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Q: Prevent window switching when an app launches I mapped certain apps to open in certain "spaces" on my Mac. When the app opens, I am automatically moved to that space, is there a way to prevent this? I already know in which "space" the app is going to be when launched.

A: defaults write com.apple.dock workspaces-auto-swoosh -bool NO && killall Dock

Although this disables window switching for any time the app is activated (CMD+TAB or clicking on the app icon in the Dock). If you want to disable this only when opening, I'm not sure of the best way to do it.
One way would be to have a login script that runs the above command, starts all your apps for you in their respective spaces, then sets the behavior to the alternate state (-bool YES).


No, only one application is necessary for you to be considered for any position. However, you must apply for each individual position you're interested in; your online application will not be considered for any position for which you have not applied.
To apply for a position, find the position you're interested in, navigate to the "Job Details" page and click "Apply for this Posting". Be sure to update your application as necessary before applying for any position.


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Adventurous Skiing in Chile
Keefe Gorman is a wealth management advisor at Merrill Lynch. Outside of his work with Merrill Lynch, Keefe Gorman is an avid skier, who has skied in many places throughout the world, including in Chile.
Traveling to Chile is an option for people who live in the Northern Hemisphere and want to extend their skiing season. This is because the ski season in Chile spans from June to October, months that are too warm for skiing in other parts of the world.
In addition to its summer skiing season, Chile also offers travelers many unique skiing experiences. At Volcan Osorno in the southern part of the country, for example, skiers can navigate the slopes of a volcano. While not skiing, they can go on snowshoeing tours to see the crater of the volcano.
Chile also provides options to even more adventurous skiers who want to go off the beaten track and ski off-trail. At Ski Arpa, skiers can participate snowcat skiing, in which a vehicle takes visitors to a remote part of the mountains. There, they can enjoy fresh, untouched powder and uncrowded skiing in a beautiful natural setting.
Michael Keefe Gorman, a broker with Merrill Lynch, serves a geographically diverse group of individual investors, businesses, and non-profits from his office in Ithaca, New York.
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Dad's baby blues For many fathers, distress following the birth of a baby gets worse in the years that follow, a new Australian study has found.
Problems with work, personal relationships and parenting confidence all contribute to this distress, says lead author, Dr Rebecca Giallo of the Murdoch Children's Research Institute .
"We have shown that fathers are at heightened risk of mental health difficulties not only in the first year after having a baby, but right across the early childhood period," says Giallo, who carried out the research while at the Parenting Research Centre in Melbourne.
"Promoting fathers' mental health is important and it's just as important as providing adequate mental health support to mothers in the postnatal period."
While it is known that fathers get the baby blues, Giallo and team were interested in finding out how long a fathers' mental health can be affected.
In a study published in Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, Giallo and team track the mental health of 2,470 Australian fathers, from the postnatal period to when their children reached the age of seven.
The fathers were surveyed for symptoms of stress, anxiety or depression at different points after their child was born.
"We found that eight per cent of fathers experienced distress in the postnatal period and this increased markedly over time," says Giallo.
"By the time the children were seven years of age, these fathers were experiencing significant levels of distress - stress, anxiety and depression - which would be having an effect on their daily functioning and family relationships."
The age of the father and how many children he already had made no difference to the results, says Giallo.
Giallo and colleagues found that work problems, relationship problems, and lack of parenting confidence were the main factors that predicted the development of the fathers' distress over time.
"Limited access to family-friendly leave, to flexible working hours and lack of control over their workload, may make it harder for fathers to respond to the changing needs of their families and the demands of caring for young children," says Giallo.
"Fathers who are in lower-quality jobs with limited access to those good job-quality conditions may find it hard to balance their work and family roles."
Similarly, strain on relationships due to the demands of early childcare can also contribute to a fathers' distress, says Giallo.
"Parents report that when you have young children there are limited opportunities to spend time together as a couple, to communicate well and to nurture that relationship."
Last but not least, says Giallo, fathers who find it difficult to build their parenting confidence in the all-important postnatal period may experience more stress in later years of their young child.
Giallo says the findings suggest there should be more information and support available for fathers, before their child is born, and after.
"Our infant and early childhood services are clearly focused on supporting mothers and babies, and our studies are suggesting that identifying and supporting the needs of fathers is important too," she says.
Giallo encourages fathers to seek help from their GP and resources such as the Australian Government's online Dad's Guide to Pregnancy.
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The passing of our 41st president, George Herbert Walker Bush, is a solemn occasion, as we have not only lost a great American and a loyal, compassionate, kind, honorable and loving human being, but also a symbol of a bygone era marked by civility, ethics, grace, honor, manners and meticulous attention to detail, such as the handwritten letter.
One of the hallmarks of 41's style was the art of the written letter, something the younger generations do not appreciate or experience with the gravitas it deserves because email, text message, voice recognition and emoji are quicker and more convenient. Indeed, I am nostalgic. But the loss of this art form is not just the loss of an art but a very human, personal act that touches another heart and makes a much bigger and impactful difference to relationships and to life. Further, the loss of writing a letter and handwriting in general is a much bigger loss: the loss of a part of our brain that can only be activated by the fingers touching a pen or pencil and taking it to paper. Certain thoughts can only be expressed when that simple act happens, and this, my friends, is science. According to a 2014 article published in the New York Times, "Handwriting increases neural activity in certain sections of the brain, sharpens the brain and helps us learn, and forces us to slow down and smell the ink." Further, according to a study from Indiana University, the simple act of writing unleashes creativity not easily accessed in any other way. Cynics may require more proof than that, but that — and the more positive, longer-term effects I experience when I take the pen to paper rather than my finger to the keyboard — is enough for me.
Like President Bush, my grandfather, Cold War lawyer and diplomatic negotiator James B. Donovan, was a member of the "Greatest Generation" and a Navy commander who devoted much of his life and career to public service. As general counsel of the Office of Strategic Services, he was also a founding father of our the Central Intelligence Agency, where President Bush served as director. When I had my grandfather's book "Strangers on a Bridge" republished in 2015, there were two notable people who immediately came to mind when asked who might be able to write a testimonial, as well as speak personally to my grandfather's legacy. One of those two people was President George H.W. Bush; the other, not coincidentally, was someone from the opposite side of the political spectrum — Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg. When I called the Bush Library to confirm the correct address for correspondence, I was taken aback when I was immediately put in touch with his office and was given the address. Though I had connections to the Bush family, I chose to go the formal route rather than asking for a favor to facilitate more immediate attention to my letter. This type of shortcut is also why people text and email: because it's easier, quicker and more convenient. Unfortunately, I was remiss in following up, because … well … life got in the way, and the deadline passed. So I am not sure if President Bush ever received my letter, but I know in my heart that he would have given my granddad his due, and that I am proud of myself for making the effort and not taking the more expedient route.
So, I have now written a second letter — this time handwritten — to President Bush and have sent it to the Bush Library as a way to pay my respects and to further memorialize his legacy. I encourage others to do the same, as well as to take the time to continue to hand-write letters — thank-you letters; letters of sympathy, friendship and congratulations; love letters; letters of any and all kinds — as well as to continue to take the pen to paper for any and all kinds of writing. Personal expression in this form matters. You may be surprised by the difference in what is expressed when taking that pen to paper every once in a while, rather than the fingers to the keyboard or thumb to the iPhone. Additionally, not only does it also provide the writer with the opportunity for proper reflection and thought, but it also gives the recipient the same opportunity — as well as the gift of truly personal, authentic and heartfelt expression.
My handwritten letter to President Bush is a love letter to a man whose dignity, kindness, compassion, integrity, faith, commitment, grace, humor, humility, humanity and love have touched my life, the lives of Americans and so many around the world. President George Herbert Walker Bush may no longer be here, but I know in my heart that he has already received my letter. Though I will never get a direct response from him, I know that my grandfather now has another friend and former comrade to keep him company up above, and that is all I need to know. I know I could never hope to emulate the life President Bush lived, but at least hand-writing this letter is a good start. May you rest in peace, Mr. Bush, as your life serves as a role model for all of us for generations to come.


What did he do? In 61 years of life, this lean, slow-talking, earnest man with a sly and boyish sense of humor never put together a résumé. He created his own jobs, usually part-time, often working with longtime friends for meager pay.
I thought of him as a builder, but not with hammers and nails. His tools were meetings over breakfast, late-night phone calls, and lots of conversations in between. On the surface, those conversations concerned a school he helped keep afloat for 13 years, our church, a retreat center in West Virginia, and the rebuilding of a historic YMCA building in the heart of Washington, D.C. But you realized, after awhile, that Nelson was really building something else. He was constructing human communities, frameworks for whole and healthy lives, assembled mysteriously from people's donated time, energy, and goodwill. Nelson left us this year, but that web of community remains.
Nelson Good grew up in a Mennonite family, the third of seven sons, on a dairy farm in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He was curious about the world beyond the farm's fences; while a student at Eastern Mennonite College in the mid-1960s, he tasted, first from afar and then during a summer session in New York, the ferment of the civil rights movement and urban unrest.


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Another "designer" dog By LRC Directors
TRUE LABRADOR RETRIEVERS ARE BLACK, YELLOW, AND CHOCOLATE ONLY!
The Issue of the Silver Labrador
Frances O Smith, DVM, PhD Chair, Labrador Retriever Club, Inc. Genetics Committee
It is the opinion of the Labrador Retriever Club, Inc., the AKC parent club for the breed, that a silver Labrador is not a purebred Labrador retriever. The pet owning public is being duped into believing that animals with this dilute coat color are desirable, purebred and rare and, therefore, warrant special notoriety or a premium purchase price.
Over the past few years a limited number of breeders have advertised and sold dogs they represent to be purebred Labrador Retrievers with a dilute or gray coat color—hence the term "silver labs." The AKC has accepted some of these "silver labs" for registration. Apparently, the rationale for this decision is that the silver coat color is a shade of chocolate. Interestingly, the original breeders of "silver" Labradors were also involved in the Weimaraner breed.
Although we cannot conclusively prove that the silver Labrador is a product of cross-breeding the Weimaraner to a Labrador, there is good evidence in scientific literature indicating that the Labrador has never been identified as carrying the dilute gene dd. The Weimaraner is the only known breed in which the universality of dd is a characteristic.
From the website for Vetgen:
The D locus is the primary locus associated with diluted pigment, which results in coats that would otherwise be black or brown instead showing up as gray or blue, in the case of black, and pale brown in the case of brown. The melanophilin gene has recently been shown to be responsible, but not all of the dilute causing mutations have been identified yet.
Recognized coat colors for purebred Labradors are black, yellow and chocolate. No shadings of coat color are recognized for black or chocolate Labradors in either the Lab-rador Standard or the current research into genetic coat colors. The shadings recog-nized in yellow Labrador Retrievers do not depend on the presence of the dilute gene dd, but are modifiers acting on the ee gene. The identified coat color genes in the Labrador include:
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The omission of "d," and thus the impossibility of a dd dilute gene resulting from a pure Labrador breeding, is certainly persuasive evidence that the silver Labrador is not a purebred.
It's a bit of a problem when it comes to breeding because recessive traits, such as [recessives] and dilution, can remain hidden in lines for many generations, then suddenly crop up when a dog carrying the trait is bred to another with it (if the gene is very rare in the breed then it can be a long time until this happens, if it ever does).
This is why breedings sometimes throw complete surprises, like silver (blue) Labrador puppies in a breed, which, to all intents and purposes, contains no silver at all. That one lone recessive silver gene (d, on the D locus) has been passed down from generation to generation, completely unknown to the breeders, until finally it's met another one.
It might have come from a cross-breeding with another breed many years ago, which doesn't show up on the pedigrees and no longer has any effect on the look of the dog (so all the dogs in the line look exactly like normal Labradors, not a crossbred), but they still carry one gene left over from the cross-breeding).
Such rare recessive traits can be impossible to eradicate from a breed, simply because you can't tell which dogs carry them. However, in recent years, genetic testing has helped to identify the carriers.


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Hughes Bros. Aircrafters
Hughes Bros. Aircrafters, Inc. got its start with a little innovative muscle, a couple of strong arms and the drive to succeed. More than 50 years later the company is well equipped to supply a variety of parts and components to the aircraft industry.
While the country was focusing on a particular Hughes who became an aviator legend in his time, another Hughes – not as famous but certainly as innovative – was building his company, literally, from the ground up. It was 1947 and along with his brother, Victor Hughes, who owned a vacant lot, James T. Hughes purchased a small drop hammer, attached the power cord to the power line, and formed metal in the middle of the lot.
Eventually, as business flourished, they put a ceiling over their heads and continued to build their company one piece at a time. Today, Hughes Bros. Aircrafters, Inc. (HBA) operates in a 65,000-
square-foot facility in South Gate, in southern California, still using drop-hammer forming to produce shapes for aerospace parts and components, while expanding to supply industries that at one time included consumer appliances and car parts.
But as the company maintains as its primary capability drop hammer forming, a process for producing shapes by the progressive deformation of sheet metal in matched dies under the repetitive blows of a gravity-drop hammer, at the same time it has also embraced the machinery and technologies necessary to compete in the most state-of-the-art venues, supplying components to giants such as Boeing, Airbus, Lockheed Martin, Bombardier and Northrop Grumman, among others.
THEY HAMMER IN THE MORNING
The attractiveness of drop hammer forming is that it has relatively low tooling costs and dies can be cast from low-melting alloys and are relatively simple to make. The process has been often used for sheet metal parts, such as aircraft components, that undergo frequent design changes or for which there is short run expectancy. The simplicity of the tool-making makes for short delivery times. Drop hammer forming dates at least to the 1860s in the United States – maybe further in other parts of the world – however the lumbering punch it delivered to metal was never an exacting science. "They used to build the patterns on a shrink scale," says Jim Hughes, son of James T. Hughes. "If it was close, it was fine – that's all they worried about."
Of course, supplying modern companies entails achieving tighter tolerances through more sophisticated electronic capabilities. Hughes Aircrafters has not only assembled a raft of capabilities under its umbrella but the certifications to match them – and marries the strength of the tool with the power of state-of-the-art technologies. Using drop hammer, press brake, hydroform or roll methods of forming, the company is equipped to meet every requirement of these forming processes, employing a coordinate measuring machine (CMM) to check within 1000th of an inch. Hughes Bros. can form parts via drop hammer as small as 2×2 inches, up to complex compound-contour parts as large as 60 x 96 bed size. Planishing hammers are also used to aid in the forming process. This operation removes initial imperfections inherent in the forming process. The company works with myriad metals used in aerospace production, including all aerospace alloys, aluminum, stainless steel, and titanium.
In addition, HBA has the ability to manufacture all expendable tooling, such as all OML or IML master models, plaster patterns and blue blocks. It offers soft tooling such as trim/router fixtures, drill shells, chem mill templates and weld fixtures.
What makes the process even more advanced is the fact that all workstations utilize the latest high speed Pentium®-class computers, fully networked, with a wireless Internet accessed trough a T1 line for faster download/upload of fully encrypted files. All computer hardware and software are under constant surveillance and maintained by Synoptek, Inc., Santa Ana, Calif. HBA also maintains an MRP Business System, a state-of-the-art manufacturing control system developed and integrated by Factory Edge, El Segundo, Calif. This system assures real-time controls of its manufacturing process.
CERTIFIED CAPABILITIES
HBA's capabilities include a pattern shop, foundry, die finishing, hydroforming, press brake/roll forming and trim/assembly and hot and cold forming of all aerospace alloys. The company is AS 9100 Rev B/ISO 9001:2000 certified through SGS Systems & Services which is ANAB accredited and listed in IAQG Oasis database. Additionally, it is a part of its customers' delegated source programs, such as the Spirit Aerosystems Delegated Source, Boeing Space & Defense and Boeing St. Louis PVA, Boeing Transport Aircraft SID and Northrop Grumman's Key Plan program. Under all of these programs, Hughes Bros. performs final acceptance inspection and ships directly to its customers' stock.
It is located in the Los Angeles Mid-Alameda Corridor Enterprise Zone and currently NADCAP (National Aerospace and Defense Contractors Accreditation Program) accredited to AC7102 Rev D, AC7102/2 Rev A, and AC7101/5 Rev B for Aluminum Heat Treating and Rockwell Hardness Testing.
Hughes Bros. has Model Based Definition Approval and Digital Product Definition Approval to Boeing's D6-51991 REV I. It utilizes a CATIA V5R19 CAD system. CATIA stands for "Computer Aided Three Dimensional Interactive Application," a multi-platform "Computer-aided manufacturing" (CAM) "Computer-aided engineering" (CAE) commercial software suite developed by the French company Dassault Systemes and marketed worldwide by IBM. CATIA supports multiple stages of product development (CAx), from conceptualization, design (CAD), manufacturing (CAM), and analysis (CAE).
HBA is also certified for quality for the following companies: Airbus; Agusta Aerospace s.p.a.; Alenia; Boeing D6-82479 REV E (BQMS, AQMS); Bombardier; Kaman Aerospace; L3 Communications Corp.; Monogram Systems; Northrop Grumman; Parker Hannifin Corp. and Vought Aircraft Industries; Aerospace Filtration; Bell Helicopter; Ducomun Aerostructures; Gulfstream;, Kapco; Klune; Lockheed Martin; Monogram Systems;, Parker Hannifin; Sabreliner Corp.; Sargent Fletcher; Schweizer Aircraft Corp.; Spirit Aerosystems; Venture Aircraft; Viking Air and Webber Aircraft.
Complex inspections are done on its Faro Arm gold series portable coordinate measurement machine: 0-8′; 2 sigma single point with .0020 accuracy. The company also possesses a tool calibration recall software system, GageTrak for precision measuring tools. Also, Hughes Bros. is able to reverse engineer data to aid in the manufacture of tooling.
Currently, HBA exports products to Italy, Asia, New Zealand and Canada, although these represent only 5 percent of the company's business. Its markets have ranged from military, commercial, executive jets, helicopters and missiles, to parts on the space shuttle. "We've done work for anything that flies," says Hughes, whose wife, Susan, is company president.
So as the aircraft it supplies continue to demand more sophistication in the areas of fabrication and tolerances, Hughes will no doubt continue to operate on the theory that simple technologies can still combine with advanced systems to create the parts necessary to fly throughout the world … and into outer space.
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We have been in St Thomas just over a month and I have never felt more welcomed by so many wonderful new friends. I drove the kids to school the other day and was delivered this delicious Roasted Veggie Tort by one of the moms, Kim. I was floored at her generosity and couldn't wait to have some for lunch that day. It was a great compliment to salmon burgers and my husband loved it. I'm still waiting for our oven to arrive... I think this is the longest I have ever gone without baking something. But when it finally does I'll be making this one for sure. Thanks Kim! You along with many others at Antilles have made our move and transition to the Island wonderful!!


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Q: "i" key is not functional in bash In bash, the key that normally outputs the i character, stays dead. It does not output anything, no space no character, multiple keystrokes of same key do neither.
This is happening on trisquel8, out of the blue, no upgrades, and reproducible after startups, restarts, halt and hard restart. It's only happening within the xterm, the mate-terminal, the console... at the bash prompt (shell used is bash). Any other application WILL recognize the i as always. The login prompt recognizes i.
Hardware is tested and functional. Asus SyncMaster laptop, internal and external Logitec keyboard produce the same ¨silence¨(no output).
Suppose it must be something to do with bash specific issues. Within commands (nano, since vim has an i which cannot be typed to call vim), there is also the regular output expected i.
Again stumped, this incapacitates the whole system, and that with no probable preliminary settings tweaks.

A: Solved:
An error in the ~/.inputrc file, since the console at the prompt, the xterm and mate-terminal were concerned, it must have been a bash problem. Indeed. Below the offending line in .inputrc:
i#{{{ Some user comments...

The above line incapacitated the output of ¨i¨ and the key completely. ...And did not affect any other keys that were binded within the .inputrc. So diagnostics were only right after a two step: as suggested elsewhere here on stackexchange: look for a line that starts with an i in .bash_profile or .bashrc or .inputrc. Done.

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I just wondering if PM Exam Simulator is updated. I have purchased it last year (in 2015, but still valid till 12th of March, 2016), before PMP Exam changes (12th of January, 2016) and already took 7 simulations, as it was based on the old PMP exam.
My question is if I will take again all simulations (that I purchased last year) from 1st to 9th - it will be updated questions, or it will be the same questions?
The short answer is: it has been updated.
We first identified all the new topics that are now included in the PMP exam. Then we developed new questions for each of these topics. And finally we identified existing questions in the simulator that are outdated and we replaced those outdated questions with the new ones.
So when you take any of the 9 exams you will now see questions that are testing you on the current PMP exam content outline. Some are "the same" questions as before the exam change (because they are still valid) and some are covering the new topics.


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Try not to step on the chalk outlines when navigating through prairie pickers The Dead South's catalogue. Over the course of two full-length albums, it's true that the villainous, murderous match-strikers and revenge-takers outnumber those with good intentions, but in the end, no heinous act goes unpunished.
The Dead South, a gold rush vibing four-piece acoustic bluegrass set from Saskatchewan, infuse the genre's traditional trappings with an air of frontier recklessness, whiskey breakfasts and grizzled tin-pan showmanship. The sound, build on a taut configuration of cello, mandolin, banjo and guitar, speeds like a train past polite definitions of bluegrass into the grittier, rowdier spaces of the traditional world.
Currently one of the hottest tickets on both sides of the Atlantic, The Dead South's rise to touring juggernaut status is in part a very modern music biz fairytale, an algorithm-breaking success story in a one hundred-million view youtube hit. The other factor, one simpler to see in terms of cause and effect, is their actual show - on stage they deliver, show after sold out show, a relentlessly great, high-energy frenzy that has resulted in nearly 50,000 tickets sold in 2018. The numbers are adding up for this Billboard charting, JUNO Award winning, Next Big Sound Trendsetting, Road Gold certified band. Through partnerships with ethical ticket resellers, The Dead South are helping fans fight back against shady secondary ticket markets, and have become, in their success, a model of fan-first artist citizenship.
The Dead South's original and current lineup includes the gnarled baritone of Nate Hilts, Scott Pringle on mandolin, whistling cellist Danny Kenyon and virtuosic banjo player Colton Crawford. The four-piece, acoustic string-driven approach puts the interplay of unique and versatile voices front and centre, with Hilts, Pringle and Kenyon all sharing lead vocal duties.
Since their 2016 release, The Dead South have maintained this formidable touring pace while also finding time to pop up in fitting and meaningful ways; the band contributed to the recent, star-studded bluegrass and Americana Roger Miller tribute album, Hilts has appeared in sparse and sweet duets with fellow prairie boy Colter Wall, and the band has taken the first steps towards a new album with a trip to Muscle Shoals. The Dead South are ready for 2019 with an impressive amount of fuel for the fire.
Legendary Shack Shakers
The Legendary Shack Shakers' hell-for-leather roadshow has earned quite a name for itself with its unique brand of Southern Gothic that is all-at-once irreverent, revisionist, dangerous, and fun. Led by their charismatic, rail-thin frontman and blues-harpist JD Wilkes, the Shack Shakers are a four-man wrecking crew from the South whose explosive interpretations of the blues, punk, rock and country have made fans, critics and legions of potential converts into true believers.
After taking more than a year off to work on other projects (including JD Wilkes's book "Barn Dances & Jamborees Across Kentucky"), the band remobilized in the fall of 2014, with tours across the USA and Europe, much to the excitement of many a Shack Shaker fanatic. Despite the group's time off, their reputation for intensity has stuck with them. On stage, JD has been compared to the likes of Iggy Pop, David Byrne, and Jerry Lee Lewis. The Nashville Scene named Wilkes "the best frontman in Nashville" in 2002, while former Dead Kennedys frontman Jello Biafra has called JD "the last great Rock and Roll frontman." Having joined the band in early 2012, garage blues guitar player Rod Hamdallah–who also lends his prowess to Wilkes's side project 'JD Wilkes and the Dirt Daubers'–is back in the Shack Shakers' lineup. The rhythm section is rounded out with Brett Whitacre on drums and Mark Robertson thumping out the upright bass.
Although not legendary upon being named, the band has grown into its reputation the last several years due to their heavy tour schedule, six critically acclaimed studio albums, and songs that have been featured on television shows such as HBO's True Blood. Past tour mates and fans include Reverend Horton Heat, Rancid, The Black Keys, Slim Cessna's Auto Club, and Hank Williams III. Robert Plant is also a noted Legendary Shack Shakers fan, and picked the band to open for him on his 2005 tour of Europe. Plant named the band's third album Believe as one of his favorite records of 2005. The list of esteemed admirers goes on to include horror novelist Stephen King, who listed "CB Song" as among his iPod's Top Five in a 2008 Entertainment Weekly article. Such a wealth of devoted fans over the years has only added to the mystique that the Legendary Shack Shakers possess, carrying them down the road toward new creative pursuits and barn-shaking tunes.
Danny Olliver
Equipped with a guitar and a strong sense of self, Regina, Saskatchewan's Danny Olliver has made a global name for himself.
Olliver learned guitar on an abandoned three string Yamaha he saved from being trashed. A quick study, he added three more strings and began writing his own material. Taking inspiration from guitarists like Don Ross and Antoine Dufour, Danny focused on fingerstyle pieces. His musings as a fingerstyle guitarist gave him an exceptional edge as a musician when he began writing his own songs and singing in 2008.
After his first release (Bad Omen Walking) in 2014, Danny spent a year touring around Canada. With fire in his boots and a love for the road, it took him only a year to record and release his self-titled sophomore album — which he toured all over Canada and Europe playing more than 500 shows since his first release. He has toured with bands like The Dead South, Colter Wall, and Michael Bernard Fitzgerald.
Olliver's troubadour spirit is now truly awake as he prepares for the release of his third full length album – "For All My Former Lovers". His new album is a collection of songs dedicated to heartbreak, love, loss, and youth. Stocked with equal amounts of capricious heartbreak and melodic whimsy, Danny Olliver and award winning producer Russel Broom have no doubt added a triumph to Olliver's musical catalogue
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Hashem is a University of Toronto psychology graduate (Distinction with Honors). Using his research and analytical skills, he prepares content for Talentology Training's services and products (workshops, lectures). Research for Hashem is an obsession; when he puts his mind to find an item, he immerses himself in that item's world. He feels compelled to dive really deep in the ocean of knowledge to find those pearls of an item. "Boiling the ocean" and "No stone unturned" are expressions that really resonate with him in this regard. He is an active member of The Amman Writing Club.


Brendan Reilly, CEO, EON Sports VR, presented at the On Deck Sports and Technology Conference on September 22nd at the Bohemian National Hall in New York.
Brendan Reilly on stage at the On Deck Sports and Technology Conference.
Mr. Reilly talked about how football teams can incorporate Virtual Reality technology solutions into their training regime to get more meaningful repetitions, to maximize practice time, and to develop better players. With the SIDEKIQ, a Virtual Reality American Football training application, coaches can easily create any play or scenario they want their players to experience and train in. Players can also use SIDEKIQ Challenge, a gamified mobile version of the training application, to train on their own by just using their smartphone.
The On Deck Sports and Technology Conference is an annual event series designed to shine a spotlight on new technology that is transforming the ways that we follow, enjoy, analyze, and understand sports. Specifically, this conference seeks to identify the key trends and technologies – from both established firms as well as startup companies – that will reshape the sports industry in the years ahead.
Over 400 sports industry executives, sports tech entrepreneurs, and consumers alike attended to discuss the key ideas and innovations in technology that will fundamentally improve the fan experience moving forward.
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Dear friends and Welwishers,
My name is MS. Elizabeth Mboge, the Headmistress of Wesley Contemporary Nursery School,
and I am assisted by four (4) teachers and two (2) non- teaching staff, a caretaker and a Watchman.
This nursery school is located at Tobacco Road in an area in Banjul, The Gambia, West Africa with the settlers from the provinces who are either too poor or live for their mere survival. The nursery school Was constructed by the Gambia Women's Contemporary Society an Interdenominational Group Whose aims was to help in their own Way in educating under privilege kids in the society. The school was established in sixty's (60s) as day nursery for children of house maids and neglected children who are been sponsored by friends, well Wishers, and contribution from members. Some ofthe founding members of the society are now late, while others still alive are too old to support the school.. Therefore the School has been handed over to Wesley Circuit, (Methodist Mission) Who are now the owner of the school..
Early childhood (Nursery) education is most important as it creates easy transition to primary education. These children are very good academically and always ready to learn. Currently a total of 150 children aged 2 to 6 years old are attending the nursery school Where they are taught in four classes. Our lessons are taught in English Language. Mostly We teach the Children through Music and Drama as a skill to understand easily. There is one building consisting of five classrooms, an office, three toilets, and one store room. The building is structurally sound.
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Explore the Valentine's temporary exhibition Monumental: Richmond's Monuments 1607 – 2018, as well as the Valentine's core exhibition This is Richmond, Virginia, and learn about the history and context of Richmond's monuments. Students will analyze primary sources and engage in critical thinking related to this timely topic. Visit includes a civic dialog activity that prompts students to consider who decides when it comes to Monuments.
Monumental is on view through Jan. 20, 2019, and will be followed by a related exhibition, Monument Avenue: General Demotion/General Devotion. Ask about two-part visits, or pairing your gallery tour with a Capitol Square Walking Tour to view and discuss monuments in person!
Program Objectives: The student will demonstrate skills for historical thinking, geographical analysis, economic decision making, and responsible citizenship by analyzing primary and secondary sources and evaluating current events and decisions in Richmond.


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Home Dispatches Foreign Correspondent: What Trump's Missteps on Iran Have Wrought
Foreign Correspondent: What Trump's Missteps on Iran Have Wrought
The United States has become a high-tech Bluebeard.
by Reese Erlich
ISTANBUL — The drone attack on Saudi Arabia oil facilities on September 14 is jolting the entire Middle East, the latest incident in a months-long battle between the Trump Administration and Iran. Yemen's Houthi movement claimed credit for the devastating attack that shut down half of Saudi Arabia's oil production. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo blames Iran for the attack, while Iran has categorically denied it.
Let's not forget that the Trump Administration started this low-level war by withdrawing from the Iran nuclear accord. The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously to ratify the agreement, so the U.S. stands in violation of U.N. resolutions and international law.
At the same time, in almost forgotten incidents, the powers that be in Washington, D.C., are reviving piracy on the high seas. For three months, the Trump Administration has subverted the law, instigated an armed ship seizure, and tried to bribe a ship captain in order to seize an Iranian oil tanker in the Mediterranean.
The United States has become a hi-tech Bluebeard.
On July 4, thirty British marines stormed an Iranian oil tanker anchored off the coast of Gibraltar, a British colony located on the southernmost tip of Spain. United Kingdom and Gibraltar authorities, acting on behalf of the Trump Administration, claimed the ship was violating European Union sanctions by planning to deliver crude oil to Syria.
Those authorities had to bend themselves into pretzels to legally justify the seizure because the action, in fact, involved multiple violations of international law.
In retaliation, Iran seized British and United Arab Emirate oil tankers, and as of this writing, continues to hold them hostage. How did this mess begin?
When the United States engages in piracy, it tries to make it look legal. The ship seizure near Gibraltar was clearly planned in Washington, D.C., as revealed by the Spanish daily El Pais. The conservative government in Britain, even before the ascension of Boris Johnson as prime minister, willingly participated in Trump's tanker takeover.
Based on U.S. intelligence, Gibraltar and British authorities claimed the ship was violating E.U. sanctions against Syria. A careful reading of those sanctions, however, reveal that they prohibit exporting oil from Syria, not delivering oil to Syria. It also turns out that Gibraltar had no law allowing seizure of ships under the E.U. sanctions. So, on July 3, Gibraltar changed its regulations in order to legalize the seizure the following day.
Significantly, no E.U. country voiced support for the U.S./British piracy. Carl Bildt, former Swedish prime minister and now co-chair of the European Council on Foreign Relations, tweeted on July 7:
The legalities of the UK seizure of a tanker heading for Syria with oil from Iran intrigues me. One refers to EU sanctions against Syria, but Iran is not a member of EU. And EU as a principle doesn't impose its sanctions on others. That's what the US does.
— Carl Bildt (@carlbildt) July 7, 2019
Brian Hook, the State Department's point man on Iran sanctions, emailed the Iranian ship's captain offering him several million dollars if he would send the tanker to a port where it could be seized on behalf of Washington.
Like a swaggering buccaneer of old, Hook offered a cash reward followed by a threat. "With this money you can have any life you wish and be well-off in old age," Hook wrote in an email seen by the Financial Times. "If you choose not to take this easy path, life will be much harder for you."
When the captain, an Indian national, didn't respond to the email, the Trump Administration applied unilateral sanctions on him.
Meanwhile, the United States had secretly launched a cyber attack on the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, allegedly disabling key computer systems. Unnamed senior U.S. officials boasted to The New York Times that the cyber attack "degraded" Iran's ability to disrupt civilian shipping. But it apparently didn't stop Iran from seizing a British oil tanker, the Stena Impero, in the Strait of Hormuz on July 19.
An Iranian official admitted the Stena Impero was seized in response to the taking of the Iranian tanker. On September 16, Iran seized a UAE tanker carrying what it described as smuggled diesel.
The Mediterranean has apparently returned to the buccaneering days of old.
The Mediterranean has apparently returned to the buccaneering days of old. If a country seizes one of your ships, you seize two of theirs. Well, shiver me timbers.
On August 16, Gibraltar ignored a last-minute U.S. legal plea and released the Iranian ship. On August 26, the ship was sold to an unrevealed buyer and renamed the Adrian Darya 1. Pegleg Trump and his hardy band of pirates then proceeded to threaten oil brokers and port authorities throughout the region not to allow the oil to be unloaded.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said, "We've made clear anyone who touches [the tanker], anyone who supports it . . . is at risk of receiving sanctions from the United States."
Remember, there is no legal authority whatsoever for Pompeo's threats other than the unilateral U.S. sanctions that are themselves a violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions. Trump pulled out of the Iran nuclear agreement, which the U.N. Security Council had passed unanimously, and is thus violating international law.
In the days of old, pirates fired canons and boarded ships with cutlasses clamped in their teeth. Today the Trump Administration does it with cyber attacks and stopping wire transfers. Iran has the right to ship its oil to willing buyers. Denying that right is piracy—pure and simple.
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Looking ahead: What climate and energy actions might we see in 2021?
With control of the U.S. Senate up in the air until after Georgia's runoff elections on January 5, 2021, it will be some weeks before we can make predictions about the likelihood of federal legislative actions to address climate change and energy policy. In the meantime, we can focus on the range of possible executive actions to advance pro-climate and clean energy policies in 2021 and beyond.
Jennifer Rennicks | December 28, 2020 | Clean Transportation, Climate Change, Energy Efficiency, Energy Policy
The Myriad Challenges of 2020
Few people would disagree that 2020 has been a challenging year, and there's no guarantee that 2021 will bring easier times as our nation will continue to grapple with four simultaneous and historic crises: The COVID-19 pandemic rages on; we are gripped by a worsening economic recession; a long-overdue reckoning over equity and racial justice has gained momentum; and the changing climate is still a crisis at local, state, national, and international levels, with no signs of slowing. The election of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris –and more specifically their Cabinet and Cabinet-level nominations– indicate we may see the kind of intersectional thinking and actions necessary in order to simultaneously address these multiple challenges.
Energy Policy in the Year's Waning Hours
But before we turn the clock on 2020, it's worth noting that a major bipartisan energy deal went through in the waning hours of the current lame-duck session of Congress. Lawmakers were able to reach agreement on an energy package that was attached to the massive $2.3 trillion omnibus spending bill passed on Monday, December 21. Buried deep within the 5,000+ page bill is a substantial energy package. Here is an excellent Twitter thread from Dr. Leah Stokes summarizing some of the substantive energy provisions that the final bill contained. One of the most significant part of the bill specific to climate pollution is a provision to regulate the phase down of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), highly potent heat-trapping chemicals when leaked into the atmosphere.
Moreover, the final bill included funding to boost innovation and deployment of lower-carbon technologies as well as support for beefing up the Department of Energy's Weatherization Assistance Program to better help low-income households improve the energy and heating efficiencies of their homes. At a time when the COVID-19 pandemic threatens energy security for many families, the proposal to authorize millions in new funding over five fiscal years would be welcome, indeed.
Although the bill was expected to gain a quick presidential signature, in no small part because it contained provisions for $600/person in coronavirus relief checks, President Trump posted a four minute video on December 22 calling the spending bill a 'disgrace' and demanding changes including an increase to the relief checks to $2,000/person and a reduction in 'wasteful spending' elsewhere. However, late on Sunday December 27, President Trump signed the massive omnibus spending bill. As a result, one of the most comprehensive energy bills in over a decade, directing rapid investment and deployment of clean energy, is now law. You can read more about the energy portions of the year-end omnibus bill here.
Because control of the U.S. Senate remains unknown until after Georgia's runoff elections on January 5, 2021, it will be some weeks before we can make predictions about the likelihood of additional Congressional legislative actions to address climate change and energy policy. In the meantime, we can focus on the range of executive actions the Biden Administration may pursue to advance pro-climate and clean energy policies in 2021 and beyond.
Executive Actions and Appointments to Address the Climate Crisis and Support Clean Energy
An incoming administration always means change: new appointments, new agendas, and new direction. In January 2021, we can expect to see the Biden Administration tackle climate change right out of the gates as President-elect Biden indicated he will authorize the United States to rejoin the Paris Climate Agreement on his first day based on campaign pledges to lead with science-based commitments. The Paris Climate Agreement is a subsidiary agreement to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which the U.S. Senate ratified back in 1992. Rejoining Paris would further cement his bona fides as a global player on climate change following his appointment of former secretary of state John F. Kerry to serve as an international climate envoy. Kerry will serve alongside former Obama EPA Administrator, Gina McCarthy, who was just named as domestic climate coordinator ('Climate Czar').
And while former presidential administrations might have concentrated on just these two Cabinet-level positions to address climate change, Biden's formal Cabinet nominations suggest he is building a team with substantial climate experience and a commitment to environmental justice including but not limited to:
Pete Buttigieg, nominee for Secretary of Transportation, who envisioned a zero-emissions electricity grid and all new passenger vehicles being zero emissions by 2035 in his 2020 presidential bid,
Deb Haaland, nominee for Secretary of Interior, who stated she will prioritize climate action, clean energy, and energy justice,
Brenda Mallory, nominee to chair the Council of Environmental Quality, will bring her years of experience, including most recently with our ally the Southern Environmental Law Center, to help advance the administration's ambitious environmental and sustainability policies, and
Janet Yellen, nominee for Secretary of the Treasury, who has promised to make fighting climate change a priority and already endorsed the concept of a tax on carbon dioxide emissions.
In addition to these and other climate-supporting appointees, a Biden Administration is expected to support the work of rank and file climate researchers and scientists, some of whom have been stymied or even fired by the Trump administration for efforts to publicize findings or implement climate-friendly policies.
Presidential Potential to Speed Solutions
There has been some speculation President-elect Biden could use executive authority to declare a national climate emergency under the National Emergencies Act, effectively giving the incoming administration the ability to tackle climate change without relying on Congressional action. Such a declaration could enable Biden to invoke the Defense Production Act in order to ramp up domestic production of clean energy technologies like solar panels and energy-efficient appliances to bend the curve on climate pollution. But it's unclear that the Administration will have the appetite for measures like these.
Whether or not a national emergency is declared or defense acts are invoked, Biden is widely expected to encourage or even order the American auto industry to ramp up deployment of electric vehicles (EVs) as a climate solution by re-instituting the tougher Obama-era fuel economy standards that the Trump Administration recently rolled back.
White House support for electrifying transportation is even more likely when you consider two of the most recent, and I would say most critical, Cabinet appointments: the nomination of Michael Regan to serve as EPA Administrator, Regan currently heads North Carolina's Department of Environmental Quality under Governor Roy Cooper and has overseen efforts to increase the adoption of election vehicles in North Carolina as a climate solution; and the announcement earlier this month of Department of Energy nominee Jennifer Granholm, a former two-term governor of Michigan who has strong ties with Detroit's auto industry.
Energy Equity Shifts into Focus
The EV market is already poised for steady growth in the coming years as the cost of batteries has dramatically fallen even as the battery ranges increased and the manufacturers have diversified their electric offerings. Stronger fuel standards will accelerate this much-needed climate solution. Importantly, if electrifying transportation is pursued with racial justice at the forefront, frontline communities who are disproportionately impacted by transportation pollution may be poised for a swifter economic recovery through a more equitable transportation system.
Ultimately, the climate crisis is a racial justice crisis and frontline communities have been disproportionately impacted by high-risk energy choices in general. This is why President-elect Biden pledged 40% of climate investments –from building investments to clean energy deployment– must benefit historically disenfranchised communities. Time will tell how executive actions or agency rules may guide such investments.
Another possible executive action that would accelerate clean energy investments is the removal of solar tariffs imposed by the Trump Administration back in 2018. The solar industry has grown in the last few years despite the tariffs, but they did increase the price of imported panels by 30% when first imposed and are not scheduled to end until 2022.
TVA in the Spotlight
Another area for us to watch here in the Southeast, in particular, is how appointments to the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) board of directors can help guide the largest public power entity in the country. Founded in 1933 as part of the New Deal, TVA was a living laboratory that proved it was possible to deliver inexpensive and clean power while being an engine for job creation and economic development. However, TVA and its board have gone off track, failing to deliver on energy efficiency, renewable energy, and transparency which was confirmed again in their most recent long-term resource plan last year. President-elect Biden will have the opportunity to appoint new leadership at TVA to transform it into a cutting-edge 21st Century utility and restore it to its original role as an energy leader while reducing emissions, lowering energy bills, creating jobs, and addressing environmental injustices. SACE is eager to work with federal leaders to support this needed transition.
Will Congress Step Up Yet Again?
Complex issues require complex solutions, and complex solutions like comprehensive climate policy would need broad and bipartisan support. A sharply divided Congress for many years has meant the idea of comprehensive climate legislation, or the more comprehensive Green New Deal kind of legislation, has remained elusive and what we've seen instead are piecemeal policies that support clean energy solutions like tax credits and efficiency incentives. The recently passed energy package in the 2020 year-end spending bill includes some of the most comprehensive energy policies we've seen in a decade or more. With a closely divided Congress in 2021, it is unlikely we'll see sweeping climate change legislation in the 117th Congress. However, bipartisan support may exist for a variety of additional clean energy-related measures such as:
An infrastructure bill that includes overhauling the energy grid and investments in electric vehicle charging,
An extension of tax credits for electric vehicles,
Federal funding for energy storage research and development as well as grants for energy storage projects,
Federal funding to expand energy efficiency programs,
A federal clean energy standard mirroring clean energy standards or goals that already exist in 37 states, the District of Columbia, and four territories.
How about energy and climate action at the state level in the Southeast?
While the focus of this blog is possible climate and energy actions at the federal level, it's worth a brief mention of possible state actions in 2021 and beyond. North Carolina was the only state in our region with a gubernatorial race, and Governor Roy Cooper's reelection suggests that efforts to address climate change via Executive Order 80 will continue into his second term. It is unclear whether we will see new energy or climate-focused executive actions from the other Southeastern governors in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, or Tennessee.
The 2020 elections did not produce major shifts in any state legislature, so it is unlikely that 2021 will bring significant shifts in legislative actions in any of the states we work in, but in the last few years we've seen bipartisan support in state legislatures for policies that advance solar, electric vehicles, and energy marketplace competition, and would hope to see such efforts continue.
Stay tuned for updates in 2021 as we track climate and energy policy and proposals at the federal and state level here on SACE's blog! Want to support our regional and national work to advance climate solutions, if you are able, please make a year-end gift to the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy.
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The nature of work, new technology, and the needs of a multigenerational workforce are converging to change the way how work gets done and how employees contribute to a high-performing organization.
Johnson Wong, Learning Strategist and Director, Empower Training and Consultancy Pte Ltd.
Today, in Singapore, human capital management has changed tremendously over the last decade, with a massive influence from technological breakthroughs and game-changing business models. The nature of work, new technology, and the needs of a multigenerational workforce are converging to change the way work gets done and how employees contribute to a high-performing organization. As a result, companies are redesigning their people management strategies, moving from traditional annual pulse checking and employee ranking to focusing on what employees can do to increase their contributions instead of only looking at "proving" (validating) what they've completedin the past.
The other primary goal is to align employees' performance with business objectives that yield the greatest results. Building this synergy of employees' performance will significantly impact how business goals are achieved. Synergizing performance requires full commitment from stakeholders, as well as making resources available and accessible to employees. Careful integration of personalized SMART (specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, timely) goals and regular check-ins by managers to provide timely feedback and coaching provide the foundation for fostering the desired business performance.
In Southeast Asia, organizations increasingly face the challenge of how to achieve performance management success. Organizations typically spend a significant amount of time and resources on performance management activities. A recent study conducted by a global consulting corporation reveals that 2 million manhours in a year are spent completing forms, holding meetings, and assigning and analyzing ratings.
Thus, it is essential for stakeholders to know what value the company is getting from investing in performance management and appraisals, and understand whether the time spent on those activities is being utilized effectively.
The current challenges faced by Human Resources (HR) and stakeholders are not merely optimizing work processes and bridging performance gaps, but rather how best to redesign and create value that aligns with business goals (mid- and long-term ones) in the most sustainable manner. HR and leaders need to take the lead in enabling the workforce to create synergies in their performance and business growth.
Some key factors to consider when building a workforce to achieve synergized performance in an organization are the business goals, work processes, performance expectations, and the direction of organizational growth.
Besides covering these key factors, new disruptive business models and technology are becoming the game-changers in enabling the synergies sought by HR and their leaders.
Automation: Software applications can play a significantrole in automating traditionally manual processes (e.g., forms, enquiries, etc.).
Economies of scale: Pooling common and shared resources can lead to more efficient processing of work and, in turn, higher productivity across the organization.
Analytics: Today, the new generation of performance management systems provides a vast array of tools that can harvest critical information such as indicators, patterns, and trends of employee productivity for leaders to make decisions about their workforce.
Integrative: Some performance systems can provide comprehensive solutions with interfacing capability to align with other business operating systems.
Regardless of which intervention (especially, face-to-face) the organization chooses to adopt, it will still be more personalized to engage employees with regular coaching and feedback. Key stakeholderscan play a huge part in connecting the people practices that align with organizational values and business goals.
Nobody will claim it will be an easy journey to enable and synergize employee performance. Building sustainable performance enablement requires time, effort, involvement, and commitment from all stakeholders. Leveraging the use of performance enablement HR technologies empowers everyone in the organization to become self-directed achievers.
Johnson Wong is a Learning strategist and director of Empower Training and Consultancy Pte Ltd., where he provides services for clients in learning design, learning technology solutions (e-courses), business design, human capital development, and training advisory.


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CASE STUDY: How InMobi reconstructed itself to become the largest independent mobile ad network worldwide?
What you will find in this Case Study?
1) About the Company
2) Idea behind InMobi
3) Growth and revenue
4) InMobi on Social Media
5) Future Plans of the company
InMobi is a multi-million company and positions itself among the top in global mobile advertisement with Google and Facebook being its competitor. The two IITK alumni Mr Naveen Tewari & Mr Abhay Jindal are on the position of director and co-director in the company respectively. Talking about the current status of the company, today, it is used by world's top brands, agencies and developers to improve their business value by delivering compelling value propositions to their target customers. It offers a number of solutions to engage hold and inspire their global consumers in a friendly way using mobile advertising.
The company was started by Naveen Tewari, Abhay Singhal, Mohit Saxena, and Amit Gupta in 2006 as a SMS based search platform, mKhoj, that later turned to become a mobile advertising platform InMobi.
Tewari as an MBA scholar at Harvard did a stint with Charles River Ventures in Boston and after completion of the graduation, spent a year in Silicon Valley working with colleagues on business ideas that ultimately failed. Then Tewari went for a month-long vacation to India in the mid of 2006. It was the time when he started working on his own business plan for SMS mobile search. They built the first version mKhoj working out from a rented apartment in Mumbai. The initial concept didn't work out so Tewari along with his three friends moved back to the drawing board and changed the business idea that resulted in InMobi.
But the bad time kept following them. In 2007 when company ran out of money, management ran the company for two months on 14 credit cards without paying bills. The condition reached upto the extend that once they thought to quit everything. But soon they got a lucky charm and hit a funding of $7 million.
Growth and Revenue Generation
After receiving the fund, InMobi increased its talent strength to 50 people in their four offices, most of them engineers and returnees to India.
In an interview Tewari said, "We invested very heavily in our technology and got on board the best engineers whom we could find at Google, Yahoo and MSN to be a part of the team."
The whole year of 2009 went on in the global expansion for InMobi, expanding to Southeast Asia, then South Africa and further to Europe. The company became profitable in the same year. In early 2010, with 120 employees, InMobi did a lenient launch in the U.S market, and then rolled out nationwide by midyear, in sync with an entry to Japan. In July 2010, the existing investor Kleiner and Sherpalo put in another $8 million in the startup.
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3) How Micromax created a niche for itself and became number #2 smartphone vendor in India?[/su_box] Then they received a big knock from Softbank through which they raised $200 million that made InMobi among few billion dollar tech companies in India and finally InMobi became the largest independent mobile ad network. Most recently in 2014, it has raised $5 million more from its existing investor Softbank.
With more than a thousand large enterprise customers, including Unilever and Samsung, the company has maintained annual revenue of $500 million in 2013 and is looking to hit the billion dollar mark by 2016.
InMobi today clocks more than 1 billion monthly active users and gets more than 138 billion monthly ad impressions. The company currently running in 200 countries with more than 2.6 billion app download has 17 offices worldwide which once had barely enough money to survive and was on the verge of closure.
It has now emerged as one of the world's largest independent mobile ad networks, engaging 800 million consumers every month across 200 countries. Today, the company competes with Google's AdMob, Apples' iAd.
InMobi on Social Media Platform
While most of the companies are restricting their employees from accessing various social media networks, there are many that are using it for moneymaking and successfully running various campaigns over the platform. They are encouraging their staffers to be on social media, even running contests around Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp.
The main objective of InMobi to use social media platform is to use it as a marketing tool to acquire new customers, and create robust brand trust among the target customers.
InMobi has attracted 9400 fans to its main Facebook page. InMobi is working well over Twitter and people also prefer Twitter primarily to connect with the brand which has more than 23K followers. Also the company has more than 78000 followers over LinkedIn.
Future aspects of InMobi
InMobi is valued in between $2.5 to $3 billion. With its presence across 200 countries, InMobi is sitting on a verge of huge opportunity, Tewari said. He further added, "The overall estimated advertisement market size being of $650 billion in 2020 is expected to be $200-$250 billion for mobile advertising."
Tewari accepts his failure with his initial idea of mKhoj. He said "During the initial days, we were very much confident about our idea. People want information about various deals in their city, and will happily pay for an SMS. We were lucky to get $500K in initial round of funding from Mumbai Angels. We thought we had cracked it. But we crashed."
InMobi's is a story of commitment, passion, and a story of an Indian company that dreamed to go global and actualized it in a short span of time.
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how do i take a snapshot of a web page?
I've done it before by pressing several keys at once while on the web page, but I don't remember it anymore. Please let me know.
Re: how do i take a snapshot of a web page?
Go to your main menubar in Finder, select "Help."
When Mac Help window appears, Enter "screen shot" in the search bar.
You will be presented with a number of choices and methods for doing what you want (grab screen, a window, a menu, etc.).
Use the available Mac Help feature on your computer and also apple.com/support for answers to basic questions.
If neither of those resources serve up a useful answer, then come on over to the COW.
Quick answer is Command-Shift-3 or Command-Shift-4... don't remember which does what, but it ends up on your desktop.


Let's now return to the reaction of hydroxide ion with bromomethane. Here, the hydroxide ion attacks the carbon atom, not a hydrogen atom. The carbon atom is directly bonded to an electronegative bromine, which makes it an electron‐poor site – more electron‐poor than the hydrogen atoms.
The hydroxide ion attacks the carbon atom to form a new C‐O bond and cleave the C‐Br bond, with loss of a bromide ion. Two curly headed arrows show the mechanism of the reaction, which is called a nucleophilic substitution reaction. The electron‐rich hydroxide ion is called a nucleophile and the electron‐poor bromomethane is called an electrophile.
Most organic reactions involve a nucleophile donating a pair of electrons to an electrophile. So, it is very important to recognise what are the most electron‐rich, or nucleophilic sites, within an organic compound, and which are the most electron‐poor, or electrophilic sites.
If you would like some further information on drawing curly arrow reaction mechanisms you may find this YouTube clip of use.


The world's first manufactured electronic pop band. Originally released in September 1980, Music For Parties was the second ever album to be released on Mute. The album features 14 tracks including Let's Dance, Memphis Tennessee and You Really Got Me. Called an "undeniably fun record" by AllMusic, Music For Parties is being re-released as part of Mute's 40th anti-versary celebrations.


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Uber faces an unlikely competitor in Brazil: the government's taxi app
Rio de Janeiro's Taxi.Rio app has caught up to Uber's technology, now it has a few other aces up its sleeve.
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By Charlotte Peet
10 January 2022 • Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Available in Español
On a sweltering December weekday morning, Brazilian designer Eduarda Martins Delcourt was trying to travel across southern Rio de Janeiro to her family home for Christmas. Her first impulse was to open her Uber app.
Uber indicated that the 15-minute trip would set her back 40 reais (around $7) — more than double what she had remembered paying for a similar trip just a couple years back.
So, Martins Delcourt closed the app and had her mom order her a cab using Taxi.Rio, an app developed by the Rio de Janeiro government to connect riders to the traditional taxi service. Taxi.Rio charged just 18 reais (around $2.80) for the same ride — less than half of what Uber was asking.
Martins Delcourt is part of a growing number of Brazilians ditching Uber for taxis, which are now becoming cheaper and easier to come by. According to the Union of Autonomous Taxi Drivers of the Municipality of Rio, demand for Rio taxi services, which now operate in a number of cities across Brazil, rose by 60% at the tail end of 2021. Taxi.Rio added roughly 38,000 monthly users in 2021, according to official Rio city government figures.
Meanwhile, statistics from the state of Rio de Janeiro found that traditional taxis clocked around 226,800,000 completed trips in 2021, compared to 136,080,000 in the same period the previous year, claimed Rodrigo Lopes Cosendey, the general secretary of Rio Niteroi Municipality Taxi Driver's Union.
Monthly completed trips in Brazil for Uber and 99, owned by Chinese tech giant DiDi, have not been disclosed to the public, but they are believed to have 28 million active users combined –– approximately 90% of the Brazilian population –– with 99 boasting 750,000 active drivers, compared to Uber's over 600,000.
In recent years though, new, lesser-known competitors, like Taxi.Rio and Lady Driver, have captured around 8% of Brazilian users.
The shift back to traditional cabs was spurred in large part by pricing and longer wait times. Uber and 99 are grappling with driver shortages and high demand, which has translated to price surcharges, including a 30% increase over two months last fall, according to data from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE).
Andreia Santos, another Rio native, told Rest of World that Uber charged her almost 150 reais (around $27) for a roughly 30-minute trip on New Year's eve. "That's the price of my weekly grocery trip," she said.
Taxi.Rio added roughly 38,000 monthly users in 2021, according to official Rio city government figures. Taxi.Rio
Meanwhile, taxi cab prices across Brazil are set by local authorities and have seen minimal increases over the past three years. And populous urban centers like Rio de Janeiro have recently invested heavily in apps like Taxi.Rio, which aim to make hailing a cab just as easy as hailing an Uber. This has meant that Brazilians have gradually begun to find traditional taxis are often cheaper and more convenient alternatives than private ride-hailing apps.
"Given the increased demand for trips, there are many who are returning to taxis or even discovering them for the first time," Alessandro Ruiz Martinez, a leader of the National Taxi Front (Frennataxi), a union, told Rest of World.
A surging demand for rides and a limited pool of drivers have led to recent surges in Uber prices in England and the U.S., among other countries. But in Brazil, ride-hailing apps are in a particular bind because of spiking inflation, largely driven by high fuel prices.
In Rio de Janeiro, as in the rest of Brazil, where the majority of drivers use gasoline to fill their tanks, the price of gas has soared by up to 46% in 2021. Natural gas had also risen by nearly 40% in 2021.
For drivers, the addition of exorbitant gas prices to the cost of the ride-hailing companies' 30% cut can be discouraging. "If it's a short trip, it's just not worth accepting the fare," Wilson Lucas, a 22-year-old driving for both Uber and 99 in Rio, told Rest of World. He drives 10 to 12 hours a day, seven days a week, and takes home an average of under 1,900 reais (around $337) in a good month.
And that money is worth less and less every day. While yearly inflation as measured by consumer price index is at 6.8% and 7.37% in the U.S. and Mexico respectively, Brazil is grappling with a 10.74% rate. Though surging gas prices affect both Uber and taxi drivers equally, Rio cabbies make a monthly base salary of 4,500 reais (approx $800), says Cosendey of the Taxi Union and can take home most of what they make on the road — Rio City Hall takes only a 5% cut, as opposed to the private apps' 10%–35% commission.
"Given the increased demand for trips, there are many who are returning to taxis or even discovering them for the first time."
Metered taxi fares are also determined by the regional municipality in advance, operating on what is known locally as the "Bandeira 2" system, where fares can increase by as much as 20%–40% during busy peak periods, like bank holidays and Saturday nights. Unlike the apps' dynamic pricing model, however, trip prices increase during fixed times.
Uber, which still maintains 70% of the rider share market in Brazil, is improving its service to draw riders back. In September, the company banned 1,600 drivers from using its service for excessive cancellations. The company is also hoping to attract new talent and told Rest of World that it was seeking to keep drivers on the road by instituting cashback schemes for health care and mobile plans, as well as at the fuel pump — although the refueling incentive adds up to just 600 reais (just over $100) a year.
Still, municipal efforts like Taxi.Rio are putting up a fight. Launched in 2017, Taxi.Rio has something that private ride-hailing apps do not: local regulations that favor the local taxi service. For instance, the Rio government has offered cabs on Taxi.Rio the freedom to use express bus lanes, which can drastically cut trip fares and times.
The mayor has also announced plans to tax private car-hailing apps, such as Uber, at a rate of 1.5% for using public roadways as part of a wider smart city initiative to reduce congestion. Taxi.Rio, legally designated as public transport, was exempted from the regulation.
According to the Rio government's official figures, Taxi.Rio currently has 33,000 active drivers; 80% of the Rio state's 90,000 traditional taxi drivers are currently registered on the app. Between October and November last year, when Brazil grappled with two months of double-digit inflation, Taxi.Rio also reported an 8% increase in passengers and a 26% surge in completed trips, Kley Pontes, the main technical coordinator of IplanRio, Rio's municipal computer company, told Rest of World.
Edson Neves, a taxi driver who began working at Uber when the company first arrived in Brazil, made the move back to traditional taxis three months ago, when he realized that drivers' costs had increased while their workers' rights had diminished drastically, in the past year.
For analysts, the question is how and whether Taxi.Rio will be able to maintain momentum beyond the specific moment of driver shortages, inflation, and the unemployment crisis in Brazil.
For Pedro Paulo Albuquerque, CEO at a Brasília-based technology startup named Skill, the apps' current bottlenecks have offered an additional option for segments of the Brazilian population seeking express rides — particularly during rush hour, rainy days, and airport trips. However, he doesn't see state-backed ride-hailing alternatives replacing private apps. "For Taxi.Rio to truly prosper, it needs easy access and the ability to develop high-performance technology that goes beyond what a government department is capable of."
Still, Neves won't be going back to Uber or 99 anytime soon, even if inflation subsides. "Working as a taxi driver is a profession, [with Taxi.Rio] we have security," he said.
Yet Lucas, the 22-year-old Uber and 99 driver, says he'll wait it out. For him and many more struggling Brazilians accustomed to informal labor, the flexibility of working on the private apps — something that Taxi.Rio does not offer — has helped them when few employment alternatives are available. If prospects improve in the city, however, he dreams of one day completing his course in the military. He says, "It's a more stable profession."
Charlotte Peet is a freelance journalist in Brazil.


iiSBE Taiwan - Dr. Day delivered a speech entitled "Lost in the Greater Symbiosis"
Dr. Day Yeong-tyi, one of TSSBE's Director, was invited to be part of the committee of judges at the 5+2 Environmental Art Design Cup of China Institute of Architectural Decoration and Design held by the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute from Oct. 24 to Oct. 25, 2015. Based on the themes "interconnection" and "symbiosis", the contest was open to environmental design schools in western China. Gold, silver and bronze medal winners were selected under the categories: architecture, landscape and combination. The day after the contest, Dr. Day delivered a speech at the forum entitled "Lost in the Greater Symbiosis", which was about the blind spots in human thinking and self-salvation in a world of climate change and frequent disasters. Dr. Day also served as a commentator in the symposium for exchanges in environmental design teaching.


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Bodhi specializes in vegan Yum Cha, Dim Sum and Pan-Asian cuisine.
Using locally grown organic produce everything is freshly prepared and hand made by some of Sydney's best Asian Chef's. With a stunning setting and a venue that seats up to 300 people the restaurant can cater for anything from an intimate dinner for two to exclusive events, product launches, private parties, weddings and corporate functions.
Between St Mary's Cathedral and the Cook Philip Swimming Pool.


'Look', said the driver. 'You should pay me to tow this piece of junk out of here. But, since I like you, and it's late, I'll give you what you're asking for it.' He knew the old car was worth ten times her price.
'You've been warned,' said the old woman.
Just then, a coyote howled in the distance. The tow truck driver hastily hitched up the old car before she could change her mind, and drove down the pothole-ridden driveway. When he pulled onto the deserted country road, he noticed a light piercing through the back window of the tow truck cab. Looking in the rear view mirror, he saw the headlights of the car were on!
'It must be my imagination,' he thought. He jumped back in the truck and started back down the dark road, only to find the headlights of the car once again illuminating the cab. He pulled over this time to turn off the light switch. Again the lights went out. When he tried to open the driver's door of the old car, he found that it was locked. But, with his flashlight he could see that the passenger door was unlocked. He climbed in the passenger side. It was then that he figured out why the lights were on.
encountered was the stick shift. He noticed that it was in gear.
permanent magnet generator that made electricity to run the lights.
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RAY: It also has three-quarter length sleeves.
TOM: It was going to have full-length sleeves but we ran out of money.


As lovely as it is to be able to pluck fresh fruit off a tree in your backyard, there's no denying that fruit trees demand attention. With most fruit trees, you only get one chance at a harvest each year.
These 3 tips won't solve all your fruit tree headaches, but they will help you keep your trees healthy, which will help to keep them productive – with minimal effort from you.
I don't like to let the grass grow up against my fruits trees, because I don't want to damage them with the mower or string trimmer. Actually, it's unlikely I could get under some of them with the mower at all. However I also hate to leave the area unplanted. It just invites weeds and creates one more monthly chore.
I've been looking for a good choice for underplanting; something that wouldn't steal water and nutrients from the tree, wouldn't need a lot of maintenance and also wouldn't invade the lawn too badly.
I have 2 suggestions for you. The first is ginger. Either Canadian (Asarum canadense) or the glossy leaved European (Asarum europaeum).
The plants are very attractive and easy to maintain. They never need trimming and if they start to encroach on the lawn, I pull them up and move them elsewhere. They do grow best in partial shade, which my trees provide. But if your site is sunnier than mine, the second option, chives, might be better.
Alliums help to repel borers. Planting onions and garlic around fruit tree roots is not a great option, but chives are easy to plant there. They even look like lawn. They have the added benefit of repelling feeding animals, although those that climb will eventually find a way around them.
Still not convinced? Chives are also thought to improve the overall health of apple trees and aid in preventing apple scab, when grown in close proximity to apple trees.
Don't be so quick to eradicate dandelions near your fruit trees. Dandelions don't always look attractive, but they are extremely useful plants, especially around fruit trees. For starters, they attract pollinators. Since lack of pollination is one of the chief reasons home fruit trees are not productive, we need all the help we can get. So do the bees. Dandelions are an important food source early in the season. The flowering of dandelions signals the start of honey bee season.
Dandelions also give off ethylene gas. Allowing them to bloom later in the season will encourage the fruits to get busy and ripen.
And finally, those annoying tap roots that are so hard to dig out of the ground are helping to break up dense soil and bring nutrients up toward the surface, where other plants can access them.
Dwarf fruit trees are advertised as great options for small yards and for easy harvesting, but dwarf is a relative term. Many of these trees will keep growing to 20 or more feet, and even on a ladder with a pole, I can't harvest them. While complaining that soon I wouldn't be able to prune the tops of my trees, a friend recommended an elegantly simple solution. To keep them at a manageable height, always prune them without a ladder. I prune off everything at the height I can reach. That way I am sure I'll also be able to reach the ripened fruits. The trees are small enough to care for and they still produce plenty of fruit.
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I liked that you explained that dandelions can actually help new trees grow better. Especially, if they are fruit trees. I have been thinking about growing a small peach tree in my backyard. So, that is a good thing for me to be aware of when I get the tree.
I am planning on getting some peach tree this spring. I have never had a fruit tree before and I am trying to figure out what I can do to keep them alive and healthy. So, I liked your suggestion about allowing dandelions to be near my trees because they can help my trees get pollinated.
Peach trees really are easy to grow. They should have ample pollination. In fact, you usually have the thin the fruits, because there are more than a tree can handle. Good luck.
Plants are like babies, they know when an amateur is handling them.


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Q: Why is MPMovieDurationAvailableNotification only getting dispatched once for my many instances of my MPMoviePlayerController? I've got a UITableView which lists movie files from on disk.  For each cell row, there is a worker instance  allocated for each visible row, used to generate a thumbnail for the movie file and get its duration to display in the row.
For each instance of MPMoviePlayerController in the worker class Im listening for a MPMovieDurationAvailableNotification event from the movie player.  For some reason this event only seems to be dispatched (or at least Im only able to catch it) from one of the worker instances.  Here is the init and listener code.  There are a few comments inline.
- (id) initWithRequestAsset:(RequestAsset *)asset {
if (self = [super init]) {
    self.requestAsset = asset;
    self.moviePlayer = [MPMoviePlayerController alloc];
    [self setupMoviePlayerListeners];
    [self.moviePlayer initWithContentURL:self.requestAsset.urlPath];
    self.moviePlayer.shouldAutoplay = NO;

    //  I've also tried to retain the moviePlayer, to no avail
    [self.moviePlayer release];
}
return self;

}
- (void) setupMoviePlayerListeners {
//
// If the object: is set to nil then Im able to catch three notifications, but they are all from last instance of the MPMoviePlayerController
//
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self
                                         selector:@selector(onMovieDurationAvailable:)
                                             name:MPMovieDurationAvailableNotification
                                           object:self.moviePlayer];

}
- (void) onMovieDurationAvailable:(NSNotification *)notification {
NSLog(@"duration received notification");

self.requestAsset.duration = [[notification object] duration];

[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] removeObserver:self name:MPMovieDurationAvailableNotification object:self.moviePlayer];

}
What am I doing wrong?  I figured if I were to set the object: parameter to the instance of the MPMoviePlayerController it would allow me to get only the event for that instance.  However, it appears that Im only getting the last notification dispatched.

A: You can only have 1 active MPMoviePlayerController instance. You can create multiple but only 1 will work at a time.
See (about 2 screens down):
http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/MediaPlayer/Reference/MPMoviePlayerController_Class/Reference/Reference.html
"Note: Although you can create multiple MPMoviePlayerController objects and present their views in your interface, only one movie player at a time can play its movie."


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Faras este un sit arheologic în Nubia, la limita dintre statele Egipt și Sudan. Aici se află temple construite de Tutmes al III-lea și de Ramses al II-lea. Tot aici se află și o necropolă și o catedrală creștină cu fresce, construită în anul 707.

Situri arheologice din Egipt