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LOS ANGELES, Dec. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Local celebrities and more than 220 members and supporters of the Japan America Society of Southern California (JASSC) enjoyed a rare dinner experience Saturday night at its Iron Chef Sakai LIVE event, featuring a multi-course gourmet meal prepared by Japan's most famous chef, Hiroyuki Sakai, better known as "Iron Chef Sakai". (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20121213/LA29166) The dinner took place at the InterContinental LA...

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Iron Chef Sakai LIVE, a dinner experience featuring a multi-course gourmet meal prepared by Japan's most famous chef, Hiroyuki Sakai, better known as "Iron Chef Sakai," will take place at the InterContinental LA Century City at Beverly Hills, 2151 Avenue of the Stars, Los Angeles, Calif., on Sat., Dec. 8, 2012, at 7:00 p.m. Iron Chef Sakai will prepare three courses of the gourmet dinner and the InterContinental's executive chef, Jonathan...

WASHINGTON, March 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Blackboard Inc. today announced the appointment of Charles Severance, a longtime leader and one of the founders of the Sakai community, to a senior role to lead the company's initiative on the Sakai open source learning management system (LMS). Severance's work is part of a new business launched by Blackboard - Blackboard Education Open Source Services - to support institutions using open source learning management systems like Moodle and...

DENVER, Nov. 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Sakai Foundation is seeking nominees for its third annual international Teaching with Sakai Innovation Award. Representatives from the Foundation announced next year's competition at the EDUCAUSE Conference in Denver, CO, today. The intent of the award is to highlight examples of innovative and transformative educational applications of Sakai. The third annual Teaching With Sakai Innovation Award (TWSIA) will continue to build on the energy...

Police in Japan say they suspect arson in the Katsuura blaze that tore through a house rented by singer and actress Noriko Sakai. Sakai and her husband, Yuichi Takaso, were arrested during the summer and indicted for allegedly keeping illegal drugs at the vacation home. The Kyodo News service said police think Sunday's fire at their house is one of a rash of blazes set in the area this weekend. No injuries were reported in the fire.

Japanese actress and pop star Noriko Sakai was charged Saturday with drug possession after disappearing for several days following her husband's arrest. Police in Tokyo who searched her apartment Friday said they found drugs and obtained an arrest warrant, Kyodo news service reported. Sakai surrendered late Saturday at a Tokyo police station. ''I don't remember stimulants being in my room, Sakai allegedly told police. But if they were there, it must be true.'' Sakai, 38, also known as...

ANN ARBOR, Mich., July 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Winners of the second annual Teaching with Sakai Innovation Award (TWSIA) were announced this morning during an award ceremony at the 10th International Sakai Conference taking place in Boston, MA. The first-place award winner is Dr. Andrea Crampton from Charles Sturt University (Australia) for her course "Introduction to Forensic Science." Second place went to Dr. Edith Sheffer from Stanford University (USA), for her course "Germany and...

Enables educators and administrators to easily evaluate and use world-class learning environment HOUSTON, June 9 /PRNewswire/ -- click2try (http://www.click2try.com), a community site that makes it easy to try and use Open Source software, today announced it has added Sakai CLE to its online catalog of Open Source applications. Sakai is an enterprise-level collaboration and learning environment for educators. Sakai is an Open Source application that lets individual instructors customize...

The executive directors from The Sakai Project and JASIG/uPortal will each deliver a LIVE Webinar executive briefing broadcast from EDUCAUSE covering the current state of their respective open source technology platforms and the future direction of their communities. Presented by Michael Korcuska of the Sakai Project and Jonathan Markow of JASIG and uPortal, the LIVE Webinars will take place on Thursday, October 30, 2008 from 12:35 p.m. to 1:35 p.m. EDT. To register for the Web event, visit:...

Unicon, Inc., the leading provider of open source software consulting services for the education market, today announced a schedule of C-level technology briefings to be delivered during the EDUCAUSE 2008 Conference October 28-31, 2008 in Orlando, Florida. The twenty-minute briefings, followed by a 10 minute Q&A, will be delivered by experts from prominent open source organizations, technologists at leading educational institutions, as well as corporate presenters from Cisco and Oracle. Open...