Path.Finder

Path.Finder (stylised as PATH.FINDER) is the fourth extended play by American electronic music producer Notaker. It was released by Canadian record label Monstercat on April 8, 2019. It contains six songs, including features of Singer-songwriter Karra and Eric Lumiere. The two singles "Into the Light" and "Each Other" were each released on January 31, 2019, and on March 18, 2019, respectively.
Background and release.
The extended play released as a follow up to Notaker's previous extended play, "Erebus I", released in 2018 on Canadian record label Mau5trap. It was marked as Notaker's second extended play release by Monstercat, since the release of his "Genesis" extended play in 2017. "Path.Finder" was released as the third in his "Vessel" series, which was released as a way to "showcase and discuss stories and themes not possible to convey in just one song".
To promote "Path.Finder", two songs from the extended play were released as singles. Its lead single, "Into the Light", was released on January 31, 2019, and it's sophomore single "Each Other" on March 18. On April 8, 2019, the album was released exclusively as a digital download on international digital stores through Monstercat.
Critical reception.
"Path.Finder" was well received by most critics. Farrell Sweeney of "Dancing Astronaut" noted the songs featured as having an "underlying dark edge that frames a collection of upbeat, vocal-lead, and ominous singles juxtaposed against one another." "ThisSongSlaps" Lauren Ikenn wrote that the extended play was "well worth the wait" and was "everything we wanted and more." Writing for "The Nocturnal Times", Caroline O'Keefe compared it to Notaker's previous extended play, Erebus I, writing that the prior is more progressive-base, writing that the record took "listeners on a transcendent journey through progressive anthems, some of his most unique productions to date, and emotionally-rich narratives that culminate in a mesmerising balance of delight and remembrance." Asad Aftab of "EDMTunes" praised the extended play, stated that Notaker had assembled "emotionally powerful, synth-heavy bass music by crafting radiant soundscapes & coupling it with masterful production" and concluding his review by writing that it "It charts the evolution of Notaker as a musical artist as he explores a more melodic sound throughout, and it's exciting to see him evolve his sound even more on future releases."
The single "Each Other" had also garnered positive reception from critics, with Jim Babaoglu of "EDM Sauce" describing the single as an "uplifting progressive synthwave track that possesses both beauty and power", later stating that Notaker "never seems to disappoint." "EDMTunes"' Ian Thompson called the single a "blast from Notaker's original synthwave style" and noted it as having a Seven Lions-esque beginning. Writing for "Vents Magazine", RJ Frometa stated that the song was a dance-primed "melodic midtempo track", writing that Notaker has continued to "take fans by surprise with the versatility in his production styles, continually testing new angles and giving his music a remarkability only a few artists are able to achieve."


Swimming dress

A swimming dress, also known as a swim dress, is a modern dress worn by women while swimming that preserves traditional religious definitions of modesty. Swimming dresses are popular among Christians belonging to the conservative holiness movement, Orthodox Jews and many Muslims; many wearers of swimming dresses, such as the Methodists of the conservative holiness movement, believe that modern popular practice of the wearing of trousers by women blurs the distinction between men and women, while others, such as adherent Muslims teach that pants should not be worn by women as they reveal the contour of the legs that should be hidden to maintain modesty. Swimming dresses have sleeves that usually go beyond the elbows as well as hemlines that extend beyond the knees for the purpose of maintaining traditional religious definitions of modesty (cf. "outward holiness"). In Israel, they are known as "Shvimkleid". In recent years, the demand for modest clothing has risen, which may be due to the growth of religious traditions such as Apostolic Pentecostalism. This has led to a greater interest in swimming dresses.


Kevin Johnn

Kevin Johnn is American fashion designer. He was one of the original designers of "Project Runway" on Bravo. He also appeared on the Axis Networks reality show Club kiddies (2013-2014).
Project Runway.
He appeared and starred on the hit Bravo Emmy nominated show" Project Runway". Kevin Johnn won the challenge "Rockstar" and had his outfit worn by Sarah Hudson in her music video, "Girl on the Verge" and dressed Heidi Klum for the second season of Project Runway.
Career.
Kevin Johnn resides in New York, New York, and is currently CFO/Creative Director of his own brand Kevin Johnn, a collection of luxury fashion sophisticated dresses and gowns. And of the dress line I Love Kevin Johnn clothing & accessories line based in New York City.


Propper

Propper is a manufacturer of clothing and gear for tactical, law enforcement, public safety, and military applications. Since 1967 it has been one of the main uniform suppliers to the United States military.
History.
Propper International was founded in 1967 by William S. Propper and landed its first government contract with the U.S. Navy, manufacturing the iconic white sailor caps known as "Dixie cups." As one of the largest official suppliers to the United States armed forces, Propper International has manufactured over 60 million garments for the U.S. Department of Defense – Army, Air Force, Navy, Marines, Coast Guard and Special Forces. Propper also manufactures apparel for the commercial military, tactical, law enforcement, and public safety markets and sells through both dealer/retailer channels and online through e-commerce. Propper commercial products are distributed through more than 2,500 military and law enforcement and specialty retail stores and websites across the country.
Products.
Propper's core product has always been the current standard issue U.S. military uniform. More recently, they expanded their product line to include clothing for law enforcement officers, firefighters and emergency medical personnel.
Military.
Propper is a prime contractor in nearly every branch of the U.S. military. In 2015 the company began offering boots.
The Propper Battle Dress Uniform was issued to the U.S. Army, Navy, Marines and Air Force. It used M81 Woodland and Desert Camouflage.
The Army Combat Uniform is the current combat uniform worn by the U.S. Army. It introduced the Universal Camouflage Pattern and also uses MultiCam pattern in Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan during military operations.
Airman Battle Uniform
Marine Corps Combat Utility Uniform
Other garments manufactured by Propper and worn by branches of the military include:
Law Enforcement.
Propper introduced a full line of body armour for military and law enforcement use in January 2016. The 4PV, in both men's and women's versions, offers wearers better comfort and protection than the typical "clamshell" two-panel design found in most other body armour. In addition to concealable body armor, Propper also introduced a full range of tactical body armor with trauma plates front and back for added protection to meet NIJ threat level standards.
In addition to armor, Propper also provides a full range of police uniforms, tactical pants, and tactical bags. One bag, the UC Pack, is based on the Marine Corps FILBE complete with MOLLE attachment points and extensive use of hook and loop fasteners.
Awards.
Propper has received 7 awards from the Defense Logistics Agency dating as far back as 1995.


Enrico Sabbatini

Enrico Sabbatini (January 1, 1932 – November 25, 1998) was an Italian costume designer and production designer for the theater and cinema industries.
Sabbatini was born in Spoleto, in the province of Umbria. His creations were usually very lavish and detailed, made for epoch movies. In 1986, he won the award for best costume design by the British Academy, as well as a nomination for the Oscar for his work in "The Mission". He also produced "Seven Years in Tibet" (1997), "Cutthroat Island" (1995), "Chronicle of a Death Foretold" (1987), "Bloodline" (1979), "Giordano Bruno" (1973), "Sacco and Vanzetti" (1971), "Camille 2000", "The Lickerish Quartet", the "Marco Polo" TV miniseries, and many others. Specifically, he was costume designer and production designer for a large series of biblical-inspired TV series in the TNT network, such as "Moses", "Joseph", "Jesus of Nazareth", "Jacob", "Abraham", "David", "Genesis" and "Samson and Delilah", as well as, in his last work just before he died, in the TV series "Cleopatra".
He died in a road accident in Ouarzazate, Morocco, while filming on location for "Cleopatra".
As it appears in the credits, "Jesus", a 1999 film distributed by CBS Television, was dedicated in his memory.


Daniel Murphy (computer scientist)

Daniel L. Murphy is an American computer scientist notable for his involvement in the development of TECO (an early text editor and programming language), the operating systems TENEX and TOPS-20, and email.
Biography.
Murphy attended MIT from 1961 and graduated in 1965.
In 1962 he created the text editor Text Editor and Corrector (TECO), later implemented on most of the PDP computers.
He also developed a simple software demand paging system in software for the PDP-1 while at MIT.
Murphy joined Bolt, Beranek and Newman BBN in 1965. There he used an SDS 940 computer running the Berkeley Timesharing System, which provided page memory management in hardware.
When the PDP-10 was announced, he was one of the architects of the TENEX operating system developed for the custom paging hardware designed at BBN. As part of the development of TENEX, Murphy and Ray Tomlinson wrote the original e-mail program.
In October 1972, he joined Digital Equipment Corporation where he first worked as a contractor porting TENEX to the KI10 model of the PDP-10 family. On January 2, 1973, he joined DEC as an employee, heading the team responsible for the development of the TOPS-20 operating system, an evolution of TENEX for the newer models of the PDP-10 family. TOPS-20 was first marketed in 1976 on the DECSYSTEM-20.


Leo Colovini

Leo Colovini is an Italian designer of German-style board games born in Venice 1964. His most popular game is "Cartagena". He is one of the few top board game designers who has owned a game store.
His life in games was strongly influenced by meeting Alex Randolph at the age of 12 with whom he worked on several of his games. He has also been part of studiogiochi, an Italian games company, and has also collaborated with Dario De Toffoli and has written books on games.
List of Games.
Complete list of games that Colovini has created:
His games are known for their simplicity and drama as this quote from Board Game Geek illustrates: ""Carcasonne: The Discovery" is also the simplest and most vanilla of the "Carcassonne"s. (Of course, if you know anything about Leo Colovini, you'd expect that.) But, it also the most tense "Carcassonne". (And if you know Mr. Colovini, you also knew THAT!)"


D. D. Crew

 is a 1991 2D beat 'em up developed and released into arcades by Sega (D.D. stands for Dynamite Demolitions). In the game, players control one of four characters, F. F., Buster, King or Gung Ho, who fight to stop a terrorist plot.
Gameplay.
"D. D. Crew" is similar to Capcom's "Final Fight", which is an archetypal side scrolling beat-em-up game. Up to four player characters move from left to right through each level (most of which are split into 3 or more scenes), fighting with the enemy characters who appear, until they reach a confrontation with a stronger boss character at the end of the level. Once that boss is beaten, the players automatically move on to the next stage. Enemies appear from both sides of the screen and from out of doorways or entrances set into the background, and the player(s) must defeat all of them to progress. If the players try to simply travel through the levels without fighting, the screen will stop scrolling until all current enemies have been defeated, before allowing the players to continue progress. Enemies may move outside the confines of the screen, but players may not. Players will pick up a few weapons along the way, like knives and grenades, as well as other items like some lives and "MAX" health points. Players also can pick up and toss enemies either toward the ground or against other enemies. Unlike "Final Fight", the graphics are very detailed instead of "cartoony". One unique feature is a counter that tells how many enemies a player knocked out. Another unique feature is that players also can perform dash attacks by pressing the joystick toward the left or right sides twice, while pressing the attack button during dashing.
Reception.
In Japan, "Game Machine" listed "D.D. Crew" on their September 1, 1991 issue as being the sixth most-successful table arcade unit of the year.
British gaming magazine "The One" reviewed "D.D. Crew" in 1991, reviewing it alongside "Vendetta", stating that "one will probably face into insignificance at the expense of the other. If it was up to me, Konami's "Vendetta" would be the one to take the prizes." "The One" praises "D.D. Crew's" sprite size and "well-crafted" graphics, however, they call the gameplay "fine" but "all a bit sterile", stating that "Vendetta" has "a lot more atmosphere", and the graphics, while smaller, are "much more imaginatively drawn - and the animations are smooth and inventive."
"Sinclair User" gave "D.D. Crew" an overall score of 71%, complimenting the game's graphics and stating that overall the game was "nicely done" but that it "never quite captures the imagination." They also recommended "Vendetta" from Konami instead.


Neeta Lulla

Neeta Lulla is an Indian costume designer and fashion stylist who has worked on over 300 films. She has been designing wedding dresses since 1985. Her name became inseparably associated with Bollywood after actresses Aishwarya Rai and Madhuri Dixit wore her costumes in Devdas (2002 Hindi film), the trend-setting Bollywood film.
Career.
Her first big client was jewelry designer Varuna Jani, though Jani hadn’t started her business at the time. After that Lulla fully committed to a Bollywood client base when she designed for actor Spana who was prominent in the Bollywood community in South India. This success was followed by her designs for actresses Salma Agha and Sridevi.
A notable creation from later in her career was a dress she designed for Aishwarya Rai's wedding to Abhishek Bachchan. She crafted Rai's pearl-encrusted lehenga for her mehendi ceremony and an additional dress for her South Indian wedding ceremony. The designer has claimed her favorite actress for whom she has created pieces was Divya Bharti. Neeta Lulla has designed for Shilpa Shetty, Aishwarya Rai, Sridevi, Sapna, Salma Azad, Isha Koppikar and Juhi Chawla. Courtesy of reality TV show Tahul, Lulla also designer for Dimpy Ganguly, Rahul Mahajan's young bride.
After successfully completing the challenge of designing for films like Mohenjo Daro (2016), she plans on trying her hand in Tollywood again with Gautamiputra Satakarni.
Neeta Lulla has been known to utilize Paithani, the ancient technique of tapestry that combines multiple threads of different colors and incorporates gold and silver threads woven together to create a dynamic piece of silk. One of her most notable Paithani collections was shown in February 2016 at the Make In India initiative. At this show she showcased a wide range of pieces including flowing lehangas, long kurtas, jackets, dhoti pants, sarong skirts — all of which were embroidered according to the Paithani style. In regards to the collection and show held in Maharashtra, Neeta commented:“Maharashtra has always held a special place in my heart; this has been home to my whole life and art. I have chosen to showcase the intricacies, elaborateness and immaculacy of Paithani, a legacy of Maharashtra.”In 2013, Lulla opened The Whistling Wood International Neeta School of Fashion in her home city of Mumbai. The institute offers a selection of courses in fashion, merchandising and online marketing. The school is currently owned by Subash Ghai who has worked with Lulla on several films. Neeta comments:"I have been teaching fashion for the last 26 years. As an extension to my teaching I joined a venture which is part of Whistling Woods International that belongs to Ghai. It seems that Indian film industry really does see the fashion industry as an extension of their own business."
Social Activism.
Neeta Lulla has been vocal about combating gender based violence and has used her work as a platform for promoting the issue. Her 2016 collection "#SheIsMe" simultaneously communicated both gentleness and resilience in the face of abuse. The collections debut at Lakme Fashion Week included a dance recital that spoke against women abuse. Lulla comments:"This collection in its entirety speaks about a woman's characteristics. You see the vibrancy of the Cherry Blossom and the Osmanthus transition into the colours of dried flowers and cracked mother Earth. Just as these magnificent miracles of nature respond to tenderness and care but can also just as easily dry away with neglect, a woman's spirit begins to wither under any physical or emotional abuse. We need to raise our voice against this."
Personal life.
Neeta Lulla grew up in Mumbai, India and spent significant time in Filmcity, a film studio within the city. She is now married to Dr Shyam Lulla who is a psychiatrist. Neeta, along with her husband Shyam and Amrita (Divyas maid) were with late Bollywood actress Divya Bharti at her house in Tulsi, Versova, Mumbai when Divya died late night on 5 April 1993.
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Tony Burrough

Tony Burrough is a production designer known for his work on the 1995 film "Richard III".
Career.
In 1989, he was nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Best Production Design for his work on Series 1 of Alan Bennett's "Talking Heads". He was nominated for the same award in 1996 for his work on the 1995 miniseries "The Buccaneers".
In 1996, Burrough was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Art Direction for the 1995 film "Richard III". He won the 1997 BAFTA Award for Best Production Design for the same film. In 2000, he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Art Direction for a Miniseries or Movie alongside Choi Ho Man and Dominic Smithers for their work on the television miniseries "Arabian Nights".
Burrough's production design has been praised by many critics. Kenneth Turan of the "Los Angeles Times" referred to his settings in several films as being "so satisfying that they're a reason to see the film all by themselves". His design of Santa's workshop and elf village in "The Santa Clause 2" was praised by Kevin Thomas as being "the film's strongest asset".


Araucaria (crossword compiler)


Highway Superstar

Alex Karlinsky (known under his stage name Highway Superstar) is an Israeli record producer of synthwave music. Having been raised in the 1980s, Karlinsky says Highway Superstar is his attempt to recreate musical elements from the period, while combining them with modern production techniques and soundscapes. After several internet singles between 2012–2013, a full album was released via the USA/Canadian label Rosso Corsa Records. His track "Careful Shouting" was featured in the 2015 short film "Kung Fury". A sophomore album titled Endgame was released in 2015.
Karlinsky is also active in the Israeli music scene as a session keyboard player, arranger, producer, mixing and mastering engineer.


Luba Marks

Luba Marks (November 28, 1921 – July 5, 2020) was a Bulgarian-born French-American fashion designer of Russian descent specializing in sportswear from the 1950s to the 1980s. Prior to this, under the name Lubov Roudenko, she was a former soloist for the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo in the late 1930s and early 1940s, afterwards performing on Broadway throughout the 1940s.
Early life.
Lubou Rodenko was born 28 November 1921 in Sofia, Bulgaria, to Russian parents. Her father, Nicholas, had been an officer in the Russian Imperial Guard, and following the Russian Revolution, he and his wife became refugees while the rest of their family were killed. They moved to Paris, where Nicholas Rodenko ran a Russian restaurant until it was forced to close following the 1932 assassination of President Paul Doumer by a Russian émigré. Following this, the family relied on Luba's skill as a dancer to help them, with Luba later recollecting "There were times when I had to win first place in a contest so we could eat."
Dancing.
In 1938 Rodenko was signed up to the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, where, at 17, she was their youngest soloist. Her stage name was Lubov Roudenko, and she was also popularly known as "Spitfire Lu-Lu." She had a can-can sequence in the 1938 ballet "Gaîté Parisienne" choreographed specially for her by Léonide Massine. She would later reprise this role in the 1941 Oscar-nominated short film "The Gay Parisian". Whilst with the Ballet Russes, Rodenko was the subject of several drawings by Henri Matisse in 1939. Four of his portrait sketches of her are now in the Fogg Museum. Matisse also made a drawing of Rodenko in the ballet " Rouge et Noir". While on tour with the Ballet Russe, Rodenko performed the role of the Cowgirl in the 1942 ballet "Rodeo" until the tour reached New York and Agnes de Mille, the original choreographer, reclaimed the role for herself. Disappointed by this, Rodenko quit the Ballet Russes, and took a better-paid job performing in a Broadway production of "The Merry Widow". This production launched at the Majestic Theatre on 4 August 1943, with Rodenko and James Starbuck leading the character dances, including a comic polka and a can-can number. After this, Rodenko played Grisette in "Nellie Bly", a short-lived 1946 musical based on the life of Nellie Bly, and then became lead dancer for the 1946–1949 Broadway production of "Annie Get Your Gun", but following a knee injury, decided to pursue a career in fashion design. She continued performing until 1951, appearing in the 1950–1951 Olsen and Johnson revue "Pardon our French".
Fashion.
Luba and her first husband, Richard Marks, a manufacturer of coats and suits, launched their new clothing company Elite Juniors, in 1957. Elite Jrs. was a middle-range firm producing high-style coats, suits and separates for a fifth of the expected price. Luba first caught the attention of the fashion press by successfully reinterpreting the classic Chanel suit for ready-to-wear. Her designs were cut slim-fitting, with narrow sleeves and no bust darts, meaning that her designs looked more elegant and desirably Parisian than those of her rivals in the ready-to-wear field. Luba was also noted as an early promoter of the woman's pantsuit in America, dedicating over half of her 1966 collection to this look. It was noted that some of her pantsuit designs came out before Yves Saint Laurent produced his own very similar designs.
In 1968, alongside George Halley, Luba Marks won the Coty Award for her womenswear. At the time it was reported that her clothes were worn by smart young women such as actress Jill St. John and singer Petula Clark, and younger women in politics such as Luci Nugent. Luba noted that her clientele's age range ran from 16 to 70.
By 1976 Elite Juniors had been acquired by Peabody House, and despite their marriage having broken down, the Markses were still working together successfully. That year Luba predicted that the business would turn over 7 to 8 million dollars, forecasting that this would rise to 12 million. She was still working in 1984, selling her coats and other designs through Bullock's and describing herself as trying to continue offering originality.
Personal life.
Luba married her first husband, Richard Marks in 1948. Although the marriage eventually broke down and ended in divorce, the Markses continued to work together well into the 1970s. In September 1972, Luba met her second husband, George Begazy, soon after the completion of her home in Southampton, New York, which she had designed herself.
Luba Begazy died at home on 5 July 2020, aged 98.


National Institute of Fashion Technology Kannur

National Institute of Fashion Technology Kannur known as NIFT Kannur is one of the 17 campuses of NIFT, an institution for Fashion, Design, Technology and Management. It is located in the Dharmashala locality (Taliparamba Taluk), outside the city of Kannur in Kerala, South India.
Location.
The NIFT Centre at Kannur is one of the newer additions to the network of existing government-run fashion schools across India. It started functioning from June 2008, from a transit campus situated at Dharmashala, and moved to its permanent campus at Dharmashala in 2011. The campus is about 16 kilometres from Kannur Town and 7 kilometres from Taliparamba Town.
Courses.
NIFT, Kannur, in parallel with other centres of the institute across India, offers four-year undergraduate Bachelor of Design and technology and the two-year post-graduate master's degrees in Design, Fashion Management and Fashion Technology.
Currently, NIFT Kannur is offering five under-graduate and two post-graduate programmes:
i) Bachelors in Textile Design (TD)
ii) Bachelors in Knitwear Design (KD)
iii) Bachelors in Fashion Design (FD)
iv) Bachelors in Fashion Communication (FC)
v) Bachelors in Fashion Technology (B.F.Tech)
vi) Masters in Fashion Management (MFM)
vii) Masters in Design (M.Des)
Students are selected through an intensive common entrance examination process, which consists of two written examinations - GAT (General Ability Test) and the CAT (Creative Ability Test). Based on the scores of these written examinations, select students are invited for a situation test. Post the Situation Test, the final rankings of students at an all India level is released. Students then undergo a counselling process to determine their programme and campus. For the post-graduate courses, a group discussion and a personal interview is conducted based on the final rankings.
History.
All India, the National Institute of Fashion Technology was set up in 1986 under the aegis of the Ministry of Textiles, Government of India, and has "emerged as the premier institute of Design, Management and Technology, developing professionals for taking up leadership positions in fashion business in the emerging global scenario."
Kannur campus was set up in the 2008.
In 2008, this campus started functioning with two undergraduate courses—Bachelor of Fashion Technology in Apparel Production and Bachelor of Design in Textile Design—with a combined total of 51 students.
Recent work.
NIFT-Kannur has been recently involved in a project to revive the khadi industry in the region. In September 2016, the campus said it had a high rate of placement in fashion industry establishments across the country, with over 85 per cent of students who had completed their course having got placements through the centralised placement conducted for students of NIFT centres in different parts of the country.
Sixty women, it was reported, were to be trained at National Institute of Fashion Technology, Kannur for ten days in October 2015, under the "Vasthra Mandalam" scheme to utilise the expertise of over 500 women skilled in designing and tailoring for developing Kozhikode South into a "major hub of (the) apparel industry".
Students of the centre, in March 2014 undertook a two-day study of Kalamkari art in Pedana, a town in Krishna district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. The 20 students, most girls, were in their second of a four-year undergraduate course with specialisation in traditional textiles designs, and observed every aspect of the Kalamkari printing—block-making to applying colour.
Senior officials.
The director is Dr. Puneet Sood, while the joint director is Mr. G Ramesh Babu.
Campus.
The Campus was set up on 10 acres of land, allotted by State Government of Kerala, under the aegis of Ministry of Textiles.


Emilio Cavenaghi

Emilio Cavenaghi, an Italian painter of landscapes and genre pieces, was born in Caravaggio in 1852. He studied under Giuseppe Bertini. "La Stanza Poldi" and "The Music Amateur", are two of his best works. He also designed many woodcuts for book-illustrations. He painted the decorations and sipario (curtain) of Teatro Manzoni. He died at Milan in 1876.
He appears to be a sibling to Luigi Cavenaghi (Caravaggio, August 8, 1844 – Milano, December 7, 1918).
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Sarah Greenwood

Sarah Greenwood is a British production designer. She has been nominated six times for an Academy Award – in 2006 for "Pride & Prejudice", in 2008 for "Atonement", in 2010 for "Sherlock Holmes", in 2013 for "Anna Karenina" and in 2018 for both "Beauty and the Beast", and "Darkest Hour". In 2013, she was elected best production designer for "Anna Karenina" at the 66th British Academy Film Awards, the 26th European Film Awards, and won the Art Directors Guild Award for Excellence in Period Film for the same film.
She studied at the Wimbledon College of Art and was production designer in theater for more than three years. However she was not entirely satisfied with the work, so she got a job at the BBC in the early 90s and stayed there for a while. It didn't only get her a better job, but helped in her transformation from theater to TV. She worked on designing sets for television talk show "Later... with Jools Holland". Then, in the late 90s, the BBC disappeared the charge of production design, and she had to work in independent cinema.
In an interview column for the Golden Globe Awards, Greenwood stated that green arsenic was used in the corridors for the film "Atonement", but the director, Joe Wright, wanted Irish green for the dress that Keira Knightley was going to use in the movie. Sarah decided to give priority to dress and change the colour she had planned for the corridors, because the dress had a risk of losing visual emphasis. She said, "Sometimes you have to be strong to win battles, and sometimes you have to know when to let go." She was not entirely convinced with the color that the director wanted, but there are decisions that an art director must make to get the message to the viewer.
Another story that she tells, is that when she went to get a production art job on a film to be made, someone said, "This project is very large. Sure you can handle it?" She had worked on huge sets, so she said "if you have the tools and enough supplies to meet the needs with a good production team, anything is possible." When she met the director, he said he was asked the same question, this made clear it was not a gender thing. "They just wanted to make sure that we all can do this," she said.
In 2017, Greenwood worked on Disney's live action version of "Beauty and the Beast", directed by Bill Condon and released in March, and the biopic "Darkest Hour", directed by Joe Wright; receiving Oscar nominations for both.


Jim Ward (game designer)

James M. Ward (born May 23, 1951), is an American game designer and fantasy author. He worked as a game developer and writer for TSR, Inc. for more than 20 years.
Career.
"Dungeons & Dragons" and TSR.
Ward was one of the players in Gary Gygax's early Greyhawk games as Gygax developed the "Dungeons & Dragons" game. The "Dungeons & Dragons" character Drawmij was named after him; "Drawmij" is simply "Jim Ward" spelled backwards. Rob Kuntz and Ward's "Gods, Demi-Gods & Heroes" (1976) expanded the original "D&D" game by introducing gods. Ward designed "Metamorphosis Alpha" (1976), which was the first science-fantasy role-playing game, and published as TSR's fourth role-playing game. Ward co-authored "Deities & Demigods" (1980) . In the early 1980s, Ward and Rose Estes formed an education department at TSR, intended to sell classroom modules to teachers. Ward ran Kuntz's adventure "The Maze of Xaene" as the "D&D" tournament module at EastCon in 1983, although the module never saw print at TSR. Ward wrote "Greyhawk Adventures" (1988), a hardcover volume that presented new rules for the Greyhawk setting. Ward, with David Cook, Steve Winter, and Mike Breault, co-wrote the "Ruins of Adventure" adventure scenario that was adapted into the game "Pool of Radiance".
In 1989 he was inducted into the Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts & Design Hall of Fame. When TSR produced a second edition of "AD&D" (1989), Ward instituted changes such as removing assassins and half-orcs from the game, explaining in "Dragon" #154 (February 1990) that "[a]voiding the Angry Mother Syndrome has become a good, basic guideline for all of the designers and editors at TSR, Inc"; Ward printed many upset readers' replies in "Dragon" #158. Ward can be glimpsed early in the Dragon Strike tutorial video playing the man who is slapped in the face at the king's party. Ward designed the "Spellfire" collectible card game. Ward was eventually made the VP for Creative Services, but left TSR over disagreements about how the company's crisis involving book sales in 1996 was handled.
After TSR.
Ward designed the "Dragon Ball Z Collectible Card Game". Ward founded the d20 company Fast Forward Entertainment with Timothy Brown, Lester Smith, John Danovich, and Sean Everett. From 2000 - 2005, he was President of Fast Forward Entertainment, an independent game development company. Ward wrote "Sete-Ka's Dream Quest" (2006), an adventure gamebook published by Margaret Weis Productions. He wrote the Halcyon Blithe novel "Dragonfrigate Wizard" (Tor, 2006), which he considered one of his better and prouder creations. Ward joined Troll Lord Games, writing books such as the "Towers of Adventures" (2008) boxed set and the "Of Gods & Monsters" (2009) supplement for "Castles & Crusades"; Ward also became the editor for Troll Lord's "C&C" magazine, "The Crusader Journal". Ward also wrote the horror fantasy game "Tainted Lands" (2009), based on "C&C"'s "SIEGE" system.
In 2010, Ward was diagnosed with a serious neurological disorder that required treatment at the Mayo Clinic. His friend Tim Kask has helped to establish a fund to help Ward offset some of the medical bills.
Personal life.
James Ward married his wife Janean in the early 1970s, and they have three sons together, Breck, James, and Theon.


List of clothing and footwear shops in the United Kingdom

This is a list of the current and defunct physical clothing and footwear shops in the United Kingdom. This includes shoes, clothing and sportswear, but not online retailers.


JHDL

JHDL (Just-Another Hardware Description Language) is a low-level structural hardware description language, focused primarily on building circuits via an Object Oriented approach that bundles collections of gates into Java objects. Implemented as a toolset and class library on top of the Java programming language, its primary use is for the design of digital circuits for implementation in field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). Particular attention was paid to supporting the Xilinx series of chips.
When the design is ready to be placed in a fabric, the developer simply generates an Electronic Design Interchange Format (EDIF) netlist and imports it into a toolkit. Once the netlist is imported, the developer should be able to transfer the circuit via a Joint Test Action Group (JTAG) cable. EDIF netlisting is supported for the XC4000, Virtex, and Virtex-II series of FPGAs.
JHDL was developed at BYU in the Configurable Computing Laboratory, the project initiated in 1997. As of July 2013, the latest update to the JHDL project was made in May 2006 according to the official JDHL website.
Features.
The JHDL language features include:
Behavioral synthesis is not yet fully supported.
The integrated JHDL Workbench environment is designed to allow developers to graphically test and trace their circuit designs. This tool includes:
Naming.
Originally, the J in "JHDL" stood for "Java". However, to prevent trademark issues, the name has been backronymed to stand for Just-Another Hardware Description Language.


Jeanette Pasin Sloan

Jeanette Pasin Sloan (born 1946) is an American visual artist known for her photorealist prints, paintings and drawings.
Education, and early career.
Sloan was born in Chicago in 1946, the daughter of immigrants to the United States. She received her bachelors from Marymount College and her MFA from University of Chicago, in art history.
She began her art career with paintings, after she gained her MFA, and while she was a "young mom in the western suburbs" of Chicago. As a young mother in the 1970s, with two small children, she would paint in her kitchen, after putting her children to sleep for the evening. Her oeuvre took a significant turn when she noticed a reflection in a toaster that she was painting.
A catalogue raisonné of her print works was released in 2002.
Collections.
Sloan's work is in the collections of the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution, the Snite Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago.


Brad Leftwich

Brad Leftwich (born 1953) is a prominent American old-time fiddler, banjo player, singer and teacher of traditional old-time style. He is originally from Oklahoma. He performs solo and with his long-time musical partner and wife, Linda Higginbotham, and with Brad Leftwich and the Hogwire Stringband.
Since the 1970s he has also been a member of the Plank Road Stringband, Leftwich & Higginbotham, The Humdingers, and Tom Brad & Alice. He has recorded for June Appal, Rounder, County, Copper Creek, Marimac and his own label Dark Train Records.
Leftwich has written two books published by Mel Bay, one on Round Peak clawhammer banjo playing and the other on Round Peak fiddling. He has also released two instructional old-time fiddle videos for Homespun Tapes.
Early life.
Leftwich grew up in a musical family. His mother played piano and sang in church, and he first learned to play some old-time guitar from his father when he was 8 or 9 years old. Probably the greatest musical influences in his family were his grandfather Rush Leftwich on banjo and great uncle George Leftwich on fiddle. Originally from Carroll County, Virginia, Rush and George played the traditional style of old-time music that was common in their area. Though Rush and George died before Leftwich could learn from them directly, they had already shaped his desire to learn to play old time music.
Leftwich asked for his first banjo when he was 15, and by the time he left to study anthropology and sociology at Oberlin College, he had developed some proficiency in bluegrass banjo, as well as some clawhammer banjo and a bit of fiddle.
While in college, Leftwich traveled during summer breaks to old-time fiddle conventions to learn more about the musical style. It was during one of these summer breaks that Leftwich and a friend first visited noted old-time fiddler Tommy Jarrell at his home in the Mount Airy region of North Carolina. Tommy took a liking to Leftwich that was enhanced by the discovery that Brad and Jarrell's wife were distant relatives.
Tommy Jarrell became Brad's main old-time music mentor, alerting Brad to a traditional style of playing that used deliberate bowing patterns. This style is characterized by beginning musical phrases on the down-bow, or pulling the bow away from the fiddle, among other features.
Career.
Music.
Since the 1970s, Leftwich has played with a range of musical acts including the Plank Road String Band, the Humdingers, the Hogwire Stringband, and Tom, Brad & Alice, a group formed with Tom Sauber and noted bluegrass musician Alice Gerrard. Leftwich has also played on several recordings with his wife Linda Higginbotham.
Leftwich's recordings have also been used as a reference for Slippery Hill, an educational website maintaining a massive archive of source recordings for traditional American fiddle tunes.
Shortly after graduating from Oberlin College in 1975, Leftwich moved to the musically active community of Lexington, Virginia where he co-founded the Plank Road String Band. After recording two albums, Leftwich moved to Chicago to pursue advanced studies in anthropology. However, after a couple of years in Chicago, Leftwich changed directions and moved to Bloomington, Indiana to take courses in Indiana University's Folklore and Ethnomusicology program. In his new home, Leftwich met Linda Higginbotham, an active member of the Bloomington Old-Time Music and Dance Group. After a hiatus from fiddle, Leftwich's return to an active old-time community, and encouragement from Higginbotham, who he taught to play banjo and banjo uke, brought about his permanent return to old-time music.
Teaching and scholarship.
In addition to Leftwich's recording and performance career, he is also known for teaching fiddle and banjo in Bloomington, Indiana, in videotaped lessons, and at educational music camps. He has written articles on Southern Appalachian fiddling for Fiddler Magazine and for the Old-Time Herald.
Personal life.
Leftwich lives in Bloomington, Indiana with his wife Linda Higginbotham.


Syberia 3

Syberia 3 is a graphic adventure video game developed by Microïds and published by Anuman for Microsoft Windows, OS X, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch. It is the third entry of the "Syberia" series which follows the adventures of American lawyer Kate Walker as she travels across Siberia.
Plot.
After abandoning the island of Syberia, Kate Walker finds herself adrift on a makeshift boat, rescued by the Youkol people. Determined to escape their common enemies, she decides to help the nomads fulfill their odd ancestral tradition, as they accompany their snow ostriches on their seasonal migration. The game takes the player through the charming town of Valsembor, the voyage on a ship named "Krystal", through an abandoned theme park in Baranour, which was tragically destroyed by nuclear fallout and radiation still blocks off parts of the park. Eventually, Kate helps the Youkols find their lost temple and grants them access to the snow ostrich breeding grounds across a bridge. Kate is captured by Olga Efimova and taken back to the clinic, leaving her fate unknown.
Development.
On 1 April 2009, Microïds announced that "Syberia 3" was being developed and aimed to be released on Microsoft Windows and PlayStation 3 in June 2010 as a real-time 3D game. The company had stated that the game would miss its original June 2010 release date because negotiations with Benoît Sokal were under way and Microïds was then acquired by Anuman. On 17 April 2010, another press release was issued, explaining that the Microsoft Windows version will be released, but the PlayStation 3 version may not, due to problems with Sony. Microïds had also asked that fans of "Syberia" send them emails of support for the game. In an interview given in February 2011, Sokal revealed that work on the game had not started due to a lack of funding.
In November 2012, Microïds revealed that Sokal had officially signed a contract with Anuman to write the story of "Syberia 3", the development had started and the game will be overseen by Elliot Grassiano, the original founder of Microïds. The game was scheduled for release in 2014-2015. On 21 August 2013, it was announced that the game had gone into production. The game's first screenshots were shown on 13 August 2014, and the stated release was given as of 2015 on Microsoft Windows, OS X, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, iOS and Android. The game was released in April 2017, dubbed in English, French, German, Polish and Russian, with subtitles in Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Czech, Korean and Chinese.
In November 2017, a DLC file was released entitled "An Automaton with a Plan", where the player acts as the automaton Oscar.
Reception.
"Syberia 3" received "mixed or average" reviews, according to video game review aggregator Metacritic.
Elise Favis's scored the game 5/10 on "Game Informer" and said "The "Syberia" series is a product of its time, and "Syberia 3" doesn’t bring back any excitement. It is plagued by bugs, a disappointing storyline, cliché characters, and puzzles that are more frustrating than fun. This return fails to do the series justice, feeling more like an unpolished and dated adventure game instead of a revival."
"GameSpot"s Michael Highham scored the game 4/10 and concluded: "Slivers of enjoyment and potential are found within a disconnected and underwhelming journey. The characters, their interactions, the way they speak, and the reason they even exist all mash into a puzzle-adventure game devoid of significance or impact. The "Syberia" series deserved a better return, otherwise, it should've been left in the past."
"PC Gamer"s Fraser Brown scored the game 30/100, saying "Some solid puzzles can't rescue what is an otherwise terrible adventure game." Fraser criticized the game for its disconnected story, poor graphics and animation, subpar translation to English, awkward voice acting and unmitigated software bugs that severely damage the gaming experience.


John Popadiuk

John A. Popadiuk Jr. is a Canadian pinball machine designer. He started work in the business at 19 for Bally in 1980, and later at WMS Gaming from 1989 to 2000. He now works for deeproot Tech as Exclusive Game Designer.
He is credited as principal designer for many popular pinball machines in the 1990s including "Theatre of Magic", "Tales of the Arabian Nights", "World Cup Soccer", "Star Wars Episode I", and "Cirqus Voltaire".
Background.
Early on, Popadiuk read Roger Sharpe's pinball book, and saw the name Norm Clarke, who was currently working at Bally at the time. Popadiuk wrote Clarke a letter, to which Clarke responded, "If you're ever in Chicago, drop me a line and we'll give you a tour." Two weeks later, Popadiuk flew to Chicago and got a tour of the new Bally factory in Bensenville. Clarke offered to drive Popadiuk back to the airport, but instead hired Popadiuk after he demanded a job. They hired him as a technician in engineering because he had experience troubleshooting games with a pinball router in Toronto that had about 350 games. One of the designs Popadiuk had come up with on his own while still in Toronto was "Alice in Wonderland", which would later become a theme he would revisit.
In 1989, Popadiuk arrived at the new office. His first project was "Ice Castle", which never got produced. He shared an office with another designer, and was eventually assigned to work on a pinball based on the 1994 FIFA World Cup, which became "World Cup Soccer".
He would go on to working on four other titles before Williams shut down the pinball division. "Theatre of Magic" was originally going to be licensed as David Copperfield but they never finalized the license.
"Cirqus Voltaire" originally started as "Circus Pirates", then "Circus Maximus", but eventually became "Voltaire" because the market in France wanted it. It was a very unsuccessful title on test, earning only $47 the first week in Waukesha, Wisconsin compared to $350–400 for some of the other titles.
In March 1998, Williams management told every engineer to build their dream game because they had to impress the board of directors. Brian Eddy worked on a game, George Gomez was working on a ping pong game. They told Popadiuk to work on that game with the video display in the backbox. He worked for two weeks with Lyman Sheats to throw together a layout. They liked the game, but decided that they didn't like the screen in the backbox. At the same time, Pat and George were working on a reflective display that would become Pinball 2000, and the entire team focused on that for 14 months to finish the project. "Star Wars" was designed to only have 7–8 shots (similar to "Captain Fantastic") to keep it simple for kids to easily catch on and draw them in.
After Williams exited the pinball business in 2000; Popadiuk started a short-lived neon sign business named "Duke's Neon" in the Northwest Chicago suburbs. He also designed a line of toy pinball machines for a now-defunct company named Zizzle between 2006 and 2007.
Between 2009 and 2010, Popadiuk developed two iOS apps: "Pinball Scrapbook" and "Pinball Wizard".
His company, Zidware, has designed and collected pre-orders for three pinball themes: "Magic Girl" (loosely based on "Theatre of Magic"), "Retro Atomic Zombie Adventure" (formerly known as "Ben Heck Zombie Adventure"), and "Alice in Wonderland". He also worked on a foam board prototype of a Kiss pinball machine in 2014 with the intention of obtaining a license to produce a Kiss-themed game. Other project ideas that he claimed to be working on during all this was a MakerBot pinball project, a bowling-themed pinball, and an apparent electro-mechanical project. Individuals who had paid for pre-orders for Popadiuk's other three games that were under development criticized Popadiuk for focusing on the Kiss project and other concepts, rather than on the other machines he was already contracted to build. A year later in mid-2015, Stern Pinball released a new version of a Kiss pinball machine, which appeared to make Popadiuk's Kiss project irrelevant.
In May 2015, Popadiuk announced that he was out of funding, and not only couldn't finish the "Magic Girl" prototype, he had no way of funding the manufacturing of them. One of his buyers (Bill Brandes) formed a company called "Pintasia" in April 2015 where he intended to license the themes and find a way to manufacture them. Between various volunteers, they took one of the prototypes as far as they could in a few short weeks so it could be shown at the Northwest Pinball Show. The machine was analyzed for completeness, and what it would cost to not only finish the prototype but manufacture. When Brandes realized the project wasn't as close to completion as promised by Popadiuk, Brandes announced on June 10, 2015 that he could not move this project forward and it would be cancelled.
Lawsuit.
Customers who pre-ordered games through Zidware filed legal action against Popadiuk for being unable to honor his obligations stated in his contract. On February 14, 2017 there was an email sent out both by Popadiuk and Scott Goldberg claiming that all of the "Magic Girl" games were complete and ready to pickup or ship by the end of the month.
On May 1, 2018, the court ruled that Popadiuk was responsible the 26 claims by the plaintiffs for failure to deliver. Popadiuk had sued the buyers themselves for non-payment of future games in the amount of $100,002 and attempted to split it into 26 separate cases. The judge ruled this a waste of time and resources.


Mimi Fayazi

Mimi Fayazi (born August 10, 1947) is an American fashion designer who was particularly successful in the 1970s. Mimi was born in Persia and came to New York in 1967 to study fashion at the Mayer School of Fashion Design. Fayazi began designing in New York, and then started Mimi Fayazi Designs in 1974 in Los Angeles, with the Fayazi Couture, Miss Fayazi Dresses, and Mimi Fayazi Sportswear labels. Her style was distinctly feminine, while also drawing on the classic influences of the 1930s and 1940s. Besides being known for her design and fabrication, her clothing was also intended to transition easily from day time to evening wear. Her clothing, considered creative and sophisticated, sold in specialty and department stores, including Saks, Lord & Taylor, and Bergdorf Goodman, and were worn by many actresses, including Ali MacGraw and Candice Bergen. In 1978, Fayazi won 2 Tommy Awards from the American Printed Fabrics Council, Inc. for her designs.


Joe Alves

Joseph Manuel Alves (born May 21, 1936) is an American film production designer, perhaps best known for his work on the first three films of the "Jaws" films. He directed the third installment "Jaws 3-D".
Career.
Alves has designed three features for Steven Spielberg, firstly for "The Sugarland Express". He designed the three mechanical sharks for the movie "Jaws" (1975) with mechanical effects man Bob Mattey supervising their physical construction in Sun Valley CA. After the sharks were completed, they were trucked to the shooting location, but unfortunately they had not been tested in water causing a series of delays that have become quite legendary over time.
He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Art Direction and won the BAFTA for Best Art Direction for his work on "Close Encounters of the Third Kind".
Alves worked on "Jaws 2" (1978) in the capacity of both production designer and as second unit director. After John D. Hancock, the initial director of "Jaws 2", was sacked, it was suggested that Alves co-direct it with Verna Fields (who edited the original "Jaws"). Jeannot Szwarc was hired, however, to complete the film.
The model of New York he created for John Carpenter's "Escape from New York" (1981) has been described as "memorably derelict", and he was visual consultant on Carpenter's "Starman" (1984).
He directed "Jaws 3-D" (1983), which took advantage of the revival in popularity of 3-D at the time. The film received generally weak critical reception, with "Variety" criticising Alves for failing "to linger long enough on the Great White." He was nominated as 'worst director' in the 1983 Golden Raspberry Awards. "Jaws 3-D" was his only film as director.


Seven Sisters Group

Seven Sisters Group are a British performance company, formed in 1994. The group focuses on communicating contemporary issues through new and idiosyncratic works that defy labelling. Their highly acclaimed projects are often site specific and combine contemporary dance, installation art, performance art and spoken word.
The company's artistic director is founder Susanne Thomas. Co-founder Sophie Jump is co-artistic director.
The group has worked with teams of independent artists whose disciplines include theatre design (Sophie Jump, Rosa Freitas), fine art (Ed King), music (Phil Durrant, Martin Robinson) and video (Jane Hodge, Jaime Rory
Lucy, Ludi Andrews and Davy McGuire). The work is devised in collaboration with the group – current and previous performance members include Domingo Bermudez, Claire Burrell, Robert Cook, Carolyn Deby, Marie-Louise Flexen, Louise Hedley, Fred Gehrig, Chantal McCormick, Kristin McGuire, Glyn Pritchard, Emma Teixidor, Heidi Rustgaard, Alice Sara, Esther Weisskopf.


Henning Bahs Award

The Henning Bahs Award () is a film award established in 2012 by the Danish Film Critics Association in collaboration with the Association of Danish Scenographers (Danish: "Sammenslutningen af Danske Scenografer") in honour of the Danish screenwriter and special effects designer Henning Bahs. It is given for excellence in production design and presented at the annual Bodil Awards-ceremony.


Toca Boca

Toca Boca is a Swedish app development studio focused on child-friendly applications for tablets and smartphones.
According to the company's website, "We make digital toys and games that help stimulate the imagination." The company is owned by Spin Master (since April 21, 2016) and based in Stockholm, Sweden.
Toca Boca was founded from Bonnier's Research and Development unit. The studio began in September 2010, and its first application was released in March 2011. The majority of Toca Boca applications are digital toys. The name "Toca Boca" translates from Spanish to "touch the mouth." It was chosen because of its simplicity and play on words.
Applications.
Toca Boca has released 44 digital toys that have been downloaded more than 275 million times around the world, making it the No. 1 paid app publisher in the App Store. Various applications developed include:
"Helicopter Taxi".
"Helicopter Taxi", the first application released by Toca Boca, was a digital toy that integrated augmented reality effects. Using a device's camera, the player designates six horizontal surfaces in reality as "The Beach," "The Tall Building," "The Factory," "The Hospital,"
and "The Hangar." The physical locations do not need to match the landing description, however, and the surfaces for landing do not need to be exact or consistent. The toy's characters consist of two pilots and five passengers, and the objective is to pick up as well as bring the passengers to their destination by moving about with the device to simulate the helicopter flying.
This game was later discontinued.
"Toca Tea Party".
The second application released by Toca Boca, "Toca Tea Party", imitates a tea party, primarily through roleplaying. The player is able to design their table by selecting the tablecloth, dishes, music, and drinks. Interactions such as "eating," "drinking," "spilling," and "cleaning up" exist. Party guests may consist of toys and/or people with the touch screen support for multiple users simultaneously.
"Toca Kitchen".
"Toca Kitchen" allows the player to interact by choosing how to prepare a food (slice, boil, blend, etc.) in order to feed one of the four characters. Each character has his or her own preferences of ingredient and style, evident through the character's reactions and willingness to eat a product. Food can be obtained infinitely many times and there are few limits to the number of times a food can be processed.
Toca Life Series.
Toca Life is a series of games that encourage the player to imagine stories
for characters in the game. The player can drag the character around
the screen with their finger and make him/her eat, sit, etc. In the series, there
are different locations the character could go to based on the game's
theme. (Town, Farm, Office, etc.) There are groups such as Kids, Elders, Babies, and Creatures. The player can add more than one
character to a scene. Dressing up the characters was introduced in "Toca Life: City".
Toca Life: World.
"Toca Life: World" was released in November 2018—it connected all of the existing standalone "Toca Life" apps into one interconnected universe. It is free to download, and players are invited to play the free version (which comes with Bop City, as well as the free version of a character creator), or to customize the app with whatever options they find the most interesting.
If a player already purchased any of the "Toca Life" games, then they will have access to those apps within "Toca Life: World". Players can play with the characters from the individual "Toca Life" apps inside any of the "Toca Life: World" locations.
List of "Toca Life" Installments (in order):
List of applications developed.
A list of applications released to the market is as follows:
Digital toys.
The term "digital toy" is sometimes used to differentiate certain apps from more typical virtual games. While most aspects between the two are the same, Toca Boca distinguishes digital toys as more "open-ended" with fewer rules. However, neither are thought nor proven to have a more or less harmful or beneficial impact on players. While these "digital toys" are aimed towards children, it does not mean they are just for children.
Awards.
Toca Boca has won:
2019
2018
2017
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011


Vivienne Hu

Vivienne Hu is an American fashion designer based in New York City.
Early life.
Hu was born in China. As a teenager, she moved to Germany to study at the University of Hohenheim and Goethe-Institut, earning a bachelor's degree in finance studies. After the degree, she joined Citibank on Wall Street to work in finance.
Work.
Hu later moved to the United States for her professional development. She worked at an investment bank for over three years, then attended Parsons School of Design and gained industry experience with Oscar de la Renta and Yigal Azrouel. Hu established her brand and debuted her spring/summer collection in 2012. The label has two stores in Soho, New York, that opened in 2013 and 2016 respectively, and its first China store opened in 2015.
Hu participated in Mercedes-Benz New York Fashion Week runways for the 2015 seasons, and subsequently in the re-branded NYFW-THE SHOWS runways for the 2016 and 2017 seasons. In 2015, Hu showcased her fall/winter 2015 collection at Shenzhen Fashion Week in China. Hu was named a Swarovski Collective 2016 designer. Vivienne has had seven consecutive runway shows at New York Fashion Week. Her shows have been attended by celebrities, such as Whoopi Goldberg, Anya Taylor-Joy, Clara Lee Paloma Ford & Eva Gutowski.
In 2017, Vivienne Hu branched out from Ready-to-Wear when she debuted her accessories line, Vivienne Hu Accessories, at her Spring/ Summer 2018 runway show. This line includes handbags, shoes and sunglasses. The Spring/Summer 2018 runway show was inspired by Amman, Jordan. Fashion Week Online stated "Vivienne Hu presented a slew of light and airy pieces that were given structure with strategically placed sashes, trims, and cutouts to highlight every girl’s best feature. The drama and excitement was all in the contrast of textures, layering of hard and soft, and the styling of each look." The F/W 2018 collection inspired by Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes was a huge success. Vivienne Hu released a line of new fashion sneakers in partnership with Tencent QQ, and this line soon attracted attention of fashion buyers such as Zappos. The bag collection also received positive feedbacks from mainstream fashion Media like Bazaar and Vogue Vogue Nederland. Bazaar featured the bags from Vivienne Hu's new collection in the slideshow "The Best Bags Spotted On The Fall 2018 Runways". F/W 2018 red carpet dress featured by Vogue Italy. In 2019, she receives the USC Pacific Asia Museum's 2019 Gala Visionary Artist Award and she is the only Chinese designer selected by Saga Furs for sponsorship this year. On Feb 15, 2019, her alma mater, Parsons School of Design, sent out a tweet applauding the NYFW looks of Vivienne Hu and Tomford via its official Twitter account(@parsonsdesign). Vivienne Hu is selected as a mentor at the Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles in 2019 and VHNY, the streetwear and athleisure focused line by Vivienne Hu, joined Macys’ ecommerce platform the same year.


Steve Richardson (puzzle designer)

Steve Richardson is an American puzzle creator and founder of Stave Puzzles.
Early life.
Steve Richardson was formerly a student of math and computer science (BA Colby, MBA University of Michigan). He lived with his wife in New Jersey until 1969 when they moved to Vermont. Soon after arriving in Vermont, Richardson started a game design business with artist Dave Tibbetts.
Stave Puzzles.
Stave Puzzles was born in 1974 when a client offered $300 for a wooden jigsaw puzzle and Richardson and Tibbetts jumped at the opportunity. Richardson and Tibbetts combined their first names to form the name ‘Stave’. In 1976 Richardson bought out Tibbetts for $1 and a jigsaw. Richardson adopted the title ‘Chief Tormentor’ in 1978 and in the following years begin to receive national attention for his innovative puzzle designs. Clients of Richardson’s designs include Bill Gates, Barbara Bush, and the Queen of the United Kingdom. "We have a sadomasochistic relationship with our customers," says Richardson.
As a puzzle innovator, Richardson is credited with inventing the "Phony Corner" (a corner that's not a corner) and the "Whammy Edge" (edge pieces that abut rather than interlock). Richardson carries on a long tradition of wood puzzle manufacturers that includes names such as Par, Straus, and Parker Brothers (as Pastime Puzzles). Richardson’s puzzles never include a picture of the puzzle with the box and many puzzles contain hidden messages, custom shaped pieces, and even extra pieces that do not fit into the puzzle.
Richardson "prides himself on his company's high-quality products and attentive customer service".


David Myerscough-Jones

David Myerscough-Jones FCSD (15 September 1934 – 21 April 2010) was an English film, television, and theatre production designer. He spent the majority of his career with BBC TV, as well as in the theatre and opera production companies. He worked with the British composer Benjamin Britten on "Peter Grimes" (1969 Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh), "Owen Wingrave" (1970 BBC TV World Premier, Snape Maltings), and "Die Winteriesse" (1970 Britten Piano, Peter Pears Tenor).
Early life.
He was born on 15 September 1934 in Southport, Lancashire, England. He studied art and design at the Southport School of Art and the Central School of Art in London where he graduated with distinction. He spent several years in theatres around the UK, at Glasgow Citizens Theatre (Scotland), Leatherhead (Surrey) Hornchurch, London (where he met his wife Ursula ‘Pelo’ Cumpston; both worked on "Owen Wingrave"), and the Mermaid, London. In 1965 he joined the BBC Design Department. His great experience in repertory rheatre gave him a unique and noticeable style.
Career in design.
Driven by his passion for music and in particular opera (notably the works of Richard Wagner), he was chosen to design the BBC TV production of "The Flying Dutchman", starring Norman Bailey as the Dutchman, which won Myerscough-Jones an award from the Royal Television Society (1976) for his designs. He also collaborated with Opera Director Jonathan Miller to create "The Beggar’s Opera" starring Roger Daltry and Mozart's "Cosi Fan Tutte", amongst others.
Myerscough-Jones also designed a great number of other BBC TV dramas, notably "Thérèse Raquin", which won him a BAFTA award for Best Design as well as D and AD Gold and Silver – 1980, "The Theban Trilogy" (ACE Nomination), "How Many Miles to Babylon", "A Midsummer Night's Dream", "Macbeth", "All's Well that Ends Well", "Othello", "Virtuoso", "The Master Builder", "Metamorphosis", "Bomber Harris", and "Circles of Deceit".
He left the BBC in 1990 and continued his career as a freelance designer. He teamed up with Opera Director Designer John Pascoe to design a production of "La Bohème" starring Renée Fleming. This was followed by productions of "La Traviata", "the Turn of the Screw", "Don Giovanni", and "Rigoletto" for Bath and Wessex Opera, and "Il Trovatore" and "the Barber of Seville" in America (Walnut Creak) . Also at this time he collaborated with lifelong friend Theatre Director Michael Friend for various theatre touring productions including "Fado Farces" and "Stagelands" starring Trevor Bannister.
Aside from his specialization on musical productions, Myerscough-Jones was also known for his designs for "Doctor Who – The Web of Fear".
Retirement and later years.
He took his retirement in Burgundy and finally in Saint-Omer, which impressed him for its rich history and its artistic and musical heritage. He is buried at the Bruyéres Cemetery in Longuenesse, with his wife, Pelo. Many of his artistic works, including production models and artwork, have been given to the town of Saint-Omer by the David Myerscough-Jones Association. Some of this material is available to see at La Salle de Concert, Place Saint Jean, Saint-Omer.
David Myerscough-Jones Association.
This association has been created to preserve the work (both professional and private works of art) of David Myerscough-Jones for design and art students and equally all enthusiasts of the Arts.


God (MUD)

God or Goddess, in MUDs, often refers to an administrator of a MUD server, most typically the owner. Sometimes multiple individuals with the title of God are present, or the term may even be applied to all administrative and development staff, but it is usual for the term to refer to the most senior administrator. A similar term, mostly used in DikuMUDs, is implementer, or "imp".
Where the term is used in this sense, the God or Gods will most often be supervising staffers referred to as wizards or immortals.
The appearance of entities referred to as "gods" in a MUD does not necessarily mean that this usage of the word is being applied; the word's ordinary usage is also frequently in evidence, referring to non-player character gods or even non-administrative player character gods.
History.
Historically the term God was not the original usage for either the player end game or sysadmin status in MUDs with Rob Roy Trubshaw and Richard Bartles seminal 1978 and 1985 MUD1 & 2 using Wizard (MUD). many contemporary games of the era such as Shades (1985), Mirrorworld (1986) also using Wizard or Arch Wizard. The first apparent use was in the 1988 Lap of the Gods authored by Ben Laurie although its original non commercial version was released in 1985.
 in 1989 evolved this concept even further pioneering the introduction of player Gods associated with stylised spheres (Stars, War, Fire etc.) with fully developed structural religious systems including player priests, followers and methods of prayer and offering. The gods are appointed not by amassing treasure or points but via either competitive ordination, often player vs player ordination or through dominance or merit within the game-world. Importantly as noted by Richard Bartle Avalon was the first to pioneer this concept of player gods in that they remained within the fiction of the world rather than as sysadmins. To date Avalon has competitively Ordained ten gods and appointed a variety of others, the first in 1989 and the last in 2015.
Power dynamics.
Discussion of MUD Gods frequently touches on the absolute power individuals assuming this title typically have over the virtual environment. A common conflict in MUDs occurs between an administrator who uses this power in an arbitrary and capricious fashion and others who believe standards of fairness should be upheld. MUD-related works often warn prospective players against annoying a God, citing the lack of behavioral constraint on this sort of figure.


Femina (Denmark)

Femina is a Danish language weekly magazine for women published by Aller Media in Copenhagen, Denmark. The magazine also has a Swedish edition.
History and profile.
"Femina" began in its current form in 1952 and is a continuation of illustrated fashion journal "Nordisk Mønster Tidende" (1874–1952), making it the oldest weekly magazine in Denmark.
"Femina" is part of Aller Media and is published by Aller Press AS. The magazine has its headquarters in Copenhagen. Camilla Lindemann has been editor since March 2005. It positions itself towards modern women and covers fashion, food, interior design, health and beauty, psychology and culture. A Swedish edition is also produced.
The 29 July 1903 edition caused a scandal when it printed "bh" as an abbreviation of "brystholder" (brassiere) for the first time.
During the late 1950s "Femina" featured articles on women's sport and introduced its readers both traditional and less known sports. In October 1959, the magazine gave its name to BK Femina, a women's football club from Slagelse. They supplied kit and boots for the players and provided sponsorship and coverage to the team which had became unofficial World Champions in 1970.
Circulation.
In 2001 the magazine had a circulation of 87,000 copies in Denmark. The circulation of the Danish version of "Femina" was 89,680 copies during the second half of 2003 and 90,000 copies for 2003 as a whole. The circulation of the magazine was 52,000 copies in 2006. It rose to 68,900 copies during the last six months of 2007.
In the second half of 2011 "Femina" had an average circulation of 54,117 copies per issue. In 2013 the magazine had a circulation of 50,000 copies in Denmark.


Bil Herd

Bil Herd is a computer engineer who created several designs for 8-bit home computers while working for Commodore Business Machines in the early to mid-1980s.
Biography.
He attended the Indiana school system. Herd did not have a college degree, and did not graduate high school, though he was working as an engineer by the age of 20.
Military service.
Military service:
Working for Commodore.
After first acting as the principal engineer on the Commodore Plus/4, C16/116, C264, and C364 machines, Herd designed the significantly more successful Commodore 128, a dual-CPU, triple-OS, compatible successor to the Commodore 64. Prior to the C128, Herd had done the initial architecture of the Commodore LCD computer, which was not released.
After Commodore.
After leaving Commodore, Herd continued to design faster and more powerful computers with emphasis on machine vision and is a co-author on a patent involving "n"-dimensional pattern matching. Herd also designed an ultrasonic backup sensor for vehicles while working for Indian Valley Mfg. in 1986, a feature found on many modern vehicles today.
Voluntary health care work:
Herd has undertaken an entrepreneurial role and is owner of several small companies. As for recent low-level computer hacking, he did a "cameo appearance" by contributing a snippet of sprite logic code to the C64 DTV product designed by Jeri Ellsworth.
Bil Herd appeared in and narrated the documentary "Growing the 8 Bit Generation" (a.k.a. "The Commodore Wars") about the early days of Commodore and the home computers explosion. Subsequently he narrated the documentary "Easy to learn, hard to master: the fate of Atari", thus becoming the official voice of the "8-bit Generation" documentary series. he produces videos for "Hackaday".


Satellite Young

 is a Japanese synthwave band founded by Emi Kusano and BelleMaison Sekine in 2013. Their music and style are influenced by classic J-pop artists such as Pink Lady, Minako Honda, Chisato Moritaka, Yoko Minamino, Yū Hayami, and Seiko Matsuda, as well as synthwave and new-age artists such as Jan Hammer, Cusco, and Tangerine Dream.
History.
In 2012, Emi Kusano was watching reruns of the 1980s Japanese comedy series , which inspired her to write songs and create a musical project. A mutual friend at her university introduced her to BelleMaison Sekine. One year later, Kusano sent Sekine an a cappella demo of her song "Jack Doushi", which eventually became Satellite Young's debut single in 2014. Tele Hideo joined the duo in 2015 as a "media technologist", handling the production of the band's music videos and sometimes appearing on stage as a dancer or drummer. Now a trio, Satellite Young released their first EP and music video "Dividual Heart".
In 2016, the band recorded "Don't Graduate Senpai" for the Swedish retro anime "Senpai Club". In addition, they collaborated with Mitch Murder to record the single "Sniper Rouge".
In 2017, Satellite Young released their self-titled debut album and their second EP "Modern Romance". In addition, the band performed at the 2017 South by Southwest Music Festival.
On October 14, 2020, Kusano released her solo single "Glass Ceiling" under the pseudonym "Emi Satellite". Produced by London-based musician Skytopia and inspired by the 2019 South Korean film "", the song focuses on the hardships and inequalities of women in East Asia.


National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts

The National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts (NACTA; ) is a Chinese public university in Fengtai District, Beijing which offers B.A., M.A. and M.F.A. degrees in Chinese opera. Niu Junfeng is a notable alumni from National Academy of Chinese Theathre Arts. Xu Weizhou is also a notable alumni. Currently there are 2,500 students and 250 faculty members.
History.
It was founded in 1950 as China Drama School, and Tian Han was its first principal. Wang Yaoqing became its principal in 1951. By 1954, when Yan Yong became the principal, it was under the leadership of China's Ministry of Culture. It became the National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts in 1978.


Rooney Mara

Patricia Rooney Mara ( ; born April 17, 1985) is an American actress and animal rights activist. Born into the Rooney and Mara sports business families, she graduated from the Gallatin School of Individualized Study in 2010. She began acting in television and independent films, such as the coming-of-age drama "Tanner Hall" (2009), and first gained recognition for a supporting role in David Fincher's biographical drama "The Social Network" (2010).
Mara had a career breakthrough when she starred as Lisbeth Salander in Fincher's thriller "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" (2011), which earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Her career progressed with leading roles in the thriller "Side Effects" (2013), the science fiction romance "Her" (2013), and the romantic drama "Carol" (2015); all three were critical and commercial successes. For the latter, she won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress and received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She has since appeared in the biographical drama "Lion" (2016), the supernatural drama "A Ghost Story" (2017), and portrayed Mary Magdalene in the biblical drama "Mary Magdalene" (2018).
Mara is known for her charity work and oversees the Uweza Foundation, which supports empowerment programs for children and families in the Kibera slum of Nairobi. She is also the founder of the vegan clothing line Hiraeth Collective.
Early life.
Mara was born on April 17, 1985 and raised in Bedford, New York, a town in Westchester County about north of New York City. Mara's mother's family founded the Pittsburgh Steelers and her father's family founded the New York Giants. Her father, Timothy Christopher Mara, is the senior vice president of player personnel for the New York Giants, and her mother, Kathleen McNulty (née Rooney), is a part-time real estate agent. She is the third of four children: she has an older brother, Daniel, an older sister, Kate, who is also an actress, and a younger brother, Conor.
Mara's father has Irish, German and French-Canadian ancestry, and her mother is of English, Irish and Italian descent. Her Rooney ancestors originated in Newry, County Down. Her paternal grandparents were Wellington Mara and Ann Mara. Wellington was the long-time co-owner of the Giants, who was succeeded in that position by his son (Rooney Mara's uncle), John Mara. Rooney Mara's maternal grandfather, Timothy James "Tim" Rooney, has run Yonkers Raceway & Empire City Casino in Yonkers, New York since 1972. Mara is the great-granddaughter of both New York Giants founder Tim Mara and Pittsburgh Steelers founder Art Rooney, Sr., as well as of Kathleen McNulty Rooney. Her granduncle, Dan Rooney, was chairman of the Steelers, the former United States Ambassador to Ireland, the co-founder of The Ireland Funds charitable organization, and the architect of American Football's Rooney Rule. U.S. Representative Tom Rooney and former Florida State Representative Patrick Rooney Jr. are her cousins.
After graduating from Fox Lane High School in 2003, Mara went to Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia in South America for four months as part of the Traveling School, an open learning environment. She attended George Washington University for a year before transferring to New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study, where she studied psychology, international social policy and nonprofits, graduating in 2010.
Mara was inspired to act by seeing musical theatre and classic movies, like "Gone with the Wind" (1939), "Rebecca" (1940), and "Bringing Up Baby" (1938), with her mother. She also wanted to be like her sister, Kate Mara, a professional actress. Mara resisted pursuing acting as a child, stating to "The Journal News" that "it never seemed that honorable to me, and I guess I was always afraid that I might fail." Her first and only role in high school was Juliet in "Romeo and Juliet", which she got after being signed up to audition by a friend. Mara acted in a few student films while at NYU, and then began her career in acting, first auditioning at the age of nineteen.
Acting career.
2005–2009: Career beginnings.
Mara first appeared as an extra in films which starred her sister, including a bit-part in the 2005 direct-to-video horror film '. She found work in television, making her professional debut in a 2006 episode of the drama ', as a girl who bullies overweight children. She guest-starred on the legal drama "Women's Murder Club" and played a drug addict in an episode of "The Cleaner". Mara made her feature film debut "Dream Boy" (2008) and guest-starred as Megan for two episodes of NBC's "ER".
In a coming-of-age film "Tanner Hall" (2009), Mara landed her first lead role, as Fernanda who has an affair with a married family friend (Tom Everett Scott). The film was the directorial debut of Tatiana von Fürstenberg and Francesca Gregorini, it debuted at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival and had a limited theatrical release in September 2011. Mara dropped her first name 'Patricia', to be known professionally by her middle name after working on the project. "I never really liked my first name," Mara stated to "Paper" magazine. "I never felt like a Tricia. And Rooney is more memorable". Her father and younger brother also go by their middle names.
In Miguel Arteta's comedy-drama film "Youth in Revolt", Mara played Taggarty who tries to sleep with fifty men before she goes to college. The film was based on C.D. Payne's 1993 cult novel of the same name. Mara had auditioned for the starring role, but was offered the smaller part when the lead went to Portia Doubleday.
Mara played Courtney in the 2009 independent film, "Dare" and in "The Winning Season" as Wendy, a high school basketball player having an affair with a middle-aged shoe salesman (Kevin Breznahan) with a similar story to "The Bad News Bears". Both films were premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and Mara was included on "Filmmaker" magazine's list of "25 New Faces of Independent Film" that year.
Mara starred in a remake of the 1984 horror film "A Nightmare on Elm Street", as the protagonist Nancy Holbrook, a high school student victimized by Freddy Krueger (Jackie Earle Haley). Mara began shooting the film in Chicago on May 5, 2009, directed by Samuel Bayer. Mara told "Filmmaker" that she felt that her Nancy was "completely different from the original" and "the loneliest girl in the world". Mara had signed on to continue her role if a sequel was made. She stated to "Vogue" that she disliked the experience of making the film so much, that it made her question if she wanted to be an actress. Mara appeared at the Hamptons International Film Festival in October 2009 as part of its Breakthrough Performers Program, where she was tutored by Sharon Stone.
2010–2016: Breakthrough and critical success.
In David Fincher's biopic drama film "The Social Network", she played Erica Albright, who breaks up with Mark Zuckerberg, the creator of Facebook.
In August 2010, Mara was cast as the lead in a film adaptation of "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo", the first of the "Millennium" book trilogy by Stieg Larsson. She played Lisbeth Salander, a brilliant but troubled computer hacker who helps journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Daniel Craig) solve a series of murders. Mara won the role over several other actresses after two and a half months of auditions and screen tests. David Fincher directed the film, with Scott Rudin producing. The other books, "The Girl Who Played with Fire", and "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest", may be adapted, depending on box office performance. Fincher initially did not picture her as the character but changed his mind when she auditioned. He convinced executives at Columbia Pictures to cast her for the part.
"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" began shooting in Sweden in September 2010. Mara did not consider the film to be a remake, but another interpretation of the novel. "I plan on giving my interpretation of the character," she stated to "Variety". Mara's long brown hair was cut short and dyed black, in a style reminiscent of 1970s punk and 1980s goth fashions. She also had her ears pierced four times, and had her brow and right nipple pierced for the role. Her nose and lip piercings were fake. She kept the nipple piercing so that it would not need to be re-pierced for a sequel. Mara's eyebrows were bleached, and she wore a temporary dragon tattoo. She began preparing for the role by starting to skateboard and kickbox, and underwent dialect and computer training. She also visited Stockholm, the setting of the novel. The film was released on December 20, 2011. Mara received universal critical acclaim and was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama for her performance. On January 24, 2012, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance.
In late 2011, Mara was considered for Kathryn Bigelow's action film "Zero Dark Thirty", but the role went to Jessica Chastain. Mara replaced Carey Mulligan, who had to drop out due to scheduling conflicts, in Spike Jonze's film, "Her" (2013) to play Catherine Klausen, the ex-wife of central character Theodore Twombley (Joaquin Phoenix).
Mara starred in Steven Soderbergh's 2013 crime-thriller film "Side Effects", replacing Blake Lively. The film also starred Jude Law, Channing Tatum, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Vinessa Shaw. She played Emily Taylor, "a woman who turns to prescription medication as a way of handling her anxiety concerning her husband's upcoming release from prison." That same year, she starred in David Lowery's 2013 independent film "Ain't Them Bodies Saints" which is described as a modern-day Bonnie and Clyde story, alongside Casey Affleck and Ben Foster. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2013 where IFC Films purchased the rights for U.S. distribution. In May 2013, she became the new face of Calvin Klein new fragrance Down Town.
In 2014, Mara served as the costume designer on her former boyfriend Charlie McDowell's acclaimed independent film "The One I Love" starring Elisabeth Moss and Mark Duplass. She is credited as Bree Daniel.
In 2015, Mara played Tiger Lily in the Joe Wright-directed fantasy film "Pan", a role for which she received a great deal of criticism; she and Wright faced accusations of "whitewashing" a role originally written for a Native American. To express their concerns, Native American activists created a hashtag #NotYourTigerlily to protest Mara's casting and thousands of Native Americans participated in a "Twitterstorm" to share memes addressing their concerns about the portrayal of Native women in film.
At the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, she tied for the Best Actress award for her role in the film "Carol". She was also nominated for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a British Academy Film Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award for her performance.
In 2016, Mara voiced "The Sisters" in the stop motion animated film "Kubo and the Two Strings". She starred alongside Ben Mendelsohn directed by Benedict Andrews in "Una" which had its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival on September 2, 2016. Mara next starred in "Lion" alongside Dev Patel and Nicole Kidman, and "The Secret Scripture", directed by Jim Sheridan.
2017–present: Continued success.
In 2017, Mara appeared in "The Discovery" directed by Charlie McDowell and "A Ghost Story", with Casey Affleck, directed by David Lowery. Both had their world premieres at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2017. Mara starred with Ryan Gosling, Natalie Portman, Cate Blanchett and Val Kilmer in Terrence Malick's "Song to Song", which was released in a limited release on March 17, 2017.
In 2018, Mara appeared in "Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot", directed by Gus Van Sant, opposite Joaquin Phoenix, Jonah Hill and Jack Black. The film had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 19, 2018. and was released on July 13, 2018, by Amazon Studios. That same year, Mara starred opposite Phoenix again in "Mary Magdalene", written by Helen Edmundson and directed by Garth Davis. The film was released in the United Kingdom on March 16, 2018, by Focus Features. This same year, she also collaborated with Joaquin Phoenix, Sia, Sadie Sink and Kat von D to narrate Chris Delforce's animal rights documentary "Dominion". For her contribution to the documentary, she was granted the 2018 Award of Excellence for Narration by Hollywood International Independent Documentary Awards. Mara will next star in "Nightmare Alley", an adaptation of the novel of the same name directed by Guillermo del Toro. She is also attached to co-produce and star as Amanda Lindhout in the screen adaptation of the memoir "A House in the Sky."
Other work.
In February 2018, it was announced Mara, Sara Schloat, and Chrys Wong had started a vegan clothing line named Hiraeth Collective, consisting of clothing, shoes, and accessories, designed by themselves. The clothing line is produced in Los Angeles, California. The clothing line was made available in select Barneys New York stores and online, beginning in August 2018.
Mara founded the charity Faces of Kibera, which aimed to provide housing, food, and medical care for orphans in Kibera, a Nairobi, Kenya slum. The charity's goal was to build an orphanage in the region, for which 6 acres of land have been purchased. The charity auctioned memorabilia from the Steelers and Giants, as well as training camp events on eBay to raise money. She visited the area as a volunteer in 2006 and was moved to help the orphans, many of whom lost parents to AIDS and HIV-related illnesses. She began the charity due to her frustration with the growing number of nonprofits that are just business opportunities. "The people who need help aren't really getting it. So I started my own", she told "Interview" magazine in 2009. Mara later found it challenging to balance her charity work and acting career. "I need to do both; I can't just do acting," she stated to "The Journal News". In January 2011, Faces of Kibera merged with Uweza Foundation which runs community-based empowerment programs in Kibera, including soccer leagues and after-school tutoring. Uweza is a Swahili word meaning opportunity, ability, and power. Mara serves as the president of the board of directors for the foundation.
Personal life.
Mara moved to Los Angeles in early 2007 and lived with her sister temporarily. Although they do not live together anymore, Mara felt that the experience brought them closer together, and as of 2010 were regularly discussing the film business and movie scripts. As of January 2012, Mara lived in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles. She includes Gena Rowlands among the actresses who inspire her, especially her performances in "A Woman Under the Influence" (1974) and "Opening Night" (1977). She is a vegan.
Since late 2016, she has been in a relationship with American actor Joaquin Phoenix, her co-star in "Her" (2013), "Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot" (2018), and "Mary Magdalene" (2018). As of September 2017, they reside in the Hollywood Hills with their two dogs, Soda and Oskar. In July 2019, it was confirmed that they are engaged. In May 2020, it was reported that Mara was expecting her first child with Phoenix. In late September 2020, it was announced that Mara had given birth to their son, named River after Phoenix's late brother River Phoenix.


Prachya Pinkaew

Prachya Pinkaew (; ; born September 2, 1962) is a Thai film director, film producer and screenwriter. His films include "" and "Tom-Yum-Goong", both martial arts films starring Tony Jaa.
Biography.
Prachya graduated from Nakhon Ratchasima Technology College in Nakhon Ratchasima Province, Thailand, in 1985, majoring in architecture. He began his career in 1990, working as an art director and later as creative director at Packshot Entertainment, an advertising firm. He directed music videos and won several Best Music Video Awards at Thailand's Golden Television Awards.
His first feature film was made in 1992 and called "The Magic Shoes". It was followed in 1995 by "Dark Side Romance", a karmic thriller-romance.
By 1998, Open Maker Head and BaaRamEwe 1999 was concentrating on producing films, including the vampire movie "Body Jumper", the action-comedy "Heaven's Seven", the horror movie "999-9999", the musical "Hoedown Showdown", the frankly sexual comedy "Sayew" and the arthouse drama "Fake".
With his own Baa-Ram-Ewe production house, his name is seen on many films produced for Sahamongkol Film International.
In 2003 he took the director's chair for "", starring Tony Jaa, which went on to become a worldwide sensation and was the highest-grossing Thai film of the year. He also directed Tony Jaa's next starring feature, "Tom-Yum-Goong".
His next projects included "Chocolate", about a young autistic female martial artist out for revenge, and "Power Kids", about four young martial artists fighting off terrorists who have taken over a hospital. "Daab Atamas" ("Sword"), starring Tony Jaa, was canceled. He produced "Ong Bak 2", with Jaa directing, released in 2008.
As the president of the Thai Film Directors Association, Prachya Pinkaew has been active during 2007 in lobbying against proposed legislation that would put into place a restrictive motion picture ratings system. The system would replace the 1930 Censorship Code, but would retain the Board of Censors' ability to cut or ban films.
After the violent crackdown on the 2010 protests, he produced an all-star music video with the message "May our happiness return" that is being shown on the Bangkok Skytrain.
In 2011 he directed the action film "Elephant White" starring Djimon Hounsou and Kevin Bacon, produced by Nu Image and Millennium Films. Filmed and set entirely in Bangkok, the film tells the story of a mercenary (Hounsou) in Thailand who is engaged by a 14-year-old girl who gives his life a new meaning. Bacon plays the mercenary's old friend who may or may not be on his side this time. The film was Pinkaew's English-language/Hollywood debut and was released in early 2011.
In 2011 he also directed the Thai-Korean co-production "The Kick" with stars from both markets. The film failed to recoup its budget.
In 2013 he directed "Tom Yum Goong 2", the sequel to his earlier martial arts film with Tony Jaa reprising his role.


Chris Duesterdiek

Christopher Robin Duesterdiek is a Canadian Production sound mixer. He is best known for his work on "The Snow Walker" (2003), "Elysium" (2013), "The Interview" (2014) and "The Revenant" (2015).
In 2016, he received an Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing nomination at the 88th Academy Awards for his work on "The Revenant".