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Birthdays - March & April*

A look at the Birthdays for this monthand a preview for April.

A warm welcome to all those receiving ourmonthly Ennead newsle�er for the first �me, we hope you’ll enjoy this months’ issue.

As we near the end of March, a familiar yeticy wind greets us in the morning and latea�ernoons. Yup, it’s that �me of year again.

But don’t let the cold days get you down, there’salways a way to get around these things. Forexample; drinking a hot cup of coco and readingup on all the fun and interes�ng things in yourfavourite magazine.

I do however wish to thank everyone once againfor their contribu�ons to this months’ edi�on,especially to the email request I received for aDragonballZ themed issue.

Wishing everyone a happylong Easter weekend andgood luck for April.

Let’s give it our all!!!

March*

Doctor Goodboy NgwenyaThami Jones NgwenyaGrace Nombulelo SitholeZandile NkalangaAndile Nxumalo

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B.I.S*

A small insert on the farewell for B.I.S. We sure are going to miss you guys.

March�s Hidden Characters*

This month featuring - Goku, Vegeta & Gohan. Can you find them all?

Quick Recipes*

Delicious desserts and a nice hearty meal to enjoy on those hungry occasions.

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Fun and very Interesting Facts*

We take a look at a few interes�ng facts thatwill keep you wan�ng more.

Courses running in April*

Find exactly the type of course you are lookingfor to enhance your own knowledge and skills.

Dragonballz April Calendar*

A li�le boy’s ul�mate dream. An April calendarwith a DragonballZ theme. enjoy...

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English Tongue Twisters*

Say these sentences out loud as fast as you can.Way is this always so hard???

Quality topic for the month*

Quality is very important to us. This month we look at increasing employee ownership.

Get your Geek on*

For all the <geeks>. This month featuring ARM chips, Windows 10 and more...

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Monthly Safety Tip*

General safety �p. This month we are lookingat phone bomb threats.

Safety Topic for March*

Safety Topic for this month focussing mainlyon Easter and your safety on the roads. Thanks Jaco.

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Company & Editor Contact Info*

A Final word from the Editor and some contactinforma�on to get hold of Ennead Consul�ng.

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April*

Stephen OosthuizenAndries NortjeKirs�n Jean MulderWilliam Mzukisi GqozoAndrew Modimoabatho PelesaneLorraine Anne Calitz

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Un�l 1974, it was illegal to appear in publicin Chicago if you were ugly.

Den�sts have found that the effects of sodaon teeth are strikingly similar to the effects

of meth or crack on teeth.

George Aldrich has worked for NASA for over40 years, and his job is to smell things to ensure

unpleasant smells on ISS and the shu�le. His nose gets calibrated and tested every 4 minutes.

In 1986 a convict escaped during a prisontransfer. A week later he returned in a stolen

helicopter and broke out his girlfriend.

Ma�el made and sold Wonder Woman’s “invisible jet” as a collectable. The package wasan empty plas�c shell with nothing inside, andwas originally intended as an April fools joke.

There’s a plant in Australia that will make youvomit in pure agony just by touching it.

The Great Pyramid was shiny like glass4,000 years ago.

Research has found that everyone is able tosing well - it is a learned skill that gets be�er

with prac�ce and worse with disuse.

A set of 19 ques�ons such as “Do we have theright pa�ent?” and ” What opera�on are we

performing?” can reduce surgical deathsby more than 40%.

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked.

If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,Where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?

Luke Luck likes lakes.Luke's duck likes lakes.Luke Luck licks lakes.

Luck's duck licks lakes.Duck takes licks in lakes Luke Luck likes.Luke Luck takes licks in lakes duck likes.

The thirty-three thieves thought that they thrilled the throne throughout Thursday.

Something in a thirty-acre thermal thicket of thorns and thistles thumped and thundered threatening

the three-D thoughts of Ma�hew the thug - although, theatrically, it was only the thirteen-thousand thistles

and thorns through the underneath of his thigh that the thirty year old thug thought of that morning.

Did Dick Pickens prick his pinkie pickling cheap cling peaches in an inch of Pinch or framing his famed

French finch photos?

How many cookies could a good cook cook If a good cook could cook cookies?

A good cook could cook as much cookies as a good cook who could cook cookies.

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Tongue Twisters

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Phone Threats

If you receive a telephoned bomb threat try to

stay calm. Listen carefully to get informa�on from

the caller, such as:

The caller's gender, age, unique speech a�ributes

and any background noises that might be clues to

the caller's loca�on. Clues about where the device

is, when it is set to go off, what it looks like, why it

was placed. An accurate analysis of the telephone

threat can provide valuable informa�on on which

to base recommenda�ons, ac�on and subsequent

inves�ga�ons. The person receiving the bomb

threat by telephone should not disconnect the call

and; If you receive a bomb or substance phone

threat, you should try to ask these types of

ques�ons (only a small sample):

1. What is it?

2. When is the bomb going to explode?

or When will the substance be released?

3. Where did you put it?

4. What does it look like?

5. When did you put it there?

6. How will the bomb explode?

or How will the substance be released?

7. Did you put it there?

8. Why did you put it there?

Call the police immediately.

No�fy your Supervisor.

No�fy other building occupants.

Public Safety Officers will be dispatched to your

loca�on.

Follow their instruc�ons precisely.

You may be evacuated from your work area,

your floor, or from the building.

If there is a building evacua�on, take your

belongings and go directly to the Emergency

Assembly Point (EAP*).

Do NOT ac�vate the fire alarm or emergency

evacua�on system unless instructed to by the

Police. Be pa�ent and wait for further instruc�ons.

If you receive a suspicious package in the mail, or

observe an abandoned box, backpack, etc. Move

away from the area and advise others nearby to

do the same. Report situa�on details to the police

and supervisor.

Wishing a Farewell to B.I.S. May all yourfuture endeavours become a huge success. Missing you guys already...

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Lemony Roasted Salmon with Potatoes & Kale

Easy Pumpkin PieIngredients:*

1 (18.25 ounce) package lemon cake mix2 eggs1/3 cup vegetable oil1 teaspoon lemon extract1/3 cup confec�oners’ sugar for decora�on

Ingredients:*

1 Knorr® Chicken flavored Bouillon Cube, crumbled5 Tbsp. olive oil, divided1 lb. baby red potatoes, quartered1 large bunch kale, coarse stems removed and torn into pieces4 salmon fillets (about 4 oz. ea.)1 lemon, peel finely grated and juiced

* Sprinkle a few drops of lemon juice for added flavour* Subs�tute lb. baby red potatoes with baby peas.

Method:*

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).

Pour cake mix into a large bowl. S�r in eggs, oil, and lemon extract un�lwell blended. Drop teaspoonfuls of dough into a bowl of confec�oner’ssugar. Roll them around un�l they’re lightly covered. Once sugared, putthem on an ungreased cookie sheet.

Bake for 6 to 9 minutes in the preheated oven. The bo�oms will be lightbrown, and the inside chewy.

Preheat oven to 425°. Line rimmed baking sheet with foil; lightly brush with 1 tablespoon oil.

Crumble Knorr® Chicken Bouillon Cube into small bowl. Add 1 tablespoon oil and mix with fork un�l combined. Mix in remaining 3 tablespoons oil; set aside.

Toss potatoes with 2 tablespoons bouillon mixture in large bowl. Place on one side of prepared baking sheet. Roast 10 minutes.

Toss kale with 1 tablespoon bouillon mixture in large bowl. Place on other side of baking sheet; s�r potatoes. Roast 5 minutes.

Brush salmon with remaining bouillon mixture and season, if desired, with ground black pepper. Place on top of kale. Roast 10 minutes or un�l fish flakes with a fork and vegetables are tender.

Drizzle 2 tablespoons lemon juice over fish and kale; sprinkle with lemon peel.

Ingredients:*

1 cup canned pumpkin1/4 cup brown sugar2 teaspoons ground cinnamon2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice2 sheets frozen puff pastry, thawed

Method:*

Preheat an oven to 350 degrees F(175 degrees C). Line two baking sheetswith parchment paper.

Mix pumpkin, brown sugar, cinnamon, and pumpkin pie spice in a bowl.

Roll out puff pastry into a 12x12 inch square and cut each sheet into 9 - 4inch squares.

Spoon pumpkin mix into center of pastry squares; wet edgesof each square with water, fold over, corner to corner, andpinch edges together. Place onto prepared baking sheet.

Bake in the preheated oven un�l pastry is puffed and goldenbrown, about 10 minutes. Cool on the pans for 10 minutes.

Remove to a wire wrack to cool completely.

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Easy Lemon Cookies

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NASA�s nuclear rocket program*

Shortly a�er Apollo 11, Wernher von Braun, one of the fathers of rocket science, proposed that we develop a reusable Nuclear Thermal Propulsion (NTP) rocket to colonize the Moon. Today, NASA engineers are s�ll struggling to pick up where he le� off.

An interes�ng technical report that NASA prepared for the Space 2013 Conference and Exposi�on has recently been released. In it, we can find some of the latest, and oldest, ideas for a NASA-made nuclear thermal rocket that would take us back to the Moon.

ARM chips can run for ‘decades�*

Even if you pay a�en�on to the CPU industry, Atmel isn’t likely to be a company you’re familiar with. But its low-power processors could change the way we interact with devices and the burgeoning Internet of Things.

Founded in 1984, the company focuses on embedded compu�ng, microcontrollers, and automo�ve processors — precisely the kind of hardware that powers the equipment we interact with on a daily basis, without ever realizing it contains a microprocessor or three.

Atmel is making waves at present for its new Smart SAM L21 family of processors, which draw so li�le power they can reportedly run for decades and be powered by energy harvested from body mo�on.

Nano-sized audio rec. breakthrough*

The mo�on picture industry employed op�cal sound-on-film recording for over 80 years, at least before digital recording took over. Now a team of researchers may have discovered a new way of storing data op�cally on a much smaller scale — by way of recording a “nano piano” onto a plasmonic film substrate for the first �me.

The group, led by University of Illinois MechSE associate professor Kimani Toussaint, used an array of gold, pillar-supported, bow�e nanoantennas (pBNA) to store audio clips on a chip with dimensions that are approximately equivalent to the thickness of human hair.

Bring back the Start menu to Win 10*

With Windows 10 seemingly just around the corner, Microso� plans to fix one of its most egregious mistakes with Windows 8: the missing Start menu. By now you may know the story, as the company has gradually backtracked throughout various updates since the OS launched in late 2012. And Windows 10 will bring the real thing back, albeit in an enhanced fashion that doesn’t depend on fiddly per-user shortcuts and extra folders.

The thing is, unless you’re willing to experiment with Windows 10 Technical Preview, the new version won’t help you yet. For several years now, every Windows desktop and laptop sold in a store comes with Windows 8.

While Windows 8.1 Update somewhat improves the situa�on, it’s s�ll  no Windows 7 when it comes to ease of use.

DirectX 12, LiquidVR - AMD GPUs*

With DirectX 12 coming soon with Windows 10, VR technology ramping up from mul�ple vendors, and the Vulkan API already debuted, it’s an exceedingly interes�ng �me to be in PC gaming. AMD’s GCN architecture is three years old at this point, but certain features baked into the chips at launch (and expanded with Hawaii in 2013) are only now coming into their own, thanks to the improvements ushered in by next-genera�on APIs.

One of the cri�cal technologies underpinning this argument is the Asynchronous Command Engine (ACEs) that are part of every GCN-class video card. The original HD 7900 family had two ACE’s per GPU, while AMD’s Hawaii-class hardware bumped that even further, to eight.

True or False? (Android) *

Yet another �tle available on the Android AppStore. This month featuring a simple, yet mindteasing True or False based game, called, wellyou’ve guessed it: “True or False”.

Like any game it starts out simple, yet becomesmore challenging as the player progresses, withonly a few seconds per ques�on.

However, once you’ve go�en the hang of it, it’ll s�ck to your handslike super glue. You’ll find thatonce you’ve started with a basiclevel you can’t help but keep on playing.

I recommend “True or False” to pre�y muchanyone interested in learning a variety of newthings and having fun at the same �me.

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As we get closer to the long weekends I want to take this �me to talk to you about a topic most of you would make off as boring. The topic is Road safety.

Every year over these periods hundreds if not thousands of people die on our roads. Let's break down last year's sta�s�cs.

193 people lost their lives on our roads in 148 fatal crashes. KwaZulu-Natal had the most deaths 49 from 39 crashes. Eastern Cape with 36 from 19 crashes. Limpopo 30 from 23 crashes Gauteng 23 from 22 crashes. Mpumalanga had 19 deaths. Free State 9. Western Cape 8. North West 7. Northern Cape 6.

Pedestrians accounted for 40% for those killed over Easter 2014.

Now let us look at what law enforcement had to deal with in their a�empt to get all of us to our des�na�ons safely.

283 323 vehicles were stopped and checked. 43,433 no�ces were issued. 1094 vehicles were taken off the road. 1457 were impounded. 330 drivers were arrested for allegedly driving under the influence of alcohol. 10 for dangerous or negligent driving.

So now the ques�on is what can you and I do to try and make sure we get to where we are going safely?

Well here are a few small things we can do that can make sure we are safe.

If you want to drink like a fish, swim at home. DON'T DRINK AND DRIVE.

Always make sure you and all of your passengers are wearing your seatbelts at all �mes. Babies & toddlers should be strapped into appropriate baby seats.

Before you set off on a trip take 5 minutes to check your �res. THE LEGAL MINIMUM TREAD DEPTH IS 1 mm. Also check the tyre pressure and make sure it is as per the manufacturer's specifica�ons.

Make sure the vehicle's window washer reservoir is filled with water and some soap/detergent this will come in handy when you need to clean your windscreen while driving.

Plan your trip in such a way that you can avoid travelling during peak periods. If possible avoid the busy main routes and make use of alterna�ves.

Stop at least every 2 hours to stretch your legs to rest.

Don't overtake on solid white lines, it is not just illegal but dangerous too.

Safety topic for March

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The One of the defining traits of an organiza�on with

a true culture of quality is that employees are free to

apply judgment to situa�ons that fall outside the rules.

Providing the right level of guidance is key. Too much

s�fles crea�vity and discre�onary ac�on, while too

li�le leaves employees unclear about their authority

to make decisions and carry them out.

Quality topic of the month

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Increasing employee ownership and empowerment

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