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Dept. Of Small Steps (And Mercies): China May Ban Dog Meat Consumption
Yes, I think we can agree this is very uncivilized. (Photo: Whoisgalt)
Won't do much for wildlife and farmed animals, but it's always a plus when any species gets a reprieve:
The Chinese government has signalled an end to the human consumption of dogs, with the agriculture ministry today releasing a draft policy that would forbid canine meat.
Citing the "progress of human civilisation" as well as growing public concern over animal welfare and prevention of disease transmission from animals to humans, China's Ministry of Agricultural and Rural Affairs singled out canines as forbidden in a draft "white list" of animals allowed to be raised for meat.
The ministry called dogs a "special companion animal" and one not internationally recognised as livestock.
Of course, if eating dogs is uncivilized, then eating cows, pigs, sheep, and all other sentient farmed animals is equally uncivilized. What the progress (and protection) of civilization truly requires is a massive and rapid shift to plant-based diets. But that is for another day…
Author timzimmermannPosted on 04/15/2020 04/15/2020 Categories Culture Of MeatTags China, dog meat, meat consumptionLeave a comment on Dept. Of Small Steps (And Mercies): China May Ban Dog Meat Consumption
Climate And Revolution ("Put down that donut!" Edition)
Elizabeth Kolbert adds more perspective to the gap between policy and reality, with a look at the recent US-China emission agreement:
President Obama deserves a great deal of credit for the agreement, as does Secretary of State John Kerry, who conducted the behind-the-scenes negotiations. But, as many commentators have also noted, the deal doesn't get the U.S. or China remotely near where they need to be if the world is to avoid disaster—which both countries, along with pretty much every other state in the world, have defined as warming of more than two degrees Celsius. Chris Hope, a policy researcher at Cambridge University, ran the terms of the agreement through what's known as an "integrated assessment model." He also included in his analysis a recent commitment by the European Union to cut its emissions by forty per cent before 2030. He found that even if all of the pledges made so far are fulfilled, there will be "less than a 1% chance of keeping the rise in global mean temperatures" below two degrees Celsius: "Most likely the rise will be about 3.8° C."
On top of this rather nasty problem, there's the issue of actually fulfilling the pledges. The Administration claims that reducing emissions by twenty-eight per cent over the next eleven years is "achievable under existing law." This is a little like someone who's trying to lose weight saying that his goal is "achievable" on a diet of doughnuts: it may be true in theory, but it's extremely unlikely.
Well, Americans do love fad diets, though it is true that not many of them work, and some of them are dangerous. The real solution is to put a stiff tax on donuts, I mean carbon. The politics of doing that are of beyond comprehension at the moment. Still, understanding that pricing carbon is the single most important and indispensable policy step required to fight climate change would be a good first step.
Author timzimmermannPosted on 11/20/2014 Categories Climate, EarthismTags carbon emissions, China, climate, Elizabeth Kolbert, GHG, Global warming, ObamaLeave a comment on Climate And Revolution ("Put down that donut!" Edition)
US And China Pledge To Cut Carbon Emissions
Emphasis on the word "pledge."
First, the news. The US and China, following secret negotiations, have jointly pledged to accelerate carbon emission cuts:
A climate deal between China and the United States, the world's No. 1 and No. 2 carbon polluters, is viewed as essential to concluding a new global accord. Unless Beijing and Washington can resolve their differences, climate experts say, few other countries will agree to mandatory cuts in emissions, and any meaningful worldwide pact will be likely to founder.
"The United States and China have often been seen as antagonists," said a senior official, speaking in advance of Mr. Obama's remarks. "We hope that this announcement can usher in a new day in which China and the U.S. can act much more as partners."
As part of the agreement, Mr. Obama announced that the United States would emit 26 percent to 28 percent less carbon in 2025 than it did in 2005. That is double the pace of reduction it targeted for the period from 2005 to 2020.
China's pledge to reach peak carbon emissions by 2030, if not sooner, is even more remarkable. To reach that goal, Mr. Xi pledged that so-called clean energy sources, like solar power and windmills, would account for 20 percent of China's total energy production by 2030.
New, and more ambitious targets, are of course necessary and welcome (more detail here). But China, with its authoritarian political structure, has a far greater probability of actually meeting these targets than the polarized, climate-denying, sacrifice-averse, American political system. At least for the near term, President Obama will have to wrestle with a Republican majority in Congress that is both nihilistic and dishonest in its attempts to suck political gain from its insistence that climate change isn't a problem.
Here's just one recent example of what the White House (and the planet) is dealing with:
In September, John P. Holdren, the head of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, was testifying to a Congressional committee about climate change. Representative Steve Stockman, a Republican from Texas, recounted a visit he had made to NASA, where he asked what had ended the ice age:
"And the lead scientist at NASA said this — he said that what ended the ice age was global wobbling. That's what I was told. This is a lead scientist down in Maryland; you're welcome to go down there and ask him the same thing.
"So, and my second question, which I thought it was an intuitive question that should be followed up — is the wobbling of the earth included in any of your modelings? And the answer was no…
"How can you take an element which you give the credit for the collapse of global freezing and into global warming but leave it out of your models?"
That "lead scientist at NASA" was me. In July, Mr. Stockman spent a couple of hours at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center listening to presentations about earth science and climate change. The subject of ice ages came up. Mr. Stockman asked, "How can your models predict the climate when no one can tell me what causes the ice ages?"
I responded that, actually, the science community understood very well what takes the earth into and out of ice ages. A Serbian mathematician, Milutin Milankovitch, worked out the theory during the early years of the 20th century. He calculated by hand that variations in the earth's tilt and the shape of its orbit around the sun start and end ice ages. I said that you could think of ice ages as resulting from wobbles in the earth's tilt and orbit.
The time scales involved are on the order of tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of years. I explained that this science has been well tested against the fossil record and is broadly accepted. I added that we don't normally include these factors in 100-year climate projections because the effects are too tiny to be important on such a short time-scale.
And that, I thought, was that.
No, that is never that when it comes to honestly confronting the implications of reducing carbon emissions. And I have no doubt that Republicans will do just about everything they can to eviscerate both the President and his climate pledge. But at least the battle is slowly being joined. And climate needs to be central to the 2016 elections, and every election after that until real progress is made.
Author timzimmermannPosted on 11/12/2014 Categories Climate, EarthismTags carbon cuts, carbon emissions, China, climate treaty, GHG, President Obama, President Xi, USLeave a comment on US And China Pledge To Cut Carbon Emissions
More About Russian Orca Captures With Erich Hoyt
Late last week I published an article at Outside Online about recent Russian wild orca captures. In the past year, 8 wild orcas have been captured, potentially presaging a new orca gold rush as marine park development continues in Asia. The article was based on information from author and Whale And Dolphin Conservation Research Fellow Erich Hoyt. Hoyt is co-director of the Far East Russia Orca Project (FEROP), which has been studying wild orcas off the Kamchatka peninsula for more than a decade, and has been an important source of news on both wild beluga captures AND (now) wild orca captures.
If you are interested in following Erich's work, his blog can be found here. The Russian Orca Facebook page can be found here. And if you want to read the first great book about killer whales, I highly recommend Erich's Orca: The Whale Called Killer (newly released as an e-book).
Erich told me more about the history of Russia's killer whales and what has been happening with regard to wild captures than I could get into the Outside article (which is doing its best to break Outside Online's social media sharing record, with more than 4000 Facebook shares so far). So, with his permission, I am publishing the full Q&A I did with him here:
TZ: How long have you been studying the Russia orca populations, and what do we know about them in terms of numbers and types?
Erich Hoyt: I started studying killer whales off northern Vancouver Island in 1973 and spent 10 summers with Northwest Coast orcas, as told in my book Orca: The Whale Called Killer. We were always curious about what might be going on the other side of the Pacific, off Russia. We had also heard that a Japanese aquarium wanted to capture Russian orcas and we hoped we could influence that and maybe stop it. In 1999, I started the Far East Russia Orca Project (FEROP) with a Russian scientist Alexander Burdin and a Japanese researcher Hal Sato. The goal was to engage Russian students and to build an all Russian team that could do the long-term studies needed. From the start, the goals were both science and conservation — we were sponsored by Whale and Dolphin Conservation (WDC), and the Humane Society International, and soon joined by Animal Welfare Institute and others. We have found two main ecotypes of killer whales: fish-eating (resident-type) and mammal-eating (transient-type) orcas, equivalent in size of pods, physical features and habits to those orcas living off the Northwest Coast of North America. Russian orcas have similar dialect systems, too. Most of our work has been with the fish-eating residents. Using photo-ID we have identified more than 500 killer whales off Kamchatka and about 800 around the Commander Islands.
TZ: What do you think prompted the onset of wild captures in the Sea Of Okhotsk?
Erich Hoyt: Russian captors have been trying to capture orcas for at least 15 years. They finally managed to surround multiple pods off southeast Kamchatka in 2003 including many orcas that we knew well from our studies, only a few days after we had left the field. They may well have waited for us to leave. One young female died in the nets, and another female was hoisted on board and died 13 days after being shipped across Russia to a Black Sea aquarium. Our whole FEROP team was really upset. After that, the captors made a number of failed attempts, but our team managed to get zero quotas for Eastern Kamchatka for the first time, effectively making any captures much more difficult on the Eastern Kamchatka side. Quotas of from 6 to 10 orcas were still issued every year for the Sea of Okhotsk, West of Kamchatka, but logistics there made captures more difficult. A few years ago, however, the Utrish Dolphinarium, the same one that made the previous orca captures off eastern Kamchatka, managed to catch one orca in the Sea of Okhotsk but she later escaped. Then, last year, another group of Russian captors caught a young female orca and brought her into captivity near Vladivostok. She is the one who is being called Narnia and she is still awaiting her captivity assignment. That capture gave the captors confidence that they could do this and — we suppose fueled by international demand that they are no doubt aware of due to beluga sales — they captured 7 orcas in 2 different capture operations in the Sea of Okhotsk from August to October this year.
TZ: What do we know about the outfits engaged in the wild captures? Are they also involved in the wild beluga captures?
Erich Hoyt: Yes, for these 7 orcas this year and the one last year, it's one company doing the orca captures and they have also done beluga captures for some years. They have been identified publicly as "White Sphere". This is a group of companies, in fact, with White Sphere building dolphinariums in Russia, White Whale capturing animals in the wild, and Aquatoriya operating dolphinariums. The Sochinskiy Delfinariy is a subsidiary of Aquatoriya, identified as the captor and owner of Narnia.
TZ: What methods are they using to make these wild captures? Why are the orcas trucked so far instead of being held on site?
Erich Hoyt: The whales are surrounded by a net in a shallow place close to shore, usually whole pods or even several pods, but we don't know the precise details in this case. After being contained, the whales to be captured are picked out one at a time and dragged by the tail to the shore and transported from the enclosure — the same as they catch belugas. Young females are highly sought after but some males are of course required too. They move the whales quickly because there is no place to keep them onsite and they are no doubt afraid of sea conditions, so they must transport the orcas to the nearest port. We know from our research that the logistics for doing anything in Russia are difficult and expensive.
TZ: I've seen reports of orcas being killed over the years during Russian capture attempts. What do we know about orca deaths during the recent captures or previous captures?
Erich Hoyt: We have confirmed reports of the 2 young females who died in 2003, as I described above. About a year ago, the Russian Federal Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography (VNIRO) estimated that 5 orcas had died due to captures in the past, but only the 2 from 2003 are officially confirmed. We don't know if any orcas died during the captures this year.
TZ: You mentioned in an update that Russian scientists and the state ecological commission have recommended to the Russian Federal Fisheries Agency that no permits be allowed in 2014. Are you hopeful the Federal Fisheries Agency will accept that recommendation, and when would you expect a decision?
Erich Hoyt: Scientists from our team and other scientists in Russia who understand killer whale biology have made this recommendation even before the captures occurred this year. The recommendation was based on the fact that orca quotas are being given on the basis of a single management species, when we know that there are at least two distinct ecotypes, the fish-eating residents and the mammal-eating transients, who are separate and need to be evaluated and managed separately. Getting the state ecological commission to endorse this idea was key. Now we hope the Federal Fisheries Agency will accept it. We will know later this year if quotas for capturing killer whales will be issued for 2014.
TZ: There are lots of rumors about where the orcas might go. What, if anything, is known about where the orcas might end up? Do you know anything about the prices they are being offered at?
Erich Hoyt: The rumors are China and Moscow where new facilities are coming on stream. To send the whales to China requires CITES permits and we have now found out that at least 2 CITES permits have been issued. We have no idea of the prices being offered now, but as long as 10-15 years ago, we know that a young female orca in prime condition could be worth $1 million USD. A lot depends on how many people per year pay to get into Sea World in the US, as well as paying to get into the growing number of such facilities in China, Japan and Russia. By last count, more than 120 facilities in these countries exhibit whales and/or dolphins. If there is no demand from the owners of these facilities and from the paying public, the selling price will go down and eventually there may be little or no supply offered for sale. Then the orca trafficking can stop.
Erich Hoyt is Research Fellow with WDC, Whale and Dolphin Conservation, co-director of the Far East Russia Orca Project, and author of 20 books including Orca: The Whale Called Killer.
Author timzimmermannPosted on 11/11/2013 Categories Diary Of A Killer Whale, Nature, OrcasTags belugas, China, Erich Hoyt, Far East Russia Orca Project, Russia, wild capture5 Comments on More About Russian Orca Captures With Erich Hoyt
Self-Inflicted Pandemic?
Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice. I say it might just be a raging epidemic arising from the virulent combination of modern farming practices, dense populations, and global culture.
Is the H7N9 scare a harbinger of how it will go? Foreign Policy ponders:
At this writing, 108 cases of H7N9 flu, as the new virus has been dubbed, have been confirmed, and one asymptomatic carrier of the virus has been identified. Twenty-two of the cases have proven fatal, and nine people have been cured of the new flu. The remainder are still hospitalized, many in severe condition suffering multiple organ failures. As the flu czar of the World Health Organization (WHO), Dr. Keiji Fukuda, terselyput it to reporters last week, "Anything can happen. We just don't know."
On this tenth anniversary of China's April 2003 admission that the SARS virus had spread across that country — under cloak of official secrecy, spawning a pandemic of a previously unknown, often lethal disease — Beijing finds itself once again in a terrible position via-a-vis the microbial and geopolitical worlds. In both the SARS and current H7N9 influenza cases, China watched the microbe's historic path unfold during a period of enormous political change. And the politics got in the way of appropriate threat assessment.
Well worth the full read.
Author timzimmermannPosted on 04/26/2013 Categories Tales From The Factory FarmTags bird flu, China, Factory farming, pandemic, SARs, virusLeave a comment on Self-Inflicted Pandemic?
Did China's Meat Production Practices Create The Possibility Of A New Pandemic?
Laurie Garrett (free sign-up required) at Foreign Policy thinks the answer may be, "yes":
Here's how it would happen. Children playing along an urban river bank would spot hundreds of grotesque, bloated pig carcasses bobbing downstream. Hundreds of miles away, angry citizens would protest the rising stench from piles of dead ducks and swans, their rotting bodies collecting by the thousands along river banks. And three unrelated individuals would stagger into three different hospitals, gasping for air. Two would quickly die of severe pneumonia and the third would lay in critical condition in an intensive care unit for many days. Government officials would announce that a previously unknown virus had sickened three people, at least, and killed two of them. And while the world was left to wonder how the pigs, ducks, swans, and people might be connected, the World Health Organization would release deliberately terse statements, offering little insight.
It reads like a movie plot — I should know, as I was a consultant for Steven Soderbergh's Contagion. But the facts delineated are all true, and have transpired over the last six weeks in China. The events could, indeed, be unrelated, and the new virus, a form of influenza denoted as H7N9, may have already run its course, infecting just three people and killing two.
Or this could be how pandemics begin.
We all know (or at least by now should know) about the cruelty and environmental impact of industrial meat production. And we know that there are personal health implications related to heart disease. What most people don't know is that factory farms and modern livestock practices create ripe scenarios for new viruses and antibiotic resistant bacteria. The H7N9 virus may turn out not to be the pandemic health experts have feared might emanate from livestock. But even if it is not, it is a reminder that we have knowingly created conditions which probably will at some point produce a deadly pandemic. A definite "reap what you sow" situation, and an example of a modern threat that is much more worrisome than all the traditional threats (terrorism, for example) that we tend to spend time and money on.
This is yet another powerful reason that vegetarian and vegan practices would make for a lot safer, more inhabitable, planet in the future. (h/t Earth In Transition, for flagging Garrett's piece).
Just one more environmental note on China, and an example of why China might end up wondering whether it was really so wise to try and emulate the western development and consumption model. Air Pollution Linked to 1.2 Million Premature Deaths in China:
Outdoor air pollution contributed to 1.2 million premature deaths in China in 2010, nearly 40 percent of the global total, according to a new summary of data from a scientific study on leading causes of death worldwide.
Figured another way, the researchers said, China's toll from pollution was the loss of 25 million healthy years of life from the population.
That's a big price to pay, no matter how you look at it.
Author timzimmermannPosted on 04/02/2013 04/02/2013 Categories Environment, Tales From The Factory FarmTags air pollution, China, H7N9, Meat, pig farming2 Comments on Did China's Meat Production Practices Create The Possibility Of A New Pandemic?
Elephant Slaughter: A Call To Radicalism
This brutal photo comes from a heartbreaking gallery on elephant poaching in the New York Times.
It accompanies a New York Times oped-ed plea for a global response to elephant slaughter, from the authors of a recent study detailing the devastating impact of poaching on African forest elephants:
THERE is nothing a mother elephant will not do for her infant, but even she cannot protect it from bullets. About a year ago, poachers attacked a family of forest elephants in central Africa. The biologist who witnessed the attack told us that wildlife guards were completely outgunned. In the end, an elephant mother, riddled with bullets and trumpeting with pain and fear, was left to use her enormous body to shield her baby. Her sacrifice was for naught; the baby was also killed. Such is the reality facing African forest elephants today.
This mother and child were just two of the tens of thousands of forest elephants that have been butchered over the past decade. A staggering 62 percent vanished from central Africa between 2002 and 2011, according to a study we have just published with 60 other scientists in the journal PLoS One. It was the largest such study ever conducted in the central African forests, where elephants are being poached out of existence for their ivory.
In China and other countries in the Far East, there has been an astronomical rise in the demand for ivory trinkets that, no matter how exquisitely made, have no essential utility whatsoever. An elephant's tusks have become bling for consumers who have no idea or simply don't care that it was obtained by inflicting terror, horrendous pain and death on thinking, feeling, self-aware beings.
They make a powerful argument that the ongoing elephant slaughter is immoral and completely unacceptable. But they finish with an almost polite plea for sanity:
Poaching is big business, involving organized-crime cartels every bit as ruthless as those trafficking narcotics, arms and people. Existing international laws against money laundering should be used to follow the money trail and to prosecute these criminals.
A universal attribute of humanity is compassion. We protect those in harm's way. We need to show this compassion to forest elephants, giving them space to roam and protection from danger. Most crucially, people must stop buying ivory. If we do not act, we will have to shamefully admit to our children that we stood by as elephants were driven out of existence.
This struck me as a little anti-climactic. The clock is ticking, the cruelty is extreme, the implications catastrophic. Does anyone think a nice plea like this will save the elephants? Why not call out political leaders and international regimes like CITES? Why not raise the possibility of more radical responses, like boycotts or economic sanctions against countries and economies that are tacitly supporting the slaughter?
I understand there are rules about scientists and advocacy, and that care must be taken not to alienate institutions or potential funding sources. But the time for such niceties is long past, because we are long past the point on so many crises where standard, moderate, calls for action will do the job. And I am frequently struck by the fact that the urgency and radicalism of the problems we face is rarely matched with similar urgency and radicalism when it comes to proposed solutions.
Extremism is often disdained or dismissed. Given the scale and implications of climate change and species loss perhaps we had better start seeing extremism as a virtue. Or a necessity.
Author timzimmermannPosted on 03/18/2013 03/18/2013 Categories NatureTags China, CITES, elephant poaching, ivory, species loss5 Comments on Elephant Slaughter: A Call To Radicalism


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Destructive Emotions Are Related to Ignorance
The Living OUT Podcast — LOP071
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Last week I was invited to speak with the students of my colleague Jeffry J. Iovannone, in his class, Foundations of Social Justice, about the issues of sexism, masculinity, and the negative, angry responses to Gillette's recent ad campaign, "The Best Men Can Be".
The class was asked to review my episode, Authentic Masculinity Is The Best A Man Can Get — LOP052, in which I deconstruct not only the ad but the problematic responses from people like Piers Morgan and James Woods.
We were discussing ways to get to the root of the problem, i.e. where does misguided masculinity, toxic masculinity, and similar forms of hatred come from. I suggested that we need to recognize at the basest of levels, ignorance is the core problem.
Ignorance is not bliss — it's a human rights issue.
Ignorance in this sense is based on a lack of relevant education, or a life lived under the dogma of an ideology — a religion or a social/political structure where the messages taught about humanity are hegemonic and patriarchal; the only message taught is a reinforced binary — a biblical status quo.
The Dalai Lama speaks to the ideas I shared with the students of Jeff's class — that we need to bring people out of ignorance to help them cross the bridge towards us:
"The ultimate source of a happy life is warmheartedness. Even animals display some sense of compassion. When it comes to human beings, compassion can be combined with intelligence. Through the application of reason, compassion can be extended to all 7 billion human beings. Destructive emotions are related to ignorance, while compassion is helpful and related to intelligence. Consequently, it can be taught and learned." — Dalai Lama
We need to teach and learn emotional intelligence.
There is something else we need to do in the face of pushback, anger, and rage in the extreme as a response to societal change and challenging social norms:
Those of us with higher "emotional intelligence" (and that does not mean "better than") need to demonstrate vulnerability and have the courage to face this backlash head-on with kindness.
I spoke about this in the episode, Why We Need to Engage Critics and Defuse Outrage — LOP051. We need to help those who do not understand, those who are "ignorant", take the first step across the bridge of understanding. If we take that step for them, they will most likely take a step back, or push back against us.
This is the work I am doing, something I'm teaching myself and practicing. It's something I realize I need to teach others, more broadly and more quickly because this is the change I want to see in the world.
In the episode, What Are the Qualities of Gay Leadership? LOP065, I shared my thoughts about evolutionary leadership for gay men, and what I termed,
The essentials of leadership are demonstrated in the following ways:
Don't lead others directly. Lead by example. In other words, lead yourself with the utmost integrity, authenticity, and transparency, as if everyone is watching — even when no one is.
Give people a philosophy. Give people better ways to think and ways to think more critically. Help people think in a way for the betterment of all humanity; to create a transformational, evolutionary change that impacts the world.
Not leading others directly allows them to see you for your authentic leadership and to follow by example. It's gentle and allow others to come towards what you stand for.
Giving people a philosophy — a framework to think for themselves, untethered from the status quo — is how we lead people out of ignorance. The person pushing back wants to live, wants their rights and freedoms too. To help them understand that you have the right to the same rights, and why that's so vital to humanity, will be a necessary transformation that will impact others who orbit within their circle of influence.
Originally published at darrenstehle.com on March 25, 2019.
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Feranor Steeltoe from Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos.
Feranor Steeltoe was a dwarven dragon hunter, a blacksmith, and the leader of a group known as the Dragon Hunters. Feranor asked Prince Arthas Menethil to kill the black drake Searinox to get his heart shortly before the Third War. He forged an Orb of Fire for Arthas with the heart of the dragon.
Feranor's current status is unknown. His apprentice Sigrun Ironhew in the Badlands told to Alliance adventurers of his master's legacy of using dragon hearts for fiery enchantments, and how the last time he'd heard of him, Feranor was working at a smithy with a hunting party up in Lordaeron.
Feranor may be a reference to Feanor, a famous craftsman and smith created by J. R. R. Tolkien.
Although Blizzard uses the mortar team model to portray him, Feranor is just one person, given his voice Feranor is most likely the larger of the two dwarves.
He may be related to Orim Steeltoe.


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Critics of Christie administration plans to increase the density of residential development in the New Jersey Highlands believe the administration purposely made it difficult for opponents of the plan to get their objections on record by holding only one public hearing on the matter and scheduling it for 4 o'clock in the afternoon.
Thus, about 25 individuals and representatives of environmental groups held their own hearing last night at Montclair State University, expressing their intense opposition and urging the Department of Environmental Protection to withdraw a proposed rule change that would implement the plan.
The group plans to transcribe the comments and submit them before the comment period is over. Elliott Ruga, policy director of the New Jersey Highlands Coalition, said legitimate comments must be answered by the DEP issue by issue.
Speakers assailed the DEP's plan, which would almost quadruple the number of septic systems allowed in the forested acres of the Highlands, and increase their number by about 50 percent in the region's unforested areas. The DEP said this calculation is wrong; at most the septic density would increase by 12 percent. Regardless, the agency noted, the new standard does not change the existing nitrate dilution model; the targets were based on recommendations from the U.S. Geologic Survey.
Critics said the proposal, published by the DEP in May, would hurt water quality for the approximately 5 million people that depend on the Highlands for water supply; would open up the protected natural area to developers; and would represent an abandonment of the legislative intent of the 2004 Highlands Act, which protects the area.
Speakers accused the Christie administration of giving in to pressure from developers and of ignoring the need for clean water for a majority of the state's population. Organizers of Monday's event including the New Jersey Sierra Club, Clean Water Action, and the New Jersey Highlands Coalition.
George Cassa, a resident of Tewksbury, and president of the Coalition, accused Gov. Chris Christie of using the proposed rule change to undermine a law that he doesn't like.
"This is a seemingly coordinated attempt by the administration to pull the Highlands Act apart, board by board," Cassa said. "He has been relentless in his willingness to abuse the power of his office in the form of DEP.
DEP Commissioner Bob Martin has defended the rule as a "common sense, science-based approach" to protecting water while creating "reasonable opportunities" for economic growth and jobs.
Ruga and other speakers accused the DEP of ignoring the public in favor of the wishes of developers.
"The government looked for a cheaper way out to help out some interests other than the people they were elected to represent," he said.
Richard Malizia, a resident of Hawthorne, said he had not planned to speak at the meeting but was moved to do so by the passion of other speakers.
"I'm really sorry that I had to be here because I thought it was over, I thought we had won, but obviously it's about to be turned on its head," he said, referring to the passage of the Highlands Act.
Malizia, 70, a chartered public accountant, said Gov. Christie had "slowly" removed members of the Highlands Council that wanted to protect the area. "Now they are the fox guarding the hens," he said.
In a separate attempt to force the DEP to rethink its rule change, opponents in the legislature have introduced a resolution in both houses that would, if approved, state that the plan violates the legislative intent of the Highlands Bill, and would require DEP to amend its rule, said Ruga of the coalition.
The DEP said is it has extended the comment period by 15 days in response to complaints.
Information was added to this story after it was published.
Jon Hurdle is a freelance journalist who lives in Philadelphia.


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The Effects of Acute vs. Chronic of Screen Illumination on: Sleep Efficacy and Architecture, Physiology, Emotion and Behavior: Possible Effect on Human Health
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The human eye has a dual role, which is reflected by the various photo-receptors used for vision of images and colors ,Image forming photoreceptors (IFP) and for entrainment of our "Biological clock" located in the hypothalamus through the retinal ganglions known as non-image forming photoreceptors (NIFP). The recently discovered new photo-pigment melanopsin which is sensitive to short wavelength (SWL) illumination exists in the-NIFP. The axons of the NIFP form a special nerve known as the Retino-hypothalamic-tract (RHT) that transfers the SWL signal to the biological clock resulting in suppression of pineal melatonin (MLT) production. This is the basic mechanism by which environmental light/dark cycles entrain the biological clock and transfer the message to organs, tissues and cell. The American Medical Association (AMA) issued a resolution in 2012 stating that light at night constitutes environmental pollution because it violates the daily cycles, including the waking and sleeping cycles, and suppresses the secretion of melatonin from the pineal gland at night. Results of other studies have shown that exposure to artificial light at night (ALAN) and mainly those emerging from SWL sources suppresses MLT-produced in the pineal gland. Computers, tablets, TVs, and smart-phones screens emit SWL illumination, during the day and night hours, whether as active or passive users. The results of previous studies show that, exposure to SWL-ALAN illumination suppresses MLT-secretion and disrupts sleep patterns. In order to understand better the effect of SWL-exposure emerging from screens on human behavior and health, the investigators will study the effects of SWL-exposure on the structure and quality of sleep, cognitive functioning in Continous Performance Test (CPT III), emotional state, and physiological, variables (melatonin secretion levels and body temperature) that were not tested in previous studies.
The investigators will examine whether there is a difference between one-time and multiple exposures to computer screen lighting (350 lux). The investigators hypothesize that multiple and continuous exposure will have a more significant detrimental effect on the quality of sleep and consequently on performance, emotional, and physiological indicators, than one-time exposure to screen light. Procedure: On the base-line, first and fifth night of the study, at the end of two hours of exposure to screen light, the subject will be connected to the sleep test system by a skilled technician. On all other nights (nights 2-4), exposure to computer light only, will be conducted and at the end of the exposure the subject will be asked to go to sleep. During the entire experimental period the subject will wear an Actigraph watch to ensure regular sleeping hours. In addition, subjects will be asked not to expose themselves to a computer/tablet/smartphone screen from 20:00 h to wake up. An Actigraph will monitor their sleep during the week of the experiment. The subject will be invited to attend the Sleep Institute at 21:00 h. The subject will be asked to enter the test room, which will be dark, and sit in front of a computer screen for two hours at a distance of about 60 cm from the screen and perform the on-screen tasks between the hours of 21:00 and 23:00 h. The tasks will include: reading and writing Microsoft Word documents, , and answering questions dealing with a document read and, solving verbal and arithmetic problems, while attempting to accomplish the task correctly and in the quickest time possible. The subject will be told that the purpose of the study is to examine the effect of the content of the tasks on the quality of sleep. During exposure, the subject will be allowed to eat and drink, but do not go to the bathroom. At the end of two hours of exposure to screen light, the subject will be connected to the sleep test system by a skilled technician. Body temperature and 6-hydroxymelatonin sulfate(6-SMT) in the urine will be measured using the on-set and off-set methods three times, at 21:00, 23:00 h, and close to the falling asleep time. Three measurements will be taken after awakening. After the sleep test system is installed, the subject will be asked to go to sleep and in the morning will be woken at his/her average waking time. After the examinee has been woken and has provided a urine sample and body temperature measurement, the sleep test system will be removed and the examinees will be given 30 minutes to organize him/herself, before performing the following tasks to assess his/her degree of fatigue and sleepiness: Continous Performance Test (CPT-III), the Brief Symptoms Inevntory (BSI) emotional questionnaire, and the Epworth Sleepiness Scale (ESS) and Karolinska Sleepiness Scale (KSS) questionnaire.
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Inclusion Criteria: - age 20-45, - healthy - No history of visual disturbances - No history of sleep disorders Exclusion Criteria: - score more then 5 in the Pittsburgh Questionnaire (PSQI). - Subjects with a-typicality deviation in the HORNE - OSTBERG sleep-wakefulness cycle questionnaire. - One of the Eye problems: field of vision, color blindness, or impaired functioning of the pupil in reaction to light. - Subjects who did shiftwork three months before the experiment - Subjects that taking sleeping medications in general and melatonin in particular
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Most clinical trials are designated as phase 1, 2, 3, or 4, based on the type of questions that study is seeking to answer:
In Phase 1 (Phase I) clinical trials, researchers test a new drug or treatment in a small group of people (20-80) for the first time to evaluate its safety, determine a safe dosage range, and identify side effects.
In Phase 2 (Phase II) clinical trials, the study drug or treatment is given to a larger group of people (100-300) to see if it is effective and to further evaluate its safety.
In Phase 3 (Phase III) clinical trials, the study drug or treatment is given to large groups of people (1,000-3,000) to confirm its effectiveness, monitor side effects, compare it to commonly used treatments, and collect information that will allow the drug or treatment to be used safely.
In Phase 4 (Phase IV) clinical trials, post marketing studies delineate additional information including the drug's risks, benefits, and optimal use.
These phases are defined by the Food and Drug Administration in the Code of Federal Regulations.
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Q: android: referring to ressources in custom xml i have a multilingual android app, where i have put the different translations in the strings.xml in the respective directory.
now i also have a custom xml file, where i would like to reference texts like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rooms>
    <room title="@+string/localizedtext" />
</rooms>

now when i read the title attribute in my code, i obviously get the unresolved string "@+string/localizedtext" like it is.
is it possible to somehow resolve this link to the localized text automatically?
thanks!

A: Almost a year later:
    public static String getStringResource(Context context, String thingie) {
        try {
            String[] split = thingie.split("/");
            String pack = split[0].replace("@", "");
            String name = split[1];
            int id = context.getResources().getIdentifier(name, pack, context.getPackageName());
            return context.getResources().getString(id);
        } catch (Exception e) {
            return thingie;
        }
    }

That'll do it.

A: This might seem like a broad answer but I believe it'll clarify a lot of things for people who spent hours looking for it (I'm one of them).
The short answer is yes, you can use references in custom XML, not just for strings, but that's the example I use, for ease of understanding.
Considering the context:

*

*res/values/strings.xml
(Default strings, usually en-US for convenience but that's up to the developer)
    <resources>
        <string name="sample_string">This is a sample string.</string>
    </resources>

*

*res/values-fr/strings.xml
(Localized french strings)
    <resources>
        <string name="sample_string">Ceci est un exemple de chaîne</string>
    </resources>

*

*res/xml/test.xml
(Custom XML file)
    <!-- @string/sample_string identifies both
         the default and french localized strings,
         the system settings determine which is used at runtime.
    -->
    <test>
        <sample name="sampleName" text="@string/sample_string"/>
    </test>

*

*src/com/example/app/TestXmlParser.java

    //Omitted imports for clarity.

    public class testXmlParser {
        public static final String ns = null;

        public int parse(XmlResourceParser parser) throws XmlPullParserException,
                                                          IOException{
            while(parser.next() != XmlPullParser.END_DOCUMENT){
                if(parser.getEventType() == XmlPullParser.START_TAG){
                    if(parser.getName().equalsIgnoreCase("sample")){

                        // This is what matters, we're getting a
                        // resource identifier and returning it.
                        return parser.getAttributeResourceValue(ns, "text", -1);
                    }
                }
            }
            return -1;
        }

Use String getText(int id) to obtain the string corresponding to id (localized, if available).
Using the example above it would amount to replace :
//Return the resource id
return parser.getAttributeResourceValue(ns, "text", -1);

with :
//Return the localized string corresponding to the id.
int id = parser.getAttributeResourceValue(ns, "text", -1);
return getString(id);

A: The way you tried is not possible.
You might get similar functionality with <string-array> resource:
<resources>
    <string-array name="room">
        <item>@string/localizedText</item>
        <item>@string/otherLocalizedText</item>
    </string-array>
</resources>

then you would use it like this :
String[] room = getResources().getStringArray(R.array.room);
String localizedText = room[0];
String otherLocalizedText = room[1];

A: Localization in Android is done with resource identifiers. Check out this Android tutorial.
http://developer.android.com/resources/tutorials/localization/index.html
See discussion below.

A: Great answer kyis, shame I still don't have enough brownie points to rate it. To answer Nick's question, just change the last bit of code to:
int id = parser.getAttributeResourceValue(ns, "text", 0);
return (id != 0) ? getString(id) : parser.getAttributeValue(ns, "text");

Note that I used 0 for the default value of the resource as this is guaranteed never to be a real resource value. -1 would have done also.

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The thought here is that if each guest has their own sparkler and match – they can all easily light them at the same time. Instead of sharing a lighter or leaving a jar of matches next to the sparklers, this is so much easier and it's freaking adorable!
The last step is to add the tags to each sparkler. If doing this before your event, you'll want to store them all flat in a large shipping type box so that none of them get ruined. ***And don't worry about the matches striking accidentally, it totally won't happen.
Display at your reception in a large jar that won't be pulled over by the 17″ sparklers.
I love this "faux" chalkboard technique.


For me it is a vast improvement over the last game. Playing on SSD the loading times are quite reasonable. However performance in some areas should still be improved, there are some noticeable frame rate drops (my PC is over the recommended specs). And there must still be a memory leak, as performance degrades over time. But for me it's not a huge issue, I just restart the game after an hour or 2. The game is so good I'm willing to forgive a lot. Especially since mods have started to fix some of my biggest pet peeves (mainly difficulty).
What kind of computer are you playing on? I haven't had any issues with long loading times, they are many times faster compared to POE1.
One example is when you have to go back to Fort Deadlight after receiving a letter. FOUR load screens just to talk to an NPC for a moment.
Then there's the myriad places where there's a completely pointless exit, like the Imperial Command place. There's a side exit, and if you leave through it, you go out to these stairs that just go up to the upper level. Load screens both times. What's the point? There are stairs inside. Or the Kahanga palace, there's this balcony off the rooftop that has nothing in it, but it's two load screens if you click on it to have a look. It's just such meaningless waste of time, why are there load screens for these tiny flavor areas?
When playing this game, I just feel like 25% of my time is spent in load screens or NPC-walking-away wait states where you have no control. There's just too much of it. When you travel to the Gullet, there's like a forty second display of some guy getting thrown in the depths, and it's so slow because you have to watch NPCs move around and speak their lines. I'm all for story, but can we not constantly put the game on pause for extended periods of time every few minutes?
Older games had these as well, but they weren't something that happened all the time. We all remember the drudgery of watching Imoen get kidnapped by the wizards in BG2 for the fifteenth time, but then that sort of thing didn't continue to happen every other time you talked to an NPC.
I just travelled from Serpent's Crown to Queen's Berth. On the way, I was interrupted TWICE by storybook events where I had to kill some meaningless bandits who lit a house on fire or bullied one of my crewmates. It made the trek across the city take ten minutes for absolutely no reason. Then I set sail for Crookspur, and in that short trip, first my crew wanted to play dice and then they wanted to know if this fish was okay. It's just not something I want to click through sixty times over the course of a playthrough.
Edited by Arnegar, 25 May 2018 - 12:31 PM.
That balcony actually does have things in it--a pet and a trainer.
You get that cutscene at the gullet *once*--the first time you go there, never again. Personally I enjoyed the small interactions in Neketaka and on the boat--they didn't happen very often, and they added flavor to the events. You feel like your crew actually exists, is doing stuff when you're not there--your crew is fishing while your sailing around, they go out for shore leave while your in port, etc.
As far as older games are concerned, every time you leave a district to go somewhere else in BG2 there's a chance you'll be randomly attacked by thugs, assassins, or (in the wilderness areas) random monsters. Every. Single. Time. BG1 had attacking assassin cut-scenes in *EVERY NEW CITY*. You get randomly assaulted when you rest, too. There are far more interuptions like this in older games.
Not to mention goddamned Noober.
My god. If you tried just a little hard, could you whine some more?
I love those little events where you get stopped while traveling between areas in Nekataka. I wish that there were more of them. Not a lot more, but a few more. So freaking what if they're just random bandits! It seems to me that they'd be particularly appropriate if you were heading through The Gullet.
You really need to learn patience for crying out loud. It's an RPG. Every single thing that happens doesn't nor shouldn't be massively important nor have the time they take measured so that it doesn't tick off some self-entitled person who acts like every single freaking microsecond is precious. Jeeez!!!
I also dislike all the menus you have to open to understand what is ability doing. Hover over ability to open menu to hover over status effect and then get into cyclopedia to read more about status effects since it doesn't state the whole picture.
And then the descriptions. Trickster: "Gives rogue illusion spells". What spells?? Aside from 1st level one? "Ranger and pet get bonus if they're within 4 meters". Just how big the bonus to acc and def is there?
And the descriptions of classes. Imagine you're some casual and read description of a chanter. Or Trubadour. Something something linger modal phrases something. What the hell does the class do? But they did put what is the name for Cipher is on glanfathan. Into class description. Why? What does it have to do with anything about the class? Write what the class does, not this.
Flavor. The game needs MORE flavor, not less. There's too much in the game that's too bland already! The game needs a lot more flavor!
My #1 issue with the first game. Look at these long and routine loading screens as sports commercials, ech. It isn't like most players don't have the horses, they need to pre-cahce some scenes.
If we could access the city travel map from anywhere inside Neketaka, including indoor zones, by pressing M, things would be a lot smoother.
I aggre, too many loading screen, and it's sooo looong.
It's really boring and broke the pace of play.
Don't you get the guy just inside the entrance of Fort Deadlight who will take you straight to her?
They still wanted to leave a window for themselves to have events trigger when you leave a building.
Not to mention all the people on the street with quests that call out to you when you walk past.
First world problem. Learn to be patient. You get frustrated about this. I get frustrated by the lack of patience and complaining about it.
Yes, moving around a city involved a number of load screens. It's always been this way in the Infinity Engine and now the Unity Engine games. You just can't load up the entire city of Nekataka as well as every single building into memory. That's just not reasonable.
You must be confusing playing a game in the late 90s on a 90s PC and playing a 90s styled game with a modern PC as being the same. It's not. There's absolutely no reason why there should be so many loading screens, especially because of how long they take. I just want to exit a building and go to another zone, but instead I have to go up some stairs, through a loading screen, then exit the building through another loading screen, then finally I am able to wait while my characters walk across the map to the nearest egress point, so that I can load up another loading screen.
What's not reasonable is having a modern game on a modern system running like it's two decades old. The EE Baldur's gate games have plenty of loading screens too. But they are all fast, so it's not an issue.
Edited by Sanctuary, 26 May 2018 - 01:09 AM.
"One example is when you have to go back to Fort Deadlight after receiving a letter. FOUR load screens just to talk to an NPC for a moment."
there's a guy right when you arrive who can take you right to her. Getting back out is a little more troublesome, but thankfully the pathfinding is good enough you don't need to handhold your characters all the way across the map.


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In baseball, a grand slam is the most potent move possible in a single play. It happens when a player hits a home run with the bases loaded, scoring four runs.
This is why I say owning foreign real estate is an international diversification grand slam. It accomplishes four key goals at once.
Owning foreign real estate moves some of your savings and wealth offshore and out of your home government's immediate reach. Unlike an intangible financial account, it is effectively impossible for your home country to seize foreign real estate at the drop of a hat. Doing so would likely take a literal act of war.
In most cases, owning real estate in a foreign country makes it much easier to open a financial account there. Without that entry ticket, many foreign financial institutions will show you the door, especially if you're an American.
Buying foreign real estate usually gives you some sort of residency, sometimes a shortened path to citizenship, and in the case of one particular country, immediate citizenship and a coveted second passport with visa-free travel to over 100 countries, including the Schengen Area (26 European countries).
Owning foreign real estate also gives you a second home, a possible place to retire, and an emergency "bolt-hole" if there's ever trouble in your home country.
Foreign real estate is a tangible hard asset with diversification benefits for a traditional portfolio of stocks, bonds, precious metals, etc. It has the potential for capital appreciation and the ability to generate rental income in a foreign currency.
Owning foreign real estate is one of the very few ways that Americans can legally keep some of their money abroad while maintaining financial privacy.
If the foreign real estate is held directly in your name (i.e., not in a trust, LLC, real estate fund, partnership, etc.) it is not reportable.
In that sense, foreign real estate is the new Swiss bank account.
Additionally, certain expenses related to searching for, purchasing, and maintaining foreign real estate are tax deductible for Americans. As always, be sure to consult your tax professional.
Of course there are downsides to investing in foreign real estate, including paperwork, real estate's illiquidity, carrying costs, and country/market specific risks. However, when you weigh those risks against the benefits, it's clear that foreign real estate is one of the best routes to political diversification.
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A: Pass the text box value to the stored procedure/Query, Use like operator to filter the data.
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Me and my husband with our cousins, Sarah, Aaron, and Bethany in San Mango overlooking the sea.
When you ask someone where they would like to visit given the opportunity, many will say, Italy. I don't blame them. I have been fortunate to visit many times and have traveled most of that picturesque Mediterranean peninsula.
The first time was in 1996 with my parents, youngest brother, and Mom's sis, my dear Aunt Mary (God rest her soul). Mom and her big sis wanted to go back to visit their Zio Julio. Thanks to WWII, they were separated from their father (who was in the U.S.) for 10 years, so their uncle filled that paternal role as best he could.
More on all that in a future blog, but for now, let me tell you about her village. It's located in the shadow of one of Italy's most famous mountains, Gran Sasso, in a rolling valley of fertile fields; a pastoral setting of tiny towns of stone-on-stone offering strolls back in time. Sadly, earthquakes in that area have since devastated some of those towns including little Vallecupa, my Mom's home village. But don't let that hold you back from a visit to the Abruzzo region and some of the best food you could ever eat.
My husband and I once stayed inland and upland from the hopping beach town of Pescara along the Adriatic coast. I remember that we had to eat dinner early that night because Italy was playing Spain for the European soccer championship, and the staff of the castle where we stayed (very inexpensive) in Loreto Aprutino did not want to miss a kick. The castle, its views, church, and antiques were well worth the stop. The meal was one of my all-time favorites.
I realize that most folks want to visit Rome, Florence, Venice, and the Amalfi Coast (as I first did), but if you can swing a side trip to another region like we did with Mom, time spent off the beaten path is well worth it.
My father's parents and my husband are from the region where my story begins, Calabria, one of the least known regions of Italy, but a must-see. The beaches as well as the views from the high hill town of San Mango D'Aquino, and the quaintness of its main church, are just as I describe in my novel, Fatima and the Sons of Abraham.
San Mango D'Aquino is easy to get to from the Autostrada A3. (It really does only take 15 minutes to scoot down the mountain to the beach towns of Falerna, Nocera Terinese, and Campora.) For a fish dinner that will blow your mind, eat at Ristorane L'Aragosta. My paesani at the Hotel Torino are located on a quiet stretch of the rocky shore and may not serve as exotic meals, but you won't go away hungry after a day of sunbathing.
The Calabrese in this region will tell you to visit Tropea, known to world chefs for its fields of onions, but to vacationers for its incredible beach setting at the base of a rock outcropping where sits (what else) a church. Get there early if you go in the summer, because parking is difficult – especially on the weekends. The town is some 300 steps above the beach, atop ancient Roman aqueducts.
For history or romance buffs, the nearby town of Pizzo is home to the palace where Napoleon's brother-in-law, Marshal Joachim Murat, former King of Naples, and gallant military leader, was executed in 1815. The letter he wrote to his wife before his death at age 48 is a literary wonder.
On the Ionian Sea side of this region (known as the bottom of the boot of Italy), is the hamlet called Gerace where one of the most amazingly ornate collections of silver can be found. I remember a moment there when the sound of local folk music echoed its way to my ears from a tiny farm cart along the winding road to the hill town and my perch against the cities outer wall.
So many places to see and so little time, I know, but if you are a European traveler, get yourself to Abruzzo and Calabria and discover La Dolce Vita, southern style.


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There's something for everyone at the forthcoming Brighton Viva! Vegan Festival from Vegan Events UK on 29th and 30th September.
Closing a popular and successful chicken restaurant and replacing it with a small-plate eaterie that gives vegetables star billing and serves meat on the side may seem a little crazy. But that is what the team behind Chicken Shed and now Root has just done at Cargo in Bristol's Harbourside.
From pansies to parsley, roses to rosemary, this summer's menu at The Queens Arms in Corton Denham, Somerset, is brimming with fresh flavours and floral flourishes, gathered from the pub's own kitchen garden. New head chef, Steven Mesher, has forged stronger ties than ever with the gardening team, visiting the plot on a weekly basis with owners, Jeanette and Gordon Reid, so that the kitchen can be led by the land.


Two Kelly Catholic football players will sign to play college football next week.
Linebacker Gage Bernard will sign with Southwestern University and offensive linemen Alonzo Morgan with Hardin-Simmons University during a ceremony at the school next Friday.
Bernard was a first-team all-district selection this past season and led all of TAPPS 6A with 113 tackles.
Morgan was a first-team all district selection in 2017.
The ceremony will take place at the school's library at 2:30 p.m.


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Q: Read in Arduino negative and positive voltages in a wider range I need to read DC voltages on Arduino that can vary between -15V and 15V. As far as I know, Arduino can only read positive voltage values between 0-5V.
I thought of using a voltage divider with a positive reference (the 5V from the Arduino.) Could it be achieved by connecting the voltage divider with a positive reference to another with 0V as a reference, or would there be other, better options?

A: Yes, you can use a voltage divider and bias with the 5V supply, as so:

simulate this circuit – Schematic created using CircuitLab

Note that if the input is left open it will read 3V (equivalent to 3V at the input) rather than 2.5V (equivalent to 0V at the input) as you might expect.
Vin = (Vadc-2.5V)\$\cdot\$6
Edit: To calculate I picked 15k for R1 so the output impedance would be reasonable (less than 10k) and it would not draw too much current from the input (input impedance more than 15K). With -15V in, the output is 0V so R3 is obviously 5K (we can ignore R2 since there is no voltage across it). That's from KCL and -Vin/15K = 5V/R3.
Then for +15V in, Vout is 5V and R3 has no current through it so from KCL (Vin - 5)/15k = 5/R2 and R2 = 7.5K.


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For the many part, Netflix's partnership with Marvel TV has actually seemed to be a success. The preliminary seasons of Daredevil, Jessica Jones and Luke Cage were all critical hits, though it's unclear what kind of viewership they received given that Netflix does not launch that data. Iron Fist and The Defenders were less well gotten, and although The Punisher gotten good evaluations, it didn't gather the exact same quantity of buzz as the other Marvel Netflix series. Still, many were surprised when showrunner Melissa Rosenberg is stepping down after season 3, so it may make one of the most sense to conclude the series at that point. Obviously, that's simply speculation at this point, because it's unclear just what Netflix plans to do with its Marvel TELEVISION lineup. Fans have actually explained that Netflix and Marvel TV may be establishing Daughters of the Dragon and/or Heroes for Hire spinoffs fromIron Fist and Luke Cage, given that the canceled programs 'characters got involved in those team-ups in the comics. However, it's still uncertain whether Netflix will continue the stories of the characters or if the cancellations are merely completion. In regards to The Punisher and Jessica Jones, fans have extra seasons of each to anticipate, but what ends up being of the Marvel TELEVISION reveals after those seasons best stays to be seen.Next: Every The Punisher Season 2 Update You Required To Know marketing Daredevil season 3 is available now on Netflix; The Punisher season 2 and Jessica Jones season 3 are anticipated to premiere at some point in 2019. Tags: the punisher, jessica jones advertising
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Netflix, Amazon, Now TV BBC: Ten of the best series to stream in lockdown
Ten of the best series to stream in lockdown
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As the UK are once again being told to "stay at home" it's safe to assume many of us will be spending many more hours on the sofa.
But if you have exhausted the sxtensive list of shows to watch on various streaming platforms you may be looking for a new series to binge.
Luckily there are plenty of treats to tempt even the most discerning viewer across streaming platforms such as Netflix, Amazon, Now TV and BBC iPlayer.
Here are some of the best.
It's worth pointing out that some of these shows are not suitable for children!
Bridgerton – Netflix
If you have not yet delved into the world of Bridgerton's raunchy Regency London, with a young, diverse and gorgeous cast, what have you been waiting for?
Starring Phoebe Dynevor (daughter of Coronation Street's Sally Dynevor) and Rege-Jean Page, and voiced by Dame Julie Andrews, each episode is a delicious confection.
The Wilds – Amazon Prime Video
Teenage girls meet Lord Of The Flies in this series about young people from radically different backgrounds who find themselves stranded on a remote island.
However, they are unaware they have just become the subjects of an elaborate social experiment.
The Mandalorian – Disney+
Hailed by some as the best Star Wars content of this century, the series stars Pedro Pascal as the helmeted gunfighter of the title who faces enemies and rallies allies as he makes his way through a dangerous galaxy in the tumultuous era after the collapse of the Galactic Empire.
Even if you don't know anything at all about the show, you are likely to have seen memes of the show's breakout star – The Child, commonly known as Baby Yoda.
Industry – BBC iPlayer
You might have no idea what they are talking about when they are making trades but this drama, about a group of young graduates competing for permanent positions at a top investment bank in London, is so watchable it does not matter.
The drinking, drug-taking and partying will make you feel so exhausted you will forget you were not the one who pulled the all-nighter.
Gangs Of London – Now TV
Not one for the faint-hearted, The Raid director Gareth Evans turns his attention to the power struggles between the international gangs operating in London and the sudden power vacuum that is created when the head of the most powerful crime family is assassinated.
The series is Game Of Thrones-level violent but the set-pieces are spectacular and the drama is compelling.
Taskmaster – 4oD
This sublimely silly show started life on Dave but last year it switched to Channel 4 and that means its whole back catalogue is now on 4oD.
Every series, which boasts a different line-up of comedians taking on a string of tasks ranging from the challenging to the ridiculous, has laugh-out-loud moments, but the most recent instalment, featuring Daisy May Cooper and Johnny Vegas, is a real hoot.
The Vow – Now TV
This documentary series about self-improvement group NXIVM follows some of the members who broke free of its clutches before its highest member and founders faced serious charges.
The show tells how leader Keith Raniere ran a secret cult where women were branded with his initials and ordered to have sex with him. He has since been sentenced to 120 years in prison.
The Boys – Amazon
Fans waited with bated breath for the second series of this superhero drama, where the heroes are anything but super.
The Supes do not exactly use their powers for good and it is down to the Boys to expose the truth about them and the multibillion-dollar conglomerate that manages them and covers up their dirty secrets.
Love Life – BBC iPlayer
Each episode of this anthology series starring Anna Kendrick centres on a different relationship in her character Darby's chequered love life.
Narrated by Lesley Manville, it follows her through her 20s and 30s in her bid to find herself and her life partner.
Pride & Prejudice – Netflix and BritBox
Did you miss this 1990s BBC classic, starring Colin Firth as Mr Darcy and Jennifer Ehle as Elizabeth Bennett, the first time round?
It is now available to stream on Netflix and is about as perfect an Austen adaptation as they get.


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Hey everyone! Check out some of my cabochons and also some of the things I decorated and made! I will be having a new shipment of cabochons arriving soon so I'll be making a video about that when it arrives! When my cabochons arrive, all will be available to purchase!!! I love everyone in the world and so I will sell all my cabochons at reasonable prices! LOL!!! HAHA! By the way, I decided to completely decorate my iPhone case! lol. I think it looks beautiful! I thought it looked beautiful before but I prefer how it looks now! Check out the pics! Also, if you want me to decorate anything for you then let me know!


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WELLINGTON Phoenix captain Andrew Durante reckons his side is hitting its straps at the right time and that New Zealand's qualification for next year's World Cup finals in South Africa has been another big boost.
WELLINGTON Phoenix captain Andrew Durante reckons his side is hitting its straps at the right time and that New Zealand-s qualification for next year-s World Cup finals in South Africa has been another big boost.
The Phoenix tackle the Newcastle Jets at EnergyAustralia Stadium in a Hyundai A-League 2009/10 round 15 match bolstered by the heroics of the club-s All Whites contingent and in the midst of a good run of form - including a 3-0 defeat of the Jets in a round 10 catch-up match in Wellington at the start of the month.
"Everything around the club has been very positive," said Durante. "The six All Whites boys have come back with a great attitude following the 1-0 win against Bahrain and we-re all over the moon with the result. We-ve all been given a huge lift and everyone-s full of energy.
"For the rest of us, being so close to the Kiwi internationals, we we-re rapt for them. It was special for us at the Phoenix to have been part of it. There-s a real euphoria around the club at the moment."
Durante said the Phoenix had been playing good football and the focus would be on more of the same against the Jets.
"We-re looking good. We-re doing it at the right time after starting a bit slowly this season and we haven-t played too many poor games. We-ve been pretty consistent this year and we-ll need to continue our good form in Newcastle this weekend.
"It-s a big game for us. The Jets are only a point behind us, so it-s very important for us to keep climbing the ladder (the Phoenix are currently sixth) and we need to be getting maximum points against teams below us."
Coach Ricki Herbert has made just a couple of changes from the squad that drew 1-1 with Perth Glory last up, with World Cup hero Mark Paston returning in goal and Diego Walsh replacing the suspended Vince Lia in midfield.
Durante said the 15-man squad had an attacking bent.
"Ricki wants to go over there to win and that-s a great attitude. We-ve got the quality in the squad to go at anyone, be it at home or away, and play an attacking brand of football. We-ve got guys like Adrian Caceres and Costa Barbarouses who can make a real impact with their pace and skill, while Chris Greenacre and Paul Ifill are in terrific form up front. We-ve got a lot of depth in this squad and especially a lot of attacking depth."
Herbert said the loss of Lia was significant but that another player now had the opportunity to step up against the Jets.
"It-s a tough one because Vinnie-s probably been our best player consistently. But we-ve had a look at Diego and we-ve been quite upfront with him that if he does play his performance needs to be up there and that if he gets the nod he needs to step up and play well."
Alongside Paston, Leo Bertos was another hero for the All Whites and has clearly shaken off a dip in form. Herbert used Bertos off the bench in the Phoenix-s past two matches but the Kiwi flier is set to start in Newcastle on Sunday.
"I think Leo appreciated the chance to freshen up mentally and physically. I-m not sure he agreed with my thinking 100 per cent at the time, but he certainly does now."
The All Whites- World Cup qualification also represents a massive opportunity for talented young striker Barbarouses. Impressive in his two starts, especially against the Jets at Westpac Stadium, the 20-year-old now has the chance to be in the mix for South Africa.
"The most important thing for Costa now is that he features around the squad every week," said New Zealand international boss Herbert. "He-s a great little talent and we-ll keep using him."
Sunday-s match kicks off at 7pm (NZDST).
Wellington Phoenix squad: 1. Mark PASTON (gk), 2. Manny MUSCAT, 3. Tony LOCHHEAD, 5. DIEGO, 6. Tim BROWN, 7. Leo BERTOS, 8. Paul IFILL, 9. Chris GREENACRE, 11. DANIEL, 13. Troy HEARFIELD, 14. Adrian CACERES, 18. Ben SIGMUND, 20. Reece CROWTHER (gk), 22. Andrew DURANTE (c), 23. Costa BARBAROUSES
In: Mark PASTON (gk) (returns from injury), DIEGO (promoted)
Out: Vince LIA (suspended - 1 week), Jonathan GOULD (gk) (short-term injury cover)
Unavailable: Jon McKAIN (quad - 2 weeks), Michael FERRANTE (ankle - 2 weeks)


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Bruno is married with four children and has had a long, distinguished career as journalist with French newspapers. He recently retired as the CEO of the second largest French newspaper, Sud Ouest. After spending 30 years in the world of the Press he decided to return to his first passion of yachting and sailing.
Bruno has been at one with the sea for as long as he can remember. At the age of 10 he joined the Marine Scouts in his home town of Marseille. He was an avid member of the Scouts for nine years. Following Scouts membership he joined local yacht clubs and was well known for his superb skills in many sailing regattas. Naturally he was thrilled to own his first boat. He has owned, sailed and thoroughly enjoyed seven more boats prior to purchasing ILLUSION. On all of his boats labors diligently to prepare all equipment and rigging for speed, safety and the utmost in comfortable cruising.
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Jessica is Bruno's beautiful and talented daughter. She has previous experience as the highly-rated charter yacht chef aboard sailing catamaran Harmony and sailing yacht Point 02. While she excels at French and Mediterranean cuisine, she can easily adapt her menu to suit any guest preferences. She is also an accomplished sailor, having sailed with her family since she was a toddler. Guests will be delighted by both her marvelous meals and her thoughtful and gracious countenance.