Preps On The Net is a Wisconsin high school sports Web site based in West Bend, Wisconsin, that covers teams that are affiliated with the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association. The ground work for the site was formed in May, 2007, and finally became an active Web site in October 2007.
Preps On The Net is the first interactive Web site that features live-streaming or tape-delayed coverage of high school athletic and extracurricular activities. The site also offers daily high school coverage, unique feature videos and highlights, schedules and statistics for every school throughout the state of Wisconsin.
Preps On The Net's niche is that it is the only high school Web site that combines academics with athletics by providing opportunities for student participation in all forms of media. The main part of that student-intern work is done in the filming of each school's events which is all done by students. Senior writer Judy Steffes also boasts over 80 student writers that generate content for the site on a daily basis.
The beginning
Preps On the Net was started in May 2007 as the brain child of Steve Kearns with backing from former Milwaukee Bucks coach George Karl and former Green Bay Packers running back Ahman Green along with Joe Menter. The site went live in October 2007.
What is on Preps On the Net?
Preps On The Net focuses on teaming academics with athletics. The goal of this pairing is to provide students with valuable journalism, computer, filming and video streaming techniques. The site's senior writers work with high school English and journalism departments to train student writers. Student stories are then posted in their own section on the Preps On The Net Web site with their student byline.
Prepsonthenet’s most unusual feature is the ability to stream live video from any school that has a contract with the company. The feature allows for athletic competitions to be broadcast live over the internet for anyone to view.
The site employs a staff of writers that cover the state's both on the field and in the classroom happenings on a daily basis. Beyond written stories there is also a staff of videographers and editors that produce short video features.
The Preps On The Net Goal
From the Preps On the Net "About us" web page, the site discusses its relationship with schools that best discusses what the goal of the site is.
"Preps On The Net has made a commitment to Wisconsin high schools to continue promoting sports and activities in the state from a positive viewpoint. Preps On The Net is committed to being professional in all of our offered services and will continue to grow with the expansion of technology."
Awards
In February 2010 Preps On the Net Sports Editor Aaron Wilberding was named one of three Media Men of the Year of the Year by the Wisconsin Baseball Coaches Association. It was the first award the Web site received for its coverage of sports in Wisconsin.
Since, the Wisconsin chapter of the Special Olympics recognized Preps On The Net for its coverage of the Special Olympics.
Preps On The Net is the first interactive Web site that features live-streaming or tape-delayed coverage of high school athletic and extracurricular activities. The site also offers daily high school coverage, unique feature videos and highlights, schedules and statistics for every school throughout the state of Wisconsin.
Preps On The Net's niche is that it is the only high school Web site that combines academics with athletics by providing opportunities for student participation in all forms of media. The main part of that student-intern work is done in the filming of each school's events which is all done by students. Senior writer Judy Steffes also boasts over 80 student writers that generate content for the site on a daily basis.
The beginning
Preps On the Net was started in May 2007 as the brain child of Steve Kearns with backing from former Milwaukee Bucks coach George Karl and former Green Bay Packers running back Ahman Green along with Joe Menter. The site went live in October 2007.
What is on Preps On the Net?
Preps On The Net focuses on teaming academics with athletics. The goal of this pairing is to provide students with valuable journalism, computer, filming and video streaming techniques. The site's senior writers work with high school English and journalism departments to train student writers. Student stories are then posted in their own section on the Preps On The Net Web site with their student byline.
Prepsonthenet’s most unusual feature is the ability to stream live video from any school that has a contract with the company. The feature allows for athletic competitions to be broadcast live over the internet for anyone to view.
The site employs a staff of writers that cover the state's both on the field and in the classroom happenings on a daily basis. Beyond written stories there is also a staff of videographers and editors that produce short video features.
The Preps On The Net Goal
From the Preps On the Net "About us" web page, the site discusses its relationship with schools that best discusses what the goal of the site is.
"Preps On The Net has made a commitment to Wisconsin high schools to continue promoting sports and activities in the state from a positive viewpoint. Preps On The Net is committed to being professional in all of our offered services and will continue to grow with the expansion of technology."
Awards
In February 2010 Preps On the Net Sports Editor Aaron Wilberding was named one of three Media Men of the Year of the Year by the Wisconsin Baseball Coaches Association. It was the first award the Web site received for its coverage of sports in Wisconsin.
Since, the Wisconsin chapter of the Special Olympics recognized Preps On The Net for its coverage of the Special Olympics.
Navid Ostadian-Binai (born September 23, 1983) is a technology leader, philanthropist and investor, born in Iran, raised in Scandinavia, and currently residing in London, UK.
Early life
He was born to Iranian parents of Azerbaijani descent in Ardebil, Iran, and the family moved to Norway when he was six. After studying at and University of California, Berkeley, he moved to Copenhagen, Denmark and finalized his studies at . In 2008, Aram Ostadian and Navid Binai-Faal got married in the historic in Copenhagen city center, moved to Charlottenlund and both took the new surname Ostadian-Binai. Mr. and Mrs. Ostadian-Binai relocated to London, UK, in September 2012.
Career
Technology Ventures
In 2006, Navid Ostadian-Binai started his professional career working for venture-backed Danish semiconductor startups such as Hymite (patents acquired by ICAP) and Sonion MEMS (acquired by Pulse Engineering, and subsequently by Epcos). In 2008, he joined IPtronics, which had been founded by former executives and engineers at GIGA, acquired by Intel Corporation for USD 1.25 billion in year 2000. Ostadian-Binai was the first technical employee at IPtronics without a background from GIGA or Intel. In January, 2013, Navid Ostadian-Binai made an angel investment in IPtronics.
In September, 2012, Navid Ostadian-Binai joined Cogniance as Business Development Manager for the EMEA region and to set up its UK office.
In November, 2012, he also became Contributing Writer at Brand+Commercial, Mentor at Healthbox Accelerator, and Mentor at DTU AppGarage.
Philanthropy and Community Development
In 2010, he was accepted into , an international organization for young active professionals. In October 2011, he founded the Copenhagen Chapter of the startup networking organization Silicon Vikings, which builds bridges between Silicon Valley and the Nordic countries (including the Baltic states). He is currently the Executive Chairman of this chapter.
Navid Ostadian-Binai is a frequent personality in the startup communities of London and Copenhagen.
Early life
He was born to Iranian parents of Azerbaijani descent in Ardebil, Iran, and the family moved to Norway when he was six. After studying at and University of California, Berkeley, he moved to Copenhagen, Denmark and finalized his studies at . In 2008, Aram Ostadian and Navid Binai-Faal got married in the historic in Copenhagen city center, moved to Charlottenlund and both took the new surname Ostadian-Binai. Mr. and Mrs. Ostadian-Binai relocated to London, UK, in September 2012.
Career
Technology Ventures
In 2006, Navid Ostadian-Binai started his professional career working for venture-backed Danish semiconductor startups such as Hymite (patents acquired by ICAP) and Sonion MEMS (acquired by Pulse Engineering, and subsequently by Epcos). In 2008, he joined IPtronics, which had been founded by former executives and engineers at GIGA, acquired by Intel Corporation for USD 1.25 billion in year 2000. Ostadian-Binai was the first technical employee at IPtronics without a background from GIGA or Intel. In January, 2013, Navid Ostadian-Binai made an angel investment in IPtronics.
In September, 2012, Navid Ostadian-Binai joined Cogniance as Business Development Manager for the EMEA region and to set up its UK office.
In November, 2012, he also became Contributing Writer at Brand+Commercial, Mentor at Healthbox Accelerator, and Mentor at DTU AppGarage.
Philanthropy and Community Development
In 2010, he was accepted into , an international organization for young active professionals. In October 2011, he founded the Copenhagen Chapter of the startup networking organization Silicon Vikings, which builds bridges between Silicon Valley and the Nordic countries (including the Baltic states). He is currently the Executive Chairman of this chapter.
Navid Ostadian-Binai is a frequent personality in the startup communities of London and Copenhagen.
Lucas Launcelot Garner is a fictional character in Larry Niven's Known Space Universe.
Born in 1939, he lived well into the 22nd century. This was because advances in medical science kept pushing his life expectancy ahead of his age. He spent the last few decades of his life confined to a travel chair because medicine could replace every part of his body except his nervous system (which was slowly dying, from the legs up, of old age).
Despite being over 160 years old, he made at least two trips into space in the early 22nd century. The first trip was to the outer solar system in pursuit of Kzanol the thrint, after the latter was inadvertently released from stasis. The second trip was to the planet Mars in pursuit of , the Pak who had abducted Belter Jack Brennan.
He is friends with Belters Lit Shaeffer and Nick Sohl, both of whom served as First Speaker of The Belt on separate occasions.
He served as a member of the ARM for over a century, first as an operative and later as a supervisor. Immediately prior to his retirement, he was Gil Hamilton's boss.
Garner is featured in the following novels:
*World of Ptavvs
*Protector
and in the short story:
*Intent to Deceive
He also plays a lesser role in the Gil Hamilton stories:
*Death by Ecstasy
*The Defenseless Dead
with a cameo appearance in:
*The Patchwork Girl
Born in 1939, he lived well into the 22nd century. This was because advances in medical science kept pushing his life expectancy ahead of his age. He spent the last few decades of his life confined to a travel chair because medicine could replace every part of his body except his nervous system (which was slowly dying, from the legs up, of old age).
Despite being over 160 years old, he made at least two trips into space in the early 22nd century. The first trip was to the outer solar system in pursuit of Kzanol the thrint, after the latter was inadvertently released from stasis. The second trip was to the planet Mars in pursuit of , the Pak who had abducted Belter Jack Brennan.
He is friends with Belters Lit Shaeffer and Nick Sohl, both of whom served as First Speaker of The Belt on separate occasions.
He served as a member of the ARM for over a century, first as an operative and later as a supervisor. Immediately prior to his retirement, he was Gil Hamilton's boss.
Garner is featured in the following novels:
*World of Ptavvs
*Protector
and in the short story:
*Intent to Deceive
He also plays a lesser role in the Gil Hamilton stories:
*Death by Ecstasy
*The Defenseless Dead
with a cameo appearance in:
*The Patchwork Girl
Ramhorn is the name of two characters from the various Transformers universes.
Transformers: Generation 1
He is part of the mini-cassette Autobot team and takes on the form of a rhinoceros.
Ramhorn's bio painted him as extremely unruly and bad-tempered, prone to destroying anyone who violates his territory. His charge is formidable enough to knock a train off its tracks or upend an 18-wheeler with one blow.
As a member of the Autobot communications sub-group Ramhorn frequently worked with its other members - Blaster, Eject, Grand Slam, Raindance, Rewind and Steeljaw.
Animated series
The Transformers
Ramhorn first appeared as one of Blaster's warriors in The Transformers: The Movie, where he defended Blaster's communications tower from the Decepticon cassettes.
He appeared in the episode, "Forever is A Long Time Coming". In this episode, Rewind, Blaster, Ramhorn, Blurr and Wreck-Gar are transported to Cybertron's past via a Quintesson time window. He aided the prehistoric Autobots in defeating the Guardian Robots, thus keeping the original timeline intact. (Strangely, Ramhorn had the power of speech in that episode, and only made normal rhino-like sounds for most of his other appearances)
In episode 78, "Madman's Paradise", Spike and Carly hosted a banquet for a visiting ambassador. Daniel got bored and wandered off. Grimlock followed him and they fell into a lost chamber where Quintessons banished their criminals to other dimensions. They slipped through to the sorcerous other-dimensional realm of Menonia, and were tricked into fighting on the Red Wizard's side, only to find out that he was the Quintesson criminal, who overthrew the Golden One. Ultra Magnus, Blaster, Eject, Rewind, Ramhorn, and Steeljaw followed, and using Blaster's amplification, they help the Golden One defeat the Red Wizard. With the help of Perceptor, the Autobots and Daniel returned to Cybertron.
In "The Quintesson Journal" he was a part of the Autobot team that recovered the Quintesson's recording device.
He also had a small part in "The Ultimate Weapon", teaming with Steeljaw to ram Galvatron's cannon mode.
He later appeared in "Call of the Primitives" as one of the Transformers "Primitives" (animal themed Transformers like the Dinobots and Predacons) summoned by Primacron to battle his creation Tornedron, but was deactivated by the energy creature. He was revived when Grimlock defeated the creature.
Transformers: Headmasters
Ramhorn did not appear much after this in the US series. However, he was in the Japanese series, Transformers: Headmasters, When Blaster was killed during a one on one confrontation with Soundwave, the Autobot cassettes were left without a leader. They salvaged his body and were able to reconstruct the body. Blaster was reformatted into Twincast, whose bodies were identical, except for the fact that his later form was blue instead of red.
Comics
Dreamwave Productions
Ramhorn was among the many Autobots who congregated in a secret base during the "Age of Wrath", when the recently-returned Megatron's Aerospace Extermination Squadron covered the planet Cybertron, capturing countless Autobot heroes and sending the remnants of the army underground.
Marvel Comics
Although Ramhorn would not appear in the US Transformers comic, he appeared in the UK "Space Pirates" arc. When the Quintessons attacked Autobot City and killed Blaster and the rest of its inhabitants, Rodimus Prime came to investigate. However, when he lost the Matrix and reverted to Hot Rod, he decided to use Blaster's cassettes, including Ramhorn, to fend off the Quintessons while he reactivated Metroplex.
In the Transformers Universe limited series, Ramhorn's profile picture erroneously displayed a Decepticon sigil instead of the Autobot sigil on his body.
TFcon comics
Ramhorn appeared in the TFcon 2008 voice play "Primitive Recall."
Toys
*Generation 1 Ramhorn (1986)
*Universe Generation 1 Series Autobot Blaster with Steeljaw, Ramhorn and Eject (2010)
:A San Diego Comic-Con International exclusive reissue of the original figure with cassettes Steeljaw, Ramhorn and Eject.
Beast Wars
Now, with a space in the middle of his name, Ram Horn was the name given to one of the three Predacons who turned into Tripredacus.
Animated Series
In The Agenda Part 1, the Tripredacus Council ordered Agent Ravage to follow the transwarp wave in order to capture Megatron and eliminate any witnesses.
Comics
Fun Publications
As the crew of the Darkside fled Cybertron with the Golden Disk, Predacon Secret Police Agent Tarantulas was on board decoding information from it. While his boss—Megatron—wasn't watching, Tarantulas contacted General Ram Horn and updated him on the disk's status.
IDW Publishing
The Tripredacus Council ordered Magmatron to assure that no knowledge of the transwarp wave reached the Maximals. When their Agent failed at his task of re-capturing Megatron, the Council sent Magmatron to complete the mission.
Ram Horn had a biography printed in the Beast Wars Sourcebook by IDW Publishing.
Toys
* Beast Wars Ram Horn (1997)
:Ram Horn is a basic sized toy that transforms into a maroon rhinoceros beetle. He has a dual-bladed claw weapon. He transforms into the arms of Tripredacus. He was redecoed into the Maximal Motorarm.
Transformers Animated
A set of released character design models included a Transformers Animated version of Ramhorn.
Transformers: Generation 1
He is part of the mini-cassette Autobot team and takes on the form of a rhinoceros.
Ramhorn's bio painted him as extremely unruly and bad-tempered, prone to destroying anyone who violates his territory. His charge is formidable enough to knock a train off its tracks or upend an 18-wheeler with one blow.
As a member of the Autobot communications sub-group Ramhorn frequently worked with its other members - Blaster, Eject, Grand Slam, Raindance, Rewind and Steeljaw.
Animated series
The Transformers
Ramhorn first appeared as one of Blaster's warriors in The Transformers: The Movie, where he defended Blaster's communications tower from the Decepticon cassettes.
He appeared in the episode, "Forever is A Long Time Coming". In this episode, Rewind, Blaster, Ramhorn, Blurr and Wreck-Gar are transported to Cybertron's past via a Quintesson time window. He aided the prehistoric Autobots in defeating the Guardian Robots, thus keeping the original timeline intact. (Strangely, Ramhorn had the power of speech in that episode, and only made normal rhino-like sounds for most of his other appearances)
In episode 78, "Madman's Paradise", Spike and Carly hosted a banquet for a visiting ambassador. Daniel got bored and wandered off. Grimlock followed him and they fell into a lost chamber where Quintessons banished their criminals to other dimensions. They slipped through to the sorcerous other-dimensional realm of Menonia, and were tricked into fighting on the Red Wizard's side, only to find out that he was the Quintesson criminal, who overthrew the Golden One. Ultra Magnus, Blaster, Eject, Rewind, Ramhorn, and Steeljaw followed, and using Blaster's amplification, they help the Golden One defeat the Red Wizard. With the help of Perceptor, the Autobots and Daniel returned to Cybertron.
In "The Quintesson Journal" he was a part of the Autobot team that recovered the Quintesson's recording device.
He also had a small part in "The Ultimate Weapon", teaming with Steeljaw to ram Galvatron's cannon mode.
He later appeared in "Call of the Primitives" as one of the Transformers "Primitives" (animal themed Transformers like the Dinobots and Predacons) summoned by Primacron to battle his creation Tornedron, but was deactivated by the energy creature. He was revived when Grimlock defeated the creature.
Transformers: Headmasters
Ramhorn did not appear much after this in the US series. However, he was in the Japanese series, Transformers: Headmasters, When Blaster was killed during a one on one confrontation with Soundwave, the Autobot cassettes were left without a leader. They salvaged his body and were able to reconstruct the body. Blaster was reformatted into Twincast, whose bodies were identical, except for the fact that his later form was blue instead of red.
Comics
Dreamwave Productions
Ramhorn was among the many Autobots who congregated in a secret base during the "Age of Wrath", when the recently-returned Megatron's Aerospace Extermination Squadron covered the planet Cybertron, capturing countless Autobot heroes and sending the remnants of the army underground.
Marvel Comics
Although Ramhorn would not appear in the US Transformers comic, he appeared in the UK "Space Pirates" arc. When the Quintessons attacked Autobot City and killed Blaster and the rest of its inhabitants, Rodimus Prime came to investigate. However, when he lost the Matrix and reverted to Hot Rod, he decided to use Blaster's cassettes, including Ramhorn, to fend off the Quintessons while he reactivated Metroplex.
In the Transformers Universe limited series, Ramhorn's profile picture erroneously displayed a Decepticon sigil instead of the Autobot sigil on his body.
TFcon comics
Ramhorn appeared in the TFcon 2008 voice play "Primitive Recall."
Toys
*Generation 1 Ramhorn (1986)
*Universe Generation 1 Series Autobot Blaster with Steeljaw, Ramhorn and Eject (2010)
:A San Diego Comic-Con International exclusive reissue of the original figure with cassettes Steeljaw, Ramhorn and Eject.
Beast Wars
Now, with a space in the middle of his name, Ram Horn was the name given to one of the three Predacons who turned into Tripredacus.
Animated Series
In The Agenda Part 1, the Tripredacus Council ordered Agent Ravage to follow the transwarp wave in order to capture Megatron and eliminate any witnesses.
Comics
Fun Publications
As the crew of the Darkside fled Cybertron with the Golden Disk, Predacon Secret Police Agent Tarantulas was on board decoding information from it. While his boss—Megatron—wasn't watching, Tarantulas contacted General Ram Horn and updated him on the disk's status.
IDW Publishing
The Tripredacus Council ordered Magmatron to assure that no knowledge of the transwarp wave reached the Maximals. When their Agent failed at his task of re-capturing Megatron, the Council sent Magmatron to complete the mission.
Ram Horn had a biography printed in the Beast Wars Sourcebook by IDW Publishing.
Toys
* Beast Wars Ram Horn (1997)
:Ram Horn is a basic sized toy that transforms into a maroon rhinoceros beetle. He has a dual-bladed claw weapon. He transforms into the arms of Tripredacus. He was redecoed into the Maximal Motorarm.
Transformers Animated
A set of released character design models included a Transformers Animated version of Ramhorn.