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Monthly Archives: December 2011
Contents November 2011
My Last Straw
A few years back, one of my favorite local lecturers told me about his adventure in Bangalore where he was visiting as a guest researcher. He described his whole day in the campus of some university called IISc. The highlight of the story for me, was the fact that this place called IISc had Fanta. This piece of anecdote motivated me to get into the campus. So I worked hard to clear the GATE exam. Then, in my dreams, I could see my gift straw into that 'first' bottle of Fanta. This clear cut vision drove me to work harder as the days passed. I managed to crack GATE and was selected to study at IISc.
Subsequently, I reached IISc with my trusty straw and an advisor was assigned to me, for my direct Ph.D. I met him on the first day, where he was hoping to discuss my future research, my favorite subjects and so on. I was too excited about Fanta to have anything else occupy my mind. I told him my motivations sincerely, my background, and how I really wanted to taste a complete Fanta. My advisor smirked at my naive thought of trying to complete a Fanta in the first try. However he kindly agreed to sponsor the whole thing.
My advisor who was staring at me for some time said,"You think that the straw that you have, is enough to reach the depths of the Fanta bottle?".
Alas! It dawned upon me that I had been foolish to think that my special straw, made for local drinks, could reach the depths of Fanta. My old, trusty straw could only help me till 250ml of Fanta and not beyond that. To go deeper I needed a longer straw and I did not have it. My advisor consoled me and asked me not to worry. He said that everyone goes through such setbacks while trying to reach a goal.
"The first step towards amending, is realization. Now that you have realized that your straw is not sufficient, take another straw from here", he said. He had to leave then since he had a class to teach. I asked for another straw and I drank my Fanta. Sadly, Prakruti's straw was not enough to brave the depths of a 300ml Fanta bottle either. I could never finish my Fanta. I saved the piece of straw to remind me of the Fanta I had. It was to remind me that I could never finish it.
Over the course of time, I ordered more Fantas and my adviser would ask me to take more straws. He told me that we would never know, when I might just get a straw that would help me finish my Fanta. I saved all the straws I used to drink my precious Fantas. At the end of two years he had forced me to take around 12 straws, none of which helped me finish a Fanta. I stopped ordering more straws and tried to use the straws I carried to drink my Fantas. It was really a very sad state of affairs then.
At the end of my third year, I was sitting in Prakruti drinking my Fanta and staring at all the straws I owned. Voila! the answer to my problem, then, occurred to me. I realized that by jamming one straw into another, I could make a longer straw and thus reach the bottom of my Fanta. The epiphany was that I was thinking of each straw as a separate entity and this narrow thinking was getting me nowhere. No known single straw helped me, yet when I combined the straws, I could reach the depths easily. I finished my Fanta , reached my goal that day and I saved the straw that helped me reached the goal. Heaven knows that this was my last straw. I told my adviser about the breakthrough and he asked me to jot it down so that it might help others understand similar situations in life and he asked me to publish it somewhere. I agreed to do it and the fact that you are reading this, means that it has been published somewhere.
Srikanth Pai (ECE)
Editorial – Going Green
With the frequent hikes in petrol prices, "going green" has never been cheaper (and undoubtedly, it is getting cheaper all the time).
On Teachers' Day, the Environmental awareness committee of the Students' Council flagged off the concept of cycle/walk day where, on the 5th of every month, the institute community is invited to voluntarily avoid the use of motor vehicles and either cycle or walk on campus. Pankaj Jain, from the Students' Council tells me that the primary intention is to increase awareness and motivate people to cycle or walk at least once a month.
Vehicular traffic on campus is increasing causing increasing distress to pedestrians. The long term aim of this initiative is to motivate people to avoid the use of motorized vehicles where unnecessary and encourage the use of cycles. Adding to the charm is the fact that IISc is a cyclists' paradise.
While the ball has been set rolling, there are plans to increase the momentum and sustain it till the event becomes an integral part of the institute. This was evident in the increased publicity that the event was given in its second month.
Pankaj hints at what is perhaps the one question the slightly skeptic are expected to raise "What difference does it make to the environment if we avoid the use of our motor vehicle for one day in a month?" He clarifies that it is not so much about reducing pollution as about increasing the ease with which a pedestrian or cyclist can commute on campus, due to the reduction in motor vehicles on that day of the month.
An often raised point whenever a small group of enterprising people attempt to make some difference to the environment is, "Will it have any significant impact on the big picture?" I will not quote the clichéd "drops make up the ocean" maxim. Instead, I write what I consider to be an illustrative albeit deleterious example of the difference one man can make.
In 1930, the American physicist and Nobel Prize-winner Robert Millikan said that there was no risk that humanity could do real harm to anything so gigantic as the Earth. In the same year, the American chemical engineer Thomas Midgley invented chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), the chemicals responsible for thinning the stratospheric ozone layer.
Earlier, in 1921, Midgley, while working at Dayton Research Laboratories, a subsidiary of General Motors, discovered that the addition of Tetraethyl Lead (TEL) to gasoline prevented internal combustion engines from "knocking". The company named the substance "Ethyl" to avoid all mention of lead in reports and advertising.
CFCs led to depletion of the ozone layer and large scale combustion of leaded gasoline led to release of large quantities of poisonous lead into the atmosphere.
J R McNeill an environmental historian has remarked that Midgley "had more impact on the atmosphere than any other single organism in Earth's history."
Arjun Shetty (ECE/MRC)
Going Once, Going Twice…
The beauties were lined up.
Each one had already decided which ones they were interested in.
The auctioneer eagerly stepped in.
Let the bidding begin…..
It was Sotheby's Central at the Old Amenities Hall on the 6th of August. The Students' Council (SC) along with the Security Section organized a 'Bicycle Auction'. They decided to do it the classy way – the 'English way'. As I approached the venue, I realized that the process was already in full swing. Sri Vallabha (Amenities Committee, SC) stood at the apex of a human circle, enthusiastically narrating the high points of the metal skeleton placed in front of him. He would pause, then beam and shout out the quoting price (well, someone has an alternate career ready in case the research option doesn't pan out as expected…). I thought that there would be a lull and people would be too shy to shout out their candidacy. Boy! Was I wrong. The cycle in question came under the 'good-looking' category and so its base price was about 500 bucks (the other category being 'horrible', the base price for which was usually around 250 bucks). But, these categories were highly subjective – as they say, "beauty lies in the eye of the beholder". The offers started pouring in, and students were out bidding each other at lightning speed. In no time, the price had reached Rs. 1600. Going once, going twice, gone! Sold to the guy at the back, in a dusky yellow T-shirt…who couldn't stop grinning. The cycle was then taken to a makeshift office of sorts, where it was immediately registered (SC is planning to register all the existing cycles, so that the remaining ones can be auctioned in the second round).
Bikes for girls were the 'rare items' in this auction (not surprising, considering the obscenely skewed sex ratio in the campus). Most of the cycles were thoroughly rusted, with no bells and no seats (the 'horrible' category) but this one girls' cycle had the bare essentials plus a smatter of paint. Two girls came and stood right next to it, each step towards the cycle reeking of determination. The basal price was quoted. Even before the Gods could raise an eyebrow, the bidding-battle started. Increments of 50,and sometimes 100 bucks, flashed right through. The war was long and finally a victor emerged. Applause.
Some of the students were apprehensive about the condition of the cycles. One student lamented, "The state it (the cycle) is in, I hope it doesn't break down midway…" Well, serious repairs were in order for all the cycles sold, but, I guess that was the idea – buy a dead cycle from the cycle graveyard (at a nominal price) and then bring it back to life; would probably be more profitable than buying a brand new one. Considering this was the first time something like this was attempted, I believe the process is in a phase of standardization.
The auction started at around 10:00 and went on till 11:30. The junta ('bidders' and the 'lookers') left. I finally got the opportunity to talk to the SC volunteers. Sri gave me the ownership forms (of the cycles) and explained to me the nitty-gritty's of the auction (like how the basal price was decided and how the students were asked to exercise caution while bidding and not go beyond a certain price range) and Sree (SC Chairman) talked about how the money collected will be utilized to install electronic air pumps (rumor has it that the SC is planning to put it at the SC office-Stores junction but nothing has been finalized yet).
Some students panned the event; others enjoyed it to the hilt. Personally, I think that it was an adventurous enterprise. Something innovative. It helped 'recycle' a mess that we students create (albeit unknowingly). As I wrote before, the process is in a phase of standardization, and hope that the second auction would not be far along.
AnindoChatterjee (CNS)
Fueling corruption
H. P. Fuel Station on New B. E. L. Road
I am writing this little article to alert the campus community about one of the fuel stations (a.k.a. petrol bunk) on New BEL Road, the HP bunk located opposite Barista.
Most customers go there and ask for a certain amount of petrol and then carefully monitor the meter while it runs. When the meter touches about 60 to 70% of the full amount, another guy there comes to you and tells you about a Customer Card facility for frequent customers, or tells you that you can have the air pressure in the vehicle tires checked there, or gives you some free, but good, advice that you have to regularly clean or get your vehicle serviced, or simply asks you for payment. You are distracted by that and while you take your eyes off the meter for a fraction of a second, with amazing coordination, the other guy who is fueling the vehicle presses on some button on the dispenser unit and then even before you realize what is happening, the meter jumps and shows the full amount. Effectively, the guy seems to be refueling for only about 75% of the total amount we pay for. I realized that only after I checked the mileage. This has happened to me on two occasions and since then if I happen to land at that petrol bunk by mistake or by no choice, I just stare at the meter until it runs to the finish much to the disappointment of the other worker who tries to distract. I checked with a few colleagues in Vignanpura and they also seemed to have had similar experiences at that petrol bunk. Most of us do not want to pick a fight with the petrol bunk fellow that too during a rush hour (so hard to win such a fight anyways!). So, often times, we just let go!
As it is, the prices of petrol are sky-rocketing. On top of it, we don't get our money's worth. This is probably one instance of how most of us common men get so easily cheated in the city. On a lighter note: Is it probably about time the Government of India introduced a C.A. (cheating allowance) component in the next Pay Commission recommendations?
Chandra Sekhar Seelamantula (EE)
Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all! – Hypatia of Alexandria
Each step you take should appeal to your curiosity,
Do not shy away from contradiction and ambiguity,
For your thoughtful response in face of such a difficulty,
Will spur creativity!
Breakdown a tough problem into simpler pieces
Like white light a prism disperses,
Remember this is achieved as the prism has multiple facets,
So view a problem from different angles, be open, be deft!
The greatest evil is fear,
Think with a slate that is free from bias it's clear,
The solution is like a chain of gears,
Overcome the inertia and the goal is near!
AshishJoglekar (CEDT)
Musings ! – A poem
As I sat there,
on a concrete bench..
There lays a playground,
trees swaying,
dispersed clouds
dancing around
that tall building,
a wink of red glow
of an aeroplane, above.
A multitude
of tranquilities..
And, as I sat there,
listening the music
of your heart
only to crave for
those thousand moons
in your eyes..
O! Wish you were here
with me sitting
on this concrete bench.
Manish Gautam (CIVIL)
Women's Welfare Committee
Women's Welfare committee is specially meant for the lady students of the institute community. This committee focuses on the academic/nonacademic issues associated with the lady students. Recently we had organized the Self defense Course for the women/girls of the institute community and got a good response.
All the participants were happy and satisfied with the course which not only emphasized on the defense skills but also gave a moral boost.
We requested for separate security outside the girl's hostel Ashwini and are still following it up. We also made attempts to solve some women related issues and complains.
Our next plan is to organize the health awareness program for the women's. In concert with Students' Council, this committee ensures the comfortable stay of the lady students in the campus.
Students' Council


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Metal workshop in the international township of Auroville and manufactures wind pumps and compressed earth block presses and other equipment supportive of sustainability.
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French manufacturer of waterpumping windmills. Features described in English, French, and German.
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Manufacture water pumping windmills .
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Manufacture the Poldaw range of Windpumps in the UK. These pumps deliver benefits of low maintenance, value for money and minimal environmental impact.
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(TriceEdneyWire.com)—Donald Trump hosted a celebration in the White House Rose Garden for House Republicans after they passed their party's health care plan by the thinnest of margins. They were celebrating what Trump called a "win," without any thought about consequences.
None of them had read the bill, which was released only a couple of days before the vote and rushed to the floor. The vote took place before the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office could issue a revised assessment of its costs and effects.
House leaders and Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney dismissed criticisms, saying that Senate Republicans planned to start all over anyway. This bill addresses one-sixth of our national economy, and an industry that has been a leading source of jobs growth. Don't worry, say House Republicans, we just had to get the win; forget about the substance.
Americans shouldn't just be worried; they should be furious. The Republican bill will throw literally millions off health care, put people with pre-existing conditions at risk and raise premiums particularly for workers aged 50 to 64—in order to give a massive tax break to the very wealthy.
At the annual shareholders meeting of Berkshire Hathaway, billionaire investor Warren Buffett called it for what it is: "a huge tax cut for guys like me." The richest 400 people in America will get a tax break estimated at about $7 million a year. To pay for that, millions will lose their coverage, and millions more—the elderly and those with pre-existing conditions in various states—will see premiums soar and insurance become unaffordable.
You can't sugarcoat this. It's not enough to say the Senate will fix it (the 13 White men—no women, no people of color—on the Republican Senate Working Group certainly will not). It's not acceptable to say, "We don't mean it; we just had to pass it."


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Viewpoint: Are the Tories losing the free market faith?
The financial crisis has made many on the political right question their faith in free market capitalism, but was the crisis caused by too much state interference?
As a passionate believer in free markets, I am worried the Conservatives are losing the faith. The financial crisis has brought capitalism into disrepute and the right now seems to agree with the left that unfettered markets are to blame. I think they are wrong.
To someone like me who believes in free markets, the language and policies coming out of the Conservative Party are alarming.
They talk of rebalancing the economy and regulating the banks. It is a far cry from Margaret Thatcher's radical programme of deregulation in the 1980s.
I am not surprised that the financial crisis has caused an ideological crisis on the right. The crash showed that our economic system is diseased, but I think the Conservatives have misdiagnosed the cause of the infection. They blame poor regulation, I blame government interference.
Matthew Hancock is typical of the new breed of Conservatives. Elected in 2010, he has already been appointed Minister for Skills and is a member of his party's Free Enterprise Group.
To me, Conservatives like Mr Hancock, are trying to redefine what it means to be a free market capitalist.
"I am a free market Conservative," he says. "I believe very strongly in the power of the free market to bring people out of poverty and to increase prosperity and for that market to work properly, it needs to have a strong framework.
"I think it's vital that we don't muddle up a laissez-faire approach - in which everything is left to be - with a free market, that has a strong framework."
This is a strange analysis from a supposed defender of free markets, especially when the government intervenes in the financial market in a way that clearly encourages banks to take excessive risk.
The government explicitly guarantees the deposits of ordinary customers, up to £85,000, and reliably bails out larger "wholesale" lenders when banks fail. This effectively subsidises the borrowing capacity of risky banks.
Luigi Zingales, a professor of finance and author of A Capitalism for the People agrees:
"The banks receive an implicit subsidy from the government in the form of this protection - they are too big to fail. This implicit subsidy allows them to access credit at a cheaper rate and that has fuelled their growth, their profits and also their risk-taking."
Cautious banking
In a truly free market, if a bank went bust, the government would not repay deposits and savers would lose their money.
This might sound harsh, but that is the point. It would make us fussy about where we put our money.
Banks would then need to tempt savers, not with high interest rates achieved through gambling, but by being cautious.
This is not a policy the Conservatives are willing to adopt. Instead they want a regulator to force banks to behave sensibly and they blame the banking crisis on poor regulation.
Andrea Leadsom is another member of the Conservative party's Free Enterprise Group who worked in the financial sector before her election in 2010.
"We've seen the excesses of unbridled capitalism - where there were no limits on it - and now we're seeing a complete pushback," says Leadsom.
"I think what happened is because there was no real regulation on the size and scope of the banks, that's what led to the problems. If you go to the logical extreme of Free Enterprise you end up where some really clever person rules the world because there's nothing to stop them doing it."
Even more alarming for me than this new-found faith in regulators is the government's enthusiasm for industrial policy.
It has established a British Business Bank that will subsidise loans to some companies, and has assigned ministerial buddies to Britain's largest firms.
Ministers talk about rebalancing the economy away from services and towards manufacturing.
The Minister for Skills, Matthew Hancock, has explained the change in his party's thinking:
"Over the past 20 or so years, the government thought that it shouldn't have a view over the structure of the economy. I think that's wrong.
"We should find out what we're successful at, we should support that whilst always supporting challenger industries and being open to new industries that increasingly pop up."
'Morality of markets'
Mr Hancock denies this represents a return to a 70s-style economic central planning, but to me it is a significant departure from the more hands-off Thatcherite approach.
But one of Mrs Thatcher's closest advisers thinks I may have misjudged how far the Conservatives ever embraced free market thinking.
Lord Griffiths ran the Number 10 Policy Unit from 1985 until 1990 and says Mrs Thatcher was always concerned about the morality of markets.
"She did have a belief in the value of enterprise and the market economy, which I don't think previous leaders of the Conservative party really had, but she was never, in my judgment, the kind of free marketeer which she is sometimes made out to be.
"She believed in the market, but she also believed in the market within a boundary of social justice. For example, I remember on many occasions she'd really hit the roof to me privately about the compensation, for example, in the City."
He is right of course. I remembered Mrs Thatcher's free market rhetoric but forgot the interventionist reality. She had a regional policy and industrial planning. She bailed out the ailing car manufacturer British Leyland, regarding it as too big to fail, and for every privatisation, she created a regulator.
Laissez-faire is an inherently unattractive idea to politicians, including Conservatives.
They see it as their job to "run the country," including the economy. Alas, they can only run it into the ground.
Their various interventions create perverse incentives, misallocations of capital, cronyism, and enterprise-sapping uncertainty about the terms of trade.
The economy would do better if politicians would just let it go.
Listen to the full report on Analysis on BBC Radio 4 on Monday, 8 October at 20:30 BST and Sunday, 14 October at 21:30 BST. You can also listen again via the Radio 4 website or Analysis download.


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TNPSC GROUP – 2A Study Materials:
1. Non-plan expenditure includes
(a) economic services
(b) social services
(c) pension
(d) all of these
Show Answer
(d) all of these
2. The Unit Truse of India was established in
(a) 1955
(b) 1964
(c) 1966
(d) 1967
Show Answer
(b) 1964
3. Statutory meeting is held
(a) only once in the lifetime of the company
(b) every year
(c) at the discretion of the directions
(d) once in 5 years
Show Answer
(a) only once in the lifetime of the company
4. The maximum number of partners in a firm carrying on banking business is
(a) 7
(b) 50
(c) 10
(d) 20
Show Answer
(c) 10
5. The written record of the business done at a meeting is called
(a) Agenda
(b) Notice
(c) Resolution
(d) Minutes
Show Answer
(d) Minutes
6. Which of the following is not a function of an office?
(a) Purchase of office furniture & machinery
(b) Keep a check on the quality of goods produced
(c) Conducting meetings
(d) Handling communication system
Show Answer
(b) Keep a check on the quality of goods produced
7. Which of the following is called as "Negotiable instrument"?
(a) Railway receipt
(b) Cheque
(c) Lorry receipt
(d) None of these
Show Answer
(b) Cheque
8. In which of the following cities Stock Exchange functions?
(a) Madurai
(b) Coimbatore
(c) Trichy
(d) Salem
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(b) Coimbatore
9. The term I.B.R.D denotes
(a) Asian Development Bank
(b) World Bank
(c) State Bank of India
(d) International Monetary Fund
Show Answer
(b) World Bank
10. Which of the following is not an important feature of Capitalism?
(a) Use of Capital goods
(b) Centralized planning
(c) Private ownerships of means production
(d) Soecialization
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(b) Centralized planning
11. A transformer
(a) transforms energy
(b) transforms frequency
(c) transforms voltage
(d) generates emf
Show Answer
(c) transforms voltage
12. Which one of the following interactions is the weakest?
(a) Nucleus
(b) Electromagnetic
(c) Weak Nucleus
(d) Gravitational
Show Answer
(d) Gravitational
13. Zener diode is used as a regulator of
(a) current
(b) power
(c) voltage
(d) heat
Show Answer
(c) voltage
14. In potentiometer experiment, when the galvanometer shows no deflection, then no current flows on
(a) potentiomeeter wire
(b) galvanometer circuit
(c) primary circuit
(d) battery
Show Answer
(b) galvanometer circuit
15. Which one of the following elements has the same atomic number and mass number?
(a) Hydrogen
(b) Oxygen
(c) Helium
(d) Nitrogen
Show Answer
(a) Hydrogen
16. Isotopes of uranium are used in
(a) photography
(b) medicine
(c) nuclear fission
(d) volumetric analysis
Show Answer
(c) nuclear fission
17. The compound used in smoke screen is
(a) calcium carbide
(b) calcium phosphide
(c) zinc phosphide
(d) calcium phosphate
Show Answer
(b) calcium phosphide
18. The bell metal contains
(a) Cu and Zn
(b) Sn and Zn
(c) Cu and Sn
(d) Ni and Zn
Show Answer
(b) Sn and Zn
19. Blue vitriol is
(a) ZnSO4. 7H2O
(b) NiCl2. 6H2O
(c) FeSO4. 7H2O
(d) CuSO4.5H2O
Show Answer
(d) CuSO4.5H2O
20. Oxidation involves
(a) gain in electrons
(b) gain of hydrogen
(c) loss of electron
(d) combustion
Show Answer
(c) loss of electron
21. Raja Rammohan Roy founded the Brahma Samaj in
(a) 1823 A.D
(b) 1828 A.D
(c) 1824 A.D
(d) 1829 A.D
Show Answer
(b) 1828 A.D
22. Name the Sikh Guru who was put to death by Aurangazeb
(a) Guru Teg Bahadur
(b) Guru Gobind SIngh
(c) Hargobind Singh
(d) Guru Harkishan
Show Answer
(a) Guru Teg Bahadur
23. Mixed economy in India was introduced by
(a) Indira Gandhi
(b) Jawaharlal Nehru
(c) Lal Bahadur Shastri
(d) Rajiv Gandhi
Show Answer
(b) Jawaharlal Nehru
24. The first non-congress Prime Minister of India was
(a) Chandrasekhar
(b) Charan Singh
(c) Moraji Desai
(d) Vajpayee
Show Answer
(c) Moraji Desai
25. Godwin Austen lies in
(a) Middle Himalayas
(b) Greater Himalayas
(c) Karakoram range
(d) Satpura range
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(c) Karakoram range


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OK, it's official. I have found one of my new favourite haunts. During a recent day trip to Marlborough, the gorgeous and quaint, yet high-brow market town in Wultshire, we were wandering down the main high street. Packed with plenty of pubs and small local shops, it's great for quiet day out. One tip – take a look in the windows of the many estate agencies. There are some seriously stunning properties available in the area, and let's face it, out of a lot of our price ranges! No harm in looking though!
As usual, I was hungry (shocker!) so as we strolled, we were checking out the restaurants. Rick Stein's place stands out, but we decided to wait and see if we could find anywhere else. I'm not a great lover of seafood, and I didn't fancy pub grub. Suddenly, we came across 100 Chai Street. With its bright blue front and yellow interior, it is certainly eye-catching.


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Posted on 27.04.2010 - 11:00 EDT in CONTRACT AWARDS by Rons_ROV_Links
Seabed AS has been awarded a contract regarding search for the Air France-plane that crashed outside Brazil June 1st 2009. The wreck is likely at a depth of 3-4000 metres, and the French Safety Investigation Authority responsible for the investigation of civil aircraft accidents and incidents (BEA) has, among different international companies, chosen Seabed AS as a partner.
The mobilization of Seabed Worker commences in the beginning of March in Brazil. The vessel is already in the area. The search is expected to last between one and two months. The search area in international waters between Brazil and West Africa, is huge and far from shore, and the water depth makes the search a technological challenge.
The Airbus A330-203-plane, Air France AF447, is supposed to be at depth of 3-4000 metres, and Seabed's specially equipped vessel and experience with deep sea operations, have contributed to the contract award.
"We are proud of that BEA has chosen us for this challenging task, and that Seabed in this way might contribute to clear up this tragic accident where 228 persons were killed," says CEO Hans M. Gravdal.
An important task is to find the aircraft's Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) and Flight Data Recorder (FDR), and BEA will utilize the best equipment available in the search. In addition to equipment and ROV on board Seabed Worker, three REMUS AUV's will be used. The AUV's are operated by the American Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and are capable to operate down to a depth of 6000 meter.
"We are working different from other subsea-companies and perform what we call 'subsea surgery'. We have experience from work on depths deeper than 3000 meter. This is deep, but we have personnel who have long experience with this type of work, and a good track record."
"We consider the possibilities to locate the plane as good," says Mr. Gravdal.


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Springs That Never Dry Up...
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oh yes. One of the things I love visualizing when I do my meditation is a field full of flowers on a sunny day. This looks like it was written for me!!ReplyDelete
I so need to get a handle on how to 'do' meditation without my mind going at a million miles an hour. That's why I loved this quote when I found it in my book earlier today.ReplyDelete
When I'm on school hols shortly, I'm going to have a serious go at getting into some sort of meditation routine, as well as overhauling my sleep routine (I don't get anywhere near enough).
Plus, I want to try going for a lovely walk everyday, I'm too much of a sloth at the moment.
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The Museum produces and screens documentaries and short films to help bring rare and exclusive stories and interviews to the public. This project was launched with the May 2015 screening of our collaborative film Schwarz Weiss. Since making professional documentary films is an expensive and resource consuming process, supporting our media and cinematic documentary production program is another way of helping us share our educational and artistic media projects with the world.To support and find out more about our cinematic productions, please contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Museums thrive off of the community they serve. To help us with our projects, goals, and to better serve the community, we seek enthusiastic volunteers and donations including but not limited to financial contributions, storage, preservation, and display materials as well as artifacts, historical documents, and oral histories. Donations of these types, regardless of volume, size, or amount, are all indispensable and greatly needed in order to find a permanent home, support the Museum's mission, and make our holdings accessible to the public. Your participation in our endeavor also helps us serve veterans and our community. Your generous donations of time, money, artifacts and / or preservation material makes you a part of our story and contributes to the legacy of the Regimes Museum. To commemorate those who have gone above and beyond, we offer a variety of ways to show you our appreciation for your generosity. If you wish to learn more and become a part of our history, please contact us at email@example.com.
Education Access Fund
The Regimes Museum will provide a strong foundation in educational and historical literacy in a time when funding for these programs is increasingly being threatened. Regardless of financial status, history should be accessible to all, which is why the Regimes Museum will also establish an Educational Access Fund, made possible by a grant donations. This fund will award grants of up to $400 to low income designated schools to help underwrite the cost of bus transportation to the Regimes Museum Exhibit. This fund requires support and grant funds to help us in our educational mission. Please contact us if you wish to contribute to this program at email@example.com.
Educational Opportunities
The Regimes Museum strives to serve scholars, professors, teachers, students, and the community as a whole by providing, among exhibitions and other programs, curricula for use in academic settings for students and teachers. To make the study of the phenomenon of tyranny and dictatorship and topics surrounding this theme easier for students of history, we have and continue to develop learning material for use in the classroom. Curriculum can include topics such as the interactions and relations between regimes and their neighbors in the local international community as well as internal issues and topics as well. If you wish to contribute curriculum or would like to volunteer in our education program, please contact us at email@example.com.
Regimes Museum events come in many forms and are public as well as private. To date, there is no museum that focuses on the phenomenon of repressive regimes as a whole. Therefore, the Regimes Museum offers experiences and insights not available elsewhere. Events consist of either one or a combination of the following: traveling exhibitions, talks, and screenings of documentaries as well as dinners, displays, galas, veteran support events, and fundraisers.
The main Museum exhibition focuses on seven dictatorships, where the everyday life of ordinary citizens, the state apparatus, personalities, and the military and associated conflicts make up the central topics for each regime. The exhibits are designed to give visitors a well rounded perspective on the reality of life under dictatorships across a diverse cultural spectrum. Visiting and collaborative exhibits offer visitors the opportunity to explore regimes not discussed in the permanent collection or to focus on specific aspects of totalitarianism.
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The Regimes Museum offers internship opportunities to university students to expand their horizons by helping the team with its core programming and educational mission. Joining us through our internship program can enrich your academic pursuits and expose you to the type of work typical for a museum, including archival research and cataloging, promoting academic research, publishing work on our blog and in the R.M. Journal, setting up or assisting with the development of exhibitions, events, and programs, as well as participating in other projects listed here. While internships can be tailored towards certain goals, interested individuals will be tasked with completing a project (emphasis may vary depending on your field of interest) that will be shared either through our blog or other public platforms. Please contact firstname.lastname@example.com to find out more about our internship program.
Oral History Project (R.M. Sessions)
The Regimes Museum Oral History Project, also known as the Regimes Museum Sessions program, strives to preserve the reality of what life was like for individuals and/or families who lived under or fought against a repressive authoritarian dictatorship. We believe that in order to capture a piece of the reality, preserving, recording, and sharing first hand accounts with scholars, history researchers, and the public is a powerful method of keeping the memory of these detrimental yet significant historical events alive. We wish to save not only artifacts but also personal histories so that future generations can gain a better comprehension of the past that so fundamentally affects the world of today. If you want to learn more, share your story, or wish to volunteer to promote this program, please contact us at email@example.com.
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The R.M. Journal is a dedicated publication for academics, scholars, and students to have an opportunity to publish their research while enjoying the works of other contributors as well. The R.M. Journal is intended for professional research articles that deal with human rights issues, repressive regimes, war, and other topics related to these general fields. This publication is also open to veterans and historical eye witnesses to share their stories with the public. For more information about the R.M. Journal, please follow the banner link above or contact us at email@example.com.
Regimes Museum Press
The Regimes Museum Press, or R.M. Press, is our effort to become an in-house publisher for authors and researchers. The R.M. Press is an endeavor to bring non-fiction academic publications in the general fields of history and political science to scholars and students. This service started as an off-shoot of the R.M. Journal and aims to provide a platform for the publication and distribution of full manuscripts instead of articles. Publications are available in paperback and are sold through Amazon.com and book prices are subject to production costs. On submission, your proposal will be read by the appropriate commissioning editor at R.M. Press who will, if necessary, discuss it with colleagues and/or send it for review by one or more external advisers chosen by us for their specialist and/or market expertise. We are committed to making publishing decisions as swiftly and efficiently as possible. Having a publishing house requires editors, typesetters, designers, and a project review board among other resources. Distribution of a published manuscript is available for purchase at the Museum Store and online via Amazon.com. To expand distribution methods and marketing, designated funding would help us with our educational mission.
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PRODUCT REVIEW | The beauty blender
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Experts and mom say to be sure to include protein for the best breakfast.
If you want to start your day off right with the best breakfast, you need to make healthy choices. A balanced meal of protein, whole grains, fruits and vegetables. The specifics will depend on your personal goals and current health, but in general your meal should be made up of about 25% protein, 25% carbohydrates, and 50% fruits and vegetables. Given this information, check out these easy and nutritious ideas to start your day with the best breakfast.
Greek Yogurt with Granola and Berries. Granola can really pack a punch of sugar and fat so always check the label. Non-fat Greek yogurt typically contains about 22 grams of protein per one cup serving, just what you need to fill you up and fuel you for the day.
Egg White and Veggie Omelet. Use whole eggs if you want or just the whites for a leaner protein source. Pack your omelet with spinach, tomatoes, mushrooms, and more.
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first question to be answered is "why plan?" The need
for planning was recognized thousands of years ago. Sun Tzu,
in his classic book The Art of War, written 2500 years
ago, said: "The general who wins a battle makes many calculations
in his temple before the battle is fought." Some of the
early successes in artificial intelligence were attained without
the need for planning. For example, chess-playing programs and
expert systems (Shortliffe, 1976 among many others) do not require
any type of planning. The answer, we feel, is that any intelligent
agent capable of carrying out a sequence of actions is going
to need to be able to plan. Chess-playing programs, while they
may look several moves ahead as part of a heuristic search algorithm,
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expert system, after making all inferences possible based on
available data, generally makes a single recommendation or diagnosis,
and leaves the planning of a complex response up to the human
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We believe that such systems are quite limited in that they
require human intervention after each step. When an agent has
a more sophisticated ability to plan, it is capable of interacting
with a human at any time the human would so desire, but it is
no longer limited by the requirement for such interaction. For
example, an expert system with the ability to plan would be
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Topeka Police release bodycam footage of officer diving into pond to save child
TOPEKA, Ks. (CNN Newsource) -- The Topeka Police Department has released bodycam video of one of its officers who jumped into a pond to save an Autistic, four-year-old child.
Topeka Police said officer Aaron Bulmer was driving around searching for suspects near the Central Park Community Center on Sunday when he noticed a small child dangerously close to a pond.
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Lost Alumni
Through the years, MacMurray College has lost contact with some members of the alumni family. Many times alumni have moved or their forwarding address expires before the next MacMurray College mailing arrives. Often the best resources for finding lost alumni are classmates and friends. Below are lists of lost Mac alumni. Thank you for taking a look. We hope that you are able to help us reconnect.
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Today will see the Jack the Ripper DLC arrive to Assassin's Creed: Syndicate. To get ready for this the PC version of the game has received a patch to to ready it for the DLC, as well as fix a few bugs encountered in the game.
The patch will bring Assassin's Creed Syndicate on the PC up to version 1.31, which includes these PC specific updates:
- Added DLC Jack The Ripper support
- Added additional parameter to AC.ini for disabling cloth motion 30FPS limits
- Fixed crash in multi-monitor mode in London
- Fixed FXAA with enabled MSAA
- Fixed changing of display in fullscreen mode issues
- Fixed flickering panel in World Map
- Fixed various render issues
- Fixed several online issues
- Minor UI improvements
For clothing physics fix, follow these instructions:
In the AC.ini file located in "MyDocuments/Assassins Creed Syndicate", modify the FlexibleMotionSimulationFPS parameter found in the "[OPTIONS]" section as follows:
- To enable the cloth setting: FlexibleMotionSimulationFPS=1
- To disable the cloth setting: FlexibleMotionSimulationFPS=0
By default this functionality is disabled. You may need to add the parameter manually.
Further fixes also in the patch but not PC specific can be viewed here.
It will be interesting to see if the update will fix everything that the players have been waiting for. Hopefully it will prepare the game for the new DLC and make sure that there are no issues with the release.
Thankfully the controversial subject of Jack the Ripper appears to have been treated well in the DLC. So now we can concentrate on enjoying the game itself without the usual round of complaints that such a touchy subject has been exploited.
Are you going to play the Jack the Ripper DLC? Let us know your thoughts on it below.


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Published 03 October 2014
Helped by a grant from the Arts Council of Wales, Menter will be working in partnership with Clwb Ifor Bach to organise a calendar of music, poetry and comedy nights in Welsh, which will be held in Penarth, Cowbridge and Barry.
A spokesperson on behalf of the Arts Council of Wales said: "We are very pleased to be able to support this initiative. This grant will allow Menter Bro Morgannwg to build on its existing work; to understand more about what people want, and in turn, to develop a varied programme in line with their community's expectations."
The first events will be held at the Windsor Arms, Penarth, on the 24 October with Al Lewis and Kizzy Crawford performing. Tickets are £8 and fluent speakers, learners, and non-Welsh speakers are all welcome to come along.
To book tickets, or for any further information, contact firstname.lastname@example.com or call 02920 689888.
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Council provides a range of child-related services, programs and initiatives.
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This LIVE Virtual Tiny House Workshop is currently closed for enrollment. Get on the waitlist to find out when the doors open again!
Workshop days go from 12 noon until 4 pm Eastern time, both days.
The cost of the Virtual Tiny House Workshop is $197 (significantly more affordable than our live in-person workshops).
How does this work? I've never been to a virtual workshop!
The workshop will be delivered in the seminar/teleseminar format, so you can attend from any location in the world!
There is a live group chat throughout the workshop, so you can ask questions, get answers, and make connections.
You will receive a special link to join the live virtual workshop before we start.
What do I get when I register?
- Access to the live virtual workshop
- 8 lessons that cover everything from designing and building to downsizing
- Access to all of the recordings and materials afterwards as well.
- A digital copy of Dan Louche's Tiny House Design and Construction Guide.
- More than $1200 worth of discounts on your favorite tiny house products (only available to workshop attendees).
What if I can't come live - can I still watch the workshop recordings and get all of the MAterials and bonuses?
Yes of course! You do not need to come to the live workshop if you are busy those days - you can still receive all of the materials and catch up at your convenience. But you do need to register before the live event in order to get access to those!
Do you offer a payment plan?
Yes we do! We want this workshop to be affordable for everyone. You can register today, and pay two monthly payments of $109 each.
Will you be offering this again?
We aren't sure when we'll offer this workshop again, but it won't be until next year. So if you want to come live and get access to us, ask us questions about your tiny home build or situation, now is the time. We will not sell the recordings or make those available if you don't register for the live virtual workshop.
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You may email us at email@example.com. We're happy to answer your questions related to the workshop!
See what our students are saying...
"The Virtual Tiny House Workshop provided me valuable information. I now have a better understanding of trailer selection, on and off grid systems, and design principles. Thanks Mariah and Dan, I would recommend this workshop for anyone interested in building a tiny house."
- Pat Roney
"I have been looking at / planning our THOW for quite a while, but my husband has been saying, "Let's just get an RV and live out of it." I wanted a *home*, not an RV, and I think this workshop is the ticket to convincing him that this is the way to go. It provides all the "nitty-gritty" details I have been looking for, as well as being a format that I can take on *my* schedule and location, instead of waiting for a workshop to be held near me at a convenient time. Thanks! "
- Martha Zimmerman
"I cannot thank you enough for having this virtual workshop. It has already impacted my tiny home design/building thought processes. I was looking into attending one of Dan's in person workshops. I decided to sign-up based on price and wanted to find out if it was the right option for me to build or have someone else build my tiny house. all the useful information it made me change or rethink some of my design choices. This virtual workshop is ideal for anyone who wants to know if they should or can build their own tiny home. Dan takes the fear away for DIY on plumbing, electrical, and more. Mariah has helped me know more about preparing to downsize, provide designing tips, and being resourceful with building/living in your tiny home. This is a valuable resource to ask those questions from experts instead of just relying on internet searches. I'm now one step closer to my tiny home dream."
- Maribell Buchanan
"The workshop provided me with much of the info and resources I need to finally get started on this project.Very impressed with both Mariah and Dan as teachers. Thanks so much for what you are doing and how you are doing it! I would definitely recommend this to anyone wanting to learn more about this entire process."
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When I was young, about 11, I was lucky enough to be bought a Commodore 64, the computer that introduced a generation to computers, and likely launched thousands of careers in computing, mine included. It wasn't long before I started to feel constrained by the very basic version of BASIC that it ran... 2 character variable names, no labels, no loops apart from FOR, no allowances to structured programming whatsoever. However, help was at hand, in the form of theCommodore 64 Programmer's Reference Guide, and Jim Butterfield's Supermon 64 machine language monitor. I remember keying in Supermon 64 from the pages of Compute! magazine... my mentor and educator for many years, and remember clearly the vast speed increases to be had from running machine language code versus BASIC.
Since then, things have changed so much... I do much of my coding in Python and Java running on multi-cored monsters that live in air conditioned data centres, and capable of speeds that are beyond ridiculous, and yet I still feel a great deal of nostalgia for simple CPUs that can be coded directly with no scheduler or process management to be concerned with. Arduinos deliver some of the fix I miss, as does the Raspberry Pi, but I really miss the 6502.
One day, while browsing, I came across a site, Obsolescence Guaranteed, wherein the site owner described his adventures in creating an emulation of the Computer That Started It All, as far as I am concerned. The KIM-1 was released by Commodore in 1976, when I was 5, and had little more than a CPU, a bit of memory, a hexadecimal keypad and display, and a serial port. Not exactly a monster or performance by today's standards, but back then, when you could easily blow a couple of hundred thousand on a PDP-11, or a few million on a 'big iron' System 360, this little thing was a revelation, and cheap at about $250.
Oscar, of Obsolescence Guaranteed seems to have as much fondness for old quirky computers as do I, but the KIM-UNO, basically an emulated 6502 and RAM running on an Arduino Mini Pro, with a simple circuit board for the keypad and display, was what really caught my eye. On getting in touch, I found out that a new run had been ordered and should be ready for shipping within a few days. Providence! It was clearly meant to be, so I paypal'd €25 for the kit, and a box and USB-TTL cable, and 6 or so days later had my prize.
I strongly recommend the documentation be read before beginning, or a critical step may be missed. Aside from that, it's a simple build, albeit with loads of solder joins to be made for the keypad. An hour or so of soldering and it's done, ready to be started up... (yes, I know some of the leads could be trimmed better, but I need to get a new side-cutter).
So back to my roots, I go.


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Fossil of largest carnivorous dinosaur unearthed
September 12 , 2014
Scientists have managed to get a better look at and reconstruct the Spinosaurus, the largest carnivorous dinosaur that roamed the earth some 100 million years ago.
The new research was possible thanks to a huge fossil that was unearthed in the Sahara.
Perhaps the most interesting aspect of the findings, published in the Science journal, is the confirmation of the theory that the Spinosaurus was indeed a swimming dinosaur and in all likelihood preferred the water to the land.
It's length from nose to tail was more than 15 meters.
Tagged as: Spinosaurus, carnivorous dinosaur, fossil, Sahara, swimming dinosaur, world news


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What do you do when you want to buy car insurance but are not sure if you would land up with the best deal for you? The reality is that you could easily be taken for a ride when purchasing motor insurance – there is so much out there in the market that you could possibly not see the difference between the best car insurance and one that you would rather be without. Here is what you should know and what you could gain when you buy insurance online.
One of the main advantages of being connected to the World Wide Web is that you are not alone in your search. The power of the internet is many times more powerful than a whole bunch of retailers put together – remember not to overlook this ability. It is much easier and realistic today to look out for online insurance than what it was a few years ago, when the industry was in its infancy, trying to figure out what the internet had in store. The most important part in your search for the best deal is to spend some time – online.
Provide the right information: When you are dealing with the world of virtual reality, you need to be sure that you have the right information on hand, and are willing and able to provide with the facts as may be required. Insurers tend to look favourably upon people who have not had insurance claims, or those who could be categorised as being low-risk drivers. You may also want to have your Vehicle Identification Number, Registration number, make and model details handy as you try to crack the code of car insurance online.
Whether you are on the road commuting to work or you are online, trying to secure your motor insurance, there is one rule that you should follow – do not wait for the eleventh hour. When you rush, you miss out. Take your time, shop around, and compare insurance. The advantage of buying insurance online is your ability to seek out the right information. Plan in advance before your Policy is due for renewal and compare car insurance to see what is on offer and how you could make the most of it all.
In an era of internet and instant connectivity, information is the key. And there is so much information available online these days, at the click of a button that you would only have to be intent on getting them all in place to make a decision. Find out about the insurance claim, get information on your rights and responsibilities, and get to know the motor insurance industry better. As always, knowledge is power.


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Escarole, Sausage and Mushroom Dressing
Chef's Note
"From 2007 San Jose Mercury News. This can be prepared up until the baking step the night before. Note: I made this for Thanksgiving 2007 and it was a lot of trouble and not too great. If anyone has suggestions to improve it, please share them."
READY IN:1hr 30mins
Ingredients Nutrition
- 1 loaf country bread, cut into 1-inch cubes (8 cups)
- 1 1⁄4 lbs portabella mushrooms, stems discarded, gills removed and caps cut into 1-inch pieces
- 3 garlic cloves, minced
- 6 tablespoons olive oil, divided use
- 1 1⁄2 lbs escarole, coarsely chopped
- 2 ounces dried funghi porcini
- 1 cup chicken stock or 1 cup broth, heated in microwave
- 3 medium onions, thinly sliced
- 3⁄4 teaspoon salt, divided use
- 1⁄2 teaspoon black pepper, divided use
- 1 lb uncooked Italian sausage, coarsely chopped (turkey, chicken or pork)
- 3 large eggs
- 1⁄3 cup heavy cream
- The night before, place cubed bread on cookie sheet to dry out. The next day, preheat oven to 425 degrees. Toss protobello mushrooms with garlic and 3 T. oil in a 3- to 4-quart shallow glass or ceramic baking dish. Roast in middle of oven, stirring twice, until mushrooms are just tender, about 20 minute Cool to room temperature.
- While mushrooms are roasting, cook escarole in a large pot of boiling, salted water, uncovered, 4 to 5 minutes. Drain and rinse under cold water to stop cooking. Squeeze gently to remove excess water.
- In small bowl, soak porcini in stock for 20 minute Remove mushrooms and chop. Strain stock through a fine sieve to remove sediment; reserve.
- Cook onions in remaining 3T oil in 12-inch heavy skillet over moderate heat, stirring frequently, until softened, 6 to 8 minutes. Stir in 1/2 teaspoon salt and 1/4 teaspoon pepper. Set aside onions in bowl. In same skillet, cook sausage over medium heat until cooked through. Set aside.
- Whisk together eggs, cream, stock and remaining salt and pepper in a large bowl./ Add mushrooms, escarole, onions, sausage, and bread; toss well. Spread in buttered baking dish and bake, covered with foil, in upper third of oven about 20 minutes. Remove foil and bake until edges of bread are crisp, about 10 minutes more.
- Note: Dressing can be made 1 day ahead. Store covered in refrigerator. Bring to room temperature before placing in oven to bake, 20 - 30 minutes covered, another 10 minutes uncovered.
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Vertium is the result of collaboration between three of Europe's leading property companies: Union Investment, U+I and Ronan Group. Union Investment Real Estate GmbH is Germany's largest investment management company for open-ended real estate funds, renowned for delivering high-quality properties in prime locations.
Committed to the highest modern standards of commercial architecture, U+I plc is renowned for creativity and innovation. Combining financial strength and commercial acumen, the Group has produced an exciting portfolio of properties that have had a transformational impact on the UK and Dublin markets.
Ronan Group has a track record of creating ambitious and emblematic headquarters buildings. Their developments for Google, PwC and Vodafone rank amongst the city's finest workspaces while Convention Centre Dublin employed landmark building practices to become the world's first carbon-neutral conference building.
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