"News Corp., the global media giant controlled by Rupert Murdoch, said Thursday it lost $6.4 billion in its most recent quarter because of a massive write-down in the value of its assets.
– Ryan Nakashima, AP Business Writer, "News Corp. loses $6.4 billion in 2Q," Feb. 5, 2009.
2. Myth: "Government jobs don't stimulate the economy." Recently Sen. Tom Coburn (R-NotOK) was promoting this bit of balderdash on MSNBC, but I've heard and read it elsewhere in the right-wing media as well. Truth: This is nonsense from the days of Herbert Hoover. Proof: Under Franklin D. Roosevelt such government employment programs as the WPA and CCC reduced unemployment dramatically during the Great Depression and improved the economy, as much as many neocon economists are desperately trying to rewrite history to reflect the opposite. Just like everyone else, government employees pay taxes and buy things – houses, cars, food, clothes and appliances –– that stimulate the economy.
4. Myth: "Tax cuts are the best way to improve the economy." Truth: No, they aren't. Proof: The last eight years of tax cuts under Bush.


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Marva Jean Daley, 69, returned to her Heavenly Father on February 6, 2014. She was born October 17, 1944 to George Denver Daley and Marva Harman. Marva lived a life full of service to her Heavenly Father.
She served a mission to England and dedicated her life to blessing others and putting all other's needs before her own. She worked for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints for 30 years, in the Family History Dept. She loved to travel and have fun with her friends. She sacrificed much to care for her Mother for many years and always looked for ways to bless the lives of those around her. She was always the peacemaker. She served in many church callings and loved teaching the youth of the church. She will be greatly missed by those who loved and served her.
She is preceded in death by her parents. She is survived by her siblings, Diane (Ross) Carn, Naperville, IL; Judd (Pat) Casper, SLC; Richard (Bobby) Casper, SLC; Missy (Ron) Hockemier, SLC and many nieces and nephews that love and admire her. She is also survived by her step-dad Delmar (Grace) Casper, Spokane, WA. Special thanks to Julie Franson and IHC Hospice for their care of Marva.
A viewing will be held Monday, Feb. 24, 2014 from 6-8 pm at Larkin Sunset Lawn, 2350 E 1300 S, SLC. Funeral services will be Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014 at the LDS church at 1111 Charlton Ave (2818 S) at 11 am with a viewing beforehand at 10 am. Interment will be at Elysian Burial Gardens, 1075 E. 4580 S., Murray following the service.
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Its the summer of 1966 and high school freshman Kaoru Nishimi discovers Jazz. Together with bad boy Sentaro and music store girl Ritsuko, they're going to follow their muse to wherever their music takes them! Get ready to be blown away as the acclaimed team behind COWBOY BEBOP reunites for a tale of life, love and music!
For Kaoru, Ritsuko is just as interesting as his new found love of jazz. A meeting with a trumpeter that Sen idolizes leads to an impromptu jazz session, one that spurns Kaoru into asking Ritsuko out on a study date.
Jun invites Kaoru and Sen to be part of a jazz quartet at a Christmas gig. The thing is, they only have one month to prepare. Kaoru becomes jealous of Sen for having it all, and must come to terms with these new feelings.


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Spot the Hyades star cluster near Taurus constellation tonight. Here's where to look.
15 March 2022 by panda
Look up tonight (March 15) to see the Hyades star cluster light up the Taurus constellation in the night sky.
The Hyades star cluster is the closest star cluster to Earth, located only 150 light-years away. Viewers can spot the star cluster by looking for the tall, Y-shaped constellation Taurus, the bull, which is situated high in the southwest sky on March evenings. The Hyades star cluster lies near the center of the constellation, forming the bull's face, according to NASA's March viewing guide.
Another trick to spot the Hyades star cluster is to use the stars of Orion's belt as a guide to locate the bright orange star Aldebaran. While Aldebaran isn't actually part of the star cluster, it is located halfway to Hyades and conveniently visible in the foreground, as a part of the V-shaped grouping of stars that comprises the bull's head.
Related: March night sky wonders: Strange sights to see every year
The Hyades grouping, containing hundreds of stars, is classified as an open star cluster because it's stars are close together in space, yet loosely bound together by their mutual gravity. While the stars formed together around the same time and from the same cloud of dust and gas, the leftover nebula material was blown away and the stars drifted apart, giving them an open, or diffuse, structure.
"Our own sun formed in a cluster like this," according to the NASA statement. "Studying these structures helps us understand how stars form and evolve."
The Pleiades star cluster, also known as the Seven Sisters, is another well-known open cluster located in the constellation Taurus. While the Hyades and the Pleiades star clusters are about the same size, measuring roughly 15 light-years across, the Pleiades cluster is about 3 times farther away. As a result, the Pleiades cluster appears more compact.
The Hyades star cluster is visible to the naked eye tonight in the first few hours after dark and should be easy to spot in the night sky, given its compact and distinctive shape. While skywatchers will be able to see a handful of stars with the unaided eye, viewers looking to see more stars — up to a hundred or more — will need to use binoculars.
Our helpful guide for the best telescopes and best binoculars can help you find the right instrument. And, if you're hoping to snap photos of the star cluster, here are our guides for the best cameras for astrophotography and best lenses for astrophotography.
Editor's note: If you have an amazing night sky photo or video of the Hyades star cluster that you'd like to share for a possible story or image gallery, let us know! You can send in images and comments to spacephotos@space.com.
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Q: Loop with lead or lag through a table to create a subscription serie in T-SQL I want to create a table with subscription series out of a table with separate subscriptions in T-SQL. A subscription series contains all the subscriptions of 1 relation_number that follow within 14 days (Difference between startdate of former subscription of the same relation is smaller than or equal to 14 days). The values in this column can for example comma separated.
I already created a column that indicates a switch_out (subscription within 14 days after this subscription) and switch_in (subscription within 14 days before this subscription) in the subscription dataset. However I did not succeed to create one of the last two columns of the table below. I thought about using a loop (with LEAD or LAG) for this, however I don't know how to do this. In the example below are only subscription series with a maximum length of two subscriptions, however this is just a simple example, subscription series with more for example 10 or 20 are also possible.
When I have one of these columns I could use these in combination with relation_number to group by to get the subscription series table, I would like to have.
Can someone help me to create one of these columns or does someone know a better way to create the table with subscription series?
Subscription table (last two columns do not exist yet):

Relation_number
Subscription_number
Startdate
Stopdate
Switch_in
Switch_out
Subscription_serie
Subscription_serie2

1
3
1-1-2020
31-12-2020

1
1
1

1
5
1-1-2021
1-6-2021
1

1
1

1
1
1-1-2022

2
2

2
4
1-1-2019
31-12-2019

1
1
3

2
7
1-1-2020
31-12-2020
1

1
3

3
6
1-1-2021
1-6-2021

1
4

3
2
1-1-2022

2
5

Subscription table I eventually would like to create:

Relation_number
Subscription_serie

1
3,5

1
1

2
4,7

3
6

3
2

A: You can combine the values of rows in a column with the STRING_AGG function, and to do this you must group the values by column or columns.
The answer to your question is to group the values by (Relation_number, Subscription_serie) and combine the values in the Subscription_number column with the stringaddd function
SELECT Relation_number,STRING_AGG(Subscription_number,',') AS Subscription_serie
FROM Test
GROUP BY Relation_number,Subscription_serie
ORDER BY Relation_number,Subscription_serie desc

for Subscription_serie2
 SELECT Relation_number,STRING_AGG(Subscription_number,',') AS Subscription_serie2
    FROM Test
    GROUP BY Relation_number,Subscription_serie2
    ORDER BY Relation_number,Subscription_serie2 desc

I fetched the following table with lag, lead, and any order other than this is almost impossible in my opinion.
select Relation_number,Subscription_serie,Subscription_serie2

from (select *,Lag(Subscription_serie,1) over(order by Relation_number) as prevcol1,Lag(Subscription_serie2,1) over(order by Relation_number) as prevcol2 from
(select *,
   case Switch_in when 1 then concat(prevcol,',',Subscription_number) else cast(row_number() over(partition by Relation_number order by Relation_number) as nvarchar) end as Subscription_serie,
   case Switch_out when 1 then concat(nextcol,',',Subscription_number) else cast(row_number() over(partition by Relation_number order by Relation_number) as nvarchar) end as Subscription_serie2
     from (select Relation_number,Subscription_number,Switch_in,Switch_out,Lag(Subscription_number,1) over(order by Relation_number) as prevcol,lead(Subscription_number,1) over(order by Relation_number) as nextcol
FROM Test) t) t) t

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Criminal investigations into Department of Energy, Lockheed Martin, the Department of Labor and more
Please share this ongoing investigation which will re-open the case against the many criminal acts committed by multiple government agencies. Numerous others will be coming forth with similar incidents handled improperly by these same agencies. The cover-up will no longer be tolerated.
Jeff Walburn, Chick Lawson, Dr. David Manuta and Paul Brogdon share over 3 hours of criminal investigations into the Department of Energy, Lockheed Martin, the Department of Labor, NIOSH, USEC, OSHA, CDC, NRC, EEIOC and numerous other government agencies contributing to an ongoing cover-up at Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Piketon, OH (Nuclear Enrichment).
Records were destroyed and falsified, perjury, racketeering and many other criminal acts have been recorded with the documents to back them up.
Those who have not already lost their lives are either suffering without compensation or have just given up on the system that has infected their bodies and 4 generations to follow. The nuclear radiation the workers were exposed to and took home to their families was not only hidden from their knowledge, but covered up for billions of dollars by greedy corporations and government officials.
https://www.prlog.org/12525562-call-to-actions-interview-department-of-energy-criminal-cover-up-dol-admits-criminal-conspiracy.html
Direct link to article http://www.acalltoactions.com/#!Nuclear-Whistleblowers-Spill-Documented-Proof-of-Criminal-Acts-by-Multiple-Government-Agencies/c7j3/566f73980cf275ddd6e548a1
Direct link to interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CevglCV6qY4
January 28, 2016 Posted by Christina Macpherson | secrets,lies and civil liberties, USA | 1 Comment
A major economic drain – the renovation of Darlington nuclear station
Former OPG scientist calls nuclear reactors "major" economic drain, says renovation will 'continue the bleeding' TORONTO — The proposed $12.8-billion refurbishment of four nuclear reactors at the Darlington generating station is an ill-advised make-work project that will end up soaking taxpayers, a retired nuclear scientist says.
In a letter to Ontario's energy minister, obtained by The Canadian Press, Frank Greening warns of the formidable technical hazards he says will undermine rosy projections for the project.
"I am quite mystified that you would consider the refurbishment of Darlington to be some sort of solution to Ontario's economic woes, when in fact the premature failures of (nuclear reactors) are a major cause of Ontario's economic problems," writes Greening, a frequent critic of the industry.
"Spending billions of dollars trying to patch up Darlington's four dilapidated reactors will simply continue the bleeding."
Earlier this month, the province's publicly owned generating giant, Ontario Power Generation, announced plans to start refurbishing Darlington — situated east of Toronto on Lake Ontario — this fall. The project aims to extend the life of the CANDU reactors, scheduled for permanent shutdown in 2020, by 30 years……
Greening argues the units are in need of rebuilding prematurely because their pressure tubes and feeder pipes will soon fail fitness tests. He also warns the reactors' massive steam generators, which are not part of the proposed project, have had a less than stellar track record and will more than likely need replacement.
"Replacing these steam generators is fraught with very serious problems, both technical and economic, that could prevent the continued operation of Darlington beyond 2030," said Greening, a senior scientist with OPG until he retired in 2000.
The decision to proceed with the refurbishment of Darlington could prove to be a disastrous mistake if it is discovered that steam generator replacement is in fact needed in the next 10 to 15 years."
Environmental groups also argue such projects always run massively over budget and have cost taxpayers untold billions in the past and refurbishment is simply not worth the potential radiation risk to public safety.
The Ontario cabinet has so far given the green light to refurbish one of Darlington's reactors. OPG would need separate approvals for each of the other three units. …….
Greening, however, argues the project is an attempt to put a "dying industry on life support" at the taxpayer's expense.
"The inconvenient truth is that, after less than 25 years of operation, Darlington NGS is a mess," he said.
"Its feeder pipes are falling apart and its pressure tubes are ready to crack. Darlington is another failed CANDU station desperately in need of a fix."
The performance of four other refurbished CANDUs in Ontario, he argues, has fallen well short of what a new reactor typically delivers.
"This reveals the uncomfortable truth: A refurbished CANDU reactor is no substitute for a new one."http://www.24news.ca/the-news/canada-news/196744-former-opg-scientist-calls-nuclear-reactors-major-economic-drain-says-renovation-will-continue-the-bleeding
January 28, 2016 Posted by Christina Macpherson | general | 1 Comment
Experts concerned in debate on Wisconsin lifting moratorium on new nuclear stations
Energy Experts Are Split On Whether Wisconsin Should Lift Ban On New Nuclear Power Plants Earlier This Month, Assembly Passed A Bill That Would Make It Easier To Bring Nuclear Facilities To State WPR, By Scottie Lee Meyers Wednesday, January 27, 2016 Energy experts are taking different sides on whether Wisconsin should pass new legislation that would allow for the construction of new nuclear power plants.
Earlier this month, the state Assembly passed a measure that would effectively lift Wisconsin's ban on new nuclear power plants by eliminating two essential clauses. The clauses stipulate that nuclear power would be proven to be a cheaper source of energy to residents and requires a federal repository site for spent nuclear waste. ……..
energy experts like Al Gedicks, of the Wisconsin Resources Protection Council, said they would rather see the state invest in renewable energy systems. While Gedicks said he agrees that nuclear energy is better than coal, natural gas and oil in terms of overall greenhouse gas emissions, he worries that nuclear plants take years to construct and get operating — years we can't afford to spend when faced with such devastating consequences of climate change. Moreover, he said he fears extreme weather incidents could disrupt radioactive waste stored at nuclear power plants.
Gedicks also believes the bill would open the door to Wisconsin itself becoming a federal repository site.
"If you lift the restriction on no nuclear power plants without a waste disposal site, you are setting up the state of Wisconsin to become if not the first, then certainly the second nuclear waste repository," he said.
Wisconsin already was targeted by the U.S. Department of Energy as a potential repository site to compliment Yucca Mountain back in the 1980s, according to Gedick. But massive opposition, including from four tribal nations, eventually led for the federal agency to look elsewhere. Soon after, Wisconsin implemented the moratorium.
Gedick said Wisconsin could remain an attractive location for a waste dump site because of granite rock formations in the northern part of the state.
"Wisconsin was high on the list in the 1980s and it is still high on the list now," Gedlick said. "We are essentially going into this blindfolded because we haven't had a discussion on whether this is what the citizens of Wisconsin want if they lift that nuclear power moratorium."…… http://www.wpr.org/energy-experts-are-split-whether-wisconsin-should-lift-ban-new-nuclear-power-plants
January 28, 2016 Posted by Christina Macpherson | politics, USA | Leave a comment
Solar power an economic winner for Chile
Green Energy Boom Helps Chile Contain Surging Power Prices [excellent graphs] ,Bloomberg Business, Philip Sanders Vanessa Dezem January 28, 2016
Chile leads Latin America in installation of solar power
Success achieved without the help of government incentives
Chile's solar industry is proving a win win. Not only has it cut emissions of the global warming gas carbon dioxide, but it has also helped slash some of the highest electricity costs in Latin America. Those benefits have come at no expense to the government, which refused to offer any of the subsidies that drained resources in countries such as Spain and Japan. Looking ahead, the industry could even turn into a major export earner.
At an auction of electricity supply contracts in October, three solar parks offered distributors energy at $65 to $68 per megawatt-hour, while coal power was offered at $85 megawatt-hour, according to a report by Deutsche Bank. Two wind farms bid at $79 megawatt-hour. Unsurprisingly, the contracts went to renewable energy suppliers.
Just seven years earlier it was a very different story. ……..
In the Shade
Chile's solar industry is putting the rest of the continent in the shade.
The reason for that turnaround lies in the sun baked northern desert of the Atacama, where some towns have had almost no rain in living memory. It is a natural advantage that Chile will continue to exploit. As of November last year, the Energy Minister had registered solar projects with an additional capacity of 1.3 gigawatts.
The government is now looking into the expansion of the electricity grid, allowing the power to be exported to neighbors such Argentina, Energy Minister Maximo Pacheco says.
"We feel very proud to be a country that is leading the energetic transition in Latin America and to have reached this renewable boom without fiscal subsidies," Pacheco told Bloomberg on Dec. 15. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-28/green-energy-boom-helps-chile-contain-surging-power-prices
January 28, 2016 Posted by Christina Macpherson | renewable, SOUTH AMERICA | 1 Comment
Japan starts work on 'world's largest' floating solar farm
Japan begins work on 'world's largest' floating solar farm, Guardian, Adam Vaughan, 28 Jan 16
Electronics firm builds floating solar farm on a reservoir due to a scarcity of land for utility-scale solar in Japan. The Japanese electronics multinational Kyocera has begun work on what it says will be the world's biggest floating solar farm.
The power plant is being built on a reservoir in Japan's Chiba prefecture and is anticipated to supply enough electricity for nearly 5,000 households when it is completed in early 2018.
Space-starved Japan has already seen several floating solar farms built as part of the country's drive to exploit more renewable energy in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima disaster……..
In the UK, water company United Utilities started work last year on a floating solar farm on a Greater Manchester reservoir, which will be Europe's largest once complete. Kyocera said it was turning to water because of a scarcity of land for utility-scale solar in Japan……
Kyocera has already built three floating solar farms, which are much smaller than the new one, which was first announced in October 2014.http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jan/27/japan-begins-work-on-worlds-largest-floating-solar-farm
January 28, 2016 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Japan, renewable | 1 Comment
Encinitas Council votes for moving San Onofre spent nuclear fuel
Encinitas supports bill to move spent nuclear fuel http://www.encinitasadvocate.com/news/2016/jan/28/encinitas-council-nuclear-fuel/ .By Jared Whitlock11 .JAN. 28, 2016.
Federal legislation to relocate spent nuclear fuel from the shuttered San Onofre power plant has the support of the Encinitas City Council.
The Encinitas council on Jan. 27 voted unanimously to approve a resolution backing H.R. 3643, which would let the federal Department of Energy transfer spent nuclear waste at San Onofre and other areas to an interim storage facility.
"It seems critical that we move that waste from the coastline," Councilman Tony Kranz said, adding the need is clear given the 2011 earthquake and tsunami that damaged the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
The legislation came about because federal law only allows the Department of Energy to move spent fuel to a permanent depository, yet such a facility isn't on the horizon. In 2010, the Obama Administration shelved plans for a long-planned permanent storage site at Yucca Mountain in Nevada.
Oceanside Councilman Jerry Kern, who is on the San Onofre Decommissioning Community Engagement Panel, has urged North County cities to support the federal bill. So far, Oceanside and Encinitas have joined the cause
Kern told the Encinitas council on Jan. 27 that if the federal government doesn't take action soon, the spent nuclear fuel would remain in cask storage and cooling pools at San Onofre for decades.
"This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity for us to act," Kern said.
Kern during the Encinitas council's Jan. 13 meeting said the waste poses a threat, given the plant's proximity to the ocean and so many people.
San Onofre waste has been on the council's radar for a while. Prior to the federal legislation, Kranz and Councilwoman Lisa Shaffer last spring asked that the council weigh in on whether nuclear fuel should be stored at the plant.
Neither a temporary nor permanent site for spent nuclear fuel has been settled on. However, a company plans to build an interim facility in Texas and there's another proposal in New Mexico. In Texas, environmental groups have raised concerns over the impact to aquifers. In New Mexico, opponents have said transporting the waste could be dangerous.
The bill has been assigned to a congressional subcommittee, according to Kern. Rep. Congressman Darrell Issa, R-Vista, co-sponsored the legislation.
Faulty steam generators led to the plant's closure in 2013, heightening worries over the nuclear waste.
In September, the San Diego County Board of Supervisors asked the federal government to remove and relocate the waste. Later that month, H.R. 3643 was introduced.
With no plan in place for moving the spent fuel, the California Coastal Commission in October approved a measure to bury it in concrete bunkers at the San Onofre plant.
January 28, 2016 Posted by Christina Macpherson | USA, wastes | 3 Comments
Death of Dr. Herbert L. Abrams, long term activist for peace
Dr. Herbert L. Abrams, Who Worked Against Nuclear War, Dies at 95, NYT, By WILLIAM GRIMES JAN. 28, 2016 Dr. Herbert L. Abrams, a radiologist at Stanford and Harvard Universities and a founder of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985 for its work in publicizing the health consequences of atomic warfare, died on Jan. 20 at his home in Palo Alto, Calif. He was 95.
The death was confirmed by his son, John.
In the late 1970s, Dr. Abrams became interested in the health implications of nuclear policy. "It began to dawn on me that these weapons of annihilation were being considered for use in the settlement of disputes between nations when I had honestly not thought that that was ever in the cards," he told The Los Angeles Times in 1989.
With a group of American and Soviet doctors, he helped create International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, with the goal of publicizing the health risks of a nuclear exchange and countering theories that physicians might be able to save enough people to continue civilized life. He later called nuclear weapons and nuclear war "the central health issue of the 20th century."
Dr. Abrams served as founding vice president of the group, which was awarded the Unesco Prize for Peace Education in 1984 and the Nobel Peace Prize a year later. In announcing the award, the Nobel Committee said the group had performed an important service "by spreading authoritative information and by creating an awareness of the catastrophic consequences of atomic warfare."………http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/29/science/herbert-abrams-worked-against-nuclear-war.html?_r=0
January 28, 2016 Posted by Christina Macpherson | general | 2 Comments
Entergy to US Coast Guard Notice Form has Waterford Nuclear Safety Zone at Wrong Location
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Entergy to US Coast Guard Notice Form has Waterford Nuclear Safety Zone at Wrong River Mile Marker:
"U.S. Coast Guard: Refer to Emergency Management Resources Book Offsite Response Agencies Section
We request the establishment of a safety zone in the immediate area of Waterford 3 to control marine traffic, in accordance with your letter of agreement. Waterford 3 is located at mile marker 128." (Entergy)
Entergy cooling water intake is at 129.4 and 129.8. Entergy Reactor and Discharge is at 129.8. 128.1 is Union Carbide.
For the lower Mississippi zero is near the mouth and the miles are larger going upriver to Cairo, IL.
Maybe it's been corrected by now. Maybe not. We found no updates. And nothing ever changes much in that region.
This notification is probably to help protect Mississippi River traffic in the event of a nuclear accident.
Proper location matters for water intake in…
January 28, 2016 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized | 1 Comment
Fukushima fishermen to expand operations off crippled nuclear plant
FUKUSHIMA – Fishermen in Fukushima Prefecture said Wednesday they plan to scale down their self-imposed fishing ban in waters off the damaged nuclear power plant due mainly to a substantial decline in radioactive cesium levels.
The Fukushima Prefectural Federation of Fisheries Cooperative Associations is considering narrowing the area subject to the ban to a 10-kilometer radius from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant from the current 20-kilometer radius.
The move comes as plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. last autumn completed the construction of a shielding wall to prevent leaks of contaminated groundwater into the sea. Since the completion, radiation levels in sea waters at the plant's port have been declining.
In addition, prefectural research shows the radioactive cesium levels of marine products caught in coastal areas have dropped substantially.
The proportion of marine products with cesium levels exceeding the state standards of 100 becquerels per kilogram fell to less than 0.1 percent last year from some 40 percent between April and December 2011, soon after the nuclear accident at the plant in March that year. No products have surpassed the level in checks since last April.
The federation is scheduled to make a final decision late next month. "The environment of the seas of Fukushima has improved, and conditions for reviving fisheries are being laid out," federation leader Tetsu Nozaki told reporters.
After the tsunami-triggered triple meltdown at the nuclear plant, the federation voluntarily halted all of its coastal fishing. In June 2012, it started trial operations in a limited area, which has since expanded in steps.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/01/27/national/fukushima-fishermen-to-expand-operations-off-crippled-nuclear-plant/#.VqmtzVLzN_m
January 28, 2016 Posted by dunrenard | Fukushima 2016 | Fishing | 2 Comments
Japan considering building network of tunnels beneath seabed to store thousands of tonnes of nuclear waste
Government agencies are discussing the plan as a 'long-term solution' while environmentalists have dismissed it as an expensive 'pipe dream'.
A team of experts from Japan's Nuclear Waste Management Organisation is examining the possibility of storing thousands of tonnes of highly radioactive nuclear waste in tunnels deep beneath the Pacific Ocean.
Japan already has a stockpile of some 40,000 units of vitrified nuclear waste, with each of the stainless steel containers containing around 500kg of radioactive material, with more waste being produced.
Two of Japan's 55 nuclear reactors resumed operations last year, after their operations were subjected to detailed scrutiny as a result of the disaster at the Fukushima nuclear plant, caused by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
A number of additional reactors have applied to restart operations, while dozens of the older plants will now have to be decommissioned as they have reached the end of their operational lives. Japan has never before decommissioned a reactor and does not have a dedicated storage facility for high-level nuclear waste.
"We are presently looking for a site and one of the options being considered is for tunnels beneath the seabed," Kenichi Kaku, a spokesman for the agency, told the South China Morning Post.
"We are looking for a long-term solution to the issue that also meets the terms of the law on the storage of high-level waste," Kaku explained.
A preliminary report suggests that tunnels could be excavated from the land to a distance of several kilometres offshore. The final disposal chamber would need to be in bed rock at a depth of at least 300 metres below the seabed.
The tunnels would need to be within 20km of a port, which would be required to transport vitrified waste over long distances, and the containers would be taken to the sub-seabed storage chamber by remote-controlled vehicle.
As well as being more secure from human interference, storage chambers beneath the seabed are less affected by the movement of groundwater and fluctuation in sea levels.
The experts, appointed to complete a full study by the ministry of industry, will now carry out a study of the technical issues that will need to be overcome. They will start by examining geographical features to identify possible seismic fault zones.
Kaku admitted that one result of the 2011 disaster at Fukushima is that "the Japanese public has lost confidence in science and we need to rebuild our credibility".
Key considerations will be ensuring security in the transportation phase of highly radioactive waste, he said, while a great deal of work needs to be done to ensure that the storage chamber cannot be breached after the tunnel has been closed off.
"We need to identify active faults and volcanic regions so the waste is not affected in any way and we are looking to the experience of other countries for our plans," Kaku said.
Environmental organisations have been quick to condemn the plan, however, with Aileen Mioko-Smith, an activist with Kyoto-based Green Action Japan, telling the Post that the proposal is "a pipe dream".
"They talked about an 'ice wall' that was meant to stop ground water at the Fukushima plant becoming contaminated with radiation, but that was a pipe dream," she said. "This is another one. It may look good on paper but how could it ever be achieved at a reasonable cost?
"And that's before we even consider the safety of putting high-level nuclear waste beneath the seismically active seabed off Japan. It just doesn't make sense."
http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/east-asia/article/1906306/japan-considering-building-network-tunnels-beneath-seabed-store
January 28, 2016 Posted by dunrenard | Fukushima 2016 | nuclear wastes | 1 Comment
NRA's data shows contamination level in Tokyo tap water higher than Fukushima by 24 percent
According to NRA (Nuclear Regulation Authority), Cs-134/137 density in Tokyo tap water is 24% higher than Fukushima.
The report was released on 10/30/2015, titled as "Readings of radioactivity level in drinking water by prefecture" to cover from July to September in 2015.
From this report, only 0.0015 Bq/Kg of Cs-137 was detected in Fukushima drinking water. Cs-134 was not supposed to be detected. On the other hand, 0.00036 Bq/Kg of Cs-134 and 0.0015 of Bq/Kg were detected from Tokyo drinking water.
The measurement of Cs-134 is due to Fukushima accident.
NRA comments each data is based on the reports from prefectures.
It is not mentioned by Fukushima prefectural government why Cs-134 was not detected in their drinking water.
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http://fukushima-diary.com/2016/01/nras-data-shows-contamination-level-in-tokyo-tap-water-higher-than-fukushima-by-24-percent/
January 28, 2016 Posted by dunrenard | Fukushima 2016 | Contamination, Tokyo water | 1 Comment
Group to monitor trial of former TEPCO executives to clarify truth about Fukushima disaster
From left, Ruiko Muto, Kazuyoshi Sato and Takashi Soeda hold a news conference in Fukushima on Jan. 19 to announce a planned group that will monitor the trial of three former executives of Tokyo Electric Power Co.
Lawyers, journalists and scientists will form a group to help expose the truth and spread details about the Fukushima nuclear disaster during the criminal trial of three former executives of Tokyo Electric Power Co.
"We will encourage the court to hold a fair trial while transmitting information regarding the trial across the nation," said an official of the planned organization, whose name is translated as "support group for the criminal procedure on the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant."
Tsunehisa Katsumata, former chairman of TEPCO, the operator of the crippled plant, and two former vice presidents, Sakae Muto and Ichiro Takekuro, face mandatory charges of professional negligence resulting in death and injury.
Although the trial is still months away, 33 people are now setting up the group, including Ruiko Muto, who heads an organization pursuing the criminal responsibility of TEPCO and government officials for the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
Tetsuji Imanaka, an assistant professor of nuclear engineering at the Kyoto University Research Reactor Institute, and Norma Field, a professor emeritus of East Asian Studies at the University of Chicago, have also joined.
Three reactors melted down at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant after the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami struck on March 11, 2011. A number of hospital patients died in the chaotic evacuation.
About 14,000 residents of Fukushima Prefecture filed a criminal complaint against TEPCO executives, government officials and scientists in 2012, saying they were aware of the dangers to the Fukushima nuclear plant from a tsunami, but they failed in their responsibility to take proper countermeasures.
Tokyo prosecutors twice decided not to indict the three former TEPCO executives. However, the Tokyo No. 5 Committee for the Inquest of Prosecution, a panel of citizens, decided to forcibly indict the three in July last year.
"It has been almost five years since the disaster, but many details, including their foreseeability of the tsunami, remain unclear," said science writer Takashi Soeda, one of the group's co-founders. "As TEPCO has not unveiled a sufficient amount of information even in inquiries conducted by the Diet and the government or in civil lawsuits, the truth must be uncovered through the legal force of a criminal trial."
Five lawyers appointed by the Tokyo District Court will act as prosecutors in the trial.
Legal experts expect the lawyers will indict the former TEPCO executives and release a statement naming the victims around March 11, the fifth anniversary of the triple disaster that still haunts the Tohoku region.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201601270055
January 28, 2016 Posted by dunrenard | Fukushima 2016 | Tepco Trial | 1 Comment
Nuclear reactor mockup to be used to advance decommissioning technology
NARAHA, Fukushima Prefecture–A life-size model of a section of the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant that will be used in developing decommissioning technology is almost complete.
The mockup of the lower part of a reactor containment vessel will be used to develop remote-control technology used to locate the section from where radioactive water is leaking in order to repair damage, the Japan Atomic Energy Agency said.
A group of reporters from the Japan National Press Club were allowed to enter the test building of the JAEA's Naraha Remote Technology Development Center in the town of Naraha.
The model is being built at the center by a consortium comprised of electric utilities and nuclear plant manufacturers. It is scheduled to be completed in mid-March.
Radiation levels near the reactors that went in meltdown in the aftermath of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster remain too high for workers to approach. The development of remote-control technology is key to smoothly conducting the decommissioning work, which is estimated to take 30 to 40 years.
The Naraha center also houses a massive screen on which a 3-D image of the interior of a reactor building can be viewed by wearing special eyeglasses.
January 28, 2016 Posted by dunrenard | Fukushima 2016 | decommissioning | 1 Comment
Radiation in Tokyo's water at higher level than in Fukushima's
NRA's data shows contamination level in Tokyo tap water higher than Fukushima by 24 percent http://fukushima-diary.com/2016/01/nras-data-shows-contamination-level-in-tokyo-tap-water-higher-than-fukushima-by-24-percent/ Iori Mochizuki According to NRA (Nuclear Regulation Authority), Cs-134/137 density in Tokyo tap water is 24% higher than Fukushima.
January 28, 2016 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Japan, water | 1 Comment
Doomsday Clock to stay at 3 minutes to midnight
'Doomsday Clock' to stand still amid nuclear tensions http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-35412454 26 January 2016 The so-called Doomsday Clock will remain set at three-minutes-to-midnight amid global perils such as climate change and nuclear proliferation.
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BPA), the group behind the clock, said the standing still is "not good news".
The minute hand on the Doomsday Clock is a metaphor for how vulnerable the world is to catastrophe.
"It remains the closest it has been over the past 20 years," said Rachel Bronson, BPA's executive director.
In addition to nuclear arms and climate change, the group also cited growing cyber threats and an uptick in terrorist attacks in their decision to keep clock unchanged.
Lawrence Krauss, chairman of the BPA's Board of Sponsors said that the Iran nuclear agreement and the Paris climate accord were good news, but said it remained unclear if the Paris agreement would actually reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
He also noted increased tensions between the US and Russia as a sore point.
Last year, the scientists moved the clock up from five-minutes-to-midnight, noting the threat of climate change, the modernisation of nuclear weapons as well as large nuclear arsenals.
At the time, they said the threats were "extraordinary and undeniable threats to the continued existence of humanity".
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists was founded at the University of Chicago in 1945 by a group of scientists who helped develop the first atomic weapons. Their metaphorical clock was created two years later.
Today, the group includes physicists and environmental scientists from around the world, who decide whether to adjust the clock in consultation with the group's Board of Sponsors – which includes 17 Nobel laureates.
The closest the clock has come to midnight was in 1953, when it was moved to two minutes from the apocalyptic midnight, following hydrogen bomb tests by the US and Russia.
January 28, 2016 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 2 WORLD, weapons and war | 1 Comment


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La Réserve intégrale Waldo Lake () est une aire sauvage de  située dans l'Oregon au nord-ouest des États-Unis. Créée en 1984, elle s'étend dans la forêt nationale de forêt nationale de Willamette au sein de la chaîne des Cascades.

Son nom provient du lac Waldo qui se trouve à proximité de la réserve.

Géographie
La quasi-totalité de la zone est une région montagneuse recouverte d'une forêt. L'altitude varie de 850 à . Le lac Waldo est un lac aux eaux très claires. Il s'agit du second plus grand lac de l'Oregon (environ ) et il a une profondeur maximale de . À l'intérieur de l'aire sauvage se trouvent également plusieurs plus petits lacs (Six Lakes Basin, Eddeeleo Lakes, Wahanna Lakes et Quinn Lakes).

Milieu naturel
Une grande partie de la zone est recouverte d'une forêt composée du Sapin de Douglas, de la Pruche subalpine et du Sapin gracieux.

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Wilderness relevant du Service des forêts des États-Unis en Oregon
Aire protégée créée en 1984
Chaîne des Cascades
Forêt nationale de Willamette

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Jesus did give of Himself, and it was all foretold in the Scriptures. That's what Jesus said to the disciples on the road, "How slow of heart we are to believe all that the prophets foretold."
We're going to give you a whole series of the prophecies that were fulfilled on the cross. We've already started with Isaiah 53, and today we're going to move on to Psalm 22. It's one of my favorite Psalms. It's called the Song of David.
Even in the introduction to Psalm 22, you see it as a Messianic song, because David asks the chief musician to play this song on a particular instrument. The Hebrew translation for it is morning star. The morning star is yet another symbol of the Messiah, the chosen One, the One who is going to come to redeem His people.
The very first line of Psalm 22, here it is: "My God, my God, why have You forsaken me?" These are the identical words to what Jesus said on the cross, and it's recorded in Matthew 27. At the ninth hour, Jesus cried out with a loud voice, "My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?" He knew He was fulfilling what David said a thousand years before the event. You've got to keep that in mind. Psalm 22 was written a thousand years before the event.
Here is our next one, again, all from Psalm 22. It even describes in detail what the people around the cross are going to be saying to the Messiah as He is dying. And it says, "All those who see me ridicule me. They shoot out the lip. They shake their heads saying, 'He trusted in the Lord. Let Him rescue him. Let Him deliver him since He delights in him.'"
Let's go to what actually happened, as recorded again in the Gospel of Matthew. Likewise, the chief priest also mocking with the scribes and elders said, "He saved others. Himself He cannot save. If He is the King of Israel let Him come down from the cross, and we will believe Him. He trusted in God."
Remember that from Psalm 22. "He trusted in God. Let Him deliver Him now, if He will have Him. For He said, 'I am the Son of God.'" Can you imagine, a Psalmist a thousand years before it actually happened describing exactly what people are going to be saying to Jesus as He's hanging on the cross? It absolutely boggles your mind. Here is the son of David - that's one of the Messianic titles of Jesus, son of David - and here is David in Psalm 22 describing his passion, describing how people were going to mock Him.
The detail gets even more astounding.
Here it is in Psalm 22:12-13. I have struggled with this for a long time, and I finally got it in a Hebrew translation, an orthodox rabbinical translation from a group called Art Scroll out of New York City. It's a wonderful illumination of the Psalms. And here you've got two words. "Many bulls have surrounded me. Strong bulls of Bashan have encircled me." Now Bashan is a place in Israel where they have very good pasture land. And so the bulls there get big and beefy. When I saw The Passion, and I remembered this, it came to me that here is a visual description of beefy Roman soldiers who were then coming after the Messiah, coming after the chosen one.
But even more importantly, this word here, "they encircled me." The Hebrew translation is actually "crowned." And it's been translated into English "encircled." But "strong bulls of "Bashan have crowned me." This is a strong visual image of the crown of thorns. "Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus. When they had twisted a crown of thorns, they put it on His head and a reed in His hand. And they bowed the knee before Him and mocked Him, saying, 'Hail, King of the Jews.'"
It also gets specific about what happens during crucifixion. Here it is, Psalm 22:15: "My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and I'm as dry as an old piece of pottery. My tongue clings to my jaws. You have brought me to the dust of death." One of the signal things about crucifixion is that the body literally dries out. The fluid starts to collect down in the legs and the extremities. And literally, your mouth, your tongue starts to cling to the roof of your palate. You cannot imagine the thirst created by crucifixion. Here it is a thousand years before, predicted what was going to happen to the Messiah as He hung on the cross. And here Jesus says it, John 19:28-29: "After this, Jesus, knowing that all things were now accomplished that the Scripture might be fulfilled said, 'I thirst.'"
Jesus knew what was in Psalm 22. He knew it before He went to the cross. He knew what He was going to suffer, and here it is being fulfilled, what David wrote in Psalm 22.
It goes on even farther to describe how crucifixion happens. "They pierced my hands and my feet." We know this happened to Jesus, because doubting Thomas said, "Unless I see in His hands the print of the nails and put my finger into the print of the nail and put my hand into His side, I will not believe." Again, all foretold by King David a thousand years before the event.
It even gets to the detail of the soldiers gambling for his clothes and how they're going to do it. "They look and stare at me." Then it says, "They divide my garments, and for my clothing they cast lots." Now if you're going to cast lots, how are you going to divide? There's two parts to this. John tells us, "Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took His garments and made four parts." They divided to each soldier a part and also the tunic. Now the tunic was without seam, woven from the top in one piece, a very valuable piece of clothing in those days. They didn't want to cut it up. So they decided, "Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it whose it shall be." Can you imagine the detail of that prophecy a thousand years before the event, saying not only is it going to be divided, but there is going to be one piece of clothing that they're not going to divide, and they're going to cast lots for that one.
There is one piece of this prophecy in Psalm 22. Keep in mind also that David wrote this a thousand years before the death of Jesus, and crucifixion hadn't been even invented. So there was nothing for David to have a reference for about hands and feet being pierced, or hanging on a cross until you're so dry that you are hungry and thirsty that you cry out, 'My God. My God, why have You forsaken Me?" There was no way for him to know that soldiers were going to gamble for your clothes. The prophecy is so specific, and it happened a thousand years before the crucifixion.
But there is a part of this prophecy that has not yet been fulfilled, and it's up to you and me to make sure it happens. Here it is: "All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the Lord, and all the families of the nations shall worship before You, for the Kingdom is the Lord's." Here is the final Messianic prophecy, that all the earth is going to hear.
And who has that commission? Well, Jesus gave it to you and me. "Go ye into all the world and preach this Good News. Preach remission of sins based on what I am going to do or what I have already done on the cross." And so it's up to us to see this one fulfilled. All the ends of the earth shall remember, and they shall know, and all will come and worship, for the Kingdom is the Lords.


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A spatially heterogeneous predator-prey model
Analytic solution to an interfacial flow with kinetic undercooling in a time-dependent gap Hele-Shaw cell
Novel entire solutions in a nonlocal 2-D discrete periodic media for bistable dynamics
Zhixian Yu 1,, , Rong Yuan 2, and Shaohua Gan 3,
Department of Mathematics, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai 200234, China
The school of Mathematical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
College of Science, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, China
* Corresponding author: Zhixian Yu
Received June 2020 Revised August 2020 Published October 2020
This paper is concerned with novel entire solutions originating from three pulsating traveling fronts for nonlocal discrete periodic system (NDPS) on 2-D Lattices
$ \begin{align*} \label{eq1.1} u_{i,j}'(t) = \sum\limits_{k_1\in\mathbb{Z}\backslash \{0\}}\sum\limits_{k_2\in\mathbb{Z}\backslash \{0\} }J(k_1,k_2)\Big[u_{i-k_1,j-k_2}(t)- u_{i,j}(t)\Big]+ f_{i,j}(u_{i,j}(t)).\quad \end{align*} $
More precisely, let
$ \varphi_{i,j;k}(i cos\theta +j sin\theta+v_{k}t)\,\,(k = 1,2,3) $
be the pulsating traveling front of NDPS with the wave speed
$ v_k $
and connecting two different constant states, then NDPS admits an entire solution
$ u_{i,j}(t) $
, which satisfies
$ \begin{align*} &\ \lim\limits_{t\rightarrow-\infty}\Big\{ \sum\limits_{1\leq k\leq3}\sup\limits_{ p_{k-1}(t)\leq \xi\leq p_k(t)} |u_{i,j}(t)-\varphi_{i,j;k}(\xi+v_{k}t+\theta_{k})|\Big\} = 0, \end{align*} $
$ \xi = :i \cos\theta +j \sin\theta $
$ v_1<v_2<v_3 $
$ \theta_{k}\,(k = 1,2) $
is some constant,
$ p_0 = -\infty $
$ p_k(t): = -(v_k+v_{k+1})t/2\,\,(k = 1,2) $
$ p_3 = +\infty $
Keywords: Entire solution, pulsating traveling front, discrete periodic media, super-sub solution.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 34K05; Secondary: 34A34, 34E05.
Citation: Zhixian Yu, Rong Yuan, Shaohua Gan. Novel entire solutions in a nonlocal 2-D discrete periodic media for bistable dynamics. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - B, doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2020314
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in between I have travelled and worked and loved and taught and tried my hand at short stories but my creativity seems to die with age. is that a brain cell I just swept up?
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Hospitalité Sonder Canada and the Quebec government have announced the creation of hundreds of new Montreal jobs over the next few years.
Sonder's $182-million expansion project in Quebec will create around 700 new jobs between 2021 and 2025, "including about 100 in the IT field, with an average annual salary of $140,000," according to a statement.
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Founded in Montreal in 2012, Sonder is a tourist accommodation company that offers short-term rentals in 35 cities around the world, relying on "innovation and technology to redefine the travel experience."
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Take for example, Mashreq Bank, with slogan of 'we do banking, you do life'. How inspring it seems, but reality is quite different.
A friend recently informed me about the worries induced on him by Mashreq Bank. He has a business account with them. One day he noticed a deduction of Dhs 250 from his account. As he was out of UAE, he contacted them through e-banking support about this unsolicited deduction. After sending the complaints few times, he was informed that the deduction was made because he has to submit renewed copy of his Trade Licsense. When he asked why he was not informed about this earlier and why the charge was made without prior notice, Mashreq Bank opted to remain silent. He was referred to a customer support person who is so incompetent that he can not extract the scanned copy of Trade License from his email, do not respond back to emails or SMS messages.
After 10 days, his issue is still pending. The customer support person is insisting to see original Trade Licsense, despite the fact that my friend is telling him that he is not in UAE and unable to visit for next 3-4 months.
My friend filled their online feedback forms but received no response from that either. Mashreq Bank has no other way of making a complaint online. Is this the way to do banking?
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I have send AED.200 through Mashreq Snapp to India. Mashreq Charged me Aed.25 as Service Charges from my account and in India received only AED.120. When I compliant Mashreqbank informed me in SNAPP application service charge is "Sharing " by default. It is the sender who decide who bearing the service charge. Not the bank. I used SNAPP Mobile application transfer the amount and there is no option to select for the service charges and it is not mention in any where in your terms & conditions that In SNAPP the default is "Sharing". So Mashreq response in invalid in this case. Because of Mashreq incomplete Mobile App I lost AED.80 dhs when I transfer AED.200. As per the information from Mashreq bank (Ms. Alisha), it is not the responsibility of the Mashreq to track where the AED.80 was gone. As I understood that ICICI bank is the correspondent bank of Mashreq Bank in India and ICICI bank informed me that a complete detailed swift copy is sending back to Mashreq bank when a transaction received . But Ms. Alisha from Mashreq Bank rejected and saying that they are not receiving any report from their correspondent bank in India and they wouldn't mind what other bank charges . Infact I lost the money in the air for using most rated mobile app in UAE. And also Ms.Alisha said that they have already escalated this issue to their IT department to adding service charges option in SNAPP application. From this I can surely said that I lost the money because of the error in Snapp. If the option is not Sharing as default , the full amount would have received in India.
I am experiencing poor customer service from Mashreq. When i went to their Riqa office, there was no queue before me and almost all cubicles there were no customers but still i need to wait since all the customer service representatives were in one cubicle and doing chit chatting without bothering about customers waiting .
I apply for personal loan for my wedding 2 months ago as per Mr. Victor who was dealing with me all will be fast and easy. I transfer my salary and give all required documents to the bank Victor said all good. Later after I ask for updates he reply was the company is not listed with the Mahsreq bank and it mean he requred additional documents to list the company . I contacted my collegues from HR and they said all good let the bank ask for the documents we will send all to them.i provid to Victor all dtails even mobile number of the person dealing ith this documents in HR of the company i am workinh on. Victor continue saying to me that all in process for one more month after that he inform that the company i am woking for can not provide all the requred douments. I contacted my company they never receive any call from the bank with the list of requred document. I took the list from Vicktor and send it to my company. I am really shocked that Victor was lying to me for one month that all in process when he didnt even ask my company for documents. I will not get personal loan on time for my wedding and i could just use any other bank !!! Terrible service !!!!
This is a very bad bank. In terms of service and behaviour. Everything that says is lie. I recommend everybody not to go this bank.
I was dealing with Mashreq Bank only for 3 to 4 month , that bank with worst customer service , call centre staff do not answer customer inquiries. I advise people do not go this bank ever for any services.
The customer care call service is one the worst services I have ever seen. I have tried to call them for some queries at various times. Every time my call was put on-hold and it was unattended for 5-6 mins. Then I got frustrated and hung up the call.
Me and my wife visited the Mashreq Bank located in Karama opp to LULU supermarket the new branch which opened recently.
We reached there around 3.05pm in the afternoon and received the token for TS service we wanted to buy mashreq millionaire certificates for Aed 10,000 each.
After waiting for 20 mins our number was called by Mr. Shaikh and we can see him he is already in a hurry for closing time.
As soon as we said we want to buy mashreq certificates he called the helpdesk lady and shouted at her for not giving us the form before to fill since we are waiting for 15 mins or so.
Than he got us the form and made us fill the form with zero eye contact and pathetic customer service. I was thinking why at all he was placed there when he does not follow the basics of front desk.
After which we were asked to go to teller counter to pay the amount but before that he stressed us on saying that issuance of the certificate will take half an hour why don't you come back tomorrow, I told him my wife having off only on Wednesdays other days I cannot bring her so we can wait and we proceeded.
On reaching the teller counter the local guy behind the counter is in no mood to do the transaction as we noticed earlier while we were waiting in the bank, each transaction was taking more than 15 to 20 mins.
Than we fall in queue and we were the second to pay since we had the token for TS service and no more customers so Shaikh said you can go directly to teller to pay the amount.
On seeing us second in the queue the Local guy calls in some local lady I believe she may be the branch manager how sad to say that and she calls in the helpdesk lady asking her did you issue any token for teller on seeing us in the queue.
The helpdesk lady her name is Vanona says no they are here before the bank closed for mashreq millionaire certificate and they have the token for TS services hearing that the Local lady straight away said the certificate printer is not working and they have to come back.
I felt like tearing the form in front of her and saying you are not doing us the favor and we are waiting since so long none of the person said the printer is not working not Vanona nor Shaikh I clearly felt she was lying and common its the new branch.
These kind of people are black mark on your organization they don't know the basics of customer service.
Shaikh and the local lady are the demotivating factors of that branch.
I was doing transaction in Mashreq, bank street, bur Dubai branch which closed and I must say the service provided there was Awesome and Exceptional.
Kindly rectify this problem and arrange for trainings for the staff.
One most un happy customer.
I have only been with Mashreq bank for about two months, but I can't wait to leave them. There is a fundamental problem with this bank, staff attitude being one of the most problematic. This is compounded by a management that obviously doesn't trust its own staff. For example, I was sitting in the bank with my passport, Emirates ID card etc etc., to apply for online banking I had to fill in a form (fine) and THEN SUBMIT A SEPARATE LETTER ON COMPANY LETTERHEADED PAPER TO TELL THEM MY MOBILE NO!!! I didn't have any letterheaded paper so I had to go to a shop, design it, order it, wait for it, pay for it, just so I could tell my bank my telephone number!!! WTF!!!
In summery Fraudulent and rip off bank. Avoid unless a survival matter.
Worst Bank on the Planet, they charge you if you withdraw and they charge you if you transfer or pay anything.. Hopeless services.
Net Banking does not work properly.
really very poor services by customer care..every time you call, you have to hold the line more than 20 minutes…slogan is "We make possible"…really you are d worst bank ever in my life….
One of the worst Banks i have ever dealt with. First of all they give false promises to open a account. I was promised a one time free transfer to open an account with them. However once the account was opened they didn't fulfill the promise stating that it was misinformed by the sales staff. Now very recently they have deducted credit shield from my CC account when i have clearly mentioned to the inside sales staff that i am not interested in credit shield. Sometimes i feel the bank has lost it ethics for offering banking services. Charging for services which i have not availed is as good as theft..
One of the worst bank in UAE. Customer care department is a big waste. They are not solving the customer complained. I tried 3 months continously to get my credit card statement in email. I registered Mashreq online and contacted several times to customer care and complained department.Whenever I am contacting them for update of my complained everybody saying me a typical answer which is " WE ARE WORKING ON IT AND YOUR PROBLEM WILL SOLVE WITHIN 48 HOURS" which never come.Due to all these experiences finally I decided to cancel my credit card.
I am appalled at the service and shocked by the handling of how you treat your customers.
team leaders and of course Reem from your complaints division.
Yes i am fully aware of procedures but when your systems have a glitch/technical fault it is time,money and inconvenience to your customers.
Your systems certainly need an upgrade immediately and with the competition out there its by far below standards.
This is my second mishandled case being a new customer in less than three months and i am disgusted!
Mashreqbank has got to be the worst bank I have ever came across in my life.
I have lost all hope and faith thus far after 2 horrible experiences.
further it is a disgusting and unproffesional scan you attached herein with the dates cut off.
I have had to leave work and inconvenience myself to get to a branch in deira were it took over 30 minutes to print a 2 page statement, again incompetency!
that he had sent an email to your department to cancel forwarding the statement by email as well as pending requests.
I also made it clear that I DO NOT want to be billed again as I had received the docs physically and have payed the charge.
the handling and mistreatment of Mashreqbank towards their customers.
May I suggest that when a customer is mishandled you make exceptions to fix the problem in the least possible time.
reply of 'a mail has been forwarded to the concerned department' repeatedly.
Finally after getting the docs myself I scanned them and forwarded them and since the deadline was reached hence it was not accepted.
I have not only lost my time but my client and personal business deal thanks to Mashreqbank.
Absolutely true that mashreq banks customer service is a catastrophy and their way to deal with money is soooo very unprofessional . I always have a feeling that their staff has no financial education at all and therefore they have no clue how to deal with money. Let me tell you my story ( and I have absolutely nothing outstanding or unpaid bills with the bank and never had). Visiting their "Priority banking" in the first floor of jumeirah branch recently.There was NOONE at the reception to welcome or even greet me. Standing all alone in the waiting lobby. No tea or coffee offered.Everyone is busy with something else. I knock on some open door( self service mode) and ask if anyone would be free to assist me with my priority banking needs. A busy lady finaly found time for a small customer like me . She asked me to follow in the small meeting room. One round table was standing there – AND NO CHAIRS ! Imagine no chairs in priority banking section! The lady appologized so heartfully and so sweeeeeet , but actuelly it felt so cheap again. Okay she organized two chairs. Office boy came in to connect some cable under the table and started crawling around just under my feet (By the way I am a lady )while the mashreq lady happily and self indulged tried to give me an advices how to invest money .She requested the office boy to prepare two cups of coffee , and here comes the hummer !!!!!!!! He answered—— : "I cant , I am busy at the moment" . This is priority banking with mashreq ! Indeed a rubbish bank! Even the telephone which was standing on the table was so grey and covered with dirt and dust.
I already opened an account with another bank. All comments which were written here before by other fellows about this bank are true , I can only confirm.All their slogans are so hollow and so far , far away from their reality.


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function isaabb(x)
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    return x._isaabb == true
end

AABB = {
    origin = VPoint.new(0, 0),
    size = VPoint.new(0, 0),

    _isaabb = true,

    __tostring = function(a)
        return "<"..tostring(a.origin)..", "..tostring(a.size)..">"
    end,

    __sub = function(a, b)
        if not isvpoint(b) then
            error("Second operand must be a VPoint", 2)
        end

        return AABB.new(a.origin - b, a.size)
    end,

    __add = function(a, b)
        if not isvpoint(b) then
            error("Second operand must be a VPoint", 2)
        end

        return AABB.new(a.origin + b, a.size)
    end,

    __eq = function(a, b)
        if not isaabb(b) then
            return false
        end
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    end,

    __index = function(self, key)
        if key == 1 or key == 'x' then
            return self.origin.x
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            return self.origin.y
        elseif key == 3 or key == 'w' then
            return self.size.x
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            return self.size.y
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            return self.origin
        elseif key == 'tr' then
            return VPoint.new(self.origin.x + self.size.x,
                              self.origin.y)
        elseif key == 'bl' then
            return VPoint.new(self.origin.x,
                              self.origin.y + self.size.y)
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            return VPoint.new(self.origin.x + self.size.x,
                              self.origin.y + self.size.y)
        end

        return rawget(AABB, key)
    end,

    __setindex = function(self, key, value)
        if key == 1 or key == 'x' then
            self.origin.x = value
        elseif key == 2 or key == 'y' then
            self.origin.y = value
        elseif key == 3 or key == 'w' then
            self.size.x = value
        elseif key == 4 or key == 'h' then
            self.size.y = value
        end
    end,

    contains = function(self, other)
        if isvpoint(other) then
            local br = self.br
            local tl = self.tl

            return (other.x <= br.x and
                    other.x >= tl.x and
                    other.y <= br.y and
                    other.y >= tl.y)
        elseif isaabb(other) then
            local s_br = self.br
            local s_tl = self.tl
            local o_br = other.br
            local o_tl = other.tl

            return (o_br.x <= s_br.x and
                    o_tl.x >= s_tl.x and
                    o_br.y <= s_br.y and
                    o_tl.y >= s_tl.y)
        else
            error("Second parameter must be VPoint or AABB", 2)
        end
    end,

    intersects = function(self, other)
        if isaabb(other) then
            local s_br = self.br
            local s_tl = self.tl
            local o_br = other.br
            local o_tl = other.tl

            return (s_tl.x < o_br.x and
                    s_br.x > o_tl.x and
                    s_tl.y < o_br.y and
                    s_br.y > o_tl.y)
        else
            error("Second parameter must be AABB", 2)
        end
    end,

    area = function(self)
        return self.size.x * self.size.y
    end,

    convert = function(self, other)
        if isvpoint(other) then
            return other - self.origin
        elseif isaabb(other) then
            return AABB.new(other.origin - self.origin, other.size)
        else
            error("Second parameter must be AABB or VPoint", 2)
        end
    end,

    convert_from = function(self, other)
        if isvpoint(other) then
            return other + self.origin
        elseif isaabb(other) then
            return AABB.new(other.origin + self.origin, other.size)
        else
            error("Second parameter must be AABB or VPoint", 2)
        end
    end
}

AABB.new = function(x, y, w, h)
    local instance = {}
    if isvpoint(x) and isvpoint(y) then
        instance.origin = x
        instance.size = y
    elseif (type(x) == 'number' and
            type(y) == 'number' and
            type(w) == 'number' and
            type(h) == 'number') then
        instance.origin = VPoint.new(x, y)
        instance.size = VPoint.new(w, h)
    else
        error("Must provide origin and size VPoints or xywh numbers", 2)
    end

    setmetatable(instance, AABB)
    return instance
end

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dropped into the slot ,could not pull up. the mast was stuck in mud so not the best situation!!
anyone know what size flotation would keep my mast on the surface,its an alloy bermudan rig .
for masts, does anyone use these ? i want to sort this problem if possible.
I would like like to know the answer to this question also as yesterday I too had a capsize and the mast got stuck in the mud , we were lucky as there were two of us to get the boat up again but it was quite a struggle .
Anything 'heavy' up high, will increase the tendancy to capsize.
If your concerned, why not try an empty polythene milk carton tied to the top of the forestay.
A friend of mine at Coniston Sailing Club came up with a neat solution to this which worked a treat on his son's Topper. Two kids swimming armbands slipped over the top of the mast and inflated. His sone could walk on the mast without it turning turtle.


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