Fusion HCM Cloud provides a comprehensive set of tools, templates, and pre-packaged integration to cover various scenarios using modern and efficient technologies. One of the patterns is the bulk integration to load and extract data to/from the cloud.
The inbound tool is the File Based data loader (FBL) evolving into HCM Data Loaders (HDL). HDL is a powerful tool for bulk-loading data from any source to Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management (Oracle Fusion HCM). HDL supports one-time data migration and incremental load to support co-existence with Oracle Applications such as E-Business Suite (EBS) and PeopleSoft (PSFT).
HCM Extracts is an outbound integration tool that lets you choose HCM data, gathers it from the HCM database and archives it as XML. This archived raw XML data can be converted into a desired format and delivered to supported channels recipients.
HCM cloud implements Oracle WebCenter Content, a component of Fusion Middleware, to store and secure data files for both inbound and outbound bulk integration patterns.
Oracle Managed File Transfer (Oracle MFT) enables secure file exchange and management with internal systems and external partners. It protects against inadvertent access to unsecured files at every step in the end-to-end transfer of files. It is easy to use, especially for non technical staff, so you can leverage more resources to manage the transfer of files. The built in extensive reporting capabilities allow you to get quick status of a file transfer and resubmit it as required.
This post focuses on how to automate HCM Cloud batch integration using MFT (Managed File Transfer) and Node.js. MFT can receive files, decrypt/encrypt files and invoke Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) composites for various HCM integration patterns.
Oracle Managed File Transfer (MFT) is a high performance, standards-based, end-to-end managed file gateway. It features design, deployment, and monitoring of file transfers using a lightweight web-based design-time console that includes file encryption, scheduling, and embedded FTP and sFTP servers.
Oracle MFT provides built-in compression, decompression, encryption and decryption actions for transfer pre-processing and post-processing. You can create new pre-processing and post-processing actions, which are called callouts.
Source pre-processing is triggered right after a file has been received and has identified a matching Transfer. This is the best place to do file validation, compression/decompression, encryption/decryption and/or extend MFT.
Target pre-processing is triggered just before the file is delivered to the Target by the Transfer. This is the best place to send files to external locations and protocols not supported in MFT.
Post-processing occurs after the file is delivered. This is the best place for notifications, analytic/reporting or maybe remote endpoint file rename.
Invoke "LoaderIntegrationService" or "HCMDataLoader" to initiate the loading process.
An Extract report is generated in HCM either by user or through Enterprise Scheduler Service (ESS) – this report is stored in WCC under the hcm/dataloader/export account.
The data file(s) are either uploaded to the customer's sFTP server as pass through or to Integration tools such as Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) for orchestrating and processing data to target applications in cloud or on-premise.
The content in WebCenter Content is secured through users, roles, privileges and accounts. The user could be any valid user with a role such as "Integration Specialist." The role may have privileges such as read, write and delete. The accounts are predefined by each application. For example, HCM uses /hcm/dataloader/import and /hcm/dataloader/export respectively.
The FBL/HDL web services are secured through Oracle Web Service Manager (OWSM) using the following policy: oracle/wss11_saml_or_username_token_with_message_protection_service_policy.
The client must satisfy the message protection policy to ensure that the payload is encrypted or sent over the SSL transport layer.
To use this policy, the message must be encrypted using a public key provided by the server. When the message reaches the server it can be decrypted by the server's private key. A KeyStore is used to import the certificate and it is referenced in the subsequent client code.
The public key can be obtained from the certificate provided in the service WSDL file.
All data files transit over a network via SSL. In addition, HCM Cloud supports encryption of data files at rest using PGP.
A simple Node.js utility "mft2hcm" has been developed for uploading or downloading files to/from a MFT server callout to Oracle WebCenter Content server and initiate HCM SaaS loader service. It utilizes the node "mft-upload" package and provides SOAP substitution templates for WebCenter (UCM) and Oracle HCM Loader service.
Please refer to the "mft2hcm" node package for installation and configuration.
Please refer to "PreRunScript" for more information on installation and configuration.
Designer: Use this page to create, modify, delete, rename, and deploy sources, targets, and transfers.
Monitoring: Use this page to monitor transfer statistics, progress, and errors. You can also use this page to disable, enable, and undeploy transfer deployments and to pause, resume, and resubmit instances.
Administration: Use this page to manage the Oracle Managed File Transfer configuration, including embedded server configuration.
Please refer to the MFT Users Guide for more information.
The transfer could be designed for additional steps such as compress file and/or encrypt/decrypt files using PGP, depending on the use cases.
The MFT server receives files from any Source protocol such as SFTP, SOAP, local file system or a back end integration process. The file can be decrypted, uncompressed or validated before a Source or Target pre-processing callout uploads it to UCM then notifies HCM to initiate the batch load. Finally the original file is backed up into the local file system, remote SFTP server or a cloud based storage service. An optional notification can also be delivered to the caller using a Target post-processing callout upon successful completion.
Do not check "UseFileFromScript". This property replaces an inbound file (source) of MFT with the file from target execution. In FBL/HDL, the response (target execution) do not contain file.
An external event or scheduler triggers the MFT server to search for a file in WCC using a search query. Once a document id is indentified, it is retrieved using a "Source Pre-Processing" callout which injects the retrieved file into the MFT Transfer. The file can then be decrypted, validated or decompressed before being sent to an MFT Target of any protocol such as SFTP, File system, SOAP Web Service or a back end integration process. Finally, the original file is backed up into the local file system, remote SFTP server or a cloud based storage service. An optional notification can also be delivered to the caller using a Target post-processing callout upon successful completion. The MFT server can live in either on premise or a cloud iPaaS hosted environment.
The "UseFileFromScript" must be checked as the source scheduler is triggered with mft2hcm payload (UCM-PAYLOAD-SEARCH) to initiate the search and get WCC's operations. Once the file is retrieved from WCC, this flag tells MFT engine to substitute the file from downloaded from WCC.
This post demonstrates how to automate HCM inbound and outbound patterns using MFT and Node.js. The Node.js package could be replaced with WebCenter Content native APIs and SOA for orchestration. This process can also be replicated for other Fusion Applications pillars such as Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP).


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This Burger King Ad Is Trying To Control Your Google Home Device
The fast food giant's Whopper ad can trigger the devices. Not everyone's happy.
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Apr 12, 2017, 01:25 PM EDT | Updated Apr 12, 2017
If you were watching TV on Wednesday and own a Google-powered digital assistant, you may have heard a voice that left you feeling hungry ― or unnerved.
Burger King has released an ad for its Whopper sandwich that's designed to trigger viewers' Google Home devices.
The video starts out with a Burger King employee holding up the sandwich.
"You're watching a 15-second Burger King ad, which is unfortunately not enough time to explain all the fresh ingredients in the Whopper sandwich. But I've got an idea," the man says before leaning forward. "OK Google, what is the Whopper burger?"
Anyone with a Google Home device within earshot might then hear their Google Assistant activate at the sound of the wake words, "OK Google." It would then read off the first sentence on the Whopper sandwich's Wikipedia page.
Here's what happens when you watch Burger King's Whopper ad around Google Home...
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It reads as follows: "The Whopper is a burger, consisting of a flame-grilled patty made with 100% beef with no preservatives or fillers, topped with sliced tomatoes, onions, lettuce, pickles, ketchup, and mayonnaise, served on a sesame-seed bun."
Is that grumbling you're feeling from hunger or discomfort?
Tech Crunch was one of the first outlets to criticize the marketing strategy as "annoying" and raising issues of "privacy concerns."
"Can we just nip this whole thing in the bud right now?" the outlet's article asks.
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The 15-second ads call out to viewers' voice-activated Google Home devices with the trigger words: "OK Google."
The New York Times also branded the idea as "a novel but potentially invasive marketing tactic."
Burger King President Jose Cil, reached by The Times, said they considered consumers' take on the ad and felt that it would ultimately be "a really positive way" to connect with consumers.
The ad appears to be the first intentional use of a voice-activated digital assistant in an ad. That's not to say that AI devices haven't been accidentally activated by commercials and other TV segments before.
The 15-second video ad for Burger King's Whopper sandwich, pictured, is designed to trigger viewers' Google Home devices to describe the burger in detail.
Earlier this year, a 6-year-old girl made news after ordering a dollhouse and cookies through the competing Amazon Echo device, which uses an assistant named Alexa.
During a news broadcast on the snafu, a San Diego reporter repeated the girl's order on the air and in result, viewers complained that their Amazon devices at home tried to order a dollhouse and cookies as well.
Then in February, some Google Home owners complained that their devices went bonkers after a Super Bowl ad for the devices included activating cues such as, turn on the lights and lower the music.
Exactly how many people may have heard the Burger King ad play on their Google Home device is not yet clear. If Google Home's sale numbers are anything like Amazon's, there's a chance that it was reached by millions.
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Google Home's competitor, the Amazon Echo, is pictured. Since the Echo's launch in 2015, an estimated 8.2 million Americans are believed to have purchased one.
The Consumer Intelligence Research, which has kept track of Amazon Echo's sales, reported in January that an estimated 8.2 million Americans own one of Amazon's devices. The market researcher, alas, does not keep track of Google's numbers. A Google spokesperson declined to comment to The Huffington Post on their Google Home sales numbers.
When reached by HuffPost, a Burger King spokesperson did not say whether the company has plans to bring their ads to the radio, or create ads targeting other kinds of AI assistants.
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Swiss ex-FIFA boss Blatter 'not afraid' of going to trial
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Former president of World football's governing body FIFA, Sepp Blatter, leaves the building of the Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland with his lawyer (unseen) to attend a hearing in Zurich, on August 9th 2021. SEBASTIEN BOZON / AFP
Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter says he will continue fighting fraud allegations, and does not fear his case possibly going to trial, he told a Swiss weekly in an interview published on Sunday.
Former world football chief Blatter, 85, faced four days of questioning by a federal prosecutor earlier this month in a long-running probe into a suspected fraudulent payment a decade ago.
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In the case that shook world sport, Blatter is being investigated over a two million Swiss franc ($2.2 million, 1.85 million euro) payment to Michel Platini in 2011, who was then in charge of European football's governing body UEFA.
Blatter was forced to stand down as FIFA president in 2015 and was banned by FIFA for eight years, later reduced to six, over ethics breaches for authorising what prosecutors termed a "disloyal payment".
The Office of the Attorney General (OAG) of Switzerland, which has said Blatter faces "suspicion of fraud, breach of trust and unfaithful business management," has yet to announce whether it will indict him or dismiss the case.
Blatter, who has always maintained the payment to Platini was above board, told the Le Matin Dimanche weekly he was not worried.
"I am not afraid of a trial," he said in the interview, published on Sunday, adding that he had heard from a number of lawyers that the case against him was not credible.
In a statement issued before the hearing with the prosecutor began earlier this month, Blatter reiterated that the payment had been "based on an oral contract that regulated Platini's advisory activities for FIFA between 1998 and 2002."
"The payment was delayed because FIFA was initially unable to pay out the entire amount — and Platini only made the claim in 2010."
Blatter, who spent two months in hospital in December and January after undergoing heart surgery, acknowledged though that he remained weak and could not undertake a trial immediately.
"Physically, I am not yet ready," he told Le Matin Dimanche.
He said doctors had written him off twice while in hospital, saying there was nothing more they could do for him, but he held on.
"Now I want to continue fighting."
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Amanjen, Marrakesh
You can take a girl out of Marrakesh, but you can't take Marrakesh out of the girl. I'm so attached to the centre of the 'Red City' and the maze-like alleys of its old town, the medina, that I am always reluctant to leave. Any hotel outside of the city walls – and there are lots of them now, with many more new openings on the horizon for 2014 – was going to have to really impress to contend with my love for those intimate places in the old town.
Amanjena hotel, then, was a pleasant surprise. Rather than miss the medina, having been here for a couple of hours, enjoying its serenity, I was loathe to go back into the bustling streets in central Marrakesh. Out of town on the road to the desert kasbah at Ouarzazate, Amanjena is simply beautiful. Arriving guests are led through gates to an enormous entrance hall, typically Moroccan in design but given modern touches with round velvet sofas and elegant dining chairs. A bar to one side has Moroccan tiling and intricately carved wooden doors, but doesn't feel OTT as some Moroccan hotels can.
The service was thoughtful – when a waiter saw me struggling to make notes in the half dark, he brought up a large candle and placed it on the pretty octagonal table beside me.
Beyond the entrance lies a vast lake surrounded by palm trees, modelled on Marrakesh's Menara gardens (this one is for display only, but the hotel's 33-metre pool for swimming is just around the corner). It feels like it goes on for miles. Everything is still, and as night falls staff light candles and the glow glimmers off the water. It really is beautiful, and calm, and suddenly I realise that while Marrakesh's medina cannot be missed, Amanjena makes a stunning counterpoint.
Guests at Amanjena can rent private pavillions, which are so secluded it is possible to visit and hardly bump into other guests at all. They are perfect for those seeking peace, quiet and privacy. Some have private pools, and have clean modern lines and wooden furnishings, with Moroccan touches such as ochre coloured walls and keyhole shaped doorways. There are private dining areas to which staff can bring food if guests do not wish to eat in the hotel's two restaurants. Bathrooms have Amanjena's own brand of toiletries, and beautiful low marble baths. The scale is enormous and after the confines of the medina everything feels luxuriously spacious.
The spa is secreted behind another intricately carved wooden door. I am welcomed into a beautiful high ceilinged entrance corridor, with traditional Moroccan tiling. A rose filled pool sits in the waiting area, where I am offered tea, water, and a plate of Moroccan sweets (I went for a coconut orb, covered in crunchy sugar crystals). There is a pleasant (read: not overly strong) scent of honey and cedar. There are Amanjena branded products in the showers along with body lotion, rose water and argan oil at the sinks. Facilities include male and female hammams, a glassed-in whirlpool and a gym.
The Signature Bloom is a Moroccan speciality. I'm first left to steam in the traditional marble hammam (bath house). Lying in this (single-sex) shared space may sound intimidating, but it is more authentic than those spas in which you are taken into a private room for this stage. It is really no different from sharing a steam room in a normal spa. My therapist then comes to cover me in traditional Moroccan black soap, made from olive oil and scented with eucalyptus for its healing properties. She then uses an exfoliating mitt – which is as tough as sandpaper but leaves my skin as smooth as a baby's bottom – to do a full body exfoliation. She then covers me in orange blossom scented rhassoul mud – I am convinced the smell is heaven sent – and leaves it to work its magic before rinsing. This treatment really is impressive: next I am taken back to the waiting area and served a plate of exquisitely chopped fruits and some water, before being shown to the massage room. A 50 minute knead with argan oil follows, during which lots of attention is given to the hands and feet. When I leave the spa, my skin is almost luminescent and the softest it has ever been.
Amanjena has two restaurants – The Restaurant serves Moroccan and Mediterranean cuisine in a beautiful room centred around a scalloped onyx fountain and olive trees. Guests can dine outside in the summer months; the restaurant serves dinner only. The Thai Restaurant, by the swimming pool, is open for breakfast, lunch and dinner; its walls are clad with antique Moroccan horse saddles.
Sipping mint tea to candle light by that amazing lake as the sun sets.
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If you are looking for the grande dame of Moroccan hotels, you are reading the right thing. La Mamounia has been the ritziest of Marrakesh's hotels for 90 years: it has welcomed guests from the Rolling Stones to Winston Churchill, and today remains the place to be seen for French, American and British visitors to the Red City. The ambiance by the swimming pool is St Tropez-cum-Morocco. Swish sunglasses, dinner jackets and designer bikinis are in full evidence.
The hotel's magnificent entrance hall, improved after a three-year renovation overseen by Jacques Garcia, is burgundy with rich, draped curtains and porter staff in traditional dress. The ceilings are traditionally Moroccan – finely painted in rich reds, blues and greens – but marble and glassware keep things contemporary.
To the hotel rear, through a lobby with a ceiling painted by Jacques Majorelle, and past the Italian bar, where there is live jazz music every night except Wednesday, lies the stunning swimming pool and La Mamounia's eight acres of beautiful gardens. I take a dip in the pool – with its central palm tree island in the middle – and wonder at how I am basking in 29 degree heat at the beginning of November.
Winston Churchill reportedly said La Mamounia was the most beautiful spot in the world: at least in terms of hotels, he might have been right.
Khoutoubia suite room 330. My enormous suite was one of the best the hotel has on offer, and it really was quite plush. The private terrace had a beautiful view over the famous Khoutoubia mosque, and the larger lounge had the most incredible carved and painted ceiling, along with three dangling Moroccan lanterns. An antique keyhole- shaped door, complete with intricate carved plasterwork, leads through to the beautiful bedroom. The bathroom is enormous and filled with La Mamounia branded products: large bottles of shampoo, shower gel, conditioner, a loofah and bath salts. My only gripe was that the shower did not have any protection in the form of a curtain or glass screen, which meant that the water flooded the neighbouring dressing room. I'd recommend avoiding using the standalone shower and taking a bath instead.
La Mamounia's 2,500 square metre spa is probably the best in Morocco. Through a calm interior courtyard lined with Moroccan tiles, and down a flight of stairs lies this calm space, where the sounds of fountains and soft Moroccan music soothe guests. Black marble and orange leather are the dominant materials, and sumptuous taffeta curtains separate the changing areas from the reception.
The indoor swimming pool (separate from the large outdoor one) makes you feel like a queen: it is surrounded by columns and has its own lounging platform suspended in the middle. For those not staying at the hotel, day passes are available.
One hour Mamounia massage. I don't say this without careful consideration, but this was possibly one of the best massages I have ever had. My therapist noted that I had one of the knottiest backs she had ever come across, and tailored the treatment accordingly. I'm not going to pretend it wasn't painful at moments, but I got the sense she would not have used such pressure if it hasn't been necessary. She really took control of my back and manipulated areas that masseuses don't normally reach, such as the sides of the rib cage. Afterwards, as I sipped mint tea served from a silver pot in the relaxation area, my limbs and torso felt more supple than they have in a very long time. Products used are MarocMaroc, Shiseido, and Laric for nail treatments.
Le Marocain restaurant for traditional Moroccan cuisine with a twist; L'Italien, for Italian dishes, and Le Français, overseen by the two Michelin-starred chef Jean-Pierre Vigato. In Le Français, I ate a beautifully- cooked steak, prepared as requested (rare), accompanied by stuffed vegetables. My amuse-bouche of celery gazpacho was slow to come, although this may have been because a private function in Le Marocain had left Le Français busier than normal.
A divine breakfast is served poolside in the Pavillion de la Piscine – and where do I start!? The format is that of French grocery deli, with a cheese counter, a meat counter, a smoked salmon counter, a fruit counter, a make-your-own-muesli counter, and a central table with the finest of French breads and patisserie. The Pavillion is also open for pool-side lunches.
A stroll in the Mamounia gardens, which are lined with white roses, palms and orange trees.
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Although the Environment Program is still young, I am pleased with what we have accomplished and how we have generated local, national, and global impact. We have built a vibrant team with successful hiring of outstanding faculty and staff. Students around the globe are turning to us for the innovative iMEP program that prepares future global environmental leaders. We have started exciting new research projects with support from reputable funding agencies. We have launched new initiatives that bridge academics, industry, and policy. Our academic and outreach activities have been reported widely by Chinese and international media.
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5 Jun 2017 ... Nursing Reflective Essay – Mentorship. ... The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) (2004) states, that as a registered nurse, you must keep your knowledge and skills up-to-date throughout your working life. You also have a duty to facilitate nursing students and others to develop their competence.
This will enable them to assess students performance, benefits of mentoring in nursingkerri wigginswilmington universitybenefits of mentoring in nursing	nursing is an evolving profession with an aging work force. The hospital realizes that going from a classroom and clinical setting to on hands bedside patient care can be a 46). As leaders, we are challenged with healthcare transformation.
Mentors have an important role in ensuring the acquisition of knowledge obtained at university translates into competency in practice and does not lead to the theory practice gap described by cope et al (2000). As the student was on a four week placement the assessment process will be discussed incorporating the qualities of the mentor and the effect it can have on the mentorstudent relationship. This is a wide universe, for the stakeholders are many.
The assignment aspires to critically discuss different theories of adult learning relating to samanthas practical and academic experiences. Mentors now have to be aware of the nhs institute for innovation and improvement, nhs leadership qualities framework, which gives mentors clear instructions about their responsibilities (kinnell and hughes 2010). Currently my facility has a six to months mentoring program for new graduates.
Educational audits by the clinical lead universities monitor clinical learning environments for their appropriateness of learning provision, enabling the ward to facilitate change if necessary to ensure continuing suitability as a clinical placement (nmc 2008). As finkelman (2006) stated, mentoring, and important career development to that can be used by nurses any type of set or specialty, can be used to develop the critical leadership skills needed by nurses. Most of these new nurses are graduates from local nursing schools and have done most of their clinical nursing education at this facility.
The responsibility to seek acceptance and advice lies in the new grad. Then there are the administrators of the program who must continually search out money and grants to keep the program going. It will also show if i have continued my professional mentorship	mentorship relationships have demonstrated a capability to improve the recruitment, training and retention of nurses.
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This has created a great impact in the us in the sense that not all nurses have had to meet the qualifications needed so as to work in the hospitals. This assignment will critically review the key issues for the preparation of an effective learning environment and appraise the opportunities and challenges experienced when facilitating learning in practice. Enlisted aide community is struggling with recruitment of top qualified candidates to fill these high priority billets. With numerous test outcomes 2-5 of the module. Nursing students and influenza awareness the influenza vaccine is a vaccine in which can be very beneficial to anybody especially if they work in the healthcare field.
I will look at any possible improvements that could be made within the clinical setting, to better mentorship. It makes the new grads believe they are wanted and helps them adapt to the changes in the nursing programeven though registered nurses are in high demand, victor valley community college instituted a multi screening point assignment to really weed out applicants that are qualified for the program. As the student was on a four week placement the assessment process will be discussed incorporating the qualities of the mentor and the effect it can have on the mentorstudent relationship. These include to provide everyone with the communication skills to successfully interact with various stakeholders. The assignment aspires to critically discuss different theories of adult learning relating to samanthas practical and academic experiences. Nursing students in particular have a high chance of getting this virus since they are going to be in contact with many patients on a daily basis. Vvc offers an associate program, which would normally be two years long. The adage that nurses eat their young is a common well-known phrase. The new grad can also request a new mentor after three months if she believes such a change is necessary to enhance her training. After mentoring students, this assignment will give me the opportunity to understand what a mentor is, as well as the importance of the role in supporting students through their journey in becoming a registered nurse.
The facility has found that the mentoring program builds confidence in the new grads and respect for the mentor. The nursing and midwifery council (nmc) defines the role of a mentor as a nurse with specific training who is able to facilitate learning, and supports and supervises students in a practice setting (nmc 2008). Reflecting upon my experience i will progress to discuss how i facilitated learning by creating learning opportunities. First, of course, we have instructors at the university level, most of whom have been or are practicing professionals. The mentor has the same option if approved by the nurse leader.
All successful leaders have had mentors are our mentors (finkelman,2006, p. This means that a mentee determines the capacity of the mentoring relationship and decides upon the amount of dependence and guidance he or she needs. Nursing students and influenza awareness the influenza vaccine is a vaccine in which can be very beneficial to anybody especially if they work in the healthcare field. First, of course, we have instructors at the university level, most of whom have been or are practicing professionals. This is a wide universe, for the stakeholders are many.
The article is published in a reputable peer review journal, nurse education today and written through research conducted with georgetown university. The powerful position of a manager within an organization determines virtually every employees experience in life. Since this educational assignment is to critically reflect on the experience of mentoring and assessing a student in clinical practice. The new nurse has the choice of how much she wants to interact with the mentor. The registered nurse mentor will acts as teachers by sharing knowledge and expertise, counselors by providing psychological support.


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AGP tour plans on being Quake Live only
February 2, 2009 No comments Article
The AGP-Tour website is being finalized and in about two weeks the last stage of its beta phase will begin. Over at fragster.de an interview was published with Jarod Reisin, the CEO of AGP's "Quake only"-Tour.
For those of you who don't know what the AGP Tour exactly is,… don't worry, you're not alone. About a year ago the organizer Jarod Reisin announced the AGP Tour would organize tournaments for several 1v1 games, such as UT, Q4 and Q3 as well as cover them in a way that's not been done before.
Yet as soon as this news was released, the whole project just seemed to pretty much fall flat on it's butt. Today however it seems they are renewing this dream, yet now exclusively for Quake Live duels.
Which features are you planning to release for the actual tour?
Jarod: Details on the upcoming tour I can give are small. I can tell you one thing: We plan on using Quake Live only.
So you put all your efforts into a game which is still being developed. What if it won't be released at the end of the year?
Jarod: We will use Quake 3 if it is not ready or useable. But it will be (smiles). Also, I would like to apologize to the communities if I may: It is for earlier in 2008, mentioning we would use four games. I jumped the gun on that and would have loved for that to be possible. But it seems that it would have been very complicated in many areas to do such a thing. I personally apologize for that. In the future, as we grow, we would like to open up new tours supporting other games, so anything is possible. But for now, the AGP Tour is Quake3/Live only.
Very interesting as well will be the new AGPtour.com's "Classics section":
Also, a big feature will be our "Classics" section where we have all major Quake 3 tournaments since they began and will slowly have videos of all the matches (that we can get demos for). Right now our Classics section will cover Quake 3 1v1 and later on other modes like TDM and CTF as well.
Always nice to see events like AGP tour having faith in this upcoming game, Quake Live. You can read the full interview with the AGP tour organizer Jarod Reisin at fragster.de.
You can join the AGP Tour on IRC at #AGPTour on quakenet.


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Recollections : One Story at a Time
Alf's Teaching Notes
Children 1950s
Teenagers 1960s
Young Adults 1970s
Parents 1980s
Auntie Bert, a "sterling character"
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These three young women are our grandmother Alfreda on the left, with her two younger sisters, Beatrice in the middle and Berta on the right.
Alfreda's set jaw and determined look reflect her independence and demand for an education. I fancy I can see both the rebel and the farmer in Beatrice's broad face. But look at the gentle, faraway, passive prettiness of Berta. What experiences are already clouding her young face?
About ten percent of the whole of Australia'a population, the country's young, fit men, set off to war in 1914. More than half of them were killed, gassed, wounded or taken prisoner. There was no such diagnosis as "post traumatic stress", but we can extrapolate from the modern experience of returning soldiers.
What happened to the equivalent ten percent of young women, who, in different circumstances, would have been marrying them and having their babies?
Our Auntie Bert became one of the many "maiden aunts" of that very specific generation. The family lore is that she "had opportunities" to marry but "chose to stay in the bosom of her family". We do not know what the reality of her young life was. Had she been a boy, she would have been one of the 417,000 men who enlisted. One would presume that virtually all the young men she might have had a romantic interest in… brothers of her friends, boys from church, at work, on the train, in her neighbourhood… nearly all would have been absent for four years from when she was 18 until she was 22.
Berta Holm was born in 1896. Her childhood and early adult life was spent in St Kilda.
The family story is that Berta and Beatrice unlike their older sister, Alfreda, did not hunger for an education.
Alice and Marge said this in quite a disapproving tone, which made us wonder about the accuracy of the statement, that Auntie Bert left school at Grade 4, declaring that she would prefer to help her mother at home. In Grade 4 she would have been nine or ten!
At the time Victoria was a progressive state and proud to be the first Australian state to create a system of free, secular and compulsory education. This legislation introduced in 1872, required all children aged 6-15 years to attend school unless they had a reasonable excuse. Schools were built, and a system of inspectors employed to enforce compulsory education. Fines for non-attendance were five shillings and increased for further offences. Did Auntie Bert leave school at the tender age of nine or ten? We think it more likely that she attended a State school, maybe unwillingly and, after trying a private school for young ladies, left at the age fifteen. Their disapproval of the lack of enthusiasm for education, compared to their own mother's, probably colours the story about their aunt. The view of Auntie Bert we were brought up with, was that she was good with her hands, but, to soften and elevate this statement in true Holm fashion, it was followed by, she was a superb craftswoman and much in demand: not academic but exceptional.
Some time after she left school Berta went to work in Flinders Lane.
At that time Flinders Lane was the centre of the 'rag trade' where many Jewish firms had their businesses. Amongst them was Slutskins, for whom both Berta and Beatrice worked doing 'white work'. Whitework embroidery is the general term for hand embroidery worked with white threads on white fabrics. It is one of the most elegant and timeless styles of embroidery and was used on underwear, night gowns, table linen, handkerchiefs, baby bonnets, christening gowns and many other small items.
After some experience in this area Berta became forewoman, in charge of a group of other women.
We only have Alice and Marge's childhood recollections from which to piece together Berta's life.
In early 1925, when she was twenty-nine, perhaps moving away from her parents' home for the first time, she left her job, probably that responsible position as forewoman. She went, for an unspecified time, to the country, to help her married sister with a toddler and a baby, and to help serve in her brother in law's hardware shop.
Alfreda had given birth to Alice, our mother, in 1923. She had had a terrible time, alone, during her first delivery, resulting in the death of the baby. We don't know anything about Marge's birth or the subsequent few years, except that they were quite near to family help. But when Alice was fifteen months old, Alf and Alfreda moved to Bacchus Marsh. Alfreda was "weak from the birth". The descriptions of her crying, while scrubbing the floor and having to spend whole days in bed, apparently requiring the help of her unmarried sister, makes us think of post natal depression.
Alf too had what we would today call "mental health issues". He was a gentle, quite scholarly person, and the business venture in Bacchus Marsh, on the eve of the Great Depression, took a toll on his health. It is no wonder Marge and Alice remember Auntie Bert as a tower of strength and support.
In 1928, the old dry house they had been living in caught fire. At the top of the burning staircase were the little girls in their nighties, Alf sedated, because he was in the midst of a "nervous breakdown", Alfreda, reportedly trying to find her stockings, and Bert, who carried Alice down the stairs. Marge was carried down by her father, finally awake.
The destitute family were taken in by "the Pierces". Nell Pierce was a lifelong friend of Auntie Bert. Did they meet there at Bacchus Marsh? We don't know.
The family stayed on for at least a year in Bacchus Marsh, but Berta moved back to Melbourne, once again moving in with her parents, probably her only option.
Now in her early thirties and unmarried Berta must have turned her attention to a job. As far as we know this is when she decided to start her own business as a dressmaker. At first she worked from her bedroom, building her business and reputation.
The business was eventually profitable enough to allow her to move to premises in Riversdale Road, Middle Camberwell and then to Burke Road in Camberwell, just over the junction.
I can remember the junction premises quite vividly. It was one big room on the first floor. Big windows looked out onto Burke Road, letting in light and sunshine that fell on the big work tables. Several dressmakers dummies stood in the corner where the fitting room was screened by curtains. It seemed a very busy place.
The big tables, that dominated the space were covered in the paraphernalia of dressmaking. There were several sewing machines, many reels of sewing cotton, several pairs of big dressmakers shears, other dressmaking scissors and many tins of pins. Rolls of fabric and garments in various stages of construction took up the rest of the table space. Another woman was sewing at the table, presumably an employee, so business must have been good. We were probably there for a fitting, as Auntie Bert made 'good clothes', for Mum. These beautifully tailored clothes were worn to Church and were for special occasions, including weddings:
She also made us beautiful clothes including these woollen dresses:
Auntie Bert had an account at Ball & Welch, a prominent department store in Finders Street, Melbourne. She needed an account for her business and a reliable source of good quality fabric for her clients. Its four floors occupied one third of the total block and stretched between Flinders Street and Flinders Lane.
Its many departments included gloves, umbrellas and handkerchiefs, fabrics, furniture, china, millinery, furs and corsets. At one time twenty-six assistants were devoted to the sale of lace alone.
Members of the family were generously given access to Auntie Bert's account, making it possible to buy items on account and pay later. This was very useful at times, as there was no such thing as Credit Cards. At the end of the month, Auntie Bert sent out letters to all those who had used the account, and we reimbursed her by cheque. This was probably quite a task, not only the arithmetic, but also the sending out of all the individual letters.
I can remember enjoying trips to Ball&Welch. The lifts were staffed by attendants in uniform who recited the list of items available at each level as the lift rose between floors. Parcels were wrapped up in brown paper and string, on huge wooden counters. The expert shop assistants were reserved, formal and a little forbidding to a young child. The exchange of payment was quite a process. The shop assistants' job was to serve the customers, not handle the money. When payment was made, it was placed, with the hand written docket, in a metal canister that went shooting on wires across the departments and then upstairs to the Accounts Department. The docket was checked, change inserted, a receipt written and the canister whizzed back from whence it had come. Transaction complete.
The cash-ball system worked reasonably well, but the rails were intrusive and the interior layout of some stores did not allow certain counters or departments to be connected by inclined tracks. The ingenious Lamson then hit upon the concept of the "aerial railway" and set about tinkering with a gondola-like design, which became known as the wire-line or cable-carrier.
By the late 1880s, sales staff could secure cash inside a small wooden jar or canister, suspended by wheels from a taut wire that ran overhead from the sales desk to the cashier's station, which was typically a cage-like booth situated in the center of the store. By tugging firmly on a spring-loaded cord or lever known as the "propulsion," the canister would be catapulted along the wire, reaching its destination in mere seconds.
The cashier could then "return fire" with change and a receipt. Cashiers who worked in booths on levels above the sales floor could simply release the canister and let gravity return it to the appropriate counter.
Ball and Welch closed its doors in 1970, the end of an era .
Berta's sister, Beatrice had taken up dairy farming in the early 1950s, near Cockatoo, in the Dandenong Ranges. The bulk of the work was done by her husband, and three sons. In 1955, the wife of Rob, the middle son, died, leaving a baby daughter, Julie, to be raised by her grandmother.
Into the breach stepped Berta. She moved into a small bedroom in the farm house, and became a second mother to Julie. We remember her room. It had been part of the farmhouse verandah, and the whole room was about twice the size of the single bed. It was neat, sparse and dark.
Our memory of Auntie Bert at the farm is solely inside the farm house. Unlike Auntie Beat, who mucked out the pigs, wearing layers of old jumpers and a woollen beanie, Auntie Bert was always nicely dressed. We remember her in well-cut woollen skirts, stockings and heeled court shoes, with classy jumpers and cardigans. We picture the two of them in the kitchen, both wearing aprons, turning out scones and cakes on the wood stove. Auntie Bert became a permanent and valuable member of the family, looking after the "boys" and Julie.
While her main home and focus was life at the farm, Auntie Bert continued, as she had her whole life, to be the family helper and nurse. She had looked after both her own parents in their final years, and she came to live with us to help out with her elder sister: our Nana, Alfreda, who had dementia. We remember her as a quiet unobtrusive presence in our home. A few years later she came again and helped with Alf, our grandfather, in his final weeks.
So Alice saw first hand, the skill and care of Berta's nursing:
Apart from staying temporarily with other members of the family, usually to help out during family crises, Berta lived there at the farm, until her death in 1976, aged 80.
Alice reflected on Berta's death and the simple generous life she lived:
From left to right, Nana, Auntie Bert and Alice:
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About 1950, our mother's aunt, Beat, and her husband Bill sold up their grocery store and their Balwyn house, took their youngest son out of school, and bought a dairy farm in the Dandenong Ranges at Nangana, near Cockatoo.
It was called "Sefton Park", but it became "The Farm" to us, as we were growing up, and it was one of the very, very few places we visited socially.
By the time we were regularly visiting The Farm, the eldest son, Doug had married and moved out. He became a bus driver and spent his whole life living at Avonsleigh, near Emerald.
The next son, Rob, had married young, built another house on the property and had a child, Julie. Rob's wife, Pat, died of breast cancer when Julie was still a baby, and Rob moved back to his family home. About that time our mother's unmarried aunt, Bert, moved to The Farm, presumably to help her sister with this motherless baby.
So this rural property supported Beat and Bill, Rob and his daughter Julie, youngest son John, and Beat's sister Bert.
Auntie Beat and Uncle Bill:
Down at the creek. From left to right (we think): Auntie Beat, Uncle Bill, Rob, Pat, Doug and a neighbour or visitor:
When I picture the farm and its people, in the 1950s, I see Auntie Beat and the men in layers of worn out hand knitted woollens: shapeless jumpers and cardigans, beanies, fingerless gloves, scarves. Auntie Beat wears heavy woollen skirts, thick stockings and socks. By the back door are a row of huge gumboots. Everywhere out side the house is mud, and away from the immediate house and garden, they all wear gumboots. In the dairy they wear heavy canvas coats or aprons. In the house, images of checked aprons, floury hands come to mind.
The journey to the farm with four children in the back seat, or perhaps Chris on Mum's knee, always seemed a happy and interesting trip. It was about forty-seven kilometres from Box Hill, mostly through farmland, orchards and bush, and probably took us about an hour and a half.
The first highlight was Bennett's Cottage in Burwood Road, on top of the hill just past Station Street. The crumbling walls of the wattle and daub hut, of one of the early white settlers, still stood in a paddock. We were told all about wattle and daub and the early settlers, and it remained in my mind into adulthood, as something to be marvelled at.
The next landmark was Tally Ho Farm and Boys' Home, on the corner of Springvale Road and Burwood Road. This marked the beginning of the country as the road shrunk to a narrow strip of bitumen that ran in a straight line between orchards and paddocks to the next hill at Vermont.
It then wound its way to Upper Ferntree Gully, then a small town at the base of the Dandenongs. Our route through the Dandenongs always took us through Belgrave, Selby and Menzies Creek to Emerald. From here there were several options but the routes we took are hazy. The only clear memory for both of us is of a very lovely narrow, undulating, dirt road through the bush.
Woori Yallock Road:
Sefton Park, as The Farm was named, spanned the road. The creek flats, which were on our left as we approached the farm, ran down to the Woori Yallock Creek that flowed alongside heavily timbered hills. These were the jewel in the crown and were known as 'the flats'. At this point we could get a glimpse of the dairy and the roof of the house. White painted fences bordered the drive and framed the gateway of the cypress-lined drive to the house. The house, dairy and sheds all sat on a small hill probably an old levee bank of the creek, so the drive sloped gently up to the house.
As we piled out of the car, the farm dogs under the cherry plum strained at their chains and yapped, and Auntie Bert and Beat could be glimpsed walking up the garden path wiping their hands on their aprons. Greetings, hugs and queries about the journey over, we adjourned to the kitchen for afternoon tea. The house was entered from the back door that opened into a wide spacious hallway from which opened the bathroom and the hallway leading to Auntie Bert's room and the boys bedrooms. The kitchen was occupied by a very large rectangular kitchen table where most of the food preparation and meals etc took place. At the far end under a window was the kitchen sink and in the chimney opposite the door was the wood stove.
The toilet was in an unpainted wooden building down a winding path from the house. The heavy wooden door was held shut with a small rectangular block of wood which turned through ninety degrees. It was dark, smelly and spidery inside.
On a wide, flat platform facing the door was a handmade heavy circular lid, topped with a wooden handle. The bench was too high for little girls to be able to properly lift the lid, so it was wriggled sideways to reveal a deep dark chasm.
Mounting the platform and inching back so that one was seated over the fetid depths was an act of courage. I remember my legs stuck out straight in front.
Dismounting required wiggling forward and revealing once again the dark depths.
We had toilet paper in our much less terrifying outdoor dunny at home. Here, there were squares of scratchy newspaper on a string.
It was important to remember to replace the heavy circular lid, and then to wash our hands in the bathroom, just inside the farmhouse door, with a thick slab of yellow soap.
In winter of course the house was toasty warm. We all sat down to afternoon tea and ate scones with lashings of farm cream and all washed down with copious cups of tea and farm milk of course. After news was exchanged the ritual of the visit dairy to watch the milking and the pilgrimage to the pigs took place.
The main business of the farm was dairying. They had a herd of dairy cows: jerseys with huge liquid eyes. There were farm dogs, but the cows made their own way up to the dairy, in the late afternoon, following muddy, well trodden paths through the paddocks.
In turn they filed into the dairy, and into one of the six milking stalls, and the noisy diesel powered machine cranked up. The teats were washed with an old towel in a bucket of soapy water, a loose chain was put under the tail around the rump, and a set of shiny metal tubes was attached to each udder, with audible sucking sounds.
Each cow chewed contentedly on food in a trough at the back of the stall, as her udder, hidden by the tubes, pulsing rhythmically. Eventually she would finish, be set free and make her way out the back of the shed and another would plod in to take her place. I remember being very impressed by the way the cows seemed to know what to do.
The only glimpse of the milk itself was in a high up glass ball into which the milk pulsed as it was pumped into the room behind the dairy.
After the last cow had made her way back out to trek slowly down the hill, the clunking machine would be turned off and the clean up would begin.
Dairy farming involves the sad business of poddy calves, separated from their mothers and sold. We remember calves being fed from a bucket, but not the significance of this.
The dairy business sold cream, separated from the milk in a high tank. This used centrifugal force to collect the lighter cream and send it through a separate channel. We remember the whole milk being pumped into the tank along a wide, shallow chute.
The remaining skim milk was used on the farm to feed the pigs, Auntie Beat's pride and joy.
The milk was mixed with some sort of grain to produce a mash, which was poured into troughs for the pigs.
Our visits always involved trekking down to the smelly pig sheds, where huge sows sloshed around or lay on their sides, in spacious, but muddy pens, surrounded by little pink and brown piglets. They also had access to the surrounding paddock: it was a far cry from modern factory pig farming, a cruel and hateful process. I can't find in my memory any emotion connected to the actual pigs. Sue remembers cuddling the hand-reared orphan piglets in the kitchen by the slow combustion stove and the boar, who lived permanently in the muddy paddock.
We're not sure exactly how many pigs there were, but there were about four pens, where the sows and piglets were. Possibly they were only kept in those pens when they had their piglets, and roamed in the paddock the rest of the time.
I remember Auntie Beat lifting the massive lid on some huge ground level tanks to proudly reveal a seething mass of fat maggots, her clever way of dealing with the pig excrement.
I remember our mother's wry amusement at Auntie Beat's enthusiasm for the pigs. Apparently she had been an elegant and sophisticated lady in her earlier life. But this version of Auntie Beat, sloshing around the pigsty in her gumboots and several layers of shapeless cardigans was all we knew.
Mostly I remember the smell!
Quite often while the grown ups were chatting we were allowed to play in the hay shed with Julie. It was such fun! The hay shed was a traditional barn shape and covered in red painted galvanised iron, peeling. Most of the painted surfaces at the farm appeared to have peeling paint. It was open on one side, so it was light and airy and a child's paradise.
Rectangular bales of hay were stacked to the roof along the back and then in descending tiers. Chooks and cats played, scratched and slept in there too. We climbed all over the bales up to the roof, built cubbies and played.
There were a few variations to this routine that I can remember. Once we went shooting on the flats with Dad and I was allowed to have a shot at a rabbit and on a few occasions we went blackberrying. We also went for a big walk up the hill over the flats. An exciting ride down to the flats in the tractor trailer and over rickety home made wooden bridge, was followed by what seemed like a big walk up the wooded hill to the top. The best adventure though, was the day we visited during hay cutting season. I can still picture it. It was a lovely clear summer day. We watched the dry, cut grass baled up into the neat rectangular bales we were familiar with in the hay shed.
Towards evening, after the milking, it was time to leave. Laden with fresh cream, milk and flowers, we made our way up the garden path to the car. After many warm hugs, we began the journey home. Often it was dark by the time we passed Emerald and it was at this point in the journey that we sometimes sang. The Ash Grove features in my (Sue's) memory, as it was hard for me to get to the high notes. The rounds we sang were also fun and a very good activity for tired children squashed into the back seat.
'The Farm' visits remain in our memories as fun, and an adventure in our simple lives. It was not only because we played in hay shed and joined in the farm activities, but because we were very fond of Auntie Beat, and particularly Auntie Bert.
'The Farm' is still a working property today. Rob remarried, another Pat while Bert and Beat were still alive and living in the old farm house.
Rob and Pat built a new house in the front paddock, had a family, and took over the working of the farm. Tragically, Rob was killed in a tractor accident when the children were still young. Pat stayed on, running the farm, looking after the children and working part time as a nurse.
We have visited infrequently since Bert's and Beat's deaths, briefly making contact again when Jono and Sue kept bees in the top paddock.
This photo was taken in 1983. In the background is the old farm house. Back row from left to right: pregnant Margaret, John, Jono and Alice, our mother.
The farm is in good hands. Pat stopped the use of fertilisers in the paddocks and the dairy herd became a totally organic operation. Today one of Pat and Rob's sons runs a very successful organic vegetable growing business, supplying top Melbourne restaurants with fresh produce. Beat and Bill would be pleased that today one of their great grandsons still works the farm.
Here is an aerial view of the farm today. The original farm buildings are in the bottom of the picture. Pat's house is on the other side of the drive, closer to the road. Today it is surrounded with greenhouses.
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