Eterna is a Swiss luxury watch company founded in Grenchen, Canton Solothurn on 7 November 1856 by Josef Girard and Urs Schild. The company is now owned by Hong Kong based Citychamp Watch & Jewellery Group Limited (an investment holding company formerly known as China Haidian Holdings until 2014).
On 7 November 1856, Dr. Joseph Girard and Urs Schild, a 28-year-old school teacher, founded the ébauche factory "Dr. Girard & Schild“. Eight years later the enterprise set out the mutual rights and obligations of employees and employers in writing. Urs Schild became a National Councilor in 1882. Six years later, he died at the age of 58. After the death of Urs Schild his son Max took over the company and soon made a business trip to the United States. He returned to introduce machinery to the craftsmen. Max Schild was ahead of his time and his ideas were unpopular. Discouraged, he left the company and handed power over to his brother Theodore, with whom Eterna entered a prosperous 20th century.
EteRNA is a browser-based "game with a purpose", developed by scientists at Carnegie Mellon University and Stanford University, that engages users to solve puzzles related to the folding of RNA molecules. The project is funded by the National Science Foundation.
Similar to Foldit—created by some of the same researchers that developed EteRNA—the puzzles take advantage of human problem-solving capabilities to solve puzzles that are computationally laborious for current computer models. The researchers hope to capitalize on "crowdsourcing" and the collective intelligence of EteRNA players to answer fundamental questions about RNA folding mechanics. The top voted designs are synthesized in a Stanford biochemistry lab to evaluate the folding patterns of the RNA molecules to compare directly with the computer predictions, ultimately improving the computer models.
Ultimately, EteRNA researchers hope to determine a "complete and repeatable set of rules" to allow the synthesis of RNAs that consistently fold in expected shapes. EteRNA project leaders hope that determining these basic principles that may facilitate the design of RNA-based nanomachines and switches. EteRNA creators have been pleasantly surprised by the solutions of EteRNA players, particularly those of nonresearchers whose "creativity isn't constrained by what they think a correct answer should look like".
You seem like hot wind
Moving fast across
the desert sand
I know my time is over!!
Please, hold me tight !!
I'll be afraid in the morning...
You better watch out
for the vultures in the sky!!
The valley storm will let you down...
the dragon's gonna beat you
to the ground!!
The menacing time will prey
on your mind...
The evil is flowing in the air!!
everybody wanna live to fly high.
everybody wanna hold the moonlight.
I'll try to change your heart
to see myself falling...
everybody wanna live to fly high
and ut could be easy prey for the flies!!
I'll try to change your heart
to see myself falling!!
I look at you...
the strongest ray of light
is inside of you!!
you need to stop bleeding!!
you're living inside and outside...
be alive in the morning!!
you better watch out
for the vultures in the sky!!
the valley...
everybody...
the valley...
everybody...
... I'm dying, I'm living, I'm falling, I'm bleeding...
... to see myself falling...
... to see myself dying...
... to see myself rising!!