The State Home Department in Maharashtra is gearing up for a significant overhaul of its top police leadership, including the position of Director General of Police (DGP) and Police Commissioners of Nagpur and Thane. The impending retirement of the current DGP, Rajnish Seth, on December 31 has prompted the department to commence the process of selecting his successor.A top rank official said that several prominent names have emerged as contenders for the esteemed position of State DGP. The frontrunner is Senior IPS Officer Rashmi Shukla, who currently serves as the Director General (DG) of Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB). Mumbai Police Commissioner Vivek Phansalkar is also a strong candidate for the role. Other notable contenders include Thane CP Jaijeet Singh, DG ATS Sadanand Date, DG Police Housing Sandeep Bishnoi, DG Railway Pradnya Sarvade, Additional Director of NIA Atulchandra Kulkarni, and DG State Security Corporation Bipin Kumar Singh, he said. He further stated that the State Home
In an historical move for Apple lover, the Apple has dropped the iconic
“bong” sound that its laptops make when started up. The chime - a fading F
sharp chord - has been used on every Mac since the iMac G3. The sound has become a
cultural icon, and was famously used in the Pixar film WALL-E when the movie’s
robot protagonist reboots, although it never made it to the iPhone or iPad.
Apple users are stumbled
after the move. Many are still thinking why Apple had dropped it. Latest
MacBook Pro, unveiled last week, has no power button and automatically turns on
when it is opened, apparently making the startup sound obsolete. Apple unveiled the new
laptops, which feature a new touchscreen “Touch Bar” above the keyboard and
Touch ID fingerprint recognition, last Thursday. They are due to be released in
mid-November. While the removal of the
startup chime will be welcomed by those who have loudly opened their laptop in
meetings and classrooms or unwittingly woken a sleeping infant, it marks the
end of a computing tradition.
According Apple officials, the
sound was created by Jim Reekes, an engineer at the company, who played it on a
Korg synthesizer. The original chord - which Reekes said was inspired by the
final chord in The Beatles’ "A Day In The Life" - was raised from C
Major for the iMac G3 in 1998. Macs have had a startup
sound since 1984’s Macintosh, which was intended to be a reassuring sign that
the computer is operating normally. The current chime has been the same since
1998 but is itself a modified version of the sound used since 1993’s Quadra
840AV.
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