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British singer/songwriter Jack Peñate knows a thing or two about starting over. At the age of 24, with his 2007 debut album Matinee already having snagged him a spot on the U.K. charts and a cover of NME, Peñate headed back to the studio, ready to try something different. He emerged with Everything Is New, an album that expands his radio-friendly sound to include Brazilian, Afrobeat, and lo-fi hip-hop influences without sacrificing any of his trademark every-man likeability. Grouped into the "Estuary English" pack of U.K. pop-performers who sing without altering their English accent, a category that includes the likes of Lily Allen, Kate Nash, and Adele, Peñate's sophomore effort represents a major step forward, demonstrating that he might just have the chops to outstrip the lot of 'em.
At a lean nine tracks, Everything Is New is an ambitious, cohesive meditation on a classic theme: the very nature of life and death. While brief—the album runs just over the half-hour mark—Peñate's observations are tossed off, not with a youthfully cavalier view of mortality, but rather succinctly offered in a wise-beyond-his-years recognition that happiness comes though embracing life's seasons in full. The topic of living gets its time in the spotlight on the titular ode to a changed perspective, "Everything Is New"—its harps, wall of beats, and reverb creating an atmosphere of danceable optimism. But it is really living in the shadow death that Peñate is concerned with. Or rather, as closing track "Lay Your Body Down" succinctly phrases the argument in relation to everyone's enviable demise, "It's going to get you in the end/So you might as well become its friend."
Despite a fixation on death, coloring Peñate's relationship with God, girls, and himself, Everything Is New also manages to deftly skirt a singularly morose viewpoint. From the house beats and carpe-diem refrain of "Tonight's Today," to the Tropicala-flavored New Orleans-inspired, "Let's All Die"—urging us with its chorus "When our life is over let's not cry"—the album sings from start to finish with the hard-won joy of an artist coming to terms with his own mortality and finding himself all the better for it. (www.jackpenate.com)
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I really liked DB's culture and the way they go about their business, the division has a great team of people. They seemed very supportive and they really focus on the personal development of interns/analysts. I also find DB to be more prestigious but that's just purely down to my personal subjective opinion.
Bank of America was very corporate during my visits but at the same time there was a feeling of everything being grand which I quite liked. The institution itself is massive and operates on such a huge scale, DB doesn't even compare in that sense. Also from what I understand it is way ahead in M&A than DB, or at least the numbers show it. However I'm not sure about how significant the London office is, whilst DB's London office is its flagship branch for IB.
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Major League Baseball 2K1213: The Kotaku Review
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Statements posted here are those of our readers and do not represent the BaseballThinkFactory. Names are provided by the poster and are not verified. We ask that posters follow our submission policy. Please report any inappropriate comments.1. Tripon Posted: March 10, 2013 at 04:59 AM (#4385365)
basically, mlb2k13 sucks2. scumbag Posted: March 10, 2013 at 05:27 AM (#4385368)
Warning: Article contains some naughty words. May not be SFW.3. OsunaSakata Posted: March 10, 2013 at 06:41 AM (#4385381)
Dont like the commercials where the host thinks the video game events are real. I liked the earlier years with the teary-eyed Cubs fan as they won the World Series and Tim Lincecum training his video game self.4. villageidiom Posted: March 10, 2013 at 07:11 AM (#4385390)
My son wanted to buy this for the Wii, but there will be no Wii edition of it. I think we dodged a bullet there.5. AndrewJ Posted: March 10, 2013 at 07:36 AM (#4385398)
Major League Baseball 2K13 is an offensively recycled product and an embarrassment to sports video games.
Well, that's nitpicking, innit?
What about "The Show" 2013.7. KronicFatigue Posted: March 10, 2013 at 10:47 AM (#4385443)
I owned an Xbox 360, but had to buy a ps3 JUST so i could play MLB The Show. That was the 2009 edition and it was the greatest baseball game I've ever played. Such attention to detail. Examples: Yankees roll call, A Bob sheppard like voice introducing Jeter, camera behind Mariano when he enters the game. I even added Enter Sandman for his custom song.8. Dan Posted: March 10, 2013 at 11:29 AM (#4385462)
Most importantly: awesome gameplay. Working the count so you could get a hittable pitch was key. That game threw off my video game playing for years, as I had to play every inning of an entire season. I've never caught up. I have games from that Christmas that I still haven't had a chance to play. I bought MLB the Show '12 this Christmas and it seems even better. I'll get to a review sometime in '16, I promise.
I liked the earlier years with the teary-eyed Cubs fan as they won the World Series
Wasn't this an MLB The Show commercial?
What about "The Show" 2013.
MLB the Show 13 is AMAZING. I got it on Tuesday and it's really a big improvement on last year's game. Player models are even better, somehow. Ball physics have been further improved, after the huge jump last year they've still managed to refine them further. Hitting feels much better now since timing is more forgiving; due to this there are far more XBH than there were in the last few seasons. They've also redone the repertoires of almost every pitcher in MLB, making them far more accurate in both pitch selection and velocity/movement.
I'm really looking forward to playing the MLB Live mode once the season actually begins. In this mode it will use actual matchups and lineups and statistics from the games on that day.
#8 Dan, so far I'm in agreement. I was considering not purchasing MLB the Show this year, but when I saw the MLB Live feature, I pre-ordered it. I've always played single player exhibition games, and I liked to sit down on a Saturday and "play along" with some of the games going on that day. However, it was always a pain to look up the lineups and make the necessary changes to my rosters. I'm looking forward to doing the same thing with no effort once the season starts. I also may try the Postseason mode. Simulating a season seems like too much work, but the postseason seems reasonable.10. Dan Posted: March 10, 2013 at 08:25 PM (#4385909)
I'm enjoying the game play so far, especially the revised hitting. I agree with most folks that last year's hitting revisions took some of the fun out of the game. It seems they've kept the impressive ball flight physics, but it seems there's a more realistic BABIP going on.
I don't know if my experience was typical to last year's hitting and ball physics, but for me last years game had a ton of singles but almost 0 XBH. I'd have games with 14 or 15 hits, but only 1 double and the rest singles. And those would only result in 3 or 4 runs. So far in this years game I'm seeing much more realistic numbers of doubles, triples, and home runs. It also helps that it seems like more balls get by the outfielders to the wall.in last years game it seemed like OFers cutoff way too may balls hit into the gaps and the corners.11. sinicalypse Posted: March 11, 2013 at 12:31 PM (#4386286)
When I got my Xbox360 in July 2011 I was compelled to get MLB 2K11 for the sake of having a baseball game. I figured that somewhere in the game is an old core of World Series Baseball, which used to be a fun game to play in the early-mid 2000s (after the initial Dreamcast offering that used a right trigger button release to swing, combining withat the poor fielding/pitching to essentially make it a hitting simulator) and I was aghast the convoluted "total control pitching" system.
Seriously, I can't come up with another SFW word beyond convoluted, because you have to execute a long precision-detailed sequence on the analogue stick in order to get the pitch where you want it to go. In games past if I could physicals get the pitches where I wanted to go I'd have success that yielded generally-lifelike results. In this game I couldn't manage anything other than throwing meat. When I turned the system off I'd find myself consistently having CG shutouts/1-run-games-thanks-to-a-solo-HR. If there was only a happy medium where I could be challenged enough to occasionally have a mediocre pitcher give up ~5 runs during a so-so start, as opposed to all (CG SHO) or nothing (10+ runs on 24 hits because I either throw it right down the middle or 4 feet outside) I reckon I'd have at least ma.de it ~50 games into a season before falling victim to my traditional ADHD attention span. C'est la vie.
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This week, more than 12,000 students from around the globe traveled to St. Louis, Mo., to put their engineering skills to the test at the annual FIRST® (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Championship, held at the Edward Jones Dome.
The science of celebration! Teams of high-school students from Calif., Mich., and Texas rejoice after winning the coveted title of FIRST® Robotics Competition Alliance Winners at the 2014 FIRST Championship in St. Louis, Mo. (Photo: Business Wire)
The three-day event came down to a heart-pounding conclusion Saturday night in front of a roaring crowd of 20,000 when four teams from San Jose, Calif., Bloomfield Hills, Mich.; Dallas, Texas; and Holland, Mich., won the coveted FIRST® Robotics Competition (FRC®) Championship Winning Alliance. In this year's game, AERIAL ASSISTSM, FRC teams took to the field, where competing Alliances scored points by throwing balls over a truss, catching balls, and putting as many balls in goals as possible. The more Alliances worked together to score, the more points their Alliance received. This year, 68,175 students on 2,727 FRC teams in 17 countries participated in 98 Regional and District competitions.
In all, more than 12,000 students, ages 6 to 18, participated in the Championship events.
Selected Quotes:
- "This country celebrates sports and entertainment, but wealth is not created by these ventures; it is the result," said FIRST Founder, Dean Kamen. "It's a passion for science, technology, and innovation that have allowed these industries to prosper. Take what you have learned here and solve the world's problems."
- "There's nowhere else I'd rather be, but here in St. Louis with you; the future," STEM education advocate, will.i.am, said to a crowd of 20,000 people. "If you want a peek at the future, you come here to the FIRST Championship. And when I say future, I mean future leaders, future inventors, and future problem solvers."
- "I've been impressed and inspired by you all," said Amy Kule, Group Vice President, Macy's Parade and Entertainment Group. "Continue to think bigger, think smarter, and save the world."
Several other U.S. and international FIRST student robotics teams earned honors for design excellence, competitive play, research, business plans, website design, teamwork, and partnerships. A not-for-profit organization founded in 1989 by inventor Dean Kamen, FIRST inspires young people's interest and participation in science and technology.
More than 600 teams from 38 countries competed in the three levels of FIRST: FIRST® LEGO® League (FLL®, grades 4 to 8, 9 to 14-year-olds in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico; 9 to 16-year-olds outside the U.S., Canada, and Mexico); FIRST® Tech Challenge (FTC®, grades 7 to 12, 12 to 18-year-olds); and FIRST® Robotics Competition (FRC®, grades 9 to 12, ages 14 to 18). In addition to the high-energy robotics matches, 40 teams of 6 to 9-year-olds participated in the Junior FIRST® LEGO® League (Jr.FLL®, grades K-3), World Festival Expo.
In addition to the FRC winning Alliance and awards, the Dr. Bart Kamen Memorial Scholarships were given to:
- Brian Cheng, FIRST Tech Challenge Teams 406, 407, and 408 and FIRST Robotics Competition Team 118 from Parkway South High School in Manchester, Mo.
- Patrick Demkowicz, FIRST Robotics Competition Team 178 from Farmington Senior High School in Farmington, Conn.
- Jane Tong, FIRST Robotics Competition Team 75 from Hillsborough High School in Hillsborough, N.J.
- Vishnu Rachakonda, FIRST LEGO League Alumnus and FIRST Robotics Competition Team 53 from Eleanor Roosevelt High School in Greenbelt, Md.
The FIRST Championship honored significant supporters of the FIRST mission:
- Qualcomm was the recipient of the Founder's Award, presented each year by FIRST founder Dean Kamen to one organization or individual for exceptional service in advancing the ideals and mission of FIRST. Dr. Paul E. Jacobs, Executive Chairman, accepted the award.
- Lane Matheson, Director, Tulsa Engineering Academy at Memorial High School; Mentor, Team 932, Circuit Chargers, Tulsa, Okla. was the recipient of the Woodie Flowers Award, founded by Dr. William P. Murphy Jr. to recognize an outstanding engineer or teacher who best demonstrates teaching excellence in teaching science, math and creative design.
- Amy Kule, Group Vice President, Macy's Parade and Entertainment Group was the recipient of the Make It Loud Award, given to the person who has contributed the most in increasing the awareness of FIRST to the general public.
- Lynn Tilton, Founder and CEO, Patriarch Partners LLC was the recipient of the new Trailblazer Award, given to the person who initiates and supports new, innovative ways to engage and retain girls of every age in FIRST programs to prepare them for future math, science and engineering careers.
- Michelle Yang, Alexander Lu, and Valerie Huynh, FRC Team 5212, TAMSformers, Denton, Texas were the recipients of the FIRST Future Innovator Award sponsored by the Abbott Fund for their solar still design.
2014 FIRST Championship Winners
The event included three different robotics challenges; the 2014 winners of the competitions are as follows:
1. FIRST® Robotics Competition (FRC®) Championship – FRC combines sports excitement with the rigors of science and technology. Under strict rules, limited resources, and time limits, teams are challenged to fundraise, design a brand, exercise teamwork, and build and program robots to perform tasks against competitors.
- The Winning Alliance of the FIRST Robotics Competition Championship was Team 254, The Cheesy Poofs, San Jose, Calif.; Team 469, Las Guerrillas, Bloomfield Hills, Mich.; Team 2848, The All Sparks, Dallas, Texas; Team 74, Team C.H.A.O.S., Holland, Mich. from the Curie Division.
- Team 27, Team RUSH, Clarkston, Mich. won the Chairman's Award, the highest honor given at the FRC Championship, recognizing the team that best represents a model for other teams to emulate and best embodies the purpose and goals of FIRST.
Winners of the Dean's List Award included:
- Kinney Anderson, Team 2486, CocoNuts, Flagstaff, Ariz.;
- Callie Carbajal, Team 1671, Buchanan Bird Brains, Clovis, Calif.;
- Bryce Croucher, Team 2471, Team Mean Machine, Camas, Wash.;
- Michael Foley, Team 1923, The MidKnight Inventors, Plainsboro, N.J.;
- Alec Kumpf, Team 1311, Kell Robotics, Marietta, Ga.;
- Alexander Lew, Team 1912, Team Combustion, Slidell, La.;
- Madeleine Logeais, Team 2177, The Robettes, Mendota Heights, Minn;
- Simran Parwani, Team 3504, Girls of Steel, Pittsburgh, Pa.;
- Camron Razdar, Team 27, Team RUSH, Clarkston, Mich.;
- Anthony Stuart, Team 4201, Vitruvian Bots, Hawthorne, Calif.
Other FRC Awards included:
Engineering Inspiration Award –
- Archimedes Division: Team 2158, ausTIN CANs, Austin, Texas
- Curie Division: Team 2468, Team Appreciate, Austin, Texas
- Galileo Division: Team 384, Sparky 384, Richmond, Va.
- Newton Division: Team 1710, The Ravonics Revolution, Olathe, Kan.
Outstanding Volunteer of the Year Awards –
- Cynthia Stong, Chief Judge Advisor; Program Manager (retired), The Boeing Company
- Allen Bancroft, Chief Judge Advisor; Operations Manager, Flexicell, Inc.
- Championship Finalists – Team 1678, Citrus Circuits, Davis, Calif.; Team 1114, Simbotics, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada.; Team 1640, Sab-BOT-age, Downingtown, Pa.; Team 5136, Mechapirates, Santa Ynez, Calif.
- Division Winners – Archimedes Division: Team 2590, Nemesis, Robbinsville, N.J.; Team 1625, Winnovation, Winnebago, Ill.; Team 1477, Texas Torque, The Woodlands, Texas; Team 3467, The Windham Windup, Windham, N.H. Curie Division: Team 254, The Cheesy Poofs, San Jose, Calif.; Team 469, Las Guerrillas, Bloomfield Hills, Mich.; Team 2848, The All Sparks, Dallas, Texas; Team 74, Team C.H.A.O.S., Holland, Mich. Galileo Division: Team 67, The HOT Team, Milford, Mich.; Team 973, Greybots, Atascadero, Calif.; Team 2481, Roboteers, Tremont, Ill.; Team 2363, Triple Helix, Newport News, Va. Newton Division: Team 1678, Citrus Circuits, Davis, Calif.; Team 1114, Simbotics, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada.; Team 1640, Sab-BOT-age, Downingtown, Pa.; Team 5136, Mechapirates, Santa Ynez, Calif.
- Division Finalists – Archimedes Division: Team 27, Team RUSH, Clarkston, Mich.; Team 33, Killer Bees, Auburn Hills, Mich.; Team 334, TechKnights, Brooklyn, N.Y.; Team 175, Buzz Robotics, Enfield, Conn.; Curie Division: Team 1718, The Fighting Pi, Armada, Mich.; Team 2451, PWNAGE, Saint Charles, Ill.; Team 573, Mech Warriors, Bloomfield Hills, Mich.; Team 2016, Mighty Monkey Wrenches, Ewing, N.J. Galileo Division: Team 1153, Robo-Rebels, Walpole, Mass.; Team 4488, ShockWave, Hillsboro, Ore.; Team 1318, Issaquah Robotics Society, Issaquah, Wash.; Team 1218, Vulcan Robotics, Philadelphia, Pa.; Newton Division: Team 971, Spartan Robotics, Mountain View, Calif.; Team 1983, Skunk Works Robotics, Tukwila, Wash.; Team 341, Miss Daisy, Ambler, Pa.; Team 3147, Munster HorsePower, Munster, Ind.
Creativity Award sponsored by Xerox –
- Archimedes Division: Team 900, Zebracorns, Durham, N.C.
- Curie Division: Team 2451, PWNAGE, Saint Charles, Ill.
- Galileo Division: Team 2481, Roboteers, Tremont, Ill.
- Newton Division: Team 25, Raider Robotix, North Brunswick, N.J.
Excellence in Engineering Award sponsored by Delphi –
- Archimedes Division: Team 4265, Secret City Wildbots, Oak Ridge, Tenn.
- Curie Division: Team 3476, Code Orange, Dana Point, Calif.
- Galileo Division: Team 836, The RoboBees, Leonardtown, Md.
- Newton Division: Team 868, TechHOUNDS, Carmel, Ind.
Entrepreneurship Award sponsored by Kleiner Perkins Caufield
& Byers –
- Archimedes Division: Team 2590, Nemesis, Robbinsville, N.J.
- Curie Division: Team 1714, MORE Robotics, Milwaukee, Wis.
- Galileo Division: Team 3008, Falcons, Honolulu, Hawaii
- Newton Division: Team 1305, Ice Cubed, North Bay, Ontario, Canada
- FIRST 3D Printing Award sponsored by America Makes and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) – Team 3824, HVA RoHAWKtics, Knoxville, Tenn.
Professionalism® Award sponsored
by Johnson & Johnson –
- Archimedes Division: Team 4077, M*A*S*H, Edmonds, Wash.
- Curie Division: Team 2073, EagleForce, Elk Grove, Calif.
- Galileo Division: Team 2642, Pitt Pirates, Winterville, N.C.
- Newton Division: Team 1678, Citrus Circuits, Davis, Calif.
Imagery Award in honor of Jack Kamen –
- Archimedes Division: Team 4013, Clockwork Mania, Orlando, Fla.
- Curie Division: Team 2169, KING TeC, Prior Lake/Savage, Minn.
- Galileo Division: Team 5012, Gryffingear, Palmdale, Calif.
- Newton Division: Team 4481, The Rembrandts, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Industrial Design Award sponsored by General Motors –
- Archimedes Division: Team 399, Eagle Robotics, Lancaster, Calif.
- Curie Division: Team 1323, MadTown Robotics, Madera, Calif.
- Galileo Division: Team 1717, D'Penguineers, Goleta, Calif.
- Newton Division: Team 1986, Team Titanium, Lee's Summit, Mo.
Industrial Safety Award sponsored by UL –
- Archimedes Division: Team 2341, Sprockets, Shawnee, Okla.
- Curie Division: Team 624, CRyptonite, Katy, Texas
- Galileo Division: Team 337, Hard Working Hard Hats, Logan, W.Va.
- Newton Division: Team 1710, The Ravonics Revolution, Olathe, Kan.
Innovation in Control Award sponsored by Rockwell Automation –
- Archimedes Division: Team 1540, Flaming Chickens, Portland, Ore.
- Curie Division: Team 254, The Cheesy Poofs, San Jose, Calif.
- Galileo Division: Team 1885, ILITE Robotics, Haymarket, Va.
- Newton Division: Team 2614, MARS, Morgantown, W.Va.
- Media & Technology Innovation Award sponsored by Comcast/NBCUniversal – Team 1538, The Holy Cows, San Diego, Calif
Quality Award sponsored by Motorola –
- Archimedes Division: Team 2202, BEAST Robotics, Brookfield, Wis.
- Curie Division: Team 3990, Tech for Kids, Montréal, Québec, Canada
- Galileo Division: Team 1730, Team Driven, Lee's Summit, Mo.
- Newton Division: Team 1114, Simbotics, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
Team Spirit Award sponsored by Chrysler –
- Archimedes Division: Team 1519, Mechanical Mayhem, Milford, N.H.
- Curie Division: Team 3478, LamBot, San Luis Potosí, Mexico
- Galileo Division: Team 1023, Bedford Express, Temperance, Mich.
- Newton Division: Team 340, G.R.R. (Greater Rochester Robotics), Churchville, N.Y.
Highest Rookie Seed –
- Archimedes Division: Team 4911, CyberKnights, Seattle, Wash.
- Curie Division: Team 5172, Gators, Greenbush Middle River, Minn.
- Galileo Division: Team 4967, That ONE Team - Our Next Engineers, Belmont, Mich.
- Newton Division: Team 5136, Mechapirates, Santa Ynez, Calif.
Rookie All-star Award –
- Archimedes Division: Team 5006, Apophis, Prairie Grove, Ark.
- Curie Division: Team 5179, Les Sénateurs, Drummondville, Québec, Canada
- Galileo Division: Team 4917, Sir Lancer Bots, Elmira, Ontario, Canada
- Newton Division: Team 5291, emperius, Eilat, Israel
Rookie Inspiration Award –
- Archimedes Division: Team 4946, ALPHA DOGS, Bolton, Ontario, Canada
- Curie Division: Team 5093, Tech - Sets, Culiacan, Mexico
- Galileo Division: Team 4967, That ONE Team - Our Next Engineers, Belmont, Mich.
- Newton Division: Team 5190, Green Hope Falcons, Cary, N.C.
Judges' Awards –
- Archimedes Division: Team 3211, The Y Team, Yeruham, Israel
- Curie Division: Team 5297, BOLTZAP, Guangzhou, China
- Galileo Division: Team 973, Greybots, Atascadero, Calif.
- Newton Division: Team 2081, Icarus, Peoria, Ill.
2. FIRST® Tech Challenge (FTC®) World Championship – FTC students learn to think like engineers. Teams build robots from a reusable kit of parts, develop strategies, document their progress, and compete head to head. The object of this year's game, named FTC® BLOCK PARTY!SM, is to score more points than an opponent by placing plastic blocks into pendulum goals. Teams will be challenged to raise their team alliance flag up a flagpole, raise their robots off the ground using a platform pull-up bar, and end the match with a balanced pendulum to earn extra points.
Approximately 32,000 students on 3,230+ FIRST Tech Challenge teams competed during the 2013/2014 FTC season. The 2013/14 FIRST Tech Challenge Sponsors include Official Program Sponsor for the FIRST Tech Challenge, Rockwell Collins, and FTC CAD and Collaboration Sponsor, PTC.
The FIRST Tech Challenge World Championship Inspire Award, recognizing excellence in robot design and teamwork, went to Team 3141, Bears, Mexico City, Mexico. The Winning Alliance was Team 7013, Hot Wired, Portland, Ore.; Team 5257, Eagles Robotics XPerience, Delray Beach, Fla.; Team 4240, 4-H Techno Clovers, Accident, Md. from the Franklin Division.
The FTC Volunteer of the Year Award winner was Susie Mathieu of St. Louis, Mo. The Compass Award for excellence in coaching/mentoring was awarded to Robert Spath.
Other FTC awards included:
- Finalist Alliance – Team 4251, Cougar Robotics Team, Columbus, Ohio; Team 724, RedNek Robotics Wun, Sun River, Mont.; Team 4318, Green Machine, Ellicott City, Md. from the Edison Division.
- Division Winners – Edison Division: Team 4251, Cougar Robotics Team, Columbus, Ohio; Team 724, RedNek Robotics Wun, Sun River, Mont.; Team 4318, Green Machine, Ellicott City, Md. Franklin Division: Team 7013, Hot Wired, Portland, Ore.; Team 5257, Eagles Robotics XPerience, Delray Beach, Fla.; Team 4240, 4-H Techno Clovers, Accident, Md.
- Division Finalists – Edison Division: Team 6433, Neutrinos, Lakeland, Fla.; Team 6424, Oly Cow, Olympia, Wash.; Team 3708, Iron Eagles Optimus, Austin, Texas. Franklin Division: Team 4997, Masquerade, Tampa, Fla.; Team 6299, ViperBots QuadX, Austin, Texas ; Team 4211, The Bombers, St. Louis, Mo.
- Rockwell Collins Innovate Award – Team 3595, Schrödinger's Hat, Fairbanks, Alaska
- Motivate Award – Team 3954, Watts up!, Den Haag, Netherlands
- Connect Award – Team 4140, Fish in the Boat, Lakeville, Minn.
- Think Award – Team 5972, Patronum Bots, East Troy, Wis.
- PTC Design Award – Team 3486, Techno Warriors Advanced, Brandon, Miss.
- Promote Award – Team 3595, Schrödinger's Hat, Fairbanks, Alaska
- Control Award – Team 4092, Nanites, Portland, Ore.
Judges' Awards:
- Spreading Culture Through FIRST – Team 8357, Desert Matrix, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
- Materials Science Ph.D. – Team 6055, GearTicks, Lincoln, Mass.
3. FIRST® LEGO® League (FLL®) World Festival – FLL introduces younger children to real-world engineering challenges by conducting research projects and building LEGO-based autonomous robots to complete tasks on a thematic playing surface. FLL teams, guided by their imaginations, discover exciting career possibilities and learn to make positive contributions to society. This year's challenge, NATURE'S FURYSM, engaged 228,000+ kids on nearly 23,000 teams to explore the awe-inspiring storms, quakes, waves, and other natural disasters.
Top honors went to Champion's Award 1st Place winner, Team 20650, Invicta, Canterbury, United Kingdom; Champion's Award 2nd Place winner, Team 21450, Fast and Curious, Aley, Lebanon; and Champion's Award 3rd Place winner, Team 737, S.H.I.E.L.D., Brookfield, Wis.
Other FLL awards included:
- Robot Performance Award – Team 21550, OMG, of Kaoshiung, Taiwan
- Strategy & Innovation Award – Team 5515, Oh Boy…These Pickles are Natural Disasters, Bar Harbor, Maine
- Programming Award – Team 3551, M, San Mateo, Calif.
- Mechanical Design Award – Team 20700, sAPG-Tigers, Mosbach, Germany
- Research Award – Team 10296, CyberHawks, River Vale, N.J.
- Presentation Award – Team 21350, DYCI Blue Ocean 10, Bulacan, Philippines
- Innovative Solution Award – Team 6371, Positive Aftermath, Great Falls, Va.
- Teamwork Award – Team 8157, The Golden Eaglz, Bear, Del.
- Inspiration Award – Team 654, MO Peeps, Flint, Mich.
- Gracious Professionalism® Award – Team 21900, Team DAS, Dammam, Saudi Arabia
- Outstanding Volunteer Awards – Mark Daniels of New Hampshire and Stephen Scherr of Virginia
- Young Adult Mentor Awards – Christopher Smith of Flint, Mich., and Akshay "Big" Rathish, of Folsom, Calif.
- Adult Coach/Mentor Awards – Teofilo A. Gutierrez Gonzales of Peru and Robert and Chris Allsbrooks of Bowie, Md.
Judges' Awards
- Team 21650, LEGO King, Amman, Jordan
- Team 240, The Dream Team, Greenville, S.C.
- Team 21200, Wild Fire Ciberbots, Toluca, Mexico
- Team 11616, Robobots, Cary, N.C.
4. Junior FIRST® LEGO® League (Jr.FLL®) World Festival Expo – Jr.FLL introduces children ages 6 to 9 to the exciting worlds of science and technology. Teams of up to six children and one adult Coach take on a real-world Challenge, to be explored through research, critical thinking, and imagination.
In this year's Jr.FLL Challenge, DISASTER BLASTERSM, teams took a hands-on approach to the topic of natural disasters. Teams learn how science, technology, engineering, and math impact our everyday lives while they get excited about future innovations.
2014 FIRST Championship Sponsors
Qualcomm is the 2014 FIRST Championship Presenting Sponsor.
2014 FIRST Championship Program Sponsors include: Monsanto Company, Abbott Fund, Boeing Company, Coca-Cola Company, FedEx Corporation, NASA, NRG Energy, Inc., United States Air Force, and United Technologies Corporation.
Other 2014 FIRST Championship Sponsors include: America Makes, Autodesk, Bechtel Corporation, Best Buy Co., Inc., Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc., Central Intelligence Agency, Comcast/NBCUniversal, Culinary Institute of America, GoDaddy, International Association of Emergency Managers, International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE), Leidos, Inc., Microsoft Corporation, Mouser Electronics, Inc., Novelis, Inc., Nvidia Corporation, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Patriarch Partners, LLC (I am Jane; Ken Paves), Siemens, Southwest Airlines, SpaceX, UL, and Vulcan Spring.
Save the date! The FIRST Championship will be in St. Louis, Mo. through 2017: April 22-25, 2015 | April 27-30, 2016 | April 26-29, 2017
About FIRST®
Accomplished inventor Dean Kamen founded FIRST® (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) in 1989 to inspire an appreciation of science and technology in young people. Based in Manchester, N.H., FIRST designs accessible, innovative programs to build self-confidence, knowledge, and life skills while motivating young people to pursue opportunities in science, technology, and engineering. With support from over 200 of the Fortune 500 companies and more than $19 million in college scholarships, the not-for-profit organization hosts the FIRST® Robotics Competition (FRC® ) for students in Grades 9-12; FIRST® Tech Challenge (FTC® ) for Grades 7-12; FIRST® LEGO® League (FLL® ) for Grades 4-8; and Junior FIRST® LEGO® League (Jr.FLL®) for Grades K-3. Gracious Professionalism® is a way of doing things that encourages high-quality work, emphasizes the value of others, and respects individuals and the community. To learn more about FIRST, go to www.usfirst.org.
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On my journey to figure out what's next, I've spent the last year at Aleph exploring possibilities and thinking out loud with Michael and Eden. I have reached a destination: I am thrilled to announce that today I am joining WeWork as Senior Vice President, Digital Israel.
In this new capacity, I'll be joining the company's global leadership team and among my many missions ahead I am establishing WeWork's product and engineering center (Digital in WeWork lingo) here in Tel Aviv. This team that I am bringing together and will continue to grow will build added-value services for WeWork's community of creators across the globe. Combining delightful user experiences with incredible Israeli tech talent and a global brand is a gigantic privilege for me. I had a chance to do this once before at eBay's Innovation Center– and I'm humbled and ecstatic to take another swing at it, this time for the "WE" movement.
I used my time as an "Entrepreneur in Residence" to broaden my horizons and just absorb as much as I could. It was incredible to spend a big chunk of my time zooming in on different areas of interest, without diving in too deeply. I spent all of 2015 learning from Aleph's partners, portfolio and founders. All are unique in their leadership and focus; I couldn't ask for a more diverse group of industries, minds and opinions to learn from.
To be honest, starting "The Gifts Project" in 2009 and leading it from inception to acquisition was the most rewarding and educating experience I've ever had. Thus, my original game plan (for what it's worth) was to figure out whether I'm ready to take another shot at starting a company from scratch. I also looked at whether I should become a full-time investor. However, then WeWork came along, and it was hard not to fall in love.
Just in case you were living under a rock, WeWork is a platform for creators. We provide the space, community, and services you need to create your life's work. This vibrant ecosystem of creators, all of whom are fulfilling their dreams, are a tight knit community, weaved together by similar aspirations and a quench to make a dent on our world. Since WeWork is an Aleph portfolio company, I had a chance to work with this phenomenon closely, and pinpoint where I could add value and better understand its growth drivers. The in-house Engineering and Product teams have basically been infusing the established real-estate industry with a high-tech touch. No one else is doing this at such a global scale. However, the company's meteoric growth is not solely due to the software it built to perfect its operations, nor is it simply because of people's ongoing need of space. It's bigger than that. This generation is tired of traditional cubicles and corporate office culture. Today's sharing economy demands a different culture, one where millennials can build innovative and enduring companies that are consistent with their life goals. That focus on empowerment is the underlying intent and core mission behind WeWork, and, if I had to underscore one thing I've learned over this last year it is that mission driven cultures win.
When I heard WeWork's game plan firsthand, I understood the scope of the adventure at my doorstep was enormous. I obviously knew the brand, I had heard of the growth, but it was only when Adam shared with me the vision for the next few years, that it hit me: it was unlikely that what I would do independently could own up to the purpose-driven and impactful quest WeWork was already embarking on. The question then became, where would my cycles result in greater impact than at WeWork?
If you haven't seen the magic by now, do yourself a favor and walk into a WeWork location. It's one of those things you can't completely grasp until you're physically there.
Lastly, this new beginning also means that starting tomorrow, I get to do one of my favorite things in the world: form a team again. I'll be searching for top talent in engineering, product and design who are passionate about enabling collaboration and empowering creators (more on how I view the future culture of this unit in this blog series). If you are that person, we should probably grab coffee (contact me here). We're around the corner here in Tel-Aviv, building beautiful software to fuel this extraordinary movement.
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Please replace the release dated November 8, 2012 with the following corrected version due to multiple revisions in the headline and first graph.
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Virtustream, Inc., the leading enterprise class cloud solutions provider, today announced the opening of new offices in the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia to meet growing customer demand for migrating mission critical applications to the cloud. Gartner estimates that 2012 IT spending in the four emerging regions of Asia/Pacific, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa, and Central and Eastern Europe, will generate $1.22 trillion1, representing more than 31 percent of the worldwide total IT spend.
With the opening of new offices in Dubai and Saudi Arabia, Virtustream will continue its growth in the Middle East. The new offices will enable customers in the region to migrate easily to the cloud and they will also extend the company's existing operations in the U.S. and Europe, while strategically adding to existing partnerships in China and Asia.
Simon Aspinall, chief vertical markets, strategy and marketing for Virtustream, commented, "The Middle East has rapidly expanding economies, a burgeoning technology scene and rapidly growing IT spend. By dedicating resources to this region, Virtustream can accelerate enterprise adoption of enterprise class clouds."
Julian Lloyd, vice president, cloud advisory services, EMEA, Virtustream, added, "Virtustream's unique cloud µVM technology enables mission-critical applications to be moved to the cloud with assured performance and delivering all the cloud benefits of scale, dynamic and on-demand IT. As a region, the Middle East will rapidly adopt this world-leading technology."
About Virtustream
Virtustream is a leading cloud innovator offering enterprise-class cloud solutions for enterprises, governments and service providers. Virtustream simplifies moving complex IT to the cloud - whether private, public or hybrid – while delivering the full economic and business benefits of the cloud. Virtustream offers xStream: a secure, high availability, enterprise class hybrid cloud software solution, delivering application level SLAs for mission critical applications (SAP, Oracle, Microsoft and thousands more). xStream is available as software for existing data centers and as a managed service from Virtustream's cloud – all backed by professional services to design, migrate, and manage clouds. Virtustream offers xStream worldwide; owns data centers in the U.S. and EMEA; operates an international Cloud Exchange; has offices in San Francisco, New York, London, Washington D.C., Atlanta, Toronto, Dublin, Dubai and Saudi Arabia and has partners in Asia and China.
1 Gartner, 'Emerging Market Analysis: Bases for Solid 2012 Market Growth Strategy', April 2012
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