Lucien Lelong

Lucien Lelong (; 11 October 1889 – 11 May 1958) was a French couturier who was prominent from the 1920s to the 1940s.
Career.
Born in Paris as the son of Arthur Lelong, the owner of a textile shop, he trained at the Hautes Etudes de Commerciales in Paris and opened his fashion house in the early 1910s. The first Lelong designs were featured in "Vogue" magazine in 1913. Poor health caused the end of his career; Lelong retired from couture on August, 1948, only continued his perfume business.
Lelong did not actually create the garments that bore his label. "He did not design himself, but worked through his designers," wrote Christian Dior, who was a member of the Lelong team from 1941 until 1946, during which time he created the collections in collaboration with Pierre Balmain. "Nevertheless," Dior continued, "in the course of his career as couturier his collections retained a style which was really his own and greatly resembled him." Other designers who worked for Lelong included Nadine Robinson and Hubert de Givenchy.
Clientele.
Among Lelong's clients were Marie Duhamel, Nora Barnacle wife of James Joyce, Jeanne Ternisien (wife of the banker Georges Nelze), the Duchess de la Rochefoucauld, Greta Garbo, Gloria Swanson, Colette, and Rose Kennedy.
Marriages.
Lelong was married three times. His wives were:
Death.
Lelong died of a stroke in Anglet, France.


Carlo Leva

Carlo Leva (27 February 1930 – 4 April 2020) was an Italian production designer.
Biography.
After beginning his career as second assistant art director in Genoa on the set of "The Walls of Malapaga", Leva studied Architecture in Rome, specializing in production design, costume design and set decoration for movies and advertising.
In 1962, Leva was hired as assistant art director on Robert Aldrich's "Sodom and Gomorrah", where he met second unit director Sergio Leone, who later hired him as assistant art director on "A Fistful of Dollars", "For a Few Dollars More" and "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" and as set decorator on "Once Upon a Time in the West". He befriended also director Enzo Muzii, with whom he worked on movies such as "Something Like Love", and later worked with many other directors, such as Federico Fellini, Dario Argento (for "The Cat o' Nine Tails") and Carol Reed.
In 2017, Leva took part in the documentary film "Sad Hill Unearthed", narrating the reconstruction of the cemetery scene of "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly".
Death.
Leva died in Alessandria on 4 April 2020, at the age of 90, due to a sudden illness.


Kalpana Shah

Kalpana Shah (born 30 November 1948) is an Indian sari draper, stylist, author, and entrepreneur. She resides at Altamount Road, Mumbai, India. She has practiced the art of sari draping since 1985. She gives sari draping lessons and workshops and drapes saris for formal events.
Personal life.
Kalpana Shah was born in a Gujarati Jain family of jewelers. She spent her early childhood in Surat, Gujarat. At the age of 10, she and her family moved to Mumbai, Maharashtra where she finished her schooling and few years of college.
Career.
Kalpana trained as a Bharat Natyam dancer, performing live shows in many parts of India. She married at 23. Kalpana then took courses in beauty and grooming. Kalpana noted that many women were not comfortable in draping their saris and began to focus her career on the fashion industry. She has assisted Bollywood productions, fashion shows, and private events for sari draping.
Kalpana Shah has draped saris for Bollywood Celebrities such as Deepika Padukone, Aishwarya Rai, Sonam Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor, Katrina Kaif, Nargis Fakhri, Huma Qureshi and Jacqueline Fernandez.
She has draped for weddings and formal functions for various business houses including the Birlas, Hindujas, Dhoots, Ruias, Ambanis, Goels, Wadias, and the Mittals of Delhi and London.
Her book "The Whole 9 Yards" was published in 2012, and followed by an app "Learn Sari" in 2014.


Davis Chenault

Davis Chenault is a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games.
Career.
Davis Chenault and his brother Stephen Chenault wanted to publish a 300-page leather bound campaign setting. When Stephen learned that Mac Golden was thinking of publishing a gaming magazine called "The Seeker", they formed Troll Lord Games with Davis Chenault and published a set of "universal" adventures, and they prepared three of them for Gen Con 33: "After Winter's Dark" (2000), a 24-page book describing the campaign setting of Erde; "The Mortality of Green" (2000), an Erde adventure; "Vakhund: Into the Unknown" (2000), an adventure for the campaign setting of Inzae and also the first part of a trilogy. The Chenaults published their campaign setting, in the "Codex of Erde" (2001), although it was not quite 200 pages and not leather-bound. Gary Gygax wrote to the Chenaults to thank them for their gift of Troll Lord's first RPG supplements at Gen Con 33, and their conversation eventually led to Gygax offering to write books for Troll Lord. Davis Chenault's "Bergholt I: By Shadow of Night" (2003) was a companion book intended to kick off a trilogy of adventures set in Inzae but the sequels have never seen print. When Troll Lord Games published their "Castles & Crusades" role-playing game, the Chenaults reprinted some of their classics, such as "I1: Vakhund: Into the Unknown" (2006). When Gary Gygax died in 2008, Troll Lord Games lost the licenses to all of his works, but the Chenaults continue to remember his legacy and his part in the success of their company with a memorial on their main web page.


Alain Wegmann

Alain Wegmann (born 1957) is a Swiss computer scientist, professor of Systemic Modeling at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), and Information Technology and Services consultant, known for the development of the Systemic Enterprise Architecture Methodology (SEAM).
Biography.
Wegmann received his EE (Engineer's degree) degree at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in 1981, and his Ph.D. in office automation at Paris VI University in France in 1984.
In 1984 Wegmann started his career at Logitech in Romanel, Switzerland, where he kept working for 14 years in Switzerland, Taiwan and the US. At Logitech he moved up from software developer, IS manager, manufacturing engineering to vice president engineering and marketing director. In 1996 he returned to his alma mater, where he became professor Systemic Modeling.
Wegmann has been conference program member of the Requirement Engineering Conference in 2006, steering committee member of the EDOC Conference in 2009 and conference program member of UML Conference in 2009. He is member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the engineering academy (SATW) of the Swiss Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Work.
Wegmann's research interests and expertise are in the fields of "strategic thinking, marketing, enterprise architecture, requirements engineering, service-oriented architecture".
Publications.
Wegmann published a series of articles starting in the new millennium A selection.


Vernon Dalhart

Marion Try Slaughter (April 6, 1883 – September 14, 1948), better known by his stage name Vernon Dalhart, was an American country music singer and songwriter. His recording of the classic ballad "Wreck of the Old 97" was the first country song to sell one million copies.
Biography.
Dalhart was born in Jefferson, Texas on April 6, 1883. He took his stage name from two towns, Vernon and Dalhart in Texas, between which he punched cattle as a teenager in the 1890s. Dalhart's father, Robert Marion Slaughter, was killed by his brother-in-law, Bob Castleberry, when Vernon was age 10. When Dalhart was 12 or 13, the family moved from Jefferson to Dallas, Texas.
He sang and played harmonica and jaw harp at local community events and attended the Dallas Conservatory of Music. He married Sadie Lee Moore-Livingston in 1901 and had two children, a son and a daughter. In 1910, he moved the family to New York City, where he worked in a piano warehouse and took occasional singing jobs.
Music career.
Dalhart's education was rooted in classical music. He wanted to be an opera singer, and in 1913 he got parts in "Madame Butterfly" and "H.M.S. Pinafore". He saw an advertisement in the local newspaper for singers and applied. He was auditioned by Thomas Alva Edison and went on to record for Edison Records. From 1916 until 1923, he made over 400 recordings of light classical music and early dance band vocals for various record labels.
In the 1920s and 1930s, he sang on more than 5000 singles (78s) for many labels, employing more than 100 pseudonyms, such as Al Craver, Vernon Dale, Frank Evans, Hugh Lattimer, Sid Turner, George White (with original Memphis Five) and Bob White. On Grey Gull Records, he often used the name "Vel Veteran", which was also used by other singers, including Arthur Fields. He was already an established singer when he made his first country music recordings.
Dalhart stated in a 1918 interview amidst criticism of his accent seeming artificial, "When you are born and brought up in the South your only trouble is to talk any other way...the 'sure 'nough Southerner' talks almost like a Negro, even when he's white. I've broken myself of the habit, more or less, in ordinary conversation, but it still comes pretty easy."
Hits.
Dalhart had a hit single with his 1924 recording of "The Wreck of the Old 97", a classic American ballad about the derailment of "Fast Mail" train No. 97 near Danville, Virginia in 1903. Recorded for the Victor Talking Machine Company, the song alerted the national record companies to the existence of a sizable market for country-music vocals. It became the first Southern song to become a national success. With "The Prisoner's Song" as the b-side, the single eventually sold as many as seven million copies, a huge number for recording in the 1920s. It was awarded a gold disc by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and was the biggest-selling, non-holiday record in the first 70 years of recorded music. Joel Whitburn, a statistician for "Billboard" magazine, determined that "The Prisoner's Song" was No. 1 hit for twelve weeks in 1925–26.
One of the recordings most associated with Vernon Dalhart, especially in the United Kingdom is his 1925: "The Runaway Train" (Talking Machine Co., Camden, New Jersey, Victor 19685-A, Shellac). This was played on BBC Radio's 'Children's Favourites' between 1954-1982 and even now almost every compilation of children's records in the UK includes this timeless favourite.
Wanting to repeat the success of the single, the Victor Company sent Ralph Peer to the southern mountains in 1927 to facilitate the Bristol Sessions. These sessions led to the discovery of singer Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family, after which Peer's royalty model would become the standard of the music industry.
Death.
Dalhart died in Bridgeport, Connecticut on September 14, 1948.
Discography.
Albums


Patrol cap

A patrol hat, also known as a field cap, is a soft kepi with a stiff, rounded visor, and flat top, somewhat similar to a baseball cap, worn by the military personnel of some countries in the field when a combat helmet is not required.
History.
U.S. Military.
M1951 Field Cap and Ridgeway Cap.
The M1951 Field Cap, introduced with the M1951 Uniform, was a derivative of the M1943 Field Cap, part of the M1943 Uniform. The M1951 cap was worn in the Korean War, where it became known as the "patrol cap" by the US Army Rangers there. It was constructed of wind-resistant olive drab cotton poplin, and had a flannel wool panel that folded down to cover the ears and the back of the head. It was soft enough to be worn underneath an M-1 helmet. After the Korean War, the cap was replaced by the Ridgeway Cap, a stiffened version of the M1951 made by Falcon and known as the "Jump Up cap". The hat became famous outside America after being worn by Fidel Castro. The patrol cap was replaced altogether in 1962 with a baseball-like "Cap, Field (Hot Weather)" and during the Vietnam War by the boonie hat.
In 1980 the Army introduced the Battle Dress Uniform (BDU) which featured a patrol cap similar to the M1951 Field Cap, including the wool panel to cover the ears, except it was in Woodland camouflage. The BDU was replaced, starting in 2004, with the Army Combat Uniform (ACU).
Starting on June 14, 2001, Army Chief of Staff General Eric Shinseki made the black beret the standard headgear for Soldiers in the garrison environment. On June 14, 2011, the M1951/ACU soft patrol cap became once again the primary headgear for all Soldiers as the duty uniform headgear after a 10-year hiatus in favor of the beret, according to Army Directive 2011-11.
Modern patrol caps.
In 1981, following the introduction of the M81 Battle Dress Uniform, the patrol cap was reintroduced. The patrol cap continues to be worn with the Army Combat Uniform, introduced in 2004. The materials are 50% cotton, 50% nylon blend. It has been available in different variants and patterns, such as hot weather models which have eliminated the ear flaps.
Patterns have included US Woodland, Six color desert camouflage, Three color desert camouflage, Universal Camouflage Pattern, and Operational Camouflage Pattern. The ACU patrol cap features a velcro-backed patch on the back with the soldier's name printed on it and a small internal pocket, the soldier's rank insignia is pinned on the front, as seen in the image below.
Israel Defense Forces.
This style of military uniform cap was worn by the founded in January 1948 which was named for the British Army's Zion Mule Corps of the World War I, a forerunner of the Jewish Legion. The IDF adopted the "Kova Hitelmacher" [: hatmaker's cap] for soldiers' uniforms in its early years.


David Hackl

David Hackl (born February 7, 1963, in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian film director and production designer.
Life and career.
Hackl was the production designer and second unit director for "Saw II", "Saw III" and "Saw IV"; as well as for "Repo! The Genetic Opera". He was in talks to direct "Saw IV", but Darren Lynn Bousman returned as the director. Later it was reported that Hackl would direct both "Saw V" and "Saw VII", but eventually he only directed "Saw V", while "Saw VII" was directed by Kevin Greutert, the editor of all of the "Saw" films to date, who also directed "Saw VI". Despite negative critical reviews and mixed fan reviews, his direction in "Saw V" has been referred to by "Digital Spy" as "slick direction". Hackl directed Jeff Reher's speculative script "Endangered" and was set to direct the film adaption of the novel "The Butcher Bride".


Torii Kotondo

Torii Kotondo (, 21 November 1900 – 13 July 1976) or Torii Kiyotada V () was a Japanese painter and woodblock printer of the Torii school of ukiyo-e artists. He followed his school's tradition of making prints of kabuki actors ("yakusha-e") and involvement with commercial work for kabuki theater. His twenty-one "bijin-ga" (pictures of beautiful women) are particularly celebrated.
Life and career.
Kotondo was born Saitō Akira () in the Nihonbashi district of Tokyo. , the seventh head of the Torii school of ukiyo-e artists, adopted Kotondo at age 15 and trained him in the school's specialty producing "yakusha-e", portraits of kabuki actors. Kotondo studied painting under the "yamato-e" painter from 1914 and under Kiyokata Kaburagi from 1918. Most of Kotondo's woodblock prints date from 1927 to 1933.
Kiyokata influenced Kontodo's "bijin-ga" portraits along with "shin hanga" designers Goyō Hashiguchi and Itō Shinsui. In 1925 he exhibited some of his "bijin-ga" at the Inten exhibition. He designed twenty-one prints of bijin-ga which typically were sold in the United States. Seventeen of Kontodo's prints were shown at the seminal shin hanga exhibition at the Toledo Museum of Art in 1936.
Authorities considered Kotondo's print "Morning Hair" of 1930 provocative and banned it after seventy of its hundred copies had sold and had the remaining thirty destroyed.
When Kiyotada died in 1941 Kotondo became the eighth head of the school and took the name Kiyotada V.
Kotondo lectured at Nihon University in Tokyo from 1966 to 1972. Collectors did not place high value on Kotondo's prints while he was alive; the prints have since appreciated in collectability and fetch prices comparable to those of the great masters.


Norell Oson Bard

Norell Oson Bard, a Swedish songwriting and production trio made up of Tim Norell, Ola Håkansson and Alexander Bard. They have been called Sweden's answer to Stock Aitken Waterman.
Norell Oson Bard's production output peaked the years around 1990, creating pop music and disco hits for Swedish artists.


Sangeeta Boochra

Sangeeta Boochra is an eponymous fashion label founded in 1994, named after Indian jewellery designer Sangeeta Boochra. The label is known for its traditional and tribal designer jewellery collections.
History & Description.
In 1897, Seth Kistoor Chand Boochra at Jaipur, India started "Bullion Trading Company," primarily dealing with the trading and conventional commerce of silver"." Seth Kistoor served as the president of the organization for four decades and he was known as 'The Silver King of India'. During 1960, his son Seth Lalit Kumar Boochra converted the bullion trading business into a jewellery manufacturing unit. In 1994, Sangeeta Boochra joined her father in law's business and created the label Sangeeta Boochra.
Sangeeta was born at Sujangarh, from where later she shifted with her family to Guwahati. She got married to Sudeep Boochra, who is a gem exporter and presently the director of Bullion association limited. From 2016, She is working as the managing director of both Silverr Centre and her eponymous fashion brand Sangeeta Boochra. Currently her son Abhineet Boochra serves as the one of the directors and the spoke person of the brand. The label presently has 45 stores pan India with three manufacturing units and design studios.
The jewelleries of Sangeeta Boochra are found to be worn and endorsed by several Hollywood and Bollywood actresses and celebrities. The jewellery label made appearances in Bolywood movies like Luka Chuppi, Veere Di Wedding, The Zoya Factor etc. The label first appeared at Lakme Fashion Week in 2011.


Grey Organisation

The Grey Organisation (GO) was an artist collective active from 1983 to 1991. GO worked in several media including film and video and participated in over 20 international exhibitions.
In January 1985 the group committed an act of 'art terrorism' by smuggling one of its paintings into the International Contemporary Arts Fair in London. The following year it mounted an attack on Cork Street, then the centre of the London art world, splashing grey paint on the windows of a number of galleries. After this, members of the group were arrested and for a time banned from central London. This resulted in them relocating to New York City where they exhibited at The Civilian Warfare Gallery in the East Village. The members of the group were Toby Mott, Daniel Saccoccio, Tim Burke and Paul Spencer.Their activities and attitude towards the traditional British art establishment greatly influenced The Young British Artists from 1988 onwards.
Biography.
After moving to Bow in East London, Toby Mott and childhood friends Daniel Saccoccio, Tim Burke and Paul Spencer formed Grey Organisation in 1982 as a response to the "prevailing Thatcherite free market consumerist culture". GO's origins can be found in the Punk movement and 1970s' youth politics, the quartet having been members of the Anarchist Street Army. They eschewed the more common anarcho-aesthetic opting instead to dress uniformly in grey suits, with heads shaved in a parody of yuppie and Soviet "corporate monoculture".
On 28 July 1984, GO organised a live concert for Psychic TV. It took place in a derelict circular building in Drayton Park, London and was recorded live and released as Temporary Temple. The same year, GO directed the film "Grey Moments".
In 1985, GO began a series of direct art-actions; launching attacks on the International Contemporary Arts Fair in London by sneaking paintings into the fair; and an attack on Cork Street covering some of London’s most famous galleries in grey paint "arguably something inherited from the strategies of disobedience of May '68 Paris, culled from the heroism of Guy Debord". In a press release GO justified the attacks on Cork Street, describing the galleries established there as "boring and lifeless" and stating they "intended to liven up their lives a bit!". The attack took place on Tuesday 21 May 1985, somewhere between midnight and 6am. Members of the Grey Organisation were later arrested, released on bail and banned from central London, but when prosecuted at Well Street Magistrates' court, pleaded 'Not Guilty' and were released without charge. Subsequently, in 1986, GO moved to New York to escape further attempts at prosecution.
In 1986, GO took part in the exhibition "Money" organised by J. S. G. Boggs, the notorious banknote-copying artist, at the Young Unknowns Gallery. The exhibition was raided by police and works, including those by GO, were confiscated.
"In the England of the 1980s, there were others creating their own vision reacting to the prevailing Thatcherite free market consumerist culture. Psychic Youth, Test Department. Laibach. My own involvement was with the art, filmmaking group the Grey Organization. We parodied yuppie and Soviet corporate monoculture with our uniformed anonymity, shaved heads, white shirts, English suits, making and exhibiting art as product without individual authorship, something inspired from the rigorous orthodoxy of Crass".
From the essay 'Crass, an education' by Toby Mott, Crass 1977–1984, PPP Editions, 2011.
Fashion and PR.
GO’s image of uniformed anonymity, shaved heads, white shirts, and grey English suits were key to the GO manifesto. They stated that wearing suits afforded them the respect necessary in the 1999, but shunned the wearing of ties stating, "We wear no ties. All those who see themselves as dissidents in society do like-wise".
GO's recognition began to grow outside of the art world when Lynne Franks launched the Grey Organisation into the 1980s world of PR; modelling for Katharine Hamnett at the Albert Hall and Yohji Yamamoto in Paris; supporting Red Wedge; meeting Neil Kinnock at the Houses of Parliament; and promoting Swatch watches.
Red Wedge was underpinned by a party political broadcast in July 1985 aimed specifically at the young vote. It featured clips from Labour-organised rock concerts, including the performances of Billy Bragg, Aswad and the Communards, extracts from Neil Kinnock’s speeches and interviews with young men and women about the misery of unemployment. The Labour Party also commissioned designers Katharine Hammett, Bodymap and the Grey Organisation to design T-shirts for its "Jobs and Industry" campaign which largely concentrated on the plight of the young unemployed.
GO also appeared in the Derek Jarman film "The Angelic Conversation" and the Gilbert & George "Exister" pieces.
Album artwork.
In the 1980s, whilst living in New York, GO produced a series of album covers for Tommy Boy Records, including for De La Soul's "3 Feet High and Rising" and for the band Information Society; and made music videos for bands such as the Rolling Stones ("Mixed Emotions"), Public Enemy ("Shut 'Em Down"), and A Tribe Called Quest ("Can I Kick It").
In 2013, GO member Toby Mott was scheduled to exhibit a print edition of the original "3 Feet High and Rising" album art work, displayed alongside memorabilia such as Mott's original sketch, his gold disc, and other items from his private collection.
In an essay written to accompany the exhibition, Mott describes the process of designing the album cover: "De La Soul visit our loft where we lay them down on the floor facing up, their heads making a triangle. We photograph them whilst hanging precariously off a step ladder, one idea being that the cover would not have a right way up. CD's have yet to be the dominant musical format so the vinyl album sleeve is our most effective way of making a statement [...] The intent of the design of De La Soul's, "3 Feet High and Rising" LP cover is to be new and bright, with the overlaying of the fluorescent flowers and text reflecting a synthetic pop cartoon look [...] This is a move away from the prevailing macho hip hop visual codes which dominate to this day".
Identity.
The GO logo was stamped on everything the group produced, from artworks to manifestos, from clothing to communiqués.
The group also issued ID cards to all members, which included a portrait photograph, their names, date of birth, height, eye and hair colour, issue date and finger print.
After the Grey Organisation.
When GO disbanded in 1991, Toby Mott pursued a solo career exhibiting at White Columns NYC, The Thomas Soloman Garage, Los Angeles and Interim Art, London. He was for many years represented by the Maureen Paley Gallery.
He is also the founder of The Mott Collection. The collection has been exhibited at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León in March 2010. and the Haunch of Venison gallery (London) where it was accompanied by a major publication, "Loud Flash: British Punk on Paper".
In "A Punk's Journey", an essay by Mott which appears in "Loud Flash", he writes: "In 1977 my bedroom was covered in posters, flyers and shelves of records and fanzines, and when I left home these significant symbols of my past were stored away. In 1997 I returned from living in America and started to add to my collection. I appreciated the visual immediacy which never seemed tired or dated. The ideals of self empowerment, motivation, action and common cause are evident throughout [the collection]. To me they are the spirit of punk".


AHPL

A Hardware Programming Language (AHPL) is software developed at University of Arizona that has been used as a tool for teaching computer organization.
It was initially started as a set of notations for representation of computer hardware for academics, which is later started to be considered as a Hardware Description Language on development of compiler and simulator for it. This language describes a hardware functionality as flow of data between the ports or sub-modules.
The notation, syntax, and semantics were based on the APL programming language.


Richard Garfield

Richard Channing Garfield (born June 26, 1963) is an American mathematician, inventor, and game designer. Garfield created ', which is considered to be the first modern collectible card game (CCG). "Magic" debuted in 1993 and its success spawned many imitations. Garfield oversaw the successful growth of "Magic" and followed it with other game designs. Included in these are "Keyforge", "Netrunner", "BattleTech(CCG)", ', "Star Wars Trading Card Game", "The Great Dalmuti", "Artifact", and the board game "RoboRally". He also created a variation of the card game Hearts called Complex Hearts. Garfield first became passionate about games when he played the roleplaying game "Dungeons & Dragons", so he designed "Magic" decks to be customizable like roleplaying characters. Garfield and "Magic" are both in the Adventure Gaming Hall of Fame.
Early life, family and education.
Garfield was born in Philadelphia and spent his childhood in many locations throughout the world as a result of his father's work in architecture. His family eventually settled in Oregon when he was twelve. Garfield is the great-great-grandson of U.S. President James A. Garfield and his grand-uncle invented the paper clip. He is also the nephew of Fay Jones, who, already an established artist, illustrated one "Magic" card for him.
While Garfield always had an interest in puzzles and games, his passion was kick-started when he was introduced to "Dungeons & Dragons". Garfield designed his first game when he was 13.
In 1985, Garfield received a Bachelor of Science degree in computer mathematics. After college, he joined Bell Laboratories, but soon after decided to continue his education and attended the University of Pennsylvania, studying combinatorial mathematics for his PhD. Garfield studied under Herbert Wilf and earned a Ph.D. in combinatorial mathematics from Penn in 1993. His thesis was "On the Residue Classes of Combinatorial Families of Numbers". Shortly thereafter, he became a Visiting Professor of mathematics at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington.
Game design career.
Precursors and development of "Magic: the Gathering".
While searching for a publisher for "RoboRally", which he designed in 1985, Wizards of the Coast began talking to Garfield through Mike Davis, but the game looked too expensive for a new company like Wizards to produce. Peter Adkison of Wizards of the Coast expressed interest in a fast-playing game with minimal equipment, something that would be popular at a game convention. Adkison asked Garfield to develop a game that was cheaper to produce than "RoboRally", that might be more portable and even easy to carry around to conventions; Garfield did have an idea about combining baseball cards with a card game and began turning that rough idea into a complete game over the next week.
Garfield built on older prototypes of games that dated back to at least 1982, when he had created a "Cosmic Encounter"-inspired card game called "Five Magics." Garfield thus combined ideas from two previous games to invent the first trading card game, "". At first, Garfield and Adkison called the game "Manaclash," and worked on it in secret during Palladium's lawsuit against Wizards, protecting the game's intellectual property under a shell company called Garfield Games. Garfield began designing "Magic" as a Penn graduate student. Garfield's playtesters were mostly fellow Penn students.
Wizards of the Coast.
"Magic: The Gathering" launched in 1993. Playtesters began independently developing expansion packs, which were then passed to Garfield for his final edit. In June 1994, Garfield left academia to join Wizards of the Coast as a full-time game designer . Garfield managed the hit game wisely, balancing player experience with business needs and allowing other designers to contribute creatively to the game. With his direction, Wizards established a robust tournament system for "Magic", something that was new to hobby gaming.
Wizards finally published Garfield's "RoboRally" in 1994. Wizards published Garfield's '-based CCG "Jyhad" in 1994, but changed the name to ' in 1995 to avoid offending Muslims. "Netrunner" (1996) was Garfield's CCG based on "Cyberpunk 2020", where he included an element that made it an entirely asymmetrical game, with the two players having different cards, abilities, and goals. Wizards published the "BattleTech Collectible Card Game" in 1996, based on Garfield's design. Peter Adkison was developing a "Dungeons & Dragons" MMORPG based on a design from Garfield and Skaff Elias, but left Wizards in December 2000 after Hasbro sold the "D&D" computer rights and cancelled the project.
In 1999, Garfield was inducted into the Adventure Gaming Hall of Fame alongside "Magic". He was a primary play tester for the "Dungeons & Dragons" 3rd edition bookset, released by Wizards in 2000. He eventually left Wizards to become an independent game designer.
As an independent designer.
He still sporadically contributes to "". More recently, he has created the board games "Pecking Order" (2006) and "Rocketville" (2006). The latter was published by Avalon Hill, a subsidiary of Wizards of the Coast. He has shifted more of his attention to video games, having worked on the design and development of "Schizoid" and "Spectromancer" as part of Three Donkeys LLC. He has been a game designer and consultant for companies including Electronic Arts and Microsoft.
Garfield taught a class titled "The Characteristics of Games" at the University of Washington. It is now taught as part of the University of Washington's Certificate in Game Design.
Games designed.
A partial list of games designed by Garfield:


Heavy Metal Machines

Heavy Metal Machines (HMM) is a car battle MOBA video game developed and published by Hoplon Infotainment. "HMM" is a free to play game available on Steam, where teams of four highly armed machines battle on arenas with a post-apocalyptic scenario. The primary objective is to deliver a bomb on the enemy team base while trying to overcome your opponents and avoid the arena's hazards. The overall theme of the game is based on Heavy metal music and its culture. The game has been in production since 2013 and was officially launched on September 19, 2018.
One of the main inspirations for the game was the classic Rock'n'Roll Racing, originally released in 1993 for the Super NES and Sega Genesis, developed by Blizzard Entertainment (Interplay at that time), but also on arena games, such as the MOBAs Rocket League and Twisted Metal.
Gameplay.
Despite the MOBA label, Heavy Metal Machines does not follow the traditional genre mechanics, mainly because it does not have towers, lanes, and minions - which are essential in traditional MOBAs. Another thing that makes HMM stand out from other MOBA games is the speed of the game, where the battles happen with full power in the first few seconds in the match, and there's no need to level up your pilot during the game or build items to destroy your opponents and deliver the bomb.
To control the vehicle, the player uses the mouse to accelerate or reverse, and uses the keyboard to fire his weapons. The machine follows the direction your mouse dot is pointing, which is used to turn and to aim your weapons.
The objective of the game is to capture and deliver a bomb to the opponent's base. To do so, the player carrying the bomb must go through the whole circuit, with very sharp turns and hazards everywhere, such as lava (much damage per second) and "Droppers" (particular areas that force the character to drop the bomb if he goes through it). Players that are not carrying the bomb may take shortcuts through the course to help or destroy the carrier. These shortcuts are closed to the player carrying the bomb.
Roles.
All characters in the game are divided into one of three roles: Interceptor, Support or Transporter.
Arenas.
In "Heavy Metal Machines", the pilots battle for the bomb on three different arenas.
Pilots.
The characters of the game, called Pilots, have their lore and reasons to enter the arena. There are currently 17 characters in the game, and Hoplon - HMM's developer - will introduce new pilots and other contents on every season, which commonly happens every two months.
Metal League.
The Metal League is an in-game event that creates a tournament based on the teams’ score ranking, with a prize pool of €5,000 besides items in the game.
Basic Mechanics.
This system will work side by side with the Teams feature that's already in the game. Only subscribed teams will be able to take part. The tournaments in this new feature will be disputed in two phases: Qualifiers and Playoffs. To get in the brackets’ stage, the teams will need to score during the Qualifiers.
With this feature, the game will get a new exclusive queue that will be available only on Saturdays at specific hours. In other words, get a space on your schedule to play on Saturdays. The Metal League will follow the Metal Pass’ seasons, and the matches will be disputed on specific regions. The first season will roll out only in Europe, and on May the tournaments will also take place on the United States and Brazil servers.
Qualifiers Phase.
This phase will happen on Saturdays, more specifically, this Saturday 9th, from 14h to 20h GMT 0. In this first season, there will only be 6 qualifiers steps, and the 8 teams that achieve the highest score will automatically be in the Playoffs Phase of the tournament.
Playoffs Phase.
This is the final phase of the Metal League, where the 8 best teams from the qualifiers will fight for the prize money. If you’ve seen the European and South American Championships from 2017, the format will be similar to them. There won't be any queues, and the teams from the brackets will fight in custom matches. Here, the winners will be decided in best of three matches, with single eliminations.
Prizes.
The total prize is €5,000,00, shared between the 4 best teams from the brackets, like this:
Metal Pass.
Metal Pass is a system in which Heavy Metal Machines players have access to weekly challenges and in-game rewards, in addition to determining your account’s progression and Fame income so you can purchase characters and models.
Everyone participates automatically – and for free – in the Metal Pass, and upon overcoming each level, you can unlock rewards associated with it. Each step includes free rewards and, in the Premium version, special rewards themed on the season.
The Premium version guarantees you’ll receive the double amount of items per level, as well as making you progress faster through the season. It's obtained with Cash, a currency that can be purchased in the game’s Store.
Soundtrack.
The game has an original soundtrack of heavy metal music. Other than the tracks used on the menus, loading screens and during the matches, each character also has their own track, based on their favorite fictional music style.


Plush

Plush (from French ) is a textile having a cut nap or pile the same as fustian or velvet. Its softness of feel gave rise to the adjective "plush" to describe something soft or luxurious, which was extended to describe luxury accommodation, or something rich and full.
Originally the pile of plush consisted of mohair or worsted yarn, but now silk by itself or with a cotton backing is used for plush, the distinction from velvet being found in the longer and less dense pile of plush. The soft material is largely used for upholstery and furniture purposes, and is also much employed in dress and millinery.
Modern plush are commonly manufactured from synthetic fibres such as polyester. One of the largest uses of this fabric is in the production of stuffed toys, with small plush toys made from plush fabric, such as teddy bears, to the point these are often addressed as "plush toys" or "plushes". Plush is also one of the main materials for the construction of designer toys.


Jean Vodaine

Jean Vodaine (6 July 1921—8 August 2006), born Vladimir Kavčič, was a Franco-Slovenian poet, writer, typographer and painter who won many international awards. He was born July 6, 1921 in Volče, Slovenia. From the second half of the 19th century, Slovene lands experienced quite intense emigration. Some of the Slovene emigrants ended up in France, most of them in Lorraine, where they preserved their cultural life through societies. Writers were also among the emigrants, most significantly Vodaine. In a Lorrainian village, he founded the international literary magazine "Dire", which was famous for its luxurious typographical design. Vodaine was also a painter and a poet, as well as a prominent translator of Slovene poetry. Along with the painter Veno Pilon, he compiled a short anthology of translated Slovene poetry, but they unfortunately did not manage to realize their idea of a comprehensive anthology. Vodaine's poetic oeuvre consists of more than ten poetry collections that are stylistically fairly diverse, and he would often sing Lorraine's praises.


AXS TV

AXS TV (pronounced "access") is an American specialty television channel. Majority-owned by Anthem Sports & Entertainment, it is devoted primarily to live music programming, entertainment, and combat sports—including mixed martial arts and professional wrestling.
The network was originally established in 2001 as HDNet, with investor Mark Cuban as a founding partner. HDNet was originally intended as an exclusively-high-definition network, carrying general entertainment, concerts, and sporting events in the format. In 2012, with the network's original purpose becoming redundant (due to most mainstream cable networks now having HD feeds), HDNet sold stakes to Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG), Creative Artists Agency, and Ryan Seacrest (with Cuban retaining a majority stake), and rebranded under its current name (taken from AEG's online ticket platform AXS.com) on July 2, 2012—with the network shifting its content to include more entertainment and pop culture-oriented programming, alongside its existing live music content.
In September 2019, Anthem acquired a majority stake in AXS, with AEG and Cuban retaining minority stakes.
AXS TV is available to 50 million households in the United States as of December 2020.
History.
The network originally launched as HDNet on September 6, 2001, designed as a high definition-exclusive service under the ownership of HDNet, LLC, which then was co-owned by Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks, and Philip Garvin, owner of Colorado Studios and Mobile TV Group. Originally, the network aired a variety of programming, much of it male-oriented, prominently featuring series, sports events, and concert performances. In December 2001 and January 2002, HDNet aired exclusive HD coverage of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan with former CNN correspondent Peter Arnett. In February 2002, the network originated eight daily hours of high definition content from the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City; this feed was picked up by NBC and aired in 24-hour rotation on the digital signals of NBC's stations.
The channel gradually expanded its carriage to the satellite providers DirecTV and Dish Network, as well as the cable providers Charter Communications, Insight Communications, Mediacom, Suddenlink Communications, Verizon FiOS, and AT&T U-verse. On September 4, 2008, Cuban announced that the network had reached an agreement with Comcast to carry both HDNet and HDNet Movies in various markets. The provider began to carry HDNet in many major markets on September 30, 2010. In November 2009, DirecTV became the first provider to offer video-on-demand services of HDNet and HDNet Movies.
AXS TV.
On January 18, 2012, HDNet, LLC entered into a joint venture with entertainment company/promoter Anschutz Entertainment Group, media personality Ryan Seacrest, and talent agency Creative Artists Agency, in which AEG, CAA, and Ryan Seacrest Media would each purchase a share of the network, with Cuban retaining primary ownership. The network rebranded on July 2, 2012 as AXS TV, a name taken from AEG's ticket sales website AXS.com. With the purchase and rebranding, the channel gradually shifted focus to include a mix of entertainment news, lifestyle, pop culture and in-concert performance events.
Alongside the rebranding, Dish Network announced that it would expand the channel's distribution to customers who do not subscribe to an HD tier through a downconverted standard definition feed. The provider moved the network to channel 131 in the spring of 2012, increasing its carriage to at least 14 million Dish Network subscribers upon its relaunch as AXS TV. Through its relationship with AEG, AXS TV also planned to offer special promotions on concerts to Dish Network users who have subscribed to the channel. On February 14, 2013, CBS Corporation took a minority stake in the channel, in exchange for providing content and marketing (suggesting that the channel could air complementary programming for CBS-aired entertainment events such as the Grammy Awards).
In addition to carriage on cable, satellite and telco providers, AXS TV has been added to streaming media providers including Sling TV in October 2016, DirecTV Now when it debuted in November 2016, and Philo when it was launched in November 2017.
Sale to Anthem.
On September 9, 2019, the Canadian company Anthem Sports & Entertainment announced that it had acquired a majority stake in AXS TV and HDNet Movies. Mark Cuban and AEG will retain interests in the company as minority equity partners, while AEG will also continue to provide additional sales support for the network through its AEG Global Partnerships unit. Television personality Steve Harvey was also brought in as an additional financier and content partner.
Anthem's founder and owner Leonard Asper stated that there were no plans to make any major changes to AXS TV's scope of programming, as the company saw the channel as expanding its fields of business rather than wanting to turn it into "something we already have". Asper did not rule out the possibility of adding programming from Anthem's other properties when appropriate and complementary to its format; shortly after the purchase, it was announced that "Impact!"—the weekly flagship program of the company's professional wrestling promotion, Impact Wrestling—would move from minority-owned sister network Pursuit Channel to AXS TV. Asper, who previously managed Canwest prior to its bankruptcy, operated several channels in a similar format such as X-Treme Sports and CoolTV.
The sale resulted in the layoff of 40 employees, consisting mainly of redundancies with Anthem staff.
Programming.
AXS TV primarily airs music-oriented series with a particular focus on the Rock and Pop genres. Such programming includes documentaries, interviews, panel shows and concerts. AXS also airs combat sports programming, including Invicta Fighting Championships, and Anthem-owned professional wrestling promotion Impact Wrestling.
Programming History.
As HDNet.
Original programming on HDNet included news programs such as the "HDNet World Report" and "Dan Rather Reports", a weekly newsmagazine hosted by former "CBS Evening News" anchor Dan Rather; coverage of Space Shuttle launches; and male-oriented series such as "Ultimate Trailer Show." HDNet also featured uncensored and unrated shows during late-night hours, such as "Art Mann Presents", "Bikini Destinations" and "Girls Gone Wild Presents: Search for the Hottest Girl in America". In October 2011, HDNet picked up "Goodnight Burbank", the network's first scripted half-hour comedy. Originally created for the web, the show starred Hayden Black, Laura Silverman and Dominic Monaghan. HDNet's programming also included off-network reruns of series such as "Smallville", "Andy Richter Controls the Universe", "JAG", "" and "Arrested Development".
HDNet also aired sporting events, including coverage of the National Hockey League from 2001 to 2008 and Major League Soccer; select motor sports events, including Champ Car live broadcasts in 2004, highlights from the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series and races from regional circuits; mixed martial arts, through Cuban's HDNet Fights promotion; the weekly series "Inside MMA", which featured highlights and coverage from various MMA promotions; and Indiana University's Little 500 Bicycle Race. From 2009 to 2011, HDNet also aired weekly programming from professional wrestling promotion Ring of Honor, and served as a television partner of the United Football League, primarily airing the league's Saturday night games. The network dropped UFL coverage prior to the 2011 season.
Following its July 2012 re-launch, AXS TV continued to air several programs carried over from HDNet, including "Dan Rather Reports", MMA events (under the AXS TV Fights banner), movies, and off-network series. However, the channel began to gradually shift its focus towards "music, pop culture and lifestyle-oriented" programming, such as concerts, and general entertainment.
Concerts and music festivals.
As part of its music programming lineup, AXS TV broadcasts a wide variety of concert events from across the country and around-the-world. This includes a Sunday night concert series featuring performances from artists such as Carrie Underwood, Led Zeppelin, Neil Young and Elton John; themed artists takeovers, highlighting a variety of bands in day-long blocks that feature music videos, concert performances, interviews and more, with notable takeovers from Slash and Matchbox Twenty; as well as other live and taped music events such as the Classic Rock Roll of Honour Awards tribute to Gregg Allman and The Doors, hosted by Sammy Hagar and the live broadcast of the 2014 Farm Aid music festival that featured performances by Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp, and Dave Matthews.
In 2014, AXS TV broadcast the inaugural Alternative Press Music Awards, hosted by Mark Hoppus. The award show returned to AXS TV on July 22, 2015 hosted by Alex Gaskarth and Jack Barakat of All Time Low and featuring performances from Weezer, Panic! at the Disco, and Simple Plan among others.
Concert specials in 2017 included Queen, Willie Nelson & Merle Haggard, Def Leppard, Jennifer Nettles, Mavis Staples, Robert Plant, Kenny Loggins, and Ringo Starr.
AXS TV celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love with a month-long event in August 2017 with concerts honoring the music of The Grateful Dead and Jerry Garcia and documentaries profiling artists of the time period such as Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and The Doors. The network also premiered a new documentary about the social phenomenon, eponymously titled "Summer of Love", on August 12, 2017.
Concert specials premiered in 2018 included: Sammy Hagar, Poison, Santana, Farm Aid, Charlie Daniels, Trace Adkins' Guitar Legends for Heroes, The 2018 BRIT Awards and more.
AXS TV announced the premiere of "America Salutes You: Guitar Legends II" on Sunday, March 31, starring Sammy Hagar, Billy Gibbons, Dave Navarro, Robby Krieger, Stephen Stills, Joe Bonamassa, Orianthi and more. This year marks the second year in a row AXS TV has served as production partner and cable provided for the acclaimed concert. The “Guitar Legends II” concert seeks to raise funds and awareness for charity organizations supporting brain and mental wellness of American veterans and first responders.
AXS TV teamed up with Feld Entertainment to produce "Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey: The Final Farewell", a behind-the-scenes look at the final performance of the longest-running touring show in America. The 90-minute documentary premieres on Memorial Day, May 27, 2019.
In 2013, for the first time ever on television, AXS TV broadcast select concert footage from the Stagecoach Festival and the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.
In 2014, AXS TV presented the television debut of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, in addition to broadcasting the 2014 Stagecoach Country Music Festival and the 2014 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, for the second consecutive year.
The network's 2015 festival slate included the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival (April 17-April 19) for the second consecutive year; the Stagecoach Country Music Festival (April 24-April 26); and New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival (May 1-May 3) for the third consecutive year. Additionally, the network broadcast footage from the 2015 Rock on the Range (May 15-May 17) and the 2015 Firefly Music Festival (June 19-June 21), for the first time ever.
AXS TV's 2016 festival tour included Zac Brown Band's Southern Ground Music & Food Festival (April 16–17), both weekends of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival (April 23–24, April 29-May 1), Monster Energy Carolina Rebellion (May 6–8) and Hangout Festival May 20–22.
AXS TV announced a new four-part festival series "80s in the Sand" premiering Sunday, April 7, 2019. Hosted by 80s TV and Radio personalities Downtown Julie Brown, Mark Goodman, Alan Hunter and Richard Blade, "80s in the Sand" features interviews and performances with artists including Bret Michaels, Sebastian Bach, Taylor Dayne, The English Beat, Wang Chung, ABC, When in Rome, Berlin and more. The series was filmed at the 80s in the Sand music festival at the Breathless Resort in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.
Original Music & Entertainment Series.
Since 2013, Dan Rather has hosted the hour-long original series titled "The Big Interview" featuring in-depth interviews with a variety of celebrity guests as they join Rather for candid discussions about their lives and careers. Notable guests include Gene Simmons, Weird Al Yankovic, Don Rickles, Wynonna Judd, Jack White, Carlos Santana, Carol Burnett, Alan Alda, and Geddy Lee among others. "The Big Interview"s sixth season premiered on March 13, 2018 with guest Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin. Other interviewees for the 20-episode season include Robby Krieger and John Densmore of the Doors, Shania Twain, Eddie Money, Styx, John Mellencamp, The Oak Ridge Boys and Billy Ray Cyrus. The series celebrated its 100th episode on October 2 when it returned for the second half of season six with special guest The Beatles' Ringo Starr, with older episodes now also broadcast in the UK via the BIOgraphy channel found on the Pluto TV app.
"The Big Interview" was renewed for a seventh season, premiering Tuesday, April 16 with former Journey frontman Steve Perry. The new season line-up also includes Paul Stanley, Cyndi Lauper, Foreigner members Mick Jones and Lou Gramm, REO Speedwagon, Billy Bob Thornton, Carl and Rob Reiner, Travis Tritt, Boz Scaggs and Paul Shaffer.
"Rock & Roll Road Trip with Sammy Hagar Presented by Mercury Insurance" is an original series featuring Sammy Hagar as he drives across the country to interview and jam with influential artists including Tommy Lee, Bob Weir, Alice Cooper, and Nancy Wilson. The series also presents Hagar's personal experiences and rules of the road, as he tours with his group The Circle. The six-episode first season premiered on AXS TV on January 24, 2016. The series premiered in March 2017 with guests including John Mayer, Melissa Etheridge, Toby Keith, John Mellencamp and Mick Fleetwood and returned for its second half in July 2017 with guests including Don Felder, Styx, Vince Neil, Chad Smith, Shep Gordon, Darryl McDaniels and Adam Levine. AXS TV announced that "Rock & Roll Road Trip" was renewed for a third season in 2017 and premiered in April 2018 with guests including Dave Grohl, Roger Daltrey, Sarah McLachlan, Bob Weir, Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo.
AXS TV announced season four will premiere Sunday, May 5. Guests for the new season include Willie Nelson, Rick Springfield, Guy Fieri, Cheech & Chong, Charlie Daniels, Jimmie Johnson, Robby Krieger, Joe Bonamassa, Jason Bonham and more.
AXS TV announced in September 2017 it had greenlit to a 10-episode reality series chronicling the daily lives of Eddie Money, his wife Laurie and their five kids. Production for "Real Money" began in fall 2017 and the series premiered Sunday, April 8, 2018. In June 2018, the series was greenlit for an expanded 12-episode second season with production set to begin in summer 2018 and a premiere in early 2019.
"Real Money" season two premiered on Sunday, May 5, 2019. During a midseason episode, Money revealed his cancer diagnosis.
In August 2018, AXS TV announced a new docu-series profiling the lives and deaths of some of music's most influential artists called "The Day The Rock Star Died." Set to premiere on Oct. 2, 2018, the 15-part series examines artists including Tom Petty, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley and Whitney Houston.
"The Top Ten Revealed" spotlights best-of lists on a variety of rock-related themes, covering topics such as best guitar intros, Vietnam anthems and '80s rock ballads. The series debuted in February 2018, with host and executive producer Katie Daryl joined by a rotating panel of experts including Lita Ford, Guns N' Roses drummer Steven Adler and former Pantera percussionist Vinnie Paul, among others. The series returned for season two in January 2019, and for season 3 in April 2020.
The Very VERY Best of the 70s
"The Very VERY Best of the 70s" puts the spotlight on the enduring films, series, and pop culture moments that defined the 1970s. The series is executive produced by Katie Daryl who guides a rotating panel of celebrity guests each week including Fred Willard, Morgan Fairchild, Barry Williams, Jimmie Walker, Michael Winslow, Sebastian Bach, Mark Steines, Jaleel White, George Wallace, Anson Williams, Dee Wallace, Todd Bridges, Mindy Cohn, Bob Eubanks, Elisabeth Röhm, David Chokachi and Catherine Bach.
The series premiered its first season on Thursday, May 16.
Since 2014, AXS TV has broadcast "The X Factor UK", with the episodes airing 24 hours after their respective UK broadcasts. The series premiered on Sunday, August 31, 2014, marking the first time that the British series had aired in the U.S. The 11th season notably featured the return of Simon Cowell and Cheryl Fernandez-Versini to the judging panel, joining music manager Louis Walsh and pop singer Mel B, making her debut as a full-time judge. Ben Haenow was the winner of this season.
The series has continued to air annually on AXS TV, most recently with its third season on the network, the show's 13th season overall, which premiered on August 28, 2016 with Cowell and Walsh, along with the return of judges Sharon Osbourne and Nicole Sherzinger, and presenter Dermot O'Leary, to " X Factor UK". The X Factor UK returned for its fourth season on AXS TV, and 14th season overall, on September 3 and 4, 2017 with all four judges from the previous year returning.
"the X Factor UK" will returned for its fifth season on the network (15th overall) in September 2018 with Simon Cowell joined by new judges One Direction's Louis Tomlinson, singer-songwriter Robbie Williams and his wife actress and TV presenter Ayda Williams.
In October 2017, AXS TV greenlit a new series starring music historian and TV and Radio host Eddie Trunk called "TRUNKFest with Eddie Trunk" premiering in 2018. The program gives viewers a front row seat to some of the nation's biggest music festivals as Trunk travels across the country interviewing bands, visiting booths, sampling festival cuisine, and mingling with the attendees. Trunk previously hosted the documentary series "Reel to Real" on the network in 2016. "TRUNKFest with Eddie Trunk" premiered on July 1, 2018 with a trip to the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally. "TRUNKFest" was renewed for a second season premiering July 7, 2019.
Paul Shaffer Plus One
Paul Shaffer sits down with his famous friends and colleagues across the music industry in this weekly interview series. Season one guests include Joe Walsh, Graham Nash, Sammy Hagar, Billy Gibbons, Donald Fagen, Buddy Guy, Spinal Tap bassist Derek Smalls (Harry Shearer) and Smokey Robinson.
The series premieres on AXS TV Sunday, September 15 and also aired on Shaffer's SiriusXM radio show.
Sports.
AXS TV Fights is the brand name of AXS TV's live mixed martial arts (MMA) broadcast on Friday nights. It was formerly known as HDNet Fights.
Impact Wrestling
After Anthem acquired a majority interest in AXS TV in September 2019, it was announced that "Impact!", the flagship show of the Anthem owned Impact Wrestling, would move to AXS in October following Bound for Glory 2019.
Past Programming.
AXS Live
The network's flagship show, "AXS Live"—a daily entertainment show that broadcast from the L.A. Live concert venue and aired weekly, Monday through Thursday—premiered on July 14, 2012, covering news stories in entertainment, fashion, sports, music and celebrity. "AXS Live" featured a revolving panel of hosts, until comedian Ryan Stout stepped in on August 12, 2013; he continued to serve as host until the final episode on October 30, 2013.
Since the tournament was founded in 2011 to 2016, AXS TV annually broadcast half of the games from the Battle 4 Atlantis Men's Division I College Basketball tournament from Paradise Island, in Nassau in the Bahamas, over Thanksgiving week.
As a part of its Winter 2016 lineup, AXS TV premiered the original music series "Breaking Band" which paired well-known artists with emerging musicians to mentor, then perform together. Hosted by Donovan Leitch, the first season premiered on January 24, 2016 and included episodes featuring Dave Navarro, Mark McGrath, Sebastian Bach, Robin Zander, Belinda Carlisle, and Moby.
AXS TV announced a new documentary series, to be hosted by Dan Rather, on April 16, 2014. "Dan Rather Presents", an in-depth investigative journalism program focusing on challenging issues, premiered on May 6, 2014. The debut episode, "One Way Ticket to Nowhere: America's Mental Health Crisis," detailed the country's medical treatment for and handling of the mentally ill. That same year, on December 5, Rather hosted a special two-hour documentary, "Unwanted in America: The Shameful Side of International Adoption", examining multiple cases of failed international adoption throughout the United States, and what happens to those children who get caught in the middle.
On September 10, 2014, AXS TV announced production of an original country music-themed reality docu-series titled "Discovering Lucy Angel." The 13-episode series was directed and executive produced by Jonathan "J.T." Taylor, who is known for creating the Emmy Award-winning series "The Osbournes". "Discovering Lucy Angel" followed mother-daughter trio Lucy Angel and their family, The Andertons, as they worked together to launch their music career in Nashville. The series premiered Tuesday, January 13, 2015.
AXS TV partnered with "Sharknado" creator The Asylum to produce the network's first ever made-for-TV movie, conspiracy thriller "Elvis Lives!" which premiered on August 16, 2017. The film purports to take the legend of rock'n' roll icon Elvis Presley to the next level, wondering, "That if Elvis never really left the building?" Plagued by drug addiction and a failing voice, the King is desperate to make things right with himself, his deceased brother and God. His attempts to get back on track are thwarted, however, after he helps the cops bring down a powerful crime syndicate — putting his family in danger and sending him on a journey that will change his life forever.
In August 2015, AXS TV premiered the reality adventure web series "Exploring Kaman" starring NBA All-Star Chris Kaman. The six-part series chronicles Kaman and his eccentric entourage as they head out on an epic fishing trip to capture the elusive blue marlin.
Thursday nights comedians take the stage at the Gotham Comedy Club in New York to perform live on the weekly stand-up comedy series. Each broadcast features a well-known star as host who performs a live set before introducing a line-up of up-and-coming comedians. Notable hosts include Jim Breuer, Lewis Black, Lisa Lampanelli, Gilbert Gottfried, D.L. Hughley, Bobby Lee, Bill Engvall and Tim Meadows. The series, which has aired since 2012, kicked off its seventh season with hosts Cheech & Chong on January 19, 2017. The season also included hosts William Shatner, Cedric the Entertainer and Pete Davidson, among others.
In December 2015, AXS TV announced it has acquired the first season of David Hasselhoff's U.K. scripted comedy series Hoff the Record. The first season, which premiered March 31, 2016, followed Hasselhoff, playing a fictionalized version of himself, who moves to the U.K. to get his career back on track while navigating through increasingly surreal and hilarious circumstances.
In promotion of the series debut, Hasselhoff hosted a "Hoff-A-Thon" on March 26, 2016 featuring a 30-minute special titled "Hoff on Hoff" and an hour-long, sit down interview with Dan Rather as a special episode of his AXS TV series, "The Big Interview." He also hosted the season six premiere of "Gotham Comedy Live".
"Inside MMA" was a weekly talk show. It was the longest running and only independent MMA news series on television. Hosted by combat sports personality Mauro Ranallo and UFC Hall of Famer Bas Rutten, the weekly series provided an in-depth look at the world of MMA, with live breakdowns, talk, highlights, and analysis from major MMA organizations such as the UFC, Bellator, and the World Series of Fighting. "Inside MMA" aired its final episode on September 30, 2016, ending a 9-year, 10-season, 433-episode run.
AXS TV announced it acquired the off-network cable rights to air the first three seasons of the country music drama "Nashville" in June, 2015. In anticipation of the series premiere in September 2015, Dan Rather sat down with stars Connie Britton and Charles Esten for a special episode of "The Big Interview." The network also acquired the fourth season of "Nashville", which premiered in October 2016. The series currently airs in daytime.
AXS TV premiered the U.S. debut of Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood's U.K. interview series "The Ronnie Wood Show" on July 11, 2018 with Wood's sit-down interview with Paul McCartney. The network aired the 11-episode first season featuring guests Alice Cooper, Ian McLagan, Slash, Kelly Jones, Mark Ronson, Bobby Gillespie, Mick Hucknall, Steve Cropper, Pattie Boyd and Toots Hibbert.
AXS TV launched "Tom Green Live" on October 3, 2013. Hosted by comedian Tom Green, the talk show featured interviews with celebrity guests, as well as an interactive format where viewers were invited to call in live using video chat. Richard Belzer was Green's inaugural guest. "Tom Green Live" finished its third season—which had appearances from Steve Carell, Weird Al Yankovic, Dana Carvey, Adam Carolla and Buzz Aldrin, among others—on November 13, 2014.
New Japan Pro Wrestling
Since 2015, the network has aired the weekly professional wrestling series "New Japan Pro Wrestling". The series has been twice named the "Best Weekly TV Show" by the Wrestling Observer Newsletter Awards in 2016 and 2017. AXS TV announced on May 18, 2017 that it would be the exclusive live broadcaster for NJPW's first-ever U.S. event, G1 Special in USA. The network has subsequently live broadcast each of NJPW's following live events including Strong Style Evolved on March 25, 2018 and the G1 Special in San Francisco on July 7, 2018.
AXS TV announced in February 2019 it would live broadcast the first night of the 2019 G1 Climax Tournament from the American Airlines Center in Dallas on July 6, 2019, marking the first time the tournament has been held outside of Japan.
The series moved to Saturday nights starting July 13, 2019 for same-day, prime-time coverage of the G1 Climax Tournament Saturday events in Japan.
In December 2019, it was announced that NJPW would leave AXS TV after four years of partnership.
WOW - Women of Wrestling
AXS TV announced in June 2018 that it had acquired the rights to air the all-women's professional wrestling league "WOW-Women Of Wrestling." New episodes taped in October 2018 and the new season premiered on Friday, Jan. 18, 2019. The organization is owned by Los Angeles Lakers owner Jeanie Buss, MGM Television, Mark Burnett and original GLOW founder David McLane. L.A. Comic Con was announced as a co-sponsor in August 2018. WOW-Women Of Wrestling was renewed for a second, 24-episode season premiering in Fall 2019 at a press conference with Buss, McLane, AXS TV Fights CEO Andrew Simon, WOW World Champion Tessa Blanchard and WOW Superhero The Beast on March 6. At the press conference, McLane announced the next episode tapings will take place May 14–16 at the Belasco Theater in Los Angeles and that the opening of an all-women's wrestling school - the WOW Training Center in Long Beach, California. AXS TV announced the series will move to Saturday for season two. In June 2020 it was announced that AXS TV and WOW parted ways.
HDNet Movies.
HDNet Movies was launched in January 2003 as a spin-off of HDNet (now AXS TV). The network features theatrically released films and documentaries, which are presented in high definition and without commercial interruption or editing for content. Programming showcases a wide variety of films including Academy Award winners, action films, scifi films, and westerns. It regularly features special, hosted movie events such as "And The Oscar Goes To... Presented by Richard Roeper", "Totally 80s Month with Judge Reinhold" and "Rob Zombie's 13 Nights of Halloween".
HDNet Movies is available nationally on DISH, DIRECTV, Verizon Fios and AT&T U-verse; regionally on cable providers such as Charter Spectrum, Service Electric, Suddenlink Communications, Time Warner Spectrum, and SureWest; and on the streaming service Sling TV.
Canadian carriage.
In the fall of 2006, HDNet became available in Canada on Rogers Cable, Bell Satellite TV and Cogeco Cable; Shaw Cable began carrying the network in April 2007. As is the case with many U.S.-based channels, HDNet did not own the Canadian rights to some of its sporting events or off-network repeats aired in the U.S., and as such, these programs were blacked out and replaced with additional repeats of HDNet original programs. While referenced on the channel's website as "HDNet Canada," this alternate U.S.-based feed did not operate as a separate channel. Upon the rebrand to AXS TV, the network was dropped by two of its Canadian cable and satellite carriers.
It is currently available in Canada via Bell Fibe TV, Eastlink, Novus Entertainment and SaskTel.
In December 2020, AXS TV launched on Bell Fibe TV, making the channel available in Ontario & Quebec.


Adam Stockhausen

Adam Stockhausen is an American production designer. Stockhausen, along with set decorator Anna Pinnock won the Academy Award for Best Production Design for the 2014 film "The Grand Budapest Hotel". Previously he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Production Design for the 2013 film "12 Years a Slave" together with set decorator Alice Baker. He was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Production Design for the 2015 film "Bridge of Spies" along with set decorators Bernhard Henrich and Rena DeAngelo.
Stockhausen grew up in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin and graduated with a Theater Arts degree from Marquette University's Diederich College of Communication in 1995, and a Master of Fine Arts from the Yale School of Drama in 1999.


Rocket boots

Rocket boots is an invention by Soviet scientist Viktor Gordeyev. The invention is a pair of mechanical devices that a user would wear on his or her lower legs and feet. Rocket Boots are intended to make it possible for a person to travel faster and further than by unassisted walking or running.
There are no actual rockets in the Rocket Boots. Rather, the power comes from pistons that are filled with a fuel-air mixture, and fired by compression when the user puts his or her full body weight down into the boot. When the piston fires, the platform under the user's foot pushes down on the ground, launching the user forward toward the next step in an action similar to that of pogo stick. The boots use approximately 4 cc fuel per 6.2 miles (9,97km).
The boots were initially developed in the 1970s for the Soviet Army, but development was suspended until 2000. The project was restarted in Russian Federation by scientists at the Bashkir State University (Ufa), with the aim to develop a product for the civilian and a military markets.
It is expected that while using the "rocket boots", a person could travel at an average speed of around 10.5 mph (16,89km/h). However, it is thought that the highest speed for an experienced user is around 22 mph (35,4km/h).


Dianne Wager

Dianne Wager (October 16, 1931 – August 23, 2011) was an art director, production designer, and set designer for motion pictures and television.
Wager was born in Milwaukee in 1931. She moved to Los Angeles and studied set design and set illustration at the Chouinard Art Institute. In 1964, she was hired by Twentieth Century Fox as a set designer on the television series, "Peyton Place". While at Fox, she also worked on the "Batman" television series and the feature film "Fantastic Voyage".
Through the 1970s, Wager worked with Oscar-winning production designer Dale Hennesy. When Hennesy died in 1981 during the production of "Annie". She received ADG Award nominations for art direction on "Pleasantville" (1999) and for set design on "Changeling" (2008).
Wager died in 2011, an in 2016, she was posthumously inducted into the Art Directors Guild Hall of Fame.


Lindsay and Crouse

Lindsay and Crouse was the writing team of Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, who collaborated famously from 1935 to 1962 on a succession of Broadway comedies and musicals. Their first collaboration was the rewriting of the book of "Anything Goes" (1934), which became a major hit and has been frequently revived. In 1946, they were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for their 1945 play, "State of the Union".
Crouse named his daughter, Lindsay Ann Crouse, in honor of his longstanding partnership with Lindsay.
Shared work.
They wrote the play "Life with Father", which opened in 1939 and starred Lindsay and his wife Dorothy Stickney. It ran for over seven years to become the longest-running non-musical play on Broadway.
Other work included the books for "The Sound of Music", the Cole Porter musical "Red, Hot and Blue", the Irving Berlin musical "Call Me Madam", and the production of the play "Arsenic and Old Lace". Their last collaboration was the 1962 Irving Berlin musical, "Mr. President".
In addition to writing the books for Broadway shows, they were also "show doctors" who were asked to come and improve Broadway shows in out-of-town tryouts, assisting the director and author of the show to improve the script.


Vaishali Menon

Vaishali Menon is an Indian costume designer and actress who designed for "Firaaq" (2009) and "Unfreedom" (2014). She acted in "Suno Na... Ek Nanhi Aawaz" (2009). She received the Filmfare Award for Best Costume Design in 2010 for "Firaaq".


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Steven Rosengard

Steven Rosengard is an independent American fashion designer. He designs his eponymous line in Chicago, Illinois, and was a contestant in season four of the "Bravo" reality television show "Project Runway".
Childhood and education.
Rosengard grew up in the south suburbs of Chicago and is the youngest of four children. A graduate of Morgan Park Academy, Rosengard entered the fashion design program at Columbia College Chicago. After one year, Rosengard left Columbia to travel abroad; upon returning from travels to France, Italy, and England, Rosengard enrolled in the Dutch Studies program at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Career.
In 2005, Rosengard began working with clients to create custom couture under his eponymous label. Featured in Chicago Fashion Week, Rosengard emerged as a designer on the Chicago fashion scene before his appearance on "Project Runway", a reality show on "Bravo" in which designers compete against each other in a variety of fashion challenges.
In 2006, Rosengard auditioned for season three of "Project Runway" and made it through all rounds of auditioning, but in the end was selected to be an alternate. His audition video, along with footage from his actual audition with Tim Gunn and Nick Verreos was shown on "Road to Runway: Season 3 - Casting Special".
In 2007, Rosengard was selected to be a contestant on the fourth season of Project Runway. The designers competed for the opportunity to show their Spring 2008 collection at New York Fashion Week, an editorial feature in "Elle" magazine, $100,000 (furnished by TRESemmé) to start their own line, the opportunity to sell their line on Bluefly, and a 2008 Saturn Astra. Rosengard was eliminated in the season's fifth episode.
Upon his return to Chicago after filming for "Project Runway" ended, Rosengard designed "The Perfect Rose Dress" for Gaga's, a Chicago-based boutique specializing in children's formal attire. The dress was featured on In the Loop with iVillage.


Bhumika Sharma

Bhumika Sharma is an Indian fashion designer.


Gerry Scott

Gerry Scott Foulds (born Geraldine Mary Boldy; 4 November 1944 – 25 April 2007) was an English production designer.
Biography.
Born Geraldine Mary Boldy in Bradford, West Yorkshire, she graduated with qualifications in art from Bradford College and Sunderland College in the late 1960s. She then joined the design department of the BBC, after initially being rejected "because she was a painter and couldn't draw plans"; she learned how to do plans over a six-month period before reapplying for the job.
At the BBC, Scott worked on such productions as "Sykes", "Porridge", "Ripping Yarns" and "Blake's 7" from 1972 to 1980. Her work on the 1991 miniseries "Clarissa" saw her find her calling as a designer on historical dramas, and her subsequent work included "Middlemarch" (1994), "Pride and Prejudice" (1995), "Wives and Daughters" (1999), "The Way We Live Now" (2001) and "He Knew He Was Right" (2004).
In 2002, Scott was diagnosed with a brain tumour which affected her vision; she nonetheless continued working after radical surgery, on an adaptation of Anthony Trollope's "He Knew He Was Right". She died from the brain tumour in 2007.
Awards.
Scott won two British Academy Television Craft Awards (BAFTAs) after being nominated several times: one in 2000 for "Wives and Daughters", and the second in 2002 for "The Way We Live Now".
Personal life.
Boldy was married to the film director and producer Tony Scott, whom she had met when they were both students at Sunderland College, from 1967 to 1974. She described her marriage to Scott as "traumatic, wild, and crazy, but the very best", and the two remained friends following their divorce.
She married Archie Foulds, her partner of over ten years, in June 2006. She had no children.


Infinity Gems

The Infinity Gems (originally referred to as Soul Gems and later as Infinity Stones) are six fictional gems appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, named after and embodying different aspects of existence. The gems (Mind, Power, Reality, Soul, Space, and Time) can grant whoever wields them various powers in accordance to the aspect of existence they represent, and have the potential of turning the wielder into a god-like being when all six are held together. Thus, they are among the most powerful and sought items in the Marvel Universe; playing important roles in several storylines, in which they were wielded by characters such as Thanos and Adam Warlock. Some of these stories depict additional Infinity Gems or similar objects.
The Gems have appeared in several media adaptations outside of comics, including the Marvel Cinematic Universe film franchise, where they are called Infinity Stones and have their colors altered. These changes were later adapted into the comics.
Publication history.
The first appearance of an Infinity Gem occurred in 1972 in "Marvel Premiere" #1. It was originally called a "Soul Gem". In 1976, a second "Soul Gem" appeared in a "Captain Marvel" story which established that there were six Soul Gems, each with different powers. One year later, two more "Soul Gems" were introduced in a Warlock crossover involving Spider-Man. The full set of six Gems appeared when the death-obsessed villain Thanos attempted to use them to extinguish every star in the universe. In a 1988 storyline in "Silver Surfer" vol. 3, the Elders of the Universe tried to use the "Soul Gems" to steal the energy of the world-eating entity Galactus.
In the 1990 limited series "The Thanos Quest", Thanos refers to the entire set as "Infinity Gems" for the first time. In this storyline, he steals the Gems for the second time and reveals the Gems to be the last remains of an omnipotent being. Thanos then places all six gems within his left gauntlet. In the miniseries "The Infinity Gauntlet", Thanos uses the Gems to become nearly omnipotent and kills half the universe's population as a gift to his love, the cosmic embodiment of Death. Although he easily repels an attack by Earth's heroes and other cosmic entities including Eternity, the Gauntlet is eventually stolen from him by Nebula, who undoes the last 24 hours, including his mass killings. Adam Warlock then recovers the Gauntlet and, by order of the Living Tribunal, divides the Gems among a group he calls "the Infinity Watch", consisting of himself, the superheroes Gamora, Pip the Troll, Drax the Destroyer, Moondragon, and his former adversary Thanos. The group's adventures in defending the Gems appear in the series "Warlock and the Infinity Watch" (1992–1995).
The Gems are next gathered by Warlock's evil alter ego, the Magus, in the 1992 limited series "The Infinity War", where he is defeated by Warlock and Earth's heroes, including Thanos. In the 1993 limited series "The Infinity Crusade", the embodiment of Warlock's goodness, the Goddess, attempts to destroy evil in the universe by destroying free will. The Gems are then once again retrieved by the Infinity Watch.
Then, the gems appeared in the crossover between the Marvel universe and the Ultraverse, when the vampiric Rune, stole the gems from the Infinity Watch. The gems were dispersed in the Ultraverse and Loki looked for them. The reunion of the gems with a seventh gem, the Ego Gem, revealed the existence of the entity Nemesis, that said that she was the conscience of the gems. Nemesis was slayed and the gems dispersed again.
In a story arc of the "Thanos" series (2003–2004), Galactus gathers the six Gems but accidentally allows an interdimensional entity named Hunger access to the Marvel universe. Thanos and Galactus banish the entity and the Gems are scattered again with the exception of the Soul Gem, which Thanos retains for its customary custodian Adam Warlock. In "", a 2007–2008 limited series, a cabal of Earth's heroes gather the Gems and attempt to wish them out of existence but discover that they must exist as part of the cosmic balance. Instead, the Illuminati divide and hide the Gems.
In a 2010 "Avengers" storyline, the human criminal known as the Hood steals several Gems but is defeated by use of the remaining Gems; the Illuminati attempt to hide them again. The Illuminati later wield the Gems to stop another universe from collapsing into their own but the cost of this however, was the destruction of the gauntlet and all gems minus the Time Gem which simply disappeared. Afterwards, the previously vanished Time Gem appears to Captain America and some of the Avengers and transports them into future realities, shattering time in the process.
As a result of the Incursions, the entire Multiverse is destroyed. However, Doctor Doom combines fragments of several alternate realities into Battleworld. Doctor Strange gathers Infinity Gems from various realities into a new Infinity Gauntlet, which he leaves hidden until the surviving heroes of Earth-616 return. The Gauntlet is subsequently claimed by T'Challa (the Black Panther), who uses it to keep the Beyonder-enhanced Doom occupied until Mister Fantastic can disrupt his power source.
Following the recreation of the Multiverse, the Infinity Gems (now known as the Infinity Stones) are recreated and scattered across the universe, with their colors switched and some taking on uncut ingot forms. In "Marvel Legacy" #1, the Space Stone (now colored blue) appears on Earth where a Frost Giant working for Loki steals it from a S.H.I.E.L.D. storage facility, however he is intercepted and defeated by a resurrected Wolverine. Star-Lord discovers an extra-large Power Stone (now colored purple) being protected by the Nova Corps, and an alternate universe Peter Quill named Starkill has the Reality Stone (now colored red). A future version of Ghost Rider is revealed to possess a shard of the Time Stone (now colored green), while in the present the complete stone restores the ruined planet of Sakaar and is claimed by the Super-Skrull. The Mind Stone (now colored yellow) is found on Earth in the hands of petty crook Turk Barrett, and the Soul Stone (now colored orange) is mentioned to Adam Warlock to be in the hands of his dark aspect, the Magus; however, Ultron is able to claim it after ambushing and killing him. The Stones are shown to have a pocket universe existing within each of them. Adam Warlock uses the Soul Stone to grant sentience to each of the Stones, which then travel the universe, finding a suitable host and bonding with them.
Description.
Each Gem is shaped like a small oval and is named after, and represents, a different characteristic of existence. Possessing any single Gem grants the user the ability to exert great control over the aspect of existence the Gem represents. If a user is able to tap into the full potential of a Gem, the user gains complete control over a Gem's aspect of existence. The Gems are not immutable. For instance, on two occasions, one or more of the Gems have appeared as deep pink spheres several feet in diameter, while on other occasions, the Gems have appeared in their small oval shape but with different coloring. (e.g. the Soul Gem being colored red when worn by the Gardener). In the Ultraverse, after merging into their original form of Nemesis, the Gems were again separated after a battle with Ultraforce and the Avengers. As part of the "Marvel Legacy" initiative, the Infinity Gems (now known as the Infinity Stones), had their colors altered to match the colors of the Infinity Stones from the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
The six Infinity Gems include:
Additional Gems have appeared in crossover media and alternate universes outside the Marvel Universe.
Other versions.
Council of Reeds.
The Reed Richards of Earth-616, in an attempt to "solve everything", meets with a council of alternate universe Reeds. Three of them wear Infinity Gauntlets, which only work in their respective universes.
"New Avengers".
During the "Incursion" storyline, the Avengers travel to a parallel Earth where a pastiche of the Justice League have replaced this Earth's Avengers who all died in a previous cataclysm. Here the Gems are all square planes which are assembled into the "Wishing Cube", a composite of the concepts of the Infinity Gems and the Cosmic Cube.
"Secret Wars".
After various alternate universes are combined into Battleworld, Doctor Strange gathers Infinity Gems from other universes into a new Infinity Gauntlet that works in the area where Doom has built his palace. Strange leaves the Gauntlet hidden until he has access to someone he can trust it with. After his death, the Gauntlet is claimed by T'Challa, who uses it against Doom in the final battle.
A separate section of Battleworld known as New Xandar also has a Gauntlet fought over by multiple factions until the majority of the Stones, except the Reality Stone, were taken by Thanos. Thanos eventually tracks the missing Stone to Nova Corps member Anwen Bakian. When Thanos confronts her to get the Stone, Anwen gives him a duplicate of the Reality Stone she created called the 'Death Stone'. When used along with the other five Stones, the Death Stone corrupts Thanos with black matter and turns him to dust.
Ultimate Marvel.
In the "Ultimate Marvel" universe, an Infinity Gauntlet is seen in Project Pegasus. The Mind Gem (stolen by Hydra) is used by Modi (Thor's son) to control both Director Flumm and Cassie Lang, but are stopped by the Ultimates. The Power Gem is later revealed to be in the possession of former S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Sayuri Kyota, while a second Infinity Gauntlet is recovered from an A.I.M. base by Thor and Susan Storm. Kang the Conqueror later allies himself with the Hulk, Reed Richards and Quicksilver as part of a plan to steal the two Gauntlets, which results in the destruction of the Triskelion. Quicksilver recovers two additional Gems allowing the villains to teleport away. Richards is later able to recover another of the Gems, which is found lodged in Tony Stark's brain. He informs Stark that the Infinity Gems are needed to save the world from a coming cataclysm that will destroy the entire universe. After brainwashing Johnny Storm and forcing him to travel to the Earth's core, the Dark Ultimates are able to recover the final gem, but are defeated by the Ultimates. The gems then shatter, rendering the Gauntlets useless.
"What If?".
In a reality where Doctor Doom retained the power of the Beyonder, Doom acquired the Infinity Gems from the Elders of the Universe and used them to defeat the Celestials in a 407-year-long war before finally forsaking his power.
In an alternate reality where the original Fantastic Four died, a new Fantastic Four – consisting of Spider-Man, Hulk, Wolverine, and Ghost Rider – was formed. With Iron Man replacing Ghost Rider, they were the only heroes available to fight Thanos when he initially assembled the Infinity Gauntlet. Despite Iron Man's use of Negative Zone-enhanced Celestial armor, Thanos still easily defeated the team until Wolverine tricked Thanos into erasing Mephisto from existence before cutting off Thanos's left arm, and therefore the Infinity Gauntlet. With Thanos powerless, Spider-Man used the gauntlet to undo the events of Thanos's godhood.
"Contest of Champions".
In the "Contest of Champions" miniseries, an alternate version of Tony Stark uses the Reality Gem to win the superhero civil war and affect the outcome of a presidential election. When he tries to use the Gem on Battleworld, he is killed by the Maestro, who says the Gems do not work in any universe other than their own.
"Heroes Reborn" (2021).
In the 2021 "Heroes Reborn" miniseries, the Infinity Gems are in the possession of Thanos, who has them placed in his Infinity Rings.
In other media.
Films.
The Infinity Gems, renamed Infinity Stones, play important roles in the first three phases of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), referred to collectively as the "Infinity Saga".


Go! Push Pops

Go! Push Pops, formally named The Push Pop Collective is a queer, transnational, radical Feminist art collective under the direction of Elisa Garcia de la Huerta (b. 1983 Santiago, Chile) and Katie Cercone (b. 1984 Santa Rosa, CA).
History.
Go! Push Pops formed in 2010 at the School of Visual Arts (SVA) where both Cercone and Garcia obtained their MFA in 2011. Go! Push Pops studied with Marilyn Minter, Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt, Dan Cameron, Kate Gilmore (artist) and Jacqueline Winsor while at SVA. At that time, painter Anna Souvorov (b. 1983 Moscow, Russia) was the third leader of the collective. Go! Push Pops first unofficial performance happened spontaneously during a visit to artist Portia Munson’s “Pink Project” at P.P.O.W. Gallery in Chelsea.
Go! Push Pops have performed at The Brooklyn Museum, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Maryland Institute College of Art, C24 Gallery, Momenta Art, Apexart, Dixon Place and Cue Art Foundation. Go! Push Pops has been artist-in-residence at Soho20 Chelsea gallery in New York City and Alexandra Arts in Manchester, UK. In 2014, Go! Push Pops was awarded the Culture Push Fellowship for Utopian Practice. Go! Push Pops were a featured artist of Robert Adanto's the F-Word, a documentary about 4th wave feminist art.
Influences.
Go! Push Pops work is contemporary performance art from a standpoint of embodied feminist pedagogy grounded in the spiritual principles of Ecofeminist art and can be connected to the Goddess movement The work is characteristically sex-positive. Their work references the Feminist art movement, Dada, Fluxus, Neo-Burlesque, Shamanism, Hip-hop feminism, Culture jamming, Riot grrrl, Queercore and American popular culture. As a young adult, Push Pop co-leader Katie Cercone interned at Bitch (magazine) where she was introduced to Third-wave feminism and its critique of popular culture. Go! Push Pops also name the artist Narcissister as an important influence and have appeared as Narcissister "sisters" in shows at the New Museum, The Kitchen, Envoy enterprises and The Hole.
About the work.
Go! Push Pops performance work is collaborative in nature and socially engaged. Many of their performances engage elements of hip hop and involve rapping as a form of embodied feminism. In addition to live performance they offer workshops for youth and adults. Glossy 11 x 17 in. Go! Push Pops posters documenting each performance was a classic fixture of their early work. Go! Push Pops often use free items from Materials for the Arts to make their work.
Career highlights.
Go! Push Pops broke into the Bushwick, Brooklyn performance art scene with their seven-hour durational performance “Gone Wild” during Bushwick Beta Spaces 2010. Go! Push Pops “Push Porn,” a 13-minute lesbian gangsta erotica film, premiered during Bushwick Open Studios 2011 inside a barbershop on Wilson Avenue.
In 2011, Go! Push Pops performed Block Watching Remix at the Moore St. Market in a show curated by Michelle Lopez during Bushwick Open Studios remixing found footage of Luis Gispert's original 2002 Block Watching video. In 2013, Luis Gispert invited Go! Push Pops to perform Block Watching Remix during the Brooklyn Museum's Annual Artist Ball. Go! Push Pops also performed a piece called Bad Bitches, a collaboration with Michelle Marie Charles. Bad Bitches was performed in the center of Luis Gispert’s sculptural Jamaican sound system the Brooklyn Museum commissioned for the party and referenced the glitzy black power aesthetic of Mickalene Thomas, commercial rap music and nudity as a feminist protest tactic used by groups such as FEMEN.
In early 2012 at The Frontrunner gallery in Soho, Go! Push Pops collaborated with painter Bryn McConnell in a performance called "Girlesque," featured in Bomb (magazine). Also In 2012, Go! Push Pops performed “Bulimic Flow,” a yoga hip hop fusion featuring TLC (group)’s lyric “crazy sexy cool” as Mantra. A collaboration with Andrae Hinds, Bulimic Flow happened during Amy Smith Stewart’s exhibition CAMPAIGN at C24 Gallery In the spring of 2013, Go! Push Pops were invited to Baltimore by the Maryland Institute College of Art where they performed with BoomBoxBoy (the rap artist Prince Harvey known for secretly recording his entire PHATASS album in the Apple Store), in a nomadic work that moved through local businesses of the Baltimore Arts District.
In Fall of 2013, Go! Push Pops performed “QUEEN$ DOMiN8TiN” in collaboration with Untitled Queen at The Bronx Museum of the Arts. In 2013, Go! Push Pops performed for Art in Odd Places Festival for which they collaborated with Meg Welch on a piece about inter-military rape called “500,000.” Go! Push Pops was instrumental in organizing "The Clitney Perennial" performative feminist protest at the Whitney Museum of American Art during the Whitney Biennial in 2014. In 2015, Go! Push Pops organized a spirit animal workshop and parade during Roppongi Art Night in Tokyo, Japan, as featured in The Japan Times. Go! Push Pops was part of the first ever BUOY R&R in Deep River Connecticut organized by the feminist art duo BUOY along with artists such as India Menuez.


Sultanna Frantsuzova

Sultanna Frantsuzova (born Elista, Russia) is a Russian fashion designer, known for her inexpensive design clothes.
Biography.
Frantsuzova studied at Slava Zaitsev's Fashion Laboratory in Moscow. A year after graduating, Sultanna was named one of the prize-winners of the Nadezhda Lamanova Contest for upcoming designers, and awarded a scholarship to the Fine Arts Academy in Milan (Accademia Scuola di Milano). Her designs were showcased at the Fashion Awards Ceremony in Switzerland.
In 2000, Frantsuzova began design women's collections for the Russian-based brand Lo. In 2003, she created her first independent collection under the name "Sortie de Bal", and opened a small boutique in Moscow. In 2004, Frantsuzova launched her own, eponymous label. She soon after moved to Hong Kong and became the creative director for her new brand, Anybody's Blonde. Today, the label Anybody's Blonde operates retail shops across Russia and Asia.
In 2011, she relaunched her brand, Sultanna Frantsuzova, and returned to the Russian market in 2017.


Frank Longo

Frank Longo is an American puzzle creator, and author of over 90 books, which have sold over 2 million copies.
Longo is known for creating unusual crosswords, such as one on a 50x50 grid, the "Jumbo Puzzles" compilation of 29x29 puzzles and is the creator and author of the New York Times' "Spelling Bee" anagram puzzle.
Longo is noted as an influence by several puzzle creators, including Brendan Emmett Quigley and Joanne Sullivan.


Toby Gard

Toby Gard (born 1972 in Chelmsford, Essex) is an English video game character designer and consultant. He was part of the team that created fictional female British archaeologist Lara Croft. Lara Croft was awarded a "Guinness World Record" recognizing her as the "most successful human video game heroine".
Biography.
1990s: From "Tomb Raider" to "Confounding Factor".
Toby Gard began his career in videogames in 1994 when he was hired by Core Design to work on the game BC Racers. From 1995 he was part of the team who designed and developed the original "Tomb Raider" video game along with the character Lara Croft. His work on the game included building and animating most of the game's characters (including Lara), animating the in-game cutscenes, storyboarding the FMVs, and managing the level designers. Core gave Gard creative control over the game, although it was clear they wanted to market Lara's sex appeal, even asking Gard to implement a nude code into the game, which he refused to do. His vision for Lara was "a female character who was a heroine, you know, cool, collected, in control, that sort of thing" and that "it was never the intention to create some kind of 'Page 3' girl to star in Tomb Raider".
Gard left Core Design in 1997. With "Tomb Raider" already an established hit, Core was no longer giving Gard the creative freedom he originally had. In the end he was given the choice of making a "Tomb Raider" port for the Nintendo 64, or working on Core's vision for "Tomb Raider II". Neither option appealed to him, so he left the company. Gard had been headhunted by other software companies including Interplay and Shiny Entertainment (which prematurely announced that it had hired Gard) but did not take up their offers of employment.
In 1997 he formed the company Confounding Factor along with co-developer Paul Douglas, who had worked with Gard on "Tomb Raider". "Galleon" was announced soon after. The game had a protracted development period and was released in 2004 on Microsoft's Xbox.
2000s: Return on "Tomb Raider".
After the closure of Confounding Factor, Gard was re-hired by Eidos (then publisher and copyright holder of the "Tomb Raider" series) to work with Crystal Dynamics on a reboot of the "Tomb Raider" franchise, beginning with "". While initially hired as a creative consultant, his work became "hands on" during the production and eventually included Lara's visual redesign, overseeing character design and creation, co-writing the story, designing and implementing parts of the character movement system, and directing the cinematics.
The next game in the series, "", was a re-imagining of the original "Tomb Raider". It was co-developed by Crystal Dynamics and Buzz Monkey Software. Gard's role on "Anniversary" was limited to "story consultant", while also adding his voice to the audio commentary included in the game.
For "", Gard's work included co-writing the story, directing the cinematics, voice direction, motion capture direction (along with camera setup and managing the animators and lighters), and directing the European TV advert for the game. Gard and Eric Lindstrom received a nomination for "Best Writing in a Video Game" by the Writers Guild of America for their work on "Underworld".
2010s: "Otherworld", "Ninja Gaiden Z", and a new studio.
From 2010 to 2012, he worked on a webcomic called "Otherworld". From 2012 to 2014 Gard was the game director for "" at Spark Unlimited.
In 2014 Gard founded a new studio called Tangentlemen, where he would work as director on Playstation VR title "Here They Lie".
He has been the owner of Cathuria Games since 2019.