]]> http://suzanbee.wordpress.com/?p=22 Thu, 03 Jul 2008 05:02:41 +0000 Susan B. http://suzanbee.wordpress.com/?p=22

Taken earlier this week. I was quickly reminded what it was like to have toddlers - and this little one and his sister just kept me going for a good full hour. How I got him to stand still for this is beyond me!

for me, family photos are best when they capture the connection that the family has.  if a family is comfortable enough to let their guard down and just act natural - those are the best images.

this session was with a great mom and her one year old - who is just as sweet as he can be with those big brown eyes.  these are the type of family photos that i love.  these are the kind that i wish i had of me and my mom - how great would it be to look at these as an adult, or to show your children or grandchildren, even?

We couldn't have asked for better light.  A cloud covered the sun for us right at the perfect time!  Then, just as we where finishing, the sun came out and it got so hot and sweaty out. 

Chad and Misty wanted to do the session for their 6 year anniversary and Misty chose the beach for the location because once they move to North Carolina, they won't be living near the beach anymore.

Seul quelques malins, qui ont eu le nez creux pour passer en directionnelle avec leur 9m2 voire pour changer en 11/13m2, ont pu venger les résignés en 7m2, convaincus d'une entrée tardive du marin, en vain.

Parmi eux : JMB, JMD, Nico R., Ricou, Yannout, Le coach, Tonio, Arnaud, Cyril et Pierre O' les planchistes, Guigui et Seb sans oublier un kiter/cascadeur inconnu mais qui a fait une démo de décollage en pleine fenêtre + downwind "approximatif", le tout en jean's et chaussettes...

eric@chinook-leucate.com

this five year old girl is one of the funniest i know. she is such a character and so darn cute! i was so excited to have a session with her and her little brother. who, by the way is also very cute and what a smile. mom is a good friend and neighbor - so it was such a great session!

(Subliminal Records - Erick Morillo's Record Company)

Subliminal_Sessions_12__Mixed_By_Erick_Morillo-2CD-2008-MNS

01 - Subliminal Sessions 12 Mixed By Erick Morillo CD1

02 - Subliminal Sessions 12 Mixed By Erick Morillo CD2

Tracklist CD1:

01 - Denis The Menace & Big World pres Philip Van Het Veld - Show Me A Reason

02 - Syke'n'Sugarstarr pres Cece Rogers - No Love Post (Se:Sa Remix)

03 - Eddie Thoneick - I Wanna Freak You (D.O.N.S Remix)

04 - Aly-Us - Follow Me (Vanjee Mix)

05 - My Digital Enemy feat Mooli - Wasted (Lys Remix)

06 - DJ DLG Vs Erick Morillo - Where Are You Now (Extended Mix)

07 - The Camel Rider feat Susu Bobien - Fall Down On Me (Original Mix)

08 - Antoine Clamaran & Mario Ochoa feat Lulu Hughes - Gimme Some Love (Ruff & Tort Remix)

09 - David Vendetta feat Rachael Starr - Bleeding Heart (Vocal Mix)

10 - Se:sa feat Smike - That High (Syke'n'Sugarstarr Energetic)

11 - Denis The Menace & Big World feat Inusa Dawada - Going Back To My Roots (Original Mix)

Tracklist CD2:

01 - Jonathan Peters & Bashiri Johnson feat Mai Lingani - Yelele (Jonathan Peters Tribalicious Sessions Mix)

02 - Mike Dunn pres The MD X-Press - God Made Me Phunky (Original Mix)

03 - Kurd Maverick - (All Over) The World (Original Mix)

04 - ALP Vs Outwork - Fiesta Electronica (Paolo Aliberti Reprise Mix)

05 - Pryda - Europa (Original Mix)

06 - Mark Mendes - Beneath You (Original Mix)

07 - Erico Morillo & Harry Choo Choo Romero feat P. Diddy - Make A Move (HCCR's Bambossa Mix)

08 - P8 - Ocean (Original Mix)

09 - Peter Gun & Terzi - Acapulco

10 - Richard Grey pres Miami Hits - Massive

11 - Joe T. Vannelli - Private House

12 - Lil' Mo' Yin Yang - Reach (TV Rock Mix)

----> Download here <---- (torrent)

Skönt tape från Erick Morillo. Tycker om båda CD-skivorna.

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ERS has a Client seekinmg to appoint a Technical Manager to Supervise the execution of process activities on projects by providing the lead engineer and other process staff with the required technical and non-technical direction. Keeping informed on the progress of project activities through regularly scheduled project review and adhoc sessions with the Lead Engineer and others.

Location

Warrington

Salary

According to experience

Job responsibilities

Supervises the execution of process activities on projects by providing the lead engineer and other process staff with the required technical and non-technical direction.

Keeping informed on the progress of project activities through regularly scheduled project review and adhoc sessions with the Lead Engineer and others.

Ensures the proper input to the Gate Reviews as required by company procedures and Project Quality Plans.

Takes corrective actions with regard to staffing, process team organization and technical execution as required.

When requested by Management, organizes and leads large teams of Process engineers and serves as the Process Team Manager for a World Class size project.

Alternatively leads or coordinates the process activities for several projects for a particular client or technology area.

Serves as a Project Manager for process studies or front end design work.

Supervises the process efforts for major proposals and bids.

Critiques client’s bid documents and adds value to the client's sales efforts.

Makes convincing and credible presentations to clients and the client's Management.

Works with the Lead Engineer to ensure that those individuals assigned to develop authorities documentation have the proper instructions, background and resources to execute the assigned task.

Skills, Knowledge and Special Attributes Needed

Minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree in Chemical Engineering (or equivalent).

Extensive experience with an engineering company or operating company, and relevant Principal / Lead Process Engineer experience.

Strong technical background in either the Nuclear and /o Chemical sector.

Ability to show delivery of capital projects in a difficult environment.

Ability to lead teams of personnel.

Commissioning experience would be beneficial Is thoroughly familiar with PEM, all Company Procedures, Departmental Methods and Guidelines, International Standards, and explains, clarifies and interprets these documents for others.

Is thoroughly familiar with word processing, spread sheeting, electronic communication and document management

Tel: 01454 203 460

cv@energyrs.co.uk

I'm using two modular eight track digital recorders, called ADAT's, for recording this album.  As I'm tracking, one machine just up and dies. It stops recording. all the LED indicators show that signal is going in, but nothing is getting to tape. Thankfully, I was given a third machine, which has only 4 hours on it. I find a store that repairs them on the East side of Pennsylvania. I get it fixed, but I'm down for a week. It comes back, and I'm back in business. No sooner than I start to mix, the second machine starts eating the time code from the tapes. I barely get the song "Sea Of Dreams' to two track. The time code from the drum and bass tracks tape is gone, so there's no way to even play it ever again. No, I didn't make digital backups, I know................anyway, I have the songs, and I need to master them.

I set everything up, and my stand alone CD burner dies. just writes one track, fills the entire disc, and ejects them. At first I thought it was a bad disc or two, but after six?  So I'm down again! Rather than buy a new CD burner and pay to get my original ADAT and my second ADAT repaired, I found a deal on a new Digital Audio Workstation with built in CD writer.  So I upgrade. Grand total of down time?  Six months! During tracking, there were other equipment malfunctions that delayed things, like mic's dying, bad cords, tapes getting stretched during rewinding....that sort of thing, but all told, it took almost a year to get this album recorded and finished.

Share any stories that you have.

]]> http://sandradphotography.wordpress.com/?p=5 Sat, 28 Jun 2008 12:34:26 +0000 sandradphotography http://sandradphotography.wordpress.com/?p=5 Here are a just a few photos from past sessions. They were lots of fun!

Session #1:

Session #2:

Session #3:

Session 4:

Ok ok, you aren't probably going to need memcache for caching huge queries yet.  But it is useful for storing your user's session data server side and not having to worry about filling up cookies or clearing out files in your tmp directory or your database.

So I've been designing a single sign on system for the interanl applications at CI.  And I need apps on all kinds of different servers to talk to the same memcache instance(s) for their sessions.  I did follow this article on err.the_blog to get started but I only got so far and ran into some issues that got hard to debug.

The default memcached session store hits localhost:11211 which is generally fine for most applications but I needed a clustered approach and could not for the life of me figure it out.  Turns out like most things with rails it was really easy.

In environment.rb in my rails app I needed to do a few things:

1. Setup the connection to your memcache server

2. Tell rails to use memcache for sessions

3. Setup rails to drop all its sessions stuff into the memcache server we setup

Alright so 1:
require 'memcache'
CACHE = MemCache.new(:namespace => "your_app")
CACHE.servers = 'some_ip_address:some_port', 'another_ip_address_if_you_need_it:some_port

and then 2(pretty easy)
config.action_controller.session_store = :mem_cache_store

and then 3 (this is where you can set the session timeout and then pass in the memcached object CACHE)

config.action_controller.session = {
:session_key => '_your_app_session',
:secret      => 'someotherkindofsecretthatnooneknows',
:cache       => CACHE,
:expires=>900  }

I think if memcache doesn't find the session on one server it'll look on the others you put in the CACHE.servers list.  However if your memcache instance goes down your rails app is hosed and starts throwing up 500 errors all over itself.

You can actually throw alot of this config into a gem if you are going to have several apps that are all going to use the same config (setup the CACHE stuff in your gem and then just do step 3 in your apps)  That way if you need to switch or add servers to your memcache setup you don't have to make changes in 20 places.

I would like to thank those of you who entertained me today. Locked n Chaste, as usual I have enjoyed our conversations. I do, however challenge you to check out Laurel K Hamiltons website, so that as I read more in this series of books ( The Anita Blake or Merry Gentry), you will know a little about who and what is going on. You may also want to find a way to maybe get a book or two in these series to read.
BustingSlave: You have had the priviledge of seeing just how brutal a CBT session with me can really be, through our chat today.
To those who I am considering bestowing a task on, who have recently shown interest in becoming one of my subs/slaves/pets, I will assign one to you soon.

I am trying to keep my numbers intimate so that I can provide each of you with the quality I like to use with everything I do.

public class SessionManager
{
    //set the login status in session for the current user.
    public static void setIsLoggedIn(bool value)
    {
        //value is true when the the usser logs in
        HttpContext.Current.Session["isLoggedIn"] = value;
        //value is false when the the usser logsout
        if (!value)
            HttpContext.Current.Session["isLoggedIn"] = null;
    }

     //check to see if the user is logged in

    public static bool isLoggedIn()

    {

        if (HttpContext.Current.Session["isLoggedIn"].Equals(null))

            return false;

        else

            return true;

    }   

    //set current employee in the sessoin

    public static void setCurrentEmployee(dsEmployees.EmployeesRow value)

    {

        HttpContext.Current.Session["Employee"] = value;

        if (value != null)

        {

            //following variables are set separately to be used in bindable control like

            //GridView, DataList etc..

            HttpContext.Current.Session["EmployeeId"] = value.EmployeeId;

            HttpContext.Current.Session["Name"] = value.FirstName + " " +

                value.MiddleName + " "+ value.LastName;

        }

    }

    //get current employee fro the session

    public static dsEmployees.EmployeesRow getCurrentEmployee()

    {

        return(dsEmployees.EmployeesRow)HttpContext.Current.Session["Employee"];

    }

    //bonus functions - to be used on the pages where it is neccessary for the users to login

    public static voidsetRedirectUrl(stringredirectURL)

    {

        HttpContext.Current.Session["redirectURL"] = redirectURL;

    }

    //bonus functions - once the users log in, they will be redirected back to the previously

    //stored url or redirected to the default page

    public static stringgetRedirectUrl()

    {

        if (object.Equals(HttpContext.Current.Session["redirectURL"], null))

            return "myaccount.aspx";

        else

            return HttpContext.Current.Session["redirectURL"].ToString();

    }

}

Analyze one thing that setCurrentEmployee is taking the entire typed dataset's row of the currently logged in user. This practice helps a great deal to quickly access any value from the currently logged in user's details instead of hitting the database again and again and of course, typed datarow helps you avoid any mistakes in writing field names :)

Here is a sample code to set and get login sessoin variables.

    {

        Page.Validate();

        if(!Page.IsValid)

            return;

        dsEmployeesTableAdapters.EmployeesTableAdapter ta = new dsEmployeesTableAdapters.EmployeesTableAdapter();

        dsEmployees.EmployeesDataTable dt = ta.Login(txtuid.Text.Trim(), txtPassword.Text.Trim());

        if(dt.Rows.Count > 0)

        {

            dsEmployees.EmployeesRow row = dt[0];

 //set current user as logged in

    return;

    }

Now it is very easy to check if the user is logged in.

//check if the user is logged in

        if (!EmployeeSession.isLoggedIn())

        {

            //store current url and redirect to the login page

            stringurl = Request.Url.AbsoluteUri.ToString();

            EmployeeSession.setRedirectUrl(url);

            Response.Redirect("login.aspx");

        }

Accessing the data of the currently logged in user is piece of cake now. 

          //check if the user is logged in
            if (EmployeeSession.isLoggedIn())
            {
                //display the name of the user from the session object
                lblName.Text = SessionManager.getCurrentEmployee().Name;
            }

Hope it helps, if you need more on it, drop me a few lines.

 
Cheers!

Tot el que hem fet ha estat completar un Mind Map que a mi m'ha servit per avaluar el que hem fet durant totes les sessions que ha ocupat el projecte. En aquest mapa conceptual, els alumnes han trobat 5 grups i havien de dir tot el que sabien de cada un: Animals can live, animals can be, vertebrates, invertebrates, food chain. Només calia anomenar els conceptes claus.

No hi ha hagut cap problema per desenvolupar la tasca. Primerament, els nens han treballat individualment, a mida que han anat acabant han comparat respostes amb els companys i finalment l'hem comentat entre tots.

En aquesta sessió els alumnes han fet servir molt més anglès, tot i que en el moment de treballar en parelles han fet ús del català.

A la pissarra he enganxat fotos d'animals i he establit una sèrie de relacions tenint en compte quin es menja a quin. Entre tots hem fet l'explicació de les relacions i hem donat nom a cada un.

Hem parlat de: Tertiary consumers, Secondary consumers, Primary consumers, Producers and Decomposers.

Ha costat bastant que els alumnes sabessin ben bé de què s'estava parlant fins que s'han introduït els conceptes de: omnivores, carnivores i hervivores.

Personalment he de dir que és una de les sessions on els nens han tingut més dificultats per poder entendre la informació que s'estava donant. Tinc la sensació també de que ha estat una sessió en la que jo també m'he trobat amb més dificultats per fer-me entendre i alguna vegada ha calgut recórrer al català per poder tirar endavant. Cert és que el nivell de dificultat que m'he trobat amb el primer grup, no ha estat el mateix que amb l'últim, però a diferència de les altres sessions, aquesta m'ha resultat molt més complicada.

Per tancar aquesta sessió, els nens han fet un esborrany de food chain amb diferents animals i a casa han fet la seva cadena alimentària fent servir fotos d'animals. També han aportat exemples de cada grup. Els resultats dels treballs han estat molt positius i els nens han demostrat que han entés el procés.  

Primer de tot hem recordat els 5 tipus de vertebrats i les característiques de cada grup. Tot seguit hem recopilat animals invertebrats i els nens els han anat apuntant a la pissarra. Un cop feta la recopilació, els hem separat per grups i un cop separats calia donar nom a cada grup. Els nens de seguida han començat a donar els noms en català, però, a mida que ells anaven dient, jo els anava etiquetant en anglès (annelids, molluscs, crustaceans, arachnids, insects).  Després d'analitzar aquesta actuació, reflexiono i considero que en els propers grups donaré els grups abans de que els nens tinguin temps a etiquetar-los en català i no hagin de recórrer a la traducció.

Un cop s'han fet els grups, hem passat a fer una activitat sobre tarantulas. Aquesta activitat ha consistit en fer una lectura comprensiva i respondre unes preguntes curtes. Tot seguit, hem fet una activitat on s'havien de fer prediccions sobre la vida de les tarantules. Aquesta part els ha agradat molt perquè sempre els agrada aventurar-se i després comprovar si han fet bé o no.

Tot seguit ens hem centrat en els vertebrates. Per començar he apuntat tota una sèrie de paraules repartides per la pissarra, des de les categories principals (mammals, fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds) fins a les característiques de cada grup (oviparous, viviparous, warm-blooded, cold-blooded, skin, fur, feathers, scales...). La feina dels alumnes ha consistit en relacionar cada grup d'animals amb les seves característiques segons el tipus de respiració, el tipus de sang, la reproducció, la pell i segons les característiques que els feien diferents dels altres grups.

Tot i que els coneixements dels alumnes han facilitat la tasca, en alguns casos ha calgut l'explicació del concepte i fins i tot, en algun moment puntual, la traducció.

S'ha fet la relació de tots els conceptes i s'han format definicions de cada grup. Per exemple:

Mammals have got skin or fur. They are warm-blooded. They are viviparous, they have babies. Female mammals produce milk to feed their babies. They breathe through lungs.

Un cop teníem les denicions, hem donat exemples de cada grup i hem recordat tots els animals que vam comentar a l'inici de la unitat, recordant també l'hàbitat en el que es movien.

Per tancar la sessió, els nens han desenvolupat per parelles una activitat en la que havien de completar una graella que recull els conceptes bàsics treballats. Cal dir que no han tingut cap tipus de dificultat i l'han completat molt bé. Com a contra, aquesta activitat ha donat poc joc a parlar entre ells perquè tenien les definicions al mateix full i en comptes de buscar respostes a través del diàleg, les han buscat més a través de la lectura.