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Each airline currently operates nine flights per day on the route.
The carriers started code-sharing in 2010 on flights between Singapore and Denpasar, Bali. The code-share was later extended to flights between Singapore and Surabaya in 2014.
SIA regional subsidiary SilkAir also code-shares on Garuda Indonesia-operated flights to both Denpasar and Surabaya. Garuda Indonesia code-shares on SilkAir-operated flights to 10 destinations on its Indonesia network.
Under the new agreement, SIA and Garuda Indonesia will operate a combined total of 175 weekly scheduled services between Singapore and Indonesia.
"We are delighted to be further expanding our agreement with Garuda Indonesia to include more codeshare flights," said Mr Tan Kai Ping, SIA's senior vice-president of marketing planning, adding that the partnership reflects the airline's continuous efforts to work with its partners to offer customers more seamless trav...
"Indonesia is a very popular tourism and business destination and we are pleased to make the country more accessible to travellers from all around the world," he said.
Garuda Indonesia commercial director Pikri Ilham Kurniansyah, added that South-east Asia, particularly Singapore, is a very important market for the carrier.
"Garuda Indonesia's flights to Singapore have played an important role in improving economic ties as well as cultural exchanges between the two countries. Today, just as more than half a century ago, Singapore remains a partner in growth as well as an important market for Garuda Indonesia."
Alexa can give you a helping hand.
Do you always have trouble keeping your New Year's resolutions? You're not alone. A study found only around 8 percent of people that make resolutions actually keep them.
Keeping your promise to yourself would be easier if you had a little nonjudgmental help. That's where Alexa comes in. Here are some ways to use Alexa to make your New Year's resolutions stick.
When you have a moment of weakness, use the Talk Me Down skill. The goal of the skill is to talk you out of breaking your resolution.
After enabling the skill, say, "Alexa, talk me down," and she'll give you a motivational pep talk that will help you drop the fork, push away the pack of cigarettes or recork the bottle. It sounds cheesy, but it can actually help.
If your resolution is to be more productive and positive in the morning (guilty!), then you may find the My Morning skill helpful. It uses minute-long prompts to guide you through a wake up routine.
For example, Minute 1 could include silence/meditation, Minute 2 could be a prompt to visualize your day, Minute 3 could ask you to think of five things you're grateful for, Minute 4 could have you list your top three priorities for the day, and so on. Basically, it's Alexa getting your rear in gear with some motivatio...
Taking better care of the Earth is always a great resolution. One step you can start with this January is taking shorter showers to conserve water and electricity.
The Shower Timer skill tracks your time in the shower and challenges you to beat your record each day. It kind of makes a game out of being greener.
If you can never get to sleep on time, and resolve that 2019 is the year to finally get on track, try the Sleep Helper skill. It guides you through breathing exercises while you lie in bed. The exercises are meant to relax your body and put you to sleep quickly.
The hardest part about being more adventurous in the new year is coming up with ideas. The Daily Things skill gives you something new to try every day. Just say, "Alexa, ask Daily Things to give me an idea." If you don't like the suggestion, just ask for another one.
Some ideas the skill has given me are to play a new board game with friends, learn a new dance like salsa and write an article for a magazine.
Clare Farrell at an Extinction Rebellion climate change protest, central London, last Sunday.
Clare Farrell, co-founder of the environmental action group Extinction Rebellion, claimed she was barred from entering a show at London fashion week two days after helping to organise a protest against the British Fashion Council to highlight the industry’s role in fuelling climate change.
About 150 people from Extinction Rebellion formed human roadblocks and brought traffic to a standstill outside event venues on Sunday to cause disruption and urge the industry body to declare a climate emergency.
Farrell, who is also a spokeswoman for the direct action group, said she was approached by a police officer who addressed her by name when she was in the queue for the Bethany Williams show at 180 The Strand, London, on Tuesday afternoon, and was told she was not allowed to enter.
Farrell, a fashion designer, said that she had helped produce Williams’ line, which is dedicated to social justice and sustainability, and that she had not been intending to protest at the event.
“To exclude a designer who was both involved in the production of the line and working to bring attention to the climate and ecological crises from the show is just unbelievable,” she added.
The group said Farrell had a ticket for the show, and that staff at the venue were informed of her multiple roles in the production of Williams’ award-winning line. Williams was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II design award for her work, which addresses environmental issues, by the Duchess of Cornwall on Tuesday night.
On Sunday, the British Fashion Council said that it was “pleased that we live in a country where we have a right to protest peacefully”.
It said in a statement: “We believe that more than any other capital, London has an opportunity to be a part of a cultural change around sustainable business practices that put creative product at their core.
The British Fashion Council has been contacted for further comment.
Yosemite, CA — A prescribed burn was ignited Sunday within the historic Mariposa Grove in Yosemite National Park, and smoke is expected to be visible over the next couple of weeks.
31 of the 148 acres scheduled to burn was ignited yesterday. It is expected to last up to 14 days. The Mariposa Grove is currently closed due to a major restoration project, so park officials feel this is an ideal time to conduct the prescribed burn. Historically, natural fire burned an average of 16,000 acres annually...
The National Park Service reports that fire produces the optimum conditions for Giant Sequoia reproduction and propagation. It removes the accumulated layers of dead woody debris, exposes nutrient rich mineral soil, and dries the cones allowing the seeds to shed.
Mobile is undoubtedly changing both our personal and professional lives. Customer service organizations should decide on a strategy to bridge the gap between mobile behavior and customer service. This requires a strategic review of value drivers, combined with a tactical search for relevant use cases.
Don’t fall in the “we need an app for everything” trap — some users need big screens, some users don’t. Some need a rich experience, others just need basic functions. Your strategy must take all of these dynamics into consideration.
A robot in an Amazon warehouse hospitalised 24 of its human colleagues after breaking open a pressurised can of bear repellent.
The automated machine accidentally punctured a 255g can containing concentrated capsican, an ingredient used in pepper spray, sending out painful fumes at the US Amazon facility in Robbinsville, New Jersey.
Local media reported 24 Amazon workers were hospitalised, including one reportedly in a critical condition, while 30 others were treated at the scene, officials told ABC News.
Amazon said: "At our Robbinsville fulfilment centre, a damaged aerosol can dispensed strong fumes in a contained area of the facility. The safety of our employees is our top priority, and as such, all employees in that area were relocated to a safe place.
"Employees experiencing symptoms are being treated onsite. As a precaution, some employees have been transported to local hospitals for evaluation and treatment. We appreciate the swift response of our local responders."
Amazon fulfilment centres typically employ robots for automating some tasks. The warehouse was around 1.3 million square feet and was ventilated.
The local fire department said it was treating multiple patients, with seven ambulances sent to the facility.
Amazon's workforce now includes 575,700 employees globally as well as 80,000 robots known as 'Kiva' which operate in warehouses.
The orange robots operate at 15 sites in the US, one in Poland and are fully operating in Doncaster in the UK.
They weigh 145kg and can carry the weight of a small car. They have a top speed of 4.7kmh and must take a five-minute break every hour to recharge their batteries.
If you're ever wanted to try a recipe with a mouth-watering illustration, but put it aside because you didn't have all the ingredients at the same time, don't be discouraged.
You can develop the art of adapting recipes to suit your stock of on-hand supplies, and learn how to juggle ingredients and make substitutions.
Before trying to substitute one ingredient for another, be sure to consider similarities in taste and texture.
For example, plain unflavored yogurt is a good substitute for sour cream, since it has both a tart flavor and a thick creamy consistency. Athough the taste isn't as close, yogurt's consistency also makes it a possible replacement for mayonnaise in congealed salads.
Though the richness of flavor is lacking, milk can be used instead of cream in most sauces. You may want to cut back a bit on the quantity though, to allow for the difference in thickness.
Along the same line, a prepared whipped topping can replace whipped cream, if you follow the package directions to achieve the same volume as the original.
Also, be sure that your recipe calls for whipped cream and not whipping cream in its unwhipped state.
In the dairy line, inexpensive uncreamed cottage cheese can be substituted for ricotta cheese as it's very similar.
For that matter, many cheeses can replace each other, as long as their consistencies are similar. Macaroni and cheese is delicious when made with Monterey Jack or Colby instead of the regular cheddar.
And I've often interchanged Swiss, provolone, and mozzarella. True, the tastes vary, but unless you're a purist, the results are just as good.
If you find yourself with a bottle of lemon juice but no lemon peel, a solution I've found is to keep a bottle of lemon extract on hand and use 1/4 teaspoon of the extract in place of 1 teaspoon of grated peel.
Or, if you're feeling daring, try using grapefruit as a substitute. When cooked into a cake or cookies, the tartness is quite similar to that of lemon. You might also like to try using orange or lime for variety.
How many times have you passed up a recipe because you're unacquainted with an herb that's needed? Because of the expense of seasonings, I keep a few basic ones on hand and then consult a good reference cookbook to see which herbs have similar tastes and are members of the same family.
''The Joy of Cooking,'' published by Bobbs-Merrill, is an excellent source for such information.
I've used oregano instead of marjoram with great success and interchanged rosemary, basil, and thyme in vegetable mixtures. A teaspoon of dry parsley can replace a tablespoon of fresh parsley and 11/2 teaspoons of prepared mustard is the equivalent of 1/2 teaspoon dry.
Of course any drastic changes in ingredients are going to change the taste of the final product dramatically, but experimentation can improve even the most tried and true recipes.
I've been known to add mint extract to chocolate pudding or to replace vanilla with lemon or other extracts in frostings or basic cake recipes. Corn bread tastes delicious when made using tomato juice.
If you wonder what to do with leftover egg yolks, use two yolks to equal one whole egg in cakes, pie fillings, or meat loaf where the yellow coloring is not a factor.
If a recipe calls for cracker crumbs? Try corn or tortilla chips or seasoned crackers as toppings for coating chicken or fish. Or, substitute uncooked quick-cooking oatmeal for bread crumbs in a meat loaf, using half the quantity.
Often an Italian recipe calls for an unfamiliar pasta. Try stuffing a cooked cabbage leaf instead of manicotti or make the spicy sauce to serve over rice, wedges of cooked cabbage, summer squash, or any mild-flavored vegetable.
: Business collaboration software, using Facebook-style social media features to improve communication within an organization.
: 650, including 250 in Portland, Jive’s largest site.
PALO ALTO, Calif. -- Jive Software certainly isn't a startup anymore.
Entering its 13th year, Jive has already had an IPO, just passed $100 million in annual revenue and employs some 650 in offices around the world. It's the only big tech success to emerge in Oregon in a decade.
In many ways, though, Jive still feels like it's just getting started.
The onetime Portland company -- its largest operations remain at its downtown offices, just off Burnside -- aspires to supersede email. It designed social networking tools to make business communication more effective in the same way social media has changed online interaction outside work.
Some potential clients aren't yet sold. The company spooked investors last month when it cut its sales forecast for the year, lamenting that it's taking "mainstream buyers" longer than expected to get on board with Jive's tools.
So Jive is rethinking its approach, using new strategies to introduce potential clients to its software and helping them work through a business case for the technology. As it does so, Jive pits itself against software giants IBM, Microsoft and Salesforce.com, which have their own new technologies and a much bigger sal...
"We are a much, much smaller company," said co-founder Matt Tucker, now Jive's chief technology officer. "So we not only have to have the best product, but we also have to be the best at proving we make our customers successful."
If you haven't seen it before, it can be hard to envision how Jive works. Its interface is reminiscent of Facebook, a series of posts followed by replies and comments. The idea is to make communication more interactive, and to filter information to highlight the most relevant information.
Founded in Iowa, where Tucker and co-founder Bill Lynch attended the University of Iowa, Jive moved briefly to New York before moving to Portland in 2004. It was among the first in a new generation of startups that sparked a renaissance in Portland entrepreneurship.
Jive attracted excitement in Silicon Valley, too, by applying nascent social media technology to the business world. It landed millions in venture backing, then moved its headquarters to Palo Alto in 2010, where Jive now occupies a tony address downtown, in the heart of America's technology ecosystem.
Portland, though, continues to be its largest site, with 250 employees -- nearly twice as many as in Palo Alto. Last month, the company moved onto a fourth floor of its five-story downtown Portland offices to provide additional space for its engineering team. It's adding an employee gym, too.
At one time, Jive hoped its technology would literally sell itself. It tried giving away an introductory version with the hope that small departments would begin using it, and it would then spread "virally" throughout a company.
Though viral marketing was never Jive's only approach, Tucker said that over time it's become obvious that selling to big customers takes real work.
"Viral is not a strategy. You have to do more than that," he said. "That's part of what we learned moving from early movers to early adopters."
And Jive is still learning. Sometimes painfully.
When the company reported second-quarter revenues last month, it warned of slower growth in the current quarter and cut its sales forecast for the full year. Jive now says it expects sales of no more than $146 million this year, compared with a prior forecast of as much as $153 million.
That suggests Jive's revenues will grow by around 28 percent this year. That's a sharp drop from the 47 percent growth it reported last year and the 67 percent the year before that. All the while, Jive remains unprofitable, making investors jittery at the prospect of slower growth pushing back the company's payday by y...
Analysts cut their price targets and ratings on the company, sending Jive's stock down more than 21 percent in a single day. It's now trading around $13 a share, near its $12 IPO price from 2011.
"While we believe that Jive is the best social software platform on the market, we conclude that the revenue growth deceleration to (about) 20% by (the fourth quarter) and the likelihood of a sharp deceleration in billings growth in (the second half of 2013) will weigh on the stock for at least a few quarters," BMO Cap...
Chief executive Tony Zingale told investment analysts on a conference call that Jive was having a harder time closing big deals than it anticipated. CEOs, he said, or other top executives "came out of the woodwork, and in fact had more say in the decision than we anticipated, as part of the selling process."
So Zingale said that Jive has to do some soul searching.
"Since the quarter has been completed," he said, "we have done extensive reviews across our sales and marketing organization, and the bottom line is we have to do a much better job from an execution perspective."
That work is already under way, Tucker said. Jive is working with new and prospective clients to help them put together a business case for its technology, to see where it might pay off right away and how to deploy it gradually so employees learn to use it.
"It doesn't have to be the thermonuclear deployment right away," Tucker said. "Start slower."
For example, he said, a new client might start by using Jive to help bring new sales reps up to speed so they're hitting their quotas faster. And it might use a feature called "Deal Rooms" to bring people from across the company together in an online forum to help close a big deal.
Customizing the sales pitch for individual customers takes a lot of work, Tucker said, but Jive now has the size and the resources to pull it off.
"It's taken us a while to get the company to a scale where we could work with companies that are that large."
Some of the volatility has been fueled by speculation about potential suitors. It was a fevered topic in the months before Jive's 2011 IPO, and the talk has never really died down.
Microsoft spent $1.2 billion a year ago to buy Jive competitor Yammer, and Bloomberg reported in May that business management software giant SAP had been close to a deal to buy Jive before dropping out of talks.
"The rumor mill is super annoying," Tucker said. As a member of the company's board, he presumably knows the truth about those rumors. Tucker is not tipping his hand, but said that he and the rest of the company have weathered enough innuendo and speculation that they're not easily distracted.
And one tough quarter, he said, doesn't detract from his conviction that Jive has the technology and the tools to build a big business.
"The only way to build a great, valuable company," Tucker said, "is to have a set of things you work on for the longer period."
PARADISE, Calif. — Rex Stewart was broke when he landed in Paradise, Calif., more than 40 years ago. But he found work as a carpenter, helping build parts of this mostly modest town of retirees and commuters tucked away in the Sierra Nevada foothills.

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