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17 unusual facts about UPS


APC Smart-UPS

A free alternative to PowerChute is the Free software project APC UPS Daemon (Apcupsd), which supports Linux, Mac OS X, UNIX and Microsoft Windows operating systems and can run in stand alone or client-server modes.

Charlie Chaplin: Intimate Close-Ups

The book primarily chronicles Hale's love/hate relationship with Chaplin, from her initial infatuation with him as a child through her being chosen to co-star with him in Gold Rush, and entering into romance despite him being married to Lita Grey, to her temporary casting in City Lights as a replacement for the fired Virginia Cherrill, through to both hers and Chaplin's senior years.

Diether Ocampo

In 2001, Diether was executive producer for The Pin-Ups debut album Hello Pain that enabled the band to get signed to a U.S. label, making them the first Philippine-based band to be signed to a U.S. label.

Grown-Ups

Quoted in Michael Coveney's 1996 biography he said ; "And that's what we got I think. It was also the first time I worked with far and away the best lighting cameraman I'd had up to that time, Remi Adefarasin."

Huggies Pull-Ups

This has since been pulled from airwaves and later replaced with a more appropriate version by Ralph's World, which replaces the offensive movements with sidesteps.

Pull-Ups are the official sponsor of ESPN Radio's coverage of Major League Baseball, as well as Westwood One's coverage of Sunday Night Football.

Michael J Gale

Gale has a minor role as an investor in the 2012 Bravo Television Reality Show Start-Ups: Silicon Valley

Rio's World Cup Wind-Ups

Wayne Rooney: Rooney is visiting a dogs' home with his wife Colleen when a little boy's dog dies.

ShipWorks

The software provides direct support for all major shipping carriers including DHL Global Mail, FedEx, UPS, and USPS.

The Act-Ups

Music from that record was used in "Um ano mais longo", a movie by director Marco Martins.

The F-Ups

The band drew lyrical influences from such experiences as laziness ("Lazy Generation", "I Don't Know"), rebellion against parents ("Look At Your Son Now", "Screw You") and even a Jerry Springer episode ("Crack Ho").

The song Lazy Generation was featured in NHL 2005 & Burnout 3: Takedown, with the song being the theme song of Takedown, but the line shit on a silver platter shines was changed to gold on a silver platter shines.

The Pin-Ups

The album’s artwork was created by Filipino graphic artist Leinil Francis Yu.

They were without a permanent name until Tan wore a Bettie Page T-shirt to a rehearsal at then-Eraserheads drummer Raimund Marasigan's house.

Comic book writer and artist Arnold Arre was commissioned by the band to do the album artwork.

The Rave-Ups

Early performances in Pittsburgh were at The Electric Banana, The Decade Lounge, functions at Carnegie Mellon, as well as regular gigs at Fat City in Swissvale.

In the movie, the Rave-Ups play their song "Rave-Up, Shut-Up" on stage while Duckie (Jon Cryer) talks with Iona (Annie Potts) at a nearby table, just before Andie (Ringwald) and Blane (Andrew McCarthy) join them.


1991 British Grand Prix

Elsewhere Tom Walkinshaw had bought a 35% stake in the Benetton team, but the driver line-ups were unchanged from the previous race.

Aie a Mwana

Write-ups in the English music and fashion press (NME, The Face) caught the attention of Terry Hall, who invited Bananarama to sing on his new vocal group Fun Boy Three's next single.

Air Rhodesia

Soon the Bush War was escalating sharply, and staff shortages resulting from military call-ups were adding to the airline's difficulties.

American Legion Memorial Stadium

The stadium continues to play a large role in Charlotte-Mecklenburg high school football to this day as it hosts big ticket match-ups such as Butler v. Independence and Charlotte Latin v. Charlotte Country Day.

Annie E. Casey Foundation

The Annie E. Casey Foundation was started in 1948 in Seattle, Washington, by UPS founder James E. Casey and his siblings George, Harry and Marguerite.

Automatic identification and data capture

The global association Auto-ID Center was founded in 1999 and is made up of 100 of the largest companies in the world such as Wal-Mart, Coca-Cola, Gillette, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Procter & Gamble, Unilever, UPS, companies working in the sector of technology such as SAP, Aliens, Sun as well as five academic research centers.

Billy Duffy

Duffy got his start playing in different punk line-ups in the late 1970s, but these earlier years were more notable for his introducing Johnny Marr (The Smiths) to the guitar and encouraging Morrissey to make his singing debut with Duffy in The Nosebleeds.

Bored!

Thomas briefly joined Magic Dirt and subsequently has enlisted various line-ups for reformed versions of Bored! in 1998, 1999 and 2000.

Cam-Pact

Different line ups included Ray Arnott on drums and vocals; Keith Glass on guitar, vocals and bass guitar; Chris Löfvén on bass guitar; Russell Smith on guitar and vocals; and Chris Stockley on guitar and vocals.

Close-up

One of the best claims is for George Albert Smith in Hove, who used medium close-ups in films as early as 1898 and by 1900 was incorporating extreme close-ups in films such as As Seen Through a Telescope and Grandma's Reading Glass.

Con-way

In December 2004, CNF sold Emery (rechristened Menlo Forwarding) to UPS for $100 million in cash and $260 million in assumed debt.

Cost externalizing

An example of cost externalizing would be using a global courier service (such as FedEx and UPS) to do all or most of the shipping and logistics work for the company.

Crystal McLaurin-Coney

She has worked in the industry for over 15 years with such clients as Goody's Headache Powder, UPS, Hanes Her Way, The NC College Foundation and just recently completed a commercial for Secret Deodorant.

Deception series

The change in how traps functioned gave this game a much more strategic edge than the first game, with traps able to interact with one another in long strings that could be likened to Rube Goldberg set-ups, just much more lethal and involving other people.

DX-Ball 2

Among other new features, the game also introduced two new Power-Ups: Mega Ball and Eight Ball; an easy-to-play Kid-Mode; and a euro-techno soundtrack by SideWinder, accompanying the addition of an integrated module player.

Enteng Ng Ina Mo

The film captured the number one spot on the first day of 2011 Metro Manila Film Festival box office race with a whooping ₱38.5 million gross well ahead of the runner ups, Ang Panday 2, and Segunda Mano with ₱20 million and ₱18.25 million gross respectively.

FlatClub

In January 2012, FlatClub won the TechCrunch One-Sentence Pitching Competition, being ranked 1st place out of 650 start-ups globally.

Georges Renavent

East of Borneo went on to achieve latter-day fame when avant-garde filmmaker Joseph Cornell spliced together all of the leading lady's close-ups, and came up with a surrealistic exercise titled Rose Hobart (1936).

Home theater

Home cinema, commonly referred to as home theater or home theatre, are home entertainment set-ups that seek to reproduce movie theater video and audio feeling in a private home

Jane Dormer

Jane Dormer is a prominent character in Philippa Gregory's historical fiction The Queen's Fool, which emphasises her role as a close personal friend and a completely devoted and loyal follower of Queen Mary I, both before Mary's accession to the throne and throughout the ups and downs of her reign.

Joint Working Group between the Roman Catholic Church and the World Council of Churches

According to Armenian Catholicos Aram I, there have been ups and down in WCC-Catholic Church collaboration.

Jovita Carranza

Prior to the SBA appointment, Carranza served as vice president of air operations for United Parcel Service (UPS) the world’s largest package delivery company at its facility in Louisville, Ky.

Jubilee Hills

The neighbourhood is a base to a number of small IT start-ups and BPOs.

Ludwig von 88

The band had different line-ups, among which the most famous from the late 80’s featured Karim Berrouka on vocals, Nobru (real name Bruno Garcia, his new pseudonym is Sergent Garcia) on guitars, Laurent and then Charlu on bass, and Jean-Mi on programming.

Luo Zilin

During her career, Roseline has done work for well-known brands such as Chanel, Bvlgari, Cartier, Gucci, Guess, Armani, FerrAgamo, Versace, Bottega Veneta, Louis Vuitton, Marc Jacobs, Chloe, agnès b., UPS and Qingdao Beer.

Mike Barton and Jim Steele

The team entered the 2002 Triathlon Series tournament teaming with Yuji Nagata in the fall of 2002 where the team became the runner ups losing to Osamu Nishimura, Manabu Nakanishi, and Yutaka Yoshie in the finals.

Milken Family Foundation

Milken-University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education Education Business Plan Competition - Education entrepreneurs from early-stage start-ups compete in the competition, which features seven prizes totaling $145,000 in funding.

Miskolc International Film Festival

According to György Báron’s article published in the leading weekly Élet és Irodalom in 2010, ‘the brilliant film selection at this year’s CineFest was the best of all Hungarian festival line-ups ever’; furthermore the Miskolc film muster was the first among the Hungarian film festivals to have entered the field of the great international festivals.

Motorola Homesight

The latter may be mitigated by the use of a UPS for the computer and some combination of backup power sources, such as diesel generator, solar panels, a wind turbine or other off-the-grid energy sources.

Multichannel television sound

FOX was the last network to join around 1990, with the four networks having their entire prime-time schedules in stereo by late 1994 (The WB and UPN, launched the following season with their entire line-ups in stereo).

Nintendo DS

Another modification device called Action Replay, manufactured by the company Datel, is a device which allows the user to input cheat codes that allows it to hack games, granting the player infinite "health", power-ups, access to any part of the game, etc.

Online book rental in India

Cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore, Pune, Kolkata and Ahmedabad have small start-ups with a few thousand books in their collections.

Otis Clay

However, follow-ups on Cotillion, including "Hard Working Woman" produced by Syl Johnson, and "Is It Over?" produced by Willie Mitchell in Memphis, were less successful.

Pampers

At the time the Pampers Easy Ups were introduced, there was a controversy going on between pediatrician T. Berry Brazelton and syndicated columnist and best-selling author of books for parents, John Rosemond.

Peter O. Knight Airport

Sound tests conducted by the Aviation Authority showed an increase of 3 dB or less over current usage at the closest residences, or an average of about 58 dB during run ups to take off.

Port Sunlight

It starred Phyllis Dare, one of the most popular pin-ups of the Edwardian era, and was written by Paul Alfred Rubens.

Ramy Adeeb

Ramy Adeeb is the founder and CEO of social curation platform Snip.it and is a former venture capitalist investor in start-ups such as Square and Groupme.

Redbird trains

An episode of CSI: NY titled "The Deep" used these cars as part of the story line, and even featured well-replicated underwater shots of mock ups of the cars.

Ronnie Chamberlain

In March 1945, he recorded with three different line-ups of Carlo Krahmer’s Chicagoans, including Johnny Best, Stephane Grappelli, Vic Lewis (g), Tommy Bromley (b), Lad Busby (tb), Aubrey Frank (ts) Gerry Moore (p), Don Jacoby (tp), Harry Roche (tb), Derek Hawkins (cl), Sam Donahue (ts), Rocky Collucio (p), and Bert Howard (b).

Tantsud tähtedega

The runner-ups were World Figure Skating silver medallist Anna Levandi and her partner Mairold Millert.

The Highliners

The name The Highliners came from the Mk2 Ford Consuls and Zephyrs they all owned and early line-ups included members of The Cropdusters and Simon Collins the Dean of Fashion at Parsons School New York.

The Saturday Night Armistice

Along with sketches, there were also a number of humorous set-ups, such as Armando tricking O. J. Simpson into autographing a folded piece of paper stating "I DID IT" or sending a bus of Princess Diana-lookalikes to take photographs of News International journalists leaving their office.

Timeline of Electronic Frontier Foundation actions

December 2010: Following the United States diplomatic cables leak, the EFF offered support to WikiLeaks, with John Perry Barlow saying the EFF was 'trying to make sure they have plenty of mirror sites, back-ups, we're organising donations for them and generally doing everything we can to see that Wikileaks is not assailable by the methods that have been used against it so far'.

Utilimaster Corporation

Utilimaster's customers include FedEx, United States Postal Service, UPS, Canada Post, Purolator, Airborne, Budget, Penske, Ryder TRS, Frito-Lay, Keebler, Krispy Kreme, IBC, Canadian Linen and Uniform Service, Cintas, AmeriPride, Verizon, Apria Health Care, and Home Depot.