Ignite! Learning, Inc. is an educational software and hardware company co-founded in 1999 by Texas businessman Neil Bush and a year later Ken Leonard. Neil is a brother of Former President George W. Bush and Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, and son of former President George Herbert Walker Bush. Alan Davis resigned as the President and CEO in November, 2009. Ken Leonard is the current acting CEO.
Ignite! Learning offers middle school curricula in social studies, science, and mathematics. The company's instructional design is based on constructivism, differentiated instruction, and Howard Gardner's writing on multiple intelligences to appeal to multiple learning styles.
To fund Ignite!, Neil Bush and others raised $23 million from U.S. investors, including his parents, Barbara Bush and George H.W. Bush, as well as businessmen from Taiwan, Japan, Kuwait, the British Virgin Islands and the United Arab Emirates, according to documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. As of 2006, at least $2 million had come from Taiwanese interests that had given Neil Bush a job consulting for a semiconductor manufacturer, and at least $3 million came from Saudi interests. A foundation linked to Reverend Sun Myung Moon donated $1 million for a research project by the company in Washington, D.C.-area schools.
Ignite is the fourth full-length album by the industrial rock band Econoline Crush. It was recorded from July 24, 2007 to October 12, 2007, and released on the independent label FNN on January 15, 2008. The album was distributed by Universal Music Group. The band re-enlisted producer Sylvia Massy for this album. Massy had previously produced the band's 1998 album The Devil You Know. Ignite is the first album with the band membership of Kai Markus on guitar, Scott Whalen on bass, Brent Fitz on drums and Trevor Hurst on vocals. The album was recorded at RadioStar Studios, owned by Massy, and located in the town of Weed, California.
The track "Get Out of the Way" was the goal song of the NHL's Edmonton Oilers during the 2009-2010 season.
Ignite (Ignite Talks) is a series of events where speakers have five minutes to talk on a subject accompanied by 20 slides, for 15 seconds each, automatically advanced. Ignite started in Seattle, and it has spread to 350+ organizing teams in cities, universities, governments and companies who have hosted thousands of events.
The first Ignite was held in 2006 in Seattle, Washington by Brady Forrest and Bre Petis, and was sponsored by O'Reilly Media and MAKE magazine. O'Reilly continued to support Ignite until November 2015 when the franchise was handed off to its founder, Brady Forrest, who formed Ignite Talks, PBC - a Public Benefit Corporation. Ignite Talks PBC was formed to be an independent organization focusing on supporting Ignite events around the world and promoting public speaking.
Chance may refer to:
"Chance!" (チャンス!, Chansu!) is the 4th solo single of Morning Musume and Hello! Project member Koharu Kusumi, under the name of "Kirari Tsukishima starring Koharu Kusumi (Morning Musume)" (月島きらり starring 久住小春(モーニング娘。)). Tsukishima is a character in the anime series Kirarin Revolution that Kusumi is the voice of, and "Chance!" was the fifth opening theme for the anime Kirarin Revolution, while its c/w track "Ramutara" was the eighth ending theme song. The limited edition (EPCE-5510) was released on November 7, 2007 on the zetima label. The regular edition (EPCE-5511) was released on November 28, 2007. The limited edition came with a Super Corabo Mirufii card, and the regular edition came with a Deka Label sticker.
Timeless is the first full album by Japanese rock band Uverworld. The album was released on February 15, 2006. The album entered the Oricon charts 33 times and it was ranked 5th at its peak. The album was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of Japan.
On November 22, 2006, another edition of the album titled as Timeless (Special Edition) was released. This edition was only sold from November 22, 2006 to December 29, 2006. This edition includes a DVD containing three music videos and a thirty-minute interview with the band as well as the tracks from the original release. This edition's peak ranking was at 32nd and entered the Oricon album charts 8 times.