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Champlain Canal Lock 4
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Lock C4 is located just north of the town of Mechanicville and Lock C3 (1.83 miles), where the canal diverges from the Hudson River for a short while creating an artificial island. This lock lift boats up 16 feet from the river (elevation: 67.5 feet) into an artificial channel (elevation: 83.5 feet).
This lock is a combination lock and canal park. There are picnic tables, grills, lock overlook and trails on site. The lock can be crossed by a bridge on the southern end of the lock for more recreational activities. The lock master can be reached on VHF channel 13 or via phone at (518) 664-5261. Lock C5 is 14.3 miles north.
Directions: From Stillwater, take the Stillwater Bridge Road across the Hudson River and the Lock Road will be on your right. Note that there are two roads here, make sure you enter the road for the lock and not the island access road. The lock is clearly marked. Coming from the west the lock will be on your left before crossing the Hudson. Note: the gate is locked each night so do not stay too late.
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From collectors, for hunters – V8 survivors, classic off-roaders and rare bicycles pull into Bremen
Stefan Ahlgrimm's Dodge Coronet has stood in a back yard in Los Angeles since 1993. For 20 years, its paintwork was scorched by California's permanent sunshine, and the car was exposed to smog, Pacific and desert winds, and the subtropical climate. In 2013, when Alhgrimm bought the car in an online auction, the original Dark Copper Metallic color had turned a washed-out brown and blue, the tires were flat and the seat covers were in tatters. "Even so, it was love at first sight," says Ahlgrimm. His find is one of the eight roadworthy classics from the 1950s to the 1970s with their original paintwork and eight-cylinder V-engines. You can see these "V8 survivors" from Friday 2 to Sunday 4 February 2018, at the Bremen Classic Motorshow.
And although they might look from the outside as if they're on their way to the scrapyard, the Pontiac Chieftain from 1958 and a Pontiac GTO from 1969 are heading into Bremen. These eight survivors all have one thing in common: patina. Ahlgrimm renovated the interior of his 1967 Dodge Coronet to the original design, but left the bodywork untouched. "The term 'survivor' is used to describe classic US cars when the original look is preserved as far as possible. Technical modifications are as well-hidden as they can be and contemporary accessories are used for the original partial restoration," says car expert Helge Thomsen, who is co-curating the special exhibition. Unlike complete restorations, every 'survivor' is an true one-off.
The look and the simple, original technology of these cars is what appeals to Stefan Ahlgrimm. It's quite possible to carry out repairs yourself. The same applies to historical off-road vehicles. "That's provided the base is sound," says Marc Ziegler, Editor of "Off Road". The history of off-road vehicles is presented in a joint exhibition by the Bremen Classic Mo-torshow and the Munich magazine. One of the exhibits is a Willys-Overland MB from 1946, a predecessor of the Jeep. There's also a Suzuki LJ80, built in 1978, and restored in a living room. "It depends on the make, but spare parts are easy to find. For models like the Mer-cedes G 460, which was used by the military, manufacturers were bound by contract to guarantee that there would be enough correct spare parts," explains the car journalist.
Equally interesting for collectors and newcomers alike is the new special "Blade Racer" exhibition and trading platform in the foyer of Hall 1. Around 40 rare bicycles reflect the development of design and technology in the 20th century. These include a Bianchi Folgore from 1932, which was used in the Tour de France and the Giro d'Italia. It comes from the collec-tion of bicycle enthusiast Wolfgang Hagemann, as does the brand new, never ridden
Kalkhoff Professional from 1975/76. He is lending the Bremen show a total of 16 time trial and racing bikes made by firms like Stollenwerk, Rigi, Mécacycle, MKM, Colnago and Cinelli – including prototypes and factory team bikes. Complete factory team bikes like the Bianchi Folgore are rare these days. "Normally, free riders chose the frame, assembled the remain-ing components according to their individual needs, and built the bike," says Hagemann. The 55-year-old is also hanging a price tag on two or three of his rare bicycles.
The Bremen Classic Motorshow runs from Friday 2 to Sunday 4 February 2018 in all halls at Bremen Messe, plus the Hall 8 modular unit. The halls are open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. A day pass costs 16 Euros. More info at: http://www.classicmotorshow.de
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The warmest month (with the highest average high temperature) is July (90.7°F).
The month with the lowest average high temperature is January (51.8°F).
The month with the highest average low temperature is July (70.5°F).
The coldest month (with the lowest average low temperature) is January (30.7°F).
The wettest month (with the highest rainfall) is March (5.1").
Driest months (with the lowest rainfall) are August and October (3.7").
The month with the highest number of rainy days is July (9.8 days).
The month with the lowest number of rainy days is September (6.7 days).
The month with the longest days is June (Average daylight: 14.4h).
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Talia Castellano, the 13-year-old cancer sufferer who created YouTube videos of make-up demonstrations, died on Tuesday 16th July. She lost her battle with neuroblastoma and leukaemia. Ellen Degeneres and a number of other celebrities were fans of her videos and have mourned her passing.
Talia Castellano, the 13-year-old, who enchanted America with her makeup videos died on Tuesday (16th July). Talia had battled with cancer: she suffered from neuroblastoma and leukaemia.
Ellen Degeneres, pictured at the Netflix premiere of Arrested Development, was a fan of Talia's YouTube videos.
Neuroblastoma affects the nerve tissue. According to Cancer.org, it is common in children under the age of 1 and affects around 700 children in the US every year. In the majority of cases, including Talia's, it can spread to other parts of the body.
Talia was first diagnosed and treated in 2007. It appeared she was cancer free until she relapsed in 2008. Over the next five years she attempted to overcome her illness but it developed into leukaemia in 2012.
On her YouTube site, Talia introduced herself as "13 years old" and someone who "loves make-up". She stated that "make-up is my wig" as she preferred to wear make-up to "feel good and pretty inside- and I guess outside". Talia had posted over 150 videos on her YouTube site. Her last post was in June when she discussed her stay in hospital and, although upbeat, admitted she was in a great deal of pain.
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Prior to her passing yesterday, Talia had been in hospital for nearly 6 months with only a short break.
Talia's videos have featured on the Ellen DeGeneres Show and were hugely popular owing to her optimistic outlook in the face of her illness. DeGeneres has tweeted on Talia's death twice. The first reads: "this year I met a very special girl, and today we lost her". She went on to send her condolences to Talia's family. Later she tweeted an Instagram picture of Talia on CoverGirl magazine adding, "thinking of my friend".
This year I met a very special girl, and today we lost her. Sending my heart to Talia's family. I'm so sad.— Ellen DeGeneres (@TheEllenShow) July 16, 2013
DeGeneres was not the only celebrity touched by Talia's videos. As a result of her appearance on the Ellen DeGeneres show, Talia interviewed Miley Cyrus and Demi Lovato. She also appeared as a model for CoverGirl magazine.
It was announced today on Talia's Facebook page that her mother and sister will appear tomorrow (Thursday 18th July) on the Today show.
Contactmusic sends their condolences to Talia's family and friends.
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CountryProfiler is a global company that produces print and online publications which promote various countries for business, investment and tourism. In addition, our publications serve as guides for companies and individuals looking to do business with specific countries around the world.
What do you need?
CountryProfiler needs a new logo for use on it's own (website, business cards, stationary etc)and the logo in conjunction with our publication titles for the front cover of each magazine.
It must be noted that our company name is CountryProfiler with no space between Country and Profiler. The saying connecting thought and ideas worldwide is currently featured beside our logo on company collateral.
Please keep in mind that the CountryProfiler logo will need to be combined with a number of publication titles and placed on a range of unique magazine covers each magazine cover will feature our logo and magazine title (as a single file), the country name (focal point), a full page photograph of the country plus cover text. We have a range of magazine titles CountryProfiler Magazine (120 page publication that covers all aspect of a countrys economy and business operating environment), CountryProfiler Executive Briefing (20 page business overview about the country essentially a condensed version of CountryProfiler Magazine), CountryProfiler Finance (Industry Guide to the countrys financial sector), CountryProfiler eGaming (Industry Guide to the countrys eGaming sector), CountryProfiler Destination (20 page introduction to the country as a travel destination).
Each of the logo + publication titles should follow the same format and it should be easy to add new publication titles as we develop new concepts. Since each publication title has a number of countries, and it is likely that we will publish several titles for each country (e.g. CountryProfiler Magazine Malta, CountryProfiler Executive Briefing Malta, CountryProfiler Finance Malta, CountryProfiler eGaming Malta and CountryProfiler Destination Malta) there should be a unique design element (e.g. unique font colour or unique background colour) in order to differentiate each publication title.
Please design the following logo and logo + title combinations.
1. Standalone Logo: CountryProfiler
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Who Is Your Audience?
Key Decision makers (CEOs, COOs, CFOs) of the top companies internationally who are seeking information regarding doing business in/with/through specific countries or regions. These individuals refer to our publications as a source covering topics ranging from inward investment, taxation, government structure, economy, key sectors (banking & finance, technology & communications, tourism, construction, real estate, agriculture etc) in various countries. They are high-level business executives and high net-worth individuals.
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ABSTRACT The representation of face data recorded in three dimensions with the aim of identifying people, while solving the problems of pose and illumination that affect the performance of two-dimensional systems, faces the problem of high data dimension, which causes classification errors because of the so-called "curse of dimensionality". For this reason, the reduction of the dimension maintaining high recognition rates is a priority objective of the methods of representation of the biometric objects. As a result of this research, we propose the representation of three-dimensional information through functions, achieving a compact representation that provides additional advantages such as representing the correlation between neighboring values, and a notable simplification of computational computation. The results obtained demonstrate the validity of the functional analysis as a way of recognition of faces in three dimensions complete and with lost parts.
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Implants in the jaw have now had over 40 years of research and development and are a highly succesful long-term replacement option for missing teeth. When you ose a tooth your other teeth are more at risk of breaking from the extra load, and the bite changes as adjacent teeth fall inwards like removing a book from a bookshelf.
Traditionally missing teeth have been replaced with either a denture or a bridge. Dentures are bulky replacements that are never as comfortable as your own teeth. They also trap food and put your remaining teeth at risk of decay and gum disease. One study found 30% of people given a removable option will stop wearing it within 3 months due to comfort issues. Bridges can replace missing teeth comfortably but involve heavy cutting of the teeth on either side of the gap. When the bridge fails your one tooth space may become a 2 or 3 tooth space. An implant is as close to replacing your own tooth as you can get, and leaves the remaining teeth in a natural state.
An implant is a titanium prosthetic root placed in the jaw where your original tooth was. The bone in your jaws can bond to and grow onto this titanium allowing us to fabricate a crown over the top. This makes the implant look and feel just like a natural tooth.
Any surgical or invasive procedure carries risks. Before proceeding, you should seek a second opinion from an appropriately qualified health practitioner.
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In this article, you will learn how to create jqPlot charts with ASP.NET MVC 4.
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After creating the table, you can fill it using the data, as shown below: Create your MVC application First, Open Visual Studio. Click on File > New > Project and name your project, as shown below: Creating ADO.NET Entity Data Model
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Right click on the project name. Click Add > Add New Item. In the dialog box displayed, select Data > Click Add button.
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The function of the seminar table has changed in today's business context. The conference table which most people consider to be a table that is located on a board room, is frequently where the focus of a company's decision-making procedure takes place. It's often where important things are determined and declared. In this article, we will cover some of the details that are normally forgotten when deciding on the furniture for conference rooms.
The design and look of a conference desk may carry on a symbolic significance and play a part in an organization's brand. On the other hand, the significance and purpose of a seminar table have shifted for several organizations. As firms have made their organizational arrangements less formal and more collaborative, meetings frequently occur anywhere. That could explain why meeting-spaces-for-hire, such as the conference venues in Hobart, has been seeing a rise in popularity.
A fantastic conference table remains an extremely helpful thing to fulfill this purpose. In most cases, the seminar table in a contemporary context is not as grand as it used to be.
Perhaps your restricted physical area demands that one area serves multiple functions, like training and eating area, video conferencing and face-to-face meetings. Following a departmental assembly, the same "conference" space could be required later in the afternoon to get a coaching session requiring another configuration of furniture or alternative furniture completely. Conferencing or "assembly" does not just happen in a dedicated seminar area. Conferencing areas located close to working areas where individuals can easily come together, talk about an issue, then distribute back to their work area are extremely efficient. A big part of your corporate working experience would include a greater number of small conferencing areas than of one huge one.
AV Cabinets
Audiovisual cabinets, which keeps your audiovisual gear, maybe a significant part of any seminar room where there's video conferencing or movie viewing. They are sometimes purchased as a set with your other seminar room furniture or be purchased as standalone products. To check out how a great AV cabinet works with other furniture, check out this accommodation in Hobart.
Hospitality Carts
When folks are bringing food right into a seminar room and clearing away dishes, a serving cart – sometimes known as a "hospitality cart" – can be priceless and may be bought to match the other seminar room furniture. It may be used for items aside from food; by way of instance, to hold notebook computers or newspapers to be distributed over the course of a meeting.
Podiums /Lecterns
If your seminar room is big and has speakers, you may want a podium or lectern. They assist the speaker to remain organized and on task as well as permitting the speakers to communicate their message to the viewer. Podiums are common especially in larger conference venues around Melbourne. There are 3 most common kinds of podiums:
Standing podiums which allows the speaker to stand behind the structure when giving their presentation
Removable podiums that are usually placed on top of a table. This podium will provide the speaker flexibility when they are about to give a demonstration, and also permits them to utilize the sound system more openly.
Table-shaped podiums which are normally used for panel presentations. These podiums allow a speaker to sit next to another.
Podiums, also called lecterns, may be made from plastic, metal, or wood. Wood veneer podiums are among the most well-known options as they're really durable and provide the presenter a professional appearance. These are the ones that can be seen on most corporate event venues in Melbourne. Laminate finishes are artificial and generally less costly.
There are many attributes that one should consider when buying a podium, such as:
- Wheels that lock
- Adjustable heights,
- Built-in stopwatch/clock,
- Shelving on the interior
You need to ensure the measurements of the wooden podium match your space requirements so you understand your sound requirements. You should analyze the wattage of these speakers, whether they're wired, or wireless controllers, and if mike is included. The purchase price of a podium will be contingent on a range of variables.
Floor units are costlier than tabletop units. Should you want a sound system, then the podium cost increases appreciably. Materials used in the building of this podium, finishes, and customizations may also lead to the purchase price of podiums to change.
Shipping & Setup
A vital factor in buying a product as big as a seminar table is sending and delivery. For a product that's too far off from your desired destination, the expense of shipping may overtake the purchase price of the product being sent and leave shipping impractical. A specific concern with big solid wood and rock items is if they may be split into different parts. This is one of the important details you may want to check especially when you are browsing through an online shopping system.
If the item can be split, they're usually stackable and a lot easier to send because, while the burden is identical, the footprint is a lot smaller and they are easier to package and protect from breakage.
Transferring an entire slab of rock presents challenges with transport in a car because a thing that hefty have to be balanced at the vehicle. The form of the table makes this a challenge since the marble generally must be balanced on its side to fit in the cargo bay. Doing so can be a delicate balancing act since the slab needs to be padded in the base so that the weight of this rock doesn't crack it through handling. Additionally, the box has to be procured inside the cargo bay so it doesn't shift around. This usually means a whole cargo bay of a truck could be necessary to send a single-piece convention table. As a consequence of those factors, the purchase price of shipping rises radically.
Another consideration with transferring large and heavy things, such as seminar tables, is set up. It's easy to overlook that the furniture you're ordering on that small business web design should have the ability to fit through the areas of the construction it has to travel through to be able to get into the place in which it must be set up. The Main criteria That Have to Be addressed when installing a large thing are:
- The width of doorjambs and halls — are they wide enough for the thing to fit through?
- Elevators and cargo lifts — Is your elevator big enough for the thing to fit indoors? Additionally, is the lift sturdy enough to take the weight of this merchandise?
- Furniture and other office fittings which might need to be transferred in order for your thing to be set up. This is often overlooked until the final minute but ought to be handled quickly because delays may cost you money, or, worse, need for your thing to be repaid before the place is ready for installation.
Aspects to consider when preparing a place are:
- What furniture items need to be transferred?
- Who in your company will take care of the move?
- Where will these items be kept while your delivery occurs?
- What other fittings inside your office may have to be temporarily removed?
Do not allow the above-mentioned details to prevent you from purchasing the conference table that you dream about. But be ready to be asked concerning the construction and office to which we are delivering your seminar room furniture since all these are the facts we must know before getting your ideal conference room prepared for you!


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Trees will be a breath of fresh air for school
By Chris Bowman - Bee Staff Writer
Last Updated 12:18 am PDT Saturday, May 12, 2007
Story appeared in METRO section, Page B1
This school is located on the corner of Watt Avenue and Arden Way in Sacramento, CA. Arden is a fairly busy street, but Watt is a multi-lane major thoroughfare for neighborhood traffic and cars and trucks getting off and on Highways 50 and 80. Plus, the light at the intersection of Watt and Arden is a long one, which means lots of idling cars followed by accelerating cars. All day long. Cough, cough, choke, choke. I'm surprised those kids aren't walking around with oxygen tanks, hunched over like longtime pack-a-day smokers.
I applaud the efforts to improve school grounds air quality by planting a tree buffer. I just wish they'd consider greater tree diversity. Another Bee article stated that redwood trees were tops at intercepting auto exhaust. I wonder why only oaks and cedars were planted. I'd also like to point out the obvious aesthetic benefits of planting trees at the school. Arden being a very tree-oriented neighborhood, I'm surprised they weren't planted sooner for beautification reasons... and to give the kids some shade. Is it because of safety and maintenance issues? Dunno, but I'm glad to see this much-needed buffer being installed.


text: It's time for more funding and less blame Written by: Deborah Lawson | Published: 16 January 2019 Deborah Lawson, general secretary, Voice Comment on this article Per-pupil funding is set to be lower in 2019/20 than it was in 2015, but if we are to solve the funding crisis we must end the blame game, says Deborah Lawson All education establishments, from early years to further and higher education, are suffering the consequences of years of austerity measures.Reports of larger classes, dilapidated buildings, diminishing SEND support and universities on the brink of bankruptcy are all too common. It's unacceptable that education professionals should continue to struggle.Financial experts provided by the Department for Education (DfE) to support schools with funding pressures have reportedly found £35 million of savings across 70 schools – good news, but it won't solve the funding crisis.The wisdom of the claim from school system minister Lord Agnew that schools are wasting colossal sums of money is questionable – especially when school leaders and governors are working flat-out to try to balance their budgets, while maintaining, and improving, the quality of education they provide, and supporting their teachers and support staff to deliver that education.The Budget announcement that schools would get a share of £400 million in capital funding for "little extras" incensed the profession, not least because the agreed 3.5 per cent teacher pay rise was not fully funded as ministers insisted, and no additional funding was announced for teacher pay.The Institute for Fiscal Studies has published figures showing that per-pupil funding is set to be lower in 2019/20 than it was in 2015, because the per-pupil amount has not kept pace with rising costs.The funding crisis has devastated SEND provision, where increasing demand has not been matched with increased funding. This has restricted the support schools can provide and prevented them from planning for anything other than further cuts, including to invaluable teaching assistants and specialist teachers.This has left children without the help and support they need and parents angry and frustrated, leading to numerous and costly applications and appeals from parents, and increased workload for teachers and support staff.The education secretary recognised these cost pressures with his announcement in December of an extra £350 million for councils to help support pupils with SEND. We welcome any additional funding but question its sufficiency. There is a potential funding gap of £1.6 billion by 2020/21, according to research from the Local Government Association (LGA).Meanwhile, a BBC investigation in January found that thousands of SEN children in England are waiting too long for an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP). Once such a plan is requested, councils should normally finalise them within 20 weeks, but through Freedom of Information requests the BBC discovered that around four in 10 have taken longer.However, we need to get away from the blame culture, with parents blaming schools, schools blaming local authorities, all of the above blaming the DfE, and the DfE blaming the Treasury.Schools and other agencies all want to play their part, want to work with each other so that pupils can have realistic and workable EHCPs, and want all other partners involved to play their part, too, but all are under enormous financial and capacity pressures.We are all aware of what is driving the inadequacies of the system: funding. Both schools and local authorities and other agencies are suffering the effects of the shortage of funds, particularly for SEND.Agencies' thresholds for providing help have gone up as funding has decreased, widening the gap through which children can fall. The cost of SEND appeals and judicial reviews would also reduce if schools and local authorities had sufficient funding. The government needs to enable all agencies to have the capacity – and the funding – to work together.The DfE will be gathering evidence on the financial incentives that influence how schools, colleges and councils support children and young people with SEN.Given the budgetary pressures on schools, we are pleased that the DfE will, as part of its evidence-gathering, be looking at the first £6,000 schools pay for SEND support costs before accessing additional funding from local high needs budgets.We will be providing evidence to the DfE as part of our on-going work on this issue.Deborah Lawson is the general secretary of Voice.


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These "meaningful activities" come as Murphy USA looks to put a weak first quarter behind it. As CSNews Online previously reported, EBITDA fell to its lowest level since 2011 — coming in at $30.3 million vs. $83.1 million in the same period a year ago. However, as Clyde pointed out, the first-quarter results of 2016 were above the prior four-year average of $39 million.
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According to Clyde, there were "a number of outlier events in adjustments" to consider when comparing the first-quarter results to year-ago results:
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- The transition to distributor Core Mark Holding Co. in February 2016 along with a partial final payment from the former contract with McLane Co. Inc., which raised margins in 2016 and largely showed up in tobacco margins; and
- A $1.6-billion lotto jackpot in January 2016 generated large margin contribution from the lottery category that was not repeated in 2017.
"And last, we have recognized that the market environment was not strong to start the year, tracking along the lines of fuel demand in January," Clyde said. "So, the negative comps are not all one-time items, but I would point out that we exited March with momentum in merchandise and, with some new initiatives, we are seeing [second-quarter] results that are more representative of the potential of our business."
Notably for March, both tobacco and non-tobacco margins were up, he reported.
"We continue to see that kind of momentum going forward. We are really starting to see the benefits of new leadership, people in new roles, some of the performance improvement efforts that we have talked about in the past showing up in the results," the chief executive said.
"We are seeing it in the way we are doing pricing center-of-store optimization, the promotion effectiveness, activities, and just the natural way in which we are interacting with our vendors and supplier partners in a much more strategic way," he continued. "I think those trends will continue as we will be having a more robust set of promotional offerings during the summer."
El Dorado-based Murphy USA ended the first quarter of 2017 with 1,406 stores, consisting of 1,152 Murphy USA sites and 254 Murphy Express sites. A total of 35 stores are currently under construction, including 17 raze-and-rebuild locations.


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The sale of new private homes recorded a rise of 12% in August 2017 from what was recorded in July and a rise of 165% in comparison to August 2016, according to data released by the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) on 15 September.
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"The rise in primary sales in the month of August will reinforce sentiments further on the bottoming out of the property market," said Edmund Tie and Company head of research, Dr. Lee Nai Jia.
Dr. Lee noted that the project sales improved across the board including on projects launched earlier. Commonwealth Towers sold 56 units while Symphony Suites sold 59 units.
The sales of private homes in August were 11.7% higher from the 1,111 units sold in July. This was the second month that transactions were above 1000.
Under the executive condominiums segment, August had 340 new units transacted even as there were no new projects launched. The figure was 65% less from the July sales of 978 units. The strong sales recorded in July were due to certain projects having a strong performance, a good example being the Hundred Palms Residences EC that sold all the 531 units at its July 22 launch.
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Hm. Panel 7's zoomed out way too far.... Ah, well, easy-as-hell page due to the lack of background. Liked doing those three close-up panels, especially the extreme one on Nine Eyes. In the script, the dialog was meant to be shown all at once, but tried cutting it up. Gives the impression Nine Eyes really had to be talked out of killing them both.
Nine Eyes really does pretty much steal the show from here out. Interest in the chapter had really been waning for me; does that with BP sometimes, especially when schoolwork piles up, but then he comes in and turns out to just be awesome. Provides us with some neat visuals up ahead.
God, my mind's in a million places at once right now. Mostly focused on having gone from, "Probably skipping WrestleMania," to, "Can't wait! Come on, April!" instantaneously. But I won't get into that here.
Anyway, yeah. This'll be kicking off the first fight scene Sareena and Misty have been in since chapter five. Not a very long one admittedly - the chapter's actually very nearly done - but they'll be a little more frequent for awhile from here. Granted, we had a fight scene in the last chapter anyway, they just weren't involved in it. Though even then they did attack those goons... Yeah, either way, this comic isn't as action-focused as WaR and Blues are. Naturally being a different genre and all.
I like the touch of spreading the dialogue out a bit. Does make Nine Eyes look more deranged - do want him to come off as pretty violent and animalistic, with a pretty one-track mind. This scene'll continue, so be sure to swing by next week for more!
When are we going to find out who that voice belongs to and get an explanation for Moon's presence?
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Start using our Holiday API
Use our Holiday data in your applications programmatically. No credit card is required to start.
Benin has a total of 22 holidays in 2019. In the table below, you will find the details of the holidays and when they are observed. All the information display below is also available via our API as well as downloadable as a csv. Signup here to get started.
These dates may be modified as official changes are announced, so please check back regularly for updates or sign up for our newsletter to receive regular updates. All updates are automatically added to our API as well.
Our API allows you to specify the State and Region as part of the API requests, thereby limiting the requests to a particular state or city. View the API documentation for a full description of the supported countries, states and regions.
|New Year
|Tuesday, January 1, 2019
|New Year's Day is the first day of the year, or January 1, in the Gregorian calendar.
|Vodoun Festival
|Thursday, January 10, 2019
|Vodoun Festival is a public holiday in Benin
|Day of Remembrance
|Wednesday, January 16, 2019
|Day of Remembrance is a national day in Benin
|People's Sovereignty Day
|Thursday, February 28, 2019
|People's Sovereignty Day is a national day in Benin
|Women's Day
|Friday, March 8, 2019
|Women's Day is a national day in Benin
|March Equinox
|Wednesday, March 20, 2019
|March Equinox in Benin (Porto Novo)
|Easter Monday
|Monday, April 22, 2019
|Easter Monday is the day after Easter Sunday.
|Labour Day
|Wednesday, May 1, 2019
|May Day, or Labor Day, is a day off for workers in many countries around the world.
|Mother's Day
|Sunday, May 12, 2019
|Mother's Day celebrates the achievements and efforts of mothers and mother figures.
|Ascension Day
|Thursday, May 30, 2019
|Ascension Day is the 40th day of Easter. It is a religious holiday that commemorates the ascension of Jesus Christ into heaven.
|Tuesday, June 4, 2019
|Eid-al-Fitr is a holiday to mark the end of the Islamic month of Ramadan, during which Muslims fast during the hours of daylight.
|Whit Monday
|Monday, June 10, 2019
|Whit Monday, or Pentecost Monday, is a Christian holiday that falls on the day after Pentecost, which is also known as Whit Sunday or Whitsunday.
|Father's Day
|Sunday, June 16, 2019
|Father's Day celebrates fatherhood and male parenting on different dates worldwide.
|June Solstice
|Friday, June 21, 2019
|June Solstice in Benin (Porto Novo)
|Independence Day
|Thursday, August 1, 2019
|Independence Day is a public holiday in Benin
|Sunday, August 11, 2019
|Eid al-Adha (Id ul-Adha) is an Islamic festival falling on the 10th day of the month of Dhul Hijja (Thou al-Hijja) to commemorate the willingness of Ibrahim (Abraham) to sacrifice his son.
|Assumption of Mary
|Thursday, August 15, 2019
|The Christian feast of the Assumption of Mary is on or around Aug 15 in most countries. A few celebrate Assumption Day at other times of the year.
|September Equinox
|Monday, September 23, 2019
|September Equinox in Benin (Porto Novo)
|All Saints' Day
|Friday, November 1, 2019
|Many churches honor all their saints on All Saints' Day, also known as All Hallows' Day.
|Saturday, November 9, 2019
|Mawlid, or Milad, marks the birth of the Islamic prophet Muhammed, or Mohamed, in the year 570 of the Gregorian calendar.
|December Solstice
|Sunday, December 22, 2019
|December Solstice in Benin (Porto Novo)
|Christmas Day
|Wednesday, December 25, 2019
|Christmas Day is one of the biggest Christian celebrations and falls on December 25 in the Gregorian calendar.


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Summer 2018 will live long in the memory of The Elation.
The first two singles from their debut EP got huge radio support across Ireland and the UK. "Clickbait" was then released in June via Top 6 and went straight into the Irish Indie Charts at #3. A milestone for most artists and labels.
The band then went on a tour of festivals and radio stations around Ireland. Their electric live shows including a showstopping performance at Indiependence became renowned and the band were selected and invited to appear at Electric Picnic later this month in Stradbally.
The next track "Feels Like A Good Reason To Get Started" was used in the Indiependence aftermovie and is released on August 31st to co-incide with their appearance at Electric Picnic.
"Feels like a good reason to get started" is a bittersweet serenade set to a floor-filling pop-dance beat. The song was written about coming to the realization that a relationship has run its course and you find yourself procrastinating the inevitable breakup for not wanting to hurt your other half.
Furthermore, a limited number of cassette copies of Clickbait have been produced. For links for all streaming, download, cd and cassette options visit www.top6.ie/theelation
You can now listen to the brand new single " Feels Like A Good Reason"


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Seeing your house and everything destroyed along with the loved ones and memories following a catastrophic incident can hit you very deep into your soul. Most people commit suicide following such a mishap but there are ways to overcome such a situation. Some people lose faith in themselves, and never recover from the trauma while others emerge out stronger following such an incident. Till you are struck by a disaster, you will never understand how to cope and what to do next. The USA government gives disaster relief grants in order to meet basic necessities of residents or the necessities of those affected by a natural calamity. The government can issue a disaster relief grant for different purposes as per the extent of damage caused.
The objectives of disaster relief grants issued by the USA government
The main objectives of grant are given below:
- To forward grants through the grant funding agency that help to curb erosion of beaches and coastal shores
- To formulate a council that takes care of nutritional needs of people who require food for survival. In most areas, pulses and grains are the staple foods
- In most regions, people are not aware how to respond to chemical accidents and hazards associated with the spillage of toxic substances. The USA government issues disaster relief grants also to train the people how to prepare for the disasters.
- To reimburse losses resulting from natural calamities when the government hasn't collected tax revenue. It may be that there was an unforeseen natural calamity resulting to the loss of citizen tax revenue
- To issue grants to the farmers who are the victims of natural disaster. Natural calamity may also impact crop cultivation regions and farmlands to cause complete damage to the crops.
- The USA government also issues grants to train people on how to respond to the terrorist attack. They prepare people for chemical attacks and terrorist attacks
- These grants are also issued to form community training group in order to assist the local community when there is a natural disaster. These volunteering groups also inform people about the upcoming natural disasters.
- To provide fund to poor families whose houses are damaged due to a natural calamity. They help the homeless people to acquire a place to stay and recover from the situation.
Disaster Relief Grants are a real deal
The government issues disaster relief grants that prove very beneficial for there is no interest levied on it. Besides, there is also no burden to pay back the money. Different groups of people are benefited from government-aided grants. But, to quality for the grant, a person needs to fulfil certain criteria. The basic purpose of every government-issued grant is to assist people who need financial help.
Proper research regarding disaster relief grants is required. You may check the official website of the government to get more information on such grants. These websites will also tell you how to apply for the grant. So, choose the best government grant and protect yourself.


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TPU, or Thermoplastic Polyurethane is a very common form of elastic polymer, or elastomer, capable of being used on any properly equipped FDM 3D printer. Of the many kinds of flexible 3D printer filaments, TPU is slightly more rigid, making it easier to extrude and use. It is a medium-strength material with very high flexibility and durability, able to withstand much higher compressive and tensile forces than its more common counterparts PLA and ABS.
TPU filament is commonly used to 3D print a wide variety of items. For everyday use, TPU is great for making custom phone cases, rubber mats, and stress toys. In the R/C hobby department, TPU can be used for tires or shock absorbers and is even occasionally utilized to make o-rings and seals. In the world of DIY, TPU is fantastic for flexible parts or casings, as well as parts that need to have resistance to sudden impacts and movement, for applications such as vibration dampening and shock absorption.


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Location: SS3, PJ
Salary: RM1500 per month with up to RM1000 bonus for attendance & performance (lodging can be provided upon request)
Contract type: Permanent (3 months probation)
Hours: 40 hours per week Includes evening & weekend working required upon request
Responsible to: Board of Directors
Responsible for: Koperasi Members Program
Introduction of MBCS
The formation of MBCS was mooted with very Noble Aims- both for Buddhists to earn a living through right livelihood and the benefits of doing Dana to Buddhist and the needy at large. Our mission is to empower families to trade with benefits, and leave a personal, social, family, business or spiritual legacy by paying it forward.
Main responsibilities
• Record minutes and follow up on urgent matters or issues raised during meeting
• Manage meeting schedules, correspondences, travelling arrangements, handling private and confidential matters in professional manner to all level of staff
• Assist in photocopying, and drafting government proposals, letters and agreements
• Maintain a systematic filing system and safe keeping of important documents
• Undertake special assignments, adhoc functions and related duties
• Respond to telephone calls, emails and booking enquiries in a timely manner
• Respond appropriately to customer feedback, escalating any issues in an appropriate and timely manner.
• Ability to work effectively as part of a team.
• Ability to work under pressure in a fast paced environment.
• Ability to work effectively under own initiative.
• Good eye for detail.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Experience in assisting directors or CEOs with their day-to-day operations
• Working towards a qualification in business admin degree would be an advantage.
• Knowledge of social network or Microsoft Office, particularly Word, Excel and Powerpoint
• Full driving licence and access to a car.
Personal qualities:
• Commitment to MBCS mission and values
• Proactive
• Team player
• Flexible, and willing to work with occasional travel to PJ & KL and interstate at times
• Conscientious and responsible.
• Support and enthuse others and maintain a professional image of the company.
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- Tom Kopchak , Brian T Glenn
- Jun 24, 2019
- Tested on Splunk Version: 7.2 and 7.3
Splunk SmartStore is a fundamental change in how Splunk stores data, allowing the use of an S3 compliant object store to store your data. In this article, Tom and Brian will walk you through configuring SmartStore on an existing Splunk instance and cluster, and migrating an existing index to this new storage.
One of the major features released in Splunk 7.2 is SmartStore–a mechanism to use AWS S3 (or other S3 API compliant object stores) as volumes for storing your indexed data in Splunk.
We're not going to spend a lot of time going into the details of what SmartStore is and the benefits of using it, since Splunk already has a fairly comprehensive series on this, check out the blogs: Splunk SmartStore: Cut the Cord by Decoupling Commute and Storage and Splunk SmartStore: Disrupting Existing Large Scale Data Management Paradigms.
The biggest takeaway here, however, is that this represents a fundamental shift in how data can be stored in Splunk.
Traditionally, Splunk relied on dedicated storage for each indexer, with various classes of storage to help manage costs (much of which is covered in one of our other tutorials, Splunking Responsibly Part 2: Sizing Your Storage). With SmartStore, the concepts of hot, warm, and cold storage are replaced with a cache manager and an object store. This effectively allows for historical data to be stored for longer at a lower cost than traditional on-premise storage options.
Let's assume you have an existing Splunk environment and want to take SmartStore for a spin. Here's what you need to do to get it deployed.
Whenever you're manipulating index settings, there can be a risk of data loss. If you're fortunate enough to not be using your test environment for production, doing this in a lab is absolutely the best way to experiment. All of this testing was first done on a standalone Splunk instance before trying it out on our lab environment, which closely mirrors one of our managed Splunk clients.
The common element you will need to implement SmartStore is an S3 compatible object store. For our testing, we used Amazon's S3, so we didn't have to worry about S3 compatibility. If you're using a third-party mechanism, Splunk docs has some information on what is required for Smart Store to work. You can read more about managing indexers and clusters of indexers in the docs.
Assuming you're using S3, configure a new bucket and enable API access as follows:
1. Navigate to S3 in the AWS Management Console:
2. Create a bucket:
3. Give the bucket a (globally unique) name. For testing, none of the other defaults need to be changed. Record this bucket name and the AWS region where it is created - you'll need this information later.
4. Once the bucket is created, you'll see it in the AWS console:
5. Create an API key by navigating to IAM in the AWS console:
6. Navigate to Users -> Security credentials -> Create access key:
7. Record both the Access key ID and the Secret access key shown - you'll need this later:
8. While not strictly necessary, we also created a folder inside the bucket for each test we did (standalone for our initial testing, CCN for our test customer):
Once these steps are completed, you should be done with the AWS testing.
For our first test, we performed a clean installation of Splunk 7.3 on a Ubuntu virtual machine, and proceeded to configure a new Index with Smart Store. For testing, this simply involved changes to $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/local/indexes.conf on our instance.
Note: Splunk's documentation on Deploying SmartStore gives a great example of the configuration to use.
Our final test indexes.conf ended up looking like this:
dev01:~# cat /opt/splunk/etc/system/local/indexes.conf
# Configure all indexes to use the SmartStore remote volume called
# "remote_store".
# Note: If you want only some of your indexes to use SmartStore,
# place this setting under the individual stanzas for each of the
# SmartStore indexes, rather than here.
#remotePath = volume:remote_store/$_index_name
# Configure the remote volume
storageType = remote
# On the next line, the volume's path setting points to the remote storage location
# where indexes reside. Each SmartStore index resides directly below the location
# specified by the path setting. The <scheme> identifies a supported remote
# storage system type, such as S3. The <remote-location-specifier> is a
# string specific to the remote storage system that specifies the location
# of the indexes inside the remote system.
# This is an S3 example: "path = s3://mybucket/some/path".
path = s3://splunk-smartstore-testing/standalone #our S3 bucket and path
# The following S3 settings are required only if you're using the access and secret
# keys. They are not needed if you are using AWS IAM roles.
remote.s3.access_key = <access key ID>
remote.s3.secret_key = <secret access key>
remote.s3.endpoint = https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com #our AWS region
We also created a test index, cs_index, in the same indexes.conf file, and later added the _internal index as an additional test index:
# This example stanza configures a custom index, "cs_index".
homePath = $SPLUNK_DB/$_index_name/db
# SmartStore-enabled indexes do not use thawedPath or coldPath, but you must still specify them here.
coldPath = $SPLUNK_DB/$_index_name/colddb
thawedPath = $SPLUNK_DB/cs_index/thaweddb
remotePath = volume:remote_store/$_index_name
remotePath = volume:remote_store/$_index_name
Upon a restart of Splunk, we immediately noticed folders created for each index in the AWS S3 console:
Navigating through the various folders, you'll notice the same type of Splunk index structure that you're familiar with:
For those of you who prefer a screencast or demo, here's a quick runthrough of the process using another index:
Once you have SmartStore writing to buckets in S3, you'll want to make sure that data can be retrieved successfully from a SmartStore index entirely in S3. This is easiest to test when you first begin to have data in SmartStore, since it's simple to evict everything from your cache when there's only one or two buckets.
You can view all of the buckets in the cache manager via the REST API by navigating to services/admin/cacheman/:
To evict a bucket, you can post to the REST API using curl. For the sake of our testing, this command was used:
curl -u <username>:<password> -kX POST https://192.168.20.151:8089/services/admin/cacheman/bid%7C_internal~0~ABE42D9B-B567-46D9-8773-73D389146EDD%7C/evict
This will produce a lot of output when it runs:
The easiest way to confirm that the bucket was evicted is to go into the directory for that bucket and confirm that it is empty. The folder will still exist, but it won't have any contents:
root@dev01:/opt/splunk/var/lib/splunk# ls -l /opt/splunk/var/lib/splunk/_internaldb/db/db_1559281745_1559281745_0_ABE42D9B-B567-46D9-8773-73D389146EDD
total 0
Running a search over this data will result in the bucket being retrieved locally and stored in the cache on disk, which you can see by checking the same folder:
root@dev01:/opt/splunk/var/lib/splunk# ls -l /opt/splunk/var/lib/splunk/_internaldb/db/db_1559281745_1559281745_0_ABE42D9B-B567-46D9-8773-73D389146EDD
total 32
-rw------- 1 root root 1073 Jun 19 11:27 1559281745-1559281745-18197050580047733540.tsidx
-rw------- 1 root root 65 Jun 19 11:27 bloomfilter
-rw------- 1 root root 67 Jun 19 11:27 bucket_info.csv
-rw------- 1 root root 123 Jun 19 11:27 cachemanager_local.json
-rw------- 1 root root 103 Jun 19 11:27 Hosts.data
drwx------ 2 root root 64 Jun 19 11:27 rawdata
-rw------- 1 root root 121 Jun 19 11:27 Sources.data
-rw------- 1 root root 109 Jun 19 11:27 SourceTypes.data
-rw------- 1 root root 41 Jun 19 11:27 Strings.data
Here is a demo of how this eviction and download process works in practice:
After our lab testing was successful, we followed a very similar process to implement this in an indexer cluster. The configuration files were very similar, with some slight differences:
After a rolling restart of the indexer cluster, our data began showing up in S3 - while still being searchable. Over the course of the next several hours, we noticed less and less disk space being consumed while more data was uploaded to AWS.
SmartStore-related internal logs are stored in the Splunk _internal index under the CacheManager component. In our lab environment, this means we can track SmartStore activity with the following search:
index=_internal host=ccn*idx* component=CacheManager
Download and upload activities are also easy to locate, via the action field:
As you can see from a 36 hour graph, the amount of activity varies. There is a burst in uploading when the index is initially configured to use SmartStore, followed by bursts of download activity when searches require data that is only available in S3. Minimal activity is observed when data is only being ingested and not actively searched.
Overall, we were impressed with how simple it was to configure and get SmartStore working in our testing. The Splunk documentation for the implementation was well written–kudos to the documentation team for excellent work.
In our testing, we noticed that the process of retrieving data from SmartStore adds some latency to the searching process, which was noticeable in our testing for current data. However, since the use case for SmartStore primarily involves reducing the cost of long-term data storage, this is less of an issue for infrequently accessed data.
We'll continue to produce more information on this feature as we work with it more. Let us know about your experiences using SmartStore as well.
If you're looking for something different than the typical "one-size-fits-all" security mentality, you've come to the right place.


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Like potions class, but with booze
JK Rowling may be too busy tweeting to crank out any more Harry Potter installments, but the legacy of her fantasy novels lives on. Not only has she parlayed her writing into a movie franchise, a theme park, and the only lens through which an entire generation seemingly understands politics, there's now something of a cottage industry around Hogwarts-inspired cocktails.
Starting in September, New Yorkers (and tourists) can attend "The Cauldron," a one hour and forty-five minute cocktail class that combines the finest elements of both wizarding and mixology. Though not officially affiliated with the Potter franchise, fans of the books should still feel right at home. Guests can use an Internet of Things-connected wand to pour "Poetic Meade" (also known as the "Nectar of the Gods"), a honey wine famous in mythology," according to a press release for the pop-up.
That's not all, though. Attendees have access to a "wand-interactive workstation" at which they'll mix up potion-making ingredients in their cauldron. Not only are these concoctions safe for muggle consumption, but they'll also "change colour [sic], bubble, and smoke."
Though the concept is based on a successful five-month run in London, it will come with its own New York-specific wrinkles. Chief among them is the ability to use one's wand to pour a pint of "Hell Broth," a limited-edition beer brewed in partnership with Brooklyn's Sixpoint Brewery. It incorporates pumpkin, marigold, and allspice, three ingredients that Cauldron claims were "used in real magical history."
"Our goal is to use science, the magic of our world, to make that dream real," said co-creator David Duckworth, who the press release bills as a molecular mixologist and cocktail experience designer. "American witches and wizards made up a large part of our customer base in London, and we are excited to bring this concept to them," added technologist and other Cauldron co-creator Matthew Cortland.
For now, Cauldron NYC will run as a four-month pop-up out of Bavaria Bierhaus in downtown Manhattan, but the duo hopes to find a permanent home for the experience. Tickets are $45, and include access to a robe (though not a mixologist vest). No word if noted Professor Snape lookalike Trent Reznor will stand in for the dearly departed Alan Rickman and grade your potions, but you never know.


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The Dja Dja Wurrung Aboriginal Clans Corporation decline to be part of Australia Day ceremonies
THE Dja Dja Wurrung Aboriginal Clans Corporation has chosen not to participate in Australia Day ceremonies this January 26 as the push behind the call to change the date of the national day gains traction.
The corporation politely declined Hepburn Shire Council's request to take part in the celebrations earlier this week.
Chief Executive Officer of the Dja Dja Wurrung Aboriginal Clans Corporation, Rodney Carter, said the Dja Dja Wurrung were a strong, vibrant and resilient peoples who understood the importance of celebrating patriotism but that it was time for the nation to come together with a national day that is inclusive of all histories.
"For us, our recent history is a celebration of our survival and the achievements we have made through our Recognition and Settlement Agreement and partnership with the State of Victoria," he said.
"The history of our people and the past effects upon our ancestors when new-comers came to our country was largely a violent and traumatic period. The past intrusions are somewhat yet to be better understood and accepted by others and it is part of our vision that future generations will come to know of the truth in our shared history."
Mr Carter said he hoped the day could become one that celebrated a collective Australian identity shared and owned by all.
"We would believe that all of our children and those not yet born deserve the honesty by us all as it will stand any test as to our maturity as a collective caring community," he said.
"The Dja Dja Wurrung now and into the future will continue to be a strong, constructive and respectful voice of the advocacy for our people's proper place in community matters. We hope increasingly others will share this vision with us, so that one day we could lead the celebration of this land as our home."
Council adopted a Reconciliation Action Plan, drawn up in consultation with the Dja Dja Wurrung, in 2018.
It has been working closely with the corporation through a community reference group to promote dialogue about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories across the shire.
We hope increasingly others will share this vision with us, so that one day we could lead the celebration of this land as our home.Rodney Carter
Chief Executive Officer of Hepburn Shire Council, Evan King, said the council valued the positive relationship that was being built with the Dja Dja Wurrung Aboriginal Clans Corporation.
"Our discussions together are across many areas of interest, including listening to traditional owner views, emotions and hopes for January 26th. Council is committed to listening to the views around Australia Day of all parts of our community," he said.
Hepburn Shire is a significant place for the Dja Dja Wurrung, as it is where first contact occurred and many lives were lost in the battle for the land, before many were forced to take refuge at the Loddon Aboriginal Protectorate Station built by Edward Stone Parker at Franklinford in 1841.
Protectorate sites were a means to teach Aboriginals how to live 'civilised' lives.
The council said it would continue to focus on community forums and sharing information about locally and nationally historic topics throughout 2019.
Mr King said celebrations on Australia Day would involve an acknowledgement of country and both the national Australian and Indigenous flag had been provided to civic and community events.