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Transportation in Markham, Ontario – Public transport

Within the Town of Markham, Toronto Transit Commission (TTC), Viva (a type of bus rapid transit), and York Region Transit (YRT) offers public transit services for the local residents. Since 1973, Markham has been providing a public transit of its own, namely Markham Transit, and was funded by the municipal government. In 2001, the York [...]

Imeem – imeem technology

imeem is primarily written in C#; while most of the front-end web servers run under Windows, the rest of their servers run the Linux operating system. The website heavily uses Ajax and Flash to deliver the content and allow users to access it. Video and audio are both encoded as FLV files, audio is delivered [...]

BR Standard Class 7 – Operational details

The class was well liked by crews in most regions of British Railways, with especially glowing reports from those operating them from Stratford depot on the Eastern Region, where its lower weight and high power transformed motive power over the restricted East Anglian lines. However, negative feedback was received from various operating departments, most notably [...]

Missile Defense Alarm System – Development

On March 16, 1955, the United States Air Force had officially ordered the development of an advanced reconnaissance satellite to provide continuous surveillance of “preselected areas of the earth” in order “to determine the status of a potential enemy’s war-making capability.” The result of this order was the creation of a then-secret USAF program known [...]

Sustainable Development Strategy in Canada – Fleet management

The subject of sustainable transportation has several areas to review. Fuels Alternative fuel cars can save the organization significant funds, there are several different fuel types available. *Ethanol: Normally blended with conventional gasoline, ethanol reduces the amount of greenhouse gases your car emits by up to 10%. *Natural Gas: burns more cleanly, efficiently and completely [...]

Oklahoma Emergency Management Act of 2003 – Purposes of the Act

The Emergency Management Act declares its purposes: The Emergency Management Act: * Created of the Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management (OEM) * Authorized of the creation of local organizations for emergency management in the counties and incorporated municipalities of this state * Provided for the formulation and execution of an Emergency Operations Plan (EOP) for [...]

Philadelphia Park Racetrack – Casino

On September 27, 2006, the racetrack was awarded a conditional slots license by the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board, allowing construction to begin on the casino. Final approval of a permanent license came on December 20, 2006, the following day the casino opened. Bally’s was chosen as the casino management system. The name of the casino [...]

New York state public-benefit corporations – Class A Public Benefit Corporations in the New York City Metropolitan Area

Below are some of the authorities operating in and around the New York City metropolitan area. Battery Park City Authority Fully titled the Hugh L. Carey Battery Park City Authority [http://www.batteryparkcity.org/], according to its official web site, the authority is: :a New York State public benefit corporation whose mission is to plan, create, co-ordinate and [...]

Aviator Sports and Recreation – Introduction

Aviator Sports and Events Center [http://www.aviatorsports.com] is a concession for the National Park Service[http://www.nps.gov/] operating in New York City’s historic first municipal airport, Floyd Bennett Field, which opened its hangars in 1931 and was decommissioned in 1972. Floyd Bennett Field (FBF) in Southeast Brooklyn is now part of the 4th most visited unit of the [...]

Guizhou JL-9 – Development

The Guizhou Aircraft Industry Corporation first revealed its intention to develop a new generation of fighter-trainer to replace its own JJ-7 fighter-trainer at the 2001 China International Aviation & Aerospace Exhibition to meet new PLAAF trainer requirements to prepare pilots for China’s newest generation of fighter aircraft such as the Chengdu J-10 and Sukhoi derived [...]

Project management software – Approaches to project management software

Desktop Project management software can be implemented as a program that runs on the desktop of each user. This typically gives the most responsive and graphically-intense style of interface. Desktop applications typically store their data in a file, although some have the ability to collaborate with other users (see below), or to store their data [...]

Spacefaring – Introduction

Spacefaring is to be capable of and active in the art of spacetravel (operating spacecraft or spaceplanes). It involves a knowledge of a variety of topics and development of specialised skills including (but not limited to): aeronautics; astronautics; programs to train astronauts; space weather and forecasting; ship-handling and small craft handling; operation of various equipment; [...]

Willow Garage – Introduction

Adapted from the Wikipedia article Willow Garage, under the G. N. U. Free Documentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

Pinellas County Schools – Organization

Pinellas County Schools has about 148,000 students and more than 13,000 employees. Dixie M. Hollins was the county’s first superintendent of schools. The current superintendent of schools is Julie Mastry Janssen, Ed. D. Students are assigned student numbers that begin with 52, followed by the two-digit year in which they entered the system, and a [...]









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