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"Generation Equality: Empowering Women And Girls, In Sports And Through Sports" Event Was Organized
The event, which organized in collaboration with Fenerbahçe Sports Club, UN Women and Tüpraş have brought together special guests who contributed to the empowerment of women and girls in sports and inspired others with their stories.
Simla Türker Bayazıt, Member of Board of Directors of Fenerbahçe Sports Club, Asya Varbanova, Country Director of UN Women, İbrahim Yelmenoğlu, General Manager of Tüpraş, and Janine Shepherd from Australia, who is one of the most popular and inspiring speakers with her challenging spirit and passion for life, were the speakers of this event that was organized in Faruk Ilgaz Facilities. Youth members from 9 different branches of Fenerbahçe Sports Club competing to be the champion and students of Fenerbahçe Sports Schools and 'Girls Soccer School' of Fenerbahçe Sports Club, which is the first of its kind, have also participated in the event.
The event started with a stand in silence in memory of our hero martyrs that lost their lives in cross-border operations, in particular the Great Leader Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of our Republic, and his brothers in arms and singing our National Anthem altogether. The video of projects, completed by Fenerbahçe Sports Club for HeForShe initiative played afterward.
Simla Türker Bayazıt, Member of Board of Directors of Fenerbahçe Sports Club: May God rest their souls and I condole with and wish patience for the families of all our martyrs that lost their lives in Idlib
Simla Türker Bayazıt, Member of Board of Directors of Fenerbahçe Sports Club, who took the stand after the video, started her speech by wishing condolences for our soldiers who were martyred in Idlib. Highlighting the significance of gender equality and the projects of Fenerbahçe Sports Club, which is the defender of gender equality, as a part of HeForShe initiative, Simla Türker Bayazıt said:
"Dear Members of our Board of Directors, valuable executives and teams of our partner, Tüpraş, and UN Women, our valuable members, special guests and dear media members, welcome all.
Our Chairman is unfortunately not with us now despite his wish due to private reasons. He kindly asked me to send his love and respect to you. Hopefully, we will all be together in our next organization.
Today is March 8, International Women's Day, but more importantly, the young and old alike, we are all following the bad news that we received from our hero soldiers that fight beyond our borders for our welfare and to defend our homeland. Unfortunately, we are passing through a difficult period, but there is no doubt that these difficult days will strengthen the unity and solidarity in our country. May God rest their souls and I condole with and wish patience for the families of all our martyrs that lost their lives in Idlib. My condolences to our country and nation. It is our biggest wish that this difficult period ends with minimum loss.
If we return today, we are now together with you again in a very special day and I am so excited too. As Fenerbahçe Sports Club, under the leadership of our Chairman, Mr. Ali Koç, we made a global agreement with United Nations in November 2018 for Women and Girls and with this agreement we broke a new ground in our country and in the international arena. As a part of this agreement that we made with the support of our partner, Tüpraş, we started to wear on the arms of our soccer team's jerseys the logo of HeForShe initiative, which was initiated by UN Women for gender equality and women. By signing a commitment with UN for this purpose, we published our manifest for this sensitive and important subject and we said 'We are equal together in every moment and every part of life'. As Fenerbahçe, we acted as a model and pioneer in sports and society with these steps that we have taken for gender equality as we did in all other areas for a better world and a better future. We have brought forward the values and century old culture of being a member of Fenerbahçe once more for women and girls together with all our principles that touch people and society. We have taken several steps to ensure that women and girls play more active roles and act more actively and inclusively in sports and society.
We started to work initially within our club in order to explain our awareness initiative better and to adopt it and, for this purpose, we provided gender equality trainings to all our staff, players and technical staff, totally 1068 people. We X-rayed our club with the studies we performed together with HeForShe for equality purposes and we determined the steps to be taken in order to improve ourselves and for this purpose, as Fenerbahçe Sports Club, we said 'Stop violence on women'. We said, 'Women succeed in anything if they want'. We said, 'If there is no woman, there is no equality; if there is no equality, there is no future' and we said 'We are here for women and for equality' with the social power of Fenerbahçe that reaches to millions of people.
Today we are here for March 8, International Women's Day, and we are hosting International Women's Day organization with the motto of "Gender Equality on the 25th anniversary of Beijing Declaration, which was signed in 1995 by UN Women and accepted as one of the most important global agendas for women's rights.
Same as our country, there are also many special women athletes in the history of Fenerbahçe and, fortunately, some of them are together with us today. We are glad that you are here. You have honored us. New generations, members of youth Fenerbahçe Sports Club, for which their unique stories will be a model and which will successfully represent the flag of Fenerbahçe and our country, are also here.
Being proud of for being the biggest club of Turkey, even the world that will be represented by the highest number of athletes from 9 branches in Olympic Games once more in this year, Fenerbahçe will continue to take steps for awareness for women and girls. As of today we have 11 athletes that will compete in Tokyo Olympic Games and we believe that this number will increase day by day. We wish success to all our athletes in advance.
Now I would like to say once more 'We are equal together' in front of you for a better and brighter future, in which our women would never be exposed to any injustice and discrimination and live completely away from any kind of violence and in which the right to live is accepted as sacred as bread and water and dark murders to any of living beings are ended. As Fenerbahçe Sports Club, the proud of this responsibility that we have assumed for women by breaking a new ground and the things that we have done and will continue to do in future do belong to all of us. Happy March 8, International Women's' Day for all of us as being modern Turkish women that follow the path of Atatürk."
İbrahim Yelmenoğlu, General Manager of Tüpraş, says "Our energy never runs out for equality" and adds that they will continue to support inclusiveness and diversity in every platform
İbrahim Yelmenoğlu, General Manager of Tüpraş, took the stand. Stating that they are proud of being a part of the event, Yelmenoğlu said: "We are here together on this very meaningful day that is dedicated to the achievements of women throughout the world for equality. Here we have women athletes from different generations, whose determination, fight and achievements have become a model. These athletes have made us proud with the results they achieved in international platforms."
Yelmenoğlu added, "As the largest corporation of our country, we are responsible not only for producing an economic added value, but also for leading the change and transformation of our society. While acting with the principle of equality and inclusiveness in Tüpraş, we are also working hard to create an awareness in the society for strengthening of women. 2 years ago we joined a global collaboration together with UN Women's HeforShe initiative and Fenerbahçe Sports Club. This collaboration, aiming to reach more people for equality, was also the trigger for our corporation to change and transform. Women field operators and technicians have joined us for the first time in Batman and then in our Izmit and Kırıkkale refineries. We will continue to support inclusiveness and diversity in every platform by saying "Our energy never runs out for equality".
Asya Varbanova, Country Director of UN Women: Let's create equal opportunity for women and girls in every area of life
Asya Varbanova, Country Director of UN Women, who took the stand thereafter, talked about gender equality and said:
"What does He ForShe mean? As you all know, HeForShe is a global solidarity movement, initiated by UN Women. HeForShe continues to grow strongly with Fenerbahçe thanks to the club's more than 25 million fans. It is not a coincidence to collaborate with a sports club for HeForShe, because participation of women in sports is very important for strengthening of gender equality. Sports may teach the values, such as teamwork and self-confidence to women and girls and can be a significant driving force for gender equality in the society. Leadership and self-confidence are a few of these values.
Today women challenge the social norms and do actually show that they are equal at this point, which they have already done for long years. They have shown how strong and durable they are at least same as the men. I'm very happy to see so many girls and women with us today. When we look at Tokyo Olympic Games 2020, we see that women are also represented equally with men and almost 48.8% of the participants would be women. If we are going to make a comparison, this ratio was only 2.2% of all athletes that participated in Olympic Games, which started in 1900s and there were only 22 women of 1000 athletes. We have come a long way until today, but despite these achievements women are still exposed to several discriminations in sports, such as unequal wages, unequal sponsorship opportunities and less support. For instance, the amount that is paid to the highest-paid player of NBA is much higher than the amount paid to all women players of WNBA.
Women are still being alienated from some sports, are ignored time to time and are recognized less, because there are some cultural obstacles. Therefore they are less supported. We see that Turkey has taken a step to change this and what you did here may create an encouragement for the world.
2020 is a very important year for social gender equality. This is not any year and today is not any of those international women's day, because we are in such an important year that it is called 'Gender Equality Year'. We are also celebrating the 25th anniversary of implementation of Beijing Platform with all our partners. This platform was accepted in 1995 and is now the most comprehensive and the most assertive initiative that has reflected the efforts of women for gender equality and this agreement was signed by many countries, including Turkey. We ask ourselves, How far we managed to go? What have we achieved? What must be done more? What can we do more for our joint targets?
Today, imagine a world that everyone has equal rights. Imagine a world, where women and girls do not afraid of going home at night, women and men are paid equally by doing the same work and they share their house works equally. Also imagine that women are taking a role in political leadership and they have a say in the decisions that affect their lives. Currently we don't have such a world, but we are decisive to have it, because I believe that we showed such a will and decisiveness that we will succeed to have that world. We will have it today, not 25 years later and this will be achieved during our generation. Therefore, today we combine our forces and say, 'We are at a place of gender equality' and we gathered around this campaign that gathers people from all cultures, ages, ethnic origins and religions. I would like to thank a lot to our partners, board members, executives of Koç Holding and executives of Fenerbahçe Sports Club. Thank you very much for being with us on this significant journey. Let's create equal opportunity for women and girls in every area of life."
After the speeches, players in the youth setup of Fenerbahçe Sports Club, who attended the event, asked questions to professional athletes that achieved significant successes in their careers and received their answers.
Then Janine Shepherd, who has a remarkable life story and who is one of the most poular and inspiring speakers of today with her challenging spirit and love for life and an author and acrobatic pilot, took the stage. Shepherd, who was one of the most promising cross-skiers of Australia when she was seriously injured as a result of an accident that she had while cycling for her training and then stayed at the hospital as paralyzed for six months. She managed not only to learn walking again but to start a new life with her superior determination, which was considered as an "impossible thing" by medical professionals, told her life story that has become a model for everyone with her determination and vigor and answered the question of attendants.
Erol Bilecik, Vice Chairman of Fenerbahçe Sports Club: I'm celebrating March 8, International Women's Day, not formally, but most sincerely
Erol Bilecik, the Vice Chairman of Fenerbahçe Sports Club, took the stand finally and said, "I'm celebrating March 8, International Women's Day, not formally, but most sincerely. We heard tremendous stories and this wonderful wave of excitement has really surrounded us. There is not any enough word to say for March 8, Women's Day. Fenerbahçe Sports Club would not exist and it would not be possible for the club to achieve its current position if it would only deal with sports but refrain to deal with national issues. Therefore I sincerely congratulate the entire team, in particular Ms. Simla, who worked hard for this beautiful event. I sincerely congratulate all of you by reminding the words of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk: 'Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women' and I would like to thank you for attending and working together with our Fenerbahçe."
Jerseys were presented as a gift to attendants and speakers and the event ended with a group photo taken on the stage.
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20 inch wheels and lowering?
Discussion in 'Street Trucks' started by flumpmasterflex, December 7, 2004.
If you don't put any tires on them, you can lower it A LOT!!!
If you don't put any tires them, you can lower it A LOT!!!
lol, Robb's been so helpful lately.
It's that time of the month again. I'm just kiddin Robb, I actually thoroughly enjoy your answers.
Been really busy with my band , anyone watch battle for ozzfest? my bands on there.. www.sicksdeep.com check us out !!!
anyways, i have a 97 sport lowered with 20s and its fine ... i wouldnt go more than 1 1/2 without scraping. unless you get a rubber band tires like a 35 series... which i wouldnt reccomend!
Ok way to spam, and ive got 20s, did the torsion flip and i cant remember either a 3 or 4 inch block in the rear, rubs when i turn wheel completely to lock, other than that its fine.


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LAl-Nasr SC Dubai (, 'Club Cultural Esportiu de la Victòria') és un club de futbol dels Emirats Àrabs Units de la ciutat de Dubai. Al-Nasr significa 'la Victòria'.

Palmarès
 Lliga dels Emirats Àrabs Units de futbol:
 1977–78, 1978–79, 1985–86
 Copa del President dels Emirats Àrabs Units de futbol:
 1984–85, 1985–86, 1988–89, 2014–15
 Copa de la Lliga dels Emirats Àrabs Units de futbol:
 2015, 2020
 Supercopa dels Emirats Àrabs Units de futbol:
 1990, 1996
 Copa Federació dels Emirats Àrabs Units de futbol:
 1988–87, 1999–00, 2001–02
 Copa de Clubs Campions del Golf:
 2014

Jugadors destacats
  Khodadad Azizi
  Reza Enayati
  Mohammad Nosrati
  Mehrzad Madanchi
  Karim Bagheri
  Arash Borhani
  Farhad Majidi
  Ebrahim Ghasempour
  Sattar Hamedani
  Ali Hosany Al Hawasin, Ali Abbas Yasin
  Mohammad Khamis Salem Saleh
  Salah Abbas
  Kazim Ali
  Yousuf Moussa
  Andrés Guglielminpietro
  Mamam Cherif Touré
  Renato
  Valder
  Fred Bloggs
  Hussein Alaa Hussein

Entrenadors destacats
  Reiner Hollmann
  Vágner Carmo Mancini
  Frank Pagelsdorf

Referències

Clubs de futbol dels Emirats Àrabs Units

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Bank of America Says China Passed 'Point of No Return'
A sales man (L), dressed as the god of wealth, waits for customers with his partner (R) dressed as a cartoon character at the entrance of a shop in Beijing on March 22, 2013. (Wang Zhao/AFP/Getty Images)
China's Central Bank Can't Be Jack-of-All-Trades
By Valentin Schmid
January 25, 2016 Updated: January 26, 2016
In the new normal of investing, central banks run the economy. If growth slows down, the central bank will fix it. If the currency is too high, the central bank will fix it.
Especially the Chinese central bank (PBOC) was very adept at managing small or large glitches in China's planned economy, at least until recently and without worrying about the long-term effect. In 2016, however, managing the economy and the exchange rate became too tall of an order.
So the PBOC leaked documents to the press saying it can't do everything at the same time, like keep the yuan from falling and stimulate the domestic economy.
The South China Morning Post cites a leaked memo in which assistant central bank governor Zhang Xiaohui told commercial banks that "a too-loose liquidity situation may result in relatively big pressure on the yuan exchange rate."
He also said the PBOC won't use the market's preferred measure of stimulus, a cut in the required reserve ratio, which gives banks more room to lend and expand credit in the economy.
"A cut in the required reserve ratio would be too strong a signal [to send to the market], and we can use other tools to provide the market with liquidity," he said.
The PBOC finally realized that it too is subject to the law of the impossible trinity, which says you can only have two out of the three following treats: an independent monetary policy, a stable currency, and an open capital account.
So according to the leaked memo, later confirmed by the official minutes, the PBOC chooses to have a stable currency and consequently must import the Federal Reserve's tight monetary policy.
But the options here are not black-and-white given China's recent push for reform.
First of all, China's capital account is neither completely open nor completely closed. While there are many restrictions, like the maximum $50,000 an individual can transfer out of the country every year, those limitations are violated on a daily basis and to a larger degree by multinational firms and wealthy individuals with political connections.
Capital outflows lead to a declining exchange rate. (Macquarie)
At the same time, China is not keeping a strict peg to the dollar anymore, like it did until 2005 and it is still the case in Hong Kong. The reform goal is to have a freely convertible currency by 2020.
China is rather managing a gradual decline in the rate. If China is serious about having a floating exchange rate by the end of the decade, it will have to open the capital account even further.
Once the capital account is open and the exchange rate floated, the PBOC can then manipulate domestic monetary policy as it pleases.
But even if the PBOC chooses to emphasize a stable exchange rate for the time being and the capital account is semi-closed, it still has different tools for domestic monetary policy as well, like not using the required reserve ratio and instead using open market operations. Just recently, it injected around $250 billion dollars into the banking system with this method, a method that also has a negative effect on the exchange rate, although the PBOC hopes it is a less pronounced one.
But no matter which of the blurred options the PBOC chooses, it can only manage expectations in the short term. It won't be able to solve the fundamental problems of the Chinese economy, which require serious reform—a fate it shares with all other central banks.

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Gift boxes support homeless, at risk women
Margy Parker, left, local coordinator of Sarnia's Shoebox Project for Shelters, shows off one of the boxes she has put together, along with Angie Marks, director of services at the Women's Interval Home in Sarnia. Tara Jeffrey
Tara Jeffrey
A small box of goodies can go a long way.
So says Margy Parker, who's launching a Sarnia chapter of the Shoebox Project for Shelters, which collects and distributes gifts in the form of shoeboxes to women who are homeless or at risk of homelessness.
"I saw it on the news one night and thought, 'How can I help out?'" Parker said of the Toronto-born campaign launched in 2011, which has since delivered more than 24,000 gifts to women in 131 communities in Canada and the U.S.
"I found out that there wasn't a chapter in Sarnia, so I filled out an application for our area, and here I am."
As coordinator, Parker has been recruiting Sarnia-Lambton residents to help by filling a shoebox with items (valued at $50) that any woman is likely to enjoy, but may not splurge on herself in difficult times.
She hopes to make her first delivery to the Women's Interval Home in time for Mother's Day.
"Most women in difficult situations neglect themselves," said Parker. "This is just something to make them feel special, and let them know they're not alone."
She's encouraging participants to hold 'shoebox parties' where they can gather items and decorate the boxes.
Donations can include toiletries, makeup, candy, scarves, gift cards and more — and should include the most important element: a message, note or card of support.
"It screams, 'We care about you,'" said Angie Marks, director of services at the Women's Interval Home, who is thrilled about the partnership.
"We heard about the project in other communities, so when Marg called, I thought, this is so fabulous. The women are going to love it."
Parker has launched a Facebook group that is gaining interest by the day, she said, noting she is hoping to expand the project to reach women across the county.
"People respond really well to something like this," she said. "Our community is pretty amazing."
For more information, including a list of specific items, visit www.shoeboxproject.com/sarnia or email [email protected]


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Rotherham's Bright Lights respond to the coronavirus
5 May 2020 · Categories: People Can
As a Community Catalyst it's no surprise to me that the community has responded so courageously to what is an unknown situation. In such difficult times it's crucial to recognise these amazing acts or 'bright lights' as it's this response that will see our society through.
Rotherham is filled with many bright lights that all deserve recognition. Many have found new ways to collaborate such as the launch of the Rotherham Heroes Volunteer Programme which is a partnership between Rotherham Council, Voluntary Action Rotherham and the Rotherham Together Partnership to coordinate local heroes to ensure others in the community get the help they need.
We have all had to drastically change the way we work in the current climate. For our project in Rotherham (supporting a number of community enterprises who provide a great range of options for people with a learning disability) that has meant collating crucial information using our Small Good Stuff website to share with enterprise leaders. We have also worked alongside our partners at Rotherham Council and the community enterprises to support them both in the crucial roles they are playing.
It has been an inspiration to see the response from the entrepreneurs in Rotherham and the key role they have in wider community resilience. As I was sending information on business contingency planning, they were already actioning different ways of working with the wellbeing of their members being the driving factor. Contingency plans have included regular and often daily contact with their members, activity packs or online workshops, utilising new communication technology and supporting people and their families with things like shopping and information.
They have also supported each other and offered staff, resources, equipment and their buildings to support the wider response – all while facing uncertainty for their own futures.
The response has been across all enterprises and is too vast to capture but some of the amazing responses have included:
Speakup have been key contributors in sharing information, such as the promotion of hospital passports and easy read material that will be of great help to many people in Rotherham (further information here www.speakup.org.uk/coronavirus). They have utilised modern technology with some people experiencing online meetings for the first time through their daily Zoom meetings and WhatsApp group. They do group singing and yoga, some of their members run a quiz and all in addition to daily calls to all members to check how they are and if there is anything they need.
Parity Care changed their usual offer to accompany people with a learning disability to open spaces to ensure that those that needed to get out, could continue to do so. As the national advice changed, they have had to regularly adapt their plans and at each stage discussed it with their members and their supporters to ensure the most suitable plans for each person. They are actioning daily phone calls, online meetings, visits where necessary and have been crucial in the continued wellbeing of not only members but also many of their families. They were also one of the first to offer their base and support to anyone in the community that needs it.
Artworks have been in constant contact with their members, providing people with art packs so that they could continue their projects in lockdown and ensure they are occupied with work that they love. This has also led to the launch of their new YouTube page. People have been sharing their art on social media as well as contributing to the rainbow campaign. Artworks have had to run contingency plans in both Rotherham and Sheffield but have still managed to also provide staffing support to people living in supported living accommodation in Rotherham. Their drive is to help as much of the community as they can.
These incredible enterprises show just how many bright lights there are across Rotherham and how they all combine to make a resilient community. It's through community that we will get through a global pandemic and community and all its bright lights that will drive rebuilding when the lockdown ends.
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At Anaxi, we don't have a product manager. Seem weird? We're not the only ones to do that…for instance, that's also the case at Apple. But in our case, this role is spread out across our remote engineering team. In this article, I will detail why we do this and how we do it. To be honest, there are many things we're still iterating on, and refining our processes will just be a constant effort, as it should be in every company. Note that our process works for any engineering team, working together in the same office or remotely.
In our particular case, our target customers are developers and engineering managers (and later on, product managers). So our engineering team also happens to represent our own customers. It stands to reason that they should have deep insights on what has value and what has less, probably more than a non-technical product manager who thinks they can understand the audience.
However, this doesn't mean that if your audience is not engineers that you shouldn't care about this. Indeed, engineers have a lot of product knowledge and insights to share. That's not surprising: they've been building products all their professional lives! Getting them involved will improve the quality of the debate around your product definition efforts and, therefore, your product overall.
Involving your team will get them to care more about the product. More care, more motivation, more productivity – all add up to higher quality work. And all of that makes a huge difference on the bottom line.
I hope I have convinced you why you should consider involving your engineering team. I'm sure there are many other ways to do this, but let me go through the 9 ways we do it at Anaxi (some even inspired from previous work at Apple).
Collaboration within engineering teams is asynchronous. Every tool they use favors asynchronous communication. And there is a very good reason for that. The biggest loss of productivity for engineers comes from interruptions (planned or unplanned). And you don't ever want to make a conscious choice of sacrificing your team's productivity. It will send your team the message that their work is not important, which will destroy any productivity left.
So how do you achieve product involvement asynchronously? You will need to favor written communication. At Anaxi, our center of communication is the ticket. Everything is written within the ticket.
The ticket description is kept as it was at its creation so other team members can understand the conversation. And when a plan of action is decided, it's written in the comments and added in the description, but below the "original description" as a separate part named "plan of action." This enables the team to avoid going through the whole discussion to get the conclusion, but if they want to, they have access to the full history.
For us, oral conversations or Slack ones are both considered informal. If any progress is made on the subject during these discussions, a summary should be reported back as a comment in the ticket.
This is important, as it implies that anybody can pitch in and participate in the debate. The engineering team does not consider itself as contractors for the product team, as they are developing features that they could influence.
There is nothing new here. So, I won't belabor this point. No individual, however good they might be, can think of all use cases and needs for the product's customers. Being exposed to customers and their feedback enables your team to be educated about the customers' needs and pain points that they might not have perceived otherwise, because they do not use the product in the same context.
You want your debate on the product to be qualitative, and thus you want every participant to be in touch with your customers, in order to take a step back from their own convictions. Feedback opens minds, and you want open minds to have fruitful debates. That doesn't mean you should go towards consensus. Let me be clear, you should never go towards consensus. But, you need open minds to listen to your teammates' arguments.
This might not be intuitive, and actually, is probably the hardest to implement. The reasoning behind it is that when you create tickets, you have already put your own way of seeing how to implement this feature within the ticket. If your product manager creates the ticket, you may not realize it, but it can actually have an adverse effect on your team. Inevitably, the way your product manager (PM) does this is not the way your team would do it. The result is loss of focus, productivity and even possibly implementation quality. It always takes more time to understand another person's point of view than your own, let alone how to approach a problem starting from another person's view.
Another reason is that if your PM or manager creates tickets, it implies a contractor relationship with the team, which doesn't encourage the team to get really involved or motivated. They might not tell you about it, but I assure you they feel it.
Now, it's not an easy task to have your team create tickets. They will say they prefer you to do it because it's more work for them. Don't give in. The rewards are really worth it. They will get more involved.
If you put the solution right into the description, it doesn't invite people to pitch in, it ends the debate right away. So, instead focus the description of your tickets on the problems you're trying to solve. And if you have a solution in mind, put it as a first comment and invite others to pitch in.
Don't hesitate to mention people in the comments to bring them into the discussion if you think they might have an opinion on the matter.
At Anaxi, the beginning of workflow looks something like this: Ideas > In Discussion > To Design.
Tickets go from Ideas to In discussion when we want to address them in the coming weeks. Once a plan of action is agreed on, it will go To Design. Both engineers and designers are invited to participate in the discussions occurring in In Discussion.
We try to put priorities at each stage. This means priorities might change from one stage to the other. For instance, something that is high in In Discussion because it is something we want to work on in the next few weeks, once discussed, will be moved to To Design and have a lower priority there, as designers might be focusing on finalizing a milestone before that.
After To Design, we have Design To Review > Feature Validated > In Progress > Integrate > To Verify… So, you can see that the design workflow is part and parcel of the overall engineering one. There is no separation. This is important, as you want your engineering team to be involved in the design process and your designers to be involved in the implementation phase.
In order to get the engineering team involved in the design process, we hold design reviews to discuss all tickets that are in the Design to Review state. For the moment, we have been doing video calls with screen sharing by the designers, who are leading the meetings and presenting their work. Engineers are invited and welcome to join to pitch in with their comments.
Before the meeting, we write our comments in Figma, which is an awesome design tool for collaboration, as it helps the designers prepare the design review.
You want your engineering team to be proud of what they ship. That's very important to get them involved. One really great way to do this is to have them present their work to the whole team at your all-hands weekly meetings (if you have weekly ones).
Indeed, if they're proud of the work they've done, they will happily present it. But if they're not, they might feel a bit ashamed at presenting their work. You can be sure that the next time, they will try to get more involved so they won't be embarrassed again!
Your engineering team cannot be responsible for gathering the metrics on the impact made for each feature developed. It requires a certain discipline and a lot of effort. So you still need some product-related entity to do this, which could be the data team or a product owner.
Without knowing the impact of the work done, the question arises as to whether the work is meaningful. So, this part is an absolute necessity. Don't underestimate its importance.
Even if you have a dedicated product manager, getting your engineering team involved will benefit the organization and its product in a lot more ways you can consider. So think about it!
Let me know if there are other ways you can think of. We're constantly working on improving our processes, so I am definitely interested!


Today we've got the chance to look at the first of two titles from the new Duke Hawkins 'Aircraft in Detail' series from HMH Publications, and if you think you spot a familiar name in the info above, you'd be correct, as TMN's very own Nico Deboeck has co-authored these two books. This new series is primarily designed to provide the perfect visual reference guide for anyone starting a modelling project, whilst also including plenty of informative and interesting text to back up the photography.
HMH has big plans for this series, with more titles to come in the future, but for now, let's look at what they've given us in the second volume - this time focussed on the ubiquitous F-16 Fighting Falcon.
Both of the two books in this series follow a similar style to each other, taking the form of an extended walkaround, covering each area of the aircraft in detail with some stunning close-up photographs. For reference titles like these, the quality of the images is paramount, and you won't be disappointed here. The photography's not only clear and pin sharp, but also shows all those areas that, as a modeller, you really need to see. The accompanying text does a great job of explaining just what you're looking at in a very light hearted and conversational style.
The book starts with an intro explaining just how much of a personal project this and the sister title on the Jagaur are. The author's original intent was to produce a photo reference for his own modelling project, which would only be printed in a single copy. Fortunately for the rest of us, that idea was expanded to become the titles we're looking at today.
Moving on to the F-16 title, we get a similar layout the Jaguar book, but before delving into the walkaround sections, we're given a brief overview of the various F-16 types that have been developed over its lifetime.
After that, we're back in familiar territory with a detailed walkaround of the aircraft starting, as before, with a close up look at the forward fuselage. This covers the main external differences between the various models, such as IFF antennas and the different intake profiles depending on the engine fitted.
The remainder of the fuselage and wings are then covered, and the photos here show some very nice weathering patterns that would be great to reproduce on a model. Elements such as the arrestor hook and the various events are covered in detail.
There are some great photos in this section covering the newer F-16 variants such as the UAE F-16E and F Desert Falcons, clearly showing all the lumps and bumps that have appeared as the Falcon has evolved. I'm sorely tempted to order the Kinetic kit after looking through these shots of the Emirati Block 60 Falcons.
After dealing with the airframe, the next section moves on to the cockpit and, like the Jaguar title, we're treated to fantastic close-ups of the pilot's office. The instrument panel, side consoles, ejection seat and HUD are all covered in detail.
The next two sections cover the front and main landing gear, and their respective wheel wells. Again, a field day for super-detailers. A lot of walkarounds often show these kinds of areas but often from odd angles that can make the images hard to interpret. Not so here; all the images show the wheel wells clearly, and make it easy to see where all the cabling and plumbing fits in.
As with the Jaguar book, the maintenance section is by far my favourite. Here again, we have a fantastic collection of images showing the Falcon stripped down, revealing just what's hidden away under the skin. Radar, avionics, fuel and hydraulics, armament and engine are all shown in extensive detail.
The book finishes off with a section on ordnance, and an 'in action' section showing some great colour schemes and markings.
If you get the impression from this review that I've really enjoyed reading this book, you'd be 100% correct. As a modelling reference, it and its sister title we have read are as good as anything out there (and better than most), with fantastic images and very informative text. The only slight downside is the perfect binding which can make the books hard to prop open on a modelling bench, but that's a minor quibble.
You may feel we're a little biased here at TMN, since one of our own is involved with these titles but, believe me, I wouldn't heap praise on them unless they deserved it, and they certainly do.
If you're planning a build of the F-16 fighting Falcon then do yourself a favour and get this book. You won't regret it.
You can get these books from the HMH Publications Website Directly. Thanks to them for sending Andy this book to read and review.


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Rothenberg Ventures
A Former Rothenberg Employee is Suing Over Breach of Contract and More
David Haase, a former employee of the beleaguered San Francisco-based firm Rothenberg Ventures Management Co. (RVM), is suing the firm and its founder, Mike Rothenberg, saying he was asked to run up more than $100,000 in business expenses on an American Express account at the direction of Rothenberg and never repaid.
In his lawsuit, filed last week in San Francisco, Haase says he joined Rothenberg Ventures in April of this year and tasked with "providing various services of a Chief Financial Office for RVM" while also doing work on behalf of the company's affiliated businesses, including its four-year-old venture arm,Rothenberg Ventures, and its small but growing virtual reality production house,River Studios, founded in May 2015.
Haase says in his suit that in May, he opened the account with Rothenberg's approval "for the purpose of acting as a credit line for the day-to-day expenses incurred by RVM." These included business expenses charged by Rothenberg's "numerous administrative assistants at his direct request." Part of those expenses included payroll, according to our sources.
As of the suit's filing, Haase's account was overdue in the amount of $109,352.20 and, according to his suit, Rothenberg has "wrongfully and capriciously refused to pay" that debt, leaving Haase to deal with the charge, as well as the accruing interest on the amount. The suit says that Rothenberg "disavowed any responsibility on the part of RVM" despite having previously paid expenses charged to the card to the tune of $140,000.
Haase's charges don't end there. In a claim that may be of even greater interest to those following the case, Haase also says that Rothenberg co-mingled the accounts of Rothenberg Ventures and River Studios.
Whether this could prove problematic for Rothenberg isn't yet clear; even LPs seem confused about how much of River Studios they own and how distinctly it was managed from Rothenberg Ventures. But Haase's suit goes so far as to allege Rothenberg of treating "such accounts as personal accounts, to such an extent that such business entities were in fact his alter ego."
Filed Under: Lawsuits Tagged With: Rothenberg Ventures
At HBS, a Case Study in What Not to Do
At Harvard Business School, students pay top dollar to learn everything from how to manage international trade to scaling technology ventures. They're also schooled in the art of venture capital. Among the case studies they learned last year is the story of Rothenberg Ventures (RV), a four-year-old seed stage firm.
Whether the San Francisco outfit should have been part of their curriculum is an open question.
Though RV was founded by HBS graduate Mike Rothenberg, the firm, which has raised at least $47 million over the years and employed upwards of 60 people at its peak, is on the brink of imploding owing to a "lack of controls," in the words of one of its investors.
That the firm isn't a breakaway success story isn't necessarily the issue. Many case studies center of companies that make missteps. A larger problem, seemingly, is that the study about RV – which was funded by HBS before the firm's troubles publicly surfaced last week — was also co-authored by two professors who have a "significant financial interest in Rothenberg Ventures," as stated prominently in a curriculum footnote. (The study is available for purchase here.)
One of those professors has since left HBS and is now a visiting associate professor at MIT's Sloan School of Management. He didn't respond to a message seeking more information.
Asked about attracting students' attention to a venture firm that he has funded, Professor Ramana Nanda, another of the study's co-authors, wrote us yesterday that HBS has numerous, strict guidelines governing the relationship between professors and students, the most relevant in this case being that professors aren't allowed to invest in ventures started by current students or to contract with them while students to invest after they graduate. Dr. Nanda notes that he made an investment in RV after Rothenberg graduated from HBS, as he sometimes has with other HBS alums.
Stringent ethicists might quibble with whether that's sufficient, given that many HBS students attend the school with an eye toward getting a startup off the ground and that introducing them to certain brands may make it more likely that students will approach them.
It's easy, too, to imagine a fund using the support of HBS professors (not to mention an HBS case study) to gain legitimacy with future investors.
Filed Under: Morning Summary Tagged With: HBS, Rothenberg Ventures
At Rothenberg Ventures, the Rise and Fall of a Virtual Gatsby
Rothenberg Ventures, the four-year-old, San Francisco-based seed-stage venture firm, may be on the brink of implosion, say several sources close to the firm.
We reported yesterday that several high-level employees had parted ways with Rothenberg, including its director of finance and the head of its SF office, who happen to be father and son (Tom and Tommy Leep). We've subsequently learned that firm departures run far more widely. Other top executives who've left include the company's chief revenue officer, who quit yesterday; the company's chief financial officer, who left in June; general manager James Taylor, who left very recently; and Fran Hauser, a former president of digital at Time Inc. Hauser was brought in with some fanfare as a venture partner in May 2014. Yesterday she updated her LinkedIn profile to reflect that she left Rothenberg in July.
Messages to Rothenberg have not been returned. According to one source, Rothenberg Ventures founder Mike Rothenberg has told those remaining that "very few people will be left." In what appears to be a related development, the firm's site has been down since last night.
Why the mass exodus? According to one source, Rothenberg Ventures is answering questions from the SEC after a lower-level employee alerted the agency to what this person reported as wire fraud and breach of fiduciary duty. This same source says the employee was subsequently fired and is now suing the firm for retaliation.
All SEC investigations are conducted privately. An investigation does not mean that the agency will file a case in federal court or bring an administrative action.
Either way, a much thornier issue for Rothenberg Ventures, say numerous former employees, is founder Rothenberg himself, who has sometimes seemed to live more like a billionaire than the manager of a modest venture fund — spending lavishly to attract moneyed individuals as investors and, over time, growing increasingly focused on becoming as famous as some of them.
Making a millionaire
It all began as a minor but inspirational story, proof that the American Dream can still come true.
Rothenberg, an Austin native who says he comes from humble means — "no one in my family has any money," he once told us — was smart enough to nab undergraduate and graduate degrees from Stanford, then bootstrap a real estate fund with his brother before moving on to Harvard to secure an MBA.
Soon afterward, inspired by business leaders he had met while at Stanford, Rothenberg planted himself in San Francisco and got down to the business of trying to shake up the stodgy venture industry. Step one involved raising a $5 million fund from "friends, family, and former roommates," as reported in a Bloomberg story about Rothenberg last year.
His timing was ideal as these things go. In 2012, the market was in the middle of a three-year upswing, following the financial crisis of late 2008. Some newer faces were also beginning to gain prominence in the venture industry, along with the trust of so-called limited partners — the individuals and institutions that fund venture firms.
Rothenberg is also a natural salesperson, and, as such, quickly evolved his pitch for Rothenberg from yet another seed-stage fund to a thought-leading outfit willing to make big bets on virtual reality before most people in Silicon Valley saw it as a major opportunity.
Filed Under: Firm Dynamics, Fundraising Tagged With: Rothenberg Ventures
Several Key Rothenberg Ventures' Employees Have Left the Firm
Several high-level employees at the early-stage venture firm Rothenberg Ventures have recently left, we've learned. Among them is Tommy Leep, a partner and the head of Rothenberg's San Francisco office, who left last month after spending two-and-a-half years with the firm. (A former product manager at Intuit, Leep spent the previous two years as "chief connector" at the venture firm Floodgate.)
Other recent departures include Tom Leep, father to Tommy, who'd spent more than three years as Rothenberg's director of finance before leaving in June; Sophie Liao, who was recently hired with the title of Managing Director, Asia-Pacific Region and appears to have left this month; and Catherine Johnson, a former SVP of HR at BrightSource Energy who joined Rothenberg Ventures this spring, only to leave three months later, in June.
Neither Liao or Johnson has returned a request for comment. Leep referred all questions about the firm to a company spokesperson. Asked if his father's departure and his own were connected or unrelated, Leep said he had "no comment at this time."
A separate source suggests Leep left of his own accord, while a wide number of other employees were laid off. We don't know if Michael Dempsey was among them, but the former CB Insights analyst, who joined Rothenberg Ventures in January as an investor, also left last week. Dempsey didn't respond to a request for more information.
Rothenberg Ventures was founded just four years ago by Mike Rothenberg, an Austin native who nabbed a master's in management science and engineering from Stanford before getting his MBA from Harvard.
Despite its age, the firm has made something of an outsize impact on the local venture industry, including by organizing popular events, such as an annual Founders Field Day at AT&T Park, where the San Francisco Giants play, and by barreling into virtual reality investments before many investors were paying much attention to them.
Indeed, in late 2014, Rothenberg Ventures announced it would be launching a startup accelerator, River, which planned to provide $100,000 in seed funding to virtual reality companies expressly. Among those early bets was FOVE, which makes an eye-tracking head-mounted display. FOVE passed through Microsoft Ventures Accelerator in London before being selected for River's inaugural class, but, notably, it went on to raise an $11 million Series A round in March.
By May of last year, Rothenberg Ventures had also created River Studios, a "creative house for VR production" that, according to the firm's site, currently "consists of 30 passionate creators, artists and developers, committed to creating inspiring stories, and pushing the boundaries of this awesome medium."
Filed Under: Entrepreneurs, Firm Dynamics Tagged With: Rothenberg Ventures
Thirteen Virtual Reality Companies Head to San Francisco
Late last year, three-year-old Rothenberg Ventures announced it would be launching a startup accelerator, River, that planned to provide $100,000 in seed funding to virtual reality companies expressly. To some, it might have seemed like a calculated, and possibly unwise, bit of counterprogramming. After all, by backing a variety of startups, most accelerator programs are able to hedge their bets and reduce the risk that a whole batch will fall out of fashion.
Yet the San Francisco firm argues that the the 13 companies it has selected, from roughly 200 applicants, is as diverse as any early Y Combinator class. An eye-mounted head-tracking display that helps the physically challenged with daily tasks? Check. Virtual reality technology that changes the way people experience news events? Check. "Everyone keeps calling it a 'sector,'" says the firm's founder, Mike Rothenberg. "But just as the Internet is ubiquitous, virtual reality will be ubiquitous in 10 or 20 years. This technology is really going to change everyone's life." We talked about it yesterday.
You're about to welcome 13 companies into your new accelerator program, which will run from February through May. What was the criteria for acceptance?
We were really looking for the most innovative applications across every industry. We also wanted a mix of hardware and software. We didn't know what we'd get, but we have companies coming from Japan, South Africa, New Zealand France — companies building great companies in education, in pain management . . .
How far along are they?
They're pretty mature companies for the most part. Some have been building their companies for eight to ten years. Fove, which makes an eye-tracking head mounted display that lets users navigate using their eye movements, has a complete product that works and is amazing.
Have these companies raised capital in the past?
Some of them have some capital. [Fove, for example, passed through Microsoft Ventures Accelerator in London last summer.] But in general, venture capital hasn't been focused on virtual reality too much yet, so in some cases, the companies hadn't raised anything prior. We have a South African company that bootstrapped and figured out a way to get customers to pay for VR from the beginning.
What size stake are you taking for your $100,000?
We aren't disclosing that. We looked at Y Combinator and other accelerators and incubators and tried to learn [from what they do].
Just two companies you've accepted are hardware companies. Is that by design? Do you think most people will be creating virtual reality technology for platforms like Samsung Gear VR and the upcoming Oculus Rift?
We didn't have set targets, but in my opinion, the big companies know what they're doing. There's a lot of good hardware being built by great tech companies with deeper pockets; smartphone use will become more common, too. So software and content companies might be a little more of a fit [for this program].
We also just saw so a lot of mind-blowing applications. We have a company, Psious, a smartphone-based tool that's solving phobias by simulating heights and plane travel and spiders. Another, DeepStream, tackles pain management. Burn victims enter into a world of snow and it lessens their pain. A third company, Emblematic Group in L.A., is doing immersive journalism, showing reporters what it can feel like to be on the streets when a bomb goes off and hopefully making them more empathic in the process.
Why announce the companies now? Why not wait until they're ready to meet with investors at a demo day you're staging in May?
We want them to take advantage of their affiliation with River while they're here in America. Some of them are already planning to move to San Francisco. Many of them are here for three months alone, and we want them to meet with the people they want to meet, including investors.
Those investors will invariably be conjuring up exit scenarios. Aside from Facebook and its subsidiary Oculus, which acquired two VR companies last month, do we know what companies are actively shopping for VR technologies?
The smartest companies. It's the same for everything. Who's going to buy the 360-degree action sports camera? Whoever is making cameras and wants to stay in business.
You can find River's full list of startups here:
DeepStream VR
Description: VR games for pain relief and rehabilitation
Tag line: Virtual Reality games to relieve pain
Founders: Howard Rose, Ari Hollander
Website: http://deepstreamvr.com/
Description: immersive learning experiences about exploring the ancient world
Founder: Josh Maldonado, Omar Charles, Professor Bernard Frischer
Based in: Toronto, Canada
Website: http://immersivediscovery.com/
Emblematic Group
Description: immersive journalism in VR
Founder: Nonny de la Pena
Website: www.emblematicgroup.com/
EmergentVR
Description: application to create, edit and share 360 VR experiences with the world using mobile phones
Founders: Peter Wilkins, Chris Wheeler
Description: The world's first headset to use eye tracking to create an immersive experience
Founders: Yuka Kojima, Lochlainn Wilson
Based in: Tokyo, Japan
Website: http://fove-inc.com/
Description: high quality VR content focused on artistic and cultural expression
Founder: Balthazar Auxietre and Hayoun Kwon
Based in: Paris, France
Website: http://innerspacevr.com/
Psious
Description: platform for mental health practitioners to help patients cure fears using immersion therapy in VR
Founders: Xavier Palomer, Danny Roig
Based in Spain
Website: http://psious.com/
Reload Studios
Description: independent game studio made of ex-Call of Duty developers and ex-Disney artists
Founder: James Chung
Website: http://reload-studios.com/
Description: VR for industrial training
Founders: Shaun Wilson, Christian Yves Fongang
Based in: South Africa
Website: http://sdklab.com/
Solirax
Description: education platform for exploration, discovery and creativity
Founders: Tomas Mariancik and Karel Hulec
Website: http://www.worldofcomenius.com/
Thotwise
Description: indie game studio focusing on exploration and suspense
Founder: Ariel Arias
Based in: Argentina
Website: thehumgame.com
Triggar
Description: 360-degree capture camera and system
Founders: Bruce Allan and Rob Allan
Based in: Australia
Website: http://www.triggar.com.au/
Vantage VR
Description: 180 degree viewing experience for concerts and live events
Tag line: Ticketmaster for VR events
Founders: Juan Santillan, Michael Richardson
Website: vantage.tv
Filed Under: Entrepreneurs, Firm Dynamics, Morning Summary Tagged With: Mike Rothenberg, River, Rothenberg Ventures, VR
StrictlyVC: August 13, 2014
Good Wednesday morning, everyone. Semil Shah here, filling in for Connie while she takes a little time off. If you want to chat about today's column or anything else, you can always find me on Twitter at @semil.
Top News in the A.M.
Tech giants are at odds over how the government should protect users in the era of big data, with Microsoft among those calling for new federal standards, and Facebook, Google, and Yahoo arguing for self-regulation. The Hill has more here.
Chatting with Tommy Leep of Rothenberg Ventures
Earlier this year, Tommy Leep joined San Francisco-based Rothenberg Ventures as a partner after spending more than two years at Floodgate as its "chief connector," helping entrepreneurs get their startups off the ground. We recently chatted with Leep — who was once a product manager at Intuit — about the move, as well as the role that serendipity often plays in the career of the investor.
You recently finished up a tour of duty with Floodgate to join Rothenberg Ventures. Walk us through your transition, what you learned, and why you ended up where you did.
At Floodgate I learned that I love being a "connector." I love connecting startup founders with people who can resolve their needs. The problem is that no one focuses on recruiting connectors. It doesn't sound tangible enough. So I had to figure out how I could keep doing this thing I love.
At first, I thought it may be a big tech company. I considered a corporate development role with one company and a community role with another, both of which excited me but [were] too focused on [each] company's outcome. Those conversations helped me realize that I work best with a broad set of constituents that includes founders, investors, big companies and startup supporters. Then I realized that the best opportunity for me was right under my nose [with] my roommate and Stanford friend Mike Rothenberg, [who] had founded Rothenberg Ventures.
Can you retell the story of how you fell into the venture world? I think it could be instructive for younger folks out there, given how random it is and how much of it is driven via personal relationships.
I met Mike Maples at the Orange Bowl in Miami in January 2011. Before the game there was a rumor going around that Bon Jovi was performing at a private tailgate in a big tent. A friend who had been the Stanford Tree band mascot somehow got wristbands to this tailgate, so we went in. (I was also a Stanford Tree.) We were grabbing burgers when I ran into Weston McBride, a Sigma Nu fraternity friend from undergrad. Weston had pitched Mike a couple weeks earlier, and he offered to introduce me to him there.
We connected over Sigma Nu, which Mike helped restart when he was at Stanford. We talked about Stanford football and this shirt I was wearing that said "I Believe in Stanford Football" . . .[and] Mike asked for one and he emailed me a reminder on the spot. . . A month later we met for breakfast at Hobee's at Town & Country in Palo Alto for the shirt hand-off, and after that he interviewed me to become Floodgate's first associate.
Mike and Ann from Floodgate have legendary reputations in the world of early-stage investing. You had a front-row seat. Briefly, what sticks out in your mind about what makes them so good?
Mike and Ann stick to first principles. They do right by the founders they work with. They have deep expertise in giving founders strategic guidance to build their businesses. They measure and learn from their investments and misses. And supporting founders is authentic to their personal missions.
At Rothenberg Ventures, how is the fund and platform set up? How do you work to attract the best founders to your firm?
At Rothenberg Ventures, we are very different from most other firms. We don't spend Mondays in meetings and we don't sit on boards. . . We offer on-call advisory to our founders, connect with almost all of them each month, and help connect our founders to the people they need to meet to help build their businesses. We believe in extreme giving . . . Our capital comes from a hundred founders and investors who also love giving back to founders and the venture community. We facilitate interactions through dozens of tech talks, dinners, small gatherings, and events like [a recent event for founders at AT&T Park in San Francisco]. . . For example, one of our recent initiatives is a co-working space in SOMA where we work side by side with 60 entrepreneurs. Our founders identify with us because we look like them — we're a startup investing in other startups.
New Fundings
360fly, a 16-year-old, Pittsburgh, Pa.-based company that makes a single-lens camera and software platform that captures stitchless 360-degree video, has raised $17.8 million in Series B funding led by Qualcomm Ventures, Catterton, Voxx International and Steve Altman, former president and vice chairman of Qualcomm.
Acupera, a three-year-old, San Francisco-based maker of analytics and workflow management software for medical teams, has raised $4 million in Series A funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with Whittemore Collection participating.
AdStage, a two-year-old, San Francisco-based ad management platform, has raised $6.25 million in Series A funding from Verizon Ventures, Digital Garage, Newbury Ventures, Freestyle Capital, and Chris Noble and Neal Dempsey of Bay Partners. The company has now raised $8.75 million altogether, shows Crunchbase.
Electric Imp, a three-year-old, Los Altos, Ca.-based company whose chip, "imp," provides WiFi and cloud-based internet connectivity services to any electrical device, has raised $15 million in Series B funding from new investors Foxconn Technology Group, PTI Ventures and Rampart Capital. Earlier investors Redpoint Ventures and Hugo Fiennes, chief executive and co-founder of Electric Imp, also participated in the round, which brings the company's total funding to $22.9 million.
GetTaxi, a four-year-old, Tel Aviv-based, Uber-like mobile app that operates in 24 cities in Israel, has raised $150 million in new funding, reports Globes. One-sixth of the funding comes from the Swedish fund manager Vostok Nafta Investment, which tells Globes that "[a]lthough competition is ripe everywhere, we think a conservative scenario is that GetTaxi becomes the leading player in Russia and Israel," giving GetTaxi a potential valuation of more than $2 billion in "a couple of years."
Lookout, a seven-year-old, San Francisco-based security software maker for mobile devices, has raised $150 million in Series F funding, led by T. Rowe Price, which was joined by new investors Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Bezos Expeditions and Wellington Management Company. Earlier backers Andreessen Horowitz, Accel Partners, Index Ventures, Mithril Capital Management and Khosla Ventures also participated in the round, which brings the company's total funding to roughly $282 million.
Niveus Medical, a six-year-old, Palo Alto, Ca.-based company whose medical device uses electrodes to keep muscle groups strong during patient recovery, is raising $3.6 million in new funding, shows an SEC filing that was first flagged by MedCity News. The company had previously raised $2 million from a syndicate that included Band of Angels, Life Science Angels, Sand Hill Angels and others.
RelayRides, a six-year-old, San Francisco-based peer-to-peer car sharing marketplace, has raised $10 million in new funding just six weeks after initially closing a $25 million Series B round. The new capital comes from Trinity Ventures; earlier investors in the Series B included Canaan Partners, August Capital, Google Ventures and Shasta Ventures. The company has raised at least $43.2 million to date, according to Crunchbase, which lists at least one round that included an unknown amount of funding.
Seventh Sense Biosystems, a six-year-old, Cambridge, Ma.-based company behind a new type of blood collection and diagnostics platform, has raised $16 million in Series B financing from new investors, including Siemens Venture Capital, Novartis, and Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings. Earlier investors Flagship Ventures and Polaris Partners also participated in the round, which brings the company's total funding to $26 million, shows Crunchbase.
The WSJ looks at the public offering of Israeli drug development company Vascular Biogenics, calling it "one of the most creatively botched IPOs in memory."
Onswipe, a four-year-old, New York-based startup that allows publishers to create tablet- and smartphone-optimized versions of their websites, has been acquired by the ad tech company Beanstock Media for an undisclosed amount of cash and stock. Beanstock is self-funded. Onswipe had raised $6 million from investors, including Lerer Hippeau Ventures, SV Angel, Morado Venture Partners, Eniac Ventures, Thrive Capital, and Spark Capital.
Zofari, a two-year-old, San Francisco-based local recommendation app that helps match users with places they're likely to enjoy visiting, has been acquired by Yahoo. Terms of the deal aren't being disclosed, but Zofari's four employees are joining Yahoo, reports TechCrunch.
Edward Snowden gives NSA whistleblower James Bamford the most extensive interview about his story to date, saying he intended to make it fairly clear to the NSA which documents he took and copied, so he would be seen as a whistle-blower and not a spy for a foreign government. "I figured [the NSA] would have a hard time" finding his trail of digital bread crumbs, Snowden says. "I didn't figure they would be completely incapable."
According to BuzzFeed, a standoff between the Winklevoss twins and debtholders killed the discount-tracking app they'd invested in, Hukkster. More here.
Amazon is looking for a director of corporate development to focus on Amazon Web Services. The job is in Seattle.
Amazon has unveiled its own mobile card readers and — surprise — it "savagely" undercuts both Square and PayPal on price.
LinkedIn expects to create a new billion-dollar business in three years. Business Insider has the details.
Chinese scientists have used x-rays to image the blood vessels in a heart with unprecedented detail. The trick? Injecting it with liquid gallium.
Why it's probably best to avoid antibacterial soaps.
Audrey Hepburn's granddaughter, photographed by Richard Avedon's grandson.
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Trusted Insight, the Social Network For LPs, Looks to Next Round
Trusted Insight is a four-year-old, New York-based platform that has made itself valuable to institutional investors – 100,000 of them and counting – by giving them a place to research one another, scout out new deals and trends, and connect on due diligence — all with the help of advanced algorithms and semantic analysis.
Now the 16-person company is gearing up for its next phase, suggests cofounder Alex Bangash, who previously founded Rumson Group, an advisory firm that specialized in private equity and venture investments.
Most notably, the company will be unleashing some financial products of its own, though Bangash won't be more specific than that today, citing competitors that are copying Trusted Insight down to "features we want to throw away." He merely says to "think of us as the Netflix of investment management. Netflix can create 'House of Cards.' We can [create our own offerings] in this business, too."
Trusted Insight is also preparing to open its doors a bit wider to "different tribes," says Bangash, who cites fund managers, companies, and "high net worths" who are accredited but don't necessarily have a billion dollars behind them. (The platform will "still retain its exclusivity," he insists.)
Trusted Insight also has numerous new features up its sleeve, including "certifications" that help to highlight who is truly expert in what, regardless of their academic credentials.
As for how it achieves what's on its road map, Bangash says the company has three options, including organic growth. To wit, Bangash says Trusted Insight is poised to double or even triple its user base in the next year, as well as to increase the data it's managing by five times. Considering that a "small but meaningful portion" of its 100,000 members already pay for one of Trusted Insight's varying tiers of service, which range in price from $99 to $499 per month, the platform could "be a very large business on [its software-as-a-service fees] alone," he says.
A second option includes partnering with another outfit (Bangash says Trusted Insight is "talking with two or three players") or raising a big fat round of funding, which seems like the most likely scenario. Already, Data Collective, Founders Fund, RRE Ventures, Morado Ventures, Real Ventures, and 500 Startups are among those that have invested an undisclosed amount of money in Trusted Insight. And Bangash says he's been receiving "inbound interest from prestigious investors" anew.
Either way, Bangash sounds confident in the network effects that Trusted Insight now enjoys, noting that "someone could develop a nicer LinkedIn, too, but people probably wouldn't use it." The trick going forward is turning Trusted Insight from a "transformational company," as he calls it, into a transactional one.
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Patricia Piccinini & Joy Hester: Through Love
TarraWarra Museum of Art 313 Healesville-Yarra Glen Rd Healesville, 3777 Australia (map)
This exhibition, held at TarraWarra Museum of Art, displays the work of Heide artist Joy Hester alongside contemporary artist Patricia Piccinini all in the name of love.
If it weren't for Heide school artist Joy Hester, Patricia Piccinini might never have become an artist at all. Hester's work inspired Piccinini to give up her economics degree and pursue a different path, to become an artist.
So when TarraWarra Museum of Art director Victoria Lynn approached Piccinini about doing a joint show with a modern artist, she knew just the one.
The exhibiton is on show until March 11 2019.
Earlier Event: 9 March
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Our game rooms are thematically different, but there are common things in each rooms. Here are the main points.Every keys and codes are inside the room.
There are dead ends in every room.
If the time runs out, the door opens and the gamemaster lets you out.
There are cameras in every room so the game masters can watch you play.And there is also a display in every room, where you can see the countdown, and it gives you some helps if you stuck at some point of the game.
First of all, you need to be interested in such a challenge. You and your team have 60 minutes to escape from a locked room.
The escape game genre started out as a series of point-and-click computer games where players must escape from a locked area by using the environment around him/her. AMAZING ESCAPE ROOM is a live version of this where you must physically search the environment for items and clues that will help you escape. You are given 60 minutes to try and escape before your fate is sealed.


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Q: Disable php script via Javascript I have a situation like this.
<php>
<redirect the page >
<exit>

<javascript>
<redirect the page again>

I want to have javascript that basicall disables the PHP redirect. So if Javascript is enabled on the browser, the javascript redirect will work, if it disable, the PHP redirect will work. Should I just enclose the PHP code in span and make it invisible? Any ideas?
Addition ok this is not a simple redirect. the form authentication is rather odd. Register.php -> register_submit.php -> Was there an error -> yes go back to register.php (everything is javascript at this point). What I have added is PHP authentication as well so if I see javascript is not enabled, I take the user to register.php *after it does the regular checking of fields *.

A: Remove your PHP redirection and add this in your <head>:
<noscript>
    <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; http://www.example.com/1" />
</noscript>
<script>
    window.location = 'http://www.example.com/2';
</script>

This will redirect to http://www.example.com/1 when javascript is disabled, and to http://www.example.com/2 when it's enabled.

A: PHP is a server-side technology. By the time Javascript even sees what's happened, it's too late.
Short answer, JS can't intercept/block PHP (as long as PHP is being called first).
Order of events:

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*Client requests page

*PHP executes and generates output of page

*Browser receives output

*Browser begins parsing what was sent by what PHP already spit out.

A: PHP code is executed on the server-side, while JS is client-side. So with that structure the PHP will kick in before the JS is executed. If you want JS to control PHP you need to make use of AJAX to control it.
Also enclosing PHP code in a "span" won't have any effect.

A: Javascript and PHP do not directly interact (exceptions apply, don't worry about them now :D). The best way to implement this type of interaction between these two disparate languages is to use the query string or cookies.
I think there may be some confusion here about when and how PHP is executed as opposed to when and how javascript is executed.  Think of PHP as the factory - the goods are physically produced there. Think of your server as the loading dock, the internet as the shipping company. Your browser is the store, HTML is the shelves; Javascript is the window decorations on the store that sells the merchandise. The window decorations have no affect on the production, the factory can make some window decorations, but it doesn't use them, it just ships them right along with the merchandise for the store to use. PHP is the factory, javascript is the decoration. There are some problems with taking this analogy too literally, but there it is in a nutshell.
You can make the PHP redirect conditional on the presence or absence of a specific query string variable:
<?php
  // redirect if $_GET['no_redirect'] is NOT set. Reverse the true/false to invert this rule
  $do_redirect = (isset($_GET['no_redirect']) === false ? true : false);

  // perform the redirect, if required
  if ($do_redirect === false)
     header('Location:http://mydomain.com');
?>

Javascript:
window.location = 'http://mydomain.com/?no_redirect=1';

EDIT If you're trying to detect if javascript is enabled, then the best way is for javascript to set a cookie if it is enabled. PHP can then check for this cookie, and if it isn't found then you'll know that javascript didn't get a chance to set it, so it must be disabled (or the user edited their cookies).
Take a look at some code snippets for dealing with cookies in javascript, and check out the documentation for dealing with cookies in PHP.

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France, 1861-1864
More: Vinkhuijzen collection of military uniforms, NYPL
The collection assembled by H. J. Vinkhuijzen (1843-1910), a Dutch physician, and presented to the Library by Mrs. Henry Draper in 1911, consists in its entirety of over 32,000 pictures, from many sources, mounted in 762 scrapbooks. (The digital presentation will ultimately include them all.) The collection is remarkably diverse, depicting costume as various as the rough wool garments of Bronze age Etruscan warriors, the robes of Ottoman Turk court officials, and the elaborate uniforms of the preening armies of 19th-century Europe, the collection's special strength. The aesthetic quality of the images varies. There are prints seemingly cut from 17th-century festival books along with 19th-century chromolithographs, original watercolor compositions of some artistic merit, crude pencil drawings, and occasional photographs. Dr. Vinkhuijzen's usual strategy was to extract plates from illustrated books and magazines. He colored some of the printed images, and when printed images were lacking, drew others by hand. Some of the unsigned watercolors found in the collection may also be by him. He arranged his collection as loose images in boxes according to his own classification system; this organization is retained for browsing the digital collection. (Mounting the plates in scrapbooks was apparently accomplished by others after Dr. Vinkhuijzen's death.) The New York Public Library comprises simultaneously a set of scholarly research collections and a network of community libraries, and its intellectual and cultural range is both global and local, while singularly attuned to New York City. That combination lends to the Library an extraordinary richness. It is special also in being historically a privately managed, nonprofit corporation with a public mission, operating with both private and public financing in a century-old, still evolving private-public partnership. Last year, over 16 million New Yorkers visited the library, and over 25 million used its website. The NYPL Digital Gallery provides free and open access to over 640,000 images digitized from the The New York Public Library's vast collections, including not just photographs but illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and more. Digital projects and partnerships at NYPL are managed by the Digital Experience Group, a 21-person team of programmers, designers and producers dedicated to expanding and enhancing all points of computer and Web-mediated interaction with the library's collections, services and staff.
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Vinkhuijzen, Hendrik Jacobus, Collector
Vinkhuijzen collection of military uniforms, NYPL
The collection assembled by H. J. Vinkhuijzen (1843-1910), a Dutch physician, consists in its entirety of over 32,000 pictures, from many sources, mounted in 762 scrapbooks.
Explore: vinkhuijzen
Cuirassier
Partisans flamands en 1793
Italy, 1805-1808
Italy. Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, 1815.
Italy. Modena, 1835-1849.
Italy. Sardinia, 1859
Italy. Papal States, 1821-1838
Explore: france
Le filet brodé: technique, modèles divers, procédés d'exécution, bibliographie des ouvrages dits à dentelles
Fanny Cerrito [facsimile signature], salut à la France, La vivandière.
Paquebot "Ile de France"
La Mans, Cenomanorum Typus.
An inquiry into the causes of the insurrection of the Negroes in the island of St. Domingo : to which are added, observations of M. Garran-Coulon on the same subject, read in his absence by M. Guadet, before the National Assembly, 29th Feb. 1792
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Huts built by Germans in the Bois de Chaume, no. one [top left photograph] camouflaged with moss ; Concrete machine gun nest, with large dugout forty ft. below.
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French, S. Bassett
Collection of lute music in French lute tablature
The elegant French markee
8th Reg., French war-cross winners; 1st-Lieut. Hurd; Lieut-Col. Duncane, Major White, Capt. Crawford, 1st-Lieut. Warfield and Capt. Smith, Capt. Allen, Lieut. Browning, Capt. Warner and 1st-Lieut. Tisdale.
[Lynnhaven Bay out of the Chesapeak where the French landed]


Businesses across the DACH region are reaching a critical point where the gap between the supply and demand of talent is becoming a growing concern. That's according to research from Alexander Mann Solutions which included in-depth interviews with major employers in the region such as Arla Foods, Lufthansa and Merck, as well as an analysis from Berlin-based business school ESMT.
The report, Talent Sourcing at the heart of Europe, revealed numerous challenges to talent attraction across the region, with the growth in popularity of Mittelstand companies – highly successful firms run by 'owner-entrepreneurial families' that focus on longevity – limiting the active candidate pool.


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Etisalat and Du, the two major telecom providers (or should we say the only telecom providers) in the United Arab Emirates have confirmed that Skype is blocked in the country.
Recently, many Skype users have complained that they have been unable to call their families and friends using the messaging app. The UAE telecom providers have responded via Twitter that these call apps are disabled as they are being compliant with the Telecom Regulations Authority VoIP policy wherein VoIP services are to be provided only by licensed telecom operators.
The ban of VoIP calls (voice/video) are in compliance with the UAE's Telecommunication Regulations Authority rules that allow VoIP services are to be provided only by licensed telecom operators.
Below are the statements both from Etisalat and Du, respectively.
Skype is a messaging application that offers chat, voice and video calls over the internet. This is a very useful app especially for expats in Dubai who use this service in order to communicate with their families back in their home countries. Skype uses the internet as the source which makes it free for users to easily talk and have video calls so long as they're connected to WiFi.
A lot of expats and workers save money when using Skype, WhatsApp, Viber and other mobile apps to communicate. While the chat service is still alright, the voice and video call features are disabled.
If you buy an iPhone in the UAE it does not include FaceTime, that is why some users purchase iPhone elsewhere and bring it to Dubai or if you buy an iPhone in third party channels, it costs more than iPhones sold in the UAE.
Skype, in a tweet response affirms the statements and directed users to their FAQ page for more information on the ISP block on Skype.
What are the options for UAE Residents?
UAE residents who wish to still use internet services to call loved ones are given an option by Etisalat to do so through the use of recently launched apps such as BOTIM and C'Me. These apps come with a monthly fee. As we checked the plan packages for these apps, the cheapest monthly fee is AED 50 per month.


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Q: Open a Window in JUCE and put a PluginEditor into it The tl;dr How do I open a window in Juce to display a plugin Editor?
I am following the Juce AudioProcessGraph tutorial at https://docs.juce.com/master/tutorial_audio_processor_graph.html which shows how to dynamically load AudioProcessor objects.
I would like to open their GUIs as they're loaded.  This could be in separate windows or in the window that's got the slots for the graph.
I've tried creating a AudioProcessorEditor, but I'm at a loss on how to tell it to open.
Edit to add: What I've tried so far:
I've downloaded the code from the Tutorial: Cascading plug-in effects from https://docs.juce.com/master/tutorial_audio_processor_graph.html
I've also used ProJucer to create a new plugin. I've put the new plugin's files into the tutorial's files and used ProJucer to add PluginEditor.cpp and PluginEditor.h to the tutorial project.
I've changed the PluginEditor.h so the private class member audioProcessor is of type ProcessorBase&. And made ProcessorBase& the expected type for the data passed to the constructor.
In the tutorial code, in the header file, I've changed the ProcessorBase class so that the methods hasEditor() and createEditor() are just declarations and then modified main.cpp as follows:
#include "PluginEditor.h"
#include <iostream>

//=======================================================
juce::AudioProcessorEditor* ProcessorBase::createEditor()
{
  std::cout "asking for an editor\n";
  return  new NewProjectAudioProcessorEditor (*this);
}
bool ProcessorBase::hasEditor() const
{ return true; }

In the included header, in the TutorialProcessor class, in the updateGraph() method, under the if (hasChanged), I've added slot->getProcessor()->createEditorIfNeeded (); on line 387-ish.
I can tell from my cout that createEditor() is being called and know that the constructor for the editor is running, but no window opens.
How do I tell it to open a window?
The code compiles and runs, but no window opens.


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