Hollis Hills is predominantly an upper-middle class neighborhood located in the northeastern section of Queens. Building began before World War II and continued through the 1950s. With roughly 1,200 homes and its only shopping centers and restaurants located in small clusters at 212th Street and Union Turnpike and on the corners of Union Turnpike and Springfield Boulevard, this neighborhood has remained largely unheard of, much to the delight of its residents.
One would think its quiet, tree-lined streets, oversized lots, and distinctly beautiful homes would be reason enough to live here. Surprisingly it's not the #1 attraction. School District is the primary reason that makes families choose Hollis Hills over surrounding neighborhoods. Famed PS 188 Elementary School being ranked as one of the top elementary schools in New York City has steadily driven real estate market prices for years. The diligent work of the Hollis Hills Civic association has preserved the tree lined neighborhood landscape, making Hollis Hills a top choice among home buyers.
Ringed by the Grand Central Parkway to the North, Hillside Avenue to the South, 188th Street to the West and Francis Lewis Boulevard to the East.


Playback of audio via this connection method proved itself to be very respectable indeed. There is clearly a hallmark of quality components used in the construction of the board, as I found the signal to be clean, clear and punchy without lots of noticeable digital compression. This would be an ideal way to configure your setup for music digitally while leaving the Preludes analog ports wide open for other uses.
So, initially we know that the Prelude has a good digital pathway that is very capable of sending a high quality (up to 96k) digital signal where ever you want it.
Now, let's have a shot at music testing which should give a very solid indication as to where the Prelude stands. As mentioned above, my direct comparisons are made against my Xonar 7.1 sound card which is without doubt one of the Preludes toughest competitors right now.
My first impressions were good with a very noticeable notch up from the low-end after swapping from the Xonar. Not only did the low-end sound a lot beefier, it had a lot more character to it; more warmth and depth. Now, I'm not sure how or why the low-end had been tweaked like this, but it certainly makes for a strong impression. However, if things get a bit too much down there, you can always use the quick access bass control on the front of the control suite to attenuate things to personal taste.
I also found the midrange to generally possess a lot of warmth and clarity aided by the very cool crystallizer when used, but also no less respectable when not in use. Mid-range transients were well reproduced and overall I found the middle to be very warm and inviting, less clinical than the Xonar with more mid-bass and timbre to the sound.
To carry on the statements made with regard to the mids, I found high-end reproduction to be of high-standard providing clear sparkling treble to blend seamlessly with the midrange tones. Even when the treble dial starts to slide up, things do not deteriorate at all, again demonstrating the high-quality pathways being used here.
To offer a summary to the statements made regarding musical nonce; I have over the last few weeks during testing grown very fond of the warm lush audio being processed by this card, and must say that from the perspective of a music listener this is a great card with a heap of functionality to offer and sound quality that is simply that; quality.
At the time of writing, Auzentech are working on a driver revision with full Dolby support along with DTS surround to boot. So at this stage I cannot really make a full assessment of the card in this area; only to offer the same positive comments made just above regarding music playback. I had some problems with the updating of some drivers, but this was no doubt due to a windows issue. I have no reason at this stage not to recommend Auzentech's drivers.
Gaming support is complete here because it's a Creative chip being used, buyers will reap all the many benefits of EAX in its latest 5.0 incarnation. This is one area the Xonar gets left in the dust, as it only supports EAX 3.0. It's clearly not going to be the gamers' first port of call.
To conclude, while I was not able to test movie playback with Dolby support included, all of the positive comments made above apply here in totality to the audio integrity of this board. And when matched with total support for EAX 5.0 with 64MB of RAM to aid the course, things become very attractive indeed. I have found performance to be solid right across the deck on all fronts, music, games and video.


By now you have no doubt heard that Newsboys co-founder, George Perdikis, is now an atheist. This story is personal to me because the very first Christian CD I was given after becoming a Christian (I share my story here) was Newsboys – Going Public. It was helpful and encouraging to me on my own faith journey.
I always felt uncomfortable with the strict rules imposed by Christianity. All I wanted to do was create and play rock and roll… and yet most of the attention I received was focused on how well I maintained the impossible standards of religion. I wanted my life to be measured by my music, not by my ability to resist temptation.
I left the band in 1990 and went back to Adelaide. There, I got married, taught guitar, played pubs and clubs, built homes, and had two beautiful daughters.
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Carlos Alvarado Quesada (* 14. Januar 1980 in San José) ist ein costa-ricanischer Autor und Politiker der Partido Acción Ciudadana (PAC).  Zwischen 2018 und 2022 war er Präsident von Costa Rica.

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Alvarado Quesada studierte an der Universidad de Costa Rica und an der University of Sussex. Er wurde Mitglied der PAC und war von 2006 bis 2010 Berater der PAC-Fraktion im Parlament Costa Ricas. 2014 fungierte er als Pressesprecher des Wahlkampfteams von Luis Guillermo Solis Rivera während dessen Amtszeit er von 2014 bis 2016 Minister für Entwicklung und soziale Integration war. Als Nachfolger von Víctor Morales Mora war er von 2016 bis 2017 Minister für Arbeit und soziale Sicherung seines Landes. Bei der Präsidentschaftswahl in Costa Rica 2018 erreichte er in der ersten Runde am 4. Februar 2018 mit 21,7 % der Stimmen den zweiten Platz hinter Fabricio Alvarado Muñoz (24,1 %). Damit gelang ihm der Einzug in die Stichwahl am 1. April 2018. In dieser Stichwahl setzte er sich mit 60,8 % der gültigen Stimmen durch und wurde Staats- und Regierungschef von Costa Rica in der Nachfolge von Solis Rivera. Quesada ist mit der Architektin Claudia Dobles Camargo verheiratet.

Werke (Auswahl)
 2006: Transcripciones Infieles  (gemeinschaftlich mit Perro Azul)
 2006: La historia de Cornelius Brown (ausgezeichnet mit dem Young Creation Award des Editorial Costa Rica)
 2012: Las Posesiones, Roman

Weblinks
 Nacion.com: Sobre la novela"Las posesiones"
Carlos Alvaro Quesada zum Antrittsbesuch in Berlin - Schloss Bellevue

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Präsident (Costa Rica)
Politiker (21. Jahrhundert)
Minister (Costa Rica)
Politiker (San José, Costa Rica)
Autor
Costa-Ricaner
Geboren 1980
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New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is adding her voice to the abolish ICE movement.
During a Thursday night appearance on CNN, Gillibrand told host Chris Cuomo that she aligns with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez—the first-time socialist candidate who unseated a 10-term incumbent earlier this week—on the issue.
When Cuomo pressed her on the issue of abolishing ICE altogether, Gillibrand said in no uncertain terms that she supports "getting rid of it" and creating something new in its place. "I believe that it has become a deportation force," Gillibrand continued. "And that's why I believe you should get rid of it, start over, reimagine it and build something that actually works."
Gillibrand is the first sitting senator to join growing calls to eliminate the agency, which have largely been led by activists and leftist 2018 candidates up until recently.
The movement started gaining traction on the Hill on Monday, when Wisconsin Representative Marc Pocan introduced legislation to abolish ICE. Pocan said at least two other members of the House—Arizona Representative Raul Grijalva and Massachusetts Representative Mike Capuano—have said they would support the bill.
The New York congresswoman's support for the movement to abolish ICE distinguishes her from her other peers in the Senate, notably Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders and California Senator Kamala Harris, other rumored 2020 contenders who have fallen short of backing the outright termination of ICE.
When CNN's Jake Tapper asked Sanders directly if he supports the movement, Sanders skirted the question, telling Tapper: "What we need is Trump to sit down with members of Congress and work on a rational program which deals with this serious issue."
At the moment, Gillibrand remains the senator with the strongest stance on the issue.
"I think you should separate out the criminal justice from the immigration issues," Gillibrand told Cuomo Thursday. "We believe that we should protect families that need our help and that is not what ICE is doing today."


The project focused on the promotion of organic wines from the Aquitaine region. The "wine producers' union" organised promotional and information activities, which increased the number of producers and ensured the viability of the sector.
Given a general crisis in the wine industry in France, particularly in what concerns conventional wine making, improvements had to be made. One such improvement was switching to organic means of production, which led to a sharp increase in the production of organic wines in Aquitaine over the last three years. In this context, the "syndicate of organic wine producers" developed information campaigns in order to raise awareness of organic farming and to provide relevant information to wine producers wishing to develop organic wine production.
The key objectives of the project were the promotion of organic wines and ensuring the viability of the sector. In order to achieve this, the project aimed at improving access to information regarding the wine sector; providing advisory services both for old and new organic wine makers; enhancing collaboration between wine producers; and improving the image of Aquitaine organic wine by focusing on high quality products.
The main activities included the organisation of promotional activities and information campaigns (e.g. the creation of a quarterly newsletter which was to contain concise information on technical areas, regulations, and minutes of professional meetings). In particular the information disseminated concerned: i) traceability requirements and how to respect them; ii) future regulation about organic wine production and how to prepare to respect the new legislation.
The project led to increased awareness of the organic wine sector, which improved sales and increased the value and turnover of producers of the organic wine. Also, access to economic data on the technicalities of organic wine production and future regulations helped wine producers to better plan their production and better advertise their products, which made some of them more confident about the possibility to convert their conventional production into organic.
This project showed the importance of the syndicate of organic wine producers in facilitating the growth of a small sector. Even if organic wine was of high quality it still needed to be accompanied by adequate marketing to further improve its market opportunities and those of the producers.
The entire project is located in Aquitaine except the organization of the competition for organic wines which took place at the BioFach fair in Nuremberg, Germany. The beneficiary has access to Measure 111 as well (total budget € 23 249; EAFRD € 9 299, national contribution € 9,299 and private contribution € 4,651).


I have blogged about Laporte Avenue Nursery before...and I suspect I shall do so many more times in the future...Kirk Fieseler and Karen Lehrer who co-own this nursery are not just dear friends of mine, they're two of the leading lights in my favorite realm of alpine gardening--and they've not gotten their due in my opinion. I just visited their nursery last week--and was enchanted with what they are up to. but I found a lot of pictures I took last year of their nursery (and there are a lot more) at peak bloom time, which is something to behold. Rare plant nurseries are wonderful at all times, but in April and May they're beyond wonderful!
They grow everything well--from rare dwarf conifers to all manner of alpines. They're the go-to place if you want a good assortment of saxifrages--essential rock garden plants that have likewise not had their due in recent years. What a range of colors!
Here is the propagator extraordinaire! It is said Karen can put roothairs on matchsticks and toothpicks: she has a way with plants that is enviable. She is one of the wisest, kindest and loveliest people I've ever known: a visit with Karen is like a breath of spring air!
Laporte Avenue Nursery is situated on Kirk's home property: I imagine having a wholesale, mail-order and sometimes retail (they open up for sales to friends and visitors once a year) must be a hassle for Kirk and his family--but I've never heard a complaint about it from him. The setting is so enchanting, so beautifully laid out and so inspiring: one wonderful garden after another, impeccable greenhouses, planting fields lined out, vegetable gardens, perennial gardens: even a hen house with a green roof! Kirk is an uncannily savvy plantsman who loves trees as well as alpines, and has done a great deal to popularize Jerry Morris's dwarf conifer selections.
You will not find glacier lilies in many gardens, but Kirk grew this patch from seed that's in one of their wonderful display rock gardens that blooms reliably every spring. I love their fragrance!
They even grow a few cacti!
There are wondeful trough gardens here and there throughout the nursery--all filled with treasures!
Their display gardens now only show off the plants beautifully, but serve as backups for their propagation needs...very clever.
Laporte is the only nursery I know of any more that offers the superb Sand Phlox of the Midwest--which I have grown since I was a very young child, purchased from Lounsberry Gardens--we're taking half centuries here!
I'm quite sure this has been put in at least another half dozen genera since I first learned it with this name: this looks to be an especially compact form!
What a treat it is to see the more unusual native phloxes offered for sale instead of just Phlox subulata. Although they grow lots of those too!
Not sure which pasqueflower this is. And notice the Raoulia in front of it!
And they do troughs! Lots of troughs..
There's an old saying that we all begin and end our gardening careers growing Sempervivum--as children because they're so easy to grow and as old gardeners--for the same reason! In between, some disdain these fabulous plants. But when they are grown like this, you can see why they should be treasured!
I love the dark colors in many of the succulents--I think the lower right is actually Delosperma seanii-hoganii--surely the most ungainly Latin name honoring the most delightful of people. I'll save that for another rant.
Watching the rare plant mats arrayed like this is so gratifying: I make a pilgrimage to Laporte a couple times of years to see what treasures they've accrued, and mostly to worship their wonderfully grown flats and flats and flats of alpine treasure.
Here two Primula species--P. hirsuta on the left and P. elatior again on the right: both are wonderful garden plants.
Each Laporte greenhouse is like a little Cathedral of rock garden treasure. Even if you're not an alpine fanatic (like me) you will find choice woodlanders and some unusual perennials or xeric plants to grace your garden. Do click on their website * and drool over their myriad offerings: and make sure you put your order in early for spring: I'm determined that they sell out by mid-summer this year!
*If you clicked on the link, you will be directed to their Website: their Logo and a few gew-gaws are missing (software malfunction) but more importantly, the links to the plants are there, and many more pictures. That works just fine! I suspect their fix the cosmetic stuff before springtime, but Karen and Kirk's priorities are always the plants: they grow the best and they grow them like no one else--I don't know what I'd do without this flagship nursery of the Rockies and far beyond!
Now I have to decide which to visit first if I ever get to Denver, the Denver Botanic Garden or the Laporte Ave nursery. I guess it will be the Denver Botanic Garden since I will not want to leave all the plants I will have purchased in my car. I only hope they will let me shop after driving 1000 miles.
You will never find wiser, kinder or more generous people than Karen and Kirk: you just have to arrange the visit in advance is all (they are enormously productive because they are enormously focused and hard working): they're quite simply the best at what they do because of it! A visit to their nursery is inspirational: I always come away with great ideas and a SLUG of treasures for much too low a price!


Ann Lowe, the 1959 Holyoke Grand Colleen, will receive the St. Patrick's Parade Committee's Thomas Rohan Award.
HOLYOKE - The Holyoke St. Patrick's Parade Committee has named Ann Lowe the 62nd Rohan Award Recipient.
She becomes the first former Grand Colleen to receive the award.


Something to test even the axe-wielding mongrel.
I think you are right. What a beautifull tree.
Just imagine the work cutting a log like that with the 2 man crosscut saw. No free lunch in those days.
The way my back feels today, after cutting more firewood this week, I shudder lookin' at that crosscut!
They can't compete with that massive log posted by Hughie, but these Australian Red Cedar logs (axe felled) would have made some reasonable spindle blanks.
They were cut from out family farm in the late 1940's. Grandfather on the right. Older brother on the left, now in his 70's.
Shame they didn't leave one for me!
Wood running in your veins Neil.


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La OMER, ovvero Officine Meccaniche Emiliane Reggio, è stata una casa motociclistica italiana attiva tra il 1948 e la metà degli anni ottanta.

Storia
Fondata da Guglielmo Pezzarossa, ex dipendente delle Reggiane, l'azienda iniziò l'attività costruendo motocarri per conto di Benelli e Parilla; a fine anni cinquanta cominciò a produrre motocarri con proprio marchio e motori NSU da 50 a 250 cc, poi sostituiti con propulsori Minarelli e Franco Morini.

A metà anni sessanta la OMER affiancò alla produzione di motocarri quella di ciclomotori da trasporto e da turismo. Del 1968 è il Miura Cross, ciclomotore da fuoristrada ispirato alla Bultaco Pursang da Cross che ottenne un buon successo commerciale e sportivo (tre titoli regionali emiliani consecutivi di motocross tra il 1969 e il 1971).

Al Miura Cross, aggiornato nel corso degli anni, si affiancarono negli anni settanta altri modelli, tra cui il tubone Maggiolino, lo Scrambler (disponibile anche in cilindrata 125 cc), le minimoto Daytona e Vallelunga, il chopper Mantide e il Tanga, piccolo ciclomotore pieghevole. Nello stesso decennio la OMER assemblò ciclomotori per conto della Garelli, per la quale realizzò alcuni modelli di telaio.

La crisi del settore dei ciclomotori di metà anni Ottanta portò la OMER, come molte altre aziende del settore, a chiudere i battenti: tra le ultime realizzazioni vi è lo Skipper, evoluzione del Tanga.

Bibliografia
Mario Schepis, Buon lavoro!, Motociclismo d'Epoca 4/2008, Edisport, Milano, pagg. 78-81

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Let us now help you evaluate your journey towards an intelligent SOC? Let's take a look at the some of the must-haves that as a CISO or a SOC manager you should look at:
Using multisource threat intelligence to gain visibility. Establishing an intelligent SOC begins with reevaluating how we collate and manage the millions of threat-focused data-points that we are barraged with. Having visibility is of utmost importance so that you can see activities that are otherwise unavailable to you and correlating disparate indicators. An intelligent and responsive SOC will help you collate all this data together from multisource points and then help you translate it into a uniform format for you to make sense of it tactically & strategically.
A smart SOC fails if it cannot prioritize all the alerts it collects & decipher meaningful patterns from it. With new, advanced techniques in machine learning, user and entity behavior analysis (UEBA), and real-time threat intelligence, an evolved SIEM can turn data into insight – this is the shift that industry leaders keep referring to from the term 'threat intelligence' to 'security intelligence'. This allows you to operationalize security intelligence, and you gaining context for analyzing and understanding the relevance to your environment.
As a CISO, you must review how effective and efficient your SOC's analytics capabilities are. In particular, consider how scalable your SIEM platform is, and whether it's evolved sufficiently to handle disparate data sources and types.
Automate whenever feasible
To automate or to not automate! And what precisely to automate - a predicament that many CISOs have lost sleep over. However, in the intelligent SOC, human intervention is a must but certain time-intensive and repetitive manual tasks can surely be automated. An intelligent SOC must feature security orchestration, automation and response (SOAR) capabilities that dramatically increase its effectiveness and its peoples. This capability helps reduce noise, so one can focus on what really matters to the organization rather than wasting time and resources chasing meaningless or false alarms. A full SOAR solution will automate the common activities, while orchestration improves your team's process of working through the investigations.
Therefore a CISO should examine how his tools and processes aid in the very important process of dealing with threats once you detect them.
Proactive hunting
Be on top of the latest updates and news about the latest threats and attacks. As soon as you hear of something that's shaken the security industry, go on a proactive hunt. Look out for patterns, alerts, signals for something that could have been missed. With the Smart SOC platform acting as your virtual war room, work collaboratively with your team sharing threat data, forensics, and evidence
This kind of collaborative effort; updates your SOC platform continuously with new data and learnings, intelligence is reexamined and realigned to support proactive threat hunting breaking down the silos between the security and risk management groups. As a CISO you must educate your Security specialists of such events and gets hands-on with your team to proactively look for threats.
Your journey could entail each and more of these or perhaps only a few of these pointers to be put into place, as components of an intelligent SOC also includes things you already may have in place. As you evolve your SOC to an intelligent SOC, evaluate where are the loopholes of visibility, analytics, automation, and risk for your organization. Having that knowledge is key to building your SOC roadmap that delivers maximum impact and cost-effectiveness for your organization.

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At 3,433 acres, Pratt's Wayne Woods Forest Preserve in Wayne is the largest forest preserve in the county. It offers great fishing and a place to fly model planes and is home to the Brewster Creek Marsh Nature Preserve. The preserve is located on the outwash plain of the West Chicago Moraine. Made up largely of wetlands, this landscape combines calcium-rich water with wet sandy soil to support plant life more commonly seen near Lake Michigan.
Pratt's Wayne Woods is home to over 1,000 species of native plants and animals. Below the savanna's widely spaced oaks grow dogbane, pale-leaved sunflower and smooth yellow violet wildflowers. In the marshy areas, explorers can view great Angelica, marsh marigold, shooting star, nodding ladies' tresses and spotted joe-pye weed as well as egrets, great blue herons and wood ducks. The preserve's grasslands and wetland habitats are successful breeding sites for sandhill cranes, Henslow's sparrows, least bitterns, yellow-headed blackbirds and other rare species.
In 1998 the Forest Preserve District started work on the Brewster Creek Wetland Restoration Project in the north central part of the preserve. Since then, it's removed agricultural drain tiles, resaturating the soil and returning over 130 acres to viable wetland ecosystems. In 2005 work at the site unearthed the 12,000-year-old remains of a mastodon, giving it paleontological as well as ecological significance.
In 2004 Audubon named the forest preserve an Important Bird Area, and in 2012 the Illinois Nature Preserves Commission gave 256 acres of the preserve an extra level of protection by designating it as the Brewster Creek Marsh Nature Preserve.
The main entrance is west of Route 59 on the west side of Powis Road, north of Army Trail Road and south of Stearns Road. Harrier Lake is on the south side of Stearns Road 0.5 mile east of Powis Road.
Enjoy hiking, bicycling, cross-country skiing and horseback riding on more than 12 miles of forest preserve trails. A stretch of the Illinois Prairie Path Elgin Branch cuts through the preserve as well.
In accordance with the Illinois Natural Areas Preservation Act, dogs and bicycles are not allowed within the Brewster Creek Marsh Nature Preserve.
Horseback riders should park their trailers in the gravel lot on the east side of Powis Road and should not ride in developed recreational areas, such as picnic areas and campgrounds.
The Wayne-DuPage Hunt Club has been riding in the area for over 100 years and continues to host equestrian events at the forest preserve. As a result of these events and other horse trial groups, horse jumps are located throughout the preserve but are only for advanced riders. License agreements and special use permits allow the use of a portion of the nature preserve buffer area only for special equestrian events.
Groups can reserve the 100-person picnic shelter as well. Details are on our Picnicking page.
Pratt's Wayne Woods offers 58 acres of the finest fishing in the county at Pickerel Lake, Catfish Pond, Horsetail Pond, Beaver Slough and catch-and-release-only Harrier Lake. All five lakes contain largemouth bass, catfish and other popular species; Pickerel Lake contains rainbow trout as well.
Anglers 16 or older who are not legally disabled must carry valid Illinois fishing licenses (inland trout stamps, too, if they're fishing for trout). Creel limits, minimum lengths and other regulations are on our Fishing page.
Pratt's Wayne Woods' youth-group campground has two sites that can each accommodate up to 25 campers.
If you enjoy flying model planes or drones, you can do so at the at the designated field on Stearns Road but must have a valid Forest Preserve District permit in your possession.
The area's first private landowner was Mark Wentworth Fletcher, a local surveyor. Fletcher purchased 320 acres from the federal government on Feb. 18, 1846, and built a farmhouse along Dunham Road.
The land changed hands several times before coming under the ownership of Franz Palm. The Palm family had originally intended the land to be their retirement home, but the state of Illinois had other plans and purchased Fletcher's original 320 acres with the intent of creating a state park. It abandoned the idea, though, and in 1965 donated 221 acres to the Forest Preserve District. George Pratt, a township supervisor and Forest Preserve District commissioner in the 1960s and 70s, became the driving force behind the acquisition of additional lands, selling his family's adjacent 250-acre Maple Spring Farm in 1974 to the District rather than a developer.
Now at 3,478 acres, Pratt's Wayne Woods is the largest forest preserve in the county. Combined with James Pate Philip State Park to the north, it forms a continuous 4,000-acre stretch of open space.


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package org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.webapp.dao;

import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.api.records.Resource;
import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.scheduler.fair.AllocationConfiguration;
import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.scheduler.fair.FSQueue;
import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.scheduler.fair.FairScheduler;
import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.scheduler.fair.FairSchedulerConfiguration;
import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.scheduler.fair.QueueManager;
import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.util.SystemClock;
import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.util.resource.DefaultResourceCalculator;
import org.junit.Assert;
import org.junit.Test;

import java.util.Collection;

import static org.mockito.Mockito.mock;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.when;

public class TestFairSchedulerQueueInfo {

  @Test
  public void testEmptyChildQueues() throws Exception {
    FairSchedulerConfiguration conf = new FairSchedulerConfiguration();
    FairScheduler scheduler = mock(FairScheduler.class);
    AllocationConfiguration allocConf = new AllocationConfiguration(conf);
    when(scheduler.getAllocationConfiguration()).thenReturn(allocConf);
    when(scheduler.getConf()).thenReturn(conf);
    when(scheduler.getClusterResource()).thenReturn(Resource.newInstance(1, 1));
    when(scheduler.getResourceCalculator()).thenReturn(
        new DefaultResourceCalculator());
    SystemClock clock = SystemClock.getInstance();
    when(scheduler.getClock()).thenReturn(clock);
    QueueManager queueManager = new QueueManager(scheduler);
    queueManager.initialize(conf);

    FSQueue testQueue = queueManager.getLeafQueue("test", true);
    FairSchedulerQueueInfo queueInfo =
        new FairSchedulerQueueInfo(testQueue, scheduler);
    Collection<FairSchedulerQueueInfo> childQueues =
        queueInfo.getChildQueues();
    Assert.assertNotNull(childQueues);
    Assert.assertEquals("Child QueueInfo was not empty", 0, childQueues.size());
  }
}


The course of the Rhone river, between the city of Vienne in the north and south to Avignon, encompasses an enormous wine growing region of great diversity. It can roughly be divided in two. The Northern Rhone vineyards represent only a small amount of the wine produced but many of the AC communes are located here, expressing the quality of the wine produced. Further south the valley opens out and it is warmer. The range of soils and grapes varies multiplies, as do winemaking methods.


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Prosites is sending an email every few seconds telling me my site is expired?
one of my sites expired and prosites is sending me an email every few seconds to inform me of this. This seems a little overkill. Is there any way to fix this easily? It's pretty urgent because I don't want my clients to get it.
Can you update plugin to the latest version? I noticed that you still using previous one.
Did you maybe recently done server migration? We had similar case when migration didn't go well and this triggered multiple emails.
Yes i will update it - and no, I haven't done a server migration in quite a while.
Could you manage to update the plugin? I still see Pro Site version 3.5.1.8 on your site which is an old version. Can you please confirm when you are done updating? Moreover, would you mind allowing support access so we can have a closer look at this?
Past errors here. If file is very long, please paste them to a text file and attach with your reply.
As email related error are most of the times not logged in WP debug log, we may need to check the server log too. But please provide us with the items I mentioned above for now and we will try our level best to find the reason and solve the problem for you.
Sorry for the late response, it didn't happen for a while but it did today. I did update the plugin. I just noticed that the WPMU Dev menu is not in my wordpress backend, even though the plugin is enabled. Weird.
Is Pro Sites still sending emails after update? Or you updated it before it started sending emails again?


The luxury hotel management group said it expected to open the new hotels in locations including Frankfurt, Kuwait, the Maldives, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Shanghai.
Jumeirah is one of Dubai's prized assets. The hotelier said on Wednesday it so far had a total of 32 management agreements to operate hotels globally.
"Jumeirah Group reaffirms its growth strategy of having 60 hotels signed up by 2012," the company said. "The company also feels confident that it will have 30 hotels open in 2013."
In Dubai, the hotelier's beachfront properties saw occupancy of 92.5 percent in April and an average of 89 percent in February and March, it said.
In New York, Jumeirah Essex House registered average occupancy rates of 85 percent in April, with "strong business on the books for the late Spring and Summer seasons".
London properties saw a similar performance, it said.
The company also named VENU Hotels as its new brand, to launch later this year, after locations of its first set of hotels is confirmed.
"The Group is in advanced stages of negotiation with developers interested in opening VENU branded hotels in the Middle East, Northern Africa, Eastern Europe and Asia-Pacific," the firm said.


You may decide to have breast reduction surgery for many different reasons. Perhaps your breasts cause you pain and discomfort when running or doing other types of exercise. Another common reason for breast reduction surgery is to scale back disproportionately large breasts. Many people are surprised to learn that male breast reduction surgery is one of the fastest growing cosmetic procedures, although women still make up the vast majority of breast reduction surgery patients. These top three benefits of breast reduction surgery may better inform your decision about what's best for your health.
Having large, heavy breasts can cause discomfort, pain and irritation throughout your upper body. Breast reduction surgery helps reduce the back and neck pain and strain caused by large breasts. The reduction surgery can also reduce the skin irritation and painful shoulder indentations caused by the bras needed to support large, heavy breasts.
Large, heavy breasts can get in the way of your participation in physical activities and exercise. Your breasts could make it difficult or even impossible to run, rock climb or participate in other sports. After your reduction surgery, you'll be able to try out new sports or get more involved in your favorites.
If your breasts are disproportionately large compared to the rest of your body, having reduction surgery helps to correct your proportions. Smaller breasts may also help to improve your posture and reduce the aches and pains associated with poor posture. You may also find that your clothes fit better and you enjoy wearing v-neck shirts and swimsuits after your reduction surgery.
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This is life. This is you.
Welcome to a place that celebrates you and your career.
This isn't about where you've been.
This is about where you're going.
This is what we have belief in.
We're more than you think.
As a leading healthcare group, we run care homes, health centres, dental centres and hospitals all over the world. As well as provide insurance to over 16 million people.
We're a big company but our purpose is simple – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives.
With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. We reinvest profits into providing better healthcare for the benefit of current and future customers.
Take a first step in my career
Care for people
Apply my expertise
Do a bit of everything
Be challenged
Find the right area
Here are a few places you might want to start.
The Bupa story
Apprenticeships programme
Balance and wellbeing
The Bupa Code
Our future ambitions
Individual personalities, unique stories – here's what our people have to say.
Pediatric Manager
"I have five sisters, one is biological, the rest are people my mum has collected over the years. She's West Indian, so for her, that's very normal. There's always been people in my home who needed help. So I guess, somewhere in there has been that intrinsic message of caring for others."
Therapy Manager
"The staff and teams are friendly here and you meet loads of people from all over the world. You make friends for life and learn a lot as a person and professionally. It's the people that make the hospital. We're fortunate to have an energetic and enthusiastic team that has strong clinical experience."
Executive Recruitment Manager
"Joining Bupa has been one of the best decisions I've made. I feel at home being part of a company whose values and ethics reflect my own, it makes for a perfect working environment. Everyone here understands our purpose and we all work together to provide the best experience we can."
Domiciliary Care Assistant
"I treat residents like they were my own parents. I'm involved in their lives all the time. So it makes me feel like I am part of the family. Everyday brings something new in a care home, pulling on all sorts of emotions throughout the week, and I wouldn't change it for the world."
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"I think everybody's helped me and been instrumental in saying: "of course you can do that, these are the steps that you need to do to get there". Opportunities here are very open to everybody and that's something that is so important to me and the rest of my team."
"Dentistry is such a rewarding field, not only are you developing your skills but you're enabling people to smile again. There are moments every week where you feel like you're really making a difference to people's lives and that is quite an incredible and special feeling."
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No matter what your role is at Bupa, we have some shared beliefs and celebrate our differences.
This is where our values come in – by breaking down how we can turn our beliefs into reality. Not only do our values mirror how we work, they encapsulate what we look for in our people. They are: Accountable, Caring, Courageous, Authentic, Open, Passionate and Extraordinary.
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Do you want to be part of our strategic ambitions? We have a range of roles spread across many areas for you to choose from.
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You never know what kind of call is going to come next but you know that you're going to make a difference every time.
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Our aim is simple – to deliver world-class patient care in dentistry. If you want to be a part of our mission then look no further.
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Be a part of a team who are committed to each and every customer and turn great service into your motivation.
Find your feet in an industry with lots of potential. From technology to looking after customers, there's something for everyone.
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Ropes & Gray Named Finalist for Asian Legal Business Korea Law Awards 2014
Ropes & Gray was named as a finalist for ALB's Korea Law Awards 2014 in the following categories:
"Foreign Law Firm of the Year"
"IP Law Firm of the Year"
"Overseas Practice Law Firm of the Year"
In addition to these firm awards, international corporate partner William Kim was named as a finalist for the "Managing Partner of the Year" award.
These awards recognize the achievements of leading law firms and in-house legal teams based in Korea.
The winners will be announced on Nov. 14 at an awards ceremony in Seoul.
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City Plan of Savannah
About civil engineering
ASCE Interchange
Notable civil engineers
Nominate a landmark
Surveys & Maps
The city plan of Savannah is the oldest city plan in the United States to use a repetitive modular grid with mixed residential blocks and multi-purpose public areas, a concept still being emulated by urban planners today.
The Savannah city plan, whose execution began in 1733, is distinguished from those of previous colonial towns by the repeated pattern of connected neighborhoods, multiple squares, streets, and designed expansion into lands held by the city. It is unique in the history of urban planning in a number of aspects, not the least of which is that the squares allow for more open space in Savannah than any city layout in history.
The basic plan unit is a ward, 600 feet to a side in the north-south direction, and 540 feet to 600 feet in the east-west direction. Street and building lots are organized around a central square. The streets bounding the wards allow uninterrupted movement of traffic while the internal streets are interrupted by the squares to create a pedestrian-friendly scale. The four corners of each ward contained a "Tything." A tything consisted of ten house lots each. These ten house lots were reserved for the private homes of the settlers. Each house lot measured the same, 60 feet in width and 90 feet in depth. Sometimes they were divided into increments of 20 or 30 feet, thereby creating a diverse pattern of building sizes and types. On the east and west flank of the square were positioned four larger lots called the "Trustee Lots." They were reserved for public structures such as churches, banks, or government buildings.
Savannah's plan reflects political and organizational considerations of the day. Each ward had tythingmen, who shared guard and other duties. Wards were tied to a larger regional plan of garden and farm lots. The repetitive non-hierarchal placement of wards, squares, and equal-sized lots points to the utopian ideals of the colony. The city plan also proved to be very adaptable and allowed the city to grow and develop. The city used the power gained through municipal ownership of the common to shape growth in the public interest.
As a synthesis of planning ideals that respond to social, military, environmental, and philosophical needs, the Savannah city plan stands out among American colonial town plans. This model has produced a city internationally known for the beauty of its neighborhood squares. It is a most notable example of an urban planning concept still emulated by modern civil engineers-planners.
Bacon, Edmund N. Design of Cities, (rev. ed.), New York: Viking, 1974.
Reps, John W. "C2 + L2 = S2? Another look at the Origins of Savannah's Town Plan," in Forty Years of Diversity: Essays on Colonial Georgia, ed. by Harvey H. Jackson and Phinizy Spalding, Athens: University of Georgia, 1984.


Some French catfish have started hunting pigeons. The catfish of river Tarn, Southern France who were brought into this river three decades ago have learnt the technique of hunting for unknown reasons.
Scientists observed that the catfish waited in shallow waters for their prey. The hunting strategy of these fish is similar to the breaching killer whales that hunt seals on ice floes. Scientists believe that while waiting for their prey, the fish sense the vibrations of the approaching pigeons using their whiskers. The scientists have recorded 54 such breaching behaviors.
The competition for food resources in the river might have caused these fish to feed on pigeons. The fish silently wait for their feathered prey in shallow waters and risk being stranded on the bank to catch them. The success rate of this hunting strategy is 28 percent which means that only 28 times out of 100 these fish succeed in dragging their prey to water and swallow them later. Scientists believe that lesser number of the usual prey like crayfish and other smaller fish might have forced the catfish to start hunting.
Next article A Present Day Couple Captured In a Photograph 15 Years Before They Had Even Met at Disneyland- A tale of Sensational Odds.


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Q: Python lru_cache usage optimization Say I have this method that I cache using lru_cache:
@lru_cache(maxsize=8)
def very_expensive_call(number):
    # do something that's very expensive
    return number

I am calling this method like this:
print([very_expensive_call(i) for i in range(10)]) # call_1

Because the maxsize of the cache is 8, only numbers 2-9 are cached at this point.
After call_1, I am doing call_2:
print([very_expensive_call(i) for i in range(10)]) # call_2

During call_2, again first number 0 is called (not in cache!), and after that numbers 0 and 3-9 are cached.
Then number 1 is called (not in cache!) and after that numbers 0-1 and 4-9 are cached.
Well, you see where this is going: the cache is never used...
I understand that for this specific example I could alternate between range(... and reverse(range(... but in a more complicated scenario that's probably not possible.
Question: Is it possible to inspect which numbers are cached and to order the calls based on that? What would be the overhead for this?

A: No, no, the cache used in lru is specifically designed to not be public-facing. All its internals are encapsulated for thread safety and in order to not break code if the implementation changes.
Apart from that, I don't think it is a good idea to base your input based on caching, you should cache based on your input. If your callable is not periodically called with the same arguments, maybe a cache is not the best option.

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Kings of the Sun is a american style, New Zealand's hops IPA.
Pours clean, mid-light amber, with virtually no head. Beautiful nose, too bad is not followed by same level of taste.
A bit flat, quick finish. Overall good beer, just need more flavor (malt?) and a bit of a appearance.


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Art, Math, Cosmology
We're upstairs in ICA's second-floor gallery and Ingrid says, "You know how in architect's models they always have these tiny plastic people? Well we are the tiny people in this model of Anne Tyng's new project."
URBAN HIERARCHY (1969-71; unbuilt), model. Courtesy of the Architectural Archives, University of Pennsylvania, by the gift of Anne G. Tyng
ICA's new exhibition, Anne Tyng: Inhabiting Geometry, opened last month, and it looks magnificent. I've written before about the huge plywood helixes the architect designed for the show, how they circle gracefully down from the high ceiling, and about the enormous shapes—tetrahedron, cube, dodecahedron—big enough to stand in. But I hadn't quite made the leap Ingrid is making: that the whole installation is an architect's model that has tasted the right side of the mushroom.
This is the docent walkthrough, the time when the people who will give tours to the public get the ur-tour from the curators. ICA's Senior Curator, Ingrid Schaffner, organized the Anne Tyng exhibition, along with consulting curator and architect Srdjan Weiss—who translated Tyng's extensive diagrams and exacting calculations into these fine built forms we're standing in the midst of—and William Whitaker, the curator of Penn's architectural archives which collaborated with ICA on the project and lent the drawings, models, letters, and plans. (It seems like there should be a joke in here: how many curators does it take to change a light bulb? But I don't know what the punch line is.) Ingrid knows what she'd like the docents to emphasize, and sometimes what she'd like them to leave out, and this is the moment for her to make her pitch. You can see her delight in how well the installation turned out as she points out the shadows the helixes cast on the walls: "I like to encourage people to look at these things as a sculpture in the space," she says.
Photo: J. Katz
Ingrid points out the two C-shaped tables on which the models of Tyng's projects sit, explaining that these are bigger versions of Tyng's actual desk (putting them into the show was Srdjan's idea). She takes us through the models: the Buck's county elementary school, the four-poster house, the famous City Tower project, saying, "She's thinking in the most literal way about how architecture fits into the cosmos." Then she shows us the drawings of the house Tyng designed for her parents in Eastern Maryland, a house that survived many a hurricane before fire finally took it. The structure—the space frame—is radical, but the expression is vernacular, so the house fits in with the local cottages and barns. "I think it's important to point visitors to the drawing," Ingrid says. "It's a kind of incredible minimalist drawing, and it's also an engineering drawing." As architecture itself is half art, half math. Or maybe in Tyng's case, a third each art, math, and cosmology.
"I think, in all the years I've been at ICA, this is the best use of the space," one of the docents says, looking up into the open spiraling helix. We all nod, converts to the religion of geometry.


Naga Chilli Vodka: With 250,000 Scovilles, is this the world"s HOTTEST chilli vodka?
Vodka fans with an adventurous side can add a bit of spice to their lives as Master of Malt launches the world's hottest chilli vodka.
At 250,000 on the Scoville scale, the new Naga Chilli Vodka is so hot it comes with a special health warning.
Its launch comes just months after the company released the 100,000 Scovilles Naga Chilli Vodka.
The new version is 2.5 times hotter.
The chilli used in the vodka is the Naga Jolokia, which is known to be one of the hottest chillis it is possible to grow, and rates higher on the Scoville scale than most law-enforcement grade pepper sprays.
Each Scoville unit denotes how many times the chilli must be diluted by its own mass of water until the heat is only just detectable.
A Jalapeno has an estimated 5,000 Scovilles. The Naga Jolokia can exceed 1,000,000 Scovilles.
of vodka with 18kg of the fiery peppers.
left for several weeks to infuse.
Once the vodka has turned a dark caramel colour, the infusion is complete and the vodka can be bottled.
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'I was blas when the small, sinister-looking bottle of Naga Chilli vodka landed on my desk. Sure, it was made of the formidable Naga chilli – known to be one of the world's hottest – and it promised to pack a palate-scorching 250,000 Scovilles – but I didn't believe it could pose too much of a problem.
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Shawbrook Bank reduces buy-to-let range to just three products
Home News Mortgages Shawbrook Bank reduces buy-to-let range to just three products
Nigel Woollsey
Shawbrook Bank has announced that it is cutting the number of buy-to-Let (BTL) deals that it offers down to three products. This follows the bank's move from 10 BTL products down to seven in November 2019.
The three products now available are Single BTL, Complex BTL and Larger HMO (House of Multiple Occupancy). The Single BTL is suitable for property investors looking to borrow a maximum of £750,000. Those who need to borrow more than this sum, as well as those with a multiple property portfolio or small HMO, will be directed to the Complex BTL mortgage product. Finally, there is a dedicated BTL mortgage product for those who need to buy or refinance a property with seven or more tenants.
Shawbrook Bank has also adjusted its interest rates for these products, which now start at 3.25%.
New online BTL process
In addition to the above, Shawbrook Bank has introduced a new online BTL application form to improve the experience for mortgage brokers.
The online form will pull through information that has already been provided by the broker during the initial stages, removing the need to re-key this data when progressing the case. With constant interruptions being commonplace in the busy day-to-day of a typical broker, an autosave feature has also been built in so the user can come back at a later stage without any progress being lost.
Once completed, the broker will receive a PDF copy of the application for their records making for a much-improved experience.
Emma Cox, sales director of the Property Division at Shawbrook Bank, commented: "After hearing the positive feedback around our refresh late last year, we immediately looked to take another step towards further improving the broker and customer experience with Shawbrook.
"It's crucial to ensure complete clarity for the broker community when it comes to one's products, and we feel this simplification really ticks that box to make us even easier to do business with.
"With a digital application form now available to our brokers that has received glowing feedback so far, I'm delighted with the positive start we have made to 2020."
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illustrations 94 Vocabulary tests to accompany the popular English Vocabulary in Use Elementary second edition. Test Your English Vocabulary in Use Elementary 2nd edition can be used on its own or with the companion volume English Vocabulary in Use Elementary 2nd edition. It is a handy book of tests covering the vocabulary practised in English Vocabulary in Use Elementary 2nd edition. (ISBN: 9780521136211 - When referring to this item please quote our stock ID: 19971) View more info


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