Motorcycle riding gear

Motorcycle riding gear, or kit (UK English), is specialized clothing and equipment worn by motorcyclists. It usually serves multiple purpose at once, including crash injury protection, deflecting sun, precipitation or debris, keeping the rider warm, cool or hydrated, increasing visibility, expressing the rider's style or social identity, stowing cargo, and as a platform for wearable or embedded devices like wireless intercoms, GPS navigation devices, cell phones, or helmet-mounted displays.
Crash protection.
For crash protection, helmets are often the first piece of gear a rider chooses, and in many jurisdictions, the only one required by law. Beyond that, crash protection comes in the form of motorcycle boots, jackets, leathers, gloves and - most recently - airbags. Research by de Rome "et al" found that abrasion resistance, impact protection and seam burst strength are required for garments to offer effective protection.
Weather.
Most protective garments double as protection from the wind blast while riding, and from every kind of weather, keeping the rider warm, cool, and dry, either with passive insulation and ventilation, or active heating or cooling devices. Some motorcycle armor is minimalist in design, serving only to protect from crash impacts and abrasion, and so is intended to be combined with other clothing. If a motorcycle helmet does not feature a clear face shield, goggles or Riding Glasses are used to protect the rider's eyes from road debris and insects, as well as protection from wind and rain.
Appearance.
Motorcycling gear is also designed with appearance in mind, often to make drivers more likely to see the rider, increasing conspicuity, by combining elements of high-visibility clothing with the weather and crash protection functions of rider clothing, helmets and other items. Selling these items to riders, comprising at least $1.15 billion (clothing) plus $1.2 billion (accessories including helmets and other equipment) of the $21.5 billion (2004) US motorcycle industry, depends on both practical and aesthetic appeal. Fashion and style drive these sales as much as utility, and an entirely separate category of motorcycle-inspired fashion exists in addition to the motorcycle-specific clothing industry, of motorcycle-inspired jackets and other items sold in general retail outlets, intended for non-riders. Helmets, jackets and other clothing may also display designs, text and images to identify the rider or his group, such as club insignia, police, fire and other utility riders, or as adverting space for the logos of motorcycle sport sponsors.
Other purposes.
Rider clothing may also be made with storage in mind, providing a variety of pockets including those for holding and displaying maps, smartphones, GPS navigation devices, and other wearables, or accommodating Bluetooths or CB radio two-way communication devices, often built into helmets with wiring routed through specialized clothing. Helmet-mounted displays may be included as well, along with visors that protect the face from wind or debris, and filter sunlight with permanent, movable, or variable visors.


Metro Shoes

Metro Shoes is multi-brand footwear retail chain in India. In 2013, the company announced that it was able to expand the number of its retails stores due to low rental rates, particularly in tier II cities. Metro Shoes has a countrywide network of exclusive Metro showrooms at more than 206 prime locations across 100 plus cities in India.


Linhof

Linhof is a German company, founded in Munich in 1887 by Valentin Linhof. The company is well known for making premium rollfilm and large format film cameras. Linhof initially focused on making camera shutters and developing the first leaf shutter, which became part of Compur.
Nikolaus Karpf, who entered the company in 1934, designed the first Technika model, the world's first all-metal folding field camera, the same year. Revised models of the Technika are still in production.
Today Linhof is the oldest still-producing camera manufacturer in the world after Gandolfi and Kodak stopped their production.
Products.
Folding bed field cameras.
6x9 cm.
"See also Linhof 6x9."


Goat Island (performance group)

Goat Island was a collaborative performance group based in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., and founded in 1987. In 2006, Goat Island announced that their ninth performance, "The Lastmaker" (2007), would be the last work that they would create as a company. Goat Island ended with final performances of "The Lastmaker" at Swain Hall, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, in February 2009. As their final project, they created a film based on "The Lastmaker", published under the title "A Last, A Quartet a collection of films", which also contained previous films made by Goat Island. Goat Island members have included, Karen Christopher (1990-2009), Joan Dickinson (1988-90), Matthew Goulish (1987-2009), Lin Hixson (director, 1997-2009), Mark Jeffery (1996-2009), Greg McCain (1987-95), Timothy McCain (1987-95), Antonio Poppe (1995-1996), Bryan Saner (1995-2009), Charissa Tolentino (2008) and Litó Walkey (2002-9).


Sharp (magazine)

SHARP is a Canadian men's lifestyle magazine published by Contempo Media Inc., a Canadian media, publishing, and content company headquartered in Toronto. "SHARP" magazine was launched in 2008 and is published six times per year, with two "SHARP: The Book for Men" special editions targeting premium and luxury consumers. Content includes fashion, travel, electronics, automobiles, food, alcohol, advice, and essays of international scope but from a Canadian perspective.
Sharp Russian edition.
In addition to being published in Canada, "SHARP" was licensed for publication in Russia in 2011.


Abigail Washburn

Abigail Washburn (born November 10, 1977) is an American clawhammer banjo player and singer. She performs and records as a soloist, as well as with the old-time bands Uncle Earl and Sparrow Quartet, experimental group The Wu Force, and as a duo with her husband Béla Fleck.
Early life.
Washburn was born in Evanston, Illinois, and spent her elementary and part of her junior high school years in a suburb of Washington, D.C.. She attended high school in Minnesota, then attended Colorado College, where she was the school's first East Asian studies major. She learned Mandarin during the summers in intensive programs at Middlebury College, Vermont. Following this, she spent some time living in China, where she had dreams of being a lawyer (having first visited that nation in 1996). After living in Vermont for three years, Washburn traveled down south before a planned trip to China to become a lawyer. She stopped at the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies and spent five days meditating. After what became a life-changing experience, Washburn left the Center ready to pursue her musical career and was quickly offered a record deal in Nashville, Tennessee.
Uncle Earl.
In Tennessee, she met KC Groves, one of the founding members of the band Uncle Earl, and she went on to spend five years touring with the band. The "all G'earl" group has released two records on the Rounder Records record label, "She Waits for the Night" (2005) and "Waterloo, TN" (2007), which was produced by John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin.
"Song of the Traveling Daughter".
Washburn entered a songwriting contest at MerleFest (a bluegrass music festival in North Carolina), winning second place for her song "Rockabye Dixie", and gaining the attention of the Nettwerk record label.
Her first solo album, "Song of the Traveling Daughter," was produced by Béla Fleck and features Ben Sollee, a cellist, and Jordan McConnell, guitarist for the Canadian traditional and soul music fusion band The Duhks.
Sparrow Quartet.
In 2005, Washburn returned to China with a group called the Sparrow Quartet, composed of Sollee, Fleck and Grammy Award nominated fiddler Casey Driessen. The group then recorded an EP, "Abigail Washburn The Sparrow Quartet." Two songs on the album were recorded in the Mandarin Chinese language, which she learned while living in China.
At the request of the U.S. government, the Sparrow Quartet toured Tibet in 2006—something no other American band had done—and performed in Beijing during the 2008 Olympics. Also in 2008, Washburn was a teacher of American folk music in Sichuan University for six weeks, "where they promptly told me that I wasn't teaching folk music correctly, because, surely there would be a correct way to do hand gestures for every song." Also that year, Washburn and the Sparrow Quartet recorded a full-length album, "Abigail Washburn and the Sparrow Quartet." It was produced by Béla Fleck and composed and arranged by the foursome.
After the release of the album, Washburn and the Sparrow Quartet turned their attention to touring North America, with appearances at festivals including New Orleans Jazz & Heritage, MerleFest, Bonnaroo Music Festival, Vancouver Folk Festival and others. They returned to China for performances during the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. The quartet was later featured on National Geographic Live and, in 2009, each participated in the Clearwater Concert, a benefit concert in honor of Pete Seeger's 90th birthday that featured many of the world's most well-known musicians.
Afterquake.
Inspired by a 2008 volunteer experience for Sichuan Quake Relief in China, Washburn joined forces with Shanghai Restoration Project's Dave Liang in March 2009 to create a musical project called Afterquake. The benefit EP a portion of each sale to benefit Sichuan Quake Relief was released on May 12, 2009, the first anniversary of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. Over the course of two weeks, Washburn and Liang recorded and produced the entire project, which features electronic mixes of student voices and sounds from the disaster zone.
"City of Refuge".
In early 2010, Washburn began recording her second solo album with producer Tucker Martine and collaborator Kai Welch.
Washburn embarked upon "The Silk Road Tour" with her band "The Village" from Hohhot to Ürümqi, stopping to perform and collaborate all along the way with only the goal of building bridges and dissolving difference by communing in good music. Supported by the US Embassy and the Chinese International Center for Exchange, they performed extensively at schools, universities & theaters, and spontaneously on city walls and in town squares all across China's "Wild West". They also collaborated with local musicians all along the route including Han Chinese, Mongolian, Tibetan, Hui and Uyghur musicians. The journey was chronicled in a series of videos available to view on YouTube.
In September 2012, she was featured in a campaign called "30 Songs / 30 Days" to support "", a multi-platform media project inspired by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn's book.
"Post-American Girl".
During the Spring of 2013, Washburn debuted her first theatrical production "Post-American Girl", at Joe's Pub at The Public Theater March 28–30 as part of New York Voices, the venue's popular commission series designed to help musicians make the leap from songwriting and performance to theatrical production. Washburn's new stage piece was about an American girl coming-of-age in a swiftly changing global order. It featured folk arts of China and Appalachia in shadow puppetry, sacred harp song, traditional music as well as new compositions. The production included Chinese Theatre Works' Kuang Yu Fong (founder and Master Vocalist); Stephen Kaplin (Puppeteer & Set Design); composer, violinist and violist Jeremy Kittel; Chinese percussion master Tian Gang; cellist Tristan Clarridge and Guzheng master Wang Jungling. Post-American Girl was directed by Meiyin Wang, Associate Artistic Producer of The Public's Under The Radar.
The Wu-Force.
The Wu-Force played their first show together at the Yugong Yishan music club in Beijing in late 2011 and came back together in early 2014. The Wu-Force made an appearance at TEDxUNC's American Global South conference on March 3, 2013, performing their song "Floating". On January 12, 2014, Washburn performed with a band known as The Wu-Force at Global Fest in New York City. This marked the US debut of the self prescribed "kung fu-Appalachian avant-garde folk-rock" musical group. The band's multilingual songs feature a variety of content varying between commentary on international relations to environmental issues in China to Chinese folk and operatic reinterpretations to cheeky instrumental pieces. The band also includes multi-instrumentalist and frequent collaborator Kai Welch, and Chinese zither (guzheng) player Wu Fei. In addition to playing in New York, the trio played a residency in Nashville and set of tour dates scattered throughout the United States while simultaneously recording together. The trio also played the World Music Festival Chicago in September 2014
Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn.
With the birth of their son in May 2013, Washburn began a new era in her career. With the intent to keep the family together, the two began to make public appearances as a duo collaboration. Beginning in August 2013, Fleck and Washburn began a steady tour schedule of duo dates (sometimes affectionately referred to as "trio") billed as "Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn". A year later, they announced that their first duo album, featuring only banjos and their voices, would be released on Rounder Records. The two recorded their album in their home and produced the record themselves. The album debuted at #1 on the Billboard Bluegrass charts and won the duo a Grammy Award for Best Folk Album.
Personal life.
Washburn is married to banjo player Béla Fleck. Washburn first met Fleck in Nashville at a square dance where she was dancing and he was playing. In August 2007, Washburn was reported as being the "girlfriend" of Fleck. In May 2009, the "Bluegrass Intelligencer" website satirized the union, with Driessen joking that the couple promised a "male heir" who will be the "Holy Banjo Emperor". In February 2010, "The Aspen Times" reported that Fleck was Washburn's husband. On Sunday May 19, 2013, Washburn gave birth to their son in Nashville.
Activism.
Washburn, along with 24 other innovative and creative thinkers worldwide, was named a TED fellow and gave a talk at the 2012 TED Convention in Long Beach about building US-China relations through music.
On November 19, 2013 Washburn was officially named the first US-China Center Fellow of Vanderbilt University because of her work as an ambassador of American culture to China and her enthusiasm and willingness to help the US-China Center at Vanderbilt University in any way possible.


A Tree of Night and Other Stories

A Tree of Night and Other Stories is a short story collection by the American author Truman Capote published in early 1949. The title story, "A Tree of Night", was first published in "Harper’s Bazaar" in October 1945.
Contents.
The book contains eight short stories:
Themes.
The horror stories in "A Tree of Night and Other Stories" involve recurring themes of isolation and emotional anxiety. The protagonists are not quite ready to grow up, whether they are adults or children. The adult characters are emotionally isolated and bear unresolved emotional conflicts from childhood. Overall the stories are noted for involving "sexual anxiety and dysfunction without solidly grounded detail."
Reception and critical analysis.
"A Tree of Night and Other Stories" received mixed reviews upon its publication. It firmly established Capote as a "Southern" writer alongside contemporaries such as William Faulkner or Tennessee Williams. The book received praise for its "enthralling style" and "remarkable beauty of language," but also received criticism for characters who "lack substance."
Helen Garson considers "A Tree of Night and Other Stories" to have undoubted appeal to readers and ranks it as one of Capote's top four works, alongside "Other Voices, Other Rooms", "Breakfast at Tiffany's", and "In Cold Blood."
Steven L. Vaughn comments that "A Tree of Night and Other Stories" proves to be consistent with Capote's earlier fiction, most notably "Other Voices, Other Rooms", which he describes as dark and dreamlike.
Sales of the book were approximately 6,750.


An An

An An (stylized as "an an") is a weekly Japanese women's lifestyle magazine. It is one of the earliest and popular women's magazines in Japan. In 2009 it was described by "Japan Today" as a mega-popular women's magazine. It is also one of the best-selling women's magazines in the country.
History and profile.
The magazine was started as a sister publication of French magazine "Elle" and was named as "Elle Japon". The first issue of the magazine was published on 20 March 1970. The magazine was renamed as "an an" in 1982, which was the name of a panda bear. Its content was also changed to reflect the trends affecting Japanese women and their self-identity.
At the end of the 1990s "an an" was published biweekly. The magazine has its headquarters in Tokyo and is now published on a weekly basis on Tuesdays. The publisher is Magazine House Ltd., a Tokyo based publishing company. The company, which was also the founder of the magazine, was formerly named Heibun Shuppan. The magazine has two versions, a regular one and a cheaper one.
Like other young women's magazines in Japan "an an" frequently features articles on fashion, cosmetics and relationships. On the other hand, it emphasizes the visual aspect and advertisements rather than text. Celebrities, including Jang Geun Suk, have appeared on its covers. However, instead of focusing on gossip, "an an" and another women's magazine "Non-no" provide their readers with materials which have the aim of developing their self-identity. In addition, since its inception "an an" has been instrumental in changing attitudes of young Japanese women as well as in reinforcing new and subversive identities. In 1984 it began to publish an annual sex special issue. Its April 1989 cover read "Become Beautiful through Sex" (sekkusu de kirei ni naru).
In 1976 the male version of "an an", "Popeye" magazine, was started.
In the mid-1990s its target audience was stated to be women aged between 19 and 27 years old who were mostly unmarried, office workers and university students.
"an an" celebrated its publication of 2,000 issues with an exhibition at Tokyo Metro Omotesando station between 11 April and 17 April 2016.
Circulation.
The circulation of "an an" was between 540,000 copies and 720,000 copies in the period of 1970 and 2009. In the mid 1990s the magazine sold 650,000 copies. In 2006 the magazine sold 280,683 copies.


Richard Lary

Richard F. "Richie" Lary (born 1948, Brooklyn) is the "RL" of the PDP-8 "RL Monitor System", which subsequently became "MS/8". Years later, while working for Digital Equipment Corporation, he was also involved with other "DEC" hardware and software, including "principal architect for OS/8" and "working on the VAX architecture."
Biography.
He graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1965, along with ; they both were on the school's "Math Team" and "later wound up working on the VAX architecture." They were $2/hour summertime Fortran programmers in 1965, using an IBM 1130.
Lary left "DEC" in 2000, forming a company he and his wife Ellen Lary, also a former DEC employee, named "TuteLary."


Pro Pinball

Pro Pinball is a pinball video game series developed by Cunning Developments and published by Empire Interactive.
Games.
Pro Pinball: The Web (1996).
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Pro Pinball: Timeshock! (1997).
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Pro Pinball: Big Race USA (1999).
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Pro Pinball: Fantastic Journey (2000).
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Compilation.
Pro Pinball Trilogy is a compilation of 3 games in the "Pro Pinball" video game series, which were "Pro Pinball: Timeshock!", "Pro Pinball: Big Race USA" and "Pro Pinball: Fantastic Journey". It was first released for Dreamcast in 2001 before it was ported over to PlayStation 2, Xbox, Apple Macintosh, and Microsoft Windows in 2005 under the title Ultimate Pro Pinball.
"Pro Pinball Ultra".
Barnstorm Games, owner of Silverball Studios, a company created by the "Pro Pinball" original developers, launched a Kickstarter project in order to cover the cost for a remake of "Pro Pinball: Timeshock!" called The ULTRA Edition. It successfully surpassed the £40,000 goal with £49,349. The new version was released for Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, Xbox Live and Linux.
The iOS version of the game was released on January 29, 2015 and the PC version was released on July 21, 2016.


List of Easter eggs in Tesla products

Tesla products include a significant number of software and hardware Easter eggs among other notable and unique software features, such as a suite of video games, doggy mode, emissions testing mode, "caraoke", romance mode, and alternative voice commands for certain functions.
"Back to the Future" phone app.
Products: Models S, 3, X, and Y
Activation: With the vehicle at exactly 121 miles (or 121 km) of range, touch the battery icon inside the Tesla mobile app to launch the Easter egg.
Description: All aspects of this easter egg occur within the mobile app. A pop-up message displays "Time Circuits Off" and "Be sure to reset your clock to account for temporal displacement". The name of the vehicle changes to "OUTATIME" within the app. "Charging scheduled" changes to "Time Circuits On". "121 miles" changes to "1.21 GW". The "Charging" tab changes to "Fuel Chamber". Below the now "Fuel Chamber" tab reads as "Current Output: 300R" which may refer to the number of "Back to the Future" replica cars being made per year by DeLorean Motor Company. The vehicle location display changes to "1600 S Azusa Ave Rowland Heights", one of the movie filming locations, and a service appointment appears to be scheduled for November 5, 1955, which is an important day within the film.
"Rick and Morty" – sentry mode voice activation.
Products: Models S, 3, X, and Y
Activation: Voice command "Keep Tesla Safe" or "Keep Summer Safe"
Description: Sentry mode, which was originally depicted on the in vehicle display as HAL 9000 from "", and is now depicted as what appears to be the eye of a sentient sentry turret from the Valve video game "Portal", can be activated or deactivated using voice commands, "Enable/Disable Sentry Mode" or "Turn Sentry Mode On/Off". Voice commands "Keep Tesla Safe" or "Keep Summer Safe" can also enable sentry mode. The extra commands are a reference to a scene from season 2, episode 6 of "Rick and Morty", entitled "The Ricks Must Be Crazy", where Rick instructs his vehicle to keep Morty's sister, Summer, safe while Rick and Morty venture into Rick's microverse car battery. Elon Musk notably wore a Butterbot T-shirt to the 2018 Tesla Annual Shareholder's Meeting indicating his interest in the show.
Mars, Mars Rover and Starship - method of activation.
Products: Models S, 3, X, and Y
Activation: A prolonged (5 second) press of the Tesla "T" icon at the top of the touchscreen display results in a graphic which appears as a single water ripple away from the center of the "T" icon. Once the "T" is released, a text box is revealed along with a keyboard for entering text. The text box says "please enter access code" with a text entry field below and button options "OK" and "Cancel" below that. This text box is mainly used by service centers and showrooms for things like service mode and showroom mode, but does also allow access to certain easter eggs. Entering the word "Mars" and pressing "OK" will activate the Mars, Mars Rover and Starship easter egg.
The same activation can be achieved by tapping the image of Mars in the "Easter Egg Drawer" which appears automatically shortly after the "About Your Tesla" menu is accessed. The "About your Tesla" menu can be accessed by tapping the Tesla "T" at the top right of the touchscreen display.
Description: Upon activation, the GPS map on the touchscreen display shows the surface of Mars instead of the surface of the Earth. This surface moves and turns as your car travels just as the normal GPS would. The arrow representing your vehicle on the GPS map is replaced by a depiction of a Mars rover. Finally, the "About Your Tesla" menu, accessed by pressing the Tesla "T" icon at the top left of the touchscreen display, shows the SpaceX Interplanetary Spaceship design, which was presented in 2016 as part of the Interplanetary Transport System. The vehicle has since been redesigned and renamed as Big Falcon Rocket and then Starship.
SpaceX and Tesla, Inc. are linked in a number of ways other than the depiction of the Starship. Elon Musk is CEO of both companies and the two companies collaborate often. In early 2018, Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster was used as a payload for the Falcon Heavy test flight. It was originally planned that Elon's roadster, which carries Starman and a number of its own easter eggs (to confuse the aliens), would end up in orbit around Mars. Instead, the roadster ended up in an orbit around the sun, as it was more important to demonstrate the full capacity of Falcon Heavy.
"Mario Kart": Rainbow Road and Don't Fear the Reaper/SNL: More Cowbell.
Products: Models S, 3, X, and Y. Autosteer capable vehicles only.
Activation: With autosteer engaged, push the right stalk behind the steering wheel down completely four times in rapid succession (only for Tesla Model 3 and Model Y). For the Model X and Model S, pull the autopilot stalk 4 times towards the driver in rapid succession. The same control stalk is used to switch from park to drive or reverse, and to activate autopilot.
The same activation can be achieved by tapping the image of a cowbell in the "Easter Egg Drawer" which appears automatically shortly after the "About Your Tesla" menu is accessed. The "About your Tesla" menu can be accessed by tapping the Tesla "T" at the top right of the touchscreen display.
Description: The on screen animation of the car's environment will change. The computer vision generated road that the car is driving on, denoted by two lines, will change into a rainbow which is similar to that of Rainbow Road, the final level in each version of the video game "Mario Kart". At the same time, the song (Don't Fear) The Reaper by Blue Öyster Cult plays in the cabin of the vehicle. Notably, the version of the song that plays is taken from the Saturday Night Live skit, More Cowbell, in which music producer "The Bruce Dickinson", played by host Christopher Walken, encourages Gene Frenkle, played by then cast member Will Ferrell, to play his instrument, the cowbell, with zeal. As part of the easter egg, Christopher Walken can be heard stating his lines from the skit, that he "has a fever" and that the "only prescription, is more cowbell". While the music and lines from the skit will stop after a minute or two, the rainbow road will continue indefinitely until autosteer is disengaged.
If the car is not using autosteer, and the "Easter Egg Drawer" is used to activate the effect, tapping the cowbell will result in a message entitled "Rainbow Road". The message includes instructions on how to activate rainbow road, that Autosteer must be engaged, and a description of the effect. This information is followed by the exclamation, "I gotta have more cowbell!"
Rainbow chargeport light.
Products: Models S, 3, X, and Y
Activation: While the Tesla vehicle is plugged in, push the charge port control button on the charger handle 10 times quickly.
Description: The charge port light will cycle through all of the colors of the rainbow.
Monty Python.
Products: Models S, 3, X, and Y
Activation: The name of each Tesla vehicle appears at the top right corner of the "About your Tesla" menu, which can be accessed by tapping the Tesla "T" at the top right of the touchscreen display. Tapping the car name gives a text box which says "Name Your Vehicle" with a text entry field below and button options "Cancel" and "Save" below that. Entering either "Patsy", "Rabbit of Caerbannog", "Mr. Creosote" (with or without the period), "Biggus Dickus" or "Unladen Swallow" and pressing "Save" will activate the Monty Python easter egg. Also naming your car "Flying Circus" triggers the Easter egg.
Description: The Foot of Cupid will immediately drop down the length of the screen, pushing the "About your Tesla" menu out of the way in the process. The Foot of Cupid is a trademarked recurring gag in the Monty Python series, Monty Python's Flying Circus. The foot is accompanied by the sound of flatulence. The foot will disappear and upon opening Theater Mode, a new Monty Python option will appear. This option is essentially the same as YouTube except that it opens directly to the Monty Python channel.
The first to discover the Easter egg was Iwan Eberhart, a Model 3 owner in Switzerland who had already named his Model 3, "The Rabbit of Caerbannog".
This is not the first time that Monty Python has been purposefully added to Tesla vehicles.
Holiday themed Easter eggs.
Santa mode.
Products: Models S, 3, X, Y, And the CyberTruck
Activation: Voice command "Ho Ho Ho" or "Ho Ho Ho Not Funny"
If the "Easter Egg Drawer" is used to activate the effect, tapping the reindeer will result in a message titled "Santa Mode". The message includes instructions on how to activate Santa Mode using the "Ho Ho Ho" voice command. The text box gives an alternative method of activation in the form of button options "Close" and "Ho Ho Ho" appearing at the bottom of the message. No mention of the "Ho Ho Ho Not Funny" variant is made.
Description: If voice command "Ho Ho Ho" is used, Run Rudolph Run by Chuck Berry will play inside of the vehicle. If voice command "Ho Ho Ho Not Funny" is used, Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer will play inside of the vehicle instead. Otherwise, the two commands activate the same Santa Mode easter egg. While driving or in park, a snow effect appears above the depiction of the vehicle. When parked, the image of the car is replaced by Santa Claus on his sleigh. Using the turn signal will result in the sound of sleigh bells in addition to the normal turn signal sound.
In previous versions, the vehicle was depicted as Santa Claus on his sleigh while driving as well as in park. Computer vision would also show the road as ice, and other cars as reindeer while driving.
The songs, either Run Rudolph Run or Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer, play for about 1 minute at a relatively high volume. The volume can not be adjusted. The songs can be restarted indefinitely by activating the voice command feature repeatedly. Using the "Ho Ho Ho" voice command a second time will stop the animations, but will not stop the song; rather the song will begin again. However, if the voice command capability is activated after the Easter egg graphic is deactivated, the song will stop. Another more simple way to stop the song from playing at any time is to use the turn signal.
Model X Light Show and Trans-Siberian Orchestra.
Products: Model X
Activation: A prolonged (5 second) press of the Tesla "T" icon at the top of the touchscreen display results in a graphic which appears as a single water ripple away from the center of the "T" icon. Once the "T" is released, a text box is revealed along with a keyboard for entering text. The text box says "please enter access code" with a text entry field below and button options "OK" and "Cancel" below that. This text box is mainly used by service centers and showrooms for things like service mode and showroom mode, but does also allow access to certain easter eggs. After entering either "holiday" or "ModelXmas" and pressing "OK", a message will instruct, "The show will begin after you exit the car, close all doors and press the lock button on the key. The show requires 6 feet of space above and around the vehicle."
The same activation can be achieved by tapping the image of a green holiday ornament in the "Easter Egg Drawer" which appears automatically shortly after the "About Your Tesla" menu is accessed. The "About your Tesla" menu can be accessed by tapping the Tesla "T" at the top right of the touchscreen display.
Description: A holiday light show will initiate using the headlights, fog lights and turn signals. Wizards in Winter by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra will play and portions of the vehicle, including the front doors and the falcon wing back doors will open and close in time with the music, without assistance. The rear view mirrors will also retract in time with the music.
James Bond – Lotus Esprit submarine.
Products: Model S and Model X. Vehicle must have the air suspension package.
Activation: A prolonged (5 second) press of the Tesla "T" icon at the top of the touchscreen display results in a graphic which appears as a single water ripple away from the center of the "T" icon. Once the "T" is released, a text box is revealed along with a keyboard for entering text. The text box says "please enter access code" with a text entry field below and button options "OK" and "Cancel" below that. This text box is mainly used by service centers and showrooms for things like service mode and showroom mode, but does also allow access to certain easter eggs. Entering "007" and pressing "OK" will activate the Lotus Esprit submarine easter egg.
Description: In the controls menu, under the suspension tab, the usual image of the Tesla is replaced by the submarine version of the Lotus Esprit that James Bond drove off a pier into the ocean in the movie The Spy Who Loved Me. A new "Depth (Leagues)" drop down menu appears next to the Esprit. The air suspension will raise and lower depending on the selected depth.
Activating the easter egg a second time will result in the submarine fins being replaced by wheels. Once again, adjusting the "Depth" will adjust the air suspension, changing the position of the esprit with respect to the wheels.
Tesla, Inc., Elon, and 007 have other notable connections besides the easter egg. In 2013, Musk won an auction and is currently in possession of the original Bond submersible used in the film. In 2019, Elon Musk announced at a shareholder meeting that Tesla had a design for a real, electric submarine car.
Backgammon "Lost" Reference.
Products: Model S, 3, X, and Y
Description: In the entertainment menu, above the "play game" button for backgammon, there is text that reads "Two players, two sides. One is light, one is dark." This is a quote from one of the early episodes of "Lost" in which John Locke teaches Walt how to play backgammon. The quote is believed by some to have significant meaning in the series. Once a game of Backgammon is started on the Tesla in-vehicle display, the lower right corner of the backgammon board can be observed to display the numbers "4 8 15 16 23 42". These numbers are part of the Mythology of Lost and recur throughout the series. Whenever a game score matches one of the numbers, the game score turns green rather than the usual grey.
Sketchpad.
Products: Models S, 3, X, and Y
Activation: Quickly tap the Tesla "T" at the top of the touchscreen display three times. Note that while this hidden method is described in the Model 3 owner's manual, it does not work: tapping the "T" three times rapidly in the Model 3 activates the Arcade and Theater instead.
Activation of the sketchpad can be achieved by tapping the image of the sketch pad (drawing of Starman in space) in the "Easter Egg Drawer" which appears automatically shortly after the "About Your Tesla" menu is accessed. The "About your Tesla" menu can be accessed by tapping the Tesla "T" at the top right of the touchscreen display.
Description: Activating the sketchpad turns the in vehicle display into a sandbox where one can draw a picture and submit the result to Tesla. Drawing options include a marker and eraser, control of color, control of marker width, the ability to undo errors, and a "fill" option. When the "submit" button is used, a text box pops up and asks "Are you sure you want Tesla to critique your artistic masterpiece?" As a nod to The Matrix, a metaphorical Red pill and blue pill option is given in the form of two buttons at the bottom of the same text box. A blue button reads "No, the world isn't ready for my art" while a red button exclaims "Yes, I am an artist!"
Elon Musk has featured sketchpad submissions on his Twitter feed in the past. In future, the sketchpad may include animation support.
Performance mode.
Products: Models S and X
Activation: A prolonged (5 second) press of the Tesla "T" icon at the top of the touchscreen display results in a graphic which appears as a single water ripple away from the center of the "T" icon. Once the "T" is released, a text box is revealed along with a keyboard for entering text. The text box says "please enter access code" with a text entry field below and button options "OK" and "Cancel" below that. This text box is mainly used by service centers and showrooms for purposes such as service mode and showroom mode, but does also allow access to certain Easter eggs. Entering the word "Performance" and pressing "OK" will activate the Performance Mode Easter egg.
Description: A drop-down menu is added to the "About Your Tesla" menu, which allows one to choose any version of the car that has ever been made. It is unclear if the Performance Mode Easter egg changes the car's behavior or display in any way beyond the menu itself. The "About your Tesla" menu can be accessed by tapping the Tesla "T" at the top of the touchscreen display.
Spaceballs and Ludicrous+.
Products: Model S and X. Vehicle must have the ludicrous mode option.
Activation: In the controls menu, switch the software-controlled acceleration from "sport" to "ludicrous" and then tap and hold on the "ludicrous" text for 5 seconds.
Description: The screen will go black for a short time. A star field will swiftly appear and zoom forward, closely resembling a jump to ludicrous speed from the movie "Spaceballs".
In subsequent updates, this Easter egg was co-opted to activate a genuine "ludicrous+" performance enhancement beyond the normal ludicrous mode. When the Easter egg is activated, the star field zooms forward until the entire screen is momentarily white. When the flash fades, a text box is revealed which asks "Are you sure you want to push the limits? This will cause accelerated wear of the motor, gearbox and battery". As a nod to "The Matrix", a metaphorical red pill and blue pill option is given in the form of two buttons at the bottom of the text box. A blue button reads "No, I want my Mommy" while a red button exclaims "Yes, bring it on!". If "Yes, bring it on!" is chosen, the car may prepare itself by heating the battery. The smaller display in front of the driver changes to give a purple indicator for battery temperature, to show the front and rear motors on the car graphic, and to give a table with values including peak longitudinal acceleration.
In the movie "Spaceballs", there is only one speed which exceeds ludicrous. As a continuation of Tesla's use of "Spaceballs" terminology, future versions of the Model S and Model X, as well as the Tesla Roadster (2020), will include a new mode of acceleration which is even faster than Ludicrous+. This new mode is called "Plaid".
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Products: Models S, 3, X, and Y
Activation: The name of the car appears at the top right corner of the "About your Tesla" menu, which can be accessed by tapping the Tesla "T" at the top right of the touchscreen display. Tapping the car name gives a text box which says "Name Your Vehicle" with a text entry field below and button options "Cancel" and "Save" below that. Entering the number "42" and pressing "Save" will activate The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Easter egg.
Description: The name of the car is changed to "Life, the Universe, and Everything". In Douglas Adams' science fiction comedy "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", "42" is determined to be the "Ultimate Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything". There is some difficulty, however, in determining the corresponding Ultimate Question.
Spinal Tap.
Products: Models S and X
Description: As a nod to the movie "This is Spinal Tap", volume settings go up to 11.
Cybertruck in Camp Mode screensaver.
Products: Models S, 3, X, and Y
Activation: Selecting “Camp Mode” in climate control settings and wait 10 minutes for the Camp Mode animated screensaver to appear. A partly obscured Cybertruck appears in the background of the animation.
Description: After the official Cybertruck reveal occurred on November 22, 2019, Tesla vehicles including the S, X and 3 received an update which included camp mode. When in camp mode, Tesla vehicles are able to maintain airflow, temperature, interior lighting, play music, and power devices for an extended period of time while the car is in park. When camp mode is enabled for more than 10 minutes an animated screensaver of a campground appears on the screen. Several months after the release of camp mode, a partly obscured Cybertruck was noticed in the background.
Removed and unreleased Easter eggs.
Model S team photo.
Products: Model S
Activation: The "About your Tesla" menu can be accessed by tapping the Tesla "T" at the top of the touchscreen display. Tap and hold the bottom right corner of the "About your Tesla" menu (model designation number). The team photo cannot be accessed after a 2020 update.
Description: The Model S will zoom away and be replaced with a picture of the development team for the vehicle.
Model 3 team photo and silhouette.
Products: Model 3
Description: The user interface of Tesla vehicles includes an "About Your Tesla" menu which is accessed by tapping on the Tesla "T" icon at the top left of the display. Once the "About Your Tesla" menu is shown, pressing and holding the "3" of "Model 3" for about 10 seconds would bring up a picture of the Tesla development team that had worked on the Model 3. After some time, the Tesla team picture was removed by over the air software update. Instead, pressing the "3" for 10 seconds would cause the Model 3 depiction in the "About Your Tesla" menu to zoom away and be replaced by a black line silhouette of the Model 3. Neither the team photo nor the silhouette can be accessed currently.
Marilyn Monroe.
Intended Products: Model X
Description: On March 7, 2018, CEO of Tesla Inc., Elon Musk stated on Twitter that the Model X would "do a cover of Happy Birthday by Marilyn Monroe". The easter egg has yet to be released.
Easter eggs in products that are not for sale.
Website – Starman.
The background for the login page of the Tesla Inc. website, is a picture of the inside of the Tesla Semi cabin. Clicking on the background toggles it to an image of Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster which was transported to space by SpaceX. Elon Musk is CEO of both companies and the two companies collaborate often. In early 2018, Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster was used as a payload for the Falcon Heavy test flight. It was originally planned that Elon's roadster, which carries Starman and a number of its own easter eggs (to confuse the aliens), would end up in orbit around Mars. Instead, the roadster ended up in an orbit around the sun, as it was more important to demonstrate the full capacity of Falcon Heavy.
S3XY.
At the top of the Tesla website are links to available Tesla models, the Model S, the Model 3, Model X, and the Model Y. Since the number 3 is similar to the letter E, this menu of links appears to spell out "SEX" ("S3X"), and with the Y included, "SEXY" ("S3XY"). The chronology of the cars is out of order, since the Model X began sales well before the Model 3.
Based on the comments of Elon Musk it is well documented that the hidden message was purposeful. At the reveal event for the Model Y, Musk discussed the naming of the Tesla vehicles including the joke. On multiple occasions, Musk has discussed that the intended name for the "Model 3" would have been the "Model E", however Ford, having the rights to the name "Model E", would not allow Tesla use it. According to Musk, "Ford killed SEX".
Nice Try – Model Y teaser image.
Before the reveal of the Tesla Model Y, a teaser image was released. YouTuber Marques Brownlee (MKBHD) put the image into an image editor to see if increasing the brightness would reveal more of the highly anticipated vehicles exterior. No other exterior hints were forthcoming. Instead, the result was an easter egg showing that Tesla had anticipated this approach by fans. Where the licence plate would be on the Model Y, a message read "NICE TRY."
Hidden Tesla Tequila Bottle.
After Tesla Tequila was made available for sale, the product image was noticed hidden in a "Power Everything" poster that had been used in Tesla sales and service centers and online for some time. Some believed that the hidden image of the Tesla Tequila bottle had been there, unnoticed, for several years. It has since been revealed that the poster may have been altered after the Tesla Tequila product launch.
Notable omissions.
Tesla easter eggs often involve popular media for which Tesla CEO and Product Architect, Elon Musk, is known to be a fan. An example would be the Rick and Morty easter egg where voice commands, "Keep Tesla Safe" and "Keep Summer Safe" both activate Sentry Mode. Elon notably wore a Butterbot T-shirt to the 2018 Tesla Annual Shareholder's Meeting indicating his interest in the show before the easter egg was found. Elon has also shown that he is a fan of Monty Python, James Bond, Spaceballs, and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Each are represented as easter eggs in Tesla products.
Elon Musk has expressed interest in a wide variety of other media for which no easter eggs have been found in Tesla products. Some examples include the Foundation series by Isaac Asimov, Star Wars, and The Lord of the Rings. Elon has been known to hold Star Trek in high regard, referring to it as a rare example of a depiction of a positive future for humanity, Notably, the Star Trek franchise also complimented Musk in the fourth episode of , comparing him to the Wright Brothers, and the fictional inventor of the warp drive, Zefram Cochrane.
Hoax Easter eggs.
The Tesla beating heart.
Products: The Model 3 was involved in the hoax. None of the Tesla products have this Easter egg.
Activation: This Easter egg was a hoax and cannot be activated.
Description: On November 17, 2018, Joel Paglione made a post to Imgur claiming that if both charge port-like panels are pushed at the same time, which looks like one is awkwardly hugging the back of the car, a second charge port opens up on the right side of the car and a pulsing/beating red heart light is displayed. This Easter egg was determined to be a complete fabrication.


Charlie Poole

Charles Cleveland Poole (March 22, 1892 – May 21, 1931) was an American musician, singer and banjo player, as well as the leader of the North Carolina Ramblers, a string band that recorded many popular songs between 1925 and 1930.
Biography.
Poole was born near the mill town of Franklinville in Randolph County, North Carolina. He was the son of John Philip Poole and Elizabeth Johnson. In 1918, he moved to the town of Spray, now part of Eden. He learned banjo as a youth. He played baseball, and his three-fingered technique was the result of an accident. He bet that he could catch a baseball without a glove. He closed his hand too soon, the ball broke his thumb, and resulted in a permanent arch in his right hand.
Poole bought his first banjo, an Orpheum No. 3 Special, with profits from making moonshine. Later, he appeared in the 1929 catalog of the Gibson Company, promoting their banjo.
He spent much of his adult life working in textile mills.
The North Carolina Ramblers.
Poole and his brother-in-law, fiddler Posey Rorer, whom he had met in West Virginia in 1917 and whose sister he married, formed a trio with guitarist Norman Woodlief. The band was called the North Carolina Ramblers. They auditioned in New York for Columbia Records. After landing a contract, they recorded the successful "Don't Let Your Deal Go Down Blues" on July 27, 1925. This song sold over 106,000 copies at a time when there were estimated to be only 6,000 phonographs in the southern United States, according to Poole's biographer and great-nephew, Kinney Rorer. The band was paid $75 for the session.
For the next five years, Poole and the Ramblers were a popular band. The band's sound remained consistent, although several members came and left (including Posey Rorer and Norm Woodlief). The band recorded over 60 songs for Columbia Records during the 1920s, including "Sweet Sunny South", "White House Blues", "He Rambled", and "Take a Drink on Me". Former railroad engineer Roy Harvey was one of the guitarists. Fiddlers in various recording sessions were Posey Rorer, Lonnie Austin and Odell Smith.
Bill C. Malone, in his history of country music, "Country Music, U.S.A.", says, "The Rambler sound was predictable: a bluesy fiddle lead, backed up by long, flowing, melodic guitar runs and the finger-style banjo picking of Poole. Predictable as it may be, it was nonetheless outstanding. No string band in early country music equaled the Ramblers' controlled, clean, well-patterned sound."
Poole composed few, if any, of his recordings. Nevertheless, his dynamic renditions were popular with a broad audience in the Southeast United States. He is considered a primary source for old-time music revivalists and aficionados. Songs like "Bill Morgan and His Gal", "Milwaukee Blues", and "Leavin' Home", have been resurrected by banjo players. Poole developed a unique fingerpicking style, a blend of melody, arpeggio, and rhythm (distinct from clawhammer/frailing and Scruggs' variations).
Poole had been invited to Hollywood to play background music for a film, but died before getting there. He died after a heart attack due to alcohol poisoning in May 1931. According to some reports, he'd been disheartened by the slump in record sales due to the Depression.
Legacy.
Poole's music enjoyed a revival in the 1960s, and his renditions have been rerecorded by numerous artists, such as John Mellencamp with "White House Blues", The Chieftains, New Lost City Ramblers, Holy Modal Rounders and Hot Tuna with "Hesitation Blues", and Joan Baez with "Sweet Sunny South". The Grateful Dead's popular song "Deal" was influenced by "Don't Let Your Deal Go Down". His recordings have also appeared on numerous compilations of old-time music. Since 1995, Poole's legacy has been carried on every year in Eden, North Carolina during the month of June when the Piedmont Folk Legacies, Inc, a non-profit organization, hosts the Charlie Poole Music Festival. Bob Dylan in his Nobel Lecture acknowledged Poole and several lyrics of his song "You Ain't Talkin To Me".
Columbia issued a three-CD box set of his music, entitled "You Ain't Talkin' to Me: Charlie Poole and the Roots of Country Music" in 2005. The album, produced by Henry "Hank" Sapoznik, was nominated for three Grammy Awards. It chronicles the music made for Columbia by Poole and the North Carolina Ramblers between 1925 and 1931, including such important songs as "Don't Let Your Deal Go Down" (the first country mega-hit), "Can I Sleep in Your Barn Tonight, Mister?", "Old and Only in the Way" (the title of which was used by Jerry Garcia to name his 1970s bluegrass band with David Grisman, Old and in the Way), and "White House Blues", adapted by John Mellencamp, who in 2004 updated the politically charged lyrics and changed the title to "To Washington". In addition to 43 of Poole's original recordings, the package features performances by other early roots music players and singers, including Fred Van Eps, Arthur Collins, Billy Murray, Floyd Country Ramblers, Uncle Dave Macon and The Red Fox Chasers.
The original liner notes, by Peter Stampfel, state, "Charlie Poole and the North Carolina Ramblers recorded an incredible number of songs that are personal favorites of mine. Poole is, in fact, one of the great musicians of the century. No doubt about it." The album's cover art was created by Robert Crumb, the celebrated illustrator and an old-time music aficionado.
Kinney Rorer penned a biography of Charlie Poole, entitled "Ramblin' Blues: The Life and Songs of Charlie Poole" in 1982. Rorer is a descendant of Poole's fiddler Posey Rorer, and is the banjo player for the old-time music group The New North Carolina Ramblers.
Production of a documentary on Poole's life, tentatively titled "North Carolina Rambler", was announced in 2007 by producer-director-cinematographer George Goehl. However, no word on the film's progress is available.
A double-CD album paying tribute to Poole was released by singer-songwriter Loudon Wainwright III in August 2009. The album, entitled "", features 30 tracks, including new versions of songs originally recorded by Poole, as well as tunes composed by Wainwright and producer Dick Connette on the artist's life and times; it was awarded the Grammy for 'Best Traditional Folk Album' at the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards.


Tara Seibel

Tara Seibel (born February 4, 1973) is an American cartoonist, graphic designer and illustrator from Cleveland. Her work has been published in "Chicago Newcity, Funny Times, The Austin Chronicle, Cleveland Scene, Heeb Magazine, SMITH Magazine, Mineshaft Magazine, Juxtapoz, Jewish Review of Books, Cleveland Free Times, USA Today, US Catholic, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times" and "The Paris Review".
Early life.
Tara Seibel was born Tara Murphy in Cleveland, Ohio, to Lauren Murphy (née Gieseler) and Robert Murphy. Seibel grew up in [[Wickliffe, Ohio]. While attending High School,
Seibel was a majorette and twirled fire on the field. She played the xylophone and wrote for the school paper. Varsity lettered in track and field for the [[high jump]]. Her mother was a homemaker and helped manage family business. Tara’s father was a business owner and politician, (now deceased) was also a local talk show radio host. Tara was a frequent guest and would talk politics with her dad as the "liberal daughter". Tara started drawing political cartoons for her father's campaigns and various newsletters at a young age. Seibel is the oldest of three siblings, Lauren Murphy-Holder a psychologist and Robert Murphy Jr. a businessman. Tara's grandfather Richard Gieseler, was a foreman for Cleveland Twist Drill, and met his wife Dorothea (née Newman) at the Cleveland Twist Drill Company. Her grandfather (John "Buck" Buchan) was a local musician who played with "Cleveland's Polka King" [[Frankie Yankovic]] and comedian-musician [[Mickey Katz]].
Career.
Seibel earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree after majoring in Applied Media Arts at [[Edinboro University of Pennsylvania]], where she studied drawing, painting, documentary film, illustration, animation, journalism, photography and graphic design. Her first printed piece was a poster design for the Edinboro University Alternative Film Festival. She completed this accredited project during an internship at Murphy Design on East 40th Street in Cleveland.
Seibel began her professional artistic career in [[Chicago]] illustrating covers for restaurant menus and food packaging. One of the first menus she designed was for [[Michael Jordan]] The Restaurant. Eventually she moved back home to Cleveland. She was hired as a line designer and illustrator for [[American Greetings]] where she designed and illustrated gift wrapping and greeting cards. After leaving American Greetings she became a freelance [[editorial cartoonist]]. Over a span of four years, she created editorial cartoons for "US Catholic Magazine", various newsletters, "[[Cleveland Scene]]" and illustrated a cover of the "[[Cleveland Free Times]]". In 2008, Seibel attended a Jewish Author's in Comics Symposium. When she got there the only seat left open was the one next to Harvey Pekar. They struck up a conversation. This led her to a collaboration with the late Cleveland-based cartoonist [[Harvey Pekar]], the author of [[American Splendor]].
After headlining the Pekar Project for "[[SMITH Magazine]]", Seibel's work was discovered by editor [[Russ Kick]]. Kick is the editor of a three-volume, 1500-page anthology set titled "[[The Graphic Canon]]" which features the world's great literature interpreted by over 120 artists and illustrators including [[R. Crumb]], Maxon Crumb, [[Will Eisner]], [[Molly Crabapple]], [[Sharon Rudahl]], Dame Darcy, [[S. Clay Wilson]], Gris Grimly, Roberta Gregory and Kim Deitch. For the Graphic Canon Volume One, Seibel contributed adaptations of [[Victor Hugo]]'s "Les Miserables" and [[Walt Whitman]]'s "Leaves of Grass". For Volume Two, Seibel adapted, F. Scott Fitzgerald's [[The Great Gatsby]] and a series of graphic biographies of [[Jack Kerouac]], [[Diane di Prima]], [[William S. Burroughs]], [[Allen Ginsberg]] and Freud's "Interpretation of Dreams". She graphically adapted [[Oscar Wilde]]'s, "The Nightingale and the Rose."
Community work.
In 2011, Seibel taught workshops at Ursuline College, a small, [[Roman Catholicism|Roman Catholic]] liberal arts women's college in Pepper Pike; learning and teaching watercolor techniques under the practice of Sr. Kathleen Burke P.H.d the founder of the Master of Arts in Counseling and Art Therapy program.
In 2012, Tara created the class "How to design your own greeting card line" for adult education classes at the Pepper Pike Learning Center.
In 2013, she became the curator and gallery owner of Tara Seibel Art Gallery in Cleveland's Historic Little Italy in [[University Circle]]. At the gallery there are exhibits of paintings, crafts, drawings and some comic art on display. She also has exhibits for local artists in the Cleveland Area. This will be the third year the gallery will participate in the "from WOMEN" show curated by Mary Urbas of Lakeland Community College to celebrate Women's History month.
Tara illustrates the art walk posters for the Little Italy neighborhood.
The summer of 2016, she started instructing summer camp at The Fairmount Center for the Arts, in which children were engaged in keeping an
art diary every day for a week, writing, drawing, painting and taking photos of their personal stories for documentation and therapy. This summer she will be adding calligraphy techniques, and "the lost art of handwriting" to the curriculum.
In 2016, she offered to design and illustrate the [[Short Sweet Film Fest]] poster, an annual film festival held in Cleveland, Ohio. And was asked to give a Q & A about the late Harvey Pekar, one of the film subjects.
2019, Seibel will be teaching painting classes at Fairmount Center for the Arts
Personal life.
Seibel resides with her family in the Cleveland suburb of [[Pepper Pike, Ohio|Pepper Pike]]. Her husband Aaron Seibel, is a graduate of [[Marquette University]], an optical engineer and co-inventor for two patents. The Seibels have three children, Lauren, Patrick and Oscar.
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Ultimate Pinball Quest

Ultimate Pinball Quest (also known as "The Ultimate Pinball Quest") is a pinball video game for the Amiga that was released as Living Ball for MS-DOS. It was developed by Interactivision and released by Infogrames in Europe and BitWise Computer Software in the United States in 1994.
Gameplay.
The game can be played in either normal Arcade or story-driven Adventure modes, and in Bonus mode for the minigame tables.
Plot.
In the game's Adventure mode, six elements ensuring the temporal and ecological balance of the planet Calypso have been stolen by three power-hungry magical princesses. A warrior needs to challenge and defeat each of the witches (Wuhan, Omdura and Freila) in their respective domains (the desert, the arctic, and metal wasteland themed tables) in order to find and retrieve the elements and restore the planet.
Reception.
The game's Amiga version has received generally mediocre or negative reviews.


Heather and Ivan Morison

Heather and Ivan Morison are a Welsh artist duo known for their conceptual and performative public artworks.
The duo, Heather Peak (born 1973) and Ivan Morison (born 1974), are based in North Wales.
Work.
In 2007 they grew and then distributed 10,000 flowers in Bloomberg's headquarters in London's financial district, as anexpression of love incongruous with the cut-throat world of economic enterprise. "Sleepers Awake", a work from 2011, was an attempt to reverse the order of nature by raising a second sun at night over the north Kent badlands.
Exhibitions.
Exhibitions include the 2016's Royal Academy Summer Show, the Tate Britain, the Tate Modern, South London Gallery and the Vancouver Art Gallery.
They represented Wales at the 52nd Venice Biennial.


Browns Shoes

Browns Shoes Inc. is a Canadian fashion footwear retailer that owns and operates 67 stores across Canada under a variety of footwear brands. The company's headquarters is based in the Montreal borough of Saint-Laurent, Quebec.
History.
Browns Shoes was founded in Montreal in 1940 by Benjamin Brownstein, who immigrated to Montreal at the age of 15 from Romania. The original Browns Shoes location, on Sainte Catherine Street in downtown Montreal, burned down in 1954. After the fire, Benjamin's son, Morton Brownstein, took over the family business.
Morton Brownstein was born on January 12, 1928 to Benjamin and Minnie Brownstein. Upon graduating from high school, Morton worked at his father's department store on Montreal's St. Lawrence Boulevard. Morton married Bernice Greenfield, whom he met at the age of 13 at the Strathcona Academy in Outremont. Together, they had three children –Michael, Janis and Cheryl. After taking over the family business in 1954, Morton decided to take Browns into a different direction toward exclusive designer and fashion footwear. In 1959, he became the first North American retailer to bring Italian-made shoes to Canada.
Today, Browns Shoes is a nationwide shoe retailer, with 67 stores across Canada. Morton Brownstein remained the company's president until 1999, when he ceded the presidency of the company to his son, Michael. On May 23, 2013, Morton Brownstein died at the age of 86 at his home in Westmount, Quebec.
Business operation.
Browns Shoes is a fashion retailer that operates over 65 stores across Canada under the Browns, B2 and Browns OUTLET banners.
The company was founded in Montreal in 1940 by Benjamin Brownstein. Today, a third generation leads the business which employs close to 1000 employees nationwide.
Browns' shoes have been seen on prominent Canadian celebrities and personalities such as model Coco Rocha, Montreal Canadien Mike Cammalleri, as well as Ben Mulroney and Tanya Kim from E-TALK Canada, for which Browns is the official footwear supplier. The latest Fall / Winter 2013 Campaign featured Canadian model Coco Rocha, Czech model Petra Nemcova, and Brazilian model Marlon Teixeira.
Community role.
Morton Brownstein was especially known for his philanthropy, his generosity, and his charity work, receiving several honors such as Entrepreneur of the Year in 1995 and the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Award in 2002, and in July 2004, Morton Brownstein was appointed to the Order of Canada.
In 1984, Morton Brownstein raised $20 million for the Montreal Jewish General Hospital's emergency department, which was eventually named after him and his wife, Bernice. In 2003, he raised his largest contribution of $200 million. In 2009, he received the hospital's lifetime achievement award and in 2012 was named director emeritus.
Today, Browns Shoes carries on the charitable work of its past president Morton Brownstein. The company continues to donate 10% of its pretax profits to various Montreal charities, such as the Club de Petits Dejeuners in Montreal, an organization that provides breakfast for students at schools in underprivileged areas.
Products and brands.
Browns specializes in footwear for women, men and children. In addition to carrying a large selection of brands such as Michael Kors, Stuart Weitzman and Giuseppe Zanotti, Browns also carries a range of exclusive collections, namely: Mimosa, Browns Couture, The Wishbone Collection, Luca Del Forte, Intensi and B2. In 1998, Michael became the first retailer outside of Italy to win the MICAM Award in Bologna, an award given to footwear buyers who showcase products made in Italy.


Uncle Dave Macon

Uncle Dave Macon (October 7, 1870 – March 22, 1952), born David Harrison Macon—also known as "The Dixie Dewdrop"—was an American old-time banjo player, singer, songwriter, and comedian. Known for his chin whiskers, plug hat, gold teeth, and gates-ajar collar, he gained regional fame as a vaudeville performer in the early 1920s before becoming the first star of the Grand Ole Opry in the latter half of the decade.
Macon's music is considered the ultimate bridge between 19th-century American folk and vaudeville music and the phonograph and radio-based music of the early 20th-century. Music historian Charles Wolfe wrote, "If people call yodelling Jimmie Rodgers 'the father of country music,' then Uncle Dave must certainly be 'the grandfather of country music'." Macon's polished stage presence and lively personality have made him one of the most enduring figures of early country music.
Early life.
Macon was born in Smartt Station (about five miles south of McMinnville), Tennessee, the son of Confederate Captain John Macon and his wife Martha Ramsey. He was the great-great nephew of Nathaniel Macon. In 1884, when David Macon was 13 years old, his family moved to Nashville, Tennessee, to run the Old Broadway Hotel, which they had purchased. The hotel became a center for Macon and his growing musical interests, and was frequented by artists and troupers traveling along vaudeville circuit and circus acts. In 1885, he learned to play the banjo from a circus comedian called Joel Davidson. He attended Hume-Fogg High School in Nashville. Macon's father was murdered outside the hotel in 1886. His widowed mother sold the hotel and the family moved to Readyville, Tennessee, where his mother ran a stagecoach inn. Macon began entertaining passengers at the rest stop, playing a banjo on a homemade stage. His brother, E. L. Macon, was a businessman who purchased the Brevard-Macon House in 1926.
In 1889, Macon married Matilda Richardson and moved to a farm near Kittrell, Tennessee, where they raised six sons. Around 1900, Macon opened a freight line between Murfreesboro and Woodbury, Tennessee. It was called The Macon Midway Mule and Mitchell Wagon Transportation Company. Often, when Macon was driving along with his mules, hauling freight and produce, he would entertain people by singing and playing the banjo at various stops along the way. In time, his sons became part of the company as they grew up. But the arrival of an automobile-based competitor threatened his mule company, and he was forced to close down in 1920.
Professional career.
Although Macon had long performed as an amateur and was well known for his showmanship, his first professional performance was in 1921 at a school in Morrison, Tennessee, during a Methodist church benefit. In 1923, during a performance for the Shriners in Nashville, Macon was seen by Marcus Loew of Loews Theatres, who offered him fifteen dollars if he would perform at a theater in Alabama. Macon accepted and went to Alabama. After the show he was approached by the manager of Loews Theatres in Birmingham, who wanted to hire him to perform there. Macon's salary was several hundred dollars a week. This led to offers from other theaters in the Loew's Vaudeville circuit. At age fifty, Macon found himself a successful entertainer. A rival vaudeville circuit, the Keith-Albee-Orpheum Corporation, tried to hire him away from the Loew's circuit, but he refused.
In 1923 Macon began a tour of the south-eastern United States, joined by fiddler Sid Harkreader and five other acts. By now, the Sterchi Brothers Furniture Company, distributors of Vocalion Records, had noticed Macon and realised his potential as a recording artist. On July 8, 1924, Macon and Harkreader made their first recordings for Vocalion in New York City. The session which extended over several days and eighteen songs were recorded. In 1925, Macon and Harkreader added "Dancing Bob" Bradford, a buck dancer to their act, Their tours on the Loew's circuit now included comedy, buck-dancing and old time music. In late 1925, Macon met guitarist Sam McGee, who was to become Macon's regular recording and performance partner. On November 6, 1925, Macon and Harkreader performed at the Ryman Auditorium—the future home of the Grand Ole Opry— in a benefit for the Nashville police force. The show was just three weeks before the WSM Grand Ole Opry was founded.
Macon was one of the first performers at the new WSM radio station. On December 26, 1925, Macon and fiddler Uncle Jimmy Thompson appeared together on the WSM Saturday night program. Macon's career with WSM lasted twenty-six years, but as he continued touring, he wasn't a regular performer in the years of the Grand Ole Opry. In early 1927, Macon formed the Fruit Jar Drinkers, composed of Macon, Sam McGee, Kirk McGee and Mazy Todd. The Fruit Jar Drinkers recorded for the first time on May 7, 1927. Although the group's repertoire was mainly traditional songs and fiddle numbers, they occasionally recorded religious songs, for which Macon would alter the group's name to the Dixie Sacred Singers.
In December 1930, Macon recorded for Okeh Records and later in 1934 for Gennett Records. On January 22, 1935, he began recording for Bluebird Records with the Delmore Brothers and a few years later in 1938 he recorded with Glenn "Smoky Mountain" Stagner. Between 1930 and 1952, Macon was often accompanied by his son Dorris who played the guitar. In 1940 Macon— together with Opry founder George D. Hay, rising Opry star Roy Acuff, and Dorris Macon— received an invitation from Hollywood to take part in the Republic Pictures movie "Grand Ole Opry". The film contains rare footage of Macon performing, including a memorable duet of "Take Me Back to My Carolina Home" with Dorris in which the 69-year-old Macon jumps out of his seat and dances throughout the second half of the song. Although Macon toured with Bill Monroe in the late 1940s, he was neither impressed by the new bluegrass style nor by the banjo picking of Monroe's bandmate Earl Scruggs.
Death and legacy.
Macon continued to perform until March 1, 1952. He died three weeks later on March 22, 1952, at Rutherford County Hospital in Murfreesboro. He was buried at Coleman Cemetery near Murfreesboro. His funeral was visited by more than five thousand people and his pallbearers were George D. Hay, Kirk McGee, Roy Acuff, and Bill Monroe. He was inducted posthumously into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1966. A monument was erected near Woodbury. His son Dorris and several bandmates (often including Sam and Kirk McGee) made sporadic appearances on the Grand Ole Opry as the Fruit Jar Drinkers until the early 1980s.
During the second full weekend in July the city of Murfreesboro celebrates "Uncle Dave Macon Days." The event is held on the grounds of historic Cannonsburgh Village. This celebration hosts the national competitions for old-time clogging, buckdancing and old-time banjo.
Macon's house, Uncle Dave Macon House, still stands on Old Woodbury Pike in Kittrell, Tennessee, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
In 2014, the bridge over Cripple Creek in Kittrell was renamed the Uncle Dave Macon Bridge.
Repertoire and style.
While Uncle Dave Macon recorded over 170 songs between 1924 and 1938, in his day he was most notable for his polished and lively stage presence. Bandmate Kirk McGee later described Macon's personality as a never-ending performance— "All day long, from morning till midnight, it was a show." While playing, Macon would often kick and stomp, and shout sporadically, taxing the skills of WSM's early volume-control engineers. His performance style can be discerned to some extent from his early recordings, in which he whoops and hollers amidst relatively aggressive vocal deliveries.
Macon was famous for his outrageous and funny performances, whether playing on the Vaudeville stage, at school and community socials, or at the Grand Ole Opry. Macon peppered his performances with jokes and comedic monologues, and often engaged in witty repartee with sidemen such as Sam McGee and Sid Harkreader. Other country entertainers marveled at Uncle Dave's skill as a performer. Grand Ole Opry star Roy Acuff said of Macon, "There was never a person that I have come in contact with in the entertainment world that was more individual than Uncle Dave Macon. He was a self-made entertainer who seemed to copy nobody."
Macon played an open-backed Gibson banjo on most of his recordings, and while contemporary musicians didn't consider him a particularly skillful banjo player, modern musicologists have identified no less than 19 picking styles on Macon's recordings. Macon's favorite tunes included "A Soldier's Joy", "Bully of the Town", "The Arkansas Traveler", and "Sail Away, Ladies". Macon claimed to have learned the song "Rock About My Saro Jane" from black stevedores working along the Cumberland River in the 1880s. The song "Buddy Won't You Roll Down the Line" was inspired by the Coal Creek War, an East Tennessee labor uprising in the 1890s. In the song "From Earth to Heaven", Macon describes his days hauling goods between Woodbury and Murfreesboro for his shipping company. "Wreck of the Tennessee Gravy Train", recorded in 1930, served as political commentary on a financial scandal involving Tennessee Henry Hollis Horton and the owner of the newspaper "The Tennessean". Macon's favorite hymn was "How Beautiful Heaven Must Be", which is inscribed on his monument near Woodbury.


The Helsinki School

The Helsinki School was a name introduced in an article by Boris Hohmeyer, "Aufbruch im hohen Norden" (Breakthrough in the Far North), in art Das Kunstmagazin in 2003. This was the first time it was used as a brand name to describe a selection of artists who had studied under adjunct professor Timothy Persons at the University of Art & Design in Espoo from the beginning of 1990s (since 2010 Aalto University, School of Arts, Design & Architecture). So far, with over a 180 international publications, the Helsinki School represents a collaborative approach, where students of photography, not only work together by presenting each other's works but, exhibit with their professors, mentors and former alumni in a joint effort to share in mutual contextual dialogue that uses the photographic process as a tool for thinking.
History.
In the beginning of the 1990s the University of Art & Design Helsinki (since 2010 part of the new Aalto University), Finland, embarked upon an educational experiment that challenged and initiated new approaches in teaching and preparing soon to be MA graduates for their professional careers. Yrjö Sotamaa the then acting Rector of the University, envisioned a program that would offer as well as create a different set of measurements in how one would evaluate graduating MA students. Led by the adjunct professor Timothy Persons and a group of his academic colleagues, , and , and Jyrki Parantainen, they adapted an "Open Studio" approach in how to teach through an emphasis on content, collaboration and experimental exercises. Timothy Persons who had done his graduate studies in Southern California during the 1970's at the Claremont Graduate University, was a recipient of that "Open Studio" ideology that was being championed by John Baldessari at CalArts and its sister school in Claremont at the time. Persons through his Professional Studies Program, built upon this Southern California model, by taking the class out of the classroom and into the various international art venues as means for experimenting, teaching, referencing and experiencing the realities of what a professional career demanded. This was realised through the creation of a virtual gallery known as "Gallery TaiK", now "Persons Projects". By joining all these generations together, it became the vehicle used by the Helsinki School artists to present their works on an international level through its participation in art fairs, publications, Pop-Up exhibitions and museum shows. The gallery was established in 1995 in Helsinki, however, since 2005 its permanent exhibition space has been located in Berlin. Its primary responsibility is to prepare and guide the students in how to manage their professional life. To this day it is directed by adjunct Professor Timothy Persons and Asia Żak Persons.
The Helsinki School was based upon a Professional Studies program that was unique in how it used its academic platform to create an environment that blended its teachers, students and former graduates together in a contextual dialogue through group exhibitions, publications and the utilisation of the international art fairs as a means for teaching, referencing and presenting these artists' works to the international community. It is grounded on an approach that introduces the students in how to use criticism as a positive tool. This places the emphasis more on how to find solutions rather than the fear of making mistakes. As a world-leading university in the field of Art & Design, Aalto University School of Arts, Design & Architecture supports and encourages the use of contemporary pedagogical methods including collaborative knowledge building and co-design in which students may also teach and learn from each other through their shared experiences. A good example of this is in internship programs in which selected students travel abroad to work in residencies, galleries and other professional platforms.
Characteristics.
The Helsinki School follows other of two key photographic movements: The New American Color Photography which established color photography as an important artistic medium, beginning with the William Eggleston exhibition at the MoMA in New York in 1976. And the Düsseldorf School, which emerged in the late 1970s under the guidance of Bernd and Hilla Becher, followers of the 1920s German tradition of Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity). Their students, Andreas Gursky, Candida Höfer, Thomas Ruff and Thomas Struth modified the approach by applying new technical possibilities and contemporary vision. These movements combined with the influence of the Icelandic minimalism and artists like Donald Judd, played a pivotal role in understanding the roots of the Helsinki School.
The Helsinki School's defining trait is the use of the photographic process as a tool for conceptual thinking."There is a clarity of vision that seems to come out of the late evening northern summer light. The conceptual base is lucidly presented. There is an honesty and sincerity behind the work that is rare to find among a group of artists, (…) the borderland discourse, which touches the very idea of identity. Many Helsinki School pictures bear signs of Finnish culture, unconscious or not, meanings related to nature and remoteness. This is quite natural in a country so sparsely populated. These photographs seem to be presentations of artists who sink with themselves. (...) Their photographs seem to be covering something, preferably hiding and hinting than saying anything direct. Yes, there is ambiguity, yes there is a Northern loneliness, but it speaks very directly. There is a sense of isolation in the way several of the artists express their identity. Instead of direct contact with somebody in the picture, photographs became full of landscapes, empty spaces, and figures somewhere in distance." - Alistair Hicks (2014)
Artists.
Pentti Sammallahti and Arno Rafael Minkkinen were the original mentors who inspired the first generation of artists like , and .
The next generations include artists such as Jyrki Parantainen, Marjaana Kella, , Joakim Eskildsen, , , Elina Brotherus, Aino Kannisto, Ola Kolehmainen, , , , , and Jari Silomäki.
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The Helsinki School platform sustains a direct link to its former alumni by joining their works with each new generation of graduates through the publication of "The Helsinki School" books by Hatje Cantz, that is currently in its 6th volume. The first book under the brand name of the Helsinki School was published in 2005.


Amagon

Amagon, known in Japan as , is a side-scrolling platform action game for the Nintendo Entertainment System developed by Aicom.
Synopsis.
In the game, players take the role of Amagon, a Marine who is trapped on an island after his plane crashed. Inconveniently, his rescue ship is on the other side of the island, which Amagon must now cross on foot.
The storyline used for the original Japanese release was somewhat different. The main character is a scientist named "Jackson" who transforms into his "Macho Man" form by using the special drug "Macho Max" that has been taken from his plane by the creatures of "Monster Island".
Gameplay.
Amagon encounters a variety of enemies which he can dispose of with his rifle. He also has the ability (upon collecting and then activating the Mega-Key) to transform into a larger, stronger version of himself called "Megagon". Upon transformation, Megagon is given 1 hit point for every 5,000 points he scored as Amagon (whereas a single hit from any enemy or hazard will kill Amagon). Megagon cannot use the machine gun, but instead has a punch which does eight times the damage and never runs out of ammo. At the cost of one hit point each, he can also fire waves of energy from his chest; these are much broader than machine gun shots, do 16 times the damage, and can hit multiple enemies in a single blast.
The last boss in the game is based on the Flatwoods monster, a supposed space alien seen in Flatwoods, West Virginia on September 12, 1952.
Reception.
Allgame gave Amagon a score of 2 stars of out of a possible 5. Just Games Retro assigned the video game a score of 40% (F) in their April 5, 2007 review of this game while Game Freaks 365 gave the video game a score of 78% (B+) in their 2005 overview of the game.


DeepFrost production team

The DeepFrost guys Jan "Janski" Lindvaag, Thomas J. Heyerdahl and Vegard Strand have been working together as producers and songwriters for a long time. Lindvaag & Heyerdahl have worked together as producers, songwriters and artists (Di-Mico and ICE) since the mid 1990s, and started working with Strand in 2006.
Di-Mico (with two additional members Linda Gaathje and Mary Elin Mellemseter) signed with the Norwegian branch of Polygram Records (later Universal Music). Di-Mico released a number of singles, and their debut single entered the Norwegian single charts at #10. When Di-Mico split in 1999, Heyerdahl went on to form the pop-group ICE together with Mellemseter. Gaathje subsequently left the music industry, while Lindvaag continued on as a writer and a producer.
Credits:
Anything But Monday (#2 US) Innocence (#1 Mexico) Miss A (#1 Korea, #1 Hong Kong, #1 Taiwan), Wonder Girls (#1 Korea, #5 Billboard World Album Chart), Chipz (#1 Holland, #5 Germany, #6 Austria, #12 Switzerland), Samantha Mumba (#1 UK), Soraya (Top 10 Spain), Anna Tsuchiya (Top 10 Japan), HotCha (Top 40 Japan), Sistanova (Germany), Jorun Stiansen (#6 Norway), Baracuda (#5 Norway, #3 Germany), Helene Rask (Top 10 Poland), Sandra Lyng Haugen (Top 10 Norway), Nikki Webster (Top 20 Australia), Suzanna Dee (#3 Dance UK), Mirah (Top 10 Denmark, Top 20 Germany), Scandal'Us (Top 10 Australia), ICE (#2 Norway), TikTak (Top 10 Finland), Di-Mico (Top 10 Norway), Soda (Top 10 Norway), Guri Schanke (Norway), Toril Sivertsen (Norway), UEFA Euro 2000, Linnea Handberg (Denmark), Red Divaz (Norway), Roni Duani (Israel), Amanda (Finland), Seduced (Belgium), BamBee (Norway), C.B. Milton (Belgium), Splash (Norway), B.I.C. (Norway), Wanted (Belgium), Satomi (Japan), NRK MP3, Yeffrii (Colombia).
Remixes: Ludacris, Young Jeezy ft. Akon, Lady GaGa, Stevie Wonder, Tone Damli, Maria Haukaas, Venke Knutson, Philco Fiction, Wonder Girls, Loreen


Helaine Fendelman

Helaine Fendelman (born January 25, 1942; Riverside, Illinois) is a generalist antiques, fine arts and collectibles appraiser, author, instructor and co-host of a PBS affiliated television show.
Early life and education.
Fendelman earned a bachelor's degree of Arts in English from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri in 1964 followed by a master's degree of Arts in English from C.W. Post in Brookville, New York in 1967.
Antiques career.
Fendelman has more than 30 years of experience in arts and antiques. In 1965, Fendelman and her husband, Burton Fendelman moved to New York City. In 1975 she began her career in the arts as a curator at the American Folk Art Museum.
From 1978 to 1981, Fendelman was a curator at the Rye Historical Society in Rye, New York.
In 1994, Fendelman created Helaine Fendelman & Associates, a Fine Arts, antiques, and appraisal firm, which is located in the Gramercy Park section of New York City. Fendelman is also an instructor at New York University’s Appraisal Institute. She has two sons and lives in New York City and Sanibel Island, Florida.
Since 1997, Fendelman has co-hosted the PBS television show, “Treasures in your Attic” and co-authored the Scripps Howard Syndicated newspaper column, “Treasures in Your Attic.”
Fendelman served as a board member of the Appraisers Association of America from 1984 to 2008, as vice president from 1994 to 1996 and as president from 1996 to 1998.
She has also authored and co-authored several books about appraising including: All About Appraising: The Definitive Appraisal Handbook; Price it Yourself, Treasures In Your Attic; Tramp Art A Folk Art Phenomenon; Silent Companions: Dummy Board Figures of the 17th Through 19th Centuries, and The Official Identification and Price Guides to American Folk Art and Holiday Collectibles.


Jeffrey Beecroft

Jeffrey Beecroft (born April 1, 1956) is an American production designer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film "Dances with Wolves".


ESailing World Championship

The eSailing World Championship is an annual esports competition, first held in 2018 and officially recognised by World Sailing the main sports governing body. The contract to run the event was given to a private company, Virtual Regatta that had amassed ten of thousand of sailors playing Offshore sailing routing game following major offshore races in real time.


Maura Jacobson

Maura Jacobson (April 28, 1926 – December 25, 2017) was an American crossword puzzle constructor, who created 1,400 puzzles during 30 years constructing a weekly crossword puzzle for "New York" magazine and another 66 puzzles for "The New York Times".
Career.
Jacobson had prior experience with trivia, winning $3,150 on three episodes of the game show "Jeopardy!", on shows that aired a few weeks after the show debuted in 1964. She tried her hand at creating crossword puzzles, submitting some samples to Margaret Farrar, the first crossword puzzle editor at "The New York Times", who rejected her offerings but offered some constructive suggestions for future improvements. After injuries suffered in a 1971 car accident restricted her activities for a year, she began constructing puzzles while recuperating. Her first puzzle appeared in "The Times" on January 17, 1954; her 66th and final "Times" puzzle was printed on September 16, 2009. She started writing puzzles for "Cue" magazine in 1978 and shifted to "New York" magazine when that publication acquired "Cue" in 1980. She worked at "New York" for more than three decades until her retirement from the publication in 2011, publishing a puzzle that she created on a weekly basis without missing an issue for 30 years; in the year before she retired, she began submitting puzzles in alternating weekly issues with Cathy Allis creating puzzles in the other weeks. Through 2011, she had created a puzzle every year for the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, since it began in 1978.
Crossword construction style.
She listed some of her crossword puzzle construction techniques as starting the puzzle from the top left with simpler clues and answers that invite participation, as well as avoiding two obscure answers crossing each other. She preferred to avoid the unusual words often used by other constructors.
Personal life.
Born Maura Bandler in Brooklyn in 1926, she graduated from Hunter College at the age of 19 and became a teacher. She married Dr. Jerome Jacobson in 1948.
Death.
Jacobson died at the age of 91 on December 25, 2017, in White Plains, New York.