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The Verge

The first episode was taped on Monday, November 14, 2011, with guest Matias Duarte.


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Joshua Topolsky, Editor-In-Chief of technology news and media network The Verge, describes the font as "clean and modern, but not overly futuristic – not a science fiction font".

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Joshua Topolsky (born 1977, Pittsburgh), an American technology journalist, co-founder and editor-in-chief of technology news network The Verge, and a US music producer and drummer under the stage name Joshua Ryan.


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Aleza Lake, British Columbia

In 2004 the current owners/residents of Hutton, British Columbia, dismantled this church, which was by then on the verge of caving in.

August Borsig

By 1930, the company was on the verge of liquidation, the locomotive business was saved by a merger with AEG.

Battle of Zinjibar

Despite the military claim of being on the verge of re-taking Zinjibar, the very next day, on 21 June, the 119th and 201st Artillery Brigades were forced to withdraw around three kilometers from positions they previously held in what the Army called a "tactical move".

Bijoux Terner

A Bijoux Terner kiosk at Miami International Airport had been underperforming and on the verge of closing.

Bill Dearden

During his three-year stay as Mansfield manager, he brought up several talented youngsters from the youth team, including Liam Lawrence, Bobby Hassell and Lee Williamson, and signed key players such as Chris Greenacre and Wayne Corden, guiding the "Stags" to the verge of promotion.

Broadway Melody of 1936

In an interview promoting That's Entertainment! III, Ann Miller stated that MGM was on the verge of bankruptcy at the time Broadway Melody of 1936 was made, and it, along with subsequent films starring Eleanor Powell, were so successful the company was rescued.

Bryllupsfesten

Businessman Carl Otto "Totto" Holm (Husebø) is on the verge of bankruptcy, and plans a staged robbery of the family's Munch engraving.

Cardinals–Royals rivalry

The Royals lost the first two games at home and were on the verge of elimination, down 1-0 in the bottom of the 9th in game 6, when umpire Don Denkinger made a controversial call, ruling runner Jorge Orta safe at first.

Christina Maranci

Maranci is also deemed as one of the world's experts and authorities on the Cathedral of Mren, an Armenian cathedral in Turkey that is on the verge of collapse.

Chuvash Wikipedia

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales on the international conference "Wikimedia Foundation" Wikimania 2009 on Chuvash example, Wikipedia has shown the value of Wikipedia for the languages on the verge of extinction.

Dear Nobody

The framing sequence is set in autumn as Chris is on the verge of leaving for Newcastle University.

Did You Hear About the Morgans?

Golden Globe winners Hugh Grant and Sarah Jessica Parker portray the film's protagonists, Paul and Meryl Morgan, a recently separated New York power couple on the verge of divorce until they witness the murder of Meryl's client.

Edmund Fortescue

In the ‘Propositions of the Lords and Commons for a peace sent to His Majesty at Newcastle’ in July 1646, he is included in a list of persons who are to be removed from ‘his majesty's councils and to be restrained from coming within the verge of the court, bearing any public office or having any employment concerning the state’.

Farallon Capital

At the time, many of Indonesia's banks were on the verge of collapse because of bad loans made during President Suharto's leadership and the country was seen as dangerous for foreign investment.

Foggia Calcio

The team gained nationwide popularity as U.S. Foggia in the 1990s when coached by Zdeněk Zeman because of its attacking, spectacular style of play, which brought Foggia continuously on the verge of UEFA Cup qualification, launching several players who later broke through at international level such as Giuseppe Signori, Francesco Baiano, Brian Roy, Igor Kolyvanov, Igor Shalimov, Roberto Rambaudi and Dan Petrescu.

Folkfuck Folie

This album, whose lyrics sometimes seem on the verge of autobiography, mainly deals with apocalyptic themes, the final triumph of the body over the torments of the mind, primal barbarity, wartime poetry, the spreading of sexually transmitted diseases, and mental disorder, the latter of which is symbolized by the radio sample of the demented poet Antonin Artaud used as an introduction to the track « Folkfuck folie ».

Franca Masu

For this album, she also received the “Maria Carta” award in 2004, reassuring a career which, although still young, is on the verge of bursting on to the international scene.

Graydon Creed

In the Age of X reality, Graydon Creed had led a strike force that put the mutant race on the verge of extinction.

Gus Mears

The story goes that he was on the verge of giving up on the football project when his Scotch Terrier bit his colleague Fred Parker, who still supported the idea.

Harvey Wheeler

He was best known as co-author with Eugene Burdick of Fail-Safe, 1962, an early cold war novel that depicted what could easily go wrong in an age on the verge of nuclear war.

Herman Melville bibliography

At the time of his death he was on the verge of completing the manuscript for his first novel in three decades, Billy Budd, and had accumulated several large folders of unpublished verse.

Hombres al Borde de un Ataque de Celos

"Hombres al Borde de un Ataque de Celos" ("Man on the Verge of a Jealous Outbreak") is a dance song written by J.R. Florez, produced by Gian Pietro Felisatti and Loris Ceroni, and performed by Mexican singer Yuri.

Isaac S. Struble

The bill was on the verge of passing Congress in 1890, but the legislation was preempted when The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon Church) formally disavowed polygamous marriages with the 1890 Manifesto.

Jamie Byng

When Canongate was on the verge of bankruptcy in 1994, Byng, then in his mid-20s, instigated a buyout, aided by his business partner Hugh Andrew, his stepfather (former BBC chairman Sir Christopher Bland) and then father-in-law (co-chairman of the multinational investment bank Salomon Smith Barney).

Julius Joseph Overbeck

Convinced that both the Papacy and Anglicanism were on the verge of collapse, Overbeck was received into the Orthodox Church at the Russian Embassy in London by Fr.

Kashish Singh

Kashish Singh is an Indian actress and a model and has appeared in a couple of regional films and is on the verge of making her Bollywood debut.

Kim Taylor

Taylor recently starred in director Matthew Porterfield's forthcoming independent film, I Used to Be Darker, about a pregnant Northern Irish runaway who seeks refuge with family in Baltimore, MD, only to find her aunt on the verge of divorce.

Live at the Beverly Theater

Two songs that were recorded and broadcast by Westwood One were not included on Live at the Beverly Theater, "Standing on the Verge of Getting It On" and "Loopzilla".

Love Crazy

Love Crazy is a 1941 screwball comedy film pairing William Powell and Myrna Loy as a couple whose marriage is on the verge of being broken up by the husband's old girlfriend and the wife's disapproving mother.

Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist

It is a coming-of-age story that tracks Berkman's difficult loss of his youthful sentimental idealism as he struggles with the physical and psychological conditions of prison life, at times bringing him to the verge of suicide.

Richard Hurlin

During his time at Cwmbran, Richard attracted interest from a number of football league clubs and after an unsuccessful trial at Nottingham Forest F.C. he spent 3 months with Swansea City A.F.C. where he was on the verge of signing until Manager Nick Cusack was released from his coaching position and the deal fell through.

Robert Kostelka

"Can you believe the United States is on the verge of electing Barack Hussein Obama or the wife of Monica's ex-boyfriend?", a reference to Monica Lewinsky, the White House intern who had an affair with former U.S. President Bill Clinton.

Ryan Dancey

In early 1997, TSR was on the verge of bankruptcy and looking for a buyer; Abramowitz and Dancey negotiated a deal for the purchase of TSR, which they brought to Peter Adkison at Wizards of the Coast, who purchased Five Rings Publishing along with TSR as part of the deal.

Sister Wives

In early September 2010, the drama series Lone Star, about a con man on the verge of entering into multiple marriages, premiered on Fox but was quickly canceled after two episodes, and when Sister Wives first debuted, actress Katherine Heigl was in the process of developing a film about Carolyn Jessop, a woman who fled from a polygamist sect.

Songhai Empire

Following the death of Emperor Askia Daoud, a civil war of succession weakened the Empire, leading Sultan Ahmad I al-Mansur of the Saadi Dynasty of Morocco to dispatch an invasion force (years earlier, armies from Portugal had attacked Morocco, and failed miserably, but the Moroccan coffers were on the verge of economic depletion and bankruptcy, as they needed to pay for the defenses used to hold off the siege) under the eunuch Judar Pasha.

Styles and themes of Hayao Miyazaki

Miyazaki’s characters are often on the verge of discorporating into liquid entirely: from the stink-demon, to the river dragon spirit Haku in Spirited Away and the God-Warrior at the climax of Nausicaa to the globular henchmen of the Witch of the Waste in Howl's Moving Castle.

The Doink Years

The Grifters, on the verge of releasing their first major label album on Sub Pop 1996, Shangri-La Records re-issued the first two self-released Grifters 7" singles as a 10", with a single per side and featuring a bonus track recorded in the same era.

The Greasy Pole

Sir Humphrey Appleby is meeting in his office with Sir Wally McFarlane, Chairman of the British Chemical Corporation, which is on the verge of securing a massive contract from the Italians for the manufacture of propanol at their plant in Merseyside.

The Great War in England in 1897

As evidenced by the book's great popularity, the scenario of such an alliance seemed plausible to the British public in 1894; only four years later, Britain and France were indeed on the verge of war during the Fashoda Incident.

The Kings

As it were, the group was on the verge of a major revival as the single "This Beat Goes On/Switchin' To Glide" became a huge radio hit in Chicago getting major play on all of the main rock stations: Classic rock WCKG, Alternative rock WXRT, and Mainstream Rock WLUP, as well as Top 40 powerhouse WLS-AM.

Tony DiNozzo and Ziva David

Shortly afterwards, Tony begins dating Jeanne Benoit (Scottie Thompson) and is shown to be on the verge of a serious commitment for the first time within the series.

W. H. McFadden

In 1910 he was approached by John G. McCaskey, a social acquaintance from Pittsburgh and E. W. Marland, President and founder of the 101 Ranch Oil Company of Ponca City, Oklahoma that was on the verge of failure having run out of money after drilling seven wells and only having found natural gas.

Yes Remixes

Taking material harking back from 1970's Time and a Word to 1980s Drama, Virgil Howe a.k.a. "The Verge" (and son of Steve Howe) re-imagined Yes's music into a techno context, dramatically altering the band's sound.