QUES: In 1987, Apple spun off its software business as Claris. It was given the code and rights to several applications, most notably MacWrite, MacPaint, and MacProject. In the late 1980s, Claris released a number of revamped software titles; the result was the "Pro" series, including MacDraw Pro, MacWrite Pro, and FileMaker Pro. To provide a complete office suite, Claris purchased the rights to the Informix Wingz spreadsheet program on the Mac, renaming it Claris Resolve, and added the new presentation software Claris Impact. By the early 1990s, Claris applications were shipping with the majority of consumer-level Macintoshes and were extremely popular. In 1991, Claris released ClarisWorks, which soon became their second best-selling application. When Claris was reincorporated back into Apple in 1998, ClarisWorks was renamed AppleWorks beginning with version 5.0.

In 1978, what did Apple spin off its software business as?
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QUES: The BBC's highlights package on Saturday and Sunday nights, as well as other evenings when fixtures justify, will run until 2016. Television rights alone for the period 2010 to 2013 have been purchased for 1.782 billion. On 22 June 2009, due to troubles encountered by Setanta Sports after it failed to meet a final deadline over a 30 million payment to the Premier League, ESPN was awarded two packages of UK rights containing a total of 46 matches that were available for the 200910 season as well as a package of 23 matches per season from 201011 to 201213. On 13 June 2012, the Premier League announced that BT had been awarded 38 games a season for the 201314 through 201516 seasons at 246 million-a-year. The remaining 116 games were retained by Sky who paid 760 million-a-year. The total domestic rights have raised 3.018 billion, an increase of 70.2% over the 201011 to 201213 rights. The value of the licensing deal rose by another 70.2% in 2015, when Sky and BT paid a total of 5.136 billion to renew their contracts with the Premier League for another three years up to the 201819 season.

When did Setanta Sports fail to meet their payments deadline?
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ANS: 22 June 2009
QUES: Many long-distance migrants appear to be genetically programmed to respond to changing day length. Species that move short distances, however, may not need such a timing mechanism, instead moving in response to local weather conditions. Thus mountain and moorland breeders, such as wallcreeper Tichodroma muraria and white-throated dipper Cinclus cinclus, may move only altitudinally to escape the cold higher ground. Other species such as merlin Falco columbarius and Eurasian skylark Alauda arvensis move further, to the coast or towards the south. Species like the chaffinch are much less migratory in Britain than those of continental Europe, mostly not moving more than 5 km in their lives.

How do species that move short distances know when to migrate?
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response to local weather conditions