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Aqua is a new electronic trading platform focused on creating access to new pools of block liquidity for institutions, brokers, and hedge funds. Based in New York, Aqua has received regulatory approval to operate as an alternative trading system for U.S. equities. Featuring block liquidity contributed by a broad range of sell-side firms, Aqua is the safest, most efficient and quickest tool ever created for electronic block trading between the sell-side and the buy-side.
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Since 1983 Aqua-Cycles® have been turning heads from Florida to California to Cape Cod and from Bora Bora to Hawaii to the Cayman Islands. Unique, fun, safe, and rugged are their trademarks. Made of tough Space Age Polymer (polyethylene plastic) to withstand sun, rain, salt water, abrasions and rental abuse, Aqua-Cycles® are found on beaches, bays and marinas where only rugged products can survive.
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Much of Aqua's original design was intended to complement the translucent two-tone look of Apple's contemporaneous hardware, primarily the original bondi blue iMac. In 2003 and 2004, Apple moved to the use of brushed metal in their industrial design (such as with the aluminum Apple Cinema Displays); Aqua changed accordingly, incorporating the additional brushed metal look while deemphasizing the pinstripe backgrounds and transparency effects. In recent years... the brushed metal look has also been abandoned, in favor of white semi-reflective plastic, similar to the industrial design of the original iPod. This somewhat inconsistent mix of interface styles has been controversial among the Mac OS X user community. Apple replaced these inconsistent window themes with the introduction of Mac OS X Leopard.
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The Aqua mission builds on NASA's long history of studying the Earth and its atmosphere from the impressive perspective of space. NASA scientists and others have been doing such studies since the 1960s, and the efforts by now have matured to the point where many Earth science elements are being studied together as a global system. Earth System Science integrates several important scientific disciplines, including meteorology, atmospheric chemistry, oceanography, glaciology, hydrology, and biology. Amongst the aims are an integrated understanding of the Earth system at present, an improved understanding of the prominent changes the system has undergone in the past, and improved predictions regarding how the system is likely to change in the future. Satellites contribute toward these goals by enabling the collection of global data sets that would be impractical through any other available means.
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Aqua was launched on May 4, 2002, and has six Earth-observing instruments on board, collecting a variety of global data sets. Aqua was the first member launched of a group of satellites termed the Afternoon Constellation, or sometimes the A-Train. The second member to be launched was Aura, in July 2004, the third member was PARASOL, in December 2004, and the fourth and fifth members are CloudSat and CALIPSO, in May 2006. Expected upcoming missions are OCO and Glory, with the placement of Glory not yet determined. Once completed, the A-Train will be led by OCO, followed by Aqua, then CloudSat, CALIPSO, PARASOL, and, in the rear, Aura.
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The Aqua theme has ... been embedded in applications made by Apple for use in Microsoft Windows. A significant program is iTunes, which has the same theme as the Mac OS X version. iTunes for Windows also includes Cover Flow, which is incorporated into Leopard. Another program for Windows that includes the Aqua theme is the Safari web browser. The Windows version includes a functional Aqua scrollbar, as well as sheet dialogs very similar to those in Mac OS X.
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