Hogs of War

Hogs of War is a turn-based tactics artillery video game developed by Infogrames Sheffield House and published by Infogrames, released for the PlayStation in Europe on 6 June 2000, and North America on 29 September 2000, and later for Microsoft Windows in Europe only on 3 November 2000. The game is set in the First World War-era where anthropomorphic pigs engage in combat. "Hogs of War" is turn-based, featuring 3D graphics, and both a single-player career mode, and offline multiplayer. The game featured voice artistry by British comedic actors Rik Mayall and Marc Silk.
The tune for the game is John Philip Sousa's Liberty Bell March. The design of the game was later discussed in the book "The Game Maker's Apprentice".
Gameplay.
"Hogs of War" is a turn-based tactics game, where players take turns controlling individual members of their squad of hogs to engage in combat with the opposition, similar to the "Worms" video game series. Each level is made up of two or more teams of 5, loosely based on nations competing in the First World War. Each turn, a player takes control of a single squad member in a third-person perspective to move around the map, including jumping over terrain and swimming over bodies of water, yet can only engage in combat when stationary.
Each squad member can be assigned a class type, where they have immediate access to certain weapons and abilities. There are four main class types; heavy gunners that specialize in long-range heavy weapons (mortars, bazookas, rocket launchers, etc.), engineers that specialise in explosives (grenades, land mines, TNT, etc.), espionage that don't appear on the mini map and use sniper rifles and camouflage, and finally medics that can heal other units in both close and long range. Other than inventory items, players can also gain access to military vehicles, like tanks and semi-aquatic and stationary turrets like heavy artillery and pillboxes. Bunkers and MASH tents also provide further protection, but without weaponry, with the latter healing a small amount at the start of their turn.
The game features several modes, including a standard deathmatch (either single-player or multiplayer) and a single-player campaign. At the start of each campaign, the player chooses their nation and squad of up to eight characters, who have customisable names. The main objective for the player is to conquer all five regions of the world map, with each region containing five missions against each opposing nation. Through the campaign, characters can be promoted as the player progresses through the campaign by earning medals; given for completing tasks, such as finishing the level with zero characters felled. The campaign features semi-permadeath, where a character will be permanently lost after three deaths on a level.
Teams.
There are six different pig nations featured in "Hogs of War" that, while not directly named, are represented by their comical names, unique uniform colours, accents, and headgear. Each nation is parodied in the name of their squad and soldiers, as well as the pigs' dialogue during combat, usually at the start of each turn, before firing a weapon, after defeating an opponent, or upon their own death. Voice work is delivered in thick, over-the-top accents, with comical lines emphasizing the stereotypical nature of each represented nation, usually acting in an exaggerated manner (some portrayals of which were even held during both World Wars), or speaking about topics relevant to a stereotype, acting primarily as the game's source of humor. The six nations include the UK, France, Germany, the USA, Russia, and Japan.
The UK is represented by "Tommy's Trotters" (named after Tommys), who are clothed in green and wear standard British WW1 helmets. They are based on the British Expeditionary Force and are portrayed as either incredibly posh or hooligan-like, and use British slang with multiple regional accents. France is represented by the "Garlic Grunts" (a reference to the Onion Johnny stereotype of the Frenchman), who are clothed in dark blue and wear Adrian helmets. They are based on the French Army in World War I, have thick French accents, and act in a snooty and insulting manner. Germany is represented by the "Sow-A-Krauts" (a play on the pork garnish sauerkraut as well as the derogatory term for German soldiers; kraut), who wear grey uniforms and pickelhaube helmets. They are based primarily on Imperial Germany, and act in an aggressive manner and, at times, speak a faux-German language with many references to sausage in hogs' names. The United States of America is represented by "Uncle Ham's Hogs" (after Uncle Sam), who wear light blue uniforms and campaign hats, as worn by the American Expeditionary Forces during the Great War. They are mostly voiced in US Southern accents, typically portrayed as rednecks and country music singers.
Russia is represented by "Piggystroika" (after Perestroika), who wear red uniforms and "ushanka" fur caps. Despite the First World War themes of the games, they are portrayed more like the post-war Soviet Union, using communist terms such as "comrade". One of the units also speaks in a drunken manner, another Russian stereotype. The last nation, Japan, is represented by "Sushi Swine" (after sushis), who wear yellow uniforms and tropical visor caps. They are portrayed as having strict codes of honour, while lacking knowledge in a more modern form of warfare, along with names taken from old Feudal Japanese positions, like "Ninja" and "Shogun".
Plot.
A pig-shaped collection of islands located in the South Pigsific Ocean, known as Saustralasia, has been found to be a rich source of swill (depicted like oil being harvested by pumpjacks) that is described as the "lifeblood of pigs", and that who ever controls the swill controls the world, thus leading to all nations engaging in an all-out war to conquer the region. The chosen national squadron battles through each of Saustralasia's five main regions; Hogshead, Saustralia, Trottsville, Bellyopolis and Arstria.
Upon conquering each territory, the squad is shown an educational film (in a satirical vintage fashion) on survival techniques, such as "keeping secrets safe", a video showing off a secret military project. Upon defeating all other nations and laying claim to Saustralasian mainland, the squad engages in a final battle on the Isle of Swill with the nationally ambiguous "Team Lard". Regardless of which chosen nation is victorious, all pig nations celebrate the end of the war, and now, a time of peace. Despite the end of the war, a remaining soldier feels like nothing has been accomplished by the war. The sergeant I.P. Grimly, (Rik Mayall), gives an upbeat message regarding the end of the war, stating that the war was all worth it, for the medal received at the end of it.
Reception.
The PlayStation version of "Hogs of War" received "mixed" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.
The game received high praise for its comedic value, and notably, the voice work by comedian Rik Mayall. Scott Stienberg of "IGN" praised the "goofy sense of humour and endearing antics" of the game, noting it as a strong contributor to the game. Frank Provo of "GameSpot" called the game's comedy as "drop-dead funny" and "sidesplitting", before stating the "all-around nuttiness" of the game lifted it into the same realm as "Bomberman", or "Worms". "GameRevolution" also stated that "many of the death quotes are just hilarious." Greg Orlando of "Next Generation" said, "War may be hell, but we want to load our plates with it."
However, the game received less positive remarks towards the graphics used. "GameRevolution" stated the game's graphics were "only so-so" and the game contained too much "texture warping and simple models." Scott Steinberg of "IGN" also called the graphics "strikingly primitive", and the game's graphics were "dated".
Legacy.
On 13 February 2008, Infogrames announced "Hogs of War 2" for Nintendo DS, Wii, PlayStation 2 and Windows. It was slated for release in April 2009, but is now presumed cancelled. During this period Infogrames was experiencing financial problems and was reincorporated as Atari, SA.
The PC version of the game was re-released by Urbanscan in late September 2014, and later added to GOG.com. The PlayStation version was released as a PS one Classic on the North American PlayStation Network store in 2013. The PC version was later re-released worldwide on Steam on 28 July 2015.


Flag of the Colony of Aden

The Flag of the Colony of Aden was used as the official flag for the British Colony of Aden from 1937 until 18 January 1963 when it was renamed the State of Aden and subsequently used the Flag of the State of Aden under the Federation of South Arabia. However, there is evidence that the flag was used after 1963 in Perim and the Kuria Muria islands.
A navy blue flag with the Union jack in the top left corner, it featured a badge like that of colonial Zanzibar, with a two-masted Arab dhow sailing on turquoise waters, designed by George Kruger-Gray of the Royal Mint.


Roy Earle

Roy Earle is a former compiler of "Crosaire", a cryptic crossword published daily in "The Irish Times".
Roy Earle's sole predecessor was John Derek Crozier, under whose stewardship the crossword became enormously popular, inspiring a daily leaderboard, dedicated blogs and a book. Earle used the pseudonym "Mac An Iarla", which is the Gaelicised form of his surname. His first crossword appeared on Monday 24 October 2011. Earle was selected to take over after Crozier's 68-year run due to his stewardship of a blog, written under the "nom de plume" William Ernest Butler, dedicated to Crosaire solutions. He published the rationale behind each clue to the Crosaire Blog, which has been integrated into the larger "Irish Times" website and is continued by his successor, "Crossheir." His final Crosaire was published on 9 June 2012 after just over seven months on the job. Earle cited a change in personal circumstances as the reason for his retirement. He was educated at Sandymount High School, University College Dublin and Sheffield University. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife Paula and his two sons, David and Brian.


Pac-Man Pinball Advance

Pac-Man Pinball Advance is a pinball video game developed by Hungarian studio Human Soft and published by Namco for the Game Boy Advance. It was released in North America on May 2, 2005. It is part of the "Pac-Man" video game franchise.
The game switches from normal "Pac-Man" gameplay to a pinball-style video game. "Pac-Man Pinball Advance" received negative reviews from critics, who felt that its gameplay was limited.
Gameplay.
The game has two "Pac-Man" styled tables to play on, and both incorporate themes from the "Pac-Man" universe. The ball is Pac-Man, who rolls up into a ball and continues to collect pellets much like they did in earlier notes. Like the other games in the "Pac-Man" series, there are four ghosts which wander the pinball tables after Pac-Man eats a power pellet.
The plot of the game focuses on the kidnapping of all the residents of Pac-Land by the four ghosts from the "Pac-Man" series, Blinky, Pinky, Inky, and Clyde. The plot is secondary to the gameplay of the game though, and mostly exists just as a premise to explain why Pac-Man is playing on a pinball table. The game does not contain a high scores table.
Reception.
"Pac-Man Pinball Advance" received mixed reviews from critics, who thought that there was a lack of content and sub-par graphics; it received a 52% and a 50.40% from review aggregate websites Metacritic and GameRankings respectively. GameSpot's Frank Provo heavily criticized the game for a lackluster graphics engine and its inappropriate physics engine. He called the lack of a high scores table "inexcusable". GameSpy's David Chapman felt that the game managed to capture the feel of the "Pac-Man" series, but ultimately was a bland video game. PALGN's David Low felt that the graphics and physics engine were adequate, but felt that the lack of content and the inclusion of only two pinball tables was the game's weak point.
Cancelled sequel.
A sequel titled "Super Pac-Man Pinball" for the Nintendo DS by Rubik Interactive (now Zen Studios) was scheduled for release in fall 2005. Reasons for cancellation are still not known.


I Love You Dude

I Love You Dude is the second studio album by German electronic music duo Digitalism, released on 15 June 2011 by V2 Records. The song "Forrest Gump" was co-written by Julian Casablancas of The Strokes.
Track listing.
Notes
Personnel.
Credits adapted from "I Love You Dude" liner notes.


Pet McKinney

William Preston McKinney known as "Old Man" Pet McKinney (1846–1926) was an American Old Time fiddler and singer and civil war veteran from Round Peak, North Carolina. During the American Civil War he fought in the 45th Virginia Regiment. Later as an old man he was a well-known musician in the Round Peak. He influenced several musicians in the area, notably Tommy Jarrell whom he taught the tune "Sail Away Ladies". His granddaughter Corinna Bowden was also a musician and a friend of Tommy Jarrell.


Ralph A. Vaughn

Ralph A. Vaughn (1907–2000) was an African-American academic, architect and film set designer. Born in Washington, D.C., he was an assistant professor at Howard University before moving to Los Angeles, California, where he designed many buildings, houses and a synagogue. He was also a film set designer. He was one of the first African-American architects in Los Angeles.
Early life.
Ralph Augustine Vaughn was born on April 24, 1907, in Washington, D.C. His father, Roscoe I. Vaughn, was a teacher and architect in Washington, D.C. He had three siblings.
Vaughn was educated at the Armstrong Technical High School, where his father taught, graduating in 1925. He attended Howard University, a historically black college, but took a year off and transferred to the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in architecture in 1932. He was in the same classes as William Pereira and Charles Luckman, both of whom became prominent architects. He founded the Pi Psi chapter of Omega Psi Phi, an African-American fraternity. He attended graduate school at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in the summer of 1932.
Career.
Vaughn worked as a draughtsman for Albert Cassell, another African-American architect who designed buildings on the campus of Howard University. He then worked as a draughtsman for the United States Department of Agriculture Resettlement Administration for two years. He also worked as a consultant for Hilyard Robinson.
He became a tenured assistant professor in 1935. Meanwhile, he was hired by Paul R. Williams, another African-American architect, as a chief craftsman for the Langston Terrace Dwellings.
He moved to Los Angeles in 1937 to work full-time for Williams. During that time, he helped design the Saks Fifth Avenue store and the MCA Inc. headquarters in Beverly Hills. He also helped design the private residences of actors Bert Lahr, Tyrone Power and Bill Robinson. He was made redundant four years later, in 1941, as architectural commissions came to a standstill when the United States joined the war effort.
He worked as a set designer for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer alongside Cedric Gibbons from 1941 to 1945. For example, he helped design the set of "Kismet", a 1944 film starring Marlene Dietrich. He also helped design the sets of "A Guy Named Joe" in 1943, "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo" in 1944, "The Last Time I Saw Paris" in 1954.
In 1945, Vaughn started an architectural firm with John C. Lindsey. They designed private residences in Los Angeles, Sherman Oaks and Catalina Island.
With Heth Wharton (1892–1958), he designed the North Hollywood Manor in North Hollywood and the Chase Knolls Apartments in Sherman Oaks in 1950. The latter is listed as a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument. A year later, in 1951, they designed Lincoln Place Apartment Homes in Venice, Los Angeles, a residential complex which includes fifty-two buildings. It has been described as one of his "best-known extant projects."
Vaughn was appointed to the Los Angeles Building and Safety Commission in 1953. He was a member of the Archaeological Institute of America, the National Society of Interior Decorators, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Smithsonian Institution. He was a founding member of the Society of American Registered Architects. After designing the new building for Temple Beth Am, a Conservative synagogue, in 1959, he received an award from them.
Vaughn designed the Schwab's Pharmacy on Sunset Boulevard and the buildings of the San Marcos Golf Club in San Marcos, California. He restored the Watts Towers in the later 1970s.
Personal life and death.
Vaughn married Elizabeth Estelle Christmas Fry in 1935. She worked as a librarian. They had a son, Ronald Fry Vaughn.
Vaughn retired in Stockton, California, in 1998. He died two years later, on October 21, 2000.


Leah Rhodes

Leah Rhodes (July 21, 1902, Port Arthur, Texas – October 17, 1986) was an American costume designer.
Rhodes was born Leah Margaret Montgomery in Port Arthur, Texas. As a young woman, Rhodes worked as a sign painted and window designer in Port Arthur and San Antonio. In 1921, she married auto mechanic Russel Spurgeon Rhodes. Five years later the couple moved to the San Fernando Valley where Russel managed a car dealership.
After moving to California, Rhodes began working as a buyer and shopper for Warner Brothers. Eventually, she became Orry-Kelly's chief assistant. When Orry-Kelly enlisted in the army, Rhodes took over Bette Davis's wardrobe for "Old Acquaintances".
Rhodes gained more attention after working on "The Big Sleep" in 1946. This led to films like "Key Largo" (1948), "Adventures of Don Juan" (1949) (for which she won the Academy Award for Best Costume Design), "White Heat" (1949) and "Strangers on a Train" (1951). Her last film was the Howard Hawks Western "Rio Lobo", in 1970.


Ray Greer

Ray Greer is a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games.
Career.
By 1982 George MacDonald and Steve Peterson opened up an office for their company Hero Games and asked player Ray Greer to join them as a partner and to handle marketing and sales. By 1986, Greer moved first to Steve Jackson Games and then to Mark Williams' special effects company. After Peterson founded the company Hero Software and gathered together a team to create a "Champions" computer game, Greer joined them as well, but the project was never completed. Greer was involved, with Steve Peterson and Bruce Harlick, in the Hero Games partnership with R. Talsorian Games that began in 1996. Mike Pondsmith of R. Talsorian, and Hero Games owners Peterson and Greer built conversion rules to connect up Interlock and Hero Games, resulting in the Fuzion system. The rights to Fuzion are jointly held by Pondsmith, Peterson, and Greer.


T. Muthuraj

T. MuthuRaj (born 29 July 1969 in Coimbatore, India) is an Indian film production designer. He entered the film industry after completing his B.Sc. degree in fine arts as first assistant to Sabu Cyril after which he has served as production designer in critically acclaimed and celebrated films in major Indian languages. His big break came in the 1997 Malayalam film "Guru" starring Mohanlal and Suresh Gopi, directed by Rajiv Anchal, for which he received the Kerala State Film Award for Best Art Director. Muthuraj has since worked in such path breaking hits as "Arputha Theevu", "Angaditheru", "Pazhasi Raja", "Irumbukottai Murattu Singham" and "Avan Ivan". He has contributed to the success of 43 feature films and 185 commercials. He has won many film awards for best art direction and for his creative works. His work in "Nanban" (2012) directed by Shankar, had won huge appreciation from all quarters.
He is the art director of the Asia's Biggest film 2.o which is directed by Shankar
Biography.
MuthuRaj was born in Coimbatore on 29 July 1969. He graduated from the Government College of Fine Arts, Chennai in 1991. He was the first assistant of Sabu Cyril art director.


Mary Alice Haney

Mary Alice Haney is an American fashion designer.
Early life.
Mary Alice Haney grew up in Chattanooga, Tennessee, attended Parsons School of Design in Paris while working with Harper’s Bazaar, and earned an MFA in film studies from the American Film Institute. She worked alongside legendary editor Polly Allen Mellen at Allure, where her first shoot was for Angelina Jolie’s first cover. As West Coast fashion editor for GQ and Marie Claire, she collaborated with photographers Mario Testino, Regan Cameron, Mark Seliger and Norman Jean Roy.
HANEY.
In 2013 Mary Alice launched HANEY, based in downtown Los Angeles, to bring a Hollywood sensibility to every woman. Her signature style is a sophisticated sexiness that exudes luxury and confidence, creating dresses that are red carpet–glamorous but still easy and relaxed. Celebrity clientele include Jennifer Lawrence, Emily Ratajkowski, Chrissy Teigen, Kate Hudson. Taylor Swift wore a HANEY navy blue Gia dress at the 2016 GLAAD Awards.


Hum Award for Best Television Sensation Female

The Hum Award for Best Television Sensation Female is one of the Hum Awards of Merit presented annually by the Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel (HTNEC). It is given to an actress who has delivered an outstanding debut performance while working within the television industry. At the 1st Hum Awards (for 2012), award was given to Suhaee Abro for her role in "Sanjha".The nominations are solely made by Hum membership.
Since its inception, the award has been given to three actresses, as of 2018 year ceremony, Hania Amir is the most recent winner of this award.
Category.
As of 1st ceremony Hum honored a debut Male actor for giving his spectacular performance in drama release in 2012, This category officially termed as "Best Television Sensation" or unofficially known as "Best Debut Female".
List of winners.
This category has no nominations since it is given to only one actor, who has delivered outstanding debut performance. However nominations can be made but it is not shown during nomination announcement and winner is only revealed during the ceremony.


The Deadly Tower of Monsters

The Deadly Tower of Monsters is a science fiction top-down shooter video game developed by ACE Team and published by Atlus USA, which released for Microsoft Windows and PlayStation 4 on 19 January 2016.
Gameplay.
"The Deadly Tower of Monsters" is a top-down shooter with twin-stick controls and melee combat elements. A jetpack can be used to reach high areas.
Plot.
"The Deadly Tower of Monsters" follows three actors in the movie of the same name. It is inspired by 1950's science fiction movies.
The game's framing device is that of an early 1970s B-movie "The Deadly Tower of Monsters" recently released on DVD, with the director's commentary of its in-universe director Dan Smith serving as a combination of tutorial and meta-commentary on the game, providing an explanation as to why many default elements of shooters would be in what is ostensibly a film (the player being required to break boxes to obtain items, for example, is taken as the lead actor ad-libbing on Smith's advice to make sure every moment was somewhat exciting). The film itself is a space opera in which astronaut Dick Starspeed (played in-universe by actor Jonathan Digby) has been shot down on an alien planet ruled by a tyrannical emperor.
Development.
"The Deadly Tower of Monsters" was announced on 12 June 2015. A trailer was released on 2 December 2015. The game was released on 19 January 2016.
Reception.
"The Deadly Tower of Monsters" received mostly positive reviews. The game has a score of 73/100 on Metacritic. "Destructoid" awarded it a score of 8 out of 10, saying ""The Deadly Tower of Monsters" is a fleeting experience, but one that no B-movie fan should go without." PlayStation LifeStyle awarded it 7.5 out of 10, saying "Just like the movies it tries to emulate, the game is so bad with its special effects, dialogue, and set-pieces that it's rather good." "Hardcore Gamer" awarded it a 4 out of 5 saying "Minor issues aside, "The Deadly Tower of Monsters" is a pleasant surprise indeed and a particularly impressive budget action game showcasing a lot of creativity."


3-D Ultra NASCAR Pinball

3-D Ultra NASCAR Pinball is video game released in 1998 for Windows and Macintosh, and is the fourth game in "3-D Ultra Pinball" video game series. It was also released under the title "3-D Ultra Pinball: Turbo Racing". The game received the Everyone rating from the Entertainment Software Rating Board. The game uses an improved graphics engine from the previous 3-D Ultra Pinball titles, which takes advantage of greater color depth and resolution up to 800x600 pixels. On the game's CD, the publishers have added texts and videos about NASCAR races.
Gameplay.
Up to four players play a virtual pinball simulation with a NASCAR theme.
Players can play a full season of races as Dale Earnhardt, Bobby Labonte, Terry Labonte or Bill Elliott.
Play begins with a mini game in which the player can improve their car for the race. This is followed by a qualifying lap which determines the players starting position in the race. When the race begins, players have up to 5 balls or until a timer ends to finish the race. Missing too many targets will force the player to play a pit stop mini game, which can repair their vehicle for the rest of the race. The player finishing position in each race is tracked across an entire NASCAR season.
Reception.
Game reviews were generally positive with the average rating over 60%.
Reviews.
"3-D Ultra NASCAR Pinball" is a good, solidly-constructed game that is fun to play. - GameZilla
5 out of 10. - HappyPuppy
An enjoyable experience. 70% - GameOver Game Reviews


Hajvery University

The Hajvery University (HU) () is a private university located in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
Overview.
Hajvery University is chartered by Government of the Punjab. The Higher Education Commission (Pakistan) recognizes the university as a "category W" institution. It is named after Muslim Sufi Ali Hujwiri aka Data ganj Bakhsh. It has a main campus in the Industrial Area of Gulberg III, Lahore; a second campus (called the Euro Campus) near Gulburg-III, Lahore; a third campus in Sheikhupura (SKP Campus); a fourth campus under construction in Multan and a fifth campus planned for Dubai, UAE. The university has six constituent schools, each focused on a specific field of study: business; commerce and banking; engineering and computer science; fashion design; humanities and social sciences and pharmacy. The library at the main campus provides support for the courses offered with books, videos, journals and other reference sources.


Pendleton Vandiver

James Pendleton Vandiver (1869–1932) was a Kentucky fiddler, born there shortly after the American Civil War. He was uncle to bluegrass musician Bill Monroe, who immortalized him in a song, "Uncle Pen".
Monroe used to hear his uncle playing fiddle on the hilltop where he lived, while Monroe put away his mules at night. He later said that Vandiver was "the fellow that I learned how to play from." Vandiver played fiddle at local square dances and social events, and his nephew backed him up, playing mandolin. Monroe's parents had both died by the time he was 16, and he lived part of the time with his Uncle Pen, in his two-room hilltop house in Rosine, Kentucky. Vandiver had been crippled earlier, and he made some money with his music. Bill Monroe's biographer, Richard D. Smith writes, "Pen gave Bill more: a repertoire of tunes that sank into Bill's aurally trained memory and a sense of rhythm that seeped into his bones. Sometimes Bill played guitar behind his uncle, sometimes the mandolin."
On September 13, 1973, a monument in honor of Uncle Pen was unveiled by Monroe at the Rosine Cemetery. Another way he honored Penn's memory was to play the part of "Uncle Penn" in Ricky Skaggs' Country Boy music video.


Harlette

Harlette De Falaise (born 17 July 1975) is an Australian and British designer, media personality and entrepreneur, best known for her work in Britain and Saudi Arabia.
Early life.
Harlette was born to British parents in Sydney, and grew up in the small beach community of Little Manly.
Career.
Harlette was awarded a scholarship for highest academic achievement and started university at age 16. She graduated from Bond University with an MBA and a Bachelor of Information Technology.
At the age of 30, she moved to London, where she gained contract roles at investment banks including Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley.
Fashion career.
In 2005, Harlette founded the company Harlette Luxury Lingerie, to provide a one of a kind luxury lingerie concierge service, after a chance meeting at the Kensington chamber of commerce function with London Fashion Forum representative David Jones.
Harlette was accepted in early 2006 to take one of the 20 places given each year to be mentored by the London Fashion Forum program. Soon, she was interviewed by the BBC during London Fashion Week for a lingerie story. Wanting to research the market, she gained luxury retail roles including Selfridges and Louis Vuitton in Oslo, Norway in 2006 and 2007.
She gained widespread media attention in 2009 when she was the first woman invited to Saudi Arabia to run a 10-day master class on the Art of Selling Lingerie for 26 Saudi women. This was created to support the Reem Asaad lingerie KSA campaign started on Facebook in 2008 to enable women to work in lingerie stores. On 6 June 2011, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia decreed that women should work in lingerie stores instead of men. Until this time only men had been allowed to work in lingerie stores. No formal lingerie sales or fitting training were available for measuring women for bras, no fitting rooms existed, and there were high censorship levels of information in the kingdom in relation to lingerie companies' websites, due to modesty laws.
2009 her 1st photoshoot Set Sail with Harlette went worldwide where a lingerie catwalk was held aboard the James Craig Tallship in Sydney
In 2010 Harlette made her debut in Paris at the Salon International de la Lingerie show with 3 pieces on the catwalk including a peacock feather skirt, luxury floor length wraps with French lace lingerie sets and a black velvet catsuit
Innovation Patent.
In 2010 news broke of Harlette's patent, which had been awarded on 14 July 2009, for the world's first diamond and platinum garters. Her lingerie collection debuted on the catwalk in Paris at Salon International de la Lingerie, and the collection was invited to showcase at an Oscars style lounge in 2010.
In August 2010, "The Economic Times" listed her company as the 5th most unique company to provide services globally, just below the black label American Express card.
Harlette's brand received two nominations for the 2011 and 2012 UK Lingerie Awards, and was nominated as a finalist for the NSW Premier Export Awards 2011 in Australia.
Luxury Jewels.
In 2012 Harlette creates the worlds 1st South Sea Pearl lingerie set and creates the quote "Its the little irritations that create the pearls and its the pressure that creates the diamonds"
Swimwear.
In the summer of 2013 Harlette debuted in Paris Mode City her first swim collection, and her unique one-piece design was picked for the Best of Show parade.
2015 the 1st Harlette catwalk on the island of Curaçao in the Caribbean International Swim Week and for the pilot show written by Harlette IT Girl Lingerie format presented at MIP Cannes
2016 the 2nd Harlette catwalk on the island of Curaçao in the Caribbean for International Swim Week featured a bikini 100% made in France in 6 days sewn, flown, photoshoot by the beach to be on the catwalk that was live streamed in just 6 days.
Wearable Technology in Fashion.
2019 Harlette donates sensor tech to Copenhagen Suborbital for Christmas as part of her research into wearable sensor technology a worlds 1st
Media.
In 2009 Harlette was asked by the Swedish newspaper "Expressen" to write a piece on a term she created, "Braconomics," and her insights on the Saudi Lingerie campaign. After leaving Saudi Arabia to showcase some of the collection at Wimbledon Fashion Week in 2009, Harlette was also interviewed by Radio New Zealand, "New Straits Times", "The Star" (Malaysia), and "Gold Coast Bulletin" on the Saudi Arabia lingerie campaign.
The "Set Sail with Harlette" collection has been featured in the "Wall St Journal", "Hindustan Times", "La Stampa", Bollywood blogs, CNN, and NDTV, featuring Miss World Australia 2008 first runner-up Sonia Lipski.
Images of Harlette's Secret Diary Collection were featured in "The Sun", "Buzz", "The Mirror", "The Daily Mail", "Metro", and "New York Post", and went to air on ITV2, Showtime and GEM.
The patented diamond suspenders and collection at the Oscars Style Lounge 2010, worn by Miss USA 2004, Shandi Finnessey, were featured in Luxist.
Harlette's designs have been seen in "Maxim" UK, worn by Hollie Dowding, Naomi Young, and Miss London 2011, Rissikat Bade, in November 2011.
Images of Melissa Reeves, Miss Galaxy England 2011, wearing Harlette's designs for her 2012 calendar, appeared in "Maxim" UK in December 2011.
Images of Carly Everett, NSW finalist for Miss Universe Australia 2012, wearing Harlette's designs, appeared in a "Daily Telegraph" article 16 April 2012.
Harlette was cited in the 2012 book "Saudi Arabia on the Edge: The Uncertain Future of an American Ally", by Thomas Lippman, describing the first ever 10-day lingerie course run in Saudi Arabia.
Film and television costumes.
In 2010, Billie Piper and award-winning costume director Edward K Gibbon chose the Harlette collection to be part of the fourth and final series of "Secret Diary of a Call Girl" by Tiger Aspect.
In 2011, the Harlette collection was seen on Billie Piper as Belle in episodes 2, 3, 4 and 5, with couture pieces appearing in episodes 6 and 7 on ITV and Showtime.
Pieces of the collection also appeared in episode 1 of "Britain's Next Big Thing" by Maverick Television, which aired on the BBC2 in UK and ABC in Australia.
In 2012, pieces of the Harlette collection were selected by stylist Simon Gensowski for "V" magazine's Valentine's Day film, directed by Justin Wu and shot in Paris.
In 2015, Harlette presented a preview of the pilot TV show "IT Girl Lingerie", filmed on the Caribbean island of Curaçao for MIP Com Cannes, France.
Literature.
Harlette is currently working on her debut series of nano novels Code of Conduct, Graphene, Back of the Plane and her novelty book called Red Book Red Book


Adam Eckfeldt

John Adam Eckfeldt (June 15, 1769 – February 6, 1852) was a worker and official in the early days of the United States Mint. A lifelong Philadelphian, Eckfeldt served as the second chief coiner of the Mint, from 1814 until 1839.
Eckfeldt's father owned a large smithy and involved himself in early attempts at American coinage. Adam Eckfeldt built early presses for the Mint, engraved some of its early dies, and was responsible for the designs of early American copper coinage, as well as the 1792 half disme which some authorities consider the first United States coin. He was appointed assistant coiner of the Mint in 1796, and became chief coiner on his predecessor's death in 1814.
Eckfeldt served a quarter century as chief coiner, during which time the Philadelphia Mint moved to new premises. As he set aside unusual coins brought in as bullion, he started the Mint's coin cabinet, which evolved into the National Numismatic Collection. Even after his 1839 retirement, Eckfeldt continued to perform the duties of chief coiner; his death in 1852 caused his replacement, Franklin Peale, to seek an assistant.
Early life.
John Adam Eckfeldt was born in Philadelphia on June 15, 1769, the son of John Jacob Eckfeldt, a large-scale manufacturer of edge-tools and implements. At the time, it was common for those of German descent to bear the first name "John" but be referred to by middle name. The elder Eckfeldt and his wife Maria Magdalena had immigrated from Nuremberg, Bavaria, around 1764. John Jacob Eckfeldt, in his large smithy, made dies for the 1783 coinage under the Articles of Confederation authorized by Philadelphia financier Robert Morris. Adam was his father's apprentice, and became skilled in iron work and machinery.
Coin designer and Mint official.
During Eckfeldt's childhood, the thirteen British colonies along the Atlantic coast of what is now the United States revolted, and so the United States of America secured its independence. After the United States Constitution was ratified, Congress and many government offices came to be housed in Philadelphia, including the newborn Mint of the United States. Adam Eckfeldt built the first screw press for the new facility in 1792, the same year that the Mint Act of 1792 was passed by Congress authorizing a mint, and cut the obverse die for the experimental Birch cent of that year. He also built other machinery for the Mint, and helped superintend the early coining.
In 1792, the Mint acquired three balances from Eckfeldt, who also lent the Mint his lathe (used for turning dies). Eckfeldt is believed to have made the die from which the 1792 half disme, considered by some the first official U.S. coin, was struck—in 1829, a visitor to the Mint met Eckfeldt and later described him as "an artist [who] made the first die used in it". Other later accounts document Eckfeldt's role in this striking: an 1863 auction sold a half disme supposedly given by Eckfeldt to demonstrate his work. Eckfeldt is given as the source for the tradition that the half dismes were struck at the request of President George Washington to be used as presents. Eckfeldt operated his screw press to strike these roughly 1,500 pieces on July 13, 1792. Since the first Philadelphia Mint was still under construction at the time, these coins were produced in the cellar of John Harper, saw maker, at Sixth and Cherry Streets in Philadelphia. In his annual message to Congress late that year, Washington noted the ongoing construction of a mint building and stated: "There has also been a small beginning in the coinage of half dismes, the want of small coins in circulation calling the first attention to them."
Eckfeldt also produced a pattern disme, of which only a few were struck. When the Mint's first cents (produced in 1793) were found to be excessively crude and attracted public ridicule, Eckfeldt was called upon to design replacements. He placed a wreath on the back of the cent instead of the original chain, and placed a trefoil under Liberty's head on the obverse. He also engraved the first half cent dies later the same year.
Eckfeldt continued to work intermittently for the Philadelphia Mint; in 1793, he built a device for automatically feeding planchets into the die collar and ejecting the struck coins, and the mint's records reveal that he did piecework there in July 1795. By October 1795 he was on the mint's payroll, as a die forger and turner, at a salary of $500 per year. On January 1, 1796, Mint Director Elias Boudinot appointed him as assistant coiner, with the consent of President Washington. His duties in that capacity were broad.
In 1805, at Boudinot's request, Eckfeldt eliminated a security problem for the Mint by renting two houses adjacent to its operations, allowing it to shut an internal alley to public access. The following year, new Mint Director Robert Patterson requested a pay increase of $200 for Eckfeldt, writing to President Thomas Jefferson that Eckfeldt had "the management of the whole coining department". When the dies used proved too brittle and cracked easily, Eckfeldt came up with the idea of spraying water on the face of the die so the steel would temper evenly.
As a boy, inventor George Escol Sellers knew Eckfeldt; as Sellers's father was partner in a firm which sold machinery to the Mint Bureau, Eckfeldt often dined at his house. In the final years both of the 19th century and of Sellers's life, he published his memoirs, including memories of the first Philadelphia Mint. He recalled in 1812 peering through a window to see cents coined, and Eckfeldt coming into the room to stop the work at the end of the day. Seeing the young Sellers, he had the boy come in, had him place a cent planchet on the press, and struck it for him. Sellers nearly dropped it because it was so hot, and Eckfeldt reminded him it had been cold when placed in the press. Eckfeldt bade him keep the coin until he learned why the cent had become hot, and then he could spend it on candy.
Chief coiner.
On the death of the first chief coiner, Henry Voigt, in early 1814, Eckfeldt was appointed by President James Madison as successor. He served in that capacity for a quarter century. During his tenure, he continued to improve the machinery at the Philadelphia Mint.
Eckfeldt set aside "master coins"—coins struck with extra care using new dies and polished planchets. He also put aside interesting foreign coins sent to the mint as bullion. These pieces became the Mint's Cabinet, or coin collection. To fill gaps in this collection, he used old dies to strike postdated coins. Specialists have discovered that some dies he chose for this purpose had not been used together to strike coins for commerce, thus creating unique specimens. Among the pieces acquired for the Mint was a Brasher doubloon, of which only six are known today. Eckfeldt often spent from his own funds to acquire the coins for the Mint. The collection eventually evolved into the Smithsonian Institution's National Numismatic Collection.
In 1828, Eckfeldt again became involved in the real estate transactions to expand operations at the Philadelphia Mint. For $1,000, he purchased one of the lots he had rented in 1805. After the mint moved to new premises in the 1830s, Eckfeldt discovered that the lot he had purchased had a cloud, or irregularity, on its title; he was able to clear it and sold it in 1837 for the same sum for which he had bought it. The new mint building was at Juniper and Chestnut Streets, only six blocks from Eckfeldt's home at Juniper and Vine.
Sellers, in his memoirs, described Eckfeldt as "a man of staunch integrity, a cautious, careful, orderly and painstaking man; he was not one of the dashing, pushing, inventive mechanics, though under his care many apparently slight improvements were gradually adopted that in the aggregate amounted to a great deal in the economy of working. He was by no means deficient in inventive ability." Nevertheless, as Eckfeldt aged in the service of the Mint in the late 1820s and into the 1830s, he was reluctant to adopt the innovations being proposed by his fellow Mint officer, Melter and Refiner Franklin Peale. Peale, like Eckfeldt of a mechanical bent, had many suggestions for improvements to the coinage machinery, some of which Eckfeldt adopted. Eckfeldt stated to Sellers, "If Mr. Peale had full swing he would turn everything upside down". According to Sellers, "the giving up of almost life-long pets that had been Mr. Eckfeldt's constant care would naturally go hard, and still harder coming from another department, but as improvements gradually crept in and proved their efficiency Mr. Eckfeldt gave full credit where it belonged, and I remember him becoming quite enthusiastic over the labor saving [in the use of the Contamin portrait lathe] in duplicating working dies".
In 1833, Peale was sent on a tour of European mints and came home with ideas for new machines and innovations, including the introduction of steam power, used at Britain's Royal Mint since 1810 on equipment purchased from the firm of Boulton & Watt. Although Eckfeldt would have preferred to apply steam to the existing coin presses, a new one was built for steam power, and commemorative medals were the first pieces struck by steam at the Philadelphia Mint, in early 1836.
In 1839, Eckfeldt retired after 25 years as chief coiner and over forty as a Mint employee. His fellow officers at the Mint presented him with a gold medal, with silver and bronze duplicates also struck. The obverse was designed by Philadelphia engraver Moritz Fuerst, who sometimes did work for the Mint; the reverse may be by Fuerst or by Peale. Eckfeldt recommended Peale as his successor, and Peale was appointed. Nevertheless, Eckfeldt continued to perform the functions of chief coiner without pay until a few days before his death on February 6, 1852. After Eckfeldt's death, Peale wrote what Taxay terms a "frantic letter" to Mint Director George N. Eckert, seeking the appointment of an assistant. Peale had spent the freed-up time designing and selling medals for private gain.
Private and family life.
Eckfeldt married twice. No children were born of his brief first marriage in 1792 to Maria Hahn, which ended with her death; his second marriage to Margaretta Bausch produced six children. Among them were his daughter Susanna, who married William Ewing DuBois, first curator of the Mint's coin collection. Jacob Reese Eckfeldt, one of Adam's sons, was for forty years (1832–1872) Assayer of the United States Mint. Jacob's son Jacob Branch Eckfeldt exceeded both forebears in time of service, working at the Mint for 64 years, from 1865 to 1929.
Adam Eckfeldt had a taste for horticulture and owned rural property in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, which was inherited by his two sons after his death. He was the first president of the Good Will Fire Company, holding that office for nearly all of his adult life, and designed a system of levers for use in fire engines. A member of Concordia Lodge No. 67 of the Masonic Order from 1795 to 1806, he served as lodge master in 1803; a Chinese export porcelain punch bowl with his name and Masonic symbols survives in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. A biographical sketch of Eckfeldt, published in 1897, describes him:


Obsession (video game)

Obsession is a pinball video game developed and originally published by Unique Development Sweden for the Atari STe on December 2, 1994. It is the first video game to be created by UDS and one of the last official releases for the Atari ST platform after being discontinued in 1993 by Atari Corporation. In the game, players can choose between any of the four available playfields, both of which have their own thematic and main objectives in order to obtain the highest score possible.
"Obsession" served as the debut title of Unique Development Sweden, a development company consisting of Atari ST demosceners, composers and artists founded in 1992 by Peter Zetterberg and Michael Brunnström, both of which began writing games for the Atari STe and found the idea of earning money from their hobby as appealing. The original idea was to develop a shareware game inspired by "Pinball Dreams" for the STe at the level of an earlier release by Zetterberg before the project was expanded upon, as UDS settled with developing a pinball project with a "no compromise" approach due to the lack of quality pinball titles on the ST but its scope grew too much during development and the team struggled to get the title working and ship it on schedule.
"Obsession" was met with acclaim from critics when it was first released on the Atari STe, garnering praise for pushing limits of the STe hardware, its audiovisual presentation, controls and gameplay but criticized for various design aspects and sold very few copies. The game was later ported to the Amiga on June 1, 1995, a conversion commended by reviewers but received criticism for certain aspects compared to the STe original while others drew comparison with both the "Pinball" series by Digital Illusions and 21st Century Entertainment, as well as "Dragon's Fury". Ports for the Amiga 1200, Atari Falcon, PC and Atari Jaguar were under development but never released, however the PC version evolved into a follow-up with new tables and features titled "Absolute Pinball" (1996).
Gameplay.
"Obsession" is an arcade-style pinball game for one or eight players reminiscent of the "Pinball" game series by Digital Illusions and 21st Century Entertainment, featuring four types of pinball tables and each one has their own main objectives, gameplay mechanics and thematic. The player can set a number of settings in the options menu or during gameplay by pressing key commands on the computer.
"Aquatic Adventure", a table included in the April 1994 covermount of "ST Review" magazine, is oriented around Bobby Bubble searching for a treasure using a map stolen from Captain Notpolite. "X-ile Zone" is focused on a assassination mission against an enemy tribe leader taking place in a post-nuclear war setting. "Balls 'n Bats" is a baseball-style table where players attempt to win a world series. "Desert Run" is based on racing, where players start from Paris and reach Dakar. Each table has their respective letters that must be lit to start a high-scoring event.
Development.
"Obsession" was first project to be developed by Unique Development Sweden (now Unique Development Studios), a Swedish video game developer consisting of Atari ST demosceners, composers and artists founded in 1992 by Peter Zetterberg and Michael Brunnström, both of which began writing games for the STe and found the idea of earning money from their hobby as appealing. Its development was helmed by a crew of approximately seven to eight members with Zetterberg as both project manager and designer along with Magnus Zetterburg. Brunnström also served as programmer alongside Kalle Lundqvist, Hans Härröd and Tord Jansson, who acted as sound programmer and wrote the replay routines. Jimmy Gustafsson was responsible for the table artwork, while the soundtrack was composed by Per Almered. The team recounted its creation process and history through various publications.
The team stated that the original idea behind "Obsession" was to develop a simple shareware pinball game inspired by "Pinball Dreams" for the STe at the level of an earlier release by Zetterberg titled "Smash Hit", starting early design work before the project was expanded upon. Jansson was brough to the team due to his proprietary sound driver called "Octalyser" but also suggested with bringing Almered to compose music and Härröd to use his routines for border breaking and raster colors. Gustafsson was later brought in after the staff realized they needed improved visuals. Because of the lack of quality pinball games on the ST besides "Starball", the team settled with developing a pinball project with a "no compromise" approach for the STe as both Zetterberg and Brunnström had previously discussed creating a game that made use of the hardware features in the STe computer, while Jansson stated they did not wanted to make a "bad copy" of "Pinball Dreams".
Gustafsson drew each table using four layers instead of using one layer to save time and avoid redesigning tables when minor changes were required. Almered composed the music under general guidelines provided by Zetterberg using the Octalyser sound driver to set the mood for each table, while sampling instruments from sample CDs and multiple synthesizers. Zetterberg told Almered that he wanted to reflect a post-war scenario when composing music for the "X-ile Zone" table. Lundqvist coded the ball routine but proved difficult and took a year for him to program the routine. Despite receiving governmental startup support, however, Jansson stated that the scope of "Obsession" had grown too much during development and the team struggled to get the game working and ship it in time.
Release.
"Obsession" was first showcased in a playable state at the 1994 Bristol Atari Show and initially slated for a October 1994 launch. The game was first released by Unique Development Sweden for the Amiga STe on December 2, 1994. It was also distributed in France by Frontier Software. The title was later ported to the Amiga by UDS and released on June 1, 1995. A conversion for the Amiga 1200 featuring a new table and a multiball mechanic was planned but never released. According to Tord Jansson in a 2018 interview, work on Atari Falcon and PC port began after the release of the Amiga version but the latter version evolved into a new project with new tables and features titled "Absolute Pinball", while the rights to the unreleased Falcon version were sold to a French company. Jansson also stated that Atari Corporation gave the team an Atari Jaguar development kit which he and Ulrik Lindahl, another programmer at Unique Development Sweden spent time with it and created a conversion of "Obsession" with only three out of the four tables to the Jaguar in a few days except the music and sound effects. However, UDS decided not to support the system due to its low sales and sent back the development kit to Atari Corp.
Reception.
"Obsession" garnered critical acclaim from reviewers when it was released on the Atari STe. "ST Review"s Tina Hackett praised the visual presentation of each table for pushing the limits of the STe hardware, sound, controls and addictive gameplay but criticized the lack of a multiball system and a double set of flippers on the tables. German magazine "Atari Inside" commended Unique Development Sweden for creating a "great" pinball simulator, praising the ball and table physics as well as the overall audiovisual presentation, stating that ""Obsession" offers everything a game freak could wish for." "ST Format"s Trenton Webb also commended Unique Development for making use of the STe hardware, praising the physics, graphics, sound, speed and accessibility, regarding it as one of the best games for the computer alongside "Zero-5" but criticized the "Ball & Bats" table for being dull and relying heavily on its main gimmick. "STart Micro"s Arnaud Pignard gave positive remarks to the colorful graphics, playability and soundtrack as well. However, according to Tord Jansson, very few copies were sold due to its late release on the STe.
"Obsession" was also met with mostly positive critical reception when it was ported to the Amiga but many drew comparison with the "Pinball" game series by Digital Illusions and "Dragon's Fury". "Amiga Power"s Jonathan Nash commended the variety of tables but criticized the "Exile Zone" table in particular for its overall design and ball physics in the Amiga conversion. "Amiga Format"s Stephen Bradley stated that the Amiga version was not as slick as the "Pinball" games by Digital Illusions and criticized the occasionally sluggish playability but ultimately regarded it as a fine game, praising the audiovisual presentation as well as the "Desert Run" and "Ball 'n' Bats" tables for being addictive. "Amiga Action"s Steve McNally and Paul Roundell drew comparison with Digital Illusions "Pinball" releases but nevertheless stated that ""Obsession" is a fine example of what the Amiga is capable of", giving positive remarks to the graphics, sound, playability and difficulty.
Both "Amiga Concept"s Sébastian Mézière and "Amiga Dream"s Yann Sera commended the Amiga version of "Obsession" for its animated visuals, audio design, longevity and difficulty. When reviewing the Amiga version for "Amiga Computing" and comparing it to Digital Illusions "Pinball" titles, Hackett stated that the port was let down by the lack of a multiball mechanic and a double set of flippers, regarding the music to be not as good as the STe original but gave positive comments to the graphical presentation for being impressive, ball physics and multiplayer.


Lou Romano

Lou Romano (born April 15, 1972) is an American animator and voice actor. He did design work on "Monsters, Inc." and "The Incredibles", and he provided the voices of Bernie Kropp in "The Incredibles", Snot Rod in "Cars" and Alfredo Linguini in "Ratatouille".
Romano had an interest in drawing and painting at an early age and studied theater arts, performing in plays throughout junior high and high school. He studied acting at the San Diego School of Creative and Performing Arts (SCPA). After graduating in 1990 he studied animation at the California Institute of the Arts. He then completed workshops at The Groundlings in Los Angeles. He later went on to work as an art director and designer for animated projects, such as "The Powerpuff Girls" and "The Iron Giant".
In 2000, Romano joined Pixar as the production designer of "The Incredibles", for which he won an Annie Award in 2005. His artwork has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art and the Gallery at The Metropolitan Opera in New York City and has been published on the cover of "The New Yorker". In 2009, Romano left Pixar to work at Laika in Portland, Oregon. Lou and his wife reside in the Bay Area.


David Astle

David Astle (born 9 November 1961) is an Australian TV personality and radio host and writer of non-fiction, fiction and plays. He also co-hosted the SBS Television (SBS) show "Letters and Numbers", as the dictionary expert, in company with Richard Morecroft and Lily Serna.
Astle's cryptic crosswords, appearing under the name "DA" in "The Age" and "The Sydney Morning Herald" (for which he also writes the "Wordplay" section), have developed a large following which includes musician Holly Throsby and actor Geoffrey Rush. Rush called him "the Sergeant Pepper of cryptic crosswords". In 2011, his portrait called "DA" painted by artist Amanda Marburg, was shortlisted for the Archibald Prize.
Astle's 2013 book "Cluetopia: The story of 100 years of the crossword" celebrates the centenary of the crossword with a chapter for each year. He won third prize in The Age Short Story Award in 1990 and his first novel, "Marzipan Plan", was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award. In 2001 he won the James Joyce Suspended Sentence Award for short fiction. His play "Cowboy Humour" was part of the Short and Sweet play festival in 2008, which has previously featured Astle's plays including "The Gentleman Had An Axe" in 2007 and "The Mercy Kitchen".
Astle has taught journalism at RMIT University and in 2004 was awarded a DSC Teaching Award for best sessional teacher. In 2013, he helped create the word "phub" (a portmanteau of phone and snub), for when someone is ignored in favour of a mobile phone).
From 2015 he was a fill-in host on 774 ABC Melbourne as well as a regular word expert on ABC TV's "News Breakfast". In 2019 he began hosting the "Evenings" radio program on ABC Melbourne and ABC Local Radio in Victoria.


Hum Award for Best Soap Series

The Hum Award for Best Soap Series is one of the Hum Awards of Merit presented annually by the Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel (HTNEC) to production company of their producers working in the television industry for producing daily Soaps. As of 3rd Hum Awards, there have been 12 dramas nominated for the Best Drama Serial award.
History.
Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel presented this award to producers of Pakistani TV industry, as of first ceremony four soap series were nominated and currently Momina Duraid was honored at 1st Hum Awards ceremony 2012 for her series in "Mujhay Roothnay Na Daina". The name of the category officially termed by the channel is:
Winners and nominees.
In the list below, winners are listed first in the colored row, as of first ceremony four soap series was nominated. Following the hum's practice, the Soap series below are listed by year of their Pakistan qualifying run, which is usually (but not always) the soap series year of release.
For the first ceremony, the eligibility period spanned full calendar years. For example, the 1st Hum Awards presented on April 28, 2013, to declared the best sitcoms of the years that were released between January, 2012, and December, 2012, the period of eligibility is the full previous calendar year from January 1 to December 31.
Date and the award ceremony shows that the 2010 is the period from 2010-2020 (10 years-decade), while the year above winners and nominees shows that the series year in which they were telecast, and the figure in bracket shows the ceremony number, for example; an award ceremony is held for the dramas of its previous year.


Knuckle Heads

 is a two-on-two fighting arcade game released by Namco in 1992. It runs on Namco NA-2 hardware, and represents the company's answer to Capcom's 1991 hit "Street Fighter II".
Gameplay.
In the single-player tournament mode, the player's chosen character fights an opponent in best two-out-of-three matches with the CPU or against another human player; however, when both are knocked out simultaneously in the first round, one of them will win the second round. The player has a character roster of six fighters to choose from, each with their own weapons and special techniques. After the player knocks out five different characters, the player must fight two opponents at once instead of one, for three rounds, and finally an "evil" solid-gold version of their own character, before their character's own ending sequence. The most notable features are the jump button, and multiplayer mode which allows up to four players to play simultaneously; however, the multiplayer mode does not have an ending (much like "", which was released earlier in 1992 and also ran on Namco's NA-1 hardware), and the closest a player can get to winning it is if they win ninety-nine times because that is when their "WIN" counter will roll over.
Characters.
There are six playable characters and no bosses; all of them have their own unique statistics and special moves.
Virtual Console release.
The game was later re-released by Namco Bandai Games (as they are now known) on the Virtual Console in Japan on August 18, 2009.
Reception.
In Japan, "Game Machine" listed "Knuckle Heads" on their April 15, 1993 issue as being the seventh most-successful table arcade game of the year. "RePlay" reported "Knuckle Heads" to be the nineteenth most-popular arcade game at the time.


Peter Mosses

Peter David Mosses (born 1948) is a British computer scientist.
Peter Mosses studied mathematics as an undergraduate at Trinity College, Oxford, and went on to undertake a DPhil supervised by Christopher Strachey in the Programming Research Group while at Wolfson College, Oxford in the early 1970s. He was the last student to submit his thesis under Strachey before Strachey's death.
Mosses has spent most of his career at BRICS in Denmark. He returned to a chair at Swansea University, Wales. His main contribution has been in the area of formal program semantics. In particular, with David Watt he developed action semantics, a combination of denotational, operational and algebraic semantics.
Currently, Mosses is a visitor at TU Delft, working with the Programming Languages Group.


Alyssa Adams

Alyssa Adams () is the co-founder of the Eddie Adams Workshop, author, editor and a photo editor of "TV Guide."
Career.
Alyssa Adams is the co-founder and executive director of the Eddie Adams Workshop. She and her husband, photographer Eddie Adams, founded the workshop in 1988. The Eddie Adams Workshop is a four-day-long, free workshop located in Jeffersonville, New York for 100 photography professionals who are chosen based on their previous work and portfolios.
Adams is an author and editor. She wrote the text for a book based on her husband's career, titled "Eddie Adams: Vietnam", written in 2008. The book mainly focuses on his photographs from the Vietnam War and the awards and outcomes that followed those photos.
She is the Deputy Photo Editor of "TV Guide", and the director of operations at Bathhouse Studios, a photo rental space in New York City founded in 2004.
Adams was a graphic designer for Carbone Smolan Agency and the director of photography at Miramax Films.


Austin Scarlett

Austin Scarlett (born 1978) is an American fashion designer and artist known for his appearances on the first season of "Project Runway", 2012's "", and his own series, "On the Road with Austin and Santino".
Early life and education.
Scarlett, son of Debra Little and Christopher Scarlett, was born in Cottage Grove, Oregon. He attended the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City, where he specialized in couture and evening wear design and received his degree in fashion design. He also received fine arts training at the Art Students League of New York.
Career.
While still in school, Scarlett worked as a design assistant and patternmaker on various projects ranging from opera to dance, film, and on Broadway. Scarlett also worked as an assistant costume archivist at The Museum at FIT, with their collection of Haute Couture and textiles.
Scarlett found success on the first season of the Bravo reality show "Project Runway" in 2004-2005, though was eliminated in the penultimate challenge. During the airing of "Project Runway", he became known for his ability to produce glamorous fashions under the tight deadlines and unusual requirements of the competitive reality show. On the very first episode of the program, he created a gown entirely from cornhusks, a design which Tim Gunn as well as each of the three judges later cited as the single most iconic design from the history of the series.
After "Project Runway", Scarlett produced couture collections under his own name for fall 2005 and spring 2006.
In January 2006, he joined New York-based bridal-design house Amsale as Creative Director of its luxury gown collection, Kenneth Pool, where he served until 2009.
Scarlett’s involvement as a fashion designer and connoisseur for print and the web include features in "The New York Times", "Town and Country", "Madame Figaro", "Elle", "In Style", the "New York Daily News", and "Women’s Wear Daily".
Scarlett and his designs have been featured on episodes of TLC's "Say Yes to the Dress".
He has been portrayed on "Saturday Night Live" by comedian Fred Armisen, in a spoof of "Project Runway".
Scarlett has designed theatrical costumes for Shen Wei Dance Arts, performed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, “Trace” with Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, “Remember Me”, David Parsons Dance as seen on PBS.
In 2010 Scarlett joined season two star Santino Rice in their show "On the Road with Austin and Santino". The series premiered July 29, 2010, on the Lifetime network, and followed the pair cross country as they created couture designs using local resources.
Scarlett has also lent his design talents to many charitable causes, including The New York Public Library, New York City Opera, Live Out Loud, Equity Fights AIDS, Women In Need, and others.
In 2012 he returned to the runway in "", in which he finished as runner-up. In October 2012, Austin Scarlett released his signature collection of wedding and evening dresses. His collection is available at Neiman Marcus and other luxury retailers around the world.


Sai Shravanam

Sai Shravanam is an Indian music producer, recording and scoring engineer.He is a self trained tabla player and one of the few classically trained sound engineers in the country. He is the owner and founder of ResoundIndia in the city of Chennai.
Early career.
As a child music prodigy and ardent devotee of Sathya Sai Baba, Sai Shravanam showed signs of great talent from the tender age of six. While he was watching a TV commercial for tea featuring tabla wizard of Ustad Zakir Hussain creating magical notes,Sai Shravanam imprinted those notes in his mind. The impact of it was so profound that his parents got him his first tabla set. Four years later, he was spotted by maestro Zakir Hussain. Early percussion lessons from Hussain and his brother Fazal Quereshi burnished his talent and got him the opportunity to work in various cross cultural and experimental music endeavors
with composers/artistes.
He is considered by the Times of India as a rare engineer who has dedicated his career concentrating on recording, archiving and producing classical Indian music.Since 2004, Sai has been an active musician, sound engineer and a music producer for various film projects, classical music albums, documentary films, dance theatre productions etc. In the Indian film industry, Sai has performed exclusively for the legendary music composer A.R. Rahman, both in his soundtracks as well as live performances.


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Ealing Art Group

The Ealing Art Guild was founded in 1910, to further the interests of local artists of all disciplines, whether professional, amateur or lay. The society later broadened its scope to become the Ealing Arts Club and, in due course, became the present day Ealing Art Group, which has a membership of around 120.
Origins and development.
According to an early history of the Club, written by J. Lawson Petingale to celebrate its first 50 years, John Dovaston and Arthur Sortwell had the idea of forming a local art society in July 1910. On 15 November a group gathered in the studio of Dovaston’s sister Margaret to discuss and constitute the Ealing Art Guild, with Margaret appointed its secretary, and Adolphus (her father) the chairman – a position he held until 1935, when he became President. On 29 November the Committee of Management met to draw up rules for the new organisation, the second of which stated "That the Guild do consist of Local Painters, Sculptors, Architects, Designers, Etchers, Engravers, Black and white Artists, and Artcraft workers (Professional and Amateur) and Lay Members."
In December 1921 the Committee recommended that the Guild's name be changed to the Ealing Arts Club, to reflect its expansion. The new name was adopted at a reception and general meeting on 22 January 1922, with the formation of the Drama and Music Sections. In 1932 the Amenities Group was added, and became active in the Borough by writing letters and agitating for the retention of historic structures in Ealing, at a time when much new development was underway. The Club expanded again when the Literature Group came into being in 1948; and all Sections were renamed Groups at the same time. The minutes record, however, that there was a growing wish among the artist members to become more independent, both organisationally and financially. Separation from the Ealing Arts Club came in 1983, with Bert Wright, PPRSA, FRSA chairing the new Ealing Art Group, and Charles Gould its Secretary. The Group devised its own logo at the time, which was redesigned by EAG member Peter Averson-Maunder in the 1990s. The remaining Ealing Arts Club gradually disbanded after the separation.
Present at first meeting.
The original list, in the meeting minutes, did not include given names. The identities and addresses of some participants have been derived from the 1911 census.
Exhibitions.
The first exhibition was hastily staged in Ealing Town Hall, in conjunction with a "Grand Shakespearean Bazaar", on 11 and 12 November 1910.
Thereafter, annual art exhibitions have been held every October/November from 1911, with the exception of the World War II years. Margaret Dovaston organised the first, and the 100th was held in 2015. The 102nd was held at St. Barnabas Church, Pittshanger Lane on 7–11 November 2017. A small number of exhibition catalogues still exist, and there are newspaper reports of a few others.
The 1911 exhibition opened on 23 October at St George's Hall. The works of nearly 40 local artists were displayed, with 200-300 visitors per day attending. But it proved to be very expensive, and so later exhibitions were held in Ealing – in the Town Hall or nearby in The Mall. In 1954, the venue moved to Ealing College in the Avenue. In 1931 the club held a seven days’ celebration of its coming of age, inaugurated when Terrick Williams, A.R.A. opened the annual exhibition. "The Sunday Times" reported that The exhibits in this year’s exhibition number nearly 200, and reveal a high quality of work and a wide catholicity of taste. Among the examples most admired by the visitors were those of Mr. and Mrs. J. Alphege Brewer,
 Mrs. Ethel M. Found, Miss Elizabeth King, Miss Margaret Dovaston, and Messrs. J. W. T. Vinall, Terence H. Lambert, H. C. Brewer, T. W. Cole, Albert H. Howe, Charles F. Angrave, Spencer H. Lawrence, and P. M. Andrews.
More recent exhibitions are illustrated on the Ealing Art Group's website.
Early drama section productions.
The Drama Section gave its first public performance in November 1923 at the Park Theatre, Hanwell, with a production of Gertrude Jennings’ popular comedy "The Young Person in Pink". On 24 November 1926, at the same theatre, the Club staged "Twelfth Night", the proceeds from which were donated to a fund for replacing the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, destroyed by fire in March of that year.
In 1927 the Club's production of "She Stoops to Conquer" contributed to funds for the King Edward Memorial Hospital. Four years later – in the Club's twenty-first year – came an ambitious and successful staging of "Up the Arts", a revue showing the arts through the ages, with more than 100 performers taking part. Painting, sculpture, poetry, music, literature, and drama were all represented in the scenes and tableaux. The book and lyrics were written by the president, Mr. T. C. F. Smith, with the incidental music, choruses, and solos composed by Mr. J. R. Parton. A special overture was composed by Mr. Sherard J. H. Prynne.
Music section.
It is not known exactly when this section was formed, but an advertisement appeared in 1926 stating that "Amateur string players and vocalists living in or near Ealing would be welcomed as members of the Ealing Arts Club. Small string orchestra and madrigal choir. Harold E. West, 8. Liverpool Road, Ealing, W.5."


Richard Meyer (folk music)

Richard Meyer (September 6, 1952 – May 14, 2012) was an American folk singer-songwriter, writer, painter, and set designer. Meyer was active in the Greenwich Village folk music scene of the 1980s and 1990s and did much to promote other artists. As one of the leaders of a musicians cooperative in the Village he handled booking at the SpeakEasy and edited "Fast Folk Musical Magazine" (1986–1997). Later, he wrote reviews for various media such as AllMusic. He also worked extensively as a lighting/scenery designer in theater.
Since the summer of 2008, Meyer's advancing Parkinson's disease made it impossible for him to live independently, and spent his last years at a nursing home in the New York area.


Artevalencia

Artevalencia is a non-profit association based in Benicàssim, where different artists, but with the same objective, get together. Searching new means of expression is a constant feature of artists. The association is born with the objective of getting current artists together with new artistic impressions, and support the promotion of their work. In 2013 the association is registered as a volunteering entity, which allows to develop a Cultural Volunteer Program that provides an opportunity to those people with cultural curiosity so that they can join and take part in Artevalencia.


Pete Fenlon

Pete Fenlon (born 1955) is an American role-playing game cartographer, game developer, graphics designer and publisher. His works include stories, art and games (electronic and non) in the genres of science fiction, mystery, fantasy and historical fiction.
Personal life.
He was born in Japan to an Air Force Colonel (Peter C. Fenlon) and Captain (Melba S. Fenlon, RN). He also lived in Germany and the US before settling in Charlottesville, Virginia. He is a graduate of Thomas Jefferson High School (1964–1987), where he served as Executive Officer of the Simulations Club. Fenlon began playing "Dungeons & Dragons" when it was introduced in 1974. After obtaining a degree in history and anthropology at the University of Virginia, he earned a law degree at the College of William & Mary and passed the Virginia State Bar exam. He is very active in the Boy Scouts of America currently serving as President of the Virginia Headwaters Council.
Career.
He began his career by creating custom fantasy role playing game rules and drawing detailed, full-color Middle-earth maps after passing the Bar exam. He has created and published games and fiction since 1980.
Fenlon began playing "Dungeons & Dragons" when it was introduced in 1974, and by the late seventies he, S. Coleman Charlton and Kurt Fischer were developing a set of unique house rules for their six-year campaign. They decided to turn their rules into a business, starting Iron Crown Enterprises in 1980. Fenlon's first map of Middle-earth was printed in "A Campaign and Adventure Guidebook for Middle-earth" in 1982, and his maps continued to be used in ICE's "Middle-earth Role Playing" books for about 15 years. He also worked on ICE's Rolemaster and Shadow World games. In October 2000, Fenlon announced that ICE had entered chapter 7 bankruptcy.
Shortly after, he became involved in development of alternate reality game "The Beast".
In 2007, Fenlon was appointed CEO of Mayfair Games, the worldwide English-language publisher of "The Settlers of Catan". In 2016, he became CEO of Catan Studio, Inc., an independent studio with the Asmodee Group (see Asmodée Éditions).


Keith Raywood

Keith Raywood, also credited as Keith Ian Raywood, is an American production designer.
Early life and education.
Keith Raywood was born in New York City, and lived between there and Miami Beach throughout his childhood. He attended The Dwight School, and studied painting at The Art Students League of New York with Issac Soyer. In 1975, while enrolled at Cornell University for painting, he switched to architecture at the end of his freshman year, and then left for London to study at The Architectural Association School of Architecture. While there, he joined the unit that was tutored by renowned architects Bernard Tschumi and Nigel Coates. In the spring of 1978, he traveled with a group of students led by Rem Koolhaas to the Soviet Union. Raywood credits his time at "The AA" as most inspiring and influential in his work, and it would later greatly inform his process, aesthetic, and "architectural" style as a production designer.
In 1979, Raywood returned to Cornell's College of Architecture. While there, he formed the band Symbols, which released two EPs, and regularly performed in New York City clubs like CBGB's, Tramps, Danceteria, and Max's Kansas City.
Career.
Shortly after moving back to New York City in 1982, Raywood became the assistant to Eugene Lee on the film "Easy Money". He then worked with Lee as his assistant and art director for the next three years on Lee's film, television, and theatre projects, eventually designing his own sets for music videos, commercials, television, and theatre. In 1985, Raywood would co-design with Lee the original production of "The Normal Heart" at The Public Theater.
Raywood became the art director of "Saturday Night Live" in 1985, and has been credited as one of its production designers since 1989. As of 2015, he has been with show for more than thirty seasons. That same year, he co-designed the "Saturday Night Live 40th Anniversary Special". He has collaborated many times with current and former SNL performers and writers on a variety of projects, including "Lip Sync Battle", "The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon", "30 Rock", "Late Night with Conan O'Brien", and "Tracy Morgan: Black and Blue".
He has also designed numerous music specials and television series for MTV, VH1, NBC, HBO, BET, Fuse, Comedy Central, and Spike TV. Some of his credits include "The 66th Primetime Emmy Awards", The 1994, 96', 97', 98', 01', 08' "MTV Video Music Awards", The 2016 MTV Movie Awards, "The Eagles: Hell Freezes Over", "The American Comedy Awards" in 2011,12', & 14', VH1's "Hip Hop Honors", "Don Rickles: One Night Only", "Alec Baldwin: One Night Only", "Divas Live" for VH1, the 2007 "Spike TV Video Game Awards", "VH1 Rock Honors: The Who", as well as several of the combined upfront for MTV Networks. He has designed the "Spike Guys' Choice Awards" five times.
His other television credits include "The Marriage Ref", "Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry" & "Def Comedy Jam", and "The Concert For New York City" which broadcast live from Madison Square Garden one month after the September 11, 2001 attacks, for which he received an Emmy nomination.
He has designed music videos and performances for recording artists such as Justin Timberlake, Usher, Beck, Paul Simon, Iggy Pop, Madonna, Fiona Apple, Mary J. Blige, Maxwell, Whitney Houston, Salt-N-Pepa, Death in Vegas, Bon Jovi, The Foo Fighters, and Macy Gray
As well as commercials for Nikon, AT&T, Apple, Revlon, Elizabeth Arden, Gap, GE, Visa, Dove, and Nike, while working with noted directors Michael Haussman, Mark Romanek, Mark Seliger, and Terry Richardson among others. He also designed the studios for the "Fuse" and "MSG" networks at 11 Penn Plaza in 2010.
In 2007, Raywood created several architectural designs for video art installations in collaboration with artist-director-photographer Michael Somoroff. Their first installation, "Illumination", opened at the BravinLee gallery in 2007.
He is currently represented by the International Creative Management.
Awards.
Raywood has received six Primetime Emmy Awards in the Outstanding Art Direction for a Variety, Music, or Non-fiction Programming category. The first in 2009 for his work on the "2008 MTV Video Music Awards", and the second as part of the art department at "Saturday Night Live" in 2013, the first time in 38 seasons that SNL had received an Emmy in an Art Direction category. In 2012, he also received an Emmy nomination for "30 Rock". In 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013, Raywood received another four Emmy nominations for "Saturday Night Live", totaling seven nominations as part of the show's art department. In 2002, he was nominated in the same category for "The Concert for New York City".
Raywood has received two first place Promax Broadcast Design Awards for his work on 2008's and 2012's "Spike Guys' Choice Awards".
In 2009, Raywood was nominated for three Art Directors Guild Awards for his 2008 designs of "Saturday Night Live", "30 Rock", and the "MTV Video Music Awards". He was again nominated by the Guild for "30 Rock" and "SNL" in 2010 and 2011, and received an Award for the Betty White/Jay-Z episode (2010) of SNL in 2011. Considering its longevity and influence, this was the first time "Saturday Night Live" had received a design award of any kind in its then 36 seasons on NBC. In 2012 and 2013, Raywood again won the ADG as part of the SNL team, respectively, for a 2011 episode with Justin Timberlake / Lady Gaga, and the 2012 Season Finale with host and musical guest Mick Jagger.


The YES! Association

The YES! Association (also known by its Swedish name, Föreningen JA!) is an art collective based in Sweden. The collective was founded in 2005 and continues to be active today. The collective creates art through the use of enactments and performances. The YES! Association is known primarily for art exhibitions that deal with themes of gender, sexuality, race, and capitalism.
Formation.
The YES! Association was founded in 2005. It originated out of an art exhibition entitled “Art Feminism - strategies and effects in Sweden from the 1970’s until today”. Responding to a perceived lack of equity in Swedish public art institutions, members of the YES! Association proposed a document, dubbed the “Equal Opportunities Agreement”. The YES! Association used their live work “Press Conference /Performance”, a part of the broader exhibition, to provide art institutions with the opportunity to sign the agreement. Institutional signatories would have committed to engage in concrete actions to increase diversity and equity, particularly through the use of quotas. If it had been signed by the art organizations the agreement would have been legally binding. However, no institutions present at the time agreed to sign the document.
Key figures.
The YES! Association is composed of original founding members and newer participants. Founding members include
Other members of the collective over the years include:
The YES! Association has collaborated with artists and institutions including Melanie Cervantes, Regina José Galindo, Gluklya, Victoria Lomasko, Pauline Boudry/Renate Lorenz, Liza Morozova, Tanja Ostojic, Mujeres Públicas, Bureau of Melodramatic Research, and Anna Zvyagintseva. In addition, The YES! Association has received support from the Swedish Arts Council through the IASPIS program, facilitating collaborations with queer artist Lee H. Jones.
Themes.
Artistic works by The YES! Association have predominantly dealt with themes of gender, sexuality, race, and capitalism. Drawing on the feminist activist roots of the artists making up the collective (see above for an overview of Key Figures), exhibitions have investigated the role of women and other equity seeking groups in both the art world and society more broadly. In these works, several sub-themes emerge:
Equity and diversity in art.
The founding work of the YES! Association was an activist call for accountability and increased diversity in Swedish public art. Since the 2005 work “Press Conference /Performance”, the YES! Association has used a variety of platforms such as radio interviews, panels, and articles to argue that contemporary art must do a better job of representing equity seeking communities. In particular, the YES! Association has used the exploration of notions of privilege and oppression to illustrate divides in the art world.
Intersectional feminist theory.
The YES! Association’s artwork has repeatedly come back to investigations of intersectional modes of feminist art. In particular, the collective has focused on the benefits and drawbacks of knowledge that is based on categories. Through their work, the YES! Association has challenged the utility of binaries, making a feminist argument for a more intersectional understanding of identity. Their work rarely looks at ‘women’ as an isolated category, opting instead to include considerations such a class, race, and sexuality, as well.
Hannah Arendt.
Political theorist Hannah Arendt has been cited as both a theme and inspiration in the work of the YES! Association. A Jewish-American thinker, Arendt was born in Germany and fled Europe during the Second World War. Her work dealt largely with systems of power, particularly political hierarchies such as totalitarianism. A noted woman theorist in a field dominated by men, Arendt is often held up as an example of feminist excellence (though she herself may not have used the label “feminist”). The YES! Association has created works that drew on Arendt’s commitment to the spread of ideas and conversation. The collective has also collaborated with associations devoted to the memory of Arendt, such as The Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College.
Notable works.
The works of the YES! Association have taken a variety of forms but commonly include aspects of performance and dialogue.
“Press conference /performance”, 2005, Performance..
For the piece, members of the YES! Association put forward a document entitled the “Equal Opportunities Agreement”. The document aimed to legally bind Swedish public art institutions to uphold quotas to improve diversity. The performance was executed in the Dunker Culture House.
"(Dis)agreements? – the utility, effectiveness, and problematics of categories." 2010. Performance, a video, an agreement, a teach-in, and a letter..
The work used a video and teach-in discussion to consider diversity in art institutions. The work took place at the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art of Brooklyn Museum.
“SMOKING AREA”, 2012, Floor Painting..
“SMOKING AREA” paid tribute to political theorist Hannah Arendt. The work used a floor painting made with yellow paint to create a designated space where viewers/ participants could come, smoke, and discuss ideas. The floor painting aimed to further the aims of Arendt, whose work argued for the power of friendship and dialogue. The work was hosted by the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College.
“I am talking about something happening right here, right now”, 2012, Discussion..
This work operated as a discussion with Lee H. Jones. Using an activist framework, the discussion centered around the interplay of institutions and labour. The work was funded by IASPIS.
Notable Exhibitions.
"Art Feminism – Strategies and Consequences in Sweden from the 1970s to the Present", 2005..
This was the first exhibition that the YES! Association participated in. The Dunker Culture House served as the host institution. The YES! Association performed their work “Press Conference /Performance”.
“The Privilege Walk/Symposium – Feminist and intersectional aspects of contemporary art”, 2008..
The exhibition operated as a symposium held over the course of a weekend at the Lilith Performance Studio in Malmo, Sweden. Components included lectures, film screenings, performances, and workshops. Thematically, the exhibition focused on the Swedish art movement and persisting equity concerns.
“(art)work(sport)work(sex)work”, 2015..
The exhibition was hosted by the Power Plant in Toronto, Canada. The work was commissioned in conjunction with the 2015 Pan Am games. It considered the three fields of art, sport, and sex work. Through the use of bus rides, the exhibition used urban space to comment on social norms.