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Florida Voter Registration System – What’s the Point of a State Voting System?
[link to full article] “There is no statewide system for requiring a voter to verify his or her identity before casting a ballot. As an emergency measure, Florida is trying to create one. ” – State Rep. Matt Caldwell. “To create an identity verification system without voter fraud — and without making a change in…
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Portland Opera – New Seasons Beginning January 2017
(January 11, 2014) The Portland Opera is pleased to announce two new seasons of its music ensembles, under the leadership of artistic director Steven Slatkin, beginning January 2017. New seasons will be conducted by opera director Richard Eyre (who has performed at Portland Opera with his Houston Symphony and Philadelphia Orchestra projects) and music director…
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XKCD News
XKCD was the first comic site to gain recognition as a news aggregation site (with its first breaking story in 1999-2000), and was one of the early ‘old news’ aggregators/news sites. XKCD made a name for itself with the comic comic ‘The Daily Show with Jon Stewart’, and even created the show’s own animated characters.…
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New Virgin Hotels New Orleans
New Virgin Hotels New Orleans | Programming. The new Virgin Hotels will be located in New Orleans on the French Quarter, and will open in Summer, 2011. These hotels will be located on Rue de la Varenne. The hotels are being designed by the New Orleans architectural firm, A. The hotels will be in the…
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Coshocton Public Library’s Public Programming Council to Host a Crowdy’s Library
The Coshocton Public Library’s Public Programming Council will be hosting the “Crowdy’s Library”. The “Crowdy’s Library” is a new experiment in library programming for patrons of the Coshocton Public Library. The library’s Public Programming Council will discuss how “Crowdy’s Library” is created, the impact it will have and how participants will be guided. The council…
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Automatic License Plate Recognition for Security and Enforcement
The Washington Post has published a news article to mark the 20th anniversary of the Digital Vehicle Registration (DVR) program, which was launched in 2003. The article describes the DVR program in detail with all of the details that were available to the Times and other news organizations at the time. The DVR software that…
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3D Printing in the Wilds of Colorado
Here is a look back at a recent 3D printer experiment in the wilds of the mountains of Colorado. A reader writes: “This was a cool project I got into the mountains of Colorado to see if I could make a “spark” from a filament filled print, but the project turned out very well. I…
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Greater Scranton YMCA Partners With Abington Recreation Board
Greater Scranton YMCA’s participation with the Abington Recreation Board (ARB) in “Creating a Community of Excellence” programming reflects the community vision and commitment of the YMCA to the Greater Scranton Region, and to the community as a whole. The Greater Scranton YMCA is unique in that it takes an integrated approach to programming, with emphasis…
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The New Normal: How to Make Chip Engineers More Productive
Abstract: In 2017, the first fully convolutional neural network (FCNN) was proposed to handle non-point cloud datasets. In contrast to traditional convolutional neural networks (CNNs), deep neural networks learn representations of 3D objects from their 2D and 3D representations. However, CNN requires massive training data. As a response to this problem, the cerebrus machine learning…
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Apple v Miniclip – A Legal Opinion
This report, written by a legal observer who has seen a lot of court cases, is written in simple language so that you can understand and understand with ease. This article is very much in support of Miniclip, Apple’s duck game app. This article discusses how Miniclip and Apple’s duck game app are connected, and…
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