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import contextlib
import datetime as dt
import re
import sys
import traceback

from django.conf import settings
from django.core.mail import mail_admins
from django.template.loader import render_to_string

from apps.plea.models import CourtEmailCount, Case
from .models import ReceiptLog
from apps.plea.standardisers import standardise_urn

hmcts_body_re = re.compile("<<<makeaplea-ref:\s*(\d+)/(\d+)>>>")
hmcts_subject_re = re.compile("(?:.*?)Receipt \((Failed|Passed)\) RE:(?:.*?)ONLINE PLEA: (\d{2}/\w{2}/\d{5,7}/\d{2}) DOH:\s+(\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2})")

class InvalidFormatError(Exception):
    pass

class ReceiptProcessingError(Exception):
    pass

@contextlib.contextmanager
def get_receipt_emails(query_from, query_to):
    """
    Retrieve emails from gmail
    """

    import gmail

    g = gmail.login(settings.RECEIPT_INBOX_USERNAME, settings.RECEIPT_INBOX_PASSWORD)

    # NOTE: the query_from/query_to has been removed.  This script will only
    # try to process emails that are unread and it'll set them to read after
    # being processed Maybe later on we need to start querying date ranges,
    # but given the volume of emails this should be a more robust solution.

    emails = g.inbox().mail(sender=settings.RECEIPT_INBOX_FROM_EMAIL, unread=True)

    yield emails

    g.logout()

def extract_data_from_email(subject, body):
    """
    Extract data from a HMCTS/GMP receipt email
    """

    matches = hmcts_subject_re.search(subject)

    if not matches:
        raise InvalidFormatError(
            "Cannot process email subject: {}".format(subject))
    else:
        status, urn, doh = matches.groups()

    matches = hmcts_body_re.search(body)

    if not matches:
        raise InvalidFormatError(
            "Cannot get makeaplea ref from email body: {} / {} / {}"
            .format(status, urn, doh))
    else:
        plea_id, count_id = matches.groups()

    return int(plea_id), int(count_id), status, urn, doh

def process_receipts(query_from=None):
    """
    Retrieve HMCTS receipt emails from google mail, process them and log the
    results.

    HMCTS will respond with either a Passed or Failed status, as per the email
    subject).

    A Failed status means HMCTS have been unable to match a submission with
    existing Libra court records.

    Several Failed emails may be received before a final Passed status,
    e.g when HMCTS staff finally determine the correct court records for
    the submission.

    However, sometimes a submission will not be matched in which case we'll
    receive a Failed status from HMCTS with no subsequent Passed status.

    If a submission is failed, due to an incorrect hearing date or URN,
    then HMCTS may manually correct the URN or hearing date and respond
    with a Passed status.

    In this instance we pick up the corrected hearing date and/or DOH,
    and update our own records whilst recording that a URN or DOH change
    has been made.

    To associate outbound email submissions with our own records we
    insert the relevant IDs into the body of the outbound email in the
    following format:

    <<<makeaplea-ref: {CaseId}, {CourtEmailCountId}>>>

    HMCTS receipt emails include the reference enabling us to
    know which Case and CourtEmailCount data needs
    to be modified.

    This function is run as a management command:

    ./manage.py process_receipt_emails

    """

    start_time = dt.datetime.now()

    try:
        last_log = ReceiptLog.objects.filter(
            status=ReceiptLog.STATUS_COMPLETE).latest('query_to')
    except ReceiptLog.DoesNotExist:
        last_log = None

    log_entry = ReceiptLog(query_to=start_time)

    # determine the query from date
    if not query_from:
        if last_log:
            query_from = last_log.query_to
        else:
            query_from = start_time-dt.timedelta(days=1)

    log_entry.query_from = query_from
    log_entry.save()

    try:
        _process_receipts(log_entry)
    except Exception:
        ex_type, ex, tb = sys.exc_info()
        log_entry.status_detail = "An exception has occured: {}\n\n{}"\
            .format(ex, traceback.format_tb(tb))
        log_entry.status = ReceiptLog.STATUS_ERROR

    log_entry.run_time = (dt.datetime.now() - start_time).seconds
    log_entry.save()

    if settings.RECEIPT_ADMIN_EMAIL_ENABLED:
        body = render_to_string('email/admin_receipt_email.txt', {'log': log_entry})
        mail_admins(settings.RECEIPT_ADMIN_EMAIL_SUBJECT, body)

    return log_entry

def _process_receipts(log_entry):

    status_text = []

    with get_receipt_emails(log_entry.query_from, log_entry.query_to) as emails:

        log_entry.total_emails = len(emails)

        for email in emails:

            email.fetch()

            try:
                plea_id, count_id, status, urn, doh = \
                    extract_data_from_email(email.subject, email.body)

            except InvalidFormatError as ex:
                status_text.append(str(ex))

                log_entry.total_errors += 1

                email.read()
                email.star()

                continue

            try:
                case_obj = Case.objects.get(id=plea_id)
            except Case.DoesNotExist:
                status_text.append('Cannot find Case(<{}>)'
                                   .format(plea_id))

                log_entry.total_errors += 1

                email.read()
                email.star()

                continue

            try:
                count_obj = CourtEmailCount.objects.get(id=count_id)
            except CourtEmailCount.DoesNotExist:
                status_text.append('Cannot find CourtEmailCount(<{}>)'
                                   .format(count_id))

                log_entry.total_errors += 1

                email.read()
                email.star()

                continue

            if status == "Passed":
                if case_obj.has_action("receipt_success"):
                    status_text.append("{} already processed. Skipping.").format(urn)
                    continue

                log_entry.total_success += 1

                if urn.upper() != case_obj.urn:
                    # HMCTS have changed the URN, update our records and log the change

                    old_urn, case_obj.urn = case_obj.urn, urn

                    case_obj.add_action("receipt_success", "\\URN CHANGED! Old Urn: {}".format(old_urn))

                    status_text.append('Passed [URN CHANGED! old urn: {}] {}'.format(urn, old_urn))
                else:
                    case_obj.add_action("receipt_success", "")
                    status_text.append('Passed: {}'.format(urn))

                case_obj.processed = True
                case_obj.save()

                # We can't modify the DOH as the hearing time is not provided by
                # hmcts, at current

                #
                # do outbound actions, e.g. send an email to a user.
                #

            else:
                case_obj.add_action("receipt_failure", "")

                status_text.append('Failed: {}'.format(urn))

                log_entry.total_failed += 1

            # mark as read
            email.read()

            count_obj.get_status_from_case(case_obj)
            count_obj.save()

            case_obj.save()

    log_entry.status = log_entry.STATUS_COMPLETE

    log_entry.status_detail = "\n".join(status_text)

def process_receipt(subject, body):
    """

    Returns a tuple of status (True/False) and message
    """

    plea_id, count_id, status, urn, doh = \
        extract_data_from_email(subject, body)

    try:
        case_obj = Case.objects.get(id=plea_id)
    except Case.DoesNotExist:
        raise ReceiptProcessingError('Cannot find Case(<{}>)'
                                     .format(plea_id))
    try:
        count_obj = CourtEmailCount.objects.get(id=count_id)
    except CourtEmailCount.DoesNotExist:
        raise ReceiptProcessingError('Cannot find CourtEmailCount(<{}>)'
                                     .format(count_id))

    if status == "Passed":
        if case_obj.has_action("receipt_success"):
            return False, "{} already processed. Skipping.".format(urn)

        if standardise_urn(urn) != case_obj.urn:
            # HMCTS have changed the URN, update our records and log the change

            old_urn, case_obj.urn = case_obj.urn, standardise_urn(urn)

            case_obj.add_action("receipt_success", "\\URN CHANGED! Old Urn: {}".format(old_urn))

            status_text = 'Passed [URN CHANGED! old urn: {}] {}'.format(urn, old_urn)
        else:
            case_obj.add_action("receipt_success", "")
            status_text = 'Passed: {}'.format(urn)

        case_obj.processed = True
        case_obj.save()

        success = True

        # We can't modify the DOH as the hearing time is not provided by
        # hmcts, at current

        #
        # do outbound actions, e.g. send an email to a user.
        #

    else:
        case_obj.add_action("receipt_failure", "")

        success = False

        status_text = 'Failed: {}'.format(urn)

    count_obj.get_status_from_case(case_obj)
    count_obj.save()

    case_obj.save()

    return success, status_text

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Charles Alpers, Ph.D., United States Geological Survey
Judge: Student Poster Session
Presenter: Humbug Creek Watershed Assessment
Gold Country Mines Bus Tour – Monday, April 20, 2015
Presenter: Upstream Prioritization through Modeling: Sierra Nevada Mercury Impairment Project
11:40 am – Tuesday, April 21, 2015 – Prioritization of Remediation Efforts Track
Panelist: Coordinating Prioritization Needs in California
2:40 pm – Tuesday, April 21, 2015 – Prioritization of Remediation Efforts Track
Charles Alpers, Ph.D., has an undergraduate degree in geology from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in geology from the University of California, Berkeley. For the past two decades he has been a Research Chemist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Sacramento where his work has focused on environmental problems related to abandoned mine lands. In addition to his work on acid mine drainage from copper mines including Iron Mountain and Penn Mine, he has led several investigations of mercury contamination and bioaccumulation associated with past mining of gold and mercury in the Coast Ranges, the Trinity Mountains, and the Sierra Nevada.
Adrienne Alvord, Western States Director, Union of Concerned Scientists; Board Member, The Sierra Fund
Responder regarding Policy and Coordination: Synthesis Panel
4:35 pm – Tuesday, April 21, 2015
Adrienne Alvord is the Union of Concerned Scientists' California and Western States Director, based in Berkeley, California. Ms. Alvord is leading UCS's effort to ensure robust implementation of the California Global Warming Solutions Act, California's landmark climate law known as "AB 32." Prior, Ms. Alvord was the environmental policy director for California State Senator, Fran Pavley and served as lead staff on AB 32. She worked extensively in climate, energy, fuels, waste, and agricultural policy and has deep experience both in translating scientific and technical work into policy ideas and creating strategic partnerships to achieve those policies. Prior, Ms. Alvord served as a gubernatorial appointee directing state pesticide legislation and regulations, and previously was policy director for the Community Alliance with Family Farmers.
Marie Barry, former Environmental Director for the Washoe Tribe
Alf Brandt, Legislative Director, California Assemblymember Anthony Rendon
Panelist: Water Bond Implementation Issues and Opportunities
2:40 pm – Tuesday April 21, 2015 – Policy and Coordination Track
Alf W. Brandt serves the California State Assembly as an expert on environmental law and policy, as well as Executive Director of the National Judicial College's Dividing the Waters Program. He now serves Assemblymember Anthony Rendon, chair of the Utilities & Commerce Committee. Drawing on his extensive experience in California water policy, Brandt has developed, analyzed and advocated for California water legislation, including playing critical roles in the development of the 2014 Water Bond, the 2009 Delta/Water Legislation, and the 2007 flood protection package. In his off-hours, he leads a program to train state and federal judges on water law adjudication. Brandt has a long history in water policy debates. In 2007, he chaired the American Bar Association's 25th Annual Water Law Conference, and now serves on the Council for the ABA environmental section. Prior to joining the Assembly staff, Brandt served as a water lawyer for the Department of the Interior, Federal Agency Coordinator at the CALFED Bay-Delta Program, and as the leader of the City of Los Angeles delegation to the Board of Directors for the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. Brandt earned his J.D. in 1988 from University of California, Berkeley (Boalt Hall School of Law), and his B.A. magna cum laude in 1983 from UCLA.
Keali'i Bright, Deputy Secretary for Legislative Affairs, Natural Resources Agency
Keali'i Bright was appointed by Governor Brown in 2011 and currently serves as the Deputy Secretary for Legislative affairs for Secretary John Laird at the Natural Resources Agency. In his capacity, he works with the agency on statewide and regional resource conservation and infrastructure legislation and program implementation. Prior, Keali'i served as a principle consultant for the Assembly Budget Committee during which his primary policy assignments were natural resources, environmental protection and transportation. Keali'i graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz with a degree in Latin American and Latino Studies in 1998 and has since lived abroad and worked in the non-profit sector.
David M. Chambers, Ph.D., P. Geop., President, Center for Science in Public Participation
Presenter: Standards for Responsible Mine Reclamation
1:55 pm – Tuesday, April 21, 2015 – Best Available Techniques Track
Panelist: Evaluating Best Available Techniques
David Chambers is the president of the Center for Science in Public Participation, a non-profit corporation formed to provide technical assistance on mining and water quality to public interest groups and tribal governments. He has 39 years of experience in mineral exploration and development. Dr. Chambers has Professional Engineering Degree in Physics from the Colorado School of Mines, a Master of Science Degree in Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley, a Ph.D. in Environmental Planning from Berkeley and is a registered professional geophysicist in California. His continuing research focus is on the intersection of science and technology with public policy and natural resource management.
Marc Choyt, Fair Jewelry Action and President, Reflective Images Jewelry
Panelist: E3 Gold Market Analysis and Early Development
2:40 pm – Tuesday, April 21, 2015 – Multiple Benefits Track
Marc Choyt is President and co-founder of Reflective Images Jewelry, a company focused on ethically sourced, handmade designer jewelry since 1995, and co-founder of Fair Jewelry Action. The City of Santa Fe honored Reflective Images in 2014 for its triple bottom line business model. Marc sits on the board of Santa Fe's Green Chamber of Commerce and recently led a campaign that helped block the opening of a new gold mine south of Santa Fe. He is currently working with Fairtrade to support the broad roll out of fair trade gold in North America and completing his book, The Circle Manifesto, which explores implementing regenerative business practices using the circle as a process model. He is a writing and literature graduate of Brown University and has his Masters in Humanities from St. John's College.
Bill Christner, Ph.D., Senior Geomorphologist, Balance Hydrologics, Inc.
Bill Christner, Ph.D. is a Senior Geomorphologist with Balance Hydrologics, Inc. As one of the few California geomorphologists coming from formal training in soil science, Dr. Christner applies his diverse background to a host of applications in channel morphology, soil characterization and assessment, wetland design and construction, erosion control, and shallow groundwater movement. He specializes in overall restoration of channel corridors to enhance salmonid spawning and rearing habitat, bringing a 'valley-floor' perspective to re-naturalizing stream systems. His 18 years of experience include work in California, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, and Wyoming.
Kevin Cornwell, Ph.D., Professor of Geology, California State University Sacramento
William Craven, Chief Consultant, Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee
Panelist: Post-SMARA Mine Permitting and Reclamation Issues
William Craven is currently the chief consultant of the Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee. The committee is chaired by Senator Fran Pavley, D-Agoura Hills, co-author of AB 32, California's leading climate change legislation. The Natural Resources and Water Committee has jurisdiction over legislation pertaining to water, forestry, wildlife, hunting and fishing, public lands, coastal protection, ocean policy, state parks, mining, harbors, and other key California resources. William also often participates in meetings of the Ocean Protection Council, the California State Parks and Recreation Commission, and the Wildlife Conservation Board on which Sen. Pavley is a legislative member.
Amy Crook, Executive Director, Fair Mining Collaborative
Panelist: Definition of E3 Gold Standards
Amy Crook is the Executive Director of the British Columbia based charitable non-profit Fair Mining Collaborative (FMC), an organization of independent scientists who provide technical and strategic support to Aboriginal leadership and communities affected by resource development. Ms. Crook has been conducting technical reviews of mining developments for 30 years, lending her extensive technical expertise to assist Indigenous communities with complex project management, community capacity building and knowledge transfer. Ms. Crook directed the development of FMC's cutting edge work Fair Mining Practices: A New Mining Code for British Columbia and has been assisting First Nations with their response to the Mount Polley mine disaster.
Timothy Crough, P.E., Assistant General Manager, Nevada Irrigation District
Presenter: Combie Reservoir Mercury and Sediment Removal Project Demonstration
Timothy Crough is the Assistant General Manager of the Nevada Irrigation District. He is a Registered Civil Engineer in California, with more than 35 years of public administration and engineering experience – 20 years in the water industry. Mr. Crough is the Project Manager for the Combie Reservoir Sediment and Mercury Removal Project by the Nevada Irrigation District, a one-of-a-kind project designed to remove legacy mercury from sediment in the Bear River, while restoring valuable water storage capacity for the District.
Caleb Dardick, Executive Director, South Yuba River Citizens League
Facilitator: Policy and Coordination Track – Tuesday, April 21, 2015
Caleb Dardick, Executive Director, South Yuba River Citizens League (SYRCL), has over 20 years of experience in community outreach, advocacy, government and media relations. Caleb leads SYRCL in fulfilling its mission to unite the community to protect and restore the Yuba River watershed. Upon joining SYRCL in September 2011, Caleb led the effort to save two State Parks slated to close due to budget cuts. Prior, Caleb served as Director of Local Government and Community Relations for UC Berkeley's Office of the Chancellor. From 2000-2009, he provided public relations and public affairs consulting to a broad range of clients in business, government, the nonprofit sector and politics. In the mid-1990s, Caleb served in the Berkeley Mayor's Office. Caleb earned a B.A. in History with honors at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Carol DiGiorgio, Program Manager, Department of Water Resources Mercury Monitoring and Evaluation Section
Presenter: Downstream Prioritization through Modeling: Yolo Bypass and Delta Mercury Modeling
Carol DiGiorgio is the Program Manager for the Mercury Monitoring and Evaluation Section in the Department of Water Resources. The section was formed in 2012 to coordinate the Department's compliance with the Delta Mercury Control Program. Carol has a bachelor's in Biology from UC Davis and a Master's in Biology from Humboldt State University. She has worked on a number of water quality issues including selenium and pesticide toxicity, drinking water quality and pathogens and now mercury.
Jacob Fleck, Research Hydrologist, United States Geological Survey
Presenter: Polymer Use to Reduce Methylmercury in Wetlands
11:40 am – Tuesday, April 21, 2015 – Best Available Techniques Track
Jacob Fleck is a Research Hydrologist at the U.S. Geological Survey in Sacramento , California, where his research has focused on organic matter and mercury cycling in the environment. Jacob received a Bachelor's in Biosystems Engineering and a Master's in Soil Science, with emphases in biogeochemistry and water resources, from the University of Minnesota and began his career studying mercury cycling in the Great Lakes region. After a brief hiatus while studying drinking water contaminants in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, he returned to studying mercury cycling in California. For the past 10 years, he has investigated mercury methylation in wetlands and mercury contamination related to historic gold and mercury mines. Jacob is currently involved in studies evaluating the relative importance of mercury sources and assessing techniques for managing the mercury threat to human and wildlife health.
Andrea Foster, Ph.D., United States Geological Survey
Presenter: Spectroscopic Methods for Arsenic Characterization
Andrea Foster obtained her B.S. with honors in Geology from Indiana University in 1992 and her Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1999. The same year, Foster accepted an appointment with the USGS Mineral Resources Program in Menlo Park. Her work investigating the environmental chemistry of arsenic at CA mine sites began with Ph.D. research and continues to this day. She has been the principal investigator on 10 successful proposals for synchrotron beamtime in the area of geochemistry/environmental mineralogy and has collaborated on several others. She continues to use synchrotron X-rays in her research, but is currently developing in-house methods using Raman microspectroscopy to identify the forms of environmentally- and economically- important elements in earth materials.
Chris Friedel, River Science Manager, South Yuba River Citizens League
Yuba Goldfields Boat Tour – Monday, April 20, 2015
Chris Friedel is the River Science Manager for the South Yuba River Citizens League (SYRCL) where he helps manage their environmental monitoring, education, and ecological restoration programs. Prior to SYRCL, he managed a native plant nursery and creek restoration program at Muir Woods National Monument, and worked as a vegetation ecologist for the National Park Service. More recently, Chris has led an effort to build a community-scale biomass-to-energy plant in Yuba County. Chris earned a bachelor's degree in Earth Systems Science from Stanford University in 2001.
Ajay Goyal, Chief, Statewide Infrastructure Investigations Branch, Department of Water Resources
Panelist: Multiple Benefits of Sediment Removal from Reservoirs
11:00 am – Tuesday, April 21, 2015 – Multiple Benefits Track
Ajay Goyal is the Chief of the Statewide Infrastructure Investigations Branch in the Department of Water Resources. Mr. Goyal has over 20 years of experience in the planning, design, and construction of large water resources facilities. He is the program manager for the Surface Storage Investigations Program, and the System Reoperation Program. He is also assisting the California Water Commission in the development of regulations and guidelines for the quantification of public benefits associated with the $2.7 billion Water Storage Investment Program of the Water Bond.
Julie Griffith-Flatter, Sierra Nevada Conservancy
Panelist: Pre-SMARA Legacy Mine Remediation Challenges and Opportunities
11:00 am – Tuesday April 21, 2015 – Policy and Coordination Track
Julie Griffith-Flatter is a Mt Lassen Area Representative for the Sierra Nevada Conservancy (SNC) with a focus on the Conservancy's Abandoned Mine Lands (AML) program and Tribal Policy. Her background includes 18 years of Land Use Planning in Sierra County where mine permitting and environmental analysis were part of her responsibility for current mining operations. Through her work in Sierra County, her awareness of the continuing harmful impacts from abandoned mine sites grew. She has participated in the inter-agency abandoned mine lands forum, now known as the California Abandoned Mine Lands Agency Group, both as a County employee and a SNC employee. When the SNC initiated the AML program, she was pleased with the opportunity provided through the new program to enhance work towards remediating legacy impacts from AML sites in the Region
Alison Harvey, Director of Governmental Affairs, United Auburn Indian Community; Board Member, The Sierra Fund
Alison Harvey is the Director of Governmental Affairs for the United Auburn Indian Community, a federally recognized California tribe comprised of Maidu and Miwok Indians based in the Sierra Nevada foothills in Auburn. The UAIC owns Thunder Valley Casino and several other enterprises, which provide resources for the tribe's school, housing, health, elder care and other vital programs. Alison directs the tribe's federal, state and local government relations and legislative affairs. Prior to working for the UAIC, Alison was the Executive Director of the California Tribal Business Alliance, a coalition of seven California Indian tribes that operate gaming facilities under the terms of tribal-state compacts. Alison had 23 years of experience in the California Legislature, where she served as chief of staff to Senate President pro Tem John L. Burton, principal consultant for the Senate Judiciary Committee, and 14 years as chief of staff to Assemblyman Phil Isenberg.
Rick Humphreys, State Water Resources Control Board, Retired
Rick Humphreys, until his recent retirement, was a Senior Specialist Engineering Geologist with the State Water Resources Control Board, where he worked since 1986. He began specializing in mining issues related to water quality in 1991. Rick holds both a BS and a MS in Geology.
Rachel Hutchinson, River Science Director, South Yuba River Citizens League
Rachel Hutchinson is the River Science Director at the South Yuba River Citizens League (SYRCL). Ms. Hutchinson holds a BS in Environmental Resource Science and a MS in Water Resources. She has over 10 years of experience as a riparian ecologist working on a variety of Northern California's river and meadow ecosystems. Since joining SYRCL she has worked on legacy mining impacts in the Humbug, Scotchman, Spring, and Shady Creek watersheds, all tributaries to the South Yuba River and works on larger scale restoration projects restore the lower Yuba River.
Alexandria Keeble-Toll, The Sierra Fund
Presenter: Local Government Opportunities to Lead AML Prioritization Efforts
Alexandria Keeble-Toll has a B.A. in Sociology from UCLA and an M.A. in Sociology from CSU, Sacramento. Alex's M.A. work focused on environmental inequality and hazard formation; her thesis analyzed three hardrock gold mines across a 150-year timeframe. Alex recently became a UC Certified California Naturalist through UC Davis and began work toward an M.S. degree in Environmental Science at CSU, Chico. For her current thesis research, Alex is working with Dr. Carrie Monohan and The Sierra Fund to examine methylmercury bioaccumulation in fish tissue, focusing on water bodies in the Cosumnes, American, Bear, Yuba (CABY) watershed region.
Jennifer Krill, Executive Director, Earthworks
Panelist: Definition of E3 Gold Standards Workshop
Jennifer Krill is the Executive Director of Earthworks, where she worked since 2010 to protect communities and the environment from the negative impacts of mining and fossil fuel extraction. She co-founded and serves on the Board of Directors of Plug In America, which advocates for petroleum-free, pollution free electric vehicles. She also serves on the Board of the Labor Network for Sustainability and the Advisory Committees of the Business Ethics Network and the Western Mining Action Network. Jennifer holds a B.A. and a B.L.A. from Ball State University, and previously directed successful campaigns at Rainforest Action Network, where she helped protect old growth forests and prevent banks from financing climate change-causing industries. In 2014, she was inducted into the Women's Hall of Fame of Alameda County, California for her work on behalf of the environment.
Elizabeth Mansfield, Director, Sierra Water Workgroup
Facilitator: Multiple Benefits Track – Tuesday, April 21, 2015
Elizabeth Mansfield is currently the Director of the Sierra Water Workgroup, whose mission is to increase inter-regional cooperation and assist regional efforts in protecting and enhancing water quality, water supply, and watershed health. She has worked for the Center for Collaborative Policy as the senior facilitator for the Sierra Water Workgroup, and the El Dorado Irrigation District as the Water Resources Manager. She served as the Executive Director of the Integrated Regional Water Management Planning group for the Cosumnes, American, Bear and Yuba (CABY) Region. Prior, Mrs. Mansfield worked for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, was Deputy Assistant to the California Department of Water Resources, and Water Consultant to the California Legislature, Assembly Committee on Water, Parks and Wildlife.
Glenda Marsh, Program Manager, California Department of Conservation Abandoned Mine Lands Program
Presenter: Bird's Eye View: Tools for Prioritizing AML Sites across the State
Glenda Marsh is the Program Manager for the Abandoned Mine Lands Program at the California Department of Conservation. She brings a diverse 15-year career implementing environmental regulatory and natural resource programs at several state departments, including historical fishery, hydrological, genetics, and botanical research projects. She finds that reclaiming the state's historic mined lands has many similar facets, requiring bridging between regulatory processes, human and environmental health and land management in order to protect people and the environment for future generations.
Elizabeth "Izzy" Martin, Chief Executive Officer, The Sierra Fund
MC: Keynote Panel
6:30 pm – Monday, April 20, 2015
Izzy Martin is a community organizer and environmental advocate with over thirty years of experience working in rural communities to promote economic and environmental justice. Her background includes working with family farmers and farm labor advocates for two decades, serving two terms on the Nevada County Planning Commission and four years as a Nevada County Supervisor. In 2004 she led the successful advocacy effort to persuade the California State legislature to establish the Sierra Nevada Conservancy. Izzy has been the CEO of The Sierra Fund for over 10 years, during which time she helped to develop more than $100 million in new funds for conservation in the Sierra.
Stephen McCord, Ph.D., P.E., President, McCord Environmental
Facilitator: Prioritization of Remediation Efforts Track – Tuesday, April 21, 2015
Stephen McCord, Ph.D., P.E., is President of McCord Environmental. He holds a B.S. degree in Civil Engineering from Clemson University, and an M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Civil & Environmental Engineering from the University of California Davis. He has over 20 years of consulting, research and teaching experience in the environmental engineering field with projects throughout California, several other US states, and internationally. As a registered Professional Engineer in the State of California, Dr. McCord has managed stormwater monitoring projects and water quality field studies throughout California. A particular area of focus has been mercury – conceptual and mass balance models, TMDLs, trading programs, abandoned mine site cleanups, strategic planning, and stakeholder group facilitation.
J. Toby Minear, Ph.D., United States Geological Survey
Keynote Speaker: Opening Session
9:35 am – Tuesday, April 21, 2015
Dr. Minear received a Bachelor's degree from Colorado College and Masters and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Since 2010, Dr. Minear has worked at the United States Geological Survey California Water Science Center, in Sacramento, CA, and is presently at the USGS Geomorphology and Sediment Transport Laboratory in Golden, CO. Dr. Minear works on a variety of river research and hydrodynamic modeling projects in California and the Western U.S., including the San Joaquin River, Trinity River, Klamath River, Merced River in Yosemite National Park, Upper Colorado River Basin, and Elwha River Dam Removal projects.
Carrie Monohan, Ph.D., Science Director, The Sierra Fund
Presenter and MC: Opening Session – Tuesday, April 21, 2015
Carrie Monohan earned her Ph.D. in Forest Engineering and Hydrology in 2004 from the University of Washington, Seattle. Her dissertation work addressed the relationship between water quality in agricultural streams and diminishing salmon habitat. Throughout her graduate program, she was a research assistant to the Northwest Fisheries Science Center, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Other notable recent positions include Senior River Scientist for the Natural Heritage Institute and project manager and lead scientist for the EPA Brownfields Community Wide Assessment in Nevada City. Carrie has worked as a consultant to The Sierra Fund since 2007, and was hired as staff in 2010. Since 2011 she has served as adjunct professor at CSU, Chico.
Mark Nechodom, Director, Department of Conservation
Keynote Panelist, "Reclaiming the Sierra Tonight Show"
Mark Nechodom was appointed Director of California's Department of Conservation (DOC) by Governor Brown in January 2012. He has dedicated his professional life to integrating sustainable production and practices while maintaining a sensible balance between economic opportunities, environmental health, and human well-being. Prior to his position at DOC, Dr. Nechodom was a Senior Policy Advisor at the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) and served as Director of the Office of Environmental Markets at USDA. He was a Senior Climate Science Policy Advisor to the Chief of the US Forest Service and worked on federal greenhouse gas legislation in Washington, DC. Dr. Nechodom earned his PhD in political science and environmental policy from the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he taught for several years.
Sherri Norris, Executive Director, California Indian Environmental Alliance
Sherri Norris has fourteen years of experience working as a tribal health and environmental advocate with California Tribes at the local level and at international European Union and United Nations forums. Sherri has given hundreds of presentations and trainings on the cycle and health effects of mercury on environmental health, risk-reduction strategies and the development of solutions that promote the continuation of eating traditional fish while avoiding toxins. As Executive Director of the California Indian Environmental Alliance (CIEA) Sherri's work supports California Tribes by providing technical support and increasing opportunities for Tribes to guide cleanup, restoration and partner in the collaborative work required to reduce toxins in the environment. Sherri is a member of the Osage Nation and grew up in Northern California.
Gary Parsons, Board Member, San Juan Ridge Taxpayers Association; Board Member, The Sierra Fund
Gary Parsons is a San Juan Ridge-based general building contractor living and working on the Ridge since 1989. He received his B.S. in Environmental Design from the University of California, Davis in 1988. His community involvement is shared between his role as a board member of the San Juan Ridge Taxpayers Association and as a board member of the Yuba Watershed Institute. Gary joined The Sierra Fund's Board of Directors in 2015.
Pat Perez, Assistant Director, Office of Mine Reclamation at the California Department of Conservation
Mr. Pat Perez was appointed Assistant Director of the Office of Mine Reclamation at the California Department of Conservation on August 29, 2014 by Governor Brown. Perez served as acting supervisor of the Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources in 2014. Prior, Perez held a number of managerial and supervisorial positions during a 32-year career at the California Energy Commission. He led programs that dealt with such diverse topics as climate change, renewable energy, conventional fuels, liquefied natural gas, international energy market development, land use, and emergency planning and response. Before joining the Department of Conservation, Perez served as the Energy Commission's Deputy Director for transportation energy and alternative fuel programs. A native of Santa Barbara, Perez graduated with a degree in geography from the University of California Santa Barbara in 1979.
Jena Price, California League of Conservation Voters
Alberto Ramirez, Project Manager, Teichert Materials
Alberto Ramirez is the Project Manager for Mining and Environmental Engineering at Teichert Materials in Sacramento, California, where he identifies and evaluates new and current water discharge requirements and is involved in river rehabilitation for sustainable and ethical aggregates mining. Ramirez has been with the company since 2003. Prior, he worked as Assistant Mine Manager for Cal Sierra Development in the operations of the Yuba Dredges on the Yuba Goldfields and has held management positions related to gold mining in Brazil and Peru. Ramirez graduated as a Mining Engineer from the Montana College of Minerals in 1983.
John Regan, President, Smart Campaigns; Board Member, The Sierra Fund
Responder regarding Multiple Benefits: Synthesis Panel
John Regan is a founding member of the Sierra Fund's Board of Directors and President of Smart Campaigns, a national firm specializing in due diligence, strategic research, issues analysis and media relations. His clients have included more than thirty current and former members of Congress and more than a dozen U.S. senators, as well as state constitutional officeholders, political party organizations and interest groups in more than a dozen states. John has managed lobbying, public relations and legislative campaigns for community-based environmental organizations, including the South Yuba River Citizens League's historic campaign that won California State Wild and Scenic River protection for the South Yuba River in 1999. He has coordinated environmental representation on several ambitious collaborative efforts to restore endangered salmon and steelhead populations in the upper Yuba River Watershed.
Remleh Scherzinger, General Manager, Nevada Irrigation District
Remleh Scherzinger has served as the General Manager at the Nevada Irrigation District since January, 2013. He brings extensive knowledge and experience in the water utility field. He is a former utilities engineering manager with the City of Petaluma, and has also worked with the Sonoma County Water Agency and Metropolitan Water District. He holds an MBA degree and is a licensed civil engineer.
Bob Schneider, Tuleyome
Bob Schneider graduated from UC Davis with a B.S. degree in Geology in 1972. He is the co-founder of both the California Wilderness Coalition and Tuleyome, a conservation organization based in Woodland. Bob served as Tuleyome's project director on the Corona Twin Peaks mercury mine restoration project and volunteers as their Senior Policy Director. Bob currently serves on the Central Valley Water Board where he developed an interest in mercury issues through participating in the development and approval of the Clear Lake, Cache Creek and Sulphur Creek mercury total maximum daily loads (TMDLs).
Michael Singer, Ph.D., University of St. Andrews
9:15 am – Tuesday, April 21, 2015 – Opening Session
Michael Singer, Ph.D., earned an undergraduate degree in Environmental Science from the Evergreen State College in Washington and a Ph.D. from the Donald Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Singer is a lecturer in the Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences at the University of St. Andrews in the United Kingdom, and a researcher for the Earth Research Institute at UC Santa Barbara. His work has focused on hydrologic and geomorphic aspects of environmental problems ranging from the impact of climate change on hydrologic partitioning and earth surface processes to the legacy of 19th Century hydraulic gold mining in California. In recent work, Singer has led a team of investigators on a study of mercury contamination and bioaccumulation within food webs of California's Central Valley.
Frances Spivy-Weber, State Water Resources Control Board Member
Frances Spivy-Weber was re-appointed as the Public Member of the State Water Resources Control Board on March 1, 2009. She serves as Vice Chair of the Board and is the Board liaison to the Los Angeles, San Diego, Central Coast, and Lahontan Regional Boards and the Ocean Protection Council Steering Committee. Prior to joining the Board, she was the Executive Director of the Mono Lake Committee; and International Programs Director of National Audubon Society. Fran has served on numerous state and regional water advisory groups and task forces, including the Bay-Delta Public Advisory committee; State Water Plan 2005 Advisory Committee; California Landscape Task Force 2005; State Water Recycling Task Force 2003; Governor's Advisory Drought Planning Panel 2000. She has served as convener and on the Board of the California Urban Water Conservation Council, co-convener of the Southern California Water Dialogue, and on the Boards of the Water Education Foundation, California Council of Land Trusts, and Clean Water Action/Clean Water Fund. Fran has a BA from the University of Texas in history and political science and an MA from Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.
Brandon Stauffer, Teichert Materials
Brandon Stauffer is the North Region Division Manager at A. Teichert and Sons managing mining and reclamation at four operations, including two in the Yuba Goldfields. He has worked for Teichert for 14 years. Previously he worked for the California Dept. of Transportation for eight years while attending California State University Chico for a B.S. in Civil Engineering. He also worked for six years as Plant Manager at Knife River Corporation, a subsidiary of Montana Dakota Utilities, managing their sand and gravel operations in the Yuba Goldfields.
Martin Taber, Taber Studios
Martin Taber received his B.A. in Environmental Studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1995. After a lifetime of involvement in the family business, in 1997 he took to the jewelry trade full-time to develop his interests in sculptural design and architectural form. The integrity of crafting directly in the metals and working so closely with his customers led Martin to renew his passion for the environment in his new signature collection of ecologically inspired, haute couture jewelry, Martin Taber Designs. Martin has made significant changes to the methods of production and acquisition of materials to reflect Taber Studios' mission to become a leader in the move to help clean up the jewelry industry. He is currently the President of the Board of Directors of Ethical Metalsmiths, serving and guiding the jewelry industry towards ever more ethically-minded practices.
Greg Valerio
Greg Valerio is a fair trade jeweler with a background in human rights and environmental advocacy. He has been foundational to the international development and realization of fair trade jewelry and traceable supply chains from mine to retail. Greg is passionate about the jewelry industry's potential to transform lives of small-scale miners through the power of mine-to-market traceability and transparency. Greg is the founder of CRED Jewelry and co-founder of Fair Jewelry Action. He is a regular columnist for The National Association of Goldsmiths Jeweler Magazine, and serves on the Ethics Working Group for the British Jewelers Association and National Association of Goldsmiths. He was the winner of The Observer Ethical Award for Global Campaigner in 2011.
Cyndie Walck
Cyndie Walck is a geomorphologist and hydrologist for California State Parks, and the only hydrologist in the Parks system. She has over 20 years of experience in stream and watershed restoration, and has done numerous projects in the Tahoe Basin and around the state. She received her MS in Hydrology from the University of Nevada, Reno in 1993. Cyndie will be representing Parks at Malakoff Diggins State Historic Park on the Gold Country Mines bus tour.
Michelle Wood, Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board
Presenter: Statewide Mercury Program for Reservoirs: Developing Best Management Practices through Pilot Projects
Michelle Wood is an environmental scientist with the Central Valley Water Quality Control Board's Mercury Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) Unit. Her academic and professional background includes water quality, flood hydrology, CEQA, climate change, and hazardous materials. For the past ten years, Michelle has worked on developing control programs for mercury and other metals, starting with the Delta and progressing upstream to reservoirs. Michelle is currently working with a team of scientists and engineers from multiple Water Boards to develop a statewide control program for mercury-impaired reservoirs. Michelle has a Master of Science in Geosciences from the University of Arizona and a Bachelor of Science in Physical Geography with a minor in Geology from Louisiana State University.
Kendra Zamzow, Ph.D., Center for Science in Public Participation
Facilitator: Best Available Techniques Track – Tuesday, April 21, 2015
Kendra Zamzow, Ph.D. is an environmental geochemist and the Alaska representative for the Center for Science in Public Participation (CSP2). She has a Ph.D. in Environmental Chemistry from the University of Nevada, Reno. In 2012 she accepted a Science & Technology Policy Fellowship through the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences and spent 16 months in the Washington, DC offices of the EPA's Office of Research and Development/Office of Science Policy. She currently works with CSP2 from Chickaloon, Alaska, providing technical analysis of mining projects on behalf of communities and tribes on topics that include copper heap leach closure, arsenic chemistry in tailings, mercury release from thermal processing of gold, and potential for acid drainage.


Year 3 had a fabulous time learning all about the Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age in our Prehistory Workshop. We saw some fun shadow puppet shows, which taught us about the three ages. Finally, we were able to touch some real life artefacts, as well as some replicas.
Beatrix 3S - I loved this trip!
The thing I loved most was the puppet show in the work shop. In addition I can't believe we actually got to touch such old things. We learnt that to make an arrow they rubbed flint together to sharpen it!
yuri3S - Yuri says he really liked the workshop. He learned about the Early Age and the Middle Age. What he liked the most was that he was able to touch real things that Stone Age people made. He said that the pieces of tools were found in the River Thames. This was very cool!!!
Thank you for such an awesome learning opportunity!


Rising, Falling is an interdisciplinary art exhibit, in which the artist traces environmental movement in a series of time-based sequential pieces measuring light, water, and color. By presenting intimate studies of nature, the artist seeks to connect human viewers with the rest of the natural world, promoting an ethic of concern and care for the environment.
Come work on the fabric art piece that will be displayed in the power house.
No previous sewing experience required.
There are a variety of tasks, from laying out the fabric to sewing the pieces together that you can chose from. This is a great opportunity to develop a new skill, chill out with friends, and meet new people!
This is a twice monthly drop-in student run support group for victims of sexual assault and sexual harassment who want a place to speak with other student survivors. The goal of this space is to provide a way for victims on this campus to connect and support one another.


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Yes, I prefer the old, currently UK and phonetically correct, spelling of ageing. Its use is a privilege of being 93 and a half, somewhat removed from those days when I bragged about being 5 and a half.
Ageing does have its own problems, one of which is that there is quite a time lapse since my last blog. Yes, I still have the necessary verbal diarrhea but I spend much more time thinking about doing rather than actually doing. And, my memory is taking too many holidays, making it harder to recall facts and to decide among a confusing multitude of topics that I would like to address, like Echoes of the Arab Spring, The Widening Gulf between the rich and the poor, Climate change, Saving our Environment and Economy, Is Our Democracy the best form of government?, What is Life and Consciousness?, Would the world be more peaceful if we had kept the female gods, like Ashtoreth who went by so many names and whom we worshiped for 23,000 years and not allowed Abraham and his gang to force Yahweh, a god of war and vengeance, on us? Why do we persecute Conscientious People Like Manning and Snowden who promote open societies when we forget those who created financial ruin for millions?
My desire to acquaint you with my views has been interrupted by the cruelties of ageing. For instance: Ladders have taken a distinct dislike to me. Over the years I have treated them well and with respect. Now they rebel at me using even their first step. Then there is sexual harassment. Those two passionate women, Grace Gravity and Eva Earth have fallen madly in love with me, seizing me at every opportunity and crushing me into their bosoms for extra-marital affairs. Their love making is violent as blood on my face, arms, and knees testify. Years ago I bought a sturdy cabbage stock made into a formidable cane. It has been an honoured house guest but now I must draft it into service to defend myself.
After 27 years of publishing the 8-page bimonthly Wing newsletter with book reviews and comments on world affairs I retired after the May 2013 edition (copies can still be found on www.971WingAFAC.com).
But ageing does bring surprising benefits, one of which is acquiring a new family. Amid the grief of gradually losing practically all of my friends who were among the 17% of WWII aircrew veterans who survived being shot down, over a dozen daughters, sons, and grandchildren of now-deceased kriegies (POWs) who were with me in my Alma Mater, Stalag Luft III, and who worked on the Great Escape have found me and maintain active, highly valued, correspondence. They are searching for every scrap of data they can uncover including my views on the Great Escape which differ from the Hollywood version. Some have done such a good job of researching that they have given me data that I never knew or have forgotten. One, from East Sussex, UK, has compiled a page of data on each of 200 aircrew who were part of the Great Escape. A daughter, from Ohio, USA, made trips to the UK and Germany, finding a few originals but mostly descendants of people who had interacted with the father she lost a few years ago. She published a 487-page book on his career. Another daughter who emigrated from England to Canada to Hawaii to Colorado never knew her Dad as he was killed before she was born. She made several trips to Trenton, Ontario, where a Halifax retrieved from a Norwegian fiord was being rebuilt, to Belgium to stand on his grave, to Australia to meet the sole survivor of her Dad's crew and went on to publish a book on her Dad's crew. Another good friend of the younger generation, from Telford, Shropshire, who has also authored an excellent and haunting story of a Bomber Command crew and who has built the world's best data base of Bomber Command casualties delights me with professional DVDs of the motorcycle trips he and two or three friends make of Europe each summer, including WWI and WWII battle sites and my old Alma Mater, Stalag Luft II, or what is left of it. In my den is a bottle of sand he sent me from it.
I am also very grateful to be still on my honeymoon with Joan, my war bride since January 1943. In spite of expensive hearing aids I now have difficulty understanding her and, with failing eyesight, she can no longer drive or make those fabulous clothes for herself and our five wonderful, talented, daughters who have now scattered with six grandchildren. The nearest daughter is 25 miles away and has been a tremendous help. The others make frequent visits even from Toronto. This big house was ideal when the girls were home but is too much now for the two of us but we will remain as long as we can.
We do enjoy hearing from all of you out there: georgesweanor@comcast.net


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package org.apache.sentry.hdfs.ha;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.lang.reflect.InvocationHandler;
import java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException;
import java.lang.reflect.Method;
import java.net.InetSocketAddress;

import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
import org.apache.hadoop.security.SecurityUtil;
import org.apache.curator.x.discovery.ServiceInstance;
import org.apache.sentry.hdfs.SentryHDFSServiceClientDefaultImpl;
import org.apache.sentry.hdfs.SentryHdfsServiceException;
import org.apache.sentry.hdfs.ServiceConstants;
import org.apache.sentry.provider.db.service.persistent.HAContext;
import org.apache.sentry.provider.db.service.persistent.ServiceManager;
import org.apache.sentry.service.thrift.ServiceConstants.ServerConfig;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

import com.google.common.base.Preconditions;

public class HdfsHAClientInvocationHandler implements InvocationHandler {

  private static final Logger LOGGER = LoggerFactory.getLogger(HdfsHAClientInvocationHandler.class);

  private final Configuration conf;
  private ServiceManager manager;
  private ServiceInstance<Void> currentServiceInstance;
  private SentryHDFSServiceClientDefaultImpl client = null;

  private static final String THRIFT_EXCEPTION_MESSAGE = "Thrift exception occured ";
  public static final String SENTRY_HA_ERROR_MESSAGE = "No Sentry server available. "
      + "Please ensure that at least one Sentry server is online";

  public HdfsHAClientInvocationHandler(Configuration conf) throws Exception {
    this.conf = conf;
    checkClientConf();
  }

  @Override
  public Object invoke(Object proxy, Method method, Object[] args) throws
 SentryHdfsServiceException {
    Object result = null;
    while (true) {
      try {
        if (!method.isAccessible()) {
          method.setAccessible(true);
        }
        // The client is initialized in the first call instead of constructor.
        // This way we can propagate the connection exception to caller cleanly
        if (client == null) {
          renewSentryClient();
        }
        result = method.invoke(client, args);
      } catch (IllegalAccessException e) {
        throw new SentryHdfsServiceException(e.getMessage(), e.getCause());
      } catch (InvocationTargetException e) {
        if (!(e.getTargetException() instanceof SentryHdfsServiceException)) {
          throw new SentryHdfsServiceException("Error in Sentry HDFS client",
              e.getTargetException());
        } else {
          LOGGER.warn(THRIFT_EXCEPTION_MESSAGE + ": Error in connect current" +
              " service, will retry other service.", e);
          if (client != null) {
            client.close();
            client = null;
          }
          throw (SentryHdfsServiceException) e.getTargetException();
        }
      } catch (IOException e1) {
        // close() doesn't throw exception we supress that in case of connection
        // loss. Changing SentryPolicyServiceClient#close() to throw an
        // exception would be a backward incompatible change for Sentry clients.
        if ("close".equals(method.getName())) {
          return null;
        }
        throw new SentryHdfsServiceException(
            "Error connecting to sentry service " + e1.getMessage(), e1);
      }
      return result;
    }
  }

  // Retrieve the new connection endpoint from ZK and connect to new server
  private void renewSentryClient() throws IOException {
    try {
      manager = new ServiceManager(HAContext.getHAContext(conf));
    } catch (Exception e1) {
      throw new IOException("Failed to extract Sentry node info from zookeeper", e1);
    }

    try {
      while (true) {
        currentServiceInstance = manager.getServiceInstance();
        if (currentServiceInstance == null) {
          throw new IOException(SENTRY_HA_ERROR_MESSAGE);
        }
        InetSocketAddress serverAddress =
            ServiceManager.convertServiceInstance(currentServiceInstance);
        conf.set(ServiceConstants.ClientConfig.SERVER_RPC_ADDRESS, serverAddress.getHostName());
        conf.setInt(ServiceConstants.ClientConfig.SERVER_RPC_PORT, serverAddress.getPort());
        try {
          client = new SentryHDFSServiceClientDefaultImpl(conf);
          LOGGER.info("Sentry Client using server " + serverAddress.getHostName() +
              ":" + serverAddress.getPort());
          break;
        } catch (IOException e) {
          manager.reportError(currentServiceInstance);
          LOGGER.info("Transport exception while opening transport:", e, e.getMessage());
        }
      }
    } finally {
      manager.close();
    }
  }

  private void checkClientConf() {
    if (conf.getBoolean(ServerConfig.SENTRY_HA_ZOOKEEPER_SECURITY,
        ServerConfig.SENTRY_HA_ZOOKEEPER_SECURITY_DEFAULT)) {
      String serverPrincipal = Preconditions.checkNotNull(conf.get(ServerConfig.PRINCIPAL),
          ServerConfig.PRINCIPAL + " is required");
      Preconditions.checkArgument(serverPrincipal.contains(SecurityUtil.HOSTNAME_PATTERN),
          ServerConfig.PRINCIPAL + " : " + serverPrincipal + " should contain " + SecurityUtil.HOSTNAME_PATTERN);
    }
  }
}


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Events | IN CONVERSATION: Laura Castañeda with Emir Olivares
Online | October 20, 2021 | 12:00 PM (PT)
Mexican journalist Emir Olivares is the 2021 recipient of the Feuchtwanger Fellowship.
We invited Laura Castañeda, Professor of Professional Practice of Journalism at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, into our Salon to discuss Emir Olivares' work in Mexico as well as his recent project about immigration and the American Dream.
This event will be available for streaming on October 20th, 12 pm on our YouTube channel.
Emir Olivares has worked since 2003 as a reporter at La Jornada, one of Mexico's most important daily newspapers, and is particularly dedicated to topics such as human rights violations, migration, corruption and foreign affairs. After he exposed drug deals tied to organized crime on the campus of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) in Mexico City in June 2017, he received threats that he would be assassinated if he continued reporting on the issue. He was immediately pulled from covering anything related to the university, after 10 years on the beat. Even so, in December 2019, his apartment was broken into and Olivares was again threatened in connection with the earlier reporting. He was forced to leave his home, just before the pandemic hit, and spent more than a year unable to write under his name at La Jornada as a protection measure. To this day, Mexican authorities have not made any arrests in either incident, and Olivares remains in a government security program with the protection of bodyguards.
Professor of Professional Practice of Journalism
Laura Castañeda
Laura Castañeda, EdD, an award-winning professor of professional practice in the USC Annenberg School of Journalism, has been a member of the faculty since 2000. Before joining USC Annenberg, she taught at Temple University and worked as a staff writer, editor and columnist for The San Francisco Chronicle, The Dallas Morning News, and The Associated Press in San Francisco, New York and Mexico. Her freelance work has appeared in The New York Times, TheAtlantic.com, and Columbia Journalism Review magazine, among others. Her scholarly articles have appeared in Journalism and Mass Communication Educator and Journalism Studies.
She teaches a range of undergraduate and graduate courses focused on reporting, writing and diversity.
In 2019, Castañeda was awarded the Barry Bingham Sr. Fellowship by the American Society of News Editors in recognition of an educator's outstanding efforts to encourage students of color in the field of journalism.
A Villa Aurora program in collaboration with USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and USC libraries.


The greenhouse effect is a naturally occurring process that aids in heating the Earth's surface and atmosphere. It results from the fact that certain atmospheric gases, such as carbon dioxide, water vapor, and methane, are able to change the energy balance of the planet by absorbing longwave radiation emitted from the Earth's surface. Without the greenhouse effect life on this planet would probably not exist as the average temperature of the Earth would be a chilly -18° Celsius, rather than the present 15° Celsius.
As energy from the Sun passes through the atmosphere a number of things take place (see below figure). A portion of the energy (26% globally) is reflected or scattered back to space by clouds and other atmospheric particles. About 19% of the energy available is absorbed by clouds, gases (like ozone), and particles in the atmosphere. Of the remaining 55% of the solar energy passing through the Earth's atmosphere, 4% is reflected from the surface back to space. On average, about 51% of the Sun's radiation reaches the surface. This energy is then used in a number of processes, including the heating of the ground surface; the melting of ice and snow and the evaporation of water; and plant photosynthesis.
The heating of the ground by sunlight causes the Earth's surface to become a radiator of energy in the longwave band (sometimes called infrared radiation). This emission of energy is generally directed to space (see Figure 1). However, only a small portion of this energy actually makes it back to space. The majority of the outgoing infrared radiation is absorbed by the greenhouse gases (see Figure 1 below).
Absorption of longwave radiation by the atmosphere causes additional heat energy to be added to the Earth's atmospheric system. The now warmer atmospheric greenhouse gas molecules begin radiating longwave energy in all directions. Over 90% of this emission of longwave energy is directed back to the Earth's surface where it once again is absorbed by the surface. The heating of the ground by the longwave radiation causes the ground surface to once again radiate, repeating the cycle described above, again and again, until no more longwave is available for absorption.
The amount of heat energy added to the atmosphere by the greenhouse effect is controlled by the concentration of greenhouse gases in the Earth's atmosphere. All of the major greenhouse gases have increased in concentration since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution (about 1700 AD). As a result of these higher concentrations, scientists predict that the greenhouse effect will be enhanced and the Earth's climate will become warmer. Predicting the amount of warming is accomplished by computermodeling. Computer models suggest that a doubling of the concentration of the main greenhouse gas,carbon dioxide, may raise the average global temperature between 1 and 3° Celsius. However, the numeric equations of computer models do not accurately simulate the effects of a number of possiblenegative feedbacks. For example, many of the models cannot properly simulate the negative effects that increased cloud cover would have on the radiation balance of a warmer Earth. Increasing the Earth's temperature would cause the oceans to evaporate greater amounts of water, causing the atmosphere to become cloudier. These extra clouds would then reflect a greater proportion of the Sun's energy back to space reducing the amount of solar radiation absorbed by the atmosphere and the Earth's surface. With less solar energy being absorbed at the surface, the effects of an enhanced greenhouse effect may be counteracted.
A number of gases are involved in the human caused enhancement of the greenhouse effect. These gases include: carbon dioxide (CO2); methane (CH4); nitrous oxide (N2O);chlorofluorocarbons (CFxClx); and tropospheric ozone (O3). Of these gases, the single most important gas is carbon dioxide which accounts for about 55% of the change in the intensity of the Earth's greenhouse effect. The contributions of the other gases are 25% for chlorofluorocarbons, 15% for methane, and 5% for nitrous oxide. Ozone's contribution to the enhancement of greenhouse effect is still yet to be quantified.


The Great Eruption sounds like the name of some religious revival in colonial America or the name of an Edwardian stage magician, but in fact, it was the behaviour of Eta Carinae in the late 1830s and early 1840s when a nondescript star suddenly brightened to become the the second-brightest star in the sky for three days (11-14 March 1843) before fading to well below naked eye visibility after 1856. The star has subsequently brightened again. And what a star. Or, rather, two stars as we now know, a primary with a mass of something like 150 solar masses(!) and a secondary with a mass of about 50 solar masses. When I was doing astronomy, I seem to recall that it was thought that the maximum limit for the mass of a star was about 50 solar masses, certainly in the .current, high-metallicity epoch, but that's clearly not the gas. Primordial stars might well have been very large (masses perhaps of up to hundreds of solar masses), but it is interesting that very large stars can still form in the modern Milky Way. Of course, Population III stars couldn't use the CNO cycle, which these contemporary giants do (and they are fully convective unlike the Sun) and so there would be very great differences between the structure and evolution of the stars What's interesting is that there are several different kinds of supernovae I had not come across before that can occur woth very massive stars. Eta Carinae will likely go supernova, almost certainly unless there it mass loss is much more extreme that we imagine ad you don't have to that massive to go supernovae.
Population III stars quickly enriched the interstellar medium. They produced vast quantities of metals, which meant that Population II stars (metal-poor compared to the Sun) were very different from their ancestors. Even small amounts of metals will lead to the formation of dust particles that control the structure and evolution of molecular clouds and stars as well as changing the kinds of fusion that can take place. You could have small stars. Which we can observe toay as we do with Population II.
As I said, for Jim, this was apparently all just patterns. But for the rest of us it is thinking what would it be like to travel to Eta Carinae and see if without our eyes (or extended modalities). The history of the universe and galaxy is amazing and rich and contingent. As the recent release of information from Gaia satellite, cataloguing more than a billion stars, we know a lot more today than we know (publicly) even a week ago about the Milky Way, much less a decade or three ago when I was reading Introductory Astronomy and Astrophysics and The Physical Universe. There is so much to know. And there are things I could have done differently.. It's 2018. Can there be a New New Space Opera? And Could I be involved if there were? Could I write The Great Disruption?


1972 Pontiac GTOs. Lot 39 of 49.
CLICK-> The rear quarter is a typical place for rust on all cars. This one had a patch which is again rusted through.
CLICK-> The body is separated from the frame.
CLICK-> These guys are taking the frame off to be stripped and painted.
CLICK-> That frame looks nice!
CLICK-> The rear end gets bolted in.
CLICK-> Very clean. You are going to need some oil in that nice clean rear.
CLICK-> The front end suspension gets assembled. Disc brakes up front!
CLICK-> Another shot of the front suspension. You can see that the engine is also being fit before paint.
CLICK-> This red 1972 LeMans hardtop is owned by Chris from Canada. He has owned this car for 20 years. He got it from my brother in law. It was painted 19 years ago.
CLICK-> Red 1972 LeMans hardtop, left side view. The car looks like it could fly.
CLICK-> Red 1972 LeMans hardtop, left rear view.
CLICK-> It's got a 402 Chevy engine under the hood.
CLICK-> Wilderness Green 1972 LeMans hardtop with the Endura nose option. It is owned by Shawn Baird from Minnesota. It has the factory YS motor with 7K3 heads, Turbo 400 automatic, 3.55 gears, Rally II wheels, Formula steering wheel, AM/FM radio, a rear decklid spoiler (not on), and a console. Shawn, "It has 55,000 miles and has never been apart. It was just cleaned up and detailed."
CLICK-> Close-up wet view of Shawn's Wilderness Green 1972 LeMans hardtop. This image would make a great 600-800 size wallpaper for your computer. How about a 1024-768 wallpaper version.
CLICK-> Wilderness Green 1972 LeMans engine.
Says Joe in Detroit - "It would be nice to run across more webpages like yours, as thorough and packed full of cool pix and info."


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Q: "merging" multiple hardrives for Ubuntu 14.04 install I have 3 hardrives inside my laptop 2 of which currently house other opperating systems but have a empty partitions of 8 and 9 gigabye and the third is just 12 gB (currently not partitioned at all). Now each of these 3 is to small to be useful to me, however combined they are 29gigs which can easily hold a ubuntu installation, and associated programs. Is there a way set up my installation in such a way that it threads these 3 disks as one? Or is there a way by which I can make it default storage of many things into one drive (downloads and sudo apt-get install for example) to one drive while keeping ubuntu onto another?

A: You could do it with LVM as documented here and here. But 14.04 now supports btrfs, so I would give that a try:

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*Make a partition on each disk to take up the free space

*mkfs.btrfs -d single /dev/sdxx /dev/sdyy /dev/sdzz

*If you want to check the filesystem, do mount /dev/sdxx /mnt; df -h; umount /mnt - df will show the total space of all three devices

*In Ubuntu installer, select manual partitioning ("something else"), select your btrfs filesystem (any of the 3 devices), set type "btrfs" and mount point "/". Do not check the "format?" checkbox. Click "install now" - the installer will warn "The filesystem... has not been marked for formatting", just click continue.

*Do the rest of the install as normal
For further details on this approach see Btrfs wiki - Using btrfs with multiple devices.

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ownCloud Server 8.2 was released yesterday with a much improved user interface and many new admin goodies! It is time to start thinking about upgrading and this blog post aims to tell you everything you need to know. Note that there's a change in location for the Linux Packages, be sure to carefully read what's going on there.
ownCloud Server 8.2 introduces many smaller and larger improvements all over ownCloud, from the redesigned user interface with the new sidebar and rewritten Gallery app to many new capabilities for administrators to configure and control ownCloud. You can find out more about what is new in our announcement blog and see a full overview on the website.
If you would like the benefit of these improvements then it's time for you to move to ownCloud 8.2!
XSendFile support has been removed, so there is no longer support for serving static files from your ownCloud server. It does not work with our new High Level File Locking capability (which protects against certain race conditions).
Usually, newer versions mean better performance with ownCloud. This is especially true for PHP. If you use ownCloud with other web servers like Ngnix or on platforms like a NAS, be sure to have an extra careful look at the documentation!
Not all ownCloud apps developed for and on earlier releases are yet modified to work with ownCloud 8.2, so we urge you to check if your favorite apps are already compatible with ownCloud 8.2. You can usually check on the online ownCloud app overview.
When it comes to stability and potential upgrade issues, we always urge users to test ownCloud Betas before of the release and to report any bugs you come across. Only a test on your specific circumstances can tell you if a piece of software will work for you. However, ownCloud 8.2 has seen significant testing, including by using our automated Smashbox testing, a tool developed by CERN. We are therefore very confident in the stability of this release.
Note that if you wish to use the updater app, we usually release a new major ownCloud version for the updater app within a week after the release, provided no big problems are found, so this is currently not yet available. If we notice serious upgrade issues we will delay the automatic update until we released the first maintenance update.
With regard to Linux Packages, there are two major changes.
First of all, from now on, packages will appear on download.owncloud.org. For ownCloud 8.2 you can find them on this page. You will find the familiar installation instructions for our supported Linux distributions there.
If you are currently using the Stable release channel, you will have to manually change over to this new repository!
Second, the Linux packages will show a different upgrade behavior. Linux packages before 8.2 send an existing ownCloud server into maintenance mode, install the new code base, perform occ upgrade on behalf of the system administrator, then exit out of maintenance mode. This often came unexpected to the admin and is in general not safe as an unattended install. Third party apps are also likely to break this automated process.
Linux packages 8.2 and up change an existing ownCloud server into maintenance mode, install the new code base, and leave the server in maintenance mode. It is up to the system administrator to finalize the upgrade.
If this does not help you, there is a support page on owncloud.org which links to the various resources available to you. Home users should check out the forums, which have a special section devoted to ownCloud 8.2 upgrades with excellent and up to date information. Professional users can find resources on owncloud.com and are strongly urged to wait with the upgrade until the availability of the ownCloud support subscriptions. These will become available next month. It is, as usual, recommended to test this release of ownCloud Server to ensure compatibility with your infrastructure and see if the features fulfill your needs.
If you currently don't have ownCloud, there is a new and easy way to get up and running! In the Appliance tab on our download page we offer a fully pre-configured virtual machine image which you can easily run in a tool like VirtualBox. Thanks to the built in ownCloud Proxy app you can have a stable url and an easy way through firewalls blocking you from accessing your ownCloud.
Once your brand new ownCloud 8.2 is up and humming nicely, we'd appreciate it if you would let us know what you think over Twitter and other social media, see owncloud.org/promote for more.
Shouldn't be needed anymore as the repo is available via http again and only the PGP key is transfered via https.
Thanks for keeping us up to date, Chris!
Yes, new version is production ready. Thnx ownCloud group.
I, right now, I installed version 8.1.1, with Xsendfile activated. As I read, Xsendfile support disappears in 8.2, by High Level File Locking capability, but I've read in several forums that Xsendfile need to serve well the videos I have hosted on the server, specifically so that they have the the possibility of video playback. If I upgrade, the videos will be as before? Will the performance be affected? Could be a dummy question, but I don't know to what extent it affects the update.
dumb question* sorry about that.
Its probably better to ask such questions at the forums or the users mailinglist rather than in the comments of a release.
Still no update via update app. Have I got a problem or do I just have to wait some more days?
oc update app shows me the update … but still no update over apt.
I have 3 owncloud deployments and in 2 of them I was able to update to 8.2 with update tool under administration menu, but in the third one 8.2 still unavailable with stable channel. is it normal that in some servers I'm able to update and in others I don't?
Check the issue tracker of the documents app and avoid posting support questions in such blogposts.


Pulling myself out of my blogging funk to link up with some of my favorite bloggers for Five on Friday. This week is a real jumble!
Last weekend we had the pleasure of trekking to Augusta, GA, to watch my mom compete in her first ever half Ironman. It was hot, sweaty and exhausting… and that was just the spectating. What my mom accomplished is nothing short of extraordinary. It's been a grueling year for her in more ways than one, and I was in tears watching her cross the finish line and then giving her a hug afterward.
Part of our spectating journey led us to kill some time quietly in hotel rooms while urging Nora Beth to sleep. I found very old boxes of Phase 10 and Skip-Bo at home and tossed them in my bag before we left, thinking we might end up enjoying a hand. One hand of Skip-Bo has turned into approximately 432 since Saturday night. We can't get enough and have eschewed mindless binge watching for battling it out over cards at dinner. Huge thanks to Christina for the game night inspiration!
David is rarely off on weekends, so we try to maximize the random weekdays he's off. This week's landed on a Friday, which was ideal. We headed about 20 minutes down the road to Hall Family Farm for the morning and had a blast. Nora Beth LOVED the animals (pigs, roosters and goats), picked out 3 small pumpkins and ran herself ragged in the kids' play area. We'll definitely be planning some friend time there again soon!
– Thai pork curry. We've made this a handful of times, and the sauce is just bath-worthy. We use whatever vegetables we have laying around, which this week was jalapeño, carrots and parsnips (they have made a lovely toddler meal side dish, too.).
– White chicken chili. I'm sure everyone has a recipe they love, but this was my first time trying this, and I just cleared my bowl while we watch Designated Survivor. I topped each bowl with a sprinkle of cheese and a dollop of sour cream.
– I'm planning on making this weird little soup tomorrow, though our fridge is bursting with leftovers.
Always. Charlotte hasn't been making the best impression in the media of late, but I believe this with all of my heart, and I believe in this great city.


With my camera, of course. I had taken the video camera (Panasonic HDC-TM90) which is my go-to camera having close/long/video capabilities, gives decent photos and is easy to use. I was trying to get really close to a small dragonfly on the top of a clothes pin on the line when my eye caught a movement about 20 feet away.
I could barely see what looked like a bird in our orange tree but managed to finally get it in the display. My wife Kris came out right at the time I was shooting and recognized the bird as a Turquoise-browed Motmot which we had seen a pair of a month ago. See if you can spot it in my first attempt to close in on it. I finally got a couple of shots before it flew back into the forest that goes down to the river behind our house. What a pretty bird, I love seeing them!
They seem to like to switch their tail back and forth, at least this one did.
No one knows when a photo op will appear but I was happy that I had the camera in my hand when out of the forest came the Motmot. I shot the Motmot. Enjoy the shots.
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the motmot is one of my most favorite birds; it's so amazingly handsome, and hat fly-swatter tail is so unique!


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Wolverine slashes his way into 'Dawn of X' with a new title
Benjamin Percy, Adam Kubert ad Viktor Bogdanovic will chronicle new tales of the Marvel mutant.
Benjamin Percy, Adam Kubert and Viktor Bogdanovic will team up to bring Wolverine back to his own ongoing title, starting in February. The new title will be part of the "Dawn of X" line announced this past summer in San Diego.
"We all have that character," Percy told Marvel.com. "The one we love more than any other. The one we treasure in books and movies and maybe memorialize with a T-shirt or tattoo. The one we relate to as a cracked-mirror version of ourselves. For me—as a growly, grumpy, hairy, smelly, muscled, flannel-clad, whiskey-swilling loner who lives in the woods of the frozen north—it's Logan. And though this might sound corny, it also feels right to say that writing Wolverine is a dream come true, a childhood fantasy realized. No kidding, bub."
Created in 1974 by Roy Thomas, Len Wein and John Romita Sr., Wolverine first received his own ongoing title in 1988, and has been a staple of Marvel's line-up pretty much ever since — not counting the times he's been dead. Currently, he is not dead.
"I am deeply aware of the character's legacy," Percy added. "And I'm deeply respectful of all the great writers who have come before me, from Aaron to Windsor-Smith to Claremont, and more, so many more. But I'm also completely geeked to put my own (slash) mark on the character for as long as I'm his custodian. And I couldn't be more excited to join forces with one of the most iconic artists to ever bring Logan to savage life: Adam Kubert. He's handing in art that will make your eyes melt out of your skull. Hot damn is this going to be fun. And you can bet your ass we're putting our whole heart into making a kickass comic for you all to enjoy."
The new title starts in February, in which Wolverine will stab things with his claws while he explores "the underworld of the mutants' newfound status quo."
Author JK ParkinPosted on October 5, 2019 October 5, 2019 Categories Comic BooksTags Adam Kubert, Benjamin Percy, Dawn of X, Marvel, nycc2019, Viktor Bogdanovic, Wolverine
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These Three UMT Tips will save you a lot of confusion, especially when you need to write a Dominant 7th chord in 1st inversion, 2nd inversion and 3rd inversion.
When writing a harmonic interval of a second, line note to space note OR space note to line note, the lower note is written first (on the left) and the "hugging note" is written UP to the right.
So that seems pretty easy to remember, but it was really my student Shannon who challenged me with the question of "what is the correct placement of notes when writing Dominant 7th chord inversions". Hmmmm, I never really thought about it before.
I just placed the notes in the correct inversion position (lower note determining the inversion) without really thinking about how to line up the notes correctly. With so many concepts to learn, life just gets easier with a simple explanation and a few tips so we can learn it the right way the first time!
Isn't it interesting that you learn more from asking questions than anything else? I set out to discover the answer and create 3 Easy UMT Tips for Shannon to learn so we would BOTH know the right way to write these inversions.
In the Complete Music Theory Workbook , when an interval of a harmonic second is found in a Dominant 7th chord, does it hug to the left or hug to the right? When writing a 4 note chord using whole notes, how do you determine the placement of the notes? Let's use half notes along with the "Stem Rule" to help us write the Dominant 7th chord inversions correctly.
Which Dominant 7th chord is written correctly? A, B or C?
Watch my student Shannon use the UMT Whiteboard to write the Dominant 7th chord in 1st inversion, 2nd inversion and 3rd inversion.
Learn the 3 Tips for the correct placement of notes when writing the Dominant 7th chord inversions.
Three UMT Tips to write Dominant 7th chord inversions.
Tip 1: First determine the direction of the stem for the note that is furthest away from the middle line. Use this as a guide when adding the remaining notes.
Tip 2: The lower note of the "hugging notes" is always written to the left of the stem and hugs UP to the right.
Tip 3: Add the remaining note, following the stem rules.
Using the 3 Tips, which is correct? A, B or C?
1: The note furthest away from the middle line is B. So the stem direction is down on the left.
2: The lower note F, of the hugging notes (F to G) is written to the left of the stem.
Note: A harmonic interval of a second, the "hugging notes", are written BESIDE each other, touching.
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Let me know what concepts you struggle with and I'll be happy to answer your questions!


The July Aurifil Designer Block of the Month was released a few days ago and I was so excited to try it out because it was trying something new, Reverse Applique!!! I have done a bit of reverse applique but not a fancy design like this before. And now your thinking, Hey, that's not reverse applique, more on that later ;) But for now, let's just say that July's block was all about Orange and Shruti Dandekar created a super awesome Reverse Applique block. Isn't that just a gorgeous design!!!
It really is such a gorgeous design!!! I just love all of the detail in it, especially the little tendril hooks, so delicate!!! And I just love how it pops on the orange background. And speaking of that orange background, that is what led to my block not being Reverse Applique.
Here is where we keep things real. This was my first attempt at the block. I was doing the reverse applique and got to this point and realized that I wanted to switch the orange and the white placement because I wanted to block to read Orange and not White with a little bit of orange. So I cut two more squares and was ready to start over and realized that I just wasn't digging all of that cutting. It wasn't so much the time it took to cut out the reverse applique, rather it was just driving me nuts that no matter how hard I tried, I wasn't able to cut out the inside of that applique and still have it look straight and even. I just felt like this was such a pretty design and I wasn't doing it justice with my not so straight edges. So ya, my need for "even" got the better of me and I switched to regular fusible applique.
I know, I whimped out, but I have to say, I really like the finished look with the beautiful blanket stitch that just frames up that gorgeous design so nicely. (so for my own sanity, I am glad I whimped out ;) I used my Aurifil 2235 Orange thread for that blanket stitch (which I was also happy to switch out from the original block as I was kicking myself during all that cutting that I didn't stitch in the contrasting orange thread) and I just love how it makes that gorgeous design just pop right off of that beautiful orange background. So fun!!!
So that is my Aurifil July Block!!! You can find Shruti's fantastic pattern for this block right over here and then be sure to pop over here to read Shruti's interview. And if you make your own Reverse Applique Block (or regular applique if you follow my lead) , be sure and enter a picture of it at Pat's blog ;) Every entry is eligible to win a Large Aurifil Thread Kit!!!!!
So... what are you going to do with that unfinished reverse block? I'm dying to know!
Also, I just watched a BBC show where the main actress looked just like you! It was shocking. You have any cousins in England who are actresses?
Oh, my goodness, how pretty! A little over my head, though!


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The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport has advertised for three new board members for the Charity Commission, in what appears to be an expansion of the regulator's board.
Two board members are due to complete their terms at the end of December and none of the other board members are due to complete their terms until November 2019.
It is looking to recruit one board member "who knows about conditions in Wales" and one who is legally qualified. One person can fulfil both roles.
Eryl Besse, currently deputy chair and the Commission's Welsh representative, and Tony Leifer are due to stand down in December. Both are legally qualified.
The law states that two board members must be legally qualified, one must have knowledge of Wales and the board must include understanding of the charity sector.
The deadline for application is 19 July and final interviews are expected to be held on 6 September 2018.
The appointments panel is chaired by Debbie Asbury from DCMS and includes Baroness Tina Stowell, who became chair of the Commission at the beginning of this year, and Howell James as an independent member.
Laurie Benson, Paul Martin and Catherine Quinn joined the board in November 2016 and are due to complete their terms in November 2019.
Kenneth Dibble, who was formerly the Commission's director of legal services, joined the board in March and is due to complete his term in March 2021.
Mike Ashley, who is the Commission's accountancy expert, had his term extended to November 2020.
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