Mychael Knight

Michael Anthony Knight Jr. (April 11, 1978 – October 17, 2017) was an American fashion designer.
Biography.
Michael Anthony Knight Jr. was born on April 11, 1978 in Nuremberg, Germany to Pamela and Michael Anthony Knight Sr.
Although Knight spent his childhood in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1996 he received his high school diploma from Washingtonville Senior High School in Washingtonville, New York. Later that same year, Knight began his freshman year of college at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, Georgia. In 2001, this university awarded Knight a Bachelor of Science degree in Apparel Design and Merchandising.
After completing his undergraduate studies, Knight broke into the fashion industry in Atlanta, Georgia by working as an intern at Wilbourn Exclusives in 2001 and then by becoming a fashion stylist in the music industry in 2002.
In 2005, Knight auditioned for the second season of the Bravo network reality television series, "Project Runway", but he was not accepted as a season two contestant. In 2006, Knight reauditioned for "Project Runway", and this time he was accepted as a contestant for season three. Knight went on to win season three's Fan Favorite award and to place fourth in the overall competition.
In 2007, Knight introduced his label, Mychael Knight, on BET's "Rip the Runway" and he designed a line of custom tees for the Starbucks Corporation.
In 2008, Knight launched Kitty & Dick, his female and male lingerie label, and his unisex fragrance, MajK.
On August 20, 2009, the "Project Runway: All Star Challenge" aired on Lifetime Television. Knight joined Daniel Vosovic and Santino Rice of season two, Jeffrey Sebelia and Uli Herzner of season three, Chris March and Sweet P of season four, and Korto Momolu of season five in a special, "one-shot" competition where the winner, Vosovic, received $100,000.
On March 17, 2010, Mychael Knight debuted his Fall/Winter 2010 line at Charleston Fashion Week in Charleston, South Carolina.
In 2013, Knight became a contestant on "".
Mychael Knight died on October 17, 2017 at the age of 39. His cause of death remains a mystery. He had been open about his battle with irritable bowel syndrome and extreme weight loss in recent months, leaving many to wonder if the disease may have played a role in his death. Doctors believe that unlikely, however.


Pascale Lamche

Pascale Lamche (born July 1960), is a French–South African filmmaker. She is known as the director of several critically acclaimed film including "Stalingrad", "Black Diamond", "Pakistan Zindabad","French Beauty", "Accused #1: Nelson Mandela", "Sophiatown" and "Winnie". Apart from filmmaking, she is also a producer, writer and cinematographer.
Career.
She obtained a First Class Honours B.A degree in Modern History from the University of Sussex and the Sorbonne. Then she started film career in London at the independent film center, Cinema Action, and worked for The European Script Fund in 1989. However, she later moved to Paris to establish ICONE, a venture for co-producing film and television. She had the chance to work in London and Paris as an independent producer and director. She accompany with production company "Little Bird" to make documentaries. Then she joined to 'La Cie Phares et Balises' and became the Director of International Co-Productions for Cameras Continentales.
Lamche made films with Alexander McQueen and for the Gucci group for produce several fashion advertisements. She also made feature documentaries and series both as a writer-producer and writer-director for many international broadcasters. She joined with many television serials as the producer for projects such as "Bookmark", "Great Performances", "L'art et la manière". In 2003, she directed her maiden film "Sophiatown" which gained critical acclaim.
In 2017, she made the documentary film "Winnie" which deals with the life of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela and her struggle to bring down Apartheid in South Africa. The film was screened as a part of the Human Rights Festival 2019. In the same year, she won the award for the Best Director for International Documentary at Sundance Film Festival.
In April 2018, Lamche explained that former minister of safety and security Sydney Mufamadi has vindicated her during a media briefing.


Zen Pinball

Zen Pinball is a series of pinball machine video games for iOS and the PlayStation 3 developed by Zen Studios. The iOS releases are two separate applications, each containing one table; Zen Pinball: Rollercoaster, released July 7, 2008, and Zen Pinball: Inferno, released October 31, 2008. "Zen Pinball" for the PlayStation 3 was published by Sony Computer Entertainment and features four tables, plus an additional six tables as downloadable content. It was released on the PlayStation Network on May 14, 2009. It is the PlayStation 3 counterpart to the "Pinball FX" series on the Xbox 360, and the first pinball game on the PlayStation 3. The game was also released on Android devices as Zen Pinball THD on December 1, 2011, and the Nintendo 3DS as Zen Pinball 3D via the Nintendo eShop on December 1, 2011 in Europe and January 12, 2012 in North America.
The game was well received by critics with an average score of 80.12% at GameRankings and 80/100 at Metacritic. It was the top selling PlayStation Network title in May 2009, was a top 10 seller in June 2009, and was the top selling title again in September 2010. Critics were impressed by the physics in the game, and also gave high marks in regards to the game's visuals. Some reviewers felt that four tables was too little for the game, and seven additional tables were later released for "Zen Pinball" via downloadable content. The first game is now delisted from PSN like "Pinball FX" because all content can be imported to the sequel.
Gameplay.
"Zen Pinball" utilizes the same basic rules as a physical pinball machine, albeit in a virtual environment. As with a traditional pinball machine, the player fires a steel ball onto the playfield using a plunger. Once the ball is in play, the player controls the flippers and can nudge the machine to influence the path of the ball. Each of the game's tables become more complex as the game advances, opening new paths and opportunities.
In addition to traditional attempts to reach a high score, the game has specific missions tasked to the player. Both local and online multiplayer are supported, along with leaderboards and tournament competitions. Players will be able to activate a slow motion feature and can save game progress mid-game.
Tables.
At the time of release, the game featured four tables. Seven more tables would later be released as downloadable content. The first table, "Street Fighter II" Tribute, was released August 20, 2009, and features characters and sounds from the "Street Fighter" franchise. The "Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2" Tribute table was released on January 14, 2010, and features a setting based on "Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2". The third table, Earth Defense, was released on March 25, 2010 and features a 1950s sci-fi theme. Excalibur, the fourth table, features a medieval theme focused around King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table. It was released on April 15, 2010. The fifth table, Mars, was released on July 21, 2010 in Europe and July 27, 2010 in the US. The sixth table, Paranormal was released October 19, 2010. The seventh table, Sorcerer's Lair, was released in April, 2011.
Development and marketing.
"Zen Pinball: Rollercoaster" and "Zen Pinball: Inferno" were the first games of the Zen Pinball series, and were exclusive to the iOS platform. Each game contains one table related to its title. "Zen Pinball: Rollercoaster" was released on July 7, 2008, while "Zen Pinball: Inferno" was released on October 31, 2008. The PlayStation 3 version, known simply as "Zen Pinball" was announced on April 15, 2009 and was released almost one month later on May 14, 2009, making the first pinball game on the PlayStation 3. The release is also available as a demo version with features the El Dorado table. Between August 4, 2010 and September 2, 2010, "Zen Pinball" was released as a free download to PlayStation Plus subscribers. The game was also announced for Android devices, marketed as "Zen Pinball THD" and the Nintendo 3DS as "Zen Pinball 3D" via the Nintendo eShop.
Reception.
"Zen Pinball" was well received by critics. It currently averages 80.12% at GameRankings and 80/100 at Metacritic. It was the top selling PlayStation Network title in May 2009, as well as September 2010. It was also a top 10 seller for the month of June 2009. In a preview of the game, Kotaku's Michael McWhertor noted that the game's predecessors may have had impact on the game. "Thanks to "", "Zen Pinball" looks very purchasable" he stated.
Critics generally gave high remarks to the game's physics system. Brett Todd of GameSpot called the physics "superb" and "first-rate" and added "the ball rolls, spins, and bounces like it has real weight." Destructoid's Brad Nicholson praised the game's "lifelike pinball physics and [...] multiplayer options." Daemon Hatfield of IGN stated that although no virtual table could perfectly replicate gameplay on a real table, he stated that ""Zen Pinball" makes up for that with new features that you don't get with the real thing."
The graphics were also praised by reviewers. GameZone's reviewer called the visuals "beautiful" and stated "the pinball machines are very sharp and crisp, and are the absolute closest you can get to playing pinball without actually being at a pinball machine." IGN's Daemon Hatfield agreed. He felt that the individual tables were well detailed and added praise for the dynamic camera angles show during gameplay. Brad Nicholson of Destructoid also gave high marks for table design and visuals. He stated "Zen Pinball" is "a sweet little title that captures the recognizable Pinball look."
The pinball tables in "Zen Pinball" received mixed commentary from critics. Some reviewers felt that four tables was too little to be shipped in the game. "GamePro"s Sean Ely stated "just four tables might seem bare at first" but added that he had "much hope for some DLC in the near future." Destructoid's Brad Nicholson also agreed, stating "With only four tables, all of which can be accessed from the very beginning, Zen Pinball feels a little light on variety." Six additional tables were later released as downloadable content. Nicholson, however, went on to praise solid table design and functionality. Daemon Hatfield of IGN echoed these comments and said the game's tables "are all fun to play, look great, and are hiding all sorts of secrets you'll need to discover if you're going to rack up a high score."


Masamitsu Ota

 was a Japanese print-maker. He was one of the masters of the shin hanga movement. His work consisted mostly of kabuki actor prints that emphasized the individual personality of the actors, showcased through rich colours and exquisite patterns of complex design.
Ota had a lifelong involvement with kabuki theater, illustrating volumes on major kabuki plays and famous kabuki costumes. His two most important set of actor prints, "Showa Butai Sugata" (1950) and "Gendai Butai Geika" (1955) were published by the Banchoro studio. These sets, of twelve prints each, exhibit a very high level of realism, achieved through the use of western techniques of perspective and through beautiful shading (bokashi) and attention to detail.
Technique and Style.
Ota Masamitsu was renowned for an attention to detail: his use of facial expression and hand gesture in particular are key aspects of his technique which signal particular moments in the kabuki play. For example, his piece 'Moritsuna as Ichikawa ebizo IX' is well-known for the 'nauseated grimace' and 'clenched fist' of the actor which represents the play in its dramatic climax.
Masamitsu's use of fine gradations to achieve a three-dimensional impression, the realistic rendering of texture like the actors' clothes, and a sparing but intentional use of mica (glitter) have led to his reputation for technical brilliance


Kate Ker-Lane

Catherine Ker-Lane ("née" Rowles; bapt. 31 March 1861 – 14 July 1939) was a successful society dressmaker and businesswoman of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who traded as Madame Kate Ker-Lane's Court Dress Emporium in Kensington, London, but was noted for the poor conditions in which her staff worked.
Early life.
Ker-Lane was born in Bisley, Gloucestershire, in 1861, to Henry Rowles, a miller, and his wife, Harriet, who were both also born in Bisley. At the time of the 1861 census, the family were living in France Lynch near Stroud, and in 1871 at Barton St Mary, Gloucestershire. By 1881 they were living in Bisley again and her father was a "farmer of 36 acres".
First marriage.
In 1881 she married Thomas Samuel Lapington at St Michael's parish church in Gloucester and became Kate Lapington. In June 1886, according to Kate, her husband abandoned her and two months later she sued for divorce on the grounds of his cruelty, adultery, and desertion. The case was heard in 1889 after sufficient time had elapsed to prove the abandonment. The suit was undefended and the marriage dissolved.
Career.
In 1905 she was visited by a factory inspector who recorded that she employed 43 needlewomen and machinists at her small premises at 3 Kensington High Street, all women, eleven on the top floor, sixteen on the third, twelve on the second, one on the first, two at ground level and one in the basement. The inspector reported "This is a very dangerous case, there is hardly any light on the stairs and in some places no handrails".
She later had a shop known as Madame Kate Ker-Lane's Court Dress Emporium at 29 Kensington High Street.
She was regularly written about in positive terms by "London American News".
In 1921 she was operating from 46 Hogarth Road, Earls Court, London. SW5, which was also her address at the time of her death. In 1922, a dress made by Ker-Lane was worn by Lady (Robert) Balfour at court. "The Times" described it as "a black velvet gown, embroidered with a running design of thistles in cut jet and bugles: under-bodice of Brussels lace. jet train. lined with satin beauté; ornaments. diamonds and sapphires." Soon after, Mrs Crookshank wore a Ker-Lane dress to court which was described as "Brussels point lace over pale gold tissue: train of white satin, embroidered in hand-worked lattice design of flowers in gold thread. Ornaments: diamonds and pearls."
Death and legacy.
Ker-Lane died, single, on 14 July 1939 at Thatched Cottage, Green Lane, Hardwicke, Gloucestershire. Her home address at the time of her death was 46 Hogarth Road, Earls Court. She left an estate of £2,071 and probate was granted in London to Thomas Marshall Sinclair, company secretary, and Reginald Victor Rowles, company director.


Matt Gaffney

Matt Gaffney is a professional crossword puzzle constructor and author who lives in Staunton, Virginia. His puzzles have appeared in "Billboard" magazine, the "Chicago Tribune", the "Daily Beast", "Dell Champion Crossword Puzzles", "GAMES" magazine, the "Los Angeles Times", "New York" magazine, the "New York Times", "Newsday", "The Onion", "Slate" magazine, the "Wall Street Journal", the "Washington Post"," Washingtonian Magazine", "The Week", and "Wine Spectator".
Gaffney was thirteen when his first crossword puzzle was published in Dell Champion Crossword Puzzles, and has gone on to create more than 4,000 crossword puzzles over the past 25 years. His puzzles have been published in the "New York Times" 58 times. He has served as judge for Will Shortz's American Crossword Puzzle Tournament and won the Junior division as a contestant in 1997. He has created puzzles for Lollapuzzoola and guest-constructed for Brendan Emmett Quigley. He was previously a contributor to the Onion A.V. Club crossword, edited by Ben Tausig. Since June 6, 2008, he has created a weekly crossword puzzle contest (MGWCC), and since September 21, 2011, he has created a daily crossword puzzle (MGDC). On October 11, 2013, Gaffney started a Gaffney on Crosswords blog covering all things crossword related. In July 2014 Gaffney's "Murder by Meta" Kickstarter project was released.
Matt Gaffney's Weekly Crossword Contest.
MGWCC is a combination crossword puzzle and "metapuzzle" (puzzle within a puzzle). It is posted every Friday afternoon and solvers generally have until the next Tuesday at noon to submit the correct answer. Instructions are provided each week, and the difficulty level increases as the month progresses. The first Friday of the month is about the level of a Monday New York Times Puzzle, where the last Friday of the month is about the Saturday New York Times (or harder) difficulty level. There are prizes awarded weekly and monthly; normally a customized MGWCC pen, pencil and notepad set. Once the weekly deadline passes, Joon Pahk provides a writeup and summary on the Diary of a Crossword Fiend blog where MGWCC #169 entitled "Moving Day" won the 2011 Puzzle of the Year Award and Gaffney won the 2012 Constructor of the Year Award.
MGWCC celebrated 5 years of puzzles on June 14, 2013 with MGWCC #263 "Bring Forth the Fourth". Gaffney has stated the MGWCC will run for exactly 1,000 weeks, meaning the last one will be published on Friday, Aug. 6, 2027.
Timothy Parker crossword scandal.
On March 4, 2016, the website FiveThirtyEight said it had found similarities between puzzles Timothy Parker had edited and published through "USA Today" and Universal Uclick and ones previously published. Parker said he had not deliberately copied any puzzles, but Gaffney's "Slate" article "How to Spot a Plagiarized Crossword" presents evidence to the contrary. Since the scandal broke, Parker has been placed on temporary leave at" USA Today", replaced by former "Washington Post" crossword editor Fred Piscop, pending investigation.
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Roger Evernden

Roger Evernden (born ca. 1954) is a British enterprise architect, musician, composer, writer and speaker.
As an enterprise architect he is a consultant at the Cutter Consortium, known for his contributions to Enterprise Architecture and as author of the Information FrameWork, an enterprise architecture framework presented in 1996 as more generic alternative to the Zachman Framework.
As a musician and composer he is best known for his solo piano albums – "Improvation" (2014), "The Journey We All Make" (2016), "The Innocence of Spring" (2018), "Nocturnes" (2019), "The Unfolding Of Wings" (2020), "Rainbows Of Hope" (2020), and S L O W - Calm Piano for Mindful Yoga, Relaxation and Meditation (2020).
As a speaker he is known for his talks on enterprise architecture, and as a TEDx speaker.
Biography.
Evernden received his BA in History at the Lancaster University in 1975, and a Post-Graduate Certificate in Education at the Goldsmiths' College of the University of London in 1977.
Evernden started his career as history teacher in London in 1977. In 1980 he started working in IT as analyst and programmer, and worked his way up from consultant and application developer to enterprise architect working for companies as Legal & General, IBM, Westpac Banking Corporation, and smaller companies. From 2007 to 2011 he was Enterprise Domain Architect and later Enterprise Architect at Lloyds Bank. Since 2011 he is Senior Consultant with Cutter Consortium's Business & Enterprise Architecture practice,
Work.
Information FrameWork (IFW).
In the late 1980s Evernden developed Information FrameWork (IFW) to describe an enterprise architect initiative at Westpac. This was later described in an IBM Systems Journal article, published in 1996. The Westpac project – known internally as CS90, or Core Systems for the 1990s – was a prototype for using enterprise architecture to create adaptive organizations or adaptive systems. The Westpac experience was described by Stephan H. Haeckel – an American management theorist and former director of Strategic Studies at IBM’s Advanced Business Institute – who developed the idea of the sense-and-respond organization as an adaptive enterprise.
The Information FrameWork (IFW) was presented in 1996 as framework for Information management, and more generic alternative to the Zachman Framework. Evernden (1996) explained:
In his 1996 paper Evernden also showed "how the structure of IFW has been populated by industry-wide models and supported by a distinctive methodology. A detailed discussion of each of the six dimensions of the IFW architecture is presented."
Contributions to Enterprise Architecture.
Evernden has promoted the need for Architectural Thinking, the use of a meta-framework in Enterprise Architecture, and for explaining the Levels of Architectural Understanding.
Other works.
Evernden is co-author, with Elaine Evernden, of "Information First: Integrating Knowledge and Information Architecture for Business Advantage", which was first published in 2003, expanding the concepts of Information FrameWork (IFW). "Information First" outlines an approach to enterprise architecture that uses eight factors common to all enterprise architecture frameworks that can be combined to create architectural tools for managing enterprise and business transformation. A second edition was published in 2015 with the title: "Enterprise Architecture – the Eight Fundamental Factors."
This book deals with two important topics for enterprise management: the architecture of an enterprise and the challenge of dealing with information.
"Roger and Elaine Evernden argue that in order to address that challenge, organizations must treat information as a business resource, much like capital or labor. They require expertise and strategic thinking to use that resource as part of a business strategy, and to leverage its potential. More than just data to be used in operative processes, information must be seen as the essence of all decision-making and knowledge-building efforts in the enterprise, something that must be adapted to the people using it and interacting with it."
Research at the Cranfield School of Management also suggested that there are multiple dimensions to all architecture frameworks. Working with more than two or three dimensions at a time is challenging, and potentially confusing. Analysis is therefore most constructive when any two of these dimensions are viewed together in a matrix.
In 2008, at the height of the financial crisis of 2007–2008, he spoke about how enterprise architecture could be used to weather unpredictable events. In 2011 he described the architectural approach to create a single integrated IT platform from two heritage banking systems following the Lloyds TSB acquisition of HBOS to form Lloyds Banking Group January 2009.
In 2017 he presented a case study at Vesta Corporation describing a combination of online training and webinars in a nine-month program to build the capabilities and confidence of their enterprise architecture team.
In a keynote presentation for the National Conference on Advances in Enterprise Architecture (NCAEA 2017) he described changes required by architecture frameworks in response to an increasingly connected, digital world. He said: "Although our discipline will probably continue to be known as “enterprise” architecture, increasingly it will cover the architecture of any human-designed system – which includes all social, political, economic, environmental, and cultural organisms – in addition to the domains we currently expect to find in “enterprise” architecture. Enterprises, and governments, will need to re-think governance of their EA."
Music.
During the 1970s and 1980s he played and wrote songs with bands, including Capital Chaps, and Watch My Lips.
He is a member of the SoloPiano community, home to over 350 solo piano artists from around the globe.
He also produces music under the alias Mi Fa Sol.
The new age album "Glebe"" (1990) was re-released in 2015.
Solo piano albums include:
He contributed For Planet Earth to Piano Reflections, Vol. 1, released by Collaborative Records in 2020.


Mirabella

Mirabella was a women's magazine published from June 1989 to April 2000. It was created by and named for Grace Mirabella, a former "Vogue" editor in chief, in partnership with Rupert Murdoch.
It was originally published by News Corporation, and it became the property of Hachette Filipacchi in 1995. Known as a smart women's magazine, it suffered in comparison to "Elle", a more lighthearted issue from the same publisher. Declining ad revenue contributed to a reported $9 million loss in 1999, and the magazine folded immediately after the debut of Oprah Winfrey's magazine "O" in April 2000.
"Mirabella"'s circulation stood at 558,009 at the time of its demise.
Cultural references.
In the "Family Guy" episode "Fore, Father", Stewie Griffin picks up the December issue of "Mirabella" in the doctor's waiting room.
In a season 3 "Sex and the City" episode, Samantha (Kim Cattrall) says that she never should have signed up for a "Mirabella" trial subscription.
In season 4 of "Scrubs", a goalie for the Philadelphia Flyers hockey club sees an issue of "Mirabella" and changes his last name to Mirabella. He goes on to be the number one goalie in the National Hockey League (NHL).
In the episode "The State Dinner" of The West Wing, Press Secretary C.J. Cregg is irritated that the reporter from "Mirabella" is asking about food & wine in her press briefings.
In Jeffrey Eugenides' short story "Baster", Tomasina learns of age-related fertility issues from an issue of "Mirabella".
Terence Trent D'Arby mentions the magazine on "Castilian Blue", a track from his 1993 album, "Symphony or Damn".
In the 1993 film "Sister Act," a mock cover featuring Whoopi Goldberg as Deloris Van Cartier is made and used during the credit reel at the end of the film along with Rolling Stone, TIME, and National Enquirer


Hans Kuhnert

Hans Kuhnert (4 January 1901 – 29 July 1974) was a German actor, art director and production designer. Kuhnert began his career as an actor during the silent era. He played the lead alongside Olga Tschechowa in "Violet". From the mid-1930s Kuhnert switched to working on the visual design of film sets. He worked frequently at this into the 1960s. He was sometimes credited as Hanns H. Kuhnert.


Ian Livingstone

Ian Livingstone CBE (born 29 December 1949) is an English fantasy author and entrepreneur. Along with Steve Jackson, he is the co-founder of a series of role-playing gamebooks, "Fighting Fantasy", and the author of many books within that series. He is also one of the co-founders of prominent games company Games Workshop.
Early life.
Livingstone attended Altrincham Grammar School for Boys, where, according to him, he only earned one A-level, in Geography. He has kept his close links with the school and has visited it on numerous occasions, including to donate money for a refurbishment of the ICT suite, and to present awards to GCSE recipients in 1998.
Career.
Games Workshop.
Livingstone co-founded Games Workshop in early 1975 with flatmates John Peake and Steve Jackson. They started publishing a monthly newsletter, "Owl and Weasel", and sent copies of the first issue to subscribers of the recently defunct fanzine "Albion"; Brian Blume received one of these copies, and sent them a copy of the new game "Dungeons & Dragons" in return. Livingstone and Jackson felt that this game was more imaginative than anything being produced in the UK at the time, and so worked out an arrangement with Blume for an exclusive deal to sell "D&D" in Europe. They began distributing "Dungeons & Dragons" and other TSR products later in 1975. In late 1975, Livingstone and Jackson organised their first convention, the first Games Day. Because they were selling products out of their flat, people would come looking for a store that did not exist; because of this they were evicted in the summer of 1976.
Under the direction of Livingstone and Jackson, Games Workshop expanded from a bedroom mail order company to a successful gaming manufacturer and retail chain, with the first Games Workshop store opening in Hammersmith in 1977. In June of that year, partially to advertise the opening, Livingstone and Jackson launched the gaming magazine "White Dwarf", with Livingstone as the editor. Livingstone picked the title, which had meaning for both fantasy and science fiction readers: a "white dwarf" could be a stellar phenomenon or a fantasy character. Livingstone stepped down as editor of the magazine after "White Dwarf" #74 (February 1986).
In 1980, Livingstone and Jackson began to develop the concept of the "Fighting Fantasy" gamebook series, the first volume of which ("The Warlock of Firetop Mountain") was published in 1982 by Puffin Books. Livingstone and Jackson sold Games Workshop in 1991 for million.
The pair, together with Bryan Ansell, founded Citadel Miniatures in Newark to make miniatures for games.
Livingstone has also invented several board games, including "Boom Town", "Judge Dredd", "Automania", "Legend of Zagor", and "Dragonmasters".
"Fighting Fantasy".
In 1982, Jackson and Livingstone co-wrote "The Warlock of Firetop Mountain", the first book in the "Fighting Fantasy" series, but following an instruction from publishers Penguin to write more books "as quickly as possible" the pair wrote subsequent books separately. The series had sold over 18 million copies as of 2017, with Livingstone's "Deathtrap Dungeon" selling over 350,000 copies in its first year alone. Livingstone wrote another twelve "Fighting Fantasy" gamebooks, including "The Forest of Doom", "City of Thieves" and "Caverns of the Snow Witch" before marking the 30th anniversary of "The Warlock of Firetop Mountain" with a new gamebook, "Blood of the Zombies", in 2012, and with "The Port of Peril" in 2017 for the 35th anniversary.
Videogame industry.
In the mid-1980s Livingstone did design work for video game publisher Domark; he returned to the company in 1993 as a major investor and board member. Livingstone later recounted, "After the success of Games Workshop, I retired, got bored, and invested in Domark to fund their cartridge development. I got in at just the wrong time - it was all going flat." In 1995, Domark was acquired by the video technology company Eidos Interactive, which had been floated on the London Stock Exchange in 1990, and formed the major part of the newly created Eidos Interactive. In 2005 Eidos was taken over by SCi and Livingstone was the only former board member to be retained, taking on the role of product acquisition director. Livingstone secured many of the company's major franchises, including "Tomb Raider" and "Hitman". He contributed to the Tomb Raider project "" (an enhanced version of the original "Tomb Raider" game), which was released in 2007. In 2009, Japanese video-game company Square Enix completed a buyout of Eidos Interactive and Livingstone was promoted to Life President of Eidos, a position he resigned from in 2013.
In 2014 Livingstone appeared in the documentary feature film "From Bedrooms to Billions" (2014) a film that tells the story of the British Video Games Industry from 1979 to present.
In 2021 Freeway Fighters received an adaptation on Viber and messenger, created by a Talk-a-Bot chatbot company over Viber and messenger.
Skills Champion.
In 2010 Livingstone was asked to act as the Skills Champion by government minister Ed Vaizey, tasked with producing a report reviewing the UK video games industry. The 'NextGen' report, co-authored with Alex Hope of visual effects firm Double Negative, was released in 2011; Livingstone described it as a "complete bottom up review of the whole education system relating to games."
Awards.
In 2002, Livingstone won the BAFTA Interactive Special Award for outstanding contribution to the industry.
Livingstone was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2006 New Year Honours, and Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2013 New Year Honours both for services to the computer gaming industry.
In 2011, Livingstone received an Honorary Doctorate of Arts from Bournemouth University.
References.
https://www.fightingfantasy.com/talk-a-bot-press-release


James Wallis (games designer)

James Wallis is a British designer and publisher of tabletop and role-playing games.
He is not to be confused with Myriador's Jamie Wallis, who converted Steve Jackson's Sorcery! into d20 modules.
Career.
James Wallis began roleplaying in 1981 through "Dungeons & Dragons" and "Traveller", which were both licensed in the UK by Games Workshop at the time. Wallis began publishing his own fanzines, first "WEREMAN" and then "Sound & Fury", and got to know game designer Erick Wujcik through the latter; Wujcik introduced Wallis to Kevin Siembieda at Gen Con 22 in 1989, resulting in Wallis writing two books for Palladium Books, "Mutants in Avalon" (1990) and "Mutants in Orbit" (1992). Wallis also began working on his own role-playing game based on the "Bugtown" comics, and in 1992 he brought the game to Phage Press, where it stalled for two years due to creative differences. "Once Upon a Time", a game designed by James Wallis, Andrew Rilstone and Richard Lambert, was published by Atlas Games in 1993, where James met Jonathan Tweet, who soon became head of RPGs at Wizards of the Coast; Wallis brought his "Bugtown" game to Wizards, but he found no success there either as cartoonist Matt Howarth was unable to come to an agreement with Wizards of the Coast regarding royalties. He co-founded the RPG magazine "Inter*action" with Andrew Rilstone, the first issue of which was published in Summer 1994.
In October 1994, Wallis founded Hogshead Publishing, a company which specialised in role-playing and storytelling games. Wallis based the company in the UK, and got a license from Phil Gallagher at Games Workshop to publish books for "Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay". Wallis and Rilstone changed the name of "Inter*action" to "Interactive Fantasy" due to trademark concerns beginning with its second issue, which was also Hogshead's first publication; the magazine only lasted two more issues after that. "Warhammer" sold well, but Hogshead had problems with their distributor, and Wallis had to let go of all the company's staff. Matt Howarth eventually pulled Wallis' license for "Bugtown", and the game was never published. By 1996, Wallis was also working in the computer industry and shortly after moved into magazine publishing, working on "Warhammer" in his spare bedroom on evenings and weekends. By the end of 1997, cashflow had improved so Wallis moved the company to an office, and hired Matthew Pook. Wallis was able to publish his game "The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen" in 1998. He helped the principals of ProFantasy Software resurrect the Dragonmeet convention in 2000.
On 26 November 2002, Wallis announced that he was ending Hogshead Publishing, and Mark Ricketts bought the company name in February 2003. Wallis started the company Magnum Opus Press in 2007 by getting a licensing for the RPG "Dragon Warriors"; Magnum Opus published a new 1.1 edition of the game with supplements starting in 2008 before problems with the licensor ended it on 1 April 2011. Wallis put out other books through Magnum Opus, including the debut novel "Game Night" (2007) by Jonny Nexus, and a new edition of his own "The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen" (2008).
Wallis is a narrative media consultant, creating online games for clients including the BBC, the U.K. Home Office, and Endemol Television. He lives in London with his wife and children.
He has also created games and books for other publishers, including the award-winning card game "Once Upon A Time", which he co-authored with Richard Lambert and Andrew Rilstone. In 2001, he founded the annual Diana Jones Award for "excellence in gaming". He currently runs the gaming consultancy Spaaace, which includes the publishing subsidiary Magnum Opus Press, and his personal blog, "Cope".
In January 2013 Wallis launched a Kickstarter for a RPG called "Alas Vegas". A PDF download was released to backers in December 2016, and the physical book was published in November 2017.
Games.
James Wallis's published games include:
Games he has edited and/or published include:
Writing and Periodicals.
In 1994 he founded and published "Interactive Fantasy" ("IF"), an early journal of 'games design and criticism'. The editor was Andrew Rilstone. The second issue included the first printing of the essay 'I Have No Words And I Must Design' by Greg Costikyan.
He wrote for the British Sunday Times newspaper from 2000 to 2001.


Gilroy Roberts

Gilroy Roberts (March 11, 1905, Philadelphia – January 26, 1992) was an American sculptor. He served as the ninth Chief Engraver of the United States Mint from 1948 until 1964, and is perhaps most famous for designing the obverse of the Kennedy Half Dollar.


Bristol School

The Bristol School (or Bristol School of Artists) is a term applied retrospectively to describe the informal association and works of a group of artists working in Bristol, England, in the early 19th century. It was mainly active in the 1820s, although the origins and influences of the school have been traced over the wider period 1810–40. During the period of his participation in the activities of the Bristol School, Francis Danby developed the atmospheric, poetical style of landscape painting which then initiated his period of great success in London in the 1820s.
Formation.
The school initially formed around Edward Bird some years before his death in 1819. Having arrived in Bristol from Ireland in 1813, Francis Danby was a participant from around 1818–19 and remained connected to the group for around a decade, although he left Bristol for London in 1824. Other artists involved were Edward Villiers Rippingille, Samuel Jackson, James Johnson, Nathan Cooper Branwhite, William West, James Baker Pyne and Paul Falconer Poole.
Amateur artists also participated. These included John Eagles, Francis Gold and his brother Henry, the surgeon John King and George Cumberland. Cumberland was a friend of William Blake and of many important members of the Royal Academy. Patrons of the school included the antiquarian George Weare Braikenridge and the industrialists John Gibbons, Daniel Wade Acraman and Charles Hare.
Activities.
The group conducted evening sketching meetings and sketching excursions to scenic locations around Bristol, in particular the Avon Gorge, Leigh Woods, Nightingale Valley and Stapleton Valley. Works by the group often featured these locations. A variation on this theme is "The Avon Gorge from the summit of the Observatory" (1834), an oil painting by West from the vantage point of his own observatory on Clifton Down. Depictions of excursions taking place in these landscapes include Danby's "View of the Avon Gorge" (1822), Johnson's "The Entrance to Nightingale Valley" (1825), and Rippingille's "Sketching Party in Leigh Woods" (c. 1828). Imaginary, fantasy landscapes in monochrome wash were common subjects of the evening meetings, usually taking inspiration from the Bristol scenery.
One of the most important events for the school was the first exhibition of the work of local artists at the new Bristol Institution in 1824. The organisers of this exhibition included Jackson, Johnson, Rippingille and Branwhite. The fifth organiser was a second John King, an artist and friend of Danby from Dartmouth.
There were other artists working in Bristol during this period who do not seem to have been participants in the school's activities. These included Rolinda Sharples, Samuel Colman and some of the topographical artists working for Braikenridge such as Hugh O'Neill, Thomas Leeson Scrase Rowbotham and Edward Cashin.
Later years.
The evening sketching meetings lasted at least until 1829, when Danby participated in one while revisiting Bristol, although other meetings by that time were not so well attended, according to Danby.
Around 1832–33 a new series of sketching meetings was started. This initially included William James Müller, Thomas Leeson Scrase Rowbotham, John Skinner Prout and Robert Tucker, according to Tucker's own account. The meetings later grew to include more artists, although relatively few surviving drawings have been identified, compared to the meetings of the 1820s, and by the 1830s the works of the Bristol School were less original. Other participants in the meetings probably included Samuel Jackson, Stephen C. Jones, James Baker Pyne, Henry Brittan Willis, W. Williams, Joseph Walter, George Arthur Fripp, Edmund Gustavus Müller, and William Evans. These sketching meetings may have lasted into the 1840s.
William James Müller's biographer Nathaniel Neal Solly described the sketching meetings as a formal club, but some commentators believe he had confused them with the formation of the Bristol Society of Artists, which held its first exhibition in 1832 at the Bristol Institution. That exhibition included numerous works by Samuel Jackson, James Johnson, Nathan Cooper Branwhite and William James Müller.
Influence.
Danby's atmospheric, poetical style of landscapes as initially developed within the Bristol School bore fruit in works such as "An Enchanted Island", "A Land of Dreams", "The Naiads Isle" and "An Enchanted Garden". "An Enchanted Island", successfully exhibited in 1825 at the British Institution and then back in Bristol at the Bristol Institution, was in turn particularly influential on other Bristol School artists.
However, the 1832 exhibition of the Bristol Society of Artists included a number of works by artists of the Norwich School: John Sell Cotman, Miles Edmund Cotman and John Berney Crome. John Sell Cotman was to prove a greater influence on the later work of William James Müller than Danby and other Bristol School artists, despite Müller's having been apprenticed to John Baker Pyne during 1827–29/30. Pyne himself in his later career did not continue in the style of Danby's poetical landscapes that he had followed in his Bristol years.


Tanya Ling

Tanya Ling (born Calcutta 1966) is an artist, designer and fashion illustrator.
Ling studied at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London (graduating in 1989) before working in Paris in the design studio of Christian Lacroix. On her return to London she started a contemporary art gallery with her husband William Ling called Bipasha Ghosh.
An exhibition of her own drawings (1996) in the studio of artist Gavin Turk on London's Charing Cross Road led to a commission from British Vogue and a subsequent career as a fashion illustrator. Ling has made work for many of the world's leading fashion publications and fashion businesses including Harper's Bazaar, Vogue, Louis Vuitton and Selfridges.
In 2002 Ling launched her own ready-to-wear collection, which was featured in the windows of Henri Bendel on 5th Avenue, New York where the collection was sold. In the following year British Vogue named her one of the most important trend-setters in Britain and The Observer Magazine announced her as their designer of the year. Her A/W 2003 collection was shown at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. She was appointed (2009) as the Creative Director of Veryta, a new Ready-to-Wear collection founded by Filippo Binaghi and Stefano Pilati to support the Veryta Foundation.
In 2011 over fifty of her drawings were acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. In 2014, a group of her paintings and sculptures were acquired for the Murderme collection.


Brian Bailey

Brian Bailey is a Toronto, Ontario, Canada based fashion designer. He designs for women and has bridal and evening collections in addition to day-wear and ready-to-wear, sportswear and plus sizes.
Career.
Bailey started out in the fashion business in Toronto. In 1988 he took part in Toronto Fashion Week.
In April, 2007, Bailey went on the Shopping Channel and sold $80,000 of designer clothing in one day. Also 2007, Brian Bailey acted as the 'mentor' to young fashion designers in the reality television competition Project Runway Canada. He remained on the show for its second season.
By 2009, Bailey's fashions were being sold at Saks and Harrods.


Bryan Ansell

Bryan Ansell is a British role-playing and war game designer. In 1985, he became Managing Director of Games Workshop, and bought Games Workshop from Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone.
Education.
Ansell attended Nottingham Boys High School and People's College.
Career.
Bryan Ansell was the founder of and designer for Asgard Miniatures. He had also run a fanzine entitled Trollcrusher. In 1979, Games Workshop formed a partnership with Ansell to found a new company called Citadel Miniatures. Ansell designed "Warhammer Fantasy Battle" (1983) with Rick Priestley and Richard Halliwell. In 1985, Ansell was appointed the Managing Director of Games Workshop. Along with Rick Priestley, Alan and Michael Perry, Richard Halliwell, John Blanche, Jervis Johnson, and Alan Merrett, Ansell was responsible for the "Warhammer" (later "Warhammer Fantasy Battle") boom of the mid-to-late 1980s.
The contents page of "White Dwarf" #77 (May 1986) contained a coded message by the then editor Ian Marsh, who made the description of each item spell out "S O D O F F B R Y A N A N S E L L". This was a protest against the changes Ansell had demanded of the magazine. Ansell initiated a management buyout of the company in December 1991, refocusing Games Workshop on its most lucrative lines; the "Warhammer Fantasy Battle" (WFB) and "Warhammer 40,000" (WH40k) miniature wargames.
He later left Games Workshop to Tom Kirby, concentrating on Wargames Foundry, a company which sells historical miniatures. These miniatures were originally sculpted by the Perry Twins for Citadel Miniatures, but were no longer sold as part of the Games Workshop fantasy ranges. Ansell took a number of figure molds used for historical and fantasy figures under Citadel Miniatures and Games Workshop, and they have become part of the Wargames Foundry range. Wargames Foundry continues to sell a range of metal figures for historical, sci-fi and fantasy war gaming.
Citadel Miniatures and Games Workshop.
Bryan Ansell founded Citadel miniatures in 1978 to produce and manufacture 25mm scale historical and fantasy miniatures and games to be sold by Games Workshop. By 1982-83 Games Workshop was depending on sales of Citadel miniatures and games to survive. Around this time Bryan bought out all of Steve Jackson's and Ian Livingstone's shares in Games Workshop and absorbed Games Workshop into Citadel. All the Games Workshop operations (including White Dwarf) were moved from London to the Newark / Nottingham area to become part of Citadel with very few of the original Games Workshop staff staying on. Steve and Ian went off to live in Spain for a while. The company expanded rapidly and in 1991 Bryan Ansell sold his shares to Tom Kirby to concentrate on building houses and having children, but retained the entire Games Workshop collection of painted miniatures and artwork as well as rights and moulds for many of the ranges of miniatures which he now sells through his company Wargames Foundry.
Guernsey.
After selling his shares in Games Workshop Bryan moved to Guernsey and founded Guernsey Foundry in 1991 to produce large ranges of Old West, Seven Years War and Darkest Africa figures.
Wargames Foundry.
Wargames Foundry (originally Bryan Ansell Miniatures Limited) was founded in 1983 as a retirement job for Bryan Ansell's father, Clifford Ansell who had careers as a mining engineer specialising in dust suppression, in the Royal Navy and as a maths teacher. Wargames Foundry was up and running very quickly, originally selling ranges of historical miniatures that had been discontinued by Citadel. The Citadel/Games Workshop sculptors Michael and Allen Perry were also keen to make historical miniatures for Foundry in their spare time and continued to make more historical figures for Foundry. Rights, moulds and master castings continued to be transferred to Foundry until Bryan sold his shares in Games Workshop in 1991.
Foundry Miniatures Limited.
Around 2000, Bryan Ansell moved back to Newark, merged Wargames Foundry and Guernsey Foundry together and took over the running of the Company to produce the largest range of historical and fantasy miniatures in the world until he retired in 2005.


Peter Lum

Peter Lum is a Malaysian fashion stylist. His work can be seen on "One in a Million" (a Malaysian singing competition TV series), 8TV's "Quickie" and "Music Unlimited", and "So You Think You Can Dance". Lum put together the cover of MIFA (Malaysia International Fashion Alliance) Style KL.
Peter Lum had the role of the Mentor on the debut season of "Project Runway Malaysia" on 8TV in 2007.
He had a guest appearance as "Celebrity Fashion Stylist" at the launch of BEBE boutique in Pavilion Kuala Lumpur in October 2007 and also graced the catwalk for Tang's Pavilion store opening "Fashion Liberation" fashion show as celebrity model.
His profile and interviews appeared in the September–October 2007 issue of "Men's Folio" (along with his co-host of "Project Runway Malaysia", Bernie Chan) and the October 2007 issue of "Oxygen".
He styles the hosts on "8TV Quickies" and the fashion and beauty pages in Air Asia's "Travel 3Sixty" in-flight magazine.
He is continuing his work in the Media Relations for both international brands and homegrown brands, and conducting fashion styling and retail grooming for workshops for international retailers and their staff.


John Vallone

John Vallone (June 23, 1953 – March 15, 2004) was an American production designer and art director. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film "".


Stephen Surjik

Stephen Surjik (born 1960) is a Canadian film and television director, and producer.
He is well known for his work on the film "Wayne's World 2", the USA Network series "Burn Notice", and the CBS drama "Person of Interest".
He was nominated three times for Gemini Awards for best direction, for "Little Criminals", "Tripping the Wire: A Stephen Tree Mystery" and "Intelligence", and received four Emmy Award nominations for "Weapons of Mass Distraction".
Career.
Born in Regina, Saskatchewan in 1960, he studied at the Concordia University in Montreal and received a Best Director award at the "14th Canadian Student Film & Video Festival" in 1982 for "Second Story Man".
After working as production designer and art director in the mid-80s, he moved on, directing for the series "The Kids in the Hall". In 1993 Surjik made his feature film debut with "Wayne's World 2", starring fellow Canadian Mike Myers.
For television, he has directed films such as the 1996 "Grand Prix "Cinéma Tout Ecran"" award-winning "Little Criminals", the Emmy-nominated "Weapons of Mass Distraction", starring Ben Kingsley and Gabriel Byrne, and the CBC movie "Intelligence". His episodic credits include "Da Vinci's Inquest", "Legacy", "The Handler", "Road to Avonlea", "Due South", "X-Files", "Warehouse 13" and pilots for "Bull", "Miss Miami" and "Zoe Busiek: Wildcard" and "Intelligence". His more recent television work includes; "Common Law", "Burn Notice", "Graceland", "Person of Interest", "Arrow" and "The Flash".
Radio Show.
In 2018 Surjik launched his own radio show and podcast on Brigade-Radio-One called Field Report. The show is produced by Ethan Dettenmaier and centers on his current projects.


Alix Bancourt

Alix Bancourt is a fashion blogger who goes by the name The Cherry Blossom Girl. She is based in Paris, France. The title of Alix's blog, The Cherry Blossom Girl, comes from the French band Air's song "Cherry Blossom Girl". Her blog is written in French and translated to English by Victoria Morrison.
Alix is a fashion school graduate who has interned for Chloé and Alexander McQueen before starting her site in 2007. Her style is known for its use of pastels, flower prints and whimsical colors. Alix enjoys spending her time drawing and sewing and designs most of the clothing that she wears. Bancourt discovered through the creation of her blog, The Cherry Blossom Girl, that she likes to create and photograph thematic scenes to showcase her outfits, despite never having studied photography before. In 2010, photographer Scott Schuman snapped a picture of Alix during Paris Fashion Week that Crate & Barrel later used in a marketing campaign.
Bancourt has released a lingerie line, entitled "Miranda," in collaboration with Etam. But before becoming a fashion designer, Bancourt was interested in becoming an illustrator for children's books and a car/furniture designer.
Some of Alix Bancourt's favourite fashion designers are Balenciaga, Givenchy, Marni, Miu Miu, and Lanvin.


Craige Schensted

Craige Schensted (), who formally changed his name to Ea Ea, was an American physicist and mathematician who first formulated the insertion algorithm that defines the Robinson–Schensted correspondence. Under a different form, that correspondence had earlier been described by Gilbert de Beauregard Robinson in 1938, but it is due to the Schensted insertion algorithm that the correspondence has become widely known in combinatorics. Schensted also designed several board games including *Star, Star, and Y. In 1995, he changed his name to Ea, the Babylonian name for the Sumerian god Enki, and in 1999 changed it to Ea Ea. He lived on Peaks Island in Portland, Maine.


Deborah Adler

Deborah Adler (born 1975) is an American designer.
A native of Chappaqua, New York, Adler is the daughter of a doctor and a nurse. She attended the University of Vermont, receiving her BFA in 1997. Adler then studied design at the School of Visual Arts under Steven Heller and Lita Talarico. During this time, her grandmother became ill, having accidentally taken her husband's medication through inability to distinguish what was in the package. This led Adler to redesign prescription bottles as a thesis project. The resulting creation, ClearRx, was distributed nationally by Target Corporation in its stores, and was a success. An example of the ClearRx bottle is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art. Adler completed her MFA in 2002. She served as senior designer for Milton Glaser for five years, and has since opened a boutique design firm in West Chelsea, Manhattan. A mother of two, she has served on the National Board of Directors of the American Institute of Graphic Arts and on the steering committee of the organization's Women Lead Initiative, and has shown at the National Design Triennial at the Cooper Hewitt.


Suicide (wrestling)

Suicide is a professional wrestling persona, used by multiple wrestlers in Impact Wrestling (formerly Total Nonstop Action Wrestling; TNA). Suicide first appeared as a fictional character from the video game "TNA Impact!". In December 2008, the Suicide character was introduced on television as a real-life wrestler. Originally portrayed by Frankie Kazarian, Christopher Daniels held the role for a time in early 2009 and went on to win the X Division Championship. In June 2010, Kiyoshi became the third man to use the gimmick. In October 2010, the gimmick was dropped, but made a brief return in January 2011, once again being portrayed by Christopher Daniels, before being dropped once again in April 2011. Suicide returned to television in May 2013 portrayed by T.J. Perkins. Austin Aries wrestled under the Suicide gimmick on the episode of "Impact Wrestling" which aired on June 27, 2013 and won the TNA X Division Championship. Suicide was "revealed" to be Perkins, who claimed Aries stole his ring gear, on the June 30, 2013, episode of "Impact Wrestling". His ring name was changed to "Manik", using a slightly altered version of the Suicide gear, with new music. Perkins remains the only man to have wrestled under the Manik persona. The Suicide persona returned in July 2016 for TNA One Night Only X-Travaganza 2016, portrayed by Jonathan Gresham. In March 2017, Caleb Konley became the man behind the mask.
Video game.
Suicide was originally created by Midway Games as an original character for the "TNA Impact!" video game, released on September 9, 2008. As an original character, Midway had full license with how to use him, unlike with the other characters, who were either trademarked by TNA or by the respective wrestler. The character is voiced by Low Ki, who also did motion capture for the game and appears as himself.
In the game, Suicide is a professional wrestler moving up the ranks of Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, when prior to his match for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship, he is approached by The Latin American Xchange, who tell him to throw the match. Suicide does not comply and instead goes on to win the title, resulting in him beaten up beyond recognition by LAX and left for dead in Mexico. Doctors find him alive, but suffering from amnesia, and aid in his recovery while offering free plastic surgery as well. This allows the player to create their own look for Suicide, establishing his new identity in the process.
From there, Suicide (under his new identity) finds that he has a knack for professional wrestling. After success in Mexico and a U.S. Army Base, Kevin Nash recruits Suicide for the TNA roster. After conquering the X Division and the tag team division, the latter of which with Eric Young as his partner to form the tag team known collectively as Salty Biscuits, LAX kidnaps Young and orders Suicide to go and win the TNA World Heavyweight Championship from Kurt Angle and then drop the title to Jeff Jarrett. After regaining the World Heavyweight Championship Suicide remembers his past and finds out that it was Jarrett who called the hit on him. After Nash and Samoa Joe are able to save Young from LAX, Suicide gains revenge on Jarrett by defeating him in the match for the World Heavyweight Championship.
History.
Debut and X Division Champion (2008–2011).
During every episode of TNA's primary television program, "Impact!", after August 14, 2008, the words "whoissuicide.com" flashed on the screen for less than a second. On the website, it showed that Suicide was being taken from the game to real life television. At Final Resolution, Suicide made his debut by attacking Chris Sabin and Alex Shelley, the Motor City Machine Guns. At Destination X, Christopher Daniels won the X Division Championship in an Ultimate X match, while using the Suicide gimmick, having replaced the injured Frankie Kazarian. On the May 14, 2009, episode of TNA, after weeks of accusing Daniels of being Suicide, the Motor City Machine Guns and Lethal Consequences (Jay Lethal and Consequences Creed) looked to remove the mask of Suicide. This prompted Daniels to come out and save Suicide from being exposed. Suicide wrestled Daniels at the Sacrifice pay-per-view event, in which Suicide retained via time limit draw after Daniels refused a victory assisted by the Motor City Machine Guns.
At Slammiversary, Suicide retained the X Division Championship against Shelley, Sabin, Lethal, and Creed in a King of the Mountain match. On July 16, Suicide lost his championship to Homicide after he cashed in his "Feast or Fired" briefcase. After not being seen for a few weeks, Suicide made his return at Hard Justice to compete in the Steel Asylum match, which he lost because of D'Angelo Dinero. On the August 20 edition of "Impact!" Suicide attacked Dinero after his match with Consequences Creed. On the September 17 edition of "Impact!" Dinero defeated Suicide in a grudge match. At No Surrender Dinero defeated Suicide again, this time in a Falls Count Anywhere match. The following week on "Impact!" Suicide finally defeated Dinero, by doing the Suicide Solution on a trash can in a street fight. On the October 15 edition of "Impact!" Homicide stole Suicide's costume and claims to now know his true identity. On the December 3 edition "Impact!" Suicide made peace with Dinero and joined him, Matt Morgan and Hernandez in their war with Rhino, Team 3D and Jesse Neal. At Final Resolution Morgan, Hernandez, Dinero and Suicide defeated Neal, Team 3D and Rhino in an eight-man elimination tag team match.
On the February 18, 2010, edition of "Impact!" Kazarian returned to TNA, and would no longer use the Suicide gimmick. The character made its return four months later on June 14, losing to Magnus in a match taped for "Xplosion". This time it was portrayed by Japanese wrestler Akira Kawabata, known in TNA as Kiyoshi. At the July 12 tapings of "Xplosion", Kawabata picked up his first victory as Suicide, defeating Eric Young. The gimmick was temporarily retired after a house show in Windsor, Ontario on September 12, 2010, where he was defeated by Kazarian, which was followed by Kawabata returning to television as Kiyoshi on October 8 and the removal of Suicide's profile from TNA's official website on October 13. Suicide returned at the January 31, 2011, tapings of "Xplosion", with Christopher Daniels once again using the gimmick. Suicide wrestled his final match on the May 12 edition of "Impact!", where he was defeated by Sangriento. Suicide's final appearance was at TNA Destination X 2011, where he was featured in a backstage segment with Eric Young.
Name change and The Revolution (2013–2016).
After nearly two years of inactivity, vignettes began airing for Suicide's return to TNA on May 9, 2013. Suicide made his official return defeating Joey Ryan and Petey Williams on the May 23 episode of "Impact Wrestling" earning an X Division Title shot at Slammiversary. For this return, Suicide was portrayed by T.J. Perkins. Suicide received his title shot on June 2 at Slammiversary XI, but was defeated by Chris Sabin in an Ultimate X match, also involving Kenny King. On the June 27 episode of "Impact Wrestling", Perkins was revealed as the man behind the mask of Suicide as part of a storyline where he had been attacked and the Suicide costume and mask stolen and utilized by Austin Aries to win the X Division Championship.
On June 29, at the tapings of the July 4 episode of "Impact Wrestling", Perkins began using the ring name Manik, while retaining a modified version of the Suicide costume and mask. He participated in a three-way match for the X Division Championship against Sabin and Aries, which Sabin won to regain the championship; Manik was removed from the match after being attacked by the Aces & Eights. After Sabin vacated the championship, Manik entered the tournament to determine the new champion, and advanced to the final by defeating Chavo Guerrero and Kenny King. On July 18, at the tapings of the July 25 episode of "Impact Wrestling", Manik won the vacant X Division Championship by defeating Greg Marasciuolo and Sonjay Dutt in a three-way Ultimate X match. Including a successful defense against Chris Sabin on the September 26 episode of "Impact Wrestling", Manik held the championship until Bound for Glory on October 20, when he lost it to Sabin in a five-way Ultimate X match. Following a hiatus lasting several months, Manik returned to the promotion at Lockdown losing to Tigre Uno in a steel cage match.
On September 3, Manik was kidnapped by James Storm and Sanada; the following week, Storm was shown initiating Manik into a new faction, later called The Revolution, and the trio later attacked Samoa Joe and Homicide. On a September 23, 2015 episode of "Impact Wrestling" Manik quit The Revolution and took his mask off revealing his face on TNA for the first time since debuting as Manik. On January 12, 2016, TJ Perkins was released from TNA, removing the character from TV.
In July 2016, the Suicide character was brought back for a TNA One Night Only X-Travaganza 2016 taping, this time being portrayed by independent wrestler Jonathan Gresham.
Return (2017–present).
In March 2017, Impact announced that Suicide would be returning on March 16 episode of "Impact Wrestling". Suicide returned on March 16 "Impact Wrestling", now being portrayed by Caleb Konley, in a four-way match for the X Division Championship, in which he was unsuccessful. The character went on a hiatus, due to the departure of Caleb Konley on March 1, 2019.
The Suicide character made its return to Impact Wrestling on March 24, 2020, attacking Moose after his match against Chase Stevens. On March 31, 2020, at the TNA Wrestling one night only special event T.J. Perkins returned as Manik teaming with Suicide defeating the tag team of TNA Originals Johnny Swinger and Kid Kash. On May 19, 2020, Suicide unsuccessfully challenged Moose for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship. On July 7, 2020 Johnny Swinger dressed in Suicide's costume to challenge Willie Mack for the X Division title, but he lost. This version was called Swinger-Cide. On the January 12, 2021 episode of Impact, Suicide and Manik teamed together to take on Chris Bey and Rohit Raju in a tag team match.
Wrestlers who have portrayed Suicide.
Low Ki provided voice and motion capture for the character in the "TNA Impact!" video game.
On the June 27, 2013, edition of "Impact Wrestling", Austin Aries stole the costume in order to win the X Division Championship in order to use "Option C" at that year's Destination X. On July 7, 2020 Johnny Swinger dressed in Suicide's costume to challenge Willie Mack for the X Division title, but he lost. This version was called Swinger-Cide. On November 24, 2020, Crazzy Steve masked as Suicide, defeated the X-Division champion Rohit Raju, winning the 'Defeat Rohit Challenge'.


My Barbarian

My Barbarian is a Los Angeles based collaborative group consisting of Malik Gaines, Jade Gordon and Alexandro Segade. The trio makes site-responsive performances and video installations that use theatrical play to draw allegorical narratives out of historical dilemmas, mythical conflicts, and current political crises.
My Barbarian had solo exhibitions with Steve Turner Contemporary in Los Angeles (2008, 2009) and at Participant, Inc. in New York (2009). In 2008, the group made a collaborative exhibition with the sculptor Lara Schnitger at Museum Het Domain, Sittard, NL, which, in 2009, traveled to the Luckman Gallery in Los Angeles. Since 2004, My Barbarian has shown work in group exhibitions and/or performance programs at venues including REDCAT; LACMA; Hammer Museum; LAXART; Schindler House; LACE; Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles; New Museum; Whitney Museum; Studio Museum in Harlem; Participant, Inc.; P.S.1; Joe's Pub; Anton Kern Gallery, New York; Yerba Buena Center, San Francisco; MOCA, Miami; Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago; Aspen Art Museum; Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara; Vox Populi, Philadelphia; Estacion Tijuana & Lui Velazquez, Tijuana Mexico; The Power Plant, Toronto; De Appel, Amsterdam; Peres Projects, Berlin; Torpedo, Oslo; El Matadero, Madrid; Galleria Civica, Trento, Italy; Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv; Townhouse Gallery, Cairo. My Barbarian was included in the 2005 and 2007 Performa Biennials, the 2006 and 2008 California Biennials, the 2007 Montreal Biennial, and the 2009 Baltic Triennial. The group has made two full-length albums of music from its performances: Cloven Soft-Shoe (2004) and California Sweet & the 7 Pagan Rights (2008).
Work.
In 2016, My Barbarian presented a residency and exhibition at the New Museum entitled "The Audience is Always Right". The piece drew elements of theater, visual arts, critical practice, and specifically performance to theatricalize social issues.
Awards and honors.
My Barbarian won a Creative Capital grant in 2012 for their project, "Post-Living Ante-Action Theater." The piece premiered at the New Museum as The Audience is Always Right. They also won a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists award (2013).


Astro Wars

Astro Wars was an electronic table top game made in Great Britain in 1981 by Grandstand under licence from Epoch Co., who sold the game in Japan under the title Super Galaxian (スーパーギャラクシアン), and in the United States as "Galaxy II" There were two versions of Astro Wars - an earlier version had the Astro Wars motif printed in red and a later version printed in white (as shown in the photograph).
Overview.
Astro Wars was a shoot 'em up, with play involving four phases of dodging enemy missiles and firing back at the squadrons of alien command ships, warships and attacking fighters as well as a docking challenge for additional bonus points.
Hardware.
The "Astro Wars" game runs on six volts DC and can be powered by four 'C' type batteries or alternatively via a low voltage mains adapter (not supplied with the game). As the display is based on VFD technology, it allows bright, multicoloured in-game elements to be rendered but at the cost of a relatively small screen size. The VFD display is manufactured with the pre-formed, immutable in-game objects effectively fixed in place onto a dark background. Each element can be individually lit or unlit during play, giving the illusion of animation and movement. In-game objects cannot touch or superimpose on one another. The screen was slightly magnified to improve gameplay. This electronic table-top game console requires the player to dodge missiles fired by alien ships, destroy the attackers, and launch and recover their space capsule. Four different skill levels are provided with automatic scoring and electronic sound effects.
While the hardware is considered to be generally reliable, the NPN power transistor (D882) is known to fail frequently causing loss of power. Zener diode (S06) fails less frequently but is another component worth checking as failure of the diode has the same effect.
The VFD is vulnerable to damage during repair work as the unit features a glass nipple which can easily be fractured causing the loss of the vacuum necessary for the display to operate.
Maintenance of the hardware is fairly straightforward - isopropyl alcohol can be used to safely clean button and switch contacts, and plastic safe cleaners can be used to clean the exterior.
The battery compartment used on the Astro Wars game was used on a variety of similar systems produced around the same time, including:
Gameplay.
In concept "Astro Wars" has similar themes to arcade games Galaxians or Gorf in as much as the player controls a ship (called "earth ship") at the bottom of the screen and fires up at rows of ships. Players can select from four difficulty ratings and the controls are a simple digital joystick to move right or left and a fire button. Individual enemy ships can descend the screen to attack the player's ship. The player has to fight through a number of variations of the enemy.
The four skill levels are:
The game ends once either the player loses five ships or exceeds 9,999 points when a special electronic victory tune was played.


Danny Greefhorst

Danny Greefhorst (born 31 December 1972) is a Dutch enterprise architect and consultant at ArchiXL, known for his work in the field of enterprise architecture.
Biography.
Greefhorst obtained his master in computer science at Utrecht University in 1995 with the master thesis ""A Simulation Environment for Ariadne." Furthermore, he became IBM Certified Senior IT Architect in 2004. He is TOGAF 9 level 2 and ArchiMate 2.0 certified.
After graduation Greefhorst started his career at the Software Engineering Research Centre in Utrecht in 1995. He worked in various roles from software researcher, designer, architect, developer, tester and webmaster to class instructor, coach, seminar organiser, and IT consultant, and published his first papers. In 2001 he moved to IBM, where he became Senior IT Architect for five years. After another year as Principal Consultant at the management consultancy firm Yellowtail, he started his own enterprise architecture consultancy firm named ArchiXL.
Since 2010 Greefhorst chairs the governing board of Via Nova Architectura, and since 2014 also chairs the governing board of the Special Interest Group on architecture of the Dutch Computer Society Ngi-NGN. In 2011 he received a medal of honor from the Dutch Architecture Forum for his contributions to the Dutch enterprise architecture community.
Work.
"Architecture Principles," 2011.
In "Architecture Principles – The Cornerstones of Enterprise Architecture," (2011) Greefhorst and Proper present an extensive study of architecture principles. They presume that "enterprises, from small to large, evolve continuously. As a result, their structures are transformed and extended continuously. Without some means of control, such changes are bound to lead to an overly complex, uncoordinated and heterogeneous environment that is hard to manage and hard to adapt to future changes. Enterprise architecture principles provide a means to direct transformations of enterprises. As a consequence, architecture principles should be seen as the cornerstones of any architecture."
Furthermore, they argue, that this work "provide[s] both a theoretical and a practical perspective on architecture principles. The theoretical perspective involves a brief survey of the general concept of principle as well as an analysis of different flavors of principles. Architecture principles are regarded as a specific class of normative principles that direct the design of an enterprise, from the definition of its business to its supporting IT. The practical perspective on architecture principles is concerned with an approach to the formulation of architecture principles, as well as their actual use in organizations."
Publications.
Danny Greefhorst has authored and co-authored numerous publications in the fields of enterprise architecture, software engineering and IT. The books he has co-authored:
Articles, a selection:


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Silmarils

The Silmarils (Quenya pl. Silmarilli, "radiance of pure light") are three fictional brilliant jewels composed of the unmarred light of the Two Trees in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium. The Silmarils were made out of the crystalline substance "silima" by Fëanor, a Noldorin Elf, in Valinor during the Years of the Trees. The Silmarils play a central role in Tolkien's book "The Silmarillion", which tells of the creation of Eä (the universe) and the beginning of Elves, Dwarves and Men.
Fictional history.
Tolkien describes the history of the Silmarils in his book "The Silmarillion", published after but in fiction long preceding the events of "The Lord of the Rings".
The Silmarils—"the most renowned of all the works of the Elves"—were created by Fëanor, a prince of the most skilful clan of Elves, the Noldor, from the light of the Two Trees of Valinor. The Silmarils were hallowed by Varda, the Vala who kindled the first stars, so that they would burn the hands of any evil creature or mortal who touched them without justly deserving possession.
Together with the evil spider Ungoliant, the rebellious Vala Melkor destroyed the Two Trees. Later, at the healing effort of the Valar, one of the trees bore a silver flower, and the other bore a golden fruit before their death. They were sent to the sky, and became the Sun and the Moon, to illuminate Middle-earth against Melkor. But neither sphere radiated the original light of the trees, that was free of Ungoliant's poison. The Silmarils then contained all the remaining unmarred light of the Two Trees. Therefore, the Valar entreated Fëanor to give them up so they could restore the Trees, but he refused. Then news came that Melkor had killed Fëanor's father Finwë, the High King of the Noldor, and stolen the Silmarils. After this deed, Melkor fled from Valinor to his fortress Angband in the north of Middle-earth. Thereafter he wore the Silmarils in his Iron Crown.
Fëanor was furious at Melkor, whom he named "Morgoth", "Dark Enemy of the World", and at the Valar's desire to take the gems for their own purposes. Together with his sons he swore the Oath of Fëanor, which bound them to fight anyone who withheld the Silmarils from them. This terrible oath resulted in much future trouble including mass murder and the war of Elf against Elf.
Fëanor led many of the Noldor back to Middle-earth. His flight, which occurred during the First Age of Middle-earth, led to no end of grief for the Elves and eventually for the Men of Middle-earth. Five major battles were fought in Beleriand, but ultimately the Noldor and all the people who took the oath failed in their attempt to regain the Silmarils from Morgoth.
One of the Silmarils was recovered by Beren and Lúthien through great peril and loss, when Lúthien sent Morgoth to sleep with her singing and Beren cut it from his crown. The werewolf Carcharoth attacked them as they left Angband and swallowed Beren's hand containing the Silmaril, and this drove Carcharoth mad. He was later killed by Huan the Hound, who died from his wounds, and Mablung cut the Silmaril out. It was later taken to the Valar in the West by Eärendil, son of Tuor and Idril and husband of Elwing: heir of Beren and Lúthien, as a token of repentance. The Valar then set this Silmaril as a star in the sky. The other two gems remained in Morgoth's hands, and were taken from him by a servant of Manwë at the end of the War of Wrath. However, soon afterwards, they were stolen by Fëanor's two remaining sons, Maedhros and Maglor, as they tried to fulfil the oath they had sworn so many years before. But the jewels burned their hands, in denial of their rights of possession, as they had burned Morgoth's hands before. In agony, Maedhros threw himself and his Silmaril into a fiery pit, and Maglor threw his Silmaril into the sea. Thus the Silmarils remain in the ocean, the earth, and the sky—their light present but inaccessible to those in Middle-earth.
According to a prophecy of Mandos, following Melkor's final return and defeat in the Dagor Dagorath (Battle of Battles), the world will be changed and the Silmarils will be recovered by the Valar. Then Fëanor will be released from the Halls of Mandos and give Yavanna the Silmarils and she will break them and with their light she will revive the Two Trees, the Pelóri Mountains will be flattened and the light of the Two Trees will fill the world in eternal bliss. This concept appears in Tolkien's manuscripts that were published by his son Christopher in "The Shaping of Middle-earth" but was not implemented in the published "Silmarillion".
Origins.
The idea of the Silmaril is connected to Tolkien's exploration of the Old English word "Sigelwara", which was used in the Old English "Codex Junius" to mean "Aethiopian". Tolkien wondered why the Anglo-Saxons should have had a word with this meaning, and conjectured that it had once meant something else, which he explored in his essay "Sigelwara Land". He stated that "Sigel" meant "both "sun" and "jewel"", the former as it was the name of the Sun rune *sowilō (ᛋ), the latter ... from Latin "sigillum", a seal. He decided that "Hearwa" was related to Old English "heorð", "hearth", and ultimately to Latin "carbo", "soot". He suggested this implied a class of demons "with red-hot eyes that emitted sparks and faces black as soot". The Tolkien scholar Tom Shippey states that this contributed to the sun-jewel Silmarils, "helped to naturalise the Balrog" (a demon of fire), while the Aethiopians suggested to Tolkien the Haradrim, a dark southern race of men.
Analysis.
Shippey comments that the Silmarils relate to the book's theme in a particular way: the sin of the elves is not human pride, as in the Biblical fall, but their "desire to make things which will forever reflect or incarnate their own personality". This elvish form of pride leads Fëanor to forge the Silmarils, and, Shippey suggests, led Tolkien to write his fictions: "Tolkien could not help seeing a part of himself in Fëanor and Saruman, sharing their perhaps licit, perhaps illicit desire to 'sub-create'."
The critic Jane Chance Nitzsche views the Silmarils as "created things misused by their creators", like indeed the One Ring in "The Lord of the Rings"; and like it, they give their name to their book and help "to unify the entire mythology". She sees the theme as straightforwardly Biblical, the Silmarils symbolising "the same desire for knowledge of good and evil witnessed in the Garden of Eden."


Bruce Neidlinger

Bruce R. Neidlinger is a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games.
Career.
Bruce Neidlinger was one of the original principles of Iron Crown Enterprises, along with Pete Fenlon, S. Coleman Charlton, Richard H. Britton, Terry K. Amthor, Bruce Shelley, Kurt Fischer, Heike Kubasch, and Olivia Fenlon. By the end of 1982, ICE was profitable enough that Neidlinger went full-time and began taking a salary.
Neidlinger later became the CEO of Mjolnir LLC.


Les Frigos

Les Frigos is an arts centre located at 19 rue des Frigos in the 13th arrondissement of Paris, France. The large building is a former refrigerated storage depot built in 1920. It was squatted in 1985 and later legalized.
History.
Les Frigos is located in the 13th arrondissement of Paris. Originally a refrigerated storage depot built in 1920, it became derelict in 1971, following the move of the main food market from Les Halles to the new International Market at Rungis.
In 1985, a collective of artists squatted the derelict building. The number of rooms and also the sound-proofing were attractive for the new occupants, who numbered around 250 people as of 2013. The artists set up a foundation and began to pay rent to the owner SNCF. They also set up an organisation called "91 Quai de la Gare" which engages with other local residents and projects to contest the gentrification of the area by the Paris Rive Gauche development.
Other artist squats in Paris include 59 Rivoli.
Occupants.
Over a hundred tenants work on the site, which includes ninety workshops. In 2010, rents for the premises equipped by the tenants ranged from around €500 to €2,700. Fifteen different professions carry out activities at Les Frigos, ranging from small firms to publishing houses, arts and crafts, etc. There are artists, micro-companies and associations for managing rehearsal facilities for theatrical people or for musicians.


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John Dilleshaw

John Dilleshaw (1896 near New Hope, Georgia1941), nicknamed Seven Foot Dilly, was an American Old-time musician and guitarist. Despite his nickname, he was not tall, but "only" 6 feet 7 inches (2.0 m) tall.
Childhood.
Dilleshaw was born near the village of New Hope in Paulding County, northwest of Atlanta. In his late teens, he suffered a gunshot wound to the foot, and during his recovery he began to learn the guitar. Motivated, he was assisted by a local black musician named Bill Turner. Shortly after Dilleshaw played with other musicians from the County.
Career.
Around 1925 Dilleshaw was regularly heard with guitarist Charles S. Brook on the radio station WSB in Atlanta. The city was the center of the Georgia Old-Time Music and also the contact point for various record labels, who had installed their mobile recording studio recordings and artists of all genres, but especially rural musicians. Dilleshaw worked at the municipal fire department while on evenings and weekends, especially on the radio occurred and also played with the Dixie String Band.
In 1929 Dilleshaw founded his own band, which often performed under the name Seven Foot Dilly and His Dill Pickles. The group consisted of Harry next Dilleshaw Kiker (fiddle), Pink Lindsey (bass) and his son Shorty ( tenor banjo). When in March 1929 Okeh Records sent a team to Atlanta to record local groups, and accounted Dilleshaw. The plates were published under the name John Dilleshaw & The String Marvel "the string marvel was Lindsey). With his band, The Square Dance Fight or A Fiddler's Tryout in Georgia, was also with fiddler A. A. Gray on some items, or experimented with blues numbers.
In November 1930, he made his last recordings for Vocalion.