National Hockey League

The National Hockey League (NHL; French: Ligue nationale de hockey—LNH) is a professional ice hockey league composed of 30 member clubs: 23 in the United States and 7 in Canada. Headquartered in New York City, the NHL is considered to be the premier professional ice hockey league in the world, and one of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada. The Stanley Cup, the oldest professional sports trophy in North America, is awarded annually to the league playoff champion at the end of each season.

The National Hockey League was organized on November 26, 1917, in Montreal, Quebec, after the suspension of operations of its predecessor organization, the National Hockey Association (NHA), which had been founded in 1909 in Renfrew, Ontario. The NHL immediately took the NHA's place as one of the leagues that contested for the Stanley Cup in an annual interleague competition before a series of league mergers and folds left the NHL as the only league left competing for the Stanley Cup in 1926. The NHL started with four teams (all based in Canada) and, through a series of expansions, contractions and relocations, is now composed of 30 active franchises. The "nation" referred to by the league's name was Canada, although the league has now been binational since 1924 when its first team in the United States, the Boston Bruins, began play. After a labour-management dispute that led to the cancellation of the entire 2004–05 season, the league resumed play under a new collective agreement that included a salary cap. In 2009, the NHL enjoyed record highs in terms of sponsorships, attendance, and television audiences.

Highlight

Highlight(s) may refer to:

In arts and entertainment

Highlights (album), album by Tom Hingley and the Lovers

Highlights (band), a Swedish dansband

Highlights for Children a.k.a. Highlights: Fun with a Purpose, a US-published children's magazine

In technology

Highlighter, a marker pen that adds translucent color to paper, to emphasize particular parts of the text

In computing, the selection of on-screen text, as in a cut, copy, and paste operation

Highlight (application), a social networking application

Syntax highlighting, the display of text in different colors and/or fonts, depending upon its meaning in context

Other uses

Specular highlight, a spot of light that appears on shiny objects when illuminated by a direct light source

Hair highlighting, lightening and/or coloring part of someone's hair

Highlights, a public page on the Russian social networking site VKontakte

So Far

So Far may refer to:

Fiction and TV

So Far (interactive fiction), a video game by Andrew Plotkin

Grateful Dead: So Far, a music documentary video about the Grateful Dead

So Far, a music documentary about Section 25

So Far, an autobiography by Kelsey Grammer

Music

Albums

So Far (album), an album by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

So Far, a compilation album by Martin Solveig

So Far, an album by Cochise

So Far, an album by Eileen Ivers

So Far, an EP by Tony Lucca

So Far... The Best of Sinéad O'Connor, an album

So Far: The Acoustic Sessions, an album by Bethany Dillon

Faust So Far, an album by Faust

Songs

"So Far..." a song by Eminem from MMLP2, 2013

"So Far" (song), a show tune from the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Allegro, single Carmen Cavallaro 1950, Guy Lombardo And His Royal Canadians 1951

"So Far" (Faust song), a single by the German group Faust

"So Far", song by Billy Walker (musician), B. Walker 1956

"So Far", song by The Heart Throbs (band) 1992

"So Far", song by Inspiral Carpets 1989

Adblock Plus

Adblock Plus (ABP) is an open-source content-filtering and ad blocking extension developed by Eyeo GmbH (Wladimir Palant), a German software development company. The extension has been released for Mozilla Firefox (including Firefox for mobile), Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera, Safari, Yandex Browser and Android.

In 2011, AdBlock Plus and Eyeo attracted considerable controversy from its users when it introduced an "Acceptable Ads" program to allow "certain non-intrusive ads" (such as Google AdWords) to be allowed under the extension's default settings. While participation in the whitelisting process is free for small websites, large advertising companies are required to pay a fee. Because whitelisting was enabled by default for AdBlock Plus users, developers have launched competing adblockers such as uBlock which do not have Acceptable Ads programs.

History and statistics

Michael McDonald created Adblock Plus 0.5, which improved on the original Adblock by incorporating the following features:

Stanley Cup

The Stanley Cup (French: La Coupe Stanley) is the championship trophy awarded annually to the National Hockey League (NHL) playoff winner. Originally commissioned in 1892 as the Dominion Hockey Challenge Cup, the trophy is named for Lord Stanley of Preston, then–Governor General of Canada, who awarded it to Canada's top-ranking amateur ice hockey club, which the entire Stanley family supported, with the sons and daughters playing and promoting the game. The first Cup was awarded in 1893 to Montreal HC, and subsequent winners from 1893 to 1914 were determined by challenge games and league play. Professional teams then became eligible to challenge for the Stanley Cup in 1906. In 1915, the two professional ice hockey organizations, the National Hockey Association (NHA) and the Pacific Coast Hockey Association (PCHA), reached a gentlemen's agreement in which their respective champions would face each other annually for the Stanley Cup. After a series of league mergers and folds, it was established as the de facto championship trophy of the NHL in 1926 and then the de jure NHL championship prize in 1947.

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