Elisha
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Memory Eternal. I did several jumps at Skydive SF in Cloverdale when Ashby was there. I hadn't seen him in a couple of years (just didn't jump where he was), but had been wondering where/what he was up to. He was one of the few (maybe only?) people I knew that jumped a Vengeance.
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Was there 11 years ago. It was a nice day in the mid 80's. Yeah, lotsa partying, but things got out of hand. For one thing, guys would just squirt random women in the chest/butt with water guns. My co-workers (from my Migros internship) passed on attending.
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Now that I watch some other videos/pics, JH plaza doesn't look so small anymore....not that I would feel really comfortable landing there though.
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100 Skydivers in San Francisco (T Mobile Event)
Elisha replied to jacketsdb23's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
One of the things I miss about not working at 333 Market St anymore... -
I saw what I could from Miller-Regional park in Pt. Richmond. Saw the Patriots circle the bay and do their flybys w/ smoke, then saw some red smoke streaks which I assume were the wingsuiters w/ red (some w/ blue?) smoke cannisters....and possibly a canopy or three opening. Kinda hard to see from like 15 miles or so away though.
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Yeah, I thought those landing areas sounded pretty sketchy myself. Crissy Field, on the other hand, is massive and open (though right next to the Bay and often windy as hell). Since Craig (topdocker) is the RD here and several of the jumpers are from his home DZ, I'm guessing he's more in the loop than the press, though it does seem weird that they'd announce those landing areas if they're not using them. Maybe it's deliberate to discourage the masses from interefering?
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Not true. The Orthodox (Russian/Greek/Romainian/etc.) practice open casket too. Casket is usually open until they leave the church for the cemetary (open through all the services).
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Well, I would hope so with the conditions, but surprised I just found out!
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Is this real? Doesn't seem plausible w/o disaster to me. Maybe I'm just out of the loop. clicky
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I find an Open Casket viewing/funeral preferable if at all possible. In a way, not having one seems to me to be a denial of the reality of the newly deceased.
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Marcel, you bastard, this one is starting to make me sob uncontrollably....and I need to go to bed. Thanks for the pic.
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nice pic, Ficus. Ken, Memory Eternal. You were always a welcoming, smiling face at the DZ. Glad we had the fun little night jump Friday night as well. Blue Skies.
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Yuck! Yuck! I hear getting caught in a Storm is also dangerous. Well, I deliberately jumped with a Storm....and a few times at that. It was quite fun. (not a bad 7-cell)
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American Boogie SkyDance Davis CA June 25-28 and BigWay 25th
Elisha replied to collinb's topic in Events & Places to Jump
Yeah! I get to meet Rosa! I hitched a ride with your Asian counterpart to Eloy a few years ago.. -
OK, I think I understand with Access - a local drive vs server processing issue. But you mention about having Access process pass-through queries - what is that? How do you do that?
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Saw after I posted...yes, confusion.
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Guys, please go easy on me...I'm not a db guy. I'm a Reporting/Statistical/Financial Analyst/Business type. I've done GUI report development for BI/DW teams, but don't have much knowledge about dbs, query tuning/performance, etc. beyond basic concepts like indexing. I think I'm confused between the db and a tool to query data (via SQL). My boss is an accountant and thinks in Access and Excel and knows that Access uses SQL and that using an SQL tool (e.g. TOAD, SQL Navigator, the free Oracle tool I mentioned, etc.) may be necessary, but doesn't really know SQL himself (I'm rather an intermediate myself, but much better than him). Is MySQL both a db and a querying tool? The Oracle SQL Dev tool says it can connect to an SQL Server (I DID say our data sources are on SQL Server 2005). Btw, there are no tnsnames.ora or sqlnet files on the machine I'm working on.
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I was told in the interview (and again at work - it's only Day 8 for me and data analysis is the secondary priority - mid to long term projects) that the accounting system (Great Plains) and the transactional system (a Saas based on CO - we get a nightly dump though) run on SQL Server (the nightly copies). I noticed that it is SQL Server 2005 and have confirmed that we have Integration Services (an ETL tool), Analysis (data cube creation and statistical analysis) and Reporting services and there is several gigs of space available on the server. So it looks like the resources are there to begin a nice data warehousing project - I just need to know what I'm doing!
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As to actually doing the querying, I plan on downloading the free Oracle version (Oracle SQL Developer - got the site bookmarked) and I talked to the "IT guy" and says there is plenty of space on our servers. I don't see Access going away, but I don't see it being the be-all-end-all due to it's weak processing engine. I'm looking for more the "long answer" above - to explain to the boss why Access is slow and not feasible for all situations. So, does anyone know if the MS-Query that Excel uses is a real strength engine? As I mentioned, the same query in Excel using MS-Query is much faster than Access.
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I started a new job recently where the company is very low tech. They have one official "IT guy". I'm an Analyst working for the CFO and have done work on IT project teams in a Business Intelligence / Data Warehousing environment, but know more about reporting and analysis as opposed to being a developer/programmer/hardware person. So, my question, so I can explain needs to my (stingy) CFO boss: Why do queries (e.g. SQL) process faster with an SQL tool (like TOAD, SQL Navigator, Oracle SQL Developer) than the same query with MS-Access? Doesn't Access use T-SQL? MS-Query in Excel seems to process a lot faster with using SQL than Access too. Thanks.
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American Boogie SkyDance Davis CA June 25-28 and BigWay 25th
Elisha replied to collinb's topic in Events & Places to Jump
My biggest hope....and yes, I could be jumping again then (maybe well before). -
collecting unemployment, looking for work and have skydived in almost 6 months. Sucks.
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I went nearly twenty years ago to the Buena Park location. I had a blast. I think I just had the basic package - it was like $35-40 then.
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Monday (let's see you guys figure that one out).
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The usual: Meat (still the occasional fish and shellfish though) + Dairy. Nearly vegan. Oh, and alcohol gets drastically cut back (but not eliminated).