Owning Up: Exploring the Kickstarter Restaurant

2011 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 93-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kaitlyn Goalen
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Web Site ◽  
Restaurant Industry ◽  
Creative Project ◽  
The Core ◽  
Restaurant Owners ◽  
The Web ◽  
Chinese Food

One of the latest technologies to garner attention from the food world is the Web site Kickstarter, and it has already affected the restaurant industry in a number of ways. The Web site is a crowd-funding platform for “creative projects” in multiple disciplines–several restaurant owners have already used Kickstarter to raise capital toward opening and sustaining restaurants. The Kickstarter team's definition for a “creative project” is vague at best, and patterns have already emerged that raise questions about whether restaurants are an appropriate type of project to harness this platform. So far, three patterns have taken shape: the neighborhood restaurant, the philanthropic restaurant, and the experimental spot, as evidenced by Colonie in Brooklyn, Mission Chinese Food and Commonwealth in San Francisco, and What Happens When in New York, respectively. While restaurants use many creative elements, they also are businesses at the core. Thus, the best restaurant-oriented candidates for Kickstarter are those who aim to go beyond the conventional expectations of what a restaurant should provide. Ideally they will use Kickstarter's crowd-sourced funds to bring more to the community than what the charge for on the plate.

scholarly journals Principles and software realization of a multimedia course on theoretical electrical engineering based on enterprise technology

2003 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-87
Author(s):  
Krasimir Penev ◽  
Kostadin Brandisky
Keyword(s):  
Web Site ◽  
Electrical Engineering ◽  
Circuit Theory ◽  
Site Structure ◽  
The Core ◽  
Multimedia Teaching ◽  
Enterprise Technology ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Teaching Modules ◽  
The Web

The Department of Theoretical Electrical Engineering (TEE) of Technical University of Sofia has been developing interactive enterprise-technologies based course on Theoretical Electrical Engineering. One side of the project is the development of multimedia teaching modules for the core undergraduate electrical engineering courses (Circuit Theory and Electromagnetic Fields) and the other side is the development of Software Architecture of the web site on which modules are deployed. Initial efforts have been directed at the development of multimedia modules for the subject Electrical Circuits and on developing the web site structure. The objective is to develop teaching materials that will enhance lectures and laboratory exercises and will allow computerized examinations on the subject. This article outlines the framework used to develop the web site structure, the Circuit Theory teaching modules, and the strategy of their use as teaching tool.

scholarly journals DIVISION I / COMMISSION 8 / WORKING GROUP DENSIFICATION OF THE OPTICAL REFERENCE FRAME

2008 ◽  
Vol 4 (T27A) ◽  
pp. 34-36
Author(s):  
Norbert Zacharias ◽  
Imants Platais ◽  
William F. van Altena ◽  
Beatrice Bucciarelli ◽  
Thomas E. Corbin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Reference Frame ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Working Group ◽  
Web Site ◽  
Division I ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Optical Reference ◽  
Celestial Reference Frame ◽  
The Web

A continuation of this WG was voted for at the IAU GA 2006 in Prague. The International Celestial Reference Frame (ICRF) is defined by the positions of 212 distant quasars at radio wavelengths. The primary, optical reference frame is the Hipparcos Celestial Reference Frame (HCRF), which is the Hipparcos Catalog without astrometric ‘problem’ stars (in: H. Rickman (ed.) 2001, Proceedings IAU XXIV General Assembly, Transactions IAU XXIVB (San Francisco: ASP), Resolution B1.2). The Tycho-2 catalog with its 2.5 million brightest stars forms the first step in the densification of the optical reference frame. However, the limiting magnitude of about V = 12 of the Tycho-2 catalog is not sufficient for most applications in astronomy and the goal of this IAU Working Group is to further extend the grid of highly accurate positions and motions toward more and fainter stars. The web site of this WG is at <ad.usno.navy.mil/dens_wg/>.

Analysis of Web Pages Based the Changed Information and its’ Application in the Search Engine for one Web Site

2013 ◽  
Vol 303-306 ◽  
pp. 2311-2316
Author(s):  
Hong Shen Liu ◽  
Peng Fei Wang
Keyword(s):  
Search Engine ◽  
Search Engines ◽  
Web Site ◽  
New Method ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
Web Crawler ◽  
The Core ◽  
Core Technology ◽  
The Web

The structures and contents of researching search engines are presented and the core technology is the analysis technology of web pages. The characteristic of analyzing web pages in one website is studied, relations between the web pages web crawler gained at two times are able to be obtained and the changed information among them are found easily. A new method of analyzing web pages in one website is introduced and the method analyzes web pages with the changed information of web pages. The result of applying the method shows that the new method is effective in the analysis of web pages.

scholarly journals Características léxico-semánticas de las crónicas futbolísticas del Real Madrid en el diario Marca

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 111-123
Author(s):  
Antonio María López González
Keyword(s):  
Web Site ◽  
Lexical Semantic ◽  
The Core ◽  
Core Concepts ◽  
The Web

Within the sports language, the lexical level is composed of slang, specialized terminology and figurative lexicon. This work analyzes the lexical-semantic characteristics of the football language in a corpus of news chronicles of Real Madrid football matches, published on the web site marca.com. We focus on the fundamental lexicon of these chronicles, as well as on the core concepts of them, their designations and the means of meaning.

Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons by E. Litwin

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kim Frail
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Web Site ◽  
The Other ◽  
High Contrast ◽  
University Of Alberta ◽  
School Aged Children ◽  
Early Elementary School ◽  
The University ◽  
The Web ◽  
At Home

Litwin, Eric. Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons.  Illus. James Dean. New York: Harper, 2012. Print. Pete, the laid back, imperturbable puss is back and this time author and children’s performer Eric Litwin incorporates math into the story. Pete puts on his favourite shirt and begins to sing about his buttons. There is lots of repetition to help kids learn about numbers and subtraction. First Pete thinks about the total number of buttons and the numeral is displayed. Then the word “four” appears twice in the refrain: “My buttons my buttons, my four groovy buttons”. One by one the buttons pop-off and each time the resulting equation is displayed: “How many buttons are left? 4-1=3”.  This sequence repeats until he is down to his belly button! As with the other Pete books, there is also a very important underlying message: don’t sweat the small stuff.  Each time he loses another button, the author asks: “Did Pete cry? Goodness, no! Buttons come and buttons go”. This is reinforced in the conclusion: “I guess it simply goes to show that stuff will come and stuff will go.  But do we cry? Goodness, No! We keep on singing”. Artist James Dean first painted an image of Pete in 1999 and the little bluish-black cat with the big yellow eyes is still going strong.  His images are composed of bright, high-contrast colours. The visible brush strokes and thick black outlines create lots of interesting textures and highlights.  Of particular note are the buttons that leave long spirals of black trailing behind them and look as if they are popping right off the page. Again, as with previous Pete books, ( I Love my White Shoes and Rockin’ My School Shoes),  there is a free downloadable song available from the Harper Collins Web site (http://www.harpercollinschildrens.com/feature/petethecat/). The book is certainly engaging enough to be enjoyed on its own. However, there is also a substantial amount of bonus material on the web site that can be incorporated into school lessons or enjoyed at home: the song, links to a YouTube video that pairs animated images from the book with the song, printable activities and a link to a “School Jam” ipad/iphone app featuring Pete. A clever fusion of music and math sprinkled with a life lesson in resilience, this book would make a groovy addition to school and home libraries for preschool to early elementary school-aged children. Highly Recommended: 4 out 4 starsReviewer: Kim Frail Kim is a Public Services Librarian at the H.T. Coutts Education Library at the University of Alberta. Children’s literature is a big part of her world at work and at home. She also enjoys gardening, renovating and keeping up with her two-year old.

Evaluating the Web-Site & Digital Environment of Airbnb

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 49-69
Author(s):  
Sidhhant Kapai
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
Web Site ◽  
Lodging Industry ◽  
Digital Environment ◽  
Brand Recognition ◽  
A Company ◽  
The Web ◽  
New Framework ◽  
Current Practices

What began as a company in San Francisco to aid unemployed Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia pay their housing rent and earn some extra cash, Airbnb today has disrupted and revolutionized the entire lodging industry by making provisions for additional rooms at the country's contemporaneous travel locations/destinations during peak seasons when hotel rooms are sold out and the remaining ones are available at skyrocketing prices In the following report, the current practices which have been implemented by Airbnb within the digital domain to enhance their brand recognition are discussed. The predominant sway of Airbnb's digital environment in a conventional, as well as new framework, have been previewed pertaining to focus on guest association and measurement of outcomes in digital interfaces.

Eliminating Invisible Barriers: Health Web Site Accessibility

2003 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-86
Author(s):  
Christine Rzepka
Keyword(s):  
Health Information ◽  
Web Sites ◽  
Web Site ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Accessibility Issues ◽  
Accessibility Guidelines ◽  
Use Of The Internet ◽  
Simple Evaluation ◽  
The Web

One of the top reasons given for use of the internet is the ability to search for health information. However, much of the planning for web-based health information often fails to consider accessibility issues. If health care organizations and community agencies’ web sites have the latest, most wellresearched information on the health topics of the day, it is useless to those who cannot access it because of invisible technological barriers. Many flashy, high-tech sites were designed only to appeal to the needs of the mainstream population, with no consideration given to how people with disabilities must adapt their use of the web in order to access information. This article addresses issues of access specific to web site development, and will explore barriers to accessibility frequently experienced by web users with disabilities, requirements for ADA compliance, and how people with disabilities use the web. Web site accessibility guidelines, as well as simple evaluation tools, will be discussed. A thorough review of the article will enable even the least tech-savvy of health educators to enhance their skills in planning and evaluating web sites to promote access for people with disabilities.

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