Welcome back mate! Good luck for the contest!
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I dunno, i don't have a lot of time these days..
Long time.. missed some contests..
Damn.. I wasn't on for a looong time.. Sorry fanup!!!
oh in that case... anyway do you play LoL?
What do u mean with play? I still play games ye!
i mean if you are playing League of Legends.
Dayuumm. When do you become guardian, noob?! :3 hehe.
Happy BDayyy! Enjoy your day! Doing anythin special?
^^ try this saturday between 10 and 12 pm (fanup hour) I think u will get 80% to find him online and Gl !
You've made some pretty good guides already. Really that is how you get, if your seen to be creating great guides with good presentation, good quality, spelling & grammar e.t.c. You can get it. Maybe you can speak to Splooshi privately about it. As it seems people posting that they want it on his profile - has been regarded as "begging" by some.
I agree... I'm sure with summer approaching it will become even more active.
exerath Kör pow lek kann sich über mehrere Aufträge für mich, das Angebot zu öffnen?
Lol also u speak french too or only flamant?
IDK but I remember you gave me a tip.
That would be nice, but if it is possible? Maybe this will come soon, because there are too much spammers.
are u a guardian or moderator joinron?
You still owe me 200 gcoin bro!
I won't rage, just mad because that kick was bullcrap. It had no legit reasons.
Yea.. it's limited edition. lols..
Are you playing all theese games?
u need help in how to reformat?
Hmm ik ben bezig, maar kan ik ook content van andere guides vanmij gebruiken?
Hey FanUp the best ! Congratulations on your site!
Hey joinron, You can not make more accounts while you payed once, you bought one copy, see it as a CD-key. You can only use it once.
i just want to ask how to get the 100th visit badge??
Nope it's 100 logging into FanUp, not visiting.
Advance FanUp Ultimate Guide™ has now been updated with new FanUp Auction Info! Check it out now! Note: Apologies on small text, I'm unable to edit this atm.
I don't play AVA sorry!
I would like to ask if you have a Facebook account? Maybe you would like to add me?
Okay, I'll try find you!
Okay, I'll try find you too!
It is the currency you gain from guides and screenshots etc. Maybe you can read advances guide?
A lot of users definitely does.
If that system really exists, it would be a really different Fanup!
oh, isee even you like trance.
No. Just my retarded dad, he won't let me play (my mom says that I can on the weekend evenings)... but that guy freaked out after I got a 3.4 and 5 for the test week... He didn't even look at my AWEZUM grades (I got a 10!!).
Well, I couldn't make comments red.
True :D But a lot of users spam. Have a try and you may win a third!
Wie is die nieuwe gast in onze clan? Hij is wel goed :p maar is hij actief?
Ehi mate! Sometimes check your email address as Norm give you some special tasks, exclusive for the efangelists, that give you 500 FANBUCKS when completed!
But I don't get whats the task for assignment #2, mind give a hand?
DUDE HIGHEST EVER 1400 FAN COINS vohoooo!!!!!!!!
Should i make some more guides to get 3th place? Or am I save?
Ye i saw xD I skipped only infection. Because i think it is something different..
It is my fault. XD And i will not do that.. But glitches are allowed?
Yes, but only glitchs that allow to earn virtual currencies and goods for free (for example a glitch that allow to earn free GCoins: this damage and undermine ijji).
Will there ever be a fanup app xp?
Thx for that.. And i have a last question, than i will stop ruining your time xp. Should i get a top 3 place with my fancoins now?
I hope for the best..
i know! but i think about a chat window in the home page. so that everyone join fanup will see the chat!
Lol. GJ on almost winning, make another guide to make sure you'll win!
Hey clanleader, I still get 200 gcoin from you! You're in debts with me :p You originally said 240.. soo... GIMME GIMME GIMMEH!!
You defenitly are the smaller version.
grtz mate, on first coz im gonna go out,n wouldnt be able to participate in the wekly!!
you are just a bit crazy .__.
it's a bug. Sometimes it show the 10K badge and sometimes the 1K badge. The admins know that and are trying to fix.
Hey man! congratz on the weekly! I really appreciate your work! you should participate this week to!
Mate only 2 guides and 3rd I wonder what if u really participated btw do u play soldier front?
Ye i know xD kinda weird.. No I don't play that. I tried but it feels so old and stiff..
50 fanbucks each post. 10 efanges give you 500 fanbucks extra..
Nah, i am not participating.. I just make them for fun. Ok I will read yours soon.
I am a guardian. HUEHUEHUEU!
Hola, no te olvides de ayudar a la comunidad participando en todos los eventos, participa en efangelist aqui podras ganar muchos fanbucks, has click para saber las reglas y como participar en este maravilloso evento.
Who is a active fan?
Hi Ron y follow you!
Jammer Emiel, volgende keer wat meer guides posten, dan kan je misschien de weekly leaderboard winnen!
Dont spam the same question over and over. Wait till someone answers your question. What you just did there would of gotten you banned. There is a specific page where you can post question such as the one you posted on the different game sections. You can ask one of the Guardians to help you out also :http://fanup.com/guardian-moderators or over at fanup.com/game/fanup-community-questions Dont ever spam like that again.
Oh. This is bad. Red = Bad. Emiel probeer je ff in te houden, je spamt een beetje veel! xD Rales don't worrt he won't do it again :D it wasn't his meaning to spam!
en btw, ik zie dat je tijd hebt voor guides, is je examending al klaar ofzo? MOET DIE 200 GCOIN HEBBEN!
Can somebody explain me the benefits of making guides?
Bwhahaha! Nice vogel :D Gaat het lekker op FanUp? Doe eFangelist ook op alternatieve sites zoals FB of Youtube :D eFangelist = baas en cool!


Mike O'Shea FRGS (born 2 December 1969) is an Irish adventurer and safety consultant.
O'Shea's climbing career began at the age of 13 when he started climbing in the MacGillycuddy's Reeks near his home-place in County Kerry, Ireland. His adventurous spirit led him to be one of the first people in Ireland to gain the Gold Gaisce – The President's Award. From here he went on to climb extensively in the European Alps and internationally. He then went on to volunteer in Kerry Mountain Rescue for 10 years.
In 1991 O'Shea was part of an Irish Team who attempted the southwest ridge of Ama Dablam, one of whom ( Mick Murphy ) summited.
O'Shea has also climbed Mount Cook in New Zealand, spent 6 summers climbing in the Alps and climbed extensively in Papua.
In 2012, O'Shea began a series of expeditions called The Ice Project aiming to cross all of the worlds major ice caps with fellow adventurer Clare O'Leary.
O'Shea and O'Leary made an unsuccessful attempt to be the first Irish Team to walk to the North Pole in early 2012 . Logistics difficulties have been stated as the reason for the team aborting their attempt.
In November 2013, the pair completed a 19-day crossing of the Northern Patagonian Ice Field, becoming the first Irish team to do so. In March 2013, O'Shea and O'Leary walked the length of frozen Lake Baikal in Siberia – a 640 km trek, spending over 26 days on the ice.
In 2014, the team of O'Shea and O'Leary attempted to walk to the North Pole on an expedition dubbed the LifeProof Ice Project: this time the attempt was thwarted by injury to both adventurers.
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Newfoundland & Labrador Access & Privacy Worksops 2011 (NL A&P 2011)
Venue: Holiday Inn St. John's Government Centre Hotel
Location: ST. JOHNS, Newfoundland, Canada
Society > Government
Event Date/Time: May 16, 2011 End Date/Time: May 17, 2011
Registration Date: May 15, 2011
Early Registration Date: Apr 15, 2011
Newfoundland & Labrador's Offices of the ATIPP Coordinator and Information & Privacy Commissioner, as well as Memorial University's Information Access and Privacy Protection Office are proud to present the 6th Annual Newfoundland & Labrador Access & Privacy Workshop.
This year's theme is Managing the Future of Access & Privacy. We look to the community to continue building on the foundation its established with this one of a kind event; bridging the gap between Access & Privacy Professionals, and those new to the field
Maintaining the momentum generated by last year's revamped format, the NL A&P Workshop will offer, once again, a day and a half of plenary and breakout sessions, with optional workshops available to the eager learners, on the afternoon of May 17th, 2011.
This means that we are happy to offer you over 20 interactive sessions this year! Prepared by industry veterans along with real life case studies, attendees will be able to take away practical knowledge and real inspiration to give life to managing information access and privacy protection in their own organizations. Specifically this conference allows delegates to:
-Discuss, identify, and address the many challenges faced by managers of information in public and private sector institutions
-Learn from the wide range of expertise available to the public and private sectors, both internal and external to the ATIPP community
-Continue to examine and explore NL's PHIA Legislation
Hear from multiple jurisdictions, including those from the Province, the Federal Government and the municipalities of NL
Network with and build the Access and Privacy Community in Newfoundland & Labrador
Join your colleagues today and open doors to new and exciting ideas in the world of Access and Privacy!
We look forward to seeing you in St. John's on May 16th, 2011!
Name: Holiday Inn St. John's Government Centre Hotel
Address	: 180 PORTUGAL COVE RD
City: ST. JOHNS
State	: Newfoundland
It is our greatest pleasure to present you the 2011 NL Access and Privacy Workshop agenda and keynote speaker: So You Think Your Data is Private: A Hacker's View of Privacy and Security Threats: Brad 'RenderMan' Haines is one of the more visible and vocal members of the wardriving community, appearing in various media outlets and speaking at conferences several times a year and providing a 'min-blowing' experience. RenderMan is usually nearby on any wardriving and wireless security news, often causing it himself. His skills have been learned in the trenches working for various IT companies as well as his involvement through the years with the hacking community. He is also the author of several security books, most recently '7 Deadliest wireless technologies attacks' from Syngress. The 2011 sessions include many exciting topics such as (but not limited to): * OIPC Survey Results (incl. ATIPPA 101) * Personal Health Information Act * Severing * Commissioner's Office 101 * Baby Steps: Building a program to support secondary uses of personal health information * And much more! Optional Workshops (afternoon of Day 2) * Functional Classification: Let's Cut to the Chase * Do it Fast. Do it Right. The Art of Severing. For the full agenda of this "must-see" event, please visit http://www.verney.ca/nl2011/agenda.php

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Our students are constantly earning top awards in the arts and other practices. Below, we have posted a few of those for which we have received a formal submission concerning awards and other news. Enjoy.
Congratulations Anna! And Thanks for Rocking our World!
Here's a wonderful example of what happens when we tap the hidden opportunities for creative life that hide inside our constraints. That is art.
This video animation was recently created by AAHP alumna Anna Boffice, one of our first students when the AAHP was still the Creative Genius Workshop, on my kitchen table, here in Highland Park. Anna was an amazing member of our community throughout her childhood and teens years, in her roles as studio practitioner, volunteer and employee. Her sister, Andrea, and mother Stephanie—our longest running studio practitioner to this day—have also played very large and important roles in building our community of creatives.
The piece is titled Stay-at-Home Commute. Ana presented it as her final project for the class, "Mapping Philadelphia", a graduate-level course in Urban Studies, University of Pennsylvania. Her teacher was Paul Farber.
The project centered on "a close study" of any region of the city of Philadelphia, at any scale. "I decided to use the assignment," said Anna, "to explore a facet of my personal relationship with the city in the time of COVID-19. The pandemic," she added, "eliminated my routine interaction with the larger part of the city through my daily commute to work. I used to travel from one end of the city to the other every day, and now I rarely journey more than a few blocks. My goal was to re-create and re-imagine my commute as I remember it, within the confines of my new stay-at-home "commute", using materials within reach."
Check out Philadelphia Magazine's article on Anna's project https://www.phillymag.com/news/2020/05/16/best-thing-stop-motion-video-commute/
Congratulations Daniel!
AAHP student Daniel L. was selected as one of the runners up in the county-wide 3rd Grade Bookmark Design Contest by Keep Middlesex Moving. Congratulations on your achievement!
Father and Daughter Art Show
Father and daughter, Joyce and Zequian Mo, will have a joint exhibit at the Highland Park Library starting August 3, 2019. The exhibit is called, "Hanging in There: Drawings & Paintings by Joyce Mo, daughter and Poetry & Calligraphy by Z. Mo, Father." To read the full article about their achievement, please click here.
Artwork by Joyce Mo and Zequian Mo. (photo: courtesy of Highland Park Library)
Mayu Burr
and the Art of Linocut Printmaking
We have been enchanted by these hand-made prints by local artist and adult AAHP practitioner Mayu Burr. Mayu, now exploring deeper craft matters in her oil painting practice here at our studios, has been developing delicate printing techniques in her home studio practice. She has been working on fine cardstock made for watercolor postcards, traditional linocut tools, craft knives, linoleum, and ink stamp pads she purchases in Japan.
Mayu makes her own stamps and her own linocuts. For the fish pattern, Mayu created a single stamp, whereas she created various linocuts for the cat and tortoise, so that she could print in various colors.
Mayu's "chop" or signature stamp is itself a tidy lesson in design; she also cleverly used it compositionally as the greenery for one pineapple in one of her very delicate compositions.
Congratulations Diya!
#1 Winner, at the Local, State, and National Level
Diya with her various awards, and a facsimile of her winning poster (rear)
On behalf of the entire AAHP artist community, the Senior Staff at the Academy of Art of Highland Park—Ana, Aaron, and Alina—congratulate Diya N. for being the very top winner at a very important national poster contest.
AAHP student extraordinaire Diya N. age 13, of NJ
Diya is the National Winner of the 2017-2018 school year Multi-State Information Sharing & Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) National Cyber Security Poster Contest. The contest set out to use the graphic arts to raise awareness about cyber-security. Diya's poster, which portrays a mobile phone caught on a fish hook, focuses on the dangers of getting hooked by the scamming methods of "phishing".
Diya won her national award on July 3, 2018.
Diya at her class with us at the AAHP
Diya's poster will be featured in the 2019 MS-ISAC Cyber Security Awareness Calendar and on the New Jersey Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Cell (NJCCIC) website.
Every NJ school participating in the contest was allowed to submit two entries. Diya's school chose her poster as its local winner. Diya then went on to win a the state level, and ran with the winner's title all the way to become the one and only winner a the national level! The competition was fierce and consisted of thousands of entries.
Because as artist, she is a smart problem-solver, innovative thinker, and builder wherever she may find herself. Here at the AAHP, Diya is a strong learner and a top practitioner in her age group. As a generous team player, she also serves through our Volunteers Ixtraordinaires Program (VIP); we also have our sights on her as a 2019 member of our Studio Management and Responsive Teaching Trust (SMaRTT), that is, our training program for Teen Teaching Assistants, also known in our studio as "Coaches". Keep rockin' it, Diya!
Congratulations Alina!!!
Congratulations to Alina Gorbunova, 18, for having graduated high school as part of the Class of 2018. Alina graduated with Honors on June 21, 2018 from the East Brunswick High School.
At the AAHP studio, Alina began as part of the SMaRTT program six years ago and quickly rose through the coach ranks for her teaching skills, dedication to the job, and commitment to her students. Alina is a powerhouse in studio. Just this year, she was one of the very few students ever to be promoted to the AAHP Senior Staff; she is now our very beloved and popular Junior Instructor.
Ana E. Soto-Canino, chief director at the AAHP, was deeply honored to have received Alina's invitation to her graduation ceremony. The artist's life that we all share is more than just standing at next to each other at our easels—it is being part of a strong community of individuals who support each others' remarkable achievements both inside and outside the studio.
The Academy of Art of Highland Park wishes her the best of luck in college; she will study engineering at Rutgers University while remaining part of our community of strong artists.


Shirley Jean Kaake, age 88, of Columbiaville passed away peacefully November 8, 2018 at home with her loving family beside her.
Shirley was born February 15, 1930 in Lapeer, Michigan to the late William and Mildred Dekeizer. She was a past member of the Lapeer Eagles Club, and enjoyed trips to casino, playing bingo, trips to Florida, roller skating, reading, crosswords, but most of all she loved spending time with her family and friends.
Shirley is survived by her children: Russell (Buffy) Kaake, Larry Kaake, Maryjane (Jr) Esch, Rosemarie (Gary) Wilcox, James (Tina) Kaake, Donald (Debbie) Kaake, siblings: MaryAnn Oliver, John Dekeizer, Sharon DeGroat, Helen DeGroat, Bev DeGroat, and many grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and great-great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents, step-father Lewis DeGroat, step-father Lewis McIntyre, siblings: Betty, Warpup, Clark DeGroat, Bud DeGroat, Tom DeGroat, Art DeGroat, and Joanne "Doty" Morey.
Cremation has taken place and a Celebration of Shirley's Life will take place 1:00 PM on Saturday, November 24, 2018 at Jansen Family Funeral Home - Columbiaville, where friends may visit 11:00 AM till time of service. Pastor Larry Kluck officiating.


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Anime 'Belle' Estimated $2M+ Over Four-Day Frame A Record For Director Mamoru Hosoda – Specialty Box Office
American Theatre Wing Establishes COVID-19 Response Effort For Off Broadway & Regional Theater; Obie Awards Go Virtual
By Greg Evans
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The American Theatre Wing has announced the first phase of its National COVID-19 Response Effort, including rapid funding mechanisms to support Off and Off Off Broadway as well as the nation's regional theater community.
"When the arts get lost or diminished in the conversation about federal relief, we rely on the non-profit sector to ensure that a 'full recovery' includes the true pride of our nation: its cultural institutions and the artists that make them shine," said American Theatre Wing President & CEO Heather Hitchens in a statement. "This is just the first step in what will be a long road back, but it's a vital one."
She continued: "Providing relief during dark and difficult times is baked deeply into the Wing's DNA and, just as we have since our founding in the midst of World War I, we will rise to the occasion and serve as a beacon of light and hope."
Cecily Strong Finds Her Path In 'Search For Signs Of Intelligent Life In The Universe': Off Broadway Review
The Theatre Wing, a presenter of the annual Tony Awards, also will begin a new series of online educational offerings "to continue its mission of enriching and empowering students and emerging leaders."
Also announced by the Wing was the postponement of this year's 65th Annual Obie Awards honoring Off and Off Off Broadway, originally scheduled for Monday, May 18. A new date for the awards ceremony was not announced, but the event this year will be online only. In addition to the awards, the virtual ceremony will "shine a light on the loss of the productions that were in rehearsal and performance at the time the theaters closed."
The Tony Awards, presented by the Theatre Wing and the Broadway League, was previously postponed from its scheduled June 7 to a to-be-determined date.
The Wing's relief funding announced today comes in two separate programs: the Theatre Artists Relief Fund for Off Broadway and Off Off Broadway, and the National Rapid Relief Fund for the nation's regional theaters.
The Theatre Artists Relief Fund is a $250,000 pool designed to get $500 grants "directly into the hands of artists." The money is available to eligible theater workers from the more than 90 Off and Off Off Broadway productions that were shut down due to the coronavirus.
The Wing has created an online resource database to assemble a list of theaters, productions, freelance artists, technicians, and theater workers affected by the shutdown. People working on the shuttered productions may each receive $500 in aid by registering via a form on the Wing's website. The Wing urges theater artists unintentionally excluded from the list to apply for aid, but cautions that the limited pool of funds will be paid by check on a first come, first serve basis.
The fund was created by The Wing with input from the Obie Awards' Judges Panel, with financial support by the Edwin Barbey Charitable Trust and the theatrical production company No Guarantees.
For regional theaters, the National Rapid Relief Fund will make available immediate gifts of $1,000 to each of the 82 prior recipients of National Theatre Company Grants. The complete list of eligible regional theaters can be found here.
Regarding the Virtual Master Classes, the Wing offer a new series via Zoom and Facebook Live that will feature an array of theater talent, and the organization's The Network (formerly known as Theatre Intern Network) will move online. More information about these online resources will be available shortly at the Wing's website.
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IMPORTANCE The ability for Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV), the causative agent of Kaposi's sarcoma (KS), to establish and maintain latency has been a major challenge to clearing infection and preventing KS development. This is the first study to demonstrate the feasibility of using a KSHV LANA-targeted CRISPR-Cas9 and adenoviral delivery system to disrupt KSHV latency in infected epithelial and endothelial cell lines. Our system significantly reduced the KSHV episomal burden over time. Given the safety record of adenovirus as vaccine or delivery vectors, this approach to limit KSHV latency may also represent a viable strategy against other tumorigenic viruses and may have potential benefits in developing countries where the viral cancer burden is high.


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package org.apache.flink.runtime.jobmaster.slotpool;

import org.apache.flink.api.common.JobID;
import org.apache.flink.api.common.time.Time;
import org.apache.flink.core.testutils.FlinkMatchers;
import org.apache.flink.runtime.clusterframework.types.AllocationID;
import org.apache.flink.runtime.clusterframework.types.ResourceProfile;
import org.apache.flink.runtime.concurrent.ComponentMainThreadExecutor;
import org.apache.flink.runtime.concurrent.ComponentMainThreadExecutorServiceAdapter;
import org.apache.flink.runtime.jobmanager.scheduler.NoResourceAvailableException;
import org.apache.flink.runtime.jobmaster.JobMasterId;
import org.apache.flink.runtime.jobmaster.RpcTaskManagerGateway;
import org.apache.flink.runtime.jobmaster.SlotRequestId;
import org.apache.flink.runtime.taskexecutor.TestingTaskExecutorGatewayBuilder;
import org.apache.flink.runtime.taskmanager.LocalTaskManagerLocation;
import org.apache.flink.runtime.util.ResourceCounter;
import org.apache.flink.util.TestLogger;
import org.apache.flink.util.clock.SystemClock;
import org.apache.flink.util.concurrent.FutureUtils;

import org.junit.Test;

import javax.annotation.Nonnull;

import java.time.Duration;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture;
import java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException;
import java.util.stream.Collectors;

import static org.hamcrest.CoreMatchers.is;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertThat;
import static org.junit.Assert.fail;

/** Tests for the {@link DeclarativeSlotPoolBridge}. */
public class DeclarativeSlotPoolBridgeTest extends TestLogger {

    private static final Time rpcTimeout = Time.seconds(20);
    private static final JobID jobId = new JobID();
    private static final JobMasterId jobMasterId = JobMasterId.generate();
    private final ComponentMainThreadExecutor mainThreadExecutor =
            ComponentMainThreadExecutorServiceAdapter.forMainThread();

    @Test
    public void testSlotOffer() throws Exception {
        final SlotRequestId slotRequestId = new SlotRequestId();
        final AllocationID expectedAllocationId = new AllocationID();
        final PhysicalSlot allocatedSlot = createAllocatedSlot(expectedAllocationId);

        final TestingDeclarativeSlotPoolFactory declarativeSlotPoolFactory =
                new TestingDeclarativeSlotPoolFactory(TestingDeclarativeSlotPool.builder());
        try (DeclarativeSlotPoolBridge declarativeSlotPoolBridge =
                createDeclarativeSlotPoolBridge(declarativeSlotPoolFactory)) {

            declarativeSlotPoolBridge.start(jobMasterId, "localhost", mainThreadExecutor);

            CompletableFuture<PhysicalSlot> slotAllocationFuture =
                    declarativeSlotPoolBridge.requestNewAllocatedSlot(
                            slotRequestId, ResourceProfile.UNKNOWN, null);

            declarativeSlotPoolBridge.newSlotsAreAvailable(Collections.singleton(allocatedSlot));

            slotAllocationFuture.join();
        }
    }

    @Test
    public void testNotEnoughResourcesAvailableFailsPendingRequests() throws Exception {
        final SlotRequestId slotRequestId = new SlotRequestId();

        final TestingDeclarativeSlotPoolFactory declarativeSlotPoolFactory =
                new TestingDeclarativeSlotPoolFactory(TestingDeclarativeSlotPool.builder());
        try (DeclarativeSlotPoolBridge declarativeSlotPoolBridge =
                createDeclarativeSlotPoolBridge(declarativeSlotPoolFactory)) {

            declarativeSlotPoolBridge.start(jobMasterId, "localhost", mainThreadExecutor);

            CompletableFuture<PhysicalSlot> slotAllocationFuture =
                    CompletableFuture.supplyAsync(
                                    () ->
                                            declarativeSlotPoolBridge.requestNewAllocatedSlot(
                                                    slotRequestId,
                                                    ResourceProfile.UNKNOWN,
                                                    Time.minutes(5)),
                                    mainThreadExecutor)
                            .get();

            mainThreadExecutor.execute(
                    () ->
                            declarativeSlotPoolBridge.notifyNotEnoughResourcesAvailable(
                                    Collections.emptyList()));

            assertThat(
                    slotAllocationFuture,
                    FlinkMatchers.futureWillCompleteExceptionally(
                            NoResourceAvailableException.class, Duration.ofSeconds(10)));
        }
    }

    @Test
    public void testReleasingAllocatedSlot() throws Exception {
        final CompletableFuture<AllocationID> releaseSlotFuture = new CompletableFuture<>();
        final AllocationID expectedAllocationId = new AllocationID();
        final PhysicalSlot allocatedSlot = createAllocatedSlot(expectedAllocationId);

        final TestingDeclarativeSlotPoolBuilder builder =
                TestingDeclarativeSlotPool.builder()
                        .setReserveFreeSlotFunction(
                                (allocationId, resourceProfile) -> {
                                    assertThat(allocationId, is(expectedAllocationId));
                                    return allocatedSlot;
                                })
                        .setFreeReservedSlotFunction(
                                (allocationID, throwable, aLong) -> {
                                    releaseSlotFuture.complete(allocationID);
                                    return ResourceCounter.empty();
                                });

        final TestingDeclarativeSlotPoolFactory declarativeSlotPoolFactory =
                new TestingDeclarativeSlotPoolFactory(builder);
        try (DeclarativeSlotPoolBridge declarativeSlotPoolBridge =
                createDeclarativeSlotPoolBridge(declarativeSlotPoolFactory)) {
            declarativeSlotPoolBridge.start(jobMasterId, "localhost", mainThreadExecutor);

            final SlotRequestId slotRequestId = new SlotRequestId();

            declarativeSlotPoolBridge.allocateAvailableSlot(
                    slotRequestId, expectedAllocationId, allocatedSlot.getResourceProfile());
            declarativeSlotPoolBridge.releaseSlot(slotRequestId, null);

            assertThat(releaseSlotFuture.join(), is(expectedAllocationId));
        }
    }

    @Test
    public void testNoConcurrentModificationWhenSuspendingAndReleasingSlot() throws Exception {
        try (DeclarativeSlotPoolBridge declarativeSlotPoolBridge =
                createDeclarativeSlotPoolBridge(new DefaultDeclarativeSlotPoolFactory())) {

            declarativeSlotPoolBridge.start(jobMasterId, "localhost", mainThreadExecutor);

            final List<SlotRequestId> slotRequestIds =
                    Arrays.asList(new SlotRequestId(), new SlotRequestId());

            final List<CompletableFuture<PhysicalSlot>> slotFutures =
                    slotRequestIds.stream()
                            .map(
                                    slotRequestId -> {
                                        final CompletableFuture<PhysicalSlot> slotFuture =
                                                declarativeSlotPoolBridge.requestNewAllocatedSlot(
                                                        slotRequestId,
                                                        ResourceProfile.UNKNOWN,
                                                        rpcTimeout);
                                        slotFuture.whenComplete(
                                                (physicalSlot, throwable) -> {
                                                    if (throwable != null) {
                                                        declarativeSlotPoolBridge.releaseSlot(
                                                                slotRequestId, throwable);
                                                    }
                                                });
                                        return slotFuture;
                                    })
                            .collect(Collectors.toList());

            declarativeSlotPoolBridge.close();

            try {
                FutureUtils.waitForAll(slotFutures).get();
                fail("The slot futures should be completed exceptionally.");
            } catch (ExecutionException expected) {
                // expected
            }
        }
    }

    @Nonnull
    static DeclarativeSlotPoolBridge createDeclarativeSlotPoolBridge(
            DeclarativeSlotPoolFactory declarativeSlotPoolFactory) {
        return new DeclarativeSlotPoolBridge(
                jobId,
                declarativeSlotPoolFactory,
                SystemClock.getInstance(),
                rpcTimeout,
                Time.seconds(20),
                Time.seconds(20));
    }

    static PhysicalSlot createAllocatedSlot(AllocationID allocationID) {
        return new AllocatedSlot(
                allocationID,
                new LocalTaskManagerLocation(),
                0,
                ResourceProfile.ANY,
                new RpcTaskManagerGateway(
                        new TestingTaskExecutorGatewayBuilder().createTestingTaskExecutorGateway(),
                        JobMasterId.generate()));
    }
}


Engagement in the market changes the opportunities and strategies of forest-related peoples. Efforts to support rural development need to better understand the potential importance of markets and way people respond to them. To this end, we compared 61 case studies of the commercial production and trade of nontimber forest products from Asia, Africa, and Latin America. The results show that product use is shaped by local markets and institutions, resource abundance, and the relative level of development. Larger regional patterns are also important. High-value products tend to be managed intensively by specialized producers and yield substantially higher incomes than those generated by the less specialized producers of less managed, low-value products. We conclude that commercial trade drives a process of intensified production and household specialization among forest peoples.


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An interim unity government received parliamentary approval in Libya on Wednesday. The government's formation formally ended Libya's divide between warring factions in different parts of the country, though divisions remain.
Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah's government was approved by 132 lawmakers. The interim government also includes a three-member Presidential Council headed by diplomat Mohammad Younes Menfi. The government is to remain in power until elections on Dec. 24, The Associated Press reported on Wednesday.
Libya has been in chaos since the 2011 NATO-backed uprising that toppled longtime ruler Moammar Gadhafi. From 2014 to 2020, the country was mired in a civil war. The conflict produced a divided country between the eastern-based Libyan National Army (LNA) led by Gen. Khalifa Hifter and the United Nations-recognized Government of National Accord (GNA) in the west and the capital, Tripoli, which is strongly supported by Turkey. The LNA is in turn backed by neighboring Egypt and the United Arab Emirates.
Both the GNA and the LNA welcomed the new government and have pledged support for the December elections. However, on the ground, Libyan territory and institutions remain under the control of different groups loyal to the two administrations, Reuters reported also on Wednesday.
Dbeibah, a businessman, was designated prime minister in February during UN-backed negotiations and given three weeks to form a government. A cease-fire in October also helped pave the way for reconciliation by ending the fighting.
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public:
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	virtual ~CJogCarriageDlg();

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Volume 2015, Article ID 581463, 9 pages
Optimization of Electrochemical Treatment Process Conditions for Distillery Effluent Using Response Surface Methodology
P. Arulmathi,1 G. Elangovan,2 and A. Farjana Begum3
1Department of Civil Engineering, University College of Engineering (Anna University), Dindigul, Tamil Nadu 624622, India
2Department of Civil Engineering, University College of Engineering (Anna University), Pattukkottai, Tamil Nadu 614701, India
3Tiruchirappalli District Cooperative Milk Producer's Union Ltd., Trichy, Tamil Nadu 620023, India
Received 6 July 2015; Revised 6 September 2015; Accepted 8 September 2015
Academic Editor: Nadjib Drouiche
Copyright © 2015 P. Arulmathi et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Distillery industry is recognized as one of the most polluting industries in India with a large amount of annual effluent production. In this present study, the optimization of electrochemical treatment process variables was reported to treat the color and COD of distillery spent wash using Ti/Pt as an anode in a batch mode. Process variables such as pH, current density, electrolysis time, and electrolyte dose were selected as operation variables and chemical oxygen demand (COD) and color removal efficiency were considered as response variable for optimization using response surface methodology. Indirect electrochemical-oxidation process variables were optimized using Box-Behnken response surface design (BBD). The results showed that electrochemical treatment process effectively removed the COD (89.5%) and color (95.1%) of the distillery industry spent wash under the optimum conditions: pH of 4.12, current density of 25.02 mA/cm2, electrolysis time of 103.27 min, and electrolyte (NaCl) concentration of 1.67 g/L, respectively.
Distilleries are an important industrial sector in India where ethyl alcohol is produced from the cane sugar molasses by fermentation process. At the end of fermentation, broth containing 6–8% alcohol by volume is distilled to recover alcohol. Alcohol is separated by distillation and the residual liquor is discharged as effluent called "spent wash." Distillery spent wash contains high content of organic matter and it is generally dark brown liquid with an unbearable odor. When it is discharged without proper treatment it will lead to change in color and depletion of dissolved oxygen concentration of the receiving water stream [1].
Different treatment techniques are used to treat the distillery spent wash before its disposal on land or water environment. Several physical methods have been employed for the removal of organic matters from the effluent, but they have many disadvantages such as low removal efficiency and being expensive. Of the various techniques for the treatment of distillery spent wash, biomethanation has gained wide acceptability due to methane recovery in the anaerobic step of the treatment. It is reported that biological treatment results in 60–85% of the BOD reduction, but still substantial amount of recalcitrant organic pollutants is left behind in the effluent discharge [2]. Electrochemical treatment method (EC) is an attractive, alternative treatment process and has several advantages over conventional treatment methods such as easy automation, maximum removal efficiency, shorter treatment time, low sludge production, and reasonable operating cost.
In this electrochemical treatment process, electrooxidation methods were widely investigated. Electrooxidation is a process in which the pollutants are destroyed or converted into simpler forms like carbon dioxide and water. This oxidation process can be either direct or indirect oxidation. In the indirect oxidation process, strong oxidants like hypochlorite, chlorine, hydrogen peroxide, and hydroxyl ions are electrochemically generated at the anode [3]. All the oxidants are produced in situ and are utilized immediately. The mechanism of indirect electrochemical oxidation has suggested that water is electrolyzed by anodic catalysis to produce hydroxyl radicals, being shown in Meanwhile, in the presence of chloride ion, another strong oxidant of hypochlorous acid may be produced on the anode during electrolysis and will react with organic matters:where is the anode site and is the color causing organic molecule. These equations indicate that oxidation intermediates are formed which is then degraded, resulting in destruction of the organic pollutant and color treatment. Different types of electrodes for indirect electrochemical oxidation have been investigated by various researchers for the treatment of various industrial wastewaters. An electrochemical-oxidation process is influenced strongly by the nature of the anode material [4]. Titanium coated with boron doped diamond (Ti/BDD) was tested for domestic wastewater. Lead oxide coated on expanded titanium mesh (Ti/PbO2) has been widely used in EC treatment due to its easy preparation, chemical stability, and high potentials for oxygen evolution [4]. Electrochemical-oxidation methods are likely to gain a better public acceptance than the alternative methods for environmental cleanup. Optimization of EC treatment process conditions will pave the way for minimizing the operating cost with maximum treatment efficiency. Statistic-based experimental designs have proved to be more efficient than classical one-at-a-time method, which is tedious and time-consuming, do not screen multivariables, and do not inspect the complex interactions among different factors. Besides, statistical approaches provide a systematic and efficient plan for experimentation to achieve certain goals. These methods will reduce the number of experiments; in addition to that it also considers the interactions of many factors which may affect the removal efficiency during treatment process. Response surface methodology (RSM) is a statistical technique, widely used to optimize the operational variables for experiment designing, modeling, and so forth. There are various advantages in using statistical methodologies, in terms of rapid and reliable selection of process conditions, examining the effective factors, and minimizing the error in determining the effect of parameters [5]. In this study process variables of indirect electrochemical-oxidation process such as pH, current density, electrolysis time, and electrolyte dose were optimized to remove chemical oxygen demand (COD) and color from distillery industry spent wash using Box-Behnken response surface design (BBD).
2.1. Materials
Distillery spent wash was collected from the industry near Theni District, Tamil Nadu, India. The characteristics of distillery spent wash were determined using APHA standard methods [6]. It was shown in Table 1.
Table 1: Characteristics of distillery industry spent wash.
2.2. Experimental Setup
The experimental setup used in this study is shown in Figure 1, which mainly consisted of a beaker of 1200 mL as a reactor to hold a sample of 1000 mL. The electrodes employed were mesh type Ti/Pt (10 mm × 10 mm) anode and Ti (10 mm × 10 mm) as cathode. The desired current density was maintained constant by means of a precision digital direct current power supply (0–30 V, 0-1 A). All experiments were conducted in batch mode of operation and pH of the spent wash was adjusted using 0.1 N HCl or NaOH. In each experimental run, a sample was rigorously stirred to avoid concentration gradients. The electrodes were washed with HCl solution (5% W/V) before each run. Following each run, the electrodes were washed, dried, and used again. At the end of each batch experiment, the sample was transferred and allowed to settle down. After a settling time of 20 min, the supernatant sample was collected to perform the analysis of COD and color.
Figure 1: Experimental setup for electrochemical method.
The efficiency of the EC process was determined in terms of the COD using the following equation: where is the COD removal efficiency (%), is initial COD of the sample, and is final COD of the sample in mg O2/L.
2.3. Experimental Design
In this present study, the experimental design and statistical analysis were performed according to the RSM using Design-Expert software (trial version 7, Stat-Ease). Box-Behnken response surface experimental design (BBD) was used to optimize EC process variables such as pH, current density, electrolysis time, and electrolyte dose on the treatment of distillery industry spent wash using electrochemical method (EC). Single factor experimental analysis was used to select the range of process variables. The factors were examined at three different levels (low, basal, and high) coded (−1, 0, and +1). The actual factor levels and coded values of independent variables used for treatment of spent wash are given in Table 2.
Table 2: Ranges of independent variables and their levels.
Experiments were established based on a BBD which consists of 29 experiments with five centre points. The total number of experiments was calculated as follows:where is number of factors and number of central points is denoted by .
The relationship between the operating variables and the response is described in the following empirical quadratic polynomial equation:where is the response variable, is the constant, is the linear coefficient, is the quadratic coefficient, and is the interaction coefficients; and represent the coded independent variables. is the number of parameters; and is the error. The regression coefficients of linear, quadratic, and interaction were determined by the software, and the significance of all terms was assessed statistically using value at a probability () of 0.001, 0.01, or 0.05. They were further used to make statistical calculations to generate contour maps with the help of the regression model. The contour plots were generated by keeping three variables constant at the center point and varying the other two variables within the experimental range [7].
3. Result and Discussion
BBD design matrix of the independent variables in coded units (experimental design) along with experimental values of response is given in Table 3.
Table 3: Experimental design, observed yields in BBD experiments in terms of percentage removal of COD and color.
The results obtained from BBD experiments were analyzed by multiple regression analysis. Table 4 displays the regression coefficient and the probability () values. A smaller value denotes greater significance of the corresponding coefficient. The effects of four independent variables including pH, electrolysis time (min), current density (mA/cm2), and electrolyte concentration (g/L) on removal efficiency are shown in Table 4.
Table 4: Regression coefficients obtained by the response surface model.
The effects of pH (), electrolysis time (), and electrolyte concentration () on both COD and color removal efficiency were statistically significant (), but the effect of current density on color removal efficiency is not statistically significant. Among the interaction combinations, combinations , , and were found to have significant effect () on COD removal, whereas , , and have significant effect () on color removal in distillery spent wash. In addition, the three quadratic terms , , and have significant effects () on both COD and color removal in spent wash, whereas have significant effect on COD removal alone and there are no effects on color removal. After using the designed experimental data and eliminating some terms, two empirical models were developed by considering only the significant terms (). The final models obtained in terms of coded factors are given inThe regression model was further evaluated using analysis of variance (ANOVA), and the results are shown in Table 5. The low probability value demonstrates that the model is highly significant. The goodness of fit of the model was further checked using the determination coefficient (); the values are . Furthermore, the value of also indicates that the model can explain 95% of the total variation for the COD removal and color removal efficiency to the operating parameters. To visualize the relation between the operating variables and removal efficiency, linear plots and contour maps were generated and presented using Design-Expert (version 7.0) based on the regression model.
Table 5: ANOVA for response.
The graphical representations of the linear effect of the variables were developed using Design-Expert (version 7.0) software. To examine pH effect on the treatment efficiency, pH ranges are varied from 1 to 5 (Figure 2). The results showed that the percentage of COD and color removals are increased with increasing pH up to 4.5. It indicates that acidic condition is more favorable for the treatment of distillery spent wash. In acidic conditions, hypochlorous acid was the major compound in the solution. Therefore higher rate of decolorization and degradation in acidic condition may be due to higher oxidation potential of hypochlorous acid. Above pH 5, the rate of reaction was lowest. This result can be attributed to undesirable side reactions such as oxidation of free chlorine to chlorate and perchlorate, reactions involving loss of hypochlorite.
Figure 2: Effect of pH on COD and color removal.
Electrolysis time is an important parameter for controlling the reaction rate in electrochemical treatment process. The linear effect of electrolysis time on COD and color removal efficiency was studied during electrochemical treatment process by varying the electrolysis time from 60 to 120 min, and the results are shown in Figure 3. From the observation, it is found that the percentage of COD and color removal was increased with increasing of electrolysis time up to 100 min [8].
Figure 3: Effect of electrolysis time on COD and color removal.
The linear effect of current density on COD and color removal efficiency was studied during electrochemical treatment process by varying the current density from 20 to 50 mA/cm−2, being shown in Figure 4. From the results, it is found that COD and color removal increase with increasing of current density. This is attributed to the higher formation of ion species, which has the strong affinity towards the organic matters present in the wastewater to be treated; thus removal efficiencies were increased [9].
Figure 4: Effect of current density on COD and color removal.
The effect of another important process parameter (electrolyte concentration) on COD and color removal efficiency was studied during an electrochemical-oxidation treatment process by varying the concentration of NaCl from 1 to 2 g/L (Figure 5). From the graph, it is noticed that the removal efficiency of COD and color increases with increasing electrolyte concentration. The concentration of electrolyte affected the conductivity. The conductivity was increased by the addition of sodium chloride. Chloride ions could significantly reduce the adverse effects of other anions, such as HCO3− and , that could form an insulating layer on the surface of the electrodes and increase the ohmic resistance of the electrochemical cell. The increase in the removal efficiency of COD and color may be attributed to a change in the ionic strength due to the increasing conductivity of aqueous medium [10].
Figure 5: Effect of electrolyte concentration on COD and color removal.
The graphical representations of the interaction effect of the variables called the contour plots were developed using Design-Expert (version 7.0) software. Interaction between any two test variables was studied during electrochemical treatment process, keeping the other two variables constant at their middle level [11]. Circular or elliptical nature of the contours shows the interactions between the two independent variables being significant or not. Contour plots of the interactive effect of pH, electrolysis time (min), current density (mA/cm2), electrolyte concentration (g/L) on removal efficiency are given in Figures 6–8 showing the response.
Figure 6: Contour plots between pH and electrolysis time for the responses.
Figure 7: Contour plots between electrolysis time and current density for the responses.
Figure 8: Contour plots between electrolysis time and electrolyte concentration for the responses.
The interaction effects of pH and electrolysis time (min) on COD and color reduction are shown in Figure 6, while the other variables (current density and electrolyte concentration) were fixed at central level (35 mA/cm2 and 1.5 g/L, resp.). The elliptical shape of the contour plots between pH and electrolysis time (min) indicates that there is a significant interaction effect between these variables during electrochemical treatment process. Simultaneously increasing the two variables caused a linear increase in the COD and color removal efficiency. However, a decrease in the removal efficiency was observed with further increases in the two variables. The maximum values of COD and color removal were found to be 85% and 83% respectively, when pH and electrolysis time were found to be approximately 4 and 97 min, respectively.
The contour map in Figure 7 shows the interaction between electrolysis time (min) and current density (mA/cm2) on COD and color removal in spent wash, when the other two variables were fixed at centre level. According to Figure 7, the contours around the stationary point were circular and get elongated more along the current density axis. So a lower value of current density and electrolysis time (min) increased the percentage removal of COD and color in distillery spent wash. The results showed that the color removal efficiency increases with the increasing of current density [12].
The contour map based on two variables, electrolysis time (min) and electrolyte concentration (g/L), is shown in Figure 8, whereas the other two variables were kept at a centre level. It can be seen that the two variables had a positive impact on both COD and color removal efficiency. At the lowest level of electrolysis time and electrolyte concentration, the removal efficiency of spent wash was found to be increase slightly at first and then decrease with continuous increasing of electrolysis time and electrolyte concentration, respectively. The maximum COD removal of spent wash was found to be 80% and Color removal of spent wash was found to be 91%. The addition of NaCl into spent wash increases conductance and electric current of electrochemical process. Increasing solution conductivity resulted in the reduction of cell voltage that caused a decrease in electrical energy consumption. Also, solution resistance and the potential in solution decrease with the enhancement of electrolyte concentration. In this study, the removal of reactive organic compounds increased with the increasing of NaCl concentration. The complete removal obtained above 1.2 g/L NaCl and 90 min electrolysis time. The results of the present investigation have shown that the degradation occurred very efficiently in the presence of NaCl as a conductive electrolyte. It could be concluded that the degradation was faster when NaCl was used as electrolyte in the study. In most cases, high concentrations of supporting NaCl electrolyte are required for satisfactory results leading to high concentrations of hypochlorite anions and free chlorine. However, the use of NaCl involves the possibility of the formation of organochloride compounds, mainly due to the presence of OCl− as a possible side reaction [12].
In order to find out the optimum operating conditions to treat distillery industry spent wash using electrochemical treatment method, simultaneous optimization of the multiple responses is carried out. Here, process parameters (A–D) were selected as within range and responses ( and ) fixed as a maximize. Optimal operating conditions to obtain the maximum removal of COD and color are determined as follows: pH of 4.12, electrolysis time of 103.27 min, current density of 25.02 mA/cm2, and electrolyte dose of 1.67 g/L, respectively. Under these optimum conditions, the COD removal efficiency and color removal efficiency were found to be 89.5% and 95.1%, respectively, which are validated by conducting additional experiments under the optimal conditions. A mean value of 88.6% for COD removal and 94.65% of color removal are obtained from the experiment which are in close agreement with the predicted values obtained from numerical optimization technique. The good correlation between these observed results and predicted values indicates the reliability of BBD incorporate desirability function method and it could be effectively used to optimize the EC process parameters.
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The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper.
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NAFTA: Ag Lobbyists Speak Out, Not All in Agreement – DTN
By Jerry Hagstrom, DTN Political Correspondent
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House Agriculture Committee leaders and a group of prominent farm lobbyists on Tuesday called on the Trump administration not to withdraw from the North American Free Trade Agreement and to finish the negotiations quickly to avoid a decline in U.S. farm exports.
Agriculture Committee Chairman Michael Conaway, R-Texas, and ranking member Collin Peterson, D-Minn., met with the lobbyists to discuss NAFTA.
At a news conference afterward, Conaway, Peterson, American Farm Bureau Federation President Zippy Duvall, and pork, dairy, grains and fruit, and vegetable lobbyists said they were unified in opposition to withdrawal and in favor of a quick end to negotiations.
But the difficulty in their mission was demonstrated when dairy lobbyists defended the Trump administration's proposals to force Canada to end its supply management system.
NAFTA talks began in mid-August, but the needle has moved little. The next round of talks are set to begin Nov. 15 in Mexico, two days earlier than originally planned, to further discuss some of the issues surrounding textiles, labor, services and intellectual property.
United Fresh Produce Association President Tom Stenzel also acknowledged that in the meeting, Georgia and Florida House members stood up for the administration's proposal to allow southeastern tomato growers to use trade remedy laws against Mexico when there are surges of imports during the southeastern growing season.
United Fresh acknowledges that the southeastern growers face a challenge, but the group is opposed to the seasonal produce proposal, Stenzel said. Canada has said it will defend its dairy supply management system as a point of national pride while Mexico has said that the seasonal produce proposal is unacceptable.
In a formal statement, Conaway said, "All parties today were on the same page — NAFTA is important to agriculture and agriculture must remain a top priority in the negotiations."
"I am hopeful that both Canada and Mexico will come to the next round of negotiations prepared to have substantive conversations," Conaway said. "We are eager to conclude these negotiations and to move on to inking new agreements that expand trade opportunities for American agricultural producers."
Peterson did not vote for NAFTA, but said Tuesday, "There have been a lot of good things that have happened under NAFTA. I'm supportive of efforts to renegotiate NAFTA, but we need to make sure the end result will work for agriculture, and that we don't cause any harm to agriculture markets."
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Peterson added that he remains concerned about the impact Canada's supply management program is having on U.S. dairy and poultry producers. "I have expressed my concerns to the administration and urge them to continue working to get these farmers a fair deal. We can't go backward."
At the news conference, lobbyists for the National Milk Producers Federation and the International Dairy Foods Association said the administration is correct to take an aggressive stand with Canada on dairy issues.
But responding to a question from DTN, Peterson said he did not vote for NAFTA originally because he didn't believe the dairy or sugar provisions were fair to U.S. producers. Peterson said he is glad dairy is being considered in the negotiations, but "I wouldn't bet the ranch on getting anything done."
He also said that the province of Quebec, where many dairy farmers live and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is from, is "like South Florida — whoever wins becomes prime minister."
The lobbyists emphasized that the uncertainty surrounding NAFTA is hurting exports in an increasingly competitive international economy.
U.S. Grains Council President and CEO Tom Sleight said the South American grain companies "are improving competitiveness every day."
Nick Giordano, the vice president and counsel for the National Pork Producers Association said, "We're at the tip of the spear in many markets."
The European Union and other countries are already seeking free trade agreements with key U.S. markets such as Japan and Mexico, he noted.
Reflecting on President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from the Trans Pacific Partnership negotiations, Giordano said, "We are going to lose U.S. pork exports to Japan."
Stenzel said administration officials have told lobbyists that the threat to withdraw from NAFTA is a negotiating tactic, but he said the public rhetoric, including that from Trump, is "disruptive" to business.
The meeting and the press conference seemed to reflect statements by another lobbyist that the administration's view that it would "do no harm" on NAFTA has changed to "do no harm unless we can't get a deal." That's why, the lobbyist said, Ag leaders recently sent a letter to Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross about their concerns.
The U.S. Grains Council and the National Corn Growers Association also released a report on the importance of exports in each congressional district.
Wine and corn-refining lobbyists were present at the meeting, but not at the news conference, according to a House Agriculture Committee news release.
October 25 letter to Commerce Secretary Ross here.
U.S. Grains Council/National Corn Growers Association — How Much Do Exports Matter? Evaluating the Economic Contributions of U.S. Grain Exports on State and Congressional District Economies here.
Jerry Hagstrom can be reached at jhagstrom@njdc.com
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Wandering Taiwan for 5 Days - Taipei City Tour, Shilin Night Market, Yehliu Geopark, Juifen Old Street, Shifen Old Street - Bia S.
I can't believe 2018 is about to end already and I have so many blog posts that were left unfinished and unpublished. I even wasn't able to continue my blog post about my Taiwan Trip last June! Lol. Forgive me for the nth time but hopefully you'll still read this post even if it's already super outdated and content/photo heavy because I'll be squeezing everything in Day 3-5. I'll just try my best to keep it short and readable.
One of the tourists attractions in the city is the Bopilao Historical District. It's a place with old buildings that were preserved since the Qing Dynasty. Inside of some of the buildings are exhibitions to view like local indie films, and historical facts and artifacts about the place.
From Bopiliao Historical District, just walk follow the signs going to Lungshan temple.
It's me again, just being tourist-y.
There are a lot of themed cafes and restaurants in Taiwain. One of the famous ones is the Modern Toilet – a toilet-themed restaurant in Ximending District.
Nothing really special about the food, but the concept, the decors and the food presentation – served in a toilet bowl – are really the reasons not to miss eating at this themed-resto.
The food presentation is the cutest!
After lunch, we strolled around Ximending Shopping district that's just down the Modern Toilet Restaurant.
They even have pineapple cakes that are…..LOL!
We did really tried our best. Lol.
This was probably one of the heavenly places I've been through! Shilin Night Market is hailed as the oldest and largest night market in the city. The market offers a variety of street foods, so it's best to go here with an empty stomach.
The place was really overwhelming, we didn't know which one to go and try first. We already did some research on the different food to try in Shilin, because really there's really a lot to choose from, so best to have your list prepared.
After hours of walking and strolling around the city, I recommend you to try out this Cranberry Juice – it's THE BOMBEST!
A lot of people were queuing for this one. So I had to try it too!
As per research this one's called the Grilled Oyster Mushroom. Great for mushroom lovers! I did enjoyed it.
Different seafood to choose from – may it be exotic or not!
There are also some activities you could try, aside from eating and shopping.
Handcrafted chopsticks for sale. Great pick for pasalubong!
Yehliu Geopark, Jiufen Old Street, and Shifen Old Street are already far from Taipei City, so we decided to get a tour package since we want it to be chill and less hassle.
The tour duration is 8 hours and will already include all the places that is in our itinerary (plus the old mining site, golden waterfalls, and cat village), so our driver picked us up on our hostel at exactly 8AM. Good thing our driver was good in speaking English so it was easy to communicate. Funny because he greeted us "Sawadeeka", he thought we were Thailanders. Well, that wasn't actually the first time that we were greeted with "Sawadeeka" by the locals. LOL!
We arrived in Yehliu Geopark after an hour and half. Entrance fee to the park is NTD 80 and we bought it on the spot.
There were so many tourists during that time, that's why I wasn't really able to appreciate the place that much, but I enjoyed the breeze though.
Bubble Tea Time! The driver didn't know what a milk tea is since it's called Bubble/Boba Tea to them.
Every Studio Ghibli fan would definitely love this place! If you didn't recognize it, this place is where the 2001 movie directed by Hayao Miyazaki, "Spirited Away", was inspired from.
I loved Spirited Away ever since, and I was so in awe when I visited Jiufen. It felt like I'm in a dream – being in the movie's setting.
We also actually went to the Cat Village, but I wasn't able to take photos since I didn't find the place interesting. But the cats there were pretty huge as in like overfed cats.
Capping-off that whole day trip on the north coast of Taipei, our driver dropped us off at Ximending Shopping District to stroll and have some little shopping and food trip.
For Day 5, we just had some last minute shopping at Ximending Shopping District and Taipei 101 before our flight going back to the Philippines.
If you finished reading/viewing this post, then xie xie! Sorry if this post became a photo-dumped-blog post instead of a travel guide. I won't be lazy, I'll be writing a separate travel guide blog post for first-timers in Taiwan. I love Taiwan so much that it makes me want to share all of my experience., it's just that my lazy spirit is possessing me right now. Hehe.
If you want to have a copy of our itinerary or if you have some questions feel free to ask me, I'll be glad to help.
It's new year's eve tonight, hope you have a happy and fruitful new year!


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We study a variant of the stochastic economic lot scheduling problem (SELSP) encountered in process industries, in which a single production facility must produce several different grades of a family of products to meet random stationary demand for each grade from a common finished-goods (FG) inventory buffer that has limited storage capacity. When the facility is set up to produce a particular grade, the only allowable changeovers are from that grade to the next lower or higher grade. Raw material is always available, and the production facility produces continuously at a constant rate even during changeover transitions. All changeover times are constant and equal to each other, and demand that cannot be satisfied directly from inventory is lost. There is a changeover cost per changeover occasion, a spill-over cost per unit of product in excess whenever there is not enough space in the FG buffer to store the produced grade, and a lost-sales cost per unit short whenever there is not enough FG inventory to satisfy the demand. We model the SELSP as a discrete-time Markov decision process (MDP), where in each time period the decision is whether to initiate a changeover to a neighboring grade or keep the set up of the production facility unchanged, based on the current state of the system, which is defined by the current set up of the facility and the FG inventory levels of all the grades. The goal is to minimize the (long-run) expected average cost per period. For problems with more than three grades, we develop a heuristic solution procedure which is based on decomposing the original multi-grade problem into several 3-grade MDP sub-problems, numerically solving each sub-problem using value iteration, and constructing the final policy for the original problem by combining parts of the optimal policies of the sub-problems. We present numerical results for problem examples with 2–5 grades. For the 2- and 3-grade examples, we numerically solve the exact MDP problem using value iteration to obtain insights into the structure of the optimal changeover policy. For the 4- and 5-grade examples, we compare the performance of the decomposition-based heuristic (DBH) solution procedure against that obtained by numerically solving the exact problem. We also compare the performance of the DBH method against the performance of three simpler parameterized heuristics. Finally, we compare the performance of the DBH and the exact solution procedures for the case where the FG inventory storage consists of a number of separate general-purpose silos capable of storing any grade as long as it is not mixed with any other grade.
The work in this paper was supported by grants MIS 03ED913 "Optimization of production planning and grade distribution of a PET resin chemical plant" and MIS 379526 "ODYSSEUS: A holistic approach for managing variability in contemporary global supply chain networks," which were co-financed by the European Union (European Social Fund) and Greek national funds through the Operational Programs "Competitiveness" of the 3rd Support Framework of the European Community (Research Funding Program: PENED—Reinforcement program of human research manpower) and "Education and Lifelong Learning" of the National Strategic Reference Framework (Research Funding Program: THALES—Reinforcement of the interdisciplinary and/or inter-institutional research and innovation), respectively. The first grant was also co-financed by private funds from Artenius Hellas S.A. PET Industry.
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You could call it the curse of The Devil Wears Prada.
While the hit movie about a fashion editor from hell showcases dozens of high-end and mainstream brands, the sweet smell of success isn't rubbing off on Wall Street.
The share prices of brands that got placement in the movie have almost all slumped more than the wider stock market in recent weeks -- possibly reflecting a new caution about discretionary spending among American shoppers.
Somewhere Anna Wintour, the uber-fashion editor who runs Vogue and whose former staffer wrote the novel on which the movie is based, is laughing. Or not laughing, since she's never actually been seen laughing, but gently tittering behind her oversized sunglasses.
The Real Problem With Newspapers Revealed?


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