Kim Holderness was born and raised in Florida, and was a competitive dancer. She went to the University of Florida, then began her career in TV journalism.
Penn Holderness was born in Durham, North Carolina, to a Presbyterian minister and a public school teacher. He went to the University of Virginia, then started a two-decade career in TV journalism.
Penn and Kim met in Orlando while working in local news and were married in 2005. Currently they own their own company, Holderness Family Productions.
In popular culture.
In December 2014, Saturday Night Live aired a skit spoofing the Holderness Family called “Christmas Sweatpants”. Taran Killam, Amy Adams, Kyle Mooney, and Kate McKinnon played the Tenderfeld Family, wearing identical pajamas to those worn by the Holderness Family in their first viral video.


Chempakaraman Pillai

Chempakaraman Pillai, alias Venkidi, (15 September 1891 – 26 May 1934) was an Indian-born political activist and revolutionary. Born in Trivandrum, Kerala, to Tamil parents, he left for Europe as a youth, where he spent the rest of his active life as an Indian nationalist and revolutionary.
Although his life was mired in controversies, including a squabble with Adolf Hitler, information on his life in Europe was sketchy in the immediate years after his death. More information has come out in recent years.
Chempakaraman Pillai is credited with the coining of the salutation and slogan "Jai Hind" in the pre-independence days of India. The slogan is still widely used in India.
Early life.
Pillai was born into a Tamil family in Trivandrum, capital of the former kingdom of Travancore in the modern state of Kerala. His parents, Chinnaswami Pillai and Nagammal, hailed from Nanjilnadu (in present-day Kanyakumari District).
In Europe.
Pillai attended ETH Zurich from October 1910 until 1914, pursuing a diploma in Engineering. After the outbreak of the First World War, he founded the International Pro-India Committee and based its headquarters in Zürich, appointing himself president in September 1914. During the same period an Indian Independence Committee was formed in Berlin by a group of Indian expatriates in Germany. This latter group was composed of Virendranath Chattopadhyaya, Mahatma Gandhi, Bhupendranath Dutta, A. Raman Pillai, Taraknath Das, Maulavi Barkatullah, Chandrakant Chakravarty, M. Prabhakar, Birendra Sarkar, and Heramba Lal Gupta.
In October 1914, Pillai moved to Berlin and joined the Berlin Committee, merging it with his International Pro-India Committee as the guiding and controlling institution for all pro-Indian revolutionary activities in Europe. Lala Har Dayal was also persuaded to join the movement. Both of them cooperated with the German Intelligence Bureau for the East and helped creating German propaganda directed at Indian PoWs in German camps, particularly the Halbmondlager. Soon branches sprang up in Amsterdam, Stockholm, and Washington, as well as in many other parts of Europe and the Americas.
SMS Emden Bombing of British Madras.
On 22 September 1914, The SMS Emden, a German warship commanded by Captain Karl von Muller entered the waters off the coast of Madras, and bombed the facilities near the Madras harbour and slipped back into the ocean. The British were taken aback in this sudden attack. His family stated that Pillai coordinated the German attack with his personal presence in the SMS Emden, though this is not the official view. In any case, it is widely believed that Pillai and some Indian revolutionaries had a hand in the SMS Emden bombing of Madras.
War activities.
The Indian Independence Committee ultimately became involved in the so-called Hindu-German Conspiracy along with the Ghadar Party in the United States. The German foreign office under Kaiser Wilhelm II funded the Committee's anti-British activities. Chempakaraman and A. Raman Pillai, both from Travancore and both students at German universities, worked together on the Committee. Pillai later allied with Indian National Army chief Subhash Chandra Bose.
Many of Pillai's letters to A. Raman Pillai, then a student in the University of Göttingen, were kept by Raman Pillai's son Rosscote Krishna Pillai. The letters reveal some aspects of Pillai's life in Germany between 1914 and 1920, as does one of July 1914, calling upon Indian soldiers in the British Indian Army to rise in revolt and fight against the British.
After the end of World War I and Germany's defeat, Pillai stayed in Germany, working as a technician in a factory in Berlin; when Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose visited Vienna, Pillai met him and explained his plan of action.
Foreign Minister of Provisional Government of India.
Pillai was the foreign minister of the Provisional Government of India set up in Kabul, Afghanistan on 1 December 1915, with Raja Mahendra Pratap as President and Maulana Barkatullah as Prime Minister. However, the defeat of the Germans in the war shattered the hopes of the revolutionaries, and the British forced them out of Afghanistan in 1919.
During this time, the Germans were helping the Indian revolutionaries from their own motives. Though the Indians made it clear to the Germans that they were equal partners in their fight against the common enemy, the Germans wanted to use the revolutionaries' propaganda work and military intelligence for their own purposes.
In 1907, Pillai coined the term "Jai Hind", which was adopted as a slogan of the Indian National Army in the 1940s at the suggestion of Abid Hasan. After India's independence, it emerged as a national slogan.
Marriage and death.
In 1931, Pillai married Lakshmi Bai of Manipur, whom he had met in Berlin. Unfortunately they had a short life together, as Pillai soon fell ill. There were symptoms of slow poisoning and he went to Italy for treatment. He died in Berlin on 28 May 1934. Lakshmibai brought Pillai's ashes to India in 1935 where they were later ceremonially immersed in Kanyakumari with full state honours. It was Pillai's final wish that his ashes be sprinkled in Nanjilnadu (Kanyakumari), his family's native place.


Linda West

Linda West is a Canadian administrator, activist and politician. She has been a candidate for the Conservative Party of Canada and the Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba. She is also known for her involvements in several volunteering organizations like Rotary Club of Parry sound, Habitat for Humanity, Community Business and Development Centre, The Parry Sound Area Founders Circle etc. She received the Order of Parry Sound in 2020 for community services and supports during the COVID-19 pandemic. As on 2021, she is known for serving as the president of Rotary Club of Parry Sound.
Education.
West has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Laurentian University and a Master of Business Administration specializing in Health Care from the University of Toronto. She also holds a Ph.D. from Washington International University, an unaccredited institution incorporated in the British Virgin Islands.
Career.
West was executive director of the James Bay General Hospital from 1992 to 1995, and of the Winnipeg River Health District from 1995 to 1997. From 1997 to 2000, she was executive director of labour relations for Manitoba Health. She has also been a health policy consultant for the Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba, and has taught nursing and business at the University of Manitoba.
In 2003, West helped organize a conference in Winnipeg, Manitoba on the role of women in politics. She received a Women of Distinction Award from the Winnipeg YMCA-YWCA in 2004, and was later chosen as the local director of Equal Voice, a group that promotes the increased participation of women in political life. West authored the "Trends and Issues in Health Care". In 2006, she helped organize a rebuilding effort in New Orleans for Habitat For Humanity.
In July 2007, West was hired as executive director for employment services in the Regina Qu’Appelle Health Region's Human Resources Department. She was named acting vice-president of Human Resources in August of the same year, and became vice-president in December. West left employment with the Regina Qu’Appelle Health Region on 21 February 2008. West also became vice-president of Human Resources with a recruitment agency that provides Canadian placements to migrant workers from the Philippines, in 2007. She argued in 2008 that Canada needs overseas recruitment to counter a domestic labour shortage. West co-founded Actyl Group, a human resource recruitment agency. She serves as the company president.
West returned to the University of Manitoba in 2015 to teach in the Asper School of Business.
Activist and political candidate.
West first ran for public office in the 2003 provincial election, as a candidate of the Progressive Conservative Party. She initially sought the party's nomination for Riel, but lost to former Member of the Legislative Assembly Shirley Render at a nomination meeting in late 2002. During the nomination contest, one PC insider suggested that West's views on private health care would be a liability for the party.
West subsequently convened a public meeting on Manitoba's physician shortage, which was held at Winnipeg's Transcona Inn in early 2003. During the question and answer session, she announced that she was considering a candidacy in the division of Radission. The political overtones of this meeting were noted in a newspaper report, though West denied that it had been called for political purposes. She won the Radisson nomination, but lost to New Democratic Party candidate Bidhu Jha in the general election.
The Manitoba Nurses' Union criticized West in late 2003, after she led a group of her own fourth-year undergraduate students in a rally outside the provincial legislature supporting an on-the-job training program. It was alleged that the students received a portion of their grade for participating in the rally, but West said that her students were taught to review both sides of the issue.
West was a supporter of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada at the federal level, and supported its merger with the more right-wing Canadian Alliance to create the Conservative Party of Canada in 2003. She ran for the new party in the 2006 federal election, and finished second against New Democratic Party incumbent Bill Blaikie in Elmwood—Transcona. West's Ph.D. credentials became a source of controversy during the 2006 federal election because Washington International University is an institution that is licensed but not accredited by any educational oversight body in Canada or the United States of America.
West challenged Bidhu Jha a second time in the 2007 provincial election, initially centering her campaign around local opposition to a hog-processing plant planned for construction in the Radisson area. The NDP government withdrew its support for the project during the election, and indicated that the plant would not be built. Some NDP insiders nevertheless expressed concern that their early support for the unpopular project had made the seat vulnerable. On election day, however, Jha defeated West by an increased margin.
West received the Order of Parry Sound for the year 2020 owing to her community services and support during the COVID-19 pandemic specifically for the Rotary Club grocery program that offered convenient grocery shopping during the difficult situation.
Health care.
West has written several articles calling for Manitoba and Canada to develop new strategic plans for health care delivery. She supports the Canada Health Act.
West and provincial Health Minister Dave Chomiak engaged in a public controversy over health care strategies in late 2001 and early 2002. In the same period, West argued that Manitobans should pay health-care premiums instead of paying for health expenses through general taxation.
West returned to writing opinion pieces on Canada's health-care system after the 2003 election. She reiterated her support for publicly funded private clinics, and criticized the provincial government's approach to the issue. She was also a vocal opponent of Winnipeg Mayor Glen Murray's tax policies, which she spoke against at several public meetings.
Electoral record.
All electoral information is taken from Elections Canada and Elections Manitoba. Provincial expenditures refer to candidate expenses. Italicized expenditures refer to submitted totals, and are presented when the final reviewed totals are not available.


Gu Chujun

Gu Chujun () is a Chinese convicted criminal and former business executive and entrepreneur. He is a native of Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province.
He studied at Tianjin University and became the Chief Executive Officer of Greencool Holdings in Hong Kong and the Kelon Group.
He acquired Hisense Kelon, Meiling Electrical Appliance, Jinnuoer, Qihuawa, Xiling, Yanxing Bus and Xiang Bearing. In 2001, "Forbes" magazine ranked him as China's 20th richest man.
As an outcome of the Lang–Gu dispute, in January 2008, Gu was sentenced to 10 years in prison and a fine of 6.8 million yuan after a conviction for falsifying corporate reports. An appeal against the conviction was rejected in April 2009. Hisense Kelon also won damages of 30.15 million yuan in a civil case against Gu.


Randy Johnson (offensive lineman)

Robert Randall Johnson (born January 2, 1953) is a former American football offensive guard who played two seasons with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the National Football League (NFL). He was drafted by the Seattle Seahawks in the fourth round of the 1976 NFL Draft. He played college football at the University of Georgia and attended Pepperell High School in Lindale, Georgia. Johnson was a consensus All-American in 1975. He was also a member of the Edmonton Eskimos of the Canadian Football League.
Early years.
Johnson participated in high school football, wrestling, basketball, baseball and track at Pepperell High School. He was an All-area fullback and middle guard in football. The football team was 9-1 his senior year. He won the unlimited weight division in the Northwest Georgia High School wrestling tournament in 1970 and 1971. Johnson was the Region 7AA Champion in the unlimited weight division in 1970 as well. In 1971, he was the state champion of Georgia High School wrestling in the unlimited division. He was the runner-up in the state his junior year. Johnson participated in the State Track and Field competition in discus and shot put in 1971. He was also a letterman in basketball and baseball. He was inducted into the Rome-Floyd Sports Hall of Fame in 1977.
College career.
Johnson played for the Georgia Bulldogs from 1971 to 1975. He was redshirted in 1972. He was a three-year starter and letterman from 1973 to 1975. Johnson was named to the Gridiron News All-SEC team and played in the Peach Bowl in 1973. He was named to the Pre-Season All-American Team, played in the Tangerine Bowl and earned UPI All-SEC honors in 1974. He was named to the Pre-Season All-American Team, earned AP and UPI All-SEC honors and garnered consensus All-American recognition his senior season in 1975. Johnson was also named Offensive Lineman of the Year by the Atlanta Touchdown Club, Southeastern Conference Lineman of the Year by the Birmingham Monday Morning Quarterback Club and College Offensive Lineman of the Year by the 100% Wrong Club. He was awarded the Jacobs Blocking Trophy for being the best blocker in the SEC, the William K. Jenkins Award as Georgia's best lineman and the Whitworth Memorial Trophy by the Muscogee County Bulldog Club for being Georgia’s outstanding lineman in 1975. He was the offensive captain of the 1975 Bulldogs team. Johnson also played in the Cotton Bowl, Hula Bowl, the first Japan Bowl and the Coaches All-America Game in 1975. He took classes at Floyd Junior College and then finished his degree at Georgia in 1984.
Professional career.
Seattle Seahawks.
Johnson was selected by the Seattle Seahawks with the 122nd pick in the 1976 NFL Draft. He was released by the Seahawks in September 1976 before the start of the 1976 season.
Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Johnson signed with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 1977. He played in 22 games, starting one, for the Buccaneers from 1977 to 1978. He was suffered a back injury and was later released by the Buccaneers in 1979.
Edmonton Eskimos.
Johnson spent a month with the Edmonton Eskimos in 1980 before retiring from football.
Coaching career.
Johnson spent time as an assistant football coach at Coosa High School in Rome, Georgia. He also coached at Pepperell High School where the team won the State championship in 1990. He then was head coach at Model High School and then returned to Pepperell. He ended his career at Cartersville where he retired.
Imposter.
An impostor claiming to be Johnson played for the Orlando Americans of the American Football Association in 1981. The impostor was Robert Lee Johnson, who stole Randy Johnson's identity in an effort to improve his odds of making the Americans squad.


Lakeland FM

Lakeland FM was a New Zealand radio station based in Taupo.
The station was started by Radio New Zealand (which at the time was known as the National Broadcasting Service) in the 1960s as Radio Lakeland on 1500AM with the call sign 1ZA. Radio Lakeland also broadcast in Turangi on 1390AM with the call sign 1ZT.
In 1978 after AM band in New Zealand was changed from 10 kHz spacing to 9 kHz spacing the Taupo station moved to 1494AM and the Turangi station moved to 1386AM.
In 1988 the station began broadcasting on 96.7FM in Taupo with the AM frequency later being taken over by National Radio in 1989. In 1988 the station ceased broadcasting in Turangi but later returned on 89.6FM and then moved to 92.4FM. The station became known on air as Lakeland FM in 1989.
In July 1996 the New Zealand Government sold off the commercial arm of Radio New Zealand, the sale included Lakeland FM. The new owner was The Radio Network, a subsidiary of APN News & Media and Clear Channel Communications, which operated as a division of the Australian Radio Network.
In 1998 The Radio Network grouped all their local stations in smaller markets together to form the Community Radio Network. Lakeland FM became the host of the Community Radio Network, Lakeland FM and all other stations retained their local identity and ran a local breakfast show followed by networked programming from the Lakeland FM Taupo studios.
In 2000 the relay to Turangi (92.4FM) was replaced with Radio Hauraki but listeners in Turangi could now tune to the Taupo frequency (96.7FM) to hear Lakeland FM and later that year the Community Radio Network was discontinued and all stations became part of the Classic Hits FM network, as a result, Lakeland FM was rebranded as "Classic Hits Lakeland FM". The station continued to run a local breakfast but now outside of breakfast all programming originated from the Classic Hits studios in Auckland, as a result, the Taupo-based shows were discontinued.
In 2010, the station adjusted its frequency to 96.8FM as part of the NZ Government's change of FM frequencies. The station became known as "Classic Hits 96.8".
In 2014 all stations on the Classic Hits network were rebranded as The Hits. As a result, the station became known as "The Hits 96.8." The rebrand of the station coincided with a change in the station lineup including a networked breakfast presented by Pauline Gillespie and Grant Kareama. Most regions had their former breakfast announcer move to a newly introduced local 9 am – 3 pm timeslot. For Taupo, the change meant the end of all local programming on the station as now between 9 am and 3 pm The Hits in Taupo shares the same programming as The Hits Rotorua with Paul Hickey presenting this show from Rotorua.


British Tape Recorder

British Tape Recorders or BTR machines were reel-to-reel tape recorders initially made by EMI in England after World War II. They were the first magnetic tape recorders to be manufactured in Britain, and their design imitated that of the tape recorders used by the Germans during the war. Because these multi-track recorders were painted EMI green, they then became known as the "Green Machines".
The first model made was named the BTR1. The BTR1 machines were first created in 1947, but superseded by the BTR2 mono machine in 1952. The BTR2 was made in greater quantity, being used not only at EMI studios but at the BBC. Many studios later purchased ex-BBC units, so quite a few were found in non-EMI London studios. The BTR3 recorder was initially intended to support 2 or 4 tracks, but the only machines produced were the stereo (2-track) machines, the 4-track version having been rejected at the prototype stage. Only a few of these BTR3s were built, and the only known use of them is at the Abbey Road Studios during the 1960s, where they were used for all stereo recording and disc mastering.
A BTR3 tape recorder, previously used at Abbey Road, was found by former Radio Glen Technical Manager Henry Walmsley, and members of Surge Radio, the student-run radio station of the University of Southampton, at one of the University's Halls of Residence (Glen Eyre Halls) in February 2017. It had been in use at the station—where it was known as 'The Beatle'—until around 2001.
The TR90 was a smaller, more portable unit. It was available in a stereo version, and was used professionally on EMI Remote recordings, as well as at Hayes, EMI's manufacturing complex.
The Otari company made a BTR-5 model recording machine, the initials standing for Broadcast Tape Recorder.
Mono and twin-track BTR reel-to-reel recording machines were used in the making of the first two Beatles albums. Mono and stereo BTR machines were used to mix down the 4 and 8 track masters of later albums recorded on Telefunken, Studer and 3M multi-track machines.


Laser Hawk

Laser Hawk is a horizontally scrolling shooter published for the Atari 8-bit family by UK-based Red Rat Software. It was created in Dunedin, New Zealand by programmer Andrew Bradfield and artist Harvey A. Kong Tin.
A sequel, "HawkQuest", also from Bradfield and Kong Tin, was released in 1989. Andrew Bradfield died in 2001 at age 35.
Development.
Work on "Laser Hawk" started in 1985 and took about a year to complete.
"Laser Hawk" was originally called "Hot Copter" by Bradfield. Red Rat Software came up with the name "Laser Hawk."
Reception.
A review of "Laser Hawk" in the January 1987 issue of "Atari User" concluded, "While the game concept is perhaps getting a little long in the tooth, Red Rat has tweaked it nicely, treating it in a thoughtful and refreshing way. What it may lack in originality it makes up for in finesse." The overall score was 8 out of 10.
Legacy.
"Laser Hawk" was later included in the "4 Star Compilation, Volume 1" published by Red Rat, along with "Escape from Doomworld", "Domain of the Undead", and "Panic Express".
The same team created the sequel, "HawkQuest", released in 1989. Harvey Kong Tin was responsible for the overall design. Development started in 1996 with the finished game using four floppy disk sides at 90K apiece.


Chris Mooney (journalist)

Christopher Cole Mooney (born September 20, 1977) is an American journalist and author of four books including "The Republican War on Science" (2005). Mooney's writing focuses on subjects such as climate change denialism and creationism in public schools, and he has been described as "one of the few journalists in the country who specialize in the now dangerous intersection of science and politics." In 2020 he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for a series of articles on global warming published in The Washington Post.
Early life and education.
Mooney was born in Mesa, Arizona, and grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana. Both of his parents were college English professors. He attended Isidore Newman School before entering Yale University, where he graduated with a B.A. in English in 1999. His interest in the natural sciences was strongly influenced by his grandfather Gerald A. Cole, a professor at Arizona State University and author of "Textbook of Limnology", a noted book in the field. Mooney is the oldest of three siblings.
Career.
Mooney helped establish "Tapped", the group blog of American Prospect.
Mooney continued his freelance work contributing to "Slate, Salon.com, Reason, The Washington Monthly," the "Utne Reader, Columbia Journalism Review, The Washington Post," and "The Boston Globe." Mooney maintained the column "Doubt and About" for the magazine "Skeptical Inquirer", last contributing in 2006. Mooney started the blog "The Intersection" which ran on ScienceBlogs from 2006 to 2009, then at Discover Magazine until 2011, before moving to Science Progress in 2011. From 2007 until 2013 he contributed to DeSmogBlog, a blog that focuses on topics related to global warming. Mooney is presently a correspondent for "The Climate Desk" magazine and for Mother Jones. In October 2014 the Washington Post announced that Mooney would begin writing a new, environmentally focused blog for the paper. In 2017, he was selected as a recipient of the SEAL Environmental Journalism Award for his environmental coverage. In 2018, he was one of four writers selected as a repeat recipient of the SEAL Environmental Journalism Award.
In 2005 Mooney's first book, "The Republican War on Science", was released. The book explored the premise that the presidential administration of George W. Bush regularly distorted and/or suppressed scientific research to further its own political aims. The book became a New York Times Best Seller and landed Mooney interviews on popular television programs such as The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, as well as podcasts such as Point of Inquiry and Rationally Speaking. In 2012 a paper published in the American Sociological Review confirmed the book's thesis that conservatives in the United States have become increasingly distrustful of science. Mooney continued this line of inquiry into a fourth book published in 2012. "The Republican Brain" generated some controversy, with his argument compared to eugenics, and Mooney was on "Up with Chris Hayes", "Hardball with Chris Matthews", and "Now with Alex Wagner".
Podcast host.
From 2010 to 2013, Mooney served as one of the hosts of the Center for Inquiry podcast Point of Inquiry. In June 2013, due to disagreement with Center for Inquiry president Ronald Lindsay over his remarks at a conference focused on women in secularism, Mooney, co-host Indre Viskontas, and producer Adam Isaak announced their resignation from the Point of Inquiry podcast. Mooney, Viskontas, and Isaak started a new podcast at "Mother Jones", titled "Inquiring Minds", and the first episode of the new podcast was released in September 2013. On October 10, 2014, Mooney announced his departure from the Inquiring Minds podcast, in order to pursue a new assignment with the Washington Post.
Affiliations.
In 2009, he joined the "Center for Collaborative History" at Princeton University for the Spring semester as a visiting associate. From 2009 to 2010, Mooney was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In February 2010, Mooney was named a Templeton-Cambridge Journalism Fellow at the Templeton Foundation.
Science communication and "Framing".
In 2007 Mooney and co-author Matthew Nisbet wrote a paper for Science on the topic of "Framing Science". They advocated that scientists and science communicators tailor their messages to account for how the general public filters information based on pre-existing beliefs. Practical examples of this filtering include the impact of fundamental religious beliefs on the topic of creationism and conservative political beliefs on the topic of climate change denialism. Mooney and Nesbit called out atheist activist and author Richard Dawkins, noting his criticism of religion was unlikely to change religious fundamentalist minds and in fact more likely to strengthen their doubt of the scientific data. The framing science proposal created a large, often contentious debate within the online scientific blogging community, though research continues to study the influence of framing.
In the book "Unscientific America", Mooney and co-author Sheril Kirshenbaum expressed the concern that some science communicators were pressing the view that one must make a choice between accepting science or accepting religion. Critics of Mooney labelled him as an "accommodationist", or one who seeks to find compatibility between religious and scientific beliefs. Mooney defended his position in a number of publications and podcasts by citing that ongoing scientific studies continues to support the hypothesis that people integrate new information based on their pre-existing worldviews, and that failure to account for this fact will lead to continued failures in science communication.
Written work.
Critical reviews.
"The Republican War on Science" received many positive reviews. A review in "Scientific American" described it as well-researched and closely argued. Michael Stebbins wrote in "Nature Medicine" that the book should be a wake-up call and stated, "Mooney's documentation of the willful manipulation of science on the part of conservatives to suit an agenda is well supported and nauseating." It was featured on the cover of "The New York Times Book Review" and selected as an "Editors' Choice" by "The New York Times".
"Storm World" was written after Mooney witnessed the devastation of his mother's house in Hurricane Katrina. Tom Hayden wrote in the "Los Angeles Times" that Mooney deftly handled the complexity of the questions surrounding global warming and its effect on hurricanes while weaving an intriguing and important story. A review in "The New York Times Book Review" called it "a well-researched, nuanced book" but criticized its organization and lack of "pizazz".
"Unscientific America" cowritten with Sheril Kirshenbaum addressed scientific illiteracy in America. A favorable review in "Science Communication" anticipated controversy. Less favorable reviews in the "BMJ" and the "New Scientist" supported the authors' analysis of the problem but were critical of the solutions proposed. "American Scientist" and "Science" published negative reviews, complaining about its lack of depth.
Writing about "The Republican Brain" in "The New York Times" Paul Krugman stated that Mooney makes a good point: the personality traits associated with modern conservatism, particularly a lack of openness, make the modern Republican Party hostile to the idea of objective inquiry. The book sparked some controversy, with two science writers calling Mooney's argument eugenics.


Makhach Gadzhiyev

Makhach Gadzhiyevich Gadzhiyev (; born 18 October 1987) is a former Russian professional footballer.
Career.
He made his professional debut in RFPL in 2005 for FC Krylia Sovetov Samara.
On 14 September 2012 he signed a one-year contract, with the option of another two-years, with Ukrainian football club Tavriya. After one year, though, he returned to Russian championship after signing for FC Amkar Perm. After six months Gadzhiyev left Amkar Perm, and moved on a free transfer back to Anzhi Makhachkala, on a contract till the end of the season.
Legal issues.
On 17 November 2017, Gadzhiyev was convicted of fraud by the Kizilyurt court. At the same time that he joined Anzhi in 2010 he also was serving in a local police department (on paper), even though he was not in reality performing any police work, but just collecting a paycheck. He was given a 2-year conditional sentence with a 1-year probation.


U-ram Choe

U-Ram Choe (born 1970) is an artist based in Seoul, South Korea.
Biography.
Choe was born in Seoul, South Korea. He is a contemporary artist who works with kinetic sculpture. His grandfather was a scientist who designed early automobiles, and his parents were sculptors. As a child he began exploring art with clay. He graduated from Chungang University in Seoul, where he earned B.F.A. in 1992 and M.F.A. in 1999.
Exhibitions.
November 2006 marked U-Ram Choe's United States debut, as he opened a solo exhibition at bitforms gallery in New York City. Since then he has exhibited at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville; the Trammell & Margaret Crow Collection of Asian Art in Dallas; the 2008 Liverpool Biennial at FACT, Foundation for Art and Creative Technology, Liverpool; Shanghai Biennial; Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; SCAI The Bathhouse, Tokyo; NTT Intercommunication Center (ICC), Tokyo; Art Basel; Seoul Museum of Art; Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul; Metropolitan Art Museum, Busan; Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna; Beijing Expocenter; Seoul Olympic Art Museum; Asian Art Triennial; and Manchester Art Gallery.


Kristin Lucas

Kristin Lucas is a media artist who works in video, performance, installation and on the Internet. Her work explores the impacts of technology on humanity, blurring the boundary between the technological and corporeal. In her work she frequently casts herself as the protagonist in videos and performances where her interactions with technology lead to isolation, and physical and mental contamination.
A key theme in Lucas' work is the blurring boundary between humanity and technology and the relationship between technology and disease. Her character often presents a diseased body to be diagnosed by technology. In "Whatever Your Mind Can Conceive" (2007), her character grows digital sores on her skin. She explored this theme in her 2007 work "Change of Name", where she legally changed her name to the same name. When she went before the judge at the hearing, she poetically used words like "refresh" "empty my cache" and "reboot." This work has been called an "ontological intervention" that negotiates the boundary "between the body and the machine." Identity exchange appeared again in her and Andrew Kortina's contribution to Rhizome at the New Museum's Seven on Seven project, where they proposed using Twitter as an interface for swapping identities.
Lucas' work has been commissioned by the Dia Art Foundation, and is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art. Her videos are distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix and her work is represented by Postmasters. Lucas was an Eyebeam resident in 2013.


Viral video

A viral video is a video that becomes popular through a viral process of Internet sharing, typically through video sharing websites such as YouTube as well as social media and email.
Viral videos may be serious, and some are deeply emotional, but many more are centered on entertainment and humorous content. They may include televised comedy sketches, such as "The Lonely Island"s "Lazy Sunday" and "Dick in a Box", "Numa Numa" videos, The Evolution of Dance, Chocolate Rain on YouTube; and web-only productions such as I Got a Crush... on Obama. Some eyewitness events have also been caught on video and have "gone viral" such as the Battle at Kruger.
One commentator called the Kony 2012 video the most viral video in history (about 34,000,000 views in three days and 100,000,000 views in six days), but "Gangnam Style" (2012) received one billion views in five months and was the most viewed video on YouTube from 2012 until "Despacito" (2017).
History.
Videos were shared long before YouTube or even the Internet by word-of-mouth, film festivals, VHS tapes, and even to fill time gaps during the early days of cable. Perhaps the earliest was "Reefer Madness", a 1936 "educational" film that circulated under several different titles. It was rediscovered by Keith Stroup, founder of NORML, who circulated prints of the film around college film festivals in the 1970s. The company who produced the prints, New Line Cinema, was so successful they began producing their own films. The most controversial was perhaps a clip from a newscast from Portland, Oregon in November 1970. In the clip, the disposal of a beached whale carcass by dynamite is documented, including the horrific aftermath of falling mist and chunks since the exclusion zone was not big enough. The exploding whale story obtained urban legend status in the Northwest and gained new interest in 1990 after Dave Barry wrote a humorous column about the event, leading to copies being distributed over bulletin board systems around 1994.
The "humorous home movie" genre dates back at least to 1963, when the TV series "Your Funny, Funny Films" debuted. The series showcased amusing film clips, mostly shot on 8mm equipment by amateurs. The idea was revived in 1989 with "America's Funniest Home Videos", a series described by an ABC executive as a one-time "reality-based filler special" that was inspired by a segment of a Japanese variety show, "Fun With Ken and Kaito Chan", borrowing clips from various Japanese home video shows as well. Now the longest-running primetime entertainment show in the history of ABC, the show's format includes showing clips of home videos sent in to the show's committee, and then the clips are voted on by a live filmed audience, with the winners winning a monetary prize.
During the internet's public infancy, the 1996 "Seinfeld" episode "The Little Kicks" addresses the distribution of a viral video through non-online, non-broadcast means. It concludes with the citizens of New York City having individually witnessed Elaine's terrible dancing via a bootleg copy of a feature film, establishing that the dancing footage had effectively gone viral.
Viral videos began circulating as animated GIFs small enough to be uploaded to websites over dial-up Internet access or through email as attachments in the early 1990s. Videos were also spread on message boards, P2P file sharing sites, and even coverage from mainstream news networks on television. Two of the most successful viral videos of the early internet era were "The Spirit of Christmas" and "Dancing Baby". "The Spirit of Christmas" surfaced in 1995, spread through bootleg copies on VHS and on the internet, as well as an AVI file on the PlayStation game disc for Tiger Woods 99 (which later led to a recall). The popularity of the videos led to the creation of the television series "South Park" after it was picked up by Comedy Central. "Dancing Baby", a 3D-rendered dancing baby video by the creators of Character Studio for 3D Studio MAX, became something of a late 1990s cultural icon in 1996 in part due to its exposure on worldwide commercials, editorials about Character Studio, and the popular television series "Ally McBeal". The video may have first spread when Ron Lussier, the animator who cleaned up the raw animation, began passing the video around his workplace, LucasArts.
Later distribution of viral videos on the internet before YouTube, which was created in 2005 and bought by Google in 2006, were mostly through websites dedicated to hosting humorous content, such as Newgrounds and YTMND, although message boards such as eBaum's World and Something Awful were also instrumental. Notably, some content creators hosted their content on their own websites, such as Joel Veitch's site for his band Rather Good, which hosted quirky Flash videos for the band's songs; the most popular was "We Like the Moon", whose viral popularity on the internet prompted Quiznos to parody the song for a commercial. The most famous self-hosted home of viral videos is perhaps Homestar Runner, launched in 2000 and still running. The introduction of social media such as Facebook and Twitter has created even more avenues for videos to go viral. More recently, there has been a surge in viral videos on video sharing sites such as YouTube, partially because of the availability of affordable digital cameras. Beginning in December 2015, YouTube introduced a "trending" tab to alert users to viral videos using an algorithm based on comments, views, "external references", and even location. The feature reportedly does not use viewing history to serve up related content, and the content may be curated by YouTube.
Qualification.
There are several ways to gauge whether a video has "gone viral". The statistic perhaps most mentioned is number of views, and as sharing has become easier, the threshold requirement of sheer number of views has increased. YouTube personality Kevin Nalty (known as Nalts) recalls on his blog: "A few years ago, a video could be considered 'viral' if it hit a million views", but says as of 2011, only "if it gets more than 5 million views in a 3–7-day period" can it be considered "viral". To compare, 2004's "Numa Numa" received two million hits on Newgrounds in its first three months (a figure explained in a 2015 article as "a staggering number for the time").
Nalts also posits three other considerations: buzz, parody, and longevity, which are more complex ways of judging a viral video's views. Buzz addresses the heart of the issue; the more a video is shared, the more discussion the video creates both online and offline. What he emphasizes is notable is that the more buzz a video gets, the more views it gets. A study on viral videos by Carnegie Mellon University found that the popularity of the uploader affected whether a video would become viral, and having the video shared by a popular source such as a celebrity or a news channel also increases buzz. It is also part of the algorithm YouTube uses to predict popular videos. Parodies, spoofs and spin-offs often indicate a popular video, with long-popular video view counts given with original video view counts as well as additional view counts given for the parodies. Longevity indicates if a video has remained part of the Zeitgeist.
Reasons for popularity.
Due to their societal impact and marketability, viral videos attract attention in both advertising and academia, which try to account for the reason viral videos are spread and what will make a video go viral. Several theories exist.
A viral video's longevity often relies on a hook which draws the audience to watch it. The hook is able to become a part of the viral video culture after being shown repeatedly. The hooks, or key signifiers, are not able to be predicted before the videos become viral. The early view pattern of a viral video can be used to forecast its peak day in future. Notable examples include "All your base are belong to us", based on the poorly translated video game "Zero Wing", which was first distributed in 2000 as a GIF animation and became popular for the grammatically incorrect hook of its title, and Don Hertzfeldt's 2000 Academy Awards Best Animated Short Film nomination "Rejected" with the quotable hooks "I am a banana" and "My spoon is too big!" Another early video was the Flash animation "The End of the World", created by Jason Windsor and uploaded to Albino Blacksheep in 2003, with quotable hooks such as "but I'm le tired" and "WTF, mates?"
Rosanna Guadagno, a social psychologist at the University of Texas at Dallas, found in a study that people preferred to share a funny video rather than one of a man treating his own spider bite, and overall they were more likely to share any video that evoked an intense emotional response. Two professors at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania also found that uplifting stories were more likely to be shared on the New York Times' web site than disheartening ones.
Others postulate that sharing is driven by ego in order to build up an online persona for oneself. Chartbeat, a company that measures online traffic, compiled data comparing the amount of time spent reading an article and the number of times it was shared and found that people often post articles on Twitter they haven't even read.
Categories by subject.
Band and music promotion.
Many independent musicians, as well as large companies such as Universal Music Group, use YouTube to promote videos. Six of the 10 most viral YouTube videos of 2015 were rooted in music.
One such video, the "Free Hugs Campaign" with accompanying music by the Sick Puppies, was one of the winners of the 2006 YouTube Awards. However, the awards received criticism over the voting process and accused of bias. However, the main character of the video, Juan Mann, received positive recognition after being interviewed on Australian news programs and appearing on "The Oprah Winfrey Show".
Education.
Viral videos continue to increase in popularity as teaching and instructive aids. In March 2007, an elementary school teacher, Jason Smith, created TeacherTube, a website for sharing educational videos with other teachers. The site now features over 54,000 videos. Some college curricula are now using viral videos in the classroom as well. Northwestern University offers a course called "YouTubing 101". The course invites students to produce their own viral videos, focusing on marketing techniques and advertising strategies.
Customer complaints.
"United Breaks Guitars", by the Canadian folk rock music group Sons of Maxwell, is an example of how viral videos can be used by consumers to pressure companies to settle complaints. Another example is Brian Finkelstein's video complaint to Comcast, 2006. Finkelstein recorded a video of a Comcast technician sleeping on his couch. The technician had come to repair Brian's modem but had to call Comcast's central office and fell asleep after being placed on hold waiting for Comcast.
Cyberbullying.
The Canadian high school student known as Star Wars Kid was subjected to significant harassment and ostracizing after the viral success of his video (first uploaded to the Internet on the evening of 14 April 2003). His family accepted a financial settlement after suing the individuals responsible for posting the video online.
In July 2010, an 11-year-old child with the pseudonym "Jessi Slaughter" was subjected to a campaign of harassment and cyberbullying following the viral nature of videos they had uploaded to Stickam and YouTube. As a result of the case, the potential for cyberbullying as a result of viral videos was widely discussed in the media.
Police misconduct.
The "Chicago Tribune" reported that in 2015, nearly 1,000 civilians in the United States were shot and killed by police officers— whether the officers behind the trigger are heroes or villains is now often publicly called into question in the age of viral videos. As more people are uploading videos of their encounters with police, more departments are encouraging their officers to wear body cameras. The procedure for releasing such video is currently evolving and could potentially incriminate more suspects than officers, although current waiting times of several months to release such videos appear to be attempted cover-ups of police mistakes. In October 2015, then-FBI Director James Comey remarked in a speech at the University of Chicago Law School that the increased attention on police in light of recent viral videos showing police involved in fatal shootings has made officers less aggressive and emboldened criminals. Comey has acknowledged that there are no data to back up his assertion; according to him, viral videos are one of many possible factors such as cheaper drugs and more criminals being released from prison. Other top officials at the Justice Department have stated that they do not believe increased scrutiny of officers has increased crime.
Two videos went viral in October 2015 of a white school police officer assaulting an African-American student. The videos, apparently taken with cell phones by other students in the classroom, were picked up by local news outlets and then further spread by social media.
Dash cam videos of the Chicago police shooting of Laquan McDonald were released after 14 months of being kept sealed, which went viral and sparked further questions about police actions. Chicago's mayor, Rahm Emanuel, fired Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy and there have also been demands for Emanuel to resign. A similar case, in which Chicago police attempted to suppress a dash cam video of the shooting of Ronald Johnson by an officer, is currently part of an ongoing federal lawsuit against the city.
Political implications.
The 2008 United States presidential election showcased the impact of political viral videos. For the first time, YouTube hosted the CNN-YouTube presidential debates, calling on YouTube users to pose questions. In this debate, the opinions of viral video creators and users were taken seriously. There were several memorable viral videos that appeared during the campaign. In June 2007, "I Got a Crush... on Obama", a music video featuring a girl claiming to have a crush on presidential candidate Barack Obama, appeared. Unlike previously popular political videos, it did not feature any celebrities and was purely user-generated. The video garnered many viewers and gained attention in the mainstream media.
YouTube became a powerful source of campaigning for the 2008 Presidential Election. Every major party candidate had their own YouTube channel in order to communicate with the voters, with John McCain posting over 300 videos and Barack Obama posting over 1,800 videos. The music video "Yes We Can" by will.i.am demonstrates user-generated publicity for the 2008 Presidential Campaign. The video depicts many celebrities as well as black and white clips of Barack Obama. This music video inspired many parodies and won an Emmy for Best New Approaches in Daytime Entertainment.
The proliferation of viral videos in the 2008 campaign highlights the fact that people increasingly turn to the internet to receive their news. In a study for the Pew Research Center in 2008, approximately 2% of the participants said that they received their news from non-traditional sources such as MySpace or YouTube. The campaign was widely seen as an example of the growing influence of the internet on United States politics, a point further evidenced by the founding of viral video producers like Brave New Films.
During the 2012 United States presidential election, "Obama Style" and "Mitt Romney Style", the parodies of Gangnam Style, both peaked on Election Day and received approximately 30 million views within one month before Election Day. "Mitt Romney Style", which negatively portrays Mitt as an affluent, extravagant, and arrogant businessman, received an order of magnitude views more than "Obama Style".
Financial implications.
The web traffic gained by viral videos allows for advertising revenue. The YouTube website is monetized by selling and showing advertising. According to the "New York Times", YouTube uses an algorithm called "reference rank" to evaluate the viral potential of videos posted to the site. Using evidence from as few as 10,000 views, it can assess the probability that the video will go viral. If it deems the video a viable candidate for advertising, it contacts the original poster by e-mail and offers a profit-sharing contract. By this means, such videos as "David After Dentist" have earned more than $100,000 for their owners. One successful YouTube video creator, Andrew Grantham, whose "Ultimate Dog Tease" had been viewed more than 170,000,000 times (as of June 2015), entered an agreement with Paramount Pictures in February 2012 for the development of a feature film. The film was to be written by Alec Berg and David Mandel. Pop stars such as Justin Bieber and Esmée Denters also started their careers via YouTube videos which ultimately went viral. By 2014, pop stars such as Miley Cyrus, Eminem, and Katy Perry were regularly obtaining web traffic in the order of 120 to 150 million hits a month, numbers far in excess of what many viral videos receive.
Companies also use viral videos as a type of marketing strategy. The Dove Campaign for Real Beauty is considered to have been one of the first viral marketing strategies to hit the world when Dove released their "Evolution" video in 2006. Their online campaign continued to generate viral videos when "Real Beauty Sketches" was released in 2013 and spread all throughout social media, especially Facebook and Twitter.


ALFA (XACML)

ALFA, the Abbreviated Language For Authorization, is a pseudocode language used in the formulation of access-control policies.
History.
Origin.
XACML, the eXtensible Access Control Markup Language, uses XML as its main encoding language. Writing XACML policies directly in XACML leads to bloated, human-unfriendly text, therefore a new, more lightweight, notation was necessary. Axiomatics researcher, Pablo Giambiagi, therefore designed ALFA, the Axiomatics Language for Authorization.
ALFA maps directly into XACML. ALFA contains the same structural elements as XACML i.e. PolicySet, Policy, and Rule.
Axiomatics donates ALFA to OASIS.
In March 2014, Axiomatics announced it was donating ALFA to the OASIS XACML Technical Committee in order to advance its standardization.
ALFA was consequently renamed Abbreviated Language for Authorization and filed for standardization. Its current version can be accessed here.
Sample Use Cases.
The words doctor, view, medical record, Singapore... are all examples of attribute values. Attributes make up the building blocks of policies in ABAC and consequently in ALFA.
Structure.
Just like XACML, ALFA has three structural elements:
Like in XACML, a PolicySet can contain PolicySet and Policy elements. A Policy can contain Rule elements. A Rule contains a decision (either Permit or Deny). In addition, in ALFA, it's possible to add Rule elements to PolicySet and Policy elements. PolicySet, Policy, and Rule elements can be nested or referenced to.
In order to resolve conflicts between siblings, ALFA (as does XACML) uses combining algorithms. There are several combining algorithms that may be used. Their behavior is defined in this truth table
Data types.
ALFA supports all the data types that are defined in the OASIS XACML Core Specification. Some datatypes e.g. numerical (integer, double) and boolean map directly from ALFA to XACML. Others need to be converted such as date or time attributes. To convert an attribute into the relevant data type, use the "value":datatype notation. See below for examples
Native attribute values mapped directly from ALFA to XACML.
String, integer, double, and boolean all map directly from ALFA to XACML. They do not need a conversion
ALFA Policy using Boolean Attributes.
 namespace exampleBoolean{
 policy article{
 target clause userRole == "editor" and actionId == "edit" and itemType=="article"
 apply firstApplicable
 rule publishedArticles{
 target clause published == true
 permit
Attribute values which need an explicit conversion.
The following attribute datatypes need an explicit conversion:
Example: ALFA Policy using anyURI.
In this policy, we convert a String value to anyURI.
 attribute userDisallowedResources{
 category = subjectCat
 id = "userDisallowedResources"
 type = string
 rule allowProfileAccess{
 target clause url == "http://<host>:<port>/profile/":anyURI
 permit
Sample Policies.
A simple policy & rule with a condition.
The following ALFA example represents a XACML policy which contains a single rule. The policy and rule both have a target. The rule also has a condition which is used to compare 2 attributes together to implement a relationship check (user ID must be equal to owner). Whenever one needs to check 2 attributes together, they must use a condition.
 namespace example{
 policy article{
 target clause itemType=="article"
 apply firstApplicable
 rule editArticle{
 target clause actionId == "edit" and userRole == "editor"
 permit
 condition userId == owner
Using time in a XACML policy written in ALFA.
 namespace exampleTime{
 policy checkTimeAccess {
 apply firstApplicable
 rule checkNightAccess {
 target clause role == "supervisor" and document == "medicalrecord"
 condition timeInRange(timeOneAndOnly(currentTime), "22:00:00":time, "06:00:00":time)
 permit
Policy References in ALFA.
ALFA can use policy (set) references. They are in fact used implicitly when doing the following.
namespace com.axiomatics{
 namespace example{
 * A policy about what managers can do. It is linked to from the
 * documents policy set.
 policy managers{
 target clause role == "manager"
 apply firstApplicable
 rule allowSameDepartment{
 condition user.department == document.department
 permit

 * The main policy. It references the managers policy
 policyset documents{
 target clause resourceType == "document"
 apply firstApplicable
 // The following is a policy reference
 example.managers
Obligations & Advice in ALFA.
Obligations and advice are statements in XACML that can be returned from the PDP to the PEP alongside the decision (Permit, Deny...). Obligations and advice are triggered on either Permit or Deny.
namespace example{
 import Attributes.*
 advice notify = "example.notify"
 policy readDocuments{
 target clause actionId=="read" and objectType=="document"
 apply firstApplicable
 * This rule denies access if the time is not between 9 and 5
 rule denyOutsideHours{
 target clause currentTime<"09:00:00":time or currentTime>"17:00:00":time
 deny
 on deny{
 advice notify{
 acme.obligations.message = "You cannot access this service outside office hours"
 /**
 * This rule grants managers access
 rule allowManagers{
 target clause acme.user.role=="manager"
 permit
 /**
 * This rule catches anything else that might have fallen to this point
 rule failsafeDeny{
 deny
 on deny{
 advice notify{
 acme.obligations.message = "Your request did not match the policy. Please try again"
 }
Break the Glass Authorization Scenario.
Let's start by defining the attributes and obligations we will use.
namespace com.axiomatics.examples{
 import Attributes.*
 obligation breakTheGlass = "com.axiomatics.examples.breakTheGlass"
 obligation auditLog = "com.axiomatics.examples.auditLog"
 namespace user{
 attribute role{
 category = subjectCat
 id = "com.axiomatics.examples.user.role"
 type = string
 attribute identifier{
 category = subjectCat
 id = "com.axiomatics.examples.user.identifier"
 type = string
 namespace patient{
 attribute assignedDoctor{
 category = resourceCat
 id = "com.axiomatics.examples.user.assignedDoctor"
 type = string
 namespace record{
 attribute identifier{
 category = resourceCat
 id = "com.axiomatics.examples.record.identifier"
 type = string
 attribute actionId{
 category = actionCat
 id = "com.axiomatics.examples.actionId"
 type = string
 attribute objectType{
 category = resourceCat
 id = "com.axiomatics.examples.objectType"
 type = string
 attribute isEmergency{
 category = environmentCat
 id = "com.axiomatics.examples.isEmergency"
 type = boolean
 attribute message{
 category = environmentCat
 id = "com.axiomatics.examples.message"
 type = string
We can now define the policy with 3 rules:
 * Control access to medical records
 policy accessMedicalRecord{
 target clause actionId == "view" and objectType == "medical record"
 apply firstApplicable
 * Doctors can view medical records of patients they are assigned to
 rule allowRegularAccess{
 target clause user.role == "doctor"
 condition patient.assignedDoctor == user.identifier
 permit
 /**
 * Doctors can view any medical reason in the case of an emergency
 rule allowBreakTheGlassAccess{
 target clause isEmergency == true
 permit
 on permit{
 obligation auditLog{
 message = "A doctor has gotten access to a medical record by breaking the glass"
 user.identifier = user.identifier
 record.identifier = record.identifier
 currentDateTime = currentDateTime

 * Deny other accesses. If access is normally denied, tell doctors how
 * they can get access by "breaking the glass".
 rule denyAccess{
 deny
 on deny{
 obligation breakTheGlass{
 message = "You do not have access to this medical record. To be granted access, set the isEmergency flag to true."
 record.identifier = record.identifier
 currentDateTime = currentDateTime
Time-based fine-grained authorization policy.
The following is an example of an ABAC policy implemented using ALFA. It uses time as attributes. It uses a XACML condition to compare the currentTime attribute to the value representing 5pm (expressed in 24-hour time). Note the use of :time to convert the String value to the right data type.
rule allowAfter5pm{
 permit
 condition currentTime > "17:00:00":time
HL7 Policies.
Use Cases.
HL7 defines a series of medical access control use cases which can be easily defined in ALFA.
The ALFA plugin for Eclipse.
The ALFA Plugin for Eclipse is a tool that converts your Eclipse programming IDE to a dedicated editor of authorization policies using ALFA syntax. ALFA policies can then easily be converted into real XACML 3.0 policies and loaded into your XACML policy management tool.
External References.
European analysts talk about ALFA
A Template-Based Policy Generation Interface for RESTful Web Services


Christoph Korn

Christoph Korn (born 1965 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany) is a German audio and media artist working with diverse artistic forms of expression: Composition and Installation, video, text, net art and improvisation.
Artistic work.
In the last few years, he has increasingly used the strategy of deleting and withdrawing. As an example, see Waldstueck network installation
Releases.
Film music.
Grand prize- Erasmus EuroMedia Award 2007 (Austria).


Broadcast Yourself


Glendale Federal

Glendale Federal Savings and Loan Association, later Glendale Federal Bank, was one of the nation's largest federally chartered savings and loan association during the 1980s. It was long based in Los Angeles suburb Glendale, California, at 401 Brand Boulevard. The Glendale Federal brand was retired in 1998 when Glendale Federal was merged into California Federal Bank via a reverse merger engineered by Ronald Perelman and Gerald J. Ford, the owners of California Federal via their privately-owned First Nationwide Holding Inc.
History.
The institution was founded 1934 as the First Federal Savings and Loan of Glendale.
In 1982, the S&L promoted itself simply as "Glendale Federal", dropping the "Savings and Loan Association" from its advertising and self-referencing.
In 1983, the S&L changed from a mutual organization to a federal stock form of organization.
Among the many other S&Ls that Glendale Federal acquired were:
In 1988, it faced a federal probe on pay practices.
By the early 1990s, Glendale Federal had started advertising as Glendale Federal Bank, although it continued operating as a savings and loan.
In 1997, Glendale Federal Bank formed a holding company called Golden State Bancorp to allow it acquire other businesses.
Reverse merger with California Federal.
In a very complex business procedure known as a reverse takeover or reverse merger, businessmen Ronald Perelman and Gerald J. Ford engineered the takeover of Glendale Federal Bank and Golden State Bancorp in 1998 by having public-owned Golden State Bancorp purchase Perelman and Ford's privately-owned First Nationwide Holding Inc. for $2.5-billion in stock which gave First Nationwide Holding's board of directors control of the new merged holding company, the new holding company retained Golden State Bancorp name and history, but the new savings bank retained the California Federal Bank's name and brand. Most of the managers for the combined company came from First Nationwide Holding along with First Nationwide's San Francisco headquarters building being retained. The saving bank merger resulted in the third largest thrift in the nation with $51 billion in assets and have more than 400 branches in eight states with 280 of those branches in California. The merger also resulted in the elimination of 60 California Federal and Glendale Federal branches and 1,100 out of the 8,400 jobs.
Architecture.
The Glendale Federal building at 9454 Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills is a landmark, as is the 1959 Glendale headquarters, designed by Wenceslao Sarmiento.
In 1991, Universal Animation Studios opened its offices in the building at 121 Lexington Drive, which is part of the Glendale Federal headquarters, while the main building remained vacant. The studio operated here until 2006, when it moved its offices into Universal City, and the building was bought by Hollywood Production Center. In early 2009, Hollywood Production Center also purchased the main building.


Kyle McDonald

Kyle McDonald is a media artist. McDonald creates visually appealing models using code, and releases tool kits for other artists to customize their own art as they see fit. McDonald was recently an adjunct professor at New York University Tisch School of the Arts' ITP. He is a member of F.A.T lab (Free Art and Technology Lab), and a community manager for OpenFrameworks. He was a resident at STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University.
Work/Research.
McDonald aims to change the way we perceive as well as develop future technologies. He has worked on being able to identify whether an AI image is fake called "generative adversial networks"(GANs). They essentially take data into a neural network, and it is "trained" to produce the best possible image. While most images generated by these types of networks have become increasingly harder to tell a difference, further work is considered. For example, GAN's have a tough time with background images because the data being trained is too focused on the face itself and as a result, produces a random one.
As part of his work/research, McDonald and his partner Lauren McCarthy worked on a project called MWITM(Man/Woman in the middle). Essentially, there was a server that would intercept the messages, and two chatbots, one for each artist, would communicate automatically without any direct messaging. The messages created were based on the communication style of the users, and were trained over time.
Work by McDonald has inspired Spotify's "Listening Together" feature.
Other accomplishments.
"Social Soul," 2014
"Light Leaks," 2018
"Meaningful Interactions," 2016
"The Thrill of Terrapattern, A New Way to Search Satellite Imagery," 2016
"Meet Terrapattern, Google Earth's Missing Search Engine," 2016
"The Augmented Hand Series -- Playful, dreamlike, and uncanny," 2015
"An Addictive Experiment in Annotating Footage from a London Street," 2015
"Exhausting a Crowd," 2015
"Wifi Whisperer," 2016
"Highsight," 2015
"Untitled Digital Art," 2014
"Sharing Faces," 2016
"How We Act Together," 2016
"Hacking Surveillance Culture," 2014


Jenny Diski

Jenny Diski FRSL (née Simmonds; 8 July 1947 – 28 April 2016) was an English writer. She had a troubled childhood, but was taken in and mentored by the novelist Doris Lessing; she lived in Lessing's house for four years. Diski was educated at University College London, and worked as a teacher during the 1970s and early 1980s.
Diski was a regular contributor to the "London Review of Books"; the collections "Don't" and "A View from the Bed" include articles and essays written for the publication. She won the 2003 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award for "Stranger on a Train: Daydreaming and Smoking around America With Interruptions".
Early life.
Diski was a troubled teenager from a difficult, fractured home. Her parents were working-class Jewish immigrants to London. Her father, James Simmonds (born Israel Zimmerman), made his living on the black market. He deserted the family when Diski was aged six. This caused her mother, Rene (born Rachel Rayner), to have a nervous breakdown, and Diski was then put into foster care. Her father came back, but left forever when she was aged eleven.
Diski spent much of her youth as a psychiatric in- or outpatient. At the same time, she immersed herself deeply in the culture of the 60s, from the Aldermaston marches to the Grosvenor Square protests and a flirtation with the ideas and methods of R. D. Laing. from drugs to free love, from jazz to acid rock, Taken into the London home of a school-friend's mother, the novelist Doris Lessing, Diski resumed her education and by the start of the 1970s was training as a teacher, starting the Freightliners free school and having her first publication.
Writings.
Over the decades, Diski was a prolific writer of fiction and non-fiction articles, reviews and books. Many of her early books tackle such troubling if absorbing themes as depression, sado-masochism and madness. Some of her later writings, such as "Apology for the Woman Writing", strike a more positive note, while her spare, ironic tone, using all the resources of magic realism, provides a unique take on even the most distressing material. Compared at times with her mentor Lessing as both were concerned with the thinking woman, Diski was called a post-postmodernist for her abiding distrust of logical systems of thought, whether postmodern or not.
Non-fiction.
In "The Sixties", Diski described her experience as a young woman starting out in life: "I lived in London during that period, regretting the Beats, buying clothes, going to movies, dropping out, reading, taking drugs, spending time in mental hospitals, demonstrating, having sex, teaching". Aside from the mental hospitals, this could be considered a normative 1960s life, while her representation of the era as a sort of golden age is not atypical of her generation. She also described the darker side of the age, such as its pervasive sexism, institutionalised in the countercultural cult of casual sex, asserting that "On the basis that no means no, I was raped several times by men who arrived in my bed and wouldn't take no for an answer". In the book, Diski returns repeatedly to the question of how far the cult of the self in the permissive society gave rise to 1980s neoliberalism, greed and self-interest. She concludes that, in the words of Charles Shaar Murray, "The line from hippie to yuppie is not nearly as convoluted as people like to believe".
Her 1997 memoir "Skating to Antarctica", ostensibly about a journey to see the Antarctic ice, also tells much about Diski's early life. "Kirkus Reviews" comments that "Antarctica is not so much a destination as a symptom in this intense, disturbing memoir of a wickedly unpleasant childhood." Diski likens the bleak whiteness of the icescape to the safety of the unbroken whiteness of the psychiatric hospital of her depressed youth. In her obituary of Diski, Kate Kellaway calls "Skating to Antarctica" "the most remarkable of her books. It stars her daughter, Chloe, who steers Diski into finding out what became of her mother, with whom relations had been severed for decades. The narrative alternates startlingly between a trip to the frozen south and this search—Diski's reluctant advance towards catharsis."
Her 2010 non-fiction work, "What I Don't Know About Animals", examines the ambiguous status of pet animals in Western society, at once sentimentalised and brutalised, or all too often abandoned. Nicholas Lezard, reviewing the book in "The Guardian", admires Diski as "one of the language's great, if under-appreciated, stylists", in this case where "her honest, direct and intelligent prose has produced an honest, direct and intelligent look at relations between ourselves and the animal world."
Diski's final, valedictory, book, "In Gratitude", was published shortly before her death in 2016. In it, she "elegant[ly]" takes a tour of her life, knowing she was soon to die of an aggressive and inoperable cancer. She rejects the usual "cancer clichés", instead going back to her time with Lessing, meeting other famous literary figures including Robert Graves, Alan Sillitoe, Lindsay Anderson, and R. D. Laing. The "Kirkus" reviewer sums up the book as "Sometimes rueful, often oblique, but provocative and highly readable."
Personal life.
She married Roger Diski in 1976, and their daughter Chloe was born in 1977. He was originally Roger Marks, and they jointly chose the name Diski. The couple separated in 1981 and divorced. Her later partner until the end of her life, Ian Patterson, known as "the Poet" in Diski's writings, is a translator and was director of English Studies at Queens' College, Cambridge.
In June 2014, Diski was told that she had at best another three years to live. In September 2014, she revealed that she had been diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. She died on 28 April 2016.


Who Are You (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

"Who Are You" is the 16th episode of season 4 of the television show "Buffy the Vampire Slayer". Written and directed by series creator Joss Whedon, it originally aired February 29, 2000 on the WB Television Network.
Plot.
Buffy, in Faith's body, is abducted by the Watchers Council's team. Meanwhile Faith, in Buffy's body, gives herself a makeover and heads to The Bronze, where she has ruthless fun at the expense of Spike and Tara. Tara recognizes that something is wrong, and she and Willow perform a spell to find the real Buffy. Faith visits Riley and has sex with him while Buffy escapes the Council's team and heads back to Sunnydale in search of Giles and her friends. Buffy convinces Giles of her identity with the help of Willow and Tara. Meanwhile, Adam convinces a group of vampires of their superiority and they attack a church. Faith tries to leave town, but after seeing what's happening on the news, goes to the church to help while Buffy does the same. Faith and Riley each kill one of the three gang members, but the leader overpowers Faith. Before he can kill her, Buffy stakes him from behind. They fight, and Buffy (with the help of Willow and Tara's conjured Draconian Katra device) restores herself and Faith to their rightful bodies. Faith subsequently escapes and leaves town, and Buffy discovers that Riley had sex with Faith during the body swap.
Production.
In a scene where Faith in Buffy's body tries to seduce Riley, the camera "cut[s] to a medium close-up shot of her leather-clad backside", ostensibly Riley's point-of-view shot. Jason Middleton notes that this is a rare case where the audience's gaze is "positioned in a highly fetishistic relation towards Buffy's body". However, Middleton notes, the show disavows this viewing position by reminding the audience that it is Faith's positioning the body, connoting its "look-at-me-ness"; Buffy herself is disconnected from this image of her body. Riley, with whom the viewer is identified, disavows the shot by appearing confused and taken aback rather than sexually predatory. Middleton concludes this covertly allows "a scopophilic position ... for the viewer, even as the show disavows this position".
Analysis.
Gregory Stevenson, in "", finds it significant that Faith's moment where she "confesses the truth about herself and begins to experience the weight of moral responsibility" occurs in a church.
In their book discussing existentialism in "Buffy", Richardson and Rabb argue that this episode and the previous (intended or not) explore the impact of - the outside view that causes a person to redefine themselves from the perspective of the Other. Faith can now literally see herself as Buffy sees her. When the real Buffy escapes from the Watchers’ Council and challenges Faith, the two fight, and Faith (in Buffy’s body) repeatedly punches her own face in a fit of self-loathing, shouting, "You’re nothing! Disgusting, murderous bitch! You're nothing! You're disgusting!" According to Richardson and Rabb, "Faith is finally seeing herself as Buffy sees her and is even harder on herself than Buffy has ever been."


Seven Group Holdings

Seven Group Holdings Limited (SGH, formerly Seven Network Limited) is an Australian diversified operating and investment group in the media, mining and construction industries.
History.
Seven Network Limited was formed in 1991 by receivers to bundle together the assets of Christopher Skase's failed Qintex business.
In December 2006, Seven Network Limited shareholders voted to spin off the company's 'old media' assets into a 50/50 joint venture with private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR), creating the Seven Media Group.
In 2002, Seven Media Group acquired Pacific Magazines.
In January 2006, Seven Media Group partnered with Yahoo! to launch Yahoo!7, founded as a cross-media entity which would expand the content distribution networks of both companies.
In January 2008, Kerry Stokes' National Hire Group took over alongside private investors The Carlyle Group the equipment rental company Coates, de-listing it from the ASX. The hire businesses of Coates and National Hire were merged to consolidate the two largest hire companies in Australia, creating "Coates Hire". On 25 October 2017, SGH acquired the remaining 53% from The Carlyle Group as well as from other minority owners for $517 million. SGH had first invested in Coates Hire, alongside The Carlyle Group and exiting management in 2008 through its WesTrac subsidiary.
On 22 February 2010, it was announced that WesTrac, owned by Australian Capital Equity, Kerry Stokes's investment firm, would merge with Seven Network Limited, and the combined entity was renamed "Seven Group Holdings".
In April 2011, Seven Media Group was acquired by West Australian Newspapers Ltd to create Seven West Media Ltd. Seven Group Holdings remains Seven West Media's largest shareholder, with a 33.2% stake.


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Oron Catts

Oron Catts is an Australian artist and researcher currently residing in Perth, Western Australia where he has been employed at the University of Western Australia since 1996. He works as an artistic director of SymbioticA, which he also co-founded. Together with Ionat Zurr he founded the Tissue Culture & Art Project. From 2000–2001 he was a Research Fellow at the Tissue Engineering and Organ Fabrication Laboratory at Harvard Medical School. He has also worked with numerous other bio-medical laboratories in several different countries.
Works.
Victimless Leather – a prototype of a stitch-less jacket, grown from cell cultures into a layer of tissue supported by a coat shaped polymer layer. This is a sub-project of the Tissue Culture & Art Project where the artists are growing a leather jacket without killing any animals. Growing the victimless leather problematizes the concept of garment by making it semi-living. This artistic grown garment is intended to confront people with the moral implications of wearing parts of dead animals for protective and aesthetic reasons and confronts notions of relationships with manipulated living systems.
Pig Wings Project with Ionat Zurr and Guy Ben-Ary was developed in 2000-2001 during a residency in the Tissue Engineering and Organ Fabrication Laboratory in Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School. The work used tissue engineering and stem cell technologies in order to grow pig bone tissue in the shape of these three sets of wings. The Pig Wings Project presents the first ever wing-shaped objects grown using living pig tissue. This absurd work presents ethical questions regarding a near future where semi-living objects (objects which are partly alive and partly constructed) exist together with philosophical concepts around inter-species organ transplantation. Along with the Center for Genomic Gastronomy he has hosted a live cooking show called Art Meat Flesh from 2012-2019. Art Meat Flesh has featured research scientist Mark Post and other scientists and philosophers tasting and debating the future of protein in the kitchen.


Grace Quintanilla

Grace Quintanilla (1967 - 2019, Mexico City, Mexico) was an artist, curator and producer working in the field of new media art and digital culture.
Biography.
Quintinilla studied at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in Dundee, Scotland in the Television and Electronic Imaging Course. She was a regular participant in the Interactive Screen programme of the Banff New Media Institute at The Banff Centre in Banff, Canada. She also received a Film/Video/Multimedia Fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation in 2002 for her interactive project "Bits of Memory". Quintanilla was director of Centro de Cultura Digital from 2012 until her death in 2019.


Paris Singer

Paris Eugene Singer (20 February 1867 – 24 June 1932) was an early resident of Palm Beach, Florida. He was 22nd of the 24 children of inventor and industrialist Isaac Singer of Singer Sewing Machine Company fame, from whom he inherited money; he has been described as a "man of luxury". Born in Paris, he married Cecilia Henrietta Augusta ("Lillie") Graham (b. Perth Australia, 6 June 1867; d. Paignton, 7 March 1951), who bore him five children. He had a tempestuous romance with famous dancer Isadora Duncan, whose career he helped, and with whom he had another son, Patrick (born 1910, drowned 1913). Singer Island, Florida, is named for him.
In 1917 Singer met the future Palm Beach architect Addison Mizner; they became "inseparable." It was through Singer's influence that Mizner arrived in Palm Beach on January 5, 1918, in part for his health; he was Singer's house guest (at 123 Peruvian Avenue). Mizner's first Florida project was transforming Singer's unimpressive "villa" into the Chinese Villa, in which Singer lived until the Everglades Club was completed in 1919.
Mizner said of Singer in 1917:
[He was] the cause of my existence for the next ten tears. He was the finest-looking man I ever saw; six feet, three or four, straight as a die, with a fine figure. At this time, he was fifty and looked forty.
He wrote later:
Paris was a strange, silent man, who loved to look on but hard to talk to unless you got him on his own subjects. At this time it was hospital work.
Singer had built a string of hospitals in England and France "for the war-wounded" (in the First World War). At the urging of Lady Randolph Churchill, he donated the use of his house at Oldway in Paignton to be used by the American Women's War Relief Fund as a military hospital. Deciding to build one in Palm Beach, after consulting with Mizner, he bought a large parcel of land on which the "Touchstone Convalescent Club" was to be built. He hired Mizner to build it, and Mizner moved to Palm Beach. Mizner purchased from him the "virtually inoperable pottery factory, 'Las Manos' ['The Hands']".
Paris Singer was the president of the Everglades Club, as the convalescent home soon became (the war had ended), and lived there in an apartment constructed for him. He planned on what became Singer Island a hotel, the Blue Heron, designed by Mizner, to be the most luxurious ever built, as part of a large new resort. An "aerial ferry" would connect it to the mainland, with 12 cable cars 136 feet above the water, since West Palm Beach refused to permit a bridge. It was the largest building Mizner ever designed. Because of the Florida real estate collapse of 1926 and its effects on Singer, the hotel was not completed. It was known as "Singer's Folly" until razed in 1940.
The real estate collapse also contributed to the end of Singer's close friendship with Mizner, which ended in 1927. The Everglades Club went into receivership, as Singer was unable to service the loans for which the club was collateral. He was arrested in April, 1928, at the Everglades Club, on charges of real estate fraud. A judge dismissed the charges three weeks later, but Singer, having been publicly humiliated, left Palm Beach immediately and never lived there again.
The stock market crash of 1929 further depleted his funds, and he spent his final years quietly with his wife and former nurse Joan Balsh in his Moorish house (since demolished) in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, France. He died in London.


VinylDisc

The VinylDisc is a combination of a digital layer, either in CD or DVD format, and an analog layer, which is a vinyl record, developed by the German company Optimal Media Production.
It consists of a silver layer containing CD or DVD and a black polyvinyl chloride layer (able to hold 3.5 minutes of audio on 33⅓ rpm) which can be played on a regular phonograph.
Examples of singles already released in the hybrid format are Paramore's "Misery Business", The Mars Volta's cover of "Candy and a Currant Bun" by Pink Floyd, the 2017 album "Hyakki Echo" by Merzbow and Fightstar's "Deathcar" which reportedly had a limited run of 3000 copies. A sample VinylDisc to promote this new format was given to visitors of the 2007 Popkomm, containing music by Jazzanova, where it was presented in September 2007.


The Princess and the Pauper

The Princess and the Pauper is a 1939 Technicolor cartoon sponsored film by Chevrolet. It features Nicky Nome, who also appeared in the previous Chevrolet films "A Coach for Cinderella" and "A Ride for Cinderella", as well as "Nicky Rides Again," "Peg-Leg Pedro" and "One Bad Knight". "The Princess and the Pauper" is in the public domain and runs for approximately ten minutes.
Plot summary.
A king offers his daughter's hand in marriage to the wealthiest suitor in the kingdom. She is wooed by the despicable wizard Ali Kazam, but falls for a pauper boy with a yo-yo. The boy is kicked out of the palace by the king's men, whereupon the diminutive magical creature Nicky Nome appears to help him, giving him a flying carpet to travel to a valley of jewels. When Ali Kazam attacks on a vulture, Nicky gradually transforms the carpet into a Chevrolet motor car.


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Java API for XML Messaging

The Java API for XML Messaging (JAXM) enables distributed software applications to communicate using XML (and SOAP). JAXM supports both asynchronous and synchronous messaging.
JAXM is one of the Java XML programming APIs
Overview.
The Java API for XML Messaging (JAXM) enables developers to use XML messaging using the Java platform. Developers can create and send XML messages over the internet using the JAXM API.
Also, Java API for XML Messaging has several advantages over Remote Procedure Call such as the following:
The complete JAXM API comes with two packages:
Messages.
Messages in JAXM are XML messages that follow the prescribed SOAP format and standards. There are two main types of SOAP messages: those that have attachments and those that do not. For example, if you want your message to contain an image, you must send an attachment with the message. The SAAJ API provides the AttachmentPart class for attachments in SOAP messages.
Connections.
A connection is required to send and receive all SOAP messages. The connection can go to a messaging provider or a particular destination.
The JAXM API provides the class and interface to represent two kinds of connections:
SOAP Connection.
A SOAPConnection is a point-to-point connection for sending messages directly to a remote party. A SOAPConnection object, which represents a point-to-point connection, is simple to create and use. You do not have to do any configuration to use a SOAPConnection object because it does not need to run in a servlet container (like Tomcat) or in a J2EE server. It is the only way for a client to have a connection without a service provider.
Provider Connection.
A ProviderConnection object represents a connection to a messaging provider. (The next section explains more about messaging providers.) When you send a message via a ProviderConnection object, the message goes to the messaging provider. The messaging provider forwards the message, following the message's routing instructions, until the message gets to the ultimate recipient's messaging provider, which in turn forwards the message to the ultimate recipient.
Messaging Providers.
A messaging provider keeps track of messages and routes them to the correct destination or destinations. It is a service that handles the transmission and routing of messages.
When to use a Messaging Provider.
A JAXM client may or may not use a messaging provider. Generally, you do not need a messaging provider if you just want to be a consumer of Web services.
Some limitations of not using a messaging provider are the following:
The client can send only request-response messages
The client can act in the client role only
Some advantages to not using a messaging provider are the following:


Katherine Kealoha

Katherine Puana Kealoha is a former First Deputy Prosecutor with the City and County of Honolulu and a convicted felon. She resigned from the position of deputy prosecutor in September 2017 after she and her husband Louis Kealoha were indicted on eight counts of bank fraud. Her husband is a former Chief of Police.
Education.
Kealoha grew up in Kahalu‘u, on the windward side of Oahu. She attended high school at the Mid-Pacific Institute. She obtained a bachelor's degree in political science and a master's degree in Criminal Justice Administration at Chaminade University. Kealoha attended the William S. Richardson School of Law at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and received a Juris Doctorate.
Career.
Kealoha worked at the Law Offices of Katherine Kealoha and Associates between 2000 and 2006. Kealoha was appointed as the director of the state Office of Environmental Quality Control in 2009 by then-governor of Hawaii, Linda Lingle. Kealoha’s last position was an appointment as the second highest ranking prosecutor in the City and County of Honolulu under Keith Kaneshiro.
Legal issues.
Civil case.
In 2011, Kealoha was accused of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from her grandmother, Florence Puana. Kealoha's grandmother and uncle, Gerard Puana filed a civil suit against Kealoha based on the accusations. Kealoha won the civil suit against her grandmother and uncle.
Mailbox theft incident.
On June 22, 2013 Kealoha reported to the Honolulu Police that her mailbox was stolen from her home in Kahala. Kealoha alleged that her uncle Gerard could be seen stealing the mailbox on video taken via her home surveillance system. After having the case transferred from Honolulu Police, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service determined that the man in the video was not Gerard Puana. On July 1, 2013, Gerard Puana was charged by federal prosecutors with destroying a mailbox. Puana's trial began on December 4, 2014. While testifying against Puana, Kealoha's husband, Louis Kealoha perpetuated a mistrial by informing the jury about Puana's former criminal conviction. In December 2013, Niall Silva a retired policeman from the Honolulu Police Department, pleaded guilty to conspiring with Katherine Kealoha to frame Gerard Puana.
On June 27, 2019, Kealoha was convicted of federal conspiracy and obstruction of justice charges.
In January 2020, Kealoha was scheduled for trial on allegations of bank fraud and identity theft. In October 2019, Kealoha pled guilty to bank fraud, aggravated identity theft and drug charges as part of a plea arrangement.
On November 30, 2020 she was sentenced to 13 years in Federal prison.


Emanuel Viktor Voska

Emanuel Viktor Voska, born 1875 in Kutná Hora, Bohemia, died April 1, 1960 in Ruzyně prison in Prague, Czechoslovakia, U.S. intelligence agency officer (World War I and World War II) who died in Czechoslovak prison.
Before and during World War I he worked extensively with Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (1850–1937), first President of the Czechoslovakia. His intelligence activities are credited with the exposure of the Hindu–German Conspiracy. In 1917, Voska was one of four Czech patriots who traveled to Petrograd with the British author Somerset Maugham, who was then working as a British intelligence agent, on a secret mission with the objectives of propping up the Provisional Government in Russia and preventing them from concluding a unilateral peace treaty with Germany. Voska was also instrumental in preventing the efforts of German agent Franz von Rintelen to restore Victoriano Huerta to the Mexican presidency during World War I.


Margaret Rhee

Margaret Rhee is a feminist experimental poet, new media artist, and scholar. Her research focuses on technology, and intersections with feminist, queer, and ethnic studies. She has a special interest on digital participatory action research and pedagogy.
Poetry.
Her chapbook "Yellow" was published in 2011 by Tinfish Press/University of Hawaii. In 2016, she published "Radio Heart; or, How Robots Fall Out of Love" with Finishing Line Press. In 2017, her poetry collection "Love, Robot" was published by The Operating System.
She currently serves as managing editor of "Mixed Blood," a literary journal on race and experimental poetry published out of the University of California, Berkeley. She co-edited the collections "Here is a Pen: An Anthology of West Coast Kundiman Poets " (Achiote Press) and online anthology "Glitter Tongue: queer and trans love poems." Her poetry has been published at the "Berkeley Poetry Review, Lantern Review: A Journal of Asian American Poetry," and "Mission At Tenth."
Research and Teaching.
Her scholarship has been published at "Amerasia Journal", "Information Society", and "Sexuality Research and Social Policy". As a digital activist and new media artist she is co-lead and conceptualist of From the Center a feminist HIV/AIDS digital storytelling education project implemented in the San Francisco Jail. For this project, she was awarded the Chancellor’s Award in Public Service from UC Berkeley and the Yamashita Prize Honorable Mention for young activists by the Center for Social Change. She currently serves on the board of directors for social justice organizations, DataCenter and the Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project.
She was the Institute of American Cultures Visiting Researcher in Asian American Studies at UCLA for 2014 - 2015. From 2004 - 2006, she worked as an editor for publications "YOLK Magazine", "Chopblock.com", and "Backstage".
Currently, she is a College Fellow at Harvard University in the Department of English, and Assistant Professor at SUNY Buffalo in the Department of Media Study.
Education.
Rhee holds a Ph.D. from the University of California Berkeley in Ethnic Studies with a designated emphasis in New Media Studies. She received her B.A. in English/Creative Writing from the University of Southern California.


Geoffrey Baron (priest)

Reverend Monsignor Geoffrey (Geoff) Baron was the Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He served in a number of Melbourne parishes and was a celebrant on Mass For You At Home for 30 years.
In 2006, he was captured on video dealing with a group of trespassers, after he told them to get off the church property and they refused to leave. Footage of the incident was posted on YouTube, but did not receive widespread attention until July 2007 when Australian media noticed it. The video indicates that he subjected a group of trespassing skateboarders to both verbal insult and physical force in an attempt to remove them from the property.
The Catholic Church apologised for Fr Baron's actions and he was granted leave from his duties at the Cathedral while the situation was considered. A children's rights spokesperson said Baron's comments were disturbing, and recommended he enrol in an anger management course. Fr Baron also publicly apologised on local radio and has been condemned almost universally both from within and outside the Church. No charges were brought, however, as he acted in self-defence and was legally justified.
Further videos have since come to light also showing Fr Baron swearing and physically intimidating skateboarders around St Patrick's Cathedral.
On Tuesday, 21 August 2007, it was announced that Monsignor Baron "freely and spontaneously resigned".


Patti Moreno

Patti Moreno, born in New York City, is an independent film producer and television personality best known for her work as Garden Girl on the hit web video series Garden Girl TV. Living and working in Boston, Patti published the hit website and e-newsletter "Urban Sustainable Living" from 2007-2011. Her goal is to pioneer the idea of gardening in small or urban environments, and to inspire and educate people everywhere to grow their own organic food and live sustainably. She is also the co-host of Growing a Greener World, author for "Fine Gardening", and gardening expert for HGTV.
Education.
Moreno graduated from Boston University with a degree in film and video production.
Career.
In 1997, she produced her first film, Squeeze, which was written and directed by her husband, Robert Patton-Spruill. Moreno went on to produce Spruill's next two films, Turntable (2005) and Public Enemy: Welcome to the Terrordome (2008), a documentary on the rap group Public Enemy, and co-produced Do It Again (2010), a documentary about a Boston Globe reporter's quest to reunite the classic rock band The Kinks.
Garden Girl.
After the birth of her daughter in 1996, Moreno was 70 pounds overweight and used gardening as a way to get back in shape. Having just moved into a new home in Roxbury, Massachusetts, Moreno developed gardening methods for an urban environment instead of maintaining a lawn, incorporating the ideas of container gardening, vertical gardening, and Square foot gardening to get the most results from the least space. Moreno refined her technique and called it "urban sustainable living". This concept covers all aspects of urban farming, from planting and maintaining crops to raising small livestock.
She combined her film background with her gardening skills to lay the groundwork for her website, Garden Girl TV, on which she posted short, how-to videos on urban gardening methods. Her videos touch not only on gardening, but also on cooking, water gardens, aquaculture, crafts and livestock.
In 2007, Moreno filmed the first season of Garden Girl TV. She has since made over 200 videos, and released two feature-length gardening DVDs – Square Foot Gardening (2010) and Urban Sustainable Living (2008). Patti is currently shooting the first season of a new TV series Gardening By Cuisine (2012), producing videos for HGTV.com and HGTVpro.com, and she is writing a book on urban sustainable living to accompany the series.
In 2010, Moreno appeared in a 16 part Gardening series for HGTV.com and released her book "Gardening By Cuisine" based on her web series Garden Girl TV in 2013.
With the success of Garden Girl TV, Moreno started 617Digital, a boutique production company making branded entertainment videos for Scripps Networks.