I came late to Salesforce, only working with it for the last five years. The upside to that is that I don't have a bunch of old habits that need to be unlearned in order to take full advantage if this awesome platform. The downside is that I am having to re-brand myself after having risen to the top of a technology space that was decimated by a combination of merger-madness and a vendor-victimization of the acquired customers. Salesforce will eventually fill that nixed niche for both the technologists like myself and the customers who need something that is flexible, scalable and has strong communities for both technical and business users. A big part of establishing oneself in the Salesforce space is certification, and the Salesforce Administrator certification is the foundation for anyone interested in professionally working in the field.
While I have over a hundred certifications, most are from third-party testers rather than the vendor because my experience of vendor certifications is that they require memorizing things that take less than a minute to find on Google and are only used two or three times in a career. And they cost a lot of money. However, they are also a way to stand out in a field where there are many people who rely entirely on search results for their understanding of how to get things done and believe that complex issues can be solved by only re-using the result of the first link that matches the immediate need.
The Salesforce Administrator is definitely one of the more honest certifications in that if you have been working regularly with the product for a couple of years you can pass the exam with little or no study. Not because there isn't a bunch of those esoteric questions that only the admin-savant knows, but because the passing grade is only 65% and the credential verification site only shows that you passed and not by how many layers of teeth-skin you made it by. 65 is a fair percentage of what you would learn if you were doing the job correctly for some period of time or are adept at acquiring skills quickly through a combination of classroom learning and real life experience (which is how I passed, with much better than a 65% score).
The steps I will outline here are meant for whether you have real-life experience or not. Experience is not necessary to become certified in most technologies, which is why in many (other than Salesforce and a very few others) certification has become meaningless. It is, however, necessary to become good at applying the knowledge that is being certified. As is experience with other technologies and roles outside of technology.
If you haven't already, go sign up for a free Salesforce Developer account. As soon as you sign up, you will get an invitation to join Trailhead. You can join Trailhead without the free account, but you will want the free account to better grow your skills. Trailhead provides a whole lot of free training is well-designed and relevant to real-world requirements. At the start, I suggest completing a bunch of the beginner modules. They are easy to do and instructional, with many hands-on exercises that will get your confidence up. Confidence is key to test-taking. If you are working with Salesforce in the real world you can be prepared for the certification exam simply by completing all of the beginner and intermediate admin modules for Sales Cloud, providing you do them in a compressed period of time and test soon after completion.
Personally, because of the number of questions that are not on the exam and are both esoteric and overly-clever (i.e., "tricky"), I found the above sites useful in building knowledge but not very helpful for confidence.
For me, the best resource for preparing for the exam was Udemy. There are a few free courses, and you can combine them will all of the above and have a good chance of passing. If you want to guarantee a pass, I suggest two courses.
The first is https://www.udemy.com/salesforce-certified-administrator-201-2017. I can't say enough good things about this course. It is extremely well-designed and engagingly presented. It covers every aspect of the exam and provides practical and understandable demonstrations.
The second Udemy course isn't really a course (IMO). It is https://www.udemy.com/salesforce-administrator-certification-practice-tests. There are three tests in the course that you can take as many times as you like and the review your wrong answers with both the correct answers and explanation why it is correct. If you are not in a rush, you can sign up for a Udemy account and then wait for one of the frequent sales they have and take the courses for under $15 each, a bargain considering Salesforce will charge you $20 bucks for one practice quiz.
Finally, when the time for the exam comes, be prepared with a strategy. The practice tests should give you an idea of how much of the allotted time you personally will need. I have to variations of my certification exam strategy based on how much of that time is required.
If you find you use most of the allotted time in practice exams, when the real exam comes along take in four phases. In the first phase only answer the questions you immediately know the answer to going from first to last question. In the second phase, go through the unanswered questions as quickly as you can and check the review box for all those you don't feel confident about. For the third phase, review all of the questions you check for review and take your time until you are confident you have either chosen the best answer or truly don't know the answer. The final phase is to review the questions from start to finish until your time is down to the last minute.
If you generally finished quickly in the practice exams with a passing score then on exam day go through all of the questions in order and flag any that you are not 100% positive of. Then go back and review those questions and revise the answers where necessary. Finally, quickly go through all the questions again and double check yourself.


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By wpadmin | August 7, 2019
Semiconducting polymers, very large chain-like molecules made from repeating sub-units, are increasingly drawing the attention of researchers because of their potential applications in organic electronic devices. Like most semiconducting materials, semiconducting polymers can be classified as p-type or n-type according to their conducting properties. Although p-type semiconducting polymers have seen dramatic improvements thanks to recent advances, the same cannot be said about their n-type counterparts, whose electron-conducting characteristics (or 'electron mobility') are still poor.
Unfortunately, high-performance n-type semiconducting polymers are necessary for many green applications, such as various types of solar cells. The main challenges holding back the development of n-type semiconducting polymers are the limited molecular design strategies and synthesis procedures available. Among the existing synthesis methods, DArP (which stands for 'direct arylation polycondensation') has shown promising results for producing n-type semiconducting polymers in an environmentally friendly and efficient way. However, until now, the building blocks (monomers) used in the DArP method were required to have an orienting group in order to produce polymers reliably, and this severely limited the applicability of DArP to make high-performance semiconducting polymers.
Luckily, a research team from Tokyo Institute of Technology led by Prof. Tsuyoshi Michinobu found a way around this. They managed to reliably produce two long n-type semiconducting polymers (referred to as P1 and P2) through the DArP method by using palladium and copper as catalysts, which are materials or substances that can be used promote or inhibit specific reactions.
The two polymers were almost identical and contained two thiazole rings-pentagonal organic molecules that contain a nitrogen atom and a sulfur atom. However, the position of the nitrogen atom of the thiazole rings was slightly different between P1 and P2 and, as the researchers found out, this led to significant and unexpected changes in their semiconducting properties and structure. Even though P1 had a more planar structure and was expected to have a higher electron mobility, it was P2 who stole the show. The backbone of this polymer is twisted and looks similar to alternating chain links. More importantly, the researchers were surprised to find that the electron mobility of P2 was forty times higher than that of P1 and even higher than that of the current benchmark n-type semiconducting polymer. "Our results suggest the possibility of P2 being the new benchmark among n-type semiconducting materials for organic electronics," remarks Prof. Michinobu.
In addition, semiconducting devices made using P2 were also remarkably stable, even when stored in air for a long time, which is known to be a weakness of n-type semiconducting polymers. The researchers believe that the promising properties of P2 are because of its more crystalline (ordered) structure compared with P1, which changes the previous notion that semiconducting polymers should have a very planar structure to have better semiconducting properties. "Our new DArP method opens a door for synthesizing various promising n-type semiconducting polymers which cannot be obtained via traditional methods," concludes Prof. Michinobu. This work is another step in the direction towards a greener future with sustainable organic electronics.
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New York, New York August 22, 2003 - Norman Seabrook, president of the 8,400-member New York City Correction Officers' Benevolent Association (COBA), yesterday filed a federal complaint in United States Southern District Court against the New York City Department of Correction, alleging that the Commissioner of the Department of Correction, Martin Horn, vindictively retaliated against his members by filing disciplinary charges against them after they were unable to report for duty on the day of the blackout and the next day, August 15, 2003.
According to the federal complaint, many correction officers who, like most of New York City workers, were unable to report for work on Thursday evening and on Friday due to the massive blackout, have already been notified by the DOC that the DOC intends to slap them with a disciplinary charge of Absent Without Leave ("AWOL"). No other agency in the City of New York other than DOC has filed disciplinary charges against employees who were unable to report for duty during the blackout. These disciplinary charges came in the wake of Mr. Seabrook's call for Commissioner Horn's termination for jeopardizing the safety and security of correction officers by instituting layoffs in May 2003.
Mr. Seabrook, on behalf of COBA, filed the complaint in federal court as the charges allege that the DOC violated Mr. Seabrook's First Amendment rights under the United States Constitution and the DOC violated the rights of COBA members to equal protection under the law.


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Peter Drucker is credited with coining the phrase "culture eats strategy for breakfast", referring to the importance of organisational culture to the success of a company. Since culture is derived from the leadership and employees, the assumption is that getting the best talent can ensure you create the best working culture for your business.
In a recent strategy meeting with the leaders of a Fortune-500 company, the word "culture" came up 27 times in 90 minutes. Business leaders believe a strong organisational culture is critical to success, yet few know how to build or control it.
Answering three questions can help transform culture from a mystery to a science:
How does culture drive performance?
What is culture worth?
What processes in an organization affect culture?
Academics have studied why people work for nearly a century, but a major breakthrough happened in the 1980s when professors Edward Deci and Richard Ryan from the University of Rochester distinguished the six main reasons why people work.
The six main reasons people work are: play, purpose, potential, emotional pressure, economic pressure, and inertia.
The work of many researchers has found that the first three motives tend to increase performance, while the latter three hurt it.
Play is when you are motivated by the work itself. You work because you enjoy it. A teacher at play enjoys the core activities of teaching — creating lesson plans, grading tests, or problem solving how to break through to each student. Play is our learning instinct, and it's tied to curiosity, experimentation, and exploring challenging problems.
Purpose is when the direct outcome of the work fits your identity. You work because you value the work's impact. For example, a teacher driven by purpose values or identifies with the goal of educating and empowering children.
Potential is when the outcome of the work benefits your identity. In other words, the work enhances your potential. For example, a teacher with potential may be doing his job because he eventually wants to become a principal.
Since these three motives are directly connected to the work itself in some way, you can think of them as direct motives. They will improve performance to different degrees.
Indirect motives, however, tend to reduce it.
Emotional pressure is when you work because some external force threatens your identity. If you've ever used guilt to compel a loved one to do something, you've inflicted emotional pressure. Fear, peer pressure, and shame are all forms of emotional pressure. When you do something to avoid disappointing yourself or others, you're acting on emotional pressure. This motive is completely separate from the work itself.
Economic pressure is when an external force makes you work. You work to gain a reward or avoid a punishment. Now the motive is not only separate from the work itself, it is also separate from your identity.
Inertia is when the motive is so far removed from the work and your identity that you can't identify why you're working. When you ask someone why they are doing their work, and they say, "I don't know; I'm doing it because I did it yesterday and the day before," that signals inertia. It is still a motive because you're still actually doing the activity, you just can't explain why.
High-performing culture maximizes the play, purpose, and potential felt by its people, and minimizes the emotional pressure, economic pressure, and inertia.
How can you define a high-performing culture.
Culture is the set of processes in an organization that affects the total motivation of its people. In a high-performing culture, those processes maximize total motivation.
A badly designed role negatively effects employees' total motivation. Some companies make special efforts to design a highly motivating role.
The next most sensitive element is the identity of an organization, which includes its mission and behavioural code.
The third most sensitive element is the career ladder in an organisation.
What can Leaders do
Looking at all these processes together, it's clear that culture is the operating system of an organization.
"The only way talent management will truly succeed is by being in support of, and part of, the business strategic plan and ultimately part of the culture or mindset of the organization." – Avedon & Scholes
A great culture is not easy to build — it's why high performing cultures are such a powerful competitive advantage.
"World – class organizations have learned that their competitive edge is driven by an integrated talent management strategy fully aligned with the business's mission and vision and meaningfully incorporated into its long – term strategic planning." – Scott & Mattson.
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Whelan backs Dublin to step up
FORMER Dublin coach Mickey Whelan believes the county is within a whisker of winning their first All-Ireland since 1995 and requires just the roll of the dice to end the 13-year wait.
Leinster champions three years in a row, Dublin have found their ambitions stunted at the All-Ireland semi-final stage this past two seasons and time is running out for some of their older players.
"I think that Dublin are only a flip away from an All-Ireland," said Whelan who took St Vincent's to an All-Ireland title of their own last March. They've missed out by a point or two on two or three occasions in the last six or seven years.
"This team now is a very mature team and they get a lot more scores from possession than they used to. They're more efficient. If they get the break at all ... if they had got the break last year then who knows? You need a break in an All-Ireland."
Whelan was unfortunate to manage the county in the wake of that 1995 triumph when the team was well beyond its sell-by-date but he believes the current squad has only now come to its peak.
Like many observers, he seems to believe the full-back line is the chief area of concern while the loss of Vincent's own centre-back Ger Brennan reduces the options in the second line of defence.
However, it is further up the field where Whelan sees most reason for optimism.
"They now have the best selection they have had since they last won the All-Ireland. Forward-wise they could bring in three forwards and there wouldn't be any weakness coming in.
"They've never had nine or 10 forwards that they could pick from of equal ability. Now it's another year and some of our fellas like Mossy (Tomas Quinn) and Dermot (Connolly) have All-Ireland medals behind them.
"It all helps to build your confidence and your belief and you learn a bit from every game you play at the top level."
How much Paul Caffrey could take out of Dublin's opener against a Louth team that imploded soon after the break is difficult to say. Dublin's first-half display that day was not the type to have supporters rushing out to the bookies to place bets on their September bid.
"They scored very highly. I know it took them a while to get going but they got a lot of scores and won the game very easily in the end. It's not the time to be at your best, is it?
"The management have won three Leinsters so they probably feel they want to do something slightly different. Their goals are a little bit beyond that. I think the team now is probably focusing on getting through to the next phase of it."
Momentum and pride will ensure that Dublin will be doing all they can to make it a fourth provincial title in a row and the next obstacle in the way of that is a Westmeath team which took their scalp in the Division Two league final in Navan.
That was the first time that the midland county's blanket defence tactic impinged on the national consciousness but they have re-affirmed its usefulness twice since against Longford and Offaly.
How they fare on the broader swathe of grass in Croke Park is another thing but they will nonetheless prove to be a gritty opponent for the Dubs after their cakewalk against Louth.
"Westmeath aren't going to be easy to break down. This might be a tight game, it might be. Westmeath under Tomas O Flatharta have done a superb job and are going to be very difficult to beat. They'll be a great test for Dublin."
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Our children sleep well. Sorry.
OUR CHILDREN SLEEP THROUGH THE NIGHT. They always have done. The Duchess and I are understandably relieved and very grateful. But we don't like to talk about it too much. On account of the hatred we see in the eyes of other parents.


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Fortunes of Fast-Expanding Microbrewery Have Fallen Flat
Debts Skyrocket As County Ends Water Subsidy
Ten years ago, the barrels were rolled out with great fanfare when Frederick Brewing Co. opened for business, turning out handcrafted ales, lagers and ruby red porter under the Blue Ridge label and marking the return of commercial beermaking to the city after a 54-year drought.
Bankrolled with $750,000 from more than 30 local investors, the brewery caught the nation's microbrew wave, expanding from 660 barrels a year to more than 28,000 barrels in less than a decade. The company soon built a sophisticated plant outside the city, bought up competitors, shipped its frothy goods to pubs from Chincoteague to China and eventually became a publicly traded company with a cool-sounding symbol. Just this past December, Washingtonian rated its Wild Goose Porter the best of Washington.
But the ruby red porter wasn't all that was red.
Despite growth that made the company the largest craft brewer in the mid-Atlantic, a headline-grabbing brew made from hemp and legions of loyal beer-swilling fans, the company failed to practice moderation, expanding too far too fast, and became permanently unable get up off the floor financially.
It didn't help that the microbrew craze was only that. It also didn't help that Frederick County rejiggered its utility rates to avoid giving away water and sewer services at below-market cost. The brewery, making a product that is 90 percent water, got socked with a $650,000 water bill it couldn't pay.
In one year alone, Frederick Brewing Co. lost more than $5.6 million. And that stock? It opened on Nasdaq in March 1996, its ticker symbol BLUE, at $6 a share. Delisted from Nasdaq in 1999, the stock now trades over the counter — if it trades at all — under the much more prosaic symbol FRBW for around a penny per share.
Now in receivership, the company, whose parent is based in Ohio, is searching for a buyer. A bank has initiated foreclosure and is seeking about $2.1 million for the land and building. And Frederick County is coming after the company for more than $1.1 million in unpaid taxes and debts, much of which was for increasingly precious water in the swiftly growing county.
John L. "Lennie" Thompson Jr., president of the Frederick Board of County Commissioners, has drawn up a resolution urging the county attorney to shut off the flow of water and pursue a tax sale or other remedies against the company. Anything less amounts to subsidizing alcohol with taxpayer money, he said. And he has dared the Ohio court, where the receivership was filed, to try to stop the Maryland jurisdiction.
"We can't have every local government subsidizing every microbrewery that opened in the '90s," Thompson said.
Mark E. Dottore, the court-appointed receiver, said plans are underway to break up and sell the company in a way that will repay as much debt as possible to each of its creditors and allow the brewery to continue operating.
Though the brewery employees only about 20 people, he said, the jobs pay well. Not to mention that its heavily taxed product generates welcome revenue for the state and federal governments. In fact, among the parties working behind the scenes for a successful outcome is Maryland's Economic Development Authority, which guaranteed a $3 million loan for the company. About $1.3 million remains to be paid off, Dottore said.
"My main goal is to keep this company here and alive," he said.
In a telephone interview last week, Dottore said that a Maryland buyer, whom he would not identify, has contracted to purchase the plant's building and property for more than $3 million. He is still searching for a buyer for the plant equipment and bottling rights. That buyer would then lease the building. So far, though, Dottore has found only lookers.
Meanwhile, the brewery's output has trickled to a fraction of its peak. But the company continues to produce batches of its own brands, including Wild Goose Ale and Blue Ridge Amber Lager. The company is also bottling beer under labels from its Ohio-based parent company, such as Hudy Delight, Crooked River and Little Kings. The brewery is also contracting to produce beer for other companies, such as Penn Pilsner for the Pennsylvania Brewing Co. in Pittsburgh.
The odd thing is, Frederick Brewing Co. seemed to have weathered the worst of the boom-and-bust of the craft beer market in the 1990s, said Paul Gatza, a director of the Association of Brewers in Boulder, Colo.
At the height of microbrew mania, the number of new breweries grew by as much as half every year as every brewer with a new home recipe for malt, hops and barley rushed to cash in on the appetite for full-bodied beer. By 1998, however, the quest for a new taste wandered toward fruits and berries, the growth of new craft breweries slowed to zero, and imports were where the action was, Gatza said. (Today, he said, it's "cheap chic": your father's familiar beer label for pennies a swig.)
Still, in 1990, there were 211 craft brewers. Today there are 1,326. And Frederick Brewing Co.'s brands seemed to be if not "really hugely flavorful," at least respectable, Gatza said.
But the brewery's troubles go back to problems as old as the business cycle, maybe as old as the history of fermented beverages, and it is told through current employees and filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Kevin E. Brannon, a lawyer from Oregon, and his wife, Marjorie McGinnis, founded Frederick Brewing with two partners using a recipe that came from a home brewer's basement in Frankenmuth, Mich., according to plant manager John Niziolek. The company started operating in late 1993 with 20 styles of beer marketed under the Blue Ridge label.
With a $4.8 million public stock offering in March 1996 and help from the state, the company built a $7 million plant in Wedgewood Business Park south of Frederick and predicted profitability within a year. The company also shook things up when it produced Hempen Ale, a brew mixed with hemp seeds. (The seeds were sterilized to remove any trace of tetrahydrocannabinol, the psychoactive agent in marijuana.)
In 1998, the company bought out Brimstone Brewing Co. of Baltimore and Wild Goose Brewery Inc. in Cambridge, Md., and took over their brands.
But by 1999, having expanded too fast, the company was hunting for a buyer to pump more money into the venture. Into the mix stepped C. David Snyder, a high-tech entrepreneur from Cleveland with lots of cash and a taste for full-bodied beer, according to Dottore.
Snyder, who was smitten with the taste of Crooked River beer, was looking for a new brewery. He created Snyder International Brewing Group and bought control of the Frederick company, which then began producing its own labels as well as Little Kings Cream Ale, Hudy Delight, Christian Moerlain and other products. But the losses continued to mount, according to Dottore, company officials and filings with the SEC.
Snyder dreamed of building a new Anheuser-Busch, Dottore said, and spent lavishly on executive talent to do it. He brought in people who had worked for Rolling Rock, Corona and other brands. But the company had too much plant and paid too much for everything, especially personnel, Dottore said.
"There used to be six vice presidents over me. And they were all in Cleveland," said Andrew Tveekrem, the plant's brewmaster.
Snyder's attorney, Michael Cheselka, initially agreed to an interview but did not return several telephone calls.
In 1996, the company entered into a complex, multiyear agreement with the county to hook water and sewer pipes up to the new plant and supply it with water. The payments were to be distributed evenly over a period of years. And the amount due was to be adjusted based on the amount of water used by the plant. Initially, the company paid $134,784, or $1,800 per tap.
But after a series of public meetings, the county raised the fees for all users to bring them closer to true costs. In 2002, the county calculated the plant's use with more than 104 taps at $10,300 each.
Mary K. Whitmer, a lawyer working with Dottore, said the company did not attempt to negotiate with the county until it was too late. "Apparently, this all walked by the owners of this facility," she said.
Today, the company owes more than $1.1 million in delinquent property taxes and water and sewer fees, said James Babb, the county's acting treasurer. He said the brewery has not made a payment since May 13, 2002.
That's business in a free market, said Thompson, the board of county commissioners president.
"Businesses who receive a subsidy run the risk that the subsidy will come to an end," he said.
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Since our last newsletter we have managed to plant our corn and soybeans, while enjoying some rain, some sunshine and some subnormal temperatures. All in all, pretty much a spring filled with Minnesota weather.
Reviewed Equity's Insurance program with Glen Baker, our agent from Agri-Business Insurance Services. Glen met with the Board for a yearly review all of our various insurance policies and programs.
Put a new Feed truck into service around the first part of April. A 2017 International ProStar that is driven by Lonnie.
- The need for a new feed trailer.
- The need for a new conveyor to fill bunkers in the fall.
Discussed an employee training project that will work with employees to understand Cooperative Principles and Customer Service. The Board urges you as a member to complete the survey being sent out in the last half of June. Your participation will help us do a better job of meeting your needs with products and services. Our goal is to continue to improve our service to you the member.
Started our review of 'Grain Policies' for the upcoming fall. We will continue to work on this into the early summer and will be completed and available by September, and will be published in the Fall Newsletter.
As always if you have any questions, please feel free to contact any of the current Board Members.
Have an enjoyable summer and plan to attend your annual meeting, scheduled this year for Monday, August 29 at the Community Center in Wood Lake.


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Q: Clojure apply string replace to each element in array Given an array contains elements such as:
[":test" ":do_this" "dont" ":_another_one"]

I need to remove the : and replace it with a empty string which can be done using:
(clojure.string/replace element #":" "")

However how can I apply this to every element? I have looked at using the apply function but it doesn't seem to modify the elements, is this because they are in fact immutable?
(apply function collection)

Is what I've been looking at doing but no luck so far.

A: Use map:
(let [input [":test" ":do_this" "dont" ":_another_one"]
      updated (map #(clojure.string/replace % #":" "") input)]
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this returns a sequence instead of a vector, so use mapv if you want to create a new vector.

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This week, I talk about how innovative my mom was in making things last. I'm reminded by it because this past weekend, I met so many mothers at the Mother's Day show I did and it made me nostalgic. I also discuss great and terrible songs I used to love and why being a maid was my dream growing up.


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United States Embassy in Slovakia.
Slovakian Embassy in Washington D.C..
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Czechoslovakia Velvet Revolution: K-12 TLC Guide.
K-12 TLC Guide to the Czech Republic.
09/30/1938: Munich Pact Cedes Sudetenland to Germany: K-12 TLC Guide.
Arts and Culture in Slovakia, Escape Artist.
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This ticket will cover your registration fees for the meeting as well as an NC3ABI tshirt. Lunch will be provided.
This will be the annual spring meeting for the NC Community College Association of Biology Instructors.
The purpose of the NC Community College Association of Biology Instructors (NC³ABI) is to improve biology instruction at two-year schools and to foster fellowship and communication among NC community college biology faculty.
Bring your favorite resources, class/lab ideas, class/lab challenges, and a digital device.
Register early and receive an NC3ABI tshirt! Registrations after March 1st are not guaranteed a shirt.
There should be something for everyone - join us for a day of fellowship, sharing, and professional growth!
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Don't let budget restrictions prevent you from attending!
If you would like to attend but are struggling due to budget restrictions please email Tanya at tmcghee@ncbionetwork.org. There are limited travel funds available to faculty who need them.
All NC Community College Faculty who teach biology are welcome!
Please share this with part-time faculty and others who may be interested!
An official NC Science Festival event!
BioNetwork is part of the North Carolina Community College System and is hosted by community colleges throughout the state.
For additional educational opportunities and resources, visit ncbionetwork.org.


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The Gift (2015) (film review by Frank Ochieng).
August 10, 2015 | By FrankOchieng	| 1 Reply More
Traditionally, horror films and psychological thrillers follow a predictable path in their themes of dot-to-dot suspense. Rarely does a suspense piece deviate away from the formulaic blueprint that make these types of flicks the familiar frightfests they are in conception. However, the crafty Joel Edgerton, as the juggling movie mastermind sporting directing, acting and writing credits, provides the mind-bending goods in the refreshingly titillating 'The Gift', an edge-of-your-seat chiller that definitely is worth unwrapping with nervous anticipation. The ambitious moments in 'The Gift' are golden especially when the twists and turns are considered a solid fixture in the film's creepy conclusion.
It is understandable in assuming that 'The Gift' could have been yet another custom-made psychological thriller promoting the same hire-for-dire predicaments. Nevertheless, the insidious presence of Edgerton, along with co-stars Jason Bateman and Rebecca Hall, as the Chicagoan married couple settling in their aesthetic-looking LA-based home elevates 'The Gift' as a stalker flick with captivating smarts and attitude.
It is actually a homecoming situation for Simon (Bateman) as he returns to his California town courtesy of his job-related executive rise within his computer security firm. The mover-and-shaker couple Simon and Robyn (Hall) settle into their impressive, spacious window-friendly place with a modern innovative appearance. When the couple decides to head out and do some furniture shopping they bump into Gordon (Edgerton). Gordon identifies himself as Simon's old high school classmate, something that catches the computer exec by surprise because he does not necessary recall the goatee-sporting Gordon right off the bat. The greeting is awkward but Simon politely acknowledges Gordon in an effort to appease him.
Unfortunately, jotting down the clingy Gordon's phone number is opening up a proverbial can of worms. Soon, Simon and Robyn would be hindered by Gordon's constant intrusive visits to their elegant home. Furthermore, Gordon adds to the creep factor by bestowing different degrees of generous gifts on the marital twosome. Gordon does not seem to take the hint that his unannounced visitations are smothering and rather bothersome to the lovebirds. The nervy gesture of Gordon hanging around is particularly worrisome because he seems to dominate Robyn's attention and time as Simon is away at his lucrative job during the day.
The tension mounts for Simon and Robyn outside of the menacing interruptions caused by the mysterious Gordo. For starters, the pressure is on for the tandem to start a family as they hope to entertain the arrival of their first child. Secondly, Simon tries to best a rival at work to further his corporate ladder climbing into management. Thus, Gordon's bizarre gift-giving tendencies and continual pit stops in the couple's blossoming lives purely add to the stress and strain of keeping their marriage solid and conflict-free.
Who says that one can never go home again? Perhaps Jason Bateman's beleaguered Simon in the hauntingly effective THE GIFT.
The Gift could have followed its road map to predictability and used the oddball Gordon as the doomsday dude that continues his twisted agenda without any rhyme or reason. Here is where Edgerton, as the aforementioned triple threat in directing, writing and acting, earns his creative stripes because he manages to flip the script on the viewers and causes them to comprehend the off-kilter motivations of this complex agitator. Is Gordon justified in his campaign to cause havoc for the corporate rising star Simon? Is Simon as squeaky clean as it appears? What is the backstory surrounding the nostalgic circumstances concerning Gordon's and Simon's past history as childhood classmates together? Can Robyn piece together the perplexing puzzle that involves the two men on different avenues to self-destruction?
It would be a disservice to reveal some of the shocking angles in 'The Gift' because the film certainly engineers must of its nerve-racking twists so cleverly to the point of describing too much of the dramatic layers may spoil the tension-driven surprise. The overall toxic message that is conveyed pretty much sums up Edgerton's inventive and piercing thrill ride. Be careful how you mistreat or dismiss someone from the past on the way up because you very well could tangle with them as one's fortunes could descend without a moment's notice. Or to put it in simplistic street-wise terminology: karma is indeed a bitch!
1 hr. 48 mins.
Starring: Jason Bateman, Rebecca Hall, Joel Edgerton, Allison Tolman, Busy Phillipps, Beau Knapp, Wendell Pierce and David Denman
Directed and Written by: Joel Edgerton
Genre: Psychological Thriller/Suspense and Drama
Critic's Rating: *** stars (out of 4 stars)
(c) Frank Ochieng 2015
Tags: horror and suspense, Jason Bateman, Joel Edgerton, psychological thriller, The Gift
Category: Films, Horror, MEDIA
Frank Ochieng has contributed film reviews to SF Crowsnest off and on since 2003. He has been published in other various movie site venues throughout the years. Ochieng has been part of The Online Film Critics Society (OFCS) and had written film reviews for The Boston Banner newspaper (USA) and frequently is a media/entertainment panelist on WBZ NewsRadio 1030 AM on "The Jordan Rich Show" in Boston, Massachusetts/USA.
Reviews: The Gift (2015) | Online Film Critics Society | December 4, 2015
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Kansas' Bill Self Named the Yahoo! Sports National Coach of the Year
LAWRENCE, Kansas –
Kansas men's basketball coach Bill Self was named the Yahoo! Sports National Coach of the Year Thursday. Self was a finalist along with Trent Johnson of LSU, Craig Robinson of Oregon State, Mike Anderson of Missouri and Leonard Hamilton of Florida State.
It is the first time that Self has been named a National Coach of the Year award by a major publication since he was named the National Coach of the Year in 2000 by The Sporting News. Self was recently named a Henry Iba Award Coach of the Year Finalist. Self is also a four-time finalist for the Naismith Coach of the Year Award (2000, 2001, 2002 and 2003).
Self's Jayhawks clinched a share of their fifth-straight Big 12 Conference Championship Wednesday. Kansas (24-6, 13-2) had to replace all five starters from last year's NCAA National Championship team, and incorporate eight newcomers to this season's team.
Prior to 2008-09, in Bill Self's five full seasons as head coach at Kansas he was won one national championship, four regular-season Big 12 titles and three league tournament championships. He has guided KU to three NCAA Elite Eights and one Final Four. In his sixth season at KU, Self is currently 166-38, while owning a 373-143 overall mark.
Kansas wraps up the regular season Saturday when it hosts Texas on Senior Day in Allen Fieldhouse. Seniors Matt Kleinmann and Brennan Bechard will be recognized as the Jayhawks and Longhorns square off at 3 p.m. on CBS.


Bungalow is located on the first floor, 12 min walk from La Mata beach. Casas Holiday - Torreblanca is a holiday home with a seasonal outdoor pool, located in Torrevieja, just 2.9 km from Aquopolis Torrevieja Water Park and Habaneras Torrevieja Shopping Center. It offers a balcony, free private parking, free WiFi, air conditioning.
This house features a fully equipped kitchen, a seating area and a flat-screen TV. There is a bathroom with a hairdryer.
Guests can relax in the property's garden and tennis court.
Torrevieja Marina is 4.1 km from the house. The nearest airport is Murcia-San Javier, 29 km away and Alicante 45 km from Casas Holiday - Torreblanca.


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DIVING IN INDIA
It's a subcontinent of surprises. A cauldron of cultures, of climes, of people. Desert and tropical rain forest. Remote village and restless metropolis. Mysticism and masala dosa, pranic healing and paragliding. A hundred clichés and then a hundred faces you never knew existed.
So its diving you're looking for. There are three main centers of diving in India. Andaman and Nicobar group of islands in the Bay of Bengal, Lakshadweep group of islands in the Arabian Sea and Goa on the mainland. Every destination is completely unique in its own way, and they all have widely different dive conditions and marine life.
While Lakshadweep has the clear blue lagoons of coral atolis, Andaman and Nicobar are volcanic islands surrounded by deep, undisturbed waters that have an astounding bio-diversity. The third destination Goa, has many exciting things to do, on land as in water.
Your adventure will begin long before your diving ever does. In fact it will begin the moment you step into the country. World class diving often lies in out of the world places. Getting there may not always be fun. Travel routes that run across valleys and plains, through breathtaking landscapes, and at the end of it all, the experience of diving in sites so pristine and untouched - of which you could probably be a pioneer in one of the last remaining diving frontiers - India.
The tropical rain forests that loom close to the seashore are home to unique species of birds, and to tribes that still haven't learned to use fire . Andaman is an experience quite unlike another. And if you find yourself using more mosquito repellent here than ever before, you'll be using a lot more camera roll too.
Around PORT BLAIR
The waters around Andaman have spectacular bio-diversity, and dive conditions that are ideal for an experienced diver.
Cinque Island
One of the best dive destinations in the island, it has clear emerald water with a visibility of up to 80 feet. The deep dive offers a terrific variety of marine life, including black coral sightings of sharks and is ideal for the experienced diver.
Rutland Island
The shallow waters here have a good representation of most smaller fish and coral, and a good place for training open water divers.
Awesome rock faces and a spectacular dive landscape. Marine life includes Trigger fish, Grunts, Goatfish and Rays.
HAVELOCK ISLAND
This island is located approximately 4 hours from the Port Blair airport by inter-island ferry. The dive center located on the island offers a wide range of largely unexplored dive sites rich in underwater marine life.
The nearest decompression chamber is at the Naval Base in Port Blair. Foreigners are only allowed to visit certain islands in Middle. Little and South Andamans.
Best time of the year
Between November and May.
Climater
Tropical - between 23-28 degree Celsius.
English, Hindi, Bengali and Tamil.
L A K S H A D W E E P
Be warned. There are some things that are really hard to find in Lakshadweep. Like fast cars, or shrinks, or tranquilizers. They do have all that water though. Bright and clear as liquid glass. Fringed by white stretches of sand where the only throngs you'll ever see are of the sandpipers on the shore. And you could sleep by the seaside with the night sky as your ceiling. Therapy has never felt better.
Geographically similar to that other divers' haunt, Lakshadweep is like Maldives without the crowds. 400 kilometers off the coast of Kerala, this group of 36 coral islands and atolls can be reached by a twenty-hour sea journey from Cochin. Of the ten inhabited islands, only two, Bangaram and Kadmat, are open to foreigners and there are dive centers on both these islands. The lagoons are home to a spectacular world of marine life, so unexplored, you may well have a site named after you.
AROUND KADMAT ISLAND
Surrounded on the eastern and western side by the lagoon, Kadmat is the ideal haven of solitude. This little island has an astonishing variety of marine flora and fauna. Some of the dive sites explored till date are beyond any sort of written description, they are ethereal moments of pure wonder.
A wall of soft coral starting at 12 meters and cascading down to the deep blue. Dive amongst turtles as resplendent as their surroundings.
Sting Ray City
A 21-meter dive along the sand dunes, abundant with Sting Rays.
Cross Currents
Locate between the islands of Amini and Kadmat, drift dive along with schools of Snapper, Fusilier and Sharks at 15-21 meters.
Jack Point
A drift dive between 21-30 meters with different types of fish like Jack Fish and King Fish.
An abundance of table coral at 12-25 meters along with varieties of small fish and Groupers.
East Channel
Located between 9-20 meters an abundance of soft coral and tuna.
AROUND BANGARAM ISLAND
A tear-drop shaped island surrounded by a continuous strip of creamy sand. The temperate blue-green waters of the Indian Ocean are an irresistible invitation to the scuba diving fraternity of the world.
The exquisite black coral formations along with Angel Fish, Clown Fish, Butterfly, Surgeons, Groupers, Mantas, String Rays and wondrous marine life found in the Lakshadweep.
Visit the wreck of the Princess Royal at 32 meters, sunk in a battle over two hundred years ago, or if luck is on your side, have the pleasure of being escorted by a pod of 10-20 Dolphins........
Visit the dive sites Manta Point, Shark Point and The Wall. Dive amidst a submerged reef with shoals of Giant Parrotfish.
Bangaram - a place on the edge of the world. A bit of paradise.
For both the dive centers, the nearest decompression chamber is a 2 hour chopper ride to the Naval Base at Cochin.
English, Malayalam, Mhal
G O A
Goa is a little bit of Rio de Janeiro meets Ibiza. But then Goa is a lot of things. This little seaside state, with an identity that's a seamless blend of Portuguese-Latin influence and Indian tradition, was cracking enough to have been one of the Millennium destinations of the world.
The waters are safe and temperate, the absence of riptide currents making them ideal for learners and novice divers. And when you aren't wiggling in and out of your wetsuit, you could be sunbathing or bungee jumping, visiting temples or haunting the flea market. Like we said, Goa is a lot of things.
The three hundred years of Portuguese rule has left an indelible imprint on the collective psyche of Goans. It shows in their music, their architecture, their culture. It's also why Goans make the most wonderful vindaloo this side of the Indian Ocean.
The marine life in Goa is similar to that found in Maldives. The presence of wrecks in Spanish and Portuguese galleons, World War II ships make the fish life prolific.
Grande Island
Much of the local diving is conducted around this island. Some of the sites near the island include Suzy's Wreck, Davy Jone's Locker, Sail Rock, Turbo Tunnel, Surge City, Uma Guma Reef, and Bounty Bay.
Angria Bank
A four-hour high-speed boat ride takes you to this world class dive site 120 miles from Goa. A vast underwater landmass about half the size of the state of Goa, it offers an amazing wealth of coral and fish. A 'live-aboard' is available with the local dive center to make diving at this site an unforgettable experience.
Pigeon Island
This rocky outcrop has interesting marine life as well as good visibility.
Malvan Shoal
Some interesting shallow sites in the water between Vengurla and Malvan, 2 hours away from the capital city of Panaji.
Decompression chamber is available about an hour away by road from any of the dive sites.
These islands are located about 1250 kms from Chennai (Tamil Nadu). The capital, Port Blair is served via Indian Airlines and Jet Airways. Indian Airlines flies from Calcutta to Port Blair six days a week (except Sundays). Jet Airways has a daily flight from Chennai to Port Blair. Indian Airlines flies four days a week to Port Blair from Chennai. Both inbound and outbound tickets should be booked well in advance for these sectors.
It is possible to sail to Port Blair from Calcutta and Chennai every week. The crossing takes about 3-4 days. All ships plying on this route are under the auspices of the Directorate of shipping , Govt. of India.
It is advisable to carry a few extra passport photographs and copies of your passport as you would need to submit these to the authorities at Port Blair on arrival for your permit to visit the island.
These islands are located about 400 kms from Cochin (Kerala State), Indian Airlines operates daily flight (except Sundays) from Cochin to Agatti. On arrival at Agatti, you will be transferred to either Bangaram or Kadmat Island by private resort boats. It is advisable to book both your inbound and outbound tickets well in advance.
There is a ship service that takes about 20 hours to reach Lakshadweep from Cochin. Tickets can be obtained on arrival or by your travel agent.
PERMITS FOR BANGARAM
All foreigners need to send their names, nationality, date of birth, passport number, date of issue and expiry to the resort. The resort at Bangaram will obtain the permits through the Lakshadweep Administration. A minimum of 3 days is required for this.
PERMITS FOR KADMAT
6 photographs along with the first and last three pages of your current passport have to be submitted to the office of the dive center. Permission for Kadmat comes from the Home Ministry via Lakshadweep Administration. Please allow 4 to 6 weeks for this process.
Most of the scheduled flights from Europe, UK & USA arrive at Mumbai from where there are daily flights to Goa. The flying time from Mumbai to Goa is just under an hour. This sector is served via both Indian Airlines and Jet Airways that have daily flights to this destination. It is advisable to book both your inbound and outbound sectors well in advance. The visa issued for India is sufficient documentation for your trip to Goa, no individual permit is required here.
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DiGiacomo Group > Latest News > Miami-Dade Mayor Hopes To Get Billions In Transit Funding After Revoking Sanctuary City Status
federal funding, illegal immigrants, mayor gimenez, miami-dade transit system, sanctuary city revocation, traffic, trump administrationPosted by ADMIN on 02/28/17
Miami-Dade Mayor Hopes To Get Billions In Transit Funding After Revoking Sanctuary City Status
Miami-Dade is hoping to get funding to build a mass transit system by removing itself from a list of Sanctuary Cities.
Under a new policy approved by Mayor Carlos Gimenez and the county commission, illegal immigrants who have been jailed for other crimes will be turned over to the federal government for questioning if it is requested. Previously, the county only honored such requests if the feds paid to hold them.
President Trump has publicly praised Miami-Dade's decision.
Gimenez told Local 10 that the county will now pursue hundreds of millions—"if not billions of dollars" to build a transit system, which played a part in the decision. Trump has threatened to block federal funding to Sanctuary Cities, and some of those funds meant for other cities could now potentially be diverted to Miami.
Local surveys consistently rank traffic as the top concern of local residents, and Gimenez will come out "very popular" if he manages to solve it, according to a Barry University political science professor.
Source: The Next Miami


Born in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, Miriam has been based in England since 2003. She has been a soloist with leading orchestral and choral organisations all over the world: Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists, London Baroque (UK), Les Arts Florissants (France), Auckland Philharmonia (New Zealand), Concerto Copenhagen (Denmark), Il Fondamento (Belgium), Gewandhaus Kammerchor, Leipzig Kammerorchester, Concerto Köln, ChorWerk Ruhr (Germany), Sydney Philharmonia Choirs, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Chacona and Arcadia (Australia). She has been fortunate to work with many of the finest directors and conductors, including Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Lars Ulrik Mortensen, Laurence Cummings, William Christie and Roy Goodman. She appears on numerous recordings, highlights of which include Pinchgut Opera's Fairy Queen and Dardanus, The Wonders of the World with Echo du Danube, Mozart's Requiem with the Leipzig Kammerorchester and Gewandhaus Kammerchor.
In 2009, Miriam completed a concert tour of Australia with Ironwood Ensemble for Musica Viva and returned to Australia for performances of Messiah with the Queensland Orchestra and Melbourne Symphony directed by Stephen Layton in December. After making her debut with Glyndebourne Festival Opera in performances of Purcell's Fairy Queen in 2009, Miriam continued with that production to Paris, Caen and New York in 2010. Other engagements in 2009 included performances of Israel in Egypt in Germany and Monteverdi's 6th Book of Madrigals with Les Arts Florissants. In 2011, Miriam performed Monteverdi Madrigals with Les Arts Florissants; returned to Australia for performances with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra of Mozart and Handel; and made her debut with the Bach Collegium Japan, under Masaaki Suzuki. She also performed the role of Costanza in Pinchgut Opera's production of Vivaldi's Griselda tocritical acclaim.
Recent concerts include a tour of Monteverdi's 3rd Book of Madrigals with Les Arts Florissants and performances in Holland, Switzerland and the United Kingdom of Bach, Dowland and Rutter. Her most recent CD of Handel's Silete Venti and Purcell Songs has just been released on the ABC Classics label along with the live recording of Vivaldi's Griselda on the Pinchgut LIVE label. In 2013 Miriam appeared with Le Concert d'Astree under Emmanuelle Haïm; tour Monteverdi's 5th Book of Madrigals with Les Arts Florissants and return to Australia to perform Haydn with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Cavalli with Pinchgut Opera and Messiah with Sydney Philharmonia Choirs and Collegium Musicum, Perth.


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Okowa forecloses award of contracts to political appointees
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DELTA State Governor Ifeanyi Okowa has ruled out the award of contracts to elected and appointed political office holders in the state.
Addressing leaders and elders from the central senatorial district of the state who paid him a thank you visit yesterday in Asaba, Okowa said people needed to understand that for the general good of the state, everybody must participate in government and was not fair for political appointees and those holding elective posts to benefit through the award of contracts.
We will find ways to empower our people who did not find themselves in elective or appointive positions and only then we can be a happy people. It will not be possible to appoint everyone who worked during the elections into positions. It is an obvious fact but there are other ways of reaching out to our people. There are contracts to be done, renovation and construction works to be done and I want to plead with those who have been elected and those who are holding political appointments that it will not be in the best interest for us as a party, for us as a people when we have benefited from appointments and also want to be the contractors," he said.
Okowa noted that for the state to grow, there should be a partnership of all the people irrespective of political affiliations, adding that everyone has a role to play in achieving a greater Delta State.
To his political opponents who contested the last governorship election with him, he said that they can't continue to do thing in the old way by going to the tribunal after every election, pleading that they should come together to work for the development and progress of the state.
"We have to close ranks as we need the partnership of all Deltans for everyone has a role to play in achieving a greater Delta State," he added.
Okowa told the Urhobo leaders and elders that his greatest joy was that he won in the three senatorial districts while his People's Democratic Party (PDP) party clinched four of the eight local councils in Delta Central, leaving the rest to his rivals from which he said also said he got substantial votes.
Earlier, Senator Ighoyota Amori said that they came to thank the governor for all that his government had done for the Urhobo people, "a replication of what used to happen in Governor James Ibori's time," adding that: "We are all happy, this gathering is not just PDP.
It cuts across the political class. They are all benefiting from your government," Amori stated.
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A good one. Well stated. Bravo Governor!


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More Abuses Alleged in Singapore Islamic Body
Business owners complain of intimidation over halal certification
By: Murray Hunter
Halal Certification officers in Singapore's Islamic Religious Council routinely pressure restaurant owners into paying fees by using the threat of withdrawal of certificates of compliance, according to local business proprietors who have contacted Asia Sentinel in the wake of previously-printed allegations.
Halal certification is necessary for establishments to be able to signal to Muslim clients and customers that Islamic religious practices are observed.
One non-Muslim local proprietor, fearful of complaining directly to the Majlis Ugama Islam Singapura (MUIS), the council's Malay name, charged his company was pressured to employ a favored halal consultant on the threat of refusal to discuss halal certification with a non-Muslim. The source, who asked not to be named for fear of retaliation, said regular scams are undertaken to enable halal consultants to continue raking up additional fees.
One instance involved one of the owner's own employees who placed incriminating items around the workplace and removed halal certification documents, then called in a complaint to MUIS to investigate. Each time, this would be "resolved" by the consultant, who was later found by the proprietor to be an associate of both of the employee and MUIS officer. In addition, it was alleged MUIS officers stalked the informant's business, put pressure on staff to provide confidential data and reports, and followed company vehicles on deliveries.
After initial allegations of impropriety concerning favoritism towards particular foreign certifying bodies (FCB), an initial internal inquiry conducted by Munir Hussein, the assistant director of the Halal Certification Strategic Unit, and Mohamed Azam Abdul Aziz, a senior director of MUIS finance and asset department, which houses the halal strategic unit, found that no wrongdoing had taken place.
Another local case concerned a restaurant chain called PappaMia. Four MUIS auditors went on a site audit and approved a system designed to transfer fresh chickens from Changi Airport to the Singapore Expo outlet.
The system worked well until a few months later when Munir called on PappaMia to answer breaches arising from a photograph taken by an undisclosed source, without attempting to verify its veracity. The photograph had been taken more than a year earlier. The outlet where the premises was located had been demolished more than a year before the photo was taken and the waitress in the photograph had resigned months earlier before PappaMia ever submitted an application for halal certification.
After two years following the revocation of its halal certificate, in a meeting at MUIS, the consultant was informed by a member of MUIS staff that PappaMia's halal certificate had been revoked because Munir had found a back door in the restaurant which gave direct access to a pub. There was no such door, then and now.
A number of local Singapore proprietors told Asia Sentinel that they were fearful of filing any formal complaints because of potential retribution from rogue MUIS officers and their wide net of associates who assist them.
"Different companies abide by different degrees of halal regulation dependent on MUIS preference and favoritism," one complainant said. "The rules are arbitrary and up to an individual officer's interpretation. Different MUIS officers have a different yardstick. Moreover, the rules that apply to one company may not apply to another."
Non-halal meat is often sold to halal meat suppliers and passed off as halal meat, according to other sources, completely undermining halal integrity in Singapore. This issue for Muslims represents the most catastrophic failing of MUIS to allow corrupt practices to compromise halal integrity of meat.
The common denominator is the role played by halal consultants, the sources say. Halal consulting is a lucrative industry for a half-dozen worth approximately S$5 million (US$3.58 million) annually. Fees can range from S$800 to S$4,000 per certification, and up to S$4,000 for fixing subsequent issues with MUIS. For a halal consultant to operate successfully, he or she must have a good relationship with the officers within the MUIS Halal Strategic Unit. Halal certification activities were worth S$8.4 million in 2018, which was 28 percent of MUIS's total income.
Investigation stalls out?
Sources who subsequently contacted Asia Sentinel say a number of similar complaints from the certifying bodies have all been passed over by Mohamed Azam, who was tasked to investigate them. In a complaint lodged four years ago which was made available to Asia Sentinel recently, similar problems were covered up.
A second, much more formal board of inquiry commissioned by the Minister for the Environment and Water Resources, Masagos Zulkifli, has conducted preliminary investigations and placed Munir on non-active duty. Last week, Munir was moved to the halal policy unit. The other accused of misconduct, Mohamed Azam has not been moved from his current position.
The formal inquiry which commenced on July 2 is now conducting a much more thorough investigation. Members of the board of Inquiry headed by Dr Albakhri Bin Ahmad, deputy chief executive of MUIS, were surprised of being inundated with complaints concerning halal certification misconduct domestically, from a number of local businesses.
The MUIS board of Inquiry has received complaints from halal consultants, claiming MUIS officers have favored certain consultants and discriminated against others, almost totally destroying livelihoods. Mohamed Faizal bin Abdul Hathi, a senior executive in Halal Surveillance and Enforcement who has been promoted to the manager of the Haj division of MUIS, is described as the leader of a group of MUIS officers who work with favored halal consultants.
A number of FCBs have submitted documents alleging collaboration between Munir Hussein and Dr Sirajuddin Suhaimee, who was late last year quietly moved out the Halal hub of Malaysia's Department of Islamic Development, known by its Malay language acronym Jakim, to a desk-based research position, after similar complaints concerning alleged corrupt practices.
Some complainants reportedly have opted to make reports about alleged MUIS misconduct to bodies independent of MUIS, including The Public Service Commission, The Personal Data Protection Commission, the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau, and the police. The Singapore police are said to have opened their own independent investigation into complaints of rogue MUIS operations.
There are still a number of concerns about the inquiry, as conveyed by local social activist Mohamed Jufrie Mahmood. Jufrie is skeptical about transparency and independence in an inquiry that is not open and that members of the inquiry board are MUIS officers. Further, complainants have not been contacted for their allegations. Instead, Jufrie said, the inquiry is relying solely on interrogation of the accused. Nor does the board of inquiry have any forensic ability to vet and investigate some of the lengthy and complex submissions made.
A preliminary report is said to strongly recommend a total revamp of the halal certification process, eliminating opportunities for potential abuse. The board of inquiry intends to hand over files, evidence and documents to other agencies like the corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau to make any prosecutions.


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Jon Udell
Strategies for Internet citizens
Mapping the decentralization movement
11 Jun 2014 11 Jun 2014 ~ Jon Udell
"Right now we're experiencing a moment of maximum centralization," says Scott Rosenberg in his introduction to a new effort that combines "a tech-industry beat I will cover; a cultural investigation and conversation I will undertake; and a personal-publishing venture I am kicking off now."
We've been here before. The Internet was a peer-to-peer network until it wasn't. Likewise the Web. Some have forgotten, and most never knew, that Tim Berners-Lee's original browser could write and publish as well as read pages. By the early 2000s the pendulum had swung so far toward centralization that, as it began to swing back, we called the "two-way web" one of the pillars of "Web 2.0." Personal publishing flourished for a while, then the pendulum swung again toward centralized social media. If Scott's right, and I hope he is, the pendulum is about to swing back toward a more distributed Web.
Thali is one project moving in that direction, there are many others. When we compared notes with Jeremie Miller the other day, he pointed us to a long list of fellow travelers. Another observer, Doc Searls, periodically issues updates with pointers to related (and some of the same) efforts.
It behooves all of us to sort out how these efforts are similar or different along various axes. Some are peer-to-peer, others not. Some bind identities to public keys, others don't. Some skew toward messaging and social networking, others toward bulk data exchange or publishing. Some consider themselves personal data stores, others don't. Many are "friend-to-friend" networks with peer-to-peer trust models, some aren't. There are platforms, protocols, overlay networks, and apps in the mix.
In order to reason about these axes of comparison I loaded up a bunch of links into Pinboard, made a common tag (redecentralize) to unite all the links related to this exploration, and began tagging. Here's what I've got at https://pinboard.in/u:judell/t:redecentralize/ so far:
What else belongs on this list? What are core attributes? What are the best axes along which to compare? The tag cloud is suggestive but it's only my lens on the list, I'd love to see other lenses applied to the same (evolving) list.
Note that Pinboard (as with del.icio.us long ago) such lenses can be applied — and in a decentralized way! You could import my redecentralize feed into your own Pinboard account and tag the links according to your world view. We could compare one anothers' views, and see a combined view at https://pinboard.in/t:redecentralize/. While that's a very cool way to do collaborative mind-mapping, it's not likely to happen in this case. But comments here (or elsewhere) will be welcome.
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Leo Richard Comerford says:
"Content-centric networking" efforts like http://www.ccnx.org/ probably belong on the list too.
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