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Perspective — June 21, 2013, 9:00 am
On the NSA's That '70s Show Rerun
What would Frank Church say about the Snowden Affair?
By Michael Ames
Frank Church speaking at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee[*] hearing. Photograph courtesy the Frank Church Papers, Special Collections and Archives, Boise State University
The most surprising thing about Edward Snowden's historic leak of top-secret intelligence documents is that anyone has been surprised at all. The National Security Agency (NSA) has brought us within view of a totalitarian America, we are told. The largest spying organization in the history of human civilization, arguably the vastest and most incomprehensible creation of the United States federal government, has finally gone too far. They are tracking our phone calls. Facebook and email messages have been handed over. The status of our text messages cannot be definitively vouched.
The story itself is juicy, too, its details bursting with cinematic flavor: the Hong Kong hotel, the man with the Rubik's Cube, the Icelandic immunity uncertainty, and the lithe libertarian girlfriend in Honolulu, her young love sacrificed for Truth. Snowden's age and overall bearing give him the air of a technocratic Millennial martyr, but strip away the graphite patina of metadata, supercomputers, and yottabytes, and you see echoes of earlier controversies. We've been here before.
[*] These two items were corrected after publication. The photo caption initially identified the hearing's setting as the Church Committee, when, according to the Frank Church Institute, it was most likely the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; and Frank Church was a third-term senator in 1975, not yet a fourth-term senator (he was re-elected in 1976), as initially indicated.
In 1975, a popular fourth-term[*] Democratic senator from Idaho named Frank Church was serving as chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. After he learned that letters he'd sent to Russia had been intercepted by government snoops, he was outraged. "It was an affront to his privacy," says Pat Shea, a committee deputy director under Church , "an affront to the separation of powers." Church convened and chaired a series of committees that shed light on what was sometimes referred to as the "No Such Agency," a government body formally created in 1952 by President Truman that until 1975 had undergone zero congressional oversight.
The Snowden Affair is a "rerun" of issues first uncovered during the 1970s, though these problems trace back to the earliest American efforts at espionage, says Shea. Between 1975 and 1976, the Church committees produced more than a dozen reports detailing the illegal activities of the NSA, CIA, and FBI, which included opening mail, intercepting telegrams, planting bugs, wiretapping, and attempting to break up marriages, foment rivalries and destroy careers of private citizens. "We thought we put a stop to this wholesale collection of information on Americans forty years ago," says Peter Fenn, another former Church staffer.
Espionage and its attendant notions of paranoia and dishonor were established intrigues of the era. In 1970, before Nixon made eavesdropping the iconic crime of the decade, a Newsweek cover asked, "Is Privacy Dead?" Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation (1974) starred Gene Hackman as a tech-savvy private eye who runs around San Francisco in a membranous trench coat, penetrating various barriers to privacy before eventually succumbing to the paranoia inherent to his work. Later that year, Seymour Hersh and the New York Times broke a bombshell about the CIA's "family jewels" operations—a nefarious laundry list of overseas-assassination plots, break-ins, and surveillance of journalists (current Fox News commentator Brit Hume among them) and popular antiwar figures including Martin Luther King, Jr. and John Lennon.
The NSA grew apace with improvements in technology, and Cold War pressures built an unstoppable institutional inertia. By the mid-1970s, it was using a wafer-thin device that could pick up and isolate twenty-five distinct conversations in a room of fifty people. According to James Bamford's definitive history of the agency, The Puzzle Palace, by the early 1980s, the NSA was collecting, recording, and storing all Soviet transmissions — not just military or diplomatic or radar messages, but everything being broadcast, wired, typed, or spoken in Russian. This so-called "vacuum cleaner" approach became the norm for American surveillance, feeding an inexorable hunger to trawl as broadly and deeply for information as possible.
According to an internal report written by NSA historian George Howe and declassified in 2007, the NSA has had "responsibilities exceeding its ill-defined powers" since it was a military outfit known as the Armed Forces Security Agency (AFSA) in the early 1950s. The revelations that the government had ordered Verizon to turn over bulk call logs of millions of customers, and that the NSA's PRISM program had, with the participation of tech companies, gained access to private electronic communications was scandalous, but far from unprecedented; in the years after World War I, Herbert Yardley, the pioneering codebreaker and founder of the proto-NSA Cipher Bureau, coerced Western Union and Postal Telegraph into sharing private international telegrams. The secret arrangement expanded after World War II to include RCA Global and ITT World Communications, helping the government copy and store ever greater troves of data, first on reels of punched paper and then on magnetic tape. The program, which ran from 1945 to 1975, was codenamed SHAMROCK, and according to a report written in 2007 by former CIA Inspector General Britt Snider, it was "known only to a few people within the government."
Church Committee hearing. Photograph courtesy the Frank Church Papers, Special Collections and Archives, Boise State University
The Church Committees brought a swift end to the decades of relative autonomy and the legacy of abuse that resulted. During the Vietnam era, the abuses expanded, as the CIA teamed with the NSA to infiltrate domestic antiwar groups. One of the most egregious operations, code-named Chaos, saw eleven undercover agents grow out their hair and join the ranks of hippie activists to help build extensive case files on more than 7,000 peace protesters. In his exhaustive CIA history, Legacy of Ashes, Tim Weiner writes that the mischief was guided by President Lyndon Johnson and a handful of congressmen, who were determined to prove that Communists were behind the peace movement and the major 1967 race riots in Detroit, Newark, and more than a dozen smaller cities nationwide.
The NSA, Church wrote in a final committee report, "could be turned around on the American people, and no American would have any privacy left." His prescribed solutions sound staunchly conservative by today's standards. "The root cause of the excesses," he wrote, "has been [the] failure to apply the wisdom of the constitutional system of checks and balances to intelligence activities." Based on the committees' work, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act was passed, in turn creating the FISA Court that oversees surveillance warrants. These reforms are still the strongest legal impediments to abuse of power by the intelligence community. But the Church Committee affected the country's political culture in subtler ways. Even as Church stood for honor and openness, the secrets he uncovered revealed that the trust between Americans and their government wasn't as strong as we'd wanted to believe.
Nearly forty years after Church, the NSA has grown to three times the size of the CIA. Partly in response to the gross intelligence failures of the years leading up to September 11, 2001, the physical infrastructure of surveillance has metastasized. In the Utah desert, the government is finishing construction on a massive data center — essentially a $2 billion external hard drive — that Bamford reports will use as much energy as every house in Salt Lake City combined.
When Pat Shea left the senate intelligence committee in 1976 to move back to Utah for work at a private law firm, a friend who worked for the CIA gave him a satellite photo of Salt Lake City. "Just know that we'll always be watching," the man joked. Shea left Washington wary of intelligence overreach, but he also believes, contra Snowden, that most of what the NSA is currently doing entails "reasonable law enforcement." He also recognizes that since 9/11, there has been constant pressure to build a more powerful vacuum cleaner. Contractors like Snowden's Booz Allen Hamilton have been brought in to offer the government more eyes and ears, earning billions for their services, and bringing us to an era when roughly 1.4 million Americans have top-secret clearance.
A Washington Post–ABC News survey this week found that, while a majority of Americans support today's intelligence-gathering methods, two-thirds of them would also like Congress to hold public hearings on NSA activities. Faced with the question of how to balance freedom and security in what we like to think of as the most open society in the world, Frank Church and his colleagues preferred to err on the side of personal liberty. Shea worries that today's hyperpartisan congress won't enforce the checks and balances that are needed to keep rogue elephants in check. He is among a growing chorus calling for a new Church Committee, an independent commission comprised of intelligence-savvy officials who will put the ideals of open, fair and effective government above short-term politics. Church was "an ethical giant," Shea says. "We now live, unfortunately, in a world of ethical midgets."
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Michael Ames wrote "The Awakening: Ron Paul's generational movement" for the April 2013 issue of Harper's Magazine.
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Luis Robert promoted to Birmingham
Zack Burdi will join Robert in Birmingham, and Steele Walker earns a promotion to Winston-Salem
By Joe Resis Updated Apr 30, 2019, 1:45pm CDT
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Moving on up: Luis Robert is one of the latest White Sox prospects to earn a promotion.
Photo by Jamie Schwaberow/Getty Images
Luis Robert is being rewarded for tearing the cover off the ball with the Winston-Salem Dash this season, as he is moving up to Class AA Birmingham. After fighting off injuries for much of his time in the organization, Robert is off to a flaming-hot start, as his slash line sits at a crazy .453/.512/.920 after 84 plate appearances. MLB Pipeline ranks Robert fourth among White Sox prospects, eighth among all outfield prospects, and 37th among all prospects. This will be the 21-year-old outfielder's first experience above Class A+, and he appears to be more than ready for the challenge.
Zack Burdi also earned a promotion to Class AA Birmingham. Burdi was sidelined for much of 2018 due to Tommy John surgery the previous year. He has not gotten many innings lately as a result. He pitched 6 1⁄3 innings and allowed two earned runs in the Arizona League last year. In his rehab assignment in Class A Kannapolis, he pitched three innings and allowed three earned runs, though that is a tiny sample size, and his advanced peripherals showed that he was quite unlucky in those innings (0.63 FIP, 1.35 xFIP). The 24-year old right-hander was the second of two 2016 White Sox first round picks. MLB Pipeline ranks him 16th among White Sox prospects. Before Tommy John surgery, Burdi got a decent amount of experience in Class AAA, with 33 1⁄3 innings there in 2017 (4.05 ERA, 2.86 FIP, and 2.92 xFIP).
Steele Walker is the last of the major promotions, as he moves up from Class A Kannapolis to Class A+ Winston-Salem. The 2018 second round pick has been cruising right along with Kannapolis, slashing .365/.437/.581 in 87 plate appearances this year. That is not quite a Luis Robert slash line, but he is not too far from that. According to MLB Pipeline, Walker is the White Sox No. 11 prospect.
Moving up to Birmingham with Robert and Burdi is starter Kyle Kubat. Kubat chased a strong 2018 at Winston-Salem (6-3, 3.55 ERA, 1.204 WHIP) with a sizzling start to 2019 (2-0 in four starts, 1.23 ERA, 0.727 WHIP).
Joining Walker in the move from Kannapolis to W-S is imposing reliever Austin Conway. Conway, a 2018 31st rounder, has a 0.00 ERA through five games (six innings), with 13 Ks, three walks and a 0.833 WHIP.
José Nin, meanwhile, is making the jump from Winston-Salem to Charlotte. Nin has pitched in eight games in 2018, with three saves, a 3.65 ERA and 1.135 WHIP. He has 16 Ks against just three walks.
Connor Walsh also makes the jump to Charlotte, from Birmingham. He had a 3.52 ERA in 7 2⁄3 innings (six games) for the Barons.
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Q: Connect to Quickbooks using QODBC driver remotely via PHP I have Quickbooks installed on a local machine. QODBC is installed and I can successfully connect to QB both with their VB demo test tools and via PHP running on the local machine.
I'm simply using odbc_connect("QuickBooks Data", "", "");
However, I need to connect back to this machine from a remote machine where PHP is running the same script. What should the connection string look like? Should I be connecting to QuickBooks Data or QuickBooks Data QRemote
It seems that QRemote is meant to work only if the Remote Client is installed on the remote machine. As I'm connecting from a Linux (non gui) machine, I don't believe that's possible. However, I have opened up the necessary ports to connect to QRemote and verified via telnet that it's open.
How do I connect? Thanks.

A: I would suggest to use Windows machine instead of Linux machine, install PHP, use either IIS or Apache and install QODBC.
With QODBC , QRemote will get install automatically.  QRemote can work locally and remotely.
If you have QuickBooks Install the the PHP machine, you can use QuickBooks Data QRemote and connect locally.
Incase you have QuickBooks on remote machine, you can configure the DSN "QuickBooks Data QRemote" and  point to remote machine's IP Address.
QODBC driver is meant to be installed on a Windows machine to access the data.
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http://support.flexquarters.com/esupport/index.php?/Default/Knowledgebase/Article/View/2517/
How to use QODBC with PHP
http://support.flexquarters.com/esupport/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/2623/0/how-to-use-qodbc-with-php

A: For now, QODBC cannot be installed on Linux machine. But if you know any driver or method to link Linux to call DSN/Driver on the machine, you should be able to use QODBC from Linux.
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For now, you can use a windows box at the remote site.
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http://support.flexquarters.com/esupport/index.php?/Default/Knowledgebase/Article/View/2517/
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The majority of businesses in the United States are family owned and/or do not have a public market within which ownership interests can be bought and sold. Buy-sell agreements can provide certainty, providing business owners with a framework for the purchase and sale of their interests, including disposition on death, retirement, disability, or bankruptcy. When buying or selling a business, generally the first, and perhaps most far-reaching, decision that willing parties (i.e. a buyer and a seller) to the transaction must agree upon is whether to structure the transaction as a Stock Purchase Agreement or as an Asset Purchase Agreement. In a Stock Purchase Agreement, a shareholder sells his/her/its stock in a corporation to a buyer, who takes the corporation as he/she finds (with all assets and liabilities, known and unknown, existing as of the time of the sale). In an Asset Purchase Agreement, on the other hand, the corporation sells some or all of its assets (as negotiated between the corporation and the buyer) to a buyer, who then becomes the owner of the assets. Provided below is a summary of the many issues to consider when considering the purchase / sale of a business. Not surprisingly (if you have read entity formation), many of the issues largely revolve around "tax" and "liability".
Note, the following summary assumes the business is a corporation, as opposed to a sole proprietorship, general partnership, limited partnership, limited liability company, or limited liability partnership; the reason being, that only corporations have "stock", and thus one can't enter into a "stock purchase agreement" without there being a corporation at hand. Many of the issues below also apply to these other entity types, but for more specific information please reach contact RassmanLaw today.
From the selling shareholder's perspective, there is only one (1) level of tax, namely a capital gains tax that the selling shareholder will pay on the difference between the sales price and the selling shareholder's basis in his/her stock. If the corporation is a c-corporation, a stock purchase agreement generally results in less tax to the selling shareholder than results from the two (2) levels of tax incurred in an asset purchase agreement (see below).
From the buyer's perspective, the corporation has a "carry-over basis" in its assets; as a result, the corporation continues to depreciate its assets on the same schedule as existed prior to the transaction. Generally, a "carry-over basis" is less favorable to a buyer than a "step-up basis" that results from an asset purchase agreement (see below).
From the selling shareholders' perspective, if the corporation is a c-corporation, there would be two (2) levels of tax to the selling shareholder: 1) first, the corporation would pay a tax on the "gain" resulting from sale of its assets; and 2) second, the selling shareholder would pay a tax on the dividend he/she receives from the corporation after the sale.
From the buyer's perspective, he/she will receive a "step-up basis" in the assets he/she acquires, allowing greater depreciation deductions for the acquired assets. The buyer may also be able to amortize the "goodwill" purchased in the transaction, again allowing greater depreciation.
From the buyer's perspective, because he/she takes the corporation as he/she finds it, the corporation continues to own all assets, and carry all liabilities (known and unknown), that existed prior to the transaction. The risk of assuming all liabilities (known and unknown) of the corporation often requires additional due diligence from the buyer and results in greater legal fees for the buyer.
From the buyer's perspective, he/she can choose which assets to acquire from the corporation, and which liabilities to exclude; as compared to a stock purchase agreement wherein all assets and liabilities remain in the acquired corporation.
From the selling shareholder's perspective, he/she may have to wind down the corporation after its assets are purchased, which includes paying any liabilities not assumed by the buyer and dissolving the corporation.
From the buyer's perspective, because he/she takes the corporation as he/she finds it, he/she may not have the "titling" issues that may exist after an asset purchase agreement (see below).
From the buyer's perspective, he/she may have to re-title the assets purchased, assign contracts entered into by the corporation (e.g. leases, employment agreements, etc.) that the buyer assumes, assign permits / licenses bought from the corporation, etc. – all of which may result in greater legal fees for the buyer.
Stock purchase agreements may involve Federal and California securities issues, resulting in greater legal fees and administrative requirements.
Asset purchase agreements may involve bulk sales laws, resulting in greater legal fees and administrative requirements.
If the corporation has more than one (1) shareholder, complications may arise obtaining the consents of minority shareholders, resulting in greater legal fees and administrative requirements.
Even if the corporation has more than one (1) shareholder, less complications arise with respect to minority shareholders under an asset purchase agreement than under a stock purchase agreement.
Summary: For both tax and liability reasons, you can see that sellers generally prefer Stock Purchase Agreements while buyers generally prefer Asset Purchase Agreements, though of course every transaction is different and this is not a bright-line rule.


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The therapeutic hope for HDAC6 inhibitors in malignancy and chronic disease
Sri N. Batchu, Angela S. Brijmohan, Andrew Advani
Clinical Science May 06, 2016, 130 (12) 987-1003; DOI: 10.1042/CS20160084
Sri N. Batchu
Keenan Research Centre for Biomedical Science and Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5C 2T2
Angela S. Brijmohan
Andrew Advani
For correspondence: advania@smh.ca
Recent years have witnessed an emergence of a new class of therapeutic agents, termed histone deacetylase 6 (HDAC6) inhibitors. HDAC6 is one isoform of a family of HDAC enzymes that catalyse the removal of functional acetyl groups from proteins. It stands out from its cousins in almost exclusively deacetylating cytoplasmic proteins, in exerting deacetylation-independent effects and in the success that has been achieved in developing relatively isoform-specific inhibitors of its enzymatic action that have reached clinical trial. HDAC6 plays a pivotal role in the removal of misfolded proteins and it is this role that has been most successfully targeted to date. HDAC6 inhibitors are being investigated for use in combination with proteasome inhibitors for the treatment of lymphoid malignancies, whereby HDAC6-dependent protein disposal currently limits the cytotoxic effectiveness of the latter. Similarly, numerous recent studies have linked altered HDAC6 activity to the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases that are characterized by misfolded protein accumulation. It seems likely though that the function of HDAC6 is not limited to malignancy and neurodegeneration, the deacetylase being implicated in a number of other cellular processes and diseases including in cardiovascular disease, inflammation, renal fibrosis and cystogenesis. Here, we review the unique features of HDAC6 that make it so appealing as a drug target and its currently understood role in health and disease. Whether HDAC6 inhibition will ultimately find a clinical niche in the treatment of malignancy or prevalent complex chronic diseases remains to be determined.
aggresome
histone deacetylase 6 (HDAC6)
misfolded protein response
proteasome
EGF,
epidermal growth factor;
EGFR,
epidermal growth factor receptor;
ERα,
oestrogen receptor α;
Foxp3,
forkhead box P3;
G3BP1,
Ras-GTPase-activating protein SH3 domain-binding protein-1;
HAT,
histone acetyltransferase;
HDAC,
histone deacetylase;
HSF1,
heat shock transcription factor protein 1;
HSP27,
heat shock protein 27;
IL-10,
interleukin-10;
IMiDs,
immunomodulatory drugs;
NES,
nuclear export signal;
NLS,
nuclear localization signal;
SE14,
Ser-Glu-containing tetrapeptide;
TGF-β,
transforming growth factor-β;
UPS,
ubiquitin and proteasome system;
VCP/p97,
valosin-containing protein;
ZnF-UBP,
ubiquitin-binding zinc-finger domain
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THE 18 MEMBERS OF THE HDAC FAMILY
HDAC6: A HISTONE DEACETYLASE APART FROM THE REST
HDAC6 SUBSTRATES AND INTERACTING PARTNERS
HDAC6 KNOCKOUT MICE HAVE A GENERALLY BENIGN PHENOTYPE
NON-ENZYMATIC ACTIONS OF HDAC6
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		// m_logger->info("Failed to add message_{} to thread_{}, check message.", message->id(), this->id());
		return RETURN_FAILURE;
	};
	// put the new messsage to the front of the queue.
	m_messages.push_front(message);
	// m_logger->info("Successfully added message_{} to thread_{}.", message->id(), this->id());
	return RETURN_SUCCESS;
}

string Thread::str() {
	// Build the string representation as <thread_id>([message_id_1[, message_id_2...]])
	// m_logger->info("Trying to get string representation of thread_{}.", this->id());
	string ret = "";
	for (const auto& message : m_messages) {
		if (message == nullptr) { //Check if message somehow got deleted
			// m_logger->warn("message in thread is null!");
			continue; //We don't return because showing something is better than showing nother in real life usage.
		}
		ret = ret + (*message).str() + ", ";
	}
	ret = to_string(m_id) + "(" + (ret == "" ? ret : ret.substr(0, ret.size() - 2)) + ")";
	// m_logger->info("Got string representation of thread_{} as: {}.", this->id(), ret);
	return ret;
}

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First post in this off topic bit and, I've been on forums that ban politics discussion so apologies if I have broken house rules but this made me chuckle.
For the record I think all of them are as bad as each other.
Yeah they are all a very useless bunch of so and so's. But in terms of music what's everyone listening to? I'm a Tom Grennan man myself at the moment!


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The Idiot Returns () is a 1999 Czech film directed by Saša Gedeon. The movie is loosely based on The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky. It was the Czech Republic's submission to the 72nd Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not accepted as a nominee.

Plot
František returns from a mental institution where he spent most of his life. He meets Anna, and later her lovers Emil and Robert, and her sister Olga.

Cast
 Pavel Liška as František
 Anna Geislerová as Anna
 Tatiana Vilhelmová as Olga
 Jiří Langmajer as Emil
 Jiří Macháček as Robert
 Zdena Hadrbolcová as Emil's and Robert's mother
 Jitka Smutná as Anna and Olga's mother
 Pavel Marek as Krtek
 Anna Polívková as Girl at dancing lessons

Awards
 1999 Czech Lion Award for Best Film
 1999 Czech Lion Award for Best Screenplay - Saša Gedeon
 1999 Czech Lion Award for Best Director - Saša Gedeon
 1999 Czech Lion Award for Best Supporting Actress - Anna Geislerová
 1999 Czech Lion Award for Best Music - Vladimír Godár
 2000 Best Actress at Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema - Anna Geislerová and Tatiana Vilhelmová
 2000 Best Screenplay at Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema - Saša Gedeon
 1999 International Jury Award at São Paulo International Film Festival - Saša Gedeon

See also
 List of submissions to the 72nd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
 List of Czech submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

References

External links

1999 films
1999 romance films
Films based on The Idiot
Czech romantic films
Czech Lion Awards winners (films)
Golden Kingfisher winners
Stillking Films films
1990s Czech-language films

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Tourism sector has to be transformed - Mahumapelo
Jan Gerber
Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Tourism Supra Mahumapelo addresses the media after his election to this position. (Jan Gerber/ News24)
Local tourism 'more accessible' but why are fewer international tourists coming to SA?
Online accommodation may shimmer, but how can you avoid booking in the sticks by mistake?
Hotel chains bet on Africa's rising
Fresh from his election as chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Tourism, Supra Mahumapelo has set the transformation of this sector as one of his priorities.
"Tourism is something that is very close to my heart," the former premier of the North West told the media after his election on Tuesday.
"But the reality, globally and also in South Africa, is indicating that tourism is a very, very important pillar of the economy which we are going to push much harder."
He said one of the focus areas of the committee must be how they hold the executive accountable for using tourism to eradicate poverty in villages, townships and small towns – or "small dorpies" as he likes to call it in Afrikaans.
"When you look at StatsSA, the embeddedness and pronouncement of poverty are in the villages, and the townships and the small towns - that is the small dorpies. So that is where we need to channel our resources to."
He said the second issue he wants to look at is the transformation of the tourism sector.
"The tourism sector is one of the [most] stubborn-nest sectors to transform in this country. So, we'll not be fighting anybody, we'll not be chasing anybody. But we'll take the facts and put them on the table, that are issued by StatsSA and all relevant institutions globally and here in the country. And by not fighting anyone, by saying how do we work together to overcome the slow pace of transformation in the tourism sector, because, it is pathetic."
Supra Mahumapelo after being elected chairperson of the PC on Tourism #6thParliament @TeamNews24 pic.twitter.com/oZjJdXDA92
— Jan Gerber (@gerbjan) July 2, 2019
Mahumapelo said South Africa's demographics are very clear.
"The number of black people and Africans is very low within the tourism sector. So without pushing our white compatriots away, who are already in the tourism sector, we will have to come together, and say: 'What is the best solution under the circumstances?' "
He said they must ensure to use tourism to build a non-racial South Africa.
"...But by not pushing other people to the periphery. But by agreeing that we have a problem and we must find a solution as the people of this country – black, Indian, whites, coloureds, all of us. We must come together."
However, he said they should not be hypocritical by running away from the truth.
"And one of the truths of this country is that we remain un-transformed in this particular sector."
"But most importantly, in the villages and townships, there are associations of people there, who are in their own smallenyana operations and so on. We'll have to say 'how do you work with them, how do you push them forward?'"
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using namespace std;

#include <ossim/ossimConfig.h>
#include <ossim/base/ossimArgumentParser.h>
#include <ossim/base/ossimApplicationUsage.h>
#include <ossim/base/ossimConstants.h>
#include <ossim/base/ossimEndian.h>

int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
   enum
   {
      OK,
      ERROR
   };
   ossimString tempString;
   ossimArgumentParser argumentParser(&argc, argv);
   ossimArgumentParser::ossimParameter stringParam(tempString);

   argumentParser.getApplicationUsage()->setApplicationName(argumentParser.getApplicationName());

   argumentParser.getApplicationUsage()->setDescription(argumentParser.getApplicationName()+" Swaps bytes of input_file and outputs result to output_file.\
   \n\nNotes:\n\
   - Data type of a short (two bytes per pixel) is the default.\n\
   - Supported bytes_per_pixel:  2, 4, and 8");

   argumentParser.getApplicationUsage()->setCommandLineUsage(argumentParser.getApplicationName()+" [-h][-b <bytes_per_pixel>] input_file> <output_file>");

   argumentParser.getApplicationUsage()->addCommandLineOption("-b", "bytes_per_pixel");

   argumentParser.getApplicationUsage()->addCommandLineOption("-h", "Prints the usage");

   argumentParser.reportRemainingOptionsAsUnrecognized();

   if (argumentParser.errors())
   {
      argumentParser.writeErrorMessages(std::cout);
      exit(1);
   }

   if(argumentParser.read("-h") || argumentParser.read("--help"))
   {
      argumentParser.getApplicationUsage()->write(std::cout);
      exit(0);
   }
   //***
   // Extract optional arguments.
   //***
   ossim_uint32 bpp = 2; // bytes per pixel
   if(argumentParser.read("-b", stringParam))
   {
      bpp = atoi(tempString);
   }

   // // Two required args:  input_file output_file
   if(argumentParser.argc() < 3)
   {
      argumentParser.getApplicationUsage()->write(std::cout);
      exit(ERROR);
   }

   if (bpp != 2 && bpp != 4 && bpp != 8)
   {
      cerr << "swapbytes:main ERROR:"
           << "\nUnsupported bytes per pixel:  " << bpp
           << "\nSupported values are:  2, 4, and 8"
           << endl;
      exit(ERROR);
   }

   // Input stream to source file.
   ifstream is(argv[1],  ios::in | ios::binary);
   if (!is)
   {
      cerr << "swapbytes" << " ERROR:\n"
           << "Cannot open:  " << argv[1] << endl;
      return false;
   }

   // Output stream to new file.
   ofstream os(argv[2], ios::out | ios::binary);
   if (!os)
   {
      cerr << "swapbytes" << " ERROR:\n"
           << "Cannot open:  " << argv[2] << endl;
      return false;
   }

   //***
   // Get the file size of the source.
   //***
   struct stat stat_buf;
   stat(argv[1], &stat_buf);
   ossim_uint32 inputFileByteSize = stat_buf.st_size;

   ossim_uint32 totalPixelsToSwap = inputFileByteSize / bpp;
   double totalPixels = totalPixelsToSwap; // for percent complete

   cout << "\ninputFile:          " << argv[1]
        << "\noutputFile:         " << argv[2]
        << "\ninputFileByteSize:  " << inputFileByteSize
        << "\npixelsToSwap:       " << totalPixelsToSwap
        << "\nbytes per pixel:    " << bpp << endl;

   //***
   // The byte size should be evenly divisible by bytes per pixel (bpp);
   // if not, consider this an error condition and get out.
   //***
   if (inputFileByteSize % bpp)
   {
      cerr << "Error:  Byte size of file should be evenly divisible by "
           << bpp
           << ".\nExiting..." << endl;
      is.close();
      os.close();
      exit(ERROR);
   }

   const ossim_uint32 DEFAULT_SAMPLES = 512;

   unsigned char* lineBuff = new unsigned char[DEFAULT_SAMPLES*bpp];
   ossim_uint32 pixelsSwaped = 0;
   ossimEndian oe;

   while (pixelsSwaped < totalPixelsToSwap)
   {
      ossim_uint32 pixelsLeftToSwap = totalPixelsToSwap - pixelsSwaped;

      ossim_uint32 itemsToSwap = (DEFAULT_SAMPLES < pixelsLeftToSwap) ?
                           DEFAULT_SAMPLES : pixelsLeftToSwap;

      ossim_uint32 bytesToSwap = itemsToSwap * bpp;

      // read the input line.
      is.read((char*)lineBuff, bytesToSwap);
      if (!is)
      {
         cerr << "\nERROR:  Reading image line." << endl;
         is.close();
         os.close();
         delete [] lineBuff;
         exit(ERROR);
      }

      pixelsSwaped += itemsToSwap;

      // Swap the bytes.
      switch (bpp)
      {
      case 2:
         oe.swapTwoBytes(lineBuff, itemsToSwap);
         break;
      case 4:
         oe.swapFourBytes(lineBuff, itemsToSwap);
         break;
      case 8:
         oe.swapEightBytes(lineBuff, itemsToSwap);
         break;
      }

      os.write((char*)lineBuff, bytesToSwap);
      if (!os)
      {
         cerr << "\nERROR:  Writing image line." << endl;
         is.close();
         os.close();
         delete [] lineBuff;
         exit(ERROR);
      }

      double pixSwapped = pixelsSwaped;
      cout << setiosflags(ios::fixed)
           << setprecision(0) << setw(3)
           << pixSwapped / totalPixels * 100 << "% \r"
           << flush;
   }

   cout << "\r100%\nFinished..." << endl;

   // Clean up...
   is.close();
   os.close();
   delete [] lineBuff;

   return OK;
}


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← Source code
In the context of [[interactive fiction]], [[source code]] is usually text which describes a game in terms a computer program can understand. Source code is usually processed by a [[compiler]] such as [[Inform 6]], [[Inform 7]], or [[TADS]], which produces a [[story file]] which may then be played in an [[interpreter]]. Some compilers, such as [[ZILF]] and [[Infocom]]'s original compiler [[Zilch]], compile the source code into an intermediate assembly code which is then passed to an [[assembler]] to make the finished product. Many games are published without their source code; however, some games do have their source code published. Source code of complete games is useful for learning purposes, or for hints of the game. In general, anyone who possesses the source code for a game can change that game in any way he likes, although republishing such a changed game is usually not a good thing to do, unless the original game was released under a license which grants this permission. Also, in most cases, if the [[author]] of a game has lost its source code, and that source code has not been published, it becomes difficult for the author to modify that game in any meaningful way. {{Stub|This is just off the top of my head. Feel free to expand, rewrite, etc.}} [[Category:Glossary]] [[Category:Publishing]]
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See-Dub: This is only a drill.
After 23 years of teaching, I felt like I'd seen it all, but today, I experienced something brand new. Today we had a lockdown drill.
I've been through two actual lockdowns. We had one because somebody thought a student had a gun. Turns out he just had a bullet, and unless he threw it really, really, really fast, we were never in actual danger. Better safe than sorry, right? Another lockdown happened because of a bank robbery near our campus. Since the suspect was on the loose, police locked down our building just to make sure the bad guy didn't try to use our classrooms as his hide-out. Again, we were never in danger. The threat was outside, and our entrances and exits were secure. That lockdown happened during our lunch, and I was one of the lucky ones sequestered in the teachers' lounge with good conversation, not to mention plenty of vending machine junk food. We guiltily worried about our colleagues stuck with cafeteria duty, charged with keeping all those kids in that big room calm, but a few hours after it began, we were free to get back to work.
In spite of those riveting experiences, I'd never been through a lockdown drill. And even though we knew it was coming, and even though it was made perfectly clear that it was just a drill, it was still unnerving.
When the loudspeaker announcement came, we were ready. We followed our procedures quickly, and our students (the ones in my classroom, at least) responded perfectly—just as I knew they would. After several minutes, we got the "all clear," and class resumed. But it took a while to shake that uneasiness, to let go of the thought I'm sure we all shared: What if this were real?
Columbine back in 1999 was my first real eye-opener, and I struggled to overcome my knee-jerk fear. Columbine was not just A high school; it was EVERY high school. I'm sure we weren't alone in thinking that could've happened to us. Just days after that tragedy, two of my students joked about the shooting, even saying how THEY would've acted if they had been in the shooters' place. I was really scared. When I started teaching, I knew I'd be nervous about greeting new classes, assumed I'd be anxious when dealing with certain behavior problems, but I never dreamed I'd be afraid to enter my own classroom. A couple of conversations with my administrators and a whole lot of prayer helped me find the courage to get on with the important business of teaching. But wow, it was tough for a while.
In the years since, with every school shooting, my colleagues and I have been through lots of "what ifs." Virginia Tech and then Newtown—oh, Newtown!—led to plenty of what-would-I-do scenarios. While I'm thankful for my school's clear lockdown plan, I know that there's only so much I or anyone could do.
I guess a drill like today's should help me feel a little more confident in our preparedness, but really it just makes me sad. I'm sad to think that extra security measures didn't save those babies in Connecticut. I'm sad that lockdowns have to be part of our educational lexicon. But I'm determined to do whatever is necessary to protect my students, just in case next time, it's not a drill.


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Q: How to configure SQL Server 2008 to take automatic backup daily? Hey anyone know how to take automatic backup of a SQL Server database once a day (or it may be daily or periodic bases)?
If you know any configuration of SQL Server then please tell me.
Or you may have solution by using a C# / .NET Windows application, then please also tell me.

A: Sure, it's quite easy!
Use SQL Server Agent. From SSMS go to "SQL Server Agent". Expand "Jobs", right click and select "New job". Go to "Steps" and add "New" step. Write your T-SQL code for SQL backup.
Go to "Schedules" and create new job "Schedule".
Finally, check if your agent has been started.
EDIT: You can also use "Maintenance Plan Wizard" from "Management" group, it's even easier because Wizard should generate (almost) all of the code for you and set up the Agent job.

A: Created a scheduled job, and look at the following to create the backup http://www.sqlexamples.info/SQL/tsql_backup_database.htm.
It makes use of BACKUP DATABASE @db_name TO DISK = @fileName;

A: You could use a third-party products though. Check this opensource backup windows service MFSQLBackupService, it did a great job for me.


A man in a suit searches desperately for something in a world devastated by ecological crises.
Dressed in a dark suit, a man runs in downtown Helsinki, becoming increasingly lost and out of breath. Running Man is a dramatised image of contemporary humanity: a hurried and lost figure in a world beset by ecological, economic and political crises. The work consists of several runs, each lasting for one hour, conducted once a week for one year. The runners are actors and dancers. The choreography of the runs is derived from the physical manifestations of psychological crisis reactions.
Running Man was a piece by artist Nestori Syrjälä. It won a competition arranged by public commission (Finnish State Art Commission & Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art) and ran for a year starting from summer 2016.
Johannes was the Running Man from January till May 2017 .


The recipe below is great for those with food allergies and intolerances because it doesn't contain anything harmful to the gut. As a matter of fact, its health benefits are abundant. The pesto is vegan, gluten-free, leaky gut diet approved and anti-inflammatory! Cilantro is a miraculous herb because it bonds to mercury in the body and draws it out. Pairing this pesto with fish is a great way to detoxify your body!
Happy eating and good health to you all!
1. Pre-heat oven to BROIL.
2. Wash salmon and pat dry. Place in broiling pan or on a large sheet of aluminum foil.
3. Season salmon liberally with salt, pepper and lemon juice.
4. Broil salmon fillets for 4 minutes (for medium rare). Then let rest for 5 minutes.
5. For pesto- blend all ingredients in blender until smooth. Taste and season with salt and pepper.
6. Serve salmon with 2-3 tablespoons of pesto over each fillet.
Chef's Tip - Cilantro pesto keeps for 3-4 days covered in the refrigerator. It's great on EVERYTHING! Use as a salad dressing, spread on bread, mix with steamed vegetables, on chicken, fish and beef. You will be addicted!


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lostnfiledsg
Capturing places in Singapore before they disappear
← Bridges of Singapore River
Buona Vista District →
Zion Road Estate
Since I ws blogging about the buildings and structures along between Singapore River previously, I might as well continue upstream and talk about this cluster of flats located near the mouth of the river that may disappear soon.
The curved Blk 92 Zion Road
Blk 88 to 92 Zion Road
Constructed: 1970s
Status: Lost
Demolished: 2014
Blks 86 to 92 were built in the early 1970s, with Blks 88 to 92 located between Zion Road and Kim Seng Road, and Blks 86 and 87 on the other side of Zion Road. Among them, Blk 86 is a food centre while Blk 87 is the only point block in the cluster. Blk 92, serving as the main frontage along Havelock Road, is slightly curved along the junction of Zion Road and Havelock Road.
The area is also less commonly known as the Covent Garden Estate. The SingPost (Covent Garden) branch at Blk 92 is one of the references to this name. Covent Garden, Covent Row, Covent Street and Covent Alley were roads that used to be in this area. These were named after the Covent Garden market in London, due to the presence of a similarly thriving market in this area. The roads were originally known as Cheang Hong Lim Market, Cheang Hong Lim Lane, Cheang Jim Chuan Street and Cheang Jim Kheng Street respectively, named after philanthropist Cheang Hong Lim and two of his sons. As there were many other roads named after members of the Cheang family, confusion arose, and in 1914, the Municipal Assessor renamed these few roads. The roads were expunged to make way for the flats.
One of the only few references to the original Covent Garden Estate
The empty SingPost (Covent Garden) branch
In addition to the food centre at Blk 86, two more coffee shops were located at Blks 89 and 91 as well.
The coffee shop at Blk 89
SERS was announced for Blks 88 to 92 in 2006, and by 2012, the flats were evacuated. In mid-July 2012, an event known as the Open House Zion Road (or O. H. Zion) was held at Blk 91 as a sort of farewell activity.
The shops have been vacated
In 2007, the Blk 86 food centre was demolished and was merged with the hawker centre at Blk 22A and 22B Havelock Road. With the SERS blocks demolished by early 2014, only the point block 87 would remain.
Zion Road Estate being demolished
Zion Road
Zion Road used to stretch from Hoot Kiam Road to the north of Singapore River only. Instead of spanning across the river and extending to Tiong Bahru Road, it turned toward the current Kim Seng Promenade and connects to Kim Seng Road. It was probably extended around the same time the estate was built. Havelock Road and Jalan Bukit Ho Swee were realigned slightly to accommodate the new stretch of Zion Road. Havelock Road, in particular, became truncated into two as a result, similar to the fate of Margaret Drive. The Kim Seng Promenade branch was continued to be known as part of Zion Road until the 1990s.
Zion Road and the nearby Zion Close are named after Mount Zion, a Christian association that ran two boarding schools, one for Malay boys and one for Malay girls, in this area from the 1850s to 1870s.
Chwee Hean Keng Temple水显宫
Constructed: 1903
Chwee Hean Keng Temple
Chwee Hean Keng Temple (水显宫), also known as Shui Xian Temple, is located along Zion Road, next to Blk 91. It is dedicated to Sam Tiong Ong (三忠王; "3 loyal lords"), 3 Song Dynasty officials who are now being worshipped as deities. They are Wen Tian Xiang (文天祥), Lu Xiu Fu (陆秀夫) and Zhang Shi Jie (张世杰). Other deities are also worshipped in the temple, including Guang Ze Zun Wang (广泽尊王), Hong Fu Yuan Shuai (洪府元帅) and so on. There used to be a separate Guang Ze Zun Wang temple further downstream, but was burnt down and is now incorporated into this temple. Chwee Hean KEng temple itself survived the Bukit Ho Swee fire in the 1960s.
Apparently this temple had no licence registered, and thus had problems finding a place to relocate to. Eventually, on Vesak Day 2012, it relocated to a temporary premise within Zheng Yi Tan (正壹坛) at 319 Upper Paya Lebar Road. I can't find any information on it thereafter though.
The Boys' Brigade
Status: Found
On the other side of Zion Road stands the Boys' Brigade campus. The Boys' Brigade has been in Singapore since it was introduced by James Milner Fraser, an architect from Britain, in 1930. The 1st Singapore Company was started in Prinsep Street Presbyterian Church.
The building was once the campus of Havelock Primary School, established in 1952. I can't find much information on the school beyond the 1980s though. Was it closed down or merged with another school?
Zion Riverside Food Centre
Although called the Zion Riverside Food Centre, it is technically located along the northern bank of the Alexandra Canal and not along the Singapore River. The 1-storey building houses 32 cooked food stalls, offering a range of economical food options.
Designed by Ong & Ong
Great World City consists of a 6-storey shopping mall podium, an 18-storey office tower and another 35-storey serviced apartment tower. I find the most distinctive feature of the shopping mall interior to be its "cloud" motives on its ceiling.
Great World Amusement Park
The plot of land where Great World City now stands was originally a Chinese cemetery. In the 1930s, the landowner, Lee Choon Yung, redeveloped the place into an amusement park. It's none other than the Great World Amusement Park (大世界; tua seh kai in Hokkien), namesake for the current shopping mall and the second of the 3 former amusement parks (known as "worlds") in Singapore to be built (the two other being Gay World and New World).
In 1941, Lee Choon Yung sold the amusement park to Shaw Brothers, as business could not take off. But war broke out before the Shaw Brothers could do anything to it. The site became a prison for Australian prisoners-of-war.
Business picked up after the war ended, and a grand re-opening was held in 1958. By then, most of the most iconic attractions of the park were already in place. The Ghost Train is perhaps one of the most representative carnival rides in Great World. The park also housed a wide variety of hawker selections, and 2 restaurants, including Wing Choon Yuen (now known as Spring Court Restaurant at upper Cross Street). Shaw Brothers also opend 4 cinemas in the premises of the park, namely Atlantic (大西洋戏院) and Canton (广东戏院), located along Zion Road; and Globe (环球戏院) and Sky (青天戏院), along Kim Seng Road. These cinemas shows a mixture of Chinese and English films, alongside the Cantonese, Teochew and Peking operas that could be found elsewhere in the park. The Flamingo nightclub was yet another famous attraction.
However, with the introduction of television and other sources of entertainment, Singaporeans soon lost interest in such amusement parks. The Great World Amusement Park closed down in 1964, although the cinemas and restaurants continued operating until 1978. The next year, Shaw sold the land to Robert Kuok, who owned the Midpoint Properties. The company planned to build a residential and shopping complex, but the plan was halted due to the high development charge required to change the landuse from an amusement park to a shopping area. The plan eventually pulled through, and Great World City was built.
In 2011, the film It's A Great, Great World, set in the Great World Amusement Park, was released. The park was reconstructed on a new site for the filming, and key attractions such as Flamingo, Wing Choon Yuen and the Ghost Train were featured.
Ministry of Manpower Employment Inspectorate
Ministry of Manpower Employment Inspectorate. If I'm not wrong this part is the old campus of Kim Seng Secondary Technical School
The Employment Inspectorate Department of the Ministry of Manpower is located in what seems like a prominent location in the education history of Singapore. The building cluser is formed by the old campuses of Kim Seng West School, Kim Seng East School and Kim Seng Secondary Technical School (金昇工艺中学). The nearby ERC Institute is located at the old buildings of River Valley English School and River Valley Government Chinese School. All these primary schools would later merge in 1985 to form River Valley Primary School (立化小学), which moved to its current campus nearby at River Valley Green in 2004. This was also where the old campus of River Valley Government Chinese Middle School (now River Valley High School 立化中学) used to stand, before moving to West Coast Road in 1986. The old campus also served as a holding school for Raffles Girls' School from 1988 to 1992, while its campus at Anderson Road was being upgraded.
The Ministry of Manpower offices moved to a new office building in Bendemeer Road in 2012, and the old building were subsequently demolished.
Here's a map indicating the specific locations of each of the old schools mentioned.
Kim Seng Plaza
Located along Kim Seng Road and next to Kim Seng Bridge, Kim Seng Plaza shares the same namesake as them. It consists of a 4-storey commercial podium and apartments in its tower block, with a total of 18 storeys. A 28-lane bowling alley was located on the 4th floor.
Centennia Suites, replacing Kim Seng Plaza
In 2006, the site was sold to Lippo Group, and went en-bloc the following year. It has since been demolished, and a new development, Centennia Suites, is being built on its location. It is not the only development of its kind in this area though. Similar developments such as the Cosmopolitan (replacing the old Times House building) and the Trillium are located further up Kim Seng Road.
Copthorne King's Hotel Singapore & Hotel Miramar, located opposite the old godown at Havelock Road
Holiday Inn Singapore Atrium & Furuma Riverfront Singapore are also located in the vicinity
In addition to all these developments, a cluster of hotels are also located around the junction of Kim Seng Road, Havelock Road and Outram Road. Two new MRT stations, the Great World Station and the Havelock Station (both are working names that may be changed following public consultation) of the Thomson Line, would be built on the north and south of the Zion Road flats respectively. Hence, it seems not surprising that this prime land would be needed for more "premium" development.
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Chionh | February 12, 2014 at 00:38 | Reply
Kim Seng Tech, Kim Seng East and West Pri buildings (ie MOM buildings) are all torn down already.
cardelo | February 14, 2014 at 00:53 | Reply
hey thanks for the update. Any idea what's going to replace the buildings?
Chionh | February 14, 2014 at 19:57 |
For the next 5 to 8 years, LTA will be building the Great World station of the Thomson MRT line in the adjacent plot. So this site will be a construction site for some time.
Jacky | April 16, 2016 at 07:16 | Reply
I am looking for old memories for blk 90 at Zion Road, would you have few nice photos of that?
Eddy | December 30, 2018 at 00:19 | Reply
Havelock Primary was closed due to declining enrolment and 520 students from the school subsequently joined Delta Primary. Source: https://fionaseah.com/tag/havelock-primary-school/
Helen | October 26, 2019 at 23:17 | Reply
Ministry of Manpower Employment Inspectorate – it was Kim Seng Tech Sec School, far view of our technical or science lab and upclose view of our school hall side staircase.. loads of memories.
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Take the 1 cup lukewarm water and mix the package of yeast into it. When you pour the yeast granules into the water, you allow the yeast cells to become active.
Pour the entire water-sugar-yeast mixture into the plastic bag. Push as much air as possible out of the bag and then seal it tightly shut.
Put the plastic bag in a warmish place (see this section to find out how to turn your oven into a warmish place). Come back in about an hour.
When you come back to your experiment, you'll notice that yeast cells do a really good job of creating carbon dioxide. You will see that the bag has partially filled with the gas, and that the liquid is full of carbon dioxide bubbles that the yeast has produced. A yeast cell can process approximately its own weight of glucose (sugar) per hour, and from the glucose (C6H12O6), yeast produces carbon dioxide (CO2) and ethanol (C2H5OH) (two molecules of each). Although yeast cells are small, there are billions of them available from the packet of yeast. You should be able to see a noticeable amount of puffiness in your bag after two hours. You may want to go to bed and let the bag sit overnight -- it will get quite puffy if you let it.


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Pennsauken teen opens fire on officers
By Andy McNeil ;
A Pennsauken teen who allegedly ambushed two occupied police cars Tuesday night wasn't the sharpest shooter.
Police had sought the 17-year-old for alleged connections to a string of armed robberies, according to Pennsauken Police Sgt. Cheryl Duffy.
Two officers in separate police cars were parked around 6:45 p.m. near 38th and Chestnut streets, where they could observe the teen's house, Duffy explained.
Then without warning, four shots rang out.
"He just opened fire," Duffy alleged of the teen. "He was at a vantage point where he saw two officers in his (sights) and took aim."
Neither the officers nor their cars were hit. Police believe the teen knew they were looking for him and was hiding in a grassy area not far from the Federal Street ramp.
The shots were fired from about 100 feet away and investigators characterized the attack as an ambush.
Other officers converged on the area and police chased the teen on foot across the border into Camden.
Duffy said officers spotted the teen tossing his gun as he went over a fence at the Myrtle Place apartments, where he was captured. A .45-caliber handgun was recovered nearby.
The teen was charged with two counts of criminal attempted murder and aggravated assault. He also was charged with resisting arrest and weapons offenses.
Police suspect the teen has connections to a few neighborhood robberies, but it's not clear whether he has ties to last month's spree of convenience store holdups in Camden and Burlington counties.
Investigators believe a group of men are responsible for at least eight armed robberies in South Jersey in recent weeks, including a Jan. 10 robbery-turned-shooting in Pennsauken.
In that incident, a 28-year-old store clerk was shot four times after being confronted by three robbers at the 7-Eleven on Westfield Avenue around 12:45 a.m.
The clerk survived.
Reach Andy McNeil at amcneil@gannett.com or (856) 486-2458. Follow him on Twitter @Andy_McNeil.


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Bond prices SURE to drop because of coming interest rate hikes?
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Since Feb 2018, bonds and reits have fallen and have not recovered to Feb highs. With interest rates rising, they have fallen out of investor's favour. Yet recently, many SREITS are now making 20 day highs, outperforming most SGX stocks. Like wise bonds have recovered slightly after long tenor bonds were beaten down.
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Medical and health services managers' titles depend on the facility or area of expertise in which they work.
Most medical and health services managers work full time. About 3 in 10 managers work more than 40 hours per week. Work during evenings or weekends may be required in healthcare settings that are open at all hours, such as hospitals and nursing homes. Medical and health services managers may need to be on call in case of emergencies.
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Most medical and health services managers have at least a bachelor's degree before entering the field. However, master's degrees are common and sometimes preferred by employers. Educational requirements vary by facility and specific function.
Medical and health services managers typically need at least a bachelor's degree to enter the occupation. However, master's degrees are common and sometimes preferred by employers. Graduate programs often last between 2 and 3 years and may include up to 1 year of supervised administrative experience in a hospital or healthcare consulting setting.
Communication skills. These managers must effectively communicate policies and procedures to other health professionals and ensure their staff's compliance with new laws and regulations.
All states require licensure for nursing home administrators; requirements vary by state. In most states, these administrators must have a bachelor's degree, complete a state-approved training program, and pass a national licensing exam. Some states also require applicants to pass a state-specific exam; others may require applicants to have previous work experience in a healthcare facility. Some states also require licensure for administrators in assisted-living facilities. For information on specific state-by-state licensure requirements, visit the National Association of Long Term Care Administrator Boards.
Medical and health services managers advance by moving into higher paying positions with more responsibility. Some health information managers, for example, can advance to become responsible for the entire hospital's information systems. Other managers may advance to top executive positions within the organization. Advancement to top level executive positions usually requires a master's degree.
The median annual wage for medical and health services managers is $96,540. The median wage is the wage at which half the workers in an occupation earned more than that amount and half earned less. The lowest 10 percent earned less than $56,970, and the highest 10 percent earned more than $172,240.
Most medical and health services managers work full time. About 3 in 10 managers work more than 40 hours per week. Work during evenings or weekends may be required in healthcare settings such as hospitals and nursing homes, which are open at all hours. Medical and health services managers may need to be on call in case of emergencies.
Employment of medical and health services managers is projected to grow 20 percent over the next ten years, much faster than the average for all occupations. As the large baby-boom population ages and people remain active later in life, there should be increased demand for healthcare services.
Job prospects for medical and health services managers are likely to be favorable. In addition to rising employment demand, the need to replace managers who retire over the next decade will result in some openings. Candidates with a master's degree in health administration or a related field, as well as knowledge of healthcare IT systems, will likely have the best prospects.


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Digital portfolios are terrific tools that can help you stand out in the application process. When you present employers with a portfolio, it provides them with tangible evidence of your skills and capabilities that a resume may only be able to hint at. Adding a link to a digital portfolio in your resume—or in an email to an employer—can help you stand out from the competition, even in industries where portfolios are not often required by hiring managers.
If you're new to creating a digital portfolio, it can seem like a daunting task. The good news is that the crew at the Career Center can provide a wealth of knowledge to help you create and build a digital portfolio. More good news: You don't need to be a tech whiz to create one.
Here are a few key tips to help you get started with building your own portfolio from scratch.
The purpose of a digital portfolio is to highlight work that you have produced in a past internship, academic course, extracurricular, or volunteer experience. So, the first step is to gather a variety of samples to include in your portfolio. A minimum of five samples is a good starting point, as you want to have enough samples to justify the creation of a portfolio; anything less than five samples can be easily emailed as attachments to employers.
Begin by reflecting on your work experience. Are there particular projects you worked on at an internship or job that you could include in a portfolio? These samples make a strong impression because it shows that you've utilized specific skill sets in a professional setting. Before moving forward with a work sample, though, make sure you have permission from your former supervisor to include it in a personal portfolio.
Next, think about some of the classes you've taken and identify papers, PowerPoint presentations, or other major projects you're proud of. If you didn't save your work, check with a past professor to see if he or she has a copy. Or, if you submitted assignments through DePaul's online teaching tool, D2L, log in and see if they're still available.
If you don't have access to a particular project, see if a former supervisor or professor is willing to write a mini-recommendation for you. A portfolio is a great opportunity to showcase both your work and any positive written feedback you've received from professionals you've worked with in the past.
Finally, a great advantage of a digital portfolio is that you have the ability to include audio/visual components. If you took (or can be seen in) pictures or videos that pertain to any of the experiences above, these can make for great inclusions in a portfolio.
Once you've gathered samples, the next step is to explore different websites that you can use to host your digital portfolio. Many students prefer Wix or Weebly, as these are relatively user-friendly and do not require coding, HTML, or other skills of more technical professionals. For applicants with writing samples, blog platforms such as WordPress and Tumblr are great resources to post longer pieces of written work. Finally, there are portfolio platforms designed specifically for creative professionals who want to highlight a lot of audio/visual artifacts, including Carbonmade and Coroflot.
Many of these sites allow you to create a portfolio for free, but if you want to add a few more bells and whistles to your site—or have complete ownership over the domain name and URL—there is usually an annual fee. With this annual fee, however, comes greater control over your site.
A homepage that clearly articulates your name, your professional brand (e.g. "Aspiring Public Relations Professional"), and a visual that helps your page stand out. This could be a professional headshot, or a photo that has some relationship to the industry you want to work in. If there's a quote that resonates with you and your work ethic, that can make a nice addition here, too.
A separate page that's dedicated to your resume. This should include both the content of your resume directly on the page as well as a downloadable PDF or Word version, which will allow employers to see your resume in its original form. Just remember to omit any contact information you do not want to make public on your site.
Regarding contact information, you should include a contact page that let's employers know the best way they can reach you. Many people will include their email, but this is a great space to also highlight any additional social media channels you take advantage of for professional purposes, such as a LinkedIn profile, Twitter handle, or personal blog.
From here, your digital portfolio will begin to take shape as a tool specific to your individual skills and goals. Take a look at the Career Center's portfolio page to see samples of completed student portfolios across different majors. You can also meet with your career advisor to learn more about what employers really want to see in digital portfolios.


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Bahrain Strengthen Actions against Wildlife Trafficking
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Al-Areen Wildlife Park, Bahrain — (ARAB NEWSWIRE) — The Supreme Council for Environment, represented by the Department of Biological Diversity in the Kingdom of Bahrain, works in collaboration with the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) to build the capacities of the relevant authorities through a three-days training workshop that begins on December 7. This workshop will focus on providing the participants with the knowledge and skills needed to identify the wild species that are most liable to illegal trade according to the afore mentioned convention across the globe, with some focus on those species targeted in the region in particular, and hence to prevent illegal trade and disrupt the wildlife trafficking networks at Bahrain's borders and checkpoints.
The training workshop will explain the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), an international agreement between governments aimed at ensuring that international trade in samples of wild animals and plants does not threaten the survival of species — to which the Kingdom of Bahrain has acceded in 2012— by providing materials and exercises which will support the participants in implementing these protocols, national legislation, and procedures for issuing the necessary licenses. Moreover, IFAW will share with the participants previous smuggling case studies from the field to sharpen their skills and provide ways to overcome challenges that may arise during confiscation or seizure operations.
IFAW has delivered over 75 DISRUPT trainings around MENA alone, as stated by Dr. Akram Eissa Darwich, IFAW Regional Programme Manager "The training materials we use vary from workshop to another depending on where the training is being held based on the updates that CITES appendices have according to its CoPs and based on the place of delivering the training because the species differs within regions and even countries", he continues, "Our trainings stand out because they bring people from different sectors and departments together which strengthens the cooperation on a national level and helps build a work structure in the case of seizure operations and confiscations and determine the fate of these confiscated individuals and samples".
Bahrain's interest in conservation and wildlife is not unwonted, the Kingdom joined the Convention on the Conservation of Wildlife and its Natural Habitats in the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) in 2004. It also acceded CITES in 2012, CBD in 1996 and more recently CMS. In addition, it well adopts national legislation which aim to regulate the local and international trade of wildlife. Furthermore, and to strengthen and tighten this trade, Bahrain recently took the lead by being the first country in the region by issuing the CITES permits electronically using the Q code system. It has also in place the proper regulation that control hunting in order to protect resident as well as migrating species with special focus on endangered species.
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About the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) – The International Fund for Animal Welfare is a global non-profit helping animal and people thrive together. We are experts and everyday people, working across seas, oceans and in more than 40 countries around the world. We rescue, rehabilitate and release animals, and we restore and protect their natural habitats. The problems we're up against are urgent and complicated. To solve them, we match fresh thinking with bold action. We partner with local communities, governments, non-governmental organisations and businesses. Together, we pioneer new and innovative ways to help all species flourish. See how at ifaw.org.
Kinda Jabi,
MENA Communication Officer
kjabi@ifaw.org
This press release is issued through Arab Newswire™ (www.arabnewswire.com) – a newswire service with press release distribution to media in the Arab World, Middle East and North Africa (MENA).
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