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Capacity outstrips demand for Asia Pacific airlines in September
Asia Pacific airlines saw demand for international air cargo grow in September compared to the same month last year, but the freight load factor declined.
Preliminary traffic figures released by the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA) show that international air cargo demand in freight tonne kilometres (FTK) grew by 4.4% year-on-year in September "against a backdrop of easing expansion in global manufacturing production and new business orders".
However, after accounting for a 6.5% increase in offered freight capacity, the average international freight load factor declined by 1.3 percentage points to 64.3% for the month.
For the first nine months of the year, international air cargo demand grew by 4.7%, benefitting from sustained growth in international trade, according to Andrew Herdman, AAPA director general.
Herdman said: "The third quarter saw a slightly more moderate 4.3% increase in air cargo demand, compared to the 4.8% growth recorded during the first half of the year."
He added: "Global business confidence remains relatively firm, but may be undermined by uncertainty about emerging geopolitical risks and policy responses to escalating trade disputes.
"Nevertheless, Asian airlines expect continued growth in air travel demand in the coming months. Air cargo demand is also being supported by further growth in e-commerce."
Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA)
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The UW Credit Union has achieved the Environmental Protection Agency's Green Power Leadership Club designation for 2013.
The company received the Leadership Club designation due to its 100 percent usage of renewable energy for lighting.
It is Wisconsin's eighth business, as well as the nation's first credit union, to receive this achievement, according to the company's press release.
The UW Credit Union has joined the likes of Microsoft, the University of Pennsylvania and the U.S. Air Force, to name a few. There are more than 1,400 partners in this effort, according to the EPA.
Paul Kundert, UW Credit Union president and CEO, realizes the importance of this recognition.
"We're committed to doing what is right for our members and our environment," Kundert said in a press release. "As an organization that continues to grow, we are dedicated to reducing our carbon footprint just as we are dedicated to our members' best interest."
This honor was no surprise to Brad McClain, executive vice president and chief financial officer of the UW Credit Union.
"We've had more enhanced efforts in buying renewable energy," McClain said. "Relative to that, one of the qualifications is you have a stronger percentage of green power for operations."
In order to accomplish that, McClain said the credit union purchased green power for its headquarters, which is its largest building. After that, it made the decision in January to expand its purchase to all of the facilities it operates, including the one on the UW-Green Bay campus.
The most important criteria to be met in order to gain Leadership status is the percentage of green power based on the annual wattage needed for a facility, according to the EPA.
A full 100 percent rating was needed for facilities using 1 to 10 million kilowatt-hours per year.
EPA guidelines also mandated that these requirements had to be met with power from new renewable facilities — that is, facilities installed within the last 15 years.
The credit union purchases a little more than 2 million kilowatt hours per year for its facilities, McClain said. As a result, this eliminates about 5.5 million pounds of carbon dioxide.
"When it's all said and done, that's the critical element to what this is all about," McClain said.
McClain recognizes the importance of this designation as an eco-friendly establishment, as well as the sole financial institution to receive this designation so far.
"It's a confirmation of what we're doing and the recognition we receive as part of an EPA partnership of the green efforts we've put forward to lessen our impact on the environment," McClain said.
McClain said these sustainability partnerships differentiate this credit union from not just a credit union perspective, but also a broader, financial institution perspective.
Besides purchasing green power, the credit union constructs its branches under the league-certified standards of the EPA.
Since 2007, the credit union also reduced its water usage by 16 percent as well as its carbon dioxide emissions by 75 percent, according to a press release.
McClain said some features include energy efficient lighting fixtures, zone heating and air conditioning, water consumption-sensitive plumbing fixtures, dual flush toilets and waterless urinals.
"There's nothing overtly exciting in these plumbing fixtures, but they sure do lessen the impact on our usage of water," McClain said.
Aside from its partnership with the EPA, the credit union also established a partnership with Sustain Dane, a sustainability initiative based in Dane County, McClain said.
Sustain Dane's main focus is to lessen the corporate impacts on the environment by partnering with corporate businesses and exchanging ideas and suggestions with the businesses.
The credit union has partnered with Sustain Dane for more than four years. It's a group the credit union can have a free-flowing exchange of ideas with, McClain said.
"That's where we really started to engage strongly in our efforts from a sustainability standpoint," McClain said.
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Published: July 8, 2020, 12:42 am Updated: July 8, 2020, 6:12 am
Tags: Kim Jong-un, Donald Trump, politics, Government, Kim Il Sung
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US envoy issues rare public criticism of N. Korean official
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U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Stephen Biegun, left, is greeted by his South Korean counterpart Lee Do-hoon during their meeting at the Foreign Ministry in Seoul Wednesday, July 8, 2020. Biegun is in Seoul to hold talks with South Korean officials about allied cooperation on issues including North Korea. (Kim Hong-ji/Pool Photo via AP)
SEOUL – The top U.S. official on North Korea accused a senior North Korean nuclear negotiator on Wednesday of being "locked in an old way of thinking," days after the negotiator said Pyongyang won't resume talks with Washington because of its "hostile" policies.
The comments by Deputy Secretary of State Stephen Biegun were a rare case of a senior U.S. official directly criticizing North Korea since the two countries launched now-stalled diplomacy on North Korea's nuclear arsenal in 2018. The comments suggest that Washington may not be interested in resuming the diplomacy anytime soon.
"I've seen some recent press reporting that the North Koreans are not prepared to meet with me on this visit," Biegun told reporters after talks with South Korean officials. "We did not request a meeting with the North Koreans. This visit is to meet with our close friends and allies, the Republic of Korea, and we had an excellent discussion."
Biegun was likely referring to recent North Korean state media reports that cited Vice Foreign Minister Choe Sun Hui as saying Pyongyang won't resume the diplomacy unless Washington discards what she described as "hostile" policies. Choe, who has been deeply involved in the nuclear talks, also slammed the U.S. for its "shallow tactic" to use North Korea for domestic political gains.
"I also want to be very clear on one point. I do not take my direction from (Choe), nor from Ambassador John Bolton," Biegun said.
Along with Choe, Biegun was referring to President Donald Trump's former national security adviser, who in his recently released memoir accused him of pursuing an "unhealthy negotiation path" by demonstrating a willingness to negotiate a step-by-step deal advocated by North Korea.
"Both are locked in an old way of thinking, focused on only the negatives and what is impossible, rather than thinking creatively about what is possible," Biegun said in a written statement published later Wednesday. That comment wasn't included in his earlier verbal remarks to reporters, which were almost identical to the written statement.
It wasn't immediately clear why Biegun's verbal remarks did not include that comment. South Korean media speculated that Biegun may have been trying not to provoke North Korea too much, though he could have simply accidentally missed those parts.
In both his verbal and written remarks, Biegun, who has previously described Choe as his potential counterpart when talks resume, said the U.S. would be ready for talks with North Korea when his dialogue interlocutor is named, in his apparent disapproval of Choe as his counterpart.
"When Chairman Kim appoints a counterpart to me who is prepared and empowered to negotiate on these issues, they will find us ready at that very moment," Biegun said, referring to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
North Korea's state news agency on Wednesday didn't issue any fresh statements on the United States. Earlier in the day, it reported that Kim had visited a mausoleum in Pyongyang to pay tribute to his late grandfather and state founder Kim Il Sung on the 26th anniversary of his death.
Trump and Kim have met three times since 2018, but the nuclear negotiations have fallen apart since their second summit in February last year in Vietnam. North Korea has repeatedly said in recent months that it would no longer give Trump the gift of high-profile meetings he could boast of as foreign policy achievements unless it gets something substantial in return.
North Korea recently dialed up pressure on South Korea by cutting off virtually all cooperation and blowing up an inter-Korean liaison office in its territory last month. That followed months of frustration over Seoul's unwillingness to defy U.S.-led sanctions and restart joint economic projects that would help the North's broken economy.
Some analysts believe North Korea will also avoid serious talks with the Americans for now and instead focus on pressuring the South in a bid to increase its bargaining power before an eventual return to negotiations after the U.S. presidential election in November. They say North Korea likely doesn't want to make any major commitments or concessions when there is a chance that U.S. leadership could change.


Does this story sound familiar? Imagine you and two friends walk into a restaurant only to find they have no reservation for you. The first friend quickly accosts the maitre d' and demands a table immediately. Your second friend has wondered over to the fish tank and is enjoying a quiet moment. And you are turning to anyone who will listen and apologizing for not calling and checking on the reservation. This is three very different responses to the same circumstance.
For years I tried not to talk so much, eat just 3 meals a day and exercise constantly to build muscle. No matter what diet or exercise I tried it just did not work for me. I thought it was my fault for not having enough willpower until I learned about Ayurveda, which is a 5,000 year old Science of life. In Ayurveda, health is defined as the dynamic state of balance between mind, body, and environment.
In Ayurveda there are 5 elements found in all living things, ether, air, fire, water and earth. The manifestation of these elements through the Doshas is what makes us different. Through these five elements, the Doshas are derived - Vata, Pitta, and Kapha. These are mind-body types that are a unique blend of physical, emotional and mental characteristics. Learning what type of "cookie" or "Dosha" we are helps us to know how to live.
God made us all unique but he had a recipe. We just do not know the ingredients that make up our unique constitution. I think Ayurveda is a reference for us to understand God's recipe. There could be 1,000 cookie recipes in a cookbook. They may all have the same basic ingredients; sugar, flour, eggs, flavoring and baking powder. But a chocolate chip is very different from a lemon drop.
In the story above the fiery, angry friend was a Pitta. The friend at the fish tank was a Kapha and you were a Vata. You may have a different mind and body type. You could have a kapha mind that is happy relaxing and a Pitta body that is muscular. So you might be happy with just a bike ride instead of an intense workout at the gym.
When in balance, a Pitta is muscular, has great digestion, is a good leader and is forceful. When out of balance, a Pitta is quick to become angry, argumentative, thinks they are right and may exercise too much.
When in balance, a Kapha is calm, focusses on one project at a time, sleeps well, may exercise by walking and savors their food. Out of balance, a Kapha vegges in front of the TV, is overweight, has no initiative and sleeps too much.
In balance, a Vata is creative, slim, enjoys exercises like Yoga and listens as well as talks. Out of balance, a Vata talks non stop, feels guilty, needs more sleep and has poor digestion.
Learn to balance your mind-body and environment to enrich your life.


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DOJ announces new initiative to fight mortgage discrimination – RISMedia
The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on October 22 a new initiative to fight what United States Attorney General Merrick Garland calls the "modern day red line," investigating discriminatory practices by mortgage lenders across the country that exclude people of color in violation of federal laws. law.
The new program Combatting Redlining Initiative-will run through the Division of Housing and civil enforcement of the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department. It was announced alongside a settlement with Trustmark National Bank, which agreed to pay a $ 5 million fine and invest an additional $ 4.5 million in black and Hispanic neighborhoods in Memphis, Tennessee, after being accused of systematically avoiding these communities in its lending practices.
"Enforcement of our fair loan laws is essential to ensure that banks and lenders provide communities of color equal access to lending opportunities," said Deputy Attorney General Kristen Clarke for the Civil Rights Division of the United States. Ministry of Justice. "A fair and equal access to mortgage options is the cornerstone on which families and communities can create wealth in our country. We know that the redlining is not a problem of a bygone era but a practice that remains pervasive in the loan industry today. "
Prosecutions and investigations of Connecticut To Indiana To California accused lenders of perpetuating the practice of redlining, which began in the 1930s with the federal government's refusal to insure mortgages in black neighborhoods and has been taken over by private lenders and other policymakers. These banks often refused to admit wrongdoing, but also agreed to change their lending practices and pay heavy fines.
The new initiative DOJ will seek to further scrutinize these institutions and to detect potential violations of the law, in cooperation with States and financial regulatory agencies, the statement said. It will also put a new emphasis on investigating so-called non-depository lenders, financial institutions that are not considered traditional banks and now handle the majority of mortgages, the DOJ said.
Other resources from the Department of Justice will also be tapped as' force multipliers to ensure that equitable loan application is informed by local expertise in housing markets and the credit needs of local communities of color. », Indicates the press release.
"We will spare no resources to ensure that federal fair loan laws are rigorously enforced and that financial institutions provide every American with an equal opportunity to obtain credit," Garland said in a statement.
Jesse Williams is the Associate Online Editor of RISMedia. Send him your ideas for real estate news by email at [email protected].
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Currently, COs around the world are imprisoned, some on a repeated basis, when they are released and repeatedly refuse to participate in military service. In the United States, U.S. Army PFC. Kimberly Rivera, a pregnant mother of four, was sentenced on April 29th, during a court-martial hearing at Fort Carson, Colorado, to 14 months in military prison and a dishonorable discharge after publicly expressing her conscientious objection to the Iraq War while in Canada. Under the terms of a pre-trial agreement, she will serve 10 months of that sentence. The Army has issued the harshest sentences to COs and war resisters who have publicly expressed their feelings about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
This year is poignant, also, due to the long anticipated June 3rd starting date of PFC. Bradley Manning's Court Martial trial at Fort Meade, Maryland after over three years of confinement, much of it under torturous conditions, for executing heroic acts of conscience when confronted with U.S. war crimes and the knowledge that his command was complicit with them and that only he could shed light on them.
In recent years, there has been a need, felt globally, to have the right of selective conscientious objection recognized by nations. The U.S. wars of aggression, of the last decade, have caused many U.S. soldiers to wake to the fact that even if they would defend their country militarily, they refuse to fight what they see as illegal and immoral U.S. wars.
The most powerful weapon we have against war is the refusal of the individual to become a soldier and the refusal of the individual soldier to fight. It is his or her ability to say "No" that could stop armies and end wars. With more soldiers willing to desert and more soldiers willing to stand in solidarity with them doing so, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan could not have been waged. Mass desertion by military personnel backed by solidarity strikes in the military and in civilian society could stop many illegal wars as well as spread the message that all war is a crime against humanity.
When even drone operators resist illegitimate orders to fight illegal wars, we will end these wars. The list of U.S. and international laws violated by George Bush is long, as is the list of laws broken, so far, by Barack Obama. Much of the law is on our side. But it is misinterpreted, misused, and largely ignored. With grass roots education of soldiers, GI resistance can grow.
More than 200 "GIs have publicly refused service and spoken out against the wars, all risking prison and some serving long sentences. An estimated 250 U.S. war resisters are currently taking refuge in Canada. Countless others leave quietly, disappearing from the ranks, unrecorded by the military." Regardless of how which states define which terms, i.e. conscientious objection, alternative service, noncombatant service, civilian service, etc. what is needed is a worldwide grass roots movement to demand the right of the individual war resister to be respected for his/her individual definitions and limits of what their consciences will allow them to do and not do.
Conscience is an individual's personal moral sense of what is right and what is wrong. It was innately apparent to Bradley Manning that the murders, by his government's military, that he witnessed on video, were wrong. It was clear to him that Iraqi's being handed over to be tortured for having exercised their right to petition was wrong. Real existing U.S. law and international law was on his side. But it has not backed up his actions.
Soldiers like Ethan McCord and Josh Stieber have testified that the murders revealed by Bradley Manning with the leak of the Collateral Murder video, and the Iraq War Logs, and the Afghan War Diaries were not aberrations or isolated incidents. Rather they were routine, everyday occurrences.
In the international legal framework, "Conscientious Objection to military service is based on the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion, set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights." [from Conscientious Objection to Military Service, page 7] From that is derived the concept of conscientious objection being based on religion or belief. We must no longer let any state decide what "belief" is acceptable for an individual or a soldier to hold before they are exempt from soldiering or further soldiering. Presently, a distinction is made between a pacifist and a conscientious objector. A CO may be opposed to all war and still believe in the use of personal, physical violence in response to a physical attack on one's person or family. It follows that we must now demand that individuals need the freedom to decide for themselves that even if they would defend their nation's shores from attack in a military capacity, that they still have the right, in every nation, to decide for themselves, to refuse to participate in, or be complicit in any way with, illegal wars of aggression like the imperialist wars waged by the United States in Iraq and in Afghanistan and so many other countries. We must demand the right of Selective Conscientious Objection and support those struggling for that right.
No government ought to be able to discriminate against any conscientious objector to military service based on the nature of that CO's beliefs. Selective conscientious objection, allowing an individual to accept the legitimacy of some military action and still refuse to fight in what his/her own conscience tells him/her is an illegal and immoral war, must be respected and legitimized by all states. Opposition to Apartheid in South Africa was recognized as a legitimate reason to be granted CO status and exemption from military service in South Africa. Political opposition to wars of aggression must also be accepted reasons to grant individuals CO status.
There needs to be CO curriculum taught in high schools, if not also from kindergarten up. There is a need to have the definition of a conscientious objector communicated clearly to soldiers upon their enlistment. And there needs to be an ongoing educational campaign directed toward military officers that it is normal for individuals to evolve and develop and change their beliefs and that they have the right to change their beliefs without fear of penalty, retribution, or retaliation for doing so.
U.S. Iraq war resister Andre shepherd is still in Germany appealing the denial of his asylum application by the German Federal Office. Andre has been very vocal with his opposition to the illegal war policies of the United States.
Attorney James Branum, who has represented many, many conscientious objectors and war resisters has pointed out the fact that resisters, including deserters, who have spoken publicly of their opposition to the illegal U.S. wars of aggression have received longer prison sentences than those who have been silent, many of whom have been discharged without prison time. Many U.S. COs and War Resisters are still in Canada and facing the fear of being deported if they are not granted political asylum by the Canadian government.
There must be nondiscrimination between those who have performed military service and conscientious objectors. Benefits granted by the U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs, such as healthcare for veterans, housing and education loans, etc., should be granted to conscientious objectors whether or not they have served in the military or performed noncombat service or alternative civilian service if a military draft should return.
Today, there are C0s in hiding, in open sanctuary, and in prison. Tomorrow COs must be honored and celebrated. In Berkeley, we have passed resolutions extending our sanctuary city status for COs to draft registration resisters, draft resisters, if a military draft should be reinstituted, and to military resisters who might be classified as AWOL or as deserters, even if they are not traditional COs, but are only opposed to the illegal and immoral Bush/Cheney/Obama wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, etc. In 2010, the city council passed a resolution entitled, "Universal and Unconditional Amnesty for Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan War Military Resisters and Veterans Who Acted in Opposition to the War for Matters of Conscience." These are the possibilities for more of tomorrow's conscientious objectors and war resisters.


This statistic displays the health expenditure per capita in Canada paid by provincial/territorial governments in 2018. During this year, health expenditures in Quebec were expected to be around 4,343 Canadian dollars per person. Per capita health expenditures tend to differ among provinces partially due to differences in age distribution.
* Forecast for actual provincial/territorial government health expenditures.


The Hikvision DS-7608NI-K2 is a new generation IP recorder. Dedicated to monitoring at home and small businesses, successfully replacing the PC computer. Supports many leading network camera manufacturers including Axis, Samsung, Vivotek, ACTi and supports ONVIF. The Hikvision DS-7608NI-K2 is intuitive and allows you to quickly search for your favorite recordings. Hikvision DS-7608NI-K2 is a complete solution for recording and playback of recordings from IP cameras.


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Colette F. Keen In January 2014 The Death of Kings, with the support of Positive Life NSW,... (2 plays)
Daniel Keene Daniel has won six Premier's Literary Awards and the Sydney Myer... (69 plays)
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Bruce Keller Bruce Keller was best known for his 1985 children's play PUPPY LOVE... (2 plays)
Jenny Kemp Jenny Kemp is Writer and Artistic Director of Black Sequin Productions.... (6 plays)
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Do you find this photo creepy?
I think it's more creepy that you support 6ix9ine and Nicki Minaj.
It was just sad how much he fucked up his face from plastic surgery. It was literally falling apart.


The consulting enologist for both D. Berna and O Barreiro is José Luís Murcía, who has more than 20 years experience making Godello in Valdeorras and consults to eight other wineries, including the stellar Casal Novo, and somehow manages to capture the essence of their grapes and vineyard sites and transmits that in the bottle like few others.
Photo by Harold Heckle©2009, Associated Press, Madrid.
"The 2010 godello, a white from the small-production Bodegas D. Berna, in Valdeorras, was splendid. Pointillistic, lithe, long, delivering visceral and cerebral pleasures, it was reminiscent of white peaches. The property, Dawes wrote, is advised by "a great local, enologist, José Luís Murcía, who may know more about godello than anyone in Galicia." Murcía, he went on, "advises nine wineries" but "does not mark the wines with a one-fits-all winemaking stamp." - - Howard G. Goldberg, who writes for The New York Times, Decanter and other publications.
Berna Guitián and Elena Blanco, Adegas D. Berna, Valdeorras.
This is the first vintage of this wine by the young couple, Berna Guitián and Elena Blanco, to reach the U.S. market. The consulting enologist is the great José Luís Murcia, who probably knows more about Godello than anyone in Valdeorras.
Brilliant white gold. Intriguing nose of white peach and racy minerals. A gorgeous mouthful of silky sweet white peach fruit with a long mineral finish laced with attractive hints of peach pit and almond. No oak. Excellent value.
and transmit that in the bottle like few others. Photo: Gerry Dawes©2011 / gerrydawes@aol.com.
A lovely easy-drinking Mencía with smooth pomegranate fruit-laced with minerals.
Reminiscent in style of a village Burgundy, but somewhat more akin in taste to a good Loire valley Bourgueil.
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In Redmond, Washington the managerial class of Microsoft grouped up at the company's central station. The big time of the year has just arrived.
The Microsoft Windows 10 was introduced with its extra ordinary features and unimaginable apps and attributes. With its trendy and new start screen, more powerful browser, featuring astounding tools for PC and Xbox users, holographic and Hololens technology it's just too amazing to be operated.
As always, Microsoft is again hitting the floor with its unimaginable new features and innovative ideas. Scrutinizing its key features lets finish off with the agog. The Microsoft windows 10!
Free Windows 10 upgrade for the users of windows 7 and windows 8.1. More adventurous task bar and the option to maximize the start menu to full screen is something windows users are waiting for.
With the notification bars on the both sides, allowing you to attain a quick access to your frequently used apps is another upgraded feature of windows 10.
Cortana, an intelligent personal assistant is now accessible on PC through Windows 10. Notification will be appeared on the lower left corner to click in conveniently whenever you need its service and support. New accents and languages learned by Cortana made it more useful for you to operate it with different expressions and articulation.
Microsoft has demonstrated Cortana to update you at a glance with weather fore casts, interrogation about locations, flight monument queries and many easy to go things like that. It is now more easy to give her commands to play music or open up any file or app of your choice edict emails for you.
Spartan actually is the code name used by Microsoft for its amazing new web browser. It strive to provide its users with distortion free web browsing and can be operated on PC or on mobile devices and is equally helpful for both.To intensify its usage and performance Microsoft has designed it to provide you with undisturbed and flawless service .
It allow you to save the final work u were performing and share it through OneNote. As in Google, you don't have to open the whole search box to search for it or to make any query in this regards instead you just have to enter the URL directly to the URL bar and get the results in no time.
Gaming wasn't that groovy and pleasurable as it is now on Windows 10 supporting Xbox Apps. It is more fun to talk through chat and voice conversations to the players you are competing online. You can record, save , share the live clips and you can also edit them before posting or sharing it.


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package service;

import com.stumbleupon.async.Callback;
import com.stumbleupon.async.Deferred;
import net.opentsdb.core.TSDB;
import net.opentsdb.core.Tags;
import net.opentsdb.core.WritableDataPoints;
import net.opentsdb.utils.Config;
import org.hbase.async.HBaseRpc;
import org.hbase.async.PleaseThrottleException;
import org.hbase.async.PutRequest;
import util.ExceptionUtil;
import util.StringUtil;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.HashMap;

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 * Emre Baykal
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public class Service {

    private static volatile boolean throttle = false;
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    private String wordSplitter = " ";

    /**
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    Service(String tsdbConfigPath, String wordSplitter) {
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            Config config = new Config(tsdbConfigPath);
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                this.wordSplitter = wordSplitter;
            }
        } catch (IOException e) {
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            String[] words = new String[w.length];
            words[0] = StringUtil.append("a.b.", w[0]);
            words[1] = w[3].substring(0, 10);
            String[] temp = w[1].split("\\.");
            words[2] = StringUtil.append(temp[0], ".", temp[1]);
            words[3] = StringUtil.append("c=", w[2]);

            final class Errback implements Callback<Object, Exception> {
                public Object call(final Exception arg) {
                    if (arg instanceof PleaseThrottleException) {
                        final PleaseThrottleException e = (PleaseThrottleException) arg;
                        throttle = true;
                        final HBaseRpc rpc = e.getFailedRpc();
                        if (rpc instanceof PutRequest) {
                            tsdb.getClient().put((PutRequest) rpc);
                        }
                        return null;
                    }
                    System.exit(2);
                    return arg;
                }

                public String toString() {
                    return "importFile errback";
                }
            }

            final Errback errback = new Errback();

            final HashMap<String, String> tags = new HashMap<>();
            for (int i = 3; i < words.length; i++) {
                if (!words[i].isEmpty()) {
                    Tags.parse(tags, words[i]);
                }
            }

            long timestamp = Tags.parseLong(words[1]);
            final String key = words[0] + tags;

            HashMap<String, WritableDataPoints> datapoints = new HashMap<>();
            WritableDataPoints points = datapoints.get(key);

            if (points == null) {
                points = tsdb.newDataPoints();
                points.setSeries(words[0], tags);
                points.setBatchImport(true);
                datapoints.put(key, points);
            }

            Deferred<Object> d;
            if (Tags.looksLikeInteger(words[2])) {
                d = points.addPoint(timestamp, Tags.parseLong(words[2]));
            } else {
                d = points.addPoint(timestamp, Float.parseFloat(words[2]));
            }

            d.addErrback(errback);

            if (throttle) {
                System.out.println("Throttling...");
                long throttle_time = System.nanoTime();
                try {
                    d.joinUninterruptibly();
                } catch (final Exception e) {
                    throw new RuntimeException("Should never happen", e);
                }
                throttle_time = System.nanoTime() - throttle_time;
                if (throttle_time < 1000000000L) {
                    System.out.println("Got throttled for only " + throttle_time +
                            "ns, sleeping a bit now");
                    try {
                        Thread.sleep(1000);
                    } catch (InterruptedException e) {
                        throw new RuntimeException("interrupted", e);
                    }
                }
                System.out.println("Done throttling...");
                throttle = false;
            }

            System.out.println("Message is saved");
        } catch (Exception e) {
            System.out.println(StringUtil.append("Exception while working on message: ", value));
            ExceptionUtil.getStackTraceString(e, "parseAndSaveMassage");
        }
    }
}


Sophia has spent a lot of time with family. See her at Easter, at the Roy family reunion, hanging out with her cousins and Grandparents. There's also photos of her at the courthouse to become a citizen and some family portraits with Mom and Dad.


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MAR 11, 2020 3:00 PM PDT
PANEL: Anatomical Characterization of Neuron Cell Types in the Mouse Brain
WATCH WEBINARS
Giorgio Ascoli, PhD
University Professor, Bioengineering Department, Volgenau School of Engineering, Neuroscience Program, Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study, Founding Editor-in-Chief, Neuroinformatics
Dr. Giorgio A. Ascoli received a Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Neuroscience from the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa, Italy, and continued his research at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD, to investigate protein structure and binding in the nervous system. He moved to the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study at George Mason University in 1997, where he is University Professor in the Bioengineering Department and Neuroscience Program. He is also founder and Director of the Center for Neural Informatics, Structures, & Plasticity, a transdisciplinary research group that includes biologists, physicists, psychologists, computer scientists, mathematicians, engineers, and physicians. Dr. Ascoli is founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal Neuroinformatics and an editorial board member of several other international journals. He serves on the advisory board of numerous scientific organizations and is Past President of the Potomac Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience. Dr. Ascoli contributed to the establishment of the fields of computational neuroanatomy and neuroinformatics. His own laboratory investigates the relationship between brain structure, activity, and function from the cellular to the circuit level. In the long term, Dr. Ascoli seeks to create large-scale, anatomically plausible neural networks to model entire portions of a mammalian brain, such as the hippocampus. Dr. Ascoli's interests also involve human memory and consciousness.
Hong-Wei Dong, MD, PhD
Professor of Neurology, Physiology & Neuroscience, Director, Center for Integrative Connectomics, USC Mark and Marry Stevens Neuroimaging & Informatics Institute, Keck School of Medicine, USC
Dr. Hong-Wei Dong M.D., Ph.D., graduated from medical school in China then received both doctoral and postdoctoral training as a neuroanatomist in Larry Swanson's laboratory at the University of Southern California (USC). He was a founding scientist of the Allen Institute for Brain Sciences in 2004, where he made seminal contributions to the brain-wide gene expression mapping project-the Allen Brain Atlas project (ABA). Dr. Dong constructed the flagship Allen Reference Atlas (Dong, Wiley, 2008)-a standard mouse brain atlas that was used as the backbone of the ABA informatics and gene mapping project. Dr. Dong joined UCLA as Assistant Professor in 2006 and established The Mouse Connectome Project (MCP, www.MouseConnectome.org), a pioneering large-scale brain mapping project with the aim of creating a three-dimensional, Google Earth-like, digital Connectome atlas of the C57BL/6J mouse brain. To date, the MCP is an essential open resource for the broader neuroscientific community accessed by investigators worldwide. In 2013, Dr. Dong transitioned to USC and currently is Professor of Neurology, Physiology & Neuroscience as the founder and Director of the USC Center for Integrative Connectomics (CIC, http://cic.ini.usc.edu/) - comprised of neuroanatomists, computer scientists, and web programmers with cross-functional skillsets to facilitate the CIC's unique, interdisciplinary approach to computational neuroanatomy. He serves as an ad hoc reviewer for many neuroscience journals, including Cell, Nature Neuroscience, Nature Methods, Nature Communications, Neuron, Journal of Comparative Neurology, etc. He currently leads and participates in multiple NIH-funded projects within the BRAIN Initiative Cell Census Network (BICCN), focused on anatomical characterization of neuronal cell types of the complete mouse brain. Dr. Dong intends to construct the whole brain wiring diagram in order to understand structural and functional organizational principles of the mammalian brain.
Byungkook Lim, PhD
Assistant Professor, Division of Biological Sciences, Neurobiology, University of California, San Diego
Dr. Lim received a Ph.D. in Neurobiology from University of California, Berkeley, and continued to pursue his research in Stanford University to investigate the neural circuity mechanisms underlying mental disorders. Then, he move to University of California, San Diego as a professor of the Division of Biological Sciences in 2013. He is a recipient of several prestigious awards including NIMH Biobehavioral Research Awards for Innovative New Scientists (BRAINS), Searle Scholar Fellowship, Kingenstein-Simons Fellowship, BBRF Daniel X Freedman Award for Exceptional Basic Research, and so on. He serves as an ad hoc reviewer for scientific journals including Cell, Nature, Nature Neuroscience, Neuron and so on, as well as NIH study sections. His laboratory focuses to understand the neural circuit-mechanisms underlying neuropsychiatric diseases including drug addiction, feeding disorder, depressive disorder, social impairment and movement disorder. To address the anatomical and functional properties of neural circuitry involved in these mental disorders, his laboratory applies and develops a variety of molecular strategies together with electrophysiological approaches. Furthermore, his lab has been a leading group in applying cell-type specific or input-specific optogenetic manipulation in vitro and in vivo in pharmacological animal models of human disease.
Identifying the diversity of neuronal cell types of the nervous system is one of the main objectives of the BRAIN Initiative, with the vision that distinct neuronal identities will allow for their selective manipulation and reveal their functional contributions in health and disease. However, identifying all the cell types of the mammalian brain is not a trivial undertaking and is hindered by the fact that a satisfactory definition of neuronal cell type is nonexistent, with terms like "class", "subclass", "type", and "subtype" often used interchangeably without proper definition. As part of the BICCN (BRAIN Initiative Cell Census Network), we have developed a practical, robust, and multi-pronged workflow to systematically classify projection neuron types based on their precise anatomical location, long-range connectivity, input/output organization, and detailed neuronal morphology. These connectivity-based neuronal classification strategies can be integrated or validated with other cell type specific information, such as molecular identities (mRNA expression, epigenomics, or genetic labeling), electrophysiological properties, and functional specificities. In this panel presentation, Dr. Hong-Wei Dong will present our recent progress of constructing a whole mouse brain wiring diagram, which lays an anatomical frame for characterizing neuronal cell types. Dr. Giorgio Ascoli will present our progress of developing informatics tools to reconstruct, analyze, and present cell type-specific morphology and a novel shotgun projectome strategy. Dr. Byungkook Lim will present our effort of developing cutting edge tracing technologies to dissect cell type- and projection- specific neural circuits.
1. Constructing a whole-brain wiring diagram
2. Anatomical characterization of neuron cell types based on anatomical locations, projection targets, and neuronal morphology
3. Genetically dissect cell type-specific neural circuits
Jocelyne Bloch
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Company: University Hospital of Lausanne
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Job Title: Director of Flow & Image Cytometry
Company: IASO
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Job Title: Junior Research Fellow
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Nancy Mirto
Job Title: Neuroscience
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Job Title: Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Company: Columbia University
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sexual assault June 28, 2016
Emma Sulkowicz Received NOW's 2016 'Woman of Courage' Award
By Gabriella Paiella
Emma Sulcowicz Photo: Andrew Burton/Getty Images
Emma Sulkowicz, the former Columbia student who became known as "mattress girl," was recently awarded the 2016 Woman of Courage Award by the National Organization for Women.
Sulkowicz gained international fame for her senior thesis, Mattress Performance (Carry That Weight), in which she carried her 50-pound dorm-room mattress from September 2014 through May 2015 to protest the verdict that found her accused rapist not guilty. When she posted a photo of herself with the award to her Instagram, she also used it as an opportunity to include part of her speech, which called out cultural critic Camille Paglia. Paglia had harsh words to say about Sulkowicz's project — including calling it "a parody of the worst aspects of that kind of grievance-oriented feminism" — in a 2015 interview with Salon. Sulkowicz wrote:
Camille Paglia has publicly called my artwork a "masochistic exercise" in which I neither "evolve" nor "move-on." She speaks as if she, a white woman, knew what was best for me, a woman of color she's never met. Many people ask me how I've "healed" from my assault, as if healing were another word for "forgetting about it," "getting over it," or even "shutting up about it." To expect me to move on is to equate courage with self-censorship. The phrases—suck it up, move on, and get over it—are violence.
@oliviasulko caught me looking derpy with the Woman of Courage Award. From my speech today: Camille Paglia has publicly called my artwork a "masochistic exercise" in which I neither "evolve" nor "move-on." She speaks as if she, a white woman, knew what was best for me, a woman of color she's never met. Many people ask me how I've "healed" from my assault, as if healing were another word for "forgetting about it," "getting over it," or even "shutting up about it." To expect me to move on is to equate courage with self-censorship. The phrases--suck it up, move on, and get over it--are violence. People who say these phrases equate what is right with what is expected. I think courage means, "Afraid in a way that makes you do what is right, even if it's unexpected." I dedicate this award to everyone who has not told me to get over it. Thank you for validating my fear and my way of handling it. Thank you for creating a world in which we can tackle the things that terrify us by doing the unexpected right thing. Thank you #nationalorganizationforwomen
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She went on to dedicate the award to "everyone who has not told me to get over it."
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Emma Sulkowicz Receives 'Woman of Courage' Award


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MacArthur Awards for Creative & Effective Institutions
The Stimson Center
Washington, District of Columbia | 2013 Award Recipient
Applying analysis and outreach to address global security challenges
Threats to international security – from nuclear weapons to climate change – must be addressed with deep analysis, smart policies, and effective coordination. Despite the urgency of these threats, the political will and action needed to address these issues is often lacking.
The Stimson Center drives pragmatic solutions to build international peace and security through a unique combination of analysis and outreach. By engaging policymakers, policy implementers, and civil society groups, the Stimson Center creates and advocates solutions that are cross-partisan, actionable, and effective.
To address the challenge of climate change, Stimson links the environment and security in new ways that are both conceptual and practical. In the Mekong River Basin, Stimson helps environmental groups bring their concerns to national and regional policymakers and helps sensitize those leaders to see the stewardship of transboundary water systems as part of their national security. In South Asia and the Middle East, Stimson promotes greater attention to environmental risks where the security agenda is already fraught. It helps scientists and scholars develop more effective ways to engage in national debates and shape policy choices that can prevent conflict, as well as address the natural resource sustainability challenge.
To enhance nuclear security, Stimson focuses on preventing non-state actors from acquiring nuclear materials. The organization facilitates interaction and learning on the dangers of nuclear war among a younger generation of Indian and Pakistani scholars and practitioners. Stimson also helps developing countries comply with their UN obligations regarding weapons of mass destruction. In a particularly innovative project, Stimson is bringing together representatives from across supply chain sectors to promote industry solutions to the threat of nuclear proliferation.
The Stimson Center will use its $1 million MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions to help build a reserve fund and provide seed funding to start new areas of work.
Grantee Profile: Learn more about The Stimson Center
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A rude awakening by geese screaming at my door was not the way I envisioned starting my day. With temperatures near freezing, the 6.00 AM milking session seemed a daunting first task in my 12-hour internship as a family farmer in Santa Catarina, Brazil.
« Ne perdez pas votre temps avec des programmes locaux d'amélioration génétique si quelqu'un peut améliorer les semences pour vous. Nous sommes un petit pays, et n'avons pas les moyens de réinventer la roue ». C'était un conseil pragmatique d'un agronome bhoutanais en visite en Bolivie il y a quelques années. Sa déclaration pourrait s'avérer véridique principalement dans les pays aux réserves financières limitées. Cependant, je crois fermement que la mise en œuvre d'innovations agricoles exigent un rapprochement du global au local dans le cadre d'un partenariat mutuel, avec de fortes capacités mises en place sur le terrain. En voici un exemple.
"Don't waste your time in local breeding programs if someone else can improve the seed for you. We are a small country and cannot afford to reinvent the wheel". This was the pragmatic advice of a Bhutanese agro-scientist visiting Bolivia a few years ago. His statement might be true, especially in resource-limited countries. However, I strongly believe that implementing agricultural innovations requires bridging the global with the local in a two-way partnership, with strong capabilities in the field. Here's a good example.
'Oh you're going to Lima? I've heard the food is supposed to be amazing'. So goes the typical comment I get from friends and family when I would mention my work related travel plans. And in this sense the city does indeed live up to what is now internationally recognized. In my short amount of time in Lima I discovered it has a gorgeous historic downtown area, a stunning coastline peppered with manicured parks in the upscale parts of town, and a largely flat topography coupled with a near complete lack of rain.
Although 9000 miles apart, the states of Himachal Pradesh (India) and Quintana Roo (Mexico) have one thing in common: a vision and mission of promoting an economic growth that reaches as many people as possible while respecting the environment and the natural resources. This is what we call inclusive green growth.
Both the states are endowed with nature's bounty and its curse: rich in biodiversity and the ecosystem services that it provides but highly vulnerable to the climate change and natural disasters and environmental degradation that development impacts bring.
Environmental sustainability and climate change resilience are thus a top priority, and it is no surprise that both the states are leaders and frontrunners in formulating green growth and development strategies in their respective countries.
It was therefore very apt for a delegation of senior officials from the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh to visit Quintana Roo to exchange ideas, share knowledge and best practices with their counterparts.
As porteñas as tango, yellow bicycles from the Buenos Aires' bike-sharing system have undoubtedly become a part of the urban landmark. In a city dominated by buses and taxis, bicycles have recently made a comeback and are slowly reclaiming the road through the bike sharing system –or bicing as we all call it. Known as Ecobici, this system has celebrated the millionth trip last December and is here to stay.
What makes Ecobici different from other bike sharing systems around the world? We think it's about two simple answers: it is operated manually and doesn't cost an Argentinian peso.
Tiny homes made of non-reinforced concrete blocks, without columns in the corners or ties where the walls and roof and the walls and foundation meet. These are dwellings that can collapse like a deck of cards in the event of an earthquake. Photo: World Bank.
I have lived in Panama City for nearly two years and there are two things that still capture my attention: the traffic that gets worse by the day due to the more than 36,000 new vehicles on the road every year and the pace of construction.
The number of new buildings popping up in the city daily is amazing.
Huge, luxurious, expensive buildings in fashionable areas, but also housing projects promoted by the national government and a large supply of houses for the Panamanian middle class responsible for the private sector.