In addition to this there may be five or six members of the first team squad who were available but not selected for the team. What does he do to help these improve?
Finding time for this group is tough, especially if they've been to play on loan at another club. When does he watch their performance? What about those who are out injured? How does he inform or educate those whilst they are recovering from injury?
Most Head Coaches have never employed people before and are expected to have the skills to do this when they are given the job by the Club. Getting all of the staff pulling in the same direction, agreeing to one way of working is a lot easier than it sounds. Trust me, I know from the experience I had as Chief Executive of Wigan some time ago.
Most coaches tell me that the greatest way to improve a player is to give him one to one feedback. The coach will then be required to spend some time watching the good and the bad from the last match. Ideally a coach would do this with all 17 who were selected, but if we say that 15 mins with each player is a reasonable tutorial, you can soon work it out. It would take about four to five hours for the coach to do the whole team.
Head coaches are better deployed when they are focussed on servicing or coordinating all the actual training on field needs of teams or players rather than getting stuck bogged down in what is essentially administrative or media issues etc., which are better covered by a Team Manager/equivalent position.
FeedbackWell, let's start with the match. He goes to a first team game in the season and watches his team play. At the end of the game he will assess the injuries, be expected to attend a press conference and possibly mix with club sponsors. If he has time, he might just see his own family at the end of this.
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was a man called Graham Lowe. Wigan brought him over from New Zealand in 1986 and he was employed solely as a rugby coach. Up until that point, all of the coaches in this country had other jobs as well. Their work in rugby league was on a part time basis, with the players training after they had finished their day jobs. This started to change at Wigan by the late 1980's and the role of coach changed as a result.
We take a strange fascination in the torture that he seems to endure without anyone laying a finger on him, when his team miss a chance to score or concede another embarrassing try. It's as though it is all his fault. We're guilty in the media of giving him too much credit when his team win and too much blame when the team lose.
Imagine then trying to find the time to watch the opposition that you are playing, attend your own second team matches and conversing with your club owner and Board of Directors. Several coaches that I know also spend a lot of their time talking with agents about signing players for next season.
I would be fascinated to read the detailed job descriptions of the 14 Super League Coaches. What do they expect the Head Coach to do? What does the Coach himself expect to do? Is he responsible for the First Team only? Or should he be coaching the coaches of the teams below him as well? How much of his time do a club expect him to spend on recruitment? How much of his time do a club expect him to spend on non rugby issues? Does any club ever measure this? Does a Coach ever monitor it?
The club will also expect the Head Coach to attend some club functions and sponsors evenings and be present at one or two community events.
Nowadays, every Super League club has what they call a Under Armour Shoes Kuwait 'Head Coach'. Most have at least one assistant coach, one fitness team trainer (strength and conditioning coach or sports scientist) and one physiotherapist. Many have full time analysts, some have part time psychologists.
ToneA rugby team will always spend some time out on a rugby field and the Coach needs to be there, for at least some of it. Even when he's not delivering the session, his presence very often sets the tone. He needs to observe the attitude and application in preparation. In reality, this is where the coach does his work. It's effectively all over by Game Day.
Occasionally they are asked for their input into new facilities that the club wish to build. The design and build of new training facilities could be one such example. It all takes the most important thing in the world, TIME. Continuous Professional Development. A day visit to the English Hockey HQ or a Premiership Football Club to analyse what they're doing to improve performance is an idealistic dream to many coaches, but a necessity in many other walks of life.
Witnessing him sitting through the highs and lows of his team's performance can be almost as interesting as watching his team play.
for clubs to look at what they expect from a 'Head Coach'.
hearings on a Thursday) you start to see that what used to be an enjoyable passion for part time coaches when I was a young boy has now become a hectic week which needs planning like a Moon Landing.
EvolvedAs the sport of rugby league has evolved over the last 30 years I thought that it was interesting to look at how the role of the coach has changed.
CrisisFrustratingly, most of their time is often taken up by player crisis management. Divorce, separation or arrests can easily side track a coach from the work he had planned. I've even known some coaches have to go to the airport to collect a player who is flying in from Australia.
In an effective organizational structure, the efficient distrubution breakdown of labour the actual tasks being performed by their team members or staff, usually make the difference between long term ( short intermediate term also!) success or failure in any club, sport, enterprise or institution efforts results.
The Head Coach is now responsible for a team of staff beneath him and is in many ways employing them indirectly. He oversees what they do and needs to ensure that they are motivated and challenged in their working day. I'll come back to this point later, but let's look at what else we expect the Head Coach to do in a typical week.
At some stage after the game he will deliver a review of the team's performance to the team. To do this, he needs to watch the game again, at least once, which will take a few hours. Some coaches review the game in microscopic detail, which takes considerably longer.
Even if he is able to work a 50 or 60 hour week, which I know that many may do, how do you get the best value from him?


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The Automotive Technology program was full at the time, but Bryan found a spot in the Motorcycle and Small Engine Technology program instead. It turned out to be a good fit for him.
After just one year in the program Bryan went on to earn gold medals at both the state and national SkillsUSA competitions for Motorcycle Services Technology. An impressive feat for anyone, much less a one-year student.
The two-day national competition included two written tests, an interview, and a hands-on portion where contestants had to put together an engine in two hours. Bryan assembled his in just one hour and four minutes.
Bryan now attends Ranken Technical College on a scholarship he earned due in large part to his success on the national stage. He also came home with a large collection of prizes for his gold medal, including Snap-On tools, $750 worth of Carhart clothing, Irwin Tools and numerous other scholarship offers.
But one prize literally outweighs them all—a new Harley-Davidson donated to South Tech's motorcycle program for future students to use as a learning tool.
And it's a good thing they were.
Nathan Comerio, also from South Tech, earned a silver medal in the Welding Art Sculpture contest. Along with his medal, he was awarded a new welder along with other prizes. Nathan is a senior this year and plans to attend Tulsa Welding School after graduation.


I still remember the first time I tried to start running every morning. I set up my alarm earlier than normal, went to bed at a reasonable hour, and fell asleep full of confidence that tomorrow, I'll finally get myself back in shape.
6AM, my phone rings. It's the crack of dawn, and still rather cold outside. My running shoes are in the closet, water bottle empty, and I can't even beginning to remember where I left my keys last evening.
Not surprisingly, I never got myself to the track that morning. There were just too many obstacles to get myself going.
Today, when I decide to run next morning, I place my running shoes and track suit next to the bed, fill up my bottle in the evening, and get everything else ready so I can jump up and leave in under a minute. When I'm abroad, I also try to live next to a park or sports ground, lest I have one more excuse to stay at home.
This brings me to one simple trick that can make all the difference when you try to instill a new routine: You need to change your surroundings to remove all unnecessary effort needed to start the habit.
One of the biggest obstacles there are, and one we rarely think about, is the need to make a decision about what we're going to do next.
I'm trying to get fit, but which of the dozen body weight exercises should I do right now? I want to learn Japanese, but do I start by reviewing my vocab, or dive straight into shadowing? The more decisions we have to make each study session, the sooner decision fatigue kicks in, and the more likely we'll give up altogether.
To avoid this effect, take a few hours of conscious thought and research to decide on a set of activities, schedule them on your calendar, and stick to your study plan until there's a clear reason to adapt it. (such as when your goals or proficiency level change substantially).
Now that you have a clear schedule, prepare everything you'll need to achieve your plan the day before.
French chefs have a special term called "mise-en-place." Literally "putting in place," it refers to arranging all ingredients that a cook will require for the menu items that are expected to be prepared during a shift. This is as effective for learning, as it is in Michelin-starred restaurants!
If you have vocab review scheduled for the morning, open LinguaLift or Anki so that it's front and center when you wake up your computer the next day. If you plan to update your post-it notes, place the pen and stickers on your desk. If you want to practice listening, make sure to choose and download the podcast in advance.
Everything you need to start your study session should be ready and right in front of you when the time comes to start learning.
Getting things ready in advance sounds easy, but life gets in the way. Stuff literally piles up on top of your post-it notes and textbooks, and learning websites get buried amid a myriad of other tabs.
The best way to get your study habits back on track is to create a learning space where you can escape from the daily grind and distractions.
As I suggested in the 60-second hacks to stay focused on learning, for your virtual world, the best approach is to create a virtual desktop, and move over all that's related to your language learning. Anki, dictionary apps, PDFs—they all should be in a place of their own.
In the real world, things can be a little bit more complicated. If you have a large house or apartment, I recommend to go as far as to dedicate an entire room you don't normally use too much to language learning. This will instantly put you in study mode when you enter it, and give you ample space to store everything you might need.
If you live in a studio, try to reserve a small table, or at least an armchair for your learning, or better yet, find a cozy neighbourhood cafe. There's ample research that moving away from where you sleep is beneficial for work and study, and this will also remove the need for artificial background noise.
No matter how much you prepare, some burdens are inevitable. You can't go running without putting your shoes on, and neither can you understand the next chapter of your graded reader without learning the vocab it contains.
The good news is that these obstacles too can be made effortless—you just need to make them one of your daily habits.
Don't attempt a marathon right away. Start by putting your sneakers every morning, without crossing the doorstep. Once that becomes a habit, move on to 15-minute strolls.
Similarly, don't burn out by attempting to read a whole newspaper in your target language. Start by browsing through the illustrations every morning, move on to deciphering a few headlines, and eventually entire paragraphs.
The key is to make every obstacle its own tiny habit, so they no longer stop you from getting into real learning.
Building new learning habits can be hard, but it doesn't have to be if you approach the task with a clear plan.
Choose one tiny learning habit for tomorrow, and think how you can minimize all obstacles that could stop you in your tracks.
With just 5 minutes of preparation, the chances that you'll actually perform the tiny habit and stick to it in the long term will go through the roof.


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Approaches to linear local gauge-invariant observables in inflationary cosmologies
Markus Benjamin Fröb, Thomas-Paul Hack, Igor Khavkine
We review and relate two recent complementary constructions of linear local gauge-invariant observables for cosmological perturbations in generic spatially flat single-field inflationary cosmologies. After briefly discussing their physical significance, we give explicit, covariant and mutually invertible transformations between the two sets of observables, thus resolving any doubts about their equivalence. In this way, we get a geometric interpretation and show the completeness of both sets of observables, while previously each of these properties was available only for one of them.
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Perennial power: calling forth life
by Virginia DeVinne
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As I write this, my congregation, the Ursuline Sisters of Cleveland, is building a new, smaller residence to replace a sprawling motherhouse that is being sold along with part of our property.
We have not received a postulant in many years. Our median age is 76. "Coming to completion" has appeared recently as a description of this time in which we, along with many other small congregations of women religious in the U.S., find ourselves. As I wrestle with this phrase, it calls to my mind a future in which we can all gratefully "rest in peace" as our congregation's story reaches its foregone conclusion.
I find more appealing words in the LCWR presidential address "The Future Enters Us Long Before It Happens," given by St. Joseph Sr. Mary Pellegrino on Aug. 10, 2017. She offers a language that speaks to my heart, words that give me hope for a future yet unknown, but one that enlivens my spirit.
She identified a "narrative of deepening communion" to be emerging as today's story of vowed women religious. This new narrative, which she posits is replacing the "diminishment narrative," is energizing for me, as I prepare to celebrate my golden jubilee later this year. To embrace deeper communion is language that resonates with my own experience of God's call.
Lest you think I keep company with the ostrich, I am well aware of demographics and sobering projections regarding the future of religious congregations; however, I prefer to actively name my congregation's narrative to be that of deepening communion, even as we age.
Language is powerful in its ability to shape our perspective. How we name our reality can, to some extent, lead us to very different conclusions. Even when described in the context of the paschal mystery, if the narrative we tell ourselves and others is a story of gradually dying out, then there's the distinct possibility we will simply resign ourselves to accept this type of future, albeit with the best of intentions.
If we choose a diminishment narrative, we run the unnecessary risk of closing in on ourselves, becoming preoccupied with protecting ourselves and our assets, expecting leadership to reassure us that we will be taken care of until the last sister dies. Settling into a more or less comfortable state of awaiting the end, we can be tempted to lose connection with the dynamism of our original call to the vowed life.
Being attentive to, embracing, deepening communion is of critical importance as we seek to follow Jesus, who reverenced all as one. "Embracing" is a warm, inviting, active verb that reaches out and presumes an attitude of openness to its object. It connotes an experience of spaciousness.
Isn't the phrase "deepening communion" more powerful and stirring than "coming to completion"? Aren't we living into a growing awareness today that our evolutionary universe is being attracted to ever greater union with an expansive God?
The women and men who founded our congregations possessed hearts on fire. In 1535, when she was in her 60s, St. Angela Merici, founder of the Company of St. Ursula, encouraged her sisters, "Do something, get moving, be confident, risk new things, stick with it, then be ready for big surprises" (as translated by Ursuline Sr. Terry Eppridge).
This contemporary translation of her writings underscores her action-oriented and faith-filled spirituality. I believe her challenge continually reminds us of the critical importance of keeping our focus on continuing to "be alive," so as to be of service.
"Coming to completion" would never have been her vocabulary of choice, but it is this language that identifies the current obsession with youth in the U.S. Those over 70 are old, near the end, and presumably already have one foot in the grave.
In a Washington Post article by Laura Carstensen, "In search of a word that won't offend 'old' people," we are offered a refreshing descriptor, "perennials," which she borrows from Maureen Conners.
This powerful language upends our thinking as it recalls memories of brightly hued flowers, reliably returning each spring. Life is ongoing, unfolding, ever new.
Isn't this the narrative of religious life that enlivens, a narrative we can joyfully author, the narrative of perennials, never coming to completion, always embracing a future that calls us to be one?
[Sr. Virginia DeVinne has served as general superior of the Ursuline Sisters of Cleveland. Her present ministry as associate director of advising is focused on supporting students as they transition to higher education at Ursuline College.]
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The Comedy Store Strike of 1979: Comics On the Picket Line
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Welcome to ComedyNerd, Cracked's daily comedy superstore. For more ComedyNerd content, and ongoing coverage of Pauly Shore's role in the Iran/Contra Affair, please sign up for the ComedyNerd newsletter below.
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Content Warning: The following includes discussion of a suicide.
If you're a famous comedian, you're going to get paid.
In 2019 alone, extremely pale comic Jim Gaffigan took in $30 million bucks. Jerry Seinfeld made $41 million. Kevin Hart topped them all with a wallet-busting $59 million. For Pete's sake, two ventriloquists -- Jeff Dunham and Terry Fator -- each made at least 15 mil.
Today, even your local comics working the emcee spot get a little piece of the action. But that wasn't always the case. In fact, it used to be common for comedians to be paid nothing at all. Like the ugliest parts of the Instagram economy, stand-ups were often expected to perform for compensation that never pays the rent: exposure.
But that all changed in 1979, the year comedians went on strike.
Like A Kid In A Comedy Store
Except for the not-getting-paid part, the 1970s were an amazing time to be an up-and-coming comic in Los Angeles.
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If Mitzi wasn't making a profit, why did she call it a store?
Carson moved his Tonight Show to Burbank, meaning a good set at a local club could magically lead to a slot on Thursday night's show. So if you killed at the Comedy Store, one of Los Angeles' most popular new comedy venues, you could soon be Freddie Prinze, who parlayed stage appearances to Carson spots, a sitcom, and superstardom. Same for Store regular Jimmie J.J. Walker. David Letterman seemingly moved overnight from Comedy Store sets to filling in for Carson as Tonight Show host.
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Sure, she provided laughs, but she also gave up Pauly Shore.
There was only one problem: Comedy Store owner Mitzi Shore viewed her venue as some sort of comedy college, a place to learn one's comic craft. And colleges don't pay their students (unless they're sports people). Shore provided stage time for both fledgling and established comedians. The compensation was the chance to become the next Richard Pryor, Robin Williams, or Jay Leno, all Comedy Store regulars.
In the club's early days, maybe stage time was enough. Everyone was struggling, but it was a damn good time. Comedy clubs were a relatively new deal -- Mitzi was trying to figure out how to make it work just like the comics. Camaraderie was high, as was most of the wait staff. But then something shifted. The Comedy Store became an L.A. hot spot and Shore started making major cash.
Mitzi got the cover charge. Mitzi got the proceeds from the two-drink minimum. Whispers around the club said she was making regular $20,000 deposits at the bank. And still, she refused to pay comedians -- not even a few bucks for beer.
That's when comics got together to demand change, according to William Knoedelseder in his book I'm Dying Up Here: Heartbreak and High Times in Stand-Up Comedy's Golden Era.
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Huge collars aren't going to pay for themselves, folks.
Their reluctant ringleader was Tom Dreesen, an established comic who did regular appearances on Carson and in Vegas. The Chicago-born Dreesen was doing all right for himself -- he'd just purchased a silver Eldorado, for Pete's sake. But he was dismayed by instances like when he ran into a fellow comedian after a Comedy Store set. "(The comic) said, it was fantastic, I killed 'em, had the best show I ever had. And then he said, 'Tom, can you loan me five dollars for breakfast?'"
So Dreesen and a few other established comics approached Shore about some kind of nominal compensation, a small stipend that would acknowledge that comics were professionals. "Believe it or not," Dreesen argued, "for some of these kids, $20 or $30 a week would make all the difference."
The initial proposals were pretty darn modest, ranging from $5-per-set for gas money to all comics performing on a given night splitting half of the cover charge.
Shore's response could be summed up in a word: Nope. The comedians had the Comedy Store all wrong. It wasn't a profitable nightclub, it was a training ground. And she wasn't going to pay amateurs to learn their craft.
But Shore did pay the wait staff, the bartenders, the people who cleaned the toilets, Dreesen countered. And people weren't paying a cover charge to see the sparkling porcelain.
"People don't come to see the comics," Mitzi said. "They come to see the Store. It's famous."
Dreesen said the comics were the ones who made it famous.
"People come for the ambiance."
"Then don't put on any comics one night and see how long they stay."
Comedians For Compensation
The comics had no choice but to get organized -- Mitzi's hard-line stance united comics like Dreesen, Leno, George Miller, and Elayne Boosler. Initial meetings found the comics two-to-one in favor of getting paid. Something. Anything.
They named their group Comedians for Compensation (CFC). They weren't employees so it wasn't a union, but it was an organized effort. Attorney Mark Lonow (Letterman's lawyer, recommended by Carson) agreed to help out, letting everyone know that at some point they'd have to agree to work for free forever -- or walk out.
Could they stick together? Comics like Jimmie Walker and Robin Williams didn't want to go up against Mitzi but they agreed not to cross a picket line.
One unlikely comic voiced his support in a telegram to Dreesen:
Dear Tom, So glad you've arrived. Have cue cards man who does great picket signs. Congratulations, and go get 'em
That was from Bob Hope.
Paul Mooney shared a similar message from another comedy icon:
To the comics of the newly formed comedy union, I write these words of support because I believe your cause to be just and wholly within the concept of management and labor. It is not only immoral to work for nothing, it is also illegal. Slavery was banned with the signing of the emancipation proclamation over one century ago. I believe it is within the artist's rights and privileges to receive proper compensation for his or her efforts. I want you to know I would honor your picket lines if need be. I am sure that most fair-minded artists in the community would be supportive of you also.
With public support building, Mitzi finally agreed to pay -- but only the headliners. That idea was a no-go. After all, it was the newer comics who needed the cash.
More negotiations meant more dead ends. Dreesen woke up one night with a brilliant idea, one he couldn't believe he hadn't thought of before. He pitched it to Mitzi: Just add $1 to the cover and give it to the comics. It will cost you nothing!
"No, Tommy. Like I keep telling you, the Store is a workshop and in that environment, the comics don't deserve to get paid."
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An early edition of JayWalking featured Leno in a tank.
With picket signs bearing terrible jokes like "No Bucks No Yucks," comics began picketing the Comedy Store. Comedians like George Carlin contributed to the strike fund. On the first night, Jay Leno even showed up in a tank. He was being funny but also sending a message: This means war.
Mitzi Shore couldn't believe her children (and that's absolutely how she saw "her" comics) were turning on her. She closed the Comedy Store for a week, then reopened with virtual amateurs playing to rooms that were only 25% full.
For the most part, the bigger names stayed off the picket line but that changed the night David Letterman decided to walk the picket line. The shock of seeing Letterman carrying a protest sign was enough to persuade Mitzi to make an offer: $25 per set except for Tuesday through Thursday nights, which would feature "beginners" who would work for free. Established names would get even more for playing the bigger rooms.
But the comics once again rejected the offer. No one works for free. More proposals went back and forth, but nothing worked for both sides.
So what finally brought about an agreement? It took Jay Leno getting hit by a car.
Biff Manard was a Mitzi loyalist, one of the few comics still performing at the club. One night, he made a speech to AFTRA to get the group's support for Mitzi Shore, but saying "artists don't deserve to get paid" didn't go over well with an actors' union. Knowing he'd blown it, he motored away from the meeting in a huff.
Manard drove like a demon back to the Comedy Store, screeched into the parking lot, and veered toward attorney Lonow and Jay Leno. The two jumped out of the way, but there was a loud THUMP and Leno crumpled to the pavement. Manard freaked out, running inside the club to confess his sin.
Leno for his part was moaning on the ground. Dreesen knelt next to him, afraid his pal was badly hurt. "Jay, can you hear me?"
Leno opened one eye and winked.
Lonow, thinking like an attorney, cautioned Dreesen not to let everyone in on the joke, not yet anyway, explaining that employers were liable when a picketer is injured on the line. The gambit worked, they had 'leverage' -- Mitzi found Dreesen immediately and said "Let's settle this now."
It took all night, but by 5 a.m., they had signed an agreement: Comics would get half the door in the Main Room, and $25 per set in other rooms. The funny folks were finally getting paid.
Nice Guys Do Finish Last
But it didn't take long for the deal to crumble. The contract stipulated that Mitzi wouldn't retaliate against the performers who'd organized the protests, but that's exactly what she did. If you were on CFC's executive committee -- even former headliners like Miller or Boosler -- time slots at the Store were no longer available.
For bigger comics, that was aggravating. For struggling comedians like Steve Lubetkin, it was career-threatening. Before the strike, Lubetkin felt like he was on the verge of headliner status. But now his mental state declined as he found himself blackballed and broke.
On Friday, June 1, at approximately 6:40 p.m., Lubetkin threw himself from the roof of an apartment building across the street from the Comedy Store.
Paramedics were unable to revive him. Police investigators found a handwritten note in his left hip pocket. The note began:
My name is Steve Lubetkin. I used to work at the Comedy Store. Maybe this will help to bring about fairness.
The note continues with words of love to his family and friends. Then he concluded:
To the CFC—I guess nice guys do finish last.
To the world—Fairness, fairness, fairness, please, before it's too late.
To all comedians—Unite, it's in your best interest.
No revenge, please, only love.
Bohemia Became Bottom Line
Even the Lubetkin tragedy didn't end the struggles. More terms of the contract weren't honored. As some comedians got paid more than others, the unity among performers fractured and a common goal wasn't as easy to agree upon.
According to some comics, the protests ended L.A.'s golden era of comedian camaraderie.
"The strike changed Mitzi forever," says the Comedy Store's website. "The strike turned Mitzi into a driven businesswoman, and an era had passed into history, a happy-go-lucky partying era known as the late 70's in Los Angeles. It would be business from now on. Bohemia became Bottom Line."
But the comedians have no regrets.
"We had to have that negotiation," says comic Byron Allen in Showtime's documentary The Comedy Store. "And we achieved what we needed to achieve."
"If you look around the United States now," says Letterman, "there's not a club where comics are working free."
Top image: Sunlight Productions
Related: Is Asking 'Is PC Culture Killing Comedy?' Killing Comedy?


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Timberland employees volunteer in Manchester
Annual Serv-a-palooza marks its 16th year
Updated: 11:45 AM EDT Sep 19, 2013
Andy Hershberger
WMUR/Andy Hershberger SOURCE: WMUR/Andy Hershberger
About 300 Timberland employees were in Manchester on Thursday as part of the company's annual Serv-a-palooza.This is the 16th year that company employees have volunteered for service projects.In Manchester, about 300 volunteers were painting, cleaning and doing other jobs at two elementary schools and the Manchester Police Athletic League Michael Briggs Community Center.Every year, the company shuts down for a day so its workers can go out and do community service.About 3,500 people do projects worldwide as part of the initiative.Organizers said it's just part of their corporate culture to give back, but it also makes for a fulfilling experience to help others.
MANCHESTER, N.H. —
About 300 Timberland employees were in Manchester on Thursday as part of the company's annual Serv-a-palooza.
This is the 16th year that company employees have volunteered for service projects.
In Manchester, about 300 volunteers were painting, cleaning and doing other jobs at two elementary schools and the Manchester Police Athletic League Michael Briggs Community Center.
Every year, the company shuts down for a day so its workers can go out and do community service.
About 3,500 people do projects worldwide as part of the initiative.
Organizers said it's just part of their corporate culture to give back, but it also makes for a fulfilling experience to help others.


text:
This project is an unmaintained fork. You should use [gopkg.in/macaroon.v1](https://gopkg.in/macaroon.v1).

# macaroon
--
    import "github.com/rogpeppe/macaroon"

The macaroon package implements macaroons as described in the paper "Macaroons:
Cookies with Contextual Caveats for Decentralized Authorization in the Cloud"
(http://theory.stanford.edu/~ataly/Papers/macaroons.pdf)

## Usage

#### type Caveat

```go
type Caveat struct {
	Id       string
	Location string
}
```

#### type Macaroon

```go
type Macaroon struct {
}
```

Macaroon holds a macaroon. See Fig. 7 of
http://theory.stanford.edu/~ataly/Papers/macaroons.pdf for a description of the
data contained within. Macaroons are mutable objects - use Clone as appropriate
to avoid unwanted mutation.

#### func  New

```go
func New(rootKey []byte, id, loc string) (*Macaroon, error)
```
New returns a new macaroon with the given root key, identifier and location.

#### func (*Macaroon) AddFirstPartyCaveat

```go
func (m *Macaroon) AddFirstPartyCaveat(caveatId string) error
```
AddFirstPartyCaveat adds a caveat that will be verified by the target service.

#### func (*Macaroon) AddThirdPartyCaveat

```go
func (m *Macaroon) AddThirdPartyCaveat(rootKey []byte, caveatId string, loc string) error
```
AddThirdPartyCaveat adds a third-party caveat to the macaroon, using the given
shared root key, caveat id and location hint. The caveat id should encode the
root key in some way, either by encrypting it with a key known to the third
party or by holding a reference to it stored in the third party's storage.

#### func (*Macaroon) Bind

```go
func (m *Macaroon) Bind(rootSig []byte)
```
Bind prepares the macaroon for being used to discharge the macaroon with the
given rootSig. This must be used before it is used in the discharges argument to
Verify.

#### func (*Macaroon) Caveats

```go
func (m *Macaroon) Caveats() []Caveat
```
Caveats returns the macaroon's caveats. This method will probably change, and
it's important not to change the returned caveat.

#### func (*Macaroon) Clone

```go
func (m *Macaroon) Clone() *Macaroon
```
Clone returns a copy of the receiving macaroon.

#### func (*Macaroon) Id

```go
func (m *Macaroon) Id() string
```
Id returns the id of the macaroon. This can hold arbitrary information.

#### func (*Macaroon) Location

```go
func (m *Macaroon) Location() string
```
Location returns the macaroon's location hint. This is not verified as part of
the macaroon.

#### func (*Macaroon) MarshalJSON

```go
func (m *Macaroon) MarshalJSON() ([]byte, error)
```
MarshalJSON implements json.Marshaler.

#### func (*Macaroon) Signature

```go
func (m *Macaroon) Signature() []byte
```
Signature returns the macaroon's signature.

#### func (*Macaroon) UnmarshalJSON

```go
func (m *Macaroon) UnmarshalJSON(jsonData []byte) error
```
UnmarshalJSON implements json.Unmarshaler.

#### func (*Macaroon) Verify

```go
func (m *Macaroon) Verify(rootKey []byte, check func(caveat string) error, discharges []*Macaroon) error
```
Verify verifies that the receiving macaroon is valid. The root key must be the
same that the macaroon was originally minted with. The check function is called
to verify each first-party caveat - it should return an error if the condition
is not met.

The discharge macaroons should be provided in discharges.

Verify returns true if the verification succeeds; if returns (false, nil) if the
verification fails, and (false, err) if the verification cannot be asserted (but
may not be false).

TODO(rog) is there a possible DOS attack that can cause this function to
infinitely recurse?

#### type Verifier

```go
type Verifier interface {
	Verify(m *Macaroon, rootKey []byte) (bool, error)
}
```
# bakery
--
    import "github.com/rogpeppe/macaroon/bakery"

The bakery package layers on top of the macaroon package, providing a transport
and storage-agnostic way of using macaroons to assert client capabilities.

## Usage

```go
var ErrNotFound = errors.New("item not found")
```

#### type Caveat

```go
type Caveat struct {
	Location  string
	Condition string
}
```

Caveat represents a condition that must be true for a check to complete
successfully. If Location is non-empty, the caveat must be discharged by a third
party at the given location.

#### type CaveatIdDecoder

```go
type CaveatIdDecoder interface {
	DecodeCaveatId(id string) (rootKey []byte, condition string, err error)
}
```

CaveatIdDecoder decodes caveat ids created by a CaveatIdEncoder.

#### type CaveatIdEncoder

```go
type CaveatIdEncoder interface {
	EncodeCaveatId(caveat Caveat, rootKey []byte) (string, error)
}
```

CaveatIdEncoder can create caveat ids for third parties. It is left abstract to
allow location-dependent caveat id creation.

#### type CaveatNotRecognizedError

```go
type CaveatNotRecognizedError struct {
	Caveat string
}
```

#### func (*CaveatNotRecognizedError) Error

```go
func (e *CaveatNotRecognizedError) Error() string
```

#### type Discharger

```go
type Discharger struct {
	// Checker is used to check the caveat's condition.
	Checker ThirdPartyChecker

	// Decoder is used to decode the caveat id.
	Decoder CaveatIdDecoder

	// Factory is used to create the macaroon.
	// Note that *Service implements NewMacarooner.
	Factory NewMacarooner
}
```

A Discharger can be used to discharge third party caveats.

#### func (*Discharger) Discharge

```go
func (d *Discharger) Discharge(id string) (*macaroon.Macaroon, error)
```
Discharge creates a macaroon that discharges the third party caveat with the
given id. The id should have been created earlier with a matching
CaveatIdEncoder. The condition implicit in the id is checked for validity using
d.Checker, and then if valid, a new macaroon is minted which discharges the
caveat, and can eventually be associated with a client request using
AddClientMacaroon.

#### type FirstPartyChecker

```go
type FirstPartyChecker interface {
	CheckFirstPartyCaveat(caveat string) error
}
```

FirstPartyChecker holds a function that checks first party caveats for validity.

If the caveat kind was not recognised, the checker should return
ErrCaveatNotRecognised.

#### type FirstPartyCheckerFunc

```go
type FirstPartyCheckerFunc func(caveat string) error
```

#### func (FirstPartyCheckerFunc) CheckFirstPartyCaveat

```go
func (c FirstPartyCheckerFunc) CheckFirstPartyCaveat(caveat string) error
```

#### type NewMacarooner

```go
type NewMacarooner interface {
	NewMacaroon(id string, rootKey []byte, capability string, caveats []Caveat) (*macaroon.Macaroon, error)
}
```

NewMacaroon mints a new macaroon with the given id, capability and caveats. If
the id is empty, a random id will be used. If rootKey is nil, a random root key
will be used.

If a client succeeds in discharging the returned macaroon, it can gain access to
the given capability.

#### type NewServiceParams

```go
type NewServiceParams struct {
	// Location will be set as the location of any macaroons
	// minted by the service.
	Location string

	// Store will be used to store macaroon
	// information locally. If it is nil,
	// an in-memory storage will be used.
	Store Storage

	// CaveatIdEncoder is used to create third-party caveats.
	CaveatIdEncoder CaveatIdEncoder
}
```

NewServiceParams holds the parameters for a NewService call.

#### type Request

```go
type Request struct {
}
```

Request represents a request made to a service by a client. The request may be
long-lived. It holds a set of macaroons that the client wishes to be taken into
account.

Methods on a Request may be called concurrently with each other.

#### func (*Request) AddClientMacaroon

```go
func (req *Request) AddClientMacaroon(m *macaroon.Macaroon)
```
AddClientMacaroon associates the given macaroon with the request. The macaroon
will be taken into account when req.Check is called.

TODO(rog) provide a way of deleting client macaroons?

#### func (*Request) Check

```go
func (req *Request) Check(capability string) error
```
Check checks that the client has the given capability. If the verification fails
in a way which might be remediable, it returns a VerificationError that
describes the error.

A capability represents a client capability. A client can gain a capability by
presenting a valid, fully discharged macaroon that is associated with the
capability.

#### type Service

```go
type Service struct {
}
```

Service represents a service which can use macaroons to check authorization.

#### func  NewService

```go
func NewService(p NewServiceParams) *Service
```
NewService returns a new service that can mint new macaroons and store their
associated root keys.

#### func (*Service) AddCaveat

```go
func (svc *Service) AddCaveat(m *macaroon.Macaroon, cav Caveat) error
```
AddCaveat adds a caveat to the given macaroon.

If it's a third-party caveat, it uses the service's caveat-id encoder to create
the id of the new caveat.

#### func (*Service) NewMacaroon

```go
func (svc *Service) NewMacaroon(id string, rootKey []byte, capability string, caveats []Caveat) (*macaroon.Macaroon, error)
```
NewMacaroon implements NewMacarooner.NewMacaroon.

#### func (*Service) NewRequest

```go
func (svc *Service) NewRequest(checker FirstPartyChecker) *Request
```
NewRequest returns a new client request object that uses checker to verify
caveats.

#### func (*Service) Store

```go
func (svc *Service) Store() Storage
```
Store returns the store used by the service.

#### type Storage

```go
type Storage interface {
	// Put stores the item at the given location, overwriting
	// any item that might already be there.
	// TODO(rog) would it be better to lose the overwrite
	// semantics?
	Put(location string, item string) error

	// Get retrieves an item from the given location.
	// If the item is not there, it returns ErrNotFound.
	Get(location string) (item string, err error)

	// Del deletes the item from the given location.
	Del(location string) error
}
```

Storage defines storage for macaroons. Calling its methods concurrently is
allowed.

#### func  NewMemStorage

```go
func NewMemStorage() Storage
```
NewMemStorage returns an implementation of Storage that stores all items in
memory.

#### type ThirdPartyChecker

```go
type ThirdPartyChecker interface {
	CheckThirdPartyCaveat(caveat string) ([]Caveat, error)
}
```

ThirdPartyChecker holds a function that checks third party caveats for validity.
It the caveat is valid, it returns a nil error and optionally a slice of extra
caveats that will be added to the discharge macaroon.

If the caveat kind was not recognised, the checker should return
ErrCaveatNotRecognised.

#### type ThirdPartyCheckerFunc

```go
type ThirdPartyCheckerFunc func(caveat string) ([]Caveat, error)
```

#### func (ThirdPartyCheckerFunc) CheckThirdPartyCaveat

```go
func (c ThirdPartyCheckerFunc) CheckThirdPartyCaveat(caveat string) ([]Caveat, error)
```

#### type VerificationError

```go
type VerificationError struct {
	RequiredCapability string
	Reason             error
}
```

#### func (*VerificationError) Error

```go
func (e *VerificationError) Error() string
```
# checkers
--
    import "github.com/rogpeppe/macaroon/bakery/checkers"

The checkers package provides some standard caveat checkers and
checker-combining functions.

## Usage

```go
var Std = Map{
	"time-before": bakery.FirstPartyCheckerFunc(timeBefore),
}
```

#### func  FirstParty

```go
func FirstParty(condition string) bakery.Caveat
```

#### func  ParseCaveat

```go
func ParseCaveat(cav string) (string, string, error)
```
ParseCaveat parses a caveat into an identifier, identifying the checker that
should be used, and the argument to the checker (the rest of the string).

The identifier is taken from all the characters before the first space
character.

#### func  PushFirstPartyChecker

```go
func PushFirstPartyChecker(c0, c1 bakery.FirstPartyChecker) bakery.FirstPartyChecker
```
PushFirstPartyChecker returns a checker that first uses c0 to check caveats, and
falls back to using c1 if c0 returns bakery.ErrCaveatNotRecognized.

#### func  ThirdParty

```go
func ThirdParty(location, condition string) bakery.Caveat
```

#### func  TimeBefore

```go
func TimeBefore(t time.Time) bakery.Caveat
```

#### type Map

```go
type Map map[string]bakery.FirstPartyCheckerFunc
```

#### func (Map) CheckFirstPartyCaveat

```go
func (m Map) CheckFirstPartyCaveat(cav string) error
```
# httpbakery
--
    import "github.com/rogpeppe/macaroon/httpbakery"

The httpbakery package layers on top of the bakery package - it provides an
HTTP-based implementation of a macaroon client and server.

## Usage

#### func  Do

```go
func Do(c *http.Client, req *http.Request) (*http.Response, error)
```
Do makes an http request to the given client. If the request fails with a
discharge-required error, any required discharge macaroons will be acquired, and
the request will be repeated with those attached.

If c.Jar field is non-nil, the macaroons will be stored there and made available
to subsequent requests.

#### func  WriteDischargeRequiredError

```go
func WriteDischargeRequiredError(w http.ResponseWriter, m *macaroon.Macaroon, originalErr error) error
```
WriteDischargeRequiredError writes a response to w that reports the given error
and sends the given macaroon to the client, indicating that it should be
discharged to allow the original request to be accepted.

If it returns an error, it will have written the http response anyway.

The cookie value is a base-64-encoded JSON serialization of the macaroon.

TODO(rog) consider an alternative approach - perhaps it would be better to
include the macaroon directly in the response and leave it up to the client to
add it to the cookies along with the discharge macaroons.

#### type KeyPair

```go
type KeyPair struct {
}
```

KeyPair holds a public/private pair of keys.

#### func  GenerateKey

```go
func GenerateKey() (*KeyPair, error)
```
GenerateKey generates a new key pair.

#### type NewServiceParams

```go
type NewServiceParams struct {
	// Location holds the location of the service.
	// Macaroons minted by the service will have this location.
	Location string

	// Store defines where macaroons are stored.
	Store bakery.Storage

	// Key holds the private/public key pair for
	// the service to use. If it is nil, a new key pair
	// will be generated.
	Key *KeyPair
}
```

NewServiceParams holds parameters for the NewService call.

#### type Service

```go
type Service struct {
	*bakery.Service
}
```

Service represents a service that can use client-provided macaroons to authorize
requests. It layers on top of *bakery.Service, providing http-based methods to
create third-party caveats.

#### func  NewService

```go
func NewService(p NewServiceParams) (*Service, error)
```
NewService returns a new Service.

#### func (*Service) AddDischargeHandler

```go
func (svc *Service) AddDischargeHandler(
	root string,
	mux *http.ServeMux,
	checker func(req *http.Request, cav string) ([]bakery.Caveat, error),
)
```
AddDischargeHandler handles adds handlers to the given ServeMux to service third
party caveats.

The check function is used to check whether a client making the given request
should be allowed a discharge for the given caveat. If it does not return an
error, the caveat will be discharged, with any returned caveats also added to
the discharge macaroon.

The name space served by DischargeHandler is as follows. All parameters can be
provided either as URL attributes or form attributes. The result is always
formatted as a JSON object.

POST /discharge

    params:
    	id: id of macaroon to discharge
    	location: location of original macaroon (optional (?))
    result:
    	{
    		Macaroon: macaroon in json format
    		Error: string
    	}

POST /create

    params:
    	condition: caveat condition to discharge
    	rootkey: root key of discharge caveat
    result:
    	{
    		CaveatID: string
    		Error: string
    	}

GET /publickey

    result:
    	public key of service
    	expiry time of key

#### func (*Service) AddPublicKeyForLocation

```go
func (svc *Service) AddPublicKeyForLocation(loc string, prefix bool, publicKey *[32]byte)
```
AddPublicKeyForLocation specifies that third party caveats for the given
location will be encrypted with the given public key. If prefix is true, any
locations with loc as a prefix will be also associated with the given key. The
longest prefix match will be chosen. TODO(rog) perhaps string might be a better
representation of public keys?

#### func (*Service) NewRequest

```go
func (svc *Service) NewRequest(httpReq *http.Request, checker bakery.FirstPartyChecker) *bakery.Request
```
NewRequest returns a new request, converting cookies from the HTTP request into
macaroons in the bakery request when they're found. Mmm.

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I'm interested in hearing how the availability of daycare is affecting the ability of students to attend pre-school. Are there communities that would benefit (or suffer) from legislation to allow districts with pre-school programs to conduct after-school programs for pre-school children where private child care is unavailable or insufficient?
Although I am not on the Rockingham School board where I was the Chair for several years we have had a program at the YMCA called the Aspire program where all children can attend until their parents pick them up !
We have quite a situation in our town. We have a publicly funded Pre-K at school that runs 3 hrs in the PM and a private Pre-K / Daycare in town that's open all day. As far as supply and demand, we have more open slots available in town than eligible students, so the competition to get students to attend is present. There is also the convenience of parents working schedules etc that plays in to their selection.
The question as I see it, and I could be interpreting it wrong, is the creation of after-school Pre-K programs because child care is not available? Unfortunately, I am quite old school to a point and feel babysitting ( the old work for childcare / daycare etc) is the responsibility of the parents and not the educational system.
Recent proposed legislation, for details far to detailed to explain here, would be extremely detrimental for choice in our town as the public Pre-K would need a certain number of enrollees / year for sustainability and if choice creates that number to not be met, we would most likely close down our public Pre-K and then that creates additional costs to parents.
School is for education….babysitting is for parents.
There is one in-home daycare in our town, so I believe it would benefit parents to have something available through the school. I think it would need to be separate from our existing afterschool program due to the tender age of pre-school. Our existing after school program serves grades K-8. Many people also find the existing in-home day care to expensive and there is no transportation to get the pre-schoolers there anyway. This makes full time employment very difficult for atleast one parent.
I work in Fairfield School. I know the parents here really work together to drive each others kids to the nearest private childcare. I know Fairfield has talked about getting a small bus for more fieldtrips and for bringing pre-schoolers home at noon. I do believe after school care could benefit children and families. All day preschool less days a week may solve that problem.
Yes I do believe that folks choose Childcare for their children that offers all day care. It is difficult for families to go from all day Childcare for their infant/toddler to then go to a few hour block for their preschool child. The children and families are use to an extended day schedule and I do believe more children would be afforded the opportunity to go to public preschool if the hours were longer. I must also say that there are many quality early childhood programs that keep children until they are five and it doesn't always make sense to switch from these programs to preschool. The children are learning the same skills at these early childhood sites as they would at public preschool. If affordability of early childhood programs is a challenge for a family, then by all means mandate extended care for preschool programs so low income families who may not send their children to any program could then benefit from this option.
I'm interested in the issue, but do not understand the posted question. Can it be rephrased?
I'm not sure I understand the question. Why would legislation be required to allow for private or fee-for-service programs (whether or not they are managed by school district staff) to use school facilities?
1. Who are the parents who want more and more pre-five-year-old day care? Why do they want it?
2. Is it in the best interest of children and society to usher children away from their parents' Nurture earlier than is psychologically appropriate? One of the greatest challenges to effective teaching and learning is "attachment disorder," which is caused by and aggravated by children leaving their parents' domain prematurely.
3. Do we want government (schools, property taxation, etc.) to subsidize parental choices such as these?
4. Should Programs supplant Parenting?
School Boards would do well to consider if they are unintended participants in the wholesale surrender of parenting rights, roles and responsibilities.
It is my understanding that a school can provide after-school programs without any additional legislation. We have several programsin our county where an outside vendor is used for that very purpose. Your principal/superintendent should be able to get some examples of practices that other districts have used.
Here is our town it has been a real issue not having consistent daycare in town for a number of years. I personally was not able to send my older son (now in first grade) to the pre school at the elementary school because I work and could not shuttle him back and forth from school to daycare for the remainder of the day. I think enabling schools to offer after school care is a great idea and maybe could be done district wide so each school was not offering the program for just a few children. Would require bussing but might be more finanially viable if there were a number of kids.
For rural communities having a safe, nurturing, and academic environment to support children and families it is essential to have connected after care and preschool. In North Hero we have provided this service to families for the past few years, and it has given people the ability to manage their working lives while being comfortable that their children are in a consistent and professional environment without a transition in their day. It is what common sense tells us is the right thing to do.
Our town has not had a daycare provider in close to 10 years. It does limit a few families in their choice about attending our pre-school program. I don't believe there are enough kids that need that after-pre-school care every day to justify trying to provide the care by the school though. Unfortunate, but true.
Thank you all for your responses to our query. For those that asked for further clarification, here's the skinny.
North Hero is in it's fourth year operating a pre-school within the elementary school building. Prior to this, pre-school services could only be acquired at private facilities (more than 20 minutes away) that gave preference to students from the home town. Our kids were often shut out and pre-school attendance rarely exceeded 50%. We wanted to do better.
Opening a Pre-School got us half way there, but without a local care option, many of our working families were unable to take advantage of the program. At the time we were operating our own after school program so it was easy enough to setup a similar program for the pre-school. Parents paid a fee which was set high enough to keep the program in the black, but low enough to keep it from being prohibitive. This worked beautifully for all parties until the DOE forced us to shut down the program last spring, deeming it a "co-mingling of public funds".
We have no intention of threatening functioning private institutions, enlarging the government machinery, snatching kids from the cradle, or disrupting the space time continuum. We've simply stumbled into a model that we believe strengthens the educational experience and makes it possible for every parent who wants to send their child to pre-school, to do so. Although we have since worked our way through the red tape and contracted with an independent care provider, we still believe that the formal model worked best and are willing to be advocates for it. With that in mind we put out a feeler on this form to get a sense if others felt they might benefit from this sort of option being available. If we hear enough support we will move forward with attempting to modify statute to allow after-care programs for pre-school students.
I know for me I didn't enroll my son in preschool at our area elementary school because I couldn't leave work everyday to pick him up and bring him to daycare. Schools could contract with area daycare providers and make sure that a licensed Teacher is teaching the preschool classes. When the preschool part of the child's day is finished, children that need childcare can stay at the center (at the parent's expense). I think this serves a variety of family needs and provides a good quality education for children.
Our school offers PreK until 12:00, five days a week. While great for some kids, this is very challenging for working parents who can't pick their children up midday and transport them to daycare. Parents do a great job of ride sharing, but there are still several families every year who send their children elsewhere do to the difficult schedule.
I believe this results in losing some students permanently as there are several Pre-K through 8 private schools that offer full day pre-K. Once the students begin there, they don't often don't switch to our public school when kindergarten comes.
Having the ability to offer some kind of afternoon care for pre-K students would help us keep our local kids in public school.
JES has found that we average a range from 77%-90% of preschoolers in our community attending preschool. This means that the bulk of JES preschoolers do attend. We can't really speculate why the children who don't come did not choose JES preschool, although we bus many of our students in from Johnson Daycares. We know of quite a few child cares (both centers and in home dayacres) in the area where our students attend. There are also daycares in nearby towns. Currently, we have no plans or intentions for starting an after school preschool program. We can't really judge whether or not our community would benefit or suffer from this legislation, unless legislation was requiring it. A requirement such as this would have a financial impact on our school.
Submitted on October 23, 2013 .
Why in the world do we want to create more "programs" that mitigate the "responsibilities" that parents are supposed to be responsible for? Why allow these parents to force the "taxpayers" to have their "taxes go up?
Why increase taxes on taxpayers, some of whom have NEVER put a child thru any school system in Vermont?
We are now to the point that our State Legislature and the "local governments" are taking over complete control and rearing todays children…………….sounds just like the methods the Communist countries use….all over again!


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Ever since I can remember, I've always been a huge fan of mushrooms.
As a young adolescent, when I wanted to treat myself to something REALLY good, I would pan fry LOADS of mushrooms and add them to a giant bowl of pasta.
I think sometimes, there was more mushroom in that bowl than there were pasta.
For some reason, I always thought of mushrooms as an ingredient to be treated with much respect and used only parsimoniously. Almost as if they cost a fortune or something.
Mind you, more often than not, that happens to be the case, unfortunately… However, I find that oriental food markets are generally a good place to shop for exotic mushrooms. They tend to have a very good selection that can be bought for a very decent price.
And once in a while, you can get super lucky and fall on an amazing deal, like I did!
Last week, at such a market, I got my hands on a full kilo of shiitake, 1 kilo of oyster mushrooms and close to 1 kilo of enoki for just a few pennies shy of 5 bucks.
As I put this treasure in my shopping basket, I already envisioned what I was going to turn it into: an amazing mushroom ragout, which I would enjoy over a nice, juicy, pepper steak.
Oooooh, I was drooling already!
Since I'm following the Whole30 Program, dairy was out of the question.
Hmpft! How is one supposed to make a mushroom ragout without adding tons of heavy cream and butter to the concoction?
Well, I felt I didn't have much of a choice but to go with the only creamy dairy alternative option that's available to me now: coconut cream!
I wasn't too convinced at first that the flavor combination would work all that well… coconut and mushrooms? It sounded really strange to me, but I had to try it anyway. I REALLY wanted my mushroom ragout!
Seriously? Who needs wine and cream and butter?
This right here is THE BOMB!
I'm telling you, you really oughta give the coconut cream a try… I'm positive that just one taste will make you a believer!
Oh, and this would be equally good served over grilled chicken, if steak is not your thing.
In fact, it might even be better!
Hmmmm… now it got me wanting to create some sort of a creamy coconut chicken mushroom stew.
Oh yum! Coconut, how I love thee!
Heat the coconut oil in a heavy or cast iron skillet over high heat.
When skillet is sizzling hot, add the button, oyster and shiitake mushrooms, sprinkle with salt and pepper and cook until nice and golden brown, about 3-4 minutes. Add the enoki mushrooms and continue cooking for about a minute, until softened.
Add the coconut cream, water and sliced green onion and stir until all the mushrooms are well coated.
Serve over steak or grilled chicken.
I have portobello mushrooms that I was planning to cook tomorrow. I will follow this recipe – this mushroom ragout looks delish! I am sure it will work with Portobello too.
Is coconut cream the same as coconut milk or am I looking for something completely different? I want to try this recipe to go over my boring chicken!
You need to look for the canned stuff and open the can without shaking it first, then scoop out the thicker part that sits at top of the can. That's what coconut cream is.
You could also use coconut milk, but make sure you use the full fat, canned variety.


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#define GrPaint_DEFINED

#include "GrColor.h"
#include "GrFragmentStage.h"
#include "GrXferProcessor.h"

#include "SkXfermode.h"

/**
 * The paint describes how color and coverage are computed at each pixel by GrContext draw
 * functions and the how color is blended with the destination pixel.
 *
 * The paint allows installation of custom color and coverage stages. New types of stages are
 * created by subclassing GrProcessor.
 *
 * The primitive color computation starts with the color specified by setColor(). This color is the
 * input to the first color stage. Each color stage feeds its output to the next color stage. The
 * final color stage's output color is input to the color filter specified by
 * setXfermodeColorFilter which produces the final source color, S.
 *
 * Fractional pixel coverage follows a similar flow. The coverage is initially the value specified
 * by setCoverage(). This is input to the first coverage stage. Coverage stages are chained
 * together in the same manner as color stages. The output of the last stage is modulated by any
 * fractional coverage produced by anti-aliasing. This last step produces the final coverage, C.
 *
 * setBlendFunc() specifies blending coefficients for S (described above) and D, the initial value
 * of the destination pixel, labeled Bs and Bd respectively. The final value of the destination
 * pixel is then D' = (1-C)*D + C*(Bd*D + Bs*S).
 *
 * Note that the coverage is applied after the blend. This is why they are computed as distinct
 * values.
 *
 * TODO: Encapsulate setXfermodeColorFilter in a GrProcessor and remove from GrPaint.
 */
class GrPaint {
public:
    GrPaint() { this->reset(); }

    GrPaint(const GrPaint& paint) { *this = paint; }

    ~GrPaint() {}

    /**
     * Sets the blending coefficients to use to blend the final primitive color with the
     * destination color. Defaults to kOne for src and kZero for dst (i.e. src mode).
     */
    void setBlendFunc(GrBlendCoeff srcCoeff, GrBlendCoeff dstCoeff) {
        fSrcBlendCoeff = srcCoeff;
        fDstBlendCoeff = dstCoeff;
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    GrBlendCoeff getSrcBlendCoeff() const { return fSrcBlendCoeff; }
    GrBlendCoeff getDstBlendCoeff() const { return fDstBlendCoeff; }

    /**
     * The initial color of the drawn primitive. Defaults to solid white.
     */
    void setColor(GrColor color) { fColor = color; }
    GrColor getColor() const { return fColor; }

    /**
     * Should primitives be anti-aliased or not. Defaults to false.
     */
    void setAntiAlias(bool aa) { fAntiAlias = aa; }
    bool isAntiAlias() const { return fAntiAlias; }

    /**
     * Should dithering be applied. Defaults to false.
     */
    void setDither(bool dither) { fDither = dither; }
    bool isDither() const { return fDither; }

    const GrXPFactory* setXPFactory(const GrXPFactory* xpFactory) {
        fXPFactory.reset(SkRef(xpFactory));
        return xpFactory;
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    /**
     * Appends an additional color processor to the color computation.
     */
    const GrFragmentProcessor* addColorProcessor(const GrFragmentProcessor* fp) {
        SkASSERT(fp);
        SkNEW_APPEND_TO_TARRAY(&fColorStages, GrFragmentStage, (fp));
        return fp;
    }

    /**
     * Appends an additional coverage processor to the coverage computation.
     */
    const GrFragmentProcessor* addCoverageProcessor(const GrFragmentProcessor* fp) {
        SkASSERT(fp);
        SkNEW_APPEND_TO_TARRAY(&fCoverageStages, GrFragmentStage, (fp));
        return fp;
    }

    /**
     * Helpers for adding color or coverage effects that sample a texture. The matrix is applied
     * to the src space position to compute texture coordinates.
     */
    void addColorTextureProcessor(GrTexture*, const SkMatrix&);
    void addCoverageTextureProcessor(GrTexture*, const SkMatrix&);
    void addColorTextureProcessor(GrTexture*, const SkMatrix&, const GrTextureParams&);
    void addCoverageTextureProcessor(GrTexture*, const SkMatrix&, const GrTextureParams&);

    int numColorStages() const { return fColorStages.count(); }
    int numCoverageStages() const { return fCoverageStages.count(); }
    int numTotalStages() const { return this->numColorStages() + this->numCoverageStages(); }

    const GrXPFactory* getXPFactory() const { return fXPFactory.get(); }

    const GrFragmentStage& getColorStage(int s) const { return fColorStages[s]; }
    const GrFragmentStage& getCoverageStage(int s) const { return fCoverageStages[s]; }

    GrPaint& operator=(const GrPaint& paint) {
        fSrcBlendCoeff = paint.fSrcBlendCoeff;
        fDstBlendCoeff = paint.fDstBlendCoeff;
        fAntiAlias = paint.fAntiAlias;
        fDither = paint.fDither;

        fColor = paint.fColor;

        fColorStages = paint.fColorStages;
        fCoverageStages = paint.fCoverageStages;

        fXPFactory.reset(SkRef(paint.getXPFactory()));

        return *this;
    }

    /**
     * Resets the paint to the defaults.
     */
    void reset() {
        this->resetBlend();
        this->resetOptions();
        this->resetColor();
        this->resetStages();
    }

    /**
     * Determines whether the drawing with this paint is opaque with respect to both color blending
     * and fractional coverage. It does not consider whether AA has been enabled on the paint or
     * not. Depending upon whether multisampling or coverage-based AA is in use, AA may make the
     * result only apply to the interior of primitives.
     *
     */
    bool isOpaque() const;

    /**
     * Returns true if isOpaque would return true and the paint represents a solid constant color
     * draw. If the result is true, constantColor will be updated to contain the constant color.
     */
    bool isOpaqueAndConstantColor(GrColor* constantColor) const;

private:

    /**
     * Helper for isOpaque and isOpaqueAndConstantColor.
     */
    bool getOpaqueAndKnownColor(GrColor* solidColor, uint32_t* solidColorKnownComponents) const;

    /**
     * Called when the source coord system from which geometry is rendered changes. It ensures that
     * the local coordinates seen by effects remains unchanged. oldToNew gives the transformation
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     */
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        for (int i = 0; i < fColorStages.count(); ++i) {
            fColorStages[i].localCoordChange(oldToNew);
        }
        for (int i = 0; i < fCoverageStages.count(); ++i) {
            fCoverageStages[i].localCoordChange(oldToNew);
        }
    }

    bool localCoordChangeInverse(const SkMatrix& newToOld) {
        SkMatrix oldToNew;
        bool computed = false;
        for (int i = 0; i < fColorStages.count(); ++i) {
            if (!computed && !newToOld.invert(&oldToNew)) {
                return false;
            } else {
                computed = true;
            }
            fColorStages[i].localCoordChange(oldToNew);
        }
        for (int i = 0; i < fCoverageStages.count(); ++i) {
            if (!computed && !newToOld.invert(&oldToNew)) {
                return false;
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                computed = true;
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            fCoverageStages[i].localCoordChange(oldToNew);
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        return true;
    }

    friend class GrContext; // To access above two functions
    friend class GrStencilAndCoverTextContext;  // To access above two functions

    SkAutoTUnref<const GrXPFactory> fXPFactory;
    SkSTArray<4, GrFragmentStage>   fColorStages;
    SkSTArray<2, GrFragmentStage>   fCoverageStages;

    GrBlendCoeff                    fSrcBlendCoeff;
    GrBlendCoeff                    fDstBlendCoeff;
    bool                            fAntiAlias;
    bool                            fDither;

    GrColor                         fColor;

    void resetBlend() {
        fSrcBlendCoeff = kOne_GrBlendCoeff;
        fDstBlendCoeff = kZero_GrBlendCoeff;
    }

    void resetOptions() {
        fAntiAlias = false;
        fDither = false;
    }

    void resetColor() {
        fColor = GrColorPackRGBA(0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff);
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LSE South Asia Centre
Due process threatened? What the Delhi rape case reveals about justice in India
LSE's Sivaramjani Thambisetty analyses the response of India's criminal justice system to the gang rape and subsequent death of a young student in New Delhi.
One of the first things law students in many universities, LSE included, do at the start of their education is watch the film "12 Angry Men". The movie pits conscious and unconscious prejudices against a rational weighting of evidence in a case, drawing the viewer into a deep consideration of the role of beliefs, facts and truth in the pursuit of justice. The film offers a compelling way to learn about the importance of legal due process. Lawyers who are part of the district bar association in Saket, a Delhi suburb, could do worse than watch this movie.
In an astonishing move last week, they refused to allow association members to defend those accused of the gang rape on a Delhi bus in December; reportedly, some members contributed to chaotic scenes when the accused were presented in court on Monday. The crime, although not unusual in itself, has incited public outrage like no other due to the brutality inflicted on the 23-year-old victim. Legal representation, even for perpetrators accused of the vilest crimes, helps ensure effective decision-making and increases the accountability of all criminal justice personnel involved. In this respect, protecting the right to legal representation of criminal defendants is the best way to preserve the possibility of justice for all. Through this ill-considered action, the Saket Bar Association has shown how lawyers in India can often be part of the problem, rather than the solution.
It is not difficult to find compelling reasons why the accused have a right to legal representation and why it is wrong for Saket's lawyers to impede that right. Article 22(1) of the Indian Constitution as well as the Bar Council of India's rules make it clear that criminal defendants have the right to be defended by legal practitioner of their choice, and that no lawyer can refuse a brief unless there are special circumstances. The Supreme Court has been consistently emphatic that free legal assistance at state cost is a fundamental right of a person accused of an offence which may involve jeopardy to his life or personal liberty (Sukhdas v UT of Arunachal Pradesh).
More importantly, this right and corresponding obligation does not require lawyers to be unemotional, but it requires them to be professional despite their beliefs. Saket Bar Association has demonstrated that its lawyers are subject to their strong feelings on the brutal assault suffered by the rape victim. The flaunting of such emotions in contravention of law and professional ethics begs the question, what else are these lawyers subject to? Caste politics? Religious prejudice? North-ism? Sexism? And how often do they succumb to such prejudices in the course of their working life? Are they self-aware of their prejudices, and do they face the stigma and sanction of colleagues when they betray their professional obligation to the rule of law?
On 20 December 2012, the UN General Assembly enacted the UN Principles and Guidelines on Access to Legal Aid in Criminal Justice Systems. The treaty recognises that legal aid through state funding is an essential element of a fair and efficient criminal justice system and a foundation for the right to a fair trial. In other words, the right to legal aid, including advice, assistance and representation is such a fundamental part of a humane society that all states are now obligated to work towards the resources and capacity needed to realise these principles.
The response to the current case from officialdom has been far from ideal. Many of the demands and responses in fact resonate with Ajmal Kasab's prosecution, not just because his right to legal representation was under threat but also because of the death penalty and issues of juvenile justice. In Kasab's case, more money was spent by the state on legal aid per day than on any of the other death row convicts put together. This may have something to do with the fact that inadequate access to legal aid is a prime reason for death sentences to be commuted. Kasab's subsequent speedy and secretive execution now threatens the de facto moratorium on the death penalty that has been in force in India since 1998. The Supreme Court itself has acknowledged that many convictions are unsafe, poverty is a significant factor, and that the penalty has a "class bias and a colour bar". The subjective criteria on which the sentence is imposed includes whether the case "shocks one's conscience" or amounts to the "rarest of rare" circumstances. These are vague criteria masquerading as legal doctrine. And the deterrent effect of the death penalty in rape cases like the one currently causing nationwide outrage? It is a direct incentive to kill the victim.
There have also been disturbing moves by state government heads of police and the central government's Minister for Women and Children to reduce the juvenile age limit from 18 to 16 since one of the accused in the gang rape case is a 17-year-old. This goes against India's obligations under the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, ignores child welfare advocacy, and will require an amendment to the hard won Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act 2000. Poverty can affect the development of children in many ways. In this case, the juvenile accused of participating in the gang rape was apparently separated from his family when he was six years old, and worked all his young life in exploitative and hazardous circumstances. The rush to push down the age limit is an attempt to quell public anger long suppressed, rather than focus on child protection and reformative justice.
When Saket's Bar Association prohibited its lawyers from representing the accused, it assumed the mantle of judge and uncovered the depth of the problems the legal system and society face. Unfortunately, both the state and lawyers seem to have lost their way in the perfect storm of public emotions raised by this brutal case. Several commentators have pointed out the need for social change (here, here, and here). But the hard slog of social change lies in the middle, in squarely addressing the minutiae of daily degradation that most Indian women face. To spur this change, the Indian criminal justice system needs a raft of measures that facilitate access to justice and the enforcement of the rule of law across class divides, not the stoking of a lynch mob.
Sivaramjani Thambisetty is a lawyer who teaches and researches on patent law, innovation and legal institutions, at LSE's Department of Law. Follow her on Twitter @sivathambisetty.
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