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Sony Entertainment Partners with Manga Reading App Mangamo for Android
BY Roman Colombo November 24, 2020November 23, 2020
As we reported earlier, graphic novels as a whole are going up in sales. One thing helping sales right now? Digital services like Kindle eBooks, Comixology, DC Universe, and Marvel Unlimited. But as much as graphic novel sales are going up, manga is rising even faster. One of the best apps for manga readers is Mangamo, a subscription-based platform with tons of content. For a while, it was only available on iOS. However, thanks to Sony Entertainment partnering with Mangamo, it's now coming to Android.
Why is Sony Entertainment Partnering with Mangamo
To be technical, Sony Entertainment is partnering with Mangamo through its Sony Investment Fund division. And that's pretty much the answer—they see it as a good investment. Gen Tsuchikwa, Sony Innovation Fund's Chief Investment Manager, said in an announcement:
"Mangamo is ushering in a new frontier in digital manga that makes it as widely available and easily binge-able as anime for fans everywhere. This investment signifies our confidence and excitement in Mangamo's role in the growing global manga market and the possibilities for this new, influential consumer touchpoint of entertainment IP."
What Can You Read on Mangamo?
One of Mangamo's first original products. (Image: Mangamo)
There are over 300 titles available, all streaming for $4.99 a month, with no ads. It's a great way to discover new titles, but there are some heavy hitters in there, too, such as Ghost in the Shell and Knights of Sedonia. But you can expect the platform to keep growing. As Mangamo CEO and founder Buddy Marini stated:
"Mangamo was created by manga fans, for manga fans. Our purpose is to connect the manga community to manga creators and provide an easy and affordable way to read and discover tons of new manga whenever you want, in the palm of your hand. Being available on Android means bringing manga to even more people all over the world, and we encourage everyone to let us know what they think so we can make Mangamo the best way to read and discover manga."
Now that Sony Entertainment is partnering with Mangamo, you can download it to your Android device and dive into even more comics! And let's face it, we've already caught up on every comic on Comixology at this point anyway, so get reading!
(Featured Image: Mangamo)
Roman Colombo finished his MFA in 2010 and now teaches writing and graphic novel literature at various Philadelphia colleges. His first novel, Trading Saints for Sinners, was published in 2014. He's currently working on his next novel and hoping to find an agent soon.
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The career of Sir Billy Connolly has taken him from the shipyards of the Clyde to the Florida Keys and, along the way, has laden him with prestigious awards, honorary degrees, and even celebratory murals.
However, despite winning over Scotland and then the world with his side-splitting, mould-breaking comedy, there is no enduring tribute to the Big Yin in his homeland.
Today, leading artists and entertainers say that must change as they support our campaign for a statue to the potty-mouthed, banana-boot-wearing, banjo-picking, iconoclastic genius in Glasgow, the city where he was born and his rare talent was forged.
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The campaign even won a royal seal of approval with Dame Judi Dench, who starred as Queen Victoria alongside Connolly in Mrs Brown in 1997, rushing to offer her immediate support.
She said: "I have always said I have a passion for Scotland and Shakespeare but I also have a passion for Billy Connolly! Trying to keep a straight face whilst dressed in a very heavy costume and corset, sitting side saddle on a pony was challenge enough without having Billy making me laugh hysterically.
"How fitting to have a statue of him in Glasgow. What a cause for celebration that would be."
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It is not a great time for old, beardy men on plinths but fans believe Connolly is the exception to the rule, with some suggesting a "street-level" sculpture would be appropriate for a comic who has never lost his ability to connect with Scots from every age and class and, more importantly, make them laugh.
Perhaps a statue outside the Saracen Head pub, opposite the famous Barrowland concert hall and the setting of his breakthrough routine, is an appropriate spot?
John Byrne, one of Scotland's greatest ever artists, who painted an iconic portrait of his lifelong friend in the 1970s, said a statue was overdue, adding: "It is a splendid idea and outside the Sarrie Heid would be perfect although we're not the boozers we once were and probably haven't been inside a pub for 50 years."
Laughing, Byrne said cartoon cowboy Lobey Dosser – who already has his own statue – is the only Glaswegian to rival Connolly's fame, before suggesting acclaimed sculptor Sandy Stoddart was just the man to bronze the Big Yin.
Byrne added: "As far as I know there isn't a sculpture or plaque honouring Billy in his native city. Glasgow should pay tribute to their most famous son – apart from Lobey Dosser, maybe – why not commission a nearby Paisley Buddy, Sandy Stoddart, to rectify the situation?"
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Tom Shields, the journalist who led the fundraising campaign for the Lobey Dosser statue at Kelvingrove Park, said a sculpture of Connolly would be another welcome addition to the city's statuary.
He added: "It would be great to have a statue of him. That's one of the great arguments in Glasgow – that there's too many statues of Victorians and obscure politicians. Lobey Dosser unleashed an absolute tsunami of stories about Bud Neill and how much people loved him."
Connolly's national breakthrough came after a now-famous appearance on Michael Parkinson's chat show in 1975 and the veteran broadcaster is also backing the calls for a permanent tribute.
He said: "All great comedians should become statues because they are the most important people in the world because they make us laugh, even in times such as these. They find humour in everything and should be made available on the NHS.
"Billy is a dear friend of mine as well as being the funniest man I ever interviewed. One of my proudest claims is that we introduced him to mainstream television in Britain and also in Australia when we took him Down Under. Wherever he went he made people laugh and forget the blues."
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Entertainer Elaine C Smith echoed support for a statue to Connolly, saying his routines in the 1970s inspired her career.
She said: "He's the reason I started in this business. He is a trailblazer, a cultural icon, and allowed the working class to feel that their voices were valid, understandable – after years of being told we didn't speak properly – and, most important, really funny.
"I learnt the whole of The Crucifixion when I was 14 and performed it at a family party, stunning all the aunties and uncles when they realised I was funny."
She added: "I saw his early concerts at the Apollo when certain Scots were calling him a disgrace. People forget that wee, conservative Scotland didn't like him back then. No one comes near him."
Comedian Janey Godley, whose voiceovers of First Minister Nicola Sturgeon's Covid-19 press briefings made her the breakout star of lockdown, also voiced her support for a permanent tribute to the Big Yin, saying: "Billy Connolly made Glasgow a global comedy landmark. We are welcomed worldwide because he made that happen."
How a statue of Billy Connolly could look
Line of Duty star Martin Compston joined the chorus of support, saying no one deserved it more: "He was one of the main things you could share with your parents growing up. A Billy Connolly tape on at Christmas, I'm sure, was a tradition in more than just our household. A genuine icon in Scotland and beyond."
Connolly, now 78, has been honoured by Glasgow before.
He was awarded the Freedom of the City in 2010, and at the ceremony joked that, if he were ever to be jailed in Glasgow, it entitled him to a cell of his own. He added: "This has taken my breath away. I am completely blown away."
To mark Connolly's 75th birthday in 2017, three 50-foot murals of him – commissioned by the BBC and painted by artists Jack Vettriano, John Byrne and Rachel Maclean – were unveiled in Glasgow.
He was also knighted in 2017. His diagnosis, in 2013, with Parkinson's disease helped lead him to announce his retirement from performing, which he is enjoying at his home in the Florida Keys with wife Pamela Stephenson, who he married in 1989.
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John Byrne's portrait of Billy Connolly
Discussions are underway about how a statue might be funded as other stars of showbusiness backed the idea. Still Game's Isa, actress Jane McCarry, said: "He took the essence of a city's humour from the shipyards and bars and put it on a worldwide stage.
"Around the world, he became one of the most influential voices this country has had. And he made us laugh for all those years."
Chris Deerin: A tribute to great Scot Billy Connolly is a tribute to our great country
Rab C Nesbitt actor and writer of The Steamie Tony Roper said Connolly's statue would be fitting addition to the classical sculptures of Roman and Greek gods, saying: "If he was an ancient Greek God he'd have been the God of comedy. Connollius God of Mirthgiving."
While comedian and actress Karen Dunbar said she was also inspired by Connolly and added his humour, while universal, has a special place in the hearts of ordinary Scots.
"I wouldn't be doing what I'm doing if it wasn't for Billy Connolly. I listened to him since I was four years old. Apart from making me laugh more than anyone I have ever met, seen or known, he is also the embodiment of the absolute truth that a working-class Scot can achieve anything."
The Big Yin on Scotland
Billy Connolly wrote of his love of his homeland in Made In Scotland: My Grand Adventures in a Wee Country in 2019
I love Scotland with a fierce passion that has never dimmed. I love talking about Scotland and, most of all, I love being there.
I have lived in America for many years now but I have never stopped feeling Scottish. Nearly twenty years ago, in a book that she wrote about me, my wife Pamela, said: "Billy is constantly drawn back to Scotland. It's as though he'd fade into depression without a regular fix." Well, it's as true now as it was then. I need to feed from Scotland – from the land and from the fierce craic of the people.
It's a strange thing to be proud of were you come from. It doesn't really make any sense. After all, it's not something that you have earned or worked for – it's a simple accident of birth. But being Scottish is a very lovely thing. Scotland is a unique and wondrous place.
There is this viewpoint that if you have come from the working class you have come from nothing. I don't hold with that. The working class is not nothing. It is something and I am very proud to be working class and, especially a working class Glaswegian who has worked in the shipyards. It is something and don't you forget it. I come from something. I come from the working class. And, most of all, I come from Scotland.
So where should a statue to the Big Yin go? In Glasgow, his home city would seem fitting but where?
With the rest of the statues in George Square or somewhere with personal links, the shipyards, maybe, where he started out? And how should it look?
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Can the promotion/relegation debate be saved?
The theme music of the promotion/relegation debate should probably be Carmina Burana. The part we all know from hundreds of pop culture references ("OOOOOOO FORTUNA" — if you ever want to be creeped out, check out the scene from The Doors set to that music) is at the beginning and the end of the composition, suggesting a wheel of fortune in which every spin comes up bankrupt.
And the lyrics translate roughly to "Fate. Monstrous and empty. You whirling wheel. You are malevolent. Well-being is vain and always fades to nothing. And you go home and you cry and you want to die."
(OK, so I added a line from the Smiths. Did you even notice?)
But despite listening to such depressing music in college, even as we all wondered if we would be drafted into Gulf War I, I'm optimistic. Like this New York Times writer suggesting social media is worth salvaging even as various platforms inevitably descend abuse and cynical data-mining, I think something is worth saving in the pro/rel discussion.
We'll need, as the NYT writer suggests, a reset button.
So imagine (to cite a more hopeful piece of music) if the pro/rel debate started this year …
Seems reasonable, doesn't it? MLS is pretty well established, with facilities and academies built up in several cities. But it could use something to get to the next level.
Meanwhile, the lower divisions are changing. In the past, a lot of D2 and D3 teams eagerly "self-relegated" to the amateur ranks, where they could play short seasons with unpaid players. A lot of teams will be happy to stay there. But we may have a critical mass of parties interested in moving up.
We could all kick around ideas. A English-style ladder, with 20-24 teams in each of the top five tiers, doesn't make much sense in a country of this size. We should have more of a pyramid, with regional play in the lower divisions so we're not asking an amateur club in Spokane that got promoted to D3 to fly to Miami for a league game.
We could take into account all the things that make the USA different — the generations of cultural antipathy and hostility that left us far behind on infrastructure, the fact that soccer still isn't and may never be the No. 1 team sport in this country, and the fact that soccer from the youth level upward is in the hands of many different organizations. (In Germany, as the NSCAA presenter from the DFB reminded everyone, it's one.)
So we could have a reasonable discussion, right?
The problem is the baggage. We call pro/rel the "third rail" of U.S. soccer for a reason.
That's unfair to well-intentioned newbies. We have a generation of soccer fans who grew up with unlimited choice of soccer broadcasts, and they wonder why the USA doesn't have a league to rival the Premier League or La Liga. Some of them do some research and begin to sketch out ways to build a club at the grass roots.
Unfortunately, when they turn to Twitter or any other medium, they encounter two groups that have been long ago gave up any semblance of trust or honesty …
The "pro/rel" crowd, whose arguments were pretty flimsy when the USA was desperate for anyone to run a professional soccer team, resorted to lies and slander 10-15 years ago.
The "anti-pro/rel" crowd is sick of hearing it, and whenever they hear someone talking about pro/rel, they assume they're ignorant haters who are beyond reason.
So we have this cycle:
Newbie starts asking why we don't have an "open system."
Newbie gets an overly hostile history lesson from people who are used to dealing with full-time Twitter trolls.
Newbie gets sympathy from the "pro/rel" long-timers.
Newbie starts to believe what the "pro/rel" long-timers say.
That means the newbie is exposed to a whole bunch of myths …
Everyone who questions the obvious solution of promotion/relegation to address most of U.S. soccer's problems must be compromised in some way — either paid by MLS/SUM to discredit the movement or actually a sock puppet/bot, or perhaps a journalist afraid of losing credentials.
I've gotten the occasional lecture from various people in power about why something I wrote is the stupidest thing ever, but I still got credentials to cover an Open Cup game involving an MLS team last year and the USSF Annual General Meeting this year. I used to go to MLS pressboxes all the time, and a lot of them credentialed everyone with a laptop.
A lot of journalists have written for MLSSoccer.com over the years. I wrote fantasy columns for its predecessor, MLSNet, before I started writing frequently as part of my duties at USA TODAY. (And no, this isn't the first time I've mentioned it — see the seven separate references on Ranting Soccer Dad and Duresport dating back to 2014 and at least 10 times on Twitter. It wasn't exactly hidden before then — the columns had my name on them. You can't find them now because MLSNet now exists only on the Wayback Machine, where you might my columns alongside those of Eric Wynalda. It was kind of a fun site.)
If you want to declare everyone who has recently written for MLSSoccer.com "compromised," OK. I'd point out that the freelance marketplace is in tatters, and a lot of people are just writing wherever they can make money. My experience is that a lot of people are capable of writing a Timbers-Galaxy game story and still making up their own minds about things, but it's really up to you to weigh everyone's work on its own merit.
But even given all that, there are hundreds of people writing about soccer who are in no way financially connected to MLS's quasi-independent sites and never have been. Some are beat writers for what's left of local newspapers. Some are amateur (but well-informed) bloggers. Check out The Washington Post, The Columbus Dispatch, SB Nation, Howler, The Athletic, FiftyFiveOne, Canadian outlets, ProSoccerUSA, Philly.com, The Oregonian, ESPN, The Guardian (where I write, but usually about non-MLS topics), Sports Illustrated and the Associated Press.
(And yes, some people who write for SB Nation and Howler write for MLSSoccer.com. You may note it didn't stop Howler from publishing Peter Wilt's promotion/relegation manifesto, nor did it stop SB Nation from ripping USSF over its lack of outreach to underserved communities. U.S. Soccer is not Sinclair Broadcasting, and these outlets are not local TV stations desperate to please their corporate masters.)
But Deloitte did a study proving U.S. soccer would be better with pro/rel!
You mean this one?
As it stands however, US club soccer is not immediately ready for promotion and
relegation – for the topic to move forward several key topics needs to be addressed
Decisions made on the optimum number of teams in the existing leagues;
The continued development and stability of a second tier competition to develop clubscapable in management and football terms of joining the first tier; and
Consideration of the mechanism by which long term league investors have their "equity" protected, at least in the short term, from relegation.
In other words, Deloitte basically said what a lot of the supposed "anti-pro/rel" crowd has been saying for a long, long time.
Pro/rel works in the rest of the world
And yet China, India and tons of other large countries with large economies are worse than Uruguay.
But those countries are DIFFERENT!
Exactly. So is the USA.
If you doubt anything about an open system, you must be perfectly happy with MLS and U.S. Soccer the way they are.
No one's telling you — well, maybe not no one, but most people — that promotion/relegation is a horrible system that should be done away with in Europe. (Sadly, I wouldn't be surprised if that happened — the oligarchs buying soccer clubs could easily break away and tell the respective FAs to deal with it.) Most people are just telling you when you have a weak argument.
MLS isn't really competitive because of single entity and so forth.
Go into a postgame locker room sometime and see what you think. Or talk with a player who just got cut from a roster. It's not that simple.
Which leads to …
Promotion/relegation would obviously (A) make our youth development better and (B) lead to massive investment. There's no downside at all!
Yeah, again — it's not that simple.
But we can discuss all that. We should.
So here's what we need to do …
Ignore the trolls and haters on all sides.
Drop the accusations.
Learn the history, not just from one source. Read the books on my soccer bookshelf or anything else you can find.
Build on what's positive about an open system, especially opportunity and the idea of building a larger footprint for our soccer culture. Quit telling people they're idiots for not seeing how obvious it supposedly is.
I hear from so many people who insist they've distanced themselves from the obnoxious liars and scoundrels of Twitter. Then they repeat mythology that those liars and scoundrels have spouted for years. I still believe you when you say you've distanced yourself from them, but the next step is to distance yourself from their skewed take on things.
And then — yeah, you "anti-pro/rel" types. Quit treating everyone like they're same people who got laughed off BigSoccer 10 years ago and spend half their time whining about it on Twitter.
My position — which, not by design, can never be wrong — is that pro/rel will happen in the USA when we're ready for it. We're getting closer. We're finally starting to see investors who want it to happen. We're running out of space in a one-tier MLS.
So let's talk as if the last 15 years of b.s. never happened.
Hi, I'm Beau. I live in Northern Virginia. I like Liverpool, and I'm always going to be biased toward my favorite places from my 2011 Women's World Cup coverage — Augsburg, Leverkusen and Berlin. And I know a lot of people because I'm old and I've been writing about soccer for a while. Nice to meet you.
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3 thoughts on "Can the promotion/relegation debate be saved?"
pak152 says:
great piece, but this bit of political rant was unnecessary.
"U.S. Soccer is not Sinclair Broadcasting, and these outlets are not local TV stations desperate to please their corporate masters.)"
keep up the good work, but leave out the politics it is too polarizing in this day and age.
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CMS Announces MACRA Funding Opportunity to Develop Measures for the Quality Payment Program
Phoebe Ramsey, Manager of Regulatory Payment Policy & Quality
pramsey@aamc.org
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Mar. 5 announced a Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA, P.L. 114-10) Funding Opportunity: Measure Development for the Quality Payment Program available on Grants.gov.
CMS expects to issue 10 awards capped at $2 million per year for up to three years for an individual award, with $30 million total available in federal funds (subject to the availability of funds). Electronic applications are due May 2 and CMS intends issue of notices of award on Aug. 3. The estimated award start is Aug. 6, 2018 and, if awarded for the maximum three years, would end August 5, 2021.
Awards will be made to entities to develop, improve, update, or expand quality measures for use in the Quality Payment Program (QPP). Specifically, CMS is seeking assistance to expand the QPP quality measure portfolio with a focus on clinical and patient perspectives and minimizing burden for clinicians. CMS will prioritize the development of outcome measures, including patient reported outcome and functional status measures, and patient experience measures and measures of appropriate use of services.
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One way or another, basically all of us use Google. We either use it to search for something that we're looking for online, we have a Gmail account, or we use Google + or Google Apps. If you are someone who falls into the last two categories (or all three), then you will probably be excited to know about Google's latest development.
They have actually taken the features of Google + and integrated them with Google Apps (including its online calendar, document and spreadsheet features) in order to make Google + more user-friendly for business purposes.
Along with the "merging", they have also added some new features that will specifically cater to companies and their online needs. These additions include: private sharing so that Google App users will have greater control over the kinds of information that will be made available on Google +, so that organizations can share certain types of postings with everyone or just a few in or outside of the group; there will be a Google + Hangout option that gives people the capability of being able to video conference with up to 10 people (a bonus with this is that users can have face-to-face meetings with either their webcams or even their smartphones), and there will be innovative administrative controls so that administrators can set defaults for posts and/or restrict the Hangout option to specific users; that way certain meetings can remain private.
In true Google fashion, they followed up the announcement of the new Google + options with the announcement that there would be many more added features to come in the upcoming months. But for now, this should be an exciting time for many people who mostly work and conference online because in so many ways, these additions will make communicating within companies and organizations much more efficient.
For example, if you have a business with virtual offices set up all over the country, this makes the need for traveling even less because you can use Google Hangout to video conference with individuals who head up the various branches of your business in each city (or state) and coordinate schedules with the Google App calendar for future meetings. Plus, you can post certain messages and memos so that only those individuals can see them and revisit them at another time.
This is also good for Google because while they are definitely a strong force to contend with in the search engine world, Google Plus hasn't gotten nearly the amount of hype or traffic as it would have liked in order to be able to compete with the likes of social media mediums such as Facebook. Although these new business features may end up attracting a more mature crowd than those in Facebook and Twitter world, it should liven things up for Google a bit. It definitely has the potential to give a new spark to revive how Google Plus is currently perceived. Time will tell.
For now, if you're a corporate CEO or a student getting your MBA online, try "the new and improved" Google Plus and see what you think. Anything that makes the day-to-day of business life easier is definitely worth giving a shot.
Congrats! The newly introduced features are sure to make business easy and much more organized. Let's give it a shot.


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Transact Campus Revs Up Its R&D Accelerator in Ireland's Historic Gardens International Center, Showplace of Limerick 2030
New Transact International Headquarters In Mid-West Ireland Provides The Latest Form Of Hybrid Work Flexibility For A Multi-National Team
Phoenix, AZ – November 10, 2022 – Transact Campus, ("Transact") the award-winning leader in innovative mobile credential and payment solutions, is thriving in the advanced R&D accelerator that was inaugurated last spring. Located in Ireland's historic Gardens International Center in Limerick, showplace of the Limerick 2030 program, the IDA Industrial Development Agency of Ireland supported the digital campus project center as part of the ambitious economic development program for the city of Limerick and in partnership with the academic programs at the University of Limerick. The Transact European headquarters has responsibility for shaping and developing its entire portfolio of products and services for a connected campus.
The state-of-the-art renovations in the historic Gardens International Center provide the Transact team with the latest advances for flexible workspace. The innovative Limerick facility inspires creativity, and the adoption of hybrid working – the advantages of working in a traditional office setting, and the flexibility of work-from-home – provides a work-life balance that delivers an employee experience that serves the company well for employee satisfaction and retention. The new hybrid working model is purpose built into the redesigned building that sets the bar for world-class sustainability standards. And the Gardens location in an exciting, developing neighborhood is a dynamic work destination for staff — an imperative in today's competitive employment market.
Celebrating six months at the LEED Gold certified Gardens International site in the heart of Limerick City, John Gleeson, GM of Transact Limerick, said, "This location, with its setting in the city center and proximity to advanced education programs, provides cutting edge design and features for our young, diverse, and creative R&D team. It is the perfect landing strip for our Arizona headquartered company as we expand in Europe."
The innovative tech ecosystem in the city of Limerick, including the new Immersive Software Engineering programme (ISE) at the University of Limerick (UL), is revolutionizing how software engineering is taught. New residency-style programs have adopted the familiar medical school model that puts students in a hospital work environment for training. Applying the same philosophy of hands-on field training to software engineering is a breakthrough that fast-tracks student learning and advances their ability to make an immediate impact on product design and development when they join a company. Transact leaders have joined the UL ISE advisory board, recognizing it as the most innovative development in software engineering education globally.
"The company has established its Irish operations in a very competitive recruitment market. In Limerick, the innovative educational institutions have created a tech center that is ideal for professional development, and the facilities and location are ideal for the hybrid working model that has become the new normal," said Nancy Langer, CEO, Transact. "This inspiring and sustainable workspace in the historic center of Limerick will attract the regional talent who are integral to our success. This is one of the most exciting workplaces in Limerick and in Ireland."
"We are delighted to have Transact Campus join us here at Gardens International. We see this as a perfect fit; a world-class sustainably designed and award winning, innovative building paired with a world-class leader in innovative mobile credential and payment solutions. Furthermore, Limerick itself is very much a vibrant and innovative city with a strong tech ecosystem and Transact Campus is another positive addition to that community," said David Conway, CEO, Limerick Twenty Thirty DAC.
UL has also taken a step into accommodating the diversity of students interested in pursuing work in technology. Programs customized for diverse demographic groups, including international students, women returning to work, working parents, and individuals with disabilities, are bringing untapped talent into the space. Transact has a company culture with a focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion and embraces the value that diverse teams with different experiences and points of view can bring to problem solving and product development. The educational programs in Limerick that attract students from all backgrounds and from across the globe to learn and study are a ready pool of talent for the new Transact operations. There are 15 different nationalities represented in its Limerick staff to date as well as working parents who can customize schedules around their personal lives, and a fresh focus on accessibility for staff that will serve Transact clients and users as well.
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Del : English Word Search - You Go Words!
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The main objective of the project "Youth centre for information and consultation- Infinite Opportunities" is to contribute to the development of civil and social skills of young people aged between 15 and 29 years on the territory of Sofia Municipality, including remote areas of northwestern arc about Bankia, Vladaya, and Bozhurishte and Novi Iskar. The project places particular emphasis on young people from vulnerable groups, including minority with disabilities and special educational needs, consulting them together with their representative organizations, such as ARDUS and Ardennes.
The project aims at developing the capabilities of youth workers and the expansion of the NGO network on the territory of Sofia Municipality mainly through engaging youth and encouraging the exchange of experiences and good practices.
Encouraging young people to participation in activities in their communities .
Prevention of social exclusion of young people from disadvantaged groups.
Development of intercultural and international dialogue among young people.
The project "Eco-volunteers for protection of Via Pontica" is implemented by "Youth Information Centre" Association in partnership with "Infinite Opportunities" Association. It aims at biodiversity preservation in the Via Pontica migration route.
The project is realized with the financial support of Swiss Confederation by the Reform Fund linked to the civil society participation.
Its territorial scope encompasses Bourgas district, namely Bourgas city, the towns of Aytos, Balgarovo and Sredets. Project activities will take place in the period 15.07.2013 and 15.07. 2014.
The total project budget is 58 602.00 lv., while the amount and percentage of grant contribution is 52 741 .80 lv. or 90%.
The main aim of the project is the biodiversity preservation in the bay of Bourgas and its adjacent lakes, which includes prevention of poaching; reduction of the number of attacks against wild songbirds in the region and formation of an active group of volunteer teams through the branch network of YIC Association.
The project will mobilize volunteers who will take part in teams for observation and prevention of poaching practices.
During the project Infinity Opportunities Association will be responsible for the organization of volunteer's trainings.
The two partner organizations will cooperate in the organization of educational campaign for the protection of biodiversity in the region.
"Eco volunteers in defense of Via Pontic" is implemented with the financial support of the Swiss Confederation by Fund reforms related to the participation of civil society.
In 2014 Infinite Opportunities Association implemented its first short-term voluntary project "Toler@nce Caravan" within the framework of the "European Voluntary Service" and "Youth in Action" Programme of the European Commission. It was targeted towards young people willing to participate into a series of local promotional campaigns organized in connection with the on-line Toler@nce Pl@tform.bg developed by Infinite Opportunities Association.
· foster mutual understanding between young people in different countries.
"Toler@nce Caravan" was be implemented with the help of 12 volunteers from Hungary, Georgia, Poland, Germany, Lithuania, Sweden and Cyprus.
· help the team with ideas and materials for the on-line tolerance platform developed by the association.
The project activities were implemented in Sofia and different cities in the country, which are part of the informational campaign of the team. All volunteers travelled together with the team of the association to different cities in order to participate in the local campaigns organized with the support of the regional partners of Infinite Opportunities Association.
For ensuring the educational process of volunteers, Infinite Opportunities Association is using the methods of non-formal education through which the participants will boost up their knowledge and competences for the organization and implementation of informational campaigns related to the topics of tolerance, non-discrimination and mutual understanding.
Participants did not only gain interpersonal skills and communication in a multicultural environment, but also they acquired knowledge about the organization of youth campaigns for the protection of basic human rights.
This short-term project was realized in the period 01.04.2014 – 31.05.2014 with the financial support of the "Youth in Action" Programme of the European Commission administered in Bulgaria by the National Centre "European Youth Programmes and Initiatives".The total grant received for the realization of the project from the "Youth in Action" programme is 18 313 Euro.
"This project is funded by the" Youth in Action "Programme of the European Commission in Bulgaria administered National Centre" European Youth Programmes and Initiatives ". The contents of this Project do not reflect the position of the European Community program "Youth in Action" or NCEYPI. "
The Wokshop "Freedom of speech VS Hate speech - Where to Draw the Line?" was a capacity building activity for young people, online activists and youth workers from Bulgaria. Aims to address the rise of such threathening hostility in Bulgarian on-line realities - an area that is rather vague and even negligently overseen by media and authorities while civil society is making its first steps - and raise awareness about the damaging impact hate speech has on young people and the way they perceive the world.
To trigger the process of developing a start-up info kit on tolerance and empathy for young people in web realities.
In September 2013 Infinite Opportunities Association started the implementation of its first project under the NGO Programme in Bulgaria within the financial mechanism of The European Economic Area (www.ngogrants.bg) – "Youth CAUSE – Network for Quality, Sustainability, Knowledge and Respect of the youth work in Bulgaria". Partners in the project, which is financed by the Norwegian program for support NGOs, are Thirst of life Association and BG "Be active" , former WOW Sport Association.
Stimulation of the self – regulation of the non - governmental sector.
The total project budget is 13 448, 18 euro, while the money value granted by the NGO Programme in Bulgaria within the Financial Mechanism to the European Economic Area is 12 073, 18 euro. Its duration is 12 months and the main target groups include 15 volunteers and 9 NGOs.
"YOUTH cause - network quality, sustainability, knowledge and authority youth work in Bulgaria" funded under the program to support NGOs in Bulgaria under the Financial Mechanism of the European Economic Area 2009-2014 g.Tsyalata responsibility for the content of the document worn by the "Possibilities without Borders" and under no circumstances it can be assumed that this document reflect the views of the Financial mechanism of the European economic Area and the Operator of the Programme to support NGOs in Bulgaria. "" This project is implemented with financial support of the "Youth in action" Programme of the European Commission in Bulgaria administered National Centre "European youth Programmes and Initiatives." content current and building / newspaper / brochure / not reflect the position of the European Community program "youth in Action" or NCEYPI. "
"Love & HateII: Youth for on-line tolerance" is the continuation of the first voluntary project of "Infinite Opportunities Association" called "Love & Hate" implemented within the framework of the "European Voluntary Service" and the "Youth in Action" Programme of the European Commission. Project activities are part of the international campaign against hate speech on the Internet, launched by the Council of Europe in 2012-2014.
By this project "Infinite Opportunities Association" seeks to protect human rights and European values in the web, focusing on issues of mutual tolerance, cultural and ethnic diversity in Europe.
The one year project will include three main aspects - youth online activities, creation of information and awareness rising interactive materials, realization of presentations and discussions with students and youth, which will enhance the attention towards the dangers which hate speech poses in the online space.
To ensure the learning process of the volunteers we will use the methods of non-formal education through which we will increase their knowledge and skills to prevent and deal with the negative effects of the use of hateful messages online.
The Voluntary service of Ida (Germany), Indre (Lithuania) and Iuliia (Ukraine) lasts from the beginning of December 2013 and will continue until December 2014.These three volunteers replaced the previous three from Lithuania, Cyprus and Spain, who were working on the first stage of the project from June 2013 until December 2013.
The total grant received for the realization of the project from the "Youth in Action" programme is 12,825 Euro.
This project is realized with the financial support of the "Youth in Action" Programme of the European Commission administered in Bulgaria by the National Centre "European Youth Programmes and Initiatives". The contents of this publication does not reflect the position of the European Community program "Youth in Action" or NCEYPI."
In the beginning of 2014 Infinite Opportunities Association in partnership with National Centre European Youth Programmes and Initiatives is implementating a new project "Toler@nce Pl@tform.bg". Toler@nce Pl@tform.bg is an initiative which reflects the fundamental democratic values of a modern society and advocates for communication based on principles of non-discrimination and cultural diversity in cyberspace.
The main target group of the project Toler@nce Pl@tform.bg are young people aged from 15 to 29 years. The platform itself is consistent with the rules ensuring accessibility and high level of interactivity. The elements of the platform will have their own mobile version for access from smartphones and tablets and will offer a real interaction with the team of the association via Twitter and Facebook.
With the help of Toler@nce Pl@tform.bg, we want to reach young people by encouraging intercultural communication, tolerance and volunteering.
The total project costs are equal to67 752,74 euro. The contribution of the IOA is 11,16 % (7560 Euro), while the grant by the NGO Programme in Bulgaria within the Financial Mechanism to the European Economic Area is 60 192,74 euro.
The duration of the project "Toler@nce Pl@tform.bg" is 18 months.
This project was created with financial support of the program to support NGOs in Bulgaria under the Financial Mechanism of the European Economic Area. The sole responsibility for the content of the project and website is the responsibility of the association "Infinite Opportunities Association" and under no circumstances it can be considered that this page presents the official position of the Financial Mechanism of the European Economic Area and the Operator of the Programme to support NGOs in Bulgaria .
The ECO TRAIN workshop is a training for adults with sensory impairments. Covering the topic of sustainable ecological lifestyle. The project is funded by the Grundtvig sectoral program of EU's Lifelong Learning programme, coordinated by the Human Resources Development Centre within the Ministry of Education, Youth and Science in Bulgaria.
The training includes one week interactive seminar program with theoretical and practical partin conformity with the educational needs of adults with sensory impairments. It was attended by 23 representatives of Cyprus, Italy, Lithuania, United Kingdom, Turkey, Romania, Poland, Hungary and Croatia between the ages of 20 and 63 years, all of whom outside the formal education system. The training included participants (people with sensory impairments and their personal assistants) who had little or no experience in the field of sustainable practices and protection of the environment.
"ECO TRAIN" was held in the end of April and early May (28.04.2012 - 06.05.2012) In Beklemeto district, approximately 20 km. Away from Troyan, Bulgaria.
The main objective of the workshop was to bringpositive change in the participants' attitude towards nature preservation as well as to provide them with skills for sustainable lifestyle while reducing their personal "carbon footprints".
• Motivating responsible behavior for the protection of environment.
• Bringingnew life to old things by recycling: 3 RE - Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.
ECO TRAIN workshop is an innovative training which uses the experience of the successfully completed project "MUSICC - Multisensory Information on Climate Change" - www.musiccproject.eu, funded under the "Leonardo da Vinci" programme.. The guest speaker Mr. Lennox Adams from the Royal National College for the Blind, presented the Magic Planet - a modern 3-D visual technology, which illustrates in an interactive way the dynamic changes in climate and landscape of the planet. The technology used during the practical part of the workshop was adapted to the needs of participants with visual impairments and visualized the trends in climate change in the form of 3-D slides that showed the dynamics of the processes through touch.
This project is realized with the financial support of the "Grundvig Life Long Learning" Programme of the European Commission, administered in Bulgaria by the National Centre "European Youth Programmes and Initiatives". The contents of this publication does not reflect the position of the European Community,The Youth in Action Programme or NCEYPI.
The "Infinite Opportunities Association" has started the project "Green Community", funded by the Grundtvig program "Lifelong Learning" of the European Commission. The project will have 2 years' duration and will be implemented in partnership with the "Training and Rehabilitation Center" inc. Buzau, Romania and resource center for youth at risk "Mary Seacole" in the town of Luton, UK.
The project is aimed at adult learners and its main purpose is to enrich their knowledge related to sustainable development and ecological balance, teach how to reduce the negative impact for nature.
- Lectures related to the benefits of recycling.
#0NL1NE #T0LER@NCE is a project in protection of human rights and European values in the web space. It will include 11 volunteers form four countries – Germany, Lithuania, Italy and Spain – and will last fourteen months, Within the activities the young people will seek answers to hate speech manifestations in the internet due to racism, xenophobia, and all other differences stemming form gender, ethno-social, religious and cultural characteristics.
The project will be part of the large-scale international campaign "Young people against hate speech in the internet" initiated by the Council of Europe and will include three main aspects – youth online activity, creation of informational and awareness rising interactive materials and conduction of presentations and conversations with students and youth, which will enhance the attention towards the dangers of the hate speech in the online space. IOA team aims to reach distant and smaller towns and villages in the countryside where the international group of volunteers will be more noticeable and easily attracting young people to the topic of online tolerance in communication.
To ensure the teaching process of the volunteers we will use the methods of non-formal education, through which to increase the knowledge and skills in prevention of and dealing with the negative effects from the use of hate massages in the online environment.
The activities of the mobility group for 12 months will be held mainly in Sofia, while the other mobility group of 8 volunteers will travel in different regions in the country where they will inform and educate the target group on the issues of tolerance and the effects of online hate speech.
This project has been founded by Erasmus Mobility Programme (KA1), part of Erasmus+ programme. The contents of this publication does not reflect the position of the European Commission or the Council of Europe.
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Pothashang News Service: Imphal, November 13, 2018: Demanding to recruit kin of departed employees to recruit under dies-in harness scheme the All Manipur Public Health Engineering Department Die-In-Harness Appointment Demand Committee Manipur has called a 24-hour general strike in Manipur that was scheduled to begin at 6 pm of November 15.
Secretary of the appointment demand committee Md. Burhanuddin, during a news conference at Manipur Press Club, Imphal said the strike was called following recent state government decision to recruit 658 applicants in 16 departments as published on a local daily on October 21 that failed to include recruitment of applicants in the state public health engineering department.
"Till today no one from the department are appointed under die-in harness scheme while applicants in other departments are recruited," said Burhanuddin.
The demand committee says there are 197 names of the department lined up seeking for appointment under the scheme for the period of 2001 till June 2017.
We have been waiting for more than these years. No one from the list is recruited in filling vacant posts of the department, said Burhanuddin.
The demand committee members had met the chief minister N. Biren Singh on Meeyamgi Numit (People's Day) on June 15, last year and on September 24 and tabled their demand. It also submitted memorandums to the concern authorities on October 20. "We were assured to fulfil our demand, but none from the department were included in the list of appointment", said Md. Burhanuddin.
On November 5, demanding the same, we have cautioned the government to call 48-hour strike to begin at 6 pm of November 15. But till today we haven't got any response from the government. So we stick to impose the general strike, but by reducing the duration to 24-hour in view of the strike burden to the public.
The strike exempts essential services, religious ceremonies and media.
The demand committee appealed the civil society organisation and job seekers in other departments under the die-in-harness scheme to support the strike.


I was diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder at the age of twenty, after actively struggling for several years. When I use the word 'actively,' I mean that, while I had had difficulties with all the things that turned out to be characteristics of Autism, they had become really hard to deal with and were having a serious impact on my life and my mental health. For example, I'd always found socialising confusing and stressful but I'd managed it for most of my life, thinking that that was just how I was built. Ultimately, that's true but knowing where it comes from has been very helpful, both in validating that struggle but also in helping me to learn how to cope with those feelings. So, the diagnosis was a really big deal but I still think a lot about why it came so late and what that means.
In my opinion, there was one big reason why it took so long to get a diagnosis and that was the lack of awareness and understanding around both mental health and Autism, especially in women. Because Autism in women often presents very differently to the stereotypical male presentation, no one even mentioned it until we'd been looking for an explanation for more than eighteen months. I have a couple of blog posts about the process of getting my diagnoses coming up but the short version is that we started out by looking at my mental health. We went to various people but no one took my anxiety, my depression, and so on as serious problems, brushing them off as things that everyone deals with. So it took a lot of work to get even one person to recognise that what was happening was an actual problem, and then even more work to get them to see that that was part of a bigger pattern. And I know that all of that was down to this general lack of awareness about how Autism can manifest and again, how it can manifest in women.
Expectations, my own and those of others – Having grown up assuming I was neurotypical, I have always compared myself to my neurotypical peers and hated myself when I couldn't measure up. When I got to sixth form, I started to really struggle (mentally, socially, academically) and so the whole thing started to snowball. And because I was comparing myself so viciously to those around me who were coping so much better, I did great damage to my mental health and self esteem. Had I known that my brain worked differently and that I might need support, those two years of my life would most likely have been an altogether different experience. Even now that I know the difference is there, I still find it really difficult not to compare myself to others; I still often see myself as less capable or less intelligent or less whatever word is relevant to the situation.
The mental health consequences – While this is not something I can scientifically prove, the chances are that this whole process has had an impact on my mental health. Being repeatedly invalidated and brushed off definitely made my depression and anxiety worse. That invalidation may also have triggered the development of Borderline Personality Disorder; I'm not qualified to make a definitive statement on that but between discussions with my health professionals and my own research, it's a theory if nothing else.
I've often had friends and family ask what they can do to help me and to be completely honest, I don't know. I'm still trying to figure all of this out for myself: what's affected, what helps, what doesn't… Sometimes it feels like, just because it's my diagnosis, people think I have this deep understanding of it. I'm definitely more clued in than I used to be but even two and a half years later, I don't always know what to do when something comes up. I think the only thing I can say is this: "Learn with me." This is a process, which involves a lot of trial and error and over-planning and screwing up. When it doesn't work, it's no one's fault. We just learn and move on to the next thing. But hopefully, we can navigate it as a team rather than a group of individuals.
I try not to spend too much time thinking about how my life would've been different if I'd been diagnosed at a younger age because there's little to be gained from it. It is how it is. But occasionally the thought creeps in and I imagine this life where I'm so much more productive and engaged and independent. I don't know if that's how it would've played out but it's a seductive thought. But as I said, I try not to go down that rabbit hole. I think it comes down to this: there are people I wouldn't have met and experiences that I wouldn't have had if I'd been diagnosed as a child and ultimately, I wouldn't give those up for anything.
During my attempts to get a diagnosis, I had many people giving me their thoughts on finding a label and that only increased when we started pursuing an Autism diagnosis. It was almost as bad as the amount of people telling me to have a bath or go for a walk to help my depression. Everyone had an opinion on it and the majority of people were, at best, wary and, at worst, completely against it. But I knew I needed a diagnosis – an explanation – for why I was struggling and now, two and half years after my diagnosis, it's clear that it was the right move for me. I'm not holding it against those people because they were only trying to look out for me but it did add to the stress of the situation so I thought I'd write out some of the positives and negatives that I've experienced around my diagnosis.
AN UNDERSTANDING OF WHY I WAS STRUGGLING – Before my diagnosis, I was very aware that something was causing me to struggle and I needed to know where that was coming from. I could see that I functioned differently and, until I had an explanation, that was because I was broken. That was how it felt. If a doctor told me it was something – something that had been researched, had a name, something that other people had – then it was something that I could do something about. But if it went unnamed and uncategorised, it was because there was something wrong with me. So, to learn it was Autism, was actually quite a relief. Rather than being an intangible black cloud that was swallowing my life, it had boundaries and patterns and strategies to work with. That was massively helpful to me.
A VALIDATION OF MY STRUGGLING – Before my diagnosis, I was consistently dismissed by doctors and other medical professionals when I tried to get help. If I mentioned anxiety, I was told that, 'everyone gets anxious.' If I felt that I absolutely couldn't do something because something in my body was screaming not to, I just had to pull myself together. If I talked about my debilitating fatigue, I essentially got a shrug of the shoulders. Now at least people listen. They don't always have the answers I want – sometimes they don't have answers at all – but I'm no longer being dismissed.
MAKING SENSE OF WHO I AM – The things I had been struggling with were taking over my life and, without knowing what caused it, that made me feel very lost. I struggle with identity stuff anyway but when all my thought and energy was being devoted to these problems, there wasn't the space for anything else. With the Autism diagnosis, things became much more straightforward. Of course this may be different for other people but for me, I could put the Autism in a box in my brain and that allowed me to see what was there. I started to get more of a sense of who I was and who I wasn't. There are differing opinions of whether you should define yourself by your Autism but it's a massive part of my identity; looking back, I'm surprised I didn't feel more lost.
ACCESS TO SUPPORT – Having an Autism diagnosis made it possible to get support, emotionally and financially. I've been able to get benefits, extra time on exams, flexibility in the arrangement of events, and so on. This has been so helpful and I'm so grateful for it. Of course I managed before but these things have made a great impact on my stress levels and have therefore made it possible for me to be more functional and more productive. And I've been able to enjoy myself where, before, I would've been paralysed by anxiety. None of that would've been possible without a diagnosis.
AN EXPLANATION FOR UNUSUAL BEHAVIOUR – Having 'Autism' as an explanation when people ask why I'm doing something a particular way or why I can't eat a certain thing makes people a lot more accepting. While many people don't understand Autism in detail, they do know that it can involve behaviours like these. For example, my family are much more patient with my food sensitivities than they were before the diagnosis because now they know where it comes from; they understood that I wasn't being picky by choice, but because I was autistic. The focus has changed from putting myself through those tough experiences in the hope they'll get easier to finding ways to help me manage them.
A CONNECTION TO OTHER PEOPLE WHO EXPERIENCE THE WORLD IN A SIMLIAR WAY TO ME – This is something I've only started exploring recently. For a long time, I needed to figure out how to be autistic, if that makes sense. I had to work out how to live with it, and adding more people into the equation was a bit too much to cope with. But now that I feel more together (at least in terms of the Autism), I've joined a group so that I can meet more people like me, i.e. similar age, gender, and diagnosis. This isn't something that would've been possible without the diagnosis. And even though it's so new, it has been really exciting. I've made some new friends and we're having a lot of 'oh my god, me too!' moments which is surreal and wonderful and funny. Hopefully this is only the beginning of something.
BENEFITS TO MY MENTAL HEALTH – I cannot express how important it was to me to have my feelings and struggles validated, as they were when I finally got the diagnosis. Being believed was life changing. One of the theories as to why I developed Borderline Personality Disorder involves the continued invalidation I went through while trying to get answers for myself. I also had a lot of anxiety around the continued not knowing and I was severely depressed. Getting a diagnosis didn't magically make things better but it was a huge weight off my mind. And it was movement; even if moving forward is scary, staying still is worse.
FEELING THAT THIS IS FOREVER – Pre diagnosis, there were many theories as to why I felt the way I did. But while I'd repeatedly flipped through those in my mind, I'd never really thought about what would happen after I got my answers. So while getting the Autism diagnosis was a huge relief and a generally positive milestone, I was still very thrown by all these other things that I hadn't considered, and one of them was that Autism is a lifelong thing that I will have to deal with. When we thought it was depression for example, there was an end to it, the opportunity to recover. I know intellectually that although I won't 'recover' from Autism and I will learn how to manage the difficulties, it did and still can make me feel very claustrophobic within my own mind. As irrational as it sounds, I've had moments where I've felt like, if I just tried harder, I would be able to break out of this 'Autism prison.' I swing back and forth on this feeling but, as you can probably tell, the positives of getting the diagnosis far outweighed the negatives for me.
I want to be clear that these positives and negatives are just from my experience. I know that many people have experienced stigma and have been badly treated because of their Autism but I don't think I'm qualified to speak to those experiences. I don't know what that feels like and I don't want to speak for those people. So this is my experience. Hopefully it can be helpful.


Great buy in the Raytown school district! seller enjoys his home however he is selling due to relocating. Move-in ready , spacious master has 2 closets and a private bath, new flooring throughout the home and kitchen has a nice full size pantry. Close to shopping and easy highway access. COME AND TAKE A LOOK TODAY BEFORE IS GONE!


This is one of those customs I've thought about for years but didn't have the opportunity to actually do for various reasons. I've had the decals sitting around for about 3 years!
The Animated Prowl mould is one of those amazing pieces of engineering... It doesn't really look Generations-y in robot mode still, but I think the new hands and head more or less tie it in. It doesn't look too weird compared to my DotM-Roadbuster-based Jackpot, so I'm satisfied.
Considering Akira is one of my favourite movies of all time...yeah, I love this.


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By Charlize Alcaraz Canadian Startup News August 29, 2022
Roblox acquires gamified employee engagement platform provider TriplePlay
TriplePlay was co-founded by two engineers from Facebook, Wealthsimple.
Toronto startup TriplePlay (formerly Lobby) has been acquired by international gaming giant Roblox for an undisclosed amount.
TriplePlay co-founders Mark Hlady (CEO) and Yuri Takhteyev (CTO) announced the acquisition on Friday, after two years of building the startup's platform.
Founded in 2020, TriplePlay develops virtual gamified social events for companies that want to boost event attendance and employee engagement in remote and hybrid work environments. Its platform has built-in games, chat rooms, trivia, and the option for live entertainment. The startup has worked with clients like Deloitte, KPMG, Telus, Certn, and HiMama.
TriplePlay previously raised around $1 million in seed funding from Goodwater Capital, N49P, Box One and angel investor Charlie Songhurst, former head of strategy at Microsoft, in December for initial operations and salaries.
By September 20, TriplePlay will be shutting off user access to its platform and said all user data connected with TriplePlay accounts will be deleted.
In his statement on LinkedIn, Hlady said that TriplePlay was created for people to foster deeper connections at a time when "work was remote and tech platforms moved from connecting to entertaining."
"At Roblox, our team will continue to work to deliver an incredible immersive experience to Roblox's 58 million daily active users on an expanding variety of platforms and operating systems," he added.
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Roblox, a virtual games marketplace and game creation platform, reported a revenue of $591.2 million in its second quarter earnings report this year, up 30 percent year-over-year. The New York Stock Exchange-listed company also said it has 52.2 million average daily active users, an increase of 21 percent YoY.
Last year, Roblox acquired Guilded, a platform to connect gaming communities with tools such as tiered voice chat, video chat, integrated calendars, scheduling tools, and more.
Before he started working on TriplePlay, Hlady was the head of product at ResQ. He was also a product strategy lead at Facebook, as well as an engagement manager and product manager at McKinsey & Company.
As a repeat founder, Hlady also created Finance for Good in 2012. Finance for Good was later acquired by Purposed Capital in 2016. Hlady wrote on LinkedIn that he is starting a new venture, outside of Roblox, and will be focusing on angel investing.
Takhteyev was the vice president of engineering at Wealthsimple, leaving the role in 2020 to build TriplePlay. Prior to that, he was the CTO at engineering consultancy Rangle.io for six years.
Featured image from Roblox's website.
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Charlize Alcaraz is a journalism student at Toronto Metropolitan University and a staff writer for BetaKit. Follow her on Twitter @charlizealcaraz
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Kody & Robyn Brown Argue Over Christine In Preview Clip
Even though Christine Brown is no longer in the family, Kody and Robyn Brown will be seen arguing in the newest season of Sister Wives. Kody and Robyn have been attached at the hip since they married. However, with the loss of a wife, Kody may be on edge going forward.
Sister Wives season 16 showed numerous cracks in the Brown family dynamic. Between Kody's strict COVID-19 rules, the women all living far apart, and the Brown children revolting, Kody had his hands full. Through it all, Robyn has stood by Kody's side. The two started to live a monogamous life, even if they refused to admit it to the family. During this time, Christine became fed up with how Kody was treating her and chose to finally leave her 26-year marriage in November 2021. Even though Christine is no longer a sister wife, it seems her memory is still causing issues amongst the family.
Related: Why Sister Wives' Christine's a 'Sobbing Mess' Over Daughter Truely
Thanks to Us Weekly, fans are getting a sneak peek at what it looks like for Kody to stand his ground. In the scene, the 53-year-old complained about how Christine packed up all his stuff into boxes and tossed him out of the family home. Kody could be heard telling his favorite wife that he didn't "understand anything." Robyn seemed to be rooting for Christine, telling her husband that he needed to put in more effort and stating that he should sleep on the couch to prove his love. Robyn told the cameras that Kody "should be there, present."
Naturally, Kody did not see the argument in the same light, as he argued with Robyn that he was being punished. In the Sister Wives clip, fans saw Kody acting out and questioning his wife's motives, telling the cameras, "I don't want to be sexist here, but why does a guy have to sleep on the couch? It's his room too." Fans will recall that last season, Kody told Christine he was no longer attracted to her and didn't want an intimate marriage. For Kody, sleeping on the couch was comparable to a "walk of shame," so he refused to do it.
It is clear that Kody was not too keen on giving Christine the power during their fallout. Sister Wives fans have been getting breadcrumbs via numerous trailers, leading them to believe season 17 will be filled with fireworks. Kody is obviously triggered by being kicked out as he told the cameras that Janelle and Robyn have done it once, while Meri often kicked him to the curb when she didn't get her way. While it is clear Kody was not willing to play any game, fans will see him lose a very important aspect of his polygamous lifestyle–his wife.
Sister Wives premieres September 11 at 10 p.m. EDT on TLC.
Source: Us Weekly
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From the Hootoo archive. Originally published 8th July 2004:
Well, hello again everyone, and before we go off into the next round of Blockbuster Roulette, let's just take a peek at a foreign language movie that got rather good reviews on its recent release over here (it's still doing the art house circuit, and if it isn't already out to rent, it should be very soon) – Alan Mak and Andrew Lau's Wu Jian Dao, which I think we shall refer to by its English title, Infernal Affairs (even though the Hong Kong title I Want To Be You is a bit punchier, not to mention more apt).
A marginally post-John Woo-ish cops and robbers thriller, this is the story of two young men who meet at Hong Kong's police academy, Yan (Tony Leung) and Lau (Andy Lau). Yan is expelled and falls into bad company, while Lau rises quickly through the ranks. Ten years later the duo meet again, this time as sworn enemies…
The twist, of course, is that Yan hasn't really gone bad, but is a long-term undercover agent infiltrating the local mob, his only contact Superintendent Wong (Anthony Wong). And Lau isn't a supercop, but a mole in the pay of local crime boss Sam (Eric Tsang). Both Wong and Sam know they have a traitor in their respective camps, and it's only a question of time before one rumbles the other's identity…
Well, I say this is a John Woo-influenced movie, but anyone turning up expecting to see characters hoiking themselves through the air with a gun in each hand is probably in for a disappointment. The emphasis here is on plot and suspense, with a little bit of character thrown in for good measure. It's nearly an hour into the film before bullets start flying and even then this isn't the fetishised and hyper-choreographed gunplay of a Woo movie, but something more realistic.
Infernal Affairs works perfectly well as a thriller: it's polished, very pacy, and while the plot is occasionally a bit convoluted you're never really in much doubt as to what's going on and why. There are moments of well-handled tension, and Leung and Lau (that's actor-Lau, not character-Lau or director-Lau – this film has an embarrassment of riches in the Lau department for some reason) are both very good in the leading roles. The twists near the conclusion of the story are slightly variable – one in particular seems a bit contrived and unlikely – but on the whole the story hangs together well. News of an American remake should surprise no-one, especially as this is a movie with a clear stylistic debt to US cinema (Heat seems to have been a particular influence).
But I have to say that to me this just seems to be a competent and well-assembled movie, no more and no less. There's the potential here for something really powerful and thoughtful, but the script and direction never quite gel to tap into that. The film-makers certainly seem aware of the possibilities of the film's scenario, but only address them on the most basic and obvious levels: Lau's girlfriend is writing a story about a man with split personalities, who can't remember whether he's good or evil. The parallel with Lau himself is a bit too obvious to be totally effective.
And, for the two sides to be reflections of themselves the film should really operate in a moral vacuum, with neither police nor criminals commanding too much of the audience's sympathy. But this isn't the case, as the lawmen are uniformly depicted as nice, decent people. Wong is much more likeable than Sam. The only exception to this is Lau (character-Lau, not… oh, you get the idea), who is, at the very least, nice to his girlfriend. However this kind of sympathetic villainy (and, when we get down to it, Lau is basically a villain) would be much more effective if Yan had been similarly corrupted and become a sort of anti-hero. But he's still ruggedly heroic and moral despite all he's been through. It would also be a lot more effective if the two main characters had more screen time together, rather than all their shared scenes occurring within about ten minutes right at the end of the movie. Admittedly this would have called for a bit more ingenuity on the part of the screenwriter, but it would be worth it, quite possibly elevating a good film to the level of greatness.
But as things stand, Infernal Affairs is just a good, polished thriller, with no actual flaws to speak of. It's certainly no worse than most American studio pictures, and better than many. But it's not quite the masterpiece that some have hailed it to be.
Posted in Film Reviews | Tagged 2000s, Infernal Affairs, thriller, Tony Lau | 2 Comments
on June 13, 2011 at 2:49 am | Reply dangerousmeredith
I haven't seen this but will get round to it one day I suppose. The fact that it's a goodish thriller should make it watchable.
on June 13, 2011 at 7:55 pm | Reply Awix
Well, as I said, I thought both this and The Departed were a mite overpraised, so it might be best to dial down your expectations a tad…