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A new piston accumulator design now addresses the issues of offshore accumulator service and reduces disassembly times of piston accumulators from weeks to minutes.
Kocsis Technologies, Inc. (KTI) has developed a new piston accumulator design to address the issues of offshore accumulator service. THIS NEW PATENT PENDING DESIGN IS CALLED LOCKBOXTM.
We at KTI have used this opportunity to solve a major industry problem. Recently, with the help of an incredibly innovative staff of engineers, Todd Peterson, KTI Engineering Manager, has developed this patent pending design to solve this problem. The result of over a year of work is a unit that successfully eliminates this issue. This revolutionary design takes the issue of corroded large threads out of the equation. The unique end configuration makes service of piston accumulators on the rig less complicated. Disassembly times can now be measured in minutes instead of weeks. With the use of common tooling, which is easily found offshore, the accumulators can be disassembled, inspected, have the seals replaced and be reassembled in a fraction of the time.
"We are excited about the new LockboxTM product," said Brandon Richards, General Manager. "This design was created based on feedback from our customers and the difficulty they were having in servicing piston accumulators offshore. The simplicity of the LockboxTM makes servicing the accumulators on the rig more efficient and gets the product back into service quicker."
In an effort to prove the LockboxTM design's robust nature, a prototype has been manufactured and tested. Not only was it subjected to factory hydrotesting at 1.5 times the working pressure, but it was also extensively tested in a hyperbaric chamber at a third party lab to prove reliable function at depth. The results have proven that the unit not only works as intended but it can be assembled, tested and disassembled multiple times without issue. Significant interest has been given to this product by various oil and gas equipment builders and drillers alike. We hope that you are as excited about this new product as we are to sell it.


Belize is a diverse Central American country that sits along the coast of the Caribbean Sea with Mexico and Guatemala bordering the nation. Locals call the nation "the Jewel" thanks to its rich historical Mayan ruins filled with tales and treasure of the past, exotic jungle wildlife such as jaguars and toucans that roam freely and the longest coral reef in the western hemisphere which is home to all kinds of fish and sea life.
The country covers an area that's a smidge smaller than Massachusetts at 22,966 square kilometres with a population of about 340,000 people. The country is a stunning mix of flat plains, mountains and a swamp area that's home to flora and fauna you've likely never seen before.
Belize has a long history with the Mayans as the land's first inhabitants back in 1500 BCE. In 1502, Belize was discovered by explorer Christopher Columbus on his journey to the "new world" and more than a century later, Britain set up the country's first settlement, which was soon followed by many others, and called the "Colony of British Honduras." For more than 100 years, the nation remained under England's rule until it was allowed to form its own government in 1964. Almost ten years after that, the nation renamed itself as Belize and in 1981, it became its own independent nation that we know today.
If you speak English, you'll be relieved to hear that English is Belize's official language, but Creole is spoken by most residents. You'll also hear many dialects spoken throughout the country including Spanish, German, Mandarin and African dialects Garifuna, Maya-Kekchi and Maya Mopan.
Belize is a great country to escape the cold with a yearly average temperature of 28 degrees Celsius. During the summer, temperatures can climb as high as 35 degrees Celsius, but a south-easterly trade helps cool visitors down. If you plan to explore the jungles or rainforests, those areas boast a cooler environment and a great escape from the heat. During the winter, which runs from November to January, Belize's average temperatures only take a slight dip down to 26 degrees Celsius.
Belize can see some heavy rainstorms with areas seeing about 380 cm of rainfall between June to November, but most of that happens in the mainland rainforest with little effect on the offshore islands. The country also experiences a hurricane season between July to October.
Don't get caught in the rush of tourist season, by avoiding booking your trip between late November to late April. If you don't mind the chance of a hurricane, you'll be able to land good prices between late August and mid-October, according to Frommer's.


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Q: Bulk insert from file thrown an error Cannot bulk load because the file could not be opened I'm working with remote Microsoft SQL Server.
After executing following code using DataGrip on Ubuntu I receive an error:
CREATE TABLE #TempNullClass (
  id          nvarchar(10),
  classCode   nvarchar(10)
);

BULK INSERT #TempNullClass
FROM '/home/user/Downloads/data1.csv'
  WITH (
    FIELDTERMINATOR = ',',
    ROWTERMINATOR = '0x0a'
  );

[S0001][4861] Cannot bulk load because the file "/home/user/Downloads/data1.csv" could not be opened. Operating system error code 3(The system cannot find the path specified.).

File has all of the permissions:
-rwxrwxrwx 1 user user      73399 may 15 15:11 data1.csv

I cannot put the file on remote server.

A: The file should be placed on the remote server or in a folder that shared to the remote server.

A: You can use a local file, the file path needs to be relative to the server, so a file on another computer needs to be a UNC path, a server local path does not have to be a share (security concern and one more thing you need to configure and monitor).
I have to loop over import files sometimes like all other DBA's do.  I solve that like this.
You can dump it in a SQL Job and schedule it. Can run every second, or every day, just depends what your business requirements are. Here is a sample of one of my scripts:
SET NOCOUNT ON

DECLARE @BackupDirectory SYSNAME = 'G:\'

  IF OBJECT_ID('tempdb..#DirTree') IS NOT NULL
    DROP TABLE #DirTree

  CREATE TABLE #DirTree (
    Id int identity(1,1),
    SubDirectory nvarchar(255),
    Depth smallint,
    FileFlag bit,
    ParentDirectoryID int
   )

   INSERT INTO #DirTree (SubDirectory, Depth, FileFlag)
   EXEC master..xp_dirtree @BackupDirectory, 10, 1

   UPDATE #DirTree
   SET ParentDirectoryID = (
    SELECT MAX(Id) FROM #DirTree d2
    WHERE Depth = d.Depth - 1 AND d2.Id < d.Id
   )
   FROM #DirTree d

  DECLARE
    @ID INT,
    @BackupFile VARCHAR(MAX),
    @Depth TINYINT,
    @FileFlag BIT,
    @ParentDirectoryID INT,
    @wkSubParentDirectoryID INT,
    @wkSubDirectory VARCHAR(MAX)

  if OBJECT_ID('dbo.ImportFiles')=0
  create table dbo.ImportFiles
  (
    FileNamePath VARCHAR(MAX)
  )
  else
    truncate table dbo.ImportFiles

  DECLARE FileCursor CURSOR LOCAL FORWARD_ONLY FOR
  SELECT * FROM #DirTree WHERE FileFlag = 1

  OPEN FileCursor
  FETCH NEXT FROM FileCursor INTO
    @ID,
    @BackupFile,
    @Depth,
    @FileFlag,
    @ParentDirectoryID

  SET @wkSubParentDirectoryID = @ParentDirectoryID

  WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0
  BEGIN
    --loop to generate path in reverse, starting with backup file then prefixing subfolders in a loop
    WHILE @wkSubParentDirectoryID IS NOT NULL
    BEGIN
      SELECT @wkSubDirectory = SubDirectory, @wkSubParentDirectoryID = ParentDirectoryID
      FROM #DirTree
      WHERE ID = @wkSubParentDirectoryID

      SELECT @BackupFile = @wkSubDirectory + '\' + @BackupFile
    END

    --no more subfolders in loop so now prefix the root backup folder
    SELECT @BackupFile = @BackupDirectory + @BackupFile

    INSERT INTO ImportFiles (FileNamePath) VALUES(@BackupFile)

    FETCH NEXT FROM FileCursor INTO
      @ID,
      @BackupFile,
      @Depth,
      @FileFlag,
      @ParentDirectoryID

    SET @wkSubParentDirectoryID = @ParentDirectoryID
  END

  CLOSE FileCursor
  DEALLOCATE FileCursor

SET NOCOUNT ON
print 'loading files from file table'
-- =============================================
-- Declare and using a READ_ONLY cursor
-- =============================================
DECLARE eoddata_cursor CURSOR
READ_ONLY
FOR SELECT FileNamePath FROM ImportFiles
    where FileNamePath like '%.csv'

DECLARE @name nvarchar(4000), @sql nvarchar(2000), @rows int
OPEN eoddata_cursor

FETCH NEXT FROM eoddata_cursor INTO @name
WHILE (@@fetch_status <> -1)
BEGIN
    IF (@@fetch_status <> -2)
    BEGIN
        print 'file '+@name
        begin try

            truncate table [Tickers].[DataClient]

            set @sql = '
            bulk insert [Tickers].[DataClient]
            from N'''+@name+'''
            with (
              FIELDTERMINATOR ='','',
              ROWTERMINATOR =''\n'' ,
              FIRSTROW = 2,
              CODEPAGE = ''RAW'',
              MAXERRORS = 2000000,
              ERRORFILE = '''+@name+'.err''
            )'

            insert into [Tickers].[DataClient]

            exec(@sql)

            exec [Tickers].[MoveDataClientData] @filename = @name, @rows = @rows output

            delete from ImportFiles where FileNamePath = @name
            print 'loaded :'+str(@rows)
        end try
        begin catch
            print 'error:'+ error_message()

        end catch

    END
    FETCH NEXT FROM eoddata_cursor INTO @name
END

CLOSE eoddata_cursor
DEALLOCATE eoddata_cursor
GO

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Thinking about losing your postpartum gain?
After delivering my son, I had 13 kgs extra added to my pre-pregnancy weight. People, who used to encourage me for eating well, started giving me advice about losing weight, including my husband. First few months I didn't care what people were saying but then I tried my old cloths and I was shattered. I was not fitting in any one of them and I finally admitted that I was looking like a football. Then suddenly my knees started hurting and again everyone connected my aching knees with my overweight body. I was doing everything which I could do for reducing those extra kilos but the process was indeed slow. Finally I went to an orthopedic doc for my hurting knees and I asked him if my postpartum weight gain is responsible for it. He smiled and said "Not at all". I had Vit D deficiency and that was causing pain in my knees. I was killing myself with eating less (because I had no time to hit any gym) so that I could lose some weight but the problem was something else.
1. We gain Thinking as a mother: Before having kids, no girl goes to learn motherhood. There is no such course available as of now. But suddenly we start understanding everything from a mother's point of view. We start learning new things, how to carry the baby, how to burp him, how to clean him, how to change his cloths and many more. We start understanding our babies who can barely do anything for making us understand them. This is the most wonderful insight that we gain.
2. We gain Selflessness: Please recall, before having kids what mattered us most and what now. It's our kids. Selflessness doesn't come to us with any class. We gained it absolutely naturally. Our world revolves around kids now. Every decision we take now has connection with our kids. We sacrifice a-lot of things apatite, sleep, time and self. And we do it without any regret.
3. We gain Unconditional love: We are mothers and that's world's best title so far. For our kids, no one can take our place ever. Our kids need us all the time, when they are happy, when they are sad, when they are scared and when they are proud. They give us immense love in response of our efforts. This feeling of love is absolutely pure and genuine.
4. We gain Self worth: As a mother we always try to improve ourselves. We know that little imperfection can hurt our kids because we know our importance in our kid's life. We understand that kids love us and that's why we keep on evolving as their mother. We believe that we are worthy of being mothers of our kids.
So mothers, next time when you feel stressed about your postpartum shape, please remember that your fleshy arms carry sleepy and sometimes scared little souls and make them feel fine. Your heavy legs give you strength to stand for almost complete night with rocking your babies. Your flabby tummy makes a perfect lap where babies can feel heaven. This postpartum weight gain is helping you actually. So next time you look at mirror, please feel blessed that you gained so much. Weight is just one of them and you can slowly work over it. Keeping yourself fit is always good but killing yourself in hurrying for it is big NO NO.


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The Facebook Mystique
Betty Friedan, American feminist and writer. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
It's funny that the origins of Facebook now seem historical. The fun of The Social Network was the wink-and-a-nod of knowing how it all turns out since audiences were already living in a world that had been transformed by friend requests and status updates. By the time the movie came out in 2010, "to facebook" had already entered the English language as a verb and in 2009 "unfriend" had won the vocab equivalent of an Oscar by being named Word of the Year. By now, the pre-Facebook period is practically the Pleistecene.
Time flies faster in the digital era. Facebook is now one of the world's largest companies and its executives some of the world's wealthiest people. This has ensured that the press rollout for the soon to be published book by Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg (who was responsible for making the company profitable) has gotten some attention. Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead wants women to learn to lead by joining "lean in circles" for self-empowerment.
Sandberg's book just happens to be coming on the heels of another publishing milestone in women's history: the fiftieth anniversary of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique. 1963 sure was another era. Noreen Malone points out in Slate that when Friedan wrote about the long, boring days of the housebound hausfrau in Mystique, she definitely didn't have Wi-Fi. If she'd had, she might have re-connected with her Smith classmates not at a reunion but via Facebook and the book might have been a blog. Instead, it became a social movement. She had to leave the house to get that going.
Although Friedan became an active part of the women's movement of the 1960s and 70s, Feminine Mystique got a lot of criticism for saying it was about women but actually being about white, middle to upper-class women. Sandberg's got it even tougher of course since she's in the yet tinier demographic of self-made billionaire women. And so Friedan's fiftieth and Sandberg's first coming within a few weeks of each other has generated a lot of discussion of what feminism was, is, and should be. Friedan's flaws might now be forgiven since hers was a historic moment but Sandberg is getting a lot of push back as an out of touch self-promoter. It may well be that her advice is more pragmatic than idealist and might only work for women who are also CEOs, but it's worth noticing that she's using her position to point out that there's still some glass at the ceiling. Some of the criticisms of Sandberg echo those that the HBO show Girls has gotten for being about affluent, well-educated white young women. In a New Yorker review of the show, Emily Nussbaum questions this fretting over privilege and concludes that, "when there's a tiny aperture for women's stories. . . when almost no women are Hollywood directors, when few women write TV shows, of course it's the privileged ones who get traction." And even being Hollywood insiders doesn't spare them the industry's mockery–just ask Seth MacFarlane.
Which brings us back to The Social Network. Although more fiction than fact, it offered a nice little origin myth about the company's founder as a smarty pants jerk who couldn't figure out how to get people, especially girls, to like him. So he creates Facebook as a means of revenge against all the slights and snubs of the Harvard hotties and their frat boy hookups by offering an anonymous means of rating them hot, or not. It succeeds wildly and soon the character-based-on-Zuckerberg and his good friend Eduardo (before he's viciously unfriended) are getting it on with two Asian American fangirls in a bar bathroom. The kindlier Eduardo manages to convert one of these women into a girlfriend. She later turns out to be a psycho Tiger Mom who hasn't had kids yet, but that's another story. (Note from Hollywood to model minorities: no matter how model, we'll find a way to put you in your place.) Facebook's founder remains sadly alone through the end of the movie when he gets some tough love advice from an über-competent female lawyer. This character seems like a proto-Sandberg. And so the movie begins with the practical, but common, woman who dumps him and ends with the practical and super-successful woman in a man's world who just deals with it. In between, it's pretty much girls, girls, girls even if they are all students at the nation's most elite universities. These two scenes don't quite save the movie from perpetuating stereotypes of women as bimbos just as Sandberg's book fails to speak to the problems that women from outside the Ivy League are likely to face. But if the book puts another crack in the glass, well, that would be something.

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Sae lang's your bonnie blude is nae aye cweel but kens hoo beauty lunts and sorrows rive.
Folk o' Birse a' countryfolk wi' ye be strang, for ye're the sap o' Scotland's tree.
Written by Robert Kemp, printed in 'A Deeside Kirk ' by Rev. A. Kemp.


Linking to your website to social media sites is bad — Sometimes. Think about it. Each link to your Facebook page, LinkedIn profile, Twitter profile, YouTube channel, Flickr gallery, and even your RSS feed is a link OFF of your website. You work so hard to drive traffic to your website and get your audience to visit your website. Then, once they get there, you're giving them multiple opportunities to leave your site — and if you're selling something, each link to a social networking site is an opportunity to lose a sale.
Now I'm not saying the links shouldn't be there at all, I merely want to reinforce how important it is for you to think about where your social media links are on your website and how you use them. You need to take into consideration the placement of your social networking and social media profile links.
Your blog is a place for education, conversation, engagement, and interaction with your audience. Your blog showcases who you are, and provides a place where you can share your opinion and build relationships with your readers. It's a place on your website where people can get to know you. Displaying your social networking and social media profile links prominently on your blog pages is a natural fit because it encourages visitors to keep the conversation going on other platforms.
Your standard web pages are pages like your Home page, About page, Contact Page, Testimonials Page, etc. These pages are necessary to communicate what it is that you do, who you are, and what they can expect. Links to your different social media profiles need to be present, but not as in your face as on your blog pages.
Think twice before including your social networking links on any page of your website that makes a sales offer or has to do with you making money. You definitely do not want to distract the prospect with opportunities to abandon the sale or leave your site. This is why we commonly see plain sales pages used with no navigation and no links to leave the page. Remember, each link off your money pages is an opportunity to lose the sale.
Where Do Your Social Media Link Belong?
When it comes to displaying social networking icons and links to your social media profiles, think about the goal of the web page. Does it make sense to have the link in the header or at the top of the sidebar? Or would it be better to include them at the bottom of the sidebar?
Are Your Social Media Choices Making You Look Like A Jerk?


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Smart Audio Tours
November 18, 2013 by Javi the Frog
Smart Audio Tour Ipod devices
Old Costa Rican Ten pesos bill at Gold Museum
Javi the Frog next to old pottery made by indigenous
With Smart Audio Tours, you can discover the secrets of Costa Rica that only locals and frogs like me know. Smart Audio Tours offers a cool new application that provides visitors with the opportunity to experience main tourist hotspots and cultural attractions through individually guided tours. Pull out your own smartphone (if I had one I would too), or rent one through to museum to listen to insightful descriptions of exhibits and look at photos and videos, all in your language of choice. In Costa Rica, Smart Audio Tours walk or hop you through the Pre-Columbian Gold Museum and Numismatic Museum, which are both located in downtown San Jose.
It will allow visitors to tour the museums at their own pace, without interruptions and without a tour guide, Virginia Vargas, the museums director, told the Tico Times.
Smart Audio Tours is a great way to learn about the exhibits you are interested in!
Pre-Columbian Gold Museum
The Pre-Columbian Gold Museum has one of the largest collections of golden jewelry in Central America. It's so shiny I sometimes have to look away. It sits under the Plaza de Cultura in Costa Rica's Central Bank. With Smart Audio Tours, you can explore all 1600 gorgeous artifacts that trace back to 500 A.D. while learning about the artisans who constructed them and the pieces symbolic meaning. Experience the full story all through the touch of a smartphone. From jaguars to necklaces to chest plates, the gold - and the history behind it - will blow you away.
The tour will take you through two levels of the building, starting with an introduction and orientation area that highlights the social evolution of pre-Columbian cultures. It also covers the development of metallurgy, or the science of engineering metals. That stuff is a little too complex for me, personally, but you'll probably enjoy it.
Make your way up to the third floor where you'll find numerous exhibits of gold pieces. Learn about their day-to-day use, spiritual importance and ties to the structure of early Costa Rican societies. Have a question about a specific piece of gold? Smart Audio will fill you in with all you need to know.
In a place steeped in history and gold, it doesn't hurt to be rich in knowledge - the Gold Museum is a perfect day trip.
Located in the same building as the Pre-Columbian Gold Museum, the Numismatic Museum (numismatics is the collection of currency) packs a permanent exhibition of the different modes of money from 1502 to present day. Smart Audio Tours will take you through the different aspects of currency, the methods of bartering and the use of coins, which began during the colonial period. I always wonder what frog life was like back then. Curious what certain symbols on a dollar mean? On Smart Audio's device, you can pull up the nuances of the beautiful and valuable coins. The museum also features a fascinating video called Paper Passions and Silver.
Smart Audio Tours costs $7 for adults and $3 for seniors and kids under 18. If you don't have a smartphone, no worries, you can rent one at the museums.
With no previous reservations, you can use the latest technology to learn about fascinating exhibits at the Pre-Columbian Gold and Numismatic Museums.
You get to use iPhones, Ipods or smart phones from Smart Audio Tours.
You can save money on guided tours. Oftentimes, there are certain displays at the museum that catch your eye more than others. Get to the good stuff that you want to learn about with Smart Audio Tours.
Have fun answering trivia questions for the opportunity to win prizes.
Share your experiences with friends and family through social networks.
When to Enjoy
Central Bank Museums are open everyday from 9:15 a.m. to 5 p.m. The entrance is $11 for tourists. Students and children under 12 enter free.
Javi the Frog over old precolumbian gold jewerly, San Jose
Indian gold used as jewerly at Gold Museum, San Jose
Amazing hall at Gold Museum, San Jose
Precolumbian gold pieces made by Costa Rica indigenous, Gold Museum
Costa Rica first gold coin, Gold Museum
Old bill printing machine at Gold Museum, San Jose
Tourist listening to audio history, San Jose
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'UpFront': Johnson pressing Trump admin to seal trade deals, end tariffs
U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson said he is trying to pressure the Trump administration to conclude negotiations on trade deals so that the president's tariffs can end.
Johnson said he is "highly concerned" about tariffs leading to a trade war and harming the economy.
"We've seen the saber rattling. Now we've actually had the opening shots of a trade war. And nobody can predict where it ends," the Oshkosh Republican said on "UpFront with Mike Gousha," produced in partnership with WisPolitics.com.
Johnson is co-sponsoring a bill that would require the president to seek congressional approval of certain tariffs. He said the bill would "reclaim congressional constitutional authority."
"You can't have 535 members of Congress trying to negotiate trade deals. You need the chief executive to do that. But it should be in complete consultation with Congress. And in the end, you should bring those trade deals back to Congress for ratification as treaties. That's the way the system should work," he said.
"I'm hoping to put pressure on the Trump administration to 'OK, fine, use (tariffs) as negotiating leverage, but conclude the deals.' There's a lot of micro damage being done while all this uncertainty is being created," he said.
Johnson also said the inspector general's report of the FBI is "going to give me a lot of information in my own three-year investigation of the Hillary Clinton email scandal and then the FBI's investigation of it."
Johnson called the report a "treasure trove" of information.
"I concluded a long time ago that the email scandal, the investigation of it was not meant to uncover the truth and lead to prosecution, but it was really meant to cover up and lead to exoneration. I haven't changed my opinion of it," he said.
Johnson also said Trump's summit in Singapore with North Korean leader Kim Jung Un made the United States "marginally" safer.
"We got three hostages released, we have a commitment to return the remains of American service members that lost their lives in Korea. Those aren't small things," he said.
Johnson said it would now be up to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his team of experts to negotiate and "figure out how we get the complete, irreversible, verifiable dismantlement of their nuclear program and their ICBM technology."
Also on the program Democratic candidate for governor Mahlon Mitchell said he is embracing the moniker of "union boss," given to him by Republicans, because labor represents people.
"Labor, they're not corporations, they represent people. So it's not just having labor support or having union support. It's about having their members behind you," he said.
Mitchell said in his role as the head of the Professional Fire Fighters of Wisconsin, he represents "men and women who run into burning buildings … men and women who respond to medical emergencies around the state."
"You can call me whatever you want," he said. "That's helping the people of this state, and that's what I would do as governor."
"We need a different type of candidate, and that's why I'm running. We need someone who is not only different but unique," he said. "People are struggling, and we need a governor who's going to take care of common people."
Mitchell, who is African American, also said he would address the problem of a high rate of African-American male incarceration in Wisconsin, pledging to "tackle that head on" if elected.
He said he would do that in part by putting an end to jailing people for minor drug offenses, and getting rid of truth-in-sentencing."
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Jason Lee released a new music video for his new single called Darling!
"Happiness is something for us all..."
"End Girl" wins our spot for best music video of 2015.


A week after announcing the examination schedule for the upcoming examinations, the University of Mumbai has decided to change the schedule for BCom and law courses. The decision has come after the MU received a series of complaints from students about university exam and competitive exam dates clashing in November.
"Many students from the commerce faculty opt to study for Chartered Accountancy (CA) simultaneously. They will have a tough time as MU exams and CA exams will clash," said a professor from a suburban college. Many students have also complained about the problem to the university with hope of avoiding double exams on the same day. "The university exams are conducted between 11am and 1.30 pm, whereas the CA exam starts at 2pm. Imagine running between two exam centres in Mumbai," added the professor.
When law students also faced a similar problem, the examination department of MU received a series of complaints. "There have been various complaints, and we are taking all into consideration. Students need not panic because we are working out a schedule that would avoid any clash of dates between examinations. New dates will be announced soon," said Deepak Wasave, deputy registrar, MU.
While the university is looking towards damage control at present, students and colleges are upset about facing this same problem year after year. "The CA exam is always held between first and second week of November, so how can the university not take this into account every year? We end up panicking and complaining every time and then the officials try to repair the damage," said a third year Bachelor of Accounting Finance (BAF) student from a city college.
The MU will release an updated exam schedule soon, said officials.


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Google Music Service: The Screenshots
Michael Arrington	@arrington?lang=en / 10 years
None of the companies involved will confirm the new Google Music service – we have "no comments" or absolute silence from Google, LaLa, MySpace and iLike. But the new service is all but confirmed. And we have the screenshots showing how the service, which will be announced on October 28, will look to prove it.
Matt Ghering, a product marketing manager at Google, has been one of the people talking to the big four music labels about the new service, we've heard from one of our sources. And he has supposedly sent these screenshots of the look and feel of Google Music search to various rights holders and potential partners.
The first screenshot shows how a search result might look on Google for a search for "U2." A picture of the band is to the left of four streaming options for various songs, and the user has the option of listening via either iLike or LaLa. Click on one of the results, and a player pops up from the services that streams the song, along with an option to purchase the song for download.
We don't know if this is the final look of the service, but it's definitely something Google has been sending to people to show them what it might look like.
More thoughts on this later as we digest all the information coming in. But one thing is clear – this is a huge win for LaLa and iLike. Both will get massive flow from this deal. And as much as we criticize MySpace, their acquisition of iLike is starting to look sort of brilliant.
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Presently holding World 3rd Ranking in Kata & 8th Ranking in Kumite in Sports Karate declared by the World Karate Federation.
Won a Bronze Medal for India in the 11th World Karate Youth Cup-2018 held at Umag, Croatia Organised by the World Karate Federation. In this Championship 65 countries across the world had participated.
Won a Silver Medal in the Karate1 Youth League-2018 held at Sofia, Bulgaria, where 96 countries took part in this championship.
Won a Gold Medal (Kata) for India in the 10th World Karate Youth Cup-2017 at Umag, Croatia Organised by the World Karate Federation. In this Championship 92 countries across the world had participated.
Won a Silver Medal (Kumite) for India in the 10th World Karate Youth Cup -2017at Umag, Croatia Organised by the World Karate Federation. In this Championship 65 countries across the world had participated.
Won a Bronze Medal for India in the 9th World Karate Youth Cup-2016 at Umag, Croatia Organised by the World Karate Federation. In this Championship 65 countries across the world had participated.
Won a Gold Medal for India in the Commonwealth Karate Championship, New Delhi, organised by the Commonwealth Karate Federation. In this Championship around 18 countries had participated.
Won a Silver Medal for India at Singapore in the 14th Asia Pacific Shito-Ryu Karate Championship 2014, organised by the World Shito-Ryu Karate Association.
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Anyone have a quick way to find an exposure index for a Hi Def camera (Any high def camera the DP shows up with without giving you any tech info on beforehand...like that never happens). Or, does anyone have a list of E.I's for various high def cameras?
I'm more of a film than video guy and having to crowd in for a look at the monitor while my meter sits in my bag is getting real irritating.
Exposure Index for HD or any video camera is not entirely accurate since the sensitometric curve of film is so different to that of video. I find that the Sony camera floats somewhere between 320 and 800 depending on how I wish a scene to look. For sunny daytime exteriors it's closer to 320 but for moody night interiors I rate it closer to 800 because it sees so far into the shadows. The Panasonic has a similar range, although the response can be a bit different depending on whether you use the Film Gamma settings. Frankly there's so many adjustments that can be made in the different cameras that the only real way to know is to use a waveform and a well-calibrated monitor.
Set up a grey card and adjust the EI on your meter so that the stop matches the stop on the camera lens.
I don't necessarily find this particularly accurate or useful myself. With film, once you find that magic spot where the grey card reads 18%, you might have 3-4 stops of over-exposure range and 3-4 stops of under-exposure range. In HD using the method you describe, I find I have maybe 1.5 stops over-exposure and as many as 5-6 stops underexposure (depending on settings). So even with this meter reading one still has to worry a lot about highlights blowing out and seriously adjust fill levels so the image doesn't look too "lit." Which means that the monitor is still very necessary.
I find that some folks simply can't relate all that well to exposing video with a monitor. As unscientific as it sounds, it is still the best and easiest way of judging exposure REGARDLESS of whether you are looking at a 9 inch or paying elephants to carry around those monstrous monitors I see folks using. Which makes me wonder, if for one hundred years, folks using film had a monitor to adjust exposure and then HD video came along and used a new fangled way of using a meter, would anyone bother buying one.
>I find that the Sony camera floats somewhere between 320 and 800 >depending on how I wish a scene to look. For sunny daytime exteriors >it's closer to 320 but for moody night interiors I rate it closer to 800 >because it sees so far into the shadows.
The concept of Exposure Index is to predict negative (well could be reversal/pos density) density of a film stock, there is pretty much an accepted methodology in printing that negative (nonetheless as we all know, even film exposure indices ain't written in stone), in video for any cinema purpose it can really depend on what they're gonna do & where they're gonna go with the signal recorded on the tape.
Of course the reverse is that the Varicam has the excellent feature of a built-in spot meter, which will give an IRE reading to whatever is in the crosshairs. That is incredibly useful, often more telling than a waveform with all that info on the screen at once.
For setting HD exposure, nothing beats a waveform monitor and a large HD monitor in a proper viewing environment, but when you are on the run, the two zebras give excellent exposure results. I've been setting my first zebra to 71% and stopping down until they just disappear from the face; I've had no trouble with exposure using this method. Others rely on different percentages, measuring different areas, but this is what works for me.
For the jobs where only a smaller monitor is accessible, the little Sony 9" HD monitor is fine. By the way, I hate one feature of this monitor; when the Anton Bauer brick dies, the monitor makes a racket, and then turns itself back on after a bit with more noise. Does anyone know how to disable this "feature?"
I'm currently using a small Astro on the camera, but mine is an old model without the built-in waveform monitor. I think the new model might work well as an exposure guide and Panasonic also has a new on-camera LCD with a small waveform built-in. The Panasonic is attractively priced, though not a fully featured as the Astro. I've not tested the Panasonic LCD in my studio, only seen it at NAB, but I'm considering it as a replacement for the 9" Sony.
As has been said, the settings for HD cameras make the "ASA" of the camera an elusive, moving target. On the Varicam, for example, the Dynamic Level control varies the sensitivity by at least a full stop. Yes, you can get an approximation of the sensitivity for any given setting, and you can use that number when you are scouting or lighting a set/location to a desired stop. I've personally found that I can pretty much do that by eye, so my Spectra usually stays in the case; I certainly no longer need it to establish lighting ratios.
I do think a good spot meter is vital in lighting Blue/Green screens, but more than a few Cinematographers do very good jobs on this by eye. I always use the meter and the waveform monitor when lighting a screen.
Re : [cml-lighting] HD exposure amazes me that with a technology that shows you the visual results right then and there, some people would RATHER take light level measurements, read some numbers, and then use their experience and imagination to predict the results -- and then consider this a more accurate way of working. What can be more accurate than simply seeing the image that the camera is capturing?
This is not a pro-video argument; I'm just suggesting that the notion that applying film techniques (metering) will lead to MORE accurate results when shooting video than using standard video techniques (monitors, zebras, waveforms, scopes) for judging the image. It seems to me that video's chief advantage is the reduction in the reliance of metering, making the experience of lighting and exposing more immediate. If I have to start metering everything when shooting video, I'd be asking myself why I wasn't just shooting film instead since I seemed to be wanting to deny myself one of video's true pleasures, the instant gratification of seeing the results of your lighting. Then you'd be in the WORST of both worlds : using a format with less exposure latitude and then having to rely on technical measurements to predict the results.
Anyway, with the way that video seems to vary in how it responds to low versus high light levels, I don't think picking an ASA value and always exposing by a meter reading -- while that can still work -- would be a more ACCURATE method than using something like a well-calibrated monitor and zebras in the viewfinder. On the other hand, for lighting a set without waiting for a monitor & camera to be set up, of course using your meter (and your eyes) is a good idea. It's just for final exposure decisions, I would use the monitor and zebras as a guide.
style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom: 0;">>What can be more accurate than simply seeing the image that the >camera is capturing?
I rarely ever pull out the meter when shooting HD. In fact I generally only do it to confirm my instincts (which are still developing) on ratios and such. The monitor is most certainly the way to go. I've also found that the "apparent ASA" not only fluctuates in dramatic changes like interiors to exteriors, but even within the same environment going through subtle changes in angle or focal length. There always seem to be slight fluctuations in sensitivity depending on the amount of luminance in any given shot.
Hence where while shooting film I like to settle on a 'stop' and light consistently for it, I find myself changing stops much more often for HD.
style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom: 0;">>So even with this meter reading one still has to worry a lot about >highlights blowing out and seriously adjust fill levels so the image >doesn't look too "lit." Which means that the monitor is still very >necessary.
Sure, but for ratios and lighting it puts you in the ball park. I don't think anyone is actually metering for accurate camera exposure for video are they? It just helps to not be tethered to the monitor when roughing in the set. Me thinks.
I know that this thread has turned into a discussion of camera exposure and "why use a meter when you've got the monitor", but the original poster was a gaffer and has a very valid point in implying that it is inefficient to be running to the monitor ("crowding around") when he could be making evaluations on the floor.
Interesting discussion this. Last week I shot a food commercial on a digital format, just the table top, kitchen backgrounds and products for some CGI animation to jump about on. I almost didn't take my meter that morning and actually went back into my house to pick it up for some strange, perhaps comfort, reason. During the set up there were some differences in the shadow areas in the foreground which we couldn't seem to rectify using the monitor.
Out came the meter and bobs your uncle. Lighting the kitchen background was easier using a monitor though, as was getting a shallow depth of field we were all happy with. I think I looked in the camera only once, seeing as there was no operating to be done.
>During the set up there were some differences in the shadow areas in >the foreground which we couldn't seem to rectify using the monitor.
But if I were going to light a long Steadicam shot where I wanted a person to pass under multiple pools of light that were at the same level, I would use a meter whether it was for HD or film.
Here's an instance of the top of my head, in lighting for video, where I might have profited slightly by using a meter: we're using natural daylight from one medium sized window to light / fill half a room, small soft lighting flexible units on the other side. We decided - time factor, rigging, plus the light looked good and no chance of direct sun....To go this route. In fact it looked quite natural and nice.
Mid afternoon and then after about 1 hr or more the DP says to me "do you think we've lost any of the daylight ?" I look at it and the monitor and say "no it's the same" --- an hour after that he says "have we lost any yet" and I say "a little" and then "1/ 2 stop maybe, no more" --- and at the end of this setup I think I said "it's probably close to or even a full stop less than when we began"
I've lit quite a few video jobs where you don't have a monitor to look at until it's too late. Usually big pre-light jobs. In that case you only have a meter and your eye to rely on.
>But if I were going to light a long Steadicam shot where I wanted a >person to pass under multiple pools of light that were at the same level, >I would use a meter whether it was for HD or film.
Might be good but with video I'd probably still have a stand in do the walk and make sure it works, but the meter certainly could be useful here.
Had a dinner scene with six people around a table, keyed with a China ball with a photoflood inside. Photofloods die over time, plus for each close-up I wanted a relatively closely matching key level even though it was a rectangular table that normally would not allow this. I used my light meter to make sure levels remained consistent during the course of a long night and many, many angles.
Anyway, if all the gaffer needs is a ballpark ASA equivalent, he can probably do that right on the set with the camera and a grey card to find a setting for his meter that is close enough to be practical. He and his DP should probably come to some agreement anyway as to what ASA they want to work at.
One safe alternative to a photoflood in a China ball would be a fourplex lamp socket (star configuration) with four 100W Sylvania Capsylite bulbs. Being halogen, they won't go dim or yellow over time. And being encased in a thick (nearly unbreakable) glass outer envelope they don't have the explosion/fire-hazard factor of bare halogens.
If your light needs to be somewhat directional, you can add an internal reflector made of Reflectix insulation. This will also give you about an extra stop of light output. And you can rotate the ball to control the relative illumination on different parts of the scene.
Indeed, I always have my meter when I know there'll be no waveform monitor, regardless of having a decent monitor on set. At least I can confirm light to shadow values, especially outdoors.
I'm impressed, I'm going to have to totally revise my presentation for IBC as a result of this thread.
I hadn't realised that nobody pre-lit when shooting HD.
I hadn't realised that nobody shot simultaneously on multiple sets on HD, my personal record is 8 sets on 3 stages all to match identically.
I hadn't realised that nobody went back to get pickups months, or in one case over a year, later on HD.
I didn't realise that nobody shot second unit that had to match the first units work on HD.
I didn't realise that you always had ideal and matching viewing conditions on every set and every day when you shot HD.
I didn't realise that you carried all the rushes with you all the time and had duplicates of everything made for every unit on the shoot when you shot HD.
So much I don't know, I'll have to pull out of IBC.
It's so different shooting HD, I had no idea!
>I hadn't realised that nobody pre-lit when shooting HD. I hadn't realised >that nobody shot simultaneously on multiple sets on HD, my personal >record is 8 sets on 3 stages all to match identically.
Wow, Listmums are crackling these days. First Jessica yesterday, now Geoff. I've tried to express the same thing in the past myself.
As for HD cameras changing "ASA", Yeah I 'm sure they can if you play with the gain structure or cheat Gammas, but my experience is that they are remarkably consistent no matter what, if you don't twiddle.
My personal view is that nothing beats having a light meter during complex set-ups. A great monitor and waveform are wonderful, but it's just not possible when you're on the move or before the camera arrives. Here's how I've been ascertaining relative film speed numbers for video cameras of all kinds (NTSC or HD).
Have the video engineer set up the camera on a grey scale chart (which typically has 11 steps ranging from a reflective value of 2% to 90% on a 12% background). Allow the engineer to adjust the camera for best exposure across the entire range of chips. The lens should be around the middle of its zoom range during this charting for reasons addressed below.
Then take an incident light reading on the chart, note the aperture on the camera lens (along with any gain settings and filter) and work the numbers to provide you with a correlated film speed. As long as the gain settings and filters remain the same, you can depend on the speed remaining constant throughout the day.
The only variable that might throw your readings will be due to F-stop ramping. Most video lenses have pronounced F-Stop ramping at the extreme ends of the zoom range. You will lose light at the furthest telephoto range and gain light at the widest angles. Few video lenses can be depended on for T-Stop accuracy.
This technique has provided me with consistent and dependable results when working with video. Your experience with the particular camera (and the way that your engineer sets it up) will provide you with dependable exposure latitude information.
Another important tool is a "God" monitor and a waveform. The best situation is to have your own monitor who's set up is consistent and dependable. The monitor is your subjective "light meter". It ultimately answers the question of "Does it look good?"
The waveform is your empirical measurement that shows you what the camera is really seeing. It pays to learn how to read a waveform so that you can know when there is a problem, particularly at the upper and lower range of the exposure.
>As for HD cameras changing "ASA", Yeah I 'm sure they can if you play >with the gain structure or cheat Gammas, but my experience is that they >are remarkably consistent no matter what, if you don't twiddle.
>my experience is that they are remarkably consistent no matter what, if >you don't twiddle.
Yea, scratching my head too!
>It pays to learn how to read a waveform so that you can know when >there is a problem, particularly at the upper and lower range of the >exposure.
Bruce's advice on working with your engineer to establish working parameters is excellent. I would add that the waveform not only allows you to confirm values and ratios, but will quickly give you a heads up when the camera head develops technical problems; i.e. timing, sync, phase, a board on the verge of failure, etc., allowing you and/or your DIT to make more informed decisions.
Remember the TK-76 with the waveform overlay...rotated ninety degrees for some strange reason? Bizarre implementation of a great idea.
It would be *fantastic* if we could touch a momentary switch and have a greyed-out picture with a white (peak oriented) waveform display in the viewfinder.
>It would be *fantastic* if we could touch a momentary switch and have >a out-out picture with a white (peak oriented) waveform display in the >viewfinder.
What a great idea! I'd like to see professional cameras with a flip out LCD's on the side too - I frequently operate cameras which are rigged in unusual positions, and a side LCD makes operating the camera in those situations a lot easier.
I don't know the last time I took out a camera - film or video - without sticking an LCD off an Israeli Arm onto it. I simply ALWAYS operate in this mode. If I'm not using it then it's always good for my assistant or convenient for the client. I frankly don't have a problem with the cameras not having one built in since that is technology that is changing very fast and is fairly cheap. I'd rather have a better add-on display than a mediocre built-in one, although I guess I could always add a better screen to a camera with one built in.
I see it as a few problems.
First these cameras are designed as ENG cameras. No room for the circuitry for putting a waveform.
Second, these cameras are designed as ENG cameras, no need for a waveform.
Third, these cameras are designed as ENG cameras, you want a waveform, go buy one.
Forth, these cameras are designed as ENG cameras, what's the matter with zebras?
>Forth, these cameras are designed as ENG cameras, what's the matter >with zebras?
Why do people think that these cameras need a waveform? The Zebras work perfectly fine. They also don't need a flip out LCD, that's what you get the onboard monitor for.
Asking an engineer if you need a WFM is like asking a barber if you need a haircut.
>Asking an engineer if you need a WFM is like asking a barber if you >need a haircut.
The real question is who brought back the engineer anyway. Half of these so called 'engineers' or that other title I often see are simply AC's trying to keep a job. Ask them what a front porch is and they'll tell you a place to whittle wood.
Yeah, and who needs that fancy-shmancy reflex viewfinder? Greg Tolland didn't need one for Citizen Kane?
True, although for quite a while now film cameras have had video taps and little flat screen monitors attached for focus pulling ease.
I have a tiny little canon mini DV thingy camera which fits in my pocket that I use for all sorts of things from filming my kids to checking locations. It has a flip out screen which is great, I love it.
Just because such things on ENG cameras haven't existed before, why not now? The eyepiece B&W screens are a pain in the arse anyway.
Or am I missing something in this debate.
>Just because such things on ENG cameras haven't existed before, why >not = now? The eyepiece B&W screens are a pain in the arse anyway.
Because the ENG market doesn't need them. Professional ENG shooters know everything about exposure from experience and wouldn't want one let alone know how to use one. 99% of video cameras are for ENG purposes so to try to get an industry change because a few folks want extras isn't in the picture.
thank god for black and white viewfinders.
>Because the ENG market doesn't need them. Professional ENG >shooters know everything about exposure from experience and wouldn't >want one let alone know how to use one.
Of course, but sometimes...I was using a "professional ENG" camera today and the damned thing had to be so high up and the director was hogging the monitor that a flip-out-tilt-down-screen would have helped me with the operating a little bit, colour or black and white.
>Of course, but sometimes...I was using a "professional ENG" camera >today and the damned thing had to be so high up and the director was >hogging the monitor that a flip-out-tilt-down-screen would have helped >me with the operating a little bit, colour or black and white.
Still ain't gonna make the market change.
>Because the ENG market doesn't need them...thank god for black and >white viewfinders.
It's all been Down Hill since the HL77 and TK76. They were good enough. Why bother improving?
Sure be nice if we had a chat thread for all this chat nonsense.
>who needs that fancy-shmancy reflex viewfinder? Greg Tolland didn't >need one for Citizen Kane?
I prefer the old reliable wire frames, myself. They're much lighter than those clunky old Mitchell finders, and have absolutely the highest resolution, greatest depth of field and most impeccable color rendering of any finder system before or since. Parallax? Just shift your head a bit -- no need to futz with those pesky adjustment knobs and scales.
If the folks at Thomson had their heads screwed on straight they'd provide one for the Viper. But they'll probably never think of it.
>It's all been Down Hill since the HL77 and TK76. They were good >enough.
TK76 good enough! Ouch! My back says different. For that matter lets go back to BVU110's and while were at it how bout Cine60 "diver weights" light belts.
So how much wattage were you using to light intvws for a TK76?
Sound? Lots of great movies were made without sound!
Sony's new Optical camera has a flip out screen on the operators side (flimsy feeling) but no waveform.


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Ralph Towner – Solstice
Solstice is an album by the American guitarist Ralph Towner that was released on the ECM label in 1975. It features Towner with Jan Garbarek, Eberhard Weber and Jon Christensen. The 1977 album, Solstice/Sound and Shadows, was released by Towner on ECM with the same quartet (Wikipedia). AllMusic Review by Michael G. Nastos: When Ralph Towner burst onto the contemporary jazz scene in the mid-70s, listeners were well aware of his awesome talent as a member of Oregon. But when Solstice was issued on the ECM label, it took the brilliant guitarist's caché to a much higher level, especially as a composer. With the otherworldly curved soprano sax and flute playing of Jan Garbarek, the precise drumming of Jon Christensen, and unique bass sounds of Eberhard Weber, the music on this album lifted the ECM/Euro-styled jazz and improvised music to a new realm of pure expressionism. Simply put -- this music is stunningly beautiful. The incredible "Oceanus" begins with Towner's cascading guitar, followed by the swelling and symphonic bass of Weber, a swinging drum line by Christensen with Garbarek's atmospheric and dramatic curved soprano layering contrasting timbres, symmetry, and unusual colors. "Nimbus" opens with some astounding technical harmonics from Towner, more so considering the acoustic nature of his instrument. A circular theme in implied 3/4 underneath 4/4 leads to overdubbed flutes from Garbarek, bowed bass, the curved soprano in 6/8 all identifying the pure ECM sound. "Piscean Dance" is a funky workout between Towner and Christensen, the earthiest track on the date, and an exercise of intuitive confluence. Other portions of the disc are space oriented like the loose, free and haunting "Red & Black," "Visitation" with multiple percussion sounds of flexatone and shakers under Weber's bowed bass and Garbarek's alien dragonfly flute, while Weber's "Sand" has the musicians staring at the Crab Nebula while firmly rooted in a strut later in the piece. Towner's wondrous piano is heard on "Drifting Petals," a pretty and pensive waltz with unison lines alongside Garbarek's flute, then Towner switches to guitar in a deeper discourse with the quartet. As cold as the Norwegian studio (Oslo) they were recording in, "Winter Solstice" is not so much profound as it is telepathic, as the players use stop-start techniques, again inserting a 3/4 rhythm into a 4/4 equation. Of the many excellent recordings he has offered, Solstice is Towner's crowning achievement as a leader fronting this definitive grouping of ECM stablemates who absolutely define the label's sound for the time frame, and for all time (http://www.allmusic.com/album/solstice-mw0000188863). Track listing: All compositions by Ralph Towner except where noted. "Oceanus" – 11:04 "Visitation" – 2:36 "Drifting Petals" – 7:01 "Nimbus" – 6:31 "Winter Solstice" – 4:02 "Piscean Dance" – 4:15 "Red and Black" – 1:19 "Sand" (Eberhard Weber) – 4:10 Personnel: Ralph Towner – 12-string and classical guitar, piano Jan Garbarek – tenor and soprano saxophone, flute Eberhard Weber – bass, cello Jon Christensen – drums, percussion Released: 1975 Recorded: December 1974 Studio Arne Bendiksen Studio, Oslo Length: 40:58 Label: ECM ECM 1060 Producer: Manfred Eicher
Solstice is an album by the American guitarist Ralph Towner that was released on the ECM label in 1975. It features Towner with Jan Garbarek, Eberhard Weber and Jon Christensen.
The 1977 album, Solstice/Sound and Shadows, was released by Towner on ECM with the same quartet (Wikipedia).
AllMusic Review by Michael G. Nastos:
When Ralph Towner burst onto the contemporary jazz scene in the mid-70s, listeners were well aware of his awesome talent as a member of Oregon. But when Solstice was issued on the ECM label, it took the brilliant guitarist's caché to a much higher level, especially as a composer. With the otherworldly curved soprano sax and flute playing of Jan Garbarek, the precise drumming of Jon Christensen, and unique bass sounds of Eberhard Weber, the music on this album lifted the ECM/Euro-styled jazz and improvised music to a new realm of pure expressionism. Simply put — this music is stunningly beautiful. The incredible "Oceanus" begins with Towner's cascading guitar, followed by the swelling and symphonic bass of Weber, a swinging drum line by Christensen with Garbarek's atmospheric and dramatic curved soprano layering contrasting timbres, symmetry, and unusual colors. "Nimbus" opens with some astounding technical harmonics from Towner, more so considering the acoustic nature of his instrument. A circular theme in implied 3/4 underneath 4/4 leads to overdubbed flutes from Garbarek, bowed bass, the curved soprano in 6/8 all identifying the pure ECM sound. "Piscean Dance" is a funky workout between Towner and Christensen, the earthiest track on the date, and an exercise of intuitive confluence. Other portions of the disc are space oriented like the loose, free and haunting "Red & Black," "Visitation" with multiple percussion sounds of flexatone and shakers under Weber's bowed bass and Garbarek's alien dragonfly flute, while Weber's "Sand" has the musicians staring at the Crab Nebula while firmly rooted in a strut later in the piece. Towner's wondrous piano is heard on "Drifting Petals," a pretty and pensive waltz with unison lines alongside Garbarek's flute, then Towner switches to guitar in a deeper discourse with the quartet. As cold as the Norwegian studio (Oslo) they were recording in, "Winter Solstice" is not so much profound as it is telepathic, as the players use stop-start techniques, again inserting a 3/4 rhythm into a 4/4 equation. Of the many excellent recordings he has offered, Solstice is Towner's crowning achievement as a leader fronting this definitive grouping of ECM stablemates who absolutely define the label's sound for the time frame, and for all time (http://www.allmusic.com/album/solstice-mw0000188863).
All compositions by Ralph Towner except where noted.
"Oceanus" – 11:04
"Visitation" – 2:36
"Drifting Petals" – 7:01
"Nimbus" – 6:31
"Winter Solstice" – 4:02
"Piscean Dance" – 4:15
"Red and Black" – 1:19
"Sand" (Eberhard Weber) – 4:10
Ralph Towner – 12-string and classical guitar, piano
Jan Garbarek – tenor and soprano saxophone, flute
Eberhard Weber – bass, cello
Jon Christensen – drums, percussion
Recorded: December 1974
Studio Arne Bendiksen Studio, Oslo
Label: ECM
ECM 1060
Producer: Manfred Eicher
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Categories: Ethno Jazz, Post-bop
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When you select to use our skip hire company, you will conclude that we give prompt conveyance of your chosen skip and the finest feasible prices on the market. We provide a free pick up service to all customers within the area and can even support you with obtaining an on road permit for any, skip, at an additional cost.
We have an ample range of skips for hire in . Whatever your skip hire needs are – we can help!
We have skips of varied sizes to deal with whatsoever situation is required.
We have a highly disciplined unit of advisers at our base who can advise you on the best skip to hire with us. We are a trustworthy affordable, friendly and competent skip hire company. We can usually get a skip to you within less than 24 hours after booking.
The type of skip that you want to hire will obviously reflect the quantity of trash you want to dispose of. As a general rule of thumb household or garden waste ordinarily requires a midi or mini skip. Bigger building and construction jobs, usually require the larger skip sizes.
Should you be in the middle of a domestic improvement task, you will likely have lots building waste to get rid of. Skips in many cases are the most inexpensive waste removal solutions, but a number of things will influence the cost of hire. Size, permits, and the time of skip hire are some of these factors that you should take into account.
When hiring a skip, it's important to approximate how much waste you are likely to generate, otherwise you can wrap up with a wrong size container, which can only increase costs. In addition, a skip that's too small will make you with leftover waste that you might do without.
• Mini skips. As the name suggests, mini skips are the tiniest containers available. They are suitable both residential and commercial customers. Their capacity is equivalent to about 25 to 35 black bin bags (1-2 cubic yards), so they are ideal for small amount of waste.
• Builders skip. This is a common addition to construction sites. Builders skips are available in 6-yard or 8-yard capacity (about 65 to 85 black black bin bags) and can keep a huge amount of building waste. This type of skip is especially useful for home improvement projects, where multiple jobs such as kitchen and bathroom renovations will be taking place at the same time.
How much time you will be employing a skip for is another factor that affects the price. You may feel that the longer you hire a skip for, the more you will need to pay. However, this is not always the case. A large number of skip hire companies now offer regarding longer intervals, but only consider this option if your project is likely to take a few months to complete. Keep in mind that if you place the container on public land, you will require permit extensions and renewals from the council before placing the skip on the road. Virtually all councils only issue permits that are valid for a fortnight to at least one month.
Depending on which skip hire company you choose, may save you the trouble and obtain a grant before putting the container on the road. If this happens, make sure to still check that the hire company has a current permit in order to avoid fines. Most permits are only valid for around a couple weeks but you should still examine the the validity with your hire company.
You can skip the permit altogether (no pun intended) and just put the container on your own driveway. However, if you have no room outside your property, be sure to let the skip hire company know as they provides you with bags or other waste clearance schemes. Some companies may even bring a van and wait while you load all the junk on it.


It's finally happening. The robot revolution has begun. And they're starting with our floors. Making them all clean and spotless, so we feel inferior at our own vacuuming ability, perhaps we even slip on their shininess. And oh, how they'll laugh. Resistance is futile, you might as well embrace it, and start gifting them to all your friends.
Whether it's Charlotte's Web, Hamlet or Harry Potter, a first edition of their favorite book is sure to top the gifting charts. In the past, you'd scour bookshops, eventually stumbling across a kindly old bookseller, who'd take pity on your plight, and climb a rickety ladder, to dust off a long-lost volume... nowadays, we have the Internet.
Is the birthday guy or gal planning some home remodeling? No need for expensive contractors - with these giant legos they can build it themselves. This gift will rekindle their childhood imagination and provide them with the pride of actually building something they use. Perhaps a lego kitchen island or coffee table would be just the thing to bring their decor together?
By the time a person gets to fifty, they've probably experienced at least a few health problems and injuries. But now they're getting older, these will start to multiply. They'll need to be afraid. Very afraid. Their only chance is to keep this book with them, like a talisman, and consult it constantly.
Older people sometimes get a little freaked out about technology they don't understand, so give them some peace of mind with this card that blocks remote RFID readers from stealing their credit cards. And buy one for yourself, too, because this threat is actually real.
Don't say bucket list. Don't say "while you still can" when making the plans. This is supposed to be fun, not somber. Just plan a trip, somewhere you know they've always wanted to go and never had the chance. Make it happen. Have a wonderful time. And do it again and again.
This doesn't have to be awkward. Yes, you are giving someone, as a 50th birthday gift, something they will use for pooping. It's OK. Then someday you'll say, "Hey, you, uh, you ever use that Squatty Potty?" They'll look horrified for a half a second, but then they'll crack a quick smile and say, "Yeah, actually. It's great. Thanks." Then you never speak of it again.
At 50, a person may start to think about their place in history. They begin to really contemplate what it means to someday join the long chain of human life that led to them and to their descendants. Help them get started on a journey of self discovery by starting a family tree.
The 50th birthday is probably the last time you can get away with "over the hill" jokes. From here on in, these kinds of jokes will sound more like observations. Take advantage of your last chance to pick on the old guy by putting together a basket of embarrassing senior citizen's products like prune juice, orthopedic shoe inserts, hemorrhoid cream, Metamucil, Depends diapers, Beano, and reading glasses.


Our informal sailboat races provide a chance for everyone to improve their sailing ability and to compete in a friendly environment. After each race we gather on the boats in the marina or raft up for social hour, so be sure to make time to hang around.
The races are open to all sailboat classes and the Portsmouth Yardstick handicap system is used to correct finish times for relative boat performance.
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A long cherished dream became reality on the moment when we opened our Bed and Breakfast in 2010.
Previously, the shed which we have rebuilt served as a home for our sheep. After one year of construction, the shed was turned into a pleasant and rural place, perfect if you looking for a peaceful place to stay over.
Every week we welcome guests from all over the world. Sometimes for a single night, other times for a week or even longer. The central location of the Bed and Breakfast gives the perfect opportunity to discover the Netherlands. Attractive cities like Utrecht and Amsterdam are just 15 and 40 minutes away from the accommodation.
We find it important that our guest experience the freedom to walk on and off the farmyard so that they can discover our farm. We are proud of our cattle and we love to share our farm experience with as much guests as possible. Next to that, we try to inform our guests as much as possible on what activities are out there in the region waiting to be explored.
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Manteca PD credits Facebook responses to arrest in March shooting
by: FOX40 Web Desk
Posted: Apr 27, 2021 / 05:05 PM PDT / Updated: Apr 27, 2021 / 05:06 PM PDT
MANTECA, Calif. (KTXL) – Police in Manteca say tips from Facebook helped them find and arrest a man suspected in a shooting last month.
According to officials, on March 21 a fight broke out at Chuck's Place, a bar and restaurant located on Historical Plaza Way, which escalated into several gunshots being fired at a vehicle attempting to flee the area.
Based on information obtained following an April 12 Facebook post, the shooter was identified as 31-year-old Rene Armienta of Patterson, who turned himself in April 26 after a warrant was issued for his arrest.
Armienta was booked into the San Joaquin County jail on multiple charges, including assault with a firearm and shooting at an occupied vehicle.
Police are still asking the public to help identify a vehicle associated with Armienta, which they described as a black Chevrolet Silverado with the license number 80545L2.
Anyone with information about the vehicle is asked to call Manteca police at (209) 456-8212.
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Facebook has had its share of controversies this year. The company was under more scrutiny after whistleblower Frances Haugen leaked a series of internal documents.
Facebook parent Meta has been named the Worst Company of the Year (2021) by Yahoo Finance respondents. According to the publication, an "open-ended" survey was published on Yahoo Finance on December 4 and 5, where 1,541 respondents participated. Facebook received 8 percent of the write-in vote, but respondents were seemingly mad about the Robinhood trading app as well. Electric truck startup Nikola, which was named last year's worst company by the same publication also faced respondents ire.
Yahoo Finance notes, "Facebook has had its share of controversies this year." Starting in January, Meta-owned WhatsApp got caught up in a huge controversy after the messaging app announced a new privacy policy (Terms of Service). WhatsApp said it would collect user information and share it with third-party apps for a better user experience. However, the app gave users no choice but later made modifications to the policy under pressure. Similarly, the company was under more scrutiny after whistleblower and former Facebook employee Frances Haugen leaked a series of internal documents showing the company's problematic practices. It was revealed that Meta-owned Instagram had a negative impact on teenage girls, but the company did almost nothing to rectify the problem.
Yahoo Finance even highlights, "At the same time, some critics, including conservatives, say Facebook over-policed the platform's speech and stifled their voices." Critics also blame Facebook and other social media platforms for not curbing hate speech that led to Capitol Building riots.
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However, around 30 percent of Yahoo Finance readers said that Facebook or Meta could redeem itself. One respondent suggested that the company could issue a formal apology for negligence and donate a sizable amount of its profits to a foundation to help reverse its harm.
On the other hand, respondents chose Microsoft as the Company of the Year (2021). The Satya Nadella-led company touched the trillion-mark this year and introduced notable upgrades. The most notable is the Windows 11 OS update that succeeds Windows 10.
In the latest legal tussle with Russia over controversial social media regulation laws, Facebook paid 17 million roubles (Rs 1.7 Crore) for failing to remove content deemed illegal by Moscow. With a threat of potential larger fines looming, Facebook parent company Meta, owned by Mark Zuckerberg, is scheduled to face court next week over repeated violations of Russian legislation on content, Interfax News Agency reported. As per the latest updates, the social media giant could be fined a percentage of its annual revenue.
In October, Moscow sent state bailiffs to enforce the collection of 17 million roubles. Meanwhile, as per Interfax report citing a federal bailiffs' database, on Sunday, there were more enforcement proceedings against the company. Apart from the popular social media app, Telegram has also paid 15 million roubles in fines for failing to comply with the Russian social media legislations that came into force in 2016.
Facebook pays $53k to Russia for refusing controversial social media laws
It is pertinent to mention that Facebook has locked horns with Moscow earlier in November, resulting in it paying 4 million roubles ($53,000) over its refusal to adhere to Russian data localisation laws, the Moscow Times reported. The Moscow court on November 25 had said that Facebook paid the fine levied in February, following which all proceedings against the US-based social media giant. The payment comes against the litigation filed against the company in 2018, alongside Twitter. The tech companies were also forced to pay an additional 3000 rubles ($40) for failing to comply with user data sharing rules as per the law. The Russian authorities have also previously blocked LinkedIn, owned by Microsoft, for failing to abide by the laws.
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Russian social media laws
As per Moscow Times, under the Russian social media regulation laws, all foreign technology companies are required to store data related to Russian customers and users on servers located in Russia. Additionally, the Russian tech companies will also have to share encryption data with the federal authorities as well as record user calls, messages and civil society group conversation records. The apparatus is said to be a severe breach of privacy rights and unfettered back-door access to personal data that could be used to harass Kremlin critics.
Meta has announced the arrival of a new Split Payments feature in Facebook Messenger. This feature, as the name suggests, will let you calculate and split expenses with others right from Facebook Messenger. This feature essentially looks to bring an easier method to share the cost of bills and expenses — for example, splitting a dinner bill with friends. Using this new Split Payment feature, Facebook Messenger users will be able to split bills evenly or modify the contribution for each individual, including their own.
The company took to its blog post to announce the new Split Payment feature in Facebook Messenger. 9to5Mac reports that this new bill splitting feature is still in beta and will be exclusive to US users at first. The rollout will begin early next week. As mentioned, it will help users share the cost of bills, expenses, and payments. This feature is especially useful for those who share an apartment and need to split the monthly rent and other expenses with their mates. It could also come handy at a group dinner with many people.
With Split Payments, users can add the number of people the expense needs to be divided with and, by default, the amount entered will be divided in equal parts. A user can also modify each person's contribution including their own. To use Split Payments, click the Get Started button in a group chat or the Payments Hub in Messenger. Users can modify the contribution in the Split Payments option and send a notification to all the users who need to make payments. After entering a personalised message and confirming your Facebook Pay details, the request will be sent and viewable in the group chat thread.
Once someone has made the payment, you can mark their transaction as 'completed'. The Split Payment feature will automatically take into account your share as well and calculate the amount owed accordingly.
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Nappo is a diamond-shaped German candy, chocolate-covered nougat, that has been produced since 1925. Nappo was originally produced in Krefeld by Dr. Helle & Co. GmbH, founded in 1920 as a manufacturer of peppermints.

The company was sold to Moritz in 1994, which was in turn bought out by WAWI chocolate AG in 2007, but the chocolate remains more-or-less the same, still sold in simple coloured foil wrappers.

References

External links
Official website

German confectionery

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Chibi-Robo! Zip Lash, conocido en Japón como , es un videojuego de Skip Ltd. y Vanpool publicado para Nintendo 3DS en Japón y Norteamérica en octubre de 2015, y en Europa y Australia en noviembre de 2015.

El juego pertenece a la saga Chibi-Robo!, siendo esta su segunda aventura en Nintendo 3DS, después de Chibi-Robo! Let's Go, Photo!

Es compatible con el amiibo de Chibi-Robo, que salió a la venta junto con el juego en una edición especial.

Véase también
 Chibi-Robo!

Enlaces externos
 Chibi-Robo Zip Lash - Nintendo (en castellano)

Videojuegos de Nintendo
Videojuegos para Nintendo 3DS
Videojuegos exclusivos para Nintendo 3DS
Videojuegos de 2015
Videojuegos desarrollados en Japón
Videojuegos compatibles con figuras amiibo


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Sean Casey oder Seán Casey ist der Name folgender Personen:
* Seán Casey (Politiker) (1922–1967), irischer Politiker
 Sean Casey (Regisseur) (* 1967), US-amerikanischer Regisseur und Kameramann
 Sean Casey (Rugbyspieler) (* 1971), britischer Rugbyspieler
 Sean Casey (Ruderer) (* 1978), irischer Ruderer


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A citylogisztika a városmag, azaz a belváros szervezett áruellátásának, szabályozott tehergépjármű-forgalmának együttes megvalósítását jelenti.

Tartalmi összetevők
A citylogisztika a városi áruszállítás összehangolását a kereskedő cégek között, továbbá a közös raktározási feladatok ellátását foglalja magában. Ez a konszolidált megoldás jól szolgálja a történelmi városrészek megóvását, illetve a környezeti terhelés csökkentését. A kisebb forgalom következtében kisebb a balesetveszély, csökken a tehergépjármű-forgalomnak a személygépkocsi-forgalomra gyakorolt lassító, akadályozó hatása. Mivel a magas és emelkedő telekárak, üzleti bérleti díjak miatt a belvárosi üzletek, áruházak esetében egyre kevesebb áru helyszíni raktározására nyílik lehetőség, a citylogisztikai központból viszonylag rövid idő alatt megoldható az üzletek megbízható, gyors áruutánpótlása. Az áruterítés mellett a citylogisztikai központba (CLK) visszatérő gépkocsikkal visszaszállíthatók az üres egységrakomány-képző eszközök, továbbá az üres és/vagy elhasznált csomagolóeszközök, hulladékok.

A koncepció megalapozása
A városi/lokális közlekedéspolitika kialakítása a helyi önkormányzat hatásköre, de annak egyben a nemzeti közlekedéspolitika integráns részét kell képeznie. A lokális közlekedéspolitika általában a személyforgalom kielégítő megszervezésére koncentrál, de emellett fontos eleme kell hogy legyen a teherforgalom és az áruáramlatok lehető leghatékonyabb lebonyolításának a megvalósítása is. Ez ugyanis egybecseng a fenti hármas célkitűzéssel, amennyiben a jól kialakított lokális logisztikai lánc és a hozzá tartozó integrált, intermodális infrastruktúra a lakossági és a vállalati áruellátási igények minőségi, a városi személyforgalmat kevésbé zavaró kielégítésével:
 segíti a GDP meghatározó hányadát előállító városi és agglomerációs területek gazdasági fejlődését,
 javítja a városi területek megközelíthetőségét és azok közlekedési kapcsolatait,
 hozzájárul a teherforgalom környezetre és életminőségre gyakorolt káros hatásainak mérsékléséhez.

A városi áruellátási lánc megszervezésében, a fokozottan jelentkező zsúfoltsági és környezetvédelmi problémák feloldásában egyre fontosabb szereppel bírnak az intermodális szállítás és a logisztikai szolgáltatások elemeit ötvöző korszerű citylogisztikai eljárások, amelyek jól illeszkednek a lokális közlekedéspolitika nemzeti közlekedéspolitikával is harmonizáló eszközrendszerébe.

A termékek életciklusához igazodó szállítási szokások a logisztikai szolgáltatások sokféleségéhez vezetnek. A nagyobb tételben szállított és kevesebbszer raktározott tömegtermékek mellett előtérbe kerülnek a pontosabb továbbítást, s így köztes (biztonsági) tárolást igénylő árucikkek. Az áruáramlatok szinkronizált lebonyolításával, megfelelő szervezéssel érhető el, hogy e tendenciák ne vezessenek kezelhetetlenné váló forgalmi helyzetekhez a közutakon. Így az érintett magánvállalatok és a helyi önkormányzatok lokális áruforgalmi tervezésben való együttműködése a legfontosabb tényező a hatékony és egyúttal a környezeti standardoknak is megfelelő városi és regionális logisztikai rendszerek kialakítása szempontjából.

Források
 BME Kutatási jelentés "Innovatív city-logisztikai rendszer kialakítása a budapesti agglomerációs térségben" – Bp., 2002. június 28. (másolat)
 Tanulmány "A city-logisztikai koncepciót megalapozó kutatások gyakorlati adaptációjának reális alternatívái a kaposvári urbanizálódó térségben" – Keller Gábor pénzügyi-közgazdász Kaposvár, 2002. szeptember 10.

Kapcsolódó szócikkek
 városi logisztika

További információk
 Citylogisztikai fejlesztési koncepció  (Világgazdaság Online, 2005. október 25.)
 BESTUFS.NET-Kaposvár 3 rd BESTUFS II Workshop
 A kaposvári urbanizálódó térség city-logisztikai fejlesztési koncepciója (a tanulmány letölthető PDF formátumban Keller Gábor, www.publikon.hu, 2006. május 20.)
 Térségi megoldások (a teljes tanulmány letölthető PDF formátumban)

Logisztika
Városok közlekedése


Electrical engineering is a branch of engineering that deals with the study of electricity and its application areas. Project implementation in electrical engineering involves controlling motors and generators, power system equipment protection and maintenance, power electronic equipments and converters' functioning, and so on. This article is intended to provide the best list of electrical engineering projects for BE and ME Engineering students ensuring that the students must get selected and thoroughly screened, robust and up-to-date list.
These are the screened, robust and extremely demanding electrical engineering projects based on electrical field applications. This list has thus provided you the best projects that can be carried forward for further research as well. For any help regarding these and similar sort of projects including technical details, you can contact us by commenting below.


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Q: Modify property of MainWindow from UserControl I am creating a UserControl, I want that when I click in a button from that Control a property (attriibute) modifies from my MainWindow. The UserControl is created from a separate project and built as a .dll.
I had tried the following:
Window l = Window.GetWindow(this);

The problem is that because my window is not being referenced I have no way to access it (the properties I had created) and I dont know how to do it. If I try to write "MainWindow" it says that it couldn't be found.

A: You can get window using Application.Current.MainWindow. It will return window object so make sure you typecast it to actual instance of your window.
Assuming actual instance is MainWindow, it can be accessed like this:
MainWindow window = (MainWindow)Application.Current.MainWindow;

A: You have a number of ways of accessing a reference to the main Window in WPF. There is the way that @Rohit Vats showed you:
MainWindow window = (MainWindow)Application.Current.MainWindow;

However, as you have noticed, this does not always work. Sometimes it can be fixed simply by setting the property to the MainWindow instance:
public MainWindow()
{
    Loaded += MainWindow_Loaded;
}

private void MainWindow_Loaded(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
    Application.Current.MainWindow = this;
}

You should now be able to access the MainWindow from this property. However, if that still doesn't work for some reason, then you can also try the Application.Windows property:
foreach (MainWindow window in Application.Windows.OfType<MainWindow>())
{
    // Do something with window here
}


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