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Cleanup as oil hits Hong Kong beaches
Meanwhile, government and community-led beach clean-ups continued to be held in different parts of the city on Wednesday, with dozens of residents filling bags with the sticky grease on Lamma Island's Power Station Beach.
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The spill comes at the height of summer, when visitors, campers and holiday makers throng to beaches and outlying islands, especially at weekends. It has deployed helicopters and nine ships to help find and collect the waste while workers at public beaches are using absorbent blankets and strips to contain the mess.
The impact on the territory's marine life, which includes the endangered Chinese white dolphins – also known as pink dolphins – was not immediately clear.
Environmental groups said that oil has seeped up to four inches (10 cm) deep into Hong Kong's sprawling, sandy beaches making it hard to clean.
Hong Kong has sweltered in temperatures of about 33 degrees Celsius for more than a week, with little relief expected soon, which some environmentalists fear could worsen the problem by oxidising the oil.
Apart from beaches which have been shut, the rest of Hong Kong's verdant shoreline is likely to have been impacted with the feeding capabilities of many sea creatures such as barnacles, crabs and shells affected, Lee said.
The possibility of an algae bloom formed by decaying palm oil, which would compete with fish for oxygen, would be a huge threat.
Palm oil is commonly used in food packaging and cosmetics.
The congealed palm oil resembles clumps of snow or pieces of Styrofoam and has a consistency similar to Play-Doh.
The South China Morning Post reports Hong Kong government departments have picked up more than 93 tonnes of the oil, which has crystallized.
In July 2012, Typhoon Vicente caused six containers, or 150 tonnes, of plastic pellets to be lost at sea, leading to widespread pollution in Hong Kong waters.
Questions over two-day delay on notice of palm oil spill that left 11 Hong Kong beaches closed
Smelly, congealed clumps from spill in mainland waters mar island beauty spots in Hong Kong
http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/2105625/hong-kong-beaches-closed-after-mystery-oil-washes
Environmental experts have questioned why it took two days for mainland authorities to inform Hong Kong about a ship collision and palm oil spill that left nearly a dozen local beaches closed to the public at the weekend.
The accident took place on Thursday, but mainland authorities only reported the incident on Saturday. Affected Hong Kong residents learned of the spill on Sunday when beaches were closed.
"A notification mechanism [in place] should in theory state [the problem] as soon as possible but it's hard to define how many days that is," said Dr Tsang Po-keung, an associate professor of science and environmental studies at the Education University of Hong Kong and a member of the government's Advisory Council on the Environment.
"For some marine life, two days could be too late."
Residents of Lamma and Lantau islands noticed congealed palm oil washed up on several beaches in the area on Sunday after it spilled into the sea when two boats crashed in mainland waters.
A similar substance was also spotted in Victoria Harbour.
Hung Shing Yeh Beach and Lo So Shing Beach on Lamma Island, as well as Lantau Island's Pui O Beach and Tong Fuk Beach were all affected. So were both Upper and Lower Cheung Sha Beach.
Beaches at Repulse Bay, Middle Bay, South Bay, St Stephen's Beach and Chung Hom Kok were also shut.
The Leisure and Cultural Services Department hoisted the red flag at all 11 beaches, warning people not to go in the water. Parts of Cheung Chau were also reportedly affected.
Tsang said the notification mechanism should be modified to specify how many days authorities should be given to report such incidents.
"This time they may think it's fine because it's just palm oil, but what if next time it is gasoline?" he said.
City University chair professor of biology Paul Lam Kwan-sing said the spill did not amount to an environmental disaster but was "not a good thing".
"Palm oil is a crystallised liquid … which will slowly be decomposed by micro-organisms. The problem is that it is a real eyesore for beachgoers," he said.
He agreed that the notification mechanism needed to be faster and information flow more transparent.
"Both sides [Guangdong and Hong Kong] should work it out, establish a hotline and specify exactly under what circumstances the mechanism should be activated," he said.
A spokesman for the Leisure and Cultural Services Department said the beach closures came after "white, oily" substances were found in the waters and "a white granular substance" washed up on beaches.
"Beach staff immediately deployed oil-absorbent felts and strips to prevent the spread of the oil, and the relevant government departments have been notified to clean up the oil and monitor the water quality of the affected beaches," the spokesman said.
A Marine Department spokesman confirmed two ships had collided somewhere in the Pearl River estuary, in mainland waters, on Thursday and said that had caused some of the vessel's cargo, palm oil, to leak into the sea.
Lamma resident Sheila McClelland spotted the oil clumps floating in the water and lying on the beach as she was on her way to work and said she noticed a "faintly chemical odour" as she inspected the solid lumps.
"I pressed it with my foot and it was solid. It was a bit like play dough but not as nice," she said. "I've lived here for a couple of decades and I've seen many forms of pollution and unpleasant stuff from oil, syringes and of course the [2012] pellet spill. But nothing like this."
In July 2012, seven containers fell from cargo ship Yong Xin Jie 1 when Typhoon Vicente hit the city. Six were loaded with 150 tonnes of plastic pellets, which washed up on Hong Kong beaches, sparking concern for marine life.
Lamma resident Stanley Chan Kam-wai, a conservation manager for the Eco-Education and Resources Centre, said cleaning up Sunday's spill could be "as difficult as, if not more difficult than, cleaning up the mess" from the 2012 incident.
"Some of the oil is starting to congeal so once you press on it, it just disintegrates into powder like snow," he said. "I'm very concerned about how the government will clean this up."
He said by late afternoon on Sunday the smell was starting to turn rancid like the odours in alleyways behind fried snack shops.
The concern, he said, was that while most government beaches were being cleaned, the oil on non-government-run beaches would be left to rot.
Other Lamma residents on Sunday posted pictures of the substance on Facebook.
"At first glance it looked like blocks of styrofoam or cooked rice," said one long-time Lamma resident, who spotted the stuff on Power Station Beach on Sunday morning. "It had a sort of bubbly consistency. It was along the high-tide line covering, I'd say, about two-thirds of the beach. [I've]never seen it before."
Palm oil is an edible vegetable oil from the fruit pulp of oil palm trees. Because of its versatility and low cost, it is used in many food products from fried food and margarine to ice cream, as well as in consumer products such as lipstick, shampoo and detergent.
Gary Stokes of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society said palm oil could absorb toxins in the water, making it more hazardous than in its raw form.
"People think just because it's palm oil it's safe but in large, highly concentrated amounts, it can't be good for anyone," he said.
Stokes said children and beach-goers were seen playing with the oily clumps on the shore on Sunday. "Government public communications over these kinds of accidents have definitely got to be worked on. I know it's the weekend, but that's when most people visit the beach," he said.
The Environmental Protection Department said it had sent a boat to help in the clean-up.
Spills from shipping are fairly common in Hong Kong.
Last May, a 50-metre-long slick was spotted floating off Tsing Yi following a collision between an oil tanker and a mainland-registered cargo vessel.
About 493 confirmed oil spills were recorded between 2005 and 2014, according to the Marine Department, 135 of which were caused by shipping accidents or refuelling.
The causes of the rest were unknown.
China's hairy crab scandal reveals depth of pollution crisis
Toxin-tainted crustaceans raise doubts over clean-up of showpiece lake
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Every autumn, Hong Kong restaurants serve a seasonal delicacy: hairy crabs, shipped the same day from lakes around the Chinese city of Suzhou.
But the territory's food safety inspectors recently made a shocking discovery: some crabs in this year's consignment contained dangerous levels of cancer-causing chemicals. Even worse, the crabs appeared to come from Lake Tai, a model in China's fight against pollution after a multiyear, multibillion-dollar clean-up.
Has the clean-up failed? Or is something else amiss? The answer, says crab breeder Wang Yue, lies in "bathing crabs", which carry the Lake Tai name but have spent minimal time in its waters.
Mr Wang and his family tend hundreds of crabs in baskets hung from bamboo posts in shallow Lake Tai, also known as Taihu. He estimates the market for crabs has grown to three times what families like his can produce, so crabs grown elsewhere are brought to the lake for a few days so that they can be sold on at a premium — a practice known as giving them a "bath".
"The crabs here are sweet and tasty because the water is fresh. But people in other cities don't know the difference," he said. "Some people can make a lot of money by pretending they come from Lake Tai."
Lake Tai and nearby Yangcheng Lake provide top-quality hairy crabs. But so many are cultivated elsewhere — in nearby lakes, ponds dug into former rice fields or even under solar farms — that prices have been depressed and breeders on Lake Tai struggle to break even.
The bathing crabs affair appears to be a classic Chinese food safety story, where an explosion in production outpaces regulators' ability to police quality. But the bigger problem is the long shadow cast by China's polluters.
A showcase environmental clean-up has markedly improved water quality at Lake Tai. But the costly success does little to address China's broader soil pollution crisis.
Over the past decade, central planners drew up blueprints to tackle smog, water pollution and soil pollution by closing or moving factories, regulating emissions and improving monitoring — the playbook used at Lake Tai.
The result has been a steady improvement in COD, a measure of the organic content in water and one of Beijing's environmental targets. But the dioxin and polychlorinated biphenyls found in the crabs could come from poorly regulated waste incinerators or steel sintering elsewhere in the Yangtze Delta region, or wherever the bathing crabs are raised.
"It may be discharged as air emissions but if it showed up in crabmeat it's because the emissions got into the water and the soil, the sediment," said Ma Jun, a Chinese environmentalist. Persistent organic pollutants such as PCBs "are hard to decompose. They are persistent. They will stay in the environment for a long time."
From Mr Wang's weir, the water smells fresh. A bucket of snails on his porch and the egrets perching on the bamboo struts testify to the improvement in water quality.
It used to be much worse. In the 1990s, 1bn tonnes of rubbish, waste water, pig manure and fertiliser entered Lake Tai every year. Petrochemicals, smelting and textiles turned the waterlogged region into one of the wealthiest in China. Local governments turned a blind eye to polluters.
In 2007 a toxic algae bloom cut off drinking water to 2m people for 10 days. Weeks earlier, authorities arrested a local man campaigning against factories dumping waste in the lake. He was jailed for three years.
After the algae bloom, Beijing declared the lake a natural disaster zone and ordered it cleaned by 2012. It shut factories and moved foundries to industrial zones, installed waste water treatment plants and discouraged pig farm expansion. A widened channel to the Yangtze river helped water circulate.
"There are 35m to 40m people around this lake who rely on its water. So the government had to prioritise it," said Fang Yingjun, head of Lüse Jiangnan Public Environment Concerned Center, a non-governmental organisation. "Every year we go to the same spot to check the water for algae and every year it's better. It really is much better. So much money has been spent."
It was not easy. The warm, shallow lake is the perfect spot for organic pollutants to trigger algae blooms. At 2,338 sq km, it is one and a half times the size of Greater London — big enough to hide plenty of sins.
"You can't really see the polluted water any more but companies are still good at disguise," said Wu Lihong, the campaigner who was jailed. Lake residents still spot underwater pipes leading from factories. This summer a secret landfill for waste from Shanghai was discovered on an island in the lake.
And while Beijing focused on Lake Tai, it also encouraged polluting factories to migrate from wealthier areas to the poor hinterland. Meanwhile, ecommerce and cheap airfares allowed new crab farms to spring up around China.
Bathing crabs are likely to remain a barometer of China's ability to clean up its environment for years to come.
TI RESPONSIBILITY FOR HARMFUL IMPACTS TO OUR GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT
For decades now, with cigarette sales having increased to more than six trillion in 2016, tobacco producers have refused to accept any significant responsibility for the serious, global environmental damage resulting from the production, use and disposal of tobacco products. It's time for new regulations that hold the tobacco industry (TI) responsible for contaminating the environment, humans, and animals throughout tobacco's lifecycle.
Tobacco leaf growing and processing involves heavy pesticide and petroleum-based fertilizer use, land degradation and deforestation. Added waste concerns arise from tobacco manufacturing, packaging, distribution and consumption. These concerns include production of greenhouse gases (C02 and methane), released by manufacturing, transport and smoking of tobacco products; environmental toxins found in secondhand smoke; newly described toxic residuals known as thirdhand smoke found attached to surfaces in homes and other enclosed environments where smoking has occurred; and post-consumption toxic tobacco product waste (TPW).
Given experience involving the pesticide, paint and pharmaceutical industries, among others, a strong case can be made for making the TI responsible for serious environmental problems throughout the tobacco product lifecycle. With butt waste being the most visible lifecycle harm, the TI clings to its long held view that smokers and local communities are responsible for post-consumer waste. The industry tries to bolster its image by funding some beach cleanups, Keep America Beautiful, and ash trays, .
These downstream actions are miniscule compared to the up-tofour billion butts polluting the globe annually. The tobacco industry has designed a product that is not only deadly when used as directed, but its cultivation, production, distribution, consumption, and post-consumption management also causes substantial and dangerous environmental contamination.
Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) is a policy principle that promotes environmental protection by extending the responsibilities of the producer across the products entire life cycle. As set out in a Swedish doctoral thesis on corporate responsibility by Thomas Lindhqvist in 2000, EPR addresses two core tenets that are highly applicable to tobacco:
1. Internalizing the environmental cost of products into the retail price; and
2. Shifting the economic burden of managing toxicity and other environmental harms associated with post-consumer waste from local governments and taxpayers to producers.
While EPR is put forward as a legislative approach, it asserts, in the context of tobacco, that the producer would be strictly liable for TPW.
There are several legal theories pertaining to liability, involving potential legal causes of action that could be applicable. Public nuisance may be the strongest approach, although product liability or hazardous waste laws could also successfully hold tobacco producers liable for TPW.
Raising awareness about the environmental consequences of tobacco use and the responsibility of the TI for those consequences will require media messaging, PR skills, donors to help advance our agenda, and actions by governments at national and subnational levels, in order to succeed. For the FCTC, the WHO is currently developing a Monograph on Tobacco and the Environment, with publication in 2017. The foundation for the Monograph is a scientific article co-authored by WHO, the Secretariat and other authors that appeared in the WHO Bulletin, December 2015, available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.2471/BLT.15.152744 More broadly, these and other initiatives will provide opportunities to motivate and collaborate with a diverse array of stakeholders in ways that will benefit environmental protection, as well as quality of human health, while increasing the cost of tobacco and reducing tobacco use.
By Clif Curtis, ASH US Consultant Advisor; President, Cigarette Butt Pollution Project;
Red tides in Hong Kong flag failings of small-house policy and officials in denial
http://www.scmp.com/comment/letters/article/1999649/red-tides-hong-kong-flag-failings-small-house-policy-and-officials
The report on the causes of recent red tides by the University of Hong Kong ("Seeing red over algal blooms", July 30), highlights the woeful performance of the government in controlling marine pollution.
A major source of pollution is sewage from New Territories houses. Houses constructed under the small-house policy are exempted from building regulations and often have individual septic tanks.
Many village houses are part of large development plans, masterminded by developers and the Heung Yee Kuk, which are a blatant abuse of the small-house policy. Fake farming activities are often used to "condition" land before submitting building applications. Despite often being part of a coordinated development plan, house applications are treated individually. Planning authorities do not assess the cumulative impact of siting numerous septic tanks close to environmentally sensitive waters.
There are no plans to extend mains sewage to most New Territories villages and the government refuses to consider environmentally friendly sewage treatment plants for villages.
The Environmental Protection Department's guidance material for constructing septic tanks is, by its own admission, incomplete.
The material is way behind international best practice, offering no protection to coastlines other than where there is a gazetted beach. Rules in the Water Pollution Control Ordinance, designed to protect Sites of Special Scientific Interest, mariculture sites and marinas, are ignored. The Lands Department, which processes individual house applications, uses its own document, which was agreed at a secret meeting between the Environmental Protection and Lands departments in 2009. It further waters down the regulations, for instance, removing the need to assess the suitability of soil conditions for septic tanks in many cases.
Monitoring water quality is haphazard and the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department is incapable of measuring the minute quantities of pesticides which can be extremely toxic to marine life.
The main function of water quality monitoring appears to be to enable the Environmental Protection and Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation departments to tell everyone that there is no problem. The government lives in a state of denial of serious marine pollution problems.
The unaccountable, incompetent, complacent and uncaring bureaucrats who are in charge of Hong Kong's environment will not be happy until the land is covered in concrete and the seas filled with plastic, human excrement and chemicals. So much for Hong Kong's commitment to the Convention on Biodiversity. Compliance is a cosmetic farce.
David Newbery, Sai Kung
China's 'natural' disasters are man-made in many cases
http://www.ejinsight.com/20160715-chinas-natural-disasters-are-often-man-made/
With the onset of summer, China has been engulfed by natural disasters, particularly along the Yangtze River basin, where exceptionally heavy rainfall since the beginning of July has led to massive floods and mudslides in several major cities.
Massive floods in central China, in cities like Wuhan, are to be blamed not only on persistent and torrential rain, but also on the obsolete and poorly maintained underground drainage systems. Hence, we can say that the ferocious floods are partly natural, and partly man-made disaster.
China's rapid economic growth over the past 40 years has come at a huge environmental cost. Industrialization, massive deforestation, rapid urbanization, reckless land clearance and over-harvesting have taken an irreversible toll on the natural environment, resulting in large-scale pollution, widespread soil erosion and desertification across the country.
The crisis has been compounded by the lack of public oversight and administrative transparency, as well as rampant corruption at basically every level of government. All these factors put together have exacerbated the environmental destruction across the mainland.
According to the official figures of the Chinese authorities, soil erosion is the second most critical environmental problem facing China apart from industrial pollution.
Currently soil erosion of different proportions has already affected an area of 3.6 million square kilometers, accounting for 37 percent of China's total land area. In the meantime, the scale of desertification has also hit crisis level, affecting a total area of 2.6 million square kilometers.
It is estimated that as a result of continued soil erosion and desertification, China is losing an average of one million hectares of farmland every year, and the speed with which it is losing is accelerating.
In the meantime, China's environmental crisis can not only be found on the ground, but in the atmosphere too.
Unregulated and unchecked carbon emissions have led to persistent smog in almost every major city across China. Highly polluted air has led to an increase in acid rain. It is estimated that as many as 190 cities across the mainland have been suffering from heavy acid rain in recent years, contaminating reservoirs, rivers, lakes and other fresh water sources.
To make things worse, while some parts of the country are plagued by relentless floods, other parts are facing persistent drought. When it comes to the scarcest and most hotly sought after resource in China, many people might immediately think of oil, but actually it is fresh water that is in need most.
As of now, China's average fresh water resource per capita stands at 25 percent of the global average.
According to British climate expert and historian Hubert Lamb, government policies and political ideology of rulers often have profound and far-reaching implications for the natural environment. Unfortunately, contemporary China is simply a living proof of Lamb's theory, showing how the ideology of a totalitarian regime can have devastating effects on the environment.
China's massive environmental destruction dates back to as early as the 1950s, when Mao Zedong ordered the removal of the "4 perils", during which hundreds of thousands of Chinese peasants eagerly took part in a nationwide campaign to kill sparrows on a massive scale because, according to Mao, they endangered crops.
Ironically, after all the sparrows in the wild had gone, the country witnessed a sudden surge in the number of pests such as locusts and aphids that were truly endangering crops.
Then during the period of the Great Leap Forward, Mao called on the nation to launch a steel production drive. That led to countless trees being cut down to produce firewood for makeshift and primitive steel mills across the country. During the process of steelmaking millions of tons of untreated toxic waste were discharged into rivers and lakes across China.
Unfortunately, even though Mao's era is long gone, acts of state-sponsored environmental destruction are still underway in full swing across China.
As regional party leaders are obsessed with GDP growth and dazzling infrastructural projects without giving any consideration to the long-term implications for the environment, the situation looks bleak.
Report of the Commission of Inquiry into Excess Lead Found in Drinking Water
http://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/201607/06/P201607060745.htm
Following is a question by Dr Hon Helena Wong and a reply by the Chief Secretary for Administration, Mrs Carrie Lam, in the Legislative Council today (July 6):
The Report of the Commission of Inquiry into Excess Lead Found in Drinking Water released at the end of May this year has pointed out that "what we have seen is a collective failure on the part of all stakeholders to guard against the use of non-compliant solder in the plumbing system … every party transferred the duty of supervision to the other(s), resulting in a classic case of buck-passing. Trust was misplaced and in the end it was the residents who suffered the most". Subsequently at a press conference, the Secretary for Development, Secretary for Transport and Housing as well as Director of Water Supplies apologised to the affected residents for the incidents of excessive lead content in drinking water (the lead-tainted water incidents), but the Chief Secretary for Administration (CS) did not. CS remarked that "even though the inquiry of the Commission has revealed that there has been inadequate alertness among government departments and a flawed regulatory system, it does not necessarily mean that there is any individual public officer who has not abided by the law or has neglected his or her duties and should thus be held personally responsible". On the other hand, the aforesaid report recommended that "in order to put the minds of all public rental housing (PRH) residents at ease, the Government should undertake to test the drinking water of all PRH estates again using an appropriate sampling protocol that would include the testing of stagnant water as well". In this connection, will the Government inform this Council:
(1) given that when the accountability system for principal officials was launched in 2002, the authorities indicated that "principal officials under the accountability system … will be accountable to the Chief Executive for the success or failure of matters falling within their respective portfolios. They will accept total responsibility and in an extreme case, they may have to step down for serious failures relating to their respective portfolios. These include serious failures in policy outcome and serious mishaps in the implementation of the relevant policies", if the authorities have assessed whether, in the lead-tainted water incidents, there is any serious failure in policy outcome and any serious mishap in the implementation of the relevant policies on the part of the principal officials concerned, and whether such officials should be held responsible and step down; if the authorities have assessed, of the outcome; if the assessment outcome is in the negative, of the justifications, and whether they have reviewed if the accountability system for principal officials has existed in name only and has been reduced to a "buck-passing system for high ranking officials";
(2) whether it will request CS to apologise to the public for the lead-tainted water incidents; if it will not, of the reasons for that; and
(3) whether the authorities will immediately conduct sample tests on the lead content of the "initial draw-off" taken from all PRH estates, and whether they will make public all the data obtained from the water tests and blood tests conducted in relation to the lead-tainted water incidents; if they will not, of the reasons for that?
Acting President,
Following the briefing by myself, relevant Directors of Bureaux and civil service colleagues for the Legislative Council (LegCo) House Committee on September 1 and October 8 last year on the situation of the lead in drinking water incident at public rental housing (PRH) estates, we will attend the special meeting of the House Committee again on July 11 to brief Members on how the Government will follow up on the recommendations of the Report of the Commission of Inquiry into Excess Lead Found in Drinking Water (the Report). Also, we have already submitted a detailed information paper and, therefore, I will reply concisely to the question raised by Dr Hon Helena Wong today.
For the three parts of the question, my reply is as follows:
(1) As early as October 16, 2015 at the LegCo motion debate on excess lead in drinking water incident at PRH estates, I have already taken the initiative to acknowledge that the incident has clearly reflected the inadequacies of the monitoring system of the Housing Department (HD) and the Water Supplies Department (WSD). At the press conference to make public the Report on May 31 this year, we have accepted the criticisms of the Commission of Inquiry into Excess Lead Found in Drinking Water (the Commission), i.e. the checking system of the two departments, for ensuring that the drinking water in PRH estates does not contain excess lead, has failed to function in reality. The Director of Housing and the Director of Water Supplies have already apologised to the public and the affected residents for the systemic failure and imperfect implementation. The policy areas of housing and water supply are under the purview of the Secretary for Transport and Housing (STH) and the Secretary for Development (SDEV) respectively. As politically appointed principal officials, STH Professor Anthony Cheung and SDEV Paul Chan are responsible for supervising their executive departments to ensure the effective implementation of the policies and the provision of sound service to the public. The two Secretaries of Bureaux did not evade their political responsibility, and apologised for the lead in drinking water incident at PRH estates. Under the supervision of the Directors of Bureaux, the two departments have endeavoured to investigate comprehensively the drinking water situation, implement measures for affected residents and follow up on the various recommendations of the Commission. Hence, I do not agree with the suggestion that "the accountability system for principal officials has existed in name only and has been reduced to a buck-passing system for high ranking officials".
(2) Under the political appointment system, the Chief Secretary for Administration plays an important role in terms of policy coordination. For the lead in drinking water incident at PRH estates, I convened the first high-level inter-departmental meeting in the morning of July 11 last year (i.e. the next day after HD confirmed and made public the first sample with excess lead) to co-ordinate the follow-up actions of relevant bureaux and departments. So far 20 meetings have been held and a number of measures have been taken promptly. Following the release of the Commission's Report, I will continue to provide steer for the work of relevant bureaux and departments to ensure that the formulation and implementation of policies will be coordinated properly.
(3) As regards the Commission's recommendation that the Government should undertake to test the drinking water of all PRH estates again, WSD must first deal with the water sampling protocols. As the experts of the Commission also agreed, there was no universally accepted practice at the moment. The action levels for lead concentration in water tested also vary from place to place. Moreover, water testing is just a means to achieve our objective of ensuring the quality and safety of drinking water. As such, the issue and the follow-up work must be considered in a holistic manner in order to allay public concerns and minimise unnecessary nuisance caused to them.
The Commission also supported our proposal to set up an international expert panel on water safety to provide expert advice to Hong Kong on matters related to water quality standards, regulatory and monitoring regime for water quality, water sampling protocols, etc. The international expert panel as set up by the Development Bureau will convene the first video conferencing meeting today, with a view to putting forward a proposal as soon as possible which is suitable for the actual situation in Hong Kong, and covers the water sampling protocols, appropriate lead content level, and the action levels for lead concentration in water tested. Based on the views of the international expert panel, WSD will follow up as appropriate, including the recommendation of the Commission that the Government should undertake to test the drinking water of all PRH estates again.
As regards making public the results for water tests and blood tests, the Housing Authority (HA) and WSD conducted water sampling tests for all PRH estates concerned between July and November 2015. HA has disseminated to the public the test results for drinking water samples taken from the PRH estates through various channels, including press conferences, press releases and papers issued to LegCo and HA. The Government has also published the overall test results of the blood lead levels of residents in the affected PRH estates as well as the students/staff of the affected schools. The Department of Health and the Hospital Authority have also provided blood test reports and blood lead level data to individuals receiving these tests. As blood lead levels of individuals are personal data, it would not be appropriate to disclose them to the public.
Thank you, Acting President.
Parents unconvinced as Chinese authorities pledge investigations into soil blamed for students' health problems, including cancer
Parents of students suffering health problems blamed on polluted soil near a school in Jiangsu are sceptical of investigations by state environmental and education authorities.
Some do not even trust local hospitals to carry out health checks on their children, suspecting they may have been pressured by the city authorities.
Many are questioning whether to continue sending their children to the school, which charges 8,500 yuan (HK$10,170) per ¬semester and is among the best in Changzhou.
The ministries of environmental protection and education ordered investigations into the problems at Changzhou Foreign Language School, prompted by an expose by state broadcaster CCTV.
The broadcaster said 493 pupils had developed health problems, including bronchitis, blood and thyroid abnormalities, and even lymphoma and leukaemia, after the school moved last September to a new campus adjacent to a site that had been contaminated by three chemical plants.
The plants left in 2010 and when the school moved to the campus, a project to remedy the polluted soil was launched. However, the project was thought to have released some of the site's toxins into the atmosphere.
The city's environmental authorities say the air and soil are now safe, after the project was suspended and the site covered with a layer of clay in February.
But CCTV said the soil and groundwater still contained toxic compounds. It said the level of cancer-causing chlorobenzene in the groundwater was nearly 100,000 times the safety limit.
"We are very scared and don't know which side we should believe," the mother of a 14-year-old boy said."It's horrific… the chemical pollution poses long-term [health] risks."
She took her son to a hospital in nearby Wuxi for a checkup, as parents suspect hospitals in Changzhou have been told by the government to give "special treatment" to pupils from the school.
"I was told that all students from the school received the same result: that there is no problem with their health," she said.
The doctor in Wuxi found the boy to have a slight thyroid problem, but did not directly link the illness to the environment.
A father surnamed Kang whose daughter is in grade eight hoped the school would relocate.
"My daughter took a week off at the start of this semester [over pollution concerns]. But she wanted to go back to school so dearly. Every day I am in a dilemma over whether I should let her go to this school or not," he said.
He told his daughter not to drink the water at the school, and hired a maid to prepare and deliver lunch to her every day.
On January 15, nearly 1,000 parents joined an overnight protest demanding the school relocate. Hundreds of police were deployed to scatter the crowds. They later visited protesters' homes and said those who worked at government agencies or state-owned companies were risking their jobs.
The mother said some students were reluctant to leave the school as they had grown emotionally attached to teachers and schoolmates.
Ma Jun, director of the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs, said the scandal revealed "loopholes in almost every link of environmental supervision". "The fact the [plants] were able to pump so many pollutants underground reflects a chronic lack of supervision," he said.
The soil remedy project had obviously failed to identify potential health concerns – and China still did not have a law to regulate such practices, Ma said.
A lack of transparency over soil pollution and chemical pollutants in general made public supervision near impossible, he added.
Simply covering the soil with a layer of clay would not solve the problem, as the health implications of polluted soil and groundwater could take decades to emerge, Ma said.
Source URL: http://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/1936990/parents-unconvinced-chinese-authorities-pledge
Thousands dying in region from ozone pollution caused by warming, Chinese University study finds
Ernest Kao ernest.kao@scmp.com
Deadly ozone levels rising as emissions of fossil fuels increase, Chinese University study warns
Regional warming in East Asia over the past 30 years has led to a rapid rise in surface ozone pollution that may have led to thousands of premature deaths a year, a Chinese University study found.
The researchers warn the situation is likely to get worse as fossil fuel emissions increase.
Ozone is formed by volatile organic compounds (VOCs) reacting with nitrogen oxides (NOx) from sources such as vehicles. The pollutant can cause breathing problems and serious lung disease.
The study found that summertime temperatures in mainland China and surrounding regions had risen by up to 3 degrees Celsius over the past three decades, intensifying ozone in the lower atmosphere by 2 to 10 parts per billion by volume (ppbv).
This increase was associated with an estimated 5,600 extra premature respiratory deaths per year in East Asia – which includes mainland China and Hong Kong – between 1980 and 2010.
But Professor Amos Tai Pui-kuen of the university's earth system science programme said increases in human-induced emissions from fossil fuel burning had raised ozone levels to 25ppbv over this period, which may have caused an extra 65,000 ozone-related premature deaths per year.
"Our results show that warming in China, indeed, might have exacerbated air pollution further over the past few decades and had a direct impact on human health," said Tai. "If we include the health impact of more frequent heat extremes, such as heatstroke, the real costs of climate change might have been even higher."
The 18-month study analysed historical weather and satellite observations of land cover in computer modelling that simulated atmospheric chemistry and pollutant formation.
Tai said warmer temperatures and carbon dioxide increased the growth of vegetation. Trees and plants emit VOCs naturally and these react with NOx emissions from vehicles and power plants, creating yet more ozone.
"South China and Hong Kong will likely experience more serious ozone pollution due to the 'double impact' of climate change and enhanced vegetation growth in the future if background nitrogen oxides from industrial [sources] and vehicles remain high."
Tai urged regional governments to reduce NOx emissions, especially from vehicles, and to take into account future warming and land use changes in the greater Pearl River Delta region.
Clean Air Network campaign manager Patrick Fung Kin-wai said the findings were in line with his own group's research, which last year found that ozone pollution in Hong Kong had hit a historic high. VOC emissions in the delta region have long been a problem and even with the Chinese economy slowing, there were no signs of it coming down yet, he said.
According to the Environmental Protection Department, ozone concentrations measured at the city's air quality monitoring stations have increased by 25 per cent over the past five years.
Hong Kong and other cities in the Pearl River Delta have pledged to reduce VOC emissions by 15 to 25 per cent by 2020 from 2010 levels.
Shenzhen reservoir and river hit by sewage spill
Water bureau blames ink company for the pollution, according to newspaper report
Sewage has been discharged into a reservoir, river and farmland in Shenzhen turning fields in the area a reddish brown.
The water bureau in the Baoan district of the city said an ink mixing and cartridge company was responsible, the Shenzhen Jing Bao newspaper reported.
People living near the Tiegang Reservoir said that water feeding into their farmland had turned "blood red".
"It's very likely to be the result of an accident, like a spillage, or someone decided to dump the sewage instead of discarding it properly," said Xiong Yang, an official at the Green River environmental NGO.
"If the sewage seeps into the soil it's very difficult to clean up, so it's safe to say that the vegetables are now inedible."
The ink company Hamno Technology Co did not respond to calls asking for comment. The Baoan water bureau also did not answer calls. Xiong accused the city authorities of failing to regularly enforce environmental protection regulations.
A spokesman for the Water Supplies Department in Hong Kong said imported water from the Shenzhen Reservoir was far from the Tiegang Reservoir site.
No reports had been made to the department about the pollution at Tiegang, he said.
The department monitored water quality at a pumping station near Lo Wu around the clock and have observed no abnormalities, he added.
The Shenzhen authorities would report to them if there were any pollution issues concerning the Dong River, he said, which supplies Hong Kong.
An investigative report by the Shenzhen Evening News last year claimed that 173 out of the 310 rivers and streams running through the city were polluted.
A municipal environment commission also reported that water quality at 121 sampling stations, covering 85 per cent of the city, was "extremely poor".
Additional reporting by Thomas Chan
Source URL (modified on Apr 19th 2015, 3:45am): http://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/1770159/shenzhen-reservoir-and-river-hit-sewage-spill


The United States announced Wednesday it had transferred two Sudanese detainees from Guantanamo to their home country, its second release this week as President Barack Obama works to close the prison.
Noor Uthman Muhammed, 51, and Ibrahim Othman Ibrahim Idris, 52, were the last Sudanese prisoners at the US naval base in Cuba, a US defense official said.
They were both considered by the US military to be members of Al-Qaeda and were sent to Guantanamo in 2002.
Idris, seen by the Pentagon as a veteran member of the terror network who swore loyalty to its late leader Osama bin Laden in the 1990s, was among the first detainees to arrive at Guantanamo Bay on January 11, 2002. Muhammed arrived in May of that year.
In exchange for a guilty plea to terror offenses in February 2011, part of Muhammed's 14-year sentence was suspended and he completed his term on December 3.
Idris, who had been cleared for transfer since 2009 by an interagency task force, was released following an October court order from the US District Court in Washington.
"As directed by the president's January 22, 2009, executive order, the task force conducted a comprehensive review of Idris's case, which examined a number of factors, including security issues, in making that designation," Pentagon spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Todd Breasseale said.
It said the Obama administration informed Congress of its intent to transfer both men, as required by law.
"The United States coordinated with the government of Sudan regarding appropriate security measures and to ensure that these transfers are consistent with our humane treatment policy," Breasseale said in a statement.
The transfers came as Obama accelerates repatriations to meet his campaign promise of closing the prison opened by his predecessor George W. Bush in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States to house terror suspects captured around the world.
But activists urged the Obama administration to do more.
"President Obama has made significant progress this year toward closing Guantanamo," Amnesty International USA security and human rights director Zeke Johnson said in a statement.
"He should keep the momentum going by turning this week's trickle of transfers into a torrent," added Johnson, who is at Guantanamo this week to observe pretrial motion proceedings for the five men accused of plotting the 9/11 attacks.
"His administration has the authority under current law to do it and half the people still held are cleared to leave."
In all, 12 Sudanese men have been repatriated, three under Obama and nine under the Bush administration.
On Monday, the Pentagon announced the transfer of two detainees to Saudi Arabia -- Saad Muhammad Husayn Qahtani and Hamood Abdulla Hamood.
And on December 5, two Algerians were repatriated from Guantanamo, despite the prisoners' protests they could face persecution there.
A total of 158 prisoners now remain at Guantanamo.
Obama has acknowledged that Guantanamo has hurt the United States' global standing.
Detainees have complained of mistreatment, and many were held for years without trial while others faced special military tribunals known as military commissions.
Lawmakers are working on measures to ease restrictions on sending detainees home or to third countries, but plans to close the facility have been thwarted by a ban on transferring them to US soil and some allies' opposition to taking in the terror suspects.


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Pretty simple stuff. Sure... you too can do this!
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Q: Scanning a whole line into a list I have a string (that changes every occurrence of it) that looks like this:
<Left Mouse Up> <Right Mouse Up> <Press V><Press Up><Press Q><Press Up><Press L> I need to read every instance of the letter after the word Press and store them in a list, but I'm not quite sure how to do that. I have this code now that reads in the whole string, and every instance of the letter after the word Press but it doesn't store them in a list instantly, but rather than after iteration.
Dim keyString = command.ToString
    Dim allKeys As New List(Of String)
    Dim pattern = "Press "
    Dim index = keyString.IndexOf(pattern)
    While index >= 0
        index += pattern.Length
        Dim endIndex = keyString.IndexOf(">", index)
        If endIndex >= 0 Then
            Dim nextKey = keyString.Substring(index, endIndex - index)
            allKeys.Add(nextKey)
            index = keyString.IndexOf(pattern, endIndex + 1)

So I guess, in short version, how would I make it so it scans the whole string and stores each instance of the character after Press into the list allKeys ?

A: You can use a regular expression (RegEx) to accomplish this task more easily.  If you haven't been exposed to regular expressions, they can be a bit daunting, but as you can see, it's worth it to take the time to learn the technology.  Regular expressions are very powerful, and they are a perfect fit for this type of problem.
Dim keyString As String = "<Left Mouse Up> <Right Mouse Up> <Press V><Press Up><Press Q><Press Up><Press L>"
Dim regEx As New Regex("<Press (?<key>.*?)>")
Dim allKeys As New List(Of String)()
For Each m As Match In regEx.Matches(keyString)
    allKeys.Add(m.Groups("key").Value)
Next

The regular expression I used in the example is <Press (?<key>.*?)>.  The parts of the expression mean:

*

*<Press - The matching string must begin with these characters.

*(?<key> - Begins a group of characters named key.

*.* - Matches any character any number of times.

*? - Makes the expression non-greedy.  In other words, the match for any character any number of times only includes up to the first > character, which is specified later.  If the question mark was not there, the pattern would be greedy, so it would match the entire string up until the last > character.

*) - Ends the named group.

*> - The matching string must end with this character.

In simple terms, the regular expression defines a search pattern with an advanced wildcard.  If we were using * as a simple wildcard, it would look like <Press *>.  In other words we want to find all of the instances of a sub-string that starts with <Press, ends with >, and has anything in between.  In the RegEx pattern, however, where the wildcard portion can be much more powerful, the wildcard is not a simple * character, but rather, the wildcard is (?<key>.*?) which not only instructs it to match any sub-string, but also assigns the name key to the wildcard.  Assigning it a name means that we can easily reference it in code to get its value.
The example code creates a regular expression object using that pattern, then runs a search on the keyString variable by calling regEx.Matches(keyString).  That method returns a collection of Match objects which represent each match of the pattern in keyString.  Then, it calls m.Groups("key").Value to get the value of the key group (the wildcard part) from each match.

A: You can use regular expressions:
Dim allKeys As New List(Of String)
Dim s As String = "<Left Mouse Up> <Right Mouse Up> <Press V><Press Up><Press Q><Press Up>   <Press L>"

Dim regx As Regex = New Regex("<(Press) ([\w+\s*]+)(>)")
Dim mcollection As MatchCollection = regx.Matches(s)
For Each m As Match In mcollection
    allKeys.Add(m.Groups(2).Value)
Next

A: Here's a simple sub that will parse your string and add to the list, using the list you pass to it, which should update as each item is added:
Private Sub FillList(ByRef PressList As List(Of String), PressString As String)
    For Each token As String In PressString.Split({"Press"}, StringSplitOptions.None)
        If Not token.StartsWith("<") Then PressList.Add(token.Split(">"c)(0))
    Next
End Sub

A: First, I would tokenize the string using .Split and split it into tags.  If your tags have spaces between them, you might need to parse those out.  Try something like this:
Dim allKeys As New List(Of String)
Dim myString As String = "<Left Mouse Up> <Right Mouse Up> <Press V><Press Up><Press Q><Press Up><Press L>"
Dim tokens As IEnumerable(Of String) = myString.Replace("> <", "><").Split("><")
tokens = (From t In tokens Where t.Contains("<Press "))
For Each t In tokens
  allKeys.Add(t.Replace("<Press ", String.Empty).Replace(">", String.Empty))
Next t

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This morning's photo and poem are my contributions to this year's 5th Annual Cyberspace Poetry Slam Honoring the Goddess Brigid, and many "thank yous" to my mermaid sister Joanna for reminding me.
I can think of no more poetic offering for this day than the lovely and light-filled Blessing for Hearth-Keepers from The Little Book of Celtic Blessings by Caitlin Matthews. It is the poem I recite every year on the eve of Imbolc as I light beeswax candles and kindle a fire in the old fireplace downstairs.
Another of my favorites is Chains of Fire by Elsa Gidlow. Elsa's poem was actually crafted for Yuletide, but its motifs of renewal, cleansing, fire and community are perfect for this day too.
Thank you so much for the lovely poem -- and for the exquisite images and words in your other posts. This blog feels like a good place to have visited today.
I've offered a poem to Brigid here http://ecoaudient.wordpress.com/.
What a perfect blessing/poem for Imbolc. Thank you for posting it.
I hope the day was good for you. Its my husband's birthday so I have three reasons to celebrate - imbolc, candlemas and birthday.


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Krabbe är namnet på flera danska, norska och svenska adliga samt borgerliga släkter.

Krabbe af Damsgård
Dansk uradelsätt först känd 1498 genom Christen Krabbe (ca 1480- död mellan 1553 och 1554) af Damsgård, som i sitt vapen bar två silverbalkar på ett rött fält. Han var farfar till godsägaren Ole Krabbe (1656–1728) till Bjerre, vilken blev förfader till två danska grenar och en norsk gren. Bland de äldre danska släktgrenarna hör bland annat försvarsminister Christopher Krabbe (1833–1913) och ministern i Köpenhamn för Island Jón Krabbe (1874–1964). Den norska grenen av ätten härstammar från Ole Krabbes son, överste löjtnant Frederik Christian Krabbe (1713–1776), som var far till kommendörkapten Peter Greis Krabbe (1755–1807) och överste Ole Krabbe (1758–1826).

Krabbe av Halland
Dansk uradelsätt först känd genom Bengt Krabbe omnämnd 1478 i egenskap av landsdomare i norra Halland och senare 1496 som medlem riksrådet. Hans dotter Magdalena gifte sig med Bo Olofsson Oxehufwud och den andra dottern Gunhild Bengtsdotter Krabbe gifte sig med Torbjørn Arvidssøn och blev därmed mormor till Krabbe i Svaneby. Ätten utslocknade 1667 med Peder Krabbe.

Krabbe av Halland och Bohus län
Dansk-norsk adelssläkt som troligen härstammar från släkten Krabbe från Halland. Den först kända mannen av släkten var landsdomaren i Halland Oluf Lauritsson till Råö (nämnd 1537-1554). Han var farfar till Lauritz Erikssons son (nämnd 1606-1625), vars barn antog namnet Krabba. Bland dessa var kaptenen i Bohus-Jämtlands kavalleribataljon Peder Krabbe Lauritsson till Olsnäs, som senare stupade vid Gyldelöwes anfall av Kungälvs fästning, och Anna Krabbe, gift med Henrik Erikssön Pontoppidan.
Den danska ätten utdog i Danmark 1878 men fortlever i England och Argentina, under namnet Krabbé .

De mera kända med namnet Krabbe är den danske ståthållaren i Norge på Bohus fästning Iver Krabbe som gav namn till Krabbefejden 1657–1658. Hans son,  Jörgen Krabbe , född 1633 på Varbergs slott och fästning, blev svensk undersåte i samband med Roskildefreden. Han nauraliserades som svensk adelsman 1554, upphöjdes till friherre 1676 men blev ej introducerad som sådan. Han dömdes till döden för förräderi under kriget med Danmark och avrättades 1678 i Malmö.

Krabbe af Krageholm nr 21
Denna adliga ätt omfattade endast ovan nämnde Jörgen Krabbe, som 1664 introducerades på Riddarhuset i Stockholm med namnet Krabbe av Krageholm. Han hade inga barn som kunde föra ätten vidare. Det låga numret 21 stämmer inte med den verkliga kronologin.

Krabbe af Svaneby nr 46
Krabbe af Svaneby var en gammal frälsesläkt som introducerad på riddarhuset vid dess bildande år 1625. Troligen utdöd i början av 1700-talet. En påstådd stamfar, väpnaren Anders Krabbe till Ek, tros vara en konstruerad person, och den äldsta bekräftade medlemmen av ätten var:

Bengt Krabbe var troligen gift med Gunhild Bengtsdotter i Kärra, dotter till Bengt Turesson (sparre över blad), känd 1390-1422 och Märta Gunnarsdotter Gylta, en dotter till Gunnar Gylta till Påtorp (död senast 1429) och de skall ha haft tre barn: Bengt, Christina och Märta.
Bengt Bengtsson
Christina Bengtsdotter
Märta i Kärra vid Älvsborg, gift med Bengt Andersson (sparre över tre kulor).
Gunhild Bengtsdotter (sparre över tre kulor), levde 1525. Gift med Torbjörn Arvidsson (levde 1493).
Anders Krabbe (levde ännu 1568) var fogde i Marks härad i Älvsborgs län från 1539, och häradshövding i Ås härad i Älvsborgs län till 1548. Gift med Barbro Knutsdotter, dotter av häradshövdingen Knut Svensson (Lilliehöök af Gälared och Kolbäck).
Bengt Krabbe

Adliga ätten Krabbe nr 2149
Denna ätt Krabbe adlades 1779 och introducerades 1789 som adlig ätt nummer 2149, med anspråk på att härstamma från den på riddarhuset under nr 46 introducerade såsom utdöd antecknade ätten Krabbe af Svaneby (ovan). Ätten är utdöd i Sverige, men fortlever i Finland, med den där introducerade ätten med nummer 159.

Krabbe af Östergård
Dansk uradelsätt först känd på Jylland 1336 genom Niels Mikkelsen, som 1362 blev vigd till biskop i Odense av påven, och var farfars far till riksrådet Morten Krabbe (död 1483) till Bustrup. Från hans söner riddaren Mogens Krabbe (död 1505) till Bustrup, Glob Krabbe (död 1535) till Östergård och Mikkel Krabbe (död 1523) till Veslösgårds utgrenades ättens huvudlinjer. En annan son, Niels Krabbe till Tandrup, var fader till kansler Mogens Krabbe (död 1542).

Mogens Krabbe (död 1505) var far till riksmarsken Tyge Krabbe (1474–1541), som i sin tur var far till det lärda riksrådet Erik Krabbe (1510–1564) till Bustrup, Mogens Krabbe (1513–1564) till Vegeholm och poeten fru Elsebe Krabbe (1514-1578; gift med Peder Skram). Från den förra kommer ämbetsmanen och geheimerådet Otte Krabbe (1641-1719) till Holmegård.

Mogens Krabbe till Vegholm var farfar till guvernören i Norge Iver Krabbe (1602–1666) till Jordberga och länskommissionär i Skåne Niels Krabbe (1603–1663) av Östergård, till Skällinge. Iver Krabbe var far till Jörgen Krabbe (1633–1678) till Krageholm, som introducerades vid det svenska Riddarhuset 1664 och fick en fristående titel 1676. Denna släkt dog ut i Danmark 1878, men fortlever i Storbritannien.

Mikkel Krabbe (död 1523) var farfars far till guvernören i Norge Gregers Krabbe (1594–1655) till Torstedlund.

Källor
 Gustaf Elgenstierna, Den introducerade svenska adelns ättartavlor. 1925-36
 Thiset, Hiort-Lorenzen, Bobé, Teisen. Danmarks Adels Aarbog. Dansk Adelsforening, 1928, s. 7, s. 39
 Krabbe Jon Gunnar Arntzen, Store norske leksikon
 Personalhistorisk Tidsskrift 2013:1 Anne Marie Lebech-Sørensen, Familiekredsen omkring Anne Krabbe – af hallandsk adel med kommentarer til "Gravskrift over Anne Krabbe 1659"
 1000 Adelsvåben fra middelalderen Steen Thomsen

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Danska adelsätter
Norska adelsätter
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Total Divas: Brie wants to live in a jail; Eva Marie feels like a whale; Rosa chases Paige's tail
Posted by Bob Kapur | Jan 29, 2015
It's strange that WWE would air a new episode of Total Divas on the Sunday of a pay-per-view, like they did last weekend. But that's what they did, and as a result, this report is late. So let's dispense with the introduction, and head straight to the full recap.
This could be the best episode of the show ever – scratch that, of any show ever, as they start off with the Bellas groping Eva Marie's boobs, which she had repaired on last week's show. When they break out HLA within the first 15 seconds of the show, it's got to be sweeps week. Oh, and everyone thinks Nikki Bella is hypersexed and slutty.
Later, over lunch, Brie tells the Divas about the break-in at her and Daniel Bryan's house where he went all vigilante on them. Ever the optimist, Nattie scares Brie by suggesting the burglars may come back for revenge at some point.
In L.A., Eva Marie and Jonathan are driving when she gets a call from a Communications suit at WWE, telling her that Muscle & Fitness wants her to do another cover shoot. She's worried because she hasn't worked out since her surgery so she doesn't think she's in tip-top shape. Wasn't this a "very special episode" of Blossom once?
Paige and Rosa are out clothes shopping and they keep talking about how pretty the other one is – perhaps some more HLA to come?
Meanwhile, Eva Marie hits the gym, but works out way too hard in order to get into magazine cover shape. Ariane is worried that Eva is freaking out over her weight / appearance for no reason.
Nattie's paranoia is apparently contagious; her comments about the burglars scared Brie enough that she and Bryan bought a fancy new home alarm system, complete with bullet-proof glass. Brie still doesn't feel safe, so she thinks about buying a gun. Another TV sitcom trope. If one of their dads loses his job and she becomes too embarrassed to go to prom because she'll have to wear a homemade dress, that's a bingo.
Later, Paige and Rosa are hanging out at Alica Fox's house with Alicia and her sister, and they start comparing notes on being with another woman. Paige leaves, and Rosa confides in Alicia and her sister that she wants to be more than friends with Paige. Get in line, girl. Alicia warns her about dating a friend and suggests she cools her jets.
Backstage, Eva Marie doesn't even want to eat a banana, making Ariane even more concerned. They show clips of the various times Eva has demonstrated she's got body image issues – lots of her saying how she needs to diet and what not. The ever-hilarious Titus O'Neil is hanging out in the parking lot, and in a funny sequence, he rates himself a 10, Eva a 10, and Ariane an 8.5, saying she loses points for her attitude. As she complains, he drops the rating further and further. He needs his own show.
Nattie, Ariane, and the Bellas go for a workout with Mike, who's Vince McMahon's personal trainer. Brie brings up her break-in fears and meddlesome Mike fans the flames, suggesting she puts up a barbed wire fence and gets security dogs. Maybe he was the one who came up with the Kennel from Hell match… if so, then you suck, Mike.
Alicia, Rosa, and Paige – they've dubbed themselves as "the Three Amigas", and talk turns again to Rosa's preference for girls. She gets all handsy with Paige during dinner, and then afterwards, as they're saying goodbye, kisses Paige. Unfortunately, Paige doesn't look like she's feeling it – sorry, HLA fans (myself included). She lets Rosa know that she's misread the situation, and is only interested in being friends with her. Awkward.
The next day, Brie and Bryan are driving home, and she tells Bryan about what Mike said. Of course, being a ditz, she doesn't know the word and calls it "Bob wire". Though, maybe that's right, as she wouldn't be the first Diva who has had to put up security barriers to keep me away. Bryan mocks her ideas for a prison-like compound around their house.
The next day, the Divas are at the NXT Performance Centre, and noticeable by her absence is Rosa. Paige tells Alicia about what happened between her and Rosa the night before. Alicia suggests that Paige may be inadvertently sending out mixed signals. Paige just hopes that they can all remain friends.
Ariane and Eva are out clothes shopping, and Eva nearly passes out from weakness due to not eating.
Bryan goes home and sees that Brie has hired a company to put up a razor wire fence on their lawn. She puts up some "Beware of Dog" signs, which is funny, given that their dog Josie is about the size of a small rabbit and doesn't look like it even knows how to bite – clearly she got her brains from the Bella side of the family. Bryan isn't happy with his house looking like a prison.
Paige and Alicia are driving back from their workout and talking about Rosa still. Paige tries to call her, but gets no answer; then Alicia tries, and Rosa picks up right away and tells her to come on by the restaurant where she's hanging out. Looks like it's adios, Amigas. Figuring that she can't be ignored in person, Paige goes with Alicia. She sees Rosa hanging out with some people who are drinking and questions Rosa (a recovering alcoholic), who gets up and leaves. She tells Paige, who followed her out, that she wasn't drinking, but wants to get away from Paige because she's embarrassed about what happened between them. They argue about which of them turned the friendship weird, and Alicia tries to play peacemaker but fails.
Ariane and Jonathan are driving Eva Marie around to give her "a surprise". They show in flashbacks that Ariane went to Jonathan to talk to him about Eva's apparent body image problems and what they can do to help her. Eva is irritated by the fact that the two of them have conspired something behind her back.
At home, Bryan and Brie are sniping at each other about the fence. She says if the fence goes, she goes. He suggests that, as an alternative, they start a formal Neighbourhood Watch program, and she agrees. Stupid crisis averted.
The "surprise" for Eva Marie is to take her to an artist who will draw her based only on her oral description of herself and again based on an oral description of her by another person. The pictures are significantly different from one another, and when Eva sees them, she sees how other people see her as opposed to how she sees herself. Say that six times fast. She gets all emotional, realizing that she has negative body image issues and that she's actually pretty.
The next day, Alica and Paige are hanging out with Nattie, but Rosa flatly rejects joining them, expressing open hostility towards Paige. Paige tells Nattie what happened between them. Nattie and Alicia both tell Paige that perhaps she's sending out signals due to her flirty nature, and that maybe she should tone down her sex appeal. Sure, blame the victim. Nattie speculates that perhaps Rosa's recovery is making her more emotional about things in general, so that's why she's so hurt.
Backstage after a show, Paige apologizes to Rosa for sending out mixed signals, and Rosa apologizes for being overly sensitive. They hug it out. And, bringing the episode full circle, Paige gropes Rosa's boobs… but in a friend way.
Well, not completely full circle, since we still have a final scene of Eva at her photo shoot. She looks great.
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Q: compare two array of hash in general without any specific key in ruby I wanted to compare 2 arrays of hashes for all values without any specific key "d". Please help in comparing 2 arrays of hashes in a way which iterates all values in the array of hashes.
A = [
{"a"=>"1000", "b"=>"0", "c"=>"3", "d"=>"1", "e"=>"3", "f"=>"status"},

{"a"=>"2", "e"=>"0", "b"=>"0", "c"=>"4", "d"=>"3", "e="3","f"=>"s-2"},

{"a"=>"0", "b"=>"0", "c"=>"1", "d"=>"3", "e"=>"1", "f"=>"s-01"} ]

B= [

{"a"=>"1000", "b"=>"0", "c"=>"3", "d"=>"1", "e"=>"3", "f"=>"status"},

{"a"=>"2", "e"=>"0", "b"=>"0", "c"=>"4", "d"=>"3", "e="3","f"=>"s-2"},

{"a"=>"0", "b"=>"0", "c"=>"1", "d"=>"3", "e"=>"1", "f"=>"s-01"} ]

I have tried below code but I wanted to compare all elements without the specific key "d". Please help!
A.each do |e_hash|
B.each do |a_hash|
if (a_hash["d"].to_s == e_hash["d"].to_s)
    e_hash.each do |k,v|

puts v if k == "d"  if (a_hash[k].to_s != v.to_s)
count += 1
else
count
end
end
end

A: When you want to compare two hashes without a specific key then you can use
hash_1 = { "a" => 0, "b" => 0, "c" => 0 }
hash_2 = { "a" => 0, "b" => 0, "c" => 1 }

hash_1.tap { |hs| hs.delete("c") } == hash_2.tap { |hs| hs.delete("c") }
#=> true

In your above example, you could do this:
A = [
  {"a"=>"1000", "b"=>"0", "c"=>"3", "d"=>"1", "e"=>"3", "f"=>"status"},
  {"a"=>"2", "e"=>"0", "b"=>"0", "c"=>"4", "d"=>"3", "e"=>"3", "f"=>"s-2"},
  {"a"=>"0", "b"=>"0", "c"=>"1", "d"=>"3", "e"=>"1", "f"=>"s-01"}
]
B = [
  {"a"=>"1000", "b"=>"0", "c"=>"3", "d"=>"1", "e"=>"3", "f"=>"status"},
  {"a"=>"2", "e"=>"0", "b"=>"0", "c"=>"4", "d"=>"3", "e"=>"3", "f"=>"s-2"},
  {"a"=>"0", "b"=>"0", "c"=>"1", "d"=>"3", "e"=>"1", "f"=>"s-01"}
]
A.each do |e_hash|
  B.each do |a_hash|
    if e_hash.tap { |hs| hs.delete("d") } == a_hash.tap { |hs| hs.delete("d") }
      puts "Equal hash found: #{e_hash}"
    end
  end
end
#=> Equal hash found: {"a"=>"1000", "b"=>"0", "c"=>"3", "e"=>"3", "f"=>"status"}
#   Equal hash found: {"a"=>"2", "e"=>"3", "b"=>"0", "c"=>"4", "f"=>"s-2"}
#   Equal hash found: {"a"=>"0", "b"=>"0", "c"=>"1", "e"=>"1", "f"=>"s-01"}


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Night to remember for Ollie Tyler
Alexandria Burris
alexandria.burris@shreveporttimes.com
It was a historic night Saturday in Shreveport as Ollie Tyler became the first black woman elected mayor.
In the history books, she also will be listed as the second woman to lead the city. Republican Hazel Beard left office in 1994.
Tyler celebrated the win at her Spring Street headquarters where supporters applauded and cheered her feat. She will succeed term-limited Mayor Cedric Glover and will be sworn in Dec. 27.
Tyler, an ex-education official, bested no-party challenger Victoria Provenza, a teacher, geologist and business woman, in an equally unprecedented mayoral runoff featuring two women.
Tyler captured 63 percent of voter support, according to complete but unofficial election results. Provenza , who ran a grassroots campaign, received 37 percent of voter support.
"I want to thank everybody for the confidence they placed in me, and we're going to be out there engaging them to help us grow our city to make it better," she said after the results.
Supporters, who hugged and cheered her on early in the night, danced and laughed as Tyler stood for media interviews after the results. It was a proud moment for Tyler's family.
"I know that she will get the job done," said Susie Collins Torrence, Tyler's sister. "I think she'll be a good asset for the city of Shreveport."
Across town at the Cordaro Events Center , Provenza conceded the mayoral race to Tyler. She remained hopeful as the numbers trickled in, but the gap between her and Tyler widened.
"From the very beginning we were running to make a difference," Provenza said. "It's going to a be a win-win situation tonight because we have made a significant difference running as a grassroots campaign and showing people walking to the polls to vote money influences, but it will not and cannot control elections."
With the election behind her, Tyler said she intends to rest for two days then get to work.
"Next week we've got Council meetings that I need to attend, work meetings with the Council. I want to go in and see how that's going," she said.
Tyler said she'll also work on her transition team, though she wasn't ready to say who she has in mind for her team. Tyler said she won't reveal their names until the team is finalized.
"They are people from various communities throughout our city and we don't have them all in place, so we're still working on that," she said
Tyler was willing to say what she plans to do once she gets in office, including putting together an economic development team.
"I'll be building my team while I am working to go through the budget, department by department," she said. "Then we'll look at what funds are available for infrastructure to make sure we get those done and start getting those projects completed and implemented."
The night capped the end of a mayoral race in which politics became personal. Neither woman has ever held elected office, but both touted their experience — in the public sector for Tyler and the private for Provenza — as part of their qualifications for mayor. Still, they both found themselves defending their resumes.
Provenza was accused of exaggerating her work experience. Tyler was accused of leaving public schools in a worse condition when she left as superintendent.
Provenza's state of mind during her divorce became campaign fodder, and a community rumor mill, focused on Tyler's first marriage, grew louder. Tyler eventually agreed to publicly address the physical abuse she suffered from her first husband — and his death at her hands after he attacked her.
She also was accused of being outgoing mayor Cedric Glover's candidate. Prior to the Nov. 4 primary election, Tyler declared her independence from Shreveport's current two-term mayor. But the accusation survived the primary and resurfaced during her general election campaign.
She reiterated her independence, telling The Times editorial board her camp featured a diverse group of Republicans, Democrats and business supporters — not just Glover backers. She even listed people, such as Bobby Jelks and Linda Biernacki who supported her campaign. Tyler insisted she would pick her own team.
She firmly declared: "I am not a Glover girl."
Tyler headed into the runoff with 44 percent of voter support with Provenza grassroots and digital media campaign trailing 18 percentage points behind. The gap widened Saturday night.
Local pundits declared the gap between the two woman too large of a mountain for Provenza to scale during the month-long general election runoff campaign. As such, the women took on differing strategies in the final weeks — while Provenza agreed to participate in political forums, Tyler, the leading candidate, refused.
She told The Times she would focus on small group meetings instead of forums tailored to producing soundbites. The media and some voters, tired of political mudslinging and clamoring for specific details of how the women intend to carry out their plans to city forward, criticized her decision.
But despite the criticism, she still won.
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HOW YOU VOTED
All 128 precincts reporting
Victoria Provenza: 19,860
■Ollie Tyler: 34,261


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The statement by Sulekha, Director, MHA came in response to an RTI plea filed by social activist Rohit Choudhary of J&K.
She said that the injured included 73 security force personnel and 69 civilians. (Photo: PTI | Representational)
Jammu: Sixty-one security personnel and 11 civilians were killed while 142 people were injured in 177 terror-related incidents in Jammu and Kashmir in the first four months of 2019, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has said.
The statement by Sulekha, Director, MHA came in response to an RTI plea filed by social activist Rohit Choudhary of J&K. She said that the injured included 73 security force personnel and 69 civilians.
Earlier, General Officer Commanding in Chief (GoC-In-C), Northern Command, Lt Gen Ranbir Singh, had said 86 terrorists were killed this year in the state and vowed that operations against the ultras will continue.
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Q: Projecting Reference Lines in a SmoothHistogram3d Surface What is the best way to draw a path (red color, dashed) along the surface of the smoothHistogram3D. Assume the paths desired to be the X=0 and Y=0 Axes.
data = {{0.798333, 1.21167}, {-0.415, 0.915}, {-0.675, 0.715}, {0.785,
0.675}, {-0.55, 0.645}, {-0.125, 0.57}, {0.15, 0.27}, {-0.3,
0.115}, {0.925, -0.685}, {0.748333, 1.27167}, {-0.465,
0.975}, {-0.725, 0.775}, {0.735, 0.735}, {-0.6, 0.705}, {-0.175,
0.63}, {0.1, 0.33}, {-0.35, 0.175}, {0.875, -0.625}, {0.628333,
1.18167}, {-0.585, 0.885}, {-0.845, 0.685}, {0.615, 0.645}, {-0.72,
0.615}, {-0.295, 0.54}, {-0.02, 0.24}, {-0.47,
0.085}, {0.755, -0.715}, {0.718333, 1.23167}, {-0.495,
0.935}, {-0.755, 0.735}, {0.705, 0.695}, {-0.63, 0.665}, {-0.205,
0.59}, {0.07, 0.29}, {-0.38, 0.135}, {0.845, -0.665}, {0.738333,
1.23167}, {-0.475, 0.935}, {-0.735, 0.735}, {0.725, 0.695}, {-0.61,
0.665}, {-0.185, 0.59}, {0.09, 0.29}, {-0.36,
0.135}, {0.865, -0.665}, {1.07833, 1.43167}, {-0.135,
1.135}, {-0.395, 0.935}, {1.065, 0.895}, {-0.27, 0.865}, {0.155,
0.79}, {0.43, 0.49}, {-0.02, 0.335}, {1.205, -0.465}};
SmoothHistogram3D[data]

A: You could use a Mesh.
plot = SmoothHistogram3D[data];
path = SmoothHistogram3D[data,
  MeshFunctions -> {#1 &, #2 &},
  Mesh -> {{0}, {0}}, MeshStyle -> Directive[Thick, Red],
  PlotStyle -> None, BoundaryStyle -> None];
Show[{plot, path}]

A: Like that?
SmoothHistogram3D[data, MeshFunctions -> {#1 &, #2 &}, Mesh -> 1,
  MeshStyle -> Directive[Red, Dashed]]