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pos: Amazon Echo where/wear/ware. Amazon Echo Amazon Echo (shortened as "Echo", and known colloquially as "Alexa") is a brand of smart speakers developed by Amazon. Echo devices connect to the voice-controlled intelligent personal assistant service Alexa, which responds to the names "Alexa", "Echo", or "Computer". Users may change this "wake word" to "Amazon", "Echo" or "Computer". The device supports voice interaction, music playback, making to-do lists, setting alarms, streaming podcasts, playing audiobooks, and providing weather, traffic and other real-time information. It can also control several smart devices acting as a home automation hub. According to confirmed reports, Amazon started developing Echo devices inside

pos: Amazon Echo Show skills had not been updated to fully support the screen, but that "if nothing else, it is fun to poke around and explore what else Alexa can do." In conclusion, it was argued that at its price point, it could have featured higher-quality speakers and a full OS with an app store, but that its sound quality alone justified its higher price over the original Echo. Amazon Echo Show Amazon Echo Show is a smart speaker that is part of the Amazon Echo line of products. Similarly to other devices in the family, it is designed around Amazon's virtual assistant

pos: Amazon Echo Amazon Echo Amazon Echo (shortened as "Echo", and known colloquially as "Alexa") is a brand of smart speakers developed by Amazon. Echo devices connect to the voice-controlled intelligent personal assistant service Alexa, which responds to the names "Alexa", "Echo", or "Computer". Users may change this "wake word" to "Amazon", "Echo" or "Computer". The device supports voice interaction, music playback, making to-do lists, setting alarms, streaming podcasts, playing audiobooks, and providing weather, traffic and other real-time information. It can also control several smart devices acting as a home automation hub. According to confirmed reports, Amazon started developing Echo devices inside its

pos: Amazon Echo that only one device answers the request. , the Echo Dot maintained a 78% score on GearCaliber, based on 23 reviews. On August 18, 2017, an Amazon promotion allowed Amazon Prime customers to receive a 100% price reduction on the Echo Dot (from $49.99 to $0.00). Amazon never commented on the promotion or gave any indication of how many Dots were given away. In September 2018, an updated Echo Dot was unveiled with a fabric covering, similar to the second-generation Echo. The Amazon Tap is a smaller portable version of the Echo. The Tap can do the same things as

pos: Amazon Echo voice, instead of the Alexa voice. In November 2017, a Product Red version of the second-generation Echo was announced as a limited edition item. Another special version of Echo is the Alexa Super Skills Collectible edition, which was given to select Amazon Alexa developers who published five skills between July 22 and October 30, 2017. This special variant comes with a white mask, a blue cape, and a blue belt. , the Echo is available in 39 countries. In March 2016, Amazon unveiled the original Amazon Echo Dot, which is a hockey puck-sized version of the Echo designed to be

pos: Amazon Echo connected to external speakers due to the size of the onboard speakers, or to be used in rooms such as the bedroom as an alternative to the full-sized Echo. Beyond these distinctions, the Amazon Echo Dot possesses the same functions as the original Amazon Echo. External third-party portable batteries are available for the Dot. The second generation of the Amazon Echo Dot became available on October 20, 2016. It is priced lower, has improved voice recognition, and is available in black, grey and white. The Echo Spatial Perception (ESP) technology allows several Echo and Dot units to work together so

pos: Amazon Echo Show Amazon Echo Show Amazon Echo Show is a smart speaker that is part of the Amazon Echo line of products. Similarly to other devices in the family, it is designed around Amazon's virtual assistant Alexa, but additionally features a 7-inch touchscreen display that can be used to display visual information to accompany its responses, as well as play video and conduct video calls with other Echo Show users. The video call feature was later expanded to include all Skype users. The Echo Show was unveiled on May 9, 2017, and released in the United States on June 28, 2017. It

pos: Amazon Echo the Echo; however, as it is battery-powered, it is also portable. Initially, the user had to press an activation button on the front of the Tap to speak commands. However, a February 2017 software update allows the option of activating the Tap with an activation word, just like the Echo and the Dot. In April 2017, the Amazon Echo Look was introduced as a camera with Alexa built-in, for US$20 more than the first-generation Echo. The device can provide artificial intelligence outfit recommendations, take photos, and record videos; in addition to the features available on the Echo. It offers Amazon

pos: Amazon Echo used while playing games on Echo devices, such as "Jeopardy!". The Echo Connect is a small adapter that plugs into any Echo and a home phone line, allowing the Echo to make voice calls through your home phone number. In September 2018, Amazon announced the Echo Sub, a subwoofer that connects to other Echo speakers, and the Echo Wall Clock, which can display how much time is remaining on timers set with an Echo device. There are concerns about the access Echo has to private conversations in the home, or other non-verbal indications that can identify who is present in

pos: Doppler (building) Doppler (building) Doppler, also known as Amazon Tower I, and Rufus 2.0 Block 14, is a office building in Seattle, Washington that houses the corporate headquarters of Amazon. It is part of the three-tower campus that Amazon is developing in the Denny Triangle neighborhood, located at the intersection of Westlake Avenue and 7th Avenue near the Westlake Center and McGraw Square. The tower houses 3,800 employees. The tower's name, Doppler, refers to the internal codename of the Amazon Echo voice-controlled speaker that launched in 2014. The Amazon campus, designed by Seattle architecture firm NBBJ, was approved by the Seattle Department

pos: Amazon Echo voice recognition capability is based on Amazon Web Services and the voice platform Amazon acquired from Yap, Evi, and IVONA (a Polish-based specialist in voice technologies used in the Kindle Fire). The smart speakers perform well with a "good" (low-latency) Internet connection, which minimizes processing time due to minimal communication round trips, streaming responses and geo-distributed service endpoints. While the application is free, an Amazon account is required, and setup is not possible without one. Echo devices offer weather from AccuWeather and news from a variety of sources, including local radio stations, BBC, NPR, and ESPN from TuneIn. Echo can

pos: Amazon Echo the user's smartphone over Bluetooth and offer driving direction, in addition to other Alexa functionality. Echo Auto will be available as an invite-only product near the end of 2018. The Echo Input is an Alexa input device with no on-board speakers. It must be connected to external speakers for audio output. The Echo Link is a higher-end version of the Echo Input, with additional output ports and a volume knob. The Echo Link Amp has the same controls of the Link, but with an amplifier. Along with the second-generation Echo, Amazon announced two new accessories. The Echo Buttons can be

pos: Amazon Alexa raised. Besides financial support, Amazon provides business and technology expertise, help for bringing products to the market, aid for hard- and software development as well as enhanced marketing support on proprietary Amazon platforms. The list of funded business includes (in alphabetical order): DefinedCrows, Dragon Innovation, Ecobee, Embodied Inc., Garageio, Invoxia, kitt.ai, Luma, Mara, Mojio (2x times), Musaic, Nucleus, Orange Chef, Owlet Baby Care, Petnet, Rachio, Ring, Scout, Sutro, Thalmic Labs, Toymail Co., TrackR, and Vesper. Amazon Alexa Amazon Alexa, known simply as Alexa, is a virtual assistant developed by Amazon, first used in the Amazon Echo and the Amazon Echo

pos: Amazon Alexa Amazon Alexa Amazon Alexa, known simply as Alexa, is a virtual assistant developed by Amazon, first used in the Amazon Echo and the Amazon Echo Dot smart speakers developed by Amazon Lab126. It is capable of voice interaction, music playback, making to-do lists, setting alarms, streaming podcasts, playing audiobooks, and providing weather, traffic, sports, and other real-time information, such as news. Alexa can also control several smart devices using itself as a home automation system. Users are able to extend the Alexa capabilities by installing "skills" (additional functionality developed by third-party vendors, in other settings more commonly called apps such

pos: Amazon Echo Lab126 offices in Silicon Valley and in Cambridge, Massachusetts as early as 2010. The device represented one of Amazon's first attempts to expand its device portfolio beyond the Kindle e-reader. The Echo featured prominently in Amazon's first-ever Super Bowl broadcast television advertisement in 2016. Amazon initially limited the first-generation Echo to Amazon Prime members or by invitation, but it became widely available in the United States on June 23, 2015. The press speculated that it would make its Canadian debut in mid-to-late 2016, after Amazon posted job listings for developers for Alexa and co-hosted a hackathon in Toronto. The Echo

pos: Evi (software) an app on iPhone and Android. The company changed its name from True Knowledge to Evi in June 2012. In October 2012, Evi was acquired by Amazon and is now part of the Amazon group of companies. The technology and team became a key part of Amazon Alexa assistant (debuting with the Amazon Echo). The True Knowledge Answer Engine attempts to comprehend posed questions by disambiguating from all possible meanings of the words in the question to find the most likely meaning of the question being asked. It does this by drawing upon its database of knowledge of discrete facts.

pos: Amazon Alexa mall-based pop-ups throughout the United States. A companion app is available from the Apple App Store, Google Play, and Amazon Appstore. The app can be used by owners of Alexa-enabled devices to install skills, control music, manage alarms, and view shopping lists. It also allows users to review the recognized text on the app screen and to send feedback to Amazon concerning whether the recognition was good or bad. A web interface is also available to set up compatible devices (e.g., Amazon Echo, Amazon Dot, Amazon Echo Show). Alexa offers weather reports provided by AccuWeather and news provided by TuneIn

pos: Amazon Echo Amazon announced the Echo Plus, which released on 31 October 2017. It shares design similarities with the first-generation Echo, but also doubles as a smart home hub, connecting to most common wireless protocols to control connected smart devices within a home. It incorporates 7 second-generation far field microphones and noise cancellation, while also supporting Dolby Sound. In September 2018, a second-generation Echo Plus was released. The new version has a fabric covering and includes an embedded temperature sensor. At an Alexa-themed product launch event in September 2018, Amazon announced an Echo device designed for cars. The device will connect with

pos: Amazon Echo Show speakers, and is distinguished from other Echo products by containing a 7-inch touchscreen. As with other Echo devices, it can conduct voice calls, as well as video calls to other Echo Show users and through Skype with its 5-megapixel front-facing camera. The second-generation Echo Show (released in October 2018) is completely redesigned from the first generation. The new device replaces the black plastic with a mesh casing, while keeping the same device shape. The speakers were moved to the side and back of the device to allow a 3 inch larger display. Amazon claims that the new version will have

pos: Amazon Echo conflict was resolved when Bates consented to the release of his personal information that was held by Amazon. Purchasing merchandise in the categories of apparel, shoes, jewelry, and watches is not available. In addition, AmazonFresh, Amazon Prime Pantry, Prime Now, or Add-On items are not supported by Alexa's ordering function, while the shopping list function allows no more than one item to be added at a time. Echo has provided inconsistent responses when asked common questions to which users would expect better answers. Echo sometimes confuses certain homophones — words that sound the same, but have different meanings, such as

pos: Amazon Echo Show The Echo Show initially supported YouTube videos; on September 26, 2017, it was revealed that Google (who manufactures Google Home, a direct competitor to the Amazon Echo line) had blocked the device's access to the service, citing violations of its terms of service and ongoing negotiations. While Amazon later worked around the restriction by using the web version, Google announced that it would block YouTube from the Echo Show, as well as the Fire TV platform, citing Amazon's ongoing restrictions against the sale of products which compete with its own video ecosystem, and refusal to support its own video platform

pos: Amazon Echo a location. Amazon and third-party apps and websites use location information to provide location-based services and store this information to provide voice services, the Maps app, "Find Your Device", and to monitor the performance and accuracy of location services. For example, Echo voice services use the user's location to respond to the user's requests for nearby restaurants or stores. Similarly, Echo uses the user's location to process the user's mapping-related requests and improve the Maps experience. All information collected is subject to the Amazon.com Privacy Notice. Amazon retains digital recordings of users' audio spoken after the "wake up word", and

pos: Amazon Echo Show on Google devices. At the launch of the second-generation Echo Show, Amazon claimed that the issue was now fixed. YouTube searches are now performed using the Silk or Firefox web browsers on the device. "The Verge" compared the Echo Show to previous "internet appliances" such as the 3Com Audrey and Chumby, but acknowledged that neither of them were equipped with a voice-activated virtual assistant, and both were built with too much functionality. In comparison, Amazon was praised for having intentionally limited the amount of touchscreen-oriented functionality on the Echo Show, so that the device would not be complex. It was

pos: Amazon Echo offered for purchase at a price of $229.99 on June 28, 2017 and was initially only available in the U.S. A second generation of the Echo Show was unveiled at an Alexa-themed product event by Amazon on September 20, 2018 for release the following month. The new device has a 10-inch touchscreen, improved speakers, and mesh casing. On 27 September 2017, Amazon launched the Echo Spot, a hemispherical device that has the same functions as an Echo Show. The device has a 2.5-inch circular screen, and looks like an alarm clock. The device sells for $129.99. On 27 September 2017,

pos: Amazon Echo cylinder speaker with a seven-piece microphone array. The Echo hardware complement includes a Texas Instruments DM3725 ARM Cortex-A8 processor, 256MB of LPDDR1 RAM and 4GB of storage space. , the first-generation Echo maintained an 83% score on GearCaliber, a review aggregator. Although the Echo is intended to be voice-controlled at the unit, a microphone-enabled remote control similar to the one bundled with the Amazon Fire TV is available for purchase. An action button on top of the unit is provided for user setup in a new location, and the mute button allows the microphones to be turned off. The top

pos: Amazon Echo new releases fix bugs in addition to including enhanced functionality. New releases are pushed to the devices on a gradual basis so it may take several days to a week or more for a particular device to be updated. Because much of Echo's intelligence lies in the cloud, significant functional enhancements can be made to Echo without updating the software version it is running. For example, in April 2015, the Echo added the ability to give live sports scores without updating the software version running on the device. The first-generation Amazon Echo consists of a 9.25 inch (23.5 cm) tall

pos: Amazon Echo Show has received positive reviews, with critics noting its improved sound quality over the standard Echo speaker, its simplicity, and how the screen is used to supplement Alexa rather than act as a full-featured tablet, but noted that many third-party Alexa functions had not been updated to fully utilize the screen. A second generation of the Echo Show was unveiled at an Alexa-themed product event by Amazon on September 20, 2018 for release the following month. The new device has a 10-inch touchscreen, improved speakers, and mesh casing. The first-generation Echo Show (released in June 2017) contains a pair of two-inch

pos: Amazon Echo that are currently associated with the user's account, but doing so may degrade the user's experience using voice search. To delete these recordings, the user can visit the "Manage My Device" page on Amazon.com or contact Amazon customer service. In May 2018, it was reported that an Echo device had sent a recorded conversation to an acquaintance of a user who did not intend for this to happen. Amazon apologized and conjectured that one part of the conversation had been misinterpreted as a command to distribute it. Echo uses an address set in the Alexa companion app when it needs

pos: Product naming it to another: Caterpillar, Reebok. Descriptive names ascribe to the product a characteristic: Toys R Us, General Motors. Names don't have to be just a word or two: Seven for All Mankind, I Can't Believe It's Not Butter!, The Boring Company. Invoke a vivid image that alludes to a brand benefit: London Fog, Amazon. Use the name of a founder or founder family member: Barneys, Hewlett-Packard, and Wendy's. Chose a name associated with company/product location: eBay for Echo Bay (a fictional place as well as the shortened form of "Echo Bay Technology Group," the name of eBay founder Pierre Omidyar's

pos: HMS Echo (1797) morning Allen sighted three vessels, the largest of which seemed the most suspicious. "Echo" gave chase and at 7p.m. the quarry raised French colours and fired a shot. "Echo" caught up with her at 9p.m., and after a few shots from "Echo", and a few broadsides from the French vessel, she struck. She was the letter of marque barque "Amazon(e)", armed with ten 6-pounder guns and carrying a crew of 60. She was sailing from Jacquemel to Bordeaux with a cargo of coffee. When "Echo" took her prisoners out of "Amazon" they proved to be quite unwell. Allen and his

pos: Amazon Echo became available in the United Kingdom on 28 September 2016. Additionally, the Alexa voice service is available to be added to other devices, and Amazon encourages other companies' devices and services to connect to it. In the default mode, the device continuously listens to all speech, monitoring for the wake word to be spoken, which is primarily set up as "Alexa" (derived from Alexa Internet, the Amazon-owned Internet indexing company). Echo's microphones can be manually disabled by pressing a mute button to turn off the audio processing circuit. Echo devices require a wireless Internet connection in order to work. Echo's

pos: Amazon Echo the home and who is not—based on audible cues such as footstep-cadence or radio/television programming. Amazon responds to these concerns by stating that Echo only streams recordings from the user's home when the "wake word" activates the device, though the device is technically capable of streaming voice recordings at all times, and in fact will always be listening to detect if a user has uttered the word. Echo uses past voice recordings the user has sent to the cloud service to improve response to future questions the user may pose. To address privacy concerns, the user can delete voice recordings

pos: Amazon Echo while the audio recordings are subject to demands by law enforcement, government agents, and other entities via subpoena, Amazon publishes some information about the warrants it receives, the subpoenas it receives, and some of the warrant-less demands it receives, allowing customers some indication as to the percentage of illegal demands for customer information it receives. During the course of the investigation into the November 22, 2015 death of Victor Collins in the home of James Andrew Bates in Bentonville, Arkansas, police sought the data stored on the Amazon Echo on the premises as evidence, but were refused by Amazon. The

pos: Amazon Echo build voice-response capability for their new and existing applications. In November 2018, a major new feature was launched that will allow users to make Skype calls. Every past and present Echo device will be able to dial a number via Skype. Echos with display will offer full video Skype capability. The devices have natural lifelike voices resulting from speech-unit technology. High speech accuracy is achieved through sophisticated natural language processing (NLP) algorithms built into the Echo's text-to-speech (TTS) engine. As with all Alexa devices, the functionality of Echo smart speakers periodically evolves as Amazon releases new software for it. Most

pos: Amazon Echo play music from the owner's Amazon Music accounts and has built-in support for other streaming music services like iHeartRadio, Pandora, Sirius XM, and Spotify (with Apple Music support coming before the end of 2018), among others, and has support for IFTTT and Nest thermostats. Echo can also play music from non-compatible music streaming services such as Google Play Music from a phone or tablet via Bluetooth. Echo maintains voice-controlled alarms, timers, shopping and to-do lists and can access Wikipedia articles. Echo will respond to questions about items in one's Google Calendar. It also integrates with Yonomi, Philips Hue, Belkin Wemo,

pos: Nissan Altima One'-embroidered premium carpeted floor mats. The Edition One will only be available in three exterior colors: Scarlet Ember Tintcoat, Super Black, or Pearl White Tricoat. Nissan will also provide a complimentary gift to buyers who preorder the all-new 2019 Nissan Altima Edition One: either an Amazon Echo Dot with a Bose SoundLink Revolve Bluetooth Wireless Speaker and a 1-Year Amazon Prime Subscription, an Apple Watch Series 3, or an Amazon Echo Show and a 1-Year Amazon Prime Subscription. Finally, special complimentary concierge services will be provided to those who preorder the vehicle. Nissan's sister luxury vehicle brand, Infiniti, offered a

pos: Alexa (name) 431. Popularity continued to climb and Alexa was ranked in the top 100 in the mid-1990s. According to the Social Security Administration, its highest popularity, 39th, was achieved in 2006. Amazon Echo was deemed Alexa in 2014. Alexa (name) Alexa is a female form of Alexander. It is variously a given name in its own right or a short form of Alexandra, both of which come from the Greek, Alexandros. It can be broken down into "alexo" meaning "to defend" and "ander", meaning "man"' making both Alexa and Alexander mean defender of man. In the United States, the name Alexa

pos: Amazon Echo Show better sound quality. It also integrates a smart home hub into the device, similar to the Echo Plus. The screen on Echo Show can be used to display visual output for Alexa assistant responses. The devices contains motion sensors to automatically wake its screen when someone enters a room; in this state, it can also display prompts regarding news headlines, suggested Alexa commands, and other information. Alexa can also be used to request the playback of videos on its screen, such as Amazon Video content. The "Drop In" feature allows users to, between designated contacts, automatically begin a call unannounced.

pos: Fire OS app depends on Google services. Members of the Open Handset Alliance (which include the majority of Android OEMs) are contractually forbidden to produce Android devices based on forks of the OS, therefore Kindle Fire tablets are manufactured by Quanta Computer, which is not an OHA member. The releases are chronologically sorted and categorized based on the underlying version of their Android codebase. Fire OS Amazon Fire OS is an Android-based mobile operating system produced by Amazon for its Fire Phone and Kindle Fire range of tablets, Echo and Echo Dot, and other content delivery devices like Fire TV; the tablet

pos: Amazon Alexa application, as well as to all of their Echo devices that are both supported and associated with their Amazon account. Alexa is able to send typed messages only from Alexa's app. If one sends a message from an associated Echo device, it will be sent as a voice message. Alexa cannot send attachments such as videos and photos. For households with more than one member, one's Alexa contacts are pooled across all of the devices that are registered to its associated account. However, within Alexa's app one is only able to start conversations with its Alexa contacts. When accessed and

pos: Invoke (smart speaker) that it's "a compelling option for anyone who values music quality". Molly Price of CNET compared the Invoke to Amazon Echo and Google Home, noting that the Invoke's metal outer casing design, smooth-turning volume control, and touchpad, "feels high-end, and that's good news for a speaker with a higher price tag than the Amazon Echo and Google Home." She also found "the Invoke's 360-degree sound to deliver fuller bass and cleaner treble than Amazon's Echo line of speakers." Another CNET editor, Ty Pendlebury, compared the Invoke to Alexa-powered Sonos One and "found it well matched -- though each speaker had

pos: Amazon Silk Amazon Silk Amazon Silk is a web browser developed by Amazon. It was launched in November 2011 for Kindle Fire and Fire Phone, and a Fire TV version was launched in November 2017. The addition of Silk to the Echo Show was announced at an Amazon event in September 2018. The browser uses a split architecture where some of the processing is performed on Amazon's servers to improve webpage loading performance. It is based on the open source Chromium project that uses the Blink engine. For each webpage, Silk decides which browser subsystems (networking, HTML or page rendering) to run

pos: Amazon Echo Alexa's key feature plus a camera to take full-length photos and 360-degree videos with built-in AI for fashion advice. As a consumer product, it helps catalog your outfits and rates your look based on "machine learning algorithms with advice from fashion specialists. The device was initially only available for purchase by invitation-only in the U.S. However, it became generally available in June 2018. In May 2017, Amazon introduced the Echo Show, which features a tactile 7-inch liquid-crystal display screen that can be used for playing media, making video calls (5 MP front camera), and other features. The Echo Show was

pos: Fire OS Fire OS Amazon Fire OS is an Android-based mobile operating system produced by Amazon for its Fire Phone and Kindle Fire range of tablets, Echo and Echo Dot, and other content delivery devices like Fire TV; the tablet versions of the Kindle e-readers are the Fire range. It is forked from Android. Fire OS primarily centers on content consumption, with a customized user interface and heavy ties to content available from Amazon's own storefronts and services. While the Kindle Fire line has always used customized distributions of Android, particularly 2.3.3 (API level 10) (Kindle Fire) and 4.0.3 (API level 15)

pos: Amazon Books and prices are matched to online equivalents. The store also sells Amazon electronics, including the Amazon Kindle e-book reader, the Kindle Fire tablet series, the Amazon Echo, and the Amazon Fire TV. Two locations of Amazon Books have a cafe. The first Amazon Books store, located at the University shopping center in Seattle, Washington, opened on November 2, 2015. The store has been described as the first permanent store from Amazon, who opened pop-up shops and pickup outlets on several university campuses in 2015. In February 2016, tech news website "Re/code" reported that longtime Amazon executive Steve Kessel was leading

pos: Amazon (company) downloads/streaming, MP3 downloads/streaming, audiobook downloads/streaming, software, video games, electronics, apparel, furniture, food, toys, and jewelry. The company also owns a publishing arm, Amazon Publishing, a film and television studio, Amazon Studios, produces consumer electronics lines including Kindle e-readers, Fire tablets, Fire TV, and Echo devices, and is the world's largest provider of cloud infrastructure services (IaaS and PaaS) through its AWS subsidiary. Amazon also sells certain low-end products under its in-house brand AmazonBasics. Amazon has separate retail websites for the United States, the United Kingdom and Ireland, France, Canada, Germany, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Australia, Brazil, Japan, China, India, Mexico, Singapore,

pos: Amazon Echo SmartThings, Insteon, and Wink. Additionally, integration with the Echo is in the works for Countertop by Orange Chef, Sonos, Scout Alarm, Garageio, Toymail, MARA, and Mojio. Questions like "Who is Kim Kardashian?" are answered by reading the first few lines of the corresponding Wikipedia article. Echo devices also have access to "skills" built with the Alexa Skills Kit. These are third-party-developed voice applications that add to the capabilities of any Alexa-enabled device (such as the Echo). Examples of skills include the ability to play music, answer general questions, set an alarm, order a pizza, get an Uber ridesharing car, and

pos: Amazon.com controversies services on these devices, and the action contradicted the implication that Amazon.com was a general online retailer. In May 2017, it was reported that Apple and Amazon were nearing an agreement to offer Amazon Video on Apple TV, and allow the product to return to the retailer. Amazon Video launched on Apple TV December 6, 2017, with Amazon beginning to sell the Apple TV product again shortly thereafter. Amazon has since suppressed other Google products, including Google Home (which competes with Amazon Echo), Pixel phones, and recent products of Google subsidiary Nest Labs (despite the Nest Learning Thermostat having integration

pos: Echo Lake (Charleston, Vermont) burbot. There are crayfish storks seagulls trouts cat tails and fish. The temperature depends on what season it is. Echo Lake (Charleston, Vermont) Echo Lake is located in the town of Charleston in Orleans County, Vermont within a region known as the Northeast Kingdom. It is one of only two deep, cold, and oligotrophic lakes in the Clyde River system, the other being nearby Lake Seymour. The first Surveyor General of Vermont, Whitelaw, gave it the name of Echo Pond because when any sound was produced in its vicinity it was reverberated in various directions, producing a series of echoes.

pos: 2010s in the music industry Included with an Amazon prime membership, the Amazon Music catalog currently consists of 29,157,740 songs. Pricing: Amazon Prime subscribers are given access to part of the music library, and can unlock full access by paying either $8 a month, or $79 per year. Non Amazon-Prime users can pay the industry standard of $10 per month, and there is a $4 per month option for users who exclusively listen through Amazon's Echo speaker. Business Model: subscription-based streaming + a-la-carte downloads. Recently, the music industry has seen another consistent decline in album sales in response to the rising popularity of streaming services.

pos: The Black Echo Bosch and Wish end up connecting the robberies to a group of Vietnamese living in Orange County, as well as some Americans that may have been involved with them. In the end, he discovers that a coworker from the FBI is the killer and Eleanor Wish knew all about it the whole time. Season 3 of the Amazon series, Bosch, is loosely adapted from this novel. After Harry captures a suspect, Detective Bosch tells him "I will make sure you spend the rest of your life in the black echo." "The Black Echo" won the 1993 Edgar Award for "Best

pos: HomeSeer the Raspberry Pi2 computer. Compared to the original Zee, the S2 model included a faster CPU, had twice the RAM and it included an internal Sigma 500 series Z-Wave module for native Z-Wave support. At the same time, several HomeSeer products underwent and achieved Z-Wave Plus certification. These products included HS3 software, HomeTroller Zee S2, HomeTroller-SEL, HomeTroller S6, Z-NET, SmartStick+ and A2Z-Link. In December, HomeSeer released its Skill (app) for the Amazon Echo. The Skill allows HomeSeer users to control their systems by voice using the Amazon Echo. In March 2016, HomeSeer released a line of Z-Wave Plus lighting products.

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 In September 2015, Trove became available on Amazon Echo as an Alexa skill. Users can instruct Alexa to ask Trove about the latest news, or request information on a specific topic. Trove (app) Trove was a social news aggregation

pos: Amazon Echo half-inch of the unit rotates to increase or decrease the speaker volume. The Echo must be plugged in to operate since it has no internal battery. Echo provides dual-band Wi-Fi 802.11a/b/g/n and Bluetooth Advanced Audio Distribution Profile (A2DP) support for audio streaming and Audio/Video Remote Control Profile (AVRCP) for voice control of connected mobile devices. As part of a holiday promotion, Seattle Seahawks player Marshawn Lynch drove the Treasure Truck around Seattle in December 2016 selling a limited-edition beast-mode Echo with a custom skin. The beast-mode version was a first-generation Echo that responded to a user's commands with Marshawn Lynch's

pos: Google Home David Pierce of "Wired" compared Google Home to Amazon Echo, writing in a summary that "Sometimes Home feels like sci-fi magic. Sometimes it reaches beyond its grasp and falls flat. The Echo is less impressive, but more reliable". Pierce praised the look of Google Home, writing that it feels "minimalist, thoughtful, and warm" in the environment, and also praised its speaker, describing it as "richer, brighter and more dynamic than the Echo, and loud enough to fill a room". While noting that Home's use of the Google Assistant functioned in different ways than it does through the Allo app or

pos: Amazon Fire TV 2016. In September 2018, Amazon announced the Fire TV Recast, a digital video recorder which works with a HD antenna to record shows for later viewing on a Fire TV or Echo Show device. It is designed to use with over-the-air TV services and is a part of the cord-cutting movement. In October 2018, Amazon announced the latest Fire TV Stick which offers 4K for $50. It's design comes as a solution to create an affordable device that contains the 4K playback that is already added in higher-end Fire TV devices. The first Fire TV (codenamed "Bueller" after the eponymous

pos: Bosch (TV series) Bosch (TV series) Bosch is an American police procedural web television series produced by Amazon Studios and Fabrik Entertainment. It stars Titus Welliver as Los Angeles Police detective Harry Bosch. The show was developed for Amazon by Eric Overmyer and the first season takes its inspiration from three of Michael Connelly’s novels: "City of Bones", "Echo Park", and "The Concrete Blonde". It was, together with "The After", one of two drama pilots that Amazon streamed online in early 2014, and viewers offered their opinions about the pilot before the studio decided whether to place a series order. The show was

pos: Amazon Echo Show back, the Echo Show feels like it does more. Its strength is in its simplicity." "Pocket-lint" similarly praised the simplicity of the Echo Show, noting that it had no learning curve or app store. In regards to its hardware design, it was noted that the white model had an "air of modern", but the black model looked "kind of dated, oddly boxy, and just downright blah to us". The updated mesh fabric covering on the second-generation product addressed these complains. Its sound quality was praised for being able to "fill your entire room and then some", and the ability to

pos: Voice computing architectures. PS4 was released by Sony in North America in 2013 (70+ million devices), Amazon released the Amazon Echo in 2014 (30+ million devices), Microsoft released Cortana (2015 - 400 million Windows 10 users), Google released Google Assistant (2016 - 2 billion active monthly users on Android phones), and Apple released HomePod (2018 - 500,000 devices sold and 1 billion devices active with iOS/Siri). These shifts, along with advancements in cloud infrastructure (e.g. Amazon Web Services) and codecs, have solidified the voice computing field and made it widely relevant to the public at large. A voice computer is assembled hardware

pos: Echo & the Bunnymen In 1994, McCulloch and Sergeant began working together again under the name "Electrafixion"; in 1997 Pattinson rejoined the duo, meaning the three surviving members of the original Bunnymen line-up were now working together again. Rather than continue as Electrafixion, the trio resurrected the Echo & the Bunnymen name and released the album "Evergreen" (1997), which reached the UK Top 10. Immediately prior to the release of the band's next album, "What Are You Going to Do with Your Life?" (1999), Les Pattinson quit to take care of his mother. McCulloch and Sergeant have continued to tour and record as Echo

pos: Amazon.com controversies support for Amazon's voice assistant platform Alexa). In retaliation, Google announced on December 6, 2017 that it would block YouTube from the Amazon Echo Show and Amazon Fire TV products. In December 2017, Amazon stated that it intended to start offering Chromecast again, but , it has not actually done so. Meanwhile, Nest stated that it would no longer offer any of its future stock to Amazon until it commits to offering its entire product line. In 2018, "The New York Times" reported that a study by American jurist Lina Khan had laid the groundwork for a legal challenge to

pos: HMS Echo (1797) officers decided to put the prisoners on a Spanish sloop that "Echo" had taken a few days earlier and they then directed the sloop to the nearest Spanish port. "Echo"s sails needed a complete overhaul, and with the squadron nowhere in sight, Allen escorted "Amazon" to Port Royal. At some point Commander Robert Philpot (who had been promoted to Commander on 3 January 1799), replaced Allen. Between 1 and 26 June, "Echo" was in company with and . The shared in "Greyhound"s capture on 29 April of "Virgin del Carmen", a Spanish xebec of two guns, 16 men, and 80

pos: Amazon Alexa as weather programs and audio features). Most devices with Alexa allow users to activate the device using a wake-word (such as "Alexa"); other devices (such as the Amazon mobile app on iOS or Android) require the user to push a button to activate Alexa's listening mode. Currently, interaction and communication with Alexa are only available in English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, and Japanese. In November 2017, Alexa became available in the Canadian market in English only. , Amazon had more than 5,000 employees working on Alexa and related products. In November 2014, Amazon announced Alexa alongside the Echo. Alexa was

pos: Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K on November 14th and Japan receives it by the end of 2018. The Fire TV Cube was launched in June 2018, as a mix of the Fire TV and Echo Dot. The device uses a 1.5 GHz quad-core ARM 4xCA53 processor, 2 GB RAM, and 16 GB storage. The device initially ran Fire OS 3.0, based on Android Jelly Bean 4.2. According to Amazon, that made it "simple for developers to port their services and games over to Fire TV." In November 2017, Amazon launched the Fire TV version of the Amazon Silk web browser. In December 2017,

pos: Dash Radio and music executive Scott Keeney, better known by his stage name DJ Skee. Keeney raised seed funding through investments from Dave Morin and Kevin Colleran of Slow Ventures investment firm, L.A. Reid (CEO Epic Records), Matt Michelsen (CEO and founder of Backplane), Michael Lazerow (Salesforce), Adrian Peterson (RB Minnesota Vikings), Ronny Turiaf NBA World Champion, Ian Schafer (CEO of Deep Focus), Colin Carrier (CSO of Twitch.tv) among others. The Dash Radio platform is available for Android, iOS, via desktop browsers, Sonos in-home wireless audio speaker system, Amazon Echo, and in automobiles through the AT&T Connected Car platform, Ford Sync, Apple

pos: Amazon Alexa supported by an Alexa app or Echo device, Alexa messaging is available to anyone in one's household. These messages can be heard by anyone with access in the household. This messaging feature does not yet contain a password protection or associated PIN. Anyone who has access to one's cell phone number is able to use this feature to contact them through their supported Alexa app or Echo device. The feature to block alerts for messages and calls is available temporarily by utilizing the Do Not Disturb feature. Alexa for Business is a paid subscription service allowing companies to use Alexa

pos: Bike Parade they are finally receiving the items they purchased from Amazon for the town's upcoming bike parade, where they hope to win first prize. Jeff Bezos, who is depicted as an alien Talosian from "", observes these developments through cameras in the public's Amazon Echo devices. He has Josh kidnapped and tells a group of small children that Josh's box holds a bike parade gift, prompting them to rip it open. This causes his compressed organs to explode, killing him. Mayor McDaniels, who convinced Bezos to open the fulfillment center in South Park, witnesses this and is horrified. Stuart McCormick is

pos: Amazon Echo Show noted that few third-party Alexa skills actually took advantage of the screen, and there were limited options for video services that integrated with Alexa. The sound quality of the Echo Show was perceived as being superior to the standard Echo, but lower than other dedicated speakers at the same price point. The camera was also panned for being angled upwards (thus making it harder for shorter people to use), and for not handling backlighting well. In conclusion, it was felt that "from nearly any other company, adding a screen would have resulted in feature-itis of the worst kind. By holding

pos: Ben 10 Ultimate Alien: Cosmic Destruction in the Amazon Rainforest, which is being held in a military base. While Ben is looking for the artifact, he unintentionally activates a missile. Ben works to stop the missile from launching, and after succeeding in doing so, he quickly escapes the base before it could self-destruct. However, in an elevator, Ben meets a pair of clones of the Vreedle Brothers after fighting off the R.E.D.s as Ultimate Echo Echo. Ben fights them and takes the Potis Altiare piece after defeating them. Ben is watching another Will Harangue broadcast, where his anonymous source is still feeding him footage of Ben’s

pos: Jeremy J. Lewis album, Headless Cross. During the 1980s and early 1990s as founder of Amazon Studios, Lewis oversaw a number of notable albums and singles that were recorded at the recording studios. This included albums such as "This Is the Sea" by The Waterboys, which included the single "The Whole of the Moon", which won an Ivor Novello award. Also recorded at the studios was "Ocean Rain" by Echo and The Bunnymen and "Meat Is Murder" by The Smiths. During this period at Amazon, Lewis had 20 Double Platinum, Platinum, Gold and Silver albums for records to show for his work, and

pos: Amazon Alexa space, Alexa can interact with devices from several manufacturers including Belkin, ecobee, Geeni, IFTTT, Insteon, LIFX, LightwaveRF, Nest , Philips Hue, SmartThings, Wink, and Yonomi. The Home Automation feature was launched on April 8, 2015. Developers are able to create their own smart home skills using the Alexa Skills Kit. In September 2018, Amazon announced a microwave oven that can be paired and controlled with an Echo device. It is sold under Amazon's AmazonBasics label. Take-out food can be ordered using Alexa; food ordering using Alexa is supported by Domino's Pizza, Grubhub, Pizza Hut, Seamless, and Wingstop. Also, users of

pos: Infinite loop to compute a certain result, an iteration is intended to be carried out until the error is smaller than a chosen tolerance. However, because of rounding errors during the iteration, the specified tolerance can never be reached, resulting in an infinite loop. [[File:Google Home vs. Amazon Echo.webm|thumb|Video of infinite loop by Google Home vs. Amazon Echo]] Although infinite loops in a single program are usually easy to predict, a loop caused by several entities interacting is much harder to foresee. Consider a server that always replies with an error message if it does not understand the request. Apparently, there is

pos: Joanne (album) available as and when released. However, on Amazon's Echo speakers, fans found that if they instructed it to "Play "Joanne" by Lady Gaga", it previewed 30 second snippets of each track. Amazon later disabled previews for the whole album. Three days prior to the official release date of October 21, the album was mistakenly put up for sale in shops in Belgium, resulting in people posting it on the Internet. Gaga named the album after Joanne Stefani Germanotta, her father's sister. She died on December 18, 1974, at age 19, due to complications arising from lupus. Gaga, whose middle name

pos: Ring (company) break-ins within the first six months of the doorbells being installed. In addition to break-in prevention, Ring products have been cited as aiding the police in identifying perpetrators. The app for Ring doorbell is currently available on iOS, Android,Mac, and Windows 10 Mobile. An Alexa skill for the Amazon Echo Show and Fire TV also allow users to view video feeds from Ring devices. Ring is sold in over 16,000 big box retailers, including: Home Depot, Target and Best Buy. Ring (company) Ring (formerly Doorbot) is a global home security company owned by Amazon. Ring manufactures a range of home

pos: Tim Gill of Historic Places or designation as a National Monument. In March 2015, Tim Gill co-founded the smart home technology start-up JStar LLC. Gill is the Chairman and Chief Technology Officer of the company. JStar's flagship product is Josh.ai, a voice-controlled home automation system using JStar's own artificial intelligence technology platform. The company is headquartered in Denver with offices in Los Angeles. In July 2017, JStar announced an additional $8 million in private investment to create original hardware to compete with Google Home, Amazon Echo, and other devices with intelligent assistants inside. Currently, Josh.ai can be used through Amazon Alexa-enabled devices,

pos: A History of the Palestinian People 2017 said that the book is not just a distant echo of Golda Meir's statement "there is no such thing as Palestinians", but also the attitude of the current right-wing Israeli politicians, despite Palestine gaining recognition by the United Nations. In a piece in Ozy on Nazarethen archivist Ahmad Mrowat, Voll's book was presented as a demonstration of the importance of archival work attempting to retrieve evidence of the Palestinian people in the modern era. Amazon stopped selling the book in June 2017, removing it entirely from their site, though the book remained on sale elsewhere. Amazon in a letter

pos: White People Renovating Houses White People Renovating Houses "White People Renovating Houses" is the first episode in the twenty-first season of the American animated television series "South Park". It is the 278th episode of the series overall, and first aired on Comedy Central in the United States on September 13, 2017. The episode parodied the use of smart speakers, such as Amazon Alexa, Google Home and Apple Siri, and the use of Confederate flags in the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville. Eric Cartman and his classmates play with an Amazon Echo Smart speaker, giving it instructions that include profanity, and laugh when the

pos: Fire HD Alexa Hands-Free and the new "Show Mode", in which the tablet acts like an Amazon Echo Show. <nowiki>*</nowiki>table above only includes data on "HD"-branded tablets Fire HD The Fire HD, also known as Kindle Fire HD, is a member of the Amazon Kindle Fire family of tablet computers. The eight generation family consists of: 7" (2012 model), 8.9" (2012 model), 7" (2013 model), 6" & 7" (2014 models), 8" & 10.1" (2015 models), 8" (2016 model), 8" & 10.1" (2017 models), and 8" (2018 model). The first model was announced on September 6, 2012 and was available in two versions,

pos: QIVICON or via Deutsche Telekom´s Speedport Smart router. The system can be expanded to include other wireless standards by means of USB sticks for which there are four corresponding slots in the home base of the first generation and two slots in the second generation. Qivicon partners’ devices can be controlled and monitored via various partner apps for the smartphone, the tablet or the PC. Since November 2017 Qivicon is compatible with Alexa from Amazon. Users can control lights, blinds or alarm systems with their voice via Amazon Echo or Google Home. In March 2017, Deutsche Telekom launched a White Label

pos: Talia Goldstein dating companies to receive Series A round funding in 2016. In 2018, Three Day Rule launched a program with Amazon to provide daily dating advice through Alexa to Amazon Echo owners. Talia Goldstein Talia Goldstein, is an American entrepreneur known for her feminist accounts of pregnancy in the workplace and for founding the matchmaking company Three Day Rule in 2010. Goldstein has published essays in Fortune and has been written about in publications including the Los Angeles Times, Business Insider, The Boston Globe and Marie Claire. Talia Goldstein was a producer at E! Entertainment before founding Three Day Rule in

pos: Audible (store) Voice, an innovation that enables readers to switch seamlessly between reading a Kindle book and listening to the corresponding audiobook without losing their place. Along with Whispersync for Voice, Audible released Immersion Reading, a feature which highlights text on a Kindle book as the audiobook is narrated. It was also the focus in June 2015 when audiblebooks from Audible.com was made available on Amazon Echo, a voice command device from Amazon with functions including question answering, playing music and controlling smart devices. In July 2016, Audible introduced Audible Channels, its exclusive version of podcasts. In November 2017, Audible claimed its

pos: LIFX via Amazon echo or echo dot using Alexa voice control to turn on off or dim. LIFX can now be controlled via Google Home device as of March 28, 2017. LIFX can now be controlled via Microsoft's Cortana as of Feb 16, 2018. LIFX LIFX (pronounced Life-X) is a line of energy-efficient, multi-color, Wi-Fi enabled LED light bulbs that can be controlled via a Wi-Fi equipped device such as a smartphone or smartwatch. The master light bulb connects to the router via 802.11b/802.11g/802.11n and then to all the other LIFX bulbs in the house via a low power IPv6 802.15.4

pos: Caroline Shaw US presidential election, which she stated accounted for the "disintegration of elements" in the piece. Shaw stated that "Echo" alluded to the 'echo' function in the PHP programming language, as well as to physical echoes, while "Ruby" is named for the Ruby programming language as well as for the gemstone. Shaw's great-great-grandfather and great-great-great-uncle are Chang and Eng Bunker, conjoined twins from then-Siam who received great notoriety during their lifetime. Shaw appeared as herself in season 4 of the Amazon Prime series Mozart in the Jungle, for a story line that involved a main character seeking to premiere her piece

pos: Glen Echo, Maryland the population were living below the poverty line. Glen Echo is served by Montgomery County Public Schools. Schools that serve Glen Echo include: Glen Echo, Maryland Glen Echo is a town in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States, that was chartered in 1904. The population was 255 at the 2010 census. Glen Echo derives its name from Edward and Edwin Baltzley, who came up with the name c. 1888. Their advertising booklet for the town was titled "Glen Echo on the Potomac: The Washington Rhine". The town is famous for its Chautauqua cultural events and its old amusement park, the famous

pos: Glen Echo, Maryland Glen Echo, Maryland Glen Echo is a town in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States, that was chartered in 1904. The population was 255 at the 2010 census. Glen Echo derives its name from Edward and Edwin Baltzley, who came up with the name c. 1888. Their advertising booklet for the town was titled "Glen Echo on the Potomac: The Washington Rhine". The town is famous for its Chautauqua cultural events and its old amusement park, the famous Glen Echo Park, now a U.S. National Park. Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross, lived in Glen Echo the last 15

pos: Echo Township, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota Echo Township, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota Echo Township is a township in Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 179 at the 2000 census. Echo Township was originally called Empire Township, and under the latter name was organized in 1874. That same year, the name was changed to Rose Township, and in 1874, the name was changed again to Echo Township. According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of ; of it is land and of it (1.61%) is water. As of the census of 2000, there were 179 people, 69 households,

pos: A Love Supreme (Dollhouse) goes on to tell Ballard that he swore to protect Echo, and the only way to protect her is to stop reacting to Adelle's actions. Victor tells Adelle he finds Echo in a completely childlike state, and ends up insulting Adelle. Victor is then quickly wiped while Adelle asks what Topher what he thinks. Topher agrees with what Victor had said, and adds that physically, Echo is fine. Topher then approaches Boyd and Ballard. He tells them Echo's brain scans are the craziest he has ever seen and demands to know what is going on. Boyd and Ballard tell Topher

pos: Northampton Chronicle & Echo Doc have found an international audience. Valentine Low, a journalist on the "Times", columnists Yvonne Roberts and Matthew Engel also worked on what is known locally as "The Chron," and Helen Blaby writing a general interest column. Michael Green's novel "Don't Print My Name Upside Down" was based largely on his experiences at the "Chronicle & Echo". The paper's chief sub-editor Stanley Worker kept a copy in his desk and, during rare dull moments, would proudly peek at references to himself. Green's book "The Art of Coarse Acting" was based on his experiences as an amateur actor at Northampton's amateur

pos: The Attic (Dollhouse) has had inside the Dollhouse, and as a result realizes DeWitt has put her in the Attic. A dark figure then appears before Echo and she states that it isn't real, but the figure punches Echo and she is forced to flee. Dominic appears and startles Echo, and they engage in an altercation. Echo believes Dominic is trying to kill her, but Dominic denies this and together they are able to defeat the figure. Echo and Dominic argue about who is in whose mind. Echo says this is her mind, as what they are seeing are her memories. Echo believes

pos: Alyssa Graham and commercially successful, debuting at No. 24 on the "Billboard" contemporary jazz charts. "The New York Times" named "Echo" a Critics' Choice CD and iTunes named it one of the Top 10 Vocal Albums of the Year. "Echo" was featured in "ELLE" magazine and NPR called it "poignant...openhearted." Graham was recognized by Amazon as one of their "New and Notable Artists" and made musical history as the first singer to record the track "Involved Again," written by Jack Reardon for Billie Holiday in the 1950s. "American Songwriter" named her Writer of the Week in May 2012. Alyssa Graham Alyssa Graham

pos: A Love Supreme (Dollhouse) that Echo is not a blank slate—that she still has every imprint she has ever had, and she can control what she recalls and when. Ballard is then called into Adelle's office. She informs Ballard that Echo is going to be placed back into the field. Echo is brought out of isolation and to Topher's office to be imprinted for her next engagement. Topher tells Echo about the engagement and asks her to sit in the chair, but Echo recalls the imprint by herself. Topher notes that he is now obsolete. Echo arrives at the engagement but finds the client

neg: Amazon Valley Academy International Christian Schools (NICS) took control of the school in 1996. Currently, AVA serves a population composed of primarily Brazilian nationals of diverse religious backgrounds. It is an accredited international school. Amazon Valley Academy Amazon Valley Academy (AVA) is a Christian international school in Ananindeua, Pará, Brazil, near Belém. It serves grades early childhood through grade 12 and uses English as the medium of instruction. A coalition of Christian mission agencies established the school in the headquarters of what is now the MICEB in Belém in 1958. Originally the school only admitted expatriate students. It took its current name and

neg: Tocantins River Tocantins River The Tocantins River (, ) is a river in Brazil, the central fluvial artery of the country. In the Tupi language, its name means "toucan's beak" ("Tukã" for "toucan" and "Ti" for "beak"). It runs from south to north for about 2,450 km. It is not really a branch of the Amazon River, since its waters flow into the Atlantic Ocean alongside those of the Amazon. It flows through four Brazilian states (Goiás, Tocantins, Maranhão and Pará) and gives its name to one of Brazil's newest states, formed in 1988 from what was until then the northern portion

neg: Amazon Valley Academy Amazon Valley Academy Amazon Valley Academy (AVA) is a Christian international school in Ananindeua, Pará, Brazil, near Belém. It serves grades early childhood through grade 12 and uses English as the medium of instruction. A coalition of Christian mission agencies established the school in the headquarters of what is now the MICEB in Belém in 1958. Originally the school only admitted expatriate students. It took its current name and moved to its current location in 1963. The German-language division was established by missionaries from Germany and Switzerland, opening in 1974. The school began admitting Brazilian nationals after the Network of

neg: Amazons Other names of Amazons from various sources include: According to ancient sources (Plutarch, Theseus, Pausanias), Amazon tombs could be found frequently throughout what was once known as the ancient Greek world. Some are found in Megara, Athens, Chaeronea, Chalcis, Thessaly at Skotousa, in Cynoscephalae, and statues of Amazons are all over Greece. Stephanus of Byzantium, quoting Ephorus, mention that the tomb of the amazon Anaea () was at the city of Anaea (), which also has this name after the amazon. At both Chalcis and Athens, Plutarch tells us that there was an Amazoneum or shrine of Amazons that implied

neg: Amazonsaurus Amazonsaurus Amazonsaurus ( , "Amazon lizard") is a genus of diplodocoid sauropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Period of what is now South America. It would have been a large-bodied quadrupedal herbivore with a long neck and whiplash tail. Although more derived diplodocoids were some of the longest animals ever to exist, "Amazonsaurus" was probably not more than 12 meters (40 ft) long. Gregory S. Paul estimated in 2010 its weight at 5000 kg. Despite the fact that other dinosaurs have been found in Brazil, this is the first named genus from territory in the Amazon Basin. The generic name

neg: Red-necked amazon Red-necked amazon The red-necked amazon ("Amazona arausiaca"), also known as the red-necked parrot, Dominican blue-faced amazon, lesser Dominican amazon, and Jaco parrot, is an amazon parrot endemic to Dominica. It is green, with bright splashes of various colours. Its name is due to the area of red plumage commonly found at its throat. The hypothetical Martinique amazon (""A. martinicana""), known only from old descriptions, was said to look quite similar and may have been a related or even the same species. It was said to occur one major island to the south of Dominica. The red-necked amazon gets its name

neg: Amazon River to form what countries other than Brazil consider to be the main stem of the Amazon. Brazilians call this section the Solimões River above its confluence with the Rio Negro to form what Brazilians call the Amazon at the Meeting of Waters () at Manaus, the river's largest city. At an average discharge of about —approximately , greater than the next seven largest independent rivers combined—the Amazon represents 20% of the global riverine discharge to the ocean. The Amazon basin is the largest drainage basin in the world, with an area of approximately . The portion of the river's drainage

neg: Amazon Air Amazon Air Amazon Air, formerly known as Amazon Prime Air, is a cargo airline brand name for Amazon's freight delivery service based in Hebron, Kentucky, near Cincinnati, Ohio. Amazon operates the delivery service using its own branded aircraft operated by Air Transport International, ABX Air, and Atlas Air. Its primary hub is located at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport. In late 2015, Amazon began trial cargo runs out of Wilmington Air Park under the code name Project Aerosmith. In December 2015, Amazon announced that it would begin its own cargo airline in order to expand shipping capabilities. In March 2016,

neg: Brown-backed bearded saki "C. chiropotes", thereby matching the taxonomy proposed in 2002. Due to this confusion, neither "C. sagulatus" nor "C. israelita" were recognized by the IUCN in 2008, which maintained all bearded sakis north of the Amazon River as "C. chiropotes." However, regardless of the uncertainties over exactly what population the specific name "chiropotes" belongs to, it is clear that there are two distinct populations of bearded sakis north of the Amazon River: A reddish-backed from the Branco River and eastward, and a brown-backed from the Branco River and westward. Brown-backed bearded saki The brown-backed bearded saki ("Chiropotes israelita") is one of

neg: St. Nicolas Church in Louny 1701–1706 by sculptor Jeroným Kohl with his apprentice František Preiss. In the end of 19th century when the church has undergone restorations by Josef Mocker and Kamil Hilbert. During that time, the painting the altar was considered but in the end it didn't come into realisation. The altar is divided into three parts – the main one in the middle and two lateral, "optically" divided by huge screw-shaped columns – each of the which is mastered by a painting on wood in the midsection. The carvings come to the stunning details – the altar contains tens of characters of the

neg: Wisdom of the Crowd Crowd" wastes a talented cast on a formulaic procedural crime drama that wavers between modest returns and unintentional laughs." Metacritic, which uses a normalized rating, assigned a weighted average score of 35 out of 100, based on 17 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews". Wisdom of the Crowd Wisdom of the Crowd is an American drama television series based on the Israeli series of the same name by Shira Hadad and Dror Mishani. The series premiered on CBS October 1, 2017 and ended on January 14, 2018. On November 27, 2017, CBS cancelled the show and opted not to order more

neg: Frozen (2013 film) the best-selling film of the year in the United States. By January 2015, "Frozen" had become the all-time best-selling Blu-ray Disc in the United States. "Frozen" won two Academy Awards for Best Animated Feature and Best Original Song ("Let It Go"), the Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film, the BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film, five Annie Awards (including Best Animated Feature), two Grammy Awards for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media and Best Song Written for Visual Media ("Let It Go"), and two Critics' Choice Movie Awards for Best Animated Feature and Best Original Song ("Let It

neg: Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 600,000 units worldwide for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 during the first two months of its release. As of March 2015, the game sold 1.2 million units across its various platforms. Following the release of "Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3" for the PlayStation Vita in 2012, Marvel's new parent company, The Walt Disney Company, which acquired Marvel in 2009, chose not to renew Capcom's license with the Marvel characters, instead opting to put them in its own self-published "Disney Infinity" series. As a result, Capcom had to pull both "Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3" and "" off Xbox Live

neg: The Bachelor (season 16) talks about her trust issues with men. Later, Courtney gave Ben a scrapbook and reveals a photo album, then writes another love letter to him. Final rose ceremony: The proposal time has to come and Ben has to start his new life as an engaged man. Lindzi C. came in first and was rejected, Ben told her that he is "already in love with someone". When Courtney came, Ben proposed to her and gave her the last rose, which she accepted. In this special episode immediately following the finale, host Chris Harrison recapped Ben's journey as the bachelor. Ben first

neg: Asia's Got Talent decisions at the end of the show to send one act straight to the finals. As of 2017, "Asia's Got Talent" has seen five acts who return to audition once more on subsequent seasons. However, only two acts made it through to the live shows. The companies and brands recognized by the show's official website: Since Season 2 Malaysia: Philippines: Asia's Got Talent "Asia's Got Talent" (AGT) is the regional version of the "Got Talent" franchise that is airing on AXN Asia. It is a talent show that features singers, dancers, magicians, comedians, and other performers of all ages competing