The ambience feels relaxed and chic, the perfect place for a happy hour cocktail or a witching hour nightcap.
My father, known in the family as "Rog, " rattles through the iconic players with gusto and the degree of brevity required when one is teeing off in a hour.
Statistics from 2001 to 2005 show that a hour spent riding in a helicopter was about 40% more likely to result in an accident than an hour spent in a fixed-wing aircraft.
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The general feeling was that you could never implement a leap hour as they are much harder to do than the leap seconds, and if you can't cope with leap seconds, it would be much harder to cope with a leap hour.
But the closure of a key bridge along a highway leading out of Caracas, what was once a half hour commute, has turned into a four-hour ordeal.
After a six-hour public hearing, ethics committee members went into closed session, then emerged about a half hour later with their decision.
The two had a choice to do either a four-hour race or a nine-hour race.
You could allot a half hour a day, say, to answering urgent emails and calls.
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Aim to set aside a half hour a day to help people and use this time for meetings and follow up.
"In an hour, a half hour - just ten minutes - the crayfish can claw my fish to death, " says Salah Zayed a 56-year old fisherman who says he's been tossing his nets into the Nile since he was a child.
Instead of a 24-hour cycle, he slipped into a 25-hour day so after 12 days he was completely out of sync with his fellow crew mates.
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Add to this mix the change in the world of work, where, instead of a 40 hour work week in the USA and a more rational 32-35 hour work week in the much of the EU, the dot.com techies are working 60-80 hours a week, with little or no time scheduled for physical recreation or broader social, cultural, or political activities or involvement.
The mountain's highest peak is the Guagua ("child" in Quechua), a two-hour hike from the town of Lloa, a one-hour drive south-west of Quito.
In 2004, the idea of swapping leap seconds for a leap hour in a few hundred years' time was proposed.
Rain came down heavily a half hour at a time, then pulled back into a silvery sky of fast-moving, fuzzy-bottomed clouds.
California has been one of the biggest markets for solar, but rebates from California's two largest utilities have fallen from 39 cents a kilowatt hour to a recent 26 cents, which some solar installers say undermines the economics.
After recuperating with sleep and espresso (every room has a Nespresso machine), the first stop was Wolgan Valley Resort in the Blue Mountains, a three hour drive away (including the last half hour on a spine rattling, studded dirt road).
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That means consumers will be able to download a "roll" of film into a digital camera in seconds rather than minutes, and the time required for backups to USB hard drives will drop from a half hour to a minute.
The Derby City has generally temperate weather and is about a two-hour flight from 75 percent of the US population, and a four-hour flight away from 95 percent of other folks in the nation -- key factors to ensure consistent and speedy deliveries.
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Apple employees told Frank he faced a three hour wait for a new iPad.
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But standing in a three hour queue for a cash machine was a definite festival lowlight for him.
Every hour spent treating a patient in America creates at least 30 minutes of paperwork, and often a whole hour.
After a one and a half hour meeting, a visitor wonders why the articulate, well-informed Gomez is not involved in Colombia's Washington lobbying effort.
Nothing has been proven to work in humans yet, which means that older Americans wit the disease must be cared for on almost a 24 hour 7 days a week basis.
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For a half-hour a day, in 10-minute segments, Ms. Miller is allowed to receive visitors.
"It was a painful hour-and-a-half on the court, " explained Simon.
The (optimistic in my view) master plan figures for 2018 would lead (based on 189 seat jets operating at 80% capacity, with a 16 hour opening) to a plane landing every 48 minutes.
Yet his schedule had him leaving the hotel at 6.30am to fly back to the UK. It had been a punishing hour or so in a captivating fight, yet there were a sapping few hours still to come.
Similarly, a literacy hour is being prescribed by a taskforce on the teaching of reading and writing.
The midwife helping with the delivery of the baby had already worked an 11 hour shift and eventually completed a 16 hour day.
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