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The Dime Bar, Battersea’s all-new neighbourhood hangout, is a little slice of retro rock ‘n’ roll heaven in south London. Somewhere between dive bar and diner, the decor is an eclectic mix of music memorabilia, vintage Americana and custom neon art.
The food menu is pure transatlantic comfort food, and the drinks list offers a regularly changing “Top 10″ list of cocktails, a selection of world beers and some highly quaffable wines.
When the mood takes you, head underground to where the magic happens and emulate your favourite bands by belting out a few songs in our three (heavily soundproofed!) karaoke pods.
So come on down the Dime Bar, relax and enjoy a delicious gourmet burger or speciality sandwich, knock back a refreshing glass of wine or a bucket of ice-cold beers, and tap your toes to a soundtrack of the best rock ‘n’ roll, pop and indie music from the last five decades.
The Dime Bar reserve the right to entry.
The Dime Bar operate a relaxed door policy.


text: What a great way to look on the things that is going on in this country!!! Selfish JERK!!!! Sack of CRAP!!!!!

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text: G&W’s major customer base includes investor owned utilities, municipals, electric co-ops, renewable energy developers, commercial and industrial engineers, university facility management and government agencies. Many of our customers come to us early in the system design process to help define product requirements. Others know exactly what they want and are looking for the best quality available. Drawing on years of technical expertise in designing electric power equipment, such as switchgear, cable accessories, and system protectors, G&W can bring proven technologies and innovative product designs to customize the best solution to individual customer requirements. For example, renewable energy solutions include renewable energy switches which are custom designed to fit within the tower access door. Part of G&W’s expertise is also working with third party suppliers to integrate the best accessory components and product package for the application. The result is customer peace of mind that they are getting a solution that meets their needs for functionality, quality and reliable performance.

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Imagine Willy Wonka went to Mexico and fell in the love with the local cuisine, relocated to Canberra and opened a cantina which served the finest Mexican food in all the land.
$3 Tacos all day all night all Tuesday!
$25 - Mates & Dates Monday - 2 burritos, chips & guac!
$15 - 3 tacos + a beer or sangria every thursday!
$10 Frozen Margaritas Friyay - all day + all night!
$20 Sangria Sundays - 1Lt jug of Sangria $20!

industry_corpus2: Hospitality & Catering


text: Two years ago I was asked to sing the Exsultet during the Easter Vigil. I had been working in the parish for only a few months and did not know at that point that I was the first woman to sing the great Easter vigil hymn in that church. After the service ended, I stood by one of the church doors, wishing people a happy Easter as they left – and I was astonished by their reaction. So many women (and a few men also) were visibly moved, some with tears in their eyes. This had little to do with the quality of my singing, I realized, and everything to do with the fact that they had witnessed a woman proclaiming the joy of the resurrection.


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We have been waiting for this moment for a long time now.
The iOS 11 also made changes to the App Store.
To the new operating system added augmented reality technology, the essence of which is that the owner of the device with the camera can add virtual content on top of images from the real world.
You can find full details on how to do that, and what to look out for, here.
The most important update comes with the all-new Files app, providing iPad users access to the file manager to store and organise files.
You will need an iPad Mini 2 or newer, an iPhone 5S or newer, or an iPod Touch of 6 generation in order to run iOS 11. It wasn't until recently Google Earth was updated to support 64-bit on iOS. Open the GoodNotes app which you previously installed ($7.99) on your iPad Pro.
The Loop will make the clip itself repeat continuously. You can even use a long exposure to create handsome effects in your Live Photo.
The Firm is engaged in designing, manufacturing and servicing engineered products that control the precise movement of fluids. Lloyds Banking Group plc is a provider of financial services to individual and business clients in the United Kingdom.
It might also be wiser to download the update on a laptop or computer and then updating the smartphone via lightning cable to avoid download errors on users' iPhone devices.
Previously, iOS 8 also left iPhones non-functional.
The bigger news, however, is that users will now be allowed to customize their Control Center.
You can choose which buttons you want to see and which ones you want to hide. But for some people, it's just too much to deal with all of the bugs that come from an unstable release, and we can't blame you for that. There are also a lot of games that plan to use AR and even one that lets you simulate open-heart surgery in your hotel room. And please enable the "do not disturb while driving" feature.
Slate's favorite thing about iOS 11 is a safety feature. You should get a notification letting you know when the update is available.
If you're holding something in one hand it is often a struggle to reply to an urgent text. From there you are able to turn off the feature completely or just disable certain apps.
The odds are, if they haven't been updated already, they probably won't be.
Control center in iOS 11 has a major flaw!
Officials said on Friday that the cost of hosting the race has been reduced to S$135 million ($100 million or 84 million euros). McLaren's Fernando Alonso on Thursday said he wanted to win with whichever Formula 1 team he races for in 2018.
Foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) remained net sellers in the past several sessions, offloading equities worth Rs 1,185.40 crore. Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged as widely expected but signaled another rate hike probably at the December meeting.
Those crews are expected to set up a base camp and tent city as part of a long-time effort to restore power. Most of those costs were related to Matthew, which caused a third as many outages as Irma did for FPL.
That restoration process will be measured in weeks, not days", said FPL spokesman Rob Gould at a news conference on Sunday. On Sunday, Gould said its nuclear plants were safe.
Over the last month, crude oil imports averaged about 7.6 million barrels per day, 7.4% below the same month previous year . There was also further positive sentiment following the latest IEA monthly report which revised up its demand forecasts.
Acting Solicitor General Jeffrey Wall condemned the court's ruling on the prohibition on blocking refugees. It also said relatives of those already in the country could not be prevented from entering the U.S.
Gaga mentioned it was important to her to show that even though she's a celebrity, her life isn't flawless . In the beginning of the film, Gaga admits that they are not in the best place.
Wenger chose not to pick Jack Wilshere against the club he spent the majority of last season at before breaking his leg. We probably won't see too many goals , but I still believe West Brom have what it takes to take all three points.
Given his top position in the Trump campaign for months, Manafort could be the key to Mr Mueller's investigations. Manafort has been under scrutiny since 2014, CNN reported , because of his foreign lobbying work.
Uber appointed a new chief executive, former Expedia CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, in late August after a string of scandals. Waymo and Lyft have a partnership to test self-driving cars, and perhaps eventually build a network.
SpaceX has published a hilarious " blooper reel " video that collates all of the firm's failed rocket booster landings. Another clip shows a fireball with the comment, "Well, technically it did land ... just not in one piece".
The Andalucian side face Liverpool for the first time since defeating the Premier League side 3-1 in the Europa League final . The Spaniard claimed. "Everyone was surprised but I think the team now is a lot better than back then".
The app supports seven Indian languages, including Hindi, Tamil, Bengali, Gujarati, Telugu, Kannada, Marathi, apart from English. It is powered by Unified Payment Interface (UPI), a payments protocol built by government-backed organisation NPCI.
Normally when I edit, stuff that's not good enough just gets cut out and it's pretty quick to get down to a manageable length. Like the record-breaking Stephen King adaption, Kingsman: The Golden Circle seems perfectly suited for a summer release.
The namesake brand is presenting the latest design iteration of the fully-electric I.D. Neo hatchback-both come to market in 2020. Crozz compact crossover and the I.D.

industry_corpus2: Computing & Telecommunications


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But there is a blind spot in this spectrum. The technology is still in its infancy to detect radiation with a wavelength of between 1 and 0.3 millimeters and a frequency of about a terahertz. The equipment that can detect such radiation is bulky and expensive and the resulting images poor. Hence the “blind spot,” which engineers have called the terahertz gap.
A better way to capture these wavelengths is desperately needed, not least to gain a new window into the universe.
Today Martin Burger at the University of Munster in Germany and a few colleagues describe a revolutionary new imaging technique—compressed sensing—that is set to make this part of the electromagnetic spectrum more accessible. Applying the technique to terahertz waves is likely to change the way we see our world and the universe beyond.
First, some background. Terahertz waves pass through clothes but not through skin or metal. If your eyes could pick them up, people would appear naked but decorated with keys and coins but perhaps also knives and guns. So this kind of imaging has significant security applications, not to mention privacy implications.
Terahertz frequencies are difficult to detect because they sit on the electromagnetic spectrum between microwaves and infrared light, and there is an important difference between the way these types of radiation can be detected.
Microwaves, like radio waves, are made by accelerating a charge back and forth at the required frequency—in this case, up to about 300 gigahertz. Detecting microwaves exploits the same process in reverse.
By contrast, infrared waves, like light, are made by making an electron in a suitable material jump between two electronic levels. This generates infrared light when the energy required to make the jump is equivalent to the energy of an infrared photon. The same process in reverse can also detect infrared photons.
Making and detecting terahertz waves is hard because they sit in the middle where neither technique works particularly well. It's tough to accelerate charges at terahertz frequencies. And materials with the required bandgap to create terahertz photons are difficult to find, and those that qualify often have to be cooled to cryogenic temperatures. That’s why terahertz detectors tend to be bulky, expensive, and hard to manage.
But compressed sensing can help, say Burger and co. In recent years, this technique has taken the world of imaging by storm because it allows a single pixel to record high-resolution images, even in 3-D.
The technique works by randomizing the reflected light from a scene and then recording it using a single pixel. The randomization can be done in various ways, but a common approach is to pass the light through a digital array called a spatial light modulator that displays a random pattern of transparent and opaque pixels. The randomization process is then repeated and the light field recorded again, and the entire process is repeated many times to generate many data points.
At first it’s hard to see how this can produce an image—after all, the light field is randomized. But the data points aren’t completely random. Indeed, each data point is correlated with all others because they all come from the same source—the original scene. So by finding this correlation, it is possible to recreate the original image.
It turns out that computer scientists have a variety of algorithms that can do this kind of number crunching. And the result is an image with a resolution that depends on the number of data points recorded by the pixel. The more data, the higher the resolution.
That has immediate application for terahertz imaging. Until now, the only way to create a 2-D image was to use an array of terahertz detectors or to scan a single detector back and forth to map out the light field. Neither technique is satisfactory because of the unwieldy size of terahertz detectors.
But compressed sensing offers an alternative: using a single terahertz detector to record multiple data points through a spatial light modulator that randomizes the terahertz light. That works well for visible and infrared light, and numerous groups have begun to exploit it successfully.
However, terahertz light introduces some additional complexities. For example, because terahertz waves are two or three orders of magnitude bigger than optical waves, they more easily diffract. This effect and others introduce distortions that make the image reconstruction much harder. It is this challenge of image reconstruction that Burger and co have taken on.
Their results are impressive. The team shows how various techniques can significantly improve the quality of resulting images. “The compressed-sensing approach based on single-pixel imaging has great potential to decrease measurement time and effort in THz imaging,” they say.
However, there are challenges ahead. One problem is in dealing with images made from more than one frequency of terahertz light. This kind of analysis is particularly important because it provides spectroscopic information about the chemical makeup of the subject in the image—for example, whether a crystalline powder is flour or some kind of drug.
But this requires different types of mask. So a challenge is to find the best way to create a hyperspectral image using the smallest number of masks.
Nonetheless, Burger and co are optimistic that compressed sensing will allow rapid progress in finally closing the terahertz gap.
Keep up with the latest in computing at EmTech MIT.

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According to police reports, officers observed Kenneth Monteavaro, 42 of Poughquag, N.Y., traveling erratically on Wasserman Way at approximately 6 p.m. Monteavano then parked his vehicle in the intersection of Wasserman Way and Oakview Drive, police say.
During the investigation police say they conducted a field sobriety test on Monteavaro, which he failed.
Monteavaro was charged with driving under the influence and improper parking.
He was released on $100 bond and is due in court on May 28.

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Russian contract soldier Vadim Kostenko committed suicide while serving in Syria, the Russian Chief Military Prosecutor's Office told on Oct. 28.
A prosecutorial inquiry has been opened into the soldier's death in Syria, it said.
"The initial results of the inquiry show that Vadim Kostenko hanged himself while off duty because of the serviceman's unfavorable personal circumstances outside the garrison," the Chief Military Prosecutor's Office said.
"The cause of death has also been confirmed by a forensic medical examination of Kostenko's body," it said.
"The inquiry procedures are continuing to make sure that all the circumstances of the serviceman's death are analyzed and a legal decision is made," it said.
Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov has also officially confirmed that suicide was the cause of death of a Russian contract serviceman in Syria.
"We officially confirmed the information on a contract serviceman's death due to suicide at the Hmeimim airbase immediately after the completion of an inquiry procedure, which is mandatory following incidents of this kind," Konashenkov told on Oct. 28.
"A preliminary inquiry determined the circumstances of his death, which allow for unambiguously seeing a rift in a personal relationship with a girlfriend as the reason for the suicide," he said.
"All other so-called theories behind the Russian contract serviceman's tragic death published in a number of Russian and especially foreign media outlets are purposeful insinuations that absolutely do not reflect the reality," he said.
"It is immensely regrettable that such tragedies are not exceptional in other armies elsewhere in the world, as they are related not to the performance of service duties but to the age and personality specifics of particular young people," he said.
"The Chief Military Prosecutor's Office has launched a thorough inquiry into all the circumstances of the serviceman's death," he said.

industry_corpus2: Politics & Administration


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As promised, here are some lists of many time expressions in Spanish. Some of them may defy the rule about the difference between “tiempo” and “hora” explained last time (TT, April 17), but that’s language for you.
No se preocupe. Si todavía no entiende, no trabaje horas extras. Con tiempo entenderá.


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Football Federation Australia has made several amendments to the Round 8 Hyundai A-League fixture with North Queensland's home match against Adelaide United moved to Sunday September 27.
Townsville will play host to an airshow on Saturday September 27 and FFA has decided to move the match from that date in order for football fans to attend both matches.
The clash between the two teams, which shared a thrilling 3-3 draw in Round 4, will now be held at 5pm AEST on the Sunday, with the other two matches, Wellington v Central Coast (now 1pm AEST) and Brisbane v Sydney FC (3pm AEST) both moved an hour earlier to accommodate for the extra match.
The fixture change also allows the Gold Coast v Melbourne Victory match to be moved two hours later to 7:30pm, avoiding a clash with the end of the AFL Grand Final.
"Following discussions regarding Australia's biggest air show in Townsville, FFA decided to move North Queensland Fury-s Saturday match to Sunday to allow fans and their families the ability to catch both of these high-quality events," Hyundai A-League boss Archie Fraser said.
"This has facilitated the move of the Gold Coast United v Melbourne Victory game from 5.30pm to 7.30pm allowing fans of both codes access to view both the AFL Grand Final and this top-billing Hyundai A-League match if they wish."
"We feel that these changes will benefit all parties involved in the Hyundai A-League.
The Friday night match between Newcastle and Perth Glory remains unchanged with an 8pm kick-off.

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Good morning and welcome to Gaithersburg, Maryland, especially for those of you who have traveled from out of town to be with us over the course of the next two days at this International Symposium on the Year 2000.
The reason that you are all here is because the end is coming and time is running out.
The end of the century, that is.
And if we don't act fast, we will be ringing in the beginning of the new millennium with the mother of all computer glitches.
We are all right now competing in a race against time to avert an impending computer catastrophe and unless something is done, when we're in the year 2000, computers around the world will think that it's in 1900.
When that happens, millions of computers, billions of dollars, and just about every human on the planet may be affected.
Computer systems applications that touch customers across the world - for example, ATM machines, or air traffic control, or financial calculations, or health care systems - are likely to fail.
You'd be amazed at how many things computers do that require the correct year.
When the year is right, the mortgage is calculated correctly, the Social Security payment is made, the airplane is serviced, and the veteran receives his or her proper medication at the VA hospital.
If the date is a hundred years off, or at least if the computer thinks so, chaos would ensue.
We all know the problem: you see, computers, especially those big and expensive ones that operate on COBOL computer code written in the 1960's, believe there is only one century, this one.
To imagine the problem, think of the device that keeps track of the date in most computers as similar to an odometer in your car, each year turning to the next.
The thing that makes this odometer different, however, is that only the last two numbers move, and the first two digits are always "1" and "9" - so 97 means to the computer 1997, 98 means 1998, 99 means 1999, but 00 means 1900.
Consequently, what happens when that odometer clicks on New Year's Day in the year 2000, is that many computers will automatically assume the year is 1900 - and worse yet, many other computers won't even know what to think and may even crash.
So you ask, how did we arrive at the brink of such a catastrophic collapse of our computer systems - especially since computer programmers are supposedly so smart?
The problem actually began many, many years ago, stemming from a decision made at the dawn of the Computer Age to save then-scarce memory by giving all dates a two-digit field in the belief that these early systems would eventually be replaced by the Year 2000.
Since the capacity of the early computers had little memory storage, programmers were loath to use up to four whole spaces for the year, when two would do just fine.
And subsequently, as an added incentive, the programmers who were paid to put in data also found it to be cheaper to put in two numbers instead of four.
Now decades later, those thrifty ways are threatening to cost us big because instead of replacing those costly mainframe computer systems as had been originally envisioned, those systems have been simply "upgraded" through the years.
While using a two-digit field may have made early, memory-deficient programs run faster and cheaper, its use now threatens to literally shutdown today's computer-dependent society.
And to make matters worse, there's not much time before this millennium bug takes a mega-bite out of our computers.
There are just 2 years and 205 days from today to get the job done.
What about the government? Are we ready for the new millennium?
Last year, experts who testified before us in Congress told us the federal government was dropping the ball.
So to find out if that was true, in April 1996 we surveyed various agencies on their Year 2000 computer conversion efforts.
My other Committee, the Government Reform and Oversight Committee, performed the survey through its Information and Technology Subcommittee, chaired by Congressman Steve Horn of California.
As a result, 24 Cabinet departments and federal agencies were graded on their efforts to address the Year 2000 computer problem.
When the report card came out, the grades weren't very encouraging at all.
Ten agencies received "D's" and four flunked because they had absolutely no conversion plan.
At that time, only six could even estimate how much money they would need to correct the problem.
We came to the inescapable conclusion that many federal government departments and agencies were simply not moving with the necessary dispatch to become Year 2000 compliant in a timely manner.
Without greater urgency, federal government agencies were placing themselves at risk of being unable to provide services or perform functions that are critical to their mission and to the American public, unless senior agency management took immediate aggressive action.
Major departments were still only in the initial planning stages, even though agencies needed to have their systems inventoried and fixed by the end of 1998, in order to provide sufficient time to validate and ensure total accuracy.
Even those agencies considered leaders on this issue, such as the Social Security Administration and the Department of Defense, were not even close to completing their inventory and solution stages of Year 2000 conversion.
For example, in 1989, the Social Security Administration, with great foresight, realized the looming danger of the Year 2000 glitch to every Social Security recipient's checks.
Long considered the model Year 2000 agency, Social Security is currently educating other government agencies about how to resolve the problem and working diligently to correct it within their agency.
But even with an 11-year head start, the Social Security Administration admitted they would not even be finished rewriting its code until late 1998.
Only six agencies had cost estimates on the monetary resources needed to resolve the problem.
In fact the Department of Health and Human Services had cost estimates for only two divisions.
The Department of Agriculture had cost estimates for only one division.
The Department of Defense had not yet completed its inventory of computer software code that needed to be converted.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, one of the most innovative, advanced, and computer-dependent agencies in the federal government, had not prepared a plan to solve the problem and did not anticipate having a plan completed until March 1997 - leaving less than a year to inventory and fix systems!
The Department of Transportation, which includes the Federal Aviation Administration, Federal Highway Administration, and the Federal Railroad Administration, either didn't or couldn't even respond to the survey.
The Department of Energy had not even begun to address the Year 2000 issue until a week after it had received the April 1996 survey.
These findings left us in Congress startled and not very confident about the federal government's ability to successfully meet the challenges of the date conversion problem.
And what about the projected cost of the problem?
Last May, The Gartner Group testified before my Technology Subcommittee that the estimated cost for the federal government could be as high as $30 billion.
Gartner also estimated that factoring in software found in computer systems used by foreign governments, federal, state, and local governments, businesses and individuals, the "debugging" process could cost a staggering $600 billion world-wide.
Obviously, the task before the federal government was enormous.
Unfortunately, though, few federal agencies were responding at all to the problem, let alone aggressively.
There was, however, a Congressional sense of urgency to address this critical challenge and to mandate the government to immediate and decisive action.
So, at this time last June, while we knew the magnitude of the Year 2000 problem and that it would cost a lot of money to fix, we still didn't have a comprehensive strategy to attack the problem.
That is why we inserted legislative language in last year's Treasury, Postal, and general government appropriations bill directing the Office of Management and Budget to create a national federal strategy and submit it to Congress in February with the President's budget for this year.
We asked OMB to provide an accurate estimate of what it would cost to convert all federal computers from two-digit to four-digit fields and to map out a detailed plan for each agency - and a timetable - to ensure that all government computers will continue to operate in the year 2000.
In February, OMB submitted this strategy to Congress.
The strategy optimistically stated that each agency could meet their targeted milestones for completion at a total cost of $2.3 billion.
1. First senior agency managers will take whatever action is necessary to address the problem once they are aware of its potential consequences.
2. Second, there can and will not be a single solution.
Since a "silver bullet" is a logical impossibility, solving the problem would require technicians and engineers to write or revise software code and to replace existing hardware.
3. Third, given the limited amount of time, emphasis will have to be prioritized to mission critical systems.
In many agencies, the mission critical systems are generally the largest and most complex, requiring the most time and are the most challenging to fix.
Implementing the revised systems, including developing a contingency plan.
The CIO's, established in this past Congress through the Information Technology Management Reform Act of 1996, represent 28 of the largest federal departments and agencies and are responsible for maintaining a sound information technology architecture for each agency.
OMB's federal cost-estimate of $2.3 billion cumulatively for the next three years was determined through preliminary estimates from each agency.
providing contingencies for failure recovery.
The estimates, however, did not include the costs of upgrades or replacements that would otherwise occur as part of the normal system life cycle.
Nor did they include the federal share of the costs for state information systems that support federal programs.
Under the OMB strategy, agencies are to fund their Year 2000 work by redirecting resources from other planned activities - such as modernization - because it does not make sense to spend money on upgrades if the basic system will fail to operate.
This policy was reflected in funding decisions for major information systems in the President's budget request for this year.
While the February 1997 OMB strategy demonstrated some progress since our initial April 1996 survey, it is still clear that we have a long way to go before we can be fully confident that all federal computer programs can keep on clicking after midnight December 31, 1999.
Since the submission of the OMB strategy, Congress has been working closely with the Executive Branch to make sure that the federal government remains on track with its Year 2000 efforts.
As part of this oversight, we have helped institute a quarterly reporting requirement to OMB for each agency.
The first reporting requirement deadline was May 15 of this year, to be followed subsequently by an August 15 deadline, and then every three months thereafter.
Meanwhile, Congress continues to have significant concerns regarding the government's ability to have its computer systems ready for the century date conversion in the Year 2000.
that inadequate attention government-wide is being paid to other date sensitive systems, such as the embedded chip problem, which I will discuss in more detail later.
Congress expects that OMB, as the central management arm of the federal government, will not only take on the Year 2000 challenge in a centralized fashion but will also be aggressive in its oversight of agencies.
ensure successful interfaces with systems external to the federal government - including state, local, and private sector systems.
Despite these outstanding Congressional concerns, I am pleased that the White House now, after some initial reluctance, is beginning to share our Congressional sense of urgency on this issue.
OMB Director Frank Raines, who we have charged with monitoring federal Year 2000 efforts, is one who has dealt with this problem in the private sector.
I am confident that Director Raines understands how critical it is that senior managers make decisions about whether to repair, replace, or discard systems as soon as possible and the need to address this problem effectively and expeditiously.
There is no question that we must continue to move federal agencies to a decisive course of action to solve this computer dilemma.
In this 105th Congress, we will continue providing vigorous Congressional oversight on this issue to ensure that the problem is addressed appropriately and cost-effectively for the taxpayers.
We will address not just the federal efforts, but will also continue focusing on state and local efforts, as well as private sector efforts.
Our next Congressional hearing on the Year 2000 challenge is scheduled for the second week in July.
We will be reviewing OMB's first quarterly report from the agencies.
This hearing should give us a snapshot of where the federal government currently stands àvis a vis the February OMB strategy.
This past March, we held our last Congressional hearing in an on-going series of hearings, discussing the risks and consequences of Year 2000 failure, along with liability and embedded chip issues.
One prediction, made by The Gartner Group, was that more than one-half of all organizations world-wide will not fully complete their Year 2000 effort.
I found this particularly troublesome because when Steve Horn and I began investigating this problem at the beginning of last year, our focus was to ensure timely and effective action by our nation to meet the tremendous challenge of solving the Year 2000 problem, both in the public and the private sector.
Now it appears as if we must recategorize our thinking, embrace the risks of failure, discuss its consequences, and develop priorities for competing Year 2000 projects.
Additionally, the Giga Information Group suggested that the Year 2000 problem may affect more than just computers and could expand to embedded computer chips in a variety of systems and products.
Although the Year 2000 problem has been commonly described as affecting only computer software, it also exists in some hardware components where integrated circuits, also called "chips," store or process data.
Since these chips are sometimes pre-programmed or "hard-wired" by the manufacturer with two-digit date fields, it could produce the same errors as the software that controls large computer systems in the Year 2000.
While these chips are used in all computer hardware, they are also used in many electronic devices that are not typically considered computers.
Some of these embedded chips, such as the read-only-memory (ROM), are used to store data.
Other embedded chips, called microprocessors, are used to control many different types of systems such as industrial machinery, thermostats, lighting, sprinklers, medical equipment and devices, building security systems, elevators, telephones, bar code readers, and power plant operations.
Although most chips do not store or process dates, those that do must be inspected and replaced, if necessary, to avoid product failure from Year 2000 incompatibility.
Other predictions made at my March hearing was that the risk of failure and its liability consequences of punitive and compensatory damages would sprout a large Year 2000 cottage industry for lawyers waiting to file suits and that the potential legal damages awarded could ultimately exceed the total cost for actually fixing the problem.
These concerns, coupled with the frustration and uncertainty about the Year 2000 problem, has led me to wonder if Congress can do more than we have already.
It seems clear that our Congressional hearings thus far, along with letters to agencies and legislation, have been effective in raising awareness and promoting private and public sector initiative.
And although I appreciate being called "the Paul Revere of the Year 2000 Crisis," I do still believe more must be done.
First, we need to have the President raise the visibility of the issue by issuing a strong directive or a policy statement.
We also need to send a strong signal to the information technology community that their products must now be Year 2000 compliant.
To achieve this goal, we are working on statutory language which prohibits the federal government from purchasing any information technology which is not Year 2000 compliant, pursuant to Part 39.106 of the Federal Acquisition Regulation.
By forcing government vendors - by law - to sell only Year 2000 compliant information technology, it increases the probability that those manufacturers, as well as others, will speed the commercialization of Year 2000 compliant products to the general marketplace for all Americans.
Year 2000 liability issues is another concern.
Some would like Congress to require that companies disclose their status in preparing for the Year 2000.
Some in the banking community have urged the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to require all companies that have publicly traded stock to submit Year 2000 compliance disclosures for new stock offerings.
Additionally, since there looms the potential for great legal liability, many in industry have refused to acknowledge they are even aware of the problem for fear that it could ultimately leave them vulnerable to negligence and warranty suits.
This self-imposed silence has a chilling effect on the ability of industry to work collaboratively and move forward to fix the Year 2000 problem.
Some have suggested that the only method to open up an effective discourse among industry and speed some action is to statutorily limit or cap private sector legal liability.
Congress may also want to get more involved in the international efforts to deal with the Year 2000 problem.
Unless the problem is corrected within every country, both in government and the private sector, international commerce could be dramatically affected.
Ultimately, it will not matter if United States industry is fully Year 2000 complaint if there are interoperability problems with our global business partners.
I'm throwing out these potential action items to you in response to the concerns we, in Congress, have heard.
Since it is unclear to me whether the market alone will provide the necessary incentive to industry and government agencies to overcome the Year 2000 problem, Congress may, indeed, be forced to take direct future action.
Meanwhile, I will continue to do all I can to effectively implement the national federal strategy, work with OMB, and continue raising awareness of the issue to push our nation's businesses and state and local governments to take immediate corrective measures.
Remember, the deadline we face is unforgiving.
The goal of this International Symposium on the Year 2000 is to bring together international industry and government to exchange information and strategies.
Let's all achieve that goal.
We must all work together to address and correct the problem and formulate solutions.
If you are here at this symposium to begin your Year 2000 efforts, RUN - do not walk - to the vendor exhibition right after my speech.
If we fail to correct the Year 2000 problem, we will not fail through a lack of technical ability, we will fail because of a lack of awareness of the issue or an overabundance of self-confidence.
But I know, with your help, that we will not fail.
Copyright information: Gifts of Speech believes that for copyright purposes, this speech is in the public domain since it was made by a U.S. Congresswoman before the National Institute of Standards and Technology, a U.S. federal agency. Any use of this speech, however, should show proper attribution to its author.


text: Are you looking for a Brownhills Care Home? Brownhills is less than a 9 minute drive away from the CQC “Good” rated care home, Pelsall Hall which is set in some magnificent grounds that will keep everybody happy. Why not pop in and see us and find out why many people from Brownhills move into our care home.


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Elton John tickets are very popular with any fan of music. He is a legendary musician that started in the late 1960's and has been going strong ever since. When you see him live in concert you could hear some of his massive hits like Rocket Man, Tiny Dancer, Candle in the Wind, Can You Feel The Love Tonight and so many more songs. Get your tickets today!
Whether you are going to an event with friends or family members to see Elton John, MasterTicketCenter has the best seats for you to choose from. With you in mind, we have made it very easy for you to find your seats with a very easy to use and interactive seating chart. This way you know where you will be sitting before purchasing your tickets. This way you will have a more enjoyable time while watching this legendary singer.
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A countryside paradise! Check out this gorgeous home on a .71 acre lot! Featuring new granite countertops & backsplash, 2 entrances, a bright sunroom, large great room with vaulted ceilings; all connected via an open floor plan! Office and laundry on the 2nd floor for convenience. Great backyard includes a large deck with screened n porch and patio for enjoying your large lot.

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Explore two floors that feature a stunning array of furniture, home accents, chandeliers, and unique gifts.
Located just one block from downtown Lancaster’s Gallery Row, our 8,000 square foot showroom is a destination that will help you find the perfect accent piece or spark brilliant ideas for an entire space.
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On February 15th Minsk was the latest city to host the Master class with the stars – the ninth in the series of master classes staged by the Kontinental Hockey League’s partners, the renowned motor oil brand BP Visco. As part of the event, Dinamo Minsk stars Jeff Platt, Sergei Drozd and Alexander Kulakov conducted an hour-long coaching session for youngsters from sporting schools in Minsk.
The masters showed the youngsters many useful moves and exercises, and shared with them the finer details and secrets of the game to help the young hockey stars of tomorrow in their future matches. The training session concluded with the traditional photo and autograph session with the stars, and the juniors were also presented with gifts and mementos from BP Visco. After the session the assembled hockey lovers kept their heroes busy for some time, while the players gladly had their photos taken with the fans and autographed various Dinamo Minsk memorabilia.
It is the second year that BP Visco and the KHL have been lending their support to young sportsmen striving to perfect themselves and make the grade in hockey. The Minsk master class was the last link in the chain of events sponsored by BP Visco for the KHL 2011-12 season. Over the last two seasons these events have been hosted in Novosibirk, Saint Petersburg, Chelyabinsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Minsk, Kazan and Krasnoyarsk, and graduates of hockey schools all across Russia have received advice and help from the likes of Alexei Yashin, Darius Kasparaitis, Andrei Nikolishin, Vladimir Tarasenko, Georgijs Pujacs and other stars who have given their time to inspire the younger generation of players to achieve new heights as they pursue their future careers in professional hockey. The series of master classes in the biggest cities of countries covered by the KHL has given many youngsters a chance to reach out and touch the world of top level sport and hone their sporting talent.


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The group's guitarist Ronnie Wood reveals that he and his bandmates recently recorded new songs for their first full-length since 2005's 'A Bigger Bang'.
AceShowbiz - %cThe Rolling Stones% hasn't stopped rolling. Fresh off playing their historic free concert in Cuba last week, the band has confirmed that they are currently readying a new album that will mark their first since 2005's "A Bigger Bang".
In a new interview with The Associated Press, guitarist Ronnie Wood revealed that he and the group recently returned to the studio, where they spent days recording new original songs as well as a bunch of blues covers. "We went in to cut some new songs, which we did," he said.
"But we got on a blues streak. We cut 11 blues in two days. They are extremely great cover versions of %cHowlin' Wolf% and %cLittle Walter%, among other blues people. But they really sound authentic... When we heard them back after not hearing them for a couple of months, we were, 'Who's that? It's you.' It sounded so authentic," he continued. Asked when the album will arrive, he simply replied, "This year."
Wood revealed the new album plans while in London for Monday, April 4's opening of "Exhibitionism", a vast exhibition of the group's history at the Saatchi Gallery. His pals %cMick Jagger%, %cKeith Richards% and %cCharlie Watts% were there with him, but they refused to share more details about their upcoming project. "There's one coming," Richards said. "I can't say no more. My lips are sealed."
The Rolling Stones has released 22 studio albums in Britain and 24 in the United States. Following the "Bigger Bang" release more than a decade ago, the band toured the album in 2005, 2006 and 2007. The aging rockers reunited in 2012 for another tour to celebrate the band's 50th anniversary.


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ItemPDP08870 - Early sketch of totemic figure.
Title is for the sketchbook.
Attributions and conjectures: The commercial name of this sketchbook is Blank Ontario Drawing Book No. 1. Published by W.J. Gage and Co. Ltd. Toronto.
Statements of responsibility: The sketches in this book are all by Carr's hand.
Source of title proper: Carr titled this sketchbook "Ottawa" , as she did sketchbook PDP08821.
This item is among the materials that came via descent from Carr to Edna Parnall.
The Parnall collection consists of Emily Carr art and papers presented to the British Columbia Archives in 1989.
One sketchbook comprising 26 sketches made while on a trip to Ottawa in 1927 when she met members of the Group of Seven. Drawings are of objects on display in the collection of the National Museum, particularly those with Northwest Coast aboriginal designs that Carr copied for reference. Carr's notes regarding colours and design aspects are also present on the drawing pages.
This sketchbook was deacidified and disassembled in the 1980s because its physical condition was precarious. Each sheet of paper is encapsulated to prevent further damage. Because it is so friable, handling is restricted. Permission to view is required and staff must be the handlers.
Received from Edna Parnall in 1989.
This sketchbook PDP08868 includes PDP08869 through PDP08894.
MS-2763 comprises the textual and published material from 89-081, the accession number of the donation from Edna Parnall.


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Are you one of the many people who avoids the dental office – even for routine exams – because of dental fear and anxiety? There is no need to be embarrassed about dental anxiety. Often it stems from a traumatic or painful dental experience as a child, and it’s a feeling you have absolutely no control over. Arlington dentist, Dr. Macalik understands and sympathizes with fearful patients and will make sure you are able to receive dental treatment while feeling comfortable and completely at ease.
In some instances, patients can fight off the sedative effect. The best advice is to “let yourself go” and you will remember little, if anything, about the appointment.
Dr. Macalik can also offer sedation for patients who may not have anxiety, but simply want to have as much dental work as possible completed in a single visit. Regardless of your reason for sedation dentistry, you’ll need to arrange to have someone take you home after your appointment.
If you would like more information on sedation dentistry, call our office or request an appointment online.

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On 30 September 2015 the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Development of France, H.E. Mr. Laurent Fabius, and the Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico, H.E. Ms. Claudia Ruiz Massieu, co-convened a Ministerial-level side event on the margins of the opening of the 70th Session of the UN General Assembly, entitled "Regulating the veto in the face of mass atrocities." The event aimed to help inform member States and civil society of the progress of the France/Mexico joint initiative on the veto and to seek their observations, opinions and support.
In addition to the two co-conveners, the panelists included H.E. Mr. Sidiki Kaba, Minister of Justice of Senegal and President of the General Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, and Dr. Kenneth Roth, Executive Director of Human Rights Watch. Dr. Roth spoke on behalf of a coalition of NGOs working to advance the restraint of the veto in situations of mass atrocities, including Human Rights Watch, the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, Amnesty International, the International Federation for Human Rights and the World Federalist Movement. A joint statement released by these five organizations was also circulated during the meeting. After opening of the meeting by the panelists, a total of 10 member States delivered statements (Czech Republic, France, Guatemala, Indonesia, Liechtenstein, Mexico, The Netherlands, Senegal, Spain, Tunisia).


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It didn’t take long for Celtics Jayson Tatum to make an impact on the court as the third pick in the NBA Draft to hit a cold blooded dagger to put the Celtics over the young core Philadelphia 76ers. Today’s summer league action also debuted the first NBA pick in this years draft class, Markelle Fultz for Philly. Originally, Fultz was rumored to be drafted by by Boston before swapping pick with Philadelphia swapping the first pick for the third alongside some future picks.
While Tatum and Fultz respectively dropped 21 & 17 each, second year rookie Jaylen Brown dropped SEVENTEEN points in the first half in an impressive performance, even if it’s not an official game in the regular season. Brown accumulated a whopping 28 zaggers before the final buzzer.
Whether you trusting the process or chasing the 18th banner, the future is bright for both teams. The Celtics next play vs the Spurs in Utah Summer League on Wednesday, 7/5 at 7:00 PM EST on NBATV.


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Anna was born in Warsaw. After 31 years in Poland, she decided to move to France, where she has made her home.
Her passion for drawing started when she was a young girl. Her mum knew that as long as she had pen and paper, she would be happy to spend all day drawing; so it was a piece of cake to be around her.
She considered becoming a fashion designer or interior designer, but after finishing her Master in Arts and working as a graphic designer in some advertising agencies, she focused on working as a freelance children’s illustrator. She thinks that one of the best thing about being a freelance illustrator is working with people around the world, as well as the new, exciting challenges.
Anna is an animal lover and owner of 2 crazy cats. She is huge fan of Harry Potter, The Lord of the Rings, and open world games.

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When people decide which keywords they would go for in their SEO campaign, they should incorporate them into all of their pages and links, particularly through Facebook and other social media websites. Providing top quality content across several networks will enhance a website’s profile significantly, sometimes the social networking site can rank higher than the actual website since it tends to attract more visitors. This isn’t really a problem as long as your site continues to bring in visitors and remains high on Google’s ranking algorithm.
Having multiple connections to a webpage will increase its popularity and create lots more business and profits, as long as the content is well written and appeals to visitors there will always be an increase in traffic.
Using SEO techniques along with social media and content marketing can increase trust in a company and provide lifelong relationships with customers, particularly through social networking sites. Content marketing can be used to increase customer base using lots of different methods, such as competitions or other promotions, which can be done a lot easier through Facebook since it will reach a wider audience.
The ease of communication through social media means there is a massive potential market to be found and it’s a lot easier than other advertising campaigns.
The best way to start any content marketing is to produce a top quality article that is directed towards your targeted audience. Using Google Adwords keyword tool to choose the best keywords will be a good starting point, which also has the benefit of giving detailed information about keywords used in specific locations so it’s easier to optimize an article for any audience.
Once the appropriate keywords have been chosen the article should be written as well as possible with 2-4% keyword density, any more than that would cause Google’s algorithm to flag the article as junk.
Selecting the keywords is the easy part but making the article sound natural is what will determine how well it ranks, with Google giving preference to articles that look natural and read well. Also make sure the article is of the highest standard since it will be responsible for generating the traffic to a site.
Once the article is finished it should be placed on other third party sites with a link back to the target website, which will further increase traffic and ultimately sales. The more sites linking to it the better and creating new blogs and press releases will only help it grow even quicker.
Some of the best ways to increase a site’s popularity are often the easiest and simplest to employ, such as posting an article on Facebook or connecting it through a Twitter account. There are plenty of different Facebook pages that could be used to link to your article and the more attention it gets the more your company will grow.
Carefully selecting Tweets and websites will get more people talking about an article and this has the potential to increase customer base at an exponential rate, although it’s important to select appropriate sites for the content in the article otherwise it could have a negative effect.
This article is brought to you by Musa Aykac, who is the SEO Director at Digital Connected Media Ltd UK. Connect with him on LinkedIn.


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The National Highways Authority of India has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Tamil Nadu Industrial Development Corporation Limited (TIDCO) in New Delhi.
Under the MoU, a multimodal logistics park will be developed in the Ponneri industrial node area near Kamarajar Port in Tamil Nadu, an official statement said.
The MoU was signed in the presence of the Road Transport and Highways and Shipping Minister Nitin Gadkari and Minister for Industries of Tamil Nadu government, M C Sampath.
Speaking on this occasion, Gadkari said that it is an important agreement for the development of an integrated, multi-modal transport infrastructure in the country.
The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways is planning to develop mutimodal logistics parks in under its Logistics Efficiency Enhancement Programme (LEEP) in 15 locations all over India at a cost of Rs 33,000 crore, including Rs 1295 crores investment for the Chennai Region.
The proposed logistics parks will bring down the overall freight costs, reduce vehicular pollution and congestion and will enable reduction of warehousing costs. All this is expected to result in lower logistics costs.

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DeDe Murcer Moffett was honored by being included on “Meetings & Conventions” magazine’s 2014 “Planners Favorite Speakers List.” She is an enthusiastic larger-than-life personality who grabs the hearts and minds of audiences through powerful content and high-energy Broadway-style entertainment.
DeDe's message: Being uncomfortable doesn’t mean “you can’t,” “you shouldn’t,” or “stop.” It means you need to ignite your Big League Courage, so you can take on important challenges and Do Something Amazing. Through her own experience in overcoming a 24-year alcohol addiction, starting a second career, and finding her true purpose, DeDe shares stories of the strength and courage, as well as steps it takes to break through to success and perform at peak levels.
She is the author of the bestselling book, “Wisdom Wedgies and Life’s Little Zingers,” which is a collection of humorous thought- provoking quotes about challenging fear and doing what you think you cannot do. DeDe is the co-creator, along with Dr. Avery Carpenter, of the audio program, “Pretty Poisons and Tasty Toxins,” which teaches listeners about the foods that contribute to energy and well-being. She is a featured entrepreneur in the book, “A Cup of Cappuccino for the Entrepreneur’s Spirit, Women’s Edition,” which was recognized as a leading business book by Small Business Trends.
DeDe’s inspirational story is featured in “Choices and Illusions: How Did I Get Where I Am and How Do I Get Where I Want to Be?” by New York Times bestselling author, Eldon Taylor. She is the founder of the “Snap Out of It! Radio Network,” founder of the “Snap Out of It” Conference, and former host of her own “Snap Out of It! Show,” interviewing hundreds of thought leaders, psychologists, and everyday rebels, willing to challenge the herd and hive mentality.
Before becoming a speaker and entrepreneur, DeDe spent 25 years as a corporate sales executive, selling millions of dollars worth of products. The companies she worked for include Toyota Material Handling, Waste Management, State National Insurance Company and Auto Financial Group.
As a singer, DeDe released her debut CD titled “I Believe.” Her latest original song, “Beautiful Addictions” is featured on a compilation CD for the nationwide anti-bullying campaign, “The AnonymoUS Initiative,” which brings awareness to the ways we bully ourselves, and sheds light on the devastation brought about by adult and adolescent bullying. DeDe has performed live in front over 100,000 people and for three million TV viewers. She has sung the National Anthem for professional organizations such as the NBA’s Oklahoma Thunder, and MLB’s Houston Astros, as well as her beloved New York Yankees.
When people hear DeDe’s full name, DeDe Murcer Moffett, some invariably ask, “Murcer? As in Bobby Murcer?” It’s true. DeDe’s uncle was Major League Baseball player, Bobby Murcer: a 5-time all star and Gold Glove award winner, who played 18 years for the New York Yankees, San Francisco Giants and Chicago Cubs.
Don’t Just Step Outside the Box, Blow Up the Box!

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text: Recently an opportunity arose where we could turn an empty space into a pop up store to showcase young up and coming retailers at the recent Moon Festival in Cabramatta. We converted a bare shell of a store into a vibrant light filled hub for some of Sydney’s best new talent. We had Donut Papi, Merry Pops and Buttercream & Belle set up their stalls in a garden themed location from 11am – 6pm where over 1,000 donuts, ice creams & cupcakes were sold. We saw an increase of over 30% in pedestrian traffic to our centre for the day and it left the customers wanting more.


text: For over a century Britain has been at the forefront of exploration and scientific research in Antarctica. The scientific advances that have been made over recent decades have gained international recognition and have changed humankind’s understanding of planet Earth. The UK’s vibrant Antarctic research community plays a leading role in the international efforts to investigate and monitor environmental change in the Polar Regions.


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Beervana, boozy brunches and farmers market punch on draft. This riverfront restaurant was made for revelry. River Roast is a gathering place to connect with friends, old and new.
Did we mention that James Beard Award-winning chef Tony Mantuano will be cooking up your feast? Inventive drinks and cold-brewed cocktails that come from a slow drip infusion tower will impress your guests at one of the best patios in the city (shhhh our secret).
River Roast Private Events off ers an impressive setting for your next party or meeting. Helmed by James Beard award-winning Chef Tony Mantuano and Executive Chef John Hogan, River Roast is a lively social house and gathering place. Experienced event planning and service teams aim to accommodate and anticipate your needs for a fl awless event. Whether you’re planning a grand gala for 300 people or an exclusive aff air for eight, the delectable customized menus and exceptional views will impress. With 6 event spaces to choose from — each featuring sophisticated décor that pays tribute to the historical landmark building the restaurant is housed in — the options for corporate and social events are endless.
Please note, River Roast does not charge a venue fee. Some of the minimums might be higher, but that is because they still have no venue fee for the space.
Situated on the iconic Chicago River with stunning views of the water and downtown, River Roast is a lively social house from James Beard award-winning Chef Tony Mantuano and Executive Chef John Hogan. The menu, composed of contemporary tavern fare inspired by London roast houses, features sharable portions of whole roasted chicken, whole roasted fish, and slow-roasted beef; all carved tableside and served with signature potatoes. Two bars present views of the water as well as a large selection of local draft beer, craft cocktails, classy shots, and wine by the glass. With one of the largest patios in the city, River Roast offers a communal gathering place to connect with friends and family, bringing back the nostalgic idea of traditional Sunday suppers and engaging diners with live blues every Saturday and Sunday. River Roast is a member of Levy Restaurants.
With city and water views from every seat, guests can catch a glimpse of Chicago whether they are seated inside or outside on River Roast’s large riverside porch. Wood paneling and exposed brick give the restaurant a rustic feel, while soft leather chairs, contemporary chandeliers, and bar-top lamps add a refined and intimate feel to River Roast’s expansive layout. In addition to the main dining room and bar, five private and semi-private event spaces each feature sophisticated décor that pays tribute to the historical landmark building in which the restaurant is housed.
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New Delhi [India], Feb 7 (ANI): Sany India, a leading manufacturer of construction equipment, heavy machinery and renewable energy solutions exhibited a selection of its extensive product range at India Stonemart 2019. Organized by CDOS with FICCI as Co-organizer and supported by the Government of Rajasthan, India Stonemart 2019 is the largest international exposition on stone industry.
Considered as the confluence of Global and Indian, this expo has given Sany India a perfect platform to showcase its robust products, explore business opportunities and expand their burgeoning client base.
"We are delighted and proud to have been a part of prestigious event like India Stonemart 2019. Sany India has always been a front runner in technology and all the products are designed to stay true to the company's vision of quality changes the world. Our Machines offer an unmatched combination of excellent power and fuel efficiency along with the quality & superior technology,” said Mr. Dheeraj Panda, Sr. Vice President & Head-Excavator Business Unit, Sany India. “With significant investment in sectors like infrastructure, railways, roads, irrigation, energy, ports the market in India for heavy machines has seen an upward trend bringing a paradigm shift in the industry. In these times it is imperative for any company to stay abreast with customers’ requirements and timely deliver on that in order to maintain the growth trajectory,” he added.
With features like technologically advanced design, fuel efficiency, superior performance, high reliability and advanced ergonomic features; Sany's products have emerged as the game changer in the industry. With best in class equipment, ultramodern and global quality product range, great infrastructure, strong manpower, and dealership network, Sany India has become a key player in infrastructure equipment industry. With significant investment in sectors like infrastructure, railways, roads, irrigation, energy, ports Sany plan to further enhance its product line in India.
The technologically superior products displayed at the India Stonemart become a cynosure of all eyes. SY230LC-9HD and SY350LC-9H Excavators with SAG160-5 Motor Grader were exhibited for the customers to have a detailed overview of the machine at company stall.
Sany SY230LC-9HD has been recently launched in Bauma Conexpo Exhibition to fulfill the customers’ requirement of a premier machine in 20 ton category with high stability & robust undercarriage. The work environment in Rajasthan requires a powerful machine. Sany SY230LC-9HD is designed to handle heavier loads with best in class fuel efficiency.
SY350LC-9H is one of the flagship excavators of Sany is a popular choice when it comes to large size excavators to handle heavy stone mining such as Marble & Granite. It is very effective in heavy duty applications due to higher stability and rugged undercarriage components. SANY guarantees world class & reliable components in all their excavators to withstand tough applications.
Sany Excavators are now available in a wide range from 2 ton to 80 ton for the customers.
The grader with 160 HP reliable engine comes with a 3 stage filtration system for high torque, optimized fuel efficiency & high productivity. The NOSPIN differential technology ensures anti-skid performance and powerful workability. Sany Graders are also known from best in class drawbar pull and Blade down force.
SAG160-5 motor grader is designed to offer customers maximum leveling performance. The excellent power strength is able to generate higher productivity. Equipped with a highly responsive load-sensing hydraulic system, this motor grader can achieve high-precision motion control.

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15 Halloween Witch Potion Bottle Labels - Peel-n-Stick Stickers (set TWO) Scary. This set is Made To Order meaning processing time will be a little longer. In this set you will receive 15 Potion Labels Great for bottles, jars, cans. Cards well just about anything you can think of Just let your Witchy imagination take over the possibilities are endless These Labels have been printed on self stick paper then each one has been cut out and MaGiCaLlY spooked up and then sealed for protection by this old WiTcH herself (PlEaSe ChEcK oUt My OtHeR LiStInGs FoR mOrE sEtS oF pOtIoN lAbElS) All labels are shown in the picture.
Labels will come to you pre-cut & on self stick paper. Large Variety of Shapes and Sizes. Night mare nectar 4.25 in x 3 in.
Juice from a bettle 4 in x 3 in. Spider Blood 4 in x 2 3/4 in. Black Label 4 in x 2 3/4.
Rat Tears 3 1/2 in x 2 1/2 in. Magic Spell 4 in x 3 in. Tonuge from a mouthy Mother -in-law 2 1/2 in x 3 1/2 in. Witch's potion Haunted Hallow Vineyards 4 1/2 in x 2 1/2 in.
Black Magic 2 1/4 in x 3 1/2 in. Rotten Sweets 4 in x 1 ¾ in. Bitchin Brew 4¼ in x 3 1/4 in. Life Renewal 4 in x 2 in. Vanpire Blood 4 1/8 in x 2 1/2 in. Esmeralda's Elixer 4 in x 3 in. Witches Blend 3 3/4 in x 2 1/2 in.
Since each set is spooked up by hand after printing the effects may slightly differ from the picture shown. As aLwAyS tHaNkS fOr dRoPpInG bY you will only receive lables all other props not include but you knew that :o.
The item "15 Halloween Witch Potion Bottle Labels Peel-n-Stick Stickers (set TWO) Scary" is in sale since Saturday, September 29, 2012. This item is in the category "Collectibles\Holiday & Seasonal\Halloween\Current (1991-Now)\Props". The seller is "kaylas*krackling*kauldron" and is located in Kirkland, Illinois. This item can be shipped to United States.


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Are you a trainer with a passion for continuous improvement? Do you believe that lifelong learning is a key to satisfaction and success? As for me, I do a moderate amount of training each year, and one of the things I love about training is that learning goes two ways. Each time I finish conducting a session, I’m fascinated by the many new things I’ve taken away, whether related to content or process. So, if you are on the lookout for new techniques to sharpen your skills or set challenging goals, I would like to provide my Top 10 Tips for Trainers.
One of the most significant improvements you can make to your training is changing the way you think about it. Coming off a holiday break, it’s a great time to figure out how to adjust your mindset. Mindset has a powerful impact on how you experience your work and whether or not your training room is happy and safe place for you and your students. Positivity reduces fear and increases learning.
A couple things to try outside of work include creating a support group with other trainers and building mindfulness practices into your regular routine. Both of these activities will help you reduce stress, feel more purposeful, and actually become more productive and positive.
First, try one new technique from TFBR each time you train to keep things new and challenging for both you and your students. Going through the book and making a list of techniques you haven’t yet used will help you focus.
Health-related Bonus: Think about your food. If you provide meals or snacks, try offering some alternative healthy foods. Sugars and simple carbohydrates will spike insulin levels, giving you immediate energy, but long-term brain fog. Instead, look to provide complex carbs: whole grains, nuts, carrots and veggies.
Do you start your sessions by having students share their goals for what they hope to achieve? If not, you’re leaving money on the table. By giving your students more control over their learning objectives and activities, they will better take ownership of their learning and use their experiences and interests in a positive way.
Sharon’s 4-Cs are rife with opportunities to get your students involved, but C3 (Concrete Practice) is the motherlode. Here, your learners will actively be practicing their new skills and teaching each other, all while you observe from the back of the room.
To start improving your slides, go over to Sharon’s blog and read her “Slides About PowerPoint“. In minutes you’ll start to understand exactly what needs to change about your slideshows, and you’ll be motivated to fix them.
To organize your materials (digital files), consider using a cloud-based storage platform like Dropbox or Google Drive.
You’re out there doing the work and getting better each session, making yourself more valuable by the hour. But have you considered adding professional development hours or graduate credits? Is there a new position you can move into? It’s vital to consider what your career goals are and take action before you get complacent!
Maybe there’s a certification you can work to earn. Often this is the absolute best professional decision you can make, significantly impacting the quality of your teaching. Even re-certifications can raise your expectations for yourself and drastically change the way you measure the quality of your training.
If you made it this far through the article, you’re clearly interested in improving yourself; so if you’re not improving, you’re likely in pain. Let’s fix this by focusing on it. Start small, and make the goals SMART. Get an accountability buddy if you need to, and keep yourself off autopilot mode.
What resolutions will you bring to your trainings in 2017? Please share your comments with me on twitter @AgileCoffee.
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Automile’s Electronic Logging Device (ELD) Solution has been certified by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. Field-service businesses can now use Automile to be in compliance with the ELD mandate to easily record and transmit all Hours of Service (HOS) information.
Field service businesses with commercial vehicles have to pay attention, understand the implications of the upcoming ELD mandate to their business and accordingly ensure they are in compliance with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s (FMCSA) Hours of Service (HOS) Regulations. In simple terms, HOS keeps track of the working hours for commercial drivers so they don’t drive beyond a certain limit and also know how much rest they should take between shifts. For more on HOS, you can read this. If you have any questions specific to HOS regulations, refer to FMSCA site.
“We are excited to get Automile ELD approved by FMCSA. We continue to work hard to make lives easier for the field service businesses – whether it is solving for productivity, safety, and/or compliance.”, Jens Nylander, CEO of Automile.
The driver can get “On Duty” status and once they start driving, the ‘Driving Time Left’ clock will automatically start counting down and the app will be switched to ‘Safe Drive Mode’.
Change Duty Status – If the driver has to change duty status or even insert a past duty status, they can do that and state whether they are ‘Off Duty’, ‘Sleeper Birth’, or ‘On Duty’ status. They can add notes stating for example what they are doing at that time and auto-update or insert their current location.
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When using Octopus Deploy as your deployment server, you've probably used its user interface to update its configuration in step with the requirements of the code which is being deployed. Hopefully you've also configured scheduled SQL backups so that all your hard work is saved in case of disaster.
Occasionally, however, you might find yourself in a scenario where you really want to roll back Octopus configuration to a particular past version - for instance, an application deployment which didn't go well and needed to be rolled back (for which you had to make Octopus changes). Trawling through database backups might be a painful way of doing this. Isn't there just a way of snapshotting Octopus into a source control repository somewhere?
As you can see by reading this, a lot of people have been asking the same question, as right now it's not possible to simply "output" the state of Octopus as e.g. JSON or XML. As Octopus is an "API first" tool (all the stuff you are doing via the user interface can also be done via the Octopus REST API) it is recommended that you instead use an "IaC" approach to code-up your configuration first, then use some mechanism to push these changes into Octopus. As C# is my hammer of choice, I used the Octopus.Client library wrapped up in a simple console application. When the time comes to push the code changes into Octopus, I have a TeamCity project which will pull the desired Octopus configuration branch from GitHub and execute the console application.
Ideally you want your code->Octopus process to be idempotent, i.e. you can run your changes multiple times without ending up with duplicated variables, process steps, etc. In practise this means a lot of boilerplate code to "tear down" your existing Octopus configuration before building it back up again. The article I mentioned earlier proposes an "Octopus.Client.Declarative" library which sits on top of Octopus.Client and allows you to "declare" the desired state of Octopus, rather than having to imperatively tear down and build up again. Unfortunately this library doesn't exist yet.


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The similarities between the songs have been officially recognized.
Many listeners have remarked on the similar melodies shared by Ed Sheeran's current smash hit single "Shape Of You" and TLC's 1999 song "No Scrubs." On Tuesday, The BBC reported that the songwriters behind "No Scrubs," Kandi Burruss, Tameka Cottle, and producer Kevin Briggs, now have writing credits on the song.
Cottle confirmed the news in an Instagram post. It was not announced why the new credits were added.
Marvin Gaye's family is currently suing Sheeran for allegedly plagiarizing Gaye's "Let's Get It On." He's also facing a lawsuit over another song brought by Martin Harrington and Thomas Leonard, who believe that Sheeran's song "Photograph" takes elements from their track "Amazing."


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ST's wide portfolio of pulse-width modulator (PWM) controllers can support isolated and non-isolated AC-DC and DC-DC switch mode power supplies based on the most popular topologies in both single-ended (such as flyback, forward or quasi-resonant) and double-ended configurations (such as asymmetrical half-bridge) for mid- to high-power SMPS.
Our PWM controller offer includes a number of advanced and digital controllers, featuring innovative solutions to optimize converter efficiency in a wide range of load conditions and especially at light loads such as for high voltage start-up. These PWM controller ICs also integrate a comprehensive set of protections for enhanced robustness and reliability even in an extended temperature range for outdoor applications. The result is a reduction in the number of external components, minimizing converter size and cost.
The industry standard controllers of the UC (voltage mode) and SG (current mode) series are also available for more mainstream SMPS designs.
The STCH03 features a built-in high-voltage start-up circuit with zero power consumption, fully integrated blocks for primary-side constant-current output regulation and advanced power management, making it the best choice for high efficiency and ultra-low standby consumption power supplies with excellent dynamic performance.
Designed to provide a constant output current (CC) regulation using primary-sensing feedback, the STCH03 reduces BOM costs and simplifies your design as a dedicated current reference IC and current sensor are no longer required.
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We have heard your call You no longer need to fear. You will receive five messages, of which this is the first. The last message will inform you of the time and place of your salvation. Two hundred years from now, the earth is dying, scorched by powerful flares from the sun.
We have heard your call You no longer need to fear. You will receive five messages, of which this is the first. The last message will inform you of the time and place of your salvation. Two hundred years from now, the earth is dying, scorched by powerful flares from the sun. A series of messages from an alien civilization sent to humanity over two centuries promise rescue to those strong enough to survive on their planet. Initiate Leon is a member of the True Path warrior culture and preparing for his Rising. But when his test comes - to kill in cold blood - he cannot do it.
To redeem himself, he must journey to find the earth's fifth and final message from the Saviours, with the help of his resourceful servant, Martha. Out in the wild, Leon discovers alarming changes in his body - he can drink water through his skin, and has poison barbs buried deep in his flesh. Martha reveals to him the secret that the True Path have kept from him all this time: Jacob's Ladder, an adaptation for life on the alien planet, has lain dormant in his genes and is now being activated. He is part alien and part human, and he is in grave danger from those who wish to take what is in his body. An ambitious YA novel for fans of Patrick Ness, Rick Yancey and James Dashner.


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The nest has 3 parts: Merino wool Moses mattress/Nesting cushion + Merino wool tubular cot bumper + Cotton cover with zip.
The Merino Moses mattress / Nesting Cushion provides support whilst not placing undue pressure on your baby’s developing neck and head – it supports and soothes your baby’s small and growing body. You will find our Nesting Cushion is a medium firmness. With use, the wool gets firmer, to perfect the transition to a correct spine and back support. The Merino tubular cot bumper which goes on top on the mattress all around, keeps the baby snug and safe, whilst has the same amazing health properties of the wool. The Zipped Cotton cover made out of most beautiful and soft knitted cotton, holds everything together. The pockets of air created all around the bumper by the cotton cover, give the peace of mind for the baby’s safety.
Nothing goes to waste after the baby grows out of the nest, around 6-7 months. You can use the cot bumper in your cot and later on in the single / toddler bed as anti-falling safeguard under the fitted sheet.
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There are many who often speak of an "energy" or "connection" between people. On dating websites, you often find profiles of people looking for "chemistry." Martial arts experts speak of Chi energy (aka lifeforce, vital energy, or cosmic energy) which is the source of their incredible power. In the book The Celestine Prophecy, the author claims that the universe is composed of a single source of energy, referring to the fourth insight as understanding how humans compete for this energy. This universal energy is said to flow between all living things, and that there is a constant battle between individuals stealing this vital energy from each other. When someone dominates you, they are stealing your energy (e.g., when we have feelings of weakness and disorganization, we are lacking this energy, potentially because others have stolen it from us). The goal then becomes how better to exchange energy. Clearly, we don't understand much about the human brain, but is it so hard to believe that there are people who are able to use senses and perceive energies that others cannot? Have you ever had any of these experiences?
FTA: "A "PSYCHIC" hunting the body of a missing child found the headless torso of an adult woman instead. Cheryl Carroll-Lagerwey discovered the woman near a park creek after searching for Kiesha Abrahams, six, following a gruesome vision. Aboriginal elder Cheryl said: "I had a dream about a little girl being murdered and that her body was about here."


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While watching football tonight, I saw a commercial of a football team at a deaf school in California. That’s right…an all deaf football team. Take a minute to think about how they communicate the plays and how they work together to make things happen on the field. They must have an astronomical playbook with a common vision that gives each player the best possible opportunity to succeed. A playbook that spells out each strategy with the right people to make it happen.
So, I ask…What’s in Your Playbook?
A playbook begins with a shared vision, mission, and core beliefs. It has goals to accomplish throughout the year. It’s the game plan to help each child be successful in all that they do. Who do you call in to make it happen? Each player contributes to the team in different ways.
There is a different lineup to help with all the aspects of the game. These special teams are in place to help achieve the goals. The instructional lineup consists of the grade level teachers or specialty teachers who collaborate on lesson plans, curriculum, assessments, and instructional strategies in the classroom. The leadership lineup is the voice of the school. They help the administration (coaching staff) make decisions about what happens within the school. Within each playbook, there is a lineup of wellness and parent/community players who work together with input from the community. One of the most important lineups are the members who make up the intervention team. This team works together with the instructional lineup to create opportunities for students to succeed. With all the teamwork…opportunities are created for success.
The team members need strategies (or plays) to provide guidance for success. There are so many different strategies (or plays) that can be used to help teachers and students during the school year. There are PLCs, ongoing-embedded professional learning, peer observations, data/RTI meetings, interventions, curriculum units, lesson plans…the list could go on forever. It’s knowing if one isn’t working, then you reflect and try another.
So, I ask again…What do you and your team members have in your playbook for a successful school year?


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The sale of your business is a key milestone in life and it will often generate a significant tax bill in the year of sale. Charitable entrepreneurs should consider making donations in that year to help to offset some of the tax liability.
The majority of private businesses in Canada are categorized in the Income Tax Act as Canadian Controlled Private Corporations (“CCPC”). Both operating companies that carry on a business and holding companies (“Holdcos”) that typically hold investments and other property of the shareholders, can claim gifts equal to 75% of net revenue annually. The challenge is getting money out tax-effectively, which a donation can often facilitate.
Review our Ways to Give section to learn more.
Or look at some of the gift planning case studies we’ve found for businesses.

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