Ch 9: CLEP Social Sciences and History: Industrialization & Urbanization in the U.S.
Consisting of engaging online video lessons, this Industrialization and Urbanization in the U.S. chapter was developed to teach you about the leaders and movements of the Second Industrial Revolution. You'll have opportunities to learn about the Populist Party Platform and the events of the Industrial Revolution. Test your retention with the self-assessment quizzes in each lesson.
Economic Policies During the Second Industrial Revolution Learn about monetary policies and taxes during the Second Industrial Revolution.
American Industry Development in the Gilded Age: Bessemer Process, Scientific Management and New Business Models Discover how mass production processes were transformed during the Gilded Age.
Andrew Carnegie and the Robber Barons Study the business practices of Andrew Carnegie and other industrial leaders.
Labor Conditions During the Second Industrial Revolution Examine the working conditions in factories and cotton mills.
Gilded Age Politics: Political Machines and Civil Service Reform Learn about the presidents of the Gilded Age.
The Grange and the Populist Party Platform: Goals, History and Definitions Study the farming industry and the history of the Granger movement.
Immigration in Industrial America and the Rise of Nativism Read about America's response to immigration during the Industrial Revolution.
Urbanization During the Second Industrial Revolution in America: Effects and Problems Discuss the effects and challenges of urban planning.
The Social Gospel Movement: Definitions and Goals of Urban Reform Movements Learn about the efforts of Christians to improve the living conditions of the poor in urban areas.
Middle Class Opportunities in American Cities During the Second Industrial Revolution Explore the new technologies and educational advancements of the Second Industrial Revolution.
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There are a host of good footpaths and routes around Chelsworth and the surrounding villages. Here is a selection of three.
There is general free access to the watermeadows that lie along the River Brett as it flows east then southeast from Chelsworth. There are many options for extensions visible along the way. Please note that from time to time livestock (mainly sheep, occasionally cattle and the very occasional placid bull) graze the watermeadows. Please keep dogs on the leash if in the least bit unsure. In the relatively unlikely event of there being cattle in a section of the Water meadows and you do not feel confident, there are plenty of options to bypass a section by crossing into an adjoining higher field and then re-entering the water meadows further along. Please also remember to shut all gates behind you.
There are innumerable photo opportunities along the meadows, with scenic twists in the river, alder and willow trees, abundant wildlife etc. There are otter in the river as well as plenty of water vole. The otter are only rarely spotted however. There are Egrets, Cormorants, Duck, Geese, Swans, Barn and Tawny Owl, Kestrels, Buzzards and plenty of Kingfishers in the area (as well a countless other species). A sign of a good local ecology is the number of dragon and damselfly species - present in abundance!
Early mornings are especially good for photography. Aim to start about one hour before sunrise to get the best light. Occasionally there is lovely layered mist. Generally if the is alittle mist in the village, there is more along the water meadows.
The path opens out into the broad Water Meadows. (Near the far end of the first meadow there is a broad gate and beyond it a bridge across the river. If you want a shorter walk, cross the bridge and head across the small meadow to reach Parsonage Lane then turn left to walk up the the main village street and left again to walk back home).
For the full walk however, continue along the broad open water meadows until the first meadow narrows to a rather muddy point. Cross the low barrier here into the next section of water meadow that curves off the right following the river as it turns to the southeast.
As this section ends (almost opposite Nedging Mill) look for a small gate on the right that opens onto a narrow track between a thick hedge and a field fence. This leads up into the abandoned chalk pit. In winter and after heavy rain there is often some flooding off to the left here - great photos to be had in winter especially.
The old chalk pit is a fascinating tangle of Tarzan like vines, old and new trees all fighting for the light. Make your way up though it along the track. Eventually you will emerge in the open to the start of a slightly sunken path called Croft Lane) that winds between two fields up to Chelsworth Common.
At the top of the track turn right to walk back into Chelsworth via the bridge you started at and perhaps a well earned drink at the Peacock Inn.
This walk is a useful cross-country route to Bildeston (especially if you wish to eat/drink at one of the Pubs or dine at the Bildeston Crown Inn) as well as a nice circular route. The last stage is straight across a field and can sometimes be muddy so wellies might be advisable at some times of year.
Turn left (North) on leaving the Grange / Old Pottery and walk along the grass verge or the pavement. After about 50 yards, where the road bends off left to the West, continue up the gravel track past a modern house and the farm buildings. You pass the entrance to Chelsworth Community Woodland on your left. Feel free to detour into here. The track then emerges between the fields above Chelsworth (Claypits and then Fynnes Meadow on the left and Hatches, then Barn Close on the right).
Follow the track for a few hundred yards as it curves off slowly to the left. Turn right (immediately after a ditch) to follow the track to Bildeston. The field now on the left is called Wild Irish Leys. After another 100 yards or so you cross a small planked walkway into the next field. Here one could turn left and follow one of the routes to the pretty village of Kettlebaston about 1 mile away. However, to head to Bildeston, carry straight on and follow the field edge until you reach Church Farm and then Bildeston Church.
At Bildeston Church you have the option of walking on down the tarmac road to Bildeston village centre (1/2 mile) or turn right and walk South along a broad grassy strip back towards Chelsworth. This route passes by some old dying oak trees that can make for good photos, then a small wood on the left. After passing into the next field, the path briefly follows the edge of the field and then continues straight on across the field and down into Chelsworth, emerging opposite the start of Parsonage Lane. Turn right here to walk back through the village, past the Peacock Inn to the Grange / Old Pottery.
Start at the Peacock Inn and walk across the old bridge, past Bridge House and continue up Hall Road.
Continue up Hall Road past the entrance to Chelsworth Hall and turn right at the top where the road splits. Follow this road to the point where it turns left uphill. Here leave the road and continue West along the edge of the wood. There a quite a number of bluebells in the wood further along during April/May - though other woods in the area have much better displays.
The path ends where it reaches a road again (Clay Hill). Turn right and follow the road down (or sneak along the wood edge - private I think). At the bottom of the hill (where the road curves off left) look for a scrubby layby type area and sometimes partly hidden sign directing you on through the thick hedge to cross a stile into lower Chelsworth Park.
The park opens up wide here. Feel free to explore the Park. There are occasionally sheep or cattle here. Make your way North to find the parralel wood and brick bridges across the river. For some reason the beautiful brick bridge is now off bounds! Cross the wooden one and follow the narrow river edge track to emerge on the road at the Western end of the village. Turn right to walk back to the Grange / Old Pottery, past the playing field.


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//
// Purpose: Example menu using OnGUI with SteamVR_Camera's overlay support
//
//=============================================================================

using UnityEngine;
using Valve.VR;

namespace Valve.VR
{
    public class SteamVR_Menu : MonoBehaviour
    {
        public Texture cursor, background, logo;
        public float logoHeight, menuOffset;

        public Vector2 scaleLimits = new Vector2(0.1f, 5.0f);
        public float scaleRate = 0.5f;

        SteamVR_Overlay overlay;
        Camera overlayCam;
        Vector4 uvOffset;
        float distance;

        public RenderTexture texture { get { return overlay ? overlay.texture as RenderTexture : null; } }
        public float scale { get; private set; }

        string scaleLimitX, scaleLimitY, scaleRateText;

        CursorLockMode savedCursorLockState;
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        void Awake()
        {
            scaleLimitX = string.Format("{0:N1}", scaleLimits.x);
            scaleLimitY = string.Format("{0:N1}", scaleLimits.y);
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            var overlay = SteamVR_Overlay.instance;
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                uvOffset = overlay.uvOffset;
                distance = overlay.distance;
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                return;

            var texture = overlay.texture as RenderTexture;

            var prevActive = RenderTexture.active;
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            if (Event.current.type == EventType.Repaint)
                GL.Clear(false, true, Color.clear);

            var area = new Rect(0, 0, texture.width, texture.height);

            // Account for screen smaller than texture (since mouse position gets clamped)
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            {
                area.width = Screen.width;
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            {
                area.height = Screen.height;
                overlay.uvOffset.y = (float)(texture.height - Screen.height) / (2 * texture.height);
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            GUILayout.BeginArea(area);

            if (background != null)
            {
                GUI.DrawTexture(new Rect(
                    (area.width - background.width) / 2,
                    (area.height - background.height) / 2,
                    background.width, background.height), background);
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            GUILayout.BeginHorizontal();
            GUILayout.FlexibleSpace();
            GUILayout.BeginVertical();

            if (logo != null)
            {
                GUILayout.Space(area.height / 2 - logoHeight);
                GUILayout.Box(logo);
            }

            GUILayout.Space(menuOffset);

            bool bHideMenu = GUILayout.Button("[Esc] - Close menu");

            GUILayout.BeginHorizontal();
            GUILayout.Label(string.Format("Scale: {0:N4}", scale));
            {
                var result = GUILayout.HorizontalSlider(scale, scaleLimits.x, scaleLimits.y);
                if (result != scale)
                {
                    SetScale(result);
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            }
            GUILayout.EndHorizontal();

            GUILayout.BeginHorizontal();
            GUILayout.Label(string.Format("Scale limits:"));
            {
                var result = GUILayout.TextField(scaleLimitX);
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                {
                    if (float.TryParse(result, out scaleLimits.x))
                        scaleLimitX = result;
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            {
                var result = GUILayout.TextField(scaleLimitY);
                if (result != scaleLimitY)
                {
                    if (float.TryParse(result, out scaleLimits.y))
                        scaleLimitY = result;
                }
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            GUILayout.EndHorizontal();

            GUILayout.BeginHorizontal();
            GUILayout.Label(string.Format("Scale rate:"));
            {
                var result = GUILayout.TextField(scaleRateText);
                if (result != scaleRateText)
                {
                    if (float.TryParse(result, out scaleRate))
                        scaleRateText = result;
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            GUILayout.EndHorizontal();

            if (SteamVR.active)
            {
                var vr = SteamVR.instance;

                GUILayout.BeginHorizontal();
                {
                    var t = SteamVR_Camera.sceneResolutionScale;
                    int w = (int)(vr.sceneWidth * t);
                    int h = (int)(vr.sceneHeight * t);
                    int pct = (int)(100.0f * t);
                    GUILayout.Label(string.Format("Scene quality: {0}x{1} ({2}%)", w, h, pct));
                    var result = Mathf.RoundToInt(GUILayout.HorizontalSlider(pct, 50, 200));
                    if (result != pct)
                    {
                        SteamVR_Camera.sceneResolutionScale = (float)result / 100.0f;
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                GUILayout.EndHorizontal();
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            overlay.highquality = GUILayout.Toggle(overlay.highquality, "High quality");

            if (overlay.highquality)
            {
                overlay.curved = GUILayout.Toggle(overlay.curved, "Curved overlay");
                overlay.antialias = GUILayout.Toggle(overlay.antialias, "Overlay RGSS(2x2)");
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            else
            {
                overlay.curved = false;
                overlay.antialias = false;
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            var tracker = SteamVR_Render.Top();
            if (tracker != null)
            {
                tracker.wireframe = GUILayout.Toggle(tracker.wireframe, "Wireframe");

                if (SteamVR.settings.trackingSpace == ETrackingUniverseOrigin.TrackingUniverseSeated)
                {
                    if (GUILayout.Button("Switch to Standing"))
                        SteamVR.settings.trackingSpace = ETrackingUniverseOrigin.TrackingUniverseStanding;
                    if (GUILayout.Button("Center View"))
                    {
                        var system = OpenVR.System;
                        if (system != null)
                            system.ResetSeatedZeroPose();
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                else
                {
                    if (GUILayout.Button("Switch to Seated"))
                        SteamVR.settings.trackingSpace = ETrackingUniverseOrigin.TrackingUniverseSeated;
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#if !UNITY_EDITOR
		if (GUILayout.Button("Exit"))
			Application.Quit();
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            GUILayout.Space(menuOffset);

            var env = System.Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("VR_OVERRIDE");
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            {
                GUILayout.Label("VR_OVERRIDE=" + env);
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            GUILayout.Label("Graphics device: " + SystemInfo.graphicsDeviceVersion);

            GUILayout.EndVertical();
            GUILayout.FlexibleSpace();
            GUILayout.EndHorizontal();

            GUILayout.EndArea();

            if (cursor != null)
            {
                float x = Input.mousePosition.x, y = Screen.height - Input.mousePosition.y;
                float w = cursor.width, h = cursor.height;
                GUI.DrawTexture(new Rect(x, y, w, h), cursor);
            }

            RenderTexture.active = prevActive;

            if (bHideMenu)
                HideMenu();
        }

        public void ShowMenu()
        {
            var overlay = SteamVR_Overlay.instance;
            if (overlay == null)
                return;

            var texture = overlay.texture as RenderTexture;
            if (texture == null)
            {
                Debug.LogError("<b>[SteamVR]</b> Menu requires overlay texture to be a render texture.");
                return;
            }

            SaveCursorState();

            Cursor.visible = true;
            Cursor.lockState = CursorLockMode.None;

            this.overlay = overlay;
            uvOffset = overlay.uvOffset;
            distance = overlay.distance;

            // If an existing camera is rendering into the overlay texture, we need
            // to temporarily disable it to keep it from clearing the texture on us.
            var cameras = Object.FindObjectsOfType(typeof(Camera)) as Camera[];
            foreach (var cam in cameras)
            {
                if (cam.enabled && cam.targetTexture == texture)
                {
                    overlayCam = cam;
                    overlayCam.enabled = false;
                    break;
                }
            }

            var tracker = SteamVR_Render.Top();
            if (tracker != null)
                scale = tracker.origin.localScale.x;
        }

        public void HideMenu()
        {
            RestoreCursorState();

            if (overlayCam != null)
                overlayCam.enabled = true;

            if (overlay != null)
            {
                overlay.uvOffset = uvOffset;
                overlay.distance = distance;
                overlay = null;
            }
        }

        void Update()
        {
            if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Escape) || Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Joystick1Button7))
            {
                if (overlay == null)
                {
                    ShowMenu();
                }
                else
                {
                    HideMenu();
                }
            }
            else if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Home))
            {
                SetScale(1.0f);
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            else if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.PageUp))
            {
                SetScale(Mathf.Clamp(scale + scaleRate * Time.deltaTime, scaleLimits.x, scaleLimits.y));
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            else if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.PageDown))
            {
                SetScale(Mathf.Clamp(scale - scaleRate * Time.deltaTime, scaleLimits.x, scaleLimits.y));
            }
        }

        void SetScale(float scale)
        {
            this.scale = scale;

            var tracker = SteamVR_Render.Top();
            if (tracker != null)
                tracker.origin.localScale = new Vector3(scale, scale, scale);
        }

        void SaveCursorState()
        {
            savedCursorVisible = Cursor.visible;
            savedCursorLockState = Cursor.lockState;
        }

        void RestoreCursorState()
        {
            Cursor.visible = savedCursorVisible;
            Cursor.lockState = savedCursorLockState;
        }
    }
}

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Trump bans entry of Returning ISIS terrorists, lets them die in Syria - Muslims are outraged
US-Vice President calls to remove Muslim congresswoman Ilhan Omar "Omar has no place on the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the Democratic leadership ought to remove her."
Watch: Merkel claims "Islam is not the source of terrorism" but the Christians who make Islamists feel angry because of "Islamophobia"
Ethnic Cleansing: Palestinian Muslims burn Christian and Jewish holy places in Jerusalem - Why is the world silent?
WATCH: Christian woman was executed by acid in Pakistan for being non-Muslim
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Morocco gives rape victim, 15, two options "Marry the Muslim rapist or face adultery charges (death penalty)"
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The tragic suicide of a 16-year-old girl named Amina Filali who had been pressured by a Sharia court to marry her rapist. This is how rape victims are treated Under Sharia law in the Islamic country of Morocco.
The Shari'a court ruled that the girl must marry the rapist or face charges of adultery, which is punishable by death.
In the video below The parents of Amina Filali say she took her own life after leading a miserable life of abuse with her muslim attacker and his family in the marital home. Amina, who was raped at the age of fifteen, is now buried in a graveyard close to her parents' home. "He raped my daughter, he mistreated my daughter. She complained to me that she was mistreated, that she didn't get fed, that he threatened to kill her if she stayed there," Amina's mother Zohra Filali wept. Article 475 of the Moroccan penal code allows for the "kidnapper" of a minor to marry his victim to escape prosecution, and it has been used to justify a traditional practice of making a rapist marry his victim to preserve the honour of the woman's family. The victim's father, Hamidu Filali, says he was against the marriage but that court officials pushed the marriage option when they reported the rape. He said the court pushed the marriage, even though 16-year-old Amina Filali refused. In cases of rape, the burden of proof is often on the victim and if she can't prove she was attacked, a woman risks being prosecuted for debauchery.
Where are all human rights organizations?
Why is the world silent when crimes against humanity are committed on a regular basis in the Middle East, Asia and Africa?
An estimated 12 million girls under 18 are married each year. Girls who marry before they turn 18 are less likely to remain in school and more likely to experience domestic violence. Everything possible must be done to protect these vulnerable children.
Under Sharia law girls can marry at the age of 6, just like the Prophet Muhammad from the Koran did when he married Aisha. Muhammad consummated his marriage with Aisha when she was nine.
Here is a proof quote from the Islamic scriptures (Hadiths) that Muslims consider authentic record that Muhammad's favorite wife, Aisha, was six when Muhammad wedded her and nine when he consummated the marriage:
"The Prophet wrote the (marriage contract) with Aisha while she was six years old and consummated his marriage with her while she was nine years old and she remained with him for nine years (i.e. till his death)" (Bukhari 7.62.88).
By Free Speech at January 24, 2019
Muslim girl, 19, cries as she is being sold to forced marriage with her nephew, 11
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A historic home in Dallas. Image via Wikimedia Commons.
Investigation: Dallas government hired engineer charged with fraud
Written by Jason Axelrod
A Dallas Morning News investigation found that the Dallas government previously hired an engineer to ensure the soundness of low-income housing. The issue? That engineer had been accused of fraud, lost his engineering license and later filed for bankruptcy.
Last year, the newspaper exposed the Dallas Department of Housing and Neighborhood Revitalization's 2015 hire of a city official's friend to rebuild low-income housing in the city. The builder had been given $825,000 in federal funds to do so. However, the city-hired builder had been barred from building homes in nearby Fort Worth, Texas, and he misstated his financial history on his application.
The rebuilder's homes were filled with defects and built behind schedule, the newspaper reports.. After the newspaper exposed the issue, federal auditors called for the city to repay the money and to hire a professional to ensure that the rebuilt homes were structurally sound.
However, the city paid $15,400 to hire ADI Engineering, a firm owned by an engineer whose license had been suspended in 2013, according to the newspaper. In January 2018, federal charges against the owner, Donatus Anyanwu, had been made public. Six months later, the city hired him.
Anyanwu referred reporters to his lawyer, the newspaper reports. A city spokeswoman commented that when "contractors don't live up to the standards expected of them, the city will hold them accountable."
Meanwhile, two owners of the botched low-income homes have passed away before being able to live in their finished homes, according to the newspaper.
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from __future__ import unicode_literals
import logging
if __name__ == '__main__':
    logging.basicConfig()
_log = logging.getLogger(__name__)

import sys
import pyxb
import unittest

class TestTrac0132 (unittest.TestCase):
    message = 'bad character \u2620'
    def testDecode (self):
        e = pyxb.PyXBException(self.message)
        if sys.version_info[:2] > (2, 4):
            self.assertEqual(self.message, e.args[0])

if __name__ == '__main__':
    unittest.main()


Hello and welcome to the Brandstorm podcast, a show that talks to the people behind America's brands with hosts Dan Trzinski and Nancy Christopher.
In this episode, we are talking with Eric Loferski, director of marketing at Zurn Industries, about marketing a sustainable business.
Hello and welcome to the inaugural Brandstorm podcast, a show that talks to people behind some of America's great brands with hosts Dan Trzinski and Nancy Christopher.
In today's episode, we start with Brad Schlossmann of Ground Floor Funding, who provides funding and support for startup companies.


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Q: Ajax doesn't load simple file I started learning AJAX and got problem on the beginning I can't solve. I got 2 files, main.html with code :
<!DOCTYPE html>

    <title>My page</title>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />

    <button>apple</button>

    Press button

and "blabla.txt" with content :
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Problem is that after clicking the button it should load content of blabla.txt file into the div element. Unfortunately it doesnt work with the reason i have no idea about.
I think its worthly to add that both files are placed in the same folder.

A: xmlhttp.onreadystatechange=function()
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Tomorrow morning, Time Out will also be posting an interview I conducted with local critics Ben and Kat Sachs about their Beguiled Cinema programming endeavor, which will play host to a double-feature screening of films by Dan Sallitt at Colubmia College's Film Row Cinema tomorrow night. All of the info you need pertaining to the screening will be in Time Out tomorrow but, as this event should be considered unmissable for local cinephiles (it is a rare chance to see the work of an unheralded master of independent American cinema on the big screen), I thought I should give you a heads up today. My reviews for the Sallitt films in question (1998's Honeymoon and 2004's All the Ships at Sea) will also appear tomorrow at Cine-File.info.
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Shepparton icons sell Renato florist after 40 years of booming business
By Carol R. Baeza on	 September 27, 2021 Florist
It was Sam and Josie Renato last week as owners of their iconic florist on Wyndham St in Shepparton before their niece Leeanne Archer picked up the keys, rods and scissors on Monday, after buying the business with her husband Glenn.
As 'Sam the Flower Man' puts it, the florist's core business is emotion, and for over 40 years the duo behind Shepparton have added beauty to the most important stages of life – the moments of deep joy and deep sadness.
Letting Renato's florist go wouldn't be easy, Sam said, although he and Josie both agreed it was a good time.
"I'm going to be pulled out of here screaming and screaming, I'm telling you," he said half-jokingly.
The shop opened as a nursery in 1981 and quickly transformed into a florist as Josie's bouquets flew off the counter.
For the first 22 years in business, Sam and Josie worked steadily seven days a week, until Sunday business slowed with the arrival of Bunnings and extended supermarket hours.
Renato's gave 11 apprentices a start in the industry over the years, now employing six florists – many of whom have been with the business for over 20 years.
Even still, Sam and Josie have been on deck almost every weekday for the past two decades.
Now, tired and satisfied, it's time to enjoy life outside of work.
"We've only had one good vacation in 40 years, so we have to catch up on a few vacations," Sam said.
There is also a list of projects to take on at home and precious time to live with six grandchildren.
More than anything, Sam and Josie will miss their customers.
"If we don't have customers, we don't have a business, so we have to thank our customers a lot," Josie said, adding that she and Sam were sorely lacking in face-to-face service during repeated blockages. of COVID-19.
Refusing customers at the door was against their very nature.
"'No' is not in my vocabulary, I never say 'no'," Sam said.
"If anyone asks me something, I'll go out and do my best to try and do it."
Renato's Florist's reputation for regular and generous participation in community fundraising is a testament to this.
In 2017, Carmel Johnson, then director of the GV Health Foundation, estimated that the beloved company had donated at least $ 70,000 in flowers to the hospital over more than 30 years.
Thinking about it, Josie wondered how they found the time for all of this.
"But we did – we integrated it all," she said. "These are the kinds of things you need to do for your community – you give and you take, that's the way it is. You have to do it."
This challenge and responsibility is one that Leeanne and Glenn are thrilled and honored to take on.
They'll have expert mentors in Sam and Josie, who share 80 years of experience with each other, and the shop isn't entirely new to Leeanne.
"She's been here from the start, really, she came on Saturday mornings and helped us out, and even until now, she helps us during peak times if we need her," Josie said.
"She's like a girl to us," Sam said.
Leeanne and Glenn were born and raised in Shepparton, where they raise their daughters Olivia and Emily.
"We look forward to continuing to spread the love of sending flowers to the community of Shepparton and beyond," said Leeanne.
Glenn said they felt lucky to know that Sam and Josie were just a phone call away for help and advice.
The new owners will be giving the store a facelift with a new coat of paint and new gifts before Christmas time.
"Other than that, business will be business as usual," Leeanne said.
"We won't change much more until we get in and get a feel for what might be needed. "
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Expect 31°C daytime maximum temperatures in the shade with on average 7 hours of sunshine per day in Jinan in August. Check more long-term weather averages for Jinan in August before you book your next holiday to China in 2019/2020.
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The average maximum daytime temperature in Jinan in August is a hot 31°C (88°F) with high heat & humidity. The average night-time temperature is usually a warm 22°C (72°F). There are usually 7 hours of bright sunshine each day, which represents 54% of the 14 hours of daylight.
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As Allard K. Lowenstein continues his investigation into Senator Robert F. Kennedy's murder, he enlists the help of Paul Schrade, one of the surviving shooting victims in the case. Together, they force a reexamination of the evidence collected by the LAPD in an effort to determine, once and for all, if more than one gun was firing in the kitchen pantry.
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Allard Lowenstein's gravesite
Lowenstein's gravestone at Arlington National Cemetery. His epitaph reads: "If a single man plant himself on his convictions and there abide, the huge world will come round to him." It's the same Ralph Waldo Emerson quote Bobby Kennedy
Confidential Addenda
This brief memo was found in the LAPD's files on the Robert Kennedy assassination after their release in 1988. The highlighted section reads, "The information has not been revealed prior to this report and may conflict with previous
Vincent Bugliosi
Attorney Vincent Bugliosi, pictured here during the trial of Charles Manson, became an outspoken advocate of the effort to reexamine evidence in the Robert Kennedy assassination. (AP File)
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Paul Schrade and Allard Lowenstein hold one of many press conferences in their effort to get answers from the Los Angeles Police Department.
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The photograph that Allard Lowenstein showed Paul Schrade, depicting two potential bullet holes circled by the LAPD.
Paul Schrade and the press
Paul Schrade fields questions from the press in his room at Kaiser Hospital in Los Angeles June 10, 1968, where he's recovering from a gunshot wound to the head. (AP)
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Crimetown is Zac Stuart-Pontier and Marc Smerling.
The RFK Tapes is made in partnership with Cadence 13.
The show is produced by Jesse Rudoy, Bill Klaber, Ula Kulpa and Ryan Murdock. Our senior producer is Austin Mitchell. Editing by Marc Smerling. Fact checking by James Williamson.
This episode was mixed and sound designed by Robin Shore. Music by Kenny Kusiak. Additional music by John Kusiak. Our title track is Maria Tambien by Khruangbin. Music supervision by Josh Kessler and Dylan Bostick at Heavy Duty Projects.
Archival footage courtesy of the University of North Carolina, the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, and the Hoover Institution. Archival research by Brennan Rees.
Production assistance by Kevin Shepherd. Our website is designed by Curt Courtenay.
Very special thanks to Kate, Jenny, and the entire Lowenstein family.
Thanks Jean Klaber, Emily Wiedemann, Greencard Pictures, Alessandro Santoro, Judith Farrar, Aaron Smithers, Paul Schrade, David Mendelsohn, and the team at Cadence 13.
For more information on the Robert Kennedy murder, pick up a copy of Bill's book, Shadow Play, from St. Martin's Press. You can find us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter @theRFKtapes. If you like the show, leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. It really helps others find out about show.
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Noah Lifka
Despite recovering from cancer, Noah Lifka, 9, is still in the high-risk category. His family shares how others can help families like theirs during the pandemic.
When Noah Lifka, of Elyria, was 4 years old, he was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), which affects the blood and bone marrow and attacks white blood cells. He experienced three and half years of treatment, and rang his end-of-treatment bell in August 2019. In 2020, he was named the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Northern Ohio Chapter's Boy of the Year.
Now, at age 9, and the oldest of four siblings, he remains in a high risk category for relapse. He's a resilient kid, having gone through his chemotherapy treatments and a modified school schedule, as well as always being extra careful in terms of germs because of his suppressed immune system. So when COVID-19 hit this year, the family wasn't thrown for too big of a loop.
"I feel like in the beginning with the stay-at-home order it was easier for our family than I would imagine other families, because this had been a way we lived our lives for so long. Then, it went on and on," says Alesha Lifka, Noah's mother. "We're used to it, but at the same time, it's challenging for us because I feel like we're more cautious than maybe even the average cautious parent out there."
The Lifka family has been limiting exposure as much as possible by staying home, sanitizing, wearing masks and steering clear of crowds and playgrounds. Their diligence has its benefits because it reduces the risk of any of them being exposed to COVID-19, but it also can be lonely, Lifka says.
"I would imagine a lot of other cancer families are feeling the same, where you really kind of keep everything pretty close knit. You circle the wagons, and put up your bubble," she adds.
When schools closed this spring, Noah had a hard time, missing his friends and classmates. The Lifka family has had a few play dates with other families who are also being cautious with interactions, and they have taken nature walks to get out of the house a bit. But he misses other kids.
"We talk about COVID, and we try to explain it to him in ways that he would understand," Lifka says. "We want to keep him safe and we want grandma to be safe. We're trying our best. I think he's really good at rolling with the punches at this point, but I also know that it's kind of getting him down."
A Little Help from Their Friends
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When Noah was first diagnosed, the Lifkas quickly noticed a split among their friends. Some friends, even those they had for a long time, didn't know how to react and they lost touch.
"I get it. What do you say to a cancer parent?" Lifka says. "Sometimes for people, it's easier for them not to say anything and then go about their lives."
But they also had friends who rallied around the family and reached out to help however they could.
"It was a big shift when that happened, but we have found the people that have stayed around us are really amazing people," she says. "We appreciate them so much."
The same friends who were extra helpful and gracious during Noah's diagnosis and treatment have similarly stepped up to help during the pandemic.
"My husband was furloughed for a few months from his job," Lifka says. "It was a super stressful time. We had people reach out and check in to say, 'How are you doing? Can I drop anything off to your house?'"
Their friends have done store runs for them and are understanding about the family's caution, not expecting them to come to events or gatherings and not making them feel guilty about staying home.
Having that line of communication open and regularly checking in to let the family know that someone is thinking of them helps to mitigate the feelings of isolation, particularly during times of quarantine, Lifka says. Thoughtful friends running errands and dropping off coffee at the house have helped the Lifkas stay home and safe.
"The deliveries are amazing because it's one less trip I have to do," she says. "If I can avoid going to the store and if someone is going there anyway, it seems small to a lot of people, but for a family like ours, that's a big deal where now that's the one less risk we have to take this month."
If you know a family that's hunkered down due extra risk, the best way to help is to keep reaching out, keep sending messages and help them in any way you can. But, most importantly, make sure they know you are there for them, even if you can't be with them face-to-face.
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Goodbye America First, Hello Globalist Great Reset
By The Heartland Institute | Dec 02, 2020 3:00 PM ET
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For the past four years, the United States' foreign policy has been predicated on the notion of "America first" while domestic policy, especially economically, has centered on spurring growth via tax cuts, deregulation, and bureaucratic reform.
This agenda resulted in a thriving American economy, pre-pandemic, as well as a renewed sense of the American dream being more attainable than in recent years.
However, this is likely to come to an immediate end, given the likelihood that Joe Biden will be inaugurated as the 46th president of the United States on January 20, 2021.
Throughout his 47-year political career, Biden has been an advocate of globalism, tax increases, and more federal government intervention. After all, Biden was a big advocate of China joining the World Trade Organization, as well as a plethora of big government programs, such as Obamacare.
Yet, Biden's support for globalism and big government is likely to be taken to a whole new level given his pick of John Kerry to be his so-called "climate czar."
Kerry, a former senator and secretary of state, is all-in on the radical, globalist "Great Reset." And because Kerry will be given wide latitude in forming America's climate policies for the foreseeable future, it is a good bet that the United States will join the World Economic Forum's (WEF) Great Reset with open arms.
Kerry, who has been moonlighting as a WEF Great Reset spokesman the past few months, has made it crystal clear that he intends, with Biden's blessing, to put America front and center in the Great Reset's new world order.
Under the guise of the COVID crisis, Kerry plans to make big changes.
According to Kerry, while speaking at a WEF Great Reset panel, "We can't push a button and go back to the way things were. … We are a long way off from being able to go back to any kind of normal. … And the normal was a crisis. The normal itself was not working. What has happened is COVID has accelerated everything, so all the forces and pressures that were pushing into crisis over the social contract are now exacerbated and exacerbated at a time when the world is in many ways coming apart."
Like Rahm Emanuel said, "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. I mean, it's an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before."
Kerry added, "This is a big moment, and the World Economic Forum, the CEO capacity of the World Economic Forum is going to have to really play a front and center role in defining the reset in a way nobody misinterprets as just taking us back to the way things were. But in having to prepare us for dealing with global climate change, with this massive inequity from globalization, through the failure of this contract to protect disenfranchised people, all of which is being laid bare as a consequence of COVID. And in addition, in our country as a consequence of some police actions that lit a fuse in the younger generation and I think will produce massive social change in our country."
Sadly, Kerry is using the pandemic as an "opportunity" to implement a host of climate change actions and worldwide socialistic policies.
As Kerry explains, "We have got to deal with climate change. Climate change … is the single biggest economic opportunity the world has ever had. … There is a monumental set of opportunities in building infrastructure and pushing the technology curve which may well be the solution through negative emissions technology to the challenge of climate. No one is pursuing that with the kind of fervor necessary. … So I think there are a whole set of things, not the least of which is global health on which we will only survive and thrive on this planet if we coordinate multilaterally, there are just huge opportunities there."
The Great Reset is so much more than climate change. Its architects, including Kerry, plan to upend the free-market capitalist system that has created so much innovation and prosperity with what they call "stakeholder capitalism."
As Kerry describes it, "It's shareholder versus stakeholder. And the issue is whether or not we're going to move fast enough to provide for what people need at this moment. I think the greatest opportunity we have to do that is in dealing with the climate crisis."
That is the crux of the Great Reset. It is nothing more than an elitist-led radical new world order in which those in positions of power, such as Kerry and other globalist bigwigs, make the rules for the rest of us, which conveniently don't apply to them, of course.
And if you think this is some kind of fantastical pipedream, think again. According to Kerry, "it [the Great Reset] will happen. And I think it will happen with greater speed and with greater intensity than a lot of people might imagine."
Chris Talgo ([email protected]) is an editor at The Heartland Institute.
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For the second year in a row, we return[ed] to Reykjavik, Iceland, for the Iceland Airwaves festival starting [October 13, 2010] and running through [October 17, 2010]. Last year, we had no idea what we were getting into but were immediately struck by the incredibly diverse music of local bands. With a national population of barely half of the greater Seattle area but a staggeringly high literacy rate and a tendency to support all areas of artistic endeavor, Iceland boasts a high concentration of musicians — many of whom are in multiple bands at once. Yes, think of Ballard as a frosty island nation.
Since punk first took hold of the city, its central tenets have remained strong — not the later interpreted tendency to piss off one's parents but the necessity to do something different. No two bands in Reykjavik are alike. There's just not enough room! And that has led to a microcosm of music found nowhere else.
Last year, we caught up with a handful of bands at RUV radio, the nation public radio service, and broadcast these sessions back in Seattle... It was our first foray into Icelandic music, and Einar Orn, elder statesman — figuratively in punk as a founding member of The Sugarcubes and currently as a city politician — was our host.
Over the weekend, we met up with more musicians in their studios, practice spaces and even their homes.
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Q: Azure DevOps Azure PowerShell task output variable

I'm creating a release pipeline using one Azure PowerShell Task and PowerShell task. In the the Azure Powershell Task, I have the following code
$groupInfos = @()
for ([int]$i = 0; $i -lt $azureADGroupsObj.Count)
{
    $groupInfo = New-Object PSObject
    $groupInfo | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name "displayName" -Value $azureADGroupsObj[$i].DisplayName
    $groupInfo | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name "Id" -Value
    $azureADGroupsObj[$i].Id
    $groupInfos += $groupInfo
    $i++
}
return $groupInfos
Write-Host "##vso[task.setvariable variable=azureADGroups;]$groupInfos"

I am trying to store $groupInfos into azureADGroups variable here.

but when I run a PowerShell task in the next step under same job, it says the term "azureADGroup" is not recognized.. seems like the variable wasn't set..does anyone know what am I missing here?

A: I found 3 problems in your script:

*

*You do not need to set the reference name.

*There is a return before the write variable command. So, the write variable command will not be executed.

*The write variable command can only use single-line string. However, the $groupInfos is an object. It will not be implicitly converted to a string. You need to use "ConvertTo-Json -Compress" command to convert it to a string.
I tested at my pipeline:
$groupInfosString = $groupInfos | ConvertTo-Json -Compress
write-host $groupInfos
write-host $groupInfosString
Write-Host "##vso[task.setvariable variable=azureADGroups;]$groupInfos"
Write-Host "##vso[task.setvariable variable=azureADGroupsFromString;]$groupInfosString "

From the debug log, we can check that variable "azureADGroupsFromString" is successfully set.

Update:
You can use the following script in next PS task:
$objs = '$(azureADGroupsFromString)' | ConvertFrom-Json
foreach( $obj in $objs){
    Write-Host ("displayName:{0} Id:{1}" -f $obj.displayName, $obj.Id)
}

Output:

Update:
If you want to pass it to next PS task via arguments, please enclose the variable in single quotes. In this way, it will be considered as a string.


Teamwork is an important element of success to any company or organization but it is difficult to accomplish. There are many threats that hinder a group to work with unity and harmony, and most of them are hard to fix.
Every member of a team is interdependent and they have to work closely to coordinate their tasks and achieve a common goal. That is why miscommunication is a big threat to the success of a team. Poor information dissemination and organization can lead to confusion and failure to meet deadline.
What to do: Conduct regular meetings. As Mina Chang, CEO of Linking the World said, a successful businesses needs personal connections. This can be built through meetings. She emphasizes how it avoids miscommunication, improves engagement, and boosts coordination. If needed, you can apply online collaboration tools for more efficient communication process.
Leaders are supposed to be firm, decisive and empowering. They can also motivate their members without imposing or domineering. But certain factors, like pressure, lack of skills, improper management styles, and biases can make team leaders weak.
What to do: Leaders should also be assessed not just the members. An effective team leader should learn to empathize with his teammates to improve camaraderie and not just command and control his members.
Irving Janis proposed the Groupthink theory in 1971. This communication model tells about systematic errors made by a group if they make a collective decision. In a group discussion, members tend to follow opinions from domineering members of the group, resulting to a less diversified and creative plan.
What to do: Assign a devil's advocate to give various ideas. Thoughts made by devil's advocates give different perspectives to the primary plan. This helps improve your work, avoid mistakes, and prepare for errors.
Productivity normally weakens the longer members work on a project. It is wise to deal with this problem at once, or it will affect the work quality of the team. It is also difficult to meet deadlines when members are uncooperative.
What to do: Team building exercises are great way to improve teamwork. It also gives workers a break from the monotony of their job, which will motivate them to deliver better results. David W. Ballard head of APA's Psychologically Healthy Workplace Program shares five simple but effective team building activities: volunteering, sports activities, field trips, shared meals and workshops. Bestessays also provide effective productivity techniques that you can apply top your team. Some of them are the Pomodoro, Pareto principle and Eisenhower principle.
There is always one member of a group who does not perform well. It is okay. But if you let his lousy performance slide, it can be a dead weight to the success of the team.
What to do: You should monitor each member's performance and talk to those who are not working according to the team expected standards. Also offer effective success coaching techniques to maximize member's potentials.
This threat is common among remote teams who work in different locations. Aside from internet connection issues, time zones are also a big hindrance in making the team successful. Cultures and beliefs can also crash, especially when members are from different countries.
What to do: Constantly communicate with your team through group chats and video meetings. At the start of a project introduce them properly and make sure they understand any cultural differences. Make them at ease with one another and make sure they know each other's contact details.
It is typical for a group to encounter problems that will hinder their productivity but you can beat these threats by being open minded and understanding. Set aside differences and work as one. Remember, each member of the group is important to achieve the company's success.
About the Author: Maddy Bertelsen is a blogger and writer, who is working as a marketing associate. When not busy with work, she usually stays at home, or in a coffee shop, reading her favorite books.
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NEW PHOTOS: Crews re-enter W.Va. mine to…
NEW PHOTOS: Crews re-enter W.Va. mine to recover 9 bodies
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April 12, 2010 at 12:00 a.m.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. – Searchers went back inside a wrecked West Virginia coal mine Monday to pull out more bodies as federal investigators prepared to launch their probe of the explosion that killed 29 men in the worst U.S. coal mining disaster since 1970.
While some of the dead have been laid to rest, nine bodies remained in Massey Energy Co.'s Upper Big Branch mine in Montcoal. Efforts to recover them were stalled when high levels of volatile methane gas forced crews out of the mine Sunday.
After the tunnels were ventilated, one team entered around midnight Sunday and another went in about 5 a.m. Monday, state mine office spokeswoman Jama Jarrett said.
A team of federal investigators is expected to arrive Monday to start trying to figure out what caused the explosion.
Richmond, Va.-based Massey has been under scrutiny for a string of safety violations at the mine, though CEO Don Blankenship has defended the company's record and disputed accusations that he puts profits ahead of safety.
Authorities have said high methane levels may have played a role in the disaster. Massey has been repeatedly cited and fined for problems with the system that vents methane and for allowing combustible dust to build up.
Mourning continued Monday, exactly a week after the explosion, with a wreath-laying ceremony at the state Capitol and a moment of silence planned for 3:30 p.m. President Barack Obama on Monday ordered all U.S. flags in the state flown at half-staff until sunset Sunday.
Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell said he asked residents of his state to join the observance and continue looking for ways to help their West Virginia neighbors as they deal with a tragic time.
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Event-driven programming or Event-based programming refers to a computer programming technique that involves controlling the flow of a program by receiving signals (also called messages or events) from an outside source. The source of the message can be anything from another program, a thread, or it could be generated from within the program. There are two necessary data structures for the construction of an event-driven system: an event listener and an event handler.
An event listener will store messages that are passed to it from an outside source. This is usually implemented as a queue or stack. Messages are stored for later dispatching by the event handler. Observe the following diagram.
Messages A, B, and C get passed to the event listener which will then be retrieved by the event handler. These messages could be generated from a variety of sources and generated at different time intervals. It is important to note that until the event handler processes the messages, the event listener will store them.
Event Driven programming is heavily used in Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs). Imagine what happens when you move the mouse and press the left mouse button. First, a mouse move message would be sent to the window that has the focus. Maybe the window will want to know the new x and y coordinate of the mouse position. Second, a mouse click message will be sent to the window. If the mouse cursor is over a button then the left click would trigger another event that would get sent to the event listener. Imagine writing a program that had to check for each of the possible actions a user could perform in your program. You would waste CPU cycles checking for events that did not happen. Event driven programming solves this problem.
Event driven programming is a different way to think about the flow of your program. Usually when one sets out to learn programming, he or she thinks of the flow of the program as a linear progression from beginning to end. Using event driven programming, you can think in terms of events that happen to your program.
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Regeneration is growing thanks to our dedicated volunteers, generous donors, and committed staff!
Our work in 2016 included assembling a team and crafting a vision and mission statement and initial goals. In 2017, Regeneración began implementing projects: a mural on Rodriguez Street; Our Mother Earth series of environmental justice films in partnership with the Watsonville Film Festival; a video research project with Watsonville High School video academy seniors; and the Healthy Children for a Healthy Planet festival.
Nancy Faulstich
Director Nancy Faulstich founded Regeneración in 2016 together with a small group of Pajaro Valley residents. Nancy was motivated to work for climate action and resilience upon realizing the plight that younger generations, including her daughter, will face. Her goal was for everyone in the Pajaro Valley to become fully aware of the reality of climate change and to move together to address the causes and fight for justice.
Prior to her work with Regeneración, Nancy served as a bilingual preschool and kindergarten teacher and literacy specialist with the Pajaro Valley School District for 25 years. She has a BA in Women's Studies and Masters in Education with a bilingual (Spanish) certification.
In conjunction with her work as an early childhood educator, Nancy has led parent and women's support groups and organized to address and eliminate racism and anti-semitism. Nancy approaches her work with Regeneración as an ally focused on elevating the leadership of people of color.
Maria Perez
Maria arrived in the US in 2011. Inspired by a film event produced in 2014 by Watsonville Climate Action, Regeneration's predecessor, she catapulted herself into environmental justice activism.
She recognized that "the people at the top are taking advantage of everyone and of the planet and of the people who don't have enough money, to create profit, and that's when I started realizing how unfair that was and I started learning more about the environment."
Soon to graduate, Maria has now completed two years of the Pajaro Valley School District's Solar Academy, worked as the farm and harvest manager at an organic farm. She's taken the initiative to speak at School Board meetings and fundraisers for the environmental organizations she cares about.
Independently she recruited a small but mighty team of Pajaro Valley High School students to enter the International Project Green Challenge, which entailed doing and recording a green action daily for an entire month. Maria won second place in the finals in November 2016
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NAPA (CBS SF) — More than four years after it was heavily damaged in the 2014 6.1 magnitude Napa Earthquake, the rebuilt county courthouse re-opened its doors Monday.
The courthouse at 825 Brown St. sustained major damage and had been unoccupied since the quake.
Court calendars and services were reshuffled and handled in various locations, including the Criminal Courthouse and Jury Assembly room in the Hall of Records.
Richmond-based Alten Construction began an $11.6 million repair in October 2017. The work included a 16,000-square-foot historical renovation, structural retrofit and new restrooms, according to Alten Construction's website.
The project also included deconstruction, hazardous mold and lead abatement, structural, electrical and mechanical and fire protection work and interior finishes.
Antique masonry, doors, windows, millwork, casework and lighting fixtures were salvaged, according to Alten Construction.
The 825 Brown St. entrance will again be the main entrance to the entire facility, and the Jury Assembly Room will continue to be used for jurors reporting for duty and will no longer be used as a temporary courtroom.


Australian Open – Can Roger add one more title?
Roger Federer arguably is the greatest tennis player to have graced the tennis court only behind Rod Laver. He has the record for most grand slam titles was at the top of the rankings for a record 302 weeks. But like every great athlete, age has caught up with Roger and at 32 he isn't getting any younger. Roger is his entering 17th year as a pro and he has really struggled with performances in the last couple of years.
Since his win in 2012 Wimbledon, Roger hasn't won a grand slam. 2013 was probably the worst year for the champion where he clearly struggled with his game and did not make single grand slam finals. He has struggled to compete with rest of the members of the elite group, Nadal, Murray and Djokovic. In 2013 Roger for the first time in a long time dropped out of top 4 in the rankings and is seeded 6th in the current Australian Open.
But rankings don't really matter for the genius that is Roger. We all know what a great champion Roger is and the great man will be hoping for a good 2014. The Australian open will give us an insight about how Roger is shaping up for the rest of the year. In a way this year might even decide as to how long the champion will continue playing tennis. Roger has been a great champion and for sure deserves a great farewell. With enormous competition and with the age catching up, Roger has already cut back on the tournaments he plays. It will not be long before he decides to call it a day. For a diehard fan like me, it will be great to see the champion lift one more trophy. It is not going to be easy but the great man might just have enough left in his tank to pull one through.
Roger Federer is a great champion and he has comfortably brushed aside James Duckworth in the first round of Australian Open 2014. He has it in him to bounce back from the disappointment of 2013. His reflexes might have slowed down but he still has the skills and mental strength which has made him a great champion. I hope that he has a great tournament and also a great year ahead in 2014.


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Did You Get the Fuel You Paid For?
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How to ensure gasoline deliveries get into the proper UST By Frank Stemporzewski on Sep. 23, 2019
HAMILTON, Ohio — All consumers, no matter what they are purchasing, want to get what they paid for. That goes for the smallest pack of gum to the biggest house. And when they don't get it, their feelings can run the gamut from anger to betrayal and confusion to frustration.
Though viewed from the outside as simply suppliers of goods and services, the operators of convenience stores with a fuel offering are also consumers. One of their most important purchases is the gasoline and diesel fuel they provide to the drivers who frequent their locations. Purchasing fuel, however, is a lot different than ordering a few cases of beer or a dozen boxes of candy bars.
That's because c-store operators can't really "see" what they are buying. Sure, they can observe the fuel transport parked on the forecourt and the driver attaching hoses to various underground storage tanks (USTs). But how do they really know that the driver is putting the right fuel—or the right amount of fuel—into the proper UST? According to market studies, one out of every 14,000 gasoline deliveries will result in an incorrect octane mix. In one of every 45,000 deliveries, diesel is mistakenly dropped into a gasoline UST, or vice versa.
Margins for Error
As human beings, fuel-transport drivers—even the most sincere and conscientious ones—are as susceptible to making mistakes as anyone. Those same market studies have shown that a distracted driver is the main reason behind an incorrect fuel drop. Another common cause can also be traced back to the fallibility of human beings: USTs marked with unclear or incorrect fuel grades.
In addition to the anger and frustration that can accompany botched fuel drops, there can be far-reaching negative effects. The most debilitating one is that the station may need to be shut down to empty the USTs of the contaminated fuel, all before a batch of new fuel is brought in and unloaded. Second, the engine and other operating systems of the vehicles that receive the wrong fuel can become damaged. When this happens, drivers may return to the retailer for reparations, or they may choose to do business elsewhere. Also, any cleanup operation or vehicle damage can result in bad press that can irreparably tarnish the retailer's reputation and lead to lost customers.
In addition to incorrect fuel drops, another concern for fuel site operators is a disputed delivery amount. This is three times more likely to happen than an octane mix-up, with one in every 4,000 deliveries questioned by the site operator. With the average trailer involved in 3,650 deliveries a year, on average a disputed delivery will occur just less than once per year per trailer.
Minimizing Mistakes
Taking into account all of the negative outcomes that are possible with incorrect or inaccurate fuel drops, c-store operators need to be 100% certain that they are receiving the right fuel grade and amount every time. However, help has arrived. The fuel industry has moved from analog to the digital world with tank-monitoring technology that is mounted on fuel-delivery transports. These systems now use an easy-to-read and simple-to-use graphic touchscreen display that communicates wirelessly with the trailer's fuel-delivery and operation-monitoring components. Through the touchscreen display, the system consolidates the driver's access to the many different control systems on a fuel transport.
For example, if an incorrect truck-to-UST connection is attempted, this new digital technology doesn't allow the trailer's valves to open, so the delivery will not commence. At the conclusion of the delivery, which ceases only when the fuel compartment is empty, the touchscreen notifies the driver that the compartment is empty and that all hoses and delivery hardware can be safely disconnected.
These capabilities mean that the days of incorrect or disputed fuel deliveries may soon be a welcome thing of the past. This creates a win-win-win scenario for fuel-transport drivers, c-store operators and the drivers who rely on them to power their vehicles.
Frank Stemporzewski is a product specialist for Civacon, Hamilton, Ohio, a Dover company. He has more than 35 years of experience in the cargo tank industry. Reach him at frank.stemporzewski@ opwglobal.com.
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Q: Ansible synchronize and perform action if changed I want to write a playbook to synchronize a source file to a destination host and restart tomcat/apache if the file changed. The documentation on synchronize does not give any example on if this is possible. Can anyone provide some pointers?

A: If you're only changing one file, you probably want to use copy instead of synchronize.  However, this approach should work either way.
The handler system is designed for this sort of thing.  The documentation there provides an example of bouncing memcached after a configuration file change:

Here's an example of restarting two services when the contents of a
  file change, but only if the file changes:
- name: template configuration file
  template: src=template.j2 dest=/etc/foo.conf
  notify:
     - restart memcached
     - restart apache

The things listed in the notify section of a task are called handlers.
Handlers are lists of tasks, not really any different from regular
  tasks, that are referenced by a globally unique name, and are notified
  by notifiers. If nothing notifies a handler, it will not run.
  Regardless of how many tasks notify a handler, it will run only once,
  after all of the tasks complete in a particular play.
Here's an example handlers section:
handlers:
    - name: restart memcached
      service: name=memcached state=restarted
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ALEX BRUMMER: Peace's day of the long knives as StanChart chairman decapitates much of the board - including himself
By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail
Published: 17:21 EST, 26 February 2015 | Updated: 17:21 EST, 26 February 2015
The departure of Peter Sands from Standard Chartered, clutching a handsome pay-off, has been predicted for a long time. If anything, the surprise is that he has hung on for so long.
This is the chief executive who eventually owned up to money laundering in the US paying a £433million fine after first claiming the Americans were engaged in economic warfare against British banks.
Top departure: Peter Sands
This triumph has been followed by three profit warnings and accompanied by a 50 per cent decline in the share price. What the Sands and StanChart experience demonstrates is that it is easy to make profits in the boom years and look like a genius. When the Great Recession came along, and the global landscape changed, StanChart was well and truly beached.
The bigger surprise is the extent of the clear-out at the top.
It has been a torrid time for chairman Sir John Peace but with the shareholders breathing down his neck he has now shown a ruthless streak, decapitating much of the board including himself.
One of the problems for StanChart has been that it doesn't quite know what it is. One ambition has been to be the number two bank in many emerging markets. But along the way it also developed a taste for investment banking and some heavy lending against commodities, a big mistake in a deflationary era.
On the surface Bill Winters, brought in to solve StanChart's problems, looks ideal. A refugee from the autocratic tendencies of Jamie Dimon at JP Morgan he is something of a banking grandee having served on Sir John Vickers' Independent Banking Commission and done a review for the Bank of England's court.
Whether this makes him absolutely the right person, as big investors Temasek and Aberdeen testify, is another matter. He is a merchant banker taking on a largely commercial bank. He is also an American without any notable Asian or emerging market experience.
In the former relationships are built up over a long time and with Asian chief Jaspal Bindra also being shown the door Winters will have a lot of ground to make up.
Standard Chartered PLC Share Price | This is Money Peter Sands finally toppled in Standard Chartered shake-up
It is not just the executives that are changing but the non-executives too. The arrival, for instance, of Jasmine Whitbread of Save the Children may appear wonderfully politically correct. A quick check of its website shows loaded headlines such as 'Gaza and Israel Conflict: Stop Killing Children Now.'
The markets greeted the management changes brightly with the shares advancing 5pc. The betting, however, is that the next set of results may be even worse than those that have gone before with heavy write-offs of bad commodity loans, avoided until now, and the inevitable rights issue to secure the capital base.
StanChart is in some of the most promising markets in the world, from India to Singapore and Southern Africa. What it has failed to demonstrate is that it knows exactly what it is doing.
At least in New Zealander Ross McEwan Royal Bank of Scotland has the right chief executive. He showed good judgement in waiving his bonus, without having to be bullied into doing so, and recognised that an 81 per cent state-owned bank has no place in investment banking.
Following the example of Lloyds, that rid itself of most of its international operations some time ago, RBS is removing itself from 25 countries and will refocus on Britain where it has a huge role to play in keeping small and medium-sized businesses well supported with working capital and credit.
Good judgement: RBS boss Ross McEwan has recognised that an 81 per cent state-owned bank has no place in investment banking
The bank may be capable of making operating profits but the past still looms large and write-downs of Citizens in the US and continued regulatory gyp, ranging from payment protection insurance to foreign exchange market fiddling, means that a further £3.5billion has walked out of the door.
Since the government injected £45billion into the bank in 2008 it has run up losses of £49.5billion. In the latest regulatory setback, private banking offshoot Coutts is under the microscope for alleged tax evasion for German clients. Not impressive.
It might have been hoped that new chairman Sir Howard Davies, a man on a personal rehabilitation mission, might have used his new role to press the button on returning RBS fully to the public markets.
McEwan warns, however, that returning all the RBS shares could take up to another ten years!
Bit of a contrast with the US where even the most endangered banks, like Citigroup, have been able to extricate themselves from the heavy hand of government.
Athens amnesia
Big anniversary for Germany today as the Bundestag discusses a bridging loan to Greece.
On February 27, 1953, Britain and other allied powers signed the London Debt Accords cancelling 50 per cent of Germany's debt, the start of a five-year moratorium on debt payments including both public and private creditors.
It was a deal which set Germany off on a road to prosperity and peace.
That is a bit of history which the Weimar obsessives among Berlin and Frankfurt policymakers too easily forget when dealing with Greece.


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Sonya Hardin, PhD, MBA, MHA, NP-C, FAAN, associate dean for graduate programs and professor in the College of Nursing at East Carolina University, has been named dean of the University of Louisville School of Nursing.
Hardin started on Aug. 13, serving as acting dean until the UofL Board of Trustees approves her appointment.
"I am excited to join UofL," Hardin said. "The School of Nursing has an exemplary leadership team, nationally-renowned faculty and an outstanding cadre of staff, students, distinguished alumni and supporters who are well positioned to impact the health of individuals, families and communities."
Hardin will replace Marcia J. Hern, who in 2017 announced her plan to retire from the school after an 11-year tenure as dean.
"Dr. Hardin will expand upon the advancement that has occurred in the past decade at the School of Nursing, which has seen growth in programs, learning space and student enrollment," said Greg Postel, MD, executive vice president for health affairs at UofL.
"Many thanks to Dr. Hern for agreeing to remain as dean during the search process. Under her leadership, the school added two graduate programs, established the only traditional nursing baccalaureate program in Owensboro and underwent significant classroom and clinical simulation lab expansion. Student standards have risen and pass rates on the National Council Licensure Examination for registered nurses exceed the national average."
Hardin is a nurse practitioner specializing in care for older adults, and her research has focused on symptom management and issues surrounding inpatient critical care of the geriatric population.
While at East Carolina University, she led a three-year, $2.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services titled the Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Program, which created a comprehensive approach to caring for older adults in the eastern region of North Carolina. Working with community partners, the initiative established an interprofessional education model, trained primary care providers to meet the needs of older adults and created community-based programs for rural older adults and their families.
Hardin has co-authored more than 50 peer-reviewed articles and three books with topics focusing on geriatric care, critical care for older adults and chronic disease. In 2017, she became a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing, one of the highest honors in the profession.
Incorporating entrepreneurship and technology into practice, Hardin worked with an engineer team at East Carolina University to create a device that quantitatively measures edema in the lower extremity. The group has received a provisional patent on the device.
"Dr. Hardin is an innovative leader with a proven record of providing strategic direction at academic medical centers and nursing schools," said Toni Ganzel, MD, MBA, dean of the UofL School of Medicine, who led the School of Nursing dean search committee. "She brings a unique skill set to bolster the research mission and visibility of the School of Nursing, build robust partnerships and advance the school in educating the next generation of nurses."
Hardin joined the nursing college at East Carolina University in 2013, where she started the psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner program and oversaw accreditation of the doctor of nursing practice, certified registered nurse anesthetist and midwifery programs. She previously had faculty positions at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and Lenoir Rhyne College. Hardin started her career in 1982, working as a critical care staff nurse in several North Carolina hospitals and earned her adult nurse practitioner license in 2009.
Hardin has a PhD in nursing from the University of Colorado and master's degrees in business and health administration from Pfeiffer University in North Carolina. She earned master's and bachelor's degrees in nursing from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She also completed post-doctoral fellowships at Stanford University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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