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Der letzte Zeuge (The Last Witness) is a German crime television series set in Berlin. Created by Gregor Edelmann, it aired on ZDF from 1998 to 2007 and was mostly directed by Bernhard Stephan. It stars Ulrich Mühe as medical examiner Dr Robert Kolmaar, along with Gesine Cukrowski as his colleague Dr Judith Sommer and Jörg Gudzuhn as commissioner Johannes "Joe" Hoffer. After Mühe's death in 2007, both Gudzuhn and Cukrowski stated  they did not want to continue without him, which is why the ZDF would later announce the series' termination.

Episodes

Season 1 (1998)
 The triangle of death (Das Dreieck des Todes)
 The night a goner dies (Die Nacht, in der ein Toter stirbt)
 Sweet death (Der süße Tod)
 Since they're aware of what they're doing (Denn sie wissen, was sie tun)
 When two moons collide (Wenn sich zwei Monde kreuzen)
 When evil awakes (Wenn das Böse erwacht)

Season 2 (1999)
 Flies, maggots, death (Die Fliegen, die Maden, der Tod)
 For vengeance is mine (Denn die Rache ist mein)
 Hovering angels (Schwebende Engel)
 Stroke upon stroke (Schlag auf Schlag)
 Bank, love, death (Die Bank, die Liebe, der Tod)
 Kill your enemy's enemy (Töte den Feind deines Feindes)
 Under the skin (Unter die Haut)

Season 3 (2000)
 Death of the white knight (Der Tod des weißen Ritters)
 A man returns (Ein Mann kommt zurück)
 The extortion (Die Erpressung)
 Family ties (Familienbande)
 The fourth man (Der vierte Mann)
 The road to hell (Der Weg zur Hölle)
 Three years and one night (Drei Jahre und eine Nacht)
 The last image (Das letzte Bild)

Season 4 (2002)
 Holy war (Der heilige Krieg)
 A walkover (Ein Kinderspiel)
 Death of a star (Tod eines Stars)
 The duel (Das Duell)
 The abduction (Die Entführung)
 The trap (Im Netz)
 Some, they say, are condemned (Manche, sagt man, sind verdammt)

Season 5 (2003)
 The day a bird fell from the sky (Der Tag, an dem ein Vogel vom Himmel fiel)
 The value of truth (Der Preis der Wahrheit)
 The bullet in the way of the world (Die Kugel im Lauf der Dinge)
 The alumni reunion (Das Klassentreffen)
 The show goes on (Die Show geht weiter)
 One won't die in the shade (Im Schatten stirbt man nicht)
 The curse of the last king (Der Fluch des letzten Königs)
 Skin of iron (Haut aus Eisen)

Season 6 (2004)
 I hate my mother (Ich hasse meine Mutter)
 The green diamond (Der grüne Diamand)
 The curse of the lost treasures (Der Fluch der verlorenen Schätze)
 The ones longing for love (Die sich nach Liebe sehnen)
 White noise (Das weiße Rauschen)
 The anatomy of the heart (Anatomie des Herzens)
 Bitter in the finish (Bitter im Abgang)
 The forgotten death (Der vergessene Tod)
 The boys from Dahlem (Die Jungs aus Dahlem)
 Burning craving (Brennende Gier)
 The nightmare (Der Albtraum)
 Frogs, children, death (Die Frösche, die Kinder, der Tod)
 Childhood sweetheart (Sandkastenliebe)

Season 7 (2005)
 The muckraker (Die Sensationsreporterin)
 There's life in the liars yet (Lügner leben länger)
 English title unknown (Die Tote aus dem Moor)
 The wheel of life (Das Rad des Lebens)
 The unscrupulous woman (Die Frau ohne Gewissen)

Season 8 (2006)
 Children of rage (Kinder des Zorns)
 Doors into the night (Türen in der Nacht)
 Late love (Späte Liebe)
 English title unknown (Tod eines Tänzers)
 The [female] judge (Die Richterin)
 Gambit star (Gambit Star)
 In the glass coffin (Im gläsernen Sarg)
 The pink smile (Das rosa Lächeln)
 I die, you live (Ich sterbe, du lebst)
 The murderer of my son (Der Mörder meines Sohnes)

Season 9 (2007)
 The murderer's handwriting (Die Handschrift des Mörders)
 Fatal desire (Tödliche Lust)
 Hushed up (Totgeschwiegen)
 The Martins-Passion (Martinspassion)
 Among sisters (Unter Schwestern)
 English title unknown (Den Sieg im Blut)
 Deadly beauty (Tödliche Schönheit)
 The poison of silence (Das Gift des Schweigens)
 The murderer's tidings (Botschaft des Mörders)

See also
List of German television series

Sources
 Article from the French Wikipedia
 Article from the German Wikipedia
 Recension on the 9th season on Splashmovies
 Episode guide on the series

References

External links

German crime television series
1990s German police procedural television series
2000s German police procedural television series
1998 German television series debuts
2007 German television series endings
Television shows set in Berlin
German-language television shows
ZDF original programming

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Christmas tree decorated in Chernobyl 'ghost town'
By News from Elsewhere...
...as found by BBC Monitoring
image captionFormer residents returned to the abandoned city to decorate the tree
A Christmas tree has been put up for the first time since the 1986 Chernobyl disaster in the central square of the nearby "ghost town" of Pripyat, Ukraine's ZIK TV channel reports.
Once home to more than 47,000 residents, Pripyat - about 3km (1.9 miles) from the former nuclear plant - remains deserted because of radiation pollution.
Former residents came to the abandoned city to decorate the tree with family photos as part of a campaign organised by the Association of Chernobyl Tour Operators.
Some of them told Suspilne.Media that they had also brought clock decorations as a "symbol of the flow of time and the fact that over time the town does not die but gets revived".
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Kateryna Aslamova from the Chernobyl Tour company said it was the first time some former residents had returned to Pripyat since their evacuation after the world's worst nuclear accident.
image captionClock decorations were hung up to symbolise the passing of time
"The town must live, and for this to happen it must be saved," she said.
Her company would like to see Pripyat and parts of the exclusion zone around the plant become a Unesco World Heritage site.
"Life is returning to Pripyat," said Yaroslav Yemelyanenko, founder of the Chernobyl Hub.
"It is unusual, irregular and touristic. Every day, the once deserted town is filled with tourists from all over the world. They come to learn our history, which changed the course of events in the whole world."
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GBV: Group decries abuse of women, girls in communities
Ifeanyi Nwoko December 11, 2021 2 min read
"These champions were given the right capacities to understand the issue of gender injustices," she said, adding that a lot of people had started speaking up and taking actions to address the issue.
By Bridget Ikyado/Angela Atabo
A non-governmental organisation, Christian Aid Nigeria, has expressed worry that some communities condone gender-based violence and abuse of women and girls.
The Gender Officer of the group, Mrs Mercy Onyema, expressed the worry on Friday in Abuja while speaking to newsmen in commemoration of 16 Days Activism Against Gender-Based Violence (GBV).
She said that there was the need for everybody to speak up to curb the menace.
Onyema said that Christian Aid had created a programme – Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Champions – in Makarfi and Kubau local government areas of Kaduna State, to address the issue.
She disclosed that more than 30 people had been working to drive the advocacy and ensure inclusive participation.
Onyema said that the organisation's other projects aimed at curbing GBV included networking with traditional leaders in North East, North West, South West, South East and at the national level to tackle gender-based violence.
She said that issues such as female genital mutilation, child marriage and widowhood practices, among others, were being tackled through the projects.
"We also have our youth advocates for gender injustices to make them understand the importance of speaking up," she said.
The Country Director of the organisation, Mr Temitope Fashola called for enactment of Violence Against Persons Prohibition (VAPP) Act in states.
According to him, the law would help Nigerians to know their rights more.
The organisation's Acting Head of Programs, Mr Victor Arokoyo, said that women suffered gender-based violence more.
Arokoyo called for collective efforts in eliminating GBV. (NAN)
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Residence Inn by Marriott in West Orange to Offer Three Group Packages to Commence 2017
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To celebrate the New Year, Residence Inn by Marriott in West Orange, N.J., will offer three group-geared packages to peak interest in booking a meeting or wedding block at the hotel. The first package, the Meet and Thrive package, offers a 5 percent room rate discount for groups of 10 or more rooms. This package also includes 2,000 additional Marriott Reward Points and a complimentary AM/PM Coffee Break. The Meet and Thrive package is offered from Jan. 1, 2017 through Dec. 31, 2017. For small groups of 10 to 35, Residence Inn by Marriott West Orange is offering $100 credit voucher for booking a meeting and a free welcome amenity. This offer is valid from Jan. 1, 2017 through Apr. 1, 2017, with rates starting at $169 per night plus 15 percent tax. The last package is a wedding couples package and features a complimentary bridal suite when a rehearsal dinner and a block of rooms is booked. Availability and rates are the same as the small groups package. Residence Inn by Marriott in West Orange is a pet-friendly hotel that features 128 suites and 2,394 square feet of flexible meeting space. It is located 20 minutes from Manhattan and is in close proximity to Essex's premier weeding venues, country clubs, historic sights and more.
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UK to use Regulatory Asset Base (RAB) funding for Wylfa nuclear plant, exposing consumers to financial risk?
Times 13th Jan 2019 Ministers will be forced to pioneer a new way of financing nuclear power after Hitachi walked away from a £16bn plant in north Wales. The suspension of the Japanese giant's Horizon project on Anglesey, expected to be confirmed at a board meeting tomorrow, will force the government to lure investors with a financing method that would pile costs on to consumers, even before a plant has been built.
Ministers are expected to accelerate plans to introduce regulated asset base (RAB) financing, which is popular in the water and infrastructure sectors, for nuclear plants including the Horizon site. Hitachi's mothballing of its scheme, which could cost about 400 jobs, will be a damaging blow to Britain's energy policy.
In November, its Japanese counterpart Toshiba scrapped plans to build a nuclear plant at Moorside in Cumbria. Japan's withdrawal from the UK market will kill the country's ambitions to sell reactors around the globe.
It leaves Britain dependent on France's EDF and the Chinese company CGN. Together they are
building the £20bn Hinkley Point power station in Somerset, and CGN has ambitions to build its own reactors on the Essex coast at Bradwell-on-Sea. Industry insiders said state-controlled CGN could swoop on Anglesey if Hitachi puts the project up for sale. Kepco of South Korea would also be interested.
The project's collapse follows years of negotiations between Tokyo and London. Last summer Britain agreed to split the equity equally with the Japanese government and Hitachi. Ministers were keen to avoid a repeat of the deal struck with EDF, which guarantees at least £92.50 per
megawatt hour for Hinkley Point's electricity for 35 years. The Horizon deal would have guaranteed about £75 per megawatt hour, falling to the £50s for future reactors on the site.
However, the Japanese government balked at the risk, and tried to pass the equity on to Japanese utility companies. That triggered nervousness at Hitachi, a conglomerate with interests from train manufacturing to power grids. Nuclear power makes up just 4% of its business.
Shares in Hitachi surged almost 9% on Friday amid speculation about Horizon being halted, despite the company having spent more than £2bn on the plans.
EDF is keen to use RAB financing for Sizewell C in Suffolk, its next UK plant. The funding method, which allows investors to earn a set return, has been used for a huge new sewer beneath London and Terminal 5 at Heathrow. However, the pre-funding formula passes some of the risk of cost overruns on to consumers, and their bills rise even before a project has been completed.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/fce4e714-169e-11e9-9e09-701e9f424b2e
January 14, 2019 Posted by Christina MacPherson | business and costs, politics, UK	| Leave a comment
Collapse of UK's nuclear power plans as Hitachi Exit Follows Toshiba
U.K's Nuclear Future Fades as Hitachi Exit Follows Toshiba, Bloomberg, By Lars Paulsson and Mathew Carr January 11, 2019,
EDF's atomic plants need to be replaced by new generation
Offshore wind could be the winner from withdrawal, RBC says
…….Japanese conglomerate Hitachi Ltd. will halt work on the Wylfa project and take a one-time charge as negotiations with the British government over funding stalled, the Nikkei newspaper reported. After Toshiba Corp.'s withdrawal from its Moorside plant in November, it leaves the nation with just Electricite de France SA's Hinkley Point project underway and that's been mired in controversy because of delays and the cost to the U.K. consumer.
……..The Nikkei report said the company's board will make a decision next week and cited an unidentified executive saying the project isn't being abandoned entirely and could be restarted in the future.
Toshiba said in November it planned to liquidate NuGeneration Ltd., its U.K. nuclear power developer, after failing to find a partner or a buyer for the Moorside project. In September, China General Nuclear said it may give upthe chance to operate a nuclear plant at Bradwell amid political sensitivities over Chinese investments, the Financial Times reported.
As the U.K. is running out of nuclear options, other technologies stand to benefit.
"We see offshore wind as increasingly viable," said John Musk, utilities analyst at RBC Europe Ltd. Natural gas power will probably provide a significant amount of the baseload power not met by renewables……..https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-11/u-k-s-nuclear-future-fades-as-hitachi-exit-follows-toshiba
January 14, 2019 Posted by Christina MacPherson | politics, UK	| Leave a comment
The fossil fuel industries' successful strategy, conning the media to doubt climate change
By demanding "balance," the industry transformed climate change into a partisan issue. We know that was a deliberate strategy because various internal documents from ExxonMobil, Shell, the American Petroleum Institute and a handful of now-defunct fossil fuel industry groups reveal not only the industry's strategy to target media with this message and these experts, but also its own preemptive debunking of the very theories it went on to support.
many took the industry's bait, routinely inserting denialist claims into stories about climate science in the interest of providing balance:
How the fossil fuel industry got the media to think climate change was debatable, WP, By Amy Westervelt, Amy Westervelt is an audio and print reporter who covers climate and gender, and sometimes the intersection of the two. Her podcast Drilled is about the creation and spread of climate denial and her first book "Forget 'Having It All'" was published by Seal Press in November 2018., January 10 2019
Late last year, the Trump administration released the latest national climate assessment on Black Friday in what many assumed was an attempt to bury the document. If that was the plan, it backfired, and the assessment wound up earning more coverage than it probably would have otherwise. But much of that coverage perpetuated a decades-old practice, one that has been weaponized by the fossil fuel industry: false equivalence.
Although various business interests began pushing back against environmental action in general in the early 1970s as part of the conservative "war of ideas" launched in response to the social movements of the 1960s, when global warming first broke into the public sphere, it was a bipartisan issue and remained so for years. On the campaign trail in 1988, George H.W. Bush identified as an environmentalist and called for action on global warming, framing it as a technological challenge that American innovation could address. But fossil fuel interests were shifting as the industry and its allies began to push back against empirical evidence of climate change, taking many conservatives along with them.
Documents uncovered by journalists and activists over the past decade lay out a clear strategy: First, target media outlets to get them to report more on the "uncertainties" in climate science, and position industry-backed contrarian scientists as expert sources for media. Second, target conservatives with the message that climate change is a liberal hoax, and paint anyone who takes the issue seriously as "out of touch with reality." In the 1990s, oil companies, fossil fuel industry trade groups and their respective PR firms began positioning contrarian scientists such as Willie Soon, William Happer and David Legates as experts whose opinions on climate change should be considered equal and opposite to that of climate scientists. The Heartland Institute, which hosts an annual International Conference on Climate Change known as the leading climate skeptics conference, for example, routinely calls out media outlets (including The Washington Post) for showing "bias" in covering climate change when they either decline to quote a skeptic or question a skeptic's credibility.
Data on how effective this strategy has been is hard to come by, but anecdotal evidence of its success abounds. In the early 1990s, polls showed that about 80 percent of Americans were aware of climate change and accepted that something must be done about it, an opinion that crossed party lines. By 2008, Gallup found a marked partisan divide on climate change. By 2010, the American public's belief in climate change hit an all-time low of 48 percent, despite the fact that those 20 years saw increased research, improved climate models and several climate change predictions coming true.
It need not have been such a successful strategy: If news purveyors really wanted to be evenhanded on coverage of climate change, they could certainly weave in the insights of more conservative scientists — those whose predictions err on the sunnier side of apocalypse. Instead, many took the industry's bait, routinely inserting denialist claims into stories about climate science in the interest of providing balance: In an analysis of 636 articles covering climate change that appeared in "prestige U.S. outlets" from 1988 to 2002, researchers from the University of California at Santa Cruz and American University found that 52.65 percent presented climate science and contrarian theories as equal. The practice continued into the mid-2000s. As recently as 2007, PBS NewsHour invited well-known (and widely debunked) former weatherman Anthony Watts on to counterbalance Richard Muller, a former Koch-funded skeptic who had shifted his view…………
It's well past time the media stopped allowing itself to be a tool in the fossil fuel industry's information war. Oreskes likens the push for "balance" on climate change to journalists arguing over the final score of a baseball game. "If the Yankees beat the Red Sox 6-2, journalists would report that. They would not feel compelled to find someone to say actually the Red Sox won, or the score was 6-4," she says. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/01/10/how-fossil-fuel-industry-got-media-think-climate-change-was-debatable/
January 14, 2019 Posted by Christina MacPherson | climate change, USA	| Leave a comment
What are the hazards of transferring spent nuclear fuel rods from dry cask to canister repository?
Derek Abbott Nuclear Fuel Cycle Watch South Australia, 13 Jan 19, Something that is never discussed about dry cask storage (before it is transferred into a repository canister) is that the fuel rods have been emitting alpha particles for 40 years in the dry cask.
The nuke enthusiasts who don't understand physics naively think those alpha particles are impotent. They say "a piece of paper can block an alpha particle." True but misleading.What actually happens is that alpha particles do indeed get blocked and don't go far within a fuel rod, but they get converted to back to helium. [Remember an alpha particle is a helium nucleus anyway].So you get helium bubbles building up inside the fuel rod. Over 40 years this can fracture the fuel rod into pieces. So transferring the rods into a repository canister may not be possible. Because no one has actually opened up a bunch of old dry casks to get the rods into a repository yet, there isn't much experience on exactly how much alpha particle damage affects the rods. I'm not sure there has even been a proper study of this. I am searching and will post it here if I find a study. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1021186047913052/
January 14, 2019 Posted by Christina MacPherson | 2 WORLD, wastes	| 1 Comment
US on verge of 139GW solar boom — RenewEconomy
New research reveals the United States sits on the precipice of what could be a monumental solar boom set to play out over the next five years. The post US on verge of 139GW solar boom appeared first on RenewEconomy.
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January 14, 2019 Posted by Christina MacPherson | Uncategorized	| 2 Comments
USA govt could live with a Nuclear North Korea, but wouldn't admit it
Can America Live with a Nuclear North Korea? National Interest, January 11, 2019 MilitaryTechnologyWorldICBM
Question: Can America live with an atomic North Korea, and could any presidential administration openly admit it can? The answer: Yes it can, and no it couldn't.
by James Holmes friend asks: can America live with an atomic North Korea, and could any presidential administration openly admit it can? Yes it can, and no it couldn't. The Trump administration and its successors can live with a North Korean doomsday arsenal because living with it represents the least bad option at hand. Military action is the other apparent alternative to the administration's " maximum pressure " strategy of stifling the North into compliance through diplomacy and UN-approved economic sanctions . Yet the hazards, costs, and sheer uncertainty of war abound. Few presidents would embrace armed force barring an unambiguous and egregious provocation from Kim Jong-Un & Co.
Forcibly disarming Pyongyang could and probably would involve sacrificing thousands of American and Korean lives. Here's a crude yardstick. The Korean War, a conventional conflict to preserve an independent South Korea, cost the United States some 37,000 military lives. Many more service folk suffered wounds. Thirty-seven thousand. That's more than fivefold the combined American military death toll from the Afghanistan and Iraq wars since 9/11. And that leaves aside countless more Korean military and civilian lives expended fighting to the current standstill along the inter-Korean border.
It's hard to see how war could be waged more cheaply than it was in 1950-1953 when the principal combatants, not to mention North Korea's ally China and neighbor Russia, all boast nuclear weapons to accompany formidable conventional forces. And Washington must not delude itself into thinking air and sea power can do the job alone, any more than aviators and mariners repulsed the North Korean invasion in 1950. It took land forces back then—and today, in all likelihood, ground combat would be required to destroy the dug-in North Korean nuclear complex.
Any military strategy worth the name would demand that U.S. Army and Marine forces again seize and control ground—allowing them the leisure to ferret out underground facilities and armaments.
In short, a new Korean War would not be a come-and-go affair. Such a forecast is solidly grounded in the classics of strategy. For instance, Admiral J. C. Wylie points out that the proper goal of military strategy is to impose control on the foe. Aircraft and missiles flit by overhead while ships remain offshore. Though formidable, their presence is too intermittent to qualify as control. That being the case, he pronounces the soldier slogging through mud the "ultimate determinant" of who emerges the victor. The soldier goes and stays. "He is control," proclaims Wylie. No control, no strategic success.
Or as the historian T. R. Fehrenbach puts it regarding the Korean War: "you may fly over a land forever; you may bomb it, atomize it, pulverize it and wipe it clean of life—but if you desire to defend it, protect it and keep it for civilization, you must do this on the ground, the way the Roman legions did, by putting your young men in the mud." Wylie says much the same thing when he observes that— aviators' and rocketeers' assumptions notwithstanding—the ability to destroy something from aloft does not equate to controlling it.
Nor is it obvious that winning control is crucial in Northeast Asia………
Chances are, then, Washington will continue to insist on complete disarmament on the Korean Peninsula but will refrain from using force to bring about that happy end. …….https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/can-america-live-nuclear-north-korea-41387
January 14, 2019 Posted by Christina MacPherson | North Korea, politics international, USA	| Leave a comment
Australia, (with its climate-sceptic government) getting record heat across the continent
Record-breaking heatwave to hit every state and territory, https://www.sbs.com.au/news/record-breaking-heatwave-to-hit-every-state-and-territory 13 Jan 19, Every state and territory in Australia will experience heatwave conditions on Monday, forecasters say. A cyclone is brewing off Western Australia's Kimberley coast while much of the country is set to swelter in heatwave conditions.
Every state and territory will cop the heat on Monday when temperatures soar with some regions to experience severe and extreme hot weather.
The Bureau of Meteorology forecasts low intensity heatwave conditions in parts of central WA to southern parts of the Northern Territory, southwestern Queensland and across NSW, Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia.
It will be worst in South Australia where multiple days of temperatures above 40C, an unusual event even for summer, meteorologist Dean Narramore said on Sunday.
Particularly northern South Australia, they're looking at maybe five days in a row above 45 and normally they might only get five or 10 a year," he said.
Melbourne can expect to see a few days in the mid to high 30s, while temperatures in Sydney's west will peak above 40C for four or five days.
January 14, 2019 Posted by Christina MacPherson | AUSTRALIA, climate change	| Leave a comment
Donald Trump's administration's plan to reclassify nuclear wastes is unacceptable to Washington State
Trump administration wants to reclassify leaking nuclear waste to avoid cleaning it up, say officials
'This is unacceptable, and we will not stand by while this administration plans to abandon its responsibility to clean up their mess', Independent UK Josh GabbatissScience Correspondent @josh_gabbatiss ( AP ) 13 Jan 19,
Donald Trump's administration has been accused of trying to downplay the danger of nuclear waste so it can "abandon its responsibility to clean up their mess".
A federal government plan to reclassify this waste as less dangerous has been fiercely criticised by officials in Washington state, who said the move would allow it to walk away from its responsibility to clean up millions of gallons of toxic, radioactive material.
The state is home to the Hanford nuclear site which houses the nation's largest collection of nuclear waste, left over from atomic bomb production. There are the 177 ageing underground tanks stored at the site containing the most dangerous material – some of which are leaking.
Amid fears much of the waste will be left in the ground, earlier this week, Washington state filed its objections to the US Department of Energy. These were accompanied by a letter from the state's Governor Jay Inslee and Attorney General Bob Ferguson.
The US Department of Energy is seeking to reclassify a large percentage of the waste as lower-level waste. That would allow treatment and disposal options that would not guarantee long-term protections.
At present the government is obliged to keep the waste safely in a "deep geological repository", but if it was reclassified there would be no such obligation. Critics are concerned this could mean that the was allowed to reside in areas in which it posed a threat.
"This dangerous idea will only serve to silence the voices of tribal leaders, Hanford workers, public safety officials, and surrounding communities in these important conversations," said Mr Inslee, a Democrat who is considering a presidential run in 2020. "This is unacceptable, and we will not stand by while this administration plans to abandon its responsibility to clean up their mess." ……..
The proposed measure would also cover other waste disposal facilities in places like South Carolina and Idaho, and could be implemented without the approval of Congress. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/nuclear-waste-trump-radioactive-washington-state-hanford-atomic-bombs-a8719021.html
January 14, 2019 Posted by Christina MacPherson | general	| Leave a comment
New danger for Julian Assange as Ecuador toes the USA line (and Australia won't help him, though he's their citizen)
More troubles for Julian Assange as Ecuador bows to pressure to extradite him following this letter, http://thewikidaily.com/more-troubles-for-julian-asange-as-ecuador-bows-to-pressure-to-extradite-him-following-this-letter/ We have been monitoring Julian asange's asylum in Ecuadorian embassy in britain to outline the dangers the computer proggrammer and wikileaks founder face in coming future and it seems alot have been happening lately than the mainstream media's are reporting.
Ecuador has begun a "Special Examination" of Julian Assange's asylum and citizenship as it looks to the IMF for a bailout, the whistleblowing site reports, with conditions including handing over the WikiLeaks founder.
Former Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa tweeted an image of the letter he received from the State Comptroller General on December 19, which outlines the upcoming examination by the Direction National de Auditoria.
The audit will "determine whether the procedures for granting asylum and naturalization to Julian Assange were carried out in accordance with national and international law," and will cover the period between January 1, 2012 and September 20, 2018.
Assange has been in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London since he sought asylum there in 2012. He was granted Ecuadorian citizenship last December in a bid to protect him from being extradited to the US where he fears he faces secret charges for publishing US government cables and documents.
WikiLeaks tweeted the news on Wednesday, joining the dots between the audit and Ecuador's consideration of an International Monetary Fund bailout. The country owes China more than $6.5 billion in debt and falling oil prices have affected its repayment abilities.
According to WikiLeaks, Ecuador is considering a $10 billion bailout which would allegedly come with conditions such as "the US government demanded handing over Assange and dropping environmental claims against Chevron," for its role in polluting the Amazon rainforest.
Assange's position has increasingly been under threat under Correa's successor, President Lenin Moreno, with Ecuadorian authorities restricting his internet access and visitors."I believe they are going to turn over Assange to the US government,
January 14, 2019 Posted by Christina MacPherson | AUSTRALIA, civil liberties, SOUTH AMERICA, UK	| 1 Comment
South Carolina Senators unlikely to approve sale of Santee Cooper
Senate doesn't have the votes to sell Santee Cooper after nuclear fiasco, leaders say, BY AVERY G. WILKS, JANUARY 13, 2019 BUT EVEN THE HIGHEST BIDDER MIGHT NOT WIN THE STATE'S APPROVAL TO TAKE OVER THE 85-YEAR-OLD UTILITY.
A proposed sale, which needs the S.C. General Assembly's approval, seems likely to die in the state Senate, where senators are skeptical that selling Santee Cooper is the best solution to the agency's nuclear woes.
Senators also say they don't want a long and complicated debate over Santee Cooper to drown out the General Assembly's No. 1 priority for 2019: public education reform……https://www.thestate.com/news/politics-government/article224287910.html
January 14, 2019 Posted by Christina MacPherson | business and costs, USA	| Leave a comment
Vermont Yankee nuclear plant sold to dismantling firm, Indian Point next?
Entergy sells Vermont Yankee nuclear plant, signaling what's to come for Indian Point, Lohud, Thomas C. Zambito, Rockland/Westchester Journal News Jan. 11, 2019
Entergy sold its Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant to a dismantling firm, a first-of-its-kind deal that offers a blueprint for Indian Point's future
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission approved the deal in October
Towns near Indian Point are hoping for a similar deal so Indian Point can be opened to development after it shuts down in 2021
Deal with dismantling firm a first for dismantling of a nuclear plant
Entergy sold its Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant to a New York dismantling firm Friday, finalizing a deal that could offer the blueprint for Indian Point's future after it shuts down in 2021.
The deal with NorthStar Group Services represents the first time a nuclear power plant has transferred its license to a company that take over the lengthy process of dismantling nuclear reactors and securing spent radioactive fuel.
It's likely more will follow.
With nuclear power plants struggling to compete against the cheap price of natural gas, more than a dozen nuclear plants across the U.S. have, in recent years, shut down or announced plans to close…….https://www.lohud.com/story/news/local/westchester/2019/01/11/entergy-sells-its-vermont-yankee-nuclear-power-plant-ny-firm/2552170002/
January 14, 2019 Posted by Christina MacPherson | decommission reactor, USA	| Leave a comment
Schoolchildren co-opted to promote propaganda on Fukushima food safety
Students tasked to develop dishes with Fukushima produce to promote prefecture's recovery, Japan Times, 13 Jan 19
A group of elementary, junior high and high school students in the city of Fukushima are taking part in an initiative to develop original recipes using local agricultural products as part of a broader project to highlight the city's recovery from the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake.
The first phase of the campaign, known as the Fukko Project, whereby the students create new dishes, started Dec. 16. It is designed to help the children learn about local agriculture so they will be able to implement their own action plans to assist Fukushima's recovery……https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/13/national/students-tasked-develop-dishes-fukushima-produce-promote-prefectures-recovery/#.XDudF9IzbGg
January 14, 2019 Posted by Christina MacPherson | Japan, spinbuster	| Leave a comment
Russia's Rosatom to manage accident plan at the Fukushima NPP
Russia's Rosatom wins two bids for accident management at Fukushima NPP http://tass.com/world/1039631, January 12, 2019, MOSCOW, Russia's state nuclear corporation Rosatom has been engaged in the nuclear control plan at Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant and has already won two bids in that project, Rosatom CEO Alexei Likhachev said in a televised interview with Rossiya'24 news channel on Saturday.
"We have been engaged by Japan to implement the nuclear accident management plan at the Fukushima NPP. We have won two tenders and are getting ahead," he said.
In September 2017, Rosatom's First Deputy CEO Kirill Komarov said that Rosatom offered help to Japanese counterparts in handling the crippled Fukushima NPP.
The nuclear disaster at the Fukushima-1 power plant in March 2011 was triggered by an earthquake-induced tsunami that knocked out vital reactor cooling systems. This resulted in three nuclear meltdowns, hydrogen explosions and a massive release of radioactive waste, which contaminated the surrounding area. Clean-up operations continue at the power plant and adjacent territories. According to the current action plan, full decommissioning of the station may take place only around 2040.
January 14, 2019 Posted by Christina MacPherson | Fukushima continuing, Russia, safety	| Leave a comment
People Against Wylfa B (PAWB) has warned for years of the coming financial failure of Wylfa nuclear project
Wales Online 11th Jan 2019 , The campaigning group People Against Wylfa B (PAWB) said in a statement: "Should the news be confirmed at a meeting of the Hitachi Board next week
then it will be a relief for all of us who worry about the future of our
island, our country, our language, our environment and indeed renewable
PAWB has warned for years that the costs associated with the Wylfa
project would be likely to prove fatal to the project, but we were ignored.
"Consequently, millions of taxpayers' money from the island, Wales and
the UK was invested to back Wylfa B. In addition huge political capital has
been invested, and there has been a failure to have a mature public
discussion about the project other than in terms of cash and jobs.
"The legacy of this, if the reports from Japan prove to be true, is that over a
decade has been wasted on Wylfa, with very little alternative economic
planning in evidence. Our young people have been promised jobs on very
shaky foundations. "Good land has been destroyed to create infrastructure
to back the project. It is time for politicians and officials from the UK
Government, the Welsh Government and Anglesey to admit that they were
wrong. "Wales is rich in natural resources which can be used to create a
vibrant and sustainable energy future, and above all else create more jobs
in less time than Wylfa would have done."
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/politics/hitachi-to-pull-plug-angleseys-15663299
January 14, 2019 Posted by Christina MacPherson | opposition to nuclear, UK	| Leave a comment
'Local Hero' – a campaign to raise awareness of the environmental threat of planned Sizewell nuclear station
TEAGS 11th Jan 2019 Locals and campaigners create 'Sizewell Hero' – a tribute to the film
'Local Hero' – to launch a new online campaign, urging EDF to change
its approach. Theberton and Eastbridge Action Group on Sizewell [TEAGS]
today launched a new video and online campaign.
Made by local people, it is aimed at increasing awareness and concern about the impacts of the proposed Sizewell C&D nuclear power station to audiences beyond east Suffolk. EDF
launched its Stage 3 consultations on the twin-reactor development last
week. 'Sizewell Hero, hosted on YouTube and Facebook, is a three-minute
homage to the award-winning 1980s film 'Local Hero', and shows a
company executive transformed and inspired by the beauty of Minsmere and
the coast at Sizewell to think again about the company's plans.
The video is entirely a local initiative, starring Middleton actor Simon Bridge and
featuring other residents from Theberton and Middleton. The film was shot
and produced by Steve Sutton and crew from UK Aerial Photography Ltd, based
in Peasenhall. Permission to use the famous 'Local Hero' theme music
was kindly granted by Mark Knopfler's management, Crockford Management
and the project was made possible by a grant from Lush Charity Pot. Stills
and 'making of' photos are available.
https://teags.org/sizewell-hero-video-and-online-campaign-launched/
United Nations: demasking the Torture of Julian Assange. Rico Brouwer and Nils Melzer
Three Mile Island (& Fukushima) Lies & Cover-Ups w/ Gundersen & Wasserman
Energy efficiency – theme for July 2019
Energy efficiency represents the single largest potential contributor to global emissions reduction, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA 2017). It should be a key part of the global energy strategy, for several reasons:
It could reduce global electric demand by more than 20 per cent, based on current rates in the U.S. power sector, while maintaining high levels of services such as heating and lighting.
It avoids the need for increased energy, capacity and grid services, making it the least expensive way to decarbonise at scale.
It can reduce carbon dioxide emissions by billions of tonnes.
A dramatic example of the power of energy efficiency is lighting. In 2017 the United States passed the milestone of 1 billion LED and CFL lights installed, avoiding 142 million tonnes a year of carbon dioxide emissions, at a cost of about $7 per ton of avoided carbon dioxide. In contrast, the cumulative installed capacity of rooftop solar reached 8,000 MW in 2017, saving 8 million tonnes a year of carbon dioxide, at a cost of $360 per ton. Lighting efficiency thus yielded almost 18 times the avoided carbon dioxide, at about 2 per cent the cost per ton of rooftop solar.
Google provides another example of the power of energy efficiency. Its data centers now use 50 per cent less energy than the average data center, according to the company. Google also developed an improved chip, the TPU, which performs 83 times better than standard CPUs. The new chip allowed Google to reduce power consumption at its data centers by a factor of 30—far exceeding the effect on Google's carbon footprint of all of the company's renewable energy purchases. " – John Woolard, Eco Business, 10 June 2019
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PASADENA, Calif.—On Tuesday, April 9, just after 9:30 a.m., Pasadena Police and Fire Department personnel responded to Madison Avenue and Del Mar Boulevard regarding a report of a traffic collision with injuries.
Upon arrival, first responders found that a gray and black 2011 Ducati motorcycle, being driven west on Del Mar Boulevard by a 35-year-old Pasadena man, collided with a gray 2010 Hyundai Elantra four-door sedan that was headed south on Madison Avenue across Del Mar Boulevard. The motorcycle collided broadside with the Elantra, critically injuring its rider who was transported to a local hospital.
The driver of the Hyundai Elantra was identified as a 24-year-old Pasadena woman. She was not injured in the collision and remained at the scene. The woman fully cooperated with the police investigation and was not under the influence of alcohol or drugs at the time of the collision.
Speed does not appear to have been a factor in the collision. Preliminary investigation suggests the woman did not see the motorcyclist travelling west on Del Mar Boulevard and pulled out in front of him as she drove south across Del Mar Boulevard from the stop sign at Madison Avenue.
This collision is being investigated by the Pasadena Police Department's Major Accident Investigation Team. Anyone with information about this case is urged to call Traffic Section Sergeant Dennis Beene at (626) 744-4343. To report information anonymously, call Crime Stoppers at (800) 222-TIPS (8477), download the P3 Tips mobile app on Google Play or the Apple App Store, or use the website www.lacrimestoppers.org.


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Altair announce 2018 Altair Enlighten Award winners
Altair and the Center for Automotive Research (CAR) has announced the winners of the 6th annual Altair Enlighten Award at the 2018 CAR Management Briefing Seminars (MBS) in Traverse City, Michigan.
The winner in the Full Vehicle category was General Motors' 2019 Chevrolet Silverado, which weighed in at an impressive 450 pounds (204.5 kilograms) lighter than its predecessor. BMW Group claimed the Module category with the first 3D printed metal component used in a production series vehicle, which captured a 44 per cent component weight savings on the 2018 BMW i8 Roadster.
Asahi Kasei Corporation's Super Lightweight Pedal Bracket for the Mazda MX-5, Sika Automotive's Ultra Lightweight Constrained Layer Material System, and United States Steel Corporation's Martensitic Advanced High Strength Steel, Mart-Ten 1500 took the top honours in the Enabling Technology category. The award for the new Future of Lightweighting category, chosen by MBS attendees, went to American Axle & Manufacturing, (AAM) for its Quantum Driveline Architecture program.
'It was impressive to see the high quality of this year's Altair Enlighten Award applications. Nominations from OEMs, suppliers, materials technology companies, start-ups and academia demonstrate the tremendous and varied weight reduction effort being achieved across the global automotive industry,' said judging chair Carla Bailo, President and CEO of CAR. 'We were also thrilled at the response to the new Future of Lightweighting category introduced this year, which highlighted some highly innovative solutions holding great promise to advance fuel efficiency and automotive sustainability.'
'Our judging panel had a very difficult task selecting this year's award winners among so many high quality entries,' said Richard Yen, Senior Vice President of Global Automotive and Industry Verticals at Altair. 'I would like to personally congratulate our award winners and thank all of our finalists and applicants for participating. It's a rewarding experience each year to witness how simulation-driven design strategies, new materials and advanced manufacturing processes are advancing automotive lightweighting by offering new opportunities to innovate weight efficient products from the start.'
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Davis v. Davis began in 1989 as a divorce trial that took place in Maryville, Tennessee. The divorce was filed less than a year after nine embryos were created by in vitro fertilization (IVF) at the request of the husband and wife. Two embryos were implanted and later spontaneously aborted. Those remaining were placed in frozen storage, which is intended to give the mother's body time to recover and thus enhance the potential for success of additional implantations.
The controversy in the case centered on what to do with the seven frozen embryos following the divorce (see Perry and Schneider, 1992). The mother argued that the embryos were "potential children," and should be saved for implantation. The father argued that the embryos should be thawed out. What is most alarming is that he described the embryos as property, and reasoned that they deserved no individual rights, but were subject to the equitable property laws of the State. The State Supreme Court later held that the embryos were something in between property and persons, and deserved special rights. Ultimately, the Court said that the husband and wife would have to agree on how to dispose of the embryos. Given their opposing positions, though, they could not come to an agreement.
The legal issues are complex, the future implications are disturbing, and recognizing scriptural application may seem difficult. However, the reader should recall God's view on the taking of human life, and the unique status given to human life as opposed to property or animals (Genesis 1:28).
Also, the dogged assertion of "rights" comes into play—the rights of the parents against each other, and the rights of the parents against the children. However, Scripture warns against pride, and admonishes us to humble ourselves in the sight of the Lord (Proverbs 11:2; James 4:10).
The development of law lags behind medical advances, technological advances, and societal changes. Thus, it is difficult to determine where the law will go from here, but we should be aware of possible developments such as: further erosion of the recognition of the sanctity of human life; embryo marketing based on desired characteristics; medical determination regarding which embryos should live; and more lawsuits against doctors for not informing patients of potential fetal deformities or propensities for deformities.
Perry and Schneider (1992), "Cryopreserved Embryos: Who Should Decide Their Fate?," Journal of Legal Medicine, 13:463-500.
[NOTE: In June 1993, Mr. Davis obtained the seven embryos from the IVF clinic where they were being stored, and destroyed them.]
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Q: java why does an enhanced for loop iterate over null results in a HashMap with more than 16 or more items? The code I used originally, which returned a NullPointerException in some places for any HashMap containing 16 or more elements:
for(Entry<Integer, String> e : myHashMap.entrySet()){
    System.out.println(e.getKey() + ": "+e.getValue());
}

The code I am now using, which works on the same HashMap, regardless of size:
int i = 0; //variable to show the index
int c = 0; //variable to count the number items found
while(c < myHashMap.size()){
    if(myHashMap.containsKey(i)){ //if the HashMap contains the key i
        System.out.println(i + ": "+myHashMap.get(i)); //Print found item
        c++; //increment up to count the number of objects found
    }
    i++; //increment to iterate to the next key
}

What is the difference between the two? Why does the first one iterate over null values? And, more importantly, why does the first one iterate out of order if there are 16 or more items? (ie: 12,13,17,15,16,19,18 instead of the neat 12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19 in the second)
I think I am just starting to scratch the surface of java, so I would like to understand why it was designed this way. Any book recommendations on this kind of thing are welcome.

A: You should read the documentation of a class and try to understand its purpose before starting to use it. HashMap provides an efficient storage but no guaranteed order. It's just a coincident that you didn't discover it with smaller HashMap sizes because the default capacity is 16 and the hash codes of contiguous Integer objects are contiguous too. But that is not a property you can rely on. You always have to assume no guaranteed order for a HashMap.
If you need the insertion order you can use a LinkedHashMap, if you need ascending order of the keys you can use a TreeMap. If you have a contiguous range of Integer keys and want ascending order you can simply use an array as well.
The foreach loop for(Entry<Integer, String> e : myHashMap.entrySet()) does not "iterate over null values". It iterates over the values contained in the HashMap which are the values you have added before. There can be at most one null key contained in the map, if you added it. You might see null values in the debugger when looking at the internal array of a HashMap which are unused slots as a HashMap has a capacity which can be larger than its size.

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Sardinia is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea (after Sicily). The area of Sardinia is 24 090 square kilometers.
The island lies surrounded (clockwise from north) by the French island of Corsica, the Italian Peninsula, Tunisia and the Spanish Balearic Islands.
Sardinia is a constitutive part of Italy, with a special statute of autonomous region under the Italian Constitution.
The island contains numerous extraordinary tourist areas, including the Costa Smeralda and Gennargentu. The island is particularly famous for its beaches, but is also rich in other interesting places, such as some charming sea towns and archaeological ruins.
The Nuraghi Apartment is located in the charming island of Sardinia (Italy), the second largest island in the Mediterranean Sea and a natural reserve, plenty of calm beaches and a slightly mountainous countryside full of towns with enchantment, prehistoric ruins, Roman and Carthaginian rests, romanic churches and gothic temples and quarters. The island is perfectly communicated with many countries of Europe thanks to its 4 airports and its ferry connections with Italy and France. We may provide detailed information on air and sea connections. The apartment is completely furnished and it is spacious (77 m2) and very bright. It has a large entrance, an open-plan kitchen with table and chairs and completely equipped, a livingroom, a bathroom and a bedroom with double bed. The apartment has at your disposal two air-conditioning machines either for summer or winter, washing-drier machine, TV and butane gas cooker. Sleeps 6.
A fantastic 4 bedroom villa with 3 bathroom, dining room, sitting room, patio with barbeque area, great sea view and and a sun terrace. Thiss villa has 3 double bedrooms and another double room with 2 single beds, 3 new bathrooms, dining area, kitchen and sitting room, outside patio and garden with sea view, plus a wonderful roof terrace to enjoy the hot sunshine. It is a fantastic house for relaxing, the beach is only 12 minutes walk, shops, restaurants and bars are only 5 minutes walk. Sleeps 8.
A two bedroom apartment, with a breathtaking sea view and a wonderful terrace where you can sit and relax. Brezza Marina apartment is close to the beach, within a walking distance to the Sabbie Doro bay, it is located in a private area with residents access only,all accommodations there, have been built in two floor levels and a choice of 1, 2 bedrooms flats with cooking facilities are available, the view of the sandy dunes, the ocean and the wild natural beauty will take your breath away,also are surrounded by Mediterranean vegetation, rocky cliffs, water bays and little beaches. Our accommodation is provided with all the equipment you may need for your home cooking, have an outside area for your al fresco time, well furnished, comfortable and well decorated. Within 10 minutes walk you can reach: supermarkets, shops, bars, pharmacy and restaurants. Sleeps 4.
Villa in magnificent position, on the sea-side, private wharf and little bay. 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, American kitchen, dining-room and patio in front of the sea. Villa's view on the private beach and on the bay from the Patio and terrace. You will always eat beside the patio in front of the sea-side. The typical Sardinian style twin bedroom with view on the seaside. A look on the open kitchen. While cooking you see the seaside! The villa comprises 3 bedrooms in total; 1 double, 1 twin, 1 single and 1 cots, 1 of the bedrooms with en-suite facilities. This gives room for up to 6 people. Bed linen and towels are provided for your use. Sleeps 6.
The villa is setting on the hill in this natural spectacular scenario of this magnificent part of Sardinia well know as Costa Paradiso The villetta as a beautiful sea view. The villa consist of a large lounge with TV and with double sofa bed and dining area,with venetian windows leading to the garden, patio and the shared swimming pool, with spectacular views out to sea. Kitchen area with doors leading to back patio with built in barbeque, outside sink and shower for after beach. The master double bedroom has venetian windows leading to the patio and bathroom with all commodities. The second bedroom has venetian windows leading to the veranda and garden and the pool. The second bedroom can be with a double bed or spilt into two single beds. There is also two verandas with the spectacular view to the sea and a table and chairs to eating "al fresco" and also a private parking space. Sleeps 6.


If there was a token quote from childhood, it would be that. My parents were big on manners as many parents tend to be.
As we all get older, most of us stay pretty obsessed with manners, sometimes without noticing it. We say thank you when the Starbucks barista gives us our morning fuel. We hold the door for the person walking behind us. We write thank you cards for birthday gifts.
But it doesn't end there, does it?
We don't just use our manners when we are supposed to. We use our manners all the time, even at our own expense. We would rather trek five miles up hill, carrying everyone else's baggage, while wearing high heals than allow for someone else to think we are selfish or that we are in some way a bad person.
The disease to please is real and it's everywhere.
I knew that before reading Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand in the Sun and Be Your Own Person by Shonda Rhimes that I was infected with the disease to please. Heck, I could be its poster girl. I apologized for everything. I avoided conflict as if it were a deadly plague. I tip-toed around everyone's feelings. And boy did I over analyzed everything.
I walked into Christmas Eve at my aunt's house emotionally exhausted. It had been a stressful year, quite possibly the most challenging year of my life. I had mentioned to my cousins that I wanted to read Shonda Rhimes' new book. We did our Secret Santa shindigs and I unwrapped what would be a transformative experience.
I wanted to read Shonda's book because, I mean, she's Shonda Rhimes. She practically owns Thursday night television with her shows Grey's Anatomy, Scandal, and How to Get Away With Murder. I had watched her Super Soul Sunday interview with Oprah and I had a feeling the book would be good. I wasn't expecting something phenomenal. I put very few books into that category.
But if anyone can write a book that throws your heart strings through a washing machine a few times–flip them around, shake them up, cleanse them from the rubbish–it's Shonda Rhimes.
To make a long story short, Year of Yes is about Shonda agreeing to make intentional choices to say yes to the things she wants in her life for a year after her sister said to her, "You never say yes to anything."
In the classroom of Shonda, here were the top three things Year of Yes taught me.
I'm a fan of the word yes. Remember? Snake sounds? It's engrained in me. It's engrained in most of us.
But I never understood how powerful a yes was. When we say "yes," we are agreeing to allocate energy of some sort to something. We are agreeing to give up part of our short, precious lives for that yes. Whether that yes is, "Yes, I'll wash the dishes," or "Yes, I'll go to grad school," or "Yes, I will go on a date with you," that yes means something. That yes means time.
Think about how many yeses you have said without thinking about it. Or worse, saying yes when you want to say no. How much time–your most valuable resource–have you wasted?
Shonda Rhimes' lesson: Stand in your yeses. Recognize their power. Own your nos. Don't apologize.
"No, I can't pitch my business idea. I am not smart enough."
"No, I am going to pass on meeting that person. I'll be awkward."
"No, I am going to prioritize everyone else today and not think about myself at all."
Saying no is easy when it is saying no to something for yourself, especially when the yes makes you uncomfortable in one way or another. The crazy thing is, we don't even realize how often we say no to getting to know ourselves. In the process, we slowly wither away into a mere remnant of who we really are.
One of those look-up-from-the-page-in-shock moments for me was when Shonda said, "Losing yourself does not happen all at once. Losing yourself happens one no at a time.
So I tried to notice how many times I say no in a day. I was terrified by the number. And it isn't necessarily saying no verbally. It is in your actions. It is in your thoughts. It is in your language outside of just the word "no."
Shonda Rhimes' lesson: You can lose yourself in your no and you can find yourself in your yes.
Shonda talked about this awards show she went to for Elle, where the Editor in Chief listed off all of the achievements of the women who were being recognized. Shonda noticed that with each recognition, each woman essentially swatted the mention away from herself, as if it were a pesky mosquito instead of something she actually accomplished. Not a compliment. An accomplishment. A fact.
But humility is a good thing, right? Well of course, but there is a limit. You can just say "thank you." When someone says, "You did a great job at (insert something you did)" or "You have the shiniest hair," you can just say "thank you." That's it. Thank you, period.
That sounds pretty basic. Just say thank you more. But it is what the thank you stands for is what matters.
By just saying thank you, you are saying yes to how great you are. It shows that you have insane confidence and it allows you to recognize your power. Not only that, it gives others permission to own their awesomeness, too.
Shonda Rhimes' lesson: Say yes to your awesomeness and wear it as a badge of honor.
As I closed this book, I thought about how I was going to actually benefit from this book. I'm a big believer in a book being a waste of time unless you intentionally look for a takeaway, some way these teachings can positively impact your life.
Going full throttle towards exactly what I want to do, no matter how risky it may seem.
Being a little more selfish and a little less obsessed with other people's feelings.
Being okay with being a little uncomfortable in the unknown, whether that is a meeting, an opportunity, or the future.
Owning where I am, what it took to get here, and where I am going.
Surrendering the having it all/overall best tunnel of pure insanity.
Accepting that I don't have it all figured out.
Here's to using snack sounds. Yesssssss.
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Fitness and Attention Span
Does being active make you better at sitting still and staying focused?
By alex hutchinson
This is a pretty neat graph, from a recent Spanish study in PLOS ONE that explores the links between cognitive performance, physical fitness, and autonomic nervous system function (press release here):
The graph is simpler than it looks. The y axis shows the average time between heart beats, so lower values indicate higher heart rate. The study had two groups of volunteers: unfit college students (VO2max 36 ml/kg/min) and athletes (VO2max 69 ml/kg/min); the athletes are the lighter shaded bars, so it's not surprising that they have higher values (equals lower pulse). The study itself involved a series of three 10-minute cognitive tasks; what the x axis shows is how heart rate changed as the tasks proceeded. "Block 1" is the heart rate during the first 3:20 of the 10-minute tasks (averaged over all three tasks); "Block 2" is the middle 3:20, and "Block 3" is the final 3:20.
So what we see is a slight but non-significant decrease (i.e. increase in pulse) in the athletes as the cognitive tasks proceed, and a steady increase in pulse in the non-athletes. In other words, sitting in front a computer for 10 minutes pressing a button whenever a shape changes color makes your heart beat faster -- especially if you're not in shape. This isn't because you're exhausted from hitting the space bar. Instead, the researchers believe it has to do with the balance between two parts of your nervous system: the parasympathetic ("rest and digest") part and the sympathetic ("fight or flight"). The athletes are able to stay in rest and digest mode for longer, which keeps their heart rate lower (and their heart-rate variability higher). In other words, as the press release puts it, they have a better attention span.
Is this a surprise? Not really -- previous studies have shown that fit people do better on cognitive tasks, and have better autonomic nervous system function. This study aims to link them together, suggesting that it's the nervous system improvements that partly explain the improved cognitive performance. As always, the full interpretation of the study (which you can read for free online) is quite a bit more complicated -- but it's that graph that I find most interesting, seeing the stark difference in how the body (and brain!) respond to a simple task that only requires sitting still and paying attention for 10 minutes. That seems like a pretty useful ability to have.
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Q: Incorrect dependency error when run setup:di:compile command in magento 2.1.x I have run command bin/magento setup:di:compile in my Magento 2.1.x.
I got below error.

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Could anyone help me to find issue ?

A: You need to do code like this,

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        return $attachment;
    }
}


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Stocks to Buy / 7 Ridiculously Cheap Stocks Yielding 5% in 2023
7 Ridiculously Cheap Stocks Yielding 5% in 2023
Now is the time to seek safety in cheap dividend stocks
December 20, 2022 By Chris Lau, InvestorPlace Contributor Dec 20, 2022, 6:30 am EST December 20, 2022
Investors should get rewarded for holding cheap dividend stocks in 2023
British American Tobacco (BTI) – Strong product portfolio will lead to market share expansion.
Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS) – Healthy portfolio of quality clients will offset increased loan provisions.
Ford Motor (F) – Pivot to high-end electric vehicles might increase long-term profits
Intel (INTC) – Strong product line-up and launch of products in new markets like graphics will increase growth.
LyondellBasell Industries (LYB) – Increased business in China will reverse the slowdown.
Medifast (MED) – Growth in clients through effective coaches will increase revenue.
Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) – Telehealth initiative will improve customer service levels.
In 2023, stock market uncertainties will worsen, rewarding investors who seek cheap dividend stocks.
The bigger their discount to their fair value, the more margin of safety the company offers. Companies that pay dividends prioritize cash flow first. Management will allocate cash flow to shareholders, rewarding them with a high dividend yield.
Finding cheap dividend stocks is critical for another reason. By the time the Federal Reserve meets for the second time in 2023, the central bank will set a Fed Funds rate of over 5%, that 5% still trails real borrowing costs.
For example, mortgage rates and loans to small businesses will exceed 6%. In addition, the consumer price index, which measures inflation, is 7.1% year over year. Despite negative real returns, investors should expect the Federal Reserve will achieve a long-term inflation rate of 2%.
Investors have these seven ridiculously cheap dividend stocks to consider.
BNS Bank of Nova Scotia $47.47
BTI British American Tobacco $41.08
F Ford Motor $11.74
INTC Intel $26.95
LYB LyondellBasell Industries $80.62
MED Medifast $116.83
WBA Walgreens Boots Alliance $39.55
Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS)
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Bank of Nova Scotia (NYSE:BNS) stock fell after the company posted higher provisions for credit losses. The bank booked PCL of CA $529 million, up from CA $168 million last year.
Scotiabank regularly stress tests its portfolio. It builds multiple stress scenarios for economic factors like unemployment. Investors should not expect the bank to raise its loss estimates in the near term, but it's still one of the best cheap dividend stocks to buy now.
The company is investing in technology and analytics to increase its efficiency. It is focused on its existing clients to sustain its business growth.
In the mortgage sector, Scotiabank noted that its average customer has higher FICO scores. This is a scoring system that lenders use to measure credit risk.
Beyond one year, investors should forecast interest rates falling. The Bank of Nova Scotia will benefit when rates fall. Its balance sheet is structured to take advantage of asset repricing.
British American Tobacco (BTI)
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British American Tobacco (NYSE:BTI) boosted investor confidence when it announced its revenue growth for FY 2022. BTI expects revenue will grow by between 2% to 4%.
Chief Executive Officer Jack Bowles said that its transformation is accelerating. Its businesses are driving strong volume, revenue and market share growth.
By 2025, BTI will post revenue of $6.07 billion. The company is benefiting from price tiers across its portfolio of brands. It enjoys resilient volume demand globally. This includes Europe and the Middle East.
BTI stock should continue its uptrend as dividend payouts increase in the coming years. The company has a history of posting strong operating cash conversion.
In the U.S., demand trends should rebound. Previously, the post-Covid environment hurt demand. Thanks to its growing premium share and robust brand, British American will post profit growth in this country and remain one of the best cheap dividend stocks out there.
Ford Motor (F)
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Ford Motor (NYSE:F) is pinning its growth aspirations on its electric vehicles. Ford has increased the price of the F-150 Lightning. The base price is now more than $15,000 above the original pricing.
Ford wants to encourage customers to consider the higher-end Lightning. It did not raise the prices of the higher trims. The company faces higher supply costs. It needs to pass the inflation-driven cost increases to customers.
Shareholders, who get paid a dividend that yields 5%, can bet that demand will not change from its target customers. As inflationary pressures recede in the coming months, the Fed will stop raising interest rates.
Perceptions of an interest rate drop will drive automobile demand higher. The abrupt drop in F stock creates a rare chance for value investors to get shares at a discount.
Ford positioned its product line-up to embrace the widespread adoption of EVs. This should lift long-term profitability and its share price.
Intel (INTC)
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Investors are dumping shares of Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) out of fear. This is misguided. The semiconductor of PC processors has an attractive product line-up.
Last year, it released Alder Lake CPUs, offering customers good prices for high performance. More recently, Intel updated the chip with Raptor Lake for even more performance gains.
Intel has a clear product line-up through 2024. Emerald Rapids will handle every workload type. In 2024, it will release Sierra Forest, a power-efficient product. On the data center side, Intel will end its market share loss.
The company has two major products on the way. In its network business, it will gain market share. In the graphics business, Intel entered the market with a discrete card. It does not need a high-end GPU. It only needs an affordable, mainstream card that customers want.
Intel is lowering its expenses. Its operating expense will fall from $22 billion to around $20 billion in 2023. As revenue stabilizes and costs fall, investors will find INTC stock attractive.
LyondellBasell Industries (LYB)
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LyondellBasell Industries (NYSE:LYB) is a specialty chemicals firm. Its acquisitions and its joint venture in China are positive catalysts for growth.
LyondellBasell will improve the competitiveness of its assets in Europe. It has the flexibility to consume energy at more attractive price levels. In addition, it will find energy sources that use less CO2. In the year-to-date period, energy costs in Europe are $1.8 billion higher compared to 2020.
The increasing risks of a recession in 2023 will require the company to increase its revenue in countries on the rebound. For example, China normally imports 40% of its needs in polyethylene. Once the country manages through the Covid pandemic, expect LyondellBasell to report better sales in China.
Medifast (MED)
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Medifast (NYSE:MED) is a nutrition and weight loss company. The company announced a quarterly cash dividend of $1.64 a share on Dec. 8, 2022.
In the third quarter, Medifast posted revenue of $390.4 million on non-GAAP EPS of $3.32 a share. It expects revenue of up to $1.59 billion for the year. Markets took the lowered revenue and EPS guidance in stride. MED stock is trading in a $112 – $118 range.
The client retention disruption is a temporary headwind. Medifast said it surveyed those customers who left. They cited inflation and uncertainty around the economic future as reasons for leaving.
The company has many new programs in place and is implementing more. The company will optimize its compensation plan with coaches. As coaches acquire more clients, everyone will benefit.
Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA)
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Walgreens Boots Alliance (NASDAQ:WBA) is the second-largest pharmacy store chain. To do its part in minimizing the spread of the flu and Covid, it is offering testing at over 5,000 pharmacies. The offer should drive more foot traffic, helping to increase same-store sales.
Last year, Walgreens invested $5.2 billion in VillageMD to deliver primary care. It will connect the unit with CareCentrix, an in-home care business. This enhances the customer experience. It gives them control over their health, encouraging customers to utilize all of Walgreen Boots health care services.
The drug store has 200 colocated facilities. By 2025 to 2026, it will have around 600. The asset-light model will lead to higher operating margins. The Telehealth service, which includes a virtual pharmacy, will set Walgreens apart from other drugstore firms.
To increase shareholder value and strengthen its balance sheet, Walgreens Boots raised $1.0 billion. AmerisourceBergen (NYSE:ABC) bought its shares. It may use the proceeds to pay down its debt.
On the date of publication, Chris Lau did not have (either directly or indirectly) any positions in the securities mentioned in this article. The opinions expressed in this article are those of the writer, subject to the InvestorPlace.com Publishing Guidelines.
Chris Lau is a contributing author for InvestorPlace.com and numerous other financial sites. Chris has over 20 years of investing experience in the stock market and runs the Do-It-Yourself Value Investing Marketplace on Seeking Alpha. He shares his stock picks so readers get actionable insight to achieve strong investment returns.
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Article printed from InvestorPlace Media, https://investorplace.com/2022/12/7-ridiculously-cheap-stocks-yielding-5-in-2023/.


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AST 2304 - Onwards to the Eight Desolates Region, Undiscovered Things
After this incident, many members of the Chi clan returned, most of them of a different surname. They were welcomed all the same. Although returning now did not reflect well on them, it was understandable and unreasonable to expect otherwise.
There was jubilance here, but the Eight Desolates Region was filled with fury and uncertainty.
The Human Buddha returned to the Divine Buddha Sect, informing the other powers of this development.
The major powers all had lost many experts, especially the younger generation members, as they had assumed the result to be a foregone conclusion. However, all of their warriors had been slain, with even the Human Buddha trudging that delicate line.
The Divine Buddha Sect would not say that he had escaped but rather he had returned to warn everyone.
The other powers were boiling with fury, ready to come out in full force, but they calmed down as the Chi Clan seemed to have some inexplicable strength, able to overcome the absolute gap in numbers and even slaughter their people.
Many forces knew that they would soon return and that even caused headaches for all of them. The She Clan was especially distraught as they had sustained the greatest losses, while the Wu Clan had barely suffered.
"Even She Chou died, what kind of encounter could have strengthened the Chi Clan this much?" A white-haired elder sighed in the hall.
This was the She clan's discussion hall. It was large but simple. The plain walls had different types of snakes carved into them, some with nine heads and even some with claws.
The idiom "drawing legs on a snake", which meant overdoing something, meant nothing here since snakes were indeed of varying appearances.
"If the Chi clan is really that powerful, they will definitely pick a fight with us. We need to be prepared," another elderly man said, opening his eyes.
"Fourth uncle is right. Even the Human Buddha was forced to flee, so who knows how strong Chi Yang is?" said a slightly younger elderly person with wrinkled eyebrows.
"The Human Buddha already said that it was a young man who defeated him. He is the reason why the Chi clan is so strong; this young man's power is truly heaven-defying," a youngster added.
"Hm, I also heard this but didn't think about it back then. She Dao, do you have any ideas?" The clan lord asked the youngster.
Though She Dao was young, he had a special place in the She clan. He was the youngest son of the clan lord and a rare talent. Albeit his young age, his power was great. He was even noticed by the Divine Snake Emperor, becoming his youngest disciple.
The She clan had many members, and some of its members were even joining the Divine Buddha Sect. It was exactly those She Clan juniors from the Divine Buddha Sect who had framed the Chi clan, causing the Chi clan to nearly be destroyed.
Not only did She Dao have great aptitude, but he was also highly experienced.
His knowledge and viewpoints were different, allowing him to tackle problems more thoroughly than those old fogeys.
"Father, I am not clear on the strength of the Human Buddha, but there should be people who are clear. Since the Human Buddha came back in such a miserable state, everyone should know that the Golden Shield Talisman was used. To force the Human Buddha to do so, he must be very strong. I wonder if he has some treasure or a master supporting him," said She Dao after some thinking.
"Young master, then what should we do? Can we defend against the Chi clan?" An elderly asked upon hearing She Dao's irrelevant answer.
"Since things have reached this stage, we do not need to think about this question. We have to preserve the She Clan's strength, and we can only do this by relying on the Wu Clan." She Dao smiled.
"Wu clan?" the elderly asked, puzzled.
"I'm talking about the Wu clan's young master, Wu Xingyun. He is a disciple of the Divine Rain Sect. If we can get them to help, it wouldn't matter how strong this young man is," said She Dao very seriously.
Many picked up the hidden meaning within: without the death of an important member, it would be hard to move the Divine Rain Sect to action.
Thinking up to this point, many people gave She Dao a strange stare.
Everyone could tell that he actually meant to send Wu Xingyun to his death, drawing the Divine Rain Sect into the fold. They had to accomplish this quickly, or else the She Clan may already perish before the Divine Rain Sect could get rid of this man.
The lord of the She Clan gestured in admonition, then looked at the others, "Does anyone have any other good ideas?"
"The Divine Buddha Sect has been here for a very long time. Rumors have it that the Guardian Beast they have is very strong; it might be able to defend against our opponents?"
"The Divine Buddha Sect won't be able to have a clean escape. So, once their hand is forced, they will use the Guardian Beast," said the lord of the She clan, as though he had slightly more confidence in the situation.
"We have so many powerful members, there is no need to fear them. Unless he really has the power to fight so many of us? We are sure to succeed." Someone assured.
The Chi clan was now preparing to enter the Eight Desolates region. Though there weren't that many people yet, it was still enough to restore the clan.
This was a massive migration. The enemies had arrived by a minor teleportation array since they were in different regions. And the Hua City itself didn't have one, and thus they had teleported to the Nine Continents' Star Ocean Domain before flying here on demonic beasts.
Qing Shui and the others also rushed to the city in the northern part of the Star Ocean Domain, where there was a Teleportation Array.
There were multiple cities with Teleportation Arrays here, not just that one, such as the Nine Peaks City, Searise City, the continent's capital and others. They all had Teleportation Arrays, but only this array could reach the Six River City and the Eight Desolates City.
Despite taking their time, Qing Shui and the party had arrived at Star City in less than 3 days.
Compared to Hua City, Star City seemed much more majestic and boundless. However, the Teleportation Array here was controlled by three main clans; the common folk would have no access to it.
The Star city's Teleportation Array was controlled by the Cui clan, the Qi clan, and the Hiddensea Sect.
Furthermore, these three clans were not very open to letting people use the Teleportation Array.
They knew that Qing Shui's party was from the South's weakest city, Hua City and outright rejected their request.
"Oh, not open to providing such a service, then I wonder how the people from the Eight Desolates Region came over."
They actually did not know whether the people from the Eight Desolates Region had gone through Star City, the Continent's capital, Nine Peaks city or even Searise City to travel here, but it did not matter. The important part was that the other party had stated clearly that they were not allowing Qing Shui's party to use it.
"We don't know about that. Alright, if there's nothing else, you may leave. We are very busy," said the leader of Star City annoyingly.
Hao Tian walked over and grabbed his neck, he laughingly said, "I'll give you another chance."
"Kid, if you have the guts, then strangle me to death. If you dare to act crazily here, you're done for." The man countered, seemingly not caring about the possibility of being strangled to death.
"If I choke you to death, how would you see us using the Teleportation Array?"
Hao Tian then threw him onto the floor.
"Trash, you dare to touch me. What are you trying to do!" The man who got thrown onto the ground yelled with disdain.
Crack!
Before he could finish his sentence, there was a crisp sound of a bone fracturing together with his horrible shriek of pain.


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USS Arizona Memorial To Remain Closed – The Dire Reason Why
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Infamy.
December 7th, 1941 is a day that will live in infamy as thousands perished in Imperial Japan's assault on Pearl Harbor. Many of the vessels destroyed in the attack were removed but the USS Arizona remained as a monument to those who had lost their lives. However, news has arrived the USS Arizona will remain closed to the public indefinitely.
Since it opened in 1962, the USS Arizona Memorial has become one of the most popular tourist destinations in Hawaii. The shrine surrounding the sunken ship was abruptly closed after the connected dock was deemed unsafe. Officials expected a quick repair, but the process has been prolonged so the USS Arizona Memorial will remain closed indefinitely.
"We don't expect access to the USS Arizona Memorial to resume before Oct. 1."
– Jay Blount (WWII Valor in the Pacific National Monument Spokesman)
The memorial was expected to be repaired within 30 days, the process has is becoming more complicated. Engineers have offered a solution via anchoring the dock to the seafloor in order to secure the platform and provide additional safety. In the meantime, other areas of Pearl Harbor are open to visitors. The US Navy conducts a survey of the USS Arizona in order to find a way to find a solution in this clip.


I get onto the 422 to Newtown at 5pm, and take a seat next to this skinny little hipster guy. He had a bad case of massive-balls, so his legs were spread pretty wide, but I figured my big, wide feminist load practicing land-and-expand would ensure an equal distribution of seat. So I pull out my book and start reading.
He leaps to his feet and shouts "Well, alright, if you're going to TAKE OVER anyway!" and he waits for me to move so he can leave the seat.
This is where I allow myself a little smile. Poor little hipster bro, frothing in impotent rage, thwarted by my wide load, trapped against the bus window. And then I get up and out of his way, and sit back down.
He's still boiling, because, as he backs away, he yells something about there being "Lots of other seats!" and as he lowers his (skinny) arse into one "See? Here's one!" and I smile, because my wide load and me now have a seat to ourselves.
I did think to myself, as I walked up King street later, that he'd missed a prime opportunity to throw a fat-shaming "Your arse is too big for this seat and I!" comment. And I was also surprised by just how unthreatening or undisturbing I'd found him. He was too little, too skinny, too fashionable to frighten me. I knew I could probably take him in a fight if it came to it, and I definitely knew I could bring the verbal smack down. But I'd just used my most politest request, and my least threatening smile.


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Amazon's online store suffered a global outage on Monday, including in India, as users tried to place orders but could not access the product detail page.
According to website outage tracker Downdetector, the online store of an ecommerce giant, suffered an outage that began early Monday morning around 7 am.
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While 65 percent of users reported problems with opening the website, 23 percent had issues with log-in and 12 percent with check-out.
Amazon said that the company was working to resolve the issue.
"Hi guys are you able to see any product details on Amazon India website today. Trying to order a few things but not getting the product details page. Tried a dozen different products same issue! Amazon India broken or a bug?," a user said in a tweet.
In May, Amazon suffered a brief outage in some parts of India, affecting several users' website and shopping experience. The website was up and running after about two hours of partial outage.
Downdetector showed a massive spike in problems on Amazon.in, mentioning that the most problems faced by the Indians during the outage were logging into the website and checking out.
Last year in November, Amazon Web Services (AWS) which is the Cloud arm of the commerce giant suffered a huge outage in the US region affecting several websites and apps and the recovery took a couple of hours.
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