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HSN

HSN, an initialism of its former name Home Shopping Network, is an American free-to-air television network owned by the Qurate Retail Group, which also owns catalog company Cornerstone Brands. It is based in the Gateway area of St. Petersburg, Florida, United States.

As of July 2014, Joy Mangano holds the record for most units sold in a day with 216,000 units of pillow sets.

History
The forerunner of HSN was launched by Lowell Paxson (who later established PAX-TV, which is now Ion Television) and Roy Speer in 1982 as the Home Shopping Club, a local cable channel seen on Vision Cable and Group W Cable in Pinellas County, Florida. It expanded into the first national shopping network three years later on July 1, 1985, changing its name to the Home Shopping Network, and pioneering the concept of a televised sales pitch for consumer goods and services. Its competitor and future owner QVC was launched the following year.

In 1986, HSN began a second network that broadcast free-to-air on a number of television stations it had acquired under the name Silver King Broadcasting. In 1992, HSN spun off from Silver King Broadcasting, and afterwards saw Liberty Media acquire stock in the network. In 1996, the station group was sold back to Silver King Broadcasting, which was now owned by Barry Diller, and changed its name to "HSN Inc." after its merger with Silver King was completed. Under Diller's leadership, the HSN also acquired the USA Network, Sci-Fi Channel and Universal Television in October 1997. This resulted in HSN Inc. being changed to USA Network Inc. The purchase was finalized in February 1998.

In September 2000, Home Shopping Network changed its name to HSN.

Mindy Grossman became CEO of HSN in 2006, and aggressively reinvented and relaunched the brand. She took HSN public in 2008, and has overseen its multibillion-dollar retail portfolio and multimedia expansion. Grossman left HSNi in May 2017 to helm Weight Watchers.

In April 2017, HSN CEO Mindy Grossman stepped down to assume the CEO position at Weight Watchers. On July 6, 2017, Liberty Interactive announced it would buy the remaining 62% of HSN stock it did not already own in order to acquire the company for its QVC Group. QVC CEO Mike George would be CEO of the combined company.

In September 2018, HSN had partnered with Pickler & Ben for a "shop the show" feature that allows viewers to buy featured items from HSN via the show's website and HSN.com.

In May 2023, HSN's parent Qurate Retail Group's stock was facing a delisting from the Nasdaq if share prices are unable to rebound, as their stock has declined over 80% over the past year. In October 2023, CreditRiskMonitor reported that Qurate Retail Group was nearing a potential Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing.

Sister channels

 * HSN2, launched on August 1, 2010, acts as a timeshift channel carrying tape-delayed presentations of products and programming. Dish Network has carried it since launch.
 * America's Store, formerly the Home Shopping Club Overnight Service, was HSN's secondary service that was on the air from 1988 until April 2007.

Operations
HSN's United States operations are based in St. Petersburg, Florida, which houses its corporate headquarters, studio and broadcasting facilities. Additional call center facilities are located in Roanoke, Virginia & Toledo, Ohio. Distribution centers are situated in Roanoke, Piney Flats, Tennessee, and Fontana, California. In October, 2018 Quarate announced the closure of the Roanoke distribution center in favor of a combined QVC/HSN distribution center to be located in Bethlehem, PA.

As of today, HSN and QVC is carried over the digital public airwaves and can be viewed without a cable subscription or a streaming device. Additionally a new Streaming service was introduced to cable providers which provides a different shopping experience compared to if a viewer went online and ordered merchandise.

Call center
HSN National began with a standard rotary phone system that concentrated calls to the front of the queue. This corresponded to the front row of order takers in the HSN Studio at the Levitz Center (so named as the location was a former Levitz furniture store) in Clearwater, Florida. After several months, this system was no longer adequate and HSN entered a phase where a phone system from GTE was used. HSN claimed that the system's inability to handle the high call volumes resulted in a loss of business. HSN sued GTE for $1.5 billion. In a counter-libel suit, GTE claimed that HSN had slandered the company; GTE won a $100 million judgment. Both parties settled out of court.

Original order-taking system
HSN developed its original order-taking system on a Burroughs Large System mainframe using the LINC 10 fourth generation language.

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Hello Balaji, Welcome to the 'pedia. I would like to know why you removed the devanagari transliterations from Carnatic music. My guess is that you couldn't see the Devanagari characters properly, thought that they were junk and deleted, so I've reverted it. Otherwise please revert it and indicate the reason, e.g. in the summary field below the edit box, or here, or in my talk page or in Talk:Carnatic music. Happy editing! -- Paddu 19:06, 25 Mar 2004 (UTC)

 * Hello again. You can google for the font "raghu.ttf" or "raghindi". The way you install the font depends on the OS you use. Any website having the font would probably tell you how to install it. I myself am using Linux. Individual Devanagari characters show properly, but there are problems with conjuncts and placement of matras. -- Paddu 16:21, 26 Mar 2004 (UTC)

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User talk:Ian Pugh

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tag article
Just wondering why you removed the info on "not it" from this article.... Lachatdelarue [[User talk:Lachatdelarue|(talk)]] 15:23, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Sorry, should have explained it further. It was rambling, going off on a tangent on a singular way of how to select the "it" of the game. Just saying "simpler games" to determine this (giving the two self-explanatory games as examples) is much easier to read. Ian Pugh 19:08, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks alot for the barnstar; I really appreciate it. Nice to know my work is appreciated (or, in this case, my ramblings). I still feel we haven't really solved much, but I feel better knowing at least I've made my point about as well as I can. I think the VfD vote for Dinner At Eight might help decide what happens next (although it appears that a solid majority for delete or merge do not necessarily mean either will happen, e.g. Green Hill Zone). Recently I de-linked all the Frasier episodes that were red (all but 3 out of some 200 or so), hoping to at least discourage more such articles, but I had my work reverted. If Dinner at Eight is deleted I'll revert the revert, and probably do the same for other episode lists.

I sort of wish I had gotten involved in some other discussions as well. There was a discussion on the Kings of Numenor, which I even have a proposal for dealing with on my userpage, but I sort of missed the boat. I think RickK would have carried the day with his brinksmanship anyway. Well, I guess it just gives me more time to write articles. Anyway, thanks again. -R. fiend 19:17, 16 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Dennis Miller
Your point about pop culture is valid; however, don't you think the quote also disrupts the encyclopedic nature of the article, being smack dab in the middle of his biography? There's another section with quotes about him that may be a good place to put it, but even then I don't think it's necessary. I didn't want to be rude and revert your edit back to my own, but just wanted to discuss it. Ian Pugh 00:59, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)

 * Yes, I understand your point. It really does take away from the first part of the article.  I think it might be better to put the Simpsons reference along with the other reference at the bottom of the article.  But it's important to keep the reference in the article somewhere.  --G3pro 01:13, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Aarrgh!
Youre right! Wrong Godfather! And to think...I'm 100% Italian! - Lucky 6.9 22:59, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)

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still around? (bucky)
just curious.. what inspired you to make the page for the Bucky O'Hare arcade game? I've added to the article, and still play it (via emulation).

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Hi there. You might want to take a quick look at NPOV and Autobiography. A lot of us are wary of having people write articles about themselves and things they've done. Isomorphic 04:25, 20 Mar 2004 (UTC)

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Atlantis-2

ATLANTIS-2 is a fiber optic transatlantic telecommunications cable connecting Argentina, Brazil, Senegal, Cape Verde, Spain's Canary Islands and Portugal. It is the first submarine cable to link South America and the African continent.

The Atlantis 2 project total cost was US$370 million invest by a 25 international carrier consortium led technically and financially by Embratel with more than US$100 million of the investment.

Embratel, which organized the project, also installed two additional fiber pairs of 40 Gbit/s for its exclusive use between Fortaleza and Rio de Janeiro.

The cable was ready for service in February 2000 with a launch capacity of 40 Gbit/s. On May 10, to celebrate the definitive start-up of that operation, a videoconference between Fernando Henrique Cardoso (President of Brazil) and António Guterres (Prime Minister of Portugal) was held to demonstrate the new link.

It is approximately 12,000 kilometers in length. The cable was disconnected on 10 January 2022 due to a consortium decision, pending upgrades to 160 Gbit/s.

The landing points include:

 * 1) Las Toninas, Argentina
 * 2) Fortaleza, Brazil
 * 3) Praia, Cape Verde
 * 4) Dakar, Senegal
 * 5) El Médano, Canary Islands, Spain
 * 6) Lisbon, Portugal

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Judith River

The Judith River is a tributary of the Missouri River, approximately 124 mi (200 km) long, running through central Montana in the United States. It rises in the Little Belt Mountains and flows northeast past Utica and Hobson. It is joined by Dry Wolf Creek in northern Fergus County, and itself joins the Missouri in the White Cliffs Area approximately 18 mi (29 km) northwest of Winifred.

The river gives its name to the Judith River Group of the late Cretaceous, a notable area for excavation of dinosaur fossils that stretches from Montana into southeastern Alberta and southwestern Saskatchewan. The river was named by William Clark. William Clark came across a stream which he considered particularly clear and pretty, and named it the Judith River, in honor of his cousin Julia Hancock. It is also known for its large amount of Cretaceous dinosaur fossils, including those of Tyrannosaurus, Styracosaurus and Edmontosaurus.

The Judith is a Class I river from the confluence with Big Spring Creek to its confluence with the Missouri River for public access for recreational purposes.

History
The Crow tribe called this waterway Buluhpa’ashe (“Plum River”). Capt. Meriwether Lewis named this central Montana river the Bighorn. On May 20, 1805, Capt. William Clark renamed it in honor of his future wife, Julia (Judith) Hancock. Beginning in the 1880s, the area surrounding the Judith River at Judith Landing was home to two large ranching operations: the DHS Ranch of A.J. and Erwin Davis, Samuel T. Hauser, and Granville Stuart; and the PN Ranch of Thomas C. Power and G.R. Norris.

White Eagle, "the last major Chief of the Gros Ventre people", died "at the mouth of the Judith River" on February 9, 1881.

List Of Crossings

 * Unnamed Road (location 47°39'46.9"N 109°38'57.6"W)
 * Judith River Rd (location 47°33'33.4"N 109°35'24.2"W)
 * Montana Highway 81 (location 47°16'25.2"N 109°43'12.5"W)
 * Milwaukee Road Railway Denton to Lewistown (location 47°10'16.5"N 109°39'02.3"W)
 * Hanover Rd (location 47°07'28.2"N 109°40'45.5"W)
 * Great_Northern_Railway_(U.S.) Moccasin To Lewiston(location 47°04'28.4"N 109°42'59.5"W)
 * Tognetti Rd (location 47°03'48.3"N 109°44'05.0"W)
 * Montana Road 311 (location 47°01'40.5"N 109°48'32.6"W)
 * Montana Highway 3 (location 47°00'39.7"N 109°52'20.2"W)
 * 5th Ave W (location 47°00'38.6"N 109°52'56.0"W)
 * Great_Northern_Railway_(U.S.) Judith Gap to Stanford (location 47°00'40.2"N 109°53'03.5"W)
 * Montana Route 239 (location 46°59'50.8"N 109°55'33.7"W)
 * Riverside Ranch Rd (location 46°59'27.1"N 109°56'29.3"W)
 * Philbrook Rd (location 46°59'06.9"N 109°58'25.6"W)
 * Ackley Lake Rd (location 46°58'05.4"N 110°04'50.9"W)
 * Antelope Creek Rd (location 46°57'09.8"N 110°05'34.9"W)
 * Wertheimer Dr (location 46°57'01.0"N 110°06'23.8"W)
 * Arnot Rd (location 46°53'02.6"N 110°14'39.8"W)
 * Unnamed Road (location 46°51'33.3"N 110°15'46.1"W)

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Hafrsfjord

Hafrsfjord or Hafrsfjorden is a fjord in the Stavanger Peninsula in Rogaland county, Norway. The 9 km long fjord forms the border between the municipalities of Stavanger and Sola. On the west side of the fjord is the large village of Tananger, on the south is the village of Solakrossen, and on the east end of the fjord is the borough of Madla in the city of Stavanger. The Møllebukta bay area, located on the innermost part of the fjord, is the site of a popular beach and the Sverd i Fjell statues. The only bridge over the fjord is the Hafrsfjord Bridge which runs between Kvernevik in Stavanger and Jåsund in the village of Tananger in Sola.

Hafrsfjord is also the name of a neighbourhood (delområde) in the borough of Madla in the city of Stavanger. It has a population of 4,003, distributed on an area of 5.78 km2.

Hafrsfjord is also the location of the KNM Harald Hårfagre, the Basic Training Establishment for the Royal Norwegian Navy. The camp had been used for military purposes since 1871 and in 1934 it was renamed Madlaleiren. In 1952, Parliament decided that the Navy's boot camp would be added to the camp and also that the Navy would formally take over the camp. Three years later, the camp was named KNM Harald Hårfagre. Today KNM Harald Hårfagre is the principal training camp for both the Royal Navy and Royal Air Force. Officer Candidate School for the Navy moved the intake and basic education from Horten to KNM Harald Hårfagre during the summer of 2005.

Battle of Hafrsfjord
Historically, the Hafrsfjorden was principally known for its association with the Battle of Hafrsfjord (Slaget i Hafrsfjord). King Harald "Fairhair", the first king of Norway, won a great naval battle during the year 872 which resulted in the unification of Norway into one kingdom. The battle paved the way for Harald to gain control over most of western coast of Norway and rightly call himself king of the country.

In 1983, a monument by Norwegian sculptor and artist Fritz Røed was raised in Møllebukta at the northeasternmost end of the Hafrsfjorden. The monument is called Sverd i Fjell (Swords in Rock) and represents the Battle of Hafrsfjord. The crowns on the top of the swords represent the three districts that participated in the battle.

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The modern form of the name should be Haffjorden, but because of its historical significance the Old Norse form of the name has been revived. The first element is the genitive case of hafr which means 'male goat' and fjord means 'fjord'. Hafr might have been the name of a skerry at the narrow entrance of the fjord.

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Serge (fabric)

Serge is a type of twill fabric that has diagonal lines or ridges on both inner and outer surfaces via a two-up, two-down weave. The worsted variety is used in making military uniforms, suits, greatcoats, and trench coats. Its counterpart, silk serge, is used for linings. French serge is a softer, finer variety. The word is also used for a high-quality woven woolen fabric.

Etymology
The name is derived from Old French serge, itself from Latin serica, from Greek σηρικός (sērikós), meaning 'silken'.

History
The early association of silk serge, Greece, and France is shown by the discovery in Charlemagne's tomb of a piece of silk serge dyed with Byzantine motifs, evidently a gift from the Byzantine Imperial Court in the 8th or 9th century AD.

It also appears to refer to a form of silk twill produced in the early renaissance in or around Florence, used for clerical cassocks. A reference can be found in Don Quixote:

"I am more pleased to have found it than anyone had given me a Cassock of the best Florentine serge"

From early Saxon times, most English wool ("staples") was exported. In the early 16th century it went mainly to a Royal monopoly at Calais (then an English possession) and was woven into cloth in France or the Low Countries. However, with the French taking possession of the town during the Siege of Calais on 7 January 1558, England began expanding its own weaving industry. This was greatly enhanced by the European Wars of Religion (Eighty Years' War, French Wars of Religion); in 1567 Calvinist refugees from the Low Countries included many skilled serge weavers, while Huguenot refugees in the early 18th century included many silk and linen weavers.

Wool worsted serges are known from the 12th century onward. Modern serges are made with worsted warp and a woollen weft.

Denim is a cotton fabric with a similar weave; its name is believed to be derived from serge de Nîmes after Nîmes in France.

Say
Say or Saye was a lighter serge variety. It was thin woolen stuff of twilled structure.

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Stephan Pastis

Stephan Thomas Pastis (born January 16, 1968) is an American cartoonist and former lawyer who is the creator of the comic strip Pearls Before Swine. He also writes children's chapter books, commencing with the release of Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made. The seventh book, It's the End When I Say It's the End, debuted at #4 on The New York Times Best Seller list for Children's Middle Grade Books.

Background
The son of Greek immigrants, Pastis was raised in San Marino, California. He started cartooning as a child; his mother brought him pens and paper to amuse him when he was "sick a lot" and had to stay in bed. He attended the University of California at Berkeley, earning a B.A. in political science in 1989. The next year, Pastis attended law school at UCLA, where he received his J.D. He kept drawing during this time, coming up with the first Pearls Before Swine character, Rat, during what he said was a boring class in law school. "When I wrote for him [Rat] it seemed pretty honest. It was the first character where I could really say what's on my mind. When I put it on paper, it's my voice. So it works for me."

From 1993 to 2002, Pastis was an insurance defense litigation attorney in the San Francisco Bay area, but he quickly became disenchanted with the legal profession. He did not like its adversarial nature or "the anxiety and tension it produced", so in the mid-1990s he revisited his earlier ambition of becoming a syndicated cartoonist by submitting various concepts to syndication agencies. The Infirm, Rat, Bradbury Road, and others were repeatedly rejected.

Pearls Before Swine
The character Rat came from Pastis's earlier strip, Rat. The character Pig, who is Rat's opposite, had been featured in The Infirm, which was about an attorney who numbered an evil pig farmer among his clients. Although Pastis had developed the characters, they were still just stick figures with jokes. One day in 1996, Pastis drove to an ice rink in Santa Rosa where Charles Schulz, the creator of Peanuts, had his coffee every day. The meeting did not begin auspiciously, as Pastis blurted out: "Hi, Sparky [Schulz's nickname], my name is Stephan Pastis and I'm a lawyer." Schulz turned pale, thinking Pastis was there to serve him with a subpoena. But he recovered, and Pastis remembers Schulz's graciousness: "I was a total stranger to him, and he let me sit down at his table and we talked for an hour. I took a picture with him. He looked at some of the strips that I had been doing and gave me some tips. Man, I was on cloud nine."

In addition to Peanuts, Pastis drew inspiration from Dilbert. "What worked for me personally was to study the writing of Dilbert. I just bought a bunch of Dilbert books and studied how to write a 3-panel strip. Then I showed them to a group of people who were acquaintances (but not quite friends) in order to get their honest assessment of which ones were funny and which ones weren't. As to the ins and outs of getting syndicated, I bought a book called Your Career in the Comics by Lee Nordling."

Pastis drew about 200 strips for the new comic and selected 40 of the best, but fearing more rejection, let them sit on his basement counter for the next two years. Only in 1999, when he visited the grave of a college friend who had been a free spirit and had encouraged him to be the same, did he overcome his fear and submit the strips to three different syndicates, including United Features. United took the unprecedented step of first running the strips on Comics.com to gauge reader response. When Scott Adams, Dilbert's creator, whom Pastis had never met, endorsed the strip, the response "went through the roof".

Pastis also credits Get Fuzzy cartoonist Darby Conley with contributing to the strip's development. They met through their syndication attorney, and Conley taught him how to color the Sunday strips and add gray tones to the dailies, which people call "halftone".

Eight months later, Pastis gleefully quit his law practice. He considers his dissatisfaction with law helpful insofar as "humor is a reaction to and defense against unhappiness", and wanting to leave his job gave him the impetus to create better comic strips so that he could get syndicated.

Fifteen years later, Pearls was still one of the fastest-growing comic strips, appearing in more than 650 newspapers worldwide. Pastis generally works five to nine months ahead of deadline, a rarity in the world of newspaper comics.

In June 2014, Pastis collaborated with Bill Watterson, the creator of Calvin and Hobbes, on a weeklong storyline in which a second-grade girl, Libby, wrote a few of Pastis's cartoon frames for him. Pastis says that collaborating with Bill Watterson is like glimpsing "Bigfoot". After the strips were published, Pastis revealed that the artwork for three of the strips  was in fact by Watterson. In the last cartoon of the sequence, Libby explains to Pastis that she will not continue drawing strips, saying, "There's a magical world out there", a reference to the words Calvin speaks in the final strip of Calvin and Hobbes.

Treasuries
Pastis's first treasury, Sgt. Piggy's Lonely Hearts Club Comic, was published in 2004. In addition to the content of the previous books, BLTs Taste So Darn Good and This Little Piggy Stayed Home, and Sunday strips in full color, Pastis included responses from readers and a section in which he explained why certain strips were not successful, and how he would fix them. He continues to release the treasuries about one every year and a half. Each book in the series is subtitled "A Pearls Before Swine Treasury". Recently, treasuries became the main format for Pearls Before Swine books, retiring the smaller collections.

Personal life
Pastis lives in Santa Rosa, California, with his wife Staci and two children, where he is on the board of the Charles Schulz Museum, helping with merchandising rights issues and answering questions about Peanuts. "Schulz is to comic strips what Marlon Brando was to acting. It was so revolutionary. Before 'Peanuts', the writing was physical, over the top, but Sparky goes inside the soul. His influence on me is enormous. I've taken his backgrounds, the front porch, the beach and the TV beanbag. Rat is Lucy, Goat is Linus and Pig is Charlie Brown. Sparky is a template. Whether or not you know it, he's the template."

In 2011, Pastis cowrote the Peanuts special Happiness Is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown.

Timmy Failure
On February 25, 2013, Pastis released his first book aimed at younger readers, Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made, from Candlewick Press. Modeled after the popular Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, Timmy Failure follows the exploits of a young detective-to-be and his polar bear friend, Total, as they solve crimes in their neighborhood. A sequel, Timmy Failure: Now Look What You've Done, was released on February 25, 2014. A third book, Timmy Failure: We Meet Again, was released on October 28, 2014. The fourth book, Timmy Failure: Sanitized for Your Protection, was released on October 6, 2015. The fifth, Timmy Failure: The Book You're Not Supposed To Have, was released on September 27, 2016. The sixth, Timmy Failure: The Cat Stole My Pants was released on April 25, 2017, and the seventh, Timmy Failure: It's The End When I Say It's The End, was released in September 2018. A prequel to the series, Zero to Hero ("Volume 0") (2020) is the eighth.

Film adaptation
In April 2017, Disney started work on a Timmy Failure movie with Tom McCarthy directing and co-writing with Pastis. The film was released on Disney's family-oriented streaming service Disney+ in January 2020. The film was shot from July to September 2018 in Portland, Oregon.

Awards
Pastis was nominated for the National Cartoonists Society Newspaper Comic Strip Award for 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2014. He won the 2003, 2006, and 2014 awards. He was also nominated for The National Cartoonists Society Reuben Award for Cartoonist of the Year for every year since 2008, winning in 2018.

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