that reducing carbon emissions is at the top of the political agenda.
On one level this is a story about changes in relative costs. The costs of solar and wind have plunged while nuclear has become almost astoundingly expensive.
The seminal text in this field, Risk and Culture (1982), by the British anthropologist Mary Douglas and American political scientist Aaron Wildavsky, argues the behaviour of individuals and institutions can be explained by four different biases:
Individualists: people biased towards outcomes that result from competitive arrangements;
Hierarchists: those who prefer ordered decisions being made by leaders and followed by others;
Egalitarians: people who favour equality and grassroots decision-making and pursue a common cause;
Fatalists: those who see decision-making as capricious and feel unable to influence outcomes.
The first three categories help explain different actors in the electricity industry. For governments and centralised monopolies often owned by the state, read hierarchists. For green campaigning organisations, read egalitarians, while free-market-minded private companies fit the individualist bias.
The priorities of these groups have not greatly changed in recent years. Hierarchists tend to favour nuclear power, since big power stations make for more straightforward grid planning, and nuclear power complements nuclear weapons capabilities considered important for national security.
Egalitarians like Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth usually oppose new nuclear power plant and favour renewables. Traditionally they have worried about radioactive environmental damage and nuclear proliferation. Individualists, meanwhile, favour whichever technologies reduce costs.
These cultural realities lie behind the problems experienced by nuclear power. To compound green opposition, many of nuclear power's strongest supporters are conservative hierarchists who are either sceptical about the need to reduce carbon emissions or treat it as a low priority.
Hence they are often unable or unwilling to mobilise climate change arguments to support nuclear, which has made it harder to persuade egalitarians to get on board.
This has had several consequences.
Green groups won subsidies for renewable technologies by persuading more liberal hierarchists that they had to address climate change – witness the big push by Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth for the feed-in tariffs that drove solar uptake in the late 2000s, for example. In turn, both wind and solar have been optimised and their costs have come down.
Nuclear largely missed out on these carbon-reducing subsidies. Worse, greens groups persuaded governments as far back as the 1970s that safety standards around nuclear power stations needed to improve. This more than anything drove up costs.
As for the individualists, they used to be generally unconvinced by renewable energy and sceptical of environmental opposition to nuclear. But as relative costs have changed, they have increasingly switched positions.
The hierarchists are still able to use monopoly electricity organisations to support nuclear power, but individualists are increasingly pressuring them to make these markets more competitive so that they can invest in renewables more easily.
Both sides of the pond
Donald Trump's administration in the US, for example, has sought subsidies to keep existing coal and nuclear power stations running.
This is both out of concern for national security and to support traditional centralised industrial corporations – classic hierarchist thinking.
Yet this has played out badly with individualist corporations pushing renewables. Trump's plans have even been rejected by some of his own appointments on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
In similarly hierarchist fashion, electricity supply monopolies in Georgia and South Carolina started building new nuclear power stations after regulatory agencies allowed them to collect mandatory payments from electricity consumers to cover costs at the same time.
Yet even hierarchists cannot ignore economic reality entirely. The South Carolina project has beenabandoned and the Georgia project only survives through a very large federal loan bailout.
The UK, meanwhile, is an example of how different biases can compete. Policy has traditionally been formed in hierarchical style, with big companies producing policy proposals which go out to wider consultation.
It's a cultural bias that favours nuclear power, but this conflicts with a key priority dating back to Thatcher that technological winners are chosen by the market.
This has led policymakers in Whitehall to favour both renewables and nuclear, but the private electricity companies have mostly refused to invest in nuclear, seeing it as too risky and expensive.
The only companies prepared to plug the gap have been more hierarchists – EDF, which is majority-owned by France, and Chinese state nuclear corporations.
Even then, getting Hinkley C in south-west England underway – the first new nuclear plant since the 1990s – required an extensive commitment by the UK treasury to underwrite bank loans.
There is also an embarrassingly high price to be paid for the electricity over a very long 35-year period. Such has been the bad publicity that it's hard to imagine a politician agreeing to more plant on such terms.
Where does this reality leave hierarchists? Increasingly having to explain prohibitive nuclear costs to their electorates – at least in democracies. The alternative, as renewable energy becomes the new orthodoxy, is to embrace it.
In Australia, for example, a big utility company called AGL is trying to seduce homeowners to agree to link their solar panels to the company's systems to centralise power dispatch in a so-called a "virtual power plant".
When the facts change, to misquote John Maynard Keynes, you can always change your mind.
March 21, 2018 Posted by Christina MacPherson | 2 WORLD, renewable	| Leave a comment
How to talk to climate sceptics about climate change: Katharine Hayhoe spells it out
Katharine Hayhoe Reveals Surprising Ways to Talk About Climate Change These climate-skeptic-whispering tactics have nothing to do with science Sierra BY KATIE O'REILLY | MAR 20 2018
Katharine Hayhoe on how to talk about climate change (highlights video)
Katharine Hayhoe isn't your typical atmospheric scientist. Throughout her career, the evangelical Christian and daughter of missionaries has had to convince many (including her pastor husband) that science and religion need not be at odds when it comes to climate change. Hayhoe, who directs Texas Tech's University's Climate Science Center, is CEO of ATMOS Research, a scientific consulting company, and produces the PBS Kids' web series "Global Weirding," rose to national prominence in early 2012 after then-presidential candidate Newt Gingrich dropped her chapter from a book he was editing about the environment. The reason? Hayhoe's arguments affirmed that climate change was no liberal hoax. The Toronto native attracted the fury of Rush Limbaugh, who encouraged his listeners to harass her.
After the ensuing deluge of hate mail, Hayhoe made a habit of reaching out to climate foes. Along with her husband Andrew Farley, she wrote A Climate for Change: Global Warming Facts for Faith-Based Decisions. She also authored 2014's third National Climate Change Assessment for the National Academy of Sciences. Last year, Fortune magazine named Hayhoe one of the world's 50 greatest leaders. While she frequently gives talks on climate science and faith, she often makes a point of keeping science out of her talks………..
Sierra: From a global perspective, the United States stands out for our considerable contingent of vocal climate change deniers. Why do you think this attitude is so uniquely American?
Katharine Hayhoe: There's some of that sentiment in Australia as well, and in Alberta, the province known as the "Texas of Canada." Interestingly, if you look across all countries' fossil fuel resources and political positions on climate, you'll find that economics doesn't account for all of it. Fossil fuel influences certainly have an influence, but look at Norway—oil made them rich! One recent study concluded that the U.S. Republican Party is an anomaly. Social scientists study the characteristics of different cultures—some, for instance, are very hierarchical, some are very communal, and some are very independent. I can do it myself. If you correlate the predominance of rejection of climate science with the independence of the culture, I'd bet you anything you'd find a significant correlation. The U.S. is the most culturally independent country in the world, followed by Australia, and then Alberta is much more independent-minded than other Canadian provinces.
Where does this independence stem from?
It comes from the ruggedness of the terrain and the challenges that people had to overcome and endure—and the recency of those struggles.
……. Of course, fighting climate change requires people to work together for the benefit of the entire community—to not just go it alone. When you try to talk climate action to resilient pioneer types, they're often hearing that the government is gonna be their nanny and pick their car, set their thermostat, limit their water, and tell them what they can and can't do. And rugged individualists do not need a nanny. They believe the government wants to take away their freedom, and what's more American than freedom?…….
So how can you make tough, self-reliant, freedom-loving types care about climate change?
That's the real problem because no one thinks it really matters. Even the people who think it's really important don't tend to think it affects them. Particularly if you're not already a dyed-in-the-wool environmentalist, climate action has be be framed as something that's a natural expression of something you already are—something that makes you feel like a better version of yourself. ……. So when we have these conversations, we need to start from a place of genuine appreciation of values we share with that person or that group…… https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/katharine-hayhoe-reveals-surprising-ways-talk-about-climate-change
March 21, 2018 Posted by Christina MacPherson | 2 WORLD, climate change	| Leave a comment
The "forbidden life" of those caring for abandoned animals in Fukushima
Hero rescues pets from Fukushima nuclear wasteland
The 3/11 kitten that wasn't The "forbidden life" of those caring for abandoned animals in Fukushima, Beyond Nuclear , By Linda Pentz Gunter, 20 March 18 "………. countless animals were indeed abandoned in Japan due to the natural disasters and the forced exile of those living too close to the stricken nuclear plant. Some international rescue groups did go in to try to help, but early on found conditions and access restrictions challenging if not prohibitive.
However, there were also individuals and groups in Japan who were not willing to sit back and watch animals starve. In addition to the rescue operations, a spay-neuter organization began work to prevent the inevitable proliferation of pets who, if they had survived at all, had now become strays. Shelters were eventually built with funds donated by supporters.
But there were some, chronicled in several remarkable films, who either never left, or who quickly returned to Fukushima Prefecture, with one sole purpose in mind: to look after the animals. Their charges soon multiplied and for some, it has become a full-time vocation.
In a 2013 ITN short news segment, we are introduced to 58-year old Keigo Sakamoto, who had already established an animal sanctuary in Nahara, just over 12 miles from the Fukushima plant. He was one who refused the order to evacuate, then found himself completely trapped within the zone, cut off from supplies. He survives on the generosity of individuals and stores outside the zone where he regularly collects discarded food and other supplies essential to keeping his animals — and himself — alive.
Then there are farmers who returned to save their livestock. One such, 53-year old Naoto Matsumura, is featured in the 18-minute Vice documentary, Alone in the Zone. He lives in what was then the ghost town of Tomioka — whose station reopening story we featured last week. But Matsumura could not accept the idea that dogs, cows, goats, ducks and even ostriches should be cast off without a care.
At first he evacuated with his family, fearing all the reactors were going to blow. But when his family faced rejection by relatives who said they were "contaminated", and the hassle of evacuation shelters became unendurable, he returned home alone. And stayed. "I couldn't leave the animals behind," he said. "I am opposed to killing off the animals in the zone."
Feeding them, and refusing to sign the "death warrant" requirement from the government, will, he hopes, spare them from slaughter. "So many of their fellow cattle died in pain," he said, recalling the tragedy of cows left in barnes to starve. "To me, animals and people are equal." ……https://beyondnuclearinternational.org/2018/03/16/the-3-11-kitten-that-wasnt/
March 21, 2018 Posted by Christina MacPherson | environment, Fukushima continuing, Religion and ethics	| Leave a comment
$1 billion case against Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc by Americans affected by Fukushima nuclar dizaster
Americans seek $1 bil. in damages over Fukushima nuclear disaster https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20180320/p2g/00m/0dm/023000c March 20, 2018 (Mainichi Japan) TOKYO (Kyodo) — Some 200 U.S. residents filed a suit against Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. and a U.S. firm seeking at least $1 billion to cover medical expenses related to radiation exposure suffered during the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, the utility said Monday.
March 21, 2018 Posted by Christina MacPherson | Japan, Legal, USA	| Leave a comment
Concern over Russia's nuclear activities in the Arctic – potential for a radiological disaster
With Russia building floating nuclear reactors and possibly testing nuclear-powered cruise missiles, there are good reasons for this training.The Drive, BY JOSEPH TREVITHICKMARCH 20, 2018 The U.S. military, along with other federal and state authorities, has been training to respond to potentially dangerous releases of radioactive material in and around the Arctic. Though there is no clear indication of a direct link between Russia's reported tests of nuclear-powered missiles or expanding use of nuclear power in the region, it is hard not to see these exercises in connection with those developments.
Earlier in March 2018, members of the U.S. National Guards from 10 different states arrived at the Donnelly Training Area, situated near the U.S. Army's Fort Greely in Alaska. Alaska state authorities and members of Canada's reserve 39 Canadian Brigade Group joined the exercise, nicknamed Arctic Eagle 2018, as well.
The drills included a number of different mock crises, including an overturned fuel truck creating a hazardous material spill, the potential for attacks on the Trans Alaskan Pipeline System, and even cyber attacks. But especially notable was a scenario involving the need to locate a crashed satellite and contain the radiological material it had deposited across a wide area as it plummeted to earth. ………
t's definitely no secret that the U.S. military has become increasing interested in preparing for potential conflicts and other contingencies above and near the Arctic Circle in recent years. As global climate change has shrunk the polar ice cap and otherwise reduced the amount of ice buildup that occurs during certain parts of the year, the region has become increasingly important economically and various countries, especially Russia, have moved to enforce their territorial claims.
"The growing concerns regarding the increased number of nations competing for Arctic resources are well justified," U.S. Air Force General Lori Robinson, head of U.S. Northern Command, which oversees operations in the region, and the designated "Advocate for Arctic Capabilities" within the Pentagon, reiterated to members of Congress during a hearing in February 2018. "Diminishing sea ice provides opportunities for significantly expanded access to a region that had previously been inaccessible to all but a handful of northern nations."
…….. the idea of a crashing satellite creating a radiological disaster isn't an entirely fictional scenario. In 1978, the Soviet Union's Kosmos 954 reconnaissance satellite, which had a nuclear reactor as its power source, crashed into Canadian territory, touching off an international incident and prompting an expensive response and clean-up operation.
….. U.S. military and other agencies practicing specifically to handle a radiological incident in the region seems even more noteworthy in light of a number of recent events. Most importantly are Russian claims that it has been testing a cruise missile with theoretically unlimited range that uses a nuclear reactor-powered propulsion system in the Arctic. Anonymous U.S. government officials have since told various media outlets that this is true, but that the weapons have been crashing, potentially spreading radioactive material and components.
…… The Russians have also been dramatically expanding their use and plans to employ small and mobile nuclear reactors to support activities in the Arctic.
….. In addition, there are reports that Russia has begun to develop and potentially deploy small underwater nuclear reactors
……..If any of these nuclear power systems were to fail, it could potentially cause a serious radiological incident that would impact both the United States and Canada. The same procedures American military and other government personnel have been training to employ in response to a crashed satellite would undoubtedly be applicable in those situations, too.
So, while the idea of radioactive space debris might serve as a ready exercise scenario, there are a growing number of very real radiological dangers in the Arctic. Unless the Russians change course, the need to be prepared for a nuclear incident only looks set to become more pronounced in the near future. http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/19450/u-s-training-for-arctic-nuclear-satellite-disaster-amid-russian-weapons-developments Contact the author: jtrevithickpr@gmail.com
March 21, 2018 Posted by Christina MacPherson | ARCTIC, environment, Russia, USA	| Leave a comment
NASA will allow plutonium powered spacecraft – reversing previous policy prohibiting this dangerous system
NASA to allow nuclear power systems for next Discovery mission, Space News by Jeff Foust — March 20, 2018 WASHINGTON — Citing progress in producing plutonium-238, NASA will allow scientists proposing missions for an upcoming planetary science competition to use nuclear power sources.
In a statement issued March 17, Jim Green, director of NASA's planetary science division, said the agency was reversing an earlier decision prohibiting the use of radioisotope power systems for spacecraft proposed for the next mission in the agency's Discovery program.
A "long-range planning information" announcement about plans for the competition, issued Dec. 12, said that the use of such power systems would not be allowed, although missions could use radioisotope heater units, which use a very small amount of plutonium to keep spacecraft elements warm.
NASA made that decision based on projected use of existing stocks of plutonium-238 for upcoming missions, such as the Mars 2020 rover. Dragonfly, one of the two finalists for the next New Frontiers medium-class planetary science mission, also plans to use a radioisotope power system, as well as potential future missions the moon that require nuclear power to operate through the two-week lunar night.
"We have some liens against the radioisotope power," Green said at a Feb. 21 meeting of NASA's Planetary Science Advisory Group, citing those upcoming missions. The agency, he said, needed to balance mission demands against existing stocks of plutonium and efforts currently ramping up to produce new supplies of the isotope, which should reach a goal of 1.5 kilograms a year by around 2022. "The last thing we want to do is to select a mission and then not be ready to fly it."
At the time of the meeting last month, though, Green said the agency was reviewing the prohibition against using nuclear power for the Discovery competition at the request of the scientific community, but didn't offer a schedule for completing that review……. http://spacenews.com/nasa-to-allow-nuclear-power-systems-for-next-discovery-mission/
March 21, 2018 Posted by Christina MacPherson | technology, USA	| Leave a comment
MP wants to stop Britain's supplying of weapons grade nuclear materials to Russia
MP calls for sanctions on nuclear materials trade, Cambrian News , 20 March 2018 by Alex Jones – Meirionnydd, Arfon & Dwyfor reporter @alexj_cn alexj@cambrian-news.co.uk
DWYFOR Meirionnydd's MP has challenged the prime minister about nuclear materials following the suspected attempted murder of a former Russian double agent and his daughter.
Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were in Salisbury earlier this month when both were found in a critical condition on a public bench.
It has since transpired that both had been inflicted with a nerve agent which has left both, and a police officer who attended, fighting for their lives.
The incident has sparked a marked decline in UK and Russian relations.
It has been suggested that Russian involvement was "the only plausible explanation" but the Kremlin has denied responsibility.
In a meeting in the House of Commons last week, Theresa May gave an update on the situation, prompting MP Liz Saville Roberts to challenge the Prime Minister regarding trade of nuclear materials with the former Cold War adversary.
Mrs Saville Roberts said: "Alongside many colleagues in the House, I speak on behalf of my party in calling for a robust and immediate response.
"Sources inform us that Russia is the UK's biggest weapons-grade nuclear substances export market, despite several attempts at a moratorium on depleted uranium by the European Parliament and the United Nations.
"Will the Prime Minister confirm whether the UK is still exporting nuclear substances to Russia?
"If so, surely this should be among the very first sanctions imposed?"……..http://www.cambrian-news.co.uk/article.cfm?id=119768&headline=MP%20calls%20for%20sanctions%20on%20nuclear%20materials%20trade&sectionIs=news&searchyear=2018
March 21, 2018 Posted by Christina MacPherson | politics, UK	| Leave a comment
How a scientist studying earthquakes spent his career working to prevent nuclear explosions,
This earthquake expert dodged Russian surveillance to try to halt nuclear testing , How a scientist studying earthquakes spent his career working to prevent nuclear explosions, The Verge By Rachel Becker@RA_Becks Mar 20, 2018
At 5AM on a June morning in 1974, seismologist Lynn Sykes awoke to a phone call from the Department of Defense. The voice on the other end of the line asked Sykes to be ready to leave for Moscow that evening. The DoD needed his help to negotiate a treaty that would cap the size of the US and Russia's underground nuclear explosions.
Sykes, now a professor emeritus at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, was invited because of his unusual expertise. Sure, he was an expert on earthquakes. But he was also an expert on underground nuclear explosions, which — like earthquakes — can send vibrations ringing through the Earth. So the same devices that monitor and measure quakes can do double duty as secret nuclear test sensors.
In his new book, Silencing the Bomb: One Scientist's Quest to Halt Nuclear Testing, Sykes chronicles his efforts to end explosive nuclear testing. When Sykes visited Russia in 1974, nuclear testing in the atmosphere, underwater, and space had already been banned by the Limited Test Ban Treaty signed in 1963 — the result of public pushback against the perils of radioactive fallout.
But there was an ongoing debate about whether it was possible to tell the size of an underground nuclear explosion from the seismic wiggles picked up by monitoring stations. If there were no sure way to check if someone was cheating on the deal, then neither the US nor Russia wanted to stop underground tests altogether. That's why Sykes was in Russia: to confirm that detecting underground tests was scientifically possible, and to help negotiate a treaty that would limit underground nuclear tests to 150 kilotons or less.
The negotiations were a success, and President Richard Nixon and Soviet premier Leonid Brezhnev signed the treaty about a month later. But the quest for a complete ban on nuclear testing continues. The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, which would ban all nuclear tests of all sizes, was finalized in 1996. But the US, China, Iran, and North Korea still need to ratify it in order for the treaty to enter into force.
In his new book, Sykes reflects on his 50-year career working toward a test ban that is still out of reach. But, he says, he sees the glass as nearly full, since no one except North Korea has exploded a nuke since 1998: "I consider that a big accomplishment," Sykes tells The Verge. "I'm very sad that we didn't have a full test ban way back then. But I did as much I could, I believe, to try and open up this problem." ………. https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/20/17143702/nuclear-testing-underground-explosions-lynn-sykes-book-silencing-the-bomb
March 21, 2018 Posted by Christina MacPherson | USA, weapons and war	| Leave a comment
New plan for fracking method of isolating nuclear wastes
This Father-Daughter Team Says It Has a Cheaper, Safer Way to Bury Nuclear Waste, Startup Deep Isolation wants to use fracking tech to drill horizontal disposal tunnels a mile below the Earth's surface. Bloomberg By Ashlee Vance, 20 March 18 Richard and Elizabeth Muller have come up with one of the more unusual father-daughter businesses in recent memory. On March 20 they announced a startup called Deep Isolation that aims to store nuclear waste much more safely and cheaply than existing methods. The key to the technology, according to the Mullers, is to take advantage of fracking techniques to place nuclear waste in 2-mile-long tunnels, much deeper than they've been before—a mile below the Earth's surface, where they'll be surrounded by shale. "We're using a technique that's been made cheap over the last 20 years," says Richard, a famed physicist and climate change expert. "We could begin putting this waste underground right away."
…….. The U.S. has about 80,000 tons of nuclear waste, mostly sitting at about 70 sites, in aboveground water pools.
……….With each passing year, the U.S. produces an additional 2,000 tons of nuclear waste, and the total is already more than Yucca Mountain was meant to hold. While President Trump has sought a modest $120 million to restart the program, Congress has made clear it's not going to broach the subject in an election year. "It's quite a serious problem," says Rodney Ewing, a Stanford professor of geological sciences who specializes in nuclear security. "As a country, we seem to not be paying attention to the obvious difficulties we have with the waste."
Nuclear waste experts have contemplated deep-drilling for half a century, mostly by proposing to bore straight down into granite and crystalline rock. But tests of these techniques haven't gotten very far, being blocked, on occasion, by the public. These approaches have been deemed costly and possibly unsafe, because stacking containers on top of one another puts so much weight on the bottom drums. The Mullers say it's much cheaper and safer to drill horizontal tunnels, and to do so in shale. They can fit the typical waste canisters (each 1 foot in diameter and 14 feet long) quickly and safely into shale tunnels, they say, given advances in fracking equipment. "Drilling the holes takes a couple weeks at most," says Elizabeth.
…….. It'd be best to keep the tunnels close to existing nuclear waste sites, the Mullers say. The U.S. is so shale-rich that the waste disposal tunnels could be placed near nuclear production sites, so no hauling of waste would be required. The boreholes would also be much deeper than something like Yucca, vastly reducing the chance of radioactive waste leaking into the water supply. "The goal is to get this stuff out of the biosphere, and the farther down you go, the less things change," Elizabeth says. "The waste will have 1 billion tons of rock on top of it and be in shale that has held methane gas and other volatiles for tens to hundreds of millions of years. Things don't leak out." Also, unlike at Yucca, machines could handle all the tunnel work, says Richard: "We're cheaper because we remove a lot less dirt and don't put people underground."
The elder Muller first made his name dealing with radiation much farther away. As a professor at the University of California at Berkeley and senior scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Richard did that pioneering research on dark energy and cosmic radiation, including work on projects that eventually earned Nobel Prizes. After he and Elizabeth co-founded Berkeley Earth, a nonprofit that measures global temperature and climate change, he went from being one of the most prominent global warming doubters to one of the loudest voices confirming that climate change is real and caused by humans.
…….. Before the Mullers can drill any holes in shale, they have massive challenges to overcome. Stanford's Ewing says Deep Isolation will likely struggle to persuade dozens of communities to accept having a long-term nuclear waste site nearby and to persuade the government to let commercial companies tackle the problem. The two have drafted federal legislation that could lead to private nuclear waste disposal. "The government might allow this," says Allison Macfarlane, former chair of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. "The real question is whether such a small startup company would have the resources to go through the licensing over such a long time period."……..https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-20/this-father-daughter-team-says-it-has-a-cheaper-safer-way-to-bury-nuclear-waste
March 21, 2018 Posted by Christina MacPherson | USA, wastes	| Leave a comment
Over 15 miles of piping at former uranium enrichment facility to be monitored by robots
Pipe-crawling robot will help decommission DOE nuclear facility, Radiation-measuring robots go where humans cannot Science Daily
A pair of autonomous robots will soon be driving through miles of pipes at the US Department of Energy's former uranium enrichment plant in Piketon, Ohio, to identify uranium deposits on pipe walls.
A pair of autonomous robots developed by Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute will soon be driving through miles of pipes at the U.S. Department of Energy's former uranium enrichment plant in Piketon, Ohio, to identify uranium deposits on pipe walls.
The CMU robot has demonstrated it can measure radiation levels more accurately from inside the pipe than is possible with external techniques. In addition to savings in labor costs, its use significantly reduces hazards to workers who otherwise must perform external measurements by hand, garbed in protective gear and using lifts or scaffolding to reach elevated pipes.
DOE officials estimate the robots could save tens of millions of dollars in completing the characterization of uranium deposits at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Piketon, and save perhaps $50 million at a similar uranium enrichment plant in Paducah, Kentucky.
…….. Shuttered since 2000, the plant began operations in 1954 and produced enriched uranium, including weapons-grade uranium. With 10.6 million square feet of floor space, it is DOE's largest facility under roof, with three large buildings containing enrichment process equipment that span the size of 158 football fields. The process buildings contain more than 75 miles of process pipe.Finding the uranium deposits, necessary before DOE decontaminates, decommissions and demolishes the facility, is a herculean task. In the first process building, human crews over the past three years have performed more than 1.4 million measurements of process piping and components manually and are close to declaring the building "cold and dark."
"With more than 15 miles of piping to be characterized in the next process building, there is a need to seek a smarter method," said Rodrigo V. Rimando, Jr., director of technology development for DOE's Office of Environmental Management……….https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/03/180320084315.htm
Japanese Court sides with power company over Oma nuclear plant
Court sides with power company over Oma nuclear plant http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201803190056.html, By KAZUKI NUNOTA/ Staff Writer, March 19, 2018 HAKODATE, Hokkaido–A court in northern Japan on March 19 dismissed a lawsuit to halt construction of a nuclear power plant in Aomori Prefecture on grounds there was no realistic possibility of a serious accident occurring.
Electric Power Development Co. (J-Power) is overseeing construction of the Oma nuclear plant in Oma, across the sea from Hakodate.
The facility is undergoing screening by the Nuclear Regulation Authority to ensure it meets new safety standards imposed after the 2011 Fukushima disaster.
Presiding Judge Chikako Asaoka at the Hakodate District Court said in her ruling, "At the moment, it is difficult to readily recognize the tangible danger of a grave accident likely to occur at the plant."
The lawsuit focused on whether an active seismic fault existed in the seabed near the construction site, the dangers posed by the possibility of volcanic eruptions in the area and concerns about using only mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel, consisting of plutonium and uranium, as nuclear fuel.
The suit was filed in July 2010 by a group of 1,000 or so plaintiffs.
March 21, 2018 Posted by Christina MacPherson | Japan, legal	| Leave a comment


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Vacation! Saw Sadat off. Had meeting on defense & another on speech to be made in Chi. Sept. 2nd. then off to Calif. landed at Pt. Mugu then Marine 1 to the ranch in time for dinner. Much has been done at the ranch re security facilities, office spaces etc. But it is all temporary & as minimal in its effect on appearance. Our new well produces about 60 gals. a minute which eliminates water problems. The Sea Bees have really worked even if their heavy equipment has churned the roads into dust bowls. On Wed. the 12th we had them all up for a B.B.Q. (about 90). One re-enlisted while there. His mates then tossed him into the lake, clothes & all. Every day was beautiful except for about 2 hours the morning of the 13th—then we had fog & the press for the signing of the budget & tax bills. An hour after everyone left the sun came out. Each day we rode in the A.M. then in the afternoon Barney, Dennis & I with vol. help from Dr. Ruge & our mil. aides cut up downed limbs & built brush piles for rainy season burning. Ten days of this—our longest single stretch at the ranch. The S.S. agents have caps titled U.S.S.S. Mounted Patrol. They have become enthusiastic horsemen. Met with Haig the afternoon of the 16th. On the 17th back to L.A. & the Century Plaza. Every night was a dinner out—with old friends. It was really enjoyable. The days were rather busy. Meetings—Cap., N.S.C., Charles Wick. A pol. reception on the 17th. More meetings on following days on Budget, with Sen. Tower & Cong. Dickinson on MX, the A.M.A. representatives etc. Thurs. the 20th went out on the Constellation. My 1st visit to a carrier. It was inspiring and renewed my faith in the vol. military. Forty men re-enlisted while I was on board. Stopped in Orange Co. for a Repub. fundraiser. August 22nd back to the ranch. We had finally made a dream come true. Bud Bredall made part of the barn into a tack room. We now have a dozen saddles & they were being stacked on top of each other. It turned out great. We're waiting for word our house is sold so we can put up a guest house & a house to replace Lee's trailer. Our buyer is strange and each day Escrow is to close making the sale final, a new excuse pops up delaying it. Cap & Ed came up for a meeting. Went to Santa Barbara one evening for a reception we gave the press corps, a Repub. fundraiser and finally a quiet dinner with the Deutches at the Tuttles. Back to the ranch for the last few days and then to L.A. A few more meetings and then to Chi. on Sept. 2nd. Back into the "iron vest." We have an intelligence report that Quadaffi has told others he intends to have me assassinated. It's a strange feeling to find there is a "contract" out on yourself. Sept. 3rd addressed about 5,000 Carpenter Union delegates at McCormack Place in Chi. Expected possibly a cool reception but it turned out fine including my remarks about the PATCO strike. Back in Wash. and we begin again.
President Reagan travels from Los Angeles, CA to Chicago, IL.
President Reagan attends the Illinois Forum Reception and fundraising event.
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Steve Nash injury: Lakers guard could miss Friday's game vs. Suns
The Phoenix Suns might have to wait longer than they hoped to get their revenge on Lakers PG Steve Nash for betraying their franchise.
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The highly-anticipated first battle between Steve Nash and his former team might not be happening this week as the Los Angeles Lakers point guard is unsure of his status for Friday's game against the Phoenix Suns.
Nash has missed the past five games as he recovers from a small fracture in his left leg but he did say that he would "love to play" in his first game against the Suns since he inked a six-year, $63 million contract with the franchise back in 2004.
According to Mark Medina of the Los Angeles Times, Lakers doctors estimated Nash would be out at least one more week after they re-examined him last Friday. The optimistic end of that prognosis would mean that he has a chance to play when the Suns come into town but the Lakers will undoubtedly play it safe with their 38-year-old point guard.
And with new head coach Mike D'Antoni still rehabbing from the knee surgery he underwent at the start of November, it's possible Nash and the man who helped make him a two-time MVP could make their returns at the same time.
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Satori is Zen Buddhism term for a, usually brief, Connection Experience that leads to awakening/understanding/realization. When we achieve satori we realize the true nature and essence of Self, as well as related truths about the nature of Consciousness and our relation to it.[1]
2.1 Huston Smith
Zen Buddhism > Ansho no zen, Ashi, Daigo, Dharma, Kensho, Mushi-dokugo, Original Face, Satori, Shogo, Shukkejin, Yako Zen, Zaikejin, Zanmai, Zazen
LP > Connection > Connection Experience > Awakening Experience > Awakening Experience Outcome
"The ultimate destination of satori is towards the Self; it has no other end but to be back within oneself."[2]
Satori is "acquiring a new point of view for looking at things....the sudden flashing into consciousness of a new truth hitherto undreamed of....Religiously, it is a new birth; intellectually, it is the acquiring of a new viewpoint. The world now appears as if dressed in a new garment, which seems to cover up all the unsightliness of dualism, which is called delusion in Buddhist phraseology."[3]
"Satori is the raison d'etre of Zen without which Zen is no Zen. Therefore every contrivance, disciplinary and doctrinal, is directed towards satori. Zen masters could not remain patient for satori to come by itself; that is, to come sporadically or at its own pleasure. IN their earnestness to aid their disciplines in the search of the truth of Zen their manifestly enigmatic presentations were designed to create in their disciplines a state of mind which would more systematically open the way to enlightenment. [4]
Huston Smith
On the ongoing and process nature of awakening/satori.
Ch'an expressions refer to enlightenment as "seeing your self-nature". But even this is not enough. After seeing your self-nature, you need to deepen your experience even further and bring it into maturation. You should have enlightenment experience again and again and support them with continuous practice. Even though Ch'an says that at the time of enlightenment, your outlook is the same as of the Buddha, you are not yet a full Buddha. [5]
There is a recognition in the literature that satori is a process. "When satori first arrives, its momentousness is likely to make it seem ultimate, the be-all and end-all of existence. As life goes on, however, one recognizes that this is not the case. Routine reasserts itself, and one discovers that even those who have had powerful satoris sometimes misbehave. At this point there enters the realization that comes to be stressed increasingly in later texts. In those texts satori is not the goal; it is the first major hurdle in the unending endeavour to work the satori experience into the fabric of one's daily life until one's entire life takes on a satoric quality.[6]
Sosteric, Mike. (SOA). The Science of Ascension. Unpublished. [1]
Sharp, Michael (GA). The Great Awakening: Concepts and Techniques for Successful Spiritual Practice.
Sosteric, Mike (2019). Lightning Path Workbook One: Introduction to Authentic Spirituality. Lightning Path Press. [2]
Sosteric, Mike and Ratkovic, Gina (2019,BOOK2). Lightning Path Workbook Two: Healing. Lightning Path Press. [3]
↑ https://terebess.hu/zen/szoto/szotar/szotar.html and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_Buddhi
↑ Suzuki, D.T. An Introduction to Zen Buddhism. Grove Press, 1994. p. 47. https://amzn.to/2Tp6gWG
↑ Suzuki, D.T. An Introduction to Zen Buddhism. Grove Press, 1994. p. 49-50. https://amzn.to/2Tp6gWG
↑ Yen, Found in Wikipedia entry for Satori, but an incomplete reference. Chan Master Sheng (2006), Boston & London: Shambhala
↑ Huston, Smith. Cleansing the Doors of Perception. Boulder, CO: Sentient Publications, 2000.p. 43
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