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# Flink Architecture

Flink is a distributed system and requires effective allocation and management
of compute resources in order to execute streaming applications. It integrates
with all common cluster resource managers such as [Hadoop
YARN](https://hadoop.apache.org/docs/stable/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-site/YARN.html),
[Apache Mesos](https://mesos.apache.org/) and
[Kubernetes](https://kubernetes.io/), but can also be set up to run as a
standalone cluster or even as a library.

This section contains an overview of Flink's architecture and describes how its
main components interact to execute applications and recover from failures.

## Anatomy of a Flink Cluster

The Flink runtime consists of two types of processes: a _JobManager_ and one or more _TaskManagers_.

{{< img src="/fig/processes.svg" alt="The processes involved in executing a Flink dataflow" class="offset" width="70%" >}}

The *Client* is not part of the runtime and program execution, but is used to
prepare and send a dataflow to the JobManager.  After that, the client can
disconnect (_detached mode_), or stay connected to receive progress reports
(_attached mode_). The client runs either as part of the Java/Scala program
that triggers the execution, or in the command line process `./bin/flink run
...`.

The JobManager and TaskManagers can be started in various ways: directly on
the machines as a [standalone cluster]({{< ref "docs/deployment/resource-providers/standalone/overview" >}}), in containers, or managed by resource
frameworks like [YARN]({{< ref "docs/deployment/resource-providers/yarn" >}})
or [Mesos]({{< ref "docs/deployment/resource-providers/mesos" >}}).
TaskManagers connect to JobManagers, announcing themselves as available, and
are assigned work.

### JobManager

The _JobManager_ has a number of responsibilities related to coordinating the distributed execution of Flink Applications:
it decides when to schedule the next task (or set of tasks), reacts to finished
tasks or execution failures, coordinates checkpoints, and coordinates recovery on
failures, among others. This process consists of three different components:

  * **ResourceManager**

    The _ResourceManager_ is responsible for resource de-/allocation and
    provisioning in a Flink cluster — it manages **task slots**, which are the
    unit of resource scheduling in a Flink cluster (see [TaskManagers](#taskmanagers)).
    Flink implements multiple ResourceManagers for different environments and
    resource providers such as YARN, Mesos, Kubernetes and standalone
    deployments. In a standalone setup, the ResourceManager can only distribute
    the slots of available TaskManagers and cannot start new TaskManagers on
    its own.

  * **Dispatcher**

    The _Dispatcher_ provides a REST interface to submit Flink applications for
    execution and starts a new JobMaster for each submitted job. It
    also runs the Flink WebUI to provide information about job executions.

  * **JobMaster**

    A _JobMaster_ is responsible for managing the execution of a single
    [JobGraph]({{< ref "docs/concepts/glossary" >}}#logical-graph).
    Multiple jobs can run simultaneously in a Flink cluster, each having its
    own JobMaster.

There is always at least one JobManager. A high-availability setup might have
multiple JobManagers, one of which is always the *leader*, and the others are
*standby* (see [High Availability (HA)]({{< ref "docs/deployment/ha/overview" >}})).

### TaskManagers

The *TaskManagers* (also called *workers*) execute the tasks of a dataflow, and buffer and exchange the data
streams.

There must always be at least one TaskManager. The smallest unit of resource scheduling in a TaskManager is a task _slot_. The number of task slots in a
TaskManager indicates the number of concurrent processing tasks. Note that
multiple operators may execute in a task slot (see [Tasks and Operator
Chains](#tasks-and-operator-chains)).

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## Tasks and Operator Chains

For distributed execution, Flink *chains* operator subtasks together into
*tasks*. Each task is executed by one thread.  Chaining operators together into
tasks is a useful optimization: it reduces the overhead of thread-to-thread
handover and buffering, and increases overall throughput while decreasing
latency.  The chaining behavior can be configured; see the [chaining docs]({{< ref "docs/dev/datastream/operators/overview" >}}#task-chaining-and-resource-groups) for details.

The sample dataflow in the figure below is executed with five subtasks, and
hence with five parallel threads.

{{< img src="/fig/tasks_chains.svg" alt="Operator chaining into Tasks" class="offset" width="80%" >}}

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## Task Slots and Resources

Each worker (TaskManager) is a *JVM process*, and may execute one or more
subtasks in separate threads.  To control how many tasks a TaskManager accepts, it
has so called **task slots** (at least one).

Each *task slot* represents a fixed subset of resources of the TaskManager. A
TaskManager with three slots, for example, will dedicate 1/3 of its managed
memory to each slot. Slotting the resources means that a subtask will not
compete with subtasks from other jobs for managed memory, but instead has a
certain amount of reserved managed memory. Note that no CPU isolation happens
here; currently slots only separate the managed memory of tasks.

By adjusting the number of task slots, users can define how subtasks are
isolated from each other.  Having one slot per TaskManager means that each task
group runs in a separate JVM (which can be started in a separate container, for
example). Having multiple slots means more subtasks share the same JVM. Tasks
in the same JVM share TCP connections (via multiplexing) and heartbeat
messages. They may also share data sets and data structures, thus reducing the
per-task overhead.

{{< img src="/fig/tasks_slots.svg" alt="A TaskManager with Task Slots and Tasks" class="offset" width="80%" >}}

By default, Flink allows subtasks to share slots even if they are subtasks of
different tasks, so long as they are from the same job. The result is that one
slot may hold an entire pipeline of the job. Allowing this *slot sharing* has
two main benefits:

  - A Flink cluster needs exactly as many task slots as the highest parallelism
    used in the job.  No need to calculate how many tasks (with varying
    parallelism) a program contains in total.

  - It is easier to get better resource utilization. Without slot sharing, the
    non-intensive *source/map()* subtasks would block as many resources as the
    resource intensive *window* subtasks.  With slot sharing, increasing the
    base parallelism in our example from two to six yields full utilization of
    the slotted resources, while making sure that the heavy subtasks are fairly
    distributed among the TaskManagers.

{{< img src="/fig/slot_sharing.svg" alt="TaskManagers with shared Task Slots" class="offset" width="80%" >}}

## Flink Application Execution

A _Flink Application_ is any user program that spawns one or multiple Flink
jobs from its ``main()`` method. The execution of these jobs can happen in a
local JVM (``LocalEnvironment``) or on a remote setup of clusters with multiple
machines (``RemoteEnvironment``). For each program, the `ExecutionEnvironment`
provides methods to control the job execution (e.g. setting the parallelism) and to interact with
the outside world (see [Anatomy of a Flink Program]({{< ref "docs/dev/datastream/overview" >}}#anatomy-of-a-flink-program)).

The jobs of a Flink Application can either be submitted to a long-running
[Flink Session Cluster]({{< ref "docs/concepts/glossary" >}}#flink-session-cluster), a dedicated [Flink Job
Cluster]({{< ref "docs/concepts/glossary" >}}#flink-job-cluster), or a
[Flink Application Cluster]({{< ref "docs/concepts/glossary" >}}#flink-application-cluster). The difference between these options is mainly related to the cluster's lifecycle and to resource
isolation guarantees.

### Flink Session Cluster

* **Cluster Lifecycle**: in a Flink Session Cluster, the client connects to a
  pre-existing, long-running cluster that can accept multiple job submissions.
  Even after all jobs are finished, the cluster (and the JobManager) will
  keep running until the session is manually stopped. The lifetime of a Flink
  Session Cluster is therefore not bound to the lifetime of any Flink Job.

* **Resource Isolation**: TaskManager slots are allocated by the
  ResourceManager on job submission and released once the job is finished.
  Because all jobs are sharing the same cluster, there is some competition for
  cluster resources — like network bandwidth in the submit-job phase. One
  limitation of this shared setup is that if one TaskManager crashes, then all
  jobs that have tasks running on this TaskManager will fail; in a similar way, if
  some fatal error occurs on the JobManager, it will affect all jobs running
  in the cluster.

* **Other considerations**: having a pre-existing cluster saves a considerable
  amount of time applying for resources and starting TaskManagers. This is
  important in scenarios where the execution time of jobs is very short and a
  high startup time would negatively impact the end-to-end user experience — as
  is the case with interactive analysis of short queries, where it is desirable
  that jobs can quickly perform computations using existing resources.

{{< hint info >}}
Formerly, a Flink Session Cluster was also known as a Flink Cluster in `session mode`.
{{< /hint >}}

### Flink Job Cluster

* **Cluster Lifecycle**: in a Flink Job Cluster, the available cluster manager
  (like YARN) is used to spin up a cluster for each submitted job
  and this cluster is available to that job only. Here, the client first
  requests resources from the cluster manager to start the JobManager and
  submits the job to the Dispatcher running inside this process. TaskManagers
  are then lazily allocated based on the resource requirements of the job. Once
  the job is finished, the Flink Job Cluster is torn down.

* **Resource Isolation**: a fatal error in the JobManager only affects the one job running in that Flink Job Cluster.

* **Other considerations**: because the ResourceManager has to apply and wait
  for external resource management components to start the TaskManager
  processes and allocate resources, Flink Job Clusters are more suited to large
  jobs that are long-running, have high-stability requirements and are not
  sensitive to longer startup times.

{{< hint info >}}
Formerly, a Flink Job Cluster was also known as a Flink Cluster in `job (or per-job) mode`.
{{< /hint >}}
{{< hint info >}}
Kubernetes doesn't support Flink Job Cluster. See details in [Standalone Kubernetes]({{< ref "docs/deployment/resource-providers/standalone/kubernetes" >}}#per-job-cluster-mode) and [Native Kubernetes]({{< ref "docs/deployment/resource-providers/native_kubernetes" >}}#per-job-cluster-mode).
{{< /hint >}}

### Flink Application Cluster

* **Cluster Lifecycle**: a Flink Application Cluster is a dedicated Flink
  cluster that only executes jobs from one Flink Application and where the
  ``main()`` method runs on the cluster rather than the client. The job
  submission is a one-step process: you don't need to start a Flink cluster
  first and then submit a job to the existing cluster session; instead, you
  package your application logic and dependencies into a executable job JAR and
  the cluster entrypoint (``ApplicationClusterEntryPoint``)
  is responsible for calling the ``main()`` method to extract the JobGraph.
  This allows you to deploy a Flink Application like any other application on
  Kubernetes, for example. The lifetime of a Flink Application Cluster is
  therefore bound to the lifetime of the Flink Application.

* **Resource Isolation**: in a Flink Application Cluster, the ResourceManager
  and Dispatcher are scoped to a single Flink Application, which provides a
  better separation of concerns than the Flink Session Cluster.

{{< hint info >}}
A Flink Job Cluster can be seen as a "run-on-client" alternative to Flink Application Clusters.
{{< /hint >}}

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Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC - formerly IPCC)
IOPC launches Victims' Right to Review scheme
The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) yesterday (01 December, 2020) launched its Victims' Right to Review (VRR) scheme which allows victims to request a review of our decisions not to refer matters to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).
The scheme will apply in all independent, managed and directed investigations that have previously been designated by the IOPC as criminal investigations. Although the IOPC is not legally required to have such a policy, the VRR brings the organisation in line with similar schemes operated by the CPS and police forces.
At the end of these investigations, a decision maker decides whether a case should be referred to the CPS to determine if a prosecution should follow. In cases where no referral is made, under the VRR scheme victims can now request a review of the decision, to be carried out by a new decision maker, who had no involvement in the original decision.
Director of Strategy and Impact Kathie Cashell yesterday said:
"When a victim alleges that a crime was committed by a member of the public, they are given a right to review the decisions taken by the police and the CPS. Victims are also given the right to review a decision made when they allege a crime was committed by a police officer if the investigation was carried out by a police force's professional standards department.
"However, when the IOPC investigates, no right to review currently exists so by introducing this scheme today, we are ending that disparity for the most serious and sensitive matters involving police officers.
"Schemes of this nature have successfully operated in police forces and the CPS for a number of years and we hope the introduction of our VRR process promotes further public confidence in all parts of the police complaints system."
The scheme has been brought in following a consultation period earlier this year and we will aim to review decisions within 28 calendar days of receipt of the request.
The full guidance has been published on our website.
Channel website: https://policeconduct.gov.uk/
Original article link: https://policeconduct.gov.uk/news/iopc-launches-victims%E2%80%99-right-review-scheme
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Family Research Council to Attend Oral Argument in Key Military Religious Freedom Case
Jerry Boykin
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 26, 2016
CONTACT: J.P. Duffy or Alice Chao, (866) FRC-NEWS or (866)-372-6397
WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Wednesday, Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Jerry Boykin, Family Research Council's Executive Vice President and former Delta Force commander, and Travis Weber, Esq., Director of FRC's Center for Religious Liberty, a former naval aviator and graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, will attend oral argument before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces in the case of United States v. Sterling.
In this case, the court will decide whether the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) protects a Marine lance corporal's decision to post scripture verses at her workstation. The lance corporal desired to post the verses to give her inspiration and strength, but military superiors ordered her to remove the verses she posted. A lower court refused to protect her religious expression, interpreting RFRA in a constrained manner to protect only certain types of religious exercise. FRC and numerous other religious freedom advocates are urging the court to overturn this harmful decision.
Lt. General Boykin commented on the case:
"If one thing is clear from my 36 years in the military, it is that religious faith is indispensable for the soldier facing danger and the possibility of death in battle. Throughout the history of our magnificent military, faith has played a role not just in strengthening weak knees and frail hearts, but has actually made a difference in the actions of service members who act on this faith to accomplish deeds of valor. To rob the service member of the right to express this faith will do incalculable damage to the armed forces," concluded Boykin.
Weber, who has testified before Congress about the need for increased religious freedom protections in the military, commented on the case:
"While the military is certainly different from civilian society in many ways, the suppression of constitutional rights is not one of them. Service members retain their freedom of religion in the military, and indeed, are often strengthened by its exercise. Whether we all individually agree with the religious exercise at issue is not the point; what matters is the principle that all Americans have the freedom to believe and live out those beliefs.
"The Supreme Court has repeatedly made clear that RFRA broadly protects religious exercise from unnecessary and burdensome government action. The court should reverse this overly narrow ruling and recognize the broad understanding of RFRA clearly affirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court," Weber concluded.
This case has broader implications for the military. As Lt. General Boykin and other retired general officers noted in an amicus brief they filed in the case, "the [lower court] decision undermines one of the greatest strengths of America's military: the religiosity of its members. It effectively tells service members to keep their religious beliefs hidden or face discipline." It is difficult to argue with their observation that "[m]ilitary men and women who swear to uphold the Constitution should also be afforded its protections."
To review the amicus brief filed by General Boykin and other retired general officers, please see: http://downloads.frc.org/EF/EF16D53.pdf
To review Travis Weber's testimony before the Subcommittee on Military Personnel of the House Armed Services Committee, please see: http://downloads.frc.org/EF/EF14K61.pdf


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Quantifying the determinants of evolutionary dynamics leading to drug resistance
Chevereau G, Lukacisinova M, Batur T, Guvenek A, Ayhan D, Toprak E, Bollenbach MT. 2015. Quantifying the determinants of evolutionary dynamics leading to drug resistance. PLoS Biology. 13(11), e1002299.
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Chevereau, GuillaumeISTA; Lukacisinova, MartaISTA ; Batur, Tugce; Guvenek, Aysegul; Ayhan, Dilay; Toprak, Erdal; Bollenbach, TobiasISTA
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Revealing the fundamental limits of cell growth
Revealing the mechanisms underlying drug interactions
Optimality principles in responses to antibiotics
The emergence of drug resistant pathogens is a serious public health problem. It is a long-standing goal to predict rates of resistance evolution and design optimal treatment strategies accordingly. To this end, it is crucial to reveal the underlying causes of drug-specific differences in the evolutionary dynamics leading to resistance. However, it remains largely unknown why the rates of resistance evolution via spontaneous mutations and the diversity of mutational paths vary substantially between drugs. Here we comprehensively quantify the distribution of fitness effects (DFE) of mutations, a key determinant of evolutionary dynamics, in the presence of eight antibiotics representing the main modes of action. Using precise high-throughput fitness measurements for genome-wide Escherichia coli gene deletion strains, we find that the width of the DFE varies dramatically between antibiotics and, contrary to conventional wisdom, for some drugs the DFE width is lower than in the absence of stress. We show that this previously underappreciated divergence in DFE width among antibiotics is largely caused by their distinct drug-specific dose-response characteristics. Unlike the DFE, the magnitude of the changes in tolerated drug concentration resulting from genome-wide mutations is similar for most drugs but exceptionally small for the antibiotic nitrofurantoin, i.e., mutations generally have considerably smaller resistance effects for nitrofurantoin than for other drugs. A population genetics model predicts that resistance evolution for drugs with this property is severely limited and confined to reproducible mutational paths. We tested this prediction in laboratory evolution experiments using the "morbidostat", a device for evolving bacteria in well-controlled drug environments. Nitrofurantoin resistance indeed evolved extremely slowly via reproducible mutations—an almost paradoxical behavior since this drug causes DNA damage and increases the mutation rate. Overall, we identified novel quantitative characteristics of the evolutionary landscape that provide the conceptual foundation for predicting the dynamics of drug resistance evolution.
Chevereau G, Lukacisinova M, Batur T, et al. Quantifying the determinants of evolutionary dynamics leading to drug resistance. PLoS Biology. 2015;13(11). doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1002299
Chevereau, G., Lukacisinova, M., Batur, T., Guvenek, A., Ayhan, D., Toprak, E., & Bollenbach, M. T. (2015). Quantifying the determinants of evolutionary dynamics leading to drug resistance. PLoS Biology. Public Library of Science. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002299
Chevereau, Guillaume, Marta Lukacisinova, Tugce Batur, Aysegul Guvenek, Dilay Ayhan, Erdal Toprak, and Mark Tobias Bollenbach. "Quantifying the Determinants of Evolutionary Dynamics Leading to Drug Resistance." PLoS Biology. Public Library of Science, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002299.
G. Chevereau et al., "Quantifying the determinants of evolutionary dynamics leading to drug resistance," PLoS Biology, vol. 13, no. 11. Public Library of Science, 2015.
Chevereau, Guillaume, et al. "Quantifying the Determinants of Evolutionary Dynamics Leading to Drug Resistance." PLoS Biology, vol. 13, no. 11, e1002299, Public Library of Science, 2015, doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1002299.
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package org.optaplanner.core.config.heuristic.selector.move.composite;

import java.util.List;

import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlElement;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlElements;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlType;

import org.optaplanner.core.config.heuristic.selector.move.MoveSelectorConfig;
import org.optaplanner.core.config.heuristic.selector.move.factory.MoveIteratorFactoryConfig;
import org.optaplanner.core.config.heuristic.selector.move.factory.MoveListFactoryConfig;
import org.optaplanner.core.config.heuristic.selector.move.generic.ChangeMoveSelectorConfig;
import org.optaplanner.core.config.heuristic.selector.move.generic.PillarChangeMoveSelectorConfig;
import org.optaplanner.core.config.heuristic.selector.move.generic.PillarSwapMoveSelectorConfig;
import org.optaplanner.core.config.heuristic.selector.move.generic.SwapMoveSelectorConfig;
import org.optaplanner.core.config.heuristic.selector.move.generic.chained.SubChainChangeMoveSelectorConfig;
import org.optaplanner.core.config.heuristic.selector.move.generic.chained.SubChainSwapMoveSelectorConfig;
import org.optaplanner.core.config.heuristic.selector.move.generic.chained.TailChainSwapMoveSelectorConfig;
import org.optaplanner.core.config.util.ConfigUtils;
import org.optaplanner.core.impl.heuristic.selector.common.decorator.SelectionProbabilityWeightFactory;

@XmlType(propOrder = {
        "moveSelectorConfigList",
        "selectorProbabilityWeightFactoryClass"
})
public class UnionMoveSelectorConfig extends MoveSelectorConfig<UnionMoveSelectorConfig> {

    public static final String XML_ELEMENT_NAME = "unionMoveSelector";

    @XmlElements({
            @XmlElement(name = CartesianProductMoveSelectorConfig.XML_ELEMENT_NAME,
                    type = CartesianProductMoveSelectorConfig.class),
            @XmlElement(name = ChangeMoveSelectorConfig.XML_ELEMENT_NAME, type = ChangeMoveSelectorConfig.class),
            @XmlElement(name = MoveIteratorFactoryConfig.XML_ELEMENT_NAME, type = MoveIteratorFactoryConfig.class),
            @XmlElement(name = MoveListFactoryConfig.XML_ELEMENT_NAME, type = MoveListFactoryConfig.class),
            @XmlElement(name = PillarChangeMoveSelectorConfig.XML_ELEMENT_NAME,
                    type = PillarChangeMoveSelectorConfig.class),
            @XmlElement(name = PillarSwapMoveSelectorConfig.XML_ELEMENT_NAME, type = PillarSwapMoveSelectorConfig.class),
            @XmlElement(name = SubChainChangeMoveSelectorConfig.XML_ELEMENT_NAME,
                    type = SubChainChangeMoveSelectorConfig.class),
            @XmlElement(name = SubChainSwapMoveSelectorConfig.XML_ELEMENT_NAME,
                    type = SubChainSwapMoveSelectorConfig.class),
            @XmlElement(name = SwapMoveSelectorConfig.XML_ELEMENT_NAME, type = SwapMoveSelectorConfig.class),
            @XmlElement(name = TailChainSwapMoveSelectorConfig.XML_ELEMENT_NAME,
                    type = TailChainSwapMoveSelectorConfig.class),
            @XmlElement(name = UnionMoveSelectorConfig.XML_ELEMENT_NAME, type = UnionMoveSelectorConfig.class)
    })
    private List<MoveSelectorConfig> moveSelectorConfigList = null;

    private Class<? extends SelectionProbabilityWeightFactory> selectorProbabilityWeightFactoryClass = null;

    public UnionMoveSelectorConfig() {
    }

    public UnionMoveSelectorConfig(List<MoveSelectorConfig> moveSelectorConfigList) {
        this.moveSelectorConfigList = moveSelectorConfigList;
    }

    public List<MoveSelectorConfig> getMoveSelectorConfigList() {
        return moveSelectorConfigList;
    }

    public void setMoveSelectorConfigList(List<MoveSelectorConfig> moveSelectorConfigList) {
        this.moveSelectorConfigList = moveSelectorConfigList;
    }

    public Class<? extends SelectionProbabilityWeightFactory> getSelectorProbabilityWeightFactoryClass() {
        return selectorProbabilityWeightFactoryClass;
    }

    public void setSelectorProbabilityWeightFactoryClass(
            Class<? extends SelectionProbabilityWeightFactory> selectorProbabilityWeightFactoryClass) {
        this.selectorProbabilityWeightFactoryClass = selectorProbabilityWeightFactoryClass;
    }

    @Override
    public void extractLeafMoveSelectorConfigsIntoList(List<MoveSelectorConfig> leafMoveSelectorConfigList) {
        for (MoveSelectorConfig moveSelectorConfig : moveSelectorConfigList) {
            moveSelectorConfig.extractLeafMoveSelectorConfigsIntoList(leafMoveSelectorConfigList);
        }
    }

    @Override
    public UnionMoveSelectorConfig inherit(UnionMoveSelectorConfig inheritedConfig) {
        super.inherit(inheritedConfig);
        moveSelectorConfigList = ConfigUtils.inheritMergeableListConfig(
                moveSelectorConfigList, inheritedConfig.getMoveSelectorConfigList());
        selectorProbabilityWeightFactoryClass = ConfigUtils.inheritOverwritableProperty(
                selectorProbabilityWeightFactoryClass, inheritedConfig.getSelectorProbabilityWeightFactoryClass());
        return this;
    }

    @Override
    public UnionMoveSelectorConfig copyConfig() {
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Q: Java Grammar To AST In java grammar I have a parser rule,
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How to get all the identifiers under a single AST tree node?

A: It seems impossible to me only with your lexer-parser.
For this, you will need the called: tree-walker.This third part of the parsing process will make you able to go through the generated AST and, with a counter, print the number of occurrences.
I let you a reference here in case you decide to implement it.
https://theantlrguy.atlassian.net/wiki/display/ANTLR3/Tree+construction
I hope this would help you!

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The wrong mountain peak for Peyton Manning
By DP Opinion
Denver Broncos, Gov. John Hickenlooper, Peyton Manning
Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning throws a pass during the AFC championship game earlier this month. (John Leyba, The Denver Post)
Re: "Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper renames fourteeners for Broncos – temporarily," Jan. 30 sports story.
Gov. John Hickenlooper's temporary re-titling of Colorado's fourteeners with the Broncos' roster is inspired. But his pairing of Peyton Manning with Mount Elbert is errant. It may be the state's tallest, but it's an easily conquered Class 1 climb, and visually unremarkable to boot. Only three Colorado peaks are sufficiently iconic for Manning: the two Maroon Bells and Longs Peak. And while the Bells, like Manning, are beautiful, tricky and lethal, only Longs will do. Its world-renowned Diamond Face is the deciding factor: daunting, insurmountable and hewn by the Creator in a way that unmistakably re-creates and exalts the flattened amplitude of that glorious Manning forehead.
Andrew Corsello, Nathrop
This letter was published in the Feb. 1 edition.
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Twitter seeking to undermine India's legal system, government says
Twitter's statement on complying with India's IT rules is an attempt to dictate its terms to the world's largest democracy, government says
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Updated On May 27, 2021 at 08:11 PM IST
The government has accused Twitter of seeking to undermine India's legal system and refusing to comply with the intermediary guidelines that allow it to claim safe harbour protection from any criminal liability in India.
"Protecting free speech in India is not the prerogative of only a private, for-profit, foreign entity like Twitter, but it is the commitment of the world's largest democracy and its robust institutions," the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (Meity) said in a strong rebuttal to Twitter's accusation on Thursday.
"Twitter's statement is an attempt to dictate its terms to the world's largest democracy. Through its actions and deliberate defiance, Twitter seeks to undermine India's legal system. Furthermore, Twitter refuses to comply with those very regulations in the Intermediary Guidelines on the basis of which it is claiming a safe harbour protection from any criminal liability in India," it said
The government said Twitter representatives in India routinely claim that they have no authority and that they and the people of India need to escalate everything to the Twitter headquarters in the US.
"The purported commitment of Twitter, to its Indian user base, thus not only sounds hollow but completely self-serving. Twitter has a large user base in India, it earns significant revenue from its Indian operations but is also the most reluctant to appoint an India based grievance redressal officer and mechanism, chief compliance officer and nodal officer to whom its own users can complain, when they are subjected to offensive Tweets," Meity said.
Meity said the draft rules were finalised after consultations with social media platforms, civil society, industry associations and organisations, besides using judicial orders including the Supreme Court. There are also several Parliamentary debates and recommendations to take appropriate measures.
"The Rules empower the ordinary users who become victims of defamation, morphed images, sexual abuse and the whole range of other abusive content in blatant violation of law, to seek redress," it said.
The government accused Twitter of having opaque policies arbitrarily deleting tweets and suspending people's accounts.
Also read: Govt says new digital rules don't violate privacy
"Twitter needs to stop beating around the bush and comply with the laws of the land. Law making and policy formulations is the sole prerogative of the sovereign and Twitter is just a social media platform and it has no locus in dictating what India's legal policy framework should be. Twitter has claimed that it is committed to the people of India," Meity said.
The government cited examples of taking several days to remove showing certain locations Ladakh as part of China; action against users who perpetrated violence on Capitol Hill and not honouring requests of the government to block content of users during the Red Fort incident and not removing fake and harmful content on vaccine hesitancy in India.
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Dog collars to toasters are connected as part of the Internet of Things (IoT), with experts predicting that by 2020 more than 50% of new businesses will run on the IoT. However, cyber security and privacy are the biggest challenges for IoT, collecting large amounts of personal identifiable information. As soon as some financial benefit from hacking smart devices appears, cyber criminals will find a way to take advantage of it.
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Crooked Creek may refer to:

Streams

In Australia
 Crooked Creek (Clyde River), a tributary of the Clyde River in New South Wales
 Crooked Creek (Walsh River), a tributary of the Walsh River in Queensland

In the United States

 Crooked Creek (Alaska) a tributary of the Kasilof River in Kenai Peninsula Borough
 Crooked Creek (Allegheny River), a tributary of the Allegheny River in Pennsylvania
 Crooked Creek (Arkansas), a tributary of the White River
 Crooked Creek (Georgia), a tributary of the Chattahoochee River near Fulton and Gwinnett
 Crooked Creek (Illinois), a tributary of the Kaskaskia River in Illinois
 Crooked Creek (Indiana), a tributary of the Anderson River
 Crooked Creek (Northern Indiana), a tributary of the Kankakee River
 Crooked Creek (Iowa River tributary), a stream in Iowa
 Crooked Creek (Skunk River tributary), a main tributary of the Skunk River in Iowa
 Crooked Creek (Houston County, Minnesota)
 Crooked Creek (Mississippi River), a tributary of the Mississippi in Minnesota
 Crooked Creek (Bear Creek), a stream in Missouri
 Crooked Creek (Coon Creek), a stream in Missouri
 Crooked Creek (Meramec River), a stream in Missouri
 Crooked Creek (Muddy Creek), a stream in Missouri
 Crooked Creek (North Fork Salt River), a stream in Missouri
 Crooked Creek (Salt River), a stream in Missouri
 Crooked Creek (Wyaconda River), a stream in Missouri
 Crooked Creek (Third Fork), a stream in Missouri
 Crooked Creek (Headwaters Diversion Channel), a stream in Missouri
 Crooked Creek (Rocky River tributary), a stream in Union County, North Carolina
 Crooked Creek (Oregon), a tributary of the Owyhee River
 Crooked Creek (Tennessee), a tributary of the Little River in Blount County
 Crooked Creek (Tioga River), a tributary of the Tioga River in Pennsylvania
 Crooked Creek (Summit County, Utah)
 Crooked Creek (Guyandotte River), a stream in West Virginia

Communities
 Crooked Creek, Alaska, a census-designated place (CDP) in Bethel Census Area
 Crooked Creek, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in Logan County
 Crooked Creek, Alberta, an unincorporated community in Canada
 Crooked Creek, Ontario, a community in Canada

Other
 Crooked Creek crater, an impact crater in Crawford County, Missouri, USA
 Crooked Creek Formation, a geologic formation in Meade County, Kansas, USA

See also

 Crooked River (disambiguation)
 Crooked Creek Township (disambiguation)

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Emma Lazarus to Me: Poems that Re-tell the Immigrant Experience
Renee Ruderman, Metropolitan State University of Denver
I will read and discuss Emma Lazarus's famous sonnet "The New Colossus," a poem that re-casts the classical Greek Colossus as the "Mother of Exiles," a welcoming "woman with a torch." Subsequently, I will share a few of my poems that re-ify my family's immigrant Jewish experience as they fled encroaching fascism and entered the United States.
Renée Ruderman, an associate professor of English at Metropolitan State University of Denver, Colorado, has two published books, Poems from the Rooms Below (Permanence Press, San Diego, CA, 1995) and Certain Losses, a chapbook (Main Street Rag, Charlotte, NC, 2004). She has won prizes for her poems, and some of them have appeared in The Bellingham Review, I-70 Review, Borderlands, and the Raleigh Review. Renée taught at Universität Siegen, Germany during a sabbatical in 2009, and she recently (2013) taught a poetry workshop at Palacky University in the Czech Republic. This summer, 2017, Renée will be teaching a course on Jewish American Poetry at the University of Mainz, Germany.
Below is a sample poem of mine:
(based on a drawing by Kurt Böttcher)
Two blackbirds caw, their beaks open to hasten the sky-bound flocks toward what's left in the wind-bitten tree. They stretch their necks to place their sound just below the cumulous cloud -- under which specks of wings accumulate like dark gliders. Another bird on a lower branch spies the ground, the grass still green, flower husks holding the promise of seeds. The birds prepare to fly south, over the Alps from this park near the Bahnhof in Fürth, where no one walks the curving path into the woods. It's 1920. The Pegnitz streams under the delicate branches, and the Great War is over, the next brewing in the valley beyond the forest. The blackbirds understand about leaving. They do it every year at the first gust of impossible wind.
Bahnhof means train station in German; Fürth is a town next to Nurnberg, Germany; the Pegnitz is a river.
Published in Urge, Poems by Finalists in the 2016 Alexander and Dora Raynes Poetry Competition, judged by Alicia Ostriker.
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syn·onym /ˈsɪnəˌnɪm/ 名詞
同物異名,異名,別名,同義名,同義詞,同義詞,類似物
Syn·o·nym n.; pl. Synonyms
1. One of two or more words (commonly words of the same language) which are equivalents of each other; one of two or more words which have very nearly the same signification, and therefore may often be used interchangeably. See under Synonymous. [Written also synonyme.]
All languages tend to clear themselves of synonyms as intellectual culture advances, the superfluous words being taken up and appropriated by new shades and combinations of thought evolved in the progress of society. --De Quincey.
His name has thus become, throughout all civilized countries, a synonym for probity and philanthropy. --Macaulay.
In popular literary acceptation, and as employed in special dictionaries of such words, synonyms are words sufficiently alike in general signification to be liable to be confounded, but yet so different in special definition as to require to be distinguished.
2. An incorrect or incorrectly applied scientific name, as a new name applied to a species or genus already properly named, or a specific name preoccupied by that of another species of the same genus; -- so used in the system of nomenclature (which see) in which the correct scientific names of certain natural groups (usually genera, species, and subspecies) are regarded as determined by priority.
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Ukrainian food for Christmas - exploring Ukraine's beloved dishes
From borsch to kolach, explore some of Ukraine's most popular dishes, their origins, and some of the traditions that many share over Christmas time.
Tom Charman
The Christmas Eve supper in Ukraine is a very traditional affair made up of 12 different dishes - each dish signifying something special. Due to the orthodox calendar, Syvat Vechir (the Christmas Eve supper), is celebrated each year on the 6th-7th January, and pays homage to the 12 disciples of Christ in the form of 12 'lean' dishes shared amongst the family. In fact, family is such a big part of this occasion, that older generations will often say that those who spend Christmas Eve outside the family circle will feel uncomfortable and lonely in the year that follows.
So with that said, we've highlighted 5 of those dishes, which are often enjoyed all year around in Ukraine, but hold a special place in every Ukrainians heart at Christmas time.
Photo Credit: BBC News
Borsch (борщ)
We'll kick things off with one of Ukraine's most beloved dishes. Borsch, a dish that was added to UNESCO's 'list of intangible cultural heritage' in mid-2022, is a traditional Ukrainian soup that dates back to at least the 16th century, though it's believed that its history goes back much further. Borsch was created by Ukrainian peasants as a way to make their somewhat limited food rations go that bit further, and centuries ago was made simply with cabbage and beets. It'll come as no surprise that as the years have passed, ingredients like carrots, beans and even meats like beef, pork and chicken have all found their way into this blood red soup, with the goal to create the most hearty, and warming soup in Ukraine. While it's eaten all year around, Borsch is particularly popular during the colder months across the whole of Eastern Europe, and it's one of the traditional dishes served as part of Syvat Vechir (Christmas Eve supper) in Ukraine. Find the full recipe here to make Borsch at home.
Source: Jamie Geller / jamiegeller.com
Pampushky (пампушки)
If you ask me - no Borsch is complete without a side-serving of pampushky - small, round bread rolls fried in oil. Often likened to a 'Ukrainian donut', these versatile, fluffy balls of dough can be served savory or sweet, and like many Ukrainian dishes - you'll often find them with a dollop of sour cream on top. Other than Ukraine, it's not particularly clear where pampushky originated, but many believe that they were traditionally made with a yeasted dough, and fried with oil. Over time, chefs and cooks around the world have pimped their pampushky and taken them to new heights. Variations including garlic, herbs, spices and even sweet jellies have appeared across the whole of Eastern Europe for lots of culinary festivals that are devoted specifically to making pampushky. Talking of jellies - one of the traditional dishes that you'll regularly find on the table for Syvat Vechir in Ukraine is cherry-filled, or jam-filled pampushky - the perfect dessert after a warm hearty meal. Find the full recipe here to make Pampushky at home.
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Varenyky (варе́ники)
Like borsch, varenyky are a national favorite of the Ukrainian people. And the love goes back centuries - at the end of the 19th century, popular Jewish poet Saul Chernikhivskyi loved the dish so much that he devoted a poem to these plump Ukrainian dumplings and named it 'varenyky'. These moon-shaped dumplings, sometimes referred to as 'pyrohy' or later 'pierogi' in parts of eastern Europe and Russia, are thought to go back as far as pagan times, but over the centuries have been adapted to suit our changing demands and tastes. Like pampushky, today they're served both sweet and savory, depending on what they're filled with, and served with. But either way, you can expect to find a healthy portion of sour cream served alongside these delightful bites of joy. When it comes to Christmas time, varenyky are served traditionally with poppy seeds, to symbolize wealth and prosperity for the coming year. This likely dates back to when they'd be taken along to the fields, as Ukrainian peasants believed varenyky helped bring in a rich harvest. Find the full recipe here to make Varenyky at home.
Holubtsi (голубці)
The origins of this dish are very difficult to nail down, with meat rolled in cabbage first being referenced in Aristophanes' letters dating back to 425 B.C. And while many often attribute these cabbage rolls to Poland, or other eastern European countries, it's actually most likely to be a dish that first originated in Turkey - Ukrainian holubtsi are most similar to dolma. Although the origins will likely never be known for sure, holubtsi today are a national treasure not just in Ukraine, but across the whole of eastern Europe. The holubtsi that we've known to come and love today are normally made by creating a rice-meat mix, and wrapping portions of this mix in a whole cabbage leaf. Then, once the corners are tucked and the meat is sealed, the holubtsi are stewed in a tomato sauce until the cabbage becomes tender. But when it comes to the Christmas Eve supper, things are a little bit different. As the Christmas table traditionally contains lean dishes, many Ukrainian spreads will instead mix potatoes, mushrooms, onions and carrots instead of meat. And like every good Ukrainian dish, holubtsi is best served with a big dollop of sour cream. Find the full recipe here to make Holubtsi at home.
Kolach (колач)
The last dish I'm mentioning is a bread that has traditions across a host of Slavic countries, from Belarus all the way down to Moldova. Each country makes their bread slightly differently, but all are in agreement that no special occasion would be complete without a homemade kolach. In Ukraine, this rich, yeast-leavened dough is braided or twisted into a circular shape, and is often decorated with intricate patterns and symbols that have a symbolic meaning in Ukrainian culture. Each kolach represents a symbol of luck, prosperity and good bounty, and like borscht, pampushky, varenyky and holubtsi, it's a bread that's traditionally prepared and enjoyed as part of the Christmas Eve supper. In fact, for Christmas, traditionally three kolach of different sizes are stacked together to represent the trinity, with the circular shape symbolizing eternity, and a candle placed in the middle. And the bread itself is fluffy, light, and closely resembles an Ashkenazi challah bread. Find the full recipe here to make Kolach at home.
And with that, we reach the end. Feeling inspired to cook something a little different this Christmas or in the New Year? If you want to learn more about Ukrainian cooking and culture, pre-register for our program on Ukrainian cooking, which will be led by some of Ukraine's best chefs.
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In this program, some of Ukraine's best chefs will help you explore the food, stories and culture of their country. You'll learn how to develop your own dishes like borsch and varenyky and get personalized feedback from the chefs. Discover Ukraine and pre-register for the program below.
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NOTE: Barbecue must be covered when not in use.
NOTE: Rust should be removed by a scrub pad and the surface coated with cooking oil. Cooking surfaces must be covered when not In us.
HOW HARD IS IT TO CLEAN AND WHAT ABOUT GREASE DRIPPINGS?
Cleanup is very easy due to the fact that most of this grill is stainless steel, which is why mostpeople purchased this grill at this price. The bottom tray slides out and there is a separate grease pan at the center of the tray. You can put the stainless steel grill grates and grease tray in the dishwasher. They clean right up!
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HOW DO YOU CARE FOR CAST IRON COOKING GRATES? THEY HAVE RUST ON THEM.
Note: If you have porcelain-coated cast iron grids, little or no seasoning is required.
To maintain the performance of your cast iron grates or griddle, as well as their longevity, some special care is required. As with any cast iron cooking tool, proper seasoning is most important.
Initial use : Before Grilling with your new cast Iron griddle, wash it thoroughly with our stipulated grill cleaner. Thereafter rinse it off with lukewarm water and dry it completely with a soft cloth or a paper towel. NEVER ALLOW TO DRAIN DRY, OR WASH IN A DISHWASHER. As there would be residue left behind from the grill cleaner.
Seasoning of the grid : Vegetable cooking oil is recommended for the initial seasoning. Spread a thin layer of vegetable cooking oil over the entire surface of the cooking grid or the cooking hotplate, including all corners, with a paper towel.
Preheat grid for 15 minutes. Turn burners to Medium heat with lid closed. Allow grill to heat grid for 1 to 1½ hours. Turn all burners to OFF, and leave cooking grid in grill until they are cool.
Your cast iron cooking grids are now ready to use. To prevent rusting, they should be re-seasoned frequently, particularly when new. If rust occurs, clean with a steel brush. Reapply vegetable oil and heat as indicated in the above instructions.
If you can light the grill with a match you may have an ignition switch problem. Check your igniter switch. Rotate the knob, confirm that you hear the clicking sound on your barbecue set.
Very humid or rainy weather can cause moisture to collect on the end of the probe and make the igniter unable to spark. To remedy this condition, light the grill with a match. The heat from the grill will warm the probe and should fix the problem.
If you cannot light the grill with a match you probably have a gas flow problem. Have you cleaned your burners recently? It is very important that the holes of the burner tubes are clear of any blockage. If the gas flow is restricted, the igniter would struggle to light. To clean your burners, brush the holes in an up and down motion. This cleaning should be part of your routine maintenance.
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Career Killers: "In Pursuit of Leisure" by Sugar Ray
Career Killers, Music, Reviews
Prince was right about a lot of things. It is easier 2 use the numeral "2" instead of the words "too" or "to" (and U definitely save time using the letter "U" instead of the word "you"). Changing your name to an unpronounceable symbol can be an effective way of getting out of a record contract.
And he knew 1999 was going to be a party.
Many of the biggest artists that year were primarily about fun and brought the good times and vibes. Boy bands and pop princesses were starting to dominate the charts and airwaves, while Latino dance artists like Ricky Martin, Enrique Iglesias and Jennifer Lopez were exploding in popularity. Grunge was dead and upbeat rock groups like Smash Mouth, the Goo Goo Dolls, Barenaked Ladies and Third Eye Blind all had a banner year in 1999.
Arguably, none of those rock bands were as big that year as Sugar Ray.
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Career Killers: "Results May Vary" by Limp Bizkit
What was the talk of this year's Lollapalooza festival? Was it the fact that it was the first big rock concert in Chicago since COVID-19 restrictions were lifted? Was it whether the proof of vaccination/negative test requirement for entry would be effective in preventing the show from turning into a super spreader event? (So far, it looks like it has been successful in that regard.)
No. It was Limp Bizkit seemingly replacing frontman Fred Durst with either his dad or an extra from the Beastie Boys' "Sabotage" video.
Gone was the trademark red Yankees cap. In its place was a thick hat of gray hair that made people wonder whether or not it was a wig. Throw in the long grey handlebar mustache and sunglasses and he looked like he was wearing a disguise — as if he were in witness protection or something.
The consensus: He kind of pulled it off. The other consensus: Limp Bizkit were reasonably well received by attendees and live stream viewers, most of whom probably hadn't heard of them since "Nookie." As such, in the days following the show, the band's back catalog saw a nice spike in sales and steaming numbers. Keep rollin' rollin' rollin', indeed.
Of course, there was a reason why he seemed so unrecognizable. Once reliable hitmakers and a ubiquitous presence on MTV, Limp Bizkit has been long forgotten about and reduced to a punchline — a much maligned footnote from a bygone era when nu metal was so popular, even established superstars like Metallica tried it.
This is the album that started Limp Bizkit's decline.
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Career Killers: "St. Anger" by Metallica
It's been said that great art comes out of great suffering or adversity. Eric Clapton produced his masterpiece, Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs while nursing a crippling heroin addiction and hopelessly in love with his best friend's wife. Francis Ford Coppola had a nervous breakdown and allegedly threatened to kill himself multiple times while filming his classic film, Apocalypse Now. Ludwig van Beethoven composed some of his best and most-admired works after going deaf and while suffering from terrible health problems. Vincent van Gogh was, perhaps, the archetype of the tortured artist, battling mental illness for most of his career (including the infamous episode where he cut off his own ear) and produced some of the most beloved paintings in history.
Of course, sometimes, great suffering or adversity ends up producing crap – crap so bad that the artist is never quite the same afterwards. Case in point: St. Anger by Metallica.
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"Does embolization get rid of uterine fibroids?"
I am 26 and have very large uterine fibroids. I would like to know more about embolization. Can this remove them?
Today there are many options available for treatment of uterine fibroids. The right treatment for you depends on many factors. Probably the first and more important factor is whether or not you plan on having children in the future.
If you do plan on this, then you need to take a treatment pathway that preserves your fertility. If you know you are done having kids, then most doctors will recommend hysterectomy if your fibroids are very large and/or they are causing a lot of pain or blood loss during your period. Assuming here that you do want to have kids in the future, then you have a few options. If your fibroids are causing you pain and excess bleeding during your periods, then I would start with non-steroidal anti-inflammatory treatment and iron supplements. These can reduce your pain and reduce the amount of bleeding. If your fibroids are interfering with fertility, or if medical therapy is not working, then you have two other options. One is a myomectomy, where just the fibroids are surgically removed. Possibly a better option is embolization which can be done without a surgical incision. Embolization has been shown to be very effective at causing death of the fibroids in certain patients. Basically embolization is when the blood flow to the fibroids is cut off. The physician you want to talk to about this is your OBGYN. He or she can make an assessment of your fibroids and your future wishes and determine what mode of treatment is best. Embolization is done by an interventional radiologist.


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Stéphane St-Hilaire Promoted to COO for ADESA Canada
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Toronto, ON—ADESA Canada today announced that Stephane St-Hilaire has been named chief operating officer, effective immediately. In this new role, he will have full responsibility for ADESA Canada's whole car auction operations. St-Hilaire will report directly to Benjamin Skuy, executive vice president of international markets and managing director of ADESA Canada.
"Stéphane's skill set is tremendous and will be fully utilized in moving ADESA Canada to the next level of operational execution, the fulfillment of our customer needs and implementation of strategic initiatives," said Skuy. "Our business is changing quickly, and ADESA Canada will benefit significantly from Stéphane's talents."
St-Hilaire joined ADESA Canada as chief financial officer in 1998 and then became general manager of ADESA Montreal in 1999. He later assumed the role of regional vice president, while continuing to lead ADESA Canada's largest site. More recently, he was instrumental in the acquisition of Transit Auto Auction in Quebec City, and the full integration of that auction into the ADESA fold.
He holds a degree in commerce from Laval University and a degree in administration from Limoilou College, both located in Quebec. In 1995, he also earned a chartered accountant certificate from the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants (CICA).
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India to have around 70 vehicle scrapping facilities by 2026
The government is moving ahead strongly with the new vehicle scrapping rules in the country. The plan is to increase the number of vehicle scrappage centers across India. A national conference was held on "investment opportunities on highways, transport, and logistics" in Mumbai under Nitin Gadkari the chairman of Union Minister of Road Transport. He highlighted that this new intervention will increase investment opportunities in the transportation sector.
The main highlight of the conference was investment opportunities in the government's vehicle scrappage policy. The Voluntary Vehicle-Fleet Modernization policy will help in eliminating unfit and polluting vehicles, decrease pollution by scrapping around one crore unfit vehicles, improve road and passenger safety, elevate sales in the automotive sector, improve fuel efficiency, and standardize scrappage sector in the country
Registered Vehicle Scrapping Facilities
As part of the policy, the government will introduce roughly 50-70 Registered Vehicle Scrapping Facilities (RVSFs) to dispose of unfit vehicles in a safe manner. The new infrastructure increases value extraction from around 70 percent currently to 90 to 95 percent.
Also, the Union Minister said that the Centre's Vehicle Scrapping Policy will help in creating jobs, reduce pollution, boost export, improve tax revenues from the automotive sector. Moreover, this will help in the significant growth of the automotive sector in the country.
The scrapping will be done Regardless of a vehicle's age and will be done considering its fitness. The authority will conduct Mandatory testing on private vehicles above 20 years. Also for commercial vehicles beyond 15-years, and 15-year-old government vehicles. Moreover, the body will label engineers that fail as an "End of Life" vehicle. However, an order by the Appellate Authority can help certain vehicles for a second eligibility test after going through repair and thorough inspection.
The center will kick off the new policy by scrapping end-of-life vehicles from October 1, 2022. Moreover, heavy commercial vehicles will have to undergo compulsory fitness tests from 1st April 2023. Tests for other classes will commence on 1st June 2024.
Furthermore, the government plans to introduce 75 automated vehicle testing centers in the coming years.
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Bought one around 4 years ago but when it malfunctioned (maybe not only the bulb) , was delighted to find another to replace it.


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A poodle performs Saturday during an agility event at the American Kennel Club agility trials at the Bell County Expo Center in Belton.
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Dogs put agility on display at Expo
BY LARRY CAUSEY | TELEGRAM STAFF
Larry Causey
BELTON — Most of the dogs seemed to have a good time Sunday afternoon as the Bell County Kennel Club ended four days of American Kennel Club agility trials at the Bell County Expo Center.
Judges, scorers and helpers watched as handlers guided the dogs over two courses set up in the dirt arena of the old livestock building. The jumpers course included weaves but had no contact obstacles and is more about speed, said Ricky Penn of Mesquite, a longtime dog owner.
The other course, called standard agility, included a few jumps but had a lot of contact obstacles such as tunnels, weaves and teeters. In both cases, the handlers get eight minutes to walk a course they've never seen before, Penn said.
"You try to figure out how to run the course the fastest and the cleanest," he said. "No bar and no error and the fastest wins. We go out there and we try to do our best and not mess our dogs up. It's the humans, not the dogs, who make mistakes."
A lot of handlers call the next obstacle for the dog, he said, but he uses more body language and hand signals. The only words he uses might be "table," "right" or "left."
"Being lung impaired takes away my energy to use words," he said. "I've only got about 20 to 30 seconds of run in me."
Since he is a two-time lung cancer survivor, his giant schnauzer Jazz is his bucket list dog, he said.
When he got Jazz, he said, his wife told him he couldn't have a large breed dog unless he trained it.
"I had no idea she'd be this good," Penn said. "So we've had a blast. She's good. One thing led to another and here we are."
Jazz, 8 years old, is the AKC number two ranked giant schnauzer in the nation for 2020, he said.
"We've traveled the country, from one side of the nation to the other," Penn said. "In two weeks we're going to the Orlando, Fla., invitational. They invite the top five of each breed."
Penn ran another giant schnauzer in the agility trials, named Q. He's three years old "with no brain yet," Penn said, and shows his exhilaration with the course by barking.
"You can tell he likes it," he said.
Q has an AKC master's level in the jumpers course and an excellent level in standard agility, Penn said.
Mary MacCallum of Austin brought Anna, her yellow Labrador retriever, who is 10 years old. Anna competed in the masters standard course and jumped bars 16 inches high. Anna has qualified for the AKC nationals in March 2021 in Tulsa, Okla.
"Mostly she knows the obstacles," MacCallum said. "I kind of try to guide her."
This is MacCallum's second generation of agility dogs, she said, and she started out "playing this game" with her sister.
"I think that it's a great way to work as team with your dog," she said. "And the most fun thing is you stand up at the start line and you never know what's going to happen. They may see things totally different than you do."
Trevor and Malari Smith of Cedar Park brought eight dogs to the show. Trevor was working with Daisy, 13, a border collie, who is an AKC masters agility championship dog.
He watched Malari run Jade, 2, another border collie, in the standard agility course.
"This is her first run in the excellent class," he said as Jade raced through the obstacles.
"She's got a clean one," he said after the run. "She didn't make any mistakes!"
Trevor is a dog trainer and has been training dogs since he was six years old, he said.
"Whatever you want your dog to do, you have got to find out how to reward them for it," he said. "That's the big mistake a lot of people make. They stop rewarding the dog for good behavior."
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