JD Institute of Fashion Technology

The JD Institute of Fashion Technology is the educational division of JD Educational Trust, with learning centers spread across India. The institute was founded on 12 October 1988 in Mumbai, India. It provides multi-disciplinary education in the field of Fashion and Interior design studies. The institute was ranked 10th in the field of Fashion Technology Education in India by India Today and Nielsen.
The institute has cooperated with members of the industry like Fashion Design Council of India and is a regular contributor to the development of the Indian Fashion Industry, participating in exhibitions, fashion weeks and other social and charity events. Additionally, JD Educational Trust is a member of various bodies such as Indo Italian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Indo French Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and Turkish Chamber of Commerce.
Academics.
The institute offers the below mentioned programs
Degree Courses:
Govt. Recognised Courses:
Diploma Courses:
Learning centers.
JD Institute of Fashion Technology has a series of ca. 20 learning centres located in major cities throughout India. These learning centres offer access to an
E-Library with books, magazines, journals and other fashion literature, as well as laboratories and classrooms.
JD Annual Design Awards.
Every year the institute organises an annual fashion show called "JD Annual Design Awards". The annual event is aimed at showcasing the creations designed by the final year student of the institute. In 2016, the show focussed on artisans and craftsmen in India’a textile and clothing history.


Dirk Henn

Dirk Henn (born 1960) is a German-style board game designer who was born in Bendorf, Germany.
Dirk Henn is best known for his game Alhambra, which won the Spiel des Jahres and placed 2nd in the Deutscher Spiele Preis in 2003.


Kim Mohan

Kim Rudolph Mohan (born May 4, 1949 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American author, editor and game designer best known for works related to the "Dungeons & Dragons" role-playing game.
Biography.
Background.
Kim Mohan was born in Chicago, Illinois, and moved to Williams Bay, Wisconsin when he was five. He became an avid science-fiction and fantasy reader and occasional wargamer, and graduated third in his high school class. He attended Beloit College, switching majors between philosophy, mathematics, and other subjects. "I decided that what I really wanted to do was write, so I sort of fell into a job working for the Lake Geneva Regional News as a reporter, and dropped out of college. That lasted for a few months, then I joined the staff of the Beloit Daily News, where I stayed for nine years." During that time, Mohan worked as everything from a sports writer, an editorial writer, the state editor, and the wire service editor. After nine years, he had grown tired of the newspaper business, and became a freelance writer for various newspapers.
TSR.
In the summer of 1979, Mohan went to the TSR Periodicals headquarters in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, and after an interview and some freelance editing assignments as a test, TSR hired him as part of a three-man staff. Mohan was soon promoted to Assistant Editor of "Dragon" magazine and became Editor-in-chief with issue #49 (May 1981). Mohan was the co-designer of the TSR board game "Food Fight", performed managerial duties for "Strategy & Tactics" and "Amazing Stories" magazine, served as editor and "general handyman" for the "Unearthed Arcana" rule book, authored the "Wilderness Survival Guide" rulebook., and edited "Saga of Old City" (Gary Gygax's first novel).
New Infinities Productions, return to TSR and Wizards of the Coast.
When Gygax founded New Infinities Productions, Inc. in October 1986, he brought over Mohan and Frank Mentzer. While at New Infinities, Mohan was the author of the "Cyborg Commando" sequence of novels with Pamela O'Neill. Based on an outline by Gygax, the trilogy included "Planet in Peril" (1987), "Chase into Space" (1988) and "The Ultimate Prize" (1988). Following the dissolution of New Infinities in 1988, Mohan returned to TSR and again was named editor of "Amazing Stories" (1992–2001) and Dragon magazines (1993–1995). He received Locus Poll Award nominations varying between "Best Editor" or "Best Magazine or Fanzine" for Amazing Stories. Mohan appears in the 1999 History Channel special "In Search of History: The Truth About Science Fiction", which features Harlan Ellison and Larry Niven in a discussion about science fiction literature and movies.
TSR was sold to Wizards of the Coast in 1997. While with WOTC, Mohan was the lead editor of the "Dungeons & Dragons" 3rd Edition design project before being promoted to managing editor during the second half of the design stage (with Julia Martin finishing the project). Mohan retired from Wizards of the Coast on May 31, 2013.


Silver Shoes

The Silver Shoes are the magical shoes that appear in L. Frank Baum's 1900 novel "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" as heroine Dorothy Gale's transport home. They are originally owned by the Wicked Witch of the East but passed to Dorothy when her house lands on the Witch. At the end of the story, Dorothy uses the shoes to transport her back to her home in Kansas, but when she arrives at her destination finds the shoes had fallen off "en route".
Appearances in books.
"The Wonderful Wizard of Oz".
"The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" (1900) is the only book in the original series to feature the Silver Shoes directly. They are the property of the Wicked Witch of the East until Dorothy's house lands on and kills her. They are then given to Dorothy by the Good Witch of the North, who tells Dorothy that "there is some charm connected with them; but what it is we never knew." When Dorothy is captured by the Wicked Witch of the West, she tries to steal the shoes. She finally gets one by tricking Dorothy into tripping over an invisible iron bar. Dorothy then melts the Witch with a bucket of water and recovers the shoe. In the final chapters of the book, Glinda explains that the shoes can transport the wearer anywhere they wish. If the Silver Shoes have any other powers they are never outlined in the books, however the Witch of the West was obsessed with obtaining them, as they would give her much greater power than any other thing she possessed, suggesting the shoes hold immense magic. After saying goodbye to her friends, Dorothy knocks her heels together three times, and commands the Shoes to carry her home. When Dorothy opens her eyes, she has arrived in Kansas. She finds that the shoes are gone, having fallen off during her flight and landing somewhere in the Deadly Desert. Though they are mentioned several times in sequels, they never appear again in the original series.
"The Wizard of the Emerald City".
In Alexander Melentyevich Volkov's "The Wizard of the Emerald City" (1939), the Silver shoes or Serebryaniye bashmachki as they are called in the manuscript, are the source of Elly's (his version of Dorothy) protection instead of the good Witch's kiss. She is therefore attacked once by an Ogre when removing them, and afterward wears them even when she sleeps. They are not taken from the Witch's body, but rather brought by Toto from her dwelling (a dark cave). This was possibly done to avert the problem of a person wearing the shoes to be impossible to harm, since in that book the hurricane is created by the Wicked Witch to destroy mankind, and redirected upon her by the Good Witch of the North, who suffers no ill effects for harming her. It is said the Witch only wore the shoes on very special occasions. They are lost just like in Baum's book.
"Dorothy of Oz".
In Roger S. Baum's "Dorothy of Oz" (1989), Glinda recovers the silver shoes and presents them to Dorothy. They have enough power remaining that Dorothy can travel once more to Oz and back to Kansas.
"Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West".
In "" (1995), the silver shoes are a gift to Nessarose (the Wicked Witch of the East) before she and her sister, Elphaba (the Wicked Witch of the West) start college. They are made by her father using special glass beads another man (Turtle Heart, possibly her biological father) taught him to make, which make the shoes shiny and iridescent, not necessarily a true silver. They are later enchanted by Glinda (the Good Witch of the North) to give Nessarose the necessary balance to walk. In the Broadway musical adaption of the book, Elphaba is the one who enchants the shoes. Her spell makes the silver shoes burn red hot, turning them into the ruby slippers.
Appearances in film.
"Wizard of Oz" (1925 film).
The shoes were absent from the 1925 movie.
"The Wizard of Oz" (1939 film).
In the 1939 movie the shoes served the same purpose as in the book but were changed to red by its screenwriter Noel Langley. He gave a notably different appearance than in Denslow's illustrations. In addition to the silver shoes' powers, the Ruby slippers in the film were magically protected from being removed from the feet of the person wearing them unless said person is dead.
"The Wiz".
In "The Wiz" (1978), the shoes are silver high heels. This movie gives further insight into the shoe's magical protection. When Evillene (the witch of the west) tries to obtain them magically, her fingers are bent painfully backwards.
"The Wizard of Oz" (1982 film).
In the anime movie, the shoes are once again transformed into the ruby slippers, though they are never referred to by that name. They are heeled shoes with pointed, slightly curled toes, similar to their appearance in Denslow's illustrations. Unlike the book, the shoes are still on Dorothy's feet when she arrives in Kansas.
"Return to Oz".
In "Return to Oz" (1985), the Ruby Slippers are used once again. In this movie, the slippers have more power than simply transporting people. They allow the Nome King to conquer Oz and turn every one in the Emerald City to stone. Dorothy later uses the shoes to reverse this process. This extra power is due to the fact the slippers replace the Nome King's Magic Belt. In the original draft of the script, the Nome King had refashioned the slippers into the actual Magic Belt from the novels. Upon his death, they reverted into the form of slippers. This was cut from the final filming of the movie.
"The Muppets' Wizard of Oz".
In "The Muppets' Wizard of Oz" (2005), the Silver Shoes are portrayed as sparkling, bejeweled, glittery Manolo Blahnik high-heels. The laws of ownership are again displayed in that the Witch of the West tries to cut off Dorothy's feet to obtain the shoes. Once again the shoes remain on Dorothy's feet when she arrives home.
Appearances in television.
"The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" (1986 anime).
When first seen on the feet of the Witch of the East in the 1986 anime version, they are brown peasant's shoes. When the Witch of the North then magically transfers them to Dorothy's feet, they take on the appearance of white slip-on shoes. When Dorothy is forced to give one of the shoes to the Witch of the West, it reverts to the peasant form. After the Witch is melted and Dorothy is shown wearing it again, it has returned to its white form.
The shoes are used twice after they initially send Dorothy home. The first time, she is holding them in her hands when she clicks the heels and drops them. Consequently, Dorothy is transported to Oz and the shoes are left in Kansas (Glinda sends her home). The second time occurs while Dorothy is sleeping. Tik-Tok is emitting a distress signal and the shoes activate, transporting Dorothy to the Land of Ev in a beam of light. Her clothes are changed in mid flight.
"The Wizard of Oz" (TV series).
In the 1990 "The Wizard of Oz" television series, the Ruby Slippers are used to transport Dorothy back to Oz. They are depicted to possess other powerful magical capabilities that Dorothy did not fully understand, and as such, often served as a form of deus ex machina against hopeless situations. They are no longer depicted as high heels.
A unique concept proposed by this series is that the Ruby Slippers' magic is linked to the glow of their red coloration. Their powers only function while a dim glow of red light emanates from them, initiated by Dorothy clicking her heels; and the effects of their magic immediately cease after the shoes cease to glow. Also, the Wicked Witch was once able to annul their abilities entirely, by capturing a red Luminary (teardrop-shaped creatures who control all color in Oz) and forcing him to drain the red color from the slippers themselves. However the slippers regained their powers after the Luminary escaped.
This series also proposes that the slippers do not necessarily have to be on the user's feet for their powers to work, as Dorothy once used them by tapping the heels together when she held the shoes in her hands (since the ground's sandy surface prevented her from clicking the heels together).
Also worth noting in a single episode, is that Truckle, the series' lead Flying Monkey, was once able to wear the Ruby Slippers and thus utilize their powerful magic for his own whims. Even with his generally dim wits and reckless disregard, the slippers gave him sufficient power to overwhelm the Wicked Witch of the West's magical attacks, and temporarily reduce her to his servant. This once again demonstrates that the shoes' users need not be a skilled/knowledgeable spellcaster, in order to gain great power. The Cowardly Lion also gets to wear them briefly.
Charmed ("TV Series")In the season five episode where the Halliwell sisters are jovially interfered with by fairy tale creatures due to the Wicked Queen of Snow White. Once Piper vanquishes the Queen, she is sent home from purgatory with Dorothy's slippers. They are depicted as ruby slippers, like the 1939 Film
"Once Upon a Time" (TV series).
In the "Once Upon a Time" television series, the Silver Slippers are first alluded to in "The Doctor", when Rumpelstiltskin sends the Mad Hatter to the Land of Oz in order to locate and retrieve the shoes so that he could travel to the Land without Magic in order to locate his lost son Balefire.
In "It's Not Easy Being Green", shortly before "The Doctor", Zelena, the woman who would eventually become the Wicked Witch of the West, goes to the Wizard in order to seek out her family. Upon discovering that she was abandoned by her mother, Cora, and that her half-sister, Regina became Queen and was being trained by Rumpelstiltskin, the Wizard gives Zelena the shoes so that she can travel to the Enchanted Forest to try and replace Regina as Rumpelstiltskin's student. Upon being rejected by him, Zelena turns green with envy. She mocks Rumpelstiltskin with the power of the Silver Slippers, thus causing his later desire to obtain them. Using the Silver Slippers again she returns to Oz and dethrones the Wizard.
In "Kansas" the Slippers appear again, as Zelena, posing as the Wizard of Oz, gives Dorothy the Silver Slippers in order to send her back to Kansas, in the hopes that it would keep Dorothy from becoming a powerful witch herself, and from defeating and replacing Zelena as the Witch of the West.
In "Our Decay", an adult Dorothy has returned to Oz via the Slippers to face down Zelena and rescue the Scarecrow from her.
In "Ruby Slippers", the Silver Slippers appear one last time, enabling travel between the Underworld and Oz so that Ruby (Red Riding Hood) can rescue Dorothy from a sleeping curse Zelena has placed her under.
Zelena, who is trying to change her ways gives the Slippers over to the heroes so Ruby and Snow White can make their way back to Oz.
Appearances in other media.
"Dorothy of Oz".
The "Dorothy of Oz" series completely revamps the Silver Shoes. They are instead depicted as red boots created by Selluriah, the Witch of the East. When Mara (codename Dorothy) stomps the heels of said boots, she takes on the form and powers of a witch. This power is channeled (rather inexpertly) through the staff Thrysos. The transformation is rather embarrassing, as it involves Mara being momentarily nude and various men are always apt to spot her. It is yet to be revealed if these boots will help Mara return home.
"Fables".
The shoes are shown in the DC comics Vertigo series "Fables". Dorothy, who's portrayed as a cold, merciless assassin, found that she enjoyed killing after being hired by the Wizard to kill the Witch of the West. However, she loses them on the way back to Kansas over the Deadly Desert, and goes to great lengths to get them back. She has several encounters with Fabletown spy Cinderella, which climaxes with them facing off in the mini-series "Cinderella: Fables Are Forever". After deducing that they are actually too big to fit Dorothy, Cinderella takes them and pushes her out of an airship over the Deadly Desert to her apparent death, though her body is not seen. Cinderella then looks over the shoes and decides they're just the right size to fit her.


Chris Haney (Trivial Pursuit)

Chris Haney (August 9, 1950 – May 31, 2010) was a Canadian journalist and co-creator of the "Trivial Pursuit" board game with Scott Abbott.
Early life.
Haney was born on August 9, 1950 in Welland, Ontario. He attended a high school in Hamilton, Ontario but dropped out at age 17, a decision he later regretted, saying he should have dropped out earlier. His father worked for The Canadian Press news agency and helped him get a job as a copy boy with the company. He was hired by "The Montreal Gazette" after working at photo desks in Montreal and Ottawa.
Career.
Haney was working at the "Montreal Gazette" as a photo editor and met Abbott in December 1975 after being assigned to support coverage of the 1976 Summer Olympics held in Montreal. The two developed the game on December 15, 1979, after a game of "Scrabble" got them thinking of ideas for a new alternative, with Haney coming up with the idea for a trivia game over a round of beers. Within an hour, Haney and Scott had mapped out the game with its six-spoked circular board and multiple categories on a few sheets of paper. Posing as reporters, they attended a toy fair in Montreal and came back with invaluable information they had obtained from game experts attending the show. Haney hoped the game would allow him to earn enough extra money to be able to travel to Spain and throughout Europe. After adding Haney's brother and a friend to their development team, The group needed investors and they raised $40,000 from 32 people. Haney talked his mother out of investing in the game for fear that he would cause her to lose her investment. Haney traveled to Spain, where he spent long days developing the trivia to be included in the game.
The "Trivial Pursuit" game that they developed was trademarked on November 10, 1981, and 1,100 copies of the game were released later that month for sale by retailers for $15. The company they formed to market the game, Horn Abbot, lost money on each of these initial sets, which cost $75 each to manufacture. The game's sales started slowly and Abbott and Haney didn't receive any interest from buyers at trade shows in Canada and the U.S. The game started developing sales by word of mouth and exploded by 1984, reaching sales of $800 million.
Selchow and Righter licensed the rights to the game in 1988. The rights to the game were purchased by Hasbro in 2008 for US$80 million. Haney would eventually have enough money to travel, taking cruise ships across the Atlantic to Europe because he was afraid of flying.
In 1984 alone, 20 million copies of the game were sold, and by the time of his death, global sales of the game had reached 100 million copies in 26 countries and 17 languages, with cumulative sales estimated to be well in excess of $1 billion since its creation.
Haney died in Toronto at age 59 on May 31, 2010, following a long illness. Haney was survived by his second wife, Hiam, his first wife, Sarah, and their three children.


Joseph Weisbecker

Joseph A. Weisbecker (September 4, 1932 – November 15, 1990) was an early microprocessor and microcomputer researcher, as well as a gifted writer and designer of toys and games. He was a recipient of the David Sarnoff award for outstanding technical achievement, recipient of IEEE "Computer" magazine's "Best Paper" award, as well as several RCA lab awards for his work.
His designs include the RCA 1800 and 1802 processors, the 1861 PIXIE graphics chip, the RCA Microtutor, the COSMAC ELF, RCA Studio II, and COSMAC VIP computers. His daughter Joyce Weisbecker took to programming his prototypes, becoming the first female video game designer in the process.
Early career.
Professionally, Weisbecker began working with digital logic and computer systems in 1951. It was also his hobby, however, and even his early work is marked by designs that are intended for educational or hobbyist use. These include a hobby tic-tac-toe computer built from relays in 1951, grade school educational aids built using lights and switches in 1955, and the Think-a-Dot, an inexpensive game to teach basic computer concepts in 1964.
As a staff engineer at RCA, he performed advanced development research on LSI circuits as well as development of new product lines based on those circuits and other RCA products.
Microprocessors.
In 1970 and 1971, Weisbecker developed a new 8 bit architecture computer system. This work preceded the release of the 4004 by competitor Intel. He built a demonstration home computer powered by the 1802 called FRED (Flexible Recreational and Educational Device) that utilized cassette tape for storage and a television for display. Subsequent to the success of the 4004, RCA released Weisbecker's work as the COSMAC 1801R and 1801U using its CMOS process in 1975. In 1976 the two 1801 ICs were integrated into a single chip, the 1802.
In the time between 1971 and the production release of the 1800 series processor, Weisbecker developed a range of inexpensive application circuits for use with the 1800s, including light guns, card readers, and cassette interfaces. Several of these circuits were used in a demonstration model microprocessor-based electronic game system which anticipated home video games. The commercial promise of this system gave RCA the motivation they required to produce the 1800 series processors.
Weisbecker designed the 1861 PIXIE graphics processor in 1975 as a minimal-cost simple video output for microcomputer systems. In a single chip, it provided all the functions necessary for a bit-mapped graphic display.
Small systems.
During this same time (1975), Weisbecker developed an educational "development board" or "trainer" style single board computer, the RCA Microtutor, to teach basic computer concepts and programming. He also designed the production form of the home video game system, which became the RCA Studio II.
In 1976 "Popular Electronics" published Weisbecker' design for the COSMAC ELF, a close relative to the Microtutor designed to be built at home by a hobbyist with no special computer resources. In 1977 further articles added 1861-based video to the Elf, similar to the Studio II, as well as additional memory and rudimentary operating systems.
In 1976, RCA released the COSMAC VIP, which not only had the features of an expanded Elf, but for which Weisbecker had created the CHIP-8 programming language. CHIP-8 is a very small high level language designed for easy keyboard and video interaction. It is still in use on many systems, notably the Z-80 based TI-38 calculators.
He later developed color graphic chips for use in a more advanced video game with expansion capabilities, as well as a line of color graphic terminals. Products using these included the Studio III.
Writings.
Along with the hardware and software development of the systems he designed, Joe wrote detailed manuals, use guides, and tutorials for each.
He had a commitment to fun and inexpensive computer systems. Titles such as "Fun and Games with COSMAC" ("IEEE Electro #77", April 1977) and "An Easy Programming System" ("Byte", December 1978) demonstrate this, as do the contents of his many papers, manuals, and articles.
Legacy.
The COSMAC ELF continues to be a popular educational microcomputer construction project to the present time, and several newer designs have been based on it.
The design principles of the 1802 - large, general purpose register file and a limited set of instructions that execute in few cycles - presaged the RISC design philosophy. The 1802 has been called "the grandfather of RISC."
The 1802's load mode is unique, and along with RCA's radiation-hardened Silicon on sapphire process was instrumental in the selection of the 1802 processor for several space probes and space-based instruments. Some of these processors are still working in their third decade in space. The 1802 is unique among first generation processors in that it is still in production today. Its closest rival in this respect is the 8080A, the successor to the 8080 and 8008 designs from Intel.
Along with Chuck Peddle, Weisbecker's IC designs exemplify the concept of doing a lot with very little. His designs are still studied by IC designers today for their unique approaches to solving design problems with elegance and simplicity. They are also studied with respect to design longevity, as systems based on the 1802 have been run and supported in production for over 30 years in a range of applications.


Warlords Battlecry III

Warlords Battlecry III is a real-time strategy game developed by Infinite Interactive and published in 2004. It is the third installment in the "Warlords Battlecry" series and the sequel to "Warlords Battlecry II".
Gameplay.
While "Warlords Battlecry III" is primarily a real-time strategy game, it has some elements of role-playing video game in that players can complete optional quests, as well as create a customized Hero character that can level up from battle to battle and equip unique and powerful items.
The Campaign is a mixture of an overhead strategic map with real-time gameplay. Departing from the system used in "Warlords Battlecry II", which consisted of a "Risk"-style board with territories, "Warlords Battlecry III" divides the world of Etheria into numerous locations (mostly cities) that players travel between, with various events at each. Almost all of the map locations have missions to play, some of which are not readily visible until other missions have been completed, as well as shops, academies, and/or mercenaries for hire. Once a player enters a mission, the game switches to real-time strategy gameplay reminiscent of games such as "Warcraft" and "Age of Empires". Players use four resources, Gold, Metal, Crystal and Stone, which are used to produce a variety of structures and units. Unlike many other RTS games, resources are present as neutral buildings which can be captured and destroyed (not permanently) and generate resources automatically without player input. Although magic and spells come into play, games are usually decided by the player who has a combination of an overwhelming number of superior units and better micromanaging of his Hero character. The Hero typically becomes extremely powerful by the late game and can slay dozens of normal units alone.
"Warlords Battlecry III" is unique in its replay ability due to the diplomacy system and the number of races in the game. Depending on which missions have been completed and what was their original race selection, players can be Enemies, Neutral, Friendly, or Allied (which makes that race playable) with each of the 16 races. Preprogrammed biases explained in the backstory mean that it is more difficult for a player to be allied with two warring races, such as Dwarves and Plaguelords, but it is possible.
Features.
"Warlords Battlecry III" has more factions and hero types than the earlier games in the series, with 16 different races and 28 varying character classes. Heroes have groups of loyal soldiers called retinues, which will follow and fight for them in battle, and the level cap for units was increased to 20 in this game, up from 7. The human faction was split in this game into two new races: the Empire and the Knights, and the new races of Swarm, Plaguelord, and Ssrathi were introduced. Each old race received at least one new unit, sometimes several. New magic spells were added, including the all-new Arcane, Poison, and Divination schools. Several new hero classes were added, as well as a brand-new campaign engine and a completely new hero level-up method that includes the ability to level up in the middle of a battle (players were previously restricted to leveling up after battles only). Each faction has a titan that is available at the end of the tech tree, but is extremely powerful, capable of laying waste to whole armies and can strike terror to the hearts of enemy troops.
Critical Reception.
"Warlords Battlecry III" received "mixed or average reviews" according to review aggregate Metacritic.
Limited License Source Code.
Since its release, the game's source code has become available to the public. Certain members of the community have been entitled distributors, which have special legal permissions to allocate copies of the "Warlords Battlecry III" source code. The interested member must agree to an NDA license in order to receive the source code. The main basis of the distribution and the head of the operation was located on The Battlefield Forums, which has since been amalgamated into my-league.com. The Battlefield Forums was hosted by my-league.com since the amalgamation, and was available for limited use until there was a server error with the host. Shortly after the incident, The Battlefield Forums was taken down altogether, along with much of the source code availability. However, there are still distributors amongst the community, which can be contacted for the source code.
Overall, the source code release resulted in the development of several community made fan patches and mods. These unofficial patches were later also used as base for digital distribution re-releases of WB3, e.g. on gog.com in 2009.


List of application servers

This list compares the features and functionality of application servers, grouped by the hosting environment that is offered by that particular application server.
.NET.
Microsoft.
Microsoft positions their middle-tier applications and services infrastructure in the Windows Server operating system and the .NET Framework technologies in the role of an application server:


Bob Carlin

Bob Carlin (born March 17, 1953 in New York City) is an American old-time banjo player and singer.
Carlin performs primarily in the clawhammer style of banjo. He has toured the United States, Canada, and Europe performing on various historical banjos (including gourd banjos), and has explored the African roots of the banjo by working with the Malian musician Cheick Hamala Diabate and the elder African American fiddler Joe Thompson. He is also one of the few musicians skilled in the performance of minstrel-style banjo songs of the mid-19th century. He also occasionally plays guitar.
For six years, Carlin toured throughout the United States, Canada, and Japan with John Hartford.
Carlin is a three-time winner of the late "Frets Magazine" readers' poll. He has released four albums on Rounder Records as well as several instruction manuals and videos for the banjo.
With his brother Richard Carlin (also a musician, author and record producer, b. 1956), Bob co-authored "Southern Exposure: The Story of Southern Music in Pictures and Words" (Billboard Books 2000), for which John Hartford wrote the foreword.
Bob Carlin is the founder of CarTunes Recordings, and also works as a record producer. He lives in Lexington, NC with his wife and son, Benjamin Morris 'Leonardo' Carlin.


Cold Winter

Cold Winter is a 2005 first-person shooter video game developed by Swordfish Studios and published by Vivendi Universal Games for the PlayStation 2. Its story was written by Warren Ellis.
Plot.
Andrew Sterling is a former British SAS soldier working for MI6, who has been captured in the People's Republic of China and jailed in Chang political prison; MI6 destroyed all files on Sterling to prevent an international incident. He is rescued the night before his execution by an old female acquaintance named Kim and a former fellow SAS soldier Daniel Parish. To repay his debt to Parish for saving his life, Andrew agrees to work for his private security agency. Sterling then travels to Egypt to eliminate the leaders of an arms dealing cartel, who possess a missile guidance system called Octopus. He completes his mission, but at the cost of Kim's life.
The antagonist is John Grey (voiced by Tom Baker), who as a young man who enlisted in the RAF to defend Britain at the height of World War II. Horrified by nuclear weapons John Grey formed a secret society, "Greywings" inspired by the heroes of the H. G. Wells novel "The Shape of Things to Come". Greywings sought out and destroyed nuclear threats but ultimately came to the conclusion that the only way to abolish nuclear warfare would be to create a nuclear winter leaving the survivors afraid of nuclear warfare. Greywings planned on initiating their plan codenamed Operation: Cold Winter by providing world powers with the Octopus guidance systems.
It turns out that Grey hired Parish to liquidate the Egyptian arms ring because they stole an Octopus unit which was intended for world superpowers rather than the third world countries its thieves planned on selling it to. Grey soon after betrays his own organization to save the life of his infant granddaughter. Sterling is sent to Greywing's headquarters in the Himalayan mountains where he destroys the facility's power core and escapes in Parish's helicopter. Grey is then seen in the game's last scene on a bench in Prague where his former subordinates murder him.
Gameplay.
The game uses the Karma Physics engine, allowing for interactivity with items in the game world and for ragdoll effects. Cover can also be improvised by using objects in the environment; for example, the player can flip a table to provide cover or grab a table and block a door. Over 30 weapons are available.
The game offers a multiplayer component that supports up to four players offline and eight players online; in the offline mode, human players may be substituted for CPU-controlled. There are a dozen maps and six modes, including deathmatch and king of the hill.
Reception.
The game received "average" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.
It was one of the five games nominated by GameSpot for the title of Best Story of 2005, with a comment: "A poignant, well-told story penned by Warren Ellis helps make Cold Winter a more engaging experience than your average first-person shooter." The website considered the game to be sonically and graphically average, but an enjoyable straightforward shooter with a decent online mode. Whilst not the best game of its type it was "definitely worth playing".


James D. Bissell

James D. Bissell (born 1951) is an American production designer.
Early life.
Jim Bissell was born in Charleston, South Carolina, the only child of Elizabeth and James Bissell. In his youth, he moved around and traveled with his father from Hawaii to Bermuda and so many places in between. After he graduated high school Bissell attended University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill working in the theater department. In 1973 Bissell graduated with a BFA and decided to make it New York. He made it by working on low-budget features and commercials.
Career.
Bissell soon moved to Los Angeles to exploit his talent in the entertainment capital of the world. He found steady work on the set of "Palmerstown, U.S.A.". In 1980 he was awarded an Emmy for his work on the show, and around that time he was discovered by Steven Spielberg while he was shooting on the same lot. Bissell would later receive a BAFTA nomination for production design on Spielberg's next project "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial".
While working on "Jumanji" (1995) Bissell met his wife Martha.
Bissell's collaboration with George Clooney began in 2002 with "Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind", followed by "Good Night, and Good Luck" which landed him an Oscar nomination, "Leatherheads", "The Monuments Men", "Suburbicon", and most recently "Midnight Sky".
Personal life.
Bissell is married to Martha Wynne. Jim and Martha have three children: James Dougal (from Bissell's previous marriage), Alexander Wynne (born 1996) and Elizabeth Wynne (born 1998).
He is a known Joseph Campbell fan.
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Awards.
Bissell won the Emmy for "Outstanding Art Direction for a Series" for his work on "Palmerstown, U.S.A."
Bissell was Nominated for the BAFTA for "Best Production Design/Art Direction" for his work on "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial."
Bissell has been nominated for three different Art Directors Guild Awards for his work on "Good Night, and Good Luck.", "300", and "The Spiderwick Chronicles"
Bissell was nominated at the 78th Academy Awards in the category of Best Art Direction for his work on the movie "Good Night, and Good Luck". His nomination was shared with Jan Pascale.
In 2015 he received the Art Directors Guild lifetime achievement award.


Elenowen

Elenowen is an American singer-songwriter/folk rock musical duo, composed of married couple Josh and Nicole Johnson. Elenowen released their debut album, "Pulling Back The Veil". In 2011 the duo also appeared on the first season of NBC's "The Voice". The duo followed up with a 5-song self-titled EP, released May 2012.
Biography.
The duo released their first album, "Pulling Back The Veil", in 2010. The tracks on "Pulling Back The Veil" are inspired by the couple's own relationship. "The first year of marriage had major ups and downs for us, and gave us a lot of inspiration to write", said Nicole.
Josh and Nicole began filming impromptu performances in their small basement apartment, with the resulting clips – called ‘The Basement Sessions’ – quickly garnering a following on YouTube and the No Depression website.
In 2011, Elenowen made their national television debut on the premiere season of NBC's "The Voice". Elenowen followed up this success with a 5-song self-titled EP in 2012 (Dualtone Records). The couple teamed up with acclaimed songwriter Trent Dabbs and co-producer Phillip LaRue to help pen tracks for the EP. The single "Honey Come Home" also reached #1 on the iTunes Singer-songwriter charts.
Songs from "Pulling Back The Veil" were featured on popular TV programs "One Tree Hill", MTV's "World of Jenks", "Army Wives", and CW's "Reign". "Run" (a single written with LaRue) was used in "One Tree Hill" season 9. Another single, "No Such Thing as Time", was featured in "Pretty Little Liars" season 3 and "One Tree Hill" season 9. "Bittersweet" (from the 2012 EP) was included on the first season of NBC's "Reign". "The Place From Where I Fell" was featured in "You Me Her" season 1. "Hiding Place" was included in Global TV's "Private Eyes".
Elenowen released their third studio album "For the Taking" on January 20, 2015. "For the Taking" was the duo's first release with Ready. Set. Records! and was co-produced by Jeremy Bose and Trent Dabbs.


Finite-state transducer

A finite-state transducer (FST) is a finite-state machine with two memory "tapes", following the terminology for Turing machines: an input tape and an output tape. This contrasts with an ordinary finite-state automaton, which has a single tape. An FST is a type of finite-state automaton that maps between two sets of symbols. An FST is more general than a finite-state automaton (FSA). An FSA defines a formal language by defining a set of accepted strings, while an FST defines relations between sets of strings.
An FST will read a set of strings on the input tape and generates a set of relations on the output tape. An FST can be thought of as a translator or relater between strings in a set.
In morphological parsing, an example would be inputting a string of letters into the FST, the FST would then output a string of morphemes.
Overview.
An automaton can be said to "recognize" a string if we view the content of its tape as input. In other words, the automaton computes a function that maps strings into the set {0,1}. Alternatively, we can say that an automaton "generates" strings, which means viewing its tape as an output tape. On this view, the automaton generates a formal language, which is a set of strings. The two views of automata are equivalent: the function that the automaton computes is precisely the indicator function of the set of strings it generates. The class of languages generated by finite automata is known as the class of regular languages.
The two tapes of a transducer are typically viewed as an input tape and an output tape. On this view, a transducer is said to "transduce" (i.e., translate) the contents of its input tape to its output tape, by accepting a string on its input tape and generating another string on its output tape. It may do so nondeterministically and it may produce more than one output for each input string. A transducer may also produce no output for a given input string, in which case it is said to "reject" the input. In general, a transducer computes a relation between two formal languages.
Each string-to-string finite-state transducer relates the input alphabet Σ to the output alphabet Γ. Relations "R" on Σ*×Γ* that can be implemented as finite-state transducers are called rational relations. Rational relations that are partial functions, i.e. that relate every input string from Σ* to at most one Γ*, are called rational functions.
Finite-state transducers are often used for phonological and morphological analysis in natural language processing research and applications. Pioneers in this field include Ronald Kaplan, Lauri Karttunen, Martin Kay and Kimmo Koskenniemi.
A common way of using transducers is in a so-called "cascade", where transducers for various operations are combined into a single transducer by repeated application of the composition operator (defined below).
Formal construction.
Formally, a finite transducer "T" is a 6-tuple () such that:
We can view ("Q", "δ") as a labeled directed graph, known as the "transition graph" of "T": the set of vertices is "Q", and formula_2 means that there is a labeled edge going from vertex "q" to vertex "r". We also say that "a" is the "input label" and "b" the "output label" of that edge.
NOTE: This definition of finite transducer is also called "letter transducer" (Roche and Schabes 1997); alternative definitions are possible, but can all be converted into transducers following this one.
Define the "extended transition relation" formula_3 as the smallest set such that:
The extended transition relation is essentially the reflexive transitive closure of the transition graph that has been augmented to take edge labels into account. The elements of formula_3 are known as "paths". The edge labels of a path are obtained by concatenating the edge labels of its constituent transitions in order.
The "behavior" of the transducer "T" is the rational relation ["T"] defined as follows: formula_11 if and only if there exists formula_12 and formula_13 such that formula_14. This is to say that "T" transduces a string formula_15 into a string formula_16 if there exists a path from an initial state to a final state whose input label is "x" and whose output label is "y".
Weighted automata.
Finite State Transducers can be weighted, where each transition is labelled with a weight in addition to the input and output labels. A Weighted Finite State Transducer (WFST) over a set "K" of weights can be defined similarly to an unweighted one as an 8-tuple , where:
In order to make certain operations on WFSTs well-defined, it is convenient to require the set of weights to form a semiring. Two typical semirings used in practice are the log semiring and tropical semiring: nondeterministic automata may be regarded as having weights in the Boolean semiring.
Stochastic FST.
Stochastic FSTs (also known as probabilistic FSTs or statistical FSTs) are presumably a form of weighted FST.
Operations on finite-state transducers.
The following operations defined on finite automata also apply to finite transducers:
Applications.
Context-sensitive rewriting rules of the form "a" → "b" / "c" _ "d", used in linguistics to model phonological rules and sound change, are computationally equivalent to finite-state transducers, provided that application is nonrecursive, i.e. the rule is not allowed to rewrite the same substring twice.
Weighted FSTs found applications in natural language processing, including machine translation, and in machine learning. An implementation for part-of-speech tagging can be found as one component of the OpenGrm library.


Miyuki Koizumi

 is a Japanese model from Niigata Prefecture, Japan. As well as modelling the Paris collection, she appears in domestic adverts and national magazines. She is currently signed to Tateoka Office Co., Ltd.
Appearances.
Shows.
Paris
Tokyo
Magazines.
Overseas
Domestic (Japan)


Ghostlop

 is an unreleased 1996 puzzle arcade video game that was in development by Data East and planned to be published by SNK for the Neo Geo MVS (arcade), Neo Geo AES (home) and Neo Geo CD. In the game, players assume the role of ghosthunters Bruce and McCoy from the Data Ghost agency to evict mischievous ghosts across multiple locations. Its gameplay mainly consists of puzzle mixed with "Breakout"-style action elements using a main two-button configuration.
Headed by "Nitro Ball" director Koji Jinbo, "Ghostlop" was created by most of the same team that previously worked on several projects at Data East for the Neo Geo platforms and who would later go on to work at Kaneko on "" before the former company declared bankruptcy in 2003. The game was first given a location test in 1996 and despite being previewed across few video game magazines, in addition of being showcased to attendees at trade shows, it was ultimately shelved by SNK for unknown reasons.
Despite "Ghostlop" never being officially released to the public by SNK, a ROM image of the complete game was leaked online by homebrew developer Neobitz, allowing for it to be played. As of 2009, the rights to the title are currently owned by G-Mode. Its characters and gameplay mechanics would later reappear in "Magical Drop V".
Gameplay.
"Ghostlop" is a falling block puzzle game reminiscent of "Drop Off" and "Puzzle Bobble", where players take control of ghost hunters Bruce (P1) and McCoy (P2) with the main objective of evicting as many ghosts as possible from the playfield with a single ball by using the walls and/or their respective character to ricochet the ball back at the ghosts to eliminate them before the timer runs out and the current round ends. Failing in catching the ball from rebound after touching the floor results in a stack of random colored ghosts rapidly descending from the top and once all the ghosts reach the bottom, the game is over as a result unless players insert more credits into the arcade machine to continue playing. The game offers a single-player campaign mode where one player assume the role of either Bruce or McCoy to hunt and evict mischievous ghosts across multiple locations, as well as a versus mode where players compete for the highest score.
A unique feature of the game is how ghosts are evicted; Similar to "Silhouette Mirage" and "Ikaruga"s polarity mechanism, players can switch their ball between red and blue colors in order to evict ghosts of the same respective color by pressing either A or B buttons. There are also three additional types of ghosts: bomb ghosts capable of detaching others caught within their blast radius, skull ghosts that take two hits to evict as well as electric ghosts, which act as dynamite that erases all the ghosts from the playfield. Similar to Puyo Puyo's chain mechanism, players are able to attack the rival playfield by performing a chain reaction with a disappearing ghost that cause a group of ghosts to fall off and spawn in the rival area.
Development.
"Ghostlop" was created by most of the same team that previously worked on several projects at Data East for the Neo Geo platforms such as "Spinmaster", "Windjammers", "Karnov's Revenge", "Street Slam" and the "Magical Drop" franchise, after which a group of employees would later go on to work at Kaneko on "Cyvern: The Dragon Weapons" before the former company declared bankruptcy in 2003. Its development was helmed by "Nitro Ball" director Koji Jinbo as producer, with Yuzuru Tsukahara serving as the project's sole designer. Programmers Kenichi Minegishi, Osapan, Sandy Hirokun and Sho Chang wrote the game's software. Endo Chang and several artists were in charge of creating the pixel art, while Tony Taka acted as character designer. The sound was handled by Gamadelic members Hiroaki Yoshida, Masaaki Iwasaki and Shinichi Yamazaki, while character voice work was done by Lynn Harris and Ward Sexton, the latter of which is credited erroneously as Word E. Sexton.
History.
"Ghostlop" was first showcased by SNK to the public at trade shows such as the Amusement & Music Operators Association Show (AMOA) and Amusement Machine Show, in addition of being playable during location tests in 1996, where it was reportedly met with a less than enthusiastic response from players. The game was also previewed on "Electronic Gaming Monthly" and "Neo Geo Freak". SNK briefly considered re-releasing the title in 2001 but the idea was scrapped and was ultimately shelved for unknown reasons, leading Data East in notifying Japanese audiences about the cancelled launch via email, however several possible factors have been given as to why it was never published. On January 2002, emulated screenshots from a prototype cartridge surfaced online, indicating that the ROM image of the game was preserved but not made widely available to public.
Release.
On February 2003, a MVS prototype cartridge of "Ghostlop" was acquired by video game collector Billy Pitt from an Ohio-based arcade operator, who received it via SNK. Although its production number during development remained unknown and was generally believed to be assigned with the number 128, it was later revealed to be officially assigned with the number 228 instead on April of the same year. Around the same time period, a ROM image of the complete game was leaked online by homebrew developer Neobitz.
Legacy.
After Data East declared bankruptcy in 2003, the rights to "Ghostlop" were acquired and are currently owned by G-Mode as of 2009. Although its release was cancelled, the characters later reappeared in "Magical Drop V", using gameplay from the former title instead of traditional "Magical Drop" mechanics.


Dietrich Prinz

Dietrich Gunther Prinz (March 29, 1903 – December 1989) was a computer science pioneer, notable for his work on early British computers at Ferranti, and in particular for developing the first limited chess program in 1951.
Biography.
Prinz was born in Berlin, Germany, in 1903. He studied physics and mathematics at the University of Berlin where Max Planck and Albert Einstein had been among his teachers. He initially went to work on electronic design at Telefunken.
He had some Jewish parentage and left Germany to join GEC in Wembley as a researcher into valve technology. During the Second World War, he was interned in Canada, and when he returned he worked first in Leeds for the Bowen Instrument Company. Prinz became a British citizen in 1947.
Prinz was recruited to the Ferranti factory at Moston, Manchester, in 1947 by Eric Grundy who was setting up a team to study the potential uses of electronic computers. After Ferranti was awarded a contract to build a production version of the Manchester computer, which would become the Ferranti Mark 1, Prinz worked closely with the University of Manchester team.
In 1948 he visited the US to learn about comparative computer advancements where he met Douglas Hartree who worked at the UCLA developing SWAC computer for U.S. National Bureau of Standards and with J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly who worked on UNIVAC project.
Prinz wrote a manual for the Ferranti Mark 1 which was much clearer than the notoriously opaque first manual written by Alan Turing. He remained a mainstay of the programming department for thirty years. He spent some time in Italy supporting Ferranti installations there.
Prinz had learned programming on the Mark I from seminars led by Alan Turing and Cicely Popplewell. Influenced by them, and later by other colleagues including Donald Michie, Christopher Strachey and Donald Davies, he came to see chess programming as "a clue to methods that could be used to deal with structural or logistical problems in other areas, through electronic computers". Turing had also worked out an algorithm for playing chess, but Prinz's work was independent of this. The Mark I was inadequate to play a complete game of chess and Prinz concentrated on the endgame. In November 1951, his program on the Ferranti Mark I first solved a Mate-in-two problem.
A description of the program was included in the 1953 book "Faster Than Thought".
Prinz also developed simple logical machines with the Manchester University philosophy lecturer Wolfe Mays and also worked in the area of computer music.
He died in December 1989.
Personal life.
Prinz was married and had two children, Jonathan Franklin Prinz and Daniela Prinz.
Publications.
Prinz also published many patents and a number of other papers on electronics.
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Shun Nakamura

 is a game designer for Sonic Team, whose works include "Samba de Amigo", "Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg" and "Sonic the Hedgehog".


Mike Seeger

Mike Seeger (August 15, 1933August 7, 2009) was an American folk musician and folklorist. He was a distinctive singer and an accomplished musician who played autoharp, banjo, fiddle, dulcimer, guitar, mouth harp, mandolin, dobro, jaw harp, and pan pipes. Seeger, a half-brother of Pete Seeger, produced more than 30 documentary recordings, and performed in more than 40 other recordings. He desired to make known the caretakers of culture that inspired and taught him.
Family and early life.
Seeger was born in New York and grew up in Maryland and Washington D.C. His father, Charles Louis Seeger Jr., was a composer and pioneering ethnomusicologist, investigating both American folk and non-Western music. His mother, Ruth Crawford Seeger, was a composer. His eldest half-brother, Charles Seeger III, was a radio astronomer, and his next older half-brother, John Seeger, taught for years at the Dalton School in Manhattan. His next older half brother was Pete Seeger. His uncle, Alan Seeger, the poet who wrote "I have a rendezvous with Death", was killed during the First World War. Seeger was a self-taught musician who began playing stringed instruments at the age of 18. He also sang Sacred Harp with British folk singer Ewan MacColl and his son, Calum. Seeger's sister Peggy Seeger, also a well-known folk performer, had married Ewan, and his sister Penny had wed John Cohen, a member of Mike's musical group, New Lost City Ramblers.
The family moved to Washington D.C. in 1936 after his father's appointment to the music division of the Resettlement Administration. While in Washington D.C., Ruth Seeger worked closely with John and Alan Lomax at the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress to preserve and teach American folk music. Ruth Seeger's arrangements and interpretations of American Traditional folk songs in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s are well regarded.
Musical career.
At about the age of 20, Mike Seeger began collecting songs by traditional musicians on a tape recorder. Folk musicians such as Lead Belly, Woody Guthrie, John Jacob Niles, and others were frequent guests in the Seeger home.
In 1958 he co-founded the New Lost City Ramblers, an old-time string band in New York City, during the Folk Revival. The other founding members included John Cohen and Tom Paley. Paley later left the group in 1962 and was replaced by Tracy Schwarz. The New Lost City Ramblers directly influenced countless musicians in subsequent years. The Ramblers distinguished themselves by focusing on the traditional playing styles they heard on old 78rpm records of musicians recorded during the 1920s and 1930s. Tracy was also in Mike's other band, Strange Creek Singers. So was Mike's former wife, Alice Gerrard. She was Alice Seeger in that band and sang and played guitar in it. The other people in Strange Creek Singers were bass player and singer Hazel Dickens and banjo player Lamar Grier. Mike sang and played guitar, banjo, fiddle, mandolin, autoharp, and harmonica in the band.
Seeger received six Grammy nominations and was the recipient of four grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, including a 2009 National Heritage Fellowship, which is the United States government's highest honor in the folk and traditional arts. His influence on the folk scene was described by Bob Dylan in his autobiography, "". He was a popular presenter and performer at traditional music gatherings such as Breakin' Up Winter.
Eight days before his 76th birthday, Mike Seeger died at his home in Lexington, Virginia, on August 7, 2009, after stopping cancer treatment.
The Mike Seeger Collection, which includes original sound and video recordings by Mike Seeger, is located in the Southern Folklife Collection of the Wilson Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.


Erik Rud Brandt

Erik Rud Brandt (born 16 Oct 1943) is a Danish fashion designer. In 1966 he married Margit Brandt and founded his own design company in Copenhagen with branches in Scandinavia, Switzerland, Canada, United States, Japan and Australia. In 1981 they established Brandt’s America, in New York City.


WBCM-LP

WBCM-LP is a classic country, bluegrass, and Americana-formatted broadcast radio station. Licensed to Bristol, Virginia, the station serves the twin cities of Bristol in Virginia and in Tennessee. The Birthplace of Country Music Museum owns and operates WBCM-LP.
The station, a working exhibit inside of the museum, went on the air for the first time in August 2015. The planning for the station dates back to late 2013. Programming includes live concerts held at the museum and the revival of "Farm and Fun Time". The latter program, a live and local radio music show, aired on Bristol's WCYB from the 1940s to the 1960s.
History.
Construction.
The Birthplace of Country Music Museum applied for a construction permit to start a new low-power radio station, as part of the FCC's October 18, 2013, LPFM filing window. The application was granted and the construction permit issued on March 13, 2014. The station was to originally launch on 103.5 FM.
The company proposed, in its original application, that the station would "produce content that looks back at recording and radio technologies' impact on the world" along with "early country music, and current trends in roots and traditional music". It was also proposed that the station would "broadcast archival recordings of a variety of influential sources". The station would broadcast from inside The Birthplace of Country Music museum, located in Bristol, Virginia. Using vintage restored broadcasting equipment, the station would be a working exhibit inside the museum. The station's antenna would be placed on the WOPI tower, located on Delaney Street in Bristol, Virginia.
On April 14, 2014, the station received its call sign, WBCM-LP. The museum opened to the public on August 2, 2014. In March 2015, Tony Lawson, founder of Knoxville, Tennessee, radio station WDVX, was hired by the museum as station manager. He was tasked to "create a radio station and media center for the museum". Lawson had been consulting with The Birthplace of Country Music prior to being hired.
The Birthplace of Country Music received an email on May 27, 2015, voicing concern about WBCM-LP's potential interference with full-power station WIMZ-FM. WIMZ-FM, licensed to Knoxville, Tennessee, also broadcasting on 103.5 FM, can be heard in the Bristol area. The Birthplace of Country Music requested a new frequency for WBCM-LP, on June 10, 2015, out "of an overabundance of caution and to eliminate potential interference" to WIMZ-FM. On June 18, 2015, the frequency of the station was changed from 103.5 to 100.1 FM.
Launch.
WBCM-LP began operations, with "program testing", on August 8, 2015. Six days later, the station was issued a License to Cover, allowing it to begin official operations. The official launch of the station took place at 4:00pm on August 27, 2015. A "launch event", held at The Birthplace of Country Music museum, included studio tours, a live concert broadcast on WBCM-LP, and a reception. Two online music streams and a mobile app, as well as the station's livestream, were also launched on the same day.
The museum plans to include the broadcast of numerous live concerts in the future.
Programming and Reception.
In addition to live concerts, WBCM-LP will air a revival of the Radio program "Farm and Fun Time". "Farm and Fun Time" aired on WCYB Radio (now WZAP) during the 1940s through the 1960s. Each edition of the program is broadcast live from The Birthplace of Country Music museum.
While focused on serving Bristol in Virginia and in Tennessee, the signal of WBCM-LP can be heard up to 30 miles away.


Emile Santiago

Emile Santiago (February 21, 1899 –June 23, 1995) was an American costume designer who won an Oscar for the film "The Robe" in the category Best Costume design-Color during the 1953 Academy Awards, that she won along with Charles LeMaire.


Greg A. Vaughan

Greg A. Vaughan is an American writer who creates material for roleplaying games.
Works.
Greg A. Vaughan's role-playing credits for the "Dungeons & Dragons" role-playing game include "Drow of the Underdark", "Scepter Tower of Spellgard", ', and "The Twilight Tomb".
He was written several adventures for "Dungeon" magazine and Paizo's "Pathfinder" and "GameMastery" lines. His Pathfinder work includes "Pathfinder Adventure Path #6: Spires of Xin-Shalast," and "Pathfinder Adventure Path #11: Skeletons of Scarwall".


Jacqui Morgan

Jacqui Morgan, (February 22, 1939July 3, 2013) born Jacquelynn Morganstern in New York, was an American illustrator, educator and watercolour painter. She became influential during the 1960s and 1970s with the youthful and psychedelic style of her illustrations. She was one of the first female commercial illustrator/designers in the United States. Her 1967 poster for the New York City club Electric Circus is considered a milestone of 20th century graphic design.
Biography.
She studied at Pratt Institute, graduating with a BFA, and Hunter College, City University of New York, where she earned an MA degree. Morgan originally worked in textile design. She travelled to Europe, and returned to the United States after a year. She began working as a free-lance illustrator in New York City in 1963.
Career.
In 1967, Morgan produced a poster for the New York City nightclub Electric Circus, which was part of the counter-culture scene in the East Village neighborhood in Manhattan. Electric Circus was frequented by Andy Warhol, The Velvet Underground, and was the home of the Exploding Plastic Inevitable. Morgan, working in concentrated watercolor, ink, and coloured pencil, had developed a style she would describe as "anthropomorphic double-images". Surreal juxtapositions, bright rainbow-like colour patterns, nude figures, and curved lines are characteristic of her works. She produced a poster for Electric Circus that became influential in the graphic design world, and Morgan became in high demand as an illustrator.
Following the poster for Electric Circus, Morgan worked on commissions for clients as diverse as financial services firms and the United Nations. She created illustrations for newspaper and magazine advertising, posters, calendars, magazine covers, record album covers, books, book covers, and billboards. Morgan created the iconic poster for Year of the Woman 1971. Other iconic posters include the 1973 poster for the American Optometric Association, Purina, The Joy of Seeing which was copied on several occasions for clothing and a book cover. Billboards include Celanese, Thai Air, 7up, Swedish Tanning Secret, Exxon, and Ritz Disco. Calendars include those done for Nissan, has also done several Broadway show posters including Wine Spectator and Wines of Spain.
Morgan became a prominent female illustrator/designer at a time when they were a rarity. For several years she was one of only three full-time female illustrators in the United States, along with Barbara Nessim and Lorraine Fox. In recent decades, she has produced a number of works in an exaggerated hyper realism using color to push volume and depth with her focus on figurative works done from life.
With a partner, she launched a line of clothing, including T-shirts, jackets, and dresses incorporating silk-screen and airbrush designs under the name "Mag Jac". Morgan taught at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. Her watercolor classes drew students from a wide variety of backgrounds and ages. Her last personal work was painting the nude from life.
Morgan also worked as a watercolour artist. In 1986, she published the book "Watercolour for Illustration". She has also published "Jacqui Morgan's Journey" (2007); "MOSTLY NUDE: Watercolors from Life" (2010); and "ALMOST NUDE: Watercolors from Life" (2011).
Death.
She died July 3, 2013 in her Queens, New York residence.
References.
Weblink: http://www.jacquimorgan.com/index.html


Blood of the Werewolf

Blood of the Werewolf is a platform game developed and published by American indie studio Scientifically Proven for Microsoft Windows in 2013. An updated version was released for the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade in 2014.
Plot.
In this ode to classic platformers, become Selena, a loving mother, devoted wife and—powerful werewolf. Take revenge on the monsters that have slain your husband and stolen your child. Seamlessly transform from human to werewolf in light of the moon, as you shoot, slash and smash your way through over 30 enemies and face off against five brutal boss arenas.
Reception.
"Blood of the Werewolf" received mostly mediocre review scores for the PC version but its reception was generally favorable in the case of the later Xbox 360 version. Cameron Woolsey of GameSpot gave it positive reviews and the scores of 7/10 for the PC original and 8/10 for the improved XBLA release, calling it "a wildly entertaining 2D action platformer, as beautiful as it was punishing." According to Joshua Vanderwall of The Escapist, "With a dash of "Ghouls 'n Ghosts", a sprinkle of "Mega Man", a pinch of "Metroid", and a garnish of your favorite schlock horror tropes, "Blood of the Werewolf" is a brilliantly constructed homage to classic platforming."


Brenda and Robert Vale

Professor Brenda Vale and Doctor Robert Vale are architects, writers, pioneer researchers, and experts in the field of sustainable housing.
Background.
After studying architecture together at the University of Cambridge, in 1975 the Vales published "The Autonomous House", a technical guide for developing housing solutions that are energy-self-sufficient, environmentally friendly, relatively easy to maintain, and have a traditional appearance. The book has been translated into five languages and is widely recognised as a basic text in the field of green building.
Through the 1980s the Vales designed a number of commercial buildings in England, notably the thick-walled, super-insulated Woodhouse Medical Centre in Sheffield.
In the 1990s the Vales completed two important green building projects in Nottinghamshire: the first in 1993, the first autonomous building in the United Kingdom, a four-bedroom house for themselves in the historic town of Southwell. Their book "The New Autonomous House" documents the design and construction of this house, which is warmed and powered by the sun, produces its drinking water from rain, composts its effluent, and is consistent with its historic context. The house is completely off-grid except for the telephone line and a connection to the electrical supply. The latter supplies power from the grid when the occupants are using more electricity than is being produced by the solar panels mounted behind the house, and exports at times of surplus generation.
The other is the Hockerton Housing Project, five one-story residential units using the same design tactic of thick walls, thermal mass, and superinsulation.
In 1996, the Vales emigrated to New Zealand, where they held professorships at the School of Architecture, Victoria University of Wellington. In previous years both worked at The University of Auckland, mainly as Doctoral research projects supervision.
Commissioned by the Australian government, they have developed a unique building rating system called NABERS which measures the ongoing environmental impact of existing buildings. According to Brenda, this is their most important work.
Their controversial 2009 book, "Time to Eat the Dog? The Real Guide to Sustainable Living", looks at the environmental impact and "carbon paw prints" (pet-generated carbon footprints) of household pets. Among their research claims is that a medium-sized pet dog has twice the carbon footprint of SUV driven 10,000 kilometres (6,000 miles) per year, based on the estimated energy impact of food production and waste generation. In addition to carbon footprints, they analyse several popular types of pets with respect to their impacts on wildlife populations, spread of disease, and pollution. The title is a shock tactic, and the science is debatable but the authors suggest sharing pets, or raising "edible pets" such as chickens, rabbits or pigs, as a way of reducing or offsetting their environmental impacts. Their 2008 proposal to Wellington City Council ban traditional pets in favour of edible pets was deemed unacceptable to councillors.
The Vales are construction toy collectors, and advocates of instruction-free play for teaching concepts of structure, a foundation of architecture. Their 2013 book, "Architecture on the Carpet: The Curious Tale of Construction Toys", examines the thesis that the toys teach children architectural concepts that can later influence an adult architect's style of design. The book looks at vintage sets of Lego, Meccano, Lincoln Logs, and more obscure products in the context of teaching concepts such as modularity and load-bearing construction.


Maurice Pelling

Maurice Pelling (1920–1973) was a British art director. He won an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film "Cleopatra".


Simple Kapadia

Simple Kapadia (15 August 1958 – 10 November 2009) was a Hindi film actress and costume designer, who was active in her professional career from 1987 until her death in 2009.
Early and personal life.
Simple was born on 15 August 1958 to parents Chunnibhai and Betty Kapadia. She was raised alongside 3 siblings - elder sister Dimple Kapadia, younger sister Reem Kapadia (who died of drug overuse) and Suhail (Munna) Kapadia.
She had a son Karan Kapadia with a Sikh whom she quickly divorced, and was the aunt of Twinkle Khanna and Rinke Khanna.
Career.
Acting.
Simple Kapadia made her acting debut in 1977 at the age of 18 in the role of Sumitha Mathur in the film "Anurodh", with her brother-in-law, actor Rajesh Khanna. She starred opposite Jeetendra in "Shakka" and "Chakravyuha."
She played supporting roles in "Lootmaar", "Zamaane Ko Dikhana Hai", "Jeevan Dhaara" and "Dulha Bikta Hai". In 1985 she starred in the art film "Rehguzar" opposite Shekhar Suman. Her last acting gig was an item song for "Parakh" in 1987.
Costume design.
After her final acting gig, she became a costume designer, and designed for actors including Sunny Deol, Tabu, Amrita Singh, Sridevi and Priyanka Chopra.
In 1994 she won a National Award for her costume design in "Rudaali". She later designed for Indian movies including "Rok Sako To Rok Lo" and "Shaheed".
Death.
Simple Kapadia was diagnosed with cancer in 2006, but continued working despite the pain. She died in a hospital in Andheri, Mumbai on 10 November 2009, aged 51.


Hum Award for Best Model Male

The Hum Award for Best Model Male is one of the Hum Awards presented annually by the Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel (HTNEC) to Male model who has achieved outstanding recognition within the fashion industry. Since its inception, however, the award has commonly been referred to as the hum for Best Model Male. Nominations are made by Hum members who are models and fashion models, and winners are decided by audience votes, as of first ceremony this was one of seven categories which were set open for public.
History.
Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel presented this award to one of the most promising Male Model of fashion Industry of Pakistan. As of first ceremony Abbas Jafri was honored at 1st Hum Awards ceremony 2012 for his spectacular fashion achievements by audience.
Winners and nominees.
In the list below, winners are listed first in the colored row, followed by the other nominees. As of the first ceremony, five models were nominated for their achievements for this award.
Date and the award ceremony shows that the 2010 is the period from 2010-2020 (10 years-decade), while the year above winners and nominees shows their fashion achievements year, and the figure in bracket shows the ceremony number, for example; an award ceremony is held for their achievements of its previous year.


Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Contemporary Makeup for a Variety, Nonfiction or Reality Program (Non-Prosthetic)

This is a list of winners and nominees of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Contemporary Makeup for a Variety, Nonfiction or Reality Program (Non-Prosthetic). From 2000 until 2019, the award was presented as Outstanding Makeup for a Multi-Camera Series or Special (Non-Prosthetic) before being renamed.
In the following list, the first titles listed in gold are the winners; those not in gold are nominees, which are listed in alphabetical order. The years given are those in which the ceremonies took place:
Winners and nominations.
2000s.
Outstanding Makeup for a Multi-Camera Series or Special (Non-Prosthetic)
2020s.
Outstanding Contemporary Makeup for a Variety, Nonfiction or Reality Program (Non-Prosthetic)
Programs with multiple nominations.
Total include nominations for Outstanding Makeup for a Series.


Vixen (crossword compiler)


Deborah Marquit

<br> Deborah Marquit is an American fashion designer and an eponymous brand and is notable for being the first designer to create women's bras and underwear in fluorescent neon colors in 1984. This invention earned her first sale to seventeen Bloomingdale's stores, that launched her brand across the USA.
Deborah Marquit was inducted into the (CFDA) Council of Fashion Designers of America in 2009


Helioscope (studio)

Helioscope is a comics and illustration studio based in Portland, Oregon. Members of the studio work both individually and as collaborators on a number of high-profile mainstream and independent comic books. These include "Superman", "Batman", "Wonder Woman", "Spider-Man", "The Fantastic Four", "World's Finest Comics", "Swamp Thing", and "Fables".
Helioscope was founded in 2002 by Matthew Clark, Terry Dodson, Paul Guinan, David Hahn, Drew Johnson, Karl Kesel, Steve Lieber, Ron Randall, Matthew Clark, Pete Woods, and Rebecca Woods as "Mercury Studio". The studio significantly expanded its membership and adopted a new name, "Periscope Studio", in June 2007. In April 2016, it was announced that the studio would change its name to "Helioscope".


Michael Annals

Michael Annals (21 April 1938 - 1990) was a theatrical scenic and costume designer.
Biography.
Michael Annals was born in what was then Harrow, Middlesex (later incorporated into Greater London) on 21 April 1938. His parents were Henry Ernest Annals and Constance Anne Annals (née Walter). He attended the Harrow Weald County Grammar School and the Hornsey College of Art.
Theatrical career.
Michael Annals began his career in 1961 by designing the sets and costumes for the Old Vic company's Soviet Union tour of "Macbeth" and their production of "Dr Faustus" at the Edinburgh Festival. In 1964, Annals designed the sets and costumes for another production of "Macbeth", this time at the National Theatre of Portugal. Annals produced designs for several original Broadway theatre productions, including "The Royal Hunt of the Sun" in 1965, the short-lived "Those That Play the Clowns" in 1966, "Staircase" in 1968, and "Noises Off" in 1983.
From 1966 through 1967, Annals served as Associate Professor of Scenic Design at Yale University. Annals was nominated for the 1969 Tony Award for Best Costume Design for his work in "Morning, Noon and Night", though the award was won by Loudon Sainthill for his work on "Canterbury Tales".
Film career.
Michael Annals has produced designs for two major films: The 1962 film adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's play "Long Day's Journey into Night" and the 1977 film adaptation of Henry Fielding's play "Joseph Andrews". Annals served as both the production designer and costume designer for both films. Annals was nominated for the 1977 BAFTA Award for Best Costume Design for his work in "Joseph Andrews", though the award was won by Danilo Donati for his work in "Fellini's Casanova".


Agnimitra Paul

Agnimitra Paul is an Indian fashion designer turned politician who serves as the Member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly from Asansol South and as the President of the West Bengal unit of BJP Mahila Morcha. Prior to joining politics she was a Kolkata-based fashion designer.
Personal life.
Agnimitra Paul was born into a family of doctors and academicians. Her father Dr. Ashok Roy is a pedestrian in Asansol. She completed her schooling from Loreto Convent and Asansol Girls' College She completed her Bachelors in Botany (Honours) in Banwarilal Bhalotia College.
She is married to Partho Paul, an entrepreneur. They have two children.
Career in fashion.
Paul as a fashion designer, designed clothes for several of Bollywood films such as "Koi Mere Dil Se Pooche" and "Via Darjeeling".
She has designed costumes and personal wardrobes for Sridevi, Esha Deol, Mithun Chakraborthy, Shonal Rawat, Kay Kay Menon, Sonali Kulkarni, Vinay Pathak and Parvin Dabas.
She started her own fashion label "Inga" across many cities in India. Paul also designed for the Lakme Fashion Week Summer/Resort 2013.
Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was presented with shawls and blankets that paul designed.
Political career.
Paul joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in March 2019.
In 2020, Paul became the BJP Mahila Morcha president of West Bengal succeeding Locket Chatterjee.
As the BJP Mahila Morcha president, she organised self-defence training workshop called "Uma" for women across 23 districts the state.
She defeated TMC's Saayoni Ghosh in the 2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election from Asonsol South.


Maurice Levin (fashion)

Maurice Levin (born in 1926) was an American fashion designer, working in both men's and women's fashion in the 1950s through 1970s. He worked as a designer for Jantzen, Alex Colman of California, American Cyanamid, and Catalina.
About.
Maurice Levin was born in 1926 in New York City, New York. He graduated in Costume Design from Traphagen School of Fashion in 1949. After graduation Levin moved to Los Angeles to attend University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) majoring in Social Science with curriculum in Apparel Design. In the 1950s he worked for the Jantzen swimwear brand, and popularized the trend of the color pink worn on men. He won two Caswell-Massey awards for design.
His work is in various public museum collections including Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art (LACMA), among others. Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising Museum's Special Collections has a Maurice Levin Archive.


Gioseffo Guami

Gioseffo Guami (27 January 1542 – 1611) (Gioseffo Giuseppe Guami or Gioseffo da Lucca) was an Italian composer, organist, violinist and singer of the late Renaissance Venetian School. He was a prolific composer of madrigals and instrumental music, and was renowned as one of the finest organists in Italy in the late 16th century; he was also the principal teacher of Adriano Banchieri.
Life.
He was born in Lucca, and was the brother of Francesco Guami (born 1543). Little is known about his early life, but he must have received some early training for he came to St. Mark's in Venice, one of the most prestigious musical institutions in Italy, in 1561; there he studied with Adrian Willaert and Annibale Padovano, and served as a singer. In 1568 he left Venice and went to Bavaria, serving as first organist at the court of Albrecht of Bavaria, the location of the famous Franco-Flemish composer Orlande de Lassus. In the early 1570s he returned to Italy, at least temporarily, and accompanied by Lassus at least once; and he was hired as organist in Lucca in 1579, where he stayed until 1582 or later. In 1585 he was working as "maestro di cappella" in Genoa. Precise details of his movements are uncertain until his return to St. Mark's, but it is certain that he was composing and acquiring fame as an organist during these years.
In 1588 he was appointed to the post of first organist at St. Mark's (there were two organists, who usually also served as composers, under the direction of the "maestro di cappella", who at that time was Gioseffo Zarlino). When Zarlino died Guami returned to Lucca, possibly because he was not appointed as Zarlino's successor; in Lucca he was employed as the organist at the cathedral, where he stayed until he died.
Works and influence.
The major influences on Guami's sacred music style are from Willaert, his teacher at St. Mark's, and Cipriano de Rore, and later from Lassus; indeed the two composers may have been friends since they served together in Munich and evidently traveled together. In his secular music he was most progressive, using an unusual amount of chromaticism and modulation to distant keys, undoubtedly influenced by Nicola Vicentino.
Guami also wrote numerous instrumental canzonas; most likely he wrote organ music which has been lost (only one piece survives, in a collection by Girolamo Diruta). The canzonas are in the up-to-date Venetian style, antiphonal, ornamented, and using starkly different thematic material in different sections; however they contain an unusual level of motivic development for pre-Baroque music.
Guami was also important as a teacher, providing instruction to composers such as Adriano Banchieri, one of the key figures in the transition to the Baroque style. Vincenzo Galilei, the progressive music theorist, lutenist, and father of the astronomer, also wrote about Guami's music, talent and fame.


Manny Nosowsky

Manny Nosowsky (b. January, 1932, San Francisco, CA) is a U.S. crossword puzzle creator. A medical doctor by training, he retired from a San Francisco urology practice and, beginning in 1991, has created crossword puzzles that have been published in "The New York Times", the "Wall Street Journal", and many other newspapers. Will Shortz, the crossword puzzle editor for "The New York Times", has described Nosowsky as "a national treasure" and included four Nosowsky puzzles in his 2002 book "Will Shortz's Favorite Crossword Puzzles". Since Shortz became editor of the "Times" crossword in November 1993, Nosowsky has published nearly 250 puzzles there, making him by far the most prolific published constructor in the "Times". Nosowsky is frequently chosen to produce puzzles for the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament.
Record-breaking puzzle.
Nosowsky is known for constructing puzzles with wide-open grids, often published later in the week, for expert solvers. On July 24, 1998, he set an early record by publishing a standard 15x15 daily crossword puzzle with only 21 black squares. This record stood until 2001, when Joe DiPietro published a 20-black-square puzzle. On March 11, 2005, the "Times" published a Nosowsky puzzle that set the new record: 19 black squares ; this record was finally broken on August 22, 2008, when an 18-black-square puzzle by Kevin Der was published. On a popular web site for crossword constructors, Nosowsky published an article describing his method for making the record-breaking puzzle; he also was featured discussing the puzzle in the bonus material for the DVD of the 2006 documentary "Wordplay".
His puzzle "Double Digit Inflation" was the first to be published in the "Wall Street Journal", which now has a crossword as a weekly feature.
Nosowsky has worked to encourage new puzzle constructors to the field, particularly through contributions to cruciverb.com. In one article , he argued for the importance of "sparkle" in a puzzle's construction. He is recognized for clever, sometimes misleading (though "fair"), clues for puzzle entries. Examples include "Browning piece?" for ELECTRIC TOASTER and "Northern air" for O CANADA. His cleverness extends to his themed puzzles, as well. A student of Latin, Nosowsky once produced a puzzle in which common Latin phrases were changed by one letter: QUID PRO QUO became QUID PRO DUO with the jocular clue, "You scratch my back and I'll do the both of us?" In the same puzzle, TABULA NASA was clued as "Blackboard for rocket scientists?" and others followed in a similar vein.
"Puzzle Lady" mysteries.
In collaboration with the mystery novelist Parnell Hall, Nosowsky has produced puzzles that appear in Hall's "Puzzle Lady" novels, such as "You Have the Right to Remain Puzzled". Hall's narrative sets the storyline, and in four of his novels, Nosowsky's puzzles drop clues for the reader.
Nosowsky resides in the Diamond Heights neighborhood of San Francisco with his wife Debby.


Red Allen (bluegrass)

Harley Allen (February 12, 1930April 3, 1993), better known as Red Allen, was an American bluegrass singer and guitarist known for his powerful tenor voice.
Biography.
Allen, born in Pigeon Roost Hollow, near Hazard, Kentucky, grew up in the music-rich hills of eastern Kentucky, and following a stint in the Marines, settled in Dayton, Ohio in 1949, where he began performing professionally. In 1952, Allen discovered a young teenage mandolin virtuoso named Frank Wakefield, who had moved to Dayton from Harriman, Tennessee. Soon Wakefield became a member of Allen's first band, the Blue Ridge Mountain Boys. The band also included the legendary Ohio 5-string banjo player Noah Crase. They worked the local bars along Dayton's Fifth Street as well as the rough blue collar taverns which made up the Ohio and Michigan bluegrass circuit at the time. Allen first came to broader public attention in 1956, when he joined the Osborne Brothers to fill out one of the most influential vocal trios in the history of country music. Allen made his first recordings with the Osborne Brothers on July 1, 1956 when they recorded four songs, including "Ruby," "Ho Honey Ho" and "Once More." "Once More" has been called a "landmark in three-part vocal harmony." The Osbornes and Red Allen were now featured cast members on the "World's Original Jamboree" radio show over WWVA in Wheeling, West Virginia. In 1958, Allen left the group and returned to Dayton.
Frank Wakefield, meanwhile, had also returned to Dayton, having himself garnered national exposure with the release of some hot-selling singles recorded in Detroit the year beforeincluding the seminal mandolin instrumental "New Camptown Races," and also touring with Jimmy Martin and the Sunny Mountain Boys. Allen and Wakefield then formed their second partnership, resulting in some single recordings made with local banjo player Red Spurlock and released under the professional name The Red Heads on the BMC label. The records were poorly marketed, and Wakefield left Ohio in late 1959 to explore better career opportunities in the bluegrass-rich DC–Baltimore area. In 1960 Allen followed suit, and the two reunited as "Red Allen, and The Kentuckians". The Washington, D.C. area had a thriving bluegrass scene including such artists as Buzz Busby and the Bayou Boys, The Country Gentlemen, Don Reno and Red Smiley and the Tennessee Cutups, The Stoneman Family and Wilma Lee and Stoney Cooper. Allen and Wakefield were soon performing regularly at area night spots and also secured a regular Sunday afternoon broadcast over station WDON in Wheaton, Maryland. On July 4, 1961, the band was among a small handful invited to perform at Bill Clifton's first-ever one day Bluegrass Festival held at Luray, Virginia. In November 1961, Allen and Wakefield recorded six sides in Nashville that included banjo legend Don Reno, fiddle master Chubby Wise and bassist John Palmer on the Starday label including the popular "Trouble 'Round My Door" and "Beautiful Blue Eyes." By 1963 Allen, Wakefield and their band had performed at both Carnegie Hall and at the trendy Gerde's Folk City club in New York City. In addition to Wakefield, at various times the touring version of The Kentuckians included Tom Morgan on bass, Pete Kuykendall, Bill Keith or Ralph Robinson on banjo and Scott Stoneman or Billy Baker on fiddle.
In 1964 Allen, Wakefield and their band made a much-admired album for Folkways, entitled simply "Bluegrass", produced by young David Grisman, an admirer of Allen and mandolin student of Wakefield's. The recording showed a larger public that Allen was a true disciple of the "high lonesome sound" associated with Bill Monroe. At his best, Allen drenched his material in emotion, each song propelled by his surging rhythm-guitar playing. As he later said, "Bluegrass is sad music. It's always been sad and the people that's never lived it, it'll take them a long time to know what it is."
After Frank Wakefield's departure from the band in 1965 to join the Greenbriar Boys, Allen replaced him with Wakefield protégé David Grisman and later recorded for County Records and King Records with noted banjo player J.D. Crowe. The collaboration with Crowe, entitled "Bluegrass Holiday", featured some of Allen's strongest vocal performances. Allen's prominence on the record resulted in a sound quite distinct from the material made by Crowe and his Kentucky Mountain Boys. Grisman, who would go on to pioneer a contemporary style of acoustic music called DAWG music, later said that by hiring him for the Kentuckians, Allen gave the younger man "a college education in bluegrass music."
Allen's sons Ronnie, Greg, Neal and Harley performed and recorded as the Allen Brothers, both with and without their father, throughout the 1970s and 1980s.
Death and legacy.
Allen died on April 3, 1993 in Dayton, Ohio. He is buried at Highland Memorial Cemetery in Miamisburg, Ohio.
Allen was inducted into the Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music of America hall of fame in 1995. In 2005, Red Allen was inducted into the IBMA Bluegrass Hall of Fame.
Vocal arrangements.
Until the Osbornes' 1958 hit "Once More", the typical arrangement called for a "lead" singer to provide the melody with a tenor singing a higher part, and a baritone below. "Once More", which reached No. 13 on the charts, comprised a lead sung by the highest voice of the group, mandolinist Bobby Osborne. Allen sang the baritone just below the melody and banjo player Sonny Osborne provided the tenor a full octave below its place in a traditional arrangement. The result, as the Osbornes themselves observed, allowed singers to mimic the sliding tonal effects of the pedal steel guitar. Contemporary singers using this device include Rhonda Vincent.


Games Computers Play

In the 1980s, Games Computers Play (GCP) was an online service written by Gardner Pomper and Greg Hogg and one of the first multiplayer online games (MOGs) to offer a graphical user interface (GUI). The service launched sometime in early 1985, beaten only by a few months by PlayNET on the Commodore 64, which ultimately became America Online.
The system was primarily accessible with Atari 8-bit computers, with a minimum of 48k of memory. A version for the Atari ST was also available late in the service's life. The service only garnered about 1,000 subscribers at its peak.


Feast or Fired

Feast or Fired is a professional wrestling match concept featured in Impact Wrestling. The idea is based on the object on a pole match, which sees wrestlers trying to gain possession of items hanging from poles attached to the ring posts. In this case, the participants in the match try to grab one of four briefcases from the poles. In the match itself, a wrestler can only claim a briefcase if he/she leaves the ring with it and both feet touch the floor.
Stipulations.
Inside each of the briefcases is some sort of paperwork. One of the cases holds a contract for an Impact World Championship match, one holds a contract for an Impact X Division Championship match, and one holds a contract for an Impact World Tag Team Championship match (with a partner of that wrestler's choosing). The fourth and final briefcase contains a pink slip, which fires the wrestler carrying it. (The 2016 edition replaced the X Division championship contract with one for the TNA King of the Mountain Championship.)
The winners of the briefcases do not reveal what is in them that night. Instead, they are revealed in a segment on a later episode of "Impact!". Before the contents of the cases are revealed, each wrestler is given a choice to keep their case or forfeit it, which protects the wrestler from being fired, but also gives up any potential title match.
Once a wrestler wins a briefcase, it may be (and has been) defended in matches similar to the way championships are.
The allocated time period during which a wrestler must invoke their title opportunity has not been explicitly stated, all that has been said is that the title opportunity can be invoked "anywhere, anytime", making it similar in fashion to the WWE Money in the Bank ladder match contract, which lasts for one year.


KeWlers

keWlers is a Finnish demogroup, formed in the early 1990s, originally called "Mewlers". After smaller releases such as "Tripfish 2" or "Another High-Caliber Mechanical Complication", their breakthrough came in 2002 when they released their critically acclaimed demo "Variform" at Assembly 2002. Despite only achieving third place, the demo became one of the most widely known and top rated demos ever released, winning three Scene.org awards. Further major demos to be released later included "Protozoa" (ranked 6th at Breakpoint 2003) and "A Significant Deformation Near The Cranium", released at Assembly 2003. Kewlers have been nominated for at least one Scene.org Award every year, except for 2004.
The group disbanded for a while in 2006 directly after the release of their final demo, "1995". But since 2010 Kewlers have returned from their hiatus, with possibly Variform 2, released at Revision 2012, as their most influential demo since their comeback.
keWlers are infamous for their outspokenness – their logo contains a stylized middle finger and their official slogan is "Kewlers suck!" – likely to be originating from crowd cheers at the Scene.org Awards gala at Breakpoint 2003 – which they now use and prefer as a friendly greeting. It is also common for other demogroups to, instead of sending greetings, send "fuckings" to Kewlers as their sign of gratitude and respect. Most of the members' handles are in fact "Kewlers-nicks" besides their original, possibly more known demoscene-handle.
Since 2004, the number of Kewlers demos has decreased, and after the release of "We Cell" at Assembly 2004 the group hinted on their website to cease any further activities. With the release of their Assembly 2006 demo "1995" (in cooperation with mfx), the group officially acclaimed to call it quits.
However, in 2010, Kewlers returned to the Assembly demo competition, releasing 'Devolution', which earned 4th place. In 2011 they released 'Fermion' at Assembly 2011, which also received 4th place.
At the Assembly 2012 wild demo competition, Kewlers released their first Android based demo called Rrhoid, which earned 3rd place. In 2013 Kewlers kept on releasing mostly Android demos, with most recently "NVite", an invitation for NVScene organised by nVidia and scene.org
Awards.
Kewlers have received numerous awards and award nominations.


Spring Batch

Spring Batch is an open source framework for batch processing. It is a lightweight, comprehensive solution designed to enable the development of robust batch applications, which are often found in modern enterprise systems. Spring Batch builds upon the POJO-based development approach of the Spring Framework.
Spring Batch provides reusable functions that are essential in processing large volumes of records, including logging/tracing, transaction management, job processing statistics, job restart, skip, and resource management. It also provides more advanced technical services and features that will enable extremely high-volume and high performance batch jobs through optimization and partitioning techniques. Simple as well as complex, high-volume batch jobs can leverage the framework in a highly scalable manner to process significant volumes of information.
Spring Batch is part of the Spring Portfolio.
Schema.
A diagrammatic representation can be found here.