Little is known about Blackbird — no listings on Crunchbase or AngelList, a fairly unspecific website for Blackbird itself — and even Etsy's announcement of the deal is light on company details.
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A redwing blackbird landed on their bird feeder out back.
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He's backed the Blackbird Ventures venture capital firm, among others.
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Blackbird Tees "You Cook, I'll Clean" dish towels, $42; anthropologie.
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The community's opinion of Blackbird rides on it, he added.
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"This here is a hornpipe called 'The Blackbird,'" he explains.
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She asked the children to guess who "killed" the blackbird.
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Blackbird said it planned to seek rents of around $2 per square foot for its market-rate units, which will vary from 650 square feet to 1,200 square feet, Mr. Doyle, the Blackbird partner, said.
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Existing investors Blackbird and Castanoa Ventures also participated in this round.
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Zoox previously raised funding from DFJ, Lux Capital and Blackbird Ventures.
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"[Is Blackbird] doing anything that is illegal or unethical?" continues Cheng.
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They had their first date at Blackbird Bar in San Francisco.
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What Blackbird was trying to target is that gap in between.
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Blackbird acquiesced to Glove Guy's requests and got behind the wheel.
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That's exactly the routine a Boston company called Blackbird Technologies has followed.
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A Pilatus plane flies passengers who booked flights on the Blackbird app.
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Previous investors Blackbird Ventures and Felicis Ventures also participated in the funding.
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Blackbird was the first company to get a license, according to Conder.
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We want to thank the industry for their continued support of Blackbird.
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Conder previously founded Blackbird Logistics Corporation, which is now part of TILT.
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Blackbird sums up his Glove Guy encounter as a strange, uncomfortable experience.
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Both Alarm Will Sound and Eighth Blackbird give regular, auditory-only concerts.
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But Cloudflare surprised Blackbird by fighting back—and Blackbird's lawsuit was dismissed yesterday.
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"Honestly if 'blackbird'-era beatles and hozier had a baby," another person wrote.
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It wasn't simply to crow about its win over Blackbird, no pun intended.
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The SR-71 Blackbird is still the fastest plane by a long shot.
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I'm writing my "13 ways of memeing a blackbird" contribution as we speak.
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This 1995 play by David Harrower ("Blackbird") is set in the Dark Ages.
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So the blackbird was killed by a bird of prey, not a fox.
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And the ensemble Mr. Muhly chided, the one formerly known as eighth blackbird?
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The Coldplay frontman offered pointers on the Beatles' classic, "Blackbird" — a tricky fingerpicking ballad.
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Like Uber, Lyft, or Airbnb, Blackbird wants to make use of that extra capacity.
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And BlackBird must fight misconceptions of what and who the platform is designed for.
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TechCrunch reached out to Blackbird for comment and will update if the firm responds.
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Back on my friend's balcony, I peered through the branches at that nesting blackbird.
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Nine years later, Scott Rudin called with the opportunity to do "Blackbird" on Broadway.
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As I was looking out across the field, a red-winged blackbird coasted through.
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Now, with fresh capital from New Enterprise Associates, BlackBird is ready to spread its wings.
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After all, how often is one greeted at the door by a Blackbird spy plane?
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The eagle matriarch flew away without a second thought, and the blackbird eventually let up.
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The pitiless words of "Bye Bye Blackbird" and "Terre Sèche" were caressed, yet starkly clear.
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They were followed by the flutist Tim Munro, formerly of the garlanded ensemble Eighth Blackbird.
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So as as heavy investor in Blackbird, I'm by proxy a heavy investor in Canva.
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After Blackbird turned down the man's request to "party," the night took a disturbing turn.
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First, George W. Meyer and Arthur Johnston's plaintive 1926 ballad "I'm a Little Blackbird Looking for a Bluebird": Never had no happiness Never had no fun caress I'm just a little o' beat up humanity ... Blue as anyone can be Then the Beatles' 1968 rendition of "Blackbird": Blackbird singing in the dead of night Take these broken wings and learn to fly All your life You were only waiting for this moment to arise.
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Not always, however, as the impressive sextet Eighth Blackbird demonstrated on Monday night at Zankel Hall.
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The new round was led by prior investors Australia's Blackbird Ventures and Silicon Valley's Felicis Ventures.
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She's also a lead in Blackbird, a film about a Black teen struggling with his sexuality.
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The seething blackbird sank its wee claws into Janice's back but clearly didn't do much damage.
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"It's about keeping history alive," said Cheryl Burns, spouse of former Blackbird crew chief Dave Burns.
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I heard the first few notes of "Blackbird" and looked up and around for the speakers.
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Many solvers were stumped by the clue "Blackbird" for the entry MERL in the Saturday, Aug.
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Many solvers were stumped by the clue "Blackbird" for the entry MERL in the Saturday, Aug.
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That being said, the leverage target of Blackbird is consistent with that of Air Lease itself.
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Part of its campaign involves highlighting the backgrounds of Blackbird co-founder Wendy Verlander, a litigator previously with Wilmer Hale, as well as her co-founder, Chris Freeman, formerly of Kirkland & Ellis, to "pro innovation" state legislators in both Massachusetts and Illinois, where Blackbird has offices.
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" LuPone later responded to the two actresses on Twitter, telling Williams, "I loved your performance in Blackbird!
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The Blackbird can change its chassis shape to match anything from a Fiat 500 to a limousine.
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Because the Blackbird is essentially a modular stand-in for any car, it can be changed easily.
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This year, Tommy will pilot the world's fastest aircraft, a U.S. Air Force SR-71 Blackbird jet.
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There's a difference between interest and commitment, agreed Bill Bartee, cofounder of venture capital firm Blackbird Ventures.
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"Sweet creature by harry styles is like a chord off from Blackbird by the Beatles," they tweeted.
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More subtly, Paul McCartney's "Blackbird" was a folksy, foot-tapping, luminous paean to the civil rights movement.
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There's Lockheed Martin's Skunkworks division, which produced the U-20183 spy plane and the SR-71 Blackbird.
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Neither Verlander nor Freeman responded to interview requests sent to Blackbird last week and yesterday, but Verlander told Fortune in May that Blackbird is not a law firm and that it doesn't use contingency fee arrangements for the patents it buys, though it employs "a similar arrangement," she said.
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To acquire elmworth/pipestone lands, increasing montney land holdings to 116 gross sections (100.9 net), and announces results of 2017 agm * Blackbird energy inc - entered into a binding agreement with knowledge energy inc for total consideration of 1.9 million blackbird common shares Source text for Eikon: Further company coverage:
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Blackbird said there's "a small transaction fee" for trips booked through Hitch, but wouldn't share an exact figure.
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No matter how hard Davis and the Blackbird team want to believe otherwise, we're a car-centric society.
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Davis is counting on Hsu, who has experience scaling marketplaces, to help BlackBird expand its membership and reach.
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Salen expects Blackbird to accelerate search functionality and leverage the technology moving forward, especially on the mobile platform.
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The issue seems to be more common when jogging/walking trails border or bisect red-winged blackbird habitat.
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Also participating Blackbird Ventures and Atlassian co-founder Scott Farquhar, who led its Series A round in 2014.
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Where it's based: USYear founded: 2014Key investors: AID Partners, Blackbird Ventures, Breyer Capital, Composite Capital Partners, IDG Capital
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"I can still see 'The Witch of Blackbird Pond' on the shelves of the Horsham library," she said.
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" Like the Reddit poster, Glove Guy had Blackbird make a "fist a few times to work them in.
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I'll give you one ... They used to call me all the time from CNBC and Fox Business about Blackbird.
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The eagle kept soaring on, and the blackbird eventual gave up on proving its point and flew back home.
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The fastest jet plane ever flown was the SR–22011 "Blackbird," which hits three times the speed of sound.
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The Mill also offers a "bespoke, [augmented reality] application" so clients can see their vehicle tracked over the Blackbird.
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"Blackbird" was attached to the Kander and Ebb ballad "A Quiet Thing," to express a mood of cautious optimism.
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SEAN LI, 48, editorial and business development director, Blackbird Watch Manual website There's really no road map to this.
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That eventually led to the development of the SR-71 Blackbird, which began flight testing on December 22, 513.
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"She told me I was good," Williams says, adding that it was during her run in the 2016 play Blackbird.
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While Hitch is shockingly well-priced for private-ish air travel, other options on the Blackbird platform are more expensive.
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BlackBird currently has more than 700 commercial pilots who fly passengers between 50 and 500 miles from and within California.
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"Blackbird," the actress captioned one stunning black-and-white photo series captured by Sprouse, taken in a field of flowers.
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Blackbird Ventures and Salesforce Ventures are part of a group betting $12 million that this is the software businesses need.
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" Jay Chary (@underworldnyc) Junior Creative, VICE "Here is a photo of a meal I had from Blackbird Pizzeria in Philly.
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Blackbird Inn This bed and breakfast that "offers the intimacy of a vintage hideaway" has special discounted rates for evacuees.
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Blackbird paid $2.75 million last summer to buy the property from the Alexander Company, a developer based in Madison, Wis.
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For dinner, a finer dining restaurant, Blackbird, serves artfully plated riffs on Mediterranean fare, like figs with za'atar and burrata.
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Dubbed the "son of the Blackbird," Lockheed Martin's SR-22021 is envisioned to operate at speeds up to Mach 6.
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Mike Wiggins Jr., Bad River tribal chairman, poses for a portrait at the Chief Blackbird Center on the Bad River Reservation.
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Grohl delivered a subdued rendition of The Beatles' "Blackbird," giving the spotlight instead to those we've lost in the past year.
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The Mill says it created the Blackbird to address the "biggest challenges in car advertising": car availability and subsequent model revisions.
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And in this world of uncertainty and impending nuclear war and people who like to shit on "Blackbird," maybe that's okay.
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" The vocalists include Eddie Vedder performing "Magical Mystery Tour," Pink in "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" and Sia in "Blackbird.
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The play "Blackbird," starring Jeff Daniels and Michelle Williams, closed on Saturday, after the strongest week of its run, grossing $552,394.
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In 2007, Lynne Meadow, the artistic director of Manhattan Theater Club, sent me "Blackbird," David Harrower's soul-scorcher of a play.
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A stronger … We are certainly doing our bit to start that, so actually I was heavily instrumental in starting Blackbird Ventures.
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" For my wife, it was Scott O'Dell's "Island of the Blue Dolphins" and Elizabeth George Speare's "The Witch of Blackbird Pond.
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Those who've seen productions of David Harrower's play Blackbird will know there are several other shoes to drop throughout the film.
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Etsy recently acquired machine learning technology company, Blackbird Technologies, in an effort to improve its search capabilities and enhance the buyer experience.
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Blackbird sued the internet infrastructure company Cloudflare last spring, alleging that Cloudflare was infringing a vague patent that deals with server communication.
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For extra authenticity, the Blackbird carries a suite of cameras and LIDAR sensors that capture a picture of the world around it.
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While roasting blackbird hot dogs on an open fire ahead of their buffalo hunt, they begin reminiscing about the good old days.
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Backed by respected venture capital firm Index Ventures, Blackbird Ventures and Atlassian cofounder Scott Farquhar, it raised A$30 million ($23 million).
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"This is common red-winged blackbird behavior this time of year," Scott Lenhart from the Lenape National Wildlife Refuge Complex, told Gizmodo.
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"Feel like a plagiarism case between Harry Styles Sweet Creature and the Beatles Blackbird," someone wrote adding the hashtags #sameintro #plagarism #howdareyou.
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Compline Wine Bar, Napa Cigars and Blackbird Inn -- all in downtown Napa -- have power and are offering a safe place for residents.
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You introduced "Blackbird" by explaining you wrote the song while watching the Civil Rights struggles in the United States in the '60s.
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VICE sent images of the man in the video to Blackbird, who confirmed it was the same guy who picked him up.
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The young Blackbird (whose real name is Wu Niaoniao) attends a job fair and performs at a reading with other worker-poets.
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He wound up living there for five months and cofounding a collective called Blackbird, a communications and strategy arm of the movement.
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Sequoia Capital has teamed up with long-time Canva investors, Blackbird Ventures and Felicis Ventures, in backing the Sydney and Manila-based company.
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General Catalyst and Bond, Mary Meeker's debut venture capital fund, have participated in the funding alongside existing backers Felicis Ventures and Blackbird Capital.
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Adele told the crowd she had snacked on a Boston Cream Bismarck donut (or four, she joked) from the South End's Blackbird Donuts.
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Jeff Daniels talks about life after "The Newsroom," including a role as a sexual predator in Broadway's "Blackbird," which starts previews next month.
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For short-haul flights — Blackbird currently operates Hitch in California, but is soon expanding to Florida and eventually New York — this seems doable.
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The origin story of BlackBird, a startup that links travelers to planes and commercial pilots through an app, didn't begin with air travel.
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The content delivery network is launching Project Jengo, a bounty program that aims to invalidate all of the 70-plus patents Blackbird owns.
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It's a collaboration between Champs, the all-vegan diner in East Williamsburg, and Blackbird, a Philadelphia spot offering vegan pizza, cheesesteaks, and wings.
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The Lockheed corporation built the world's fastest aircraft, the Blackbird, and the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier the U.S.S. Enterprise was also launched.
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This round also included participation from General Catalyst and Sequoia China, as well as other investors including Bessemer Venture Partners and Blackbird Ventures.
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"Grassland birds are some of hardest hit, along with birds like the red-winged blackbird that prefer farmland and rural landscapes," Rosenberg said.
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As a result, plans were drawn up to deploy the drone from a variant of the A-12, dubbed the M-213 Blackbird.
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Then there's renowned pianists Katia and Marielle Labèque and Chicago sextet eighth blackbird presumably making up the bulk of the on-stage band.
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For her new film Blackbird, premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival on Friday, Susan Sarandon experienced a major case of déjà vu.
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Rather than wait for establishment recognition, they decided to form their own ensembles, with unusual names like Alarm Will Sound and Eighth Blackbird.
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The group, which took its name from the eighth stanza of Wallace Stevens's "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird," recently renamed itself.
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It was commissioned, in part, by Carnegie Hall and written for the exciting instrumental ensemble Eighth Blackbird, which, as it happens, has six players.
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Today, the company announced a $9 million Series A led by Level Equity with participation by from Fathom Capital and existing investor Blackbird Ventures.
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BlackBird has to find that price-per-seat sweet spot, which is largely driven by how many users and pilots are on the platform.
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Sitting in a Cloudflare conference room on a bright Friday afternoon recently, Prince seems to relish the battle that Blackbird has brought to Cloudflare.
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U.S. District Judge Richard Andrews in Delaware rejected an argument by Niantic that the Blackbird patent at issue should be invalidated as too abstract.
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"We're targeting fourth through eighth grade -- we think that's the sweet spot," said former Blackbird pilot Buz Carpenter, who flew from 1975 to 1981.
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ANNOUNCES RECORD SECOND QUARTER 2018 FINANCIAL AND OPERATING RESULTS * BLACKBIRD ENERGY INC - QTRLY LOSS PER SHARE $0.00 Source text for Eikon: Further company coverage:
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"Fintech is not something Blackbird plays in because it doesn't tend to be global, it tends to be regional because of regulation," he said.
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Amazingly, one of the first attempts committed to tape is a breezy acoustic affair recorded between takes during sessions for "Blackbird" on June 11.
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It's a rare break for Mr. Daniels, who is starring on Broadway in "Blackbird," an intense drama he first performed Off Broadway in 2007.
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As soon as "Blackbird" finishes its run on June 11, Mr. Daniels is heading home to Chelsea, where he has Tigers season tickets waiting.
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Previously, the startup had raised $1.7 million in two seed rounds from Australian VCs, AirTree Ventures and Blackbird Ventures, as well as angel investors.
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Opinion Amsterdam — A FRIEND recently invited me over to see the blackbird that had taken up residence in a potted plant on her balcony.
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The policy applies to a wide range of birds like the black-footed albatross, the tricolored blackbird, the snow bunting and hundreds of others.
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The first revelation was her thoughtful rendition of the Beatles' "Blackbird," Paul McCartney's wistfully encouraging celebration of the accomplishments of the civil rights movement.
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Collarte praised his investors, Sequoia and Blackbird, but also said that the company will be announcing significant partnerships soon, both in automotive and beyond.
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One way is through a product called Blackbird, which lets consumers opt out of receiving ads and control their privacy settings on publishers' platforms.
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The Blackbird, still the second-fastest manned plane in history, flew for more than 260 years and outpaced anti-aircraft missiles lobbed at it.
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Last month, Eighth Blackbird organized its first summer training camp for composers and chamber ensembles eager to expand the expressive dimensions of a performance.
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But other LGBTQ films such as Pariah, Blackbird, and Moonlight depict black characters as encountering homophobic parents who are more violent, cruel, and unforgiving.
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El Capitan, the new six-string from Blackbird Guitars, provides the look, sound, and beauty of a hardwood instrument without the fuss or ecological concerns.
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Now, military supersonic flight is routine, and the mighty SR-71 Blackbird proved that cruising at over three times the speed of sound was easy.
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Founded by Australian entrepreneur Niki Scevak, launching Startmate became a precursor to Scevak founding one of Australia's best-known venture firms Blackbird Ventures in 2012.
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Judges: Dean Foley (Barayamal), Avichal Garg (Y Combinator), Dean McEvoy (TechSydney), Catriona Wallace (Flamingo) and Samantha Wong (Blackbird Ventures) 10:30 AM – 10:50 AM
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He managed to get a shot of a red-winged blackbird riding on the back of a bald eagle that easily dwarfed the other bird.
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Forty years ago, in 1976, the Lockheed jet nicknamed the Blackbird broke the world absolute speed record -- flying 2,193 mph -- literally faster than a bullet.
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For example, when each Blackbird would return from a surveillance flight, former electronic warfare systems technician Michael Hull remembers how ground crews sprung into action.
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Rick Baker, cofounder of venture capital firm, Blackbird Ventures, told Mashable Australia he was concerned about the limited potential for scale in Australia's fintech industry.
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Blackbird has also undertaken a painstaking renovation of what was once the popular Younkers Tea Room restaurant on the sixth floor to its 1920s grandeur.
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At the show's finale, with the Beatles' "Blackbird" playing, the models came out in waves from backstage and strode straight across the field of carnations.
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Following a not-quite-perfect attempt at "Blackbird" (Take 28), McCartney muses on how best to sing it: "I think it's better quieter," he says.
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In the opening scene, Ben forges off in search of game; unlike Pa, who would have bagged a rabbit or blackbird, he returns empty-handed.
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The company's co-investment vehicle joint venture with Napier Park, Blackbird, was established in part to manage Air Lease's portfolio concentrations, which is viewed positively.
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BlackBird has also hired Brian Hsu, who spent a decade at eBay and most recently was vice president of supply at Lyft, as chief operating officer.
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Existing investors Blackbird Ventures, Costanoa Ventures, Industry Ventures, Paladin Capital Group, Rally Ventures, Salesforce Ventures and Stanford also participated in the round, which closed last month.
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At least one already has, according to Tim Conder, co-founder and CEO of Blackbird Logistics, which received its distribution license from the state Wednesday night.
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" It has to do with the intro of Styles' "Sweet Creature," which begins with a fingerpicked guitar line, not unlike the one that kicks of "Blackbird.
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A new adaptation from David Harrower ("Blackbird") trims the text to 21 punchy minutes, and the Pearl Theater's sturdy production serves the story well (230:2308).
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"Blackbird," a play by David Harrower starring Jeff Daniels and Michelle Williams grossed $5573,984 during an eight-performance week in which it opened to mixed reviews.
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A new adaptation from David Harrower ("Blackbird") trims the text to 90 punchy minutes, and the Pearl Theater's sturdy production serves the story well (1:30).
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The marsh attracts dragonflies; fly-catchers like the red-winged blackbird with its distinctive trill; and leggy wading birds, intent on the crabs and mummichogs below.
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Before he even parked, Prum was calling out the names of birds he glimpsed or heard through the car window: osprey, purple martin, red-winged blackbird.
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Marketing and data strategy firm Schireson Associates has acquired independent creative agency Stun Creative and brand strategy firm Blackbird to form a new company called Known.
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Blackbird OrdinaryBlackbird began as a chill place to hang out and grab a cocktail, perhaps even play a board game in one of the quiet booths.
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Then we see another plane (the space-capable Blackbird SR-71, but with eyes) far above them – so far above, in fact, that it's actually in space.
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The WSJ's cases mostly describe encounters with the red-winged blackbird, one of the country's most abundant native birds, found in grasslands, wetlands, parks, and on roadsides.
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While the little bird did its best to aggravate the eagle, by digging its feet into her back, the blackbird was no match for Janice's steely calm.
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Cameras mounted on the Blackbird map the surrounding environment in 3D, which allow advertisers to create realistic, computer graphic renderings of the car they want to sell.
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When the Russians needed something that could try to chase down the vaunted SR-71 Blackbird, they called up the MiG-21 and its Kinzhal hypersonic missiles.
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Andrew Blackbird had just finished a bartending shift and his wife, who was supposed to drive him home but had presumably fallen asleep, wasn't answering his calls.
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Marketing and data strategy firm Schireson Associates has acquired independent creative agency Stun Creative and brand strategy firm Blackbird to form a new marketing company named Known.
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If we do it right, if we get the details lined up correctly, when we run out of breaths, the blackbird, like clockwork, will keep appearing. ♦
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Here is an example that Unreal, Chevrolet and car-designer The Mill showed off at GDC today using the game engine and the Mill Blackbird: To make the rendered car seem like it's really in the environment it's being filmed in, the Mill Blackbird has a 360-camera on top of it that captures the area around it and uses those images to create realistic reflections on the car's body.
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Since going public in 2015, Etsy's most recent acquisition was in 2016 for Blackbird Technologies, an AI startup that developed algorithms to help with the site's search functionalities.
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What makes BlackBird so compelling, Golden added, is that it's not about luxury travel, but instead about how to actually replace driving through flights, which is really compelling.
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And last week, Sydney-based Baraja, another LiDAR startup, brought in a $32 million Series A from Sequoia China, Main Sequence Ventures' CSIRO Innovation Fund and Blackbird Ventures.
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Each 11-minute episode incorporates one of The Beatles' songs in some way, and the show will feature covers by Eddie Vedder ("Magical Mystery Tour"), Sia ("Blackbird"), P!
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Since acquiring the Younkers property, Blackbird has been in a sprint to convert the surviving six-story Wilkins Building into a mix of commercial spaces and 60 apartments.
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The line in "Blackbird" that goes, "All your life, you have only waited for this moment to arise," which supposedly referred to the rising up of the blacks?
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Well, the Soviets created a fighter jet to chase down the SR-71 Blackbird, and it was so fast that it's still the fastest fighter jet ever built.
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Rick Baker, cofounder of Sydney investment firm Blackbird Ventures, said in an email that any company building communities with millions of members has to think about these issues.
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In researching this art form, I've seen a supersonic F-14 Tomcat with boobs, a Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird with boobs, and a WWI Red Baron... with boobs.
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For Bigfoot erotica alone, there's an audience for works like Virginia Wade's Cum for Bigfoot and Bigfoot Did Me From Behind and I Liked It by Raven Blackbird.
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The burritos are well-proportioned, with great carne asada and carnitas, perfectly wrapped in foil, and ready to bring to bed after a night of drinking at Blackbird.
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Blackbird acquired an absurdly broad patent from an inventor that had apparently never attempted to turn that patent into a business that made products, hired people, or paid taxes.
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Other notable stars who snagged noms include Jeff Daniels and Michelle Williams for their performances in Blackbird, Lupita Nyong'o for Eclipsed and Sara Bareilles for her music in Waitress.
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Its first and greatest celebrity was Ali Ibn Nafi, a charismatic black singer from Baghdad nicknamed Ziryab (Blackbird), court musician to the Emir Abd al-Rahman II in Cordoba.
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With the appearance of a murdered-out dune buggy, the Blackbird uses 360-degree cameras and an adjustable suspension to transform its chassis into any length or width required.
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Tim Munro, the former flutist of the group Eighth Blackbird, will make his New York recital debut in November on a program with Kate Soper, the vocalist and composer.
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For the six-member chamber ensemble Eighth Blackbird, it was the desire to play by heart — and reach a deeper connection to the music — that led to theatrical exploration.
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Her essays and flash fiction have appeared or are forthcoming in Blackbird, Crab Orchard Review, Iron Horse Literary Review, Short, Fast, & Deadly, The Southeast Review, and several other magazines.
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So when his team reached out to Rebecca Roth-Gullo and her team at Blackbird Doughnuts in Boston, they knew they needed to cook up something special for the musician.
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To honor these people, musician Dave Grohl made this year's In Memoriam segment at the Oscars a little more special with a live, acoustic performance of "Blackbird," by The Beatles.
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London-based FX studio The Mill released a video this week showing off its latest creation: the Blackbird, an adjustable car rig that can mimic any model vehicle for advertisers.
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"emulate the characteristics of almost any vehicle" Thanks to its adjustable chassis, the Blackbird can adjust its length by up to four feet, and width by up to 10 inches.
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Mach 5 is more than twice as fast as the cruising speed of Concorde and over 1003% faster than the SR-71 Blackbird – the world's fastest jet-engine powered aircraft.
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"A lot of people have looked at this space before, and really have kind of come up empty handed," said Golden, who was a seed investor in BlackBird before joining NEA.
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Prince calls Blackbird uniquely dangerous because its founders' law backgrounds make it even easier for the outfit to sue companies like Cloudflare; they needn't pay an attorney to represent their interests.
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A federal judge on Wednesday refused to release Niantic Inc, the maker of mobile game Pokemon GO, from a patent infringement case brought by intellectual property enforcement firm Blackbird Tech LLC.
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And how cool would it be if some of the people who eventually develop that new technology were inspired to pursue engineering by an amazing 1960s-era jet called the Blackbird?
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If you recall, the Duchess has been a ride-or-die fan of Birdies for years — she specifically adores The Blackbird style, which was relaunched on the brand's website last month.
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On Broadway, David Harrower's disturbing drama "Blackbird" — about a child molester who must face his victim when she shows up at his office — has returned, starring Jeff Daniels and Michelle Williams.
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KEY RATING DRIVERS - IDR and Senior Debt The ratings reflect Air Lease's high-quality commercial aircraft portfolio; above-average scale; strong funding profile with a meaningful portion of unsecured debt; peer-superior leverage; strong and stable profitability supported by long-term contractual lease streams; demonstrated management track record at Air Lease and predecessor organizations; and potential risk management and earnings benefits associated with the company's Blackbird Capital I, LLC (Blackbird) and Thunderbolt Aircraft Leasing Limited (Thunderbolt) transactions.
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He figured he could ride "stratospheric mountain waves"—wind currents that shoot straight up after hitting a mountain range—to fly higher than even the mighty Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird reconnaissance plane.
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That's the Grecian code name for a multi-purpose rig that combines a decked out off-roading dune buggy called the Blackbird with some cutting-edge camera, editing, and graphics rendering technology.
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NEA partner Jonathan Golden, who previously worked at Airbnb, has joined the BlackBird board of directors alongside Francoise Brougher of Pinterest, Square and Google, and Andrew Swain, who also is from Airbnb.
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A year ago, Zoox raised what Jurvetson characterized as the biggest round of Series A funding ever when it closed on $240 million, including from DFJ, Lux Capital, Blackbird Ventures and others.
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The Australian company has raised $86.6 million from institutional investors like Australia's own Blackbird Ventures, Felicis Ventures, Matrix Partners and Sequoia Capital, alongside celebrity investors that include Owen Wilson and Woody Harrelson.
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Nominees include Jeff Daniel and Michelle Williams for their performances in Blackbird, Lupita Nyong'o for Eclipsed, Steve Martin for his music in Bright Star and Sara Bareilles for her music in Waitress.
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Dave Grohl peforms "Blackbird" for The Oscars' In Memoriam The Foo Fighters frontman may be known for his lively stage presence, but he slowed things down for the show's In Memoriam portion.
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The "Broken Flowers" producer posted photos on Twitter and Instagram with the Canadian popstar, and songwriter Nate Company, with the caption revealing they were recording music at Nashville's Blackbird Studio (via FACT).
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But now Blackbird Investments, a Des Moines-based developer, has embarked on a $60 million project to bring some 280 apartments, retailers, restaurants and potentially hotel rooms to the former Younkers site.
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"There aren't a heck of a lot of opportunities remaining in the core of downtown, and this is the center of the universe for Des Moines," said Justin Doyle, a Blackbird partner.
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The X-15 reached an altitude of 96 kilometers (60 miles) and the SR-71 Blackbird reached a reported altitude of 26 km (16 miles) but is believed to have gone higher.
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He said the SR-71 Blackbird — the company's famed supersonic spyplane — provided lessons about the atmospheric heat loads different materials can endure when it flew for hours and hours under extreme pressure.
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The flutist Mindy Kaufman and the pianist Stephen Gosling brought vibrant color and imagination to Messiaen's "Le Merle Noir" ("The Blackbird"), composed in 1952, a piece alive with evocations of bird songs.
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A theater review on Friday about "Blackbird," a play by David Harrower at the Belasco Theater in Manhattan, misstated the year it won the Olivier Award in London for best new play.
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It is now Eighth Blackbird, said Lisa Kaplan, a pianist and founding member, who said that the group decided to make the change last year while refreshing its image with a designer.
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In fact, the closest thing I can find to the Caavo's 13x1 HDMI switch is a 6x2 HDMI switch by Blackbird (6x2 means six inputs and two outputs) and it retails for ~$110.
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Professional Honorable Mention: Red-winged Blackbird by Donald QuintanaScreaming birbPhoto: Donald Quintana/Audubon Photography AwardsYou've probably seen this bird on a trip past a marsh or swamp, or heard its strange, grating call.
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Whether or not it was a subtle dig at Blackbird, one final and powerful piece of Cloudflare's strategy seems to involve talking with as many reporters as possible about the injustice it's facing.
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"By filing 107 lawsuits against companies since September 2014, Blackbird has demonstrated that it is going to use its patents to sue productive companies," Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince wrote in a blog post.
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Other nominees include Jeff Daniel and Michelle Williams for their performances in Blackbird, Lupita Nyong'o for Eclipsed, Steve Martin for his music in Bright Star and Sara Bareilles for her music in Waitress.
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The noble gases of Stevens's poetry escape the biographer's flask; the shape and force of poems like "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" and "To an Old Philosopher in Rome" are lost.
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In 1976, the Air Force flew Lockheed Martin's SR-71 Blackbird from New York to London in less than two hours — at speeds exceeding Mach 3, or three times the speed of sound.
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Andrew Norman was named composer of the year; the bass-baritone Eric Owens, vocalist of the year; and Eighth Blackbird, the new-music sextet currently celebrating its 20th anniversary, ensemble of the year.
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When Eighth Blackbird directed the festival in 2009, he added, "the die was cast," with the infusion of music by young — or at least younger — American composers like Steven Mackey and Derek Bermel.
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Their company, Underscore Hospitality, in turn, teamed up with the three owners — Donnie Madia, Paul Kahan and Terry Alexander — of One Off Hospitality, the crew behind the popular Chicago restaurants Blackbird and Avec.
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There were pictures of baroque architecture, bruised and bloody-nosed models, Britney Spears shaving her head, Uma Thurman in "Pulp Fiction," an SR-71 Blackbird spy plane — all presented without comment or explanation.
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A CIA study published in 1997 detailed how in the 1950s and 1960s, the CIA and AFOSI promoted UFOs to cover up the then-classified U-2 and SR-71 Blackbird reconnaissance planes.
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In 226.2, the Air Force flew Lockheed Martin's SR-15 Blackbird from New York to London in less than two hours — at speeds exceeding Mach 2210, or three times the speed of sound.
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In addition to the Grand Prize, which went to Kathrin Swoboda for her photo of a Red-winged Blackbird, the contest awards prizes in four divisions: professional, amateur, youth, and plants for birds.
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Fostered by her guitar-playing dad and supportive mom, Knox learned how to play guitar (the Beatles' "Blackbird" was the first song she knew how to play) and began posting covers online in 2014.
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But when a firm called Blackbird Technologies sued Cloudflare (and Fastly, a cloud platform) for patent infringement last month over a 1998 patent that involves proxy system error messages, Cloudflare decided to fight back.
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On Monday at Carnegie Hall, Sleeping Giant will present its most ambitious collaborative work: "Hand Eye," written for the new-music sextet Eighth Blackbird as part of the celebrations of that ensemble's 20th birthday.
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He acknowledged that taking on the prominent Younkers project had put Blackbird under the spotlight in the community, which wants to see Walnut Street's biggest eyesore transformed into a project it can brag about.
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That was no problem for "Blackbird," which, he explained as usual, was written in sympathy with the 1960s civil-rights movement; he played it alone on acoustic guitar and held the festival audience rapt.
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The song titles in his theme are: 17A: RED RED WINE 24A: MERCY MERCY ME 39A: BYE BYE BLACKBIRD 51A: WILD WILD LIFE 63A: ICE ICE BABY ■ 22A: Make me cry, why don't you?
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In a 2012 study, scientists concluded that climate change had likely contributed to the decline of the once-common rusty blackbird, which has seen its range in Maine retract northward as temperatures have risen.
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"It's interesting watching 'Blackbird,'" said Ms. Vogel, referring to the play by David Harrower about a sexually abusive relationship between an adult man and an adolescent girl that was staged on Broadway last year.
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The matching and booking is done through the Blackbird app, which feels like a hybrid of a traditional airline app and Uber or Lyft, sharing details about pilots, their experience, and ratings from other passengers.
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Any old jerk can wear a fancy ring, but how many people can say their bling was made from materials that once flew at mach 3.2+ on the famed Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird spy plane?
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The titanium outer band is actually from the ejector nozzle of a Blackbird, and was sourced from a retired Air Force machinist named Dan Freeman who repaired and maintained the spy planes during their heyday.
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So Lockheed's famed Skunk Works, creators of the SR-71 Blackbird, have now built a unique robot called the Spider that can crawl over the surface of blimps to find and fix tiny pinhole leaks.
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In clips shared exclusively with PEOPLE, the country star performs an acoustic version of the EP's title track at Blackbird Studios in Nashville and gives a behind the scenes look at the story behind the song.
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It depicted two zooming jets facing off against one another in a scene straight out of Top Gun, before a plane that looked inspired by an SR-222 Blackbird swooped down to blow them both away.
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The attorneys had come together to form Blackbird Technologies, a Boston and Chicago-based firm that quickly amassed dozens of patents, then began using them to file dozens of patent infringement lawsuits against companies, including Cloudflare.
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Thomas Jacobs, a partner at Blackbird and a vice president with the real estate brokerage CBRE/Hubbell Commercial in West Des Moines, added that pent-up demand was driving the preleasing of downtown units under construction.
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Browse the seasonal bounty, jostle among buskers and street performers, and visit Prism, a market-adjacent boutique where offerings recently ranged from artwork by the local illustrator Sierra Graves to unisex perfumes from Ballard-based Blackbird.
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"Blackbird" would be a lot easier to take if we could say that Ray had raped Una, but the relationship was as consensual as a relationship with a kid can be when you're not a kid.
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First staged in 1995, but only now receiving its New York premiere, this stark three-character play came early in the career of Mr. Harrower, best known for the incendiary "Blackbird," seen on Broadway last year.
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Our conversation is punctuated by his observations; he pauses to point out the sounds of house wrens, a red-bellied woodpecker, a Great crested flycatcher, a hummingbird, an Eastern wood peewee, and a red-winged blackbird.
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The first three test flights of the D-21 from the M-21 Blackbird went smoothly, but on the fourth attempt, the drone experienced an "asymmetric unstart" passing through the bow wake of its M-21 mothership.
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By contrast, "Blue Song, 2003," presents a blackbird, its silhouette charcoal black, in front of floating flowers on a light blue ground, while "Silhouette Birds (after Courbet), 2006," presents two blackbirds in the show's only winter scene.
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Mr. Finochio and the other performers interspersed dialogue and sermon, performing versions of "Blackbird" and "Can't Buy Me Love," during which Mary handed Baby Jesus to a responsible reindeer so she could cut a rug with Joseph.
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You could spend time outside, looking at trees and flowers, watching the red-winged blackbird battle the crow, walking city streets or wading in shallow water, working turtle rigs for legal meat or casting plugs at bass.
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Williams sat down with Today co-host Savannah Guthrie on Monday to discuss her latest role in the Broadway play Blackbird, and Guthrie couldn't help ask the question of the moment: What are the chances of a reunion?
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Iosseliani instantly proved himself as an uncommonly astute chronicler of everyday life, drawing from the comic rhythms of his native Georgia to great effect in such films as There Once Was a Singing Blackbird (1972) and Pastorale (1975).
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Today, the company announced that it has raised $3 million in funding from Bain Capital Ventures, Atlassian co-founder Mike Cannon-Brookes, Blackbird Ventures and AirTree (this includes a $1.1 million seed round the company raised last year).
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As it is, your first impressions of Ray and Una — so intensely embodied by Jeff Daniels and Michelle Williams in the Broadway production of David Harrower's "Blackbird" — would seem to guarantee a satisfyingly fraught night at the theater.
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"Blackbird," which took the Olivier Award in London for best new play in 2007, is an immensely powerful work that only occasionally maximizes its potential in the fitful production that opened on Thursday night at the Belasco Theater.
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Culture Amp just closed a sizable $82 million funding round led by Sequoia Capital China with participation from Sapphire Ventures, Felicis Ventures, Index Ventures, Blackbird Ventures, Hostplus, Skip Capital, Grok Ventures, Global Founders Capital and TDM Growth Partners.
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I just ate as much as an adult and then sat around reading the "All-of-a-Kind Family" books and "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" over and over, and eventually I was 30 to 40 pounds overweight.
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Early in Una, the new film adaptation of the stage play Blackbird, there's a single moment that expresses everything the film is trying to say so much better than the roughly 90 minutes of movie that follow it.
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One time I used my iPhone to play a female red-winged blackbird call while sitting at the National Garden in D.C., and a male flew out of nowhere and stood next to me to show off his stuff.
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The ongoing work of filmmaker and television creator Patrik-Ian Polk, who represents black masculinity from a gender-dissident, femme perspective — from his first film, Punks, to Blackbird to his groundbreaking show Noah's Arc — has met a similar fate.
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So while the titanium metal portion of this ring did fly on the SR-71 Blackbird at one point, you won't find the remaining planes, currently on display in museums across the country, full of holes and missing parts.
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BlackBird CEO and founder Rudd Davis, who was getting his pilot's license at the time, asked his flight instructor if he would fly his family to Tahoe because his son gets terribly sick every time they traveled by car.
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IO for machine learning expertise, Etsy acquired Blackbird to bring image recognition and natural language processing to search on its marketplace and Cisco acquired Synata, whose products allow users to search cloud-based and on-premise repositories at once.
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" Then he straps on a custom Les Paul to free his formidable guitar shredding skills on the Wings-era staple "Let Me Roll It" before showcasing his gentle singer-songerwriter side on solo acoustic numbers like "Blackbird" and "Yesterday.
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Sometimes, after the last snow in May, after the red-winged blackbird clutches the spine of the cattail, after he leans forward, droops his wings, and flashes his epaulets, I imagine shouldering the yellow center lines of the road.
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EIGHTH BLACKBIRD To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the gorgeous Arts Club of Chicago, David Lang has written a piece based on Gertrude Stein's 1925 lecture "Composition as Explanation," to be performed by this admired Chicago-based ensemble. Oct.
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And Ms. Williams, in the role previously played by Alison Pill, is certainly committed to the part of Ray's former lover, whom he seduced 15 years before "Blackbird" begins, when she was 12 and he was in his 40s.
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For what "Blackbird" does is convince us, through a creeping current of persuasion, that the shared history of Ray and Una — which put him in jail and her on a path of self-destruction — is indeed a love story.
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Some of the iconic Hollywood figures honored during an emotional in memoriam segment, accompanied by Dave Grohl playing The Beatles' "Blackbird," included David Bowie, Alan Rickman, Leonard Nimoy, horror legend , composer James Horner, Omar Sharif, Christopher Lee and Monsters, Inc.
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The self-titled album contains a few standout tracks: the "Blackbird"-like acoustic "Sweet Creature," the raucous "Kiwi," and its final song, "From the Dining Table," which is so quiet and contemplative it sounds like a poppier take on Iron & Wine.
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According to Rick Baker, cofounder of Blackbird Ventures, a seed round usually occurs when a product is out in the market in the hands of a core group of users, with around A$10,000 to A$15,000 in monthly revenue.
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Along those lines, Eric Todd, president of BML Blackbird production company which handled live video and other technical aspects of the festival, has threatened to sue Morgan multiple times for failing to pay more than $20,000 he's contractually obligated to pay.
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This round of funding includes investment from Momenta Ventures and Horizon Ventures, and adds to the previous $5 million AUD ($3.4 million USD) that Fleet raised previously from Blackbird Ventures and Grok Ventures, with contribution from the South Australian government.
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I have so many complicated responses to David Harrower's 2005 play, "Blackbird" (at the Belasco), that trying to separate what I feel about the subject tangentially and what Harrower achieves in his meaningful ninety-minute drama is hard to do.
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"The car basically takes you around the track at the right speed, the right RPMs, the right gears, the right line, and you learn through the car showing you the best way," design director Frank Stephenson imagined in an interview with Blackbird.
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Next door, on the vacant parcel where the older building stood, Blackbird wants to develop a tower that could accommodate as many as 220 apartments, or a mix of hotel rooms and apartments, as well as additional commercial space, Mr. Doyle said.
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One time she asked if I knew "Blackbird," and because that Beatles song is superhard, I came up with some lame excuse about how I was tired of playing it, but I knew some other really good songs with "bird" in the title.
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As a secondary leverage metric, Fitch also considers Air Lease's debt to tangible common equity on a consolidated basis, inclusive of Blackbird Capital, although given the currently small size and modest leverage of this platform, the impact on consolidated leverage is not material.
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Blackbird has since amassed a portfolio of roughly 2000 broad-seeming patents that it has so far used to file more than 26 lawsuits, including against Asics, New Balance and Lululemon over a sports bra, and Amazon, PetSmart and Walmart over a bicycle pet carrier.
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Kaufmann hasn't responded to a request for comment for this story, but a patent record shows he sold the patent last October for $1 plus "other good and valuable consideration" to Blackbird, which is also using the patent to sue another startup called Fastly.
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If you listen to soulful R&B, you will most likely enjoy this LP. Jessie James Decker - Southern Girl City Lights After dropping her EP, Blackbird Sessions earlier this year, the country-pop singer, songwriter, and TV star will release her upcoming full length album.
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The B side is a reworking of "L-O-V-E" (which also appears on Mr. Porter's latest full-length, "Nat King Cole & Me"), but the single itself is the Beatles' "Blackbird," a song that's less calendar-appropriate yet just right for Mr. Porter.
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Both Poseys worked their way up the ladder at Paul Kahan's beloved restaurants before striking out on their own — David as chef de cuisine at Blackbird (for which he received two consecutive James Beard Award Rising Star nominations), Anna as pastry chef at The Publican.
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Hanson, who worked for the McBride&aposs company Blackbird Studio as the operations manager from 2012-2017 and headed the company&aposs internship program, claimed in the suit that after he informed the Department of Labor about the alleged mistreatment of interns, the McBrides fired him.
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As if to pull the future back into the present, they end theirs with an interpolated lyric from The Beatles' "Blackbird" – "you were only waiting for this moment to be free", an impetus to practice The Power of Now if ever there was one in song.
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Unknown Armies (from 22), Lady Blackbird (from 2009, the best quick-start, low-prep game I know), and Pathfinder (Paizo's 2009 D&D reworking) played a big part in my year, and brought me closer to some immensely creative people with terrific skills at improv and invention.
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They'll be disappointed if so — Cloudflare has said from the outset that once its legal tangle with Blackbird had ended, it was getting out of the patent-troll-fighting business, a decision that the company's general counsel, Doug Kramer, reaffirmed to us in conversation late last week.
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A spire pulled forward by gravity of anger into limes / brief ripple of disc-shaped serrated leaves & lineage," the poem "Blackbird/Jackdaw" begins, "dropped into a ladle at dusk as swifts spit softly / overhead in lines from physics and buttons / slate, where it falls and falls.
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And "Blackbird," which played on Broadway two seasons ago, toys for a while with the idea that sexual intimacies between a 12-year-old girl and a 40-year-old man might construe a love story, but it ultimately affirms that this of course was abuse.
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The selections have included composers, conductors, singers, instrumentalists, an ensemble (Eighth Blackbird), a stage director (Peter Sellars), and even a choreographer (Mark Morris) — and several who have sprawled over more than one of those categories, such as Pierre Boulez, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Vijay Iyer and Barbara Hannigan.
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You will be assailed by many a mook bearing flyers to late-night events you will never want to attend—and most important, you will have been exposed to the great-tailed grackle, the prissy, hilarious, and brash psychedelic blackbird that Texans have such a complex relationship with.
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Rather than quietly settle, as have some targets of Blackbird and other so-called patent trolls, Cloudflare decided to fight back in a very public way, blogging extensively, talking with news outlets like ours and, most crucially, turning to anyone and everyone who could help it locate prior art.
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Several emotionally grueling plays scored multiple acting nominations, including "Long Day's Journey Into Night" (Gabriel Byrne, Jessica Lange and Michael Shannon), "Eclipsed" (Lupita Nyong'o, Pascale Armand, Saycon Sengbloh), "Blackbird" (Jeff Daniels and Michelle Williams), "The Crucible" (Sophie Okonedo and Bill Camp) and "The Humans" (Reed Birney and Jayne Houdyshell).
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit rejected Blackbird Technologies' argument that the equipment manufacturer, Health In Motion, should have limited its legal expenditures in light of Blackbird's repeated offers to settle for a payment ranging from $80,000 all the way down to zero to walk away.
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The play is admittedly a bit of a slog, so in 2013, David Harrower (the esteemed Scottish author of "Blackbird") retitled it "Public Enemy," spruced up the translation and shaved the five acts to a 90-minute sprint — which the Pearl Theater is now presenting in a satisfyingly sturdy staging.
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Today, the popular handmade-goods site Etsy announced it has acquired a startup called Blackbird Technologies, which developed algorithms for natural language processing, image recognition and analytics — similar to those used by Amazon and Google for product and other searches — and then "democratized" them to be used by any company of any size.
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From Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works team — the same folks that brought you the strategic recon aircrafts U-2 Dragon Lady and SR-71 Blackbird as well as the stealth fighter jet F-117 Nighthawk — now comes Spider (not to be confused with this one), a device to repair blimps more efficiently than ever.
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The chef, whose Chicago restaurant empire includes Avec, the Publican, Big Star and Blackbird, has figured out how to feed guests without fuss, by breaking down flavorful recipes — like brussels sprouts panzanella with balsamic onions and smoked Gouda, or steak with charred radicchio — into make-ahead components for easy last-minute assembly.
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The company has been developing its tech for years with the backing of Sequoia and Australian VC outfit Blackbird, which led a $32 million round late in 2018 — Baraja only revealed its tech the next year and was exhibiting it at CES, where I met with co-founder and CEO Federico Collarte.
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The ratings are constrained by elevated key man risk; a less formal credit risk underwriting framework relative to peers; funding and placement risks associated with the company's outsized order book; above-average lessee exposure to China; above-average widebody exposure; and potential reputational and contingent liability risks associated with the Blackbird joint venture.
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Other competitors in the wider market for cannabis discovery, distribution and sales include Weedmaps, Puffy, Blackbird, Chill (a brand from Dionymed that it founded after ending its earlier relationship with Eaze), and Meadow, with the wider industry estimated to be worth some $11.9 billion in 2018 and projected to grow to $63 billion by 2025.
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Rival English translations of the last three lines—by Manson, David Scott, E. H. and A. M. Blackmore, and Bronson-Bartlett and Fernandez—almost form a poem in themselves, in the manner of Stevens's "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird": Solitude, récif, étoile A n'importe ce qui valut Le blanc souci de notre toile.
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Because firms like Blackbird and their ilk can operate more cost-effectively than patent trolls that must pay for outside legal help — they need only invest their time in researching which patents to buy from brokers who deal in such things, then pay the roughly $1,000 it costs to file a lawsuit — they can do more damage.
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The museum's expansive entryway not only houses a flown SR-71 Blackbird from 1966—the year the famous spy plane officially joined the US Air Force—but also a scale replica of the Space Shuttle Endeavor, and the twisted remains of an engine thrust chamber from the Saturn V rocket that launched the Apollo 11 astronauts to the Moon.
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In October of 212, legendary engineer Kelly Johnson, whose career included designing both the U-221 spy plane and the SR-221 Blackbird, set to work designing what would come to be called the D-221: A long-range, high altitude drone that leaned heavily on technology developed for the SR-221's predecessor, the A-221.
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This million-square-kilometer network of prairies—home to 12 endangered bird species, including the saffron-cowled blackbird (Xanthopsar flavus), the marsh seedeater (Sporophila palustris), the chestnut seedeater (Sporophila cinnamomea) and the black-and-white monjita (Xolmis dominicanus)—faces ever-increasing pressures from industrial-scale agricultural companies, which are snapping up the land to raise cattle.
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On Friday, the Jonas family celebrated Frankie Jonas' graduation from The Blackbird Academy, an audio engineering school in Nashville, Tennessee, Adding a bit of humor to the happy day, Frankie — affectionately nicknamed the "Bonus Jonas" by fans — decided to pay tribute to his accomplishment by wearing a very special T-shirt, which had a throwback photo of himself as a child on it.
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The accelerator has, unsurprisingly, become a feeder for deals coming to Blackbird Ventures, but the companies that have come out of the program have also managed to collect cash from Accel, Costanoa, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, Australia's other marquee investment firms Square Peg Ventures and Airtree Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, and individual investments from Peter Thiel.
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Apparently the company has impressed some folks with even deeper pockets, announcing this morning that it has secured $4.6 million in funding, led by fellow Sydneysiders, Blackbird Ventures, along with UK music industry types Ric Salmon and Brian Message of ATC Management "The people who believe in Nura are those who genuinely care about sound," CEO Slater told TechCrunch ahead of the announcement.
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Applied's own investor Blackbird Ventures, which is leading the seed round, is another customer — and ended up turning one investment associate vacancy, advertised via the platform, into two roles — hiring both an ethnic minority woman and a man with a startup background as a result of "not focusing on did they have the traditional profile we were expecting", says Glazebrook.
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