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	octopus - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about octopus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The octopus has rows of suckers along the length of each arm (or tentacle) which, as well as helping it swim and crawl around the ocean floor, allows it to search in cracks and crevices and grab prey.
		The octopus is a carnivore (flesh-eater), usually feeding on crabs, shrimps, and mussels, but the larger species of octopus have been known to hunt small sharks and dogfish.
		Once a leash of thin fl whips, like the arms of an octopus, flashed across the sunset and was immediately with- drawn, and afterwards a thin rod rose up, joint by joint, bearing at its apex a circular disk that spun with a wobbling motion.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Octopus (572 words)

	Compare travel insurance
		Value can be added to the card using add-value machines located at all stations in the MTR and KCR networks, or with the help of the cashiers at any merchant accepts Octopus Card (example: supermarkets or convenience stores) and MTR and KCR service centres.
		As Octopus cards do not require physical contact with readers, and can be read from up to a few centimetres away through common materials such as cotton or leather; visitors to Hong Kong may find it strange to see people holding their wallets, handbags, backpacks or jackets on or near readers.
		In addition to the standard, "on-loan" Octopus cards, which are anonymous, a rainbow-coloured personalised Octopus card is also available; these cards are imprinted with the cardholder's name and photograph (if desired), and function automatically as a Child, Adult or Elder card by recognising the cardholder's age stored on the card (hence accounting for concessionary fares).
	www.freewebs.com /cheap-travel/compare-travel-insurance (1610 words)

	AN ENGINEERING VIEW OF THE LRL OCTOPUS COMPUTER NETWORK
		Octopus was later modernized to use the newest and best networking designs, overall reliability was improved enormously, and the speeds of all the channels were raised over a factor of ten. In addition to collecting a staff of superb engineers and technicians, Dave Pehrson led these developments.
		OCTOPUS Network connection reduces software efforts required for the new system; capabilities provided by the centralized storage facility and remote I/O systems need not be duplicated.
		The LRL OCTOPUS Data Channel is connected to the particular worker machine channel by an adapter as shown in Figure 4 and Figure 5.
	www.computer-history.info /Page4.dir/pages/Octopus.dir/index.html (8936 words)

	Octopus card - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cards can be recharged with cash at add-value machines in subway and rail stations, over-the-counter in stores such as 7-Eleven, Wellcome and Circle K, or directly through credit cards and bank accounts.
		Making or recording a payment using the card while passing through an MTR or ferry ticket gate, boarding a bus, alighting from a tram, or while purchasing items from various outlets can be done by holding the card against or in close proximity to an Octopus card reader.
		Octopus cards are highly popular with tourists and residents alike, which explains how there are twice as many Octopus cards in circulation as there are people living in Hong Kong (although some people own more than one card).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Octopus_card (4837 words)

	anywherebb_internal_frame (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Using a card involves simply holding the card in close proximity next to an Octopus reader, and recharging is done with cash at add-value machines or over the counter at stores and shops, or directly via debiting credit cards and bank accounts.
		Octopus has become one of the world's most successful electronic cash systems, with over 12 million Octopus cards in circulation (nearly twice that of Hong Kong's population) and over eight million transactions per day, with nearly 300 service vendors (as of January 2005).
		The operator of the Octopus system, Octopus Cards Limited, a joint venture between MTR Corporation and other transport companies in Hong Kong, has won a number of contracts to extend Octopus-style systems to the Netherlands and Changsha.
	anywherebb.com /postline/result.php?m=58404 (195 words)

	Vision Engineer - Octopus Card - Multipurpose Smart Card (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Octopus is an electronic ticketing system that makes travelling in Hong Kong simple and convenient.
		Moreover, Octopus card can also be used on most public payphones, vending machines and photo booths in transport premises.
		Octopus is a successful example of applying chip or smart card technology to everyday life and make life more convenient.
	www.visionengineer.com /tech/octopus.php (435 words)

	Visa Wave vs. Octopus - SkyscraperCity
		The cards can now be used to pay for a wide range of goods and services across the city and the company bills its smart card as the world's most successful.
		As well as being a fully fledged credit card, Visa Wave can work in the same way as Octopus cards, with consumers not having to sign or type in a PIN for their transactions.
		Octopus Cards Limited said yesterday it had held talks with transport operators about extending the scheme to their commuters, but admitted it would not be possible in the near future.
	www.skyscrapercity.com /showthread.php?t=276953 (1333 words)

	Swietlistej Drogi Tarot Review
		The Swietlistej Drogi Tarot is a Tarot of 78 cards from Poland.
		Apart from a rainbow on the Fool card, the entire deck is composed of white and yellow-gold on a fl background.
		The backgrounds on these cards are not African or Caribbean or pseudo-versions of Africa or the Caribbean or the Deep South or Harlem.
	www.aeclectic.net /tarot/cards/swietlistej-drogi/review.shtml (992 words)

	Toy Cards
		Similar to the first series, cards are packaged at 4 cards per figure and the 64-card set contains artwork on both sides of the cards where the card backs are actual puzzle pieces.
		The cards in this set are distinguished by the red border and predominantly red background in the artwork.
		Card numbering, title, and description are identical to the cards in the basic set, but artwork differs - showing the Marvel character corresponding to the packaged action figure.
	abs-cards.net /checklists/toys.html (1307 words)

	Judgment Limited Review
		The tricks you can do with this card and Floating Shield are ludicrous, with the sacrifice of Shield and activation of the Mythmaker combining to protect all of your creatures from pretty much anything, and the recurrence of Shade's Form creating havoc, leaving all of your creatures pretty much invulnerable.
		This card's inclusion here is in part testimony to the strength of Wormfang Drake, which quick creatures like the Researcher will help you exploit, but I wouldn't suggest you start playing Confessors and Dedicated Martyrs.
		This card could prove absolutely useless in its main deck capacity, so I'd recommend it primarily as a sideboard card against aggressive decks that either use their graveyard cards for other things or have trouble getting cards into the graveyard in the first place.
	www.wizards.com /default.asp?x=sideboard/strategy/20020625a (2044 words)

	The Future of Money - CFO.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Inside her wallet was an Octopus card, one of 4 million used every day in Hong Kong.
		She sees smart cards not as a mere convenience or added liquidity, but as a method of unifying, controlling and growing a company in a low-margin, multi-market business.
		There are cards protected by a PIN, but researchers are more interested in biometrics; when you make a smart-card payment in the future, the card reader might check your fingerprints or your retina.
	www.cfo.com /printable/article.cfm/3001414?f=options (3107 words)

	Trade Issues
		As required, the three safeguard limits for categories 222 (knitted fabric), 349/649 (cotton and man-made fibre brassieres and other supporting garments), and 350/650 (cotton and man-made fibre robes and dressing gowns) re-opened on 24 January in amounts equal to 5% of the embargoed limits.
		The cards may be used for writing messages by the sender and kept by the recipients as souvenirs.
		Sky's the limit - When Octopus Cards Limited was formed by a group of Hong Kong transport operators in 1994, it had a vision of using a single smart card for all modes of transport.
	www.hkchcc.org /trade_issues2.htm (17566 words)

	Nvidia galloping ahead on graphics front
		I fully expect the generation of cards that hit in 2006 to be able to take much better advantage of the bi-directional bandwidth offered by PCIe, but right now, we seem to have cards that don't exceed the AGP limits even when on PCIe.
		Both cards appear to have to keep a full set of the textures and geometry on board because each can be called on to render any part in the course of a frame or two.
		Assuming that that the slave card passes half of that to the other, and there is a little overhead, say 50% for geometry, textures, and the always necessary miscellaneous, we are at about 1GBps flying between the cards.
	www.theinquirer.net /?article=22471 (2355 words)

	The Future of Money - E-Commerce - CFO.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Multi-application cards have now been developed that are capable of several functions, including storing monetary value, keeping personal information about the cardholder, and updating his or her accounting relationship with the card and the application issuer.
		In Hong Kong, for example, youngsters are buying colorful Octopus watches, a stored-value gadget that lets them buy drinks at 7-11 stores, jump on the MTR and, of course, tell the time with a flick of the wrist.
		Like the Octopus card, FeliCa is a 'contactless' smart card, meaning that you tap the card onto a reader surface without even removing it from your wallet.
	www.cfo.com /article.cfm/3001414/2/c_2984283 (716 words)

	Spidey Food/Product Promo Cards
		The cards on the sheet shown here are sequentially numbered, however, since there are 30 cards to the set it is assumed the cards may be placed randomly on each sheet.
		Spider-Man, Neo-Products: Several lenticular/3D cards and card sets featuring Spider-Man and Fantastic Four characters were made by Neo-Products (www.neo-products.com) and distributed with their comic activity kits made for kids.
		The card backs had new text for this 5-card set with cards being numbered "1 of 5", "2 of 5", etc. and the Ralston Foods logo printed on the lower right corner of the card back.
	abs-cards.net /checklists/food/fp_spidey.html (3050 words)

	Hungry octopus forms trick elbow
		Octopus arms are able to move in nearly any direction, or what scientists call a virtually infinite number of "degrees of freedom."
		Israeli and Italian researchers, led by biologist Binyamin Hochner of Hebrew University in Jerusalem, found last year that when it's feeding time, the eight-armed octopus forms a temporary elbow-like joint to grasp the food and tip it into the mouth.
		The octopus uses the technique to form a three-jointed limb, similar to the human shoulder, elbow and wrist, that allow its tentacles to grasp a morsel of food.
	www.cbc.ca /health/story/2006/04/18/octopus-elbow060418.html (1223 words)

	Octopus Cards Ltd. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		For the card of the same name, see Octopus card.
		Octopus Cards Limited (traditional Chinese: 八達通卡有限公司) is the operator of the Octopus rechargeable contactless smart card used in an electronic payment system in Hong Kong.
		The company was founded in 1993 as a non-profit joint venture between Hong Kong's major transport operators, and was initially known as Creative Star Limited.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Octopus_Cards_Limited (188 words)

	Cards and Payments Australasia 2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In this role she is responsible for consumer card P&L, card marketing, customer acquisition and retention, product development, portfolio development, strategic alliance management, loyalty programs and cross sell.
		Dee joined the National in 2001 to manage a major project for the Cards business unit and her former roles have included Head of Marketing and Head of Strategic Alliances for Cards.
		Octopus is the world's most successful contactless payment scheme (over 9m transactions a day, used by 95% of the population and coveraging 370 different service providers from transport to major retailers).
	www.terrapinn.com /2006/cards_au/SpeakerList.stm (2957 words)

	Is There a Future for Payment-Oriented Smart Cards in the U.S.?
		Bank-issued smart cards will decline steadily from a peak of 21 million in 2002 to 8.5 million in 2007, making up the remaining 29.5%, as chip cards expire and are not replaced.
		Unfortunately, transit smart card fare systems tend be closed loop and proprietary, leaving little opportunity for financial institutions to participate, except in a support function.
		We remain reluctant to endorse smart card investments by financial institutions until there is a clearer business case for doing so, and do not see how such a case could be made in the U.S., absent a dramatic increase in fraud rates.
	www.financetech.com /showArticle.jhtml?articleID=19400271 (727 words)

	Sony Global - FeliCa
		The Octopus Card, the first card employing FeliCa technology, was introduced in Hong Kong back in 1997.
		The "ez-link Card", an automatic public transport payment system for the bus, metro and railroad that was introduced in April 2002 in Singapore, with the application of FeliCa technology.
		The municipality recently added a metro system to their public transport choice of bus and taxi services in 2004, and with the system applying FeliCa technology for metro passenger tickets, as well.
	www.sony.net /Products/felica/csy/index.html (241 words)

	Octopus Asset Management
		Welcome to Octopus, the fund management company that is focused on meeting the individual needs of each investor.
		Welcome to Octopus, the fund management company that is focused on meeting the individual needs of...
		Octopus Asset Management (www.octopusam.com) is a leading fund manager and private equity investor into fast growing SME companies.
	www.assetmanagementbureau.com /4/octopus-asset-management.php (1766 words)

	Octopus Plant (c) 2001 by Eddie Matejowsky - scene sketches: the photography gallery
		Octopus Plant (c) 2001 by Eddie Matejowsky - scene sketches: the photography gallery
		Limited Edition 6" x 8" >> Subtract (-$80.00)
		Seeing them makes me want to go back to the warm sand where they grow with the gentle lapping of water nearby.
	www.scenesketches.com /octopus_plant.html (114 words)

	Viewpoint: Code of Practice for Payment Card Scheme Operators (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The new Code of Practice for Payment Card Scheme Operators reflects a strong commitment to the safety and efficiency of payment card operations in Hong Kong.
		Although retail card payment systems are not yet developed to a stage that is significant for the purpose of designation under the CSSO, the potential impact of any security incident should not be overlooked and the public concern over the CardSystems incident was well justified.
		These operators support our goal of promoting the safety and efficiency of credit and debit card operations in Hong Kong and fostering public confidence in the card operations, and agreed that the best way to do this was to develop a Code of Practice for the industry.
	www.info.gov.hk /hkma/eng/viewpt/20061214e.htm (598 words)

	RFID World Asia 2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Greg Pote is Chairman of the Asia Pacific Smart Card Association (APSCA), the Asia Pacific division of an international affiliation of Smart Card associations established around the world by the Smartex organisation.
		The aim of the Asia Pacific Smart Card Association is to promote the adoption of smart card technology, under suitable standards, for all relevant private sector and public sector applications across the Asia Pacific region including China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Malaysia and Singapore.
		APSCA is focused on the commercial and technical aspects of smart cards, and encourages organisations to examine the business case and financial considerations of smart card schemes, as well as technical issues.
	www.terrapinn.com /2006/rfidwa_SG/SpeakerList.stm (2341 words)

	KOWLOON CANTON RAILWAY CORP - KOWHF Annual and Transition Report (foreign private issuer) (20-F) ITEM 4. INFORMATION ON ...
		The Octopus Smart Card system is owned and operated by Octopus Cards Limited, in which we own a 22.1% interest.
		Octopus Cards Limited's other shareholders include other public transport carriers such as MTRCL and franchise bus operators.
		Implementation of the Octopus Smart Card has reduced congestion at entries into stations, lowered maintenance costs for the entry gates and administrative costs generally, and decreased incidences of damaged cards.
	sec.edgar-online.com /2004/06/30/0001145549-04-000854/section5.asp (14457 words)

	Octopus.com Hooks Media Partners - Forbes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The firm hopes the Octopus information management technology will become the means by which this broadband media is distributed.
		Thanks to the Lynx partnership, the terms of which were not disclosed, Octopus could become a key delivery mechanism for the kind of broadband entertainment most experts believe will turn the Web into a truly mass-market medium.
		It's clear that if Octopus is the one-stop site where consumers can check for new MP3s or digital videos from anywhere on the Web, that could be a pretty compelling reason for Web-savvy surfers to visit.
	www.forbes.com /2000/08/02/feat.html (818 words)

	Ian Rowland: The Mindreader, The Mind Motivator. ReFlexions Gallery > Cygnus
		The others are Equus, Raptor and Woof (thus covering the four classic domains of land, air, water and things that bark).
		Due to the large numbers of legs involved, and the limited surface area of the card, I have no plans to add an octopus to the set.
		One correspondent has suggested it might be easier if I depicted a maimed octopus with one or more limbs missing.
	www.ianrowland.com /WowCards/ReFlexGallerypages/ReFGallCygnus.html (122 words)

	Boy, 3, bitten by octopus \| NEWS.com.au
		Jane Moss said today her son Anthony had been playing with the blue-ringed octopus in the shallows at Suttons Beach at Redcliffe, north of Brisbane, when it bit him yesterday.
		Ms Moss said Anthony and his twin brother had been "messing with" the octopus, and Anthony showed symptoms only minutes after they put the creature back in the water.
		Attacks by the blue-ringed octopus in waters off south-east Queensland are considered extremely rare.
	www.news.com.au /story/0,23599,20545618-1702,00.html (241 words)

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