We're coming to you live from Des Moines, Iowa! Come see the Capitol Building, the State Fairgrounds, the Iowa Hall of Pride, and much, much more. We're constantly on the lookout for our favorite web designers wherever we land. So, without further ado, we bring you the top 30 web designers in the city of Des Moines!
AdEasel – If you're looking for full-service, web marketing capabilities, drop by AdEasel. This incredible team works with small businesses and large corporations all around the world.
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Captain Jack Communications – Update your website with the look and feel you want with Captain Jack Communications! Have all of your website goals achieved in one place.
Chris Snider Design – Do whatever it takes to grow your business! Freelancer Chris Snider knows what it takes to build a visually stunning website for your brand.
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DWebware – Significantly bolster your site's operational process, as well as its visibility to new users. Let DWebware's experienced staff pave your way to beating the competition.
EDJE – No matter what you manage to think up, this team will design it. EDJE delivers top level web, print, and mobile solutions.
Entrepreneurial Technologies – From mobile apps to custom websites, Entrepreneurial Technologies uses its expertise to help local businesses look incredible. Get the most of web development with this positive team!
Farmboy Inc. – Farmboy Inc delivers some of the highest caliber work around. For more than 15 years, this team has crafted lasting designs that helps its clients thrive!
Flying Hippo – Flying Hippo definitely gets the award for 'Most Creative Firm Name.' Some of best and brightest programmers and creative strategists are ready to take your brand to a whole other level.
Flynn Wright – Your extensive projects are no match for an inquisitive and driven team! The folks at Flynn Wright gets it right every time, so rest assured it will do your brand good.
Happy Medium – Let Happy Medium help your business strategy in design, marketing, and more! This firm provides full service at its best.
J. Sayles Design – Communicate your business message well with some of the top visuals in the industry! J. Sayles Design wants your site's look and feel to wholly resonate with your target audience.
Juicebox Interactive – Juicebox Interactive is focused on the future of marketing and web design! Make the perfect blend of quality and effectiveness when you work with this team.
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Shift – Is agile development on your site right up your alley? Shift develops for both the mobile and web platforms so you can be everywhere with your audience.
Slash/Web Studios – Get the best web experience with Slash/Web Studios! You'll soon be drawing up bigger and better designs than ever before.
SparkReaction – It's time to properly customize your marketing for the better! SparkReaction is a design and inbound marketing agency that can easily take your presence to a whole new level.
Spinutech – Whether you're an organization or a business, Spinutech will get your visitors to see you in the greatest light! Get your web strategy on point with this team!
Spindustry – Attract your audience with the awesome power of inbound marketing! Using design skill and creativity, Spindustry puts you on a course towards success.
Test of Time Design – Never think small, always big! Test of Time Design consistently keeps in mind the most ideal approach to making your site stand out on top.
Think Different Designs – Get a better looking website at a much lower cost with Think Different Designs. Both print and web design are the firm's top specialties for you to gain from.
Torsion Mobile – Did anyone call in the mobile experts? Torsion Mobile is a full service web design agency skilled in all things strategy, design, and development for its clients.
Trilix – One of the fastest growing agencies in the state, Trilix offers strategies marketing consultations for its clients. Afterwards, it creates unique results for the clients improved web presence.
Webspec Design – The tech professionals are in the building! With its skills in web design, print, and PHP, Webspec Design has you covered.
Visionary – Since 1992, Visionary has been helping clients get their web design and ecommerce projects done with the highest level of dedication. No matter how big or small the project, the team is ready for it!
ZLR IGNITION – ZLR IGNITION is the branding agency for your company. Let this terrific team mold you a bold brand that wins!
We definitely enjoyed taking a look at this diverse abundance of talent from Des Moines. Can you think of any other design firms that we overlooked on our visit that deliver great web marketing? Keep us informed in the comments section below!


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A textbook case -- revisions in mainland literary selections cause a stir
Opening one of his four new Chinese literature textbooks, Gao Tian, 15, is feeling underwhelmed. The Grade One student from Beijing 156 Middle School is focused on his College Entrance Examination (CEE), and he quickly skims through it.
The first text is a prose piece in memory of an old friend by Lu Xun, arguably the most famous writer in modern Chinese literature. "It seems a little different from my older cousin's book," Tian said and put the books aside.
He is blissfully unaware, however, that the "little" difference he has noticed has triggered heated debate in mainland media. Critics were quick to fire off letters to the editor and post comments on the internet when changes in seven-year-old Chinese textbooks for Beijing Grade One senior middle schoolchildren were first reported.
Published by People's Education Press, the new versions reportedly included an extract from popular kung fu novel The Fox Volant of the Snowy Mountain, by Louis Cha, replacing Lu Xun's classic novelette The True Story of Ah Q. Lu's tale rails against early 20th century Chinese for their toadying pursuit of self-interest and embodies a dark view of the Chinese psyche in the self-serving protagonist Ah Q.
This change was criticised for "replacing classics with superficial fast-food stories".
"Education will become an entertainment," a commentator said in a forum on the official Xinhuanet.com website. Many internet users feared the "incorrect guidance" in the new textbooks would lead students to lose their interest in traditional literature and culture.
"It's disastrous to delete the traditional texts. They are as relevant as ever after being read by so many students for such a long time," said Shandong teacher Li Xianzi.
Nevertheless, the publishers have studiously tried to correct what they saw as "media misrepresentation" of the new textbooks.
Gu Dexi, one of the editors and a teacher at Beijing No4 Middle School, said Cha's story was included only in the teachers' reference book and was not in the student textbook. It could help to explain, if necessary, the concept of Xia, a chivalrous person adept at martial arts, introduced in the ancient biography written by historian Sima Qian, Mr Gu said.
Some of Lu's works have been replaced by other pieces of his.
Kong Qingdong, from the Chinese language and literature department of Peking University, also an editor of the new textbooks, said the dropped texts, such as The True Story of Ah Q, depict an era when warlords and revolutionary fervour had the country gripped in chaos, which was difficult for teenagers to understand.
In contrast, Lu's other stories, such as the tribute to an old friend and the tale of an unfortunate widow, could still move and resonate with modern readers, Professor Kong said.
The new textbooks also contain more works by contemporary Chinese authors and foreign writers. About 10 ancient prose texts were replaced by shorter extracts. An essay on new language use in the hi-tech age, discussing symbols used in messaging services such as smileys, is also included.
The format has changed too with the ancient prose no longer grouped together in the same chapters.
"The texts should keep pace with the times," Professor Kong said.
Teachers have generally welcomed the changes. Liu Kui, Chinese education research director at Beijing No4 Middle School, one of the city's most prestigious, appreciated the rearrangement.
"In this way students can learn gradually, so it doesn't seem like a second language," Liu said.
Han Lu, a Chinese teacher at the school, said: "I don't know why people are so obsessed with a few texts."
Nevertheless, almost every change in the school textbooks in recent years has prompted controversy among the public.
Many were offended by depictions of sex in a domestic award-winning novel included in the reference book for middle schoolchildren by the People's Literature Publishing House in 2003.
Extracts from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Jin's Chronicles of the Heavenly Dragon, included in the 2004 middle school Chinese textbook, also triggered heated debate. As did the inclusion in a primary school textbook in 2005 of a story on Olympic hurdling gold medalist Liu Xiang - though most people applauded that change.
Jiang Bojing, from northern Hebei province, in an online forum said that people placed great importance on textbooks as the main way for children to learn Chinese.
"But people also hope students will learn morality, culture and humanity - almost everything - from Chinese textbooks, besides language itself," Jiang said.
Mao Zedong's Serve the People and stories of war heroes have been studied for decades and they are still included in textbooks to teach patriotism and devotion to work.
Besides, Jiang said, the CEE makes everything dull - teachers have to train students to pass the exam so students fail to appreciate the literature.
"The textbook is only a tool and it should not be the key to Chinese education reform," he said.
Teacher Han agreed: "How to teach is always of greater significance than what to teach." She said the traditional way, with teachers doing the talking and students taking notes, needed to change - teachers should instead help students learn to think and express themselves, enjoy the beauty of the Chinese language and apply it in their daily lives.
"Only when the teachers get a real understanding of the education of Chinese language can they flexibly use the texts."
Gu Dexi said native-language education was a worldwide difficulty that has always puzzled educators. "It's different from the knowledge-obtaining subjects, such as math, physics and chemistry," Gu said.
Gu said the public should give teachers more time and space to teach Chinese. "In my opinion, teachers should improve self-motivation among students," he said.
One student at Beijing No.4 Middle School said he liked the new textbooks because they provided a wider choice of texts, pointing to the greater number of foreign stories.
He said he had little time for extracurricular reading because of CEE study pressure, and he would not know what to read if he had the time.
"The new books are a good guide to extracurricular reading," he said.
But for Gao Tian, the debate was academic: "I have to get high marks in the CEE no matter what I read in the textbooks."
(Xinhua News Agency, November 30, 2007)
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A family business where the mushroom has been in DNA for three generations: that is Scelta Mushrooms. It is a Dutch company that operates globally in more than 75 countries. And with such a large international company, of course, a website that radiates the right professionalism. Roy (marketing Manager at Scelta Mushrooms): 'Redkiwi has taken us under her wings to devise a digital strategy. We found in them a party that thinks from our client: What are his problems, what information does he need and what is his purpose?
The old website no longer joined the company. A website with which we can serve more (potential) customers!
The challenge was mainly to draw the target groups through personas, the entire process and the customer journey that accompanies them.
Scelta Mushrooms processes fresh mushrooms to products for the retail, food service and industry. The mushrooms you find on your frozen pizza, for example, are very likely to come from Scelta Mushrooms. Also at large restaurant groups you can find the products of Scelta back in your menu. Scelta is a large, modern company with seven production locations and is the leader in the field of food innovation. and the old website no longer met up. Time for a new website, with a goal: more (potential) customers!
It is a true family business with contact persons all over the world. That's why they found it important to show the faces behind Scelta Mushrooms on the website. Such a personal way of communicating is fairly new in the food sector. This sector is very subdued and is often facing the 'champignonbed' instead of the market. With this brand new website, Scelta Mushrooms makes its innovative image true again.
In order to provide the (potential) customer with the best possible information, we have conducted extensive research into the target group. Roy: 'Redkiwi has guided us well and together we have drawn our target groups with the help of personas. They thought about the whole process and about the customer journey.' With the knowledge we gained during the work sessions, we started working on the design. And there we are unwisely proud of!
Also Roy is very happy with the design: 'Redkiwi made a good proposal that suited our company and the size of it'. The biggest compliment came from one of the production companies with which we work together. Immediately after going live they showed our website on a big screen in their canteen. They too were proud!
It's the little things that do the trick. With the cake we were sent, we were able to introduce Redkiwi as our new webbuilder.
Marketing Manager at Scelta Mushrooms B.V.
In short: the website for Scelta Mushrooms was a very challenging, instructive route! Thanks to the close and pleasant cooperation with Roy, we came to a great end result at a rapid pace. The content of the website is (or is currently) written in English, French, German and Dutch to serve the best possible international market. The special part of this website is that it automatically adapts to the place where you are. Suppose you are in North America, you are presented to the contact closest to you. A piece of technology that allows us to emphasize the personal approach of (potential) customers further.
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Greg David on New York
Bloomberg's right on Indian Point
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Gov. Andrew Cuomo and I live about the same distance from the Indian Point nuclear power plant. But when it comes to what do about the plant, I am firmly in the camp of Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who says Indian Point is essential, and not Mr. Cuomo, who thinks the plant is unsafe and should be shut down.
Top Cuomo aides recently met with officials from Entergy, the plant's owners, and told them in no uncertain terms that the Cuomo administration wanted the plant closed. The mayor responded quite caustically to the news.
"Well, if you closed Indian Point down today we'd have enormous blackouts,'' he told reporters. "There is no alternative to the energy that we get from Indian Point. Four or five years from now that probably is not going to be true. All types of power generation have risks and nuclear hasn't killed anybody."
Here are the facts that matter, at least to me, about Indian Point:
New York City and Westchester County get 25% of their electric power from Indian Point. Replacing that power won't be easy.
Indian Point is the lowest cost energy available in New York, which has among the highest electric costs in the nation. Whatever replaces Indian Point will drive up the cost of energy, which will be had for the economy.
Indian Point produces no greenhouse gases. Whatever replaces it will be worse for global warming.
If the governor is concerned about the potential for accidents, helping to make Indian Point safer is the better strategy. Unfortunately, the debate about nuclear power is mostly about emotions, nowhere more starkly than in Westchester, where the atmosphere has been soured by hysterical reporting by the local newspaper. And the governor seems as driven by nuclear fears as anyone.
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"An emerging drinking-water contaminant that was once just a concern in Michigan communities near military bases is raising health and environmental concerns in other areas, including Metro Detroit.
Residents in five counties, including Oakland, Livingston and Wayne, were warned two weeks ago not to swallow foam on the Huron River due to the presence of certain perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances known as PFAS. The warning expanded an earlier do-not-eat advisory for fish from the river.
The Huron River joins 35 contamination sites across the state — a list that includes Lake St. Clair and the Clinton River in Macomb County, a small community water supply in Parchment, residential wells around a Rockford tannery in West Michigan, and marshes, rivers and lakes around military bases in Oscoda, Alpena and Grayling.
The state has responded aggressively to the man-made threat in recent months, and residents have noticed. But critics argue the response prior to 2016 was slowed by a lack of understanding of the chemicals' widespread presence and dangerous health effects.
Democratic lawmakers and environmentalists contend the state's standards for contamination are too lenient and that Michigan should tighten restrictions instead of waiting on a federal determination.
A fly-fishing enthusiast, Arnie Leriche retired to Oscoda near the AuSable River just as the state was confirming PFAS contamination at Wurtsmith in 2010.
A former environmental engineer for the EPA who helped manage the agency's online contamination database, Leriche researched the area before buying a home in Oscoda and saw there were two contamination sites nearby.
But Leriche said he trusted state and federal regulators had it under control and when, a few years later, he started to see new signs warning against eating local fish, he again trusted government oversight.
By 2016, Leriche felt the state and U.S. Air Force were responding too slowly to the contamination.
In late 2017, Gov. Rick Snyder created the Michigan PFAS Action Response Team to address the emerging crisis. Extra funding was set aside to test water supplies, assess them for PFAS contamination and develop cleanup plans.
In May, the state's PFAS response team launched what it called the 'most comprehensive statewide study of PFAS in water supplies,' when it began testing 1,841 public water systems and schools operating their own well for the contaminants.
The roughly 11,300 sites where PFAS-containing products could have been used or disposed — such as fire stations, refineries, landfills and military bases — served as a road map for the state to develop a schedule for the $1.7 million survey. At the end of the testing, the state will have tested 75 percent of Michigan's drinking water.
The testing netted a big offender in July, when the city of Parchment's water supply tested at 1,587 parts per trillion of PFAS chemicals, far exceeding the 70 ppt threshold.
The communities were placed under a state of emergency, and officials warned residents not to drink the water or cook with it until residents were hooked up to the Kalamazoo water supply.
Steve VanDiver lives about a block over from his mother in Cooper Township, but both of their homes received water from the Parchment supply.
The state and city response was swift once the chemical was identified, VanDiver said, but the implications of long-term use of the water prior to the shutdown are worrisome.
His mother has lived in the same home since 1966. She switched from well water to city water years ago as area residents began to realize their wells may have fallen victim to decades of industrial waste in the area.
The realization that the city water also was contaminated intensified VanDiver's frustration and his worries about the health impact on his mother after a half-century of drinking the area water. He attended a town hall meeting after the contamination was announced.
The state's drinking water testing program may be missing a large chunk of potentially dangerous water supplies because of its reliance on the federal 70 ppt threshold, Democratic lawmakers argue.
In an early September press conference, Brinks criticized the Republican majority for not acting on legislation she introduced last year that would lower the PFAS public health advisory level from 70 ppt to 5 ppt. She has yet to get a hearing on the bill, though DEQ officials have said they are open to a lower threshold.


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Q: Machine Learning liner Regression - Sklearn I'm new to the Machine learning domain and in Learn Regression i have some doubt
1:While practicing the sklearn learn regression model prediction method getting the below error.
Code:
sklearn.linear_model.LinearRegression.predict(25)

Error:
 "ValueError: Expected 2D array, got scalar array instead: array=25. Reshape your data either using array.reshape(-1, 1) if your data has a single feature or array.reshape(1, -1) if it contains a single sample."
Do i need to pass a 2-D array? Checked on sklearn documentation page any haven't found any thing for version update.
 **Running my code on Kaggle
https://www.kaggle.com/aman9d/bikesharingdemand-upx/
2: Is index of dataset going to effect model's score (weights)?

A: First of all you should put your code as you use:
# import, instantiate, fit
from sklearn.linear_model import LinearRegression
linreg = LinearRegression()
linreg.fit(X, y)

# use the predict method
linreg.predict(25)

Because what you post in the question is not properly executable, predict method is not static for the class LinearRegression.
When you fit a model, the first step is recognize which kind of data will be the input, in your case will be similar to X, that means that if you pass something with different shape of X to the model it will raise an error.
In your example X seems to be a pd.DataFrame() instance with only 1 column, this should be replaceable with an array of 2 dimension representing the number of examples by the number of features, so if you try:
linreg.predict([[25]])

should work.
For example if you were trying a regression with more than 1 feature aka column, let's say temp and humidity, your input would look like this:
linreg.predict([[25, 56]])

I hope this will help you and always keep in mind which is the shape of your data.
Documentation: LinearRegression fit

X : array-like or sparse matrix, shape (n_samples, n_features)

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GoPro Sets Six-Point Sales Revival Plan
Posted by SGB Media | Feb 2, 2018 | Exec Outdoor, Exec Sports/Fitness, SGB Executive, XX SEW
Wrapping up a disappointing holiday campaign, GoPro reported fourth-quarter results that came in even below a severe downward revision given only on January 8. But management said a move to lower prices in early December had boosted sell-throughs and listed six priorities for 2018 designed to build on that traction.
In the quarter ended December 31:
Revenues fell 38.1 percent to $334.8 million from $540.6 million. On January 8, GoPro said it expected revenue in the quarter to be approximately $340 million. When GoPro released third-quarter results on November 1, GoPro had said it expected sales in the range of $460 million and $480 million.
Gross margins were 23.8 percent on a GAAP basis and 24.8 percent on a non-GAAP basis. The company warned on January 8 that it expected GAAP gross margin for the quarter to be between 24 percent and 26 percent and non-GAAP gross margin between 25 percent and 27 percent. When it reported third-quarter results, it predicted GAAP and Non-GAAP gross margin coming in between 41 percent and 42 percent.
The reported loss was $55.9 million, or 41 cents a share, against a loss of $115.8 million, or 82 cents, in the same period a year ago. When it reported third-quarter results, GoPro expected net earnings in the range of 25 to 35 cents.
On an adjusted basis, the loss in the quarter was $41.3 million, or 30 cents a share, against a profit of $42.4 million, or 29 cents, a year ago. Wall Street's consensus estimate had been 11 cents a share. When it reported third-quarter results, GoPro predicted adjusted earnings in the range of 37 and 47 cents.
One area of improvement was operating expenses, which came in at $138.1 million on a GAAP basis and $120.3 million on a non-GAAP basis. When it came out with third-quarter results, the company said it expected GAAP operating expenses between $148 million and $149 million and non-GAAP between $129 million and $131 million.
While updating its guidance on January 8, GoPro also announced plans to cut 254 jobs, or about 20 percent of its workforce, as well as exit the drone category in part due to a "hostile regulatory environment."
The job cuts were part of an overall restructuring plan to reduce $80 million in operating expenses this year to bring operating expenses below $400 million for 2018 on a non-GAAP basis.
The first three quarters of the year showed some stabilization in the business. For the year, GoPro revenue was $1.18 billion, flat year-over-year. Operating expenses decreased by more than 30 percent year-over-year. The company ended the year with $247 million in cash and marketable securities, up $50 million from the third quarter.
"Our fiscal year was marked by three strong quarters of operating efficiency and solid execution by our teams, overshadowed by a miss in the holiday quarter," said GoPro's founder and CEO, Nicholas Woodman, on a conference call with analysts.
Woodman also claimed that GoPro "is operating more efficiently and returning to profitability is a priority," pointing to its success and goals around expense reductions. He added, "And we expect to achieve this without sacrificing innovation."
He also said the despite the quarter's miss, "GoPro's brand is strong and our products are best in class" with sell-through increasing across its line-up following its price reductions.
Discussing the quarter, Woodman said the company saw solid demand for HERO6 Black early in the fourth quarter, but demand for its mid-priced camera, HERO5 Black, was weaker than expected. On December 10, prices on the HERO5 Black and HERO5 Session were reduced by $100. As a result, unit sell-through of HERO5 Black in the U.S. and Europe more than doubled in December and sell-through of HERO5 Session approximately tripled.
On January 7, the HERO6 Black was reduced by $100 to $399, resulting in an "immediate dramatic lift in sell-through."
Woodman noted that while the sell-through pickup was offset by tighter margins and price-protection, it showed that "there is clearly significant demand for GoPro at the right price." He said the company also learned that a "meaningful percentage of GoPro's customer-base are loyal repeat buyers," open to upgrading for a newer model and responding to a discount on a lower model. He also said GoPro recognized it needs to do a better job bringing value to entry-level products to attract new fans. Woodman also admitted that GoPro's "lack of a significant direct competitor has made it uniquely challenging for us to understand the price sensitivity of our products."
With the quarter's lessons, Woodman listed six priorities for GoPro for 2018:
Strengthen our analytics and understanding of our customer: Woodman said, "We must invest more in analytics to improve our understanding of our market, our customer and pricing dynamics, so that we can produce more predictable results."
Increase investment in marketing: Customer engagement remains strong, with social media followers increasing 16 percent increase and Instagram followers expanding by 26 percent in 2017. But GoPro's marketing focus will be heightened on attracting new customers to its "2018 line-up, our best-valued products ever."
Broaden price points: GoPro will be "launching a new and improved entry-level product to address what we see as a meaningful opportunity to expand our community of users."
Eliminate friction in its camera, mobile and cloud experience: Said Woodman, "We believe our success as a company is tied to the convenience of our camera app and cloud experience. And we must work tirelessly to eliminate any and all friction to maximize its appeal and effectiveness for our users."
Bring more value to subscription offerings: GoPro earlier in the week launched an updated version of its Plus subscription service that includes a "You Break It, We'll Replace It" camera guarantee, GoPro app cloud backup of your videos and unlimited photos, GoPro.com discounts and more. Said Woodman, "Stay tuned for more subscription initiatives in 2018, as we plan for this to become an increasingly important part of our business moving forward.
Attract talent: Woodman said, 'Finding, motivating and engaging great people has been the bedrock of our success as a brand and developer of best-in-class products. We intend to continue this by fostering a great culture and providing career growth opportunities to our employees."
Despite the challenging fourth quarter, Woodman noted that the company launched the "industry leading products HERO6 Black and Fusion to critical acclaim," significantly advanced the convenience of its camera app and cloud ecosystem and continued to grow the brand globally "and show there is strong demand for GoPro at the right price."
He concluded, "Our 2018 opportunity is to combine the sell-through we are now seeing with the higher margin products we plan to release in the second half of the year. In GoPro, we have the best product lineup, we've ever created, backed by one of the world's strongest brands. It's our job to leverage these assets to create value for our shareholders."
For 2018, due to the higher weeks of channel inventory ending 2017, revenues are expected to be down in the first half of 2018 with revenue resuming in the second half. Margins are projected to be in the mid-20 percent range in the first half, recovering to the upper-30 percent range in the second half, due to the introduction of new higher margin products.
Impacting margins in the first half will be the sell off of the remaining inventory of its Karma drone, which currently has a margin of zero as well as the launch of an entry-level SKU camera that will carry an initial margin below corporate average.
On a non-GAAP basis, GoPro is expected to be unprofitable in the first half of 2018 before returning to profitability in the second half, resulting in a loss for the year. Added Brian McGee, CFO, on the call, stated, "However, we expect our loss to narrow compared to 2017. And I'll add that we could be profitable in 2018 with better-than-expected uptake of our products and improved leverage from our marketing efforts."
Photo courtesy GoPro
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MINERVA, (del inglés MINiature Exoplanet Radial Velocity Array) en español Formación de Velocidad Radial Exoplanetaria en Miniatura es un observatorio robótico dedicado a los exoplanetas. La instalación consta de una serie de telescopios robóticos de apertura pequeña equipados tanto para fotometría como para espectroscopia Doppler de alta resolución ubicada en el Observatorio Fred Lawrence Whipple de los Estados Unidos en el Monte. Hopkins, Arizona. El investigador principal del proyecto es el astrónomo americano John Johnson. La formación consiste en 5 telescopios. Los telescopios fueron fabricados por PlaneWave Instruments

MINERVA-Rojo
MINERVA-Rojo es un espectrógrafo de echelle optimizado para el "rojo profundo", entre 800 nm y 900 nm (donde las estrellas enanas del tipo M son más brillantes) con un telescopio robótico de 0,7 metros. Utiliza un étalón Fabry-Perot y una lámpara U/Ne para la calibración de la longitud de onda.

Véase también

Otros proyectos de búsqueda de exoplanetas
 Proyecto HATNet (HATNet)
 Kilodegree Extremadamente Poco Telescopio (KELT)
 Luego-Generación Transit Encuesta (NGTS)
 Trans-Atlántico Exoplanet Encuesta (TrES)
 XO Telescopio

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 Miniatura Exoplanet Variedad de Velocidad Radial (MINERVA) yo. Diseño, Encargando, y Primeros Resultados de Ciencia
  Conferencia: Exoplanetary ciencia y misión de Kepler actualización YouTube/Youtube (tiempo 25:01 min.
 Minerva-Rojo

Instrumentos astronómicos
Telescopios

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