Yerach ben yomo

Yerach ben yomo (, with variant English spellings, also known as "Galgal"), is a cantillation mark that appears only one time in the entire Torah (Numbers 35:5), and once in the Book of Esther. In these occurrences, it is followed immediately by a Karne parah, another mark that is found only once in the entire Torah. The symbol for this trope is an upside-down Etnachta.
The Hebrew words translate into English as "day-old moon". Its alternate name translates into English as "sphere".
In the Torah.
The rare trope sound in the Torah appears in on the word "Alpayim" (, "two-thousand"), which is followed by an equally exclusive Karne Parah on the word B'amah (, "cubit"), in the first of four occurrences of this phrase in the verse. In each of the phrase's four appearances, a different set of trope. The Yerach ben yomo followed by the Karne Parah is found on the first of these four instances. On the other three, respectively, are a Kadma V'Azla, a Munach Rivi'i, and a Mercha Tipcha.
This is representative of the way mitzvot are performed in real life. When one first performs a mitzvah, being a new experience, it is performed with great enthusiasm. The unusual trope signify the one-time occurrence of the mitzvah being a new experience. The second instance is on a Kadma-V'Azla, a note that is recited highly, showing that the high is still alive. The third is on a Munach-Rivi'i, a note that is going downward, showing that enthusiasm is going down. The fourth and final occurrence being on a Mercha-Tipcha, a common set that are recited in a lazy mode as if they are basically being recited without a melody, show the monotony of performing a mitzvah after performing it so many times.
Altogether, this verse shows the importance of performing a mitzvah that must be performed regularly, despite its monotony. It is an encouragement to bring new light into each time one performs a mitzvah in order to renew the excitement, and even when one cannot do so, to perform the mitzvah regardless.
In the Book of Esther.
There is a lesser-known occurrence of the Yerach ben yomo in the Book of Esther, at . This is found on Haman. Since the name "Haman" is traditionally drowned out by the gragger during the reading of the Megillah, few take any notice of the actual trope sound that is being pronounced at this time. In Orthodox Jewish tradition, the Book of Esther is read twice on Purim, and parsha of Masei which includes verse 35:5 is read only once per year, so the recitation of the Yerach ben yomo in Esther therefore is read more often.
Total occurrences.
The yerach ben yomo + karne para phrase occurs a total of 16 times according to the Leningrad Codex. They are:


Swing Racers

Swing Racers is a 3D racing video game developed and published by Morepork Games. It was released on 17 June 2015 for iOS and is available worldwide on the iOS App Store. Upon release, the game was included in the App Store's "Best New Games" list.
Gameplay.
"Swing Racers" uses touch-screen-centric controls, where the player must hold the screen in order to "pull" their car around various household environments with a rubber band. Various pickups can be used to dispatch opponents. Additional cars and rubber bands can be unlocked, which alter the speed and handling for the player.
Reception.
Swing Racers, according to the developer website, reached number 1 Racing Game on the iOS App Store in 39 countries, including UK, Australia, France, Germany, Italy and Japan. Swing Racers received a score of 4/5 from AppleNApps, who write "Swing Racers is an all new way to race that is easy to recommend". AppGemeinde also scored the game 4/5. Both praised the game's innovative controls while stating that it could do with more tracks. The game received significant publicity in New Zealand, with articles on Stuff.co.nz and The New Zealand Herald website.


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Edward Porta

Edward Porta (born November 13, 1954) is an Argentinian former textile trader who was based in the area of Spartanburg, South Carolina. He pleaded guilty to a federal charge of conspiracy to defraud the U.S. Department of Agriculture of more than $400,000. In February 2008, Porta escaped from the minimum security camp at the U.S. Penitentiary in Lee County, Virginia and was profiled on "America's Most Wanted".
Background.
Porta was married and divorced four times, and has two children. He has five siblings who he claims he did not have contact with for 40 years, according to police.
Textile business.
Porta began his career working for his father's textile business. Police stated that he plotted to take advantage of federal programs such as the Export Credit Guarantee Program, intended by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to assist small U.S. and foreign exporters of cotton to compete against large corporations. As president of Porta Textiles and Porta Technologies, he acted as both the importer and the exporter, according to the police. Along with money he defrauded from the government, police said that Porta also swindled banks and other businesses of over $2 million. After his arrest, Porta said that he moved around various parts of the United States and Latin America during his life.
Incarceration, escape and recapture.
Porta pleaded guilty on December 20, 2005 to the charge of conspiracy to defraud the U.S. Department of Agriculture in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina. On May 2, 2007, the court in Asheville, North Carolina sentenced Porta to 38 months at the U.S. Penitentiary in Lee County, Virginia. He was ordered to pay $2.9 million restitution.
Porta was assigned federal inmate register number 18862-058. Authorities believe Porta had walked away from the minimum security camp at the penitentiary when he turned up missing during a 4 p.m. count on February 25, 2008. He had been placed in the low security area and was given a significant amount of freedom because he had been convicted of a business-related white-collar crime. He was scheduled to have been released on April 15, 2010. Porta was profiled on "America's Most Wanted".
Porta was captured on May 28, 2016 at a motel near Seattle Tacoma International airport after being featured on 'Washington's Most Wanted'
Porta served the remainder of his sentence at a corrections facility in Russell County, Virginia. He was released on October 1, 2019.


Judy Holliday

Judy Holliday (born Judith Tuvim, June 21, 1921 – June 7, 1965) was an American actress, comedian and singer.
She began her career as part of a nightclub act before working in Broadway plays and musicals. Her success as Billie Dawn in the 1946 stage production of "Born Yesterday" led to her being cast in the 1950 film version for which she won an Academy Award for Best Actress and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. She was known for her performance on Broadway in the musical "Bells Are Ringing," winning a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical and reprising her role in the 1960 film adaptation.
In 1952, Holliday was called to testify before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee to answer claims she was associated with communism.
Early life.
Holliday was born Judith Tuvim (Hebrew: "tovim" means good, Yiddish: "toyvim" means good) in New York City. She was the only child of Abe and Helen (née Gollomb) Tuvim. Her father served as the executive director of the foundation for the Jewish National Fund of America (1951–1958). Her mother taught piano and was of Russian-Jewish descent like her father. She grew up in Sunnyside, Queens, New York, and graduated from Julia Richman High School in Manhattan. Her first job was as an assistant switchboard operator at the Mercury Theatre, which was administered by Orson Welles and John Houseman.
Early career.
Holliday began her show business career in 1938 as part of a nightclub act called The Revuers. The other members of the group were Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Alvin Hammer, John Frank, and Esther Cohen. The Revuers played engagements in New York night clubs including the Village Vanguard, Spivy's Roof, the Blue Angel, and the Rainbow Room, and the Trocadero in Hollywood, California. Leonard Bernstein, a friend of the group who shared an apartment with Green, occasionally provided piano accompaniment for the group's performances. The Revuers filmed a scene for the 1944 Carmen Miranda film "Greenwich Village." Although its scene was cut, Holliday was an unbilled extra in another scene. The group disbanded in early 1944. Holliday remembered her years in the Revuers as unpleasant, saying she was initially a bad actress and so shy that she vomited between shows. She found it difficult to perform on stage in smoke-filled rooms while patrons over-imbibed, heckled and fought with each other, but deemed entertainers successful if they persevered in such atmospheres.
In her first film role, Holliday played an airman's wife in Twentieth Century Fox’s version of the U.S. Army Air Forces' play "Winged Victory" (1944).
Holliday made her Broadway debut on March 20, 1945 at the Belasco Theatre in "Kiss Them for Me" and was one of the recipients that year of the Clarence Derwent Award.
In 1946, she returned to Broadway as the scatterbrained Billie Dawn in "Born Yesterday". Author Garson Kanin wrote the play for Jean Arthur, who played the role of Billie but left out-of-town for personal reasons. Kanin then selected Holliday, two decades Arthur's junior, as her replacement. In his book "Tracy and Hepburn" (1971), Kanin mentions that when Columbia bought the rights to the film "Born Yesterday," studio boss Harry Cohn would not consider casting the Hollywood-unknown. Kanin, along with George Cukor, Spencer Tracy, and Katharine Hepburn conspired to promote Holliday by offering her a key part in the film "Adam's Rib" (1949).
She received rave reviews for her performance in "Born Yesterday" on Broadway, and Cohn offered her the chance to repeat her role for the film version, but only after she did a screen test (which at first was used only as a "benchmark against which to evaluate" other actresses being considered for the role). She won the first Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy and at the 23rd Academy Awards, Holliday won the Academy Award for Best Actress, defeating Gloria Swanson, nominated for "Sunset Boulevard", Eleanor Parker, for "Caged", and Bette Davis and Anne Baxter, both for "All About Eve".
She starred opposite then-newcomer Jack Lemmon in his first two feature films, the comedies "It Should Happen to You" and "Phffft!" (both 1954).
Film historian Bernard Dick summed up Holliday's acting: "Perhaps the most important aspect of the Judy Holliday persona, both in variations of Billie Dawn and in her roles as housewife, is her vulnerability...her ability to shift her mood quickly from comic to serious is one of her greatest technical gifts." Director George Cukor also observed that Holliday had "that depth of emotion, that unexpectedly touching emotion, that thing which would unexpectedly touch your heart."
Investigated for Communism.
In 1950, Holliday's name appeared on a list of 151 "pro-Communist" artists in the conservative publication "Red Channels: The Report of Communist Influence in Radio and TV". The next year, she was subpoenaed by Senator Pat McCarran's Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, which was investigating subversion and Communist activity in the entertainment industry. She appeared before the committee on March 26, 1952, with Simon H. Rifkind as her legal counsel.
Holliday was advised to play dumb, as in her film portrayal of Billie Dawn, and she did – often to comedic effect. Holliday later wrote of the experience to her friend Heywood Hale Broun: "Woodie, maybe you're ashamed of me, because I played Billie Dawn ... But I'm not ashamed of myself, because I didn't name names. That much I preserved." The investigation "did "not" reveal positive evidence of any membership in the Communist Party" and was concluded after three months, unlike many others tainted by the anti-Communist investigation.
Later career.
She starred in the film version of "The Solid Gold Cadillac", which was released in August 1956. In November 1956, Holliday returned to Broadway starring in the musical "Bells Are Ringing" with book and lyrics by her Revuers friends, Betty Comden and Adolph Green, and directed by Jerome Robbins. In 1957, she won the Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical. Of her performance in the stage musical Brooks Atkinson wrote in "The New York Times";
Nothing has happened to the shrill little moll whom the town loved in "Born Yesterday". The squeaky voice, the embarrassed giggle, the brassy naivete, the dimples, the teeter-totter walk fortunately remain unimpaired ... Miss Holliday now adds a trunk-full of song-and-dance routines...Without losing any of that doll-like personality, she is now singing music by Jule Styne and dancing numbers composed by Jerome Robbins and Bob Fosse. She has gusto enough to triumph in every kind of music hall antic.
Returning to her film career after a gap of several years, she starred in the film version of "Bells Are Ringing" (1960), her last film.
In October 1960, Holliday started out-of-town tryouts on the play "Laurette" based on the life of Laurette Taylor. The show was directed by José Quintero with background music by Elmer Bernstein and produced by Alan Pakula. When Holliday became ill and had to leave the show, it closed in Philadelphia without opening on Broadway.
She had surgery for a throat tumor shortly after leaving the production in October 1960. Her last role was in the stage musical "Hot Spot", co-starring newcomers such as Joseph Campanella and Mary Louise Wilson, which closed after 43 performances on May 25, 1963.
Personal life and death.
In 1948 Holliday married clarinetist David Oppenheim, who was later a classical music and television producer and academic. The couple had one child, Jonathan, before they divorced in 1958. She had a long-term relationship with jazz musician Gerry Mulligan.
Holliday died on June 7, 1965 at Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital from throat cancer. She was interred in the Westchester Hills Cemetery in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York. Five years prior to her death, she was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6901 Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles.
Holliday was a Democrat who supported Adlai Stevenson during the 1952 presidential election.
Filmography.
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Discography.
Holliday recorded two studio albums (not including her film and Broadway soundtracks) during her lifetime.


Annavin Aasai

Annavin Aasai () is a 1966 Indian Tamil-language drama film directed by Dada Mirasi and produced by Balaji. A remake of the Hindi film "Chand Aur Suraj" (1965), it stars Gemini Ganesan, Savitri, Balaji and Vijaya. In the film, after a man's faked death, the lives of his family change drastically when they receive money from an insurance company he cheated.
"Annavin Aasai" is the first film produced by Balaji's Sujatha Cine Arts. Its screenplay was written by S. I. Peruman, the cinematography was handled by Kamal Ghosh, and the editing by B. Kandasamy. The film was released on 4 March 1966 and was a modest commercial success.
Plot.
Ramanathan and Seetha, a married couple, face difficulties after the former loses his job. Ramanathan wants to help his younger brother Ravi to pursue MBBS, and to fund his education, he takes an insurance policy for . Ramanathan then fakes his death by using a mutilated man's corpse near a railway line, and is legally declared dead. Seetha, who is traumatised by her husband's "death", tells Ravi to pursue his education using the insurance money she receives.
Ravi eventually becomes disinterested in his education. Using the insurance money, he takes to gambling on race horses and becomes rich. He falls in love with Vijaya, the daughter of a wealthy businessman. Mohan, a family friend and lawyer, discovers that Ramanathan is still alive and shares this information with Seetha, but she chooses to keep it a secret. Ravi misunderstands Mohan's night-time visits; assuming that Seetha is having an affair with Mohan, he begins to taunt her.
Seetha later arranges Ravi's marriage with Vijaya, whose father commits suicide after having been cheated by an insurance fraud. Ravi, still unaware that Ramanathan is alive, believes he is responsible for his brother's "death", surrenders to the police and is taken to court before a judge. During Ravi's trial, Mohan asserts that Ramanathan is not dead and Ravi pleaded guilty to murdering someone who is still alive. Soon after, Ramanathan appears and tells the court the truth. Ravi is exonerated, while Ramanathan receives three years' imprisonment for committing insurance fraud.
Production.
"Annavin Aasai" was a remake of the Dulal Guha-directed Hindi film "Chand Aur Suraj" (1965), and was the first production of K. Balaji's company Sujatha Cine Arts. Dada Mirasi directed the film while the screenplay written by S. I. Peruman. Besides producing the film, Balaji also acted as Ravi, the younger brother of Gemini Ganesan's character Ramanathan. Ashok Kumar, the lead actor of the original, made a cameo appearance as the judge presiding over Ravi's trial, making his first appearance in a Tamil film. Cinematography was handled by Kamal Ghosh, editing by B. Kandasamy, and the final length of the film was .
Soundtrack.
The soundtrack of the film was composed by K. V. Mahadevan, with lyrics by Kannadasan and Vaali.
Release and reception.
"Annavin Aasai" was released on 4 March 1966, and was released by Gemini Studios. The following week, on 12 March, "The Indian Express" said, "Dynamic performance by all the artistes – [Savitri] particularly – and a couple of good tunes by K. V. Mahadevan attempt to revive our sagging hopes. But they are only partly fulfilled." T. M. Ramachandran of "Sport and Pastime" said the "treatment by director Dada Mirasi is so pedestrian that the film fails to sustain interest completely." He praised the performances of Ganesan, Savitri, Balaji and Vijaya, but criticised the comedy subplot featuring Nagesh. According to historian Randor Guy, the film was not a major success but "good enough to boost the morale of [Balaji] to stick to the new role" of a producer.


Thierry Vandal

Thierry Vandal is a Canadian businessman. He has been the President and Chief Executive Officer of Hydro-Québec since 2005. Vandal announced in January 2015 that he was stepping down front his role and is scheduled to leave on May 1, 2015.
Early life and education.
Vandal holds an engineering degree from École polytechnique (Université de Montréal, 1982) and an MBA from HEC Montréal (Université de Montréal, 1995).
Career.
Prior to joining Hydro-Quebec in November 1996, Vandal worked for Shell Canada Limitée from 1982 to 1988 and for Société Pétrochimique Kemtec from 1988 to 1991.
While at Hydro-Quebec, Vandal served as Vice President–Strategic Planning and Business Development (1996–2001), President of Hydro-Québec Production (2001–2005) and finally President and Chief Executive Officer of Hydro-Québec (2005–2015).
Board membership.
He is or was the board member of the following organizations:
Social involvement.
Thierry Vandal is a member of the Board of Governors of Centraide.
Honors.
2012 Canadian Energy Person of the Year award by the Canadian Energy Council


David Goodstein

David Louis Goodstein (born April 5, 1939) is an American physicist and educator. From 1988 to 2007 he served as Vice-provost of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), where he is also a professor of physics and applied physics, as well as (since 1995) the Frank J. Gilloon Distinguished Teaching and Service Professor.
Life and work.
Goodstein was educated at Brooklyn College (BS, 1960) and at the University of Washington (Ph.D., 1965). He has written several books, including "States of Matter" (1975) (reprinted in a Dover paperback edition) and Feynman’s Lost Lecture (1996). In the 1980s he was the director and host of "The Mechanical Universe", an educational television series on physics that has been adapted for high school use and translated into many other languages. The series has been broadcast on hundreds of public broadcasting stations and has garnered more than a dozen prestigious awards, including the 1987 Japan Prize for television.
In recent times, while continuing to teach and conduct research in experimental condensed matter physics, he has turned his attention to issues related to science and society. In articles and speeches, he has addressed conduct and misconduct in science, and issues related to fossil fuels and the climate of Planet Earth. In 2004 he published a best-selling book "".
In 1999, Goodstein was awarded the Oersted Medal of the American Association of Physics Teachers, and in 2000, the John P. McGovern Medal of the Sigma Xi Society. He has served on and chaired numerous scientific and academic panels, including the National Advisory Committee to the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate of the National Science Foundation. He is a founding member of the Board of Directors of the California Council on Science and Technology.
In 2015 he published "Thermal Physics: Energy and Entropy".


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Master International Frequency Register

The Master International Frequency Register (MIFR) is the formal database of satellite and terrestrial frequency assignments maintained by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). Recording in the MIFR is the final stage of the frequency coordination process, and confers international recognition and protection from interference for those frequency assignments.


Helen Young (radio manager)

Helen Agnes Young (22 March 1926 – 2 August 2019) was a New Zealand radio manager and an advocate for New Zealand music performers and composers.
Born in Hāwera on 22 March 1926, Young was the daughter of Agnes Isabel Young (née Bartholomew) and Andrew Morton Young. She was educated at St Cuthbert's College, Auckland, and later went to London, where she studied at the Royal College of Music and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. After working at the music library of the British Arts Council and the British Institute of Recorded Sound, she returned to New Zealand. She was manager of RNZ Concert for 12 years between 1978 and 1989, and worked for Radio New Zealand for 35 years in all.
In the 1987 Queen's Birthday Honours, Young was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire, for services to broadcasting, and she received the award for "Outstanding Contribution to Broadcasting" at the 1990 New Zealand Radio Awards.
Young died in Auckland on 2 August 2019.


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Cat Daddy

"Cat Daddy" is a 2011 song by American hip hop group The Rej3ctz. It is based on a dance of the same name and is from the 2010 mixtape "TheFUNKtion vs theKICKback". "Cat Daddy" was a MTV Jams "Jam Of The Week" in January 2011. It was released for digital download on February 16, 2011 on iTunes and subsequently charted on several "Billboard" charts, including the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, where it spent fourteen weeks and eventually peaked at number 77, after being re-released on June 27, 2011. In 2018, the song was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America.
Chris Brown performed the Cat Daddy dance during the "106 & Park" 10th Anniversary special in October 2010. Brown was the featured dance performer on the song's official video, which has about 109 million YouTube views. A Cat Daddy 2.0 video by Mario Van Peebles preceded the re-release of the song and was associated with the movie "We the Party". Several notable celebrities have been filmed doing the dance, including Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez. The dance is described as a combination of buckling a seatbelt and rolling a wheelchair.
The song and dance became a viral video in May 2012 when then-current "Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue" cover model Kate Upton posted a video of her bikini-clad rendition of the dance on YouTube, causing YouTube to temporarily ban the video. The propriety of the YouTube ban was hotly debated with articles in many top-tier publications including the "Los Angeles Times", "The Washington Post" and the "Daily News" as well as leading news services such as ABC News and Fox News. Her video has about 27.25 million YouTube views, .
Release.
The "Cat Daddy" dance was originated by The Rej3ctz group member Reject Sam Awelope (DJ Major League) before the group linked it to the song. The song came from a 2010 mixtape entitled "TheFUNKtion vs theKICKback", which is sometimes just referred to as "The FUNKtion". In late 2010 and 2011, Chris Brown popularized the Cat Daddy dance after performing it in the official video. On October 6, 2010, Brown performed the Cat Daddy on "106 & Park" for their 10-year anniversary show. Then, the Rej3ctz released a video of the song, featuring Brown dancing, that was produced at Venice Beach on or before August 2010.
The song was released February 16, 2011 as a music download on iTunes. According to Thomas Clayton of "The Daily Rind", the song had 14,000 downloads on iTunes in its first week and the video had 9 million pageviews at the time. By April 20, 2011, the official video had 21 million pageviews. the original December 2, 2010 upload of the official video has over 86 million YouTube views, while an alternate March 9, 2011 upload of the video has an additional 22.9 million plus views.
In April 2011, Mario Van Peebles produced a "Cat Daddy 2.0" video that included appearances of several artist playing parody roles of themselves like actor and singer Quincy, rapper YG and entertainer Carlos Olivero. The video was associated with the release of Van Peebles' movie "We the Party" and the story behind The Rej3ctz' audition for it. The video shows how The Rej3ctz anticipated succeeding in their auditions, but realized that the competition was stiffer than expected. They were rejected until Van Peebles' kids got Mario to ask them to perform their song and dance. The video was Van Peebles' first music video. The song was re-released on iTunes on June 27, 2011.
Reception.
"Billboard" described the song as a "low-slung". MostlyJunkFood.com described the song and video as "another one of those weak on lyrical content, but making up for it with a bangin beat and some standard Chris Breezy dancin’ abouts". In January 2011, the song was recognized by MTV Jams as the "Jam Of The Week". Although the song only spent one week on the "Billboard" Hot 100, peaking at number 97 on June 18, 2011, it spent fourteen weeks on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart peaking at 77 on July 16, 2011 and was listed on the Top Heatseekers list for eleven weeks, peaking at number 12 on June 18, 2011.
Production background.
The original video was directed by Alex Nazari. "TheFUNKtion vs theKICKback" mixtape that included "Cat Daddy" was produced by JHawk.
Kate Upton videos.
Kate Upton, who in February 2012 was the cover model for the "Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue", recorded a video of the Dougie that went viral and garnered over 5 million hits in April 2011. She announced her intention to release a video performance of the Cat Daddy when she served as grand marshal for the 2012 Daytona 500. The video of Upton dancing on a break between photo shots was posted online on April 30.
After garnering close to 1 million hits in the first 24 hours, YouTube banned Kate Upton's version of the dance from their site for being too risqué. After some deliberation about whether it "violated the website’s rules on nudity and sexual content" the video was restored to their website. Upton's Cat Daddy video clip was a part of Terry Richardson's vlog. Richardson has a reputation for "raunchy" artwork. According to the "Los Angeles Times" the video was removed on May 1, 2012 while the "Daily News" reported its removal was May 2.
Both agree that the video was restored late on May 2, although Fox News reports that it was initially restored with an age restriction. During the YouTube ban, Upton's Cat Daddy gained exposure at Vimeo when Richardson uploaded it there in response to the ban. , her version of the dance has received about 27.25 million YouTube views.
Following Upton's April 30 rendition, The Rej3ctz were impressed enough with Upton that they attempted to contact her regarding future collaboration(s). On the edition of June 21, 2012 of "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" she performed a fully clothed rendition of the "Cat Daddy" alongside Fallon. Prior to performing the dance she described the movements of the dance as buckling a seatbelt and rolling a wheelchair. YouTube now hosts videos of numerous celebrities doing the Cat Daddy including Selena Gomez and Justin Bieber.


Wellywood

Wellywood is an informal name for the city of Wellington, New Zealand. The name—a conflation of Wellington and Hollywood—is a reference to the film production business established in the city by "The Lord of the Rings" film director Sir Peter Jackson, and Wellington-based special effects companies Weta Workshop and Weta Digital. The businesses operate a number of film-related facilities in the Wellington suburb of Miramar.
In March 2010, the Wellington Airport company announced plans to erect a "Hollywood"-style sign "Wellywood" on a hillside next to the Miramar cutting. After the airport considered a range of alternatives, it was announced in May 2011 that the "Wellywood" sign would be going ahead. However this was met with enormous criticism, and on 1 June 2011 it was announced that a panel would be convened to consider alternative sign options. The panel ran a binding public poll on "The Dominion Post" website with the 'Wellington Blown Away' design being chosen. The sign was erected 27 July 2012.


NZV8 (magazine)

NZV8 is a monthly automotive magazine and website that focuses on V8 cars, car clubs and the related culture predominantly in New Zealand, but also Australia and the USA.
Its readership was 96,000 in 2011.
It was the third automotive magazine to be published by Parkside Media, the other two being NZ Performance Car and NZ Classic Car.
"NZV8"'s offices are in Grey Lynn, Auckland, New Zealand.
The magazine's tagline was originally "Feel the power". It was changed in issue 32 (January 2008) to "NZ's top circuit, strip and street machines."
Magazine contents.
As of the December 2008 issue (#43), the typical magazine contents include:
Website.
Daily news articles are available weekdays which are additional to magazine content. Full magazine articles are available from previous issues, often including additional photos and information (including videos) that could not be fitted into the magazine. Some writers run blogs on the website, and a forum is run as a subsite to encourage user interaction.
Users can purchase books related to muscle cars, Pony cars, V8s and motorsport, as well as back issues and subscriptions in the online shop.
Online games.
Jetsprint Legends is the first game in the world to feature jet boat racing on New Zealand's jet boat tracks.
Television.
The inaugural season of NZV8 TV was broadcast in 2009 over 13 weeks as a part of Powerbuilt Tools Motorsport on TV1, Sunday afternoons.
Editorial staff.
Editor Todd Wylie was former assistant editor of NZ Performance Car magazine.
Notable contributors.
V8 Supercar driver Jason Richards has a monthly column. New Zealand V8s driver Andy Booth presents NZV8 TV.
Government policy.
Like its sister publication "NZ Classic Car" "NZV8" has supported various parties in lobbying Land Transport NZ for easing rules on car modification, frontal impact laws for low volume vehicle certification and steering systems. It is recognised by the V8 industry as working for their benefit.
Awards.
Publisher Greg Vincent received the Meguiar’s Collector’s Car Person of the Year Award.


Frank Shakespeare

Francis J. Shakespeare (born April 9, 1925) is a former American diplomat and media executive. He was the president of CBS Television before entering public service. He served as the United States Ambassador to Portugal from 1985 to 1986 and the United States Ambassador to the Holy See from 1986 to 1989. He now serves as an honorary member of the board of trustees for The Heritage Foundation.
Early life and education.
Born in New York City to Francis and Frances (née Hughes) Shakespeare and raised in the Catholic faith, Shakespeare graduated (with a B.S.) from the College of the Holy Cross in 1946. He also served in the U.S. Navy from 1945 to 1946. He was later awarded honorary degrees in engineering from the Colorado School of Mines in 1975, in commercial science from Pace University in 1979 and in law from Sacred Heart University in 1985.
Career.
Shakespeare was president of CBS Television in New York from 1950 to 1969, when he was appointed by President Richard Nixon as director of the United States Information Agency. He returned to the private sector in 1973, and became an executive vice president of Westinghouse in New York. In 1975 he became vice chairman of RKO General.
In 1981 President Ronald Reagan named him chairman of the Board for International Broadcasting, the entity which oversaw the operations of Radio Free Europe. He held this position until 1985, when Reagan appointed him United States Ambassador to Portugal. The following year, in September 1986, Shakespeare was appointed United States Ambassador to the Holy See. Since 1979 Shakespeare has been an honorary member of the board of trustees for The Heritage Foundation, a Washington, D.C.-based public policy research institute. He also currently serves as a trustee of the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.


Wireless Markup Language

Wireless Markup Language (WML), based on XML, is a now-obsolete markup language intended for devices that implement the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) specification, such as mobile phones. It provides navigational support, data input, hyperlinks, text and image presentation, and forms, much like HTML (Hypertext Markup Language). It preceded the use of other markup languages now used with WAP, such as HTML itself, and XHTML (which are gaining in popularity as processing power in mobile devices increases).
WML history.
Building on Openwave's HDML, Nokia's "Tagged Text Markup Language" (TTML) and Ericsson's proprietary markup language for mobile content, the WAP Forum created the WML 1.1 standard in 1998. WML 2.0 was specified in 2001, but has not been widely adopted. It was an attempt at bridging WML and XHTML Basic before the WAP 2.0 spec was finalized. In the end, XHTML Mobile Profile became the markup language used in WAP 2.0. The newest WML version in active use is 1.3.
The first company to launch a public WML site was Dutch mobile phone network operator Telfort in October 1999 and the first company in the world to launch the Nokia 7110. The Telfort WML site was created and developed as side project to test the device's capabilities by a billing engineer called Christopher Bee and National Deployment Manager, Euan McLeod. The WML site consists of four pages in both Dutch and English that contained many grammatical errors in Dutch as the two developers were unaware the WML was configured on the Nokia 7110 as the home page and neither were native Dutch speakers.
WML markup.
WML documents are XML documents that validate against the WML DTD (Document Type Definition)
. The W3C Markup Validation service (http://validator.w3.org/) can be used to validate WML documents (they are validated against their declared document type).
For example, the following WML page could be saved as "example.wml":
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE wml PUBLIC "-//WAPFORUM//DTD WML 1.1//EN"
 "http://www.wapforum.org/DTD/wml_1.1.xml" >
<wml>

 <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />

 <card id="main" title="First Card">

This is a sample WML page.

 </card>
</wml>
A WML document is known as a “deck”. Data in the deck is structured into one or more “cards” (pages) – each of which represents a single interaction with the user.
WML decks are stored on an ordinary web server configured to serve the text/vnd.wap.wml MIME type in addition to plain HTML and variants. The WML cards when requested by a device are accessed by a bridge (WAP gateway), which sits between mobile devices and the World Wide Web, passing pages from one to the other much like a proxy. The gateways send the WML pages on in a form suitable for mobile device reception (WAP Binary XML). This process is hidden from the phone, so it may access the page in the same way as a browser accesses HTML, using a URL (for example, http://example.com/foo.wml). (Provided the mobile phone operator has not specifically locked the phone to prevent access of user-specified URLs.)
WML has a scaled-down set of procedural elements which can be used by the author to control navigation to other cards.
Consider a service that lets you enter a zip code, and obtain a list of clickable phone numbers of pizza parlors and taxicabs in your immediate location:
<card id="cM" title="MY_DOMAIN.com">

 Call A Taxi:
 903-555-1212

</card>
Mobile devices are moving towards allowing more XHTML and even standard HTML as processing power in handsets increases. These standards are concerned with formatting and presentation. They do not however address cell-phone or mobile device hardware interfacing in the same way as WML.
WML capability in desktop browsers.
The Presto layout engine (used by Opera before its switch to Blink) understands WML natively. Mozilla based browsers (Firefox (before its update to version 57), SeaMonkey, MicroB) can interpret WML by WMLBrowser addon. Google Chrome can also interpret WML by two extensions: WML and FireMobileSimulator.


Dalton Trumbo

James Dalton Trumbo (December 9, 1905 – September 10, 1976) was an American screenwriter and novelist who scripted many award-winning films, including "Roman Holiday" (1953), "Exodus", "Spartacus" (both 1960), and "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo" (1944). One of the Hollywood Ten, he refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in 1947 during the committee's investigation of Communist influences in the motion picture industry.
Trumbo, the other members of the Hollywood Ten, and hundreds of other professionals in the industry were blacklisted by Hollywood. He was, however, able to continue working clandestinely on major films, writing under pseudonyms or other authors' names. His uncredited work won two Academy Awards for Best Story: for "Roman Holiday" (1953), which was presented to a front writer, and for "The Brave One" (1956), which was awarded to a pseudonym used by Trumbo. When he was given public screen credit for both "Exodus" and "Spartacus" in 1960, it marked the beginning of the end of the Hollywood Blacklist for Trumbo and other affected screenwriters. He finally was given full credit by the Writers' Guild for "Roman Holiday" in 2011, nearly 60 years after the fact.
Early life.
Trumbo was born in Montrose, Colorado, the son of Maud (née Tillery) and Orus Bonham Trumbo. His family moved to Grand Junction in 1908. He was proud of his paternal immigrant ancestor, a Protestant of Swiss origin named Jacob Trumbo, who settled in the colony of Virginia in 1736. Trumbo graduated from Grand Junction High School. While still in high school, he worked for Walter Walker as a cub reporter for the "Grand Junction Daily Sentinel," covering courts, the high school, the mortuary and civic organizations. He attended the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1924 and 1925, working as a reporter for the "Boulder Daily Camera" and contributing to the campus humor magazine, the yearbook, and the campus newspaper. He was a member of Delta Tau Delta International Fraternity.
For nine years after his father died, Trumbo worked the night shift wrapping bread at a Los Angeles bakery, and attended the University of California, Los Angeles (1926) and the University of Southern California (1928–1930). During this time, he wrote movie reviews, 88 short stories, and six novels, all of which were rejected for publication.
Career.
Early career.
Trumbo began his professional writing career in the early 1930s, when several of his articles and stories were published in mainstream magazines, including "McCall's", "Vanity Fair", the "Hollywood Spectator" and "The Saturday Evening Post". Trumbo was hired as managing editor of the "Hollywood Spectator" in 1934. Later he left the magazine to become a reader in the story department at Warner Bros. studio.
His first published novel, "Eclipse" (1935), was released during the Great Depression. Writing in the social realist style, Trumbo drew on his years in Grand Junction to portray a town and its people. The book was controversial in his hometown, where many people took issue with his fictional portrayal.
Trumbo started working in movies in 1937 but continued writing prose. His anti-war novel "Johnny Got His Gun" won one of the early National Book Awards: the Most Original Book of 1939. It was inspired by an article Trumbo had read several years earlier: an account of a hospital visit by the Prince of Wales to a Canadian soldier who had lost all his limbs in World War I.
During the late 1930s and early 1940s, Trumbo became one of Hollywood's highest-paid screenwriters, at about $4,000 per week while on assignment, and earning as much as $80,000 in one year. He worked on such films as "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo" (1944), "Our Vines Have Tender Grapes" (1945), and "Kitty Foyle" (1940), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Political advocacy and blacklisting.
Aligned with the Communist Party in the United States before the 1940s, Trumbo was an isolationist. He joined the Communist Party in 1943, and remained active until 1947. He reaffiliated himself with the party in 1954. His novel "The Remarkable Andrew" featured the ghost of President Andrew Jackson appearing to caution the United States against getting involved in World War II and in support of the Nazi-Soviet pact. In a review of the book, "Time" magazine wise-cracked, "General Jackson's opinions need surprise no one who has observed George Washington and Abraham Lincoln zealously following the Communist Party Line in recent years."
Shortly after the Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, Trumbo and his publisher decided to suspend reprinting "Johnny Got His Gun" until the end of the war. During the war, Trumbo received letters from individuals "denouncing Jews" and using "Johnny" to support their arguments for "an immediate negotiated peace" with Nazi Germany; Trumbo reported these correspondents to the FBI. Trumbo regretted this decision, which he called "foolish". After two FBI agents showed up at his home, he understood that "their interest lay not in the letters but in me".
In a 1946 article titled "The Russian Menace" published in Rob Wagner's "Script Magazine", Trumbo wrote from the perspective of a post-World War II Russian citizen. He argued that Russians were likely fearful of the mass of U.S. military power that surrounded them, at a time when any sympathetic view toward Communist countries was viewed with suspicion. He ended the article by stating, "If I were a Russian ... I would be alarmed, and I would petition my government to take measures at once against what would seem an almost certain blow aimed at my existence. This is how it must appear in Russia today". He argued that the U.S. was a "menace" to Russia, rather than the more popular American view of Russia as the "red menace". According to anti-Communist author Kenneth Billingsley, Trumbo had written in "The Daily Worker" that Communist influence in Hollywood had prevented films from being made from anti-Communist books, such as Arthur Koestler's "Darkness at Noon" and "The Yogi and the Commissar".
William R. Wilkerson, publisher and founder of "The Hollywood Reporter", published a July 29, 1946 "TradeView" column entitled "A Vote For Joe Stalin". It named Trumbo and several others as Communist sympathizers, the first persons identified on what became known as "Billy's Blacklist". In October 1947, drawing upon these names, the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) summoned Trumbo and nine others to testify for their investigation as to whether Communist agents and sympathizers had surreptitiously planted propaganda in U.S. films. The writers refused to give information about their own or any other person's involvement and were convicted for contempt of Congress. They appealed the conviction to the Supreme Court on First Amendment grounds and lost. Trumbo served eleven months in the federal penitentiary in Ashland, Kentucky in 1950. In the 1976 documentary "Hollywood On Trial", Trumbo said: "As far as I was concerned, it was a completely just verdict. I had contempt for that Congress and have had contempt for it ever since. And on the basis of guilt or innocence, I could never really complain very much. That this was a crime or misdemeanor was the complaint, my complaint."
The MPAA issued a statement that Trumbo and his compatriots would not be permitted to work in the industry unless they disavowed Communism under oath. After completing his sentence, Trumbo sold his ranch and moved his family to Mexico City with Hugo Butler and his wife Jean Rouverol, who had also been blacklisted. In Mexico, Trumbo wrote 30 scripts (under pseudonyms) for B-movie studios such as King Brothers Productions. In the case of "Gun Crazy" (1950), adapted from a short story by MacKinlay Kantor, Kantor agreed to be the front for Trumbo's screenplay. Trumbo's role in the screenplay was not revealed until 1992.
During this blacklist period, Trumbo also wrote "The Brave One" (1956) for the King Brothers. Like "Roman Holiday", it received an Academy Award for Best Story he could not claim. The script was credited to Robert Rich, a name borrowed from a nephew of the producers. Trumbo recalled earning an average fee of $1,750 per film for 18 screenplays written in two years and said, "None was very good".
He published "The Devil in the Book", an analysis of the conviction of 14 California Smith Act defendants, in 1956. The statute set criminal penalties for advocating the overthrow of the U.S. government and required all non-citizen adult residents to register with the government.
Later career.
Gradually the blacklist weakened. With the support of director Otto Preminger, Trumbo was credited for the screenplay of the film "Exodus" (1960), adapted from the novel of the same name by Leon Uris. Shortly thereafter, actor Kirk Douglas announced Trumbo had written the screenplay for Stanley Kubrick's film "Spartacus" (also 1960), adapted from the novel by Howard Fast. With these actions, Preminger and Douglas helped end the power of the blacklist. Trumbo was reinstated into the Writers Guild of America, West and was credited on all subsequent scripts. The guild finally gave him full credit for the script of the 1953 film "Roman Holiday" in 2011. Trumbo directed the 1971 film adaptation of his novel "Johnny Got His Gun", starring Timothy Bottoms, Diane Varsi, Jason Robards and Donald Sutherland. One of the last films Trumbo wrote, "Executive Action" (1973), was based on the Kennedy assassination. The Academy officially recognized Trumbo as the winner of the Oscar for the 1956 film "The Brave One" in 1975, presenting him with a statuette.
Personal life.
In 1938, Trumbo married Cleo Fincher, who was born in Fresno, California on July 17, 1916 and had moved with her divorced mother and her brother and sister to Los Angeles. The Trumbos had three children: Nikola Trumbo (1939), who became a psychotherapist; Christopher Trumbo (1940), a filmmaker and screenwriter who became an expert on the Hollywood blacklist; and Melissa Trumbo (1945), known as Mitzi, a photographer. Mitzi Trumbo dated comedian Steve Martin when they were both in their early 20s, which is recounted in Martin's 2007 book "Born Standing Up". Martin wrote of her: "Mitzi became my official photographer, and she snapped dozens of rolls of film, all to find the perfect publicity photo."
Cleo Trumbo died of natural causes at the age of 93 on October 9, 2009 at the home she shared with Mitzi Trumbo in Los Altos, California.
Death and legacy.
Trumbo died in Los Angeles of a heart attack at the age of 70 on September 10, 1976. He donated his body to scientific research.
In 1993, Trumbo was posthumously awarded the Academy Award for writing "Roman Holiday" (1953). The screen credit and award were previously given to Ian McLellan Hunter, who had been a front for Trumbo. A new statue was made for this award because Hunter's son refused to hand over the one his father had received.
In 2003, Christopher Trumbo mounted an Off-Broadway play based on his father's letters called "Trumbo: Red, White and Blacklisted", in which a wide variety of actors played his father during the run, including Nathan Lane, Tim Robbins, Brian Dennehy, Ed Harris, Chris Cooper and Gore Vidal. He adapted it as the documentary "Trumbo" (2007), which added archival footage and new interviews.
A dramatization of Trumbo's life, also called "Trumbo", was released in November 2015. It starred Bryan Cranston as the screenwriter and was directed by Jay Roach. For his portrayal of Trumbo, Cranston was nominated for Best Actor at the 88th Academy Awards.
The moving image collection of Trumbo is held at the Academy Film Archive and consists primarily of extensive 35 mm production materials relating to the 1971 anti-war film "Johnny Got His Gun". More than a hundred years after his birth, Trumbo was honored by the installation of a statue of him in front of the Avalon Theater on Main Street in Grand Junction, Colorado, his home town. He was depicted writing a screenplay in a bathtub.
Works.
Selected film works
Novels, plays and essays
Non-fiction


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Ubi de Feo

Ubi de Feo (born 1974, in Italy) is a Creative Technologist and educator. In his off-time (mostly when doing the dishes) he thinks about ways to improve things or invent new ones. Curiosity drives everything in his life and work. In 2007 de Feo began teaching programming, electronics and other things to whoever wants to learn, often developing his own methods to explain really complicated things in a more tangible, down-to-earth fashion. He does do not try to teach things he doesn’t thoroughly understand, which often leads him to learn entirely new subjects in order to explain them to himself and others.
Education.
"I have learned most of what I know by interacting with people far from my location. Internet has been my campus and will be till the end of one of us two, be it mine or the internet's," Ubi de Feo. From 1993-1995 de Feo was enrolled at the University in Salerno (IT) where he studied Electrical and Electronics Engineering. Bored with that track he dropped out and switched his focus to Social Studies. In 1995 he was drafted into the Navy. Shortly thereafter de Feo was in a serious Vespa accident and spent six months in bed recovering and thinking.
Professional life.
In 2000 de Feo became a professional creative coder. He began experimenting with mobile devices in 2001. In 2002 he moved to Amsterdam where he worked as a Creative Technologist for Wieden+Kenney [W+K interaction design lab startup], set up the collective Hello, Savants! [a fellowship of creative people with unique disabilities and unexpected talents], and went to work for himself as twodotone. In this range of capacities de Feo produced both personal and commercial projects that span disciplines from teaching and coding to sound and animation while developing projects for Nike, Nokia [Nokia Flagship Stores Bluetooth Framework], Gore-Tex, Heineken, Bottega Veneta, Mandarina Duck, Electronic Arts, Reebok, MTV networks, Nationaal Historisch Museum Amsterdam, Belastingdienst and many more. Currently de Feo is the Director of Secret Space Program at MediaMonks and is a 2015 visiting faculty at Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design (CIID).
Teaching.
Ubi de Feo's project “from 0 to C” is a series of workshops – and a framework of objects, methods, stories and games – that aim at teaching programming using a more creative, human approach. Through the use of tangible, hand-made objects, “from 0 to C” attempts to establish a clear understanding of how a computer works and what a programming language actually is.
During years of teaching—or trying to teach—Arduino coding to creatives, de Feo ran into the following scenarios: “For the beginner, the artist, the industrial designer who wants to start prototyping, [the difficulties of learning to code] can appear as walls they constantly have to crash against,” de Feo observed. “If you ask them why, most of the times the answer will be something along the lines of I’m a creative person, this structured stuff is not for me." His Arduino courses at Mediamatic with Massimo Banzi revealed "a really steep entry curve" barrier and further motivated de Feo to develop a new approach. "People got really really excited about the electronic part of it and the entry of the code was really complex. I have studied so many languages that I have learnt a lot of tricks and things that could be useful in learning a new programming language. I wanted to teach people Arduino but I wanted to teach them really really well." Realizing that the conventional approach to teaching coding was not working for the [creative] type of student, de Feo created “From 0 to C,” starting with a rather radical step: Removing all of the computers from the classroom. Instead, he introduced physical objects the students are meant to interact with.“From 0 to C” allows people to visualize what happens inside the computer when a program runs – how bytes are moved around and manipulated by the program.
Regarding the “From 0 to C”outcomes, de Feo explains, "The scope of this primer is not teaching you to be the best coder or hacker, but to be one who knows what you are dealing with and has a better attitude towards problem solving." "After learning the ins and outs of how stupid computers actually are, [Ubi]’s students then learn the syntax of a language of their choice (C, JavaScript, or Python, for example), and write a few programs."
Ubi de Feo has taught the Introduction to Electronics class at CIID (Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design) in both 2015 and 2016 during their Interaction Design Programme.


David Rokeby

David Rokeby (born November 14, 1960 in Tillsonburg, Ontario) is an artist who has been making works of electronic, video and installation art since 1982. He lives with his wife, acclaimed pianist Eve Egoyan, and daughter, Viva Egoyan-Rokeby, in Toronto, Canada.
His early work "Very Nervous System" (1982–1991) is acknowledged as a pioneering work of interactive art, translating physical gestures into real-time interactive sound environments. "Very Nervous System" was presented at the Venice Biennale in 1986.
Work.
Rokeby's pioneering interactive work "Very Nervous System" has been evolving since 1982. In "Wired Magazine" the work is described as
"A combination of technologies, some off-the-shelf, some rare and esoteric, and some cooked up by Rokeby himself. Initially, in 1982, much more of the system was homemade. His circuitry, designed to speed up the response of the sluggish Apple II, was still not fast enough to analyze an image from an ordinary video camera, so he built his own low-res device: a little box with 64 light sensors behind a plastic Fresnel lens. But Very Nervous System has been evolving for 13 years, during which time the world has seen any number of technological revolutions. So Rokeby now has a lot more store-bought components incorporated into the system: it can handle a Mac Quadra and real video cameras, via sophisticated "Max" software from Paris."
A number of Rokeby's works address issues of digital surveillance, including "Watch" (1995), "Guardian Angel" (2002) and "Sorting Daemon" (2003). In addition to his surveillance art, other works engage in a critical examination of the differences between human and artificial intelligence. "The Giver of Names" (1991) and "n-cha(n)t" (2001) are artificial subjective entities, provoked by objects or spoken words in their immediate environment to formulate sentences and speak them aloud.
David Rokeby's installations have been exhibited extensively in the Americas, Europe and Asia. He has been an invited speaker at events around the world, and has published two papers that are required reading in the new media arts faculties of many universities. In 2002, Rokeby represented Canada at the Venice Biennale of Architecture with "Seen" (2002). In 2004 he represented Canada at the São Paulo Bienal in Brazil. In 2007 he completed major art commissions for the Ontario Science Centre and the Daniel Langlois Foundation in Montréal.
Rokeby's sculptural piece "Cloud" is one of three permanent art installations at the Ontario Science Centre. "Cloud" consists of an array of blue and transparent squares that rotate in various ways to simulate the three states of matter: solid, liquid and gas.
Awards.
For his installation "n-cha(n)t", Rokeby was awarded the Prix Ars Electronica (Golden Nica for Interactive Art) in 2002. In 2002 he was awarded a Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts. "Very Nervous System" was awarded the first Petro-Canada Award for Media Arts in 1988 and Austria's Prix Ars Electronica Award of Distinction for Interactive Art in 1991. "Watched and Measured" (2000) was awarded the first BAFTA award for interactive art from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 2000.


Campaign timeline of Year Zero

The following is a campaign timeline of the Year Zero alternate reality game. The "Year Zero" alternate reality game, and its accompanying concept album of the same name, criticizes the United States government's policies as of 2007, projecting a dystopian vision of its impact on the state of events in 2022. The game began in mid-February 2007 and seems to have wrapped up in April shortly after the album came out.


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Robert Edmiston

Robert Norman Edmiston, Baron Edmiston (born 6 October 1946) is a British billionaire motor trade entrepreneur based in the West Midlands who has established a number of religious and educational charities, including Christian Vision.
According to the "Sunday Times Rich List" in May 2019, Edmiston is worth £1.06 billion.
Business activities.
Bob Edmiston became a millionaire through his companies IM Group, a car importer, and IM Properties. In 1974 he was finance director at sports car manufacturer Jensen Motors, and used a £6,000 redundancy payout when the company went bankrupt to set up International Motors, which acquired the UK franchise for Subaru and Isuzu cars. He later branched out into property and vehicle finance. IM Group is now managed by his son, Andrew Edmiston.
Charitable activities.
Edmiston is an Evangelical Christian, and has made large donations to charities which he has established.
In 1988, he founded Christian Vision, a large international evangelical charity, based in Coleshill, Warwickshire.
Grace Academies.
Through two other charities, Edmiston is the sponsor of three secondary schools within the English academy programme (Grace Academy (Coventry), Grace Academy (Solihull), and Grace Academy, Darlaston). He is chair of the governors for all three academies. Edminston paid £2m to sponsor each academy.
The academies follow a Christian ethos.
On 20 August 2013, the academies were among schools named by The Independent newspaper and the British Humanist Association as adopting policies similar in wording to the repealed anti-gay legislation Section 28.
In 2007, it was announced that Grace academy, Solihull had awarded contracts worth £281,000 over 2 years to the IM Group for payroll and other "management services" without going to competitive tender. The school also donated £53,000 over a 2-year period to Christian Vision. In response, Edmiston claimed that the school had no capability to pay wages and that he had transferred a member of Christian Vision to manage the project at cost price. The DfES refused to say why it had waived its "strict" rules requiring 3 competitive tenders but Sarah Teather, the then Liberal Democrats education spokesperson, said that the absence of tendering was worrying and "Lack of proper regulation will leave loopholes for the unscrupulous."
By 2014, the 3 schools had paid "more than £1m" to companies owned by Edmiston, academy trustees or their relatives. A company belonging to Edmiston's brother-in-law, Gary Spicer received over £367k for consultancy work over 6 years whilst the charities established by Edmiston received over £170k. In response, the academy's director of corporate development said the companies had financed the academy's development and provided office space. The payments – including for consultancy fees, IT advice and legal services – led to fears that the Department of Education was not monitoring the schools' accounts closely enough. Shadow Schools Minister Kevin Brennan said it was "deeply concerning that so much taxpayer money is ending up in the pockets of academy chain directors and trustees" and that the Government urgently needed to prioritise protection of public money over the rate of expansion.
Politics.
Edmiston has also been a backer of the Conservative Party, which he supported with a £2 million loan, later converted into a donation. He was one of the businessmen behind the Midlands Industrial Council, a Conservative Party political campaigning organization.
In 2005 "The Times" reported that he was on a list of proposed new working peers; however, his nomination was overtaken by the "Cash for Peerages" scandal and was blocked by the House of Lords Appointments Commission. The Inland Revenue also opposed his appointment as a peer, because of a tax dispute with IM Group.
On 19 November 2010 it was announced that Edmiston was to be created a Life Peer. He sat as a Conservative in the House of Lords, with the title (created 14 January 2011) Baron Edmiston, of Lapworth in the County of Warwickshire. In the House of Lords debate on gay marriage on 3 June 2013, Lord Edmiston opposed gay marriage on the grounds that it could lead to other forms of marriage. He said: "If there is no possibility of genetic offspring or indeed no requirement for consummation, why should not close relatives get married?" [Hansard].
On 22 July 2015, Edmiston retired from the House of Lords. He "semi-retired" to Portugal in 2016.