Look up Portal, portal, or portals in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Portal may refer to:

• Portal (architecture), a gate, door, or the extremeties (ends) of a tunnel
• Portal (fiction), a magical or technological doorway that connects two different locations.

Computing[link]

• Enterprise portal, a framework to provide a single point of access to a variety of information and tools
• Intranet portal, a gateway that unifies access to all enterprise information and applications
• Portal rendering, an optimization technique in 3D computer graphics
• Web portal, a site that functions as a point of access to information on the Internet
• Portals network programming api, a high-performance networking programming interface for massively parallel supercomputers

Entertainment[link]

• Portal (interactive novel), a 1986 video game by Activision
• Portal (video game), a 2007 video game by Valve Corporation
• Portal 2, the sequel to Valve's 2007 video game Portal
• Portal (TV series), a series about MMORPGs

Geography[link]

• Portal, California
• Portal, Georgia
• Portal, North Dakota

Music[link]

• Portall, a Thrash-Death Metal band from the Netherlands
• Portal (Australian band), a metal band from Australia
• Portal (UK band), a band from the UK
• Portals (album), a 2009 album by Arsonists Get All The Girls

Other uses[link]

• Portal (comics), a Marvel comic character
• Portal (Magic: The Gathering), a set in the Magic: The Gathering card game
• Portal Bridge, over the Hackensack River in New Jersey
• Portal Software, a company based in Cupertino, California
• Clube Atlético Portal, a football club based in Uberlândia, Brazil
• Portals Athletic F.C., a defunct football club, based in Overton, England
• Portal (magic trick), an illusion performed by David Copperfield

People with the surname[link]

• Antoine Portal (1742–1832), French anatomist, doctor and medical historian
• Charles Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford (1893–1971), British Marshal of the RAF and Chief of the Air Staff in World War II
• Wyndham Portal, 1st Viscount Portal (1885–1949), British businessman and public servant
• Michel Portal (born 1935), French composer, saxist, and clarinetist
• Nicolas Portal (born 1979), French professional road bicycle racer
• Gerald Portal (1858–1894), British colonial diplomat

See also[link]

Portal portal

Portal Directory

• El Portal, Florida
• Hepatic portal vein, a vein that drains blood from the digestive system
• Portal venous system, an occurrence where one capillary bed drains into another through veins
• Portal frame, a construction method
• Portal stones, a type of stone monument
• Porthole

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Geoff Keighley is a video game journalist. His work spans online, print, and TV outlets, and he has been writing about games since 1992.

He is the host and executive producer of the video game show GameTrailers TV (formerly known as Game Head). He was also one of the co-hosts of the now-defunct G4 show G4tv.com. Keighley is also a freelance writer whose work has appeared in Kotaku,^[1] Business 2.0, Official Xbox Magazine, Electronic Gaming Monthly, and Entertainment Weekly, among others. As of January 2008, besides hosting GTTV, Keighley can still be seen as a correspondent on another G4 show, The Electric Playground, and his work can be read in monthly columns on the GameFly website. Keighley is also the executive producer of the Spike TV Video Game Awards.

He is known for not just writing reviews and previews, but going behind the scenes of the game industry for in-depth business profiles and lengthy feature pieces. In a July 2008 interview on The Jace Hall Show, Keighley spoke about the importance of this process, stating "There's such a lack of investigative journalism. I wish I had more time to do more, sort of, investigation. Really dig into some of these bigger issues, so I could look at like, the 'Red Ring of Death' problem. That's never really been properly reported about, like what really happens."^[2] In 2005, GameDaily named him as the best journalist of the year, and in 2004 NewsBios.com named him one of the best 30 business journalists in the world under 30. He is also only one of two journalists, the other being 60 Minutes correspondent Mike Wallace, profiled in the Harvard Business School press book "Geeks and Geezers" by noted leadership expert Warren Bennis.

In addition to GTTV, Keighley has had a hand in almost every other video game-related project on television. On Comcast’s G4 network, he appeared as the network’s lead anchor for its E3 press conference coverage, interviewing CEOs from companies like Sony and Electronic Arts. For MTV he created the concept and produced (with LivePlanet) “Gears of War: Race to E3” and “Gears of War: Race to Launch,” two high rated specials that took viewers inside the development of the hit Xbox 360 game from Microsoft. And in 2007, the Discovery Channel aired a landmark five-hour documentary about video games from World of Wonder Productions, based on a treatment by Keighley, who also served as consulting producer. Geoff has also hosted and co-produced a number of video game launch specials for Spike TV, including “Madden NFL 08 Kickoff” featuring a performance by Ozzy Osbourne and “Halo 3: Launched!” featuring a performance by Linkin Park.

In 2007, Keighley was interviewed on Larry Hryb's podcast, Major Nelson Radio "episode 218", in which Larry made reference to this Wikipedia entry in his show. He also was on "show 231" discussing E3, and "show 276" talking about the imminent GTA4 release. He was also interviewed on Fox News' controversial segment on Mass Effect, and was later praised by gamers online for being the only one on the show who had actually played the game.^[3][4][5]

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External links[link]

• Geoff's official site
• Geoff's Twitter account
• Geoff Keighley at the Internet Movie Database

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Jim Sterling is a television producer and writer.

A native of Boulder, Colorado, Sterling moved to the West Coast in 1988 to attend Pepperdine University. After graduation, he worked at 20th Century Fox as production assistant. Later he acted, wrote and produced the independent film Gunplay (1994), a dark comedy which became a cult favorite through minimal German distribution.

Following several stints as a researcher and writer's assistant, Sterling worked as a production assistant on the L.A. Law television series (1994). Since then he has collaborated on selected TV-series, including Space: Above and Beyond (1995), Three (1998), L.A. Doctors (1998), The Practice (2001–2002), Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2003–2005), Numb3rs (2005) and The Bronx is Burning (2007).

External links[link]

• IMDb entry

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Andre Levins, also known as A+ (born August 29, 1982,^[1] Hempstead, New York) is an American rapper. As a teenager he released albums in 1996 and in 1999.

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A+ began his music career in 1995, after winning a national talent competition sponsored by Def Jam Records.^[2] He was the first act signed to Kedar Massenburg's record label, Kedar Entertainment.^[2] According to Massenburg, the A+ moniker "means that he's striving for perfection, and he's not really talking about the same things as other young rappers."^[2] In 1996, at the age of 13, A+ released his first album, The Latch-Key Child, which featured contributions from AZ, Mobb Deep and Q-Tip.^[3] "All I See" was chosen as the lead single,^[2] and it peaked at number 66 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart,^[4] staying for 14 weeks.^[5]

His second album, Hempstead High, was released in February 1999.^[6] Guest appearances on the album included DeBarge, the Lost Boyz and Canibus.^[6][7] The single "Enjoy Yourself", which sampled the 1976 Walter Murphy song "A Fifth of Beethoven,"^[8] reached the top five of the UK Singles Chart,^[9] number 63 of the U.S. Hot 100^[4] for three weeks,^[5] and was also commercially successful in Germany and Japan.^[7]

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