Zingo, the location-based taxi finding service that puts mobile-phone users in touch with their nearest black cab, is going south of the river -- and then some -- with the launch of its service in Dartford, Kent.
Zingo, which was one of the first commercial services to make use of mobile phone positioning data when it launched in the spring, patches callers through to the driver of the nearest Zingo-enabled black cab, whose position is determined using GPS equipment installed in the cab.
Location data from mobile phones is not accurate to street level, but it is good enough, according to Zingo, to find a cab close by: the rest of the navigation is done by the cab driver taking directions from the customer.
Dartford, Zingo's first venture outside Central London, has 141 licensed cabs and the company said it has already signed up 25 of them, with another 15 expecting to join by the end of January. In London, Zingo's sign-up ratio is not so impressive, with just 900 cabs recruited from a potential pool of more than 20,000.
Dartford Borough Council agreed that hailing a cab is much safer with Zingo. Jeremy Kite, deputy leader of Dartford Borough Council, said in a statement: "Any scheme that improves safety for cab users is welcome in the Borough. We are already part of Cab Watch, a joint initiative with North Kent Police, which aims to enhance the safety of both taxi drivers and their passengers, and to stamp out cab crime."
The idea was conceived three years ago, said Fawcett, but the first trial was launched in November 2002. Some of this delay was due to the challenge of getting access to mobile phone location data from the network operators. Such data is generally seen as very sensitive because it can be used to build up not only a picture of a person's movements, but can reveal data about relationships where, for instance, two mobile phones move from one cell to another at exactly the same moment. To persuade mobile phone companies to make available mobile phone positioning data, Zingo had to make a number of commitments about the protection of data obtained by its system and has built in safeguards to honour these commitments.


Today's the day when we are all so winter weary, that we are stir crazy enough to start looking for signs of spring in shadows.
I'm wondering what it means to see my own shadow. Last spring, I started this color landscape series, I've been calling it the "Breathing Room" and I really want to finish them by this spring. I hope to have some for sale at my open studio on May 21-22nd.


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What is Benidorm nightlife like?
Benidorm has showbars, cabaret bars, country and western bars, bars, karaoke and discos. These venues can be open all day, some open in the afternoon while others only really get going around midnight and will close its doors just as the sun rises. Benidorm really is a tourist resort that never sleeps.
How much is a pint in Benidorm 2021?
Once again a pint is just €1.50. The next bar is Jumping Jacks, and again they have a huge terrace and a variety of drinks offers available.
How many bars are there in Benidorm?
There are 800 bars selling alcohol and as such competition is huge, with happy hours, two for one, etc. There are many small bars offering bottled beer at 1€ and themed bars are in abundance. You will find British pubs, Dutch bars and Irish bars plus the many Spanish cafeteria bars which offer local Spanish favourites.
What is the main strip in Benidorm?
Levante Beach Boulevard
The main areas for nightlife in Benidorm are the "strip" of Levante Beach Boulevard which goes down the beach, "The Square" around Avenida Mallorca, Old Town Benidorm, and the huge dance clubs on the main road just outside of Benidorm that goes towards the city of Valencia.
Where is the bars strip in Benidorm Spain?
Nightlife Areas The main areas for nightlife in Benidorm are the "strip" of Levante Beach Boulevard which goes down the beach, "The Square" around Avenida Mallorca, Old Town Benidorm, and the huge dance clubs on the main road just outside of Benidorm that goes towards the city of Valencia.
How much does a pint of beer cost in Benidorm?
Cost of Living in Benidorm
Meal for 2 People, Mid-range Restaurant, Three-course 40.00€
McMeal at McDonalds (or Equivalent Combo Meal) 7.00€
Domestic Beer (1 pint draught) 1.50€
Imported Beer (12 oz small bottle) 3.00€
Are there any gay nightlife in Benidorm?
For bars in Benidorm and pubs in Benidorm the choice is massive. There are some nice bars in the old town of Benidorm in the narrow streets; in this area you will also find lots of good Benidorm gay nightlife options because here there is the gay area of Benidorm. You will find a whole concentration of gay bars, pubs and nightclubs.
Where is the best place to go out in Benidorm?
Where are the best bars in Benidorm for a bar crawl?
Most bars with a lot of British themed bars are located in the Rincon and Levante areas of Benidorm. With hundreds of bars in such a small area, a bar crawl or pub crawl in Benidorm is only likely to see you visiting just a fraction of the possible bars such is the wide choice.
What makes Benidorm the party capital of Europe?
Benidorm has since put itself firmly on the map as one of the party capitals of Europe. As the sun goes down on sandy Levante Beach, the whole resort comes alive with karaoke bars, glamorous cabaret shows and bouncing nightclubs. If it's nightlife filled with fun and frolics that you love, then you've come to the right place.

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You may have never heard the music on this episode. While under-produced and somewhat obscure, still these songs are part of the history of early Jesus music and deserve to be remembered. These artists were touched by the love of Jesus during the early Jesus movement and made the effort to express it with their own unique sounds…kinda underground…off the radar…but from their hearts.
Wilson McKinley, Psalm 150, Rainbow Promise, Sons Unto Glory and Sonlight were just a few of the bands that laid down the tracks we'll be featuring on this episode sponsored by good friend Robert Henninger.
Support from friends like Robert is so encouraging and helps me fulfill the assignment the Lord has given me to keep early Jesus music in our hearts. If you can help support this ministry in any way…click the link for your tax deductible gift. Thanks.


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Ivan Bratt (* 24. September 1878 in Jönköping; † 25. Januar 1956) war ein schwedischer Arzt, Alkoholpolitiker und Unternehmer, der für die Einführung des Motboken bekannt wurde. Es war ein Teil der schwedischen Alkoholpolitik, die nach ihm als das Brattsystem benannt wurde.

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Bratt gründete 1913 die Aktiengesellschaft Aktiebolaget Stockholmsystemet und ersuchte um eine Konzession für den Handel mit Alkohol in Stockholm, die er auch erhielt. Schon kurze Zeit später begann er Alkoholhändler, Weingeschäfte und Destillen aufzukaufen. Er teilte dem Finanzminister mit, dass, falls es ihm gelänge, die gesamte Alkoholproduktion des Landes aufzukaufen, der Überschuss in die Staatskasse fließen würde. Zwischen 1917 und 1918 kaufte Bratt 98 Firmen und Geschäfte mit dem Geld auf, das er sich zuvor geliehen hatte oder durch andere Verträge gesichert hatte. Innerhalb von vier Jahren gelang es Bratt ein privates Alkoholmonopol zu realisieren. Ihm gehörten "fünf Großhändler, zwei Wohnungsgesellschaften, elf Agenten, eine Brennerei, die Brauerei Carnegie, die Arzneimittelfirma Astra, das Grand Hotel in Stockholm und die Apothekenkette Svanens droghandel". Der erste Betrag, der an die Staatskasse ging, belief sich auf fünf Millionen Kronen und entsprach zehn Prozent des Staatshaushalts. Vin- och Spritcentralen wurde später geschaffen und der schwedischen Staat löste die Aktien ein.

1923 wurde Bratt für die Liberala samlingspartiet in die damalige zweite Kammer des Reichstages gewählt.

Literatur

Bibliografie
 Ivan Bratt Kan nykterhetsfrågan lösas utan totalförbud? Albert Bonniers Förlag 1909.
 Ivan Bratt Nykterhetspolitiska utvecklingslinjer. Albert Bonniers Förlag 1911.
 Ivan Bratt På konsulinnans terrass. Ett samtal om den 27 augusti m.m. Svenska andelsförlaget 1922.
 Ivan Bratt En riksdagsdebatt om spritcentralen. P.A. Norstedt & Söners förlag 1926.

Biografien
 Knut Falk Märkesmän inom vårt ekonomiska liv. Wahlström & Widstrands förlag 1930. Rezession in der Zeitung Svensk Läraretidning von 1930 online beim Projekt Runeberg

Einzelnachweise
 Carl Hamilton (1994) Absolut Hamilton. Historien om Flaskan. Norstedts, ISBN 91-1-952472-2. s. 79–104.

Abgeordneter des schwedischen Zweikammerreichstags
Unternehmer (20. Jahrhundert)
Schwede
Geboren 1878
Gestorben 1956
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D-CAF back to splash Cairo streets with culture
Rowan El Shimi, Thursday 6 Mar 2014
As Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival's 3rd edition is to bring music, theatre, film and more to Cairo 20 March-11 April, Ahram Online talks to D-CAF artistic director Ahmed El-Attar
With the influx of independent and alternative arts that Cairo began to witness since the 2011 revolution, culture aficionados have come to anticipate specific seasons every year that promise abundant cultural saturation.
Spring is definitely such a time. For the past two years, the Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival (D-CAF) has in the spring engaged audiences in Cairo's theatres, exhibition spaces, abandoned apartments, and on the city's very streets and alleyways.
This year, D-CAF returns with theatre, dance, music, films, discussions, workshops and public interventions between 20 March and 11 April. Although shorter than last year's, the 2014 edition of D-CAF will fill Cairo and Alexandria with exciting events through a multitude of mediums.
"This year we started [working on D-CAF] earlier, right after we finished last year's edition," D-CAF founder and artistic director Ahmed El-Attar told Ahram Online. "We have a better division of labour when it comes to staffing. We have a full team. We're giving ourselves the means to realise this vision."
With several premieres and cutting edge initiatives, D-CAF promises audiences yet another set of unique artistic events, undeterred by the ongoing political turmoil still gripping the country.
According to Attar, one of the most important aspects of this year's D-CAF is the Middle-East Focus from 3-6 April, which will offer mostly premiering performances by an array of Arab artists.
"We're inviting 30 of the world's top programmers and festival directors to attend, see the works, meet the artists," Attar asserts. "Not only is [the festival] a showcase for the general public, but also for the festival's organisers."
Through the focus week, Attar hopes to use D-CAF as a platform providing an opportunity for regional artists to reach a more international audience and possibly obtain invitations to festivals and events abroad.
Two of Attar's plays – On the Importance of Being an Arab and The Last Supper – are among the showcased events.
Other highlights from the programme's performing arts section include: Violence Lointaine, a joint dance production (Egypt, France, DR Congo) by Omar Ghayatt, DeLaVallet Bidiefono and Maxine Denuc; It Happened Tomorrow by Syrian director Oussama Ghanam and the Damascus Theatre Lab; Egyptian theatre troupe Teatro's adaptation of No Exit, performed last October at the Falaki Theatre; and, finally, two documentary theatre productions -- Zawaya and The House of Curfew -- presented by Hassan El-Gereitly's El-Warsha theatre troupe.
Lebanese musician Yasmine Hamdan, known for her previous collaboration with Zeid Hemdan on Soapkills -- a band widely believed to have shaped the alternative music scene in Lebanon during the late 90s -- will be performing in Qasr Al-Nil Theatre on 4 April. The same evening will also feature a performance by Egyptian artists Fayrouz Karawya and Ismael.
Shehrazade space will host D-CAF's Music Programme. Since last year, curator and founder of 100Copies Music Mahmoud Refaat converted the hitherto nightclub into a concert space. This year, its stage will be given to the Middle-East Focus late evening performances by Egypt's hip-hop and poetry band El Manzouma and the Syrian/Lebanese Hello Psychaleppo, joined by American One Be Lo.
The Middle-East Focus week will also present a survey exhibition of the relatively young Egyptian artist Hassan Khan, whose immersive body of work has been shown uniquely outside Egypt over the past decade.
"Doing a survey or a retrospective of Khan's work is unprecedented," Attar explains, as this practice is traditionally designed for deceased or elderly artists. "In D-CAF we feel this need to change, and we've put a lot of effort and resources into making this a class A exhibition."
Curated by Beth Stryker -- artist, curator and co-founder of Cairo Lab for Urban Studies, Training and Environmental Research (CLUSTER) -- the exhibition brings Khan's artworks from various corners of the world to downtown Cairo's abandoned Kodak store.
As the two entities tend to do with public spaces, CLUSTER has this year partnered with D-CAF to oversee the Kodak store renovation, ensuring it retains its charactesplashr while suitably reinventing its space for such an exceptional exhibit.
What sets D-CAF apart from other Cairo festivals is not its international nature or curatorial value, but particularly its Urban Visions Programme presenting dance performances in public spaces -- invariably the festival's most organisationally challenging, and rewarding, aspect.
The performances will once more take place in front of the Egyptian Stock Exchange on Al-Alfy Street and will additionally utilise the less public, but still open, space of the American University in Cairo's Greek Campus, recently re-opened as a hub for Egyptian technologists.
In partnership with Gudran for Arts and Development, some of Urban Visions' performances will also make their way to Downtown Alexandria.
D-CAF's Film Programme this year takes on two dimensions, one of which is curated by Hervé Le Phuez, the programming coordinator responsible for the shorts section at the International Francophone Film Festival of Namur (Belgium).
The film programme will in March present two evenings of Francophone short films at the Greek Campus, and will include several screenings of feature films at the newly refurbished Odeon Cinema. The cinema was renovated by Misr International Films-Youssef Chahine -- the same company behind the annually anticipated Panorama of the European Film -- to host their new initiative Zawya, an ongoing programme of Art House films in Cairo.
In addition to the curated film programme, D-CAF will also feature the Smart Film Festival, based on an open call for short films from the Arab world shot with mobile phones. Prior to D-CAF, several workshops on mobile filmmaking were held in Alexandria, Assiut, Minya and Cairo to produce some of the showcased films. A jury will select the winning films at the end of the festival.
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Q: What did Darren Cross mean with "Word travels fast" In the recent Ant-man movie,

 when Dr. Pym has been invited to Pym Tech and Darren is about to sell the suit to Hydra, it is revealed that Cross knew about their plan to steal the Yellowjacket. We hear Darren say, "It's not easy to successfully infiltrate an Avengers facility.  Thankfully, word travels fast." (emphasis mine)

How did Darren know this and were the viewers supposed to "get it"? Is there a leak?

A: "It's not easy to successfully infiltrate an Avengers facility. Thankfully, word travels fast." In the Winter Soldier-Hydra had spies and leaders all over the place-including Shield. I couldn't remember if those events were before Ant-Man or after, but in EITHER case-Cross is planning on selling the suit to Hydra's operatives. They would no doubt have told Cross that someone small broke into Shield, and that he should watch himself. I would even go so far as to say that's how he knew to spring the trap when everyone showed up to steal the suit, as there wasn't much else to suggest corporate espionage up to that point.

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The use of visualization is pervasive in the media: explanatory diagrams in magazines, graphs describing the projected impact of a new state budget, new experimental data plotted against theoretical expectations, etc. In each case, the author of the visualization tries to convey a point of view by emphasizing some aspects of the data while toning down other aspects. The result can vary widely, from informative to misleading.
You may not use papers or textbooks on visualization or information visualization. Go to original sources used by practitioners and researchers. For this assignment, please do not use examples pulled from the web.
I'd like you to find visualization in print sources rather than visualizations that were directly published on the internet. However, if the visualization appears in print and also on a website from the same organization, then you may use it. In all cases be sure to cite the source of the visualization.
Once you have selected a good and a bad example, add a new page to the class wiki that includes both pictures and a short description explaining the visualization. Later in class you will be asked to quickly explain (in 2 to 3 minutes) the visualizations to the rest of the class. So you should try to choose visualizations which depict data that is relatively easy to explain. Be sure to cite to source of the visualization as well. Your assignment must be posted to the wiki before class on January 25, 2010.
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