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Category Archives: Trip Reports
Weekend Excitement @ 2W6
Friday morning I decided to go do some flying in the Tri-Pacer, as the weather was gorgeous. I started 'er up, taxied out to RWY 31, and headed straight out to St. Mary's (2W6) to get fueled up. I landed … Continue reading
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First Cross Country Solo!
Ok, so it's not directly related to the Cozy, but it is directly related to the overall goal of having an effective method of high speed long distance travel. Sunday morning I took off on my first solo cross country … Continue reading
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|Amin Nazemzadeh
|Amin Nazemzadeh
March 1, 1982
Tehran, Iran
|Ethan Rains (brother)
Amin Nazemzadeh (born March 1, 1982; age 38) played Naji during Season 4 of 24. Some time following his work on 24, he changed his name to Dominic Rains. He is the brother of Ethan Rains.
Biography and career Edit
Amin Nazemzadeh was born in Tehran, Iran. His brother is actor Iman Nazemzadeh (known now as Ethan Rains), who also appeared in 24. Amin's family moved to London, England when he was a small child, and then to Dallas, Texas, where he was raised.
Amin began his acting career in 2003, appearing in the TV film Saving Jessica Lynch (with Navid Negahban). After that, he has appeared in TV shows like LAX (with Frank John Hughes), E-Ring (with his brother Iman, Benjamin Bratt and Dennis Hopper), NCIS (with Pauley Perrette), Cane, and FlashForward (with Michael Massee and Ravi Kapoor). Amin also had a recurring role in both General Hospital, and its spin-off, General Hospital: Night Shift.
Aside of TV, Amin has also appeared in films like Captain America: The Winter Soldier (again with his brother Iman, Alan Dale, Salvator Xuereb, Adetokumboh M'Cormack, Pat Healy, and Steven Culp), Outbreak, Poet's War (with Maurice Compte), Countering Extremism (also with Negahban), and Mind of the Warrior.
In 2014, Amin had a guest role on TNT's Legends, which is developed by Howard Gordon. The episode he appeared in was directed by Brad Turner, and also featured a guest appearance by Necar Zadegan.
24 credits Edit
Selected filmography Edit
- Draupadi Unleashed (2019)
- The Institute (2017)
- Funeral Day (2016)
- How to Be a Gangster in America (2015)
- Jinn (2014)
- The Taqwacores (2010)
- Mask of the Ninja (2008)
- Flight 93 (2006)
- Saving Jessica Lynch (2003)
Television appearances
- Chicago Med (2019-2020)
- Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2017-2018)
- Psycles (2017)
- Powers (2016)
- Legends (2014)
- Single Ladies (2012)
- Burn Notice (2012)
- FlashForward (2009-2010)
- General Hospital (2007-2008)
- Cane (2007)
- General Hospital: Night Shift (2007)
- Courting Alex (2006)
- E-Ring (2006)

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tantan nabe soup
My favorite soup:
Tantan Nabe recipe
Ingredients for 4 people
1600ml chicken broth
20g zasai (finely chopped)
80g daikon (finely sliced)
80g carot (finely sliced)
80g egg plant (finely sliced)
4 leaves of hakusai (chinese cabbage)
4 shiitake mushroom
200g enoki mushroom
2tbs sake
5tbs soya sauce
some black pepper
1tbs rice vinegar
8tbs chi ma jan (芝麻醤) chinease sesame paste (or tahini)
2 green ognions
some chilli oil
[B] porc wonton (in the video i used tofu & fish cake)
100g ground porc
some black pepper
2tbs sake
1tbs soya sauce
some salt
some sugar
1tsp sesame oil
some corn starch
12 wonton wraps
How to cook:
1) Finely slice all [A] ingredient and put aside.
2) Put all [B] ingredients in a boul and mix well.
3) Bring chicken broth to boil in a big pot and add finely chopped zasai.
4) Wrap wonton as video shows below
5) Put all [A] ingredients into the pot and cook for 5 minutes at high heat.
6) In another pot, boil water and cook wonton for 2 minutes, then drain and put aside.
7) Add sake, soya sauce and black pepper into 5) and bring it to boil once.
8) Add vinegar
9) Add wonton
10) Add chi ma jan and mix gentely.
11) Add green ognion and chilli oil for your taste!


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A test prototype of the Mercedes-Benz GLC has been photographed with minimal camouflage
A test prototype of the Mercedes-Benz GLC has been photographed with minimal camouflage.
Spotted by a reader of IndianAutosBlog in Stuttgart, Germany, the vehicle has some camouflage on the headlights and taillights, as well as the bumpers. All other body details appear to be in their final production form.
The GLC will serve as a replacement for the blocky GLK and is expected before the end of the year, possibly in September at the Frankfurt Motor Show while the fully-fledged AMG version should follow early 2016. It will be based on the MRA platform that also underpins the C-Class and will share its engine lineup with the same model.
A coupe version of the GLC was also confirmed for production. The design of the model will be largely carried over from the GLC Coupe Concept, but some of the more extreme styling elements, such as the slender mirrors and aggressive exhaust system, won't be featured.


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Moving from Brazil to Cartagena for 2 months (Bogotá)
Hi everyone, i am looking for Internations in cartagena, Colombia, but unfortenately there isn't, just for other cities.
Is there anyone from here that lives in Cartagena?i am moving in October and work there for two months, but its my first time there and i don't know everyone in Cartagena, so if someone can give me tips i appreciate. Thank you all :)


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I recently purchased Windows Vista Ultimate for a planned installation. At this time, there are three-(3) machines that are physically available for this install -- none of these I own, but they I personally use for work primarily.
Knowledge of the ins and outs of Windows has been, for me, more of an on-the-job-training (OJT). At the moment I do not hold any MCP or MCSE. Not saying I have not tried to do so, but like so many things that could ultimately lead to self and professional advance ... work gets in the way. I digress. Let me say that since 1998 I have at least re-installed Windows (from '95 to XP) at least twice a year.
Why the reinstall? Thats easy enough. So many software companies, so many lacking features, so many new things to try. At that point years ago the use of VMware or Virtual PC was yet unheard of or costly. My initial foray into emulation was with BOCHS, by the way. :-)
Thankfully the company I work for is a Gold Partner. That said, as a researcher/analyst operating under limited resources it will happen sometimes that your only test machine is on production -- so be it. And if it crashes, thank goodness for the Volume License.
After almost a decade, here we are. I've purchased my own copy for my own use. Still procrastinating on installing it finally as I may want to test the performance on either of the machines I have -- Intel Mobile, Dual Xeon, or Core 2 Duo. Thats when I saw this problem.
Its unbelievable and it actually has pushed my conviction to make space for the learning curve of using Ubuntu. I also swear my next laptop is going to be a Macbook Pro with at least 4GB of RAM -- regardless of the OS. And shall I say, learning *BSD is not such a bad idea, anyhow.
Returning from a conference at Redmond last week, I'm still thinking. This new link shows promise. Perhaps I may install Windows Vista Ultimate after all. Why not?
But mind you, if at some point it doesn't allow me to reinstall when I really need to (ie. upgrade for mobo, chip, other hardware) then its "bye, bye, Blue Screens" and "hello Orange startup window!"


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Opening Doors We Once Thought Were Closed
For this post, we asked Sophia Richter, Hellgate High School Student and member of ChickTech Missoula's Leadership Team, to share her experiences as a high school girl in tech.
Although I was never directly told that girls are incapable of coding, I lived the majority of my 17-year-old life believing that women don't code because technology is a male-dominated game. Society has embedded subtle cues into multiple aspects of our everyday lives that prevent many women from ever attempting to achieve their dreams in STEM careers. Some never even get the chance to have those dreams. This is extremely detrimental to our community as a whole, and especially to the female population.
From a young age, I have been determined to never let gender boundaries stand in my way, not even in my pursuit of coding. I began coding in seventh grade when I joined a team competing in the Technovation Challenge. The task seemed extremely daunting to me: compete against teams from around the globe to create an app that solves a problem in your community. It was not only scary to me because I had no coding experience whatsoever, but also because I did not know how to solve a problem in our community with only an app. How was that possible? It turns out that just by creating apps, innovating, and solving even one small problem has the potential to have a great impact on the community. We ended up coding an app that identified small businesses and tours around Missoula that would help visitors interested in the area. Although the app didn't get very far in the competition, it opened a door for me. I began to understand that something as small as a few hours coding an app could impact a community in a number of ways. I discovered that this app had the potential to boost the economy, increase tourist populations, and help local businesses, all in a few lines of code.
The next year, I was so excited to compete in the Technovation challenge again, I did all of the recruiting to find a high school team. Although it was surprisingly difficult to convince high school girls to code, I eventually got together a three-person team and we began coding an app that we were all very proud of. The app was named MoodToast, and it was designed to aid those struggling with diagnosed or undiagnosed depression. It attempted to do this by administering a 15 question test, tracking test results over time, offering suggestions to alleviate depression symptoms, and it also included an easily accessible call button to the national suicide hotline. Not only was I proud of our coding accomplishments and solving the multiple logistical challenges that we faced in coding this app, but I was proud of the app's potential to help so many people struggling with depression. MoodToast taught me that coding is not only typing numbers and letters in seemingly random orders, but that the reason coding is so important is because it can create something out of nothing. And that something can do so many things for so many people.
After two years of Technovation, I began to take online coding classes and teach myself basic level coding in various languages, with a concentration in Java. It was not too long after that I was asked to join the board of ChickTech to provide a voice for young women like myself. I agreed almost immediately. Since then I have helped ChickTech work towards the goal of improving female representation in the various areas of technology. Most recently, ChickTech has been working on a High School Kick-Off event, which will occur on April 14th, 2018. This is a great way for high school girls to learn about different areas of technology and coding, and for adults to volunteer in helping these high school girls receive these opportunities.
No matter what background you have, or how much you think you can possibly do, coding is a great skill to have. Coding gives you the ability to create something out of a blank page, it allows you to make a difference in the community, and it can be a platform for expression. Increasing female representation in STEM is incredibly important. In fact, multiple studies have found that women in STEM improve a country's economy, and also have the potential to increase their country's GDP. Women are important for social awareness and continue to encourage other young women to follow a path in STEM as well. It is so amazing what a difference women can make when we are given adequate opportunities, and that is why we need to encourage female learning and growth in technological sectors.
If you are interested in becoming involved as a student or adult, or have questions about our program, please feel free to contact either myself or another member of the Leadership Team. One great opportunity coming up is the High School Kick-Off event.
For more information about ChickTech's high school program, please see our High School Program FAQ page. Educators who want to nominate girls for the program can do so on our nomination page.


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Sending a thank you letter after an interview is very important. Writing one might be difficult, but preparing one is certainly ideal as a thank you letter is an extra sales piece that you can use to your advantage. You are selling yourself when applying for a job and a thank you letter after an interview sells you as a courteous person who knows that the interviewer provided them with something important and that is consideration and time.
The letter also allows you to say how much you are interested to become a part of the company and what you liked about them as well as why your skills can benefit them. You can also use the space provided by the letter to address or tie up anything that was left unsatisfactorily during the interview. A thank you letter also keeps your name in front of the interviewer or potential employer. You are more likely to be remembered by the hiring authority. Here are some tips on how to write a thank you letter after an interview.
Say your appreciation
Your first paragraph should talk about your appreciation for the time and opportunity given to you by the interviewer. Don't forget to mention how you enjoyed the interview and why. Perhaps you liked their company philosophy or you were able to meet exceptional people. Maybe you can't wait to contribute to their next big project due to your skills and experience. Choose something and mention it in the letter.
Mention what pleased you during the interview
The second paragraph should talk about what pleased you during the interview and why. For example, you might be pleased to find that the management style of the company matches your values and principles. Tell them why you find it exciting and elaborate. You can mention how it is related to something you have liked or did not like or experienced. Talk about a certain aspect of the job you find interesting and repeat why you would be good and successful at it. Don't forget to mention how similar the job is to something you have done before or how long you have been doing it. The third paragraph can be something similar to the second paragraph if the second was quite short. You can address or clear up anything that needed clarification here.
Say your interest again
Wind things up in the fourth paragraph. Don't forget to say your interest once again. Say you'd love to work for them. Just avoid starting each sentence with "I" because it is egoistical and a turn off. Remember that the process is about what benefit the company can get if they hire you.
Writing a thank you letter after an interview will be easy if you really want the job as it will contain real feelings and impressions. If you don't write a thank letter, maybe you don't really care if you are hired or not. The decision is yours to make. However, writing a thank you letter is indeed a wise move.


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For each sandwich...
- 1x doughnut (any kind you like)
- 1 generous scoop of coffee ice cream
- Melted chocolate (we poured a bag of chocolate chips into a small heavy-bottomed saucepan and melted it over extremely low heat)
- Remove ice cream from freezer and let sit on countertop to soften ever so slightly while you prepare the doughnuts.
- Slice each doughnut in half around the middle.
- Place a generous scoop of ice cream on a small plate.
- Using a spatula, flatten the scoop of ice cream to the same diameter as your doughnuts.
- Place the flattened scoop of ice cream on half the doughnut.
- "Close" the sandwich with the other half of the doughnut.
- Place prepared doughnut sandwiches in freezer temporarily.
- Melt your chocolate.
- Remove sandwiches from freezer.
- Dip each sandwich into melted chocolate.
- Serve immediately, with lots of napkins. It's very messy. Sticky glaze, melting ice cream, oozing chocolate…


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By: TSP Blog | @TSProckstars
It's no secret that Mondays have a horrible reputation. While we had the whole weekend to relax, unplug and recharge, it seems every Monday morning we wake up tired, drained, and quite frankly, dreading the day.
Having a successful Monday may seem impractical, but with some advanced planning, a productive morning and a fresh take on the day, you too can become a Monday master.
The key to starting your week off on the right foot is a successful end to Friday. Before you leave the office to start your weekend, there are a few things you can do to make your Monday more manageable. For starters, take a moment to go through your emails. Doing one last scan of just the subject lines will give you the ease to know you didn't miss anything important.
Write down a to-do list for Monday. Pick high priority projects and tasks that will be easy to complete. By setting attainable goals, you'll increase the chance of checking off all items on the list and have a truly productive Monday. If you missed this on Friday, set aside 15 minutes of your Sunday to get things in order. While it may seem like a waste of your down time, dedicating the slightest bit of time Sunday evening can make all the difference to your Monday.
Before you head into the office, we suggest waking up a little earlier to do something for yourself. This could be hitting the gym, reading a book, or sipping a cup of coffee while watching your favorite morning show. In doing so, you'll go into work having already spent time for yourself. We recommend always doing this on a Monday, but it is also can be a healthy routine to implement every day of the work week.
Once you get into the office, it is time to get focused and get going. While some promote not checking email first thing, this can be an unrealistic request. So, if you do check email first thing, only allot 30 minutes to do so and only respond to high priority requests. From there, close out of your inbox and get going on that to-do list you prepared in advance. Since your ability to focus decreases in the afternoon, work on the high priority projects in the morning and save any simple or monotonous tasks for after lunch.
Ultimately, the key to a successful day is keeping a positive outlook all day long. Did you know thinking positively produces serotonin, both creating a sense of well-being and helping your brain function at peak capacity? Simply shifting your mentality can make all the difference. Mondays do mean the end of the weekend, but they also mean a fresh, new start to the week.
When you get to work, take a moment to catch up with colleagues. Simply asking them about their weekend can start their day off on a positive note. Another thing to make your Monday a little better is doing something new – whether it be listening to a different playlist or wearing a new outfit. Finally, having something to look forward to after clocking out can make the whole day much more manageable. This could be a happy hour with friends, a homemade meal or even just your favorite television show.
Making the most of a Monday comes after a shift in both your attitude and your routine. By implementing the above tips (and any other small changes), you can hopefully become a Monday master. Most importantly, just keep in mind that after Monday comes Tuesday…and Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and so on!


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We're so excited to team up with The Rumpus, 826 Valencia, and Fiction Advocate TOMORROW for a night of fun readings from our favorite writers! It's all your literary dreams come true, packed into San Francisco's foremost Independent Pirate Supply Store.
Plus: a Vouched table full of new goodies (including freebies!) and a GUARANTEED ACCEPTANCE table. What does that mean? Come find out! It's like the exact opposite of going home for the holidays!
Readings by:
Vladimir Kozlov
Maisha Z. Johnson
Siamak Vossoughi
Joshua Merchant
The Rumpus is a place where people come to be themselves through their writing, to tell their stories or speak their minds in the most artful and authentic way they know how, and to invite each of you, as readers, commenters or future contributors, to do the same. What we have in common is a passion for fantastic writing that's brave, passionate and true (and sometimes very, very funny). http://therumpus.net/
Fiction Advocate is a litblog and micropress founded in 2009. http://fictionadvocate.com/
826 Valencia is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting students ages six to eighteen with their creative and expository writing skills and to helping teachers inspire their students to write. Our services are structured around the understanding that great leaps in learning can happen with one-on-one attention and that strong writing skills are fundamental to future success. http://826valencia.org/
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/682658425184925/


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Sweet Jane: `The Complete Austen' comes to PBS
As seems to happen every few years, Jane Austen got hot again in 2007, with one feature film ("Becoming Jane") depicting her life and another ("The Jane Austen Book Club") about fans of her novels.
Starting Sunday, though, Austenites can see the real deal - or adaptations thereof, anyway - as PBS presents "The Complete Jane Austen." The series, part of a revamped "Masterpiece Theatre," will present four new productions of Austen's work, beginning with "Persuasion" at 9 p.m. EST Sunday, as well as a 1996 version of "Emma" starring Kate Beckinsale and the 1995 "Pride and Prejudice" starring Colin Firth and his wet shirt.
Austen has never exactly been unpopular, but "Masterpiece" executive producer Rebecca Eaton says there's something in her work that might be especially attractive today.
"I think there's a possibility that in this day of drive-by relationships and quick hookups, people are drawn to stories of love with obstacles," Eaton says. "All these stories involve two people who are instantly or obviously - to us - attracted to each other, but they have to go through a lot to be together. ... I think the formality of that, and the eventual happy endings, are satisfying."
Screenwriter Andrew Davies ("Bridget Jones's Diary") penned the new adaptations of "Northanger Abbey" and "Sense and Sensibility," and he also wrote the teleplays for the versions of "Pride and Prejudice" and "Emma," which PBS is showing for the first time (they previously aired on A&E in the United States, back when A&E did that sort of thing). That makes him the go-to interpreter of Austen's work for contemporary audiences - "a nice position to be in," he says.
Davies acknowledges that having Austen as source material provides him with a pretty strong starting point - the question sometimes becomes what to leave out. "She does write great, witty dialogue, but rather more than I'm going to need in a visual medium," he says.
"I want the lines in the script (to sound as if) they could have been spoken then, but also sound natural if they were spoken now. So I'll tailor them a little bit ... to make them easier on the ear, that sort of thing. But it's not that difficult a task."
Adapting "Northanger Abbey" was "a breeze," he says, though his inspiration comes from a rather un-Austen-like place.
"It's about a girl who reads gothic novels, and in a way that was a bit of a problem, because people now don't know exactly what gothic novels were," Davies notes. "So what I did with that was I thought, in fact, in essence they're not that different from these teenage horror movies that are so popular. So I kind of dramatized Catherine's (the lead character, played by Felicity Jones) imagination, so we actually see the scenes she imagines herself in."
"Sense and Sensibility," however, was a tougher assignment: "I think I was a little bit more radical adapting that. I invented rather more scenes, because I thought the book could do with a bit more help."
The adaptation raised the hackles of some Austen purists when the miniseries debuted on New Year's Day in the U.K., though critics were generally kind and ratings strong. The problem, he says, lay mainly with the book's male characters.
"When you read the book, you're not quite sure whether it's got the right ending," Davies says. "You're not quite sure if the characters of the men who get the girls, whether they quite deserve to. ... So I did a lot of work to basically try to butch up the two male characters, make them more attractive and more appealing."
The new films were all shot in the U.K. with British casts, though American audiences will recognize a number of faces. Anthony Stewart Head ("Buffy the Vampire Slayer") plays Sir Walter Elliot in "Persuasion," David Morrissey ("Viva Blackpool," "The Water Horse") is Col. Brandon in "Sense and Sensibility" and Billie Piper ("Doctor Who") and Michelle Ryan ("Bionic Woman") star in "Mansfield Park."
Then there are the two older productions, which already have devoted followings thanks to multiple airings on A&E and DVD sales. "Someone in our office said, `Jane Austen only wrote six books, why not do all six?'" Eaton recalls. "So we had discussions with people who had the rights, and they allowed us to have it. ... So we were partly shrewd and partly lucky."
In addition to the dramatizations of Austen's work, PBS will also air an original film called "Miss Austen Regrets" about the author's own struggles with romance. It's based in part on Austen's letters and, Eaton says, is more faithful to the real story than "Becoming Jane" was.
Jane Austen died in 1817, and in the 190-plus years since then, her work has almost never been out of print. To Davies, the key to her enduring popularity isn't that hard to discern.
"She creates terrific characters, she writes moving love stories," he says. "She's intelligent, witty, and she's also surprisingly hard-nosed about things like sex and money, attraction, greed and longing. These are things that never go out of fashion."
The schedule for "The Complete Jane Austen" follows. "Masterpiece" airs at 9 p.m. EST Sundays (check local listings).
Jan. 13: "Persuasion" Jan. 20: "Northanger Abbey"
Jan. 27: "Mansfield Park"
Feb. 3: "Miss Austen Regrets"
Feb. 10, 17 and 24: "Pride and Prejudice"
March 23: "Emma"
March 30 and April 6: "Sense and Sensibility"


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Lawsuit Claims St. John's Abbey Knew of Past Abuse
ST. CLOUD, Minn. (AP) - A former student has sued St. John's Abbey, alleging the religious order knew one of its members had been accused of sexual abuse as early as 1958, yet let him continue teaching.
The lawsuit was filed by a former St. John's Prep student who claims he was sexually abused by the Rev. Allen Tarlton in the 1980s.
According to reports, the lawsuit alleges fraud. It says at least three abbots knew of the allegations but allowed Tarlton to teach at multiple locations.
A message left with the abbey was not returned to The Associated Press Thursday.
In 2002, Tarlton was among more than a dozen priests in the abbey facing restrictions because of abuse allegations. In depositions for previous lawsuits, Tarlton has admitted to prior abuse.
(Copyright 2012 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)


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The Mauritius Command
Abridged Audiobook
Written By: Patrick O'Brian
Narrated By: Tim Pigott-Smith
Publisher: Random House (Audio)
Date: July 2000
Duration: 5 hours 15 minutes
The fourth of the Aubrey/Maturin series opens with Captain Jack Aubrey gloomily ashore on half-pay until Stephen Maturin arrives with secret orders for Aubrey to take a frigate to the Cape of Good Hope under a commodore's pennant. Once there he is to mount an expedition against the French-held islands of Mauritius and La Reunion. But the difficulties of carrying out his 0rders are compounded by two of his own captains - Lord Clonfert, a pleasure-seeking dilettante, and Captain Corbett, whose severity pushes his crew to the verge of mutiny.


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Ann Hercus became New Zealand's first Minister of Women's Affairs following the election of the fourth Labour government. She was also appointed Minister of Social Welfare and Minister of Police, becoming the first woman to hold the Police portfolio. Hercus was tasked with establishing the Ministry for Women's Affairs as a stand-alone department at a time when there was opposition to the development of an independent agency focusing on women's issues.
Hercus is credited with using her leadership and standing within the parliamentary system to advance women's interests. She contributed to a number of policy achievements that benefited New Zealand women, including provision for part-time employment in the public service and schools; changes to sexual violence legislation and increased funding for women's refuge centres; the advancement of child protection and parental leave legislation; and increased recognition of unpaid women workers.
Hercus was Minister of Women's Affairs from 26 July 1984 to 24 August 1987. She later served as New Zealand's permanent representative to the UN (1988-90) and as Head of Mission for UN Forces in Cyprus (1998-99). In the 1988 New Year's Honours List, she was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George for her public services.
External links
How to cite this page
'Ann Hercus becomes first Minister of Women's Affairs', URL: https://nzhistory.govt.nz/page/ann-hercus-becomes-first-minister-womens-affairs, (Ministry for Culture and Heritage), updated 18-Mar-2020


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First things first. I don't know if this is a recommendation, or a warning, but I've brought some Avon 'skin so soft' with me, as rumour has it that it is an incredibly effective insect repellent, even though it is not marketed as such. Well, if you can cope with the astringent feel of it burning your skin as you spray it on, I would say the rumours are true. More alarmingly though, when I found a little army of ants marching in and out of my 'bin' which is actually a plastic bag hung from the handle of a drawer in my kitchen, I took direct action. I gave a blast of spray around the handle and within seconds all ants in the vicinity have deserted their posts and ostensibly retreated. What is in this product that all living things cower away at the very sight of it? I have no idea, it must be pretty toxic. It over-rides the smell even of incense that permeates the corridors of the building where I am living, and believe me, that is saying something… You might think with that lovely sounding name, this would be an innocuous product. It is anything but. It feels like pure DEET on your skin, the reason your skin is oh so soft, is probably because it is melting, but the way I feel about mosquito bites, that is but a small price to pay in order to repel, repulse and remove them. Use at your own risk though, and maybe do a patch test first on your neighbour's dog, just to be on the safe side. I don't normally approve of animal testing, but there are limits to my risk-taking behaviours…
In other news, today was first day back teaching after the Christmas weekend. I don't know why, maybe because I've been ill, but my confidence took a real knock. I wasn't feeling all together inspired by the topic of fruit for my two groups and was feeling distinctly lacking in creative ideas. I tried to remind myself that at least I was feeling a bit better, not well enough to go to the gym, but no temperature any more, but I wasn't in the mood for being consoled.
The one good idea I had, was to go to the Russian market and buy examples of all the unfamiliar fruits that I'm supposed to be talking about. I have no idea what most of them are, so it is hard to discuss their unique properties. I randomly pointed at strange-looking fruits and got weird amounts of them. My haul included mangosteen; rambutan; longans; mango (knew that one); pomegranates (knew them too); dragon fruit (white not red alas) and came to the grand total of $7. Seven dollars! That was way more than I expected, the stall holder explained this was largely on account of the pomegranate. I'd already forked out $2 last week for fruit and veg posters, so this TEFL malarkey is working out expensive in terms of teaching materials. Having said that, if I wasn't so devoid of ideas I probably wouldn't have needed the security blanket of all those props. Oh well, deed was done.
Nipped into the Russian market to have been sprouts, and egg breakfast. This didn't entirely go according to plan as the regular woman was ill and her daughter was in charge. Despite pointing at the 'usual' picture, the dish came back piled with meat. My companion therefore ate two lots, and after some negotiation, we got another plate with no meat, but with the addition of tofu which was really good. It was more expensive on account of ordering wrongly, but still only $2 a plate. This is an example of how if you can communicate, it is possible to eat well and cheaply in Cambodia, but it does take some negotiation and trial and error. It is also stifling hot in the Russian Market, so not somewhere to linger. Some swedish travellers joined us, they arrived in Cambodia on Christmas Day and were happy to talk I had to go off and do my lesson planning/ procrastination/ fretting and so left them all to it.
By the time I'd had a nap and failed to access the internet I was feeling a bit devoid of inspiration so I wandered up to the school. There a long-term volunteer (6 years and still counting) was on hand. I explained my angst about my ability levels – it is ironically because it went really well last Friday that I feel considerable pressure to keep on doing high-energy stuff – and how I'm finding it more stressful than I anticipated. Lesson planning time is disproportionate. He really helped in a hilarious way. He said that may Khmer teachers can't teach at all, and often don't even show up. His take on it was that just by showing up and being able to speak English I'd be the best teacher they'd ever had! I found this genuinely funny and consoling. Yay, get me, I'm here! What more could they possibly want!
I gathered up all my fruit selection, which alas I forgot to photograph, and headed off to prep my room. Well, dear reader, I ended up with one of the most effective, and calm and relaxed sessions to date, which just goes to show… well something, I'm not sure what.
With the first group a couple arrived early and we ended up having a 'proper' conversation. I was asking them all what they were studying and when they would finish. As more students arrived, I had them all trotting out 'I am studying (nursing/ pharmacy whatever) and will finish in (month and year).' The younger one who is still at school was able to say fluently 'When I finish school in 2018 I hope to go to university to study architecture' (which is particularly impressive if you'd heard his first rendition of that subject of study) and the older member of the group said 'I graduated from xx university in accountancy and now I am working at…' It may not sound much, but the point is that these exchanges are real and meaningful. They are talking in an interesting and engaged way about their own lives, and it is way more inspiring (for me as much as for them) than learning about fruit – though that has a place too.
Buying and bringing in the fruit was a stroke of genius. The physicality really helped, we spent a lot of time just naming them all, them telling me which ones they liked best, which were their favourites. It was all very simple, but surprisingly challenging. Guava is particularly hard for Khmer students to pronounce as is 'pomegranate' and 'oranges'. They didn't know the vocabulary, and I was surprised, astonished even, at how focused they were on it. I used the technique of getting them to identify their favourite fruits to pile them each up with the ones they liked using little cut out paper cartoon of other fruits I didn't have to boost the numbers. At first they were really chuffed with their acquisitions, but then I moved on to a 'I went to market and I bought…' and they had to list everything they had. We did this once round, and then they had to add on everything everyone else had bought as well. They got really into it. One played a trick on me by saying just 'I bought lots of fruit' but that was fine, as he was using language effectively. The next time round he added on loads of extra fruits he'd gleaned from the wall poster that I'd been referring to from time to time but not comprehensively covered. I was so impressed. There was a lot of laughter, but a lot of concentration too. I think they found it genuinely relevant, and they were intrigued by what I could and could not recognise. They all love their durian, which is a mystery to me. It is a vile smelling fruit. At first they all said they liked apples best, but I think that was because that is the limit of their vocabulary, it will be interesting to see what happens tomorrow.
As ever, the second group was a lot livelier, they were delighted by the fruit, one offering to buy it all off me with his fake $100 note. They on being given the fruit, immediately appropriated it, squirreling it away, which was fine but somewhat premature, still, I don't want that fruit all rotting in my flat, and they were so keen to have it, it really helped motivate them. I gave the single pomegranate to the student who was able to say the word really fast and really correctly five times, which she did. Amazing!
I'd brought along a computer generated word search fruit finding activity as a filler At the end of each session I gave them 5 minutes to find as many words as they could, and again $100 to the winner. In the first group one found 11 (more than I had) and in the second the winner found just four. I don't know if that is actually a difference in ability, I myself don't see patterns in word searches so find them incredibly frustrating.
At the very end, one student wanted me to recap all the vocab, and then as I said I'd like them to try to remember the vocab for tomorrow, some took photos on their mobile phones. One of these photos of the poster ended up in the Facebook groups as the students posted it themselves. I am so delighted by this. I want the facebook groups to be their shared resource. Only a couple of students have posted so far, but it's a start.
So I was really very happy with how it went today. There was no frenetic activity, but calm concentration albeit still a lot of laughter. I do love these students, they are so engaged and enthusiastic. I myself would have been bored to tears by such endless repetition, but with the addition of real fruit into the mix they appeared quite contented. One student even posted on the Facebook group 'Today we study about fruits, it so useful for us for every day life….thank teacher today I know a lots of new fruits👏' Check out the use of those fruit related (I think) and applauding emoticons and marvel at my TEFL prowess. Thank goodness the teaching bar is set so low. Long may it continue to be so.
Oh, and my new students didn't show, though one did send an excuse slip.
Here is my fruit poster by the way. There is a veg one too, but I haven't got on to using that yet.
So just got to think how to build on this tomorrow. I'm thinking get them to describe fruits more (we did a bit of oval/ round) and then do some hot seating, where one student is on chair with back to board, I write the fruit up, and the other students have to describe the fruit until the student is able to guess it. Pictionary too I guess, and maybe pelmanism. Hmm, oh well, tomorrow is another day. I'm happy with today, relieved too, I needed a win, and a win I got. Yay!


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Ganesh Subramanian talks of the current problems in recruitment strategies of companies and gives solutions for improvement. A must read for all HR professionals
Come the recruitment season, every year we see HRs of companies doing their best to bring talent on-board by various means – be it through conducting walk-ins, be it visiting campuses for hiring or through job portals or consultant tie-ups. They leave no stone unturned in enriching the talent pool of their company and striving to achieve the senior management's mandate of a target headcount by the end of the year.
There is no doubt that the HRs head to some of the best technical and management schools in the country where they find the brightest minds on display, the crème-de-la-crème. While all this give an impression that they are able to successfully fulfil the talent requirements of the company, the picture is far from rosy. Grappling with attrition, misfit in roles and a host of other problems, HRs are left complaining about talent crunch at the end of the day. Recruitment is done in bulk and still there is a talent crunch. Why this paradox? Is there a way out?
Some of the companies accredit technical colleges and B-schools where they go for campus recruitment every year. While this is a win-win situation with the B-school/technical college having the chosen company visit their campus every year, the company also has access to the best of the talent. However, this policy also has a small inherent flaw in itself.
By restricting the number of institutions that they hire from, companies lose out on unspotted talents untouched by opportunities. The only fault of the student from such colleges is that their institution is not accredited by some company for campus recruitment. While this does not call for companies to change their approach radically, they must be flexible enough with their hiring options.
The bottomline is if you input garbage, you get back garbage.
The other reason for the talent crunch is the way in which personal interviews are conducted by companies. Rather than trying to find out the strengths of the candidate and then see how it fits companies requirements, interviews turn out to be one on one (or many to one, as the case may be) gibberish encountered in online chat rooms. Armed as if by rote learning with outdated and irrelevant questions, interviews have the eventual effect of leaving candidates frustrated who wonder how such seemingly stupid questions are relevant to the job position for which they are being interviewed. The bottomline is if you input garbage, you get back garbage.
I will close this discussion with a couple of interesting incidences which I learnt from my friends. In one case, a talented candidate attended an interview for a mid-level role in a reputed company. After having successfully cleared the interview and being orally informed that he is being selected for that role, this person much to his dismay found that his job offer was later rejected only because his institution from where he studied was closed down. This person had to be at the receiving end for no fault of his.
How can the knowledge and experience accumulated over the years vanish in an instant just because a person's almamater no longer exists? In another case, a person was selected for an entry level position in a support function department in a company. After a week into the job, this person was asked to quit the job by his boss for the silliest reasons ever heard. The person does not have a smiling face according to some employees.
The boss said that the person's performance was not matching expectations and the person's ambitions will not help him do this job effectively. What more? The boss went on to play God saying that he can easily identify whether the person will be effective or not in a job in just 7 days. Heights of stupidity and baseless arrogance! Finally, this employee was also forced to resign without having a chance to even explain himself.
After learning about these incidents, the clarion call is loud and clear. It is time for the human resource function to take a call. They can either take the lead and be proactive in tackling talent crunch or continue doing the run-of-the-mill routine job and keep complaining.


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MEA Representative Assembly
The MEA Representative Assembly (RA) comprises elected local association delegates from across the state and serves as the Association's highest governing body. At its annual meeting the delegates attending the RA will determine MEA's policies, programs, and budget for the following year. They will vote on proposed language to MEA's Resolutions, Constitution, Bylaws, and Standing Rules; proposed New Business Items, and vote on a Strategic Budget. To submit proposed language, use the forms below.
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In the weeks preceding the RA, MEA publishes proposed changes to Resolutions, New Business Items, Constitution, Bylaws, and Standing Rule changes in the Maine Educator.
MEA also conducts Pre-RA Overview Meetings (PROM) around the state and/or virtual to discuss items that will be on the RA agenda. Information and registration for PROM meetings will be available in the spring.
To participate in debate and to vote on decisions, become a delegate representing your local association. See MEA Elections for information and to request forms. The 2020 MEA Representative Assembly will be held at the Marriott Sable Oaks in South Portland on May 16 and 17.
Voice in the Profession
The MEA holds an annual Representative Assembly (RA) in May. MEA's RA is the largest democratic body of the association, made up of educators elected by their local associations to represent their district. The MEA RA delegates set the course of work for the Association in the upcoming school year, discuss and take positions on key education issues, and elect new leadership. Being a delegate at the MEA RA allows educators to have a greater voice in their work and in the profession as a whole.
As a member of the Maine Education Association, you are eligible to have a voice. Proposed additions, deletions, or changes in wording to the Constitution, Bylaws, or Standing Rules are welcome from MEA committees, local Associations and/or individual members. If you have proposed changes or new ideas, please let your voice be heard!
Overheard at the MEA RA-Delegates in their own words
Renee Doucette, K-A-K EA
"We are in our own association—we get the magazine and the emails but seeing it live is powerful. I'm glad I was able to be part of the process and see all these educators working together to improve instruction and learning with students. "
Jennifer Dorman, SAD 54 EA, 2015 Maine Teacher of the Year
"The networking has been a positive experience—meeting teachers from across the state who are dealing with things from the profession—there is a lot to be said about this is an experience that can build you up as a professional where there is so much tearing us down. I'll definitely come back!"
Mary Beth Bourgoin, Winslow EA
"I've been a member since I started, but have never been to the RA. I'm glad I came—seeing how it operates—and how the decisions are made has been a positive experience. It's something I can bring back to the membership to let them know their concerns are heard and something is being done about it."
Cortney McCann, Quamphegan EA
"I always thought there was a mystical person to tell our president things, so demystifying that is a really good thing. It's not as intimidating as a lot of people may think it is—it's a bunch of people sitting in a room talking about issues important to education."
Honoring our Colleagues and Supporters
Each year, during the MEA RA, the Association honors its members, and members of the community who are committed to excellence in education. The MEA recognizes educators and members of the community with a series of awards to highlight the positive work done in the name of advocating for our public schools. To see the recent winners, or to nominate someone for an MEA award, visit our awards page.


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Rising health-care costs might be more manageable if selecting the provider for a procedure was a bit more like shopping for groceries, according to one Fitchburg doctor.
When shoppers roll their carts through a supermarket, every price is listed — bananas: 39 cents a pound, a single serving of yogurt: 49 cents — well before the checkout.
But when a patient needs an MRI, a procedure that can be over a thousand times more expensive, the price often isn't accessible or consistent, said Dr. Knute Alfredson, who runs a practice on Main Street.
Alfredson submitted a proposal for a ballot initiative to the state attorney general this summer that he says would make it easier for patients to compare prices on certain medical procedures.
"Consumers are not demanding to know the prices of medical services," Alfredson said. "Are providers tempted to charge more because consumers do not ask the the prices before buying? Of course."
The proposal would require providers of radiology and imaging procedures to post a link to prices on their website's homepage. Eligible procedures include mammograms, CT scans, MRIs, PET scans, nuclear medicine imaging and ultrasounds.
Failure to include the link with rates for both insured and uninsured patients could, after several warnings, result in the provider's license being suspended or revoked, according to the petition.
The proposal comes in the wake of academic and media attention to the cost of medical procedures, which often varies widely among providers.
A March article from the USA TODAY Network reported as much as a $3,200 gap in some states between the median price for MRIs at hospitals and the price at free-standing imaging centers.
In 2016, the Pioneer Institute conducted a survey of 21 Massachusetts hospitals where callers asked for a quote on one type of procedure: an MRI of the left knee without contrast. The undiscounted price ranged from $1,061 to $8,447 with Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston providing the highest quote and Morton Hospital and Medical Center the lowest.
In Worcester, UMass Memorial Medical Center quoted the caller $2,833, undiscounted, or $2,266 if applying the discount provided to patients not using insurance. Saint Vincent Hospital, also in Worcester, offered a discounted price of $2,236.
Though Alfredson said his ballot initiative proposal may be the first of its kind nationwide, a different law with similar goals is already on the books in Massachusetts.
But the same Pioneer Institute study found not all hospitals are in compliance with this law passed in 2012, which requires hospitals, physicians and clinics to provide prices for medical procedures within 48 hours of the request. Of the 21 hospitals surveyed, nine responded within 48 hours or less, according to the report.
Even with this law, Alfredson said many never ask, possibly because there's a level of trust between patients and health care providers, possibly because they don't know the price of MRIs, and even medications, can vary.
"They think that the price is fixed, but the price is variable just like automobile prices from dealer to dealer," he said. "This is an educational process for people living in Massachusetts. They have got to start asking."
At his own practice, patients don't ask either.
"People never ask what I charge," he said. "They feel it would be an insult. I can't explain it."
Ed Roth is a program assistant at the SHINE Program, Serving the Health Insurance Needs of Everyone. The statewide program sends representative to the Fitchburg Senior Center every other week to answer health insurance questions and sign people up for Medicare and Medicaid.
Roth said throughout the state his staff encounters confusion about health care options.
"They don't know anything about it," he said. "They have no idea. … It's absolutely a very confusing process for people."
Roth was not familiar with the proposed ballot initiative but said more information is generally beneficial for the consumer.
However, some people may not be asking about pricing, because they have health insurance that offers a fixed co-pay for these procedures, he said.
"They don't care as long as it's covered by insurance," he said.
Alfredson argues this is a false security that ultimately drives up insurance premiums and deductibles, affecting the consumer.
He said he sees patients with $2,000 deductibles that forgo testing because of the price and others that lose health insurance when they lose their jobs.
Currently, proponents of the initiative are waiting for the attorney general's office to approve the constitutionality of the measure, which Alfredson said he doesn't expect to be an issue, because supermarkets follow a similar law about posting prices.
From there the initiative needs 65,000 signatures to get certified for the 2018 ballot.
Alfredson does not offer radiology procedures at his practice, and none of the roughly 20 people on the committee promoting the initiative are in the field, he said. Most committee members are consumers, according to Alfredson, who added he believes the ballot initiative may not be popular among hospitals.
Michael Sroczynski — vice president for government advocacy at the Massachusetts Hospital Association — said in a statement that while the hospital community has been working to improve price transparency, the information called for by the petition may be confusing for consumers.
"On initial review, this petition appears to require a standard that would only further confuse patients by requiring a posting of information that has no relation to the price that will be paid for the service," he said in an emailed statement.
"The position we ultimately take on the petition is contingent on whether the sought-after mandate actually enhances patient knowledge of service costs without compromising what the state has already achieved in providing meaningful cost information to patients."
Several hospitals in Northern Central Massachusetts and Greater Lowell area did not return a request for comment.
Alfredson said he sees this initiative as the first move toward providing information to patients. The initiative focuses on radiology, but he said there is room for more transparency in pricing in other areas of the medical field.
"We want to just take the first step and get a public discussion going," he said.


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In the Deep End
My older sister, Karen, is a registered nurse who started her career in pediatric oncology. I remember her telling me that at parties nobody wanted to talk to her about her work. People would wrinkle their brow, wave their hand as if to stop her from speaking and say something like, "That is so sad!" as they walked away to find someone with a cheerier vocation to discuss. All these years later, I feel her pain.
When I tell people what I do, I typically get two responses. The first is usually, "That is such a great business to be getting into because the Baby Boomers are getting old," and the second – which comes in quick succession – is, "That must be so depressing!"
I was at dinner the other night with some friends I have known for a long time, but whom I hadn't seen in years. During the course of catching up, they asked about Peters & Love. Their reaction was textbook. They told me what a great idea the business is and then swiftly moved into a lament about how awful it is to think about losing their own parents. I feel their pain, too. Someone brought up the movie Amour, which none of us had seen. (The movie – about an elderly couple coping with strokes and dementia – is on my list.) Almost as swiftly as it was brought up, the idea of actually watching it was dismissed. As one person at the table put it, "That is just too awful and depressing to see. Why would I want to do that to myself?"
A couple weeks later, I was at a party with a bunch of old friends. One of them approached me for some advice about his in-laws. It seems that the time has come for them to move out of the house they have lived in for the past 40 years because it's no longer safe for them to live independently. I began to explain how certain state regulations relate to specific diagnoses, which I thought he would find helpful and relevant – and it may have been, but I could see that the more I spoke, the more tense and irritated he became. I felt his pain. (Whenever I have to deal with something that frustrates or scares me, I get really tense and irritable, too; just ask anyone who has ever lived with me or tried to teach me something about computers.) I backed off and he eventually found a group of people to have a lighter conversation with, which wasn't too difficult, considering that it's hard to get much heavier than discussing loved ones in decline and the sense of powerlessness we all feel in the face of it.
Jill and I often liken the world of senior care to a swimming pool that nobody really wants to swim in. By the time people call us, they are in the deep end – either because they drifted down there or got pushed in. It doesn't matter if you're afraid of the water, don't want to acknowledge the pool, or don't want to think about swimming in it. You will end up in it, guaranteed. Swimming lessons, a flotation device, a good friend, and some sunscreen are advised. And that's how Jill and I help; we get you prepared for diving in, wading in, or even just dangling your feet over the edge.
Perhaps I should just tell people I'm a lifeguard at the community pool.


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Help Keep the Roadmap Up-To-Date!
If you have updated planning information to share, you can either comment on this page or email the Project Coordinator (Peter A. Knoop). Thanks.
Sakai Roadmap
The next major release, Sakai 2.6, is anticipated to include the functionality listed below that is expected to be completed by Code Freeze on or around 29-Sep-2008. A Feature Freeze to help solidify the list of functionality and focus final development efforts will occur two months prior to Code Freeze, on or around 31-Aug-2008.
What's in Sakai 2.6?
Cross-Project Activities
- Internationalization
- Kernel
- A "K1" kernel release that brings all of the current components together in a single place.
- Performance WG
- Implementation of a working, proof-of-concept generic Sakai performance testing environment, including data.
- Establish baseline tests for tools and build a test results library for comparisons among releases.
- Testing
- Implement alternative UX for gateway, my workspace, preferences, membership, and site setup functionality UX Improvement Project's designs.
- General tasks
- Assignments
- Refactoring of db to improve performance; involves moving selected meta data from XML blob into table columns and supporting migration code.
- Support for multiple submissions of an assignment on an assignment-wide basis.
- Support of custom fields for assignments, with the ability to control who can see the field and when they can set it on a field-by-field basis. This addresses several common requirements, including model or example answers, notes to other instructors when collaboratively creating an assignment, a rubric for those grading the assignment, etc.
- Improved integration with Schedule and Announcement; when an assignment opens, expose link to the assignment from schedule and announcement items .
- Blog
- Replaced rendering framework with wicket.
- Improved performance of db layer.
- Email Archive
- Gateway
- Improve performance when there is a significant number of sites.
- Gradebook
- Mailtool
- Major re-write
- Switch presentation technology to RSF from JSF.
- Improvements in recipient selection, email validation, and group awareness.
- Messages
- Enhancements in the areas of Goal Management, Reports, and Matrices.
- Page Order Helper
- Support for page grouping.
- Preferences
- Add property to control which pages are available and in what order, setting the Customize Tabs as the default initial page ( - SAK-6545Getting issue details... STATUS ).
- Provide additional functionality in Tab Management to support moving sites to the absolute top or bottom of the list (i.e., double-arrows) and accommodate multi-item selection and manipulation (i.e., shift- and control- click).
- Schedule
- Tests & Quizzes (a.k.a. Samigo)
- Allow editing a published assessment.
- Ability to release assessments to groups.
- User Membership
- Include the created and last modified date on the screen and in the CSV export.
- Filtering the searching and viewing of users to only those users with the same named usertype(s).
- Worksite Setup/Site Info
- Add option to import and replace content from another site ( - SAK-12433Getting issue details... STATUS )
- Support for creating sites from a template site. The selection of templates presented is based on the site type selected. If a template is selected, then the tool selection and configuration steps for site setup are skipped. The template site would contain tools and possibly content for the tools (e.g., folders, discussion topics, events, announcements) that would be replicated in the new site. Once the site is created, a user can still adjust the tools available via Site Info.
- Support for optional survey questions, defined per site type, that would be presented when that site type is selected during site creation. Data would be stored as site properties, only accessible via SQL. Examples questions might include asking the site creator who they are (e.g., faculty, staff, student) and for what purpose they are creating the site.
- Ability to add multiple chat rooms when adding the Chat Room tool to a site.
- Deep delete of site data before importing content from other sites.
- WYSIWYG Widget (FCKeditor)
- FCKeditor upgrade to version 2.6.2, which brings in bug fixes and better Safari support.
- FCKeditor plug-in to allow users to embed entities.
- Authz
- Calendar
- Add CaldAV support to Sakai's calendar service.
- Cluster
- Component
- Content Hosting Service
- Email
- Refactor email service
- Message
- Portal
- Timeout alert, a popup warning to users before session ends ( - SAK-8152Getting issue details... STATUS )
- Develop an iFrame portlet that will completely replace the tool iFrame; this will eliminate one frame for web content tools.
- Add a new view which allows a tool to request that it be shown maximized and in a frame set rather than an iFrame; helpful for things like publisher content, SCORM players, etc. that already have left-hand buttons and in preventing double scroll-bars.
- Web Services
- Get a list of users in an authzgroup (or site).
- Remove an individual member from a site (acts on Site rather than AuthzGroup).
- Returns title of a site.
- Returns description of a site.
- Returns site joinability.
- Checks if a user exists in an authzgroup (or site).
- Gets XML doc of all users in an authzgroup (or site) with the given role(s), including username, displayname, and role.
- Modifies a site's title value.
- Modifies a site's skin value.
- Modifies a site's joinable value.
- Modifies a site's iconurl value.
- Creates a session for a given user without knowing their password (admins-only, for security reasons).
- Gets the displayname of a given user (the original was session based, this is more flexible).
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These are plans with tentative deliverable targets. See further below for plans that do not yet have an estimated delivery date, and may or may not get completed, depending on interest and available resources.
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Calculating letter grades
(Contrib) Solo (Off-line Sakai)
early 2009
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Indiana, Georgia Tech
Kernel (Framework Services)
mid 2009
A "K2" kernel release that brings all the components of the kernel into a single jar, which will require major re-factoring of the code.
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These are features and functionality that folks are working on (or plan to start work on) for which they do not have a good estimate for completion at this time.
- Future
- Cross-Project Activities
- Accessibility Working Group
- Replace FCK Editor with TinyMCE, which is more accessible than the former, and re-implement customizations (e.g., Resource browsing).
- Help test a frame-less version of Sakai.
- Explore problem with Content iFrames becoming unusable when CSS is disabled.
- Suggest improvements for keyboard-only use of Page Order tool.
- Suggest fixes for unresolved "Accessibility" Jiras.
- Expand accessibility testing to include Tests & Quizzes (Samigo) and OSP (Portfolio) tools.
- Internationalization WG
- Actively looking for volunteers to help address the issue with dynamically localizing page and tool titles. (University of Michigan, Beth Kirschner)
- User Experience Working Group
- Determine where consistency of wording across tools is needed and address it (e.g., - SAK-9410Getting issue details... STATUS : Add and New, - SAK-9678Getting issue details... STATUS Remove and Delete)
- An improved and accessible date/time picker and pager for a consistent user experience across all Sakai tools, regardless of presentation technology. (Fluid)
- Accessibility Working Group
- Tools
- Calendar
- Zimbra calendar integration with Schedule tool. (Georgia Tech)
- Calendar Widget
- Update the calendar widget for Velocity-based tools (e.g., Assignments, Announcements, Schedule) to address internationalization and localization issues and for consistency with calendar widgets used by other presentation technologies elsewhere in Sakai. (University of Michigan, Zhen Qian)
- (Contrib) IMS Tool Interoperability
- Improve IMS Tool Interoperability portlet in concert with the Open University of Catelonia's Open Campus project. (University of Michigan, Charles Severance)
- (Contrib) OpenCast (Berkeley)
- A podcast capture, post-processing, and distribution system that will integrate current technological advancements, such as Apple's Podcast Producer, with existing academic community source frameworks, such as Sakai.
- Worksite Setup/Site Info (University of Michigan, Zhen Qian)
- Support for generic ability to add and configure multiple instances of a tool when adding the tool to a site.
- A tool for generating statistics based on survey questions presented during site creation.
- Solo (Off-line Sakai)
- Ability to work with a local copy of Sakai (i.e., on your laptop, disconnected from the network) and sync between the local copy and your Sakai installation.
- Calendar
- Framework and Services
- Cluster Service
- Portal
- When the 2.5 portal solidifies, create post-2.3 and post-2.4 branches to offer its functionality to those running Sakai 2.3 and 2.4. (University of Michigan, Charles Severance)
- Site Hierarchy (Oxford)
- A service that allows sites to be arranged into a hierarchy (sites can exist at multiple nodes in a hierarchy or be their own single-point hierarchy) and manages the permissions on creation/updating the hierarchy.
- A set of tools that allow you to manage a hierarchy of sites.
- Development of a helper tool versions of SiteSetup (Site Info, Worksite Setup) and the site browser so that they can easily be embedded in a workflow.
- A custom portal handler to support the /hierarchy namespace.
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Introduction: WATERMELON & CHERVIL TORTE
A torte a rich, usually a multilayer cake that is filled with whipped cream, butter-creams, mousses, jams, or fruits and usually garnished. This torte is made with a fun, homemade whip cream filling between layers of WATERMELON & CHERVIL crepes! Bacon was added to give this torte an additional savory twist.
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Step 1: INGREDIENTS for Filling
Watermelon - 2 cups - small pieces - to be used for filling
Chervil - fresh- 1/4 cup
1 pint of Heavy Whipping cream
1 box of instant vanilla pudding
1 - 8 oz package of cream cheese - room temperature
8 - pieces of ready to eat-fully cooked bacon
Step 2: DIRECTIONS for TORTE Filling
In a large bowl pour the 1 pint of Heavy Whipping cream. With a hand mixer, mix until the whipping cream is stiff. Place this stiff whipped cream in freezer until you are ready to add it back in at the end of this step.
In another large bowl place the 2 cups of the small pieces of watermelon, the fresh Chervil, the cream cheese that is room temperature and the 8 - pieces of ready to eat-fully cooked bacon. Using a hand blender or a regular blender, mix on high. Add the 1 box of instant vanilla pudding and continue blending until it starts getting firm. Now its ready for the homemade whipped cream to be added back and gently mixed. This is now your filling for each layer and covering for outside of TORTE. You can place this into freezer until ready to use.
Step 3: INGREDIENTS for the CREPE Layers of Torte
Watermelon - 1 1/2 cups- pureed
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
3 eggs
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
CHERVIL - fresh- 1/4 cup
1/8 teaspoon salt
Step 4: DIRECTIONS for CREPES of TORTE
Put all ingredients into BLENDER, cover and blend on HI until smooth. Batter can be made in advance and stored in refrigerator for up to 2 days. When ready to use mix, stir again because the chervil will settle to bottom.
I used a crepe maker but you can use a small skillet. If using a crepe maker just follow product instructions. Mine heats up within 3 minutes and each crepe cooks fast because they a just like thin pancakes. I put my mix in a shallow glass pie pan.
If using a skillet, heat the skillet and coat skillet with a small amount of butter or non-stick spray. Use about 2 tablespoons of batter per crepe, tilt skillet to coat evenly in very thin layer. Cook over medium heat until bottom is brown.
These stack nicely and do not stick together.
Yields about 2 dozen crepes.
Step 5: DIRECTIONS FOR Assembling the WATERMELON & CHERVIL TORTE
On a cake plate place a small amount of filling in center and place a WATERMELON & CHERVIL crepe on top of filling. On top of this filling place another crepe. Repeat with crepe, filling, crepe, filling until you have just enough filling to cover all sides and top of torte. It will look like a cake with frosting. I added watermelon stars for garnish and for additional sweetness because the bacon presents a savory side.
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We are a technology company that is entering a hyper growth mode. We are in the process of hiring a number of new employees and want to be able to reinforce and educate the culture of our team. We are looking for great design that will get the message accross but that our employees will wear as well.
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Deep Encounters with Religious Groups
In efforts to get inside the fold, reporters have fellow-traveled with religious groups, posing as members or prospective recruits.
Articles, Books, Video/Film
Kevin Roose's "The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University"2009
"Church and State: American Rapture" - Craig Unger - Vanity Fair | Best-selling author and evangelical leader Tim LaHaye has contacts that extend to the White House. That could spell trouble, since his theology espouses a bloody apocalypse in Israel.December 1, 2005
Criag Unger joined a tour of the Holy Land with Tim LaHaye, co-author of the Left Behind series. While not posing ...
"The Fool on the Hill" - Craig Unger - Huffington PostDecember 13, 2007
Unger describes his reporting methods for his book, The Fall of the House of Bush, which looks at the followers of ...
Jeff Sharlet's "The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power"2008
Matt Taibbi's "The Great Derangement" (Chapter Three)2008
"Jesus Made Me Puke and Other Tales From the Evangelical Front Lines" - Matt Taibbi - Rolling StoneMay 1, 2008
The article is also Chapter Three of Taibbi's book, "The Great Derangement" (see page)
Craig Unger's "The Fall of the House of Bush: The Untold Story of How a Band of True Believers Seized the Executive Branch, Started the Iraq War, and Still Imperils America's Future"2007
"A California Teenager Goes Undercover to Investigate Life Among the Moonies" - Scott Keeler - People MagazineJuly 24, 1978
Editor's precede: "Growing up in the San Francisco Bay area, Scott Keeler, 18, knew what every other teenager knew. ...
"Jesus Plus Nothing: Undercover Among America's Secret Theocrats" - Jeff Sharlet - Harper'sMarch 1, 2003
Sharlet moves in to Ivanwald to live among the theocratic elite of Washington.
"Frat House for Jesus" - Peter J. Boyer - The New Yorker | The Entity Behind C StreetSeptember 13, 2010
Peter J. Boyer reveals the inside workings of the C Street house.
"The Best Little Hell House in Texas" - Vice - Harmon LeonOctober 31, 2013
Leon volunteers at an evangelical Christian haunted house in Cedar Hill, Texas, designed to frighten teenagers out ...
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(Here's Patty and our good friend Sandi taken during the summer of 2008)
Well today is the day for Patty's second chemo infusion. Only four more after today. These past three weeks have been a learning experience for both of us. Patty's been taking notes every day since the last treatment to keep a record of how she was feeling… what foods tasted good to her etc. We have a record, but we're hearing that the outcome of each treatment is different. We'll soon find out.
Food was an issue during the first two weeks following the last treatment. We've read and heard that you'll have this metalic taste in your mouth following treatment. Patty says that's not true. She says everything taste like cardboard with a little wallpaper glue aftertaste! Not good at all. She craved certain foods, but nothing tasted good to her. Bread taste the same as meat, which taste the same as broccoli, which taste the same as turkey, which taste the same as Cherios, which taste the same as pasta… then if you add cheese or butter to the mix? It comes out of her mouth as fast as it went in! Not good at all! As long as I've known Patty, she's never been a big fan of rice. Suddenly, rice is her best friend during chemo! Just plain white rice. No butter, no nothng. (Don't tell her but I make it with either chicken broth or vegetable broth hoping it gives her some nutrients!) It seems to work for her. We did realize that her "taster" slowly came back after two weeks so she's been eating pretty well this past week.
Nauesa? She experience a little nausea during the first couple of weeks. The doctors pump her full of nausea medication the day before, day of and a few days following her infusion. It seemed to get a handle on it. Then if she had any feelings of nausea coming on she had med's she could take. Overall she did really well.
Fatigue? Tons! We found the first three days following her infusion were really good. No fatigue whatsoever. In fact she was on the treadmill those days. But the fourth day??? Wham! It hit and lasted pretty strong for 4 days. I'm sure we can expect the same this time, probably more. The doctor and nurses have said the chemo is a cumulative thing where the side effects lengthen after each infusion. We'll just have to wait and see. A friend of ours who is currently going through her 2nd round of chemo told us that her first infusion was the worst and subsequent ones have not been bad at all. Everyone is different.
Patty had her bloodwork done yesterday. This is to test her white cell count to make sure it's back up to normal. Chemo has a tendency to kill off white blood cells which are the cells that fight off infection etc. Hopefully those white cells have regenerated. If so, we're on for chemo today. If not, they'll have to postpone it for a week. We meet with the Oncologist today at 11:45 a.m. to find out. Hopefully it's a "Go!" We don't want to delay any of this chemo. Let's do it and get it overwith! Chemo is tentatively scheduled for today at 1:00 p.m.
Bottom line… We've learned from this last infusion that the side effects are pretty strong for the first two weeks. She's pretty much back to normal the third week. Not much fatigue, no nausea and food taste good! Overall she is doing well. Just in time to do it all over again!


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5 Oil Executives appeared before the Senate Finance Committee to explain why they still want $2.1 billion/year subsidies from the U.S. government. This does not make sense since in 2005 when oil was $55/barrel, the oil executives said they did not need the subsidies anymore.
Rachel Maddow on Big Oil Executives Subsidies
OK So now it is 2011 and oil is $100/barrel and gas at $4 to $4.50/gallon around the U.S. Oil profits are at an all time high. Why oh why do these oil guys need their subsidies which could be spent on education or to help people who really need it?
Maybe they are addicted to the subsidies like America is still addicted to oil. Why should we feed their addiction, wouldn't that make us co-dependent?
Anyway, as Senator Jay Rockefeller said in the hearing,
"How much profit on a barrel of oil do you have to make to not be needful of these subsidies that we think you don't need, but you say your life depends on?"
"At some point, you know, you wouldn't need the subsidies. I think you're there already, but you don't. So at what point do you think that you don't need these subsidies?"
Then Chevron's Chief Executive, James Watson, tried to reframe the debate to make it sound like whatever the government is giving the oil companies, it isn't a subsidy. Oh, really.
Chevron Chief Executive James Watson receives at least $5.5 million/year in pay. At the Senate Finance Committee hearing in response to Senator Jay Rockefeller's questions Watson said:
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Wow, oh wowie, that statement is soooo full of kitty litter and Senator Rockefeller let this guy know he thought the statement was ridiculous when Rockefeller cut the oil guy off and said:
"Oh, that's a lovely statement, but do you understand how out of touch that is? I think you're out of touch–Deeply, profoundly out of touch, and deeply and profoundly committed to sharing nothing!"
Thank you Senator Jay Rockefeller. Now if only you could help Senator Orrin Hatch get his facts straight. Even though the oil companies are making sooo much profit since 2005 the more profits they receive the more jobs they cut.
As Rachel Maddow clearly pointed out on her recent program, oil companies are making record profits and not creating jobs. How much profit do they have to make to bring more jobs to American shores?
Senator Robert Menendez co-sponsored the bill that would repeal oil company subsidies and asked CEO Mr. James Mulva of ConocoPhillips if he was accusing Senators of being unamerican for questioning the oil companies insistence on continued subsidies. Menendez said that the oil companies are making $125 billion in profits this year and they can afford to receive $123 billion without the subsidies.


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Formerly already the Associate Producer of the The Bread & Roses Theatre since 2016, Velenzia will be programming the theatre's main seasons from December 2018 on. A director, producer and actor, she has over ten years experience both on and off stage and is also a co-founder of all-female theatre company Get Over It Productions. Notable work includes 'The Balcony' (The Bread & Roses Theatre), 'Britain's Got Fashion' (The Cockpit), 'Us' (SLAM Kings Cross), 'dirty butterfly' (The Bread & Roses Theatre) and Macbeth (The Roundhouse).
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The Bread & Roses Theatre is a 40- to 60-seat innovative fringe venue developed since 2012 and officially launched in November 2014 by Rebecca Pryle and Tessa Hart, located above The Bread & Roses Pub in Clapham. Artistic quality, equality and diversity are at the forefront of the theatre's programming, which features visiting companies as well as in-house productions, with a focus on new writing, underrepresented voices and distinctive work. Having seen over 35,000 audience members through its doors to date, the theatre has worked with award-winning ensembles with decades of experience but also frequently welcomes emerging companies taking their first steps and supports theatre-makers by providing box office split deals with no hidden fees. In every full year of its existence the theatre has been a recipient of the ICWP 50/50 Applause Award for Theatre Gender Parity and the press has described it as 'one of the most exciting ones amongst the London pub theatres' (RemoteGoat), 'an extremely ethical organisation' (London Pub Theatres Magazine), and 'a new wave of venues (....) – all on the sort of sweetheart deals of old.' (The Guardian).
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Fife Voluntary Action - Team Experience CoordinatorCreated: 18/10/2018
Post Title: Team Experience Coordinator
Hours: 4 hours per week, fixed term funded initially to March 2019
Salary: £8.75 plus 7% non-contributory pension
Location: Glenrothes
Reporting to: Employability Development Manager
Main Purpose of Post
The successful applicant will work with Team Experience as part of the Delivering Differently project. Team Experience is a group of people who have lived experience of mental health conditions who have an active voice in shaping the work and findings of the Delivering Differently programme.
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Please e-mail completed applications to [email protected].
Send completed and signed applications (marked as private and confidential) to: CEO, Fife Voluntary Action, Craig Mitchell House, Flemington Road, Glenrothes, KY7 5QF.
Closing date for all applications is Wednesday 07 November 2018.
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