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Q: Displaying data from a dataset vb.net I am having issues returning data from a MS SQL database.
The code is returning 'System.data.datarowview' instead of the results of my query. The code for the sub is:
    Public Sub newquery(query As String)
    Dim SQLConn As SqlConnection = New SqlConnection
    Dim SqlCommand As New SqlCommand

    SQLConn.ConnectionString = "Data Source=.\testing;Initial Catalog=eurostyle;Integrated Security=SSPI;"

    SqlCommand = New SqlCommand(query, SQLConn)

    Try
        SQLConn.Open()
        sqlDA = New SqlDataAdapter(SqlCommand)
        sqlDataset = New DataSet
        sqlDA.Fill(sqlDataset)
        SQLConn.Close()
        listbox1.DataContext = sqlDataset
    Catch ex As Exception
        MsgBox(ex.Message)
    End Try

End Sub

I am new to WPF and I'm sure that is only something trivial.
Any help is greatly appreciated!

A: DataGrid view would be more appropriate to display results from database.
Try this:
Public Sub newquery(query As String)
    Dim SQLConn As SqlConnection = New SqlConnection
    Dim SqlComm As New SqlCommand
    Dim dbDataSet As New DataTable
    Dim bSource As New BindingSource
    Dim sqlDA As New SqlDataAdapter

    SQLConn.ConnectionString = "Data Source=.\testing;Initial Catalog=eurostyle;Integrated Security=SSPI;"

Try
     SQLConn.Open()
     SqlComm = SQLConn.CreateCommand
     SqlComm.CommandText = query

     SqlComm = New SqlCommand(zapytanie, myConn)
     sqlDA.SelectCommand = SqlComm
     sqlDA.Fill(dbDataSet)
     bSource.DataSource = dbDataSet
     DataGridView.DataSource = bSource
     sqlDA.Update(dbDataSet)
     SQLConn.Close()

Catch ex As SqlException
     MessageBox.Show("Query Error: " & ex.Message)
End Try

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Unabsolved Transgressions, Surrealism, and a Chorus of Furies: A Wounded Fawn (2022)
By Carol on December 22, 2022 • ( 3 Comments )
Travis Stevens'A Wounded Fawn (USA, 2022) is entirely my thing. It's a nice mix of art house and genre, which is one of my favorite things. It blends fine art—in this case the art of Surrealists (and friends) Leonora Carrington, Remedios Varo and Kati Horna—1970s horror/giallo, Classical Greek tragedy, themes involving snakes and dogs, glorious art and costuming design, saturated colors, and excellent cinematography. It probably has too much gore for many art house audiences and too much looking at paintings and sculpture for a lot of horror fans. I love A Wounded Fawn and maybe even the vision of future movies of that it presents. In short, I would love more thoughtful, creative and fun films that consciously examine generic conventions. Films that playfully bend, blend, or even burst out of increasingly rigid generic film conventions and categorizations—and I don't just mean "genre" film. I like a movie that sidesteps expectations of not only what a movie should be about, but how a movie should be about it. And A Wounded Fawn successfully makes a serial killer pathetic in comparison to his victims.
If that all sounds intriguing to you, go see A Wounded Fawn. The rest of my piece, I'm discussing plot elements. If you see that more as spoilers than enticements and plan to see A Wounded Fawn, I hope you'll come back to read the rest of my piece because I have things to say and I cannot wait a couple months to do it. But let's scratch the surface, shall we?
A lot of the horror I like follows in the tradition of tragedy and A Wounded Fawn very much does. In fact, it follows particularly in the tradition of one of my favorite Classical Greek plays, Aeschylus' The Eumenides (458 BCE), one of three plays making up the Oresteia, which concerns the murder of Agamemnon by his wife Clytemnestra, the subsequent murder of Clytemnestra by their son Orestes and all the subsequent fall out. The Eumenides means "the Kindly Ones." It's another name for the Erinyes ("Avengers") or Furies, chthonic Greek goddesses of retribution and vengeance. Writer/ director Travis Stevens and co-writer Nathan Faudree include lines from Aeschylus' play and the title comes from a line in The Eumenides, but the fawn is not who you might expect in a slasher or giallo film.
A Wounded Fawn is explicitly divided into three acts, beginning with Bruce Ernst (Josh Ruben, playing a character named in part after Dada artist and Surrealist Max Ernst) at an auction, bidding on "The Wrath of the Erinyes," a Hellenistic sculpture depicting the Furies tormenting a man, most likely Orestes after he has murdered his mother. The sculpture is made by an unknown artist.* In a room full of buyers on a variety of phones that would make any giallo art director happy, Bruce loses the auction to Kate Horna (named after the photographer/ Anarcha-Feminist Kati Horna and played by Malin Barr), a polished professional on a smartphone.
Bruce Ernst realizing he will not win this auction. Photo Credit: Shudder
As Kate celebrates in her home, Bruce appears at her door and tells her that he's been authorized to make a better offer to her client, accepts her condition that she get a large percentage of his commission, and compliments her personal art collection. Earlier, the auctioneer (Neal Mayer) joked that the assembled buyers should be careful what they do in front of the sculpture lest they incur the Erinyes' wrath, but Bruce is not careful at all. While Kate is on the phone with her client, Bruce kills her with an unusual weapon–claws he wears under his fingers. Perhaps he sees them as the talons of a bird, since before he kills Kate, Bruce sees a theriomorphic red owl (Marshall Taylor Thurman) that is equal parts Stage Fright (1987) and the art of Leonora Carrington.
In the second act, Meredith Tanning (played by Sarah Lind and probably named after an anagramatic Remedios Varo + fellow Surrealist Dorothea Tanning)** is feeling good after a successful therapy session where she says she's learned "not to absolve a man for his transgressions against me." Meredith meets up with her friends at the museum where she works at what appears to be an exhibit dedicated entirely to the Erinyes pursuing Orestes. It features paintings by John Singer Sargent, William-Adolphe Bouguereau, and Franz Von Stuck and, personally, I would have loved to attend. Is it thematically heavy-handed? It doesn't matter–I don't care! Meredith is going away for the weekend with Bruce, who she met in their overlapping art circles. Her friends want to meet him, but Meredith says he's not "introduceable" yet. She's not sure how serious she is about him.
Meredith Tanning, looking sharp. Photo Credit: Shudder
Meredith dresses and packs carefully. She brings some music to share. Her overnight suitcase is fun and vintage. Bruce meanwhile has taken the kind of minimal effort that he clearly believes he should be rewarded for. On their way to the cabin, Bruce does and says some things that are off putting. It's hard to say if they are doofusly off putting or dangerous off putting, but Meredith is clearly noting them even if Bruce doesn't notice. He's too excited at the prospect of his impending murder weekend. "This is my favorite part," he tells Meredith. "The intimacy."
Bruce drops more and more of his facade as he gets closer to the fruition of his plan. He no longer carries Meredith's bag. He hurries into the cabin without her. He eagerly awaits her compliments on his cabin–an exquisite mid-Century modern house with excellent art including what he claims is a reproduction of "The Wrath of the Erinyes." He says the right things about how Meredith should relax while he cooks, but it feels like Bruce is just saying them to get what he wants. The dinner he prepares involves a pomegranate–ominous for both its bloody look on his cutting board and its hearkening back to the myth of Persephone.
But as Bruce blathers on about someone else's culinary philosophy, he doesn't get the compliments and attention he wants. Meredith is distracted and, like Persephone, barely eating. She's seen a photo of Bruce's girlfriend Leonora (played by Katie Kuang and named after Surrealist and Feminist Leonora Carrington), who Bruce will not talk about. She's sent a photo of "The Wrath of the Erinyes" to her friend Wendy (Tanya Everett), asking if she remembers when their museum authenticated it. Something's wrong and Meredith knows it. And it seems like something's been trying to tell her something's wrong, too. Meredith keeps seeing things and hearing voices. But Bruce doesn't want to leave. He thinks Meredith is ruining their time together. He tries to silence her. He tries to guilt her. He tries to gaslight her. He suggests she's imagining things. He tells her she's being unreasonable. He accuses her of deliberately "fucking with" him when he starts to see the things she sees. Meredith tells him she wants to leave. And in the bathroom, Meredith talks to Wendy, who tells her to get out of the cabin because not only is the sculpture stolen, but that the buyer had been found murdered. Meredith puts on her domestic abuse survivor game face, but by then, Bruce has seen the Red Owl and attacks Meredith. She beats him with "The Wrath of the Erinyes." And then A Wounded Fawn goes excellently surreal as the Erinyes come for Bruce in the form of Tisiphone the Punisher of Murderers / Meredith, Alecto the Unceasing / Kate, and Megara the Grudging as Bruce's murdered girlfriend Leonora. They confront Bruce with what he has done. They confront him with who he is. They confront him with the women he has abused, murdered and stolen from. And that is tremendously appealing and powerful when so many abused, murdered and missing women get no justice at all.***
"ENTER THE CHORUS OF FURIES"
The costuming in this third act has the kind of eerieness that theatrical practical effects can have. The costume designs remind me of the ones artists created for the stage in the 1910s, 1920s, and 1930s. And the Erinyes look very much look like they have walked off the canvasses of Carrington and Varo. As the Kindly Ones begin pursuing Bruce, I couldn't help thinking, who's running through the woods and fumbling with their keys now? We see Bruce's fear and desperation. We see his alternating terror and self-delusion about his power. Bruce is the wounded fawn of the film: "For as a hound tracks a wounded fawn, so we track him by the drops of blood." And the blood they track him by is not his, but the blood of the women he has murdered, no matter how vigorously he washes his hands after each killing.
Photo Credit: Shudder
This is more than a reversal of roles, as much as I enjoy those, and it's not just a question of whether what is happening to Bruce is "real" or something he is imagining. Driving guilty men to madness and death is what the Erinyes do. Interpreting what is happening to Bruce as only in his head can make Meredith and the women Bruce killed metaphors for his personal struggle, which is how he thinks of them–when he thinks of them at all. For Bruce, the Red Owl is far more real than Meredith, Kate and Leonora. This is how he tries to control his story and resist what the Furies tell and do to him. As the Furies pursue him through the film, Bruce seems to go through the stages of grief Elisabeth Kübler-Ross identifies in dying people. But for Bruce, each stage is more deluded than the last. Bruce is trying to figure out the rules that will allow him to survive, but his understanding of what he has done and what is happening is too distorted. He cannot frighten the Erinyes with his own fury. He cannot pretend it's not happening or refuse them their satisfaction. And when Bruce tries to bargain with them, he believes that if he gives back the sculpture, then the Erinyes will be satisfied. As if he had picked up a cursed object, rather than that he has cursed himself because he is, as the Furies repeatedly tell him, a thief and a murderer.
The murdering part is self-evident, but his theft is not as simple as it first appears. Bruce did steal "The Wrath of the Erinyes." I think he also stole the cabin and everything in it from Leonora. But his theft goes beyond these physical objects. I think Bruce has nothing that is his own from "The Wrath of the Erinyes" to the taste he displays in his cabin to his culinary theory. And Bruce resents the women he is attracted to for what they have–from the tangible things like art and cabins, to the intangible ones like taste, talent, business savvy, intellectual accomplishments,**** friendships, self-possession, comfort in their own damn selves, their self-knowledge and happiness. Bruce pretends at first that he is attracted to this in them. He might even briefly believe it, but I think that it makes him angry and he wants to destroy it. He is angry that they dare to feel what he doesn't and to have success, taste, beauty, friendships, art, homes that he doesn't.
Carrington's "Operation Wednesday" (1969)
There is a bit of this envy and resentment earlier in the film with two middle-aged men at the Erinyes exhibit watching Meredith, Wendy and Julia (Laksmi Priyah Hedemark) as they laugh together about Meredith's using up batteries in her vibrator. They see women happy and laughing and talking about taking care of their own needs, and it makes them angry, indicating an attitude that spreads beyond Bruce. I have heard this explanation before from men explaining other men's trolling, harassment, catcalling and abuse. Seeing it in A Wounded Fawn in this extremity helps me grasp it even briefly. But again, Bruce is a thief of both the tangible and the intangible. And when Tisiphone in particular confronts him, he rejects and distances himself from the only thing that might be an authentic reflection on himself: his murderousness and the Red Owl.
I assume Bruce Ernst's last name is a reference to Dada artist and Surrealist Max Ernst. At the same time, I can't help but wonder if Bruce's first name is a reference to Bruce Campbell. There's a smidge of Evil Dead II (1987) in A Wounded Fawn and the film has about as much respect for Bruce as Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell have for Ash, played by Campbell in the Evil Dead films and television series. Like Ash, Bruce takes a lot of damage in his cabin in the woods. He argues with himself or his doppelgänger in his madness and, in the credits sequence, Bruce pulls his own version of Ash's possessed hand attacking him. It would be a delightful mixture of influences to me if it's the case. Regardless, both Max Ernst and Bruce Ernst have bird alter egos. Max Ernst's alter ego, Loplop, was much more playful than the Red Owl and Ernst has a series of paintings presented by the bird.
"Loplop introduces Loplop" (1930)
The owl itself has a resonance beyond giallo and Ernst's art. The owl was a symbol of Pallas Athena, a goddess born from Zeus' forehead, in part to demonstrate to Hera that anything women could do, men could do better. Athena appears in The Eumenides as a kind of patron goddess of the patriarchy upholding a new law that places the importance of men's lives over women's lives. In A Wounded Fawn, the Red Owl appears before Bruce kills women, perhaps urging him to do so, perhaps merely condoning it. It is, at least according to Bruce, his misogyny made manifest and separate from him.
MAKING THINGS RIGHT
"If you truly want to make things right, we're going to have to have a conversation," Tisiphone tells Bruce, wearing a Classical Greek theatrical mask with snakes twining around her. "I was never planning on killing you," Bruce says. "It was nothing personal." Like she should not be offended. Like no one should be. Bruce even confirms that it's not Meredith's fault, nothing she's done. It's not personal. If it wasn't her, it would be someone else. Like no one is a murderer and therefore no one is murdered. Things just happen and it's all someone else's fault. Bruce distances himself from killing, claiming it's some part of him that is not him that is responsible. And when he pulls what he says that part out of himself, it's a dying, fetal bird.
I appreciate that A Wounded Fawn makes an effort to rethink and escape some of the forms of serial killer and slasher stories. A Wounded Fawn focuses squarely on Bruce as the problem rather than on the women he kills as having made "mistakes" or been "stupid." After the conversation in the bathroom where Wendy confirms that Bruce is dangerous, Meredith talks to Bruce as if things are normal, and looking into the mirror, breathes deeply and prepares herself to navigate the situation as best she can and get out somehow. This is paralleled in a later scene where Bruce gives himself a much more deluded pep talk to try to maintain his sense that he is in control and not in danger. It's refreshing to not only see female characters with situational awareness, but those women making calculations on the fly. There are very few completely safe situations and situational awareness is all about making constant subconscious assessments while navigating everyday situations that are probably fine but can turn awful.*** Throughout the first and second acts, we see Kate and Meredith actively considering if Bruce is thoughtless or a danger. The women of A Wounded Fawn are more believable to me than so many of the innocent, naïve and oblivious women populating not just horror but so much fiction, even realistic or naturalistic fiction. In the real world, women are very rarely unaware of the dangers of the world, but in film they are rarely aware of them.*** I suppose it's a reflexive narrative or some people really want to believe in that kind of innocence. I suspend my disbelief to enjoy those stories, too, but I really appreciate A Wounded Fawn being grounded in this kind of emotional and psychological lived reality while giving us such an amazingly Surreal third act.
In A Wounded Fawn, Bruce is the one making what would be mistakes in more orthodox horror. He is the one who does not consider that he could be in danger. He attacks Kate, someone he can be tied to. He steals a valuable antiquity he was seen publicly bidding on. He kills her while she is on her phone in her home calling the very people she bought the sculpture for. In the cabin, Bruce keeps not only evidence of Leonora, but evidence that he was destroying evidence of their life together. And while he pretended to the Erinyes that he never planned to kill Meredith, he attacked when her friends knew she was with him and he should know they know she is with him. Meredith never loses cell service. She never loses her phone. She never even loses contact with her friends, who do check in with her. The truth is–and the real life horror is–men like Bruce don't need to be smart to get away with murdering women.*** Bruce might be mediocre, but he does well enough socially and murderously to get by. And Bruce is so used to getting away with his crimes and the bare minimum of effort–even while he feels clever–that he is unprepared when the Erinyes come for him.
I said before that A Wounded Fawn is not really a reversal of the serial killer or slasher story. It's more turning one inside out. While Meredith and the other female characters are well-done, with a believable caution and situational awareness, Bruce is the wounded fawn of the title. His envy, his sense of his own weakness, his emptiness, his self-involvement, his self-delusion are the focus rather than Meredith, Kate, or Leonora's lack of care in keeping themselves safe. His chosen weapon, the metal talons he wears, might be cool in a different film. Shih Kien definitely wears some sweet claws well in Enter The Dragon (1973). And god knows they'd work in a ninja movie or a duel in the 1970s Lone Wolf & Cub film series. Leaving the 1970s for the 2010s, I can see an episode of Hannibal dedicated to the Red Owl where the claws and the Red Owl costume would be presented as an artistic vision of a genius serial killer. But not with Bruce. The Red Owl is an elegant creation, reminiscent of Ernst, Carrington and Varo. The claws are interesting, but with Bruce the claws are also incongruous–as if he were showing them off on his red-pilled Twitch or YouTube stream. The claws are an attempted and failed display of identity. In fashion terms, the claws are wearing Bruce, not the other way around.
Meredith and her friends. Note the snake print!
This can't be said of any of the female characters who wear amazing, character-revealing outfits whether in professional environments, at a museum with friends, or embodying chthonic goddesses of wrathful retribution. The women are not necessarily comfortable in the world. Kate, Meredith and Wendy show that they are aware of potential threats to them, but they are comfortable in themselves. Bruce is not any of these things–not even in a world set up for someone as middling as him to compete with someone as clearly good at her job as Kate, to have a relationship with Leonora, to go on taco dates with Meredith, and to kill person after person despite barely taking any precautions at all. Afterward murdering and stealing from women, Bruce pretends he has collected whatever they have that he doesn't and is sated for a while. Everything Bruce has is not just stolen, but pretense. Even his claws.
A Wounded Fawn has made me see a serial killer in a way no other serial killer story has. Bruce reminds me not only of Ash from The Evil Dead, but William H. Macy's Jerry Lundegaard from Fargo (1996). Like Ash and Jerry, Bruce is an incredibly destructive nebbish. And I never expected an artful, giallo-inflected horror movie to make me see a serial killer as an incredibly destructive and pathetic nebbish. But A Wounded Fawn has. Bruce cannot make anything right. He was a fool to think he could, not just because the Erinyes won't be appeased, but because what he has done cannot be made right. But Bruce is so certain that what is happening is about him and not about the women he has killed that he actually thanks the Kindly Ones. He can't or won't understand that the Erinyes are there to avenge the women he has killed and stolen from. He wants to believe that they are a his guides on a journey of self-discovery. He tells them that they purified and saved him and that he will go on to a new life as a new man once the sun rises. And so Bruce dies like an asshole, flopping in the mud beside his victims' graves, dressed in a chiton made from a bedsheet and stabbing himself in the neck as Meredith watches. What should be horrific is humorously pathetic. And Pallas Athena does not intervene on his behalf.
*The sculptor is Charles Becker, and I appreciate the film for crediting him, the models for the work and the other artists whose work is displayed in the film. Actor Sarah Lind (Meredith / Tisiphone) was a model for one of the Furies in the sculpture.
**'Meredith' as an anagram via Castellano Spanish as a nod to Remedios Varo having been born in Spain.
***Because Bruce targets women specifically, I talk about women here, but this is true of Trans folk and nonbinary people as well.
****I would happily read Meredith's thesis on deconstructing the Muse and the disappearance of female artists.
There is another version of this piece that focuses on the art history and touches on The Eumenides, but meanwhile: Out of your living marrow Carol Borden will drain / a red libation, out of your veins she will suck her food, / Her raw, brutal cups— / Wither you alive.
Carol also received a review copy of A Wounded Fawn.
This piece first appeared in a slightly different form on Monstrous Industry.
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In this book, readers will discover a developmental view of social functioning in children at different stages. Chapters are based in transactional theory in that the environment plays a role in the development of social competence skills as well as the biological contributions the child brings to his/her experiences. The familial and school contributions to social understanding are discussed in this volume.
Margaret Semrud-Clikeman, Ph.D., received her doctorate from the University of Georgia in 1990. She completed and internship and postdoctoral fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical school and received a post-doctoral neuroscience fellowship at MGH from NIH to study neuropsychological and brain morphology in children with ADHD. Her dissertation was awarded the Outstanding Dissertation of the Year Award from the Orton Dyslexia Society. She has authored four books and numerous articles and continues her research interests in the areas of ADHD and brain morphology using 3-dimensional MRI scans. She is currently working on research in ADHD, 18q- syndrome, and nonverbal learning disabilities. With Dr. Plizska at UTHSCSA, Margaret was awarded a NIH grant to study the effects of stimulant medication on neuropsychological functioning. Dr. Semrud-Clikeman and her students have developed a social competence intervention that has been successfully piloted at UT. Dr. Semrud-Clikeman was recently awarded the 1999 Early Career Contributions award from the National Academy of Neuropsychology. She has published more than 30 articles, 40 chapters and three books. Dr. Semrud-Clikeman is currently a professor at Michigan State University with a joint appointment in Psychology and Psychiatry.


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Keletso Setimela boasts over 25 years of work experience across various sectors such as telecommunications, white collar crime investigation, development financial institutions and commercial banking. But he grew passionate about SMEs over time, a desire that has seen him rise to the position of Head of Business Banking at Absa Bank Botswana. Setimela has been speaking with Staff Writer KABELO ADAMSON about his career and role at Absa
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Keletso Setimela, Head of Business Banking at Absa Bank Botswana
Q: Kindly explain what your role as Head of Business Banking at Absa Botswana entails?
A: I am responsible for driving the strategic direction of the Business Banking function of the bank. The function comprises Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) banking, Commercial Banking, Agri-Business, Commercial Asset Finance, and Enterprise Supply Chain Development. I also lead a team of highly talented and dedicated bankers in strategy execution, ensuring that they remain focused and motivated to deliver the exceptional service that our customers expect from us.
In addition, I drive the overall business performance of the function and ensure that it contributes meaningfully to the overall performance of the bank. Driving excellent customer experience is also an important part of my role. With the ever-changing business environment, we constantly have to be mindful of the requirements of our customers. So as part of my responsibilities, I ensure that our Customer Value Proposition aligns with customers' needs.
Q: How important is this segment to the bank's overall performance?
A. Every segment within the bank plays an important part in driving overall business performance as it has specific mandates to provide support to the clients and customers that it serves. The segment that I lead caters for the banking needs of specific business clients whose requirements are best served in business banking.
Q: I understand your career spans over 25 years across various sectors. Would you please take us through your career briefly.
A: I started my career as an Investigator at the Directorate of Corruption & Economic Crimes (DCEC). I later joined National Development Bank (NDB) as a Credit Officer and got promoted to Senior Credit Officer. In 2001, together with a team of my colleagues then, I was transferred from NDB to establish CEDA.
I worked at CEDA as a Business Advisor and got promoted to the position of Branch Manager, serving in Francistown, Maun, Ghanzi and Selibe Phikwe. In 2007, I left CEDA and joined the Local Enterprise Authority (LEA) during its infancy stage as the Branch Manager at Selebi-Phikwe and was later promoted to be the Director of the National Branch network, looking after a total staff of 295 and 13 branches countrywide.
In 2010 I joined Stanbic bank as the first Head of SME Banking and left in 2013 to join back the then Barclays Bank as the first Head of SME Banking. At Barclays, I transformed the local business into SMEs and built it into what it is today. Later in 2020, I was appointed as the Head of Business Banking.
So, I have spent most of my career dealing with SMEs and that is where my passion is, given the role that the sector plays in most African economies. I can safely say I have played my part in various areas by influencing some policy changes around how commercial banks viewed the SME segment.
Q: That's quite a long journey. It must have had its ups and downs. What would you say has been the highlight of your career so far?
A: I am honoured and privileged to have such a career that has taken me to various great organisations over the years. What comes to my mind is the fact that I was instrumental to the establishment and growth of the Absa Bank Botswana SME Banking Business Unit into what it is today where the segment contributes more than 50 percent of the Business Banking revenue.
I would also mention the role I played in contributing towards building CEDA. I am one of the people who contributed to the development of the Loans Management System that is being used by CEDA even to-date. I have diffused the perception often associated with the risk in the SME and am proud that commercial banks now believe in the SME sector.
Q: Your role involves working closely with SMEs, which is something you are passionate about. What are some of the biggest challenges that local SMEs face?
A: Back in the day access to funding used to be a major problem but we have now seen availability of funding being easy with the likes of CEDA and commercial banks relaxing their lending criteria. In my view, the biggest challenge is still managing the businesses and ensuring that they remain sustainable.
The government and the private sector are pushing citizen economic empowerment programmes that address access to the market and therefore the entrepreneurs should ensure that they take advantage of such programmes by delivering and managing their businesses professionally.
Q: How is Absa Bank addressing these challenges?
A: We continue to engage with SMEs to develop solutions that are tailor-made to address the challenges. The following indicates some of the programmes and interventions that we are doing to support our clients.
Our Enterprise and Supply Chain Development (ESD) programme which focuses on SMEs has assisted customers in different sectors of the economy, amongst others Mining, Retail and Manufacturing. We believe that we are in a unique position to serve SMEs by using our core assets and strategic positioning and influence. The (ESD) seeks to give SMEs access to markets, finance and business support (capacity building).
To-date we have invested over P650 million in our clients and trained over 2 500 customers in various courses to enable them to run their businesses better and therefore are pleased with the progress we are making. As a way of extension of the ESD programme, we introduced the Enterprise Development Centre, an intimate working space that our customers can use to access free meeting rooms, workstations, and WiFi.
As part of our commitment to fighting the COVID-19 pandemic, we remain open to helping companies that procure goods and services for and relating to the fight against COVID-19 with Purchase Order Financing. Our PO financing is aimed at assisting our clients to meet the demands during the challenging times we are living in, and we have relaxed our lending parameters to enable the SMEs to deliver on their contracts.
Q: It has been found that most SMEs collapse within the first five years of setting up. What do you think is the major contributing factor to this?
A: There are several factors like poor management, poor record keeping, high input costs and lack of market access, just to mention a few. I believe the issue of access to finance has been addressed by various players in the market.
Q: And how can this be avoided?
A: I would recommend some basics first. I strongly believe that thorough market research, training or capacity building, and dedication or passion would ensure that a lot of businesses survive. In all of these, owners of the businesses still play a major role and can decide the success or failure of the business.
Q: Do you think the policymakers are making the right policies for the SMEs. If not, where is the lack?
A: I do applaud the policymakers as they are doing everything possible to support or promote SMEs. Establishment of CEDA and the temporary ban on importation of fruits and vegetables and the Buy Botswana promotion are some of the initiatives that demonstrate commitment and willingness to support the sector. Lately we have seen the enactment of the Economic Inclusion Act which will propel the empowerment of local businesses and the citizen economic empowerment programmes, both by the government and the private sector.
Q: Besides SMEs, what else does your segment focus on?
A: We also focus on commercial agriculture to support the government to achieve food security, create employment and economic diversification. We are also responsible for training the businesses owners through our ESD programme. We believe that capacitated entrepreneurs will run their businesses better, hence minimise the failure rate.
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The federal government has moved to extend most major NT Intervention powers for 10 years beyond their July 2012 expiry, with new laws introduced into parliament in November. The Stronger Futures legislation, and associated amendments to the Social Security Act, have been labelled a "second Intervention".
One of the main new measures is a plan to harden already punitive policies around school attendance. Under the School Enrolment and Attendance Measure (SEAM), trialled in six NT communities since 2009, welfare payments of parents whose children don't attend school can be suspended for 13 weeks.
While there has not been a detailed assessment of the SEAM trial, school attendance rates overall have dropped since the Intervention began. The axing of bilingual programs in many schools has contributed to this decline.
Paddy Gibson spoke to Nadine Williams, central Australian organiser with the Australian Education Union, about the new school attendance measures for the radio program The Thin Black Line on 2SER. Part of the interview is below.
Along with the Intervention there's been some other major changes that have had an impact on education programs in Aboriginal communities like the dismantling of Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP), the closure of community councils and the cutback to bilingual education. What has happened since 2007 to schools in Aboriginal communities in the NT?
The communities that are listed in the government announcement about tougher Income Management measures—most were strong bilingual schools. They are now struggling to maintain any bilingual programs against a massive barrage of ridiculous curriculum interference and removal of staffing positions.
One of the most heartbreaking parts of the rollout of federal government legislation including the Intervention is the loss of employment for Indigenous people in schools.
We know that 200-300 who were supported on CDEP funding through work of 30 hours a week or less are no longer working. At the same time we've had the loss of governance and control through school councils.
These issues have all been compounded with the Intervention and the further humiliation and trying to tell people how to live. This loss of control and loss of a stake in local schools has been extremely distressing for people. By far the majority care deeply about their child's education.
Can you explain what the reforms are the government is proposing with this "second Intervention"?
The reforms that were announced in the Stronger futures in the Northern Territory package include something called FAST [Families and Schools Together], a training package for parents at schools which have been identified as having very low attendance rates.
They have workshops run for them about parenting skills and how they can be involved in their children's education. Trying to educate people is laudable but what is being actually asked for by Indigenous parents? Many people I speak to, who are parents of school age children, say we want to have a voice.
School councils [have been removed] in almost all schools. The reason people are not engaging in the schools where their kids go is that they feel they are outsiders since the end of where every aboriginal parent, elder and grandparent actually had decision making power.
The problem with the whole roll out is it's patronising, suggesting parents have no idea how to look after their children.
From next year if a child misses ten or more days in a school term, after a compliance notice has been sent to the parents who receive welfare benefits, their payments will be suspended. They plan to send Centrelink staff to people's homes if they're breached to make sure their children go to school.
The original Intervention legislation said if 90 per cent attendance wasn't achieved it would result in suspension of payments. There are also fines that can be served on parents for their children's non-attendance of up to $2000. If they do not pay that fine they would go to jail for non-payment.
There is one very big hitch to this: schools are responsible for sending all of the enrolment and attendance data to Centrelink.
Already there are people who have had their payments suspended and have attacked, either verbally or physically, education department principals. I am very concerned that if efforts are made to put these compliance statements in place, [there will be] an increase in aggression and anger towards the school staff including the principals of small schools in remote places. That is not going to help anyone get to school.
Aboriginal people are very aware of the judgements being made about them [all as a group], that they don't send their children to school. Education and respect has got to be both ways. But they see absolutely no respect for their own system of education that has lasted many more thousands of years than our system.


I really can't take any of the creative credit for these! I saw them on Bakerella's website and it was a case of, I saw and I had to make!
These are just the cutest little happy meals, and boy did they make everybody in my office happy.
The burger buns are made up of halved vanilla cupcakes, with super gooey chocolate brownie burger patties, and icing piped on to make some very sugary ketchup and lettuce replacements.
A few sesame seeds sprinkled on the top of each bun, added the perfect touch.
The chips were a sugar biscuit dough, which I rolled out and cut into thin strips and coated in granulated sugar, before baking for 7 minutes at 190 c.
I quickly learned that the difference between baking for 7 minutes and 8 minutes, was golden cookie to dark brown overdone cookie!
The strips I cut spread out too much, and I decided to cut them in half length ways again to get a thinner french fry shape. This has to be done VERY QUICKLY after removing from the oven though, otherwise they got very solid very quickly, and I just ended up with shattered biscuit flying over my carpet!
For a full set of instructions on how to make these tasty meals, and for a pdf download of the print outs requried to make the paper containers in which I put them, visit Bakerella's Fast Food Fun page.
The only real stray from the instructions I made was that I baked all my bits from scratch, unlike Bakerella, who followed the fast food theme, and used packet mixes. I also took out the extra layer of icing for "mustard", as mine looked a little like ungainly sky scrapers already, and I feared them falling over with any more height!
Many thanks for the inspiration Bakerella! I loved making these.


I love speaking to groups, and now that I'm not in a teaching position anymore, my only outlets for performance are the happy occasions when I am invited to be a guest lecturer, or even a keynote speaker.
I have had the good fortune to speak about my work at a wide range of organizations for libraries, education, and education technology. You can read what some people think of my work, and working with me, here.
I've blogged many of the talks (keynotes and otherwise) I've given in the last couple of years, you can read them if you like.
I have helped develop and facilitate digital practice mapping and ethnography workshops in the US , in Canada, in Ireland, and in the UK.
I can work with you and your organization to deliver workshops on digital practice, learning spaces and practices, and ethnographic techniques for assessment and insight.
I plan and conduct qualitative research to help inform the work you need to do in libraries and education. I work internationally, conducting ethnographic work to inform library policy, and contextual inquiry projects to inform the building of library and education technology systems. My specialty is anthropologically informed qualitative research that can lead to insights about what is happening, what people's motivations are for what they do, and how those insights can help inform your organizations plans and policies. Projects can be short- or long-term: some can be conducted over the course of weeks, and others over the course of a year.
If you are interested in bringing me in for research projects, workshops or speaking engagements, do please contact me, via donna.lanclos@gmail.com, or on Twitter @DonnaLanclos.


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Edinburgh hospital first in Scotland to introduce widespread use of 'robot technology'
An Edinburgh hospital has become the first in Scotland to introduce widespread use of 'robot technology' that will transform the way hip and knee replacement operations are carried out.
News / Press Release / ScotRail/
Busy weekend of events means busier trains
The ScotRail Alliance is advising customers that services in the central belt on 12 and 13 May are expected to be very busy due to a number of special events taking place.
Travel advice for European Rugby Champions Cup Final
The ScotRail Alliance is advising rugby fans heading by train to Murrayfield for the European Rugby Champions Cup Final on 13 May to plan their journey in advance.


Hinta Meijerink, Richard White, Astrid Louise Løvlie, Birgitte Freiesleben De Blasio, Olav Dalgard, Ellen Johanna Amundsen, Espen Melum, Hilde Kløvstad, (2017). Modelling the burden of hepatitis C infection among people who inject drugs in Norway, 1973–2030. BMC Infectious Diseases. ISSN 1471-2334. 17 doi: 10.1186/s12879-017-2631-2.
Ellen Johanna Amundsen, (2017). Lack of overlap and large discrepancies in the characteristics of the deceased in two sources of drug death. A linkage study of the Cause of Death and the Police Registries in Norway 2007-2009. International journal of drug policy. ISSN 0955-3959. 41 s 74-79. doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2016.12.016.
Ludwig Kraus, Ståle Østhus, Ellen Johanna Amundsen, Daniela Piontek, Janne Härkönen, Stéphane Legleye, Kim Bloomfield, Pia Mäkelä, Jonas Landberg, Jukka Törrönen, (2015). Changes in mortality due to major alcohol-related diseases in four Nordic countries, France and Germany between 1980 and 2009: A comparative age-period-cohort analysis. Addiction. ISSN 0965-2140. 110 (9), s 1443-1452. doi: 10.1111/add.12989.
Ellen Johanna Amundsen, (2015). Drug-related causes of death: Socioeconomic and demographic characteristics of the deceased. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health. ISSN 1403-4948. 43 (6), s 571-579. doi: 10.1177/1403494815585909.
Knut Boe Kielland, Ellen Johanna Amundsen, Olav Dalgard, (2014). HCV treatment uptake in people who have injected drugs — observations in a large cohort that received addiction treatment 1970–1984. Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology. ISSN 0036-5521. 49 (12), s 1465-1472. doi: 10.3109/00365521.2014.968860.
Ellen Johanna Amundsen, Malcolm James Reid, (2014). Self-reports of consumption of amphetamines, cocaine and heroin in a survey among marginalized drug users. Science of the Total Environment. ISSN 0048-9697. 487 (1), s 740-745. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.12.098.
Knut Boe Kielland, Gerd Jorunn Møller Delaveris, Sidsel Rogde, Tor Jacob Eide, Ellen Johanna Amundsen, Olav Dalgard, (2014). Liver fibrosis progression at autopsy in injecting drug users infected by hepatitis C: A longitudinal long-term cohort study. Journal of Hepatology. ISSN 0168-8278. 60 (2), s 260-266. doi: 10.1016/j.jhep.2013.09.022.
Albert Sanchez-Niubo, Odd O. Aalen, Antonia Domingo-Salvany, Ellen Johanna Amundsen, Josep Fortiana, Kjetil Røysland, (2013). A multi-state model to estimate incidence of heroin use. BMC Medical Research Methodology. ISSN 1471-2288. 13 doi: 10.1186/1471-2288-13-4.
Knut Boe Kielland, Kjell Skaug, Ellen Johanna Amundsen, Olav Dalgard, (2013). All-cause and liver-related mortality in hepatitis C infected drug users followed for 33 years: a controlled study. Journal of Hepatology. ISSN 0168-8278. 58 (1), s 31-37. doi: 10.1016/j.jhep.2012.08.024.
Ellen Johanna Amundsen, (2012). Low level of alcohol drinking among two generations of non-Western immigrants in Oslo: a multi-ethnic comparison. BMC Public Health. ISSN 1471-2458. 12 doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-12-535.
Malcolm James Reid, Katherine Langford, Merete Grung, Hallvard Gjerde, Ellen Johanna Amundsen, Jørg Mørland, Kevin V Thomas, (2012). Estimation of cocaine consumption in the community: a critical comparison of the results from three complimentary techniques. BMJ Open. ISSN 2044-6055. 2 (6), doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2012-001637.
Ståle Østhus, Ellen Johanna Amundsen, (2011). Estimating levels and trends in alcohol use : investigating the validity of estimates based on Norwegian population surveys. Norsk Epidemiologi. ISSN 0803-2491. 21 (1), s 25-34.
Einar Ødegård, Ellen Johanna Amundsen, Knut Boe Kielland, Ragnar Kristoffersen, (2010). The contribution of imprisonment and release to fatal overdose among a cohort of Norwegian drug abusers. Addiction Research and Theory. ISSN 1606-6359. 18 (1), s 51-58. doi: 10.3109/16066350902818851.
Ellen Johanna Amundsen, Edle Ravndal, (2010). Does successful school-based prevention of bullying influence substance use among 13-to 16-year-olds?. Drugs: education prevention and policy. ISSN 0968-7637. 17 (1), s 42-54. doi: 10.3109/09687630802095591.
Edle Ravndal, Ellen Johanna Amundsen, (2010). Mortality among drug users after discharge from inpatient treatment: An 8-year prospective study. Drug And Alcohol Dependence. ISSN 0376-8716. 108 s 65-69. doi: 10.1016.
Einar Ødegård, Ellen Johanna Amundsen, Knut Boe Kielland, (2007). Fatal overdoses and deaths by other causes in a cohort of Norwegian drug abusers. A competing risk approach. Drug And Alcohol Dependence. ISSN 0376-8716. 89 (2/3), s 176-182.
Ellen Johanna Amundsen, (2006). Measuring effectiveness of needle and syringe exchange programmes for prevention of HIV among injecting drug users Editorial. Addiction. ISSN 0965-2140. 101 (7), s 911-912. doi: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2006.01519.x.
Ellen Johanna Amundsen, (2005). Prevalence Estimation of Problem Drug Use in Norway. The Multivariate Indicator Method.
Ellen J Amundsen, Hein Stigum, John-Arne Røttingen, Odd Olai Aalen, (2004). Definition and estimation of an actual reproduction number describing past infectious disease transmission: application to HIV epidemics among homosexual men in Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Epidemiology and Infection. ISSN 0950-2688. 132 s 1139-1149.
Ellen Johanna Amundsen, Harald Weedon-Fekjær, (2003). Progression to AIDS slowed even more after the first two years with highly active antiretroviral therapy. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health. ISSN 1403-4948. 31 (4), s 312-318. doi: 10.1080/14034940210165000.
Odd Olai Aalen, Tron Anders Moger, Ellen Amundsen, Solve Sæbø, Harald Weedon-Fekjær, (2003). Overlevelses- og forløpsanalyse: Det tematiske området Norevent. Norsk Epidemiologi. ISSN 0803-2491. 13 (2), s 233-238.
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Grete Ostling Lauritzen, Ellen Johanna Amundsen, (2013). Pasienter tatt inn i behandling i 2011 for problemer knyttet til bruk av narkotiske stoffer og vanedannende legemidler. Nettrapport. ISBN 978-82-7171-402-4. 29 s.
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Knut Boe Kielland, Ellen Johanna Amundsen, Olav Dalgard, (2013). Treatment uptake of HCV-infection in a Norwegian cohort of people who inject drugs..
Knut Boe Kielland, Gerd Jorunn Møller Delaveris, Sidsel Rogde, Ellen Johanna Amundsen, Tor Jacob Eide, Olav Dalgard, (2013). Liver fibrosis among people who inject drugs exposed to hepatitis C, assessed through examination of liver tissue from autopsies.
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Paolo Rossi Castelli 27 June 2019 3 min read
Energy from sugar and oxygen for artificial muscles | IBSA Foundation
Bioengineers from the Swedish university of Linköping have managed to produce artificial muscle tissue that, like "real" tissue, uses oxygen and glucose (the "main" sugar in our metabolism) to extract the necessary energy to contract the fibers and create movement. The results of the study appeared in the scientific journal Advanced Materials.
But how was it possible to achieve this major result that, if confirmed by other research, will free artificial muscles (and the robots or the objects that contain them) from the need to be connected to batteries? Up to now all the artificial muscles created had been made of three layers: two external membranes with electrical charges with the opposite sign that, when duly stimulated, generated a current, and an internal layer, which transformed the current into movement, because it either contracted or expanded depending on how the electrical charges were produced or "expelled".
Until now, as we said, however, the reaction had always been triggered by a "separate" source, such as, for example, a battery, with all the practical problems that this entails (weight, frequently excessive bulkiness and the need to recharge the device). The Swedish researchers found a way to overcome this obstacle, by introducing two enzymes into the artificial muscle – glucose-oxidase and laccase – which (together with other molecules) metabolize glucose in the human body in the presence of oxygen, thus providing the body with all the energy it needs. In addition to these two substances, the researchers also used a special material (a polymer called polypyrrole) to make the electrical "conductibility" of the internal layer of the muscle particularly efficient.
"To make our device contract, all you have to do is immerse it in a glucose solution", explained Edwin Jager, professor in the Department of physics, chemistry and biology of Linköping University, "Just as in biological muscles, the glucose is directly converted to motion in the artificial muscles. But in the future, it will also be possible to use different enzymes to produce energy starting with other substances: in practice, with substances that artificial muscles will find in their natural surroundings".
When this new type of artificial muscle is developed further (we are currently at the stage of the first prototypes), it will find many practical applications in robotics and micro-robotics, and in implantable medical devices. The researchers also suggest that it could be useful for monitoring devices operating autonomously in aqueous environments.
Photo credits: Thor Balkhed


SINGAPORE - A made-in-Singapore range of infant milk powder, touted as an affordable alternative to those on shelves here, was launched on Tuesday (May 30), amid public unhappiness over high prices.
Einmilk, owned by local company AE Solution and manufactured here by SMC Nutrition with milk sourced from New Zealand, comes in four formulations. Its stage 1 to 3 formulas range in price from $33 to $39 for an 800g tin, while its lactose-free one is priced at $25 for 400g.
The price of infant milk formula here has more than doubled over the last decade to $56.06 for a 900g tin, leading the Government to announce measures earlier this month to curb the hikes.
SMC Nutrition, a subsidiary of food manufacturer SMC Food 21, is one of four companies licensed to manufacture infant milk powder here.
Einmilk formulas are currently available at U Stars supermarkets as well as online on Shopify. There are plans to have it on the shelves of more retailers within the next three to six months, said Einmilk business director Chan Yong Chye.
While educating consumers and convincing them to switch brands presents their biggest challenge, parent focus groups found that pricing under $40 would entice them to make the switch, he said.
"Singaporean parents, we are kiasu (Hokkien for the fear of losing), we want the best product. But whether the best product really comes at that (high) price is something we did a lot of research on," said Mr Chan.
There are also plans to grow its presence in South-east Asia and export to neighbouring countries within the next three years, leveraging on Singapore's reputation for strict safety standards, he said.
The brand was the brainchild of local businessmen Eric Chua and Alvin Tan, who conceived the idea two years ago after finding a lack of affordable and locally-made milk formulas on shelves here.
Said Mr Chua: "(Infant formula) is not cheap.... We wanted to provide quality at an affordable price, made in Singapore by Singaporeans for Singaporeans."


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Q: How can I see the proxy configurations of an SSH command in git bash? I'm having issues with SSHing through a corporate proxy.
In my Windows environment - SSH works fine:
$ ssh -v git@github.com
OpenSSH_7.5p1, OpenSSL 1.0.2k  26 Jan 2017
debug1: Reading configuration data /c/Users/davidj/.ssh/config
debug1: /c/Users/davidj/.ssh/config line 2: Applying options for github.com
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug1: Connecting to github.com [192.30.255.112] port 22.
debug1: Connection established.
...

Now in my Windows taskbar, there's an ISA Server Firewall client. If I uncheck 'Enable Microsoft Firewall Client for ISA Server' then my SSH attempt will fail.
$ ssh -v git@github.com
OpenSSH_7.5p1, OpenSSL 1.0.2k  26 Jan 2017
debug1: Reading configuration data /c/Users/davidj/.ssh/config
debug1: /c/Users/davidj/.ssh/config line 2: Applying options for github.com
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug1: Connecting to github.com [192.30.255.112] port 22.
debug1: connect to address 192.30.255.112 port 22: Connection timed out

So this is all well and good for working in the Windows environment - I just need to enable the firewall client.
My problem is that I'm trying to work within a Ubuntu VM on Virtual Box.
The Virtual Box network adapter is NAT, with no port forwarding.
In the VM HTTP traffic works fine, so long as I've set network proxy for HTTP and HTTPS in Ubuntu.
However, SSH here will give me connection refused:
david@david-VirtualBox:~$ ssh -vvv git@github.com
OpenSSH_7.2p2 Ubuntu-4ubuntu2.2, OpenSSL 1.0.2g  1 Mar 2016
debug1: Reading configuration data /home/david/.ssh/config
debug1: /home/david/.ssh/config line 2: Applying options for github.com
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 19: Applying options for *
debug2: resolving "github.com" port 22
debug2: ssh_connect_direct: needpriv 0
debug1: Connecting to github.com [192.30.255.113] port 22.

Is there a way of debugging here how my Windows is able to SSH to the outside world?

A: I would do the following:
On the Windows host machine I would run a wireshark (on port 22).  Then try to connect from the linux guest machine via ssh.  You will not see the guest connecting to outside.
The reason?

The Virtual Box network adapter is NAT, with no port forwarding.

You have to have port forwarding if you have NAT.
You can do it the following way: configure Virtualbox to open a port 22 on your host with IP 127.0.0.1 (loopback dev on your host) and forward it to your internal IP e.g. 10.0.10.10 (the internal address of your VM, which I do not know from your information.)
Afterwards, you will be able to connect to outside.
Edit - to deal with ISA Server
Forgot to write about the ISA part.  For that you will probably need a cygwin environment and OpenSSH server:
This is taken from here
To quote:

*** My dirty solution:
Linux <--> Windoz with ISA client <--> Windoz with ISA server
On my Windoz with ISA client:
I install Cygwin Environment + OpenSSH server
  (http:/pigtail.net/LRP/printsrv/cygwin-sshd.html).
I configure my ISA Client (WSPCFG.INI and CREDTOOL.EXE).
WSPCFG.INI in C:\cygwin\usr\sbin (SSHD.EXE folder): [sshd]
  Persistent=1 KillOldSession=1 ForceCredentials=1
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Firewall Client\CREDTOOL.EXE -w -n sshd -c
  myusername mydomainname mypassword (myusername, mydomainname and
  mypassword must be ISA server credentials)
On my Linux:
ssh -fND1080 myusername:mypassword@mywindozisaclientname (myusername
  and mypassword must be an account for Windoz with ISA client)
So I create a dynamic port forwarding (ssh behaves as a socks server).
I configure my mail client program (PROXY SOCKS = localhost , PORT =
  1080)

A: Your firewall client? In the corporate world the term endpoint security is very popular. Such (vpn) software manipulates the routing tables on the client machine in such a way that other networks become unreachable when active. Yet when active connections are OK. A solution in such cases is to install this firewall client of yours in the guest VM.


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OpenDreamKit is a project that brings together a range of projects and associate software to create and strengthen virtual research environments. The most widely used research environment is the Jupyter Notebook from which computational research and data processing can be directed. The OpenDreamKit project provides interfaces to well established research codes and tools so that they can be used seamlessly and combined from within a Jupyter Notebook.
OpenDreamKit also supports open source research codes directly by investing into structural improvements and new features to not only connect all of these tools but also enrich them, and make them more sustainable.
More concretely, the tools brought together in the OpenDreamKit project include mathematical software packages such as SageMath, GAP, PARI, Singular, but also simulation tools from materials science such as OOMMF. Visit our Software page to know more.
OpenDreamKit has also advanced the Jupyter Notebook Ecosystem, for example through providing tools to support reproducibility in computational science, effectively comparing and merging notebooks, and providing interactive 3D visualisation within the notebook.
See our presentation for mathematicians
See our presentation for developers
The project involves about 50 people spread over 15 sites in Europe, with a total budget of about 7.4 million euros. The largest portion of that will be devoted to employing an average of 11 researchers and developers working full time on the project. Additionally, the participants will contribute the equivalent of six other people working full time.
Grant agreement
OpenDreamKit is a Horizon 2020 European Research Infrastructure project (#676541) that will run from Sept. 2015 to August 2019. Here are the documents form the binding contract between the consortium and the European Union. 3 amendments to the Grant were necessary since September 2015 to follow the evolution of partners forming the consortium and of the workplan.
Part 1: Description of Action: Workpackages, tasks, deliverables
Part 2: Objectives, workplan, description of participants, budgets
The github repository for the project shows the advancements of the work accomplished in regards with the Grant agreement
Abstract of the project
OpenDreamKit will deliver a flexible toolkit enabling research groups to set up Virtual Research Environments, customised to meet the varied needs of research projects in pure mathematics and applications, and supporting the full research life-cycle from exploration, through proof and publication, to archival and sharing of data and code.
OpenDreamKit will be built out of a sustainable ecosystem of community-developed open software, databases, and services, including popular tools such as LinBox, MPIR, Sage(sagemath.org), GAP, PARI/GP, LMFDB, and Singular. We will extend the Jupyter Notebook environment to provide a flexible UI. By improving and unifying existing building blocks, OpenDreamKit will maximise both sustainability and impact, with beneficiaries extending to scientific computing, physics, chemistry, biology and more, and including researchers, teachers, and industrial practitioners.
We will define a novel component-based VRE architecture and adapt existing mathematical software, databases, and UI components to work well within it on varied platforms. Interfaces to standard HPC and grid services will be built in. Our architecture will be informed by recent research into the sociology of mathematical collaboration, so as to properly support actual research practice. The ease of set up, adaptability and global impact will be demonstrated in a variety of demonstrator VREs.
We will ourselves study the social challenges associated with large-scale open source code development and publications based on executable documents, to ensure sustainability.
OpenDreamKit will be conducted by a Europe-wide steered by demand collaboration, including leading mathematicians, computational researchers, and software developers with a long track record of delivering innovative open source software solutions for their respective communities. All produced code and tools will be open source.
This proposal grew out of a reflection on the needs of the (pure) mathematics community in terms of computational software and databases. The highly successful development in the last decades of systems such as GAP, LinBox, LMFDB, PARI, Sage, or Singular, has proven the viability and power of collaborative open source development models, by users and for users, even for delivering general purpose systems targeting a large public (researchers, teachers, engineers, amateurs, …).
Yet some critical long term investments, in particular on the technical side, are in order to boost the productivity and lower the entry barrier:
Streamline access, distribution, portability on a wide range of platforms, including High Performance Computers or cloud services.
Improve user interfaces, in particular in the promising area of collaborative workspaces as those provided by CoCalc (previously called SageMathCloud).
Lower barriers between research communities and promote dissemination. For example make it easy for a specialist of scientific computing to use tools from pure mathematics, and reciprocally.
Bring together the developers communities to promote tighter collaboration and symbiosis, accelerate joint development, and share best practices.
Outsource as much of the development as possible to larger communities to focus the work forces on their core specialty: the implementation of mathematical algorithms and databases.
Many people in the community have been working really hard on the above items but lack crucially manpower or funding; the purpose is to supply them with such.
The European H2020 call EINFRA-9: e-Infrastructure for Virtual Research Environment was a natural fit: putting the emphasis on Virtual Research Environments nicely wraps up all the above needs in a single aim.
A great opportunity is the rapid emergence of key technologies, and in particular the Jupyter (previously IPython) platform for interactive and exploratory computing which targets all areas of science.
We built the consortium by gathering core European developers of the aforementioned systems for pure mathematics, and reaching toward the numerical community, and in particular the Jupyter community, to work together on joint needs.
By definition this project will be mostly funding actions in Europe; however those actions will be carried out, as usual, in close collaborations with the worldwide community.


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To gig or not to gig? Stories from the modern economy
Mar 2017 United Kingdom Savings, Pensioners & Retirement, Part-time, Self-employed and Contract Workers, Investment - General
The CIPD has published a report that explores the experiences of people engaged in the gig economy and their views on what it is like to work in this way. In the gig economy only 30% of those surveyed are saving through an employer pension plan, compared to 57% of other workers. However, 16% of gig economy respondents say they are saving though a private or personal pension compared with just 5% of other workers. Overall, a third of gig economy workers say they are not currently saving for their retirement, compared with 27% of other workers.
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Now I'm 64 - Survey: longer lives and retirement
Mar 2017 WORLDWIDE Worldwide News, Savings, Pensioners & Retirement, Annuities and Income Drawdown
Project M has conducted research in association with Allianz Global Investors comparing the hopes and aspirations of people in the United Kingdom and the United States concerning retirement and focussing on savings drawdown decisions, goals and preferences. When asked about their objectives, people in both countries said their main goal was to ensure they had enough income in later life, although 50% of those aged 45 and over do not have a drawdown strategy.
The 'Mirage' of Flexible Retirement
27 Feb 2017 United Kingdom State Pensions, Savings, Funding and Minimum Funding Requirement, Automatic Enrolment
According to Royal London's eleventh policy paper "The 'Mirage' of Flexible Retirement", almost four million workers are only saving at the minimum rates set by the Government and have little hope of easing their way gently into retirement. The research finds that the frequently discussed idea of a 'flexible' or gradual retirement could be a 'mirage' for millions of individuals saving at current levels.
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£47,000 shortfall in employer pension contributions for women
Zurich Workplace Savings Barometer
22 Feb 2017 United Kingdom Savings, Equality
According to the Zurich Workplace Savings Barometer, the difference between the amount that men and women receive in employer pensions contributions could result in a shortfall of £47,000 by the end of a woman's working life if left unaddressed. Last year men under the age of 35 received £217 more on average in employer contributions than women of the same age. Additionally, between 2013 and 2016, men have received pension contributions of 7.8% of salary each year from their employers, compared to 7% for women.
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Retirement debt on the rise again
17 Feb 2017 United Kingdom Savings, Pensioners & Retirement
Prudential has published new findings from its Class of 2017 research. According to the research, a quarter of individuals planning to retire this year expect to do so with average debts of £24,300. The average amount owed has risen by almost 30% since last year and is the highest level ever recorded by Prudential's Class of ... research.
Defined Benefit members still in the dark about pension choices
9 Feb 2017 United Kingdom Transfers, Savings, Advisers
Research from LV= has revealed that 11% of defined benefit scheme members want to transfer into a defined contribution scheme in order to access the pension freedoms. The research also found that 25% are unaware they may outlive their pension savings if they do not choose a guaranteed income and 50% of members do not understand the role and responsibilities of their employer or trustee when it comes to planning for their retirement.
8 Feb 2017 United Kingdom Savings, Pension Reform, Annuities and Income Drawdown, Advisers, Administration, Trustees
Professional Pensions has published the latest edition of Pensions Buzz, a weekly survey which monitors the attitudes and opinions of the industry. This week's questions include:
Will the Government's new £1,500 pension advice allowance help close the UK's advice gap?;
The pension advice allowance will only be available to savers in DC schemes with DC sections. Should it be extended to DB savers?;
Which measure would be the most instrumental in producing better outcomes for DC members?;
Is the role of member-nominated trustees in scheme governance being undervalued?; and
A new index aims to show the economic case for annuities compared to equities, cash ISAs and drawdown, but is this really possible?
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Over 50s back pensions as top savings vehicle
3 Feb 2017 United Kingdom Pensioners & Retirement, Lifetime ISA, Savings
Research from Retirement Advantage has found that 61% of over 50-year-olds who have a pension would recommend pensions as the best way to save for retirement to a person entering the workforce today. According to the findings, 30% of respondents would neither recommend nor were against pensions, whilst 9% said they would not recommend a pension as the best way to save for a comfortable retirement.
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1 Feb 2017 United Kingdom Trustees, Savings, Brexit, Automatic Enrolment, Administration
Do we need more auto-enrolment flexibility as the UK navigates Brexit?;
What is the minimum number of people required to sit on a trustee board for a scheme to be run effectively?;
Should the UK follow Australia and allow people to choose their own pension scheme?;
Should businesses that rely on seasonal workers be allowed to drop out of auto-enrolment?; and
Have administrators put enough checks in place to ensure pension transfers do not result in members losing their savings?
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What does good look like in Defined Contribution?
Feb 2017 United Kingdom Scheme Issues & Trends, Scheme Design (inc. DB & DC), Savings, Pensioners & Retirement
A paper published by risk management company Cardano has reviewed a collection of third-party studies in order to form an independent view of what savers and employers want from DC. The paper showed that savers have consistently expressed a desire to take their retirement benefits in the form of a lifetime income, with nearly 70% expressing a desire for a "steady, secure income", where they would not outlive their retirement savings.
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American Views on Defined Contribution Plan Saving, 2016
ICI Research Report
Feb 2017 United States Savings, Investment - General, Countries - US
According to a report from the Investment Company Institute (ICI), 92% of respondents agree that retirees should be able to make their own decisions about how to manage retirement assets and income.
Consumer engagement: barriers and biases
Feb 2017 United Kingdom Savings, Pensioners & Retirement, Administration
The Pensions Policy Institute (PPI) has published a report, sponsored by Pinsent Masons, which explores consumer engagement with pensions and financial products. The report examines the reasons behind people's decisions and the lessons that behavioural economic theory can offer policy-makers, particularly in relation to engagement in pension decisions.
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Retirement incomes hit post-financial crisis high
27 Jan 2017 United Kingdom State Pensions, Savings, Pensioners & Retirement
Prudential has published the initial findings from the tenth year of its Class of… research. According to the research, this year's retirees (the Class of 2017) are expecting to live on an average annual income of £18,100. This figure is £400 more than the expected income of those who stopped work in 2016 and after a fourth consecutive annual increase is now at its highest level since 2008.
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One in five with multiple pensions has lost track of savings
19 Jan 2017 United Kingdom Savings, Automatic Enrolment
According to research by Aegon, 21% of people with multiple pensions have lost track of one or all of their pensions and 39% do not know the total value of their pensions. The research also found that 67% of respondents would be interested in consolidating their pensions.
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Pension Changes Survey 2017
Pension Changes Survey
Wealth at Work
18 Jan 2017 United Kingdom Savings, Pensioners & Retirement, Advisers
According to research from Wealth at Work, only 10% of employers believe their employees are saving enough for retirement. The findings also reveal that 48% of employers believe that their employees are not aware of the various retirement income options available to them at retirement.
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SDSU wins on rainy opening night, splits double header against USF Dons
February 18, 2019 KCR College Radio
Junior center fielder Julian Escobedo makes contact in a 8-4 win over San Francisco (Photo by Derrick Tuskan)
Feb. 15th, Aztecs win 8-4
San Diego State Baseball started its 2019 season on a chilly Friday night at Tony Gwynn stadium in front of a crowd of 1,014. The Aztecs faced off against the University of San Francisco Dons for their inaugural game of the season which featured a Mountain West championship ring ceremony.
Defensive baseball was played through the first couple of innings, with only 1 hit registered in the top of the 1st by USF shortstop, Jack Winkler. However, that all changed when the Aztecs collected 2 runs in the bottom of the 3rd inning thanks to centerfielder, Julian Escobedo's hit to right field that skipped right by the second baseman. Moments later, Catcher Joe Fitzhugh hit a shot into left field that led to Escobedo and Jarvis scoring to make it 4-0 in favor of the Aztecs.
SDSU's starting pitcher, Junior Logan Boyer, had an impressive night by striking out 10 batters of the 22 he faced. USF batters Jack Winkler & Jonathan Allen had back-to-back home runs off of Boyer in the top 5th inning. SDSU head coach Mark Martinez elected to keep Boyer in the game. Boyer persevered and struck out the last batter to retire the side and headed back to the dugout for the night.
Scoring went back and forth through the 8 innings, with the Dons collecting 1 run and the Aztecs getting 4 more to make it 8-3. Julian Escobedo's home run and double gave SDSU 3 crucial runs and some breathing room to operate. Relief pitchers Justin Goossens-Brown and Daniel Ritcheson finished things off for the Aztecs on the mound. Only 1 run was allowed in the top of the 9th as USF made a late night comeback. However, the Aztecs were able to secure the win as Jacob Westerman lined out to 1st base to end the game, 8-4, minutes before rain started to fall. SDSU has now won its season opener 3 years in a row, matching a record set from 2007-2009. Junior, Logan Boyer was credited with the win and improved to 1-0.
Feb. 16th Game 1, Aztecs lose 8-9 on controversial catch
The Aztecs lost their first game of the season on Saturday during a game that was initially scheduled for 6 pm, but was moved to 2 pm due to rain in the forecast.
Unlike the previous night where scoring was low at the beginning of the game, hits were a surplus for both the Dons and the Aztecs early. USF scored 3 runs off of Aztec pitcher Brad Wegman with 2 hits while leaving 2 men on base. The Aztecs answered right back in the bottom of the 1st when Julian Escobedo & Casey Schmitt both singled to the left side to score one run each. Freshman first baseman Brian Leonhardt doubled to right field that added 2 more runs to make the score 4-3 after one inning. 4 more runs were added to the score by the Aztecs at the end of the 3rd inning to make it 8-3. True freshman from Simi Valley, California, Jaden Fein batted in one of those runs in the bottom of the 3rd after recording his first career NCAA single in the 2nd inning.
The Dons responded with 2 runs from Nick Yovetich and Brandon Greim. Brad Wegman retired the side and his game was over after throwing 82 pitches in 4 total innings, leaving the score 8-5. SDSU brought in their closer, Casey Schmitt, who serves as both a pitcher and batter/fielder, had 9 saves and 24 strikeouts in the 2018 season for the Aztecs. However, the Dons put on their rally caps and were ready to face down Schmitt, putting up 4 runs during a hit parade that took place in the top of the 9th inning to make the score 9-8.
As only one out stood on the scoreboard, Joe Fitzhugh belted a pitch from Dons pitcher Joey Steele to center field, but was miraculously caught while diving by the Dons player, who then threw to second base to tag Alamillo out who was caught off guard to record a double play that ended the game. USF prevailed and won the game by a score of 9-8 despite being out hit 14-9.
Feb. 16th Game 2, Aztecs win 6-3
The Aztecs won their second game of opening weekend against University of San Francisco on Saturday night. Julian Escobedo continued with his strong weekend by scoring a run and batting two runs in the bottom of the 7th inning. Aztec second baseman, Jacob Maekawa also ended on a strong note by scoring a run and receiving two hits.
Things were tied up at 3-3 for USF and SDSU at the end of the 6th inning, until the Aztecs scored 3 runs in 7th and never looked back. SDSU starting pitcher Harrison Pyatt played 4 innings and only conceded 4 hits to the Dons. Relief pitcher Christian Winston was credited with the win after coming in during the 7th inning. Pitching was superb this weekend, as SDSU threw 47 strikeouts in 27 innings played.
The Aztecs improved to 2-1 on the season and will look forward to playing U.C. Irvine on Tuesday, February 19th at 6 p.m. pacific time.
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