If you judge a prospective employer on its investment intentions then prepare to be impressed: in the next financial year Jaguar Land Rover is investing £3.6bn in products and facilities, and its focus on new talent is as keen as ever.
In the last four years the manufacturer of premium luxury vehicles has hired 2,000 young people onto its graduate and apprentice programmes and this year has seen a record number of undergraduates join its 2015 work placement programme.
Over 6,000 applicants applied online to the scheme, with 230 being told that they had successfully navigated the selection process to land a role that could eventually see them take a step up into the company's Graduate Programme.
Two-thirds of this year's intake will join the scheme for 12 weeks, whilst the remaining third will embark on a full year with the business. Rob Gill, Jaguar Land Rover's Graduate and Undergraduate Recruitment Manager, took a call from The Student Engineer to explain how the application process works.
SE: JLR encourages – and indeed expects – high standards from its employees based around 8 high performance behaviours including business acumen, team working, efficient delivery of products or services, and being able to form effective relationships. How do you assess these competencies?
RG: In the first stage of a Situational Judgement Test (SJT) you're presented with various scenarios that test some of those competencies. Based on how people answer, that essentially maps them to our business behaviours that we're assessing against.
Those that do okay get invited to online tests, so that's the usual verbal, numerical, diagrammatical reasoning tests made up of multiple choice questions.
People that don't meet our minimum benchmark at that stage are told they're unsuccessful and that leaves us with a pool of people that we could potentially invite to Assessment Centre. It's not 'first come, first served' or this uni over that uni or predicted grades or anything like that.
We'll basically use their SJT score, online test scores and we'll also use their UCAS points, so we capture USAS points as part of the application process but not in a way where we'll then screen people out just because they've not met a set minimum number. We do [however] use those three factors…to rank the pool of people that could be invited to Assessment Centre for that area [of the business] that they've applied for.
Essentially that creates a strength ranking within the pool and then we invite people in that order to an Assessment event. If they attend an event they are either successful or unsuccessful, with unsuccessful candidates offered feedback.
We'll continue to run assessment events up until we've filled all our roles. So although 6,000 were whittled down to 230 it doesn't mean the balance all failed at one of those earlier stages.
SE: What can prospective engineering candidates do to make themselves stand out?
We're not expecting our undergraduate students to come to us having done placements in engineering because that's what we're providing.
The real key thing – and you can only really demonstrate this at an assessment centre in our process because that's the face-to-face stage – is that desire, motivation, commitment, passion and awareness and consciousness about why you want to do engineering, what you're going to get from the placement, and why you think it's right for you.
SE: How important is the placement scheme in relation to your graduate programme?
RG: We see our undergraduate schemes as feeders for our graduate scheme and that's why we do them. We haven't got a set target that says X% are going to be ex-placement students versus a certain number off the milk round, the external process.
However, as the number of undergrads has grown over the years I guess the greater proportion of our graduate roles are going to be filled by those that did placement with us. We would hope to maintain that.
£15,600pa paid to placement students. This is paid on a pro rata basis to those doing a 3-month stint.


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WILL THERE BE A NEW WINNER FOR THE BPG RACING FREEDOM 76 AT GRANDVIEW SPEEDWAY
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BECHTELSVILLE, PA September 7, 2008 . . . ~ There have been so many great dirt track modified racers that have won the BPG Racing Freedom 76 at Grandview Speedway and a few of them will be back to try for another $20,000 payday.
The big question is will there be a new winner in victory lane when the Freedom 76 Modified Classic is over on Saturday, September 13th?
In the past racers such as Billy Pauch, Fred Rahmer, Kenny Brightbill, Doug Hoffman, Craig VonDohren, Meme DeSantis, Duane Howard, Jeff Strunk and others have made it to victory lane.
This year a few past winners will be back looking for a win but a lot of attention will be centered on some of the young talents that have not won the BPG Racing Freedom 76.
Jason Hamilton, a winner of the rich Forrest Rogers Memorial in the past, will be looking to add the Freedom 76 to his resume. And there are youngsters such as Mike Gular, Billy Pauch Jr., Ryan Godown, Don Norris, Tommy Scheetz Jr., Kerry Kratz, Tom Umbenhauer, Doug Manmiller, Brad Missimer and a long list of others who are just ?chomping at the bit? to claim the $20,000 plus first place money. Who knows how many visitors, racers from other tracks, will decide to test their skills in the 38th annual Freedom 76? Dirt track legend Jimmy Horton is one invader that has made it known he will be there.
The recent announcement that Doug Hoffman would return to racing driving the Chad Sinon owned BPG Racing Troyer modified as a teammate to Duane Howard has created increased interest in the race. Hoffman won the race in 1984 and has a guaranteed starting spot as a past winner within the last 25 years.
The BPG Racing Freedom 76, starting at 7 p.m., will include a full series of qualifying events, the Schaeffer Motorsports Minuteman 20 (last chance to make the main event), the Alpine Building & Post Supply Cash Dash (paying $1,000 to win) and the big finale, the BPG Racing Freedom 76 which could be starting as many as 40 cars.
BPG Racing has hundreds of giveaways for fans.
Prior to the race the Beer City BPG Racing Freedom Fest will be presented starting at 1 p.m. and it will include Line-X Dunk Tank, Diamond Glass/First Class Tint Tire Changing Contest, race car display, driver interviews, and much more. The new Freedom 76 t-shirts will be on sale along with the 52-page Grandview Groove Freedom 76 special edition.
Proceeds from the Beer City Freedom Fest will go to benefit the Camelot House for Children in Allentown, PA.
Tickets for the BPG Racing Freedom 76 are priced at $25 for adults, $7 for youngsters 6 thru 11 and under 6 are admitted FREE when accompanied by a paying adult. Pit passes are priced at $40. There is free parking on the speedway grounds.
Grandview Speedway is located on Passmore Road, just off Route 100, in Bechtelsville, PA, 10 miles north of Pottstown. For information telephone 610.754.7688 or check their website at www.grandviewspeedway.com.
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T.P. Truck Equipment Sportsman $2,000 to win Firecracker 40, T.P. Trailers 358 Modifieds, and Blast from the Past Vintage Cars
General Admission: Adults: $22, Children 6-11: $5, Kids 5 & Under: FREE!
Grandstand Gates: 5:30 PM | Racing: 7:30 PM
Celebrating our 54th Season of Professional Auto Racing!
43 Passmore Road · Bechtelsville, PA 19505
E-Mail: Grandview Speedway
About Grandview Speedway
Grandview Speedway is a high-banked one-third mile clay oval, celebrating their 53rd Anniversary season in 2015. The facility offers free parking, quality food at reasonable prices (be sure to try the french fries), a program book, Grandview Speedway and Thunder on the Hill race wear and great viewing from every seat in the house. Race fans may take part in the Inside/Out promotion, where you can sign up (no charge) to watch warm-ups from inside turn four. Race fans are also invited to victory lane following the racing program and, race fans may enter the pits after the races to meet the drivers. Be ready to enjoy the spine tingling fireworks salute on the feature event parade lap.

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DREAMS AT PLAY AND WHAT THEY COST
One of the most powerful works for theater in western literature is August Strindberg's "Dream Play." It focuses on the poverty of the human condition and how like a dream life is: a place where cruel events happen without reason or logic to explain them. It is a place where lilies rise from a dung heap and clowns attain power.
I thought of Strindberg's play as I paged through the July edition of "Vanity Fair," an edition that might have been fodder for Strindberg's thesis. Not only does it document the criminal behavior of Silvio Berlusconi, President of Italy, and his use of vast sums of money to escape prosecution, but it also exposes the profligate behavior of Prince Jefri Bolkiah, notorious playboy of Brunei, who has run through billions on women, cars and polo ponies. Add to these stories the profile of Philip Falcone, Hedge Fund manager, and his wife as they attempt to buy their way into New York Society with displays of outrageous consumption.
(courtesy: "The Economist")
As Shakespeare observed in "Hamlet:" "Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?" But one must ask whether the callousness of these dissolutes, who use their wealth in a way that denigrates others, should be endured with no more protest than a sigh. There are too many places in the world where people die from hunger and disease because they lack food or access to clean water or haven't the money for inexpensive vaccines. Can the world afford these profligates who fail to hear the cries of the destitute?
What's in a dream? It depends upon the dreamer. Not enough of us, apparently, dream of a world that is fair.


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This file discusses relations between the Italian Government and the Hejaz-Nejd (later the Saudi Arabian) Government. It contains copies of Foreign Office correspondence, forwarded by the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to the Under-Secretary of State for India. Included are the following:
Reports from His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires at Jedda, Cecil Gervase Hope Gill, on the progress of France's and Italy's respective treaty negotiations with Ibn Sa'ud ['Abd al-'Azīz bin 'Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa'ūd].
Reports from the British Ambassador in Rome, Ronald William Graham, on press reports announcing the completion and terms of two treaties (a Treaty of Friendship and a Treaty of Commerce) between the Government of Italy and the Government of Hejaz-Nejd.
A copy of the treaty between the British Government and the Hejaz-Nejd Government [the Treaty of Jeddah of 1927].
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Copies of correspondence between Cecil Gervase Hope Gill's successor, Albert Spencer Calvert, and the Foreign Office, concerning Calvert's meetings with Ibn Sa'ud's representative, Shaikh Yusuf Yasin, during August-October 1935, over Saudi Arabia's attitude towards the Italo-Ethiopian dispute and eventual conflict (the Italo-Ethiopian War).
Copies of correspondence between the British Minister at Jedda, Andrew Ryan, and the Foreign Office, regarding the former's meetings with Saudi Arabia's Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs, Fuad Bey Hamza, during late 1935 and early 1936, over Saudi relations with Britain and Italy.
Reports on negotiations between Saudi Arabia and Ethiopia.
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Personnel: Fredrik Nordström – tenor saxophone, Niklas Winter – guitar, Filip Augustson – bass, Markku Ounaskari – drums.
First album of the Finnish – Swedish quartet that Winter was leading 2002-2008. The record is made in the legendary jazzclub ' Glenn Miller's Café ' in Stockholm 2004. The album consists of Winter originals plus compositions by Fredrik Nordström, Keith Jarrett and Tomaz Stanko. An album full of live energy!
Winter has a fresh, modern sound. This is original and very exciting music and Niklas Winter Quartet has surely been a great experience at many festivals.
Tor Hammerø/Jazznytt (Norway 2006)
Winter is a true sophisticated original on the guitar in Finland. Fredrik Nordström's playing is strong and powerful with Filip Augustson and Markku Ounaskari following the soloists with great spontaneity.
Timo Vähäsilta /Rytmi (Finland 2006)
The group has the similar sound as the Keith Jarrett American Quartet from the 70's and the Paul Motian Group. The ensemble with the stoic feeling will make you feel the sense of beauty.
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THEY ARE AMONG US (2004)
SCIENTIFIC FACT LEARNED: They are among us, movies filled with fungus.
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Thirty-year-old teenagers mope and brood about life in little Point Ridge, but besides the droopy-drawers angst, a mystery brews in their small town high school lives, something besides bubble gum, Ashton Kutcher, and V.D. Worried parents Hugh (Bruce Boxleitner) and Colette (Nana Visitor) are concerned about the safety of their son Daniel (Michael DiLallo) who's about to turn eighteen. Daniel naturally feels they are being overprotective, but suspects that buried beneath their apprehension lies a secret waiting to be revealed by his meddling pals and their talking dog. Turns out Daniel may be on to something as his best friend the Black Kid (Garikayi Mutambirwa) has gone missing, little boys are eating mice, and the townspeople lick their chops whenever they see him. Meanwhile, a snoopy broad named Finley (Alison Eastwood) arrives in town to investigate the death of her father which has something to do with sordid practices of the town's plastic surgeon Dr. Norbert (Corbin Bernsen). She discovers that the Doc is performing unnecessary and illegal experiments on his patients. But he's actually just covering up the town's dirty little secret: everyone's got a tiny alien worm writhing inside them, and I don't mean a date with Billy Barty. The aliens rely on the doctor to cover up their scaly skin, fulfill their need for constant injections of collagen, and make then look faaaaaaabuuulousssss! These pesky parasites control human bodies, occasionally feed on them, and run a secret society that holds a tight grip on the fates of everyone. Yes, insert outdated Bush joke here. So as Mom and Dad try to rebel against the alien threat, sexy alien agent June (Hunter Tylo) attempts to seduce Daniel who possesses some sort of significance to the worm people that is never fully explained, as go many things. Danny and his pals ultimately unravel the alien's secret (hint: a buffet is included!), Finely has a slimey showdown with Norbert (hint: you'll never watch L.A. Law the same way again), and I return the DVD in its sleeve to get the next piece of crap (hint: it will probably be another Sci Fi Unoriginal).
They Are Among Us is basically a low-rent They Live for the One Tree Hill crowd. And to top it off, the movie has the inept feel of an X-File episode from the agonizing final season. There's not much here to dissect. Miscast actors way beyond the ages of their teen characters blab about their insecurities, drone mushy nonsense, and frown for the camera. Could this be science fiction for Emos? Does anyone still use that word anymore? Eastwood can't act a lick to save her family name, Boxleitner and Visitor struggle to find the third act, and Bernsen looks glad just to be invited. Not even crazy old Buck Flowers can squeeze a chuckle out of this tedious movie. Tylo does have a sex scene, however, but it's regulated to the standards of family hour lameness. The effects are OK, but the monster money shot wasn't worth the 100 minute wait, 100 minutes filled with boredom, annoying characters, and more disinterested principals than the LAUSD. But They Are Among Us isn't entirely hateful, there's… oh wait, it is.
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Moon Rescue: A cautionary tale
January 9, 2022 Tom KranzGeneralscience fiction
Will it ever get to the point on our warming Earth that people will be clamoring to leave the planet? My new novel in progress, Moon Rescue: Escape from the Dome, speculates about a future Moon habitat designed as a final refuge for those with the will–and the money–to restart their lives off-world. Plans to make Moon habitation a stepping stone to a Mars mission–as speculated by NASA's Artemis program–are scuttled in the face of catastrophic fires, land erosion and rising temperatures on Earth. In the year 2067, the average temperature has risen three degrees. New York's Battery Park is under water. The beaches of the Jersey Shore are reduced to thin strips of sand. Huge portions of California have been reduced to burned hellscapes due to relentless fires and mudslides. Refugee camps dot the former state as survivors struggle to figure out what to do now that their homes, cars, all their worldly possessions have been lost. Storm shelters are mandated in major population areas to protect citizens from tornadoes, hurricanes and other severe weather caused by global warming.
The Moon habitat is a domed structure covering more than one square mile near the southern pole supporting almost 6,000 people who were able to afford the trip. Most are from the United States, now divided into regions for easier law enforcement and administration by the Planetary Commission, the guardians of the planet. After more than eleven years as refugees, Sam and Leah Ragland have made a life in their homemade cabin, rationing power, eating soy-based foods and keeping under the radar. Unknown to their lunar friends and neighbors, they are fugitives from the insurrection of 2056 during which Sam, then known as Enrico Janice Walton Stein, Rick for short, aided and abetted an armed invasion of the Planetary Commission's headquarters in Old Philadelphia that ended in bloodshed. Rick is a native of 23rd century Earth, a devastated environment of toxic bogs, dark rain and little direct sunlight, who traveled through a wormhole in an effort to halt the climate apathy of the 21st century. He and his partner Chen were able to neutralize some of the threats, but their efforts were too little, too late.
Written as a sequel to my five-star novel Time Travel Rescue: Escape from the 21st Century, Moon Rescue poses a basic question–why are we planning to spend billions of dollars to send humans to Mars when our own planet is dying under our feet? A manned mission to Mars, speculated by both NASA and SpaceX, would involve a nine-month voyage in a spaceship exposed to radiation from a number of sources. Building a ship of the correct size with shielding to ensure the crew wouldn't be sickened or killed is a major challenge, not to mention the effects of living in a confined space much smaller than the International Space Station during the trip. Assuming a landing on Mars is accomplished without incident, constructing a habitat that once again shields the humans from cosmic and particle radiation would be mission-critical, not to mention the problems of maintaining a supply of food and water, breathable air and emergency management. Initial cost estimates of $6-billion will be dwarfed by the effects of inflation, unforeseen obstacles and inevitable cost overruns, not to mention the human costs.
Is it worth fulfilling the dream of deep space exploration when we can barely keep our own planet alive for future generations to enjoy the benefits? Look for Moon Rescue: Escape from the Dome in the spring of 2022.
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Keep an eye out on our Facebook, Instagram, Eventfinda and Website to keep up to date with when you can sign up for the 2020 Plimmerton FunRun!
Available for all events and only available up until 8am. If purchasing on site, cash must be provided. Please note that late entry fees apply to on day registrations. We strongly recommend that you pre-register due to limited places. $10 late fee applies.
Participants must adhere to safety rules and event instructions. Please note, no dogs and no bikes/scooters are allowed on the course. All participants must attend the event briefing which will take place in the Plimmerton School hall 15 minutes before their race start time. Participants are also provided with a safety outline both upon sign up and in race packs.
The first ten women and first ten men in each event will be given their placings. Prizes will be awarded to the first two individuals home (both for male and female) in every event. The top 10 places for the kids 2.5km will also be given their placings. This is an untimed event.
The course ends back at Plimmerton School at the top of the driveway where you can have lunch and cheer on the other participants. Or, bring your own picnic lunch. Prize-giving will commence at 11am. We endeavor to wait until all participants are in.
You must be present to be eligible for any of the huge selection of spot prizes, including: COSTUMES - Again some fabulous costumes - check out our facebook page to see lots of great pictures - Facebook. We have great prizes for best dressed teams and individuals.
Thanks again to our wonderfully generous sponsors - please check them out on the sponsors page and try to support them as they do such a great job supporting the Plimmerton FunRun.
TBC - Keep an eye on our page to keep up to date with all our wonderful sponsors and what you could win!
The Plimmerton train station is right by the Plimmerton FunRun and there are trains running roughly every half hour from Plimmerton Station. Please see https://www.metlink.org.nz/#timetables for further information.
Parking is available on the Plimmerton School field (dependent on the weather) for a gold coin donation towards Plimmerton School. There is free parking all around Plimmerton. Parking is available everywhere except in School Road (which will be closed for the event).


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Events Mick Varidel - November 26, 2021
Unfortunately, we've had to postpone this event for a second time. First it was flooded out by rain. This time, the current escalation...


As the world's leading spreader manufacturer, ELME Spreader supports companies worldwide with container handling solutions. Over a period of four decades, our customers have attached over 17,000 ELME spreaders to their lift trucks, reach stackers, straddle carriers and cranes.
Started as a one man activity in 1974, today, ELME Spreader employs 200 highly qualified people, who develop, design, produce, market and service over 1,000 spreaders annually. Every single spreader is built at the plant in Älmhult, where all the work is carried out - from design and product development to manufacturing, assembling and testing. This unique approach results in 100% control over the production and final quality of the products.
The ELME spreader product range includes spreaders for cranes, straddle carriers, lift trucks and reach stackers for ISO container handling and spreaders for intermodal handling, allowing the spreader to handle swap bodies, trailers and bottom lift containers. Having done some single projects with all-electric spreaders from time to time, in year 2017 ELME Spreader launched an all-electric crane spreader series.
We do also offer a wide range of piggyback slave attachments and special equipment for cranes and trucks (e.g. tool changer, slab handler and spreaders with tilting function) together with our range of approved spare parts– ELME Genuine Parts. Read more about us and our products at: elme.com.
A new spreader from ELME Spreader — ELME Spreader Model 817 INNOVATION — claims a unique mix of 16% reduced weight and boosted structural strength.
Spreader specialist ELME has beefed up its branding of its spare parts to ensure that customers can be sure of the provenance of OEM parts.
New spreader technology developed by Swedish-based manufacturer Elme is enabling reach stackers to empty laden bulk shipping containers via tipping.


Smaato's Data Science team is looking for a Senior Data Scientist who is experienced in building intelligent systems and cloud based machine learning solutions using a data volume that easily reaches a multi terabyte scale.
Why? Our cutting edge platform is processing an average of 6 billion inbound advertising queries per day. Each incoming request generates multiple outbound requests to our partners, which results into more than 12 terabytes of data running on our platform each day.
Processing this data, you will lead the building of statistical models that demonstrate data predictions to Smaato's customers.
In addition to developing cloud-based solutions, you will (need to) collaborate closely with our talented software engineers to design the intelligent modules, integrate the implemented ML models into our systems and services built on AWS, and report on their performance to the Director, Data Engineering.
Write tests? Or is that part of the job doing someone else?
Smaato is the global real-time advertising platform for mobile publishers and app developers. Smaato runs the world's largest independent mobile ad exchange and has been pioneering innovative, mobile-first solutions for publishers since 2005.


REBEL brings together David REmington and Martin BELiveau. Above all, we at REBEL don't believe in the status quo, we have a profound need to take the road less traveled. REBEL is about innovation. We craft new approaches and face new adventures head-on into uncharted territory. After all, rebels are meant to defend ideals, and we intend to overcome our current struggles intelligently and passionately. This way of thinking is beneficial, it offers a contemporary view on our profession (some call it a vocation); carefully crafted around Quebec's evolving cultural industries and its numerous talented artists.
We have among our ranks professional actors that are passionate about their trade. With various backgrounds and selected with the highest degree of accuracy, they constitute a range of very varied choices.
Our actresses have obtained a lot of experience throughout their careers. Talented and perfectionists in their playing, they know how to perfectly and quickly adapt to new roles.
We reveal the magic of voices for translation and dubbing, with artists that have great vocal skills.


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Q: Is it fine to call this synchronized method from a synchronized block? Simply put, I'm wondering if this changes the behavior. I'm assuming yes, because calling someMethod() will lock the entire object, instead of just the list object? But I'm still new to this synchronization stuff, so I'd like some more educated feedback.
The before:
public void run() {
    int i = 0;

    while (!end) {
        synchronized (list) {
            while (list.size() == i) {
                try {
                    list.wait();
                } catch (InterruptedException e) {
                    e.printStackTrace();
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

The After:
public void run() {
    int i = 0;

    while (!end) {
        synchronized (list) {
            while (list.size() == i) {
                someMethod();
            }
        }
    }
}

public synchronized void someMethod() {
    try {
        list.wait();
    } catch (InterruptedException e) {
        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}

A: You are correct - the new code has got different semantics, as someMethod() is indeed synchronized on the instance it is being invoked on (and as such, that synchronization is entirely unrelated to the one on list). However, the call to someMethod() will take place while the monitor on list is being held, so a call to run() is "equally thread safe" with respect to list.
On the other hand, you have now introduced the possibility for multiple threads to call someMethod() directly at the same time. You have also introduced a (probably unnecessary) potential for deadlock with other threads due to the extra synchronization on the object itself. I would recommend this instead:
public void someMethod() {
    synchronized (list) {
        try {
            list.wait();
        } catch (InterruptedException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

This method is now safe both for individual use and for being called through run() - note that it is safe to synchronize on an object that you have already synchronized on; the thread won't block itself.

A: With syncronized you don't really 'lock' an object. You will just make sure that access from everyone who is synchronizing on that specific object is 'regulated' with a lock.
A synchronized method is synchronizing on this.
That means, if you enter a syncronized block on some object list you can call a syncronized method without a problem at first

Some things to be thought about:
This code doesn't produce a deadlock:
public void foo() {
    synchronized (this) {
        someMethod();
    }
}

public synchronized void someMethod() {
    // ...
}

because you already have the "lock" on this, but this:
public void foo() {
    synchronized (list) {
        someMethod();
    }
}

public synchronized void someMethod() {
    // ...
}

may produce a deadlock with some other thread! You'll have to be really careful if you enter a synchronized section within another synchronized section

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Mysuru: After a long three-year lull, the academic activities have begun at the Karnataka State Open University (KSOU) and the admission process for 17 courses will either begin next week or in the first week of September.
Speaking to SOM here this morning, KSOU Vice-Chancellor Prof. D. Shivalingaiah said that there are already enquiries pouring in by the students and the admission notification will be issued in all the newspapers in the first week of September.
Both the academic and non-teaching staff is busy processing notes, lessons and prospectus for the academic year 2018-19.
Asked about the remaining 15 courses, he said that once this process starts, he will write to the University Grants Commission (UGC) seeking approval for other courses. If it refuses to accord permission, then all efforts will be made to get the recognition for them too, he reiterated.


Innovation is a tricky business. No single solution has enough scope to generate revolutionary progress. There's no magic bullet – it takes many iterations.
With a little imagination and effort, the best innovators use a range of cohesive techniques to keep ahead of the game, and even put on a sprint. "Figure out what problem you're trying to solve first," says Annie Parker, co-founder of Telstra's start-up accelerator program, muru-D.
To solve your problem, be prepared to step outside your comfort zone, she says. Parker's immersion in the start-up ecosystem has taught her that diverging from the norm is OK because everyone learns as they go.
Avoid having isolated pockets of innovation, the Executive Director of Operations at online education provider Ivy College, Roger Burgess, says. Stressing the value of integration to make gains, Burgess is part of the team leading Australia's second most innovative company, as ranked by the Australian Financial Review.
"We started from the top down – we embedded innovation within our organisational strategy," Burgess says. To gain traction, he adds, your organisation should adopt an equally robust strategy based on a culture of high performance. Every company has the capability to do that, he says, advising that it's important to define and measure progress.
It's also important to assess advancement constantly through management-led discussion. Oversight is key, according to Burgess, whose company's innovation hub, IvyX, is designed to ensure all projects are judged on objective merit. Projects are divided into two-week "sprints" that increase the speed and volume of iterations to be tested and implemented.
Effective, cohesive innovation may involve crossing all kinds of boundaries, from the architectural to the psychological. Ensure that an attitude of openness to new ideas permeates your office – consider designing the space with teamwork in mind.
Ivy College is so profoundly invested in innovation that 65 per cent of its office space is allotted to creative collaboration. As a result, ideas can easily cross-pollinate through sharing across people and departments.
Avoid a silo mentality and, above all, keep iterating. "There is no such thing as failure, only insight for future innovations," Burgess says.
There is no such thing as failure, only insight for future innovations.
Be willing to get inside your clients' minds by verifying what they want done and proceeding in a committed, measured style sustained by staff who have racked up abundant experience.
Ben Ross, general manager of design and user experience at accounting software firm MYOB endorses a strategy called the "jobs-to-be-done framework", devised by Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen –who once said you should "crawl into the skin of your customer".
The empathic, task-oriented framework hinges on addressing how much a certain product or service fulfils a user's agenda. Ross explains that the crux is the gap between what users want done and their level of satisfaction.
"This is the sweet spot, allowing innovation and creation to flow," he says, citing how this framework has supported MYOB innovations including its Smart Bills software, which captures key invoice data.
Once a sweet spot or job opportunity has been identified, MYOB pursues the "build-measure-learn" process. This empowers development teams to build lightweight solutions, gauge client responses, learn from mistakes and rebuild software fast to deliver the best outcome for clients. Ross says one core knock-on benefit is a sustained, rapid pace of change, ensuring constant innovation.
Redefining failure encourages staff to experiment by stepping outside the norm and even making mistakes. "Failure is what helps you learn to infer what the next right step is," Parker says.
By failing fast, your organisation will make much greater headway, she says. Having the right people, such as experienced staff, fuels progress.
Telstra's Customer Insight Centre is a purpose-built facility where innovative partnerships create ground breaking technologies.


Protocol Education are a market leading agency in the area providing supply cover to a vast number of schools throughout the West Yorkshire region We have a market share of over 65% of Secondary schools across Wakefield, Leeds, Bradford, Kirklees and Calderdale. As such we have a number of exclusive agreements and a large amount of work on offer.
We are looking at recruiting all subject areas across the West Yorkshire regions to work in our exclusive client schools.


Shuttleworth & Ingersoll has been named 2018 Best Law Firm in the Corridor by readers of the Corridor Business Journal (CBJ), announced in the July 9 publication. This is the sixth year, and second consecutive year, Shuttleworth & Ingersoll has been voted as Best of the Corridor.
Commitment is a word the attorneys at Shuttleworth & Ingersoll take seriously. The Shuttleworth mantra begins with a commitment to their clients. Shuttleworth attorneys care deeply about the success of their clients, working side-by-side as trusted advisors to help them accomplish their goals. This includes a commitment to provide value to their clients, as each attorney is dedicated to continuously build their specialized expertise, which becomes even more valuable when coupled with the firm's team-based approach and collegial responsibility to ensure the right answer is always available.
To ensure client success, the firm's leadership has developed an intentional approach to the structure of the firm, including the specialization of practice areas and collaboration among attorneys. Shuttleworth has specialized legal services in the areas of banking and finance law, business law, family law, health law, litigation, tax law, and others. The firm has also created a group of attorneys to offer flexible services to work with startups and innovators.
Attracting top talent is a constant priority for the firm to find incoming lawyers who believe in the firm's mission of taking a sincere interest in the success of their clients. The firm is poised for continued growth, as it has recently announced plans to open a second location to better serve its growing client base in Iowa City and the surrounding area. The new office, which is scheduled to open by August 1, is located in Coralville at 327 2nd Street. The Coralville office will operate as a full-service location, offering all the same legal services that are available at the firm's current office in Cedar Rapids.
The firm also understands the importance of a strong commitment to the community they serve, as each Shuttleworth attorney is involved as a volunteer to one or more local organization that is important to them. This commitment extends to the practice of providing legal help to those in need with pro bono services through the Volunteer Lawyers Project. The Iowa State Bar Association listed 29 attorneys from Shuttleworth & Ingersoll as members of the Iowa Pro Bono Honor Roll, published in the October 2017 edition of The Iowa Lawyer Magazine. Four Shuttleworth attorneys exceeded the aspirational standard set by the Iowa State Bar of 50 or more pro bono hours in 2017.
As one of the corridor's longest continuously-operating businesses, Shuttleworth & Ingersoll is positioned to continue to provide value to their clients with specialized expertise—and most importantly—an unwavering commitment to the success of their clients.
Attorney Brian Bergstrom, President of Shuttleworth & Ingersoll, P.L.C.


Blog is a place where you express your opinions on various subjects. You don't need to be a professional writer for blogging. But there are few things to note while writing articles for blogs. Here are 7 simple blogging steps for beginners.
Blog About subjects you are good at or topics which you are interested in. Do not blog about a subject just because of the fact that all popular blogger are writing about that topic.
Discuss your article and give a brief idea on the topic to the readers. Do not convey vague ideas and confuse the readers. Also, make your points clear. Include images wherever necessary to add visual effects (Make sure that the images do not violate copyright rules).
Make your article easy to read and do not abbreviate words. Check for any spelling mistakes in the post before you publish it to the web. Abbreviations and spelling mistakes break the flow of the paragraph.
Make it easy to comment on your blog. Readers like to express their opinion on the topic. Commenting form should be made simple without going through the process of registering or having a Captcha to prevent spam. Also, encourage your readers to comment to have a discussion going on about the topic.
Do not copy articles from other blogs or websites. If you need to get content from another blog, give proper credits and links.
Make your site load faster. Optimize your site CSS and scripts to make it run faster. Daniel has written a good article on how to make your site load faster by optimizing.
Make your feeds available to readers. Install a RSS feed button as well as Email subscription form and increase your readership base.
Hope you enjoyed reading this article. Would you like to add any more points? Please share it in comments.
Yes shashank made a good point. Sticking to niche is really important and that's why I'd to start TipsoSaurus as I wanted to dedicate that blog only for tips and tricks.
Nice tips for newbies in blogging. One more tip by me….Read Problogger.net as much as you can!!
If you find these 7 tips daunting, then there's one unwritten law that you should religiously abide to.
I used to publish posts without paragraph breaks when I first started blogging. Now I take care to include appropriate images.
Agreed with Ashwin, if you want to become successful bloggers keep writing without looking at your traffic stats.
Solid tips there buddy. Stumbled.
Good tips I'll point my friend to this post he just started blogging. I was planning of doing a dummies guide to blogging series soon.
I feel that including images in relevant areas gives more visibility to the posts.
Great tips Nirmal , you covered all the essential points .
Great tips nirmal, I think in my article of blogging tips , i think i missed many points 😉 which are covered here.
I checked out your post, those are really great tips for getting started.
Great tips Nirmal. these are a must have.
Really Good tips Nirmal !
Stick to your blog's theme! Thats the mantra for success. Really halpful tips Nirmal. Thanks a lot. Know your strengths and work on it..
Thanks for the visit. Posting frequency is one thing which is debated frequently in blogosphere. I feel if you can post 4-5 articles a week, then its really good.
superb tip i agree ..
keep writing without looking at your traffic stats ..enjoy blogging as blogging.
Hey really hard tips, I think the most important are the niche of the blog and the fastness of the blog – they do a lot!
Nirmal – good tips. I've linked to this post as well.
Good tips, I must say.
Great tips. I have my comments set up so that each person has to be previously excepted to comment in the future. This keeps out spam that happens to float through the creases and it makes it easier for returning visiors.
The first point is the strongest one IMHO. It is better to blog on what you are expert in, and you will never be short of ideas.
😳 Thank you Nirmal for the tips. I am totally new to this. I have already started posting articles. I am still not clear about the difference between article & blog. Are they more or less same ? Your guidance is required.
Excellent tips! One of my favorite beginners tips is to make certain you set your RSS feeds to Summary instead of the whole content – that way, your original blog post will be considered the original authentic one (as anyone who includes your RSS feed will be provided with only the snippets).
Very good tips…I'm surprised that you don't suggest bloggers to install captcha as spam guard system. Not many people have the same opinion. However , for me to make readers feel trusted is also important too.
Thank you for great tips, I started blogging and this post is very useful for me.
Great Tips, definitely Very good for both beginners and experts.
Excellent tips for a beginner! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for tips and thanks for sharing to us.


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Archives: Weekend Watching
WEEKEND WATCHING: ADAM SALTSMAN & GREG WOHLWEND ON THE MAKING OF HUNDREDS
As I mentioned last week, this past Sunday's meetup of our Austin indie collective JUEGOS RANCHEROS featured the local debut of Hundreds, the next game from Canabalt developers Semi Secret along with Greg 'aeiowu' Wohlwend — creator of the original Hundreds prototype and co-designer of games like Solipskier — and local-favorite musician Loscil.
If you haven't seen Hundreds before, it's a fantastically austere & ambient action/puzzle game which I described at greater length a month back, and which — I predict — will likely be one of the next big App Store hits. That's not just a hunch, as mentioned in my last Hundreds post, there hasn't been a single person who I've seen casually start to play that hasn't become instantly, deeply hooked.
And so, presented here is the full 30 minute talk Saltsman gave the assembled crowd (an abbreviated version of his overseas debut of Hundreds at GameCity) that goes into both the genesis of the project and the long, arduous task of taking such a simple and refined idea to its deepest logical conclusions, and paring down on all the ideas that creep in in the meantime and initially seem worthwhile but ultimately prove to be unnecessary complications and distractions.
After Adam's talk, you also get to hear — remotely, via Skype — from Wolhwend, who takes questions not just on Hundreds and its cryptic narrative, but of his more recent game, Gasketball, and what the future holds for Mikengreg, his collaborative company with developer Mike 'fucrate' Boxleiter.
As a bonus, and because I haven't managed to edit them more cleanly into the video, below the fold are a number of Saltsman's slides that show his early design sketches for Hundreds and early art tests from Wolhwend, to refer to directly, rather than squinting at the clip.
See more posts about: Adam Saltsman, Greg Wohlwend, Hundreds, JUEGOS RANCHEROS, Weekend Watching
WEEKEND WATCHING: IWATA ASKS… GAME CENTER CX'S KACHO ARINO
It feels like high time to revive the 'Weekend Watching' feature I set forth back in late 2008/early 2009 (as Netflix were debuting their new 'streaming' service to Xbox 360, remember before then?), this time with an additional relaxation of my unofficial rule to keep relatively mum about fan-subtitled releases of my real actual favorite TV show, Game Center CX.
This latest fan-subbed installment of GCCX seems slightly more fair game, as it's a 15 minute installment of Nintendo's brilliant Iwata Asks series featuring the banana-beholder himself visiting the show for a cross-interview chat, and a mini-challenge where GCCX's Arino takes on Balloon Fight, the first game Iwata programmed and designed for Nintendo in 1984.
It seems like as perfect an introduction to the series as any, and a good segue to remind you that the previously-featured DVD box set, released stateside as 'Retro Game Master' with 14 full-length episodes, has now officially been released and is 100% the best way you can spend a quiet weekend at home.
See more posts about: Game Center CX, Iwata Asks, Retro Game Master, Weekend Watching
WEEKEND WATCHING: MORE INSTANT WATCHING PICKS, AND A BONUS BRITISH INVASION
It's been too long since our last round of Netflix Instant Watching picks, so let's rectify that now, with the help of the as-usual invaluable instantwatcher.com, alongside a bonus non-Netflix essential to follow (which, hit the jump for the rest of those). Be sure to let us know what you've dug up and been digging via the comments, and don't miss our two previous / discussions for past recommendations from everyone.
A quick aside: with the preview version of the next round of Xbox 360 dashboard updates currently making the press rounds, it's clear that the console's Netflix functionality is about to become even more essential: I'm really looking forward to seeing its 'party' feature propagating outward and hopefully hosting and attending pre-scheduled mini-watching-parties, and having the ability to browse new releases from the 360 itself is far more useful than I expected (even if I'm not positive yet that it's tailoring suggestions specifically to me). But enough about that:
Visioneers [imdb, longest trailer ever]
The first and most enthusiastic pick is Jared and Brandon Blake's debut feature Visioneers, filmed well before comedian Zach Galifanakis would break into mainstream consciousness with his appearance in The Hangover. While it's not quite the typecast-reversing performance that Adam Sandler pulled off in P.T. Anderson's Punch Drunk Love, it's damned close.
The movie's a dystopian narrative darkly satirizing all aspects of a not-entirely-unimaginable near-future: a metered, rationed oppressive culture of grey, windowless workplace bureaucracy, mass-market consumerism in bed with all levels of government, and marriages defined by network TV self-help twaddle.
The problem? Widespread outbreaks of explosions: people so overwhelmingly institutionally understimulated and underwhelmed that they literally explode, and we follow Galifanakis as George Washington Winsterhammerman as he himself tries to keep from following suit.
It's a quieter and more subtle movie than I ever would have expected, but punctuated perfectly with the profane (see also, in this respect: the comics of Chris Ware), and more a love story than you'd imagine, with all actors involved (including Judy Greer, who you remember as Arrested Development's Kitty) pulling off incredible performances within their individual, soul-sapped restraint (Galifanakis spends 70 percent of the movie not saying a word and simply quietly attempting to keep all emotions in strict check).
And it's got Polyphonic Spree's Tim DeLaughter working the score, and it's as hilarious as it is touching, and it's one of the best films I'll see this year.
Weekend Watching: our top Netflix instant-watching picks
Weekend Watching: Netflix on 360 edition
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WEEKEND WATCHING: EVEN FURTHER INTO THE NIGHT WITH JASON ROHRER, CHRIS CRAWFORD
I linked a preview version of this earlier in the week, but thanks to commenter 'littlebugger' for letting us know that he'd uploaded the full hour-long episode of Passage creator Jason Rohrer and design vet Chris Crawford meeting on arts program Durch die Nacht mit (Into the Night with), which everyone seems to be agreeing is one of the best games design chats they've witnessed in a while.
Video: Jason Rohrer, Chris Crawford go Into the Night
WEEKEND WATCHING: THE STORY OF TETRIS, 25 YEARS LATER
As you've no doubt seen by now, no less than Google has given Alexey Pajitnov's landmark game Tetris the official re-design nod in celebration of the game's 25th anniversary. In celebration of our own, I figured it'd be as apt a time as ever to give mention to BBC4 documentary From Russia With Love — still the most complete and directly resourced (though admittedly occasionally heavy handed with its Soviet melodrama) re-telling of the story of Tetris' birth and rise to ubiquitous acclaim.
I don't think many people still know just what a fascinating story it was, between the iron-curtain drama and international business intrigue, and just how shrewdly major players were acting behind the scenes to all get a four-block piece of the action, creating a whirlwind with Pajitnov — here portrayed as someone who just, quite simply, was happy to have created an appealing game — at its center. [Though he would later tell me, with a sly smile, that he didn't necessarily go without taking at least some advantage of the situation.]
Since the complete documentary has been stripped from Google Video's archive (and still, bafflingly, hasn't been released on DVD), it's presented here in six YouTube chunks (with the remaining five after the jump): make your way through it while you still can.
WEEKEND WATCHING: AREA/CODE ON THE NEW FUTURE THE TV GAME
If you only know NYC devs Area/Code from their phenomenal iPhone game Drop7 — and even if you feel like you know a bit more — give co-founder Kevin Slavin's presentation at the recent 5D Immersive Design Conference a half hour of your weekend.
Originally linked by Bruce Sterling over at his Wired blog, Slavin covers not only the history and background of the studio (and their fantastic and still too-unknown location/real-world based games like Tokyo's Print Club sticker popularity contest, Superstar and Facebook's Parking Wars) and more on Chain Factor/Drop7 than even I knew, but — speaking as he was on the future of TV — makes his strongest point at the end, contending that 'any screen without a mouse ships "broken"'.
area/code iPhone puzzler Drop7 gets social update …
Touch me I'm slick (and free): area/code's Drop7 Lite …
Touch me I'm slick again: area/code relaunches Drop7 …
Touch me I'm slick: area/code's Drop7
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It's been a few months since we last gave each other recommendations for Netflix on 360 weekend watching, and with things popping up and down on the service weekly, I think it's high time for an update, particularly for this extended three-day blowout.
Here's my quick rundown of the top things that shouldn't be missed:
Let the Right One In: Tomas Alfredson's take on John Ajvide Lindqvist's novel of the (basically) same name skyrocketed itself to one of my top movies of 2008 (landing it square next to Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York) for making a vampire horror movie that isn't a vampire horror movie (despite what its stateside trailer may tell you), one that I watched four times in the first two months after its release.
It's a coming of age story, it's a story of isolation (on everyone's part) and of broken, dependent relationships, that ends on a note of indistinguishably mixed hope and resolute sadness when you carry the story forward in your mind. It's also gawpingly gorgeous, and everyone's got good hair and wicked style. Do not miss this.
Party Down: With the first season coming to a close Friday night, you now have no excuse to not sit down and watch what I'm going to call right now as the first, best new American comedy series since.. maybe Curb Your Enthusiasm? It's not just the cast, though that helps, a lineup which includes former State member Ken Marino, Adam Scott (who you remember as the guy who saved it with his solo in the best part of Step Brothers), Freaks and Geeks/Adventureland's Martin Starr, and Lizzy Caplan (aka My Hollywood Girlfriend; you know her from Cloverfield and as The Only Real Reason To Watch True Blood).
The premise: each episode is a separate LA occasion worked by the titular catering service Party Down, staffed by former/fallen/would-be actors, which sounds like a perfect setup for easy hijinks, and often is, but is always very smartly tempered with an undercurrent of life-reflection — taking the easy, low road after being knocked down. Actual pathos, the kind that the American Office has been managing to scrape together each week since that brutally, Who's-Afraid-Of-Virgina-Woolf-ishly dark Dinner Party episode. But, also, it's very, very funny.
Those are my two top, but there's also, of course, the first season of Graham Linehan's IT Crowd (which I have intended to talk more about on Offworld for months, let's do that soon), Søren Larsen's documentary Lynch, which won't sell you on David Lynch if you're already a skeptic, but is an essential peek behind the transcendental curtain if you're a fanatic, and the Short Films from his box set also recently reared their head on the service, too.
Also from around the network, BBG's Joel has recommended this documentary on unsung music producer legend Tom Dowd and guest blogger Tiff Chow has had nothing but good things to say about CJ7, the Chinese 'E.T.' reimagining from Shaolin Soccer/Kung Fu Hustle director Stephen Chow.
Anyone else dug up any diamonds or have anything to recommend? Let us all know via the comments!
Weekend Watching: Netflix on 360 edition – Offworld
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For this week's Weekend Watching, I wanna know: what the hell are all of you people watching all the time on Netflix? Semi-related to the post below, though privacy issues stymie, I'd be thrilled if the Xbox 360's NXE dashboard gave me at least a bit of a hint as to what lies beneath those alluringly sealed-off red boxes on my friends list, or even a data feed that gave me recommendations based on my friends' preferences.
It was the NXE itself that sold me on finally subscribing to the service (more honestly, in tricking me into never canceling my trial account), but since then I've been at a constant loss to find anything truly amazing that I hadn't already seen, and have instead relented to picking through every b-list movie I'd been meaning to watch for ages, and finally getting through that "Thirty-Rocks" show I keep hearing so much about.
So, in the spirit of CrownDozen's recent blog post digging up some of Netflix's hidden gems, Microsoft's announcement that there's now over a million of you on the service, and the launch of the brilliant new instantwatcher.com service that's about a quadrillion times easier to browse than Netflix's own site, I put it to all of you to find us all something good to watch on our Xbox 360 this weekend.
My quickie recommendation list looks a lot like CrownDozen's (and probably the playlist of any given film-school geek): anything by David Lynch or the Coen Bros, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly and Persepolis, typography porn docu Helvetica, comic/outsider art nerd docus Crumb and In the Realms of the Unreal (don't miss the latter!), effortlessly charming spelling bee doc Spellbound, the unanimously loved Man on Wire, and Errol Morris's oddball Fast Cheap & Out of Control.
What else are we missing?
Netflix + XboxLive [CrownDozen, InstantWatcher]
Weekend watching: Look Around You makes its U.S. debut – Offworld
Weekend watching: Rex Crowle's Grip Wrench – Offworld
WEEKEND WATCHING: REX CROWLE'S GRIP WRENCH
Working for a little weekend watching? Motion graphics designer and illustrator Rex Crowle has just unveiled the site for Grip Wrench, his 10-part animated series for MTV Italy's QOOB. Crowle, on top of doing fantastic ad work like Orange's GoodThingsShouldNeverEnd website, is also the man behind much of LittleBigPlanet's striking visual design: you'll instantly recognize his style in every little CMYK flourish you noticed around the game's various worlds.
In this episode of Grip Wrench, the titular star (described as "Hollywood hard man, troubled veteran, reckless patriot") "attempts to atone for previous disasters by taking part in a road safety film. But his easily distracted childlike mind chooses to focus more on playing videogames than saving lives, and as the bodycount rises so does the mayhem."
It's just ever so cutely on the NSFW side, but my favorite of the bunch and obviously a good fit for the Offworld crew, and it's very likely you're going to be seeing more of Crowle around the site in the near future.


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It was love at first sight for 2015 IAS topper Tina Dabi and Athar Aamir-ul-Shafi Khan, who stood second in the exam when they met in Delhi at the 2016 felicitation ceremony.
Tina Dabi and Athar Aamir-ul-Shafi Khan who finished first and second respectively in the 2015 UPSC examination and are IAS officers now, got married in a private ceremony at a resort in Pahalgam. Dabi (24), the first ever Dalit woman to top the UPSC examinations, and Khan (25), a Muslim from restive south Kashmir, were both allocated the Rajasthan cadre of the IAS.
The couple had announced their wedding plans in November 2017.
Dabi's parents are from the Indian Engineering Services while Khan is from Anantnag district in Kashmir and is the son of a school teacher. Dabi is a graduate in political science from the Delhi's Lady Shri Ram College while Khan is a BTech from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Mandi, Himachal Pradesh.


Sometimes, over all the noise something will jump out at you. KAIIT's 'Natural Woman' does exactly that. Jam-packed with soul and seemingly effortless cool, she shines on her new single and film clip.
'Natural Woman' for many, including myself, is their first introduction to Kaiit. Above all, her irresistibly smooth vocals will hook you. Her love and influence drawn from neo-soul and jazz are clear. Yet, there's more too it then that. Kaiit holds her own with raw talent and aesthetic to match. It's not surprising the video has been blowing up on Facebook.
There is an enduring positivity to the track. The thrill of first love, the validation your community brings to your life – this beautifully shot film clip reflects that same joy. Surrounded by her friends and family, she dances her way through familiar scenarios of the simple pleasures of life.
Born in New Guinea, KAIIT bounced back and forth between Australia and her homeland. Now, at home in Melbourne it's an exciting addition to the ever expanding talent bursting out of the city. To quote Nasty Mars, "The Melbourne music scene is slowly developing as this lovechild of jazz neo-soul hip hop and R&B". I couldn't agree more.


The new 4-inch display is the first change to the screen size of the iPhone (s AAPL) in its five-year existence, and thousands of developers are rushing to adjust their apps accordingly. For established app makers, this is a minor inconvenience — not trivial, but not a great burden either. But the barriers to implementing the new display changes aren't equal for all developers, as I found out when talking to a few this week.
You have likely already seen some apps roll out updates that are appropriately sized for the iPhone 5 display: Instagram's(s FB) update was ready on Tuesday, less than five days after the first iPhone 5 went on sale in the U.S. Other app makers were let in on the design changes early so Apple had an example to show off their work at the iPhone's introduction two weeks ago: CNN(s TWX) and OpenTable(s OPEN) both had already implemented the display size changes.
Some app developers will keep the same design targeted at earlier iPhone screens, but modify the app so that it fills the whole display — that way it won't be "letterboxed" with black bars on top and bottom, Apple's temporary solution. For established developer teams, this can be relatively easy.
Social travel app Trover, for example, anticipates that implementing the changes will take maybe two weeks from the day they got their hands on an iPhone 5 (for testing purposes) in addition to some other modifications to its app. The app's current design lends itself naturally to a taller screen, Trover CEO Jason Karas told me. It just means less scrolling for users, and won't necessitate a wholesale redesign the way it did for app developers who built for previous model iPhones and wanted to port their app to the larger 9.7-inch iPad.
Some will choose to redesign anyway so that the elements of the app better take advantage of the roomier screen — OpenTable's is a good example.
But it's not so simple or quick for everyone. What do you do if your company is based in a country that won't get the new device for several weeks? Many other apps will have a head start on you.
That's what Readdle, based in Odessa, Ukraine, is facing. Despite having some of the top-selling business apps on the App Store, the team doesn't have an iPhone 5 yet. They have a handful of apps, and while the update to the new screen size will be "really straightforward," that won't be the case for all their apps especially ones that have heavily customized user interfaces, said CEO Igor Zhadanov. The more difficult ones, like the Printer Pro app, will take "about five to eight days at most," he said.
You're also at somewhat of a disadvantage if you're a startup with a brand new app and have very few resources. Routehappy, a company whose iOS app launch I covered just a few weeks ago is focusing on the iPhone, but its small crew is still squashing bugs and doing major upgrades its new app. With a new iPhone display, they have to drop everything and make their app look like it belongs on the iPhone 5.
And then there's the approval process. With everyone resubmitting to the App Store, there's somewhat of a traffic jam.
"Due to high number of submissions, approval time has extended up to two weeks, which is sad," said Readdle's Zhadanov.
So if your favorite app is still letterboxed for now, some patience is necessary. Its developers are likely working on it. There are just a few obstacles — geography, time, and resources — to overcome first.
The updated SDK includes the iOS simulator which has the taller iPhone 5 screen, so it's not necessary to wait for a handset. We were able to update our app in about half an hour, submitted and it was approved by Apple on the Friday 21st Sep release date. The changes involved adding 2 new images and rebuilding some linked libraries because of the CPU architecture changes.
Our app uses customised default UI elements – http://www.serverdensity.com/iphone/ – so it's easier than it might be with more graphical/3D apps. We also have a dedicated iOS engineer so that's not to say it will be straightforward for everyone. Using letterboxed apps on an iPhone 5 is noticeable but is much less of a pain than the change from non-retina to retina graphics, so it's less urgent for developers too.
Well, if you've designed anything for Android in conjunction with your iPhone app, you have already had to visit this scenario. Not a huge deal, but it will take a bit to fix.
Flexible design comes to the iPhone!
Now picture the horror if they had not only made the screen taller but wider. At least this way any unchanged apps remain letterboxed and work just like they did on the 4-series phones. I'm fairly convinced that was one key reason they went with taller, not wider.


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Sekret - Lindsay Smith (+ Giveaway)
March 13, 2014 • book review, By Alexa, Friends with ARCs, giveaway, Lindsay Smith, young adult fiction
Sekret by Lindsay Smith
Series: Sekret #1
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press/Macmillan Children's
Publication Date: April 1, 2014
Source/Format: Netgalley (Thanks!) || e-galley
[I received this book from the publisher. This in no way affects my review.]
Yulia's father always taught her to hide her thoughts and control her emotions to survive the harsh realities of Soviet Russia. But when she's captured by the KGB and forced to work as a psychic spy with a mission to undermine the U.S. space program, she's thrust into a world of suspicion, deceit, and horrifying power. Yulia quickly realizes she can trust no one--not her KGB superiors or the other operatives vying for her attention--and must rely on her own wits and skills to survive in this world where no SEKRET can stay hidden for long.
Sekret was a thrilling read for me. In spite of my initial reservations, I picked up this novel anyway, unable to resist the lure of Russian history. I'm so glad I did because Sekret is phenomenal! This strong debut novel from author Lindsay Smith is a compelling tale that combines Russian history and culture with a bit of science fiction. It's beautifully done, and I'd even go so far as to say that it's one of the best novels I've read so far this 2014.
Without a doubt, the story was what I liked best about Sekret. Basically, it does follow the story indicated in the summary – a girl with psychic abilities becomes part of a Russian espionage group determined to maintain the country's independent rule. But there were also additional twists that managed to surprise me, particularly about their nemesis in this story. I will say that I did guess a major plot point pretty early on, but that didn't take away from how much I enjoyed the story overall.
It's a crazy set of circumstances that surround Yulia, her comrades and her country, but Smith deftly wove Yulia's personal conflict into the tapestry of a much more prominent conflict between countries. I appreciated the fact that we still explore Yulia's feelings and her actions (and reactions) in depth, even while also having enough room to see that there's something much larger at play here. The combination was pretty intoxicating, and certainly kept me turning the pages after I'd started.
I also really enjoyed the setting. While I'm not too familiar with the details of Russia at this time, the way that Smith portrays it in Sekret sounds pretty spot on. The touches of Russian culture, and the dropping of Russian terms here and there definitely helped Sekret feel authentic. I find that I'm interested in further exploring this period of history now, thanks to this novel!
My only reservation really lies with the characters, particularly Yulia. I liked Yulia well enough. Her emotions and her choices were easily understood and justifiable; her memories, especially as they unraveled, were interesting too. However, there was just a lack of that something to help me fully connect with her character. Instead of experiencing the story through her eyes, it felt like I was simply watching her go through it all (and rooting for her to be safe and on the right side). I would have liked to forge a stronger connection with her, but it also didn't take too much away from this story.
I did enjoy reading about the secondary characters. Smith does a credible job of making sure that her characters, from main to secondary to even tertiary, are written as the complex, definitely not black and white human beings. There are good things, and bad things about each and every one (Yulia included). I really appreciated that we could see why each character acted the way they did, and look forward to further learning more about them in Skandal.
On a quick side note, I don't feel particularly strongly about the romantic subplot in Sekret. I acknowledge its existence, and feel like I could potentially be rooting for the couple in question. But at the moment, it doesn't matter to me as much as the actual story does (and probably won't deter any future readers from liking this book).
Sekret was definitely a hit! I really liked the way it was written, especially with the combination of Russian history and sci-fi into one solid read. If you're interested in espionage with a sci-fi touch, then definitely take the time to read this book. (Actually, I'd just recommend this book to readers, period. It's that interesting, and that fun to read!)
What kind of psychic power would you like to have, based on the ones in Sekret?
This was fairly easy for me to answer! I want to be able to be a remote viewer. Remote viewers are psychics that can see what's going on somewhere even from some distance away. This is a win-win situation for me, since I'll be safe (ish) and can still be part of whatever is going down. (Honestly, I debated about simply being able to read people and what's happened before like Yulia. But I feel like that would make me feel too entrenched in the past. And it would wreak havoc on all my emotions.)
Thanks to the wonderful Ksenia at Macmillan, I'm pleased to be hosting a giveaway for a finished copy of Sekret! [NOTE: This is only open to residents of the US/CA.] Enter below!
jpetroroy March 13, 2014 at 3:02 AM
Time travel!
Fida Islaih March 13, 2014 at 7:49 AM
This book sounds amazing! I'm a historical fiction nerd. Thanks for the review and giveaway!
My Thoughts.... Literally! March 13, 2014 at 9:25 AM
This book is one of my most anticipated books of the year. I'm glad you enjoyed it and the characters sound really interesting. I love characters that aren't black or white!
Captivated Reader March 13, 2014 at 1:30 PM
Great review, Alexa!! Wow, this book sounds amazing! I was a Russian language major in college and love Russian history & culture, to the storyline for Sekret sounds right up my alley!!
I love that you owned up to not loving the romance... I've started finding a lot of unreasonable or uncomfortable romance in the books I've been reading, and it's hard to stand up and say you just don't love the love.
I keep seeing glowing reviews for this one and it's starting to build up my excitement for it! I don't know much about Russian history, so I feel like I'll be kept in the dark a bit longer :)
If I could have a superpower, I'd probably go with the ability to read minds! So many possibilities, but no one would be the wiser ;)
Orchid March 13, 2014 at 8:40 PM
Ack! This is the first review I've read for Sekret, and I must say that it now has me wanting to read it. I do love books with Russian history in them. Thanks so much for sharing your thoughts on this one!!!!
If I could have any superpower, it would be teleportation. I don't know why, but that power has always appealed to me.
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Tammy March 14, 2014 at 12:54 PM
Mind control, of course :)
Probably either mind reading or teleportation! :)
Chenise Jones March 15, 2014 at 5:37 PM
I`d definitely would love to have teleportation! It would give me a lot more time to do things.
Courtney March 15, 2014 at 8:50 PM
I would want x-ray vision :)
Maggie @ Just a Couple More Pages March 16, 2014 at 1:10 PM
I feel like I should have really liked Sekret, but I just didn't. Normally historical fiction and spies are both towards the top of my list of favorite things to read about, but I just couldn't connect with the story, or, as you mentioned, with Julia. I respect with Lindsay Smith did because I think, regardless of my own personal opinion, it's an strong, well done book.
Kirsten! March 18, 2014 at 6:06 AM
Probability manipulation! Or maybe teleportation, that would be awesome.
I am SO freaking excited to read this book and this review just made me MORE excited. This is a must read for me for sure.
I think I'd want long distance teleportation as well. It would make life so much easier!!


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Sloth Bear May – September
The Sloth bear is generally a nocturnal mammal with occaisional day time sightings possible in well visited national parks such as yala. In late May, the Palu tree begins to bear fruit. The Palu (iron wood) is a beautiful tall tree with a bark textured with reticulations. The Bears take temporary absence of leave from thier role as a semi- specialist in termites. With berries a plenty, they go on a feeding spree with some reportedly showing signs of inerbation from gorging themselves on the palu fruit.
Leopard May – September
The grass is down and leopard sightings are up. Leopards are seen regularly throughout the year. But the die-back of the ground cover with the onset of the dry season provides better viewing opportunities
for finding them and photographing them. Yala National Park, offers the best chance in Asia for seeing Leopard. This is due to a number of factors. The leopards have an average density of one per square kilometer, the terrain is fairly open with grasslands and it does not face threat from larger terrestrial predators. Wilpattu National Park in North-west Sri Lanka is another top location for Leopard especially during this dry period."
Asian Elephant July – September
'The Gathering' (Ranked among the world's top wildlife spectacles) peaks heading towards September and elephants, sometimes numbering over an awe inspiring three hundred, converge onto the receding shores of Minneriya Tank. Nowhere else in the world will one find such a high concentration of wild Asian Elephants within a few square kilometers. 'The Gathering' is a wonderful opportunity for wildlife enthusiasts and casual travellers to observe the social dynamics of elephants. Asian Elephant are seen throughout the year at almost all dry-zone national parks including Uda Walawe, Yala and Wasgamuwa.
Sperm Whale July – September
Sri Lanka is amongst the top ten places in the world for seeing Sperm Whales. Sightings of Sperm Whales along with Blue Whales peak in December and again in April during their migration from the Arabian Sea to the Bay of Bengal. The deep seas off the Kalpitiya Peninsula in the North-west where the continental shelf runs in parrallel to the land, provide an ideal habitat for these giant oceanic predators, which need to dive several hundred meters to hunt prey such as the Giant Squid. Sperm Whales may also be seen off Mirissa in the South from December to April and off Trincomalee in the East from February to April.
Butterflies and Dragonflies January – December
Around February the North East monsoon begins to subside. By mid February the mud puddles on the jeep tracks in the north central province are already swarming with newly emerged butterflies which can feed on the luxuriant folliage which has been fed by the monsoon rains. Clouds of 'whites' and 'yellows' gather. Clear days and freezing nights are experienced in the highlands. A good time of year to visit Horton Plains National Park for spectacular views from world's end and to see montane endemics such as the Black- lipped Lizard and Rhino Horned Lizard. Dragonflies however can be seen right throught the year.
Primates June – September
The North central plains are cooler and it is a good time to observe hanuman langurs, the endemic Toque Monkeys and the endemic Purple Faced Leaf Monkeys around the archeological sites of polunaruwa and sigiriya.
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Nearly 450 species of birds have been recorded in Sri Lanka including migrants. Endemics and resident avian species can be observed throughout the year. No less than 33 species of
birds are endemic, found nowhere else in the world.
March – April The south-west zone where the bio-diversity rich rainforests are relatively free from rain. A window of opportunity for extended rainforest safaris before the start of the south-west monsoon. The mixed species feeding flocks of birds in Sinharaja are special. One of the longest running field studies of mixed species flocks have shown them to be the largest in the world. It is not unusual to encounter flocks with over twenty
species of birds. On many occasions over half a dozen endemic birds can be seen in a flock. Small mammals such as the Dusky Squirrel, Layard's Squirrel and Giant Squirrel also join these feeding flocks.
November – February: The winter migrants have arrived in force. Every bush in Yala seems to have a Brown Shrike perched atop it. Every shaded copse seems to have an Indian Pitta screeching from it at six o' clock. Migrant waders are stopping over in the freshly ploughed paddy fields of Talangama en route down south to the rich wader habitats of reserves such as Kalametiya, Bundala and Palatupana. The coastal flats teem with tens of thousands of Curlew Sandpipers, Lesser Sand Plovers, Little Stints, Black-winged Stilts, Common and Wood Sandpipers, etc.
Blue Whale July – September
Mirissa in the South and Trincomalee in the East of Sri Lanka are the world's top two locations for watching the largest ever creature to have inhabited our planet, the Blue Whale. The number of Blues peak in December and again in April during their annual migration as they travel between feeding areas in the Bay of Bengal and up welling off Somalia in Africa. There is also a sufficient resident population of Blue Whales to provide an extended viewing season up to about August. Between November and April (until the South-west monsoon arrives), Blue Whales can be observed off Mirissa with a strike rate of over 90%. The North-east monsoon begins to ease from around February and Blue Whales can be seen off Trincomalee till late August.
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Yicong est le cinquième fils de l'empereur Daoguang. Sa mère est Niohuru Xiang. Il est adopté par son oncle Miankai. Ce dernier n'ayant aucun héritier qui lui survit, Yicong hérite de son titre de prince Dun de premier rang à sa mort en 1839.

Alors que la seconde guerre de l'opium fait rage et que les troupes occidentales avancent inexorablement en direction de Pékin, la cour impériale s'enfuit au palais de Jehol, au nord de Pékin afin d'éviter que la famille impériale ne tombe entre les mains des occidentaux. Son frère l'empereur Xianfeng meurt en 1861 sans revoir la Cité interdite. Plusieurs membres de la famille impériale sont alors à Chengde, ce qui permet à l'impératrice Cixi restée à Pékin de s'emparer du sceau impérial et de prendre le pouvoir, évinçant les huit régents nommé par le défunt empereur.

Yicong meurt le , pendant le règne de son neveu Guangxu. Son petit-fils Yuyan est un prétendant au trône de Chine après la mort de Puyi.

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Personnalité de la dynastie Qing

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