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Things around town are starting to feel a lot like our friends from Austin will be enjoying SXSW soon. Tours will roll through town from the likes of Cuco, Noel Gallagher, Big Business and many more while locals like Moth Wings, Oceans of Slumber, Camera Cult and more will fill in the spaces between.
Tonight you can get going at House of Blues for the R&B jams of K. Michelle. The Memphis native has made quite the name for herself since getting started in the late 2000s, and her live show is supposed to be pretty amazing. She'll be here in support of her latest drop, last year's KIMBERLY: The People I Used To Know. Louisiana's Damar Jackson will be on as direct support and opener for the all ages show. Doors at 7 p.m.; tickets $35 to $65.
Thursday you can begin at White Oak Music Hall downstairs for Irish singer songwriter EDEN. Here in support of his latest drop vertigo, the producer and multi-instrumentalist has gained plenty of praise for his intuitive performances. The electro-pop of Brooklyn's Verite will be on as direct support and opener for the all ages show. Doors at 7 p.m.; tickets $20 to $27.
Over at Revention Music Center, Awolnation will return to town. This band isn't really my thing but they seem to have a fan base no matter what I think of them, and their live shows definitely have plenty of energy. The band will be here in support of their shiny new album, Here Come The Runts. The alt-rock of England's Nothing But Thieves will be on as support and openers for the all ages show. Doors at 7 p.m.; tickets $25 to $51.25.
Mucky Duck will host the '60s pop sounds of British duo Beat Root Revival. These two have definitely made their mark with their infectious acoustic pop sound, and their debut release Beat Root Revival from 2016 is pretty splendid. The 21 and up show has no support or openers. Doors at 9:30 p.m.; tickets $20 to $22.
On Friday things will get heated up when Houston's Moth Wings swing by The Secret Group to drop their latest E.P. Open Swim. Like I said in the review for this album, these two make music that's closer to old Weezer than current Weezer could do, and their live shows are always a blast. The power pop twee sounds of Denton's Sad Cops will be on as direct support while the emo infused punk of Houston's Ruiners will go on prior. Austin's Guest Rooms will also drop a set for the all ages show while Houston's Willows Field will get things started. Doors at 7 p.m.; tickets $10 to $12.
You could also check out the melodic pop of New York's Ron Pope when he makes his way to the downstairs of White Oak Music Hall. Pope has been going strong since breaking out in 2009. His latest, this year's WorkTapes falls in line with his catchy pop sound. The folk pop of Utah's The National Parks will be on as direct support while The Heart Of will get the all ages show started. Doors at 7 p.m.; tickets $18 to $24.
If you'd rather get funky, or perhaps funk-kay, then you could swing by House of Blues to catch the funk god George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic. Whether you listen to their 2005 release George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic Live at Montreux 2004, or you dig deep into their catalog, this is the best funk for your buck. The Parliament album Chocolate City is a definite jam, the Funkadelic album Maggot Brain is a classic jam, and well, everything Clinton does solo is also jam heavy. This show is an event to ay the least, and all ages. Doors at 8 p.m.; tickets $30 to $65.
Of course, you can get your feet moving at Revention Music Center when Steve Aoki and Brooklyn's Desiigner swing by to drop a set. Aoki, the world renowned producer and DJ will be supporting his latest release Kolony, and his sets alone are worth catching. Mix in the hip hop of Desiigner whose last drop New English was pretty epic, and you have a pretty cool idea for a show. Having the two performing together should be a real trip, while Grandtheft, Party Pupils, and Bok Nero will all make guest appearances as well on the epic all ages show. Doors at 8 p.m.; tickets $33.50 to $250, the latter being a meet and greet VIP package.
Over at new venue Spruce Goose: Social Flyers Club, Vietnam's New Fame will bring their R&B and hip hop infused sounds to open the new spot. Supporting a slew of singles with "Proof" being the latest, the duo is known for a trippy live set. The dance pop of Houston's Camera Cult will be on as direct support while Jon Black will get the show started. No word if the venue is all ages or not. Doors at 8 p.m.; Free.
At Rudyard's, San Francisco's Brume will bring their sludge metal sounds to the upstairs room. Touring in support of their heavy album Rooster from last year, this trio is known to get dark and heavy real quick. Houston's Warlung will bring their psych metal on as direct support and openers for the 21 & up show. Doors at 8 p.m.; tickets $8.
Upstairs at White Oak Music Hall, the metal of Houston's Oceans Of Slumber will be on full display for the band's album release party. That record, The Banished Heart sounds pretty epic and should make for an intriguing set from the band. Austin's Vex will be on as direct support while the progressive death metal of Corpus Christi's FALL will go on prior. The all ages show will get opened up by the psyche metal of Houston's Blues Funeral. Doors at 8 p.m.; tickets $10.
On Grove Street, a psych barn burner will take place when Florida's Peyote Coyote comes to town. This band mixes elements or traditional psych with nineties Brit pop fuzz that's pretty amazing. They're rumored to have crazy live shows, and last year's Other Moons was a record I wished I'd known about when it dropped. The rock sounds of Austin's Hollow Trees will be on as direct support while the garage rock pop of Houston's Wax Dream will get things started on the all ages show. Doors at 8 p.m.; TBD cover.
On Saturday you could begin at Revention Music Center for the Celtic punk of Dropkick Murphys. Supporting last year's 11 Short Stories of Pain & Glory, the Massachusetts' group has been going strong since the late nineties. The ska punk of Bim Skala Bim will open the all ages show. Doors at 6:30 p.m.; tickets $35 to $45.
House of Blues will host former Oasis founder and now solo artist Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds. Aside from the terrible name and the ego behind it, this band is actually pretty solid and last year's Who Built The Moon? was proof of that. There's no word of openers for the all ages show. Doors at 7 p.m.; tickets $37.50 to $89.50.
Big Top will have the synth punk of L.A.'s Prettiest Eyes over to get crazy. This three piece makes trippy music that's all over their latest release Pools from last year, and their live sets are rumored to be just as bonkers. The psych of Austin's TEEVEE will be on as direct support while Mojave Red will bring their pop psych on beforehand. The punk of Houston's ImposterBoys will get the 21 & up show started. Doors at 8 p.m.; tickets $8.
If you were lucky enough to grab tickets, then you'll catch the electro-pop of Cuco over at Satellite Bar. The California performer has been making waves since he began, and his infectious new release Songs4u is hard not to like. With songs like "Neon Baby," "Sunnyside," and "Lover Is a Day," you should be all about his performance. The chill pop of August Eve will be on as direct support and the all ages show will get opened by Jasper Bones. Doors at 8 p.m.; Sold Out.
Rudyard's will bring the indie rock goodness of Houston"s A Sundae Drive over to drop a set. The four piece is easily one of the best unsung bands in town, their live sets are a mix of blazing energy and fuzzed tones, and last year's Versailles is their best album to date. The throwback rock intertwined with indie rock of Yaupon will perform prior while Londale will get the 21 & up show started. Doors at 8 p.m.; tickets $8.
At Fox Hollow Houston's favorite Latin Tropical DJ crew, Bombon will return to drop one of their famed sets. The whole crew will be in tow to electrify a room with full percussion as well. Special sets from New York's Riobamba and Blackout's Hyro will also be in the mix. Doors at 10 p.m.; $10.
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On Sunday you might want to swing by the studio at Warehouse Live for the insane duo known as Big Business. These two make some of the best music you may have never heard, their live shows are crazy, and their last release Command Your Weather is pretty amazing. Minnesota's Buildings will be on as direct support while the all ages show will get opened by Houston's From The Grave. Doors at 8 p.m.; tickets $12 to $14.
Tuesday over at Big Top, local photographer extraordinaire and music enthusiast, Daniel Jackson will be dropping a DJ set. Maybe you'll hear him drop jams from Loretta Lynn, or maybe he'll play some punk classics, or maybe he'll just make you laugh. No matter what, it should be fun and filled with jams. Beta Theater will perform improv to start things off on the 21 & up event. Doors at 7 p.m.; Free.
In Sugarland at Smart Financial Centre, the epic sounds of Earth, Wind & Fire. These guys have been getting people down for a long time, and albums like 1979's I Am and 1975's That's The Way Of The World, are full of some of your favorite jams. Those no word of openers, but with these legends, do they need one for the all ages show. Doors at 8 p.m.; tickets $50.50 to $100.50.
That's about it for this week. No matter what you decide to do, remember that a safe ride home is just an app away.


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My friend April at The Steadfast Reader always knows how to get me riled up. (It's okay, I love how she gets my mind spinning). But this time, she went straight for the heart by sharing a recent article in The Atlantic, The Mystery of Murakami. I've been mulling over it ever since. I feel that reading translations ties in closely with reading diversely, and this article missed the mark.
My college roommate was an international student from Hiroshima. She once told me that one aspect that makes reading Murakami (in Japanese) such a wonderful experience is his beautiful and unique choice of kanji, the adopted Chinese characters of the Japanese writing system.
Much of the review I read in The Atlantic seems to focus on Murakami's "bad sentences." With examples given…in English. Murakami, obviously, writes in Japanese. For the record, I think Alfred Birnbaum, Jay Rubin, Philip Gabriel all do a phenomenal job translating Murakami's works. I'm far, far more often swept away by the words than I am distracted by the slightly odd or possibly cliché sentences that sneak in here and there.
Can we go ahead and accept that some languages have unique nuances (whether grammatical or cultural) which may result in a teeny bit of awkward every once and a while? I don't see the logic in using translated sentences as the basis for judging Murakami's writing style.
Kim Allen has a great website called Japanese for the Western Brain, which addresses some challenges of Japanese for those who didn't grow up learning it. And there's a fantastic piece about the difficulties of translation, from the perspective of Japanese translation, on the NSA's website. The author of this paper points out how understanding Japanese culture is especially important when translating, particularly: "The structure of the Japanese language, along with the belief of the Japanese in suggesting things indirectly rather than stating them explicitly, lends itself to expressions which are difficult to translate."
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Thinking about that Japanese tendency to suggest things indirectly, leaving things unsaid, reminded me of wabi-sabi: A Japanese view of life which accepts and finds beauty in the imperfect, the incomplete, and the temporary.
Murakami's writing does tend to leave some loose ends. When I set aside my own desires (maybe my American lens?) to have everything addressed and wrapped up in a tidy manner, and think about this cultural aesthetic… well, I think a number of Murakami's works are stunning examples of "literary wabi-sabi," if there is such a thing. Japanese readers and those who connect with that culture may see Murakami's loose ends as an important part of a greater, beautiful work.
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Storm is telling me my disk space is low and I cannot download any lockers. What do I do?
This happens when the drive that you have your DragonFly Vault on is running out of space. In order to free up space on that drive, you should go through your downloaded lockers in Storm and delete any that you no longer need. You can also clear out lockers in your public or private locker rooms as well, such as content from previous seasons. Make certain that you use Storm to delete lockers and do not go into the DragonFly Vault folder itself and delete anything as you may delete files that Storm needs to function properly. Using the Storm interface ensures that only the right items get deleted.
Though we always recommend that the drive you have your DragonFly Vault on is only used for Storm, if you do have Non-Storm content on that drive, you may want to consider moving it to another location which will free up space on that drive. If your DragonFly Vault is on your C drive, we highly recommend putting it on a secondary local hard drive. Video can take up considerable space and keeping your C drive free helps your computer run better in the long term. If you are unsure of deleting or moving Non-Storm content, you should consult with your IT department. Please let us know if you need assistance with moving your DragonFly Vault to another drive and we will be happy to assist you.
If you wish to keep any content, you can export /convert the lockers or burn them to DVD and store them in another location prior to deleting the lockers in Storm.
I would like to delete lockers but want to copy the files elsewhere first.
There are multiple options to do this. You can export a locker which will make a copy of the files. You can convert the locker which will convert it to a format you wish. You can also burn the locker to DVD. When exporting and converting, you will be asked where you would like to save the file(s). You can choose anywhere you wish including a thumb drive, external drive, etc. Once you have the what you need out of Storm, you can then delete the locker using Storm.
I've deleted lockers but my disk drive is still showing the same amount of space free.
When you first delete lockers in Storm, Storm will put them into what we call Supporting Content. Think of Supporting Content like a recycle bin in Windows. This feature is so that lockers can be retrieved in case of accidental deletion. Anything in Supporting Content will be overwritten as you create new lockers or download lockers from other schools.
You can click on the pie chart on the lower right of Storm to bring up your disk status. It will show you a breakdown of your DragonFly Vault drive. You will see how much free space is on that drive along with how much space your lockers are taking up. You will also see the size of supporting content. If you add up the Free Space and Supporting Content numbers, this will tell you how much space Storm has for you to create lockers and download lockers. If the size of the locker(s) you are trying to download exceeds the combined total of free space and supporting content, then you will need to make more space. Please refer to the "Disk Management Explained" section in our support page for more info.
I'm trying to download from a school and it says "Waiting on more files"
This occurs when the locker is still in the process of being created. Once the other team's Storm has all the files in the locker, the transfer will begin.
I'm trying to download from a school and the locker(s) shows 'Pending' or 'Offline'.
This usually happens when the Storm machine that the locker is on is offline. This can mean that the other school's Storm is not running or the computer is somehow unreachable due to being off or not connected to the internet. In some cases, schools have more than one Storm computer and the locker you are trying to get is on one that is off while the other is on. This can result in you getting some lockers and not others. There are also cases where the files have been deleted or moved from the vault on the sender side and the transfer will not happen since there are no files available.
You should contact the school you are trying to exchange with and have them confirm that Storm is running and that the computer it is on currently has internet access. You should also confirm with them that the lockers you are trying to download have not been deleted, etc. since you began the transfer.
I'm being told by other schools that my Storm is offline or they cannot download a locker from me.
When you create a locker, the files are stored locally on that computer. DragonFly does not store your files on our servers. For this reason, your Storm computer at your office should be left up and running as much as possible. This will ensure that your game film is available for others to download from you.
If you are being told by others schools that they are unable to download a game from you, you need to check to make sure that your Storm computer is indeed up and running. You should also make sure it has access to the internet.
If you have multiple Storm computers, you may have your content split among them. Storm does not sync your content with your other Storm computers and will only be available from the computer it was created on. There are instances where one of your Storm computers may be on and another one off. In these cases, the other teams will receive a "Pending" message instead of an OFF message since one of your Storm computers is online and the one with the locker they are trying to get is offline. Also, confirm with the team what locker(s) they are trying to download from you and make sure that the locker isn't telling you that it is Checking State. This indicates that the files have been moved or deleted.
My lockers show "Checking State"
This happens because the files for that locker are not where Storm expects them to be. They have either been deleted or moved from their original location in the DragonFly Vault. This can be because someone manually went into the DragonFly Vault folder and deleted or moved them. It has also been known to be caused by software such as anti-virus software. In this case, you should delete the affected lockers and recreate/re download them.
This can also happen if Storm is started and the drive with DragonFly Vault is not connected or is otherwise not accessible. Users will be asked where the Vault is at and may choose a new location which results in Storm creating a new DragonFly Vault without any video files. This can be resolved by contacting us and we can reconfigure Storm to point to the correct location provided the drive is accessible.
If other schools try to download lockers that have no files, the transfer will showing Pending and not happen since there are no files there to be transferred.
My downloads are going too slow. Other schools can download from me fast but I can't get things from them very fast.
STORM does not have any limits or controls for bandwidth. Transfer speeds can be limited by several factors. When transferring files, you must take into consideration not only the speed of your internet, but also the speed of the other school's internet. Even if you have very fast internet, if the other school does not, you will be limited by their speed. Congestion on each school's network, and issues in between them and you, can also be a limiting factor. Your IT staff (or theirs) may also have policies in place that throttle bandwidth. We have also seen that issues with hardware such as hard drives can also result in download issues. If you believe there are problems or limitations with your network or hardware, your IT staff is the best choice to help you investigate and resolve it. We will be happy to assist in isolating potential issues.
We find that on many campuses, outgoing traffic usually has more bandwidth available than incoming traffic. This can result in other schools being able to download from you faster than you can download from them. Running a speed test may show if this is the case. At many campuses, most are shared connections that both faculty and students use. Most users tend to download data rather than send it out so you end up with lopsided amount of bandwidth available.
You should contact your IT department and discuss your situation with them. They can inform you if there are policies in place that may be affecting you. They may also be able to set up a policy that gives Storm traffic a higher priority than other types of traffic on the network or allow exceptions during non-peak hours.
I'm receiving a message saying Network Performance Degraded or Severely Degraded
I'm receiving a Ports Blocked message when I am trying to exchange a locker
This message is received when Storm sees that your ports are blocked. There are four ports:
Outbound port 80, Outbound port 60011, Inbound port 80, and Inbound port 60011
Typically, your outbound ports will be open while one or both of your inbound ports will not be. You should contact your IT department and have them configure the ports for use with your Storm computer. While having these ports blocked will not keep you from exchanging with other schools that have their ports open, it will cause problems if the school you are exchanging with also has their ports blocked. When both sides have ports blocked, your Storm and theirs cannot communicate and facilitate the transfer. At least one side of the exchange must have their inbound ports open. By having your IT staff set these ports up properly, you will not have to worry about getting into that type of situation. If your IT staff has questions about this, please contact us and we can help answer any questions they have.
The following can be used by your IT department to help test that ports are setup correctly. This test should be run from outside your network such as from a McDonald's, Starbucks, etc. to simulate a connection coming from another STORM machine.
Telnet <public ip> 60011
Make sure that command rings in. Press several keys and you will get a STORM disconnect message to make sure. If this does not work, then the ports are not, in fact, setup correctly.
I'm not seeing lockers for another school
If you have just started Storm for the first time, it can sometimes take 15-20 minutes for Storm to download the most recent catalogs. Catalogs are a list of what lockers other schools have. Make sure to leave Storm up and running so that it can receive the catalogs. In rare cases, it can take longer than 15-20 minutes. You should leave Storm running as much as possible as it will periodically check for changes in catalogs and update them as needed. You should also verify with the school that they have the lockers you are looking for posted. You can also click on 'Refresh Catalogs' at the top of Storm to initiate the process of checking for catalogs.
If you have left Storm up and running for at least an hour and have verified with the other school that they have posted the lockers you are looking for, please contact us and we will be happy to assist.
What format should I use when creating lockers?
Lockers can be created with any video format you wish. You can also add in non-video files such as pdf's. When a team downloads a locker from you, they have an option to convert the video files if they need them in another format, so you do not have to worry about making sure they are in any certain format. Please note that some conferences have policies in place that do dictate what format everyone in that conference should use. You should check with your conference to find out if such a policy exists.
I can't find the lockers that I downloaded. Where are they?
On the left hand side of Storm, you will see 'Downloaded Lockers' in the list underneath where your lockers go. A quick way to get there is to hit 'Downloads' next to the yellow star above the search box on the left above your lockers. Next to this is also a button labeled 'My Lockers' which will take you to your lockers.
How do I send a locker to another school? Another school sent me a locker but I haven't received it.
Select the locker you would like to send and click the blue send link. In the menu that appears, find the conference that the school belongs to. Next, select the school, then the sport that you want to send to. A box will appear asking for you to type a confirmation in order to continue. Make sure that the other school has permissions set for you to send lockers to them. You can only send lockers that you have created.
If you are expecting a locker from another school, make sure you have set permissions with that school to allow them to send lockers to you. In addition, under 'Options & Settings', make sure that Automatic Downloads have been enabled.
Anytime you are expecting a locker and not seeing it, you should always coordinate with the other school to make sure they have actually sent it to you.
What are permissions? How do I set them?
Permissions determine what you allow other schools to see, download, or send to you. You control permissions that you grant to other schools and they, in turn, control permissions given to you. You must set permissions for each school individually.
Select the school/sport you wish to set permissions with. On the right side of Storm, above where the other school's lockers would appear, you will see what permissions have been granted by you to them, and vice versa. To change permissions:
- Click on 'Permissions' just below the check boxes.
- In the 'Set Permissions' box that appears, you will see three options to check:
- Send Lockers To Me – By checking this option, you are granting the school permission to send you lockers.
- Download My Lockers – By checking this option, you are granting the school permission to download any lockers that you have available in your public locker room. This does not apply to Private Lockers.
- See My Locker List – By checking this option, you are granting the school permission to see the list of lockers you have available in your public locker room. This does not apply to Private Lockers.
Typically, if a school is in your conference, you will grant full permissions to them. They should also do the same for you. Since each school controls their own permissions, you will need to talk to any school that you do not have permission from to grant you permission if you think you should have it. Please check with your conference administrators for what your conference policies are regarding permissions.
For non-conference schools, you are free to give permissions as you see fit.
To check what schools you have granted permission to, you can click Permissions at the top of Storm. This will show you every school you have granted permission to and which permissions have been granted. You can go through this list and revoke any permission you no longer wish to grant.
How do I send a guest invite?
On the left hand side of Storm, there is a white search box above your lockers. Type the name of the school you want to send the invite to. In the yellow box that appears below, you will see the search results as you type. As you type the results will narrow down. Once you see the school you are searching for, you will see the list of sports below it. Next to the sport, you should see 'Invite as guest…' in green. Click on 'Invite as guest…' and a new window will appear. In this window, put in your name and email followed by the first name, last name, and email of the person you are trying to invite as a guest and click 'Next. You will then be shown an Invitation Preview that shows the email with instructions that the guest user will receive.
I am not a DragonFly Storm customer, how can I exchange with a school that is?
You will need a guest invite from one of our customers. This will give you a guest pass that will allow you to use Storm for 7 days from the time the invite was sent. If you wish to exchange with more than one school, then each school must send you a guest invite. You will not be able to exchange with other guest users.
I've got a guest invite from a school. How do I access the video they are sending me?
Once you have received the guest invite, you will need to follow the instructions in the email and install Storm. Once installed, if the other school has sent you video, you will begin receiving it shortly. Make sure to leave Storm up and running. If you do not see any downloads begin after 15 or 20 minutes, you should contact the other school and confirm with them that they have actually sent the video. Sending an invite and sending a locker (video) are separate actions and some schools may wait until they know you are setup in Storm before they send the video. Once it does download, it will appear in your downloaded lockers.
How do I get the files out of Storm into my editor?
If the files are already in the correct format for your editor, you simply need to export the locker. Once exported, you can then import the files using your editor's import function.
If the files are not in the correct format for your editor, choose the convert option. You will then be able to choose what format you would like to convert to such as Thunder, DVSport, mp4, etc. Once converted, you can then import the files using your editor's import function.
Whether exporting or converting, any marks associated with the video will be translated over as well. If converting, the format you are converting to must support marks.
Can I run Storm on multiple computers? Can I use Storm on the road?
Yes. Storm can be run on as many computers as you would like. A typical scenario we see with users is that they keep one Storm at the office and use one on a laptop on the road.
While this is certainly ok to do, there are some things to be aware of:
- We recommend that you only create lockers on your office copy of Storm to share with other teams. The reason for this is that any lockers you create in Storm will only be stored on that machine and do not sync with your other Storm computer, nor do we store your content on our servers. Your Storm running at the office can be left on and be accessible by other teams 24/7 where if you have lockers on your laptop on the road, they will not always be accessible while you are travelling, etc.
- When taking Storm on the road, you will not necessarily have the most optimum experience due to varying quality of the networks you are on. When running Storm at your office, you have the benefit of your IT setting up your inbound ports and setting up policies that provide you with good bandwidth. When on the road, ports are controlled by whoever administers the network you are on. For instance, if you are at a hotel, then the hotel would control the ports. Bandwidth at places such as hotels, fast food restaurants, etc. tends not to be optimal either.
- The computer you are taking with you on the road should just be used for downloading games. If you do create lockers to share, keep in mind that it will not always be available for the reasons we have already covered. You should get that game on your main office Storm as soon as possible.
- You may run into instances where you receive the "Ports are blocked" message more often than when you are at the office. This is will happen when the team you are trading with has their ports blocked and yours are blocked as well. One participant in the transfer must have the ports open for it to work.


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It is very important for students to know about the total number of seats in different courses of various government colleges, private self-financed institutes and universities departments that are taking part in WBJEE 2018 counselling. Before starting the actual e-counselling, the West Bengal Joint Entrance Examinations Board (WBJEEB) is providing the facility to students to check the seat matrix.
Through WBJEE 2018, students can take admission in 10 government colleges, 93 private self-financed institutions and 10 State Universities / Universities Departments. To know more about the institutes, click here.
The West Bengal Joint Entrance Examinations Board (WBJEEB) is offering more than 40 branches/streams in which students can complete their engineering degree. To know more about the courses offered through WBJEE 2018, click here
To know the number of seats in different courses, students can follow the steps given below:
1. Visit the official website i.e., wbjeeb.nic.in.
2. Click on the link "Seat Matrix".
3. Thereafter, click on the third link "Institute Wise, Branch wise Seat Information".
4. On the next page, you will have to select the institute type among Government Engineering & Technology Colleges, Private Self Financing Institutions and State Universities/Universities Departments. Suppose you have selected Government Engineering & Technology Colleges from the drop down list, then in the next option you will get the name of 10 colleges out of which you have to select one college as required.
5. After selecting the desired institute type and name of the institute, you will get the total number of seats in that particular institute for all categories.
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Neil Ellingson - What is the Trinity - May 22, 2016
June 9, 2016
Neil Ellingson waxes poetic on the trinity: what is it? why should we care? does it matter anymore? and so on.
Proverbs 8
Does not wisdom call,
and does not understanding raise her voice?
On the heights, beside the way,
at the crossroads she takes her stand;
beside the gates in front of the town,
at the entrance of the portals she cries out:
"To you, O people, I call,
and my cry is to all that live.
O simple ones, learn prudence;
acquire intelligence, you who lack it.
Hear, for I will speak noble things,
and from my lips will come what is right;
for my mouth will utter truth;
wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
All the words of my mouth are righteous;
there is nothing twisted or crooked in them.
They are all straight to one who understands
and right to those who find knowledge.
Take my instruction instead of silver,
and knowledge rather than choice gold;
for wisdom is better than jewels,
and all that you may desire cannot compare with her.
I, wisdom, live with prudence,
and I attain knowledge and discretion.
The fear of the Lord is hatred of evil.
Pride and arrogance and the way of evil
and perverted speech I hate.
I have good advice and sound wisdom;
I have insight, I have strength.
By me kings reign,
and rulers decree what is just;
by me rulers rule,
and nobles, all who govern rightly.
I love those who love me,
and those who seek me diligently find me.
Riches and honor are with me,
enduring wealth and prosperity.
My fruit is better than gold, even fine gold,
and my yield than choice silver.
I walk in the way of righteousness,
along the paths of justice,
endowing with wealth those who love me,
and filling their treasuries.
The Lord created me at the beginning of his work,
the first of his acts of long ago.
Ages ago I was set up,
at the first, before the beginning of the earth.
When there were no depths I was brought forth,
when there were no springs abounding with water.
Before the mountains had been shaped,
before the hills, I was brought forth—
when he had not yet made earth and fields,
or the world's first bits of soil.
When he established the heavens, I was there,
when he drew a circle on the face of the deep,
when he made firm the skies above,
when he established the fountains of the deep,
when he assigned to the sea its limit,
so that the waters might not transgress his command,
when he marked out the foundations of the earth,
then I was beside him, like a master worker;
and I was daily his delight,
rejoicing before him always,
rejoicing in his inhabited world
and delighting in the human race.


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The process of innovation begins with discovery. Hackers are constantly disassembling the world around them, breaking everything into little pieces to see what can be made of the rubble. Pablos Holman will show all kinds of delightful and surprising things that hackers are capable of.
Pablos is a futurist, computer security expert, and a notorious hacker with a unique view into both breaking and building new technologies.
At Komposite, he consults on bizarre invention and design projects that assimilate new technologies. Previously, Pablos created thigh holsters for cell phones at Tsaya; helped build the world's smallest PC at OQO; spaceships at Blue Origin; and AI agent systems at Xigo. He is a member of The Shmoo Group of information security professionals, and helped create the Hackerbot, a WiFi-seeking robot.


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So you know the March in-like-a-lion-out-like-a-lamb thing, right?
March this year has been a rollercoaster; as I write this, we're expecting a snowmageddon in Toronto – lucky for me I don't live in St. John's, which really got slammed – and spring officially arrives on March 20 so Mother Nature better be making good on the lamb part.
In the meantime, I've been enjoying a basket of books while I wait for the weather to warm up. Here: some of my faves.
Pulse Revolution
Pulse Revolution (DK Publishing, 2017) serves up 150 super food vegetarian recipes – super food and vegetarian caught my attention but I had no idea about that pulse thing.
Bet you don't know either so listen up: pulse comes from the Latin word puls, meaning porridge or thick soup. They're dried, edible seeds of a legume plant – in unscientific terms, beans, lentils, peas and chickpeas. Oh. And wait. Each of those pulses has tons of varieties – take "beans" and think black, speckled, cannellini, fava, lima . . . you get the idea.
Here's the super food part: pulses preserve heart health, boost energy, build strong bones, maintain the gut, improve brain function, aid in weight loss and help control diabetes.
Good for you doesn't score with me if the food tastes bleck though, so are these dishes tasty?
Yup – from breakfast to desserts – pulses are yummy. I suspect you have already sampled pulses in egg dishes, casseroles curries, salads and side dishes so I really need to talk to you about desserts. Seriously.
Strawberry and lentil crisp. Check. White bean crepes with apricot sauce. Check. Adzuki bean chocolate pudding – I need to pause here for a moment while I lick my spoon.
The recipes in this compendium are healthy AND delicious – not a contradiction in terms.
Pruning & Training
If you have a garden, you need Pruning & Training (DK Publishing, 2017). This is like having your dad looking over your shoulder without the annoying Father Knows Best commentary.
Pruning and Training showcases more than 800 plants from ornamental trees like magnolias to shrubs, grasses, vines and more and offers easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions to prune and train them to perfection.
As with all DK's awesome library of how-to books, Pruning and Training uses a practical A-to-Z approach; content is organized by plant type and in case you're a visual learner, annotated illustrations make it easy peasy to become a competent plant surgeon.
Now in case you're muttering about how you don't have a garden, check out the planter shrubs – balcony perfect. I especially like the flowering ones like the baby Chrysanthemums; Pruning and Training shows you how to build plant cages (that's a technical horticultural term) and trim and prune them into really beautiful shapes.
So don't be tight – buy two and give one to mom or dad for Parent's Day.
Twenty-six-year-old Mahoney arrives in Mulderrig on Ireland's West Coast, brooding and bent on discovering why his teenage mother, "the curse of the town" abandoned him as a baby at an orphanage in Belfast. Did Orla leave the village with Mahoney in her arms as the town maintains? Or was she murdered?
Teaming up with Mrs. Cauley, an aging and eccentric British actress who's happiest when she sets Mulderrig's residents – especially the weasley priest – spinning like tops, , they set out like Mulder and Scully to discover the truth.
At its most basic, Himself is a mash up of genres – murder mystery (with some downright dark and creepy passages), fantasy novel and often, a comedic tale, too. Mahoney sees sad, departed souls wandering around town, "because the dead are drawn to the confused and unwritten, the damaged and the fractured, to those with big gaps and cracks in their tales". The forest outside of town is enchanted – the ferns and tree roots and ivy and moles conspire to hide a baby from the man determined to murder him.
Mulderrig is a modern-day Irish Brigadoon, real but, well, not quite of this world.
Kidd has an astonishing imagination, and a wicked way with words I don't often encounter from a first-time novelist. Himself is a lush and richly-crafted story that reminded me of the power of a well-told tale to transport me to another place and time and make me believe every single word.
The Wanderers
Helen Kane, Sergei Kuznetsov and Yoshihiro Tanaka are experienced astronauts tapped by Prime Space Systems Laboratory to undertake a mission to Mars. First though, they have to spend 17 months in the Utah desert in a brutal and isolating simulation of the space trek ahead.
Howrey's story is told by seven narrators: the astronauts of course, but also Helen's actress daughter, Sergei's teenage son, Yoshi's wife, and a Prime Space employee responsible for recording how the team deals with their extreme circumstances.
Ostensibly, The Wanderers is a space drama but really, it's a powerful exploration of the question personkind asked since forever: Who Am I? And when the physical and emotional pressures begin to impact the relationships the crew has with each other and with the people they have left behind, when the line blurs between what's real and what's imagined, each of the astronauts begins to answer that question with truth and honesty and an insight that comes from peering into their own hearts, not someone else's.
I confess, The Wanderers is not an easy read. It is not a pick up/put down snack-y sort of story. And if you're looking for a reboot of The Martian, as the promo suggests, I think you'll be disappointed. But stick with it and this tightly crafted exploration of what it means to be human will stay with you long after you have turned the last page.
You Are Here: An Owners Manual for Dangerous Minds
Jenny Lawson – AKA Bloggess – is a laugh-out-loud humour writer known for talking forthrightly about her struggle with depression and mental illness.
Lawson doodles when she's anxious – she's used drawing as a coping mechanism since she was a kid. So You Are Here is part humour, part affirmation posters (the illustrations are on perforated pages), part self-help, part colouring book – and one hundred percent engaging.
Some of her poster prompts are a little too trite for me – "Sometimes people come into your life to teach you not to become them" – but her intricate illustrations are remarkable and her advice is sharp, funny and always on point.
"If you're not certain if you're dealing with a demon, sprinkle a circle of salt around it as a barrier. It's possible that it isn't a demon and it's just an asshole, but either way they'll probably leave. People hate it when you keep aggressively salting them."
There's some quirky but certain logic there, dontcha think?
Written by Charlotte Empey with Illustrations by LEZ AUTRES


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The chief financial officer for China's global tech giant, Huawei Technologies, has been arrested in Richmond and is facing extradition to the U.S.
According to a statement obtained by the Richmond News from the Department of Justice Canada, Wanzhou Meng was arrested in Vancouver on Dec. 1.
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The News understands that arrest was made at or near Vancouver Airport on Saturday.
"She is sought for extradition by the United States, and a bail hearing has been set for Friday," Justice Canada spokesperson Ian McLeod told the News via email.
As there is a publication ban in effect, which was requested by Meng, the department declined to provide any further detail of the extradition.
However, according to the Globe and Mail, she was arrested on suspicion she violated U.S. trade sanctions against Iran.
Meng is the deputy chair of Huawei's board and is the daughter of company founder Zhengfei Ren, from his first marriage.
Meng, 46, has been the CFO of Huawei Technologies since 2011 and vice chair of the company since March 2018.
Huawei Technologies, launched in 1987 in Shenzhen China, has been the largest telecommunication equipment producer in the world since 2012.
It also produces consumer electronics and this year overtook Apple to become the second-largest manufacturer of smartphones in the world, behind Samsung Electronics.
In 2017, the company had C$123.79 billion in revenue, ranking the 72nd on the Fortune Global 500.
It has provided products and services in more than 170 countries and has more than 180,000 employees over the world. It has offices in 60 countries, including one in Burnaby.
The U.S. government has been concerned about Huawei for years because of uncertainty over its relationship with the Chinese government.
The founder Ren was a People's Liberation Army soldier before starting the company and opponents say it retains links with China's security services. Huawei has denied the links.
In 2011, the American government stopped Huawei from purchasing U.S. server technology company 3Leaf's assets, for national security reasons.
In 2012, the House of Representatives released a report warning Huawei poses a national security threat to the U.S., and American companies and its government should avoid doing business with the company.
In May, the Pentagon banned the sale of Huawei phones on military bases.
In August, U.S. president Donald Trump signed an act to ban the use of Huawei components or services that are "essential" or "critical" to the systems they are used.
Other countries, such as Australia and New Zealand, have also followed the case.
In 2012, the Australian government banned Huawei from bidding for NBN, Australia's broadband access network, for national security reasons.
For the same reason, Australia's government blocked China's telecom giant Huawei from its 5G mobile network last summer.
This November, New Zealand's government banned its major telecommunications company Spark from using Huawei's equipment, which is described to "have a serious national security risk."
Nevertheless, Huawei is allowed to operate in Canada and in a September interview with the Globe and Mail, Scott Jones, head of Canadian Centre for Cyber Security, said Ottawa is confident sufficient safeguards exist to deal with the risks of telecommunications hacking or spying by China.
The U.S. Justice Department probe, first reported by the Wall Street Journal in April, follows a series of U.S. actions aimed at stopping or reducing access by Huawei and Chinese smartphone maker ZTE Corp to the U.S. economy amid allegations the companies could be using their technology to spy on Americans.


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Some of your favorite country artists are headed to Austin, Texas on May 2nd for the star-studded 2020 iHeartCountry Festival!
Taking over the stage at the Frank Erwin Center this year are Blake Shelton, Dierks Bentley, Sam Hunt, Lady Antebellum, Dustin Lynch, Kelsea Ballerini, Kane Brown, Jon Pardi and Chase Rice, plus Hot Country Knights, Bobby Bones and more.
The best part is, even if you can't make it to Austin this year, we've got you covered. Fans can catch all the action at the country mega concert, which is now in its seventh year, during an exclusive livestream on livexlive.com through the LiveXLive mobile and OTT apps for iOS, Android, Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Samsung TV, and Apple TV. The stream will also appear on YouTube, LiveXLive's Twitch channel and LiveXLive's socials. The festival will also be broadcast live across iHeartMedia's Country music radio stations in their local markets, as well as iHeartRadio's iHeartCountry station on iHeartRadio.com and the iHeartRadio app.
This is one show you will NOT want to miss. Keep scrolling to learn all about our 2020 iHeartCountry Festival lineup below.
1. Blake Shelton
Blake Shelton's mom put him in a couple of pageants when he was young. Despite not liking it, he was able to do what he loves and perform songs like Ted Nugent's "Cat Scratch Fever".
He was invited to be a member of the Grand Ole Opry via Twitter.
2. Dierks Bentley
He's a self taught musician, taught himself how to play the guitar at 13.
In 2005 he married his high school sweetheart Cassidy by eloping in Mexico.
3. Sam Hunt
Regardless of success, Sam Hunt chose to live with his band before he got married.
Hunt's debut album, Montevallo, was named after a small town in Alabama, which is also the hometown of his wife, Hannah Lee Fowler. Hannah inspired much of the record.
4. Dustin Lynch
Dustin's first celebrity crush was the iconic Reba McEntire.
Dustin Lynch likes to keep it simple. On a day off he loves to ride back roads, find a field, kick back and listen to some good ol' music!
5. Lady Antebellum
Hillary grew up on tour with thee Reba McEntire.
All members of the group are married and major couple goals.
6. Kelsea Ballerini
Kelly Clarkson is one of Kelsea's biggest inspirations.
She stars in her husband's music video for his song 'Day Drunk', giving us a sneak peak into their vacation.
7. Kane Brown
He refused to be a part of a boy band after the producers of The X Factor insisted. Luckily, he worked hard enough to make it solo!
His first TV appearance was on Ellen where he played his hit song "One Right Thing" with DJ Marshmello.
8. Jon Pardi
As he's gotten older, he drinks more responsibly. His band's idea of "fun" on tour is to keep on working and jamming.
He has diverse musical influences including the likes of Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles, and Dean Martin.
9. Chase Rice
He appeared on Survivor: Nicaragua back in 2010 where he made his musical aspirations known. He would taunt his competitors by singing to them.
His father is his musical inspiration, he found comfort in his music after losing his dad
10. Hot Country Knights
This fun new group is on a journey to take themselves less seriously and have more fun with country music.
11. Bobby Bones
He's known as 'shoe boy' because of his super large shoe collection.
Photos: Getty Images


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Monthly Archives: September 2010
House Restaurant, Hamilton, New Zealand
Sand Dunz Beach Cafe, Muriwai Beach, New Zealand
Gannet Colony, Muriwai Beach, New Zealand
There are many gannet colonies in New Zealand but the one at Muriwai Beach about 30 minutes drive from Auckland is the easiest to view. The adult birds hatch their young in spring and by autumn the chicks grow in size and they fly 8 to 14 days to Australia to feed. They eventually return in two to three years to breed in New Zealand. Adult birds usually remain in New Zealand.
Hundertwasser's Toilet, Kawakawa, New Zealand
Jimmy Jacks Rib Shacks, Pahia, New Zealand
Waterfront Cafe, Russell, New Zealand
Doremi Cake
Bay of Island Cruise, New Zealand
Cruises depart daily from Pahia to see dolphins and sail through the hole in the rock at Piercy Island, after which a stop over at historic Russell Island before returning to Pahia. (see Whale Watch Kaikoura)


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Film by Jonas Mekas
Totes les cartes
A Letter to José Luis
The creators of 'The Complete Letters' (Totes les cartes) began the project with a simple goal: to assemble pairs of directors from opposite parts of the globe to each film their ideas about the struggle to cinematically capture one's homeland, and then send those recordings to their partner.
The filmed 'epistles', as they are aptly called thanks to their intimate, confessional quality, were then exchanged and responded to in kind. Filmic epistle for filmic epistle, over and over again. The directors included in this exhibition are among the best and most prominent chroniclers of public space working today—from José Luis Guerin in Barcelona to Jonas Mekas in New York, Victor Erice in Madrid and Abbas Kiarostami in Tehran; Albert Serra in Banyoles to Lisandro Alonso in Buenos Aires.
The resultant films represent two things: firstly, an open, respectful, and sincere dialogue between film-makers about their environmental differences and its effect upon their film-making; and secondly, the discovery for the viewer that geographical diversity is a superficial distinction for film-makers.
In this exhibition the simultaneous and juxtaposed presentation of the films may seem a bit daunting from a purely sensory perspective, but the overall experience is not chaotic at all. It's actually quite synthesised. The viewer, over the course of one of these filmic dialogues, begins to see shared ideas of place through recapitulated images and stylistic homage. While each film-maker may capture vastly different patrias (homelands), Totes les cartes shows the viewer how they all ultimately work on the same wavelength, how they borrow ideas about filming their homeland from each other.
For anyone who's watched En construcción, José Luis Guerín's visceral 2001 documentary on the gentrification of the Raval, this exhibition is a great opportunity to see how his unique style of discreet, specific journalistic approach to filming Barcelona inspires Jonas Mekas, a Lithuanian-born New Yorker filming New York. Shared visions of environment emerge and we discover a "film continent" occupied by film-makers where disparate places symbolise similar feelings and traditions, and superficial differences fall away.
The viewer becomes a traveller, drawing conclusions about the way we interact with our homelands—and those places that we have come to call home—where we find our identities.
CCCB, October 12th until February 19th, 2012. www.cccb.org


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Call of Duty: Ghosts was met with pretty bad reviews for what is touted as the biggest FPS in the world. Review scores fell behind EA's Battlefield 4, and many sites called Ghosts a "step backward in the franchise".
But, that doesn't affect sales numbers, according to a new report from Doug Creutz of Cowen & Company, who notes that while Metacritic scores for Call of Duty: Ghosts are hovering around the 74. Regardless of what the reviewers say of Ghosts, Call of Duty will continue to sell at an enormous rate.
"We think CoD has become such an embedded franchise that it is somewhat review-proof," he said. "We think of CoD as being like EA's Madden NFL, which continues to sell similar unit numbers year in and year out, regardless of reviews; Madden's Metacritic has ranged as low as 78 in recent years. Given that CoD changes only incrementally from year to year, we think reviewers have become increasingly less likely to give very high review scores due to a certain degree of ennui with the franchise."
Even though Battlefield 4 exceeded Ghosts in reviews, that game isn't selling very much for current-gen. The analyst says that Call of Duty's biggest competition will be coming in Spring 2014 with Destiny (an Activision game) and Titanfall (EA's game).
"Our concern lies more with next year, when Call of Duty will face competition from several new next-gen shooters, including EA's Titanfall and Activision's own Destiny," said the analyst.
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According to a news report at The Oregonian, due to members of the Imnaha wolf pack attacking sheep and cattle on private land, four of the eight wolves in Wallowa County will be killed by state wildlife officials.
"Information from two collared wolves–OR4, the alpha male and OR39, the alpha female–indicate that they and another two younger wolves have regularly used an area of private land on the westernmost portion of their known home range," a statement from the department read. "While infrequent visits were historically made to the area by this pack, the near continual use of the area at this time of year is a marked departure from the pack's normal pattern."
While the current state law does not require the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife to order wolves killed after attacking livestock, it is allowed. While landowners and local officials have unsuccessfully been able to deter the wolves, ODFW has received an outside request to kill a wolf. The news also reports in the past five months this pack has been involved in six incidents of resulting in the death or injury of livestock.
According to state wolf coordinator Russ Morgan in a statement made Thursday, wolf attacks increase in the spring, as newborn lambs and cattle are sent to pasture.
"Unfortunately members of the Imnaha wolf pack are once again involved in chronic livestock depredation, and ODFW is adhering to the Plan and protecting the interests of area livestock producers," Morgan said.
Some points to consider, according to myurbanwild.com:
* The Imnaha pack represents half of Oregon's wolves and the best chance for wolves to disperse to safer habitat in Central and Western Oregon, where livestock conflict is less likely.
* Oregon wolves are protected by the Oregon Endangered Species Act. The Oregon Wolf Plan, implemented in 2005 and revised in 2010, requires wolves to be managed for recovery until their numbers allow them to be delisted. Treating every depredation as a crisis to be solved by lethal removals is not a satisfactory management plan for recovering a population. Killing wolves should be only a last resort.
* There will always be stock losses from wolves, just as there are from coyote, bear, dog, cougar, eagle,and others. The OWP is not designed to eliminate wolf depredation, any more than state policy is to eliminate losses from any other predator. Predators are part of the livestock business in the West, where huge tracts of public land rightfully provide a home for wildlife, and from which the ranchers benefit by grazing allotments. Despite the presence of the Imnaha pack, no rancher has gone out of business or is in danger of doing so from wolves.
* Confirmed wolf depredations are compensated at full market value and probables at half market value by Defenders of Wildlife. Vet bills for confirmed wolf-caused injuries are fully compensated. A compensation bill is under consideration by the state legislature.
If you'd like to read more about the extermination of Oregon's entire Imnaha wolf pack, this article from 2011 was quite interesting. (READ HERE)
H/T The Oregonian


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When you upgrade the Cisco Unified Intelligent Contact Manager (ICM) Hosted Edition to ICM 7.0 and later, the CICR replication process (CRPL) does not have the proper rights and permissions in order to make configuration updates to the customer instances without the manual changes outlined within Active Directory. This document outlines the manual changes.
Note: The associations that are outlined within this document do not automatically occur with the installation and setup of ICM. These associations must be setup manually. Refer to Cisco bug ID CSCse55800 (registered customers only) for more information.
Cisco recommends that you have knowledge of these topics:
Active Directory (AD) concepts
Basic functionality of the CRPL
The information in this document is based on these software and hardware versions:
Cisco Unified ICM Hosted Edition Release 7.0(0) and later
Microsoft AD
The information in this document was created from the devices in a specific lab environment. All of the devices used in this document started with a cleared (default) configuration. If your network is live, make sure that you understand the potential impact of any command.
Refer to Cisco Technical Tips Conventions for more information on document conventions.
Customer ICM (CICM) replication within a Hosted ICM environment is a process that replicates configuration items from the Network Applications Manager (NAM) level to the CICM level (specifically dialed numbers and labels) without the need for an administrator to manually add the items in both places.
The CRPL failure represented in these Event Management System (EMS) log segments is indicative of not having all the proper mappings. Mappings for the service logon account(s) of the NAM loggers, associated with the service security group of the specific customer instance(s), are missing.
Events from February 20, 2006: 11:51:51 lb-crpl Trace: Connecting to Cicr <customer Instance> 11:51:51 lb-crpl Trace: AwRtClient Client started at Mon Feb 20 11:51:51 2006 11:51:51 lb-crpl Trace: Real Time Feed activated from preferred side of central controller. 11:51:51 lb-crpl Trace: Config Change message received, last update key 406154682083.000000, last update time 877761033 11:51:51 lb-crpl Real-time Client cannot connect to database using ServerName: geocustdist1b, UserName , SqlCode 3. 11:51:51 lb-crpl Session to local database could not be opened. Aborting... 11:51:51 lb-crpl Session to local database could not be opened. Aborting... 11:51:51 lb-crpl Trace: Connection to Cicr <customer Instance> Failed: Initialize UpdateCC returned error code -9986: Session to local database could not be opened. Events from February 20, 2006: 11:51:51 dis-uaw Trace: New trace client: cicrreplication(upcc) on pipe 0x270. 11:51:51 dis-uaw Trace: [client: cicrreplication(upcc)] Real-time Client cannot connect to database using ServerName: geocustdist1b, UserName , SqlCode 3. 11:51:51 dis-uaw Trace: [client: cicrreplication(upcc)] Session to local database could not be opened. Aborting... 11:51:51 dis-uaw Trace: Info: Trace client on pipe 0x270 disconnected. Last API Error [109]: Unknown status code 109. GetLastError() after FormatMessage() returned 317
Through Active Directory Users and Computers, add the NAM logger A and B side service accounts (NAMN1LoggerAmachinename and NAMN1LoggerBmachinename) to the service security group of the specific customer instance at the CICM level. This must be done through Active Directory Users and Computers, and not the ICM Domain Manager tool.
Complete these steps:
Choose Start > Program Files > Administrative Tools > Active Directory Users and Computers on the Domain Controller.
Highlight the NAM instance at the Instance OU level in order to determine the name of the NAM instance service account.
In the diagram, the example is the N1 instance and the service security group is NAM1_N1_Service. Highlight and right-click this service group and choose Properties. Go to the Member tab and make a note of the logger service accounts called NAMN1LoggerAmachinename and NAMN1LoggerBmachinename .
Navigate to the CICM Customer Instance and highlight the Instance OU.
You see a Service security group within the right pane of the interface.
Highlight and right-click this service group and choose Properties.
Go to the Members tab and complete these steps:
Click Add.
Select the NAM domain.
Add the service accounts of the NAM loggers that you made note of in step 3.
This diagram is one example of what a typical hosted domain structure could look like. The groups that are relevant to this solution are highlighted.
Note: The workaround procedure in this document is not a one-time fix. Each time the ICM setup is run, the configuration group accounts are automatically reset. Therefore, this procedure must be repeated each time the setup is run.
This issue is outlined in Cisco bug ID CSCse55800 (registered customers only) . Cisco bug ID CSCse55800 provides individuals who have a valid CCO ID with the official description and release notes for this issue, including the workaround steps noted in this document.


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Kathryn "Kat" is bursting with excitement and anticipation to begin high school. She is hoping, as most girls do, for acceptance, popularity, and, most of all, a boyfriend. But the sudden death of her father changes everything. Her family begins to unravel. Her mother becomes absent, and she finds herself in trouble and sent away.
Devotedly, Steve, her oldest brother, rescues her and takes on the responsibility of raising her and her brothers. They keep a watchful and protective eye over her as she begins her long awaited high school years. High school brings her everything she wanted—acceptance, popularity, and a boyfriend—as she struggles to pick up the pieces of her past.
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Five Star Review on Amazon By Christine
Excellent YA read! It started so tragically I almost cried, by the end I had gone through an entire array of emotions. I fell in love with the characters and the story. The story consistently changed, surprising me-in a good way. It was action-packed yet lovely. I became so captivated with Billy and Kat that it became an effortless read and I was finished within two days! I loved it, the tragedy, the family, the teenage romance. A simply fantastic read whether your a teenager or adult fan of young adult books!
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Communication alum Dr. Gilbert Maddox was a trailblazing broadcaster and educator...
Dr. Gilbert Alan Maddox (WSU '54 '59 '61 '70) passed away on January 12, 2013. A native Detroiter, he was a trailblazing broadcaster and educator as well as historian. As a writer, producer and moderator, Maddox was one of the earliest contributors to a sustaining presence of African Americans on Detroit television. His 1959-1960 television series "Black and Unknown Bards," explored the contributions of African American authors from the American Colonial Period to 1960. Premiering on Detroit Public Television, the series was re-broadcast on WJBK TV and on 56 Michigan radio stations. From 1968 to 1969, he teamed with Tony Brown at DPTV to executive produce "CPT," the predecessor to Detroit Black Journal. And from 1969 to 1976 he hosted and co-produced 350 half-hour episodes of "Profiles in Black," which aired on WDIV Channel 4 in Detroit. Cited as the first African American man in the United States to earn a PhD in Mass Communication (from Wayne State University, 1970), he taught in the Detroit Public Schools before holding faculty appointments at Wayne State University, Howard University, University of Michigan, Michigan State University and later at the University of the District of Columbia and Morgan State University.
A memorial service will take place Saturday, February 2, 2013, 11am, at Unity Church of Washington, D.C.
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PALM DESERT, CALM DESERT, CA – 31 May, 2016 – Locally-owned Elite Mobility Service LLC announced today that it has acquired another AM General MV-1 LX to add to its growing fleet of ADA compliant vehicles providing non-emergency medical transportation to disabled and elderly people in the Coachella Valley.
"Our goal is to make life easier by providing reliable, convenient and dignified non-emergency medical transportation, The AM General MV-1 LX is the best vehicle available to accomplish that goal," says Elite Mobility Service CEO, Paulina Cepeda Cone.
As part of their commitment to their clients and community, the company offers additional services for wheelchair and scooter users including daily living errands, but is not limited to the following destinations: bank, super market, mall, hair dresser, post office.
Elite Mobility Service LLC is a woman and minority owned business, operating in Palm Springs, Cathedral City, Rancho Mirage, Palm Desert, Indian Wells, La Quinta and Indio (pending). CEO Paulina Cone, said "We welcome the opportunity to earn your trust and to deliver the best service in the Coachella Valley."
Elite Mobility operates AM General MV-1 LX vehicles, the only purpose-built disabled access vehicle in the world. Built in the US, the MV-1 provides superior access for people who use wheelchairs and motorized scooters with room to accommodate 4 additional ambulatory adults. Wheelchair users ride up front in the MV-1, safely secured with wheelchair restraints and seat and shoulder belts. Director of Operations Robert Cone said "The MV-1meets or exceeds the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) vehicle guidelines so you know you are always safe with us."
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Binger Seilzug - Leaf Removers EB490 Professional
The Binger Seilzug Leaf Remover EB 490 P is the next generation of the world's most successful leaf remover.
The counter-rotating rollers gently pluck the leaves from the vines, providing effective and efficient leaf removal in all canopy styles. One of the rollers is deeply grooved for improved airflow is also equipped with a patented cleaning comb which prevent build-up on the rollers. The valuable grapes remain unharmed with this technology so the machine can be used at any time from flowering until harvest. The roller mechanism is designed to provide maximum traction on leaf surface which ensures maximum leaf removal is possible, even in wet canopies. The overall construction is robust, providing longevity and reliability.
We offer a wide range of models to suit every vineyard depending on the scale or terrain:
EB 490 Professional XHD Double In Row
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Toolless opening for cleaning purposes
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Linear roller guides can even be used on steep slopes and difficult terrain. The contact pressure you set remains unchanged, even when driving up or down hill.
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AUVERGNE: Steak Knife 5" Serrated [Auvergne]
This 5 inch Serrated Steak Knife is placed at the table to cut pieces of meat or vegetables. A steel billet is heated to 2,200 degrees, hammered into shape, hardened again by heating to 1,900 degrees, quenched, tempered, hand ground, and a handle is attached. It is then polished and honed to a fine edge resulting in the finest knife available. This Auvergne brand of Sabatier (Theirs, France) has Coral handles (Pressed Wood from Spain) that are manually set and mounted on the tang using three through rivets.


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Roman ScorpionMounted on small carts, these ballistae have firepower and mobility.
The scorpion is a smaller form of the ballista, operating on the same principles of a torsion-powered bow. It was operated by one man, and was incredibly accurate at short ranges. It could be used as a sniper's weapon, but was often deployed for indirect battery fire where the high rate of fire could unleash a withering hail of bolts to completely pepper an area. Scorpions were popular with the Romans, where they were used to support the Legions. Batteries had sixty scorpions, each of which was capable of firing three or four shots per minute. Like its larger counterpart, the ballista, the Greeks originally developed the scorpion, but its deadly nature led to rapid adoption by many nations. In most designs, power came from two wooden levers inserted into twisted skeins of animal sinew which, when the arms was pulled back, provided incredible power.
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Main Unit KeyRom_Cheiroballistra
Land Unit KeyRom_Cheiroballistra
Naval Unit Keypel_transport
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ClassField Artillery
Custom Battle Cost520
Recruitment Cost520
Upkeep Cost100
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├ Missile Ap Damage70
└ Base Reload Time10
Shots Per Minute6
Melee Attack9
├ Melee Weaponrome_shortsword
├ Melee Damage Base20
├ Melee Damage Ap4
├ Armour PiercingNo
├ Bonus vs. Large0
├ Bonus vs Elephants0
└ Bonus vs Infantry0
Charge Bonus6
├ Base Defence14
├ Shieldnone
└ Shield Defence0
├ Armourmail
├ Armour Defence40
└ Shield Armour0
├ Man Entityrome_infantry_medium
├ Man Health40
└ Bonus Hit Points5
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- Cannot Run
This unit cannot run and will only move at walking pace.
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- Very poor hull strength
- Very slow speed
- Weak ramming
- High damage
- Mobile
- Very accurate
- Short range
- Average rate of fire
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- 10/07/2019 to 14/07/2019
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Try some of Jimmy's unique creations fresh from Zuma Dubai's new menu, as well as an exclusive cocktail he has designed especially for Oblix.
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- Oblix East, The Shard, 31 St Thomas St, London, SE1 9RY
- Dates
- 10/07/2019 to 14/07/2019
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Globally celebrated bartender Jimmy Barrat will take over Oblix East at The Shard, providing guests with a one-off opportunity to try six of his awe-inspiring creations, including a special designed specifically for Oblix.
Jimmy has been a member of the Zuma family for over 13 years, with his role as global bar development director having brought the group significant acclaim and multiple noteworthy awards, including listings in the World's 50 Best Bars twice.
Celebrated for his innovative approach to cocktail design, the menu Jimmy brings to London embodies his signature flair for working an abstract narrative into his drinks.
In partnership with Bacardi brands, the bespoke cocktails are based on sensations, including 'Joy,' 'Desire' and 'Awake.'
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An investigation into allegations that firefighters made fraudulent overtime claims has instead revealed how the Northern Ireland Fire & Rescue Service was itself operating without proper guidelines for "non operational" overtime payments.
Auditors from the Department of Health's internal audit unit, Business Services Organisation (BSO), were called in last October to investigate "alleged irregular" overtime and expenses claims which had been submitted by firefighters overseeing a NIFRS recruitment programme.
The firefighters, who supervised trainees taking part in the Wholetime Recruitment Exercise (WRE), had submitted overtime and expense claims totalling £98,500, the majority of which related to a two week period last August.
Auditors were called in to investigate concerns over "irregularities" in 100 claims submitted by 30 firefighters after it was alleged that some staff had claimed overtime and expenses payments for supervising the recruitment course, despite also being paid for being on normal duties.
The investigation comes just months after Northern Ireland's Auditor General, Kieran Donnelly, warned the fire service that it must improve efficiency savings, including a significant reduction in overtime payments.
NIFRS is expected to face even more damning criticism in June when a senior member of staff, who has made serious allegations of financial wrongdoing within the organisation, gives evidence at an industrial tribunal hearing.
The fire service is expected to contest the allegations.WHOLETIME RECRUITMENT TRAINING
The Wholetime Recruitment Exercise (WRE) involved firefighters from across Northern Ireland supervising trainees in Multi-Stage Fitness Training (MSFT) classes and Personal Qualities & Attributes (PQA) assessments in leisure centres in Belfast and Omagh last summer.
As the firefighters supervising the courses were being drawn away from normal duties it was agreed by the senior member of staff in charge of the project that full-time would be entitled to claim two hours overtime beyond the actual daily duration of the course.
Firefighters claimed £90,100 in overtime and a further £8,486 in subsistence and mileage.
However investigators uncovered claims which "appear to be excessive and fall outside the agreed payment arrangements."
Despite an agreement being reached between the officer in charge of the training and union leaders no approval had been sought from the Chief Fire Officer (CFO) or NIFRS management board.
While auditors had only been asked to investigate irregularities in 100 claims, concerns were expressed that the total figure of alleged fraud could potentially be significantly higher as an additional 200 overtime claims had still to be processed at the time of the investigation last October.CONCERN OVER IRREGULAR OVERTIME PAYMENTS
The alarm on the overtime claims was first raised when it was discovered that one part-time firefighter had claimed payment for taking part in an emergency call-out while he had also supposedly been acting as an overseer on the training project.
Investigators found the firefighter and other colleagues had each claimed 12 hour payments for overseeing the recruitment course at Omagh Leisure Centre on September 2nd.
However when the matter was investigated it emerged that the course had only lasted five hours and had ended at noon.
Despite being paid for an additional seven hours, firefighters were allowed to go home rather than returning to normal duties.
When auditors asked to interview the firefighter at the centre of the controversy they were told he was "unable to attend".
When auditors queried the double payment further they were told the firefighter's superior claimed he may not have actually have attended the training day at all.
The draft internal audit report states:
"BSO Internal Audit has viewed a payment claim and a subsistence claim completed by the retained firefighter for the 2nd September and has no evidence that a duplicate claim for payment has not been made."
• One firefighter claimed 12 hours overtime for overseeing a training session on August 29, despite the fact that the class had not taken place because it fell on a bank holiday. Investigators found that the same firefighter claimed another 12 hours in overtime payments for overseeing a training day, despite having been on duty at the same time.
• The report found that one firefighter claimed 56 hours in overtime payments, but when the payments were investigated it was found he hadn't been on duty for 21.5 hours for which he'd claimed.
• Investigators also found that two firefighters had claimed 36 hours overtime for supervising training days, despite already being rostered for day duties. The same individuals also claimed additional 12 hours overtime for night-time duties.POLICY FOR OVERTIME PAYMENTS
Auditors also expressed concerns over fire service management procedures after it emerged that the organisation had a policy for overtime payments for firefighters engaged on "operational incidents" but had no similar overtime policy for firefighters engaged on "non-operational" day-to-day duties.
Investigators were informed that all claims submitted by firefighters had been approved by their superiors at the end of each day.
The officer in charge of the programme confirmed that he'd checked all overtime and subsistence claims to ensure firefighters had attended the relevant courses but had failed to check whether firefighters were already being paid for being on normal duties.
When interviewed, management and staff repeatedly referred to "custom and practice" and "local agreements" which had operated within the fire service for decades.
Auditors were repeatedly told during interview with firefighters that "a shift is a shift".
The report states that when investigators weren't provided with any written evidence to substantiate the ad hoc arrangements.
The report states: "Beyond the National Joint Council Terms and Conditions and the Maintaining Wholetime Crewing Levels in Line with Proposed Northern Ireland Emergency Response Standards document, NIFRS does not have an overtime policy and there is no written guidance on detached duties."
Senior officers admitted to auditors that they'd failed to include projected overtime payments in the programme's budget.
Instead a whiteboard in a training centre was used to monitor overtime and expenses payments.
The BSO report concludes:
"The organisation's financial control over the wholetime recruitment project has been inadequate.
"The payment arrangement put in place is not supported by organisation policy or a written local agreement and was not appropriately approved.
"Also communication between finance and the project team was not effective during this project."
It calls for an end to adhoc/local payment arrangements and recommends that the fire service should begin fraud awareness sessions for staff.
The Detail understands that as a result of the investigation NIFRS has now overhauled its response plan to irregular overtime claims.
However when contacted by The Detail a fire service spokeswoman was unable to clarify what fraudulent payments, if any, had been uncovered by the investigation and whether any member of staff has faced or is likely to face disciplinary measures.
"The report on the outcome of this investigation has been shared with our sponsoring Government Department, the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety (DHSSPS) and it is currently being considered," she said.UNION LEADER DEFENDS FIREFIGHTERS OVERTIME CLAIMS
Fire Brigade Union spokesman Jim Barbour insisted that his members had been under clear instructions from their superiors when claiming overtime pay.
"In terms of what the firefighters claimed, they were given instruction on a daily basis," he said.
"This was a one-off recruitment process.
"They were given instruction by senior officers about what to claim and how to claim.
"As far as the union is concerned firefighters were acting under instruction from senior officers."
Insisting that it was NIFRS management and not firefighters who were to blame for the overspend, he said:
"The process wasn't costed.
"But the other side of the coin is that we were massively understaffed in terms of Wholetime (fulltime) firefighters.
"The union believed there was a public safety issue and it was imperative that new recruits be brought in very quickly."


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There was much head scratching and pipe choking this week at the sudden announcement of yet another app. for the iPhone. In a move that has been conversely called "inexplicable", "absurd" and "what the hell?" Apple recently proclaimed the coming of an app. to clearly and easily explain the rules, process and tactics of Cricket in a such a way that even NASCAR fans can comprehend it.
The news was met with a mixed response, particularly from the colonial side of the Pond where there seems to be a great deal of confusion between the winged, noise making insect and the British invented flat-bat sporting event. Noted American commentator Mike Michelson was quoted as saying "Cricket? You mean that wrong baseball thing?"
Meanwhile, in Britain, intelligent people have greeted the announcement with some relief, sheepishly admitting to having somewhat lost the plot on the nation's great game, when the rules started changing on an annual basis in a bid to stop being constantly and embarrassingly beaten in by India and Pakistan.


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Hope, and an easy ride to school
Philanthropy platform, HopeMonkey will be raising funds for The Campus Bicycle Project through a multi-artiste musical evening tomorrow
Most of us have had the luxury of being ferried to school through various means of transport — bus, train, car or auto. But, this luxury is a distant dream for many children, who have to face the challenge of covering blistering miles under the sun to reach their educational destination. In order to offer some respite to those kids, micro-philanthropy platform HopeMonkey has organised a fundraiser in collaboration with Blue Frog.
On November 5, HopeMonkey will be raising money for The Campus Bicycle Project, an initiative started by St Xavier's College students to give bicycles to children in rural Maharashtra to ride to school. Though some children are fortunate enough to be sent to school by their families rather than work, many still face distances as great as 5, 10, and 12 kilometres every day to get to school. By giving these children bicycles, The Campus Bicycle Project is hoping to reduce dropout rates and ensure that children expend their energy studying, rather than in their commute to school.
"Giving the girls these bicycles means giving them access to education. In addition, rather than spending hours walking to and from school in the hot sun each day, they will have both the time and energy to focus on studying, playing, and spending time with their families," says Anjuli Branz, manager, Special Projects, HopeMonkey.
The event that will see performances by Block a Bus, EatShootLeave, Rang, Zephyr Reunion Gig and Clayton Hogermeer, hopes to raise
R1 lakh, so that The Campus Bicycle Project can fund bicycles to 25 girls in a village in Mokhada (Thane district) to ensure they have a smoother ride to school.
On November 5, 9.30 pm
At Blue Frog, Mathuradas Mills Compound, Lower Parel.
Call 61586158
Entry R350
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