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The Jira integration encourages collaboration between product teams and the support team. The Jira v4 integration supports both Atlassian Jira Cloud (OnDemand) and Jira Server (OnPremise) version 7x and above.
Topics covered in this article:
- Installation requirements
- Installing and configuring the integration
- Adding fields to the Jira app in Zendesk Support
- Using the dedicated integration user option
- Jira Server-specific instructions
Related topics:
Installation requirements
You must have administrator permissions in both Jira and Zendesk Support to set up the integration.
Additionally, you must meet the following requirements:
- Be a member of the jira-administrators and jira-software-users groups
- Have no permission schemes that prevent you from creating or updating projects
- The reporter field is on the Create Issue screen for the respective projects
- Use the Jira Internal Directory as your user directory
- Atlassian add-ons have permission to access your Jira projects. This is enabled by default. To verify this, check the Project Permissions page for each project in Jira. The various project actions should have a Project Role called
Project Role (atlassian-addons-project-access)
- Third-party cookies are enabled. However, if third-party cookies need to remain disabled on your system, add
jiraplugin.zendesk.comto the list of content exceptions
Installing and configuring the integration
As described in the instructions below, we recommend that during setup you choose the option to create a dedicated integration user. This option allows all ticket notes coming from Jira to Zendesk Support to not come from the individual user who set up the integration, but from the dedicated user. This automatically creates a new admin user in your Zendesk account that is only used by the Jira integration. For more information, see Using the dedicated integration user option.
This feature is optional. You can choose not to use it by unchecking the option during the installation stage as described below.
To install and configure the integration
- In Jira, click Jira settings in the left side panel, then click Apps.
- Under Atlassian Marketplace on the left, click Find new apps and search for Zendesk.
- Locate and click the Zendesk Support for Jira entry in the search results.
- Click Get app.
- Click Get it now, then close the installation success notification.
- After installing the app, click Manage apps in the left side panel, then click Zendesk Support for JIRA to expand the app configuration page.
- Click Configure.
- Enter your Zendesk subdomain, then read and agree to the Terms and Conditions.
By default, Create dedicated integration user is selected. We recommend using this feature for better usability but it is optional and you can choose not to use it if a seat is not available. . For more information, see Using the dedicated integration user option.
- Click Authenticate.
- A second browser page opens asking if you want to grant the add-on permission to access your Zendesk. After granting permission, close the page.
- On the app's settings page, select the details you want to display in the linked Jira issues.
- Click Save.
- If you are using Jira Cloud, you can check the integration works by adding the user
add_on_zendesk_for_jirato the group
jira-usersin the Jira admin.
In Jira Cloud, the integration creates a free admin user called Zendesk for Jira. You can change the avatar of the user on the Profile page.
If you want to control who has access to the app, for example, admins or agents only, you can make the change in Zendesk.
To restrict access to the Jira Cloud app
- In Zendesk Support, click the Admin icon (), then go to Apps > Manage and locate the Jira Cloud app.
- Hover over the Jira Cloud app. Using the drop-down menu on the right side of the app icon, select Change Settings.
- Under General Settings, locate the Role restrictions section, and click the Enabled checkbox.
- Click in the Role restrictions text box, and select the roles that should have permission to use the app.
- Click Save settings to save and apply the changes to your settings.
That's it. Your teams can start collaborating using Zendesk and Jira. To find out how, see Using the Zendesk for Jira Cloud integration.
Adding fields to the Jira app in Zendesk Support
When creating a Jira issue from a Zendesk Support ticket, you're asked to enter details about the issue being reported, in the Create a new Jira issue form:
- Project
- Issue type
- Reporter
- Assignee
- Summary
- Description
These default fields cannot be removed. However, you can include additional fields from Jira in this form, either pre-existing fields, or custom fields.
For more information, see Specifying field behavior on the Atlassian website.
Configuring the issue creation form
You can define which Jira fields the agents sees when creating a new Jira issue from Support, a significant enhancement introduced in the Jira app v4.
These fields are specific to a particular Jira project and issue type. Issue fields defined as "required" in Jira will appear on the form regardless of configurations on this form.
Using the dedicated integration user option
If you choose to create a dedicated integration user in your Zendesk Support account, a new, verified admin user (
Jira Integration) is automatically created, along with an email address (
email@example.com). This user account is fully managed by the integration and will be suspended if the integration is removed.
- The dedicated integration user option requires an available agent seat. While in use, that seat will not be available for other agents.
- The admin account who installed the Jira integration and the dedicated integration user must always have admin rights, and be active in order for the integration to function. If you suspend or downgrade the admin account or the dedicated integration user, the integration will not function.
After the authentication and creation processes are completed, the integration service is ready to use. All the commenting and field sync actions will be performed as if they're done by the dedicated integration user.
If you decide to stop using the dedicated integration user, you can disconnect the integration from the Jira side. When disconnected, Jira will stop using the dedicated integration user. The dedicated integration user in Zendesk Support account will be downgraded to an end-user and suspended. Uninstalling the plugin will also downgrade and suspend the user.
To disconnect the dedicated integration user
- In Jira, click Jira settings, then go to Apps > Manage apps.
- Click to expand the Zendesk Support for Jira app, then click Configure.
- Click Disconnect to disconnect your subdomain.
- Re-enter your subdomain, and deselect the option to create a dedicated integration user.
- Click Authenticate to re-authenticate your subdomain.
Jira Server-specific instructions
- You need to ensure that you allow Zendesk to establish a connection to your Jira server from the following public IP addresses listed here.
- We strongly recommend that SSL encryption is used to secure the communication between Jira and Zendesk, especially for production environments. If SSL is enabled, you must have a full SSL certificate stack from a certificate authority. Self-signed certificates are not supported. The intermediate certificate is commonly not installed on the Jira server.
- Make sure that the right port is open (usually
80/8080/443depending on your SSL settings) on your network for inbound/outbound traffic between Zendesk and Jira.
- When configuring the add-on in Jira, the "Jira Base URL" may not be the same URL you use to access Jira on your private server. The Jira Base URL must be a publicly-accessible address, so Zendesk can use it to make network requests to your Jira instance. You can connect this publicly-accessible address to your private server address via NAT or reverse proxy.
- The Zendesk addon in Jira needs to run with administrative privileges. We suggest creating a dedicated account as follows and adding it to
Full name: Zendesk for Jira
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Gallery: Queen Elizabeth, Prince Philip begin tour of Northern Ireland
Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, started their three-day tour of Northern Ireland on Monday, touching down in Belfast and making their way to Hillsborough Castle.
BBC News reported that "the Queen held a private audience with Northern Ireland's first and deputy first ministers, Peter Robinson and Martin McGuinness" and that Prince Philip met several recipients of the Duke of Edinburgh's gold awards.
This will mark the Queen's third visit with McGuinness, a former leader of the IRA. A more extensive meeting with "Mr. McGuinness will take place tomorrow at the museum at the former Crumlin Road jail where many IRA members and loyalist paramilitaries were imprisoned during the early part of the Troubles," noted the Irish Times.
One of the highlights of the royal tour of Northern Ireland will be the the Queen's visit to the set of the wildly popular television show, Game of Thrones. No word on whether the Queen watches the show — or which House she might be backing.

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Path is having a big party this Thursday at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco.
We know this because a source showed us an invite to the event—and because the Great American Music Hall just put up a sign on its marquee which says "Thurs. Path Path Path."
We find this hilarious, because Path PR just told us that the team behind the hot mobile social app was "heads down for the next couple of months working on product updates."
Apparently "heads down" is a reference to how Path's engineers are going to be banging their heads up and down Thursday night.
And we're sure they're going to get a lot of work done Friday.
Path investor Chi-Hua Chien of Kleiner Perkins just blabbed about how "beautiful" Path's new product was on Twitter. So it's possible that the company may release some update to its app this week.
Or, more likely, it's taking advantage of the huge number of mobile developers who are in town this week for Apple's World Wide Developer Conference to do some recruiting.
You're going to hear a lot of people saying the existence of this party proves there's a bubble, or that Path CEO Dave Morin is foolish to throw a rager when everyone's talking about how the economy's in crisis. Say what you want about how Path is using investors' money: If it helps maintain Path's image among engineers as one of the hottest places to work, it may prove worth it in the long run. It may not. Every startup is a gamble.
Path PR did not respond to an admittedly jokey-but-snide note about how our invite to the party appeared to have gotten lost in the tubes.


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Quote of the Day
"Gird your word-swords, writers."
Today's quote of the day comes from Margaret Atwood. It is technically the quote of yesterday, since this was part of Margaret's speech at the Whiting Awards last night. Most excellent imagery, is it not?
Congratulations to all the Whiting Award winners, especially Adam Johnson, who (as well as running the Stanford Graphic Novel Project) writes wonderful strange and peculiar stories.


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DETROIT – Detroit police said Thursday that a 60-year-old woman who had been reported missing is safe.
Police had issued an alert for Angela Cowser after she hadn't been seen since Jan. 31 and then last heard from on a voice message on Feb. 6.
Police didn't elaborate on where she had been, but said she was back with family.
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- AP Interview: Mayor expects emergency manager
- Campbell Ewald moving to Detroit, bringing jobs
- Man dines, dashes from $16 bill and Ferndale police
- Rash of fires break out in SW Detroit Wednesday morning
- Detroit City Council mulls next move under financial crisis
- Shred old documents to protect privacy
- New search launched to find missing Canton man
- Memorial services set for slain Detroit mother


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Valve has now confirmed that the hack of its Steam forums reported last week may have included the theft of credit card numbers.
The company has emailed users saying that the intruders that defaced its forums also accessed a database which included "information including user names, hashed and salted passwords, game purchases, email addresses, billing information and encrypted credit card information."
Since the card data was encrypted, it may not be usable to the attackers, operating under the handle fkn0wned. However, according to the Washington Post and others, the e-mail from founder Gabe Newell advised customers to watch their credit card statements for evidence of misuse.
It's been a bad 2011 for online game servers, with the now-infamous Sony PlayStation Network hack setting gamers a-jitter and costing the company both dollars and reputation.
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The State of California purchased C.A. Thayer in 1957. After preliminary restoration in Seattle, Washington, an intrepid volunteer crew sailed it down the coast to San Francisco. The San Francisco Maritime Museum performed more extensive repairs and refitting, and opened C.A. Thayer to the public in 1963. The vessel was transferred to the National Park Service in 1978, and has been docked at the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park. Thousands of school children spend the night aboard the 1895 schooner each year as part of an innovative educational program. In 2004, the C.A. Thayer was transported to a seaplane hangar at the former Alameda Naval Air Station for a restoration expected to take two years, during which time the project's progress will be tracked in the Park (with exhibits and panels) and on the park's website.
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- 1 Fedora Package Maintainers Policies
- 1.1 On maintaining packages
- 1.2 Review workflow
- 1.3 FESCo
- 2 All approved Fedora policy documents
Fedora Package Maintainers Policies
This document should give you a quick overview of all the relevant policies for Fedora Package Collection. It covers only the most important things -- each section has a link to a document with more detailed explanations and examples that outline how to lay out the rules. For a full list of documents see the end of this document .
On maintaining packages
Who is allowed to modify which packages
Normally the maintainer that is listed as primary maintainer in the PackageDB (formerly this was owners.list) of a package is the only one who modifies the package or gives others permission (e.g. by accepting them as co-maintainers) to commit and build changes for that package. Bugzilla is normally the best way to contact the package maintainer or to send him patches and suggestions because it is neutral and trackable; but poking people once or twice in IRC or directly via mail might be a good idea.
But there are certain exceptions where the maintainer has to accept that other packagers will modify his packages. Those exception are described in detail below -- it mostly boils down to this:
- a packager doesn't fix important bugs in time,
- there are problems known that might be bad for the whole Project or a lot of users of the repo/a particular package,
- the changes are quite minor or considered as a general cleanup to a lot of packages, or
- the changes are part of a Fedora Objective, with a specific plan approved by FESCo,
then provenpackagers are allowed to fix stuff in other peoples packages.
Read on for more more details about this topic .
What to do if a Maintainer is absent
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All packages in Fedora should normally be maintained by a group of maintainers. Ideally, each package normally should have at least three maintainers in total. There is one primary maintainer and a primary maintainer per distribution release (both often will be identical); each distribution maintainer should have at least one co-maintainer per release, to make sure there are actually at least two people for a package per each supported release. Maintainers should work towards getting at least one co-maintainer.
One important goal of co-maintainership in Fedora is to help getting new people involved into the project, while the experienced and respected maintainers get a chance to get involved with the often more complicated and more important parts of the project if they want to.
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Special rules for Packages with kernel modules
- Verify that there is an acceptable license for a kernel-module by asking on fedora-devel-list.
- A kernel-module should be merged into the upstream kernel.
- Open a review bug in bugzilla with an explanation from the maintainer of the kernel-module why it is not yet merged with the mainline kernel and a planned merge date.
- Send FESCo an email asking for permission to allow the module in Fedora. FESCo will investigate and vote if the kernel-module is suitable for Fedora.
- While anyone can review a kernel-module package, once it is set to APPROVED by the reviewer, a Fedora Sponsor or someone experienced with kernel modules should examine the package and post an additional approval notice before it is imported into CVS.
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Fedora Maintenance Lifecycle Policy
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This is the first of a series of blog posts discussing issues involved in the design of a decentralized (central bank free) system of digital currency. The goal is a currency that avoids typical pitfalls associated with fiat currency and central banking, as well as problems associated with commodity-backed currencies like a gold standard or simplistic digital systems like Bitcoin. I am interested in exploring the idea that currency design is essentially a computational problem, and that the functions of a central bank might be better handled by a decentralized 'smart' currency that becomes possible with software in the digital world.
This should hopefully be a very beginner-friendly series of posts, though it should be of interest and accessible to both economists and programmers. I will start from elementary first principles and use the opportunity to introduce topics and terms that are relevant. (For instance, for programmer and computer scientist readers, I won't assume any prior knowledge of finance, monetary systems or banking, and for economist readers, I won't assume any knowledge of distributed algorithms, cryptography, and so on)
The purpose of money
Before launching into the design of a monetary system, we need to answer a fundamental question: what is the purpose of money?
Let's consider a hypothetical economy in which there are just two goods, apples and oranges. Suppose that hypothetical market participant Alice has an apple, and Bob has an orange, but Alice would really prefer to eat an orange (Bob's, or really any comparable orange!) and likewise Bob would really prefer an apple. Even without money involved, in a strictly barter economy, Alice and Bob can trade--Alice gives Bob her apple in exchange for Bob's orange. (Aside: Alice and Bob are common placeholder names used in discussions of cryptography)
Let's notice some things:
- If this transaction is voluntary, which we have assumed it is, then both Alice and Bob are better off as a result of making this exchange, otherwise they would not have agreed to it. We say the transaction is mutually beneficial to all parties involved.
- Actually, to be a bit more precise, Alice and Bob will agree to the exchange so long as they both believe they will be better off. In reality, each may learn that they are not better off after all. For instance, Alice may discover that Bob's orange was in fact rotten and regret the exchange (after all, a perfectly good apple is better than a rotten orange)--that is, the exchange may have been made with bad or imperfect information. Or Bob may be giving up his orange when in fact, if he were really being honest with himself, he much prefers oranges--that is, Bob may be irrational. Although these are real problems and econonomists have studied them extensively, we are not going to talk about them here, since they are orthogonal to the problem of designing a monetary system.
Let's now introduce currency. Suppose Alice has $1, and an apple, but would prefer an orange, and Bob has an orange. Assume the 'going rate' (the price) for oranges in this economy is $1--Alice pays Bob $1 for his orange, and he turns around and pays Alice $1 for her apple (again, assuming the going rate for oranges is $1). The same exchange has been conducted as before, but it has been mediated by the use of currency. We can think of currency as enforcing a very simple tit-for-tat system. If Alice provides something of value to Bob (say, her apple), she obtains a token (the $1) that she can use to obtain something of equivalent value from someone else (or multiple people), perhaps Bob, or perhaps 50 others, from whom she purchases a sunflower seed each (for Alice, assuming she would trade her apple for 50 sunflower seeds).
But the use of money can conveniently facilitate a number of other mutually beneficial transactions beyond what simple bartering can achieve, for instance:
- Suppose Alice's true favorite fruit is mangos and Carol has a mango but would prefer an orange. Alice buys Carol's mango for $1, Carol uses the proceeds to buys Bob's orange for $1, and Bob finally uses those proceeds to buy Alice's apple. A mutually beneficial exchange has taken place in which Alice, Bob, and Carol each end up with their preferred fruit, but we didn't need to get the three together to agree on any sort of explicit contract! If we imagine Alice, Bob, and Carol standing in a circle, each step of the transaction involves passing a piece of fruit to the right, and a single dollar to the left. But currency lets us shift each step of this 3-way transaction across time and space without requiring any sort of explicit contract among the three parties.
- Alice may decide she's getting a bit tired of mangos. She sells her mango now, and a few weeks later, after her love of mangos has returned, she buys another mango from someone else. Alice has traded 1 mango in the present in exchange for a mango in the future. This sort of exchange, trading something now for something in the future, raises further questions that we'll discuss in the next post.
- Fast-forward to the modern economy. Alice may work as a rocket scientist for Acme Rockets, Inc., where she earns a salary. She buys a cup of coffee one morning for $5. She has effectively traded a portion of her time and expertise as a rocket scientist for a cup of coffee. The coffee shop does not need to know or care about rockets--the shop will use the proceeds from the sale to purchase other goods and services it values.
Even these do not even begin to exhaust the possible mutually beneficial transactions that we can imagine. But in the case of each such transaction, we could imagine writing up a contract that specifies who is to provide and receive what, and getting all parties to agree to and sign the contract. For instance:
Effective June 3, 1999, at 3:45pm EDT:
Alice is to provide an apple,
Carol is to provide a mango, and
Bob is to provide an orange,
Alice is to receive a mango,
Carol is to receive an orange, and
Bob is to receive an apple.
Alice: ___________________
Bob: ___________________
Carol: ___________________
Currency can be thought of as a much more convenient way to arrange and execute these sorts of contracts, which could in principle be arbitrarily complex, involve thousands of people, multiple timescales, and so on (we'll see examples of this later).
The more technical way to state that money is a more convenient is that transactions mediated by currency have lower transaction costs than direct barter or using explicit contracts. In general, when multiple parties enter into some mutually beneficial transaction, there are some costs to doing so. I am using 'cost' in a more abstract sense here. The cost could be a literal fee, like a sales tax imposed by a government, or it could simply be some burden the parties to the contract will have to bear for the transaction to take place. In a direct barter economy, these costs would include, among other things, the cost to Alice and/or Bob of traveling to the same physical location to conduct the exchange (or having to pay for some shipping service), the extra work that Alice must do to first to obtain an orange from Bob before finding Carol and exchanging for her mango, and so on. If transactions are conducted with explicit contracts, there will be overhead to writing up the contract, having all parties read and understand it, perhaps hire lawyers, etc. (Not to mention paying for the system of government likely needed to enforce such contracts, mediate disputes, and so forth)
Even more abstract, if buyers and sellers have difficulty finding each other, this can result in a form of transaction costs if the seller has to accept a lower price than he would otherwise be able to obtain if buyers and sellers could find each other more easily. For instance, suppose Alice doesn't know about Bob, but only knows about Dave, who demands two apples in exchange for an orange. Alice may decide this transaction wouldn't benefit her and decide to keep her apple, when if she and Bob could have been paired up they could have made an exchange that benefited them both. The technical way to state this is that insufficient liquidity can result in higher transaction costs. We will discuss this much more in a later part.
Transaction costs are a kind of friction in the economy. They prevent what would otherwise be mutually beneficial transactions from taking place. It would be preferable to Alice not to have to travel to wherever Bob and Carol are; it would be preferable to Alice not to have to pay a lawyer to write up an explicit fruit-exchange contract, or even to have to read a contract at all, even if comes in an email and she has to spend fifteen seconds reading it before replaying 'Yes'.
We can now state the primary goal of a monetary system: facilitate mutually beneficial transactions, with a minimum of transaction costs. We can see that, all else being equal, we would prefer that transaction costs be as low as possible, to promote the maximum number of mutually beneficial transactions.
From here, things will get more complicated. From here we will discuss banking, loans, interest rates, inflation, economic growth, the velocity of money, aggregate demand, etc. It's easy to get lost in these discussions, to forget that money has no intrinsic value (nor should it!) and is merely a more convenient way of arranging, agreeing to, and executing mutually beneficial contracts. Any collection of exchanges of money and goods could in principle be represented using explicit contracts--even exchanges involving billions of dollars, multiple countries, timescales, and huge numbers of people. When deciding on how to engineer a monetary system, we will return again and again to the perspective: what will ensure that parties can participate in mutually beneficial transactions, with a minimum of transaction costs?
By the way, I realize these examples involving Alice, Bob, and Carol might seem silly or trivial. And this is exactly the point; simple examples like this are often the most illuminating. I'll end with a relevant quote from Paul Krugman, from an essay where he uses a hypothetical economy producing only hot dogs and hot dog buns (!) to reason about questions of international trade:
You can't do serious economics unless you are willing to be playful. Economic theory is not a collection of dictums laid down by pompous authority figures. Mainly, it is a menagerie of thought experiments--parables, if you like--that are intended to capture the logic of economic processes in a simplified way. In the end, of course, ideas must be tested against the facts. But even to know what facts are relevant, you must play with those ideas in hypothetical settings.
We're only just getting started! Stay tuned for part 2.


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we are installing oracle 8.1.6 on linux 6.2.
linux is server class installed.
oracle installs fine.
we could connect as svrmgrl and work but when connecting as
system or any other user, we get an error saying
slsid oracle_sid not defined (ora-7200)
when $ORACLE_SID is defined fine.
does anyone know why.


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wearywarrior74 wrote: »CLS, DN, GK, R2, GAT.
Krayden_Phogg wrote: »
depends on the reworks... I was thinking CLS, R2, ezra, chaze would be tough
Darth Nihilus will be in it.
Because it is a broken toon, with a broken mechanic.
Chaze will be in it.
Because they are broken toons, with broken mechanics.
Rex/Thrawn/GK in the other slot based on preference.
5% tm to all rebels every time a negative effect is resisted. Rebels will b a tm machine under Luke but it won't b w/ Chaze. R2 will b an absolute beast. Counterattack clearing debuffs on crits. Next to R2, u can expect HRScout (w/counter attack) to b an absolute monster...tm plz, more tm plz, give everyone tm plz.
Last 2 spots reserved for reworked Han, ST Han, OB, Leia.
Goodbye Chaze. It's about time. Opponents punished for having tenacity up. Luke w/ huge damage boosts ignoring taunt. Chirrut will b dusted off fast so Baze is worthless. They don't debuff so they won't feed the machine. So glad to see the end of them...shortly after meta chasers finally maxed them...serves u right.
Krayden_Phogg wrote: »
Agreed. OG Han's rework is gonna really impact how everything goes especially if they vastly improve his first shot to ignore taunts.


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Sheridan Miyamoto
"Providing telehealth support really improves the quality of these forensic exams," said first author Sheridan Miyamoto, a forensic nurse practitioner and research nurse at the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis. Miyamoto is also a 2014 doctoral graduate of the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing. "With this technology, we can help children who might otherwise not receive this level of care."
Provided by advanced practice nurse practitioners and sexual assault nurse examiners with more than 10 years of experience evaluating abuse, telehealth consults offer tremendous benefits for rural communities. In addition to improving quality, they ease the burden on families, who no longer need to travel many hours for expert care, and clinicians, who have access to trained mentors when conducting these delicate exams. As a result, these consults provide a safety net for clinicians, patients and parents, ensuring these procedures are both thorough and accurate.
"It's important that we get this right," said Miyamoto. "Due to a lack of experience and regular exposure, many examiners are prone to assess normal variations as injuries from trauma. On the other hand, we also want to protect the child. Strong evidence may result in a plea bargain, eliminating the added stress for children of having to testify in court. Telehealth offers support and built-in peer review for nurses, physicians and other clinicians practicing in relative isolation."
The telehealth network uses secure teleconferencing equipment to link UC Davis nurses with rural clinicians. The systems provide video and audio, as well as images from colposcopes (magnifying devices used to examine genitalia) and other equipment. This advanced technology essentially puts expert nurses in the room with examining clinicians.
To test whether telehealth improved care, the researchers brought in independent experts to review examinations from eight rural hospitals, five of which had access to telehealth consults. The experts reviewed the health records for 183 patients, 101 of whom were treated at telehealth hospitals, evaluating the thoroughness, accuracy and overall quality of these exams.
Sheridan Miyamoto uses telehealth technology.
The telehealth exams improved care in multiple areas, including examination findings, overall assessments, completeness and diagnostic accuracy. In addition, photo and video quality was dramatically improved, evidence that could enhance court proceedings. Overall quality, completeness and accuracy scores were all significantly higher in the telehealth hospitals.
The UC Davis team hopes these findings will spur other hospitals to expand their telehealth capabilities.
"If we create a statewide network, we can really improve the quality of these exams in rural communities," said Miyamoto. "We can provide a service for many children who don't receive this level of care and make sure issues that should be investigated are investigated."
Other researchers included Madan Dharmar, Nikki H. Yang, Thomas Nesbit and James P. Marcin at UC Davis; Cathy Boyle at Mark Twain Medical Center; Kristen MacLeod at Northern Nevada Medical Center; and Kristen Rogers at the California Department of Public Health Maternal, Child & Adolescent Health Program.
This study was funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau of Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSAR40MC08723) and the William Randolph Hearst Foundation.
The Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis was established in March 2009 through a $100 million commitment from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the nation's largest grant for nursing education. The vision of the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing is to transform health care through nursing education and research. The school's first programs, doctoral and master's degrees, opened in fall 2010. Master's degree programs for nurse practitioners and physician assistants, with a focus on preparing primary-care providers for rural and underserved communities, opened in summer 2013. The Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing is part of UC Davis Health System, an integrated, academic health system encompassing the UC Davis School of Medicine, UC Davis Medical Center and the UC Davis Medical Group. For more information, visit nursing.ucdavis.edu.


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They're always silver, otherwise, I'm not sure how you tell.
I just buy the "regular" caps since they're like 1/2 the price at my LHBS vs the O2 absorbing caps. I'm having a hard time seeing how they could be an advantage if you're bottle conditioning. Wouldn't the yeast eat whatever O2 you might introduce during bottling? I guess if you're bottling from a keg the caps might make a small difference. In any case, after they're capped, the bottles aren't 100% sealed. They can still allow air to get in, albeit very very very slowly.
Quote from: beersk on June 13, 2012, 03:06:41 PMThey're always silver, otherwise, I'm not sure how you tell.Get about 2000 of them and close yourself in a small room then wet them. If you can't breathe, then they are the right ones. Are people putting these caps on without sanitizing? I'm not crazy about that idea but there's talk if you sanitize them, then by the time you put them on the bottle, they have lost their O2 absorbing ability.
and ccfoo, they work fine for bottle conditioning.


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For the past two years or so, there has been a substantial amount of discussion and some handwringing about the post restrictions on the Social Security Death Index or SSDI. Actually, the discussion is about the Death Master File or DMF from which the SSDI is derived. Now, apparently as a part of a bipartisan budget agreement, certain restrictions have been past on 18 December 2013 that will limit access to the DMF. See House, Senate negotiators reach budget deal.
Here is a summary of the pertinent provision of the Budget Agreement:
Restriction on access to the Death Master FileTo read the entire bill see Bipartisan Budget Agreement.
This provision creates a program under which the Secretary of Commerce restricts access to information contained on the Death Master File (a list of deceased individuals and their Social Security numbers, dates of birth, and dates of death, maintained by the Social SecurityAdministration) for a three year period beginning on the date of an individual's death—except to persons who are certified under the program to access such information sooner. A penalty of $1,000 is imposed for each improper disclosure or misuse of information obtained from the DMF, up to a maximum of $250,000 per person per calendar year. The Secretary is required to establish and collect user fees sufficient to recover all costs associated with the certification program.
Although the issues concerning who is a "certified person" under the act are not clearly specified, it appears that access to the information during the three-year restriction period, will be limited to commercial entities. ostensibly the reason for passing this legislation is the danger that fraudulent claims for taxes are based on information obtained from the SSDI. It has been extensively pointed out in rebuttal that the real problem lies with the IRS and its inability to properly review applications for refunds to verify whether or not the applicant is alive or dead. In short, the real problem is the failure of the IRS to use the SSDI and not in the use of the SSDI for fraud.
It is interesting to note, that during the time I have been investigating this particular issue, I have seen absolutely no evidence of a connection between use of the SSDI and fraud. The most egregious problem is the use of a dead child's Social Security number to obtain a fraudulent tax refund. The SSDI has always been only one of many ways that information for this type of fraud could have been obtained.
When the original bill was being presented to Congress to completely eliminate access to the SSDI, there were those in the genealogical community who attempted to oppose the legislation. However the present legislation seems to past without any notice being given to the greater genealogical community before its passage. The genealogical societies and bloggers interested in this issue were strangely silent before its passage.
The real question is the one posed in the title to this post, what is the effect of these restrictions to the SSDI on genealogy in general? Since the SSDI is only substantially useful subsequent to 1962 the information contained in the database is only useful for very recently deceased ancestors. However, the SSDI has functioned as one of the only available windows into recent ancestral information. Since the original bill would have blocked access to the SSDI entirely, the three-year restriction does not seem overly burdensome. The problem of course is that future legislation may entirely restrict access, now that the door has been opened to changes.
There was absolutely nothing in the press that would alert the members of the genealogical community that this was even an issue with the proposed budget resolution. It is apparent to me, that this was done on purpose.
The real issue underlying this whole discussion of the SSDI concerns the availability of government information to the citizens of the United States. However, from a practical standpoint, the genealogical community is microscopic compared to other special interests in the United States.
Overall, the results of this legislation will make the SSDI somewhat less useful than it has been in the past.


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Hey everyone!
Can you believe I have blogged two days in a row??! LOL! I am in shock too don't worry! I did however make this card a couple of weeks ago and taught it in a workshop. I challenged myself and decided to do a brayered image. I haven't played with the brayer too much, I know the basics and would love to play with it some more to learn about creating more intricate designs. Maybe a river or some mountains or both. I think I might check out Michelle Zindorf's blog as her brayer work is simply stunning.
I also had inspiration from Kerry Bunting's creation Thanks Karen!
I used inks, So Saffron, Calypso Coral and Tangerine Tango for this creation. I love how it has turned out, so much so I created another one in different colors
This time I used only two colours and they are Pool Party and Island Indigo. They go together beautifully, don't you think? I am not sure which one is my fave. Do you have one? I look forward to your replies.


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I recently wrote a post offering bra-shopping tips for small-breasted women and it was a huge success. I'm very grateful that women found the information helpful and was inspired to do a similar post with the full-busted woman in mind. This led me to approach a brand that I consider the Bentley of bras: Empreinte. This 66-year-old French brand has a rich history of corsetry design dedicated to the luscious figures of full-busted women who have cup sizes in the range of 30 to 46 from C to H. As a chesty woman myself, I'm a big fan of Empreinte. Their quality, style and craftsmanship have never let me down, quite literally. And boy, are they gorgeous bras! No expense is spared by the Empreinte design team when they develop each season's styles. If you love moulded lace, satin and tulle, this is the brand for you. Their bras are like works of art and they were recognized for their creativity in 2011 by the trade show Salon International de la Lingerie in Paris, which voted the brand Designer of the Year. Empreinte's spokeswoman Séverine Maisonnasse responded to my request for tips on how a full-busted woman should go about selecting the perfect bra for her size. She explained how Empreinte bras are distinguished by certain features:
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Dear friends,
I am enhancing my company current system in VB. I tried to install the new system in client pc for testing. after succesful installation, when I tried to start to run one of the module after log in, they showed an error message as follows:
"Runtime error '430' class does not support Automation or does not support expected interface"
I found certain solution from website, they suggested to un-register the dll and re-register. between, i never register any dll or exe through regsvr32. For this case, is the dll still is the cause for the error?
If anyone can help me, I am very thankful for that.


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Past and Future libraries
June 18, 2008
Hello planet, as my first post that gets placed on planet.haskell.org I decided to do a quick recap of the libraries I maintain and muse about future libraries. My past posts include why static buffers make baby Haskell Curry cry and fun academic papers.
The Past
* pureMD5: An implementation of MD5 in Haskell using lazy ByteStrings. It performs within an order of magnitude of the typical 'md5sum' binary, but has known inefficiencies and could be improved.
* ipc: A trivial to use inter-process communication library. This could use some work, seeing as structures that serialize to over 4k get truncated currently. I'll probably only come back to this if I end up with a need for it.
* control-event: An event system for scheduling and canceling events, optimized for use with absolute clock times.
The Present
* hsXenCtrl: This library is intended to open the doors for Haskell apps to interact with and perhaps manage Xen. Currently its just straight forward 'c' bindings to an old version of <xenctrl.h>, but the intent is to build a higher level library with useful plumbing.
* NumLazyByteString: Not sure if I'll bother finishing this one, but it adds ByteString to the Num, Enum, and Bits type classes. I just thought it would be funny to have lazy adding allowing: L.readFile "/dev/urandom" >>= \a -> print (a + a `mod` 256)
The Future
I tend to be a bit of a bouncing ball in terms of what nterests me. Near and mid-term tasks will probably be a couple of these:
* A .cabal parser that can create a dependency graph for Haskell packages (not modules). But should I use an outside package like graphviz or go pure / self contained Haskell?
* An implementation of something distributed like a P2P or ad-hoc networking protocol. Would this be Pastry then Awerbuchs work or OLSR2? These would be large tasks with their own ups and downs.
* Finally learn happs and make some sort of web Xen management system using hsXenCtrl.
* Learn Erlang – just because it looks cool too.
* Forget programming (and blogging) – read more TaPL!
4 Responses to "Past and Future libraries"
June 19, 2008 at 2:37 am
Re: future stuff:
.cabal parser: I would just go the pure Haskell route. The GUI stuff is probably handled already by a library like diagrams, and once you've parsed the .cabal (the hardest part IMO, the part GraphViz wouldn't help with), would manipulating the graphs be all that difficult?
P2P: You really need to check out Barracuda and its supporting libraries.
June 19, 2008 at 3:28 pm
.cabal parser: For my honours project in maths this year, I'm actually doing a project which will involve graph-theoretic analysis of Haskell code and modules, quite possibly using the .cabal file to determine what modules to examine. Not sure how much visualisation will be done though.
June 24, 2008 at 11:07 pm
I'm going to get Abuse netplay working, and maybe conceive of a 2D interpolation technique such that I can update server-state 3 times per second rather than every 15 (once per frame).
That means 300ms ping would be acceptable versus the 66ms that's currently desirable. Think I can get it done this year?


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Voice behind microphone at Bucks, also works on popular radio show
Eric Jensen also known as 'Rock'
Milwaukeeans may recognize his voice but not his face.
WISN 12 News Stephanie Sutton went behind the microphone and talked with a local announcer who is juggling two jobs on very little sleep.
Fans may have heard his voice at Bucks games -- public address announcer Eric Jensen.
"Oh, I love it. It's not a job. It's fun to come down here every night and sit here courtside," Jensen said. "I've got the best seat and get to scream into a microphone all night. (You) can't beat that."
The Brookfield native has been behind the microphone at Bucks games for the past 14 years.
Jensen began as the public address announcer for the Milwaukee Wave and Milwaukee Admirals before landing his side job with the Bucks.
"There's not any college programs or anything for PA announcing. It's not really anything you can be trained for. You kind of have to start at the bottom and work your way up," Jensen said.
The toughest part of his job, he said, is pronouncing names.
"I usually sit next to a PR guy, and he helps me out with any names. Giannis (Antentomkounpo's) name is the scariest for anyone else in the league," Jensen said.
After Jensen is done doing his job with the Bucks at the BMO Harris Bradley Center, he has to head home quickly and go to sleep because four hours later he has to get up for his other job -- he has a morning radio show gig at 102.9 The Hog.
Jensen is known as "Rock" on Milwaukee's popular "Bob and Brian Show," and has been the program's producer the last 17 years.
"Some people that listen to the show have no idea I do the Bucks games and definitely a lot of people at the Bucks games have no Idea I do this in the morning," Jensen said. "They're both fun jobs, and I wouldn't give them up for anything."
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Experts divided over Sandy Hook response
If police had arrived at the shattered front entrance of Sandy Hook Elementary School with their sirens blaring --Adam Lanza might have ended his rampage and committed suicide sooner.
But experts are divided over whether police should have immediately gone into the school and confronted Lanza, or waited -- as they did -- outside for six minutes.
In the bloody last seconds of the murder spree, investigators said Newtown police cars arrived and parked more than a football field away.
The long-awaited release Wednesday of recorded calls for assistance and the background sounds of rifle shots that killed 20 children and six adults may provoke more questions than provide answers on the important issue of the police response.
During the 47 seconds in which Lanza fired at least nine shots from his semi-automatic Bushmaster XM-15 assault-style rifle and a Glock 10mm handgun, first responders were setting up outside the school on Dickenson Drive.
"Since Columbine, the message is go after the shooter as quickly as possible," said Brookfield Police Chief Robin Montgomery, speaking on the evolution of tactics in active-shooter incidents.
In a suburban department, such as Brookfield or Newtown, the initial responders will be patrol officers.
"You don't have time to gather the special-ops folks," said Montgomery, who hadn't listened to the recordings and declined to speak directly about the Sandy Hook response.
But in mass slayings, the only person who knows what's going on is the shooter, said James Strillacci, the former West Hartford police chief and longtime Capitol lobbyist for the Connecticut Police Chiefs Association.
"Responding officers try to get in as quickly as they can," said Strillacci, noting that terrain and the state of the school were major factors facing police. He said that 47 seconds probably wasn't important.
"You'd have to be very lucky and efficient or both," Strillacci said. "It's a pretty tough situation. The male dispatcher did pretty good triage, getting as much information as he could."
Retired New Haven police officer Vincent Riccio, who operates the Security Academy of Connecticut, hadn't yet listened to the 911 tapes, but said he thought six minutes was too long for the cops to wait to enter the school. He thought they might have gotten distracted by people outside the building, who turned out to be two women and a parent with a cellphone.
"Who would you rather see inside, a police officer with a gun or a teacher without a gun?" Riccio said. "I'm not saying they're bad cops ... they are brave enough to put on a uniform and go to the scene. I'm saying they made a bad mistake."
"It's all about tactics," he said. "They have to move toward the shooter. If they were there for 45 seconds, they should have gone into a sprint and moved from cover to cover toward the shooter. To give them a pass because we know in hindsight (Lanza) was dead doesn't matter."
"You can't lose focus," Riccio said. "According to FBI statistics, 97 percent of active shooters are lone shooters. I believe they lost their focus."
Another retired police officer, who did not want to be identified but who has been involved in shooting cases, said police officers are taught never to park near the front of a building or approach directly from behind a closed door.
"If they were in a parking lot 360 feet away from the entrance, that's acceptable," he said.
He didn't think police could have accomplished much in 47 seconds.
"So many things had to be going through their minds," he said. "What if the first responder goes in and is taken out? What does that accomplish?"
Robert Paquette, a former FBI supervisor who worked with SWAT teams and was the Danbury police chief until 2005, agreed.
"It's difficult to judge the officers not knowing everything that was going on," Paquette said." It takes 47 seconds to dial a phone number."
He declined to judge the officers' actions.
"You don't know what instructions they received," he said. "You don't go running into a situation unless you have a scintilla of what to expect. I don't think the officers knew anything except shots were being fired. I can't imagine trying to make a decision based on all the chaos going on. There were talks of a second shooter."
"If you know what you're facing and have the gunman in your sight, then you've got to approach and take him out," Paquette said.
On the 911 recordings, Rick Thorne, acting head custodian that fatal morning, pleaded for police to arrive and stop Lanza's murderous rampage.
"I keep hearing shooting...I keep hearing popping," Thorne told police dispatchers at 9:37:26, shortly before police finally reached him, demanding to know who he was.
At 9:39, just as Newtown Police Officer Michael McGowan arrived on Crestwood Drive behind the school, Thorne told dispatcher Bob Nute that a gym teacher reported seeing two shadows going past the gym. Nute questioned whether the shadows were inside or outside. Thorne replied they were outside.
At 9:39:35, McGowan, said "We got him coming at you." He was talking about the parent with the cellphone.
On the tape, Thorne finally sees cops at 9:45:02. According to a recent summary of the shooting by Danbury State's Attorney Stephen J. Sedensky III, however, they entered about 12 seconds earlier.
Thorne can then be heard on the tape identifying himself by shouting "Custodian, Custodian."
The release of the six recordings -- after a months-long battle -- first before the state Freedom of Information Commission and later in state Superior Court, caused the information to be delayed until just before the first anniversary of the slaughter on Dec. 14.
W. John Thomas, professor of law at the Quinnipiac University School of Law, said that the release of the 911 tapes so close to the anniversary hurts the survivors and families of the dead, whom Sedensky was trying to protect by suppressing the recordings.
"I don't think the state's attorney has done any service to Newtown or the state for delaying the release," Thomas said in a phone interview after listening to the recordings. "It's harrowing information but the judgment of the Connecticut General Assembly is that it's the kind of information that can be released. Now, the families have to relive the tragedy a year later and it might have been better to comply with the law first. They should have been released earlier."
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said Wednesday night that he had listened to some of the Sandy Hook 911 tapes and read transcripts of others.
The governor, speaking with reporters at the University of New Haven where he thanked first responders for thwarting a possible shooting spree, said he didn't think it was necessary to listen to the tapes to underscore the tragedy of the shooting.
Malloy said he was struck by the heroic actions of the Sandy Hook school staff.
"There's a lot of evil in this world," Malloy said. "Those who are evil are vastly outnumbered by the goodness that's present and the extraordinary efforts that individuals make to keep one another safe. You can't read or listen to a tape like that or understand what these folks go through on a daily basis without having great admiration for their humanity," he said, alluding to the police officers flanking him.
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'What Up' is a piece of Acoustic Rock that overcomes genre barriers and creates its own musical space. Listeners will find elements of rock aligned with reggae, R&B and pop. A quick lyrical delivery blends them all into a harmonious composition that succeeds in creating a unique sound never heard before.
Infinite Potential is a five-song EP, and comprises tracks such as 'Blue Dream', 'Bet' and 'It's Over'. Amazingly, all of the instruments heard in the songs are played by Nate himself. Nate's music carries the influence of his favorite artists such as Sublime, Dirty Heads and the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
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A Room With a View
There has never been a more perfect film than Merchant Ivory's lush and lavish, A Room with a View. Visually it offers more than a simple view; instead there is a grandiose explosion of natural and cultural beauty traveling from the historical vistas of Florence to the opulence of the English countryside. Adapted with wit and wisdom from E.M. Forster's novel of the same name, A Room with a View explores the mingling of Britain's emerging middle class with the slowly dying aristocracy during the picturesque Edwardian Age. Similar in theme, adaptation and age to the tragically redeeming Howard's End, View tenders a gentler more fairy tale touch.
Filled with immortal performances by actors who would soon dominate the cast of truly great films for the next twenty years and counting, we are treated to study after study of the pomposity and passion in human nature. Romance, humor and a sensitivity to our frailties permeate every frame. Whether it is a bloody crime of passion between unknown but unforgettable Italians in the square, the giggling girlish adventures of two aged maidens in a foreign city, a kiss among poppies (that might just be the best kiss in cinematic history) or the heartbreaking politeness of a rejected suitor in a drawing room each moment is filled with timeless, laughable, lovable humanity.Continue Reading


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One-pan prawn pilau
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Nutrition: per serving
- kcal340
- fat3g
- saturates1g
- carbs65g
- sugars0g
- fibre2g
- protein18g
- salt2.38g
- 2 tbsp korma curry paste (Patak's is good)
- 1 small onion, finely chopped
Onions are endlessly versatile and an essential ingredient in countless recipes. Native to Asia…
- 300g basmati rice, rinsed and drained
- 700ml chicken stock made from a cube
- 150g pack cooked peeled prawns, defrosted if frozen
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- cupful frozen peas
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- 1 red chilli, sliced into rings
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- handful coriander leaves, chopped
- lemon wedges, to serve
Oval in shape with a pronouced bulge on one end, lemons are one of the most versatile…
Heat a large wide pan and dry-fry the curry paste with the onions for 4-5 mins until the onion begins to soften. Add the rice to the pan and stir to coat in the curry paste. Add the stock, then bring to the boil.
Cover the pan and turn the heat down to low. Leave the rice to simmer slowly for 12-15 mins until all the liquid has been absorbed and the rice is cooked. Turn off the heat and stir in the prawns, peas and chilli. Cover the pan and leave to stand for 5 mins.
Fluff up the rice grains with a fork and season if you want. Scatter over the coriander and serve with lemon wedges.
Recipe Tip
Making it differentAdd 400g/14oz chopped smoked haddock in with the stock, add chopped hard-boiled egg and omit the prawns to make kedgeree. Or use cooked, chopped chicken instead of prawns. Make some raita by mixing finely chopped cucumber and chopped mint with natural low-fat yogurt to serve.


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NBC is making room for "Community" on its midseason schedule, along with a new comedy set in the White House and a dating series produced by former "Desperate Housewives" star Eva Longoria.
"Community," which saw its return delayed this season, will air at 8 p.m. Thursdays starting Feb. 7. The Joel McHale comedy will be followed by "Parks and Recreation," which moves to a new 8:30 p.m. time slot starting Jan. 17, NBC said Tuesday.
The sitcom "1600 Penn," starring Bill Pullman, Jenna Elfman and Josh Gad as the first family, will debut at 9:30 p.m. on Jan. 10.
Longoria's "Ready for Love," billed by NBC as an "innovative and dramatic" relationship show, begins at 8 p.m. March 31.
"Deception," a new murder mystery series starring Meagan Good, Victor Garber and Tate Donovan, will air at 10 p.m. Jan. 7. Fall drama "Revolution," which goes on hiatus after November, will return at 10 p.m. March 25.
Also on NBC's 2013 schedule: "Betty White's Off Their Rockers," Jan. 8; "The Biggest Loser" with returning trainer Jillian Michaels, Jan. 6; "Smash" with guest star Jennifer Hudson, Feb. 5; "The Celebrity Apprentice," March 3; and "The Voice," with new judges Usher and Shakira, March 25.


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This past weekend, my husband and I took a trip to Florida to visit my family. We laid by the pool and the beach plenty, and I got to wear the heck out of my summer dresses and sunscreen. However, crazy as it may seem, I probably spent most of my time heating up the kitchen and cooking with my mom.
After a full night of flying, we arrived in the morning, and mom and I got right to work making chocolate mousse for my aunt's dinner party that night. I was determined to make it perfect and decadent, but, how do I put this…. On barely an hour of sleep, delicate desserts like chocolate mousse are not possible. Not at all.
So, with just an hour to spare, we brainstormed a "plan B" of cherry crisp, a family favorite and incredibly simple sweet that would save our tails.
Why my mom keeps cherry pie filling, plain oats and whole almonds at-the-ready, I'll never know, but God bless that woman. We had this thing in the oven in 10 minutes, and after 30 minutes of baking and filling the house with the aroma of sweet cherries and warm cinnamon, it was ready for packing up to take to the party.
By the time we got to dessert, everyone had a glass of wine in hand and their feet dunked in the pool on that hot, sticky Florida night. In under a minute, the clang of spoons hit empty dessert dishes and moans ensued.
A crunchy topping of chopped nuts, warm oats, brown sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg gave way to bubbling, soft and gooey cherries. Topped with a dollop of homemade whipped cream, it just about sent us all to heaven and back.
Whether this delicious cherry crisp is in your plans or ends up being "plan B", I guarantee you'll love it and make it again soon. Though the dinner party was Saturday, I haven't even been home for 48 hours and I couldn't resist making it again.
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Learning curve: Boxer auctions stuff
A recent tour through the former Boxer Learning offices on the Downtown Mall revealed stuff– and lots of it.
Computers, office furniture, plants, even Sharpies, all sat as if their owners had simply up and left one day– which is, in fact, what happened when Boxer Learning downsized from its 20,000 square-foot offices last spring to smaller quarters at 230 Court Square.
Now, that stuff is going up for sale at an auction scheduled for December 11 at 10am in the old offices. Intrepid buyers can attend a preview on December 10 to pore over the goods.
The future of the high-tech company remains unknown, as representatives from Boxer Learning did not return repeated calls from The Hook.
The future of the site, however, is looking bright. "There are very exciting plans," reports the building's owner, Lee Danielson, who says he is "not at liberty" to discuss the details.
Could there be a national chain or department store returning to the Mall? Danielson's keeping mum, offering only hints. "It will be of that quality," he says, "and will be really good for downtown."
Our wallets are twitching already!
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Zendaya is the New Face of Madonna's Material Girl [VIDEO]
Only days after news broke that Zendaya will be playing Aaliyah in an upcoming biopic, the Disney star was named the new face of Madonna's Material Girl clothing line.
The fashion brand, which gets its name from one of Madonna's iconic songs, seems to be a perfect fit for the 17-year-old.
"Material Girl embraces having fun with fashion and being confident in your own skin … and who does that better than Madonna?" Zendaya said in a press release (quotes via E!).
It seems the original Material Girl agrees, applauding Zendaya's exuberant personality.
"Zendaya exudes a confident, free spirit. We love having her as the new face of Material Girl," Madonna said in a press release (quotes via E!).
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Iron Horse Trail
I bagged another rail trail on Friday, this time opting for an inland route. The Iron Horse Regional Trail follows a Southern Pacific Railroad right-of-way established in 1891 and abandoned in 1977. I first rode down to Fruitvale BART station, grabbed a couple of tacos, and then took it to the end of the line, to Dublin/Pleasanton BART. Never having ridden that section of the system, it was prettier than I expected going through Castro Valley and the hills between Hayward and Dublin.
Then I hopped on the trail, and took it all the way to the Pleasant Hills BART – the only way to get between the two stations without changing trains. The trail extended another mile or two beyond, but I turned around and headed back to Dublin. It's a very easy 40 miles, flat and largely devoid of traffic. To the west were the Oakland hills, to the east was Mt. Diablo, and it passes along a small creek, a string of electrical towers, over a couple of bridges, and through some more urban areas. It also passed right behind a high school just as it was letting out for the day, which proved to be quite distracting.