Charles W. Bartlett

Charles William Bartlett (1 June 186016 April 1940) was an English painter and printmaker who settled in Hawaii.
Biography.
Bartlett studied metallurgy and worked in that field for several years. At age 23, he enrolled in the Royal Academy in London, where he studied painting and etching. After three years of study in London, he entered the private studio school Académie Julian in Paris, where he studied under Jules Joseph Lefebvre (1836–1911) and Gustave Boulanger (1824–1888).
In 1889, he returned to England and married Emily Tate, but shortly thereafter, his wife and infant son died in childbirth. Bartlett then traveled to Europe, spending several productive years in the Netherlands, Brittany and Venice with his friend and fellow artist Frank Brangwyn (1867–1956). Brangwyn is believed to have introduced Bartlett to Japanese prints. Bartlett produced some of his most important early works on the Continent, especially studies of peasants painted in broad areas of colour. He was invited to join the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts in France in 1897. In 1898, he returned to England and married Catherine "Kate" Main. Bartlett returned to the Continent with his second wife, and in 1908, he helped found the Société de la Peinture a l'Eau in Paris. Several Continental museums acquired his paintings at the Paris exhibitions of the Société de la Peinture a l'Eau.
Bartlett made several trips to Brittany and the Netherlands with the Dutch painter Nico Wilhelm Jungmann (1872–1935), which provided the former with material for future paintings of peasants, whose dignity derived from the simple placement of shapes.
In 1913, with financial backing from his wife's well-to-do family, the Bartletts traveled to India, Ceylon, Indonesia, China, and Japan. He arrived in Japan in 1915, where he met woodblock print publisher Watanabe Shōzaburō (1885–1962), who was a major force in early 20th-century Japanese art (shin-hanga). In 1916 Watanabe published 21 woodblocks from Bartlett's designs, including six prints of Japanese landscapes. In 1917, Bartlett and his second wife left Japan for England; however, they stopped off in Hawaii, where they remained—never returning to England. He did visit Japan in 1919, where he created sixteen shin-hanga prints for Watanabe.
Anna Rice Cooke (1853–1934), who founded the Honolulu Museum of Art, became Bartlett's advocate and patron. In 1928, Bartlett helped to found the Honolulu Printmakers along with local artists Alexander Samuel MacLeod, John Melville Kelly, and Huc-Mazelet Luquiens. Charles Bartlett died in Hawaii at the age of 79 on 16 April 1940.
Collections and exhibitions.
The Bradford Museums and Galleries (West Yorkshire, UK), the Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery (Bristol, England), the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Library of Congress (Washington, D. C.), and the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (University of Oregon) are among the public collections holding work by Charles W. Bartlett.
The Honolulu Museum of Art holds a large collection of Charles Bartlett's paintings and prints, and has held eight solo exhibitions of his work:


Wong Tsu

Wong Tsu (also known as Wong Tsoo, ; 10 August 1893 – 4 March 1965) was a Chinese aeronautical engineer who was the first aeronautical engineer at Boeing.
Life and education.
Wong was born in Beijing, Qing China. At the age of 12, he was selected as a naval cadet; at 16, he was sent to England to study naval engineering, then to the United States to study aeronautical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) during the period of great social and political upheaval in China.
Work.
Wong graduated from MIT with a degree in aeronautical engineering in 1916. He then learned to fly at the Curtiss Flying Boat School in Buffalo, New York. In May 1916, the fledgling Boeing Airplane Company hired Wong as their first trained aeronautical engineer. He helped design the company's first successful product, the Boeing Model C, more than 50 of which the U.S. Navy purchased. In light of the financial windfall brought from the Navy purchases, "from Bill Boeing onward, the company's chief executives through the decades were careful to note that without Wong Tsu's efforts, especially with the Model C, the company might not have survived the early years to become the dominant world aircraft manufacturer."
Wong brought considerable expertise in wind tunnel testing to Boeing, and advised on the design of the Boeing Aerodynamical Chamber at the University of Washington. In 1917, after around a year at Boeing, he returned to China. In 1928, he became chief secretary of the airline China National Aviation Corporation. From 1934 to 1937, he served as the chief engineer of the Central Aircraft Manufacturing Company, (CAMCO) a joint venture between China and Curtiss-Wright Corporation, Douglas Aviation, and Intercontinent Aviation.
When the Kuomintang government was defeated in the Chinese Civil War, Wong went to Taiwan where he became professor of aviation at National Cheng Kung University. He died on March 4, 1965 in Tainan at the age of 71.
During his lifetime, Wong designed more than two dozen aircraft. In 2004, Boeing unveiled a plaque and exhibit at the Museum of Flight in Seattle, Washington, honoring Wong's work as its first engineer.


Rushi Sharma

Rushi Sharma is an Indian costume designer, who works jointly with Manoshi Nath in Bollywood films. Their team has earned Filmfare Award for Best Costume Design two times : 2009 and 2013.
Career.
Rusha is a Marwari (Hindi-speaking people). She met Manoshi in 1998. She made friendship with her instantly. Later, she studied Fashion Designing from BIFT, a leading fashion institute of India. She and Manoshi together set up their company "Fools’ Paradise" in 2007. The next year, they collaborated on Dibakar Banerjee’s Khosla Ka Ghosla. They had designed for Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! the same year. It became a box-office disaster, but the duo went on to win Filmfare Award for Best Costume Design for their amazing work. There was no looking back for the team since then. She and her partner Manoshi later designed for films like Once Upon a Time in Mumbai (2010), Shanghai (2012), Talaash (2012) and Queen (2014), PK (2014), Detective Byomkesh Bakshi (2016). PK became highest grossing Bollywood film of all time with nearly 754 crore INR until 2017. The team's design of Aamir Khan, Sanjay Dutt and Anushka Sharma nationwide apllause and recognition. Sanjay Dutt wore an Angarkha in typical Rajasthani prints, the Rajasthani Pagdi and Aviators. She and Manoshi bought shirts and pantsand went to small towns like Mandawa (Rajasthan). In 2015, they received Bollywood Style Award for Best Costume Design for their design provided for Kangana Ranaut who played a Royal Indian Queen/Rani. They bought textiles from tiny gullies of Chandni Chowk, denim fabric from the popular Mohan Singh Palace, Delhi and footwear from the illustrious Balli-Maran, Delhi. In 2016, she and Manoshi were scheduled to design dresses for Dangal, the highest grossing Indian film of all time. But, co-producer Aamir Khan replaced them with Maxima Basu, the assistant director of Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire, he cited the reason as they charged very high amount of money compared to the film's budget.


Alex Seropian

Alexander Seropian (born 1969) is an American video game developer, one of the initial founders and later president of Bungie, the developer of the "Marathon", "Myth", and "Halo" video game series. Seropian became interested in computer programming in college and teamed up with fellow student Jason Jones to publish Jones's game "". The two became partners, and Bungie grew to become the best-known Apple Macintosh game developer before being bought by Microsoft in 2001.
In 2004, Seropian left Bungie and created Wideload Games, with the goal of streamlining game development. Wideload's small core development team worked with outside contractors to produce "Stubbs the Zombie" and "Hail to the Chimp". Wideload was acquired by Disney in 2009. As part of the deal Seropian became vice president of game development for Disney Interactive Studios. In 2012 he left the position to start Industrial Toys, a company focusing on mobile games.
Biography.
Early life.
Alex Seropian attended the University of Chicago, and joined the Phi Delta Theta fraternity, where he met one of his future colleagues Jason Jones. Interested in computer programming, Seropian was pursuing a mathematics degree with a concentration in computer science as the Department of Computer Science did not offer undergraduate degrees at the time. He graduated in 1991 with a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics. Before graduating, Seropian was living with his father, sleeping on his couch, and debating whether to get a job or create his own video game company. Seropian's father advised him to take a job to get experience, but the next day Seropian decided to found his own company. "My dad is a master of reverse psychology", Seropian said.
Bungie.
Seropian's first game was a self-published "Pong"-clone called "Gnop!" for Apple Macintosh. The game was free, although a few customers paid $15 for the game's source code. In 1991 he founded Bungie and published his first commercial game, "Operation Desert Storm". Seropian sold 2,500 copies of the game, assembling the game boxes and mailing them out from his bedroom. Seropian partnered with his Artificial Intelligence classmate Jason Jones to publish Jones's nearly complete ""; the game sold around 2,500 copies—it required a then-rare modem for network play—it developed a devoted following. After publishing "Minotaur", the two formed a partnership.
For the next Bungie title, 1993's "Pathways Into Darkness", Seropian hired a third team member for graphics work. The game was the first three-dimensional texture-mapped game on the Mac and the first true first-person shooter. By 1994 Bungie had grown to a staff of six and had moved into a rundown Chicago office—a converted former religious school located in front of a crack house. Their next title, "Marathon", began development as a sequel to "Pathways" but grew larger. On release it won several awards and established Bungie as the top Mac game developer.
For "", Seropian noted that the company had to incorporate new features such as surround sound and cinematics. "Halo" went on to sell more than 4 million units by 2004 and founded a media franchise encompassing sequels, books, and music. Seropian left Bungie in 2002 to spend time with his new family, but also due to frustrations with the game development process.
Wideload Games.
Seropian founded his own studio in 2004 called Wideload Games, intended to be more streamlined than most video game studios. Calling the method of game development "broken", Wideload began with a staff of 10, with the plan to outsource the lion's share of development, to stay within budget. Seropian said that the idea came from figuring out that his decade-old assumptions about how to make games did not necessarily apply to the future. Seropian turned to the film industry for cues, saying that it helped to look at an older industry that had been solving the same types of problems for a longer period than video games. The external development model allowed Wideload to focus on the creative aspect of a project and added flexibility in what types of projects the team could take on. Wideload produced two games, 2005's "Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse" and 2008's "Hail to the Chimp".
On September 8, 2009 Disney acquired Wideload. Seropian joined Disney to head its in-house game development team, Disney Interactive Studios. The sale of Wideload was not originally planned: Wideload and Disney began working on a title together, and as conversations turned to a "broader scope and vision", the two companies "discovered [they] had a lot in common," Seropian said. Seropian left Disney in February 2012. Seropian also serves as DePaul University's second "game designer in residence"; DePaul is the first liberal arts university to offer a bachelor's degree for game design.
Industrial Toys.
In 2012, Seropian founded a studio named Industrial Toys. The company plans to develop mobile games for core gamers. The first title by Industrial Toys, "Midnight Star", was announced to be a sci-fi shooter designed with touch-based mobile platforms in mind
, and debuted in February 2015. In July 2018, Industrial Toys was acquired by Electronic Arts.


The Guided Fate Paradox

 is a roguelike role-playing video game developed and published by Nippon Ichi Software for the PlayStation 3. It was released in Japan on January 24, 2013, Europe on October 28, 2013 and North America on November 5, 2013. A sequel, "The Awakened Fate Ultimatum", was released September 25, 2014 in Japan, March 17, 2015 in North America, and March 20, 2015 in Europe.
Gameplay.
The game is a randomly generated Dungeon Crawler taking place from an isometric perspective, in which the player embarks into themed dungeons, attempting to level up and ultimately beat the boss of the dungeon. Renya is also accompanied by a selectable angel, who provides support by attacking enemies, healing/buffing the player, or throwing them to different places. If the angel dies in battle, they become unavailable until the player is killed or leaves the dungeon.
The player can equip different weapons and armor, which increases in power when it is used in battle, until it "Bursts", reducing its power. Bursting an item allows it to be leveled up at the blacksmith if the player can bring it back to the base. It also gives the player a "holy icon" which the player can use to increase their innate abilities and those of their angels. If the player dies or exits the dungeon, their "total level" increases, giving boosts to the player's innate stats even though they return to level 1.
Later on, the player gains the ability to use "summon sets", sets of equipment that cannot be lost upon death, but can only be summoned for a set number of turns.
Plot.
The game takes place in the fictional multiverse established in the Disgaea series. It follows Renya Kagurazaka, a boy who wins the position of God in a mall raffle. He is immediately taken to Celestia, where he meets seven Angels who serve and guide him. Of particular import is the angel Lilliel, his "personal angel" who acts as his de facto partner in battle. He learns that his new job as God requires him to grant the wishes of people who pray to him. He does this using a machine called the "Fate Revolution Circuit", which generates dungeons in a "Copy World" that mirrors the real world. By traveling through these dungeons and fighting monsters called "Aberrations", Renya can influence fate in the real world and affect the lives of the people who make the wishes. Each chapter focuses on a different wisher whose wish Renya must grant.
The wishes start out as unusual and comical, for example, Cinderella expressing her discontent with the happy ending associated with her fairy tale. Ultimately, Renya's task takes a darker turn, as the angels reveal that the use of the Fate Revolution Circuit is merely a training device to allow him to gain power for his true task, stopping the incredibly powerful demon known as Satanael who will destroy Celestia if left unchecked. His title of "God" is not entirely correct, as there were many "Gods" who came before him and were killed by Satanael. Renya also begins to fall in love with Lilliel, with whom he formerly had a more platonic relationship.
Ultimately, Satanael's subordinates, Varael and Frunetti, infiltrate the machine and fight against Renya while he is in the process of granting wishes. However, Renya defeats them. Renya also encounters an even more powerful being known as the Creator, who tells him that he created demons, also known as "black wings", with angels, or "white wings", merely being a mutation of them. Satanael, also known as "Triple Six", was his strongest creation, one that became even stronger than the Creator himself. This breaks Lilliel's resolve, but she is able to continue helping Renya after some soul-searching. Renya makes the Creator promise to seal away his creation abilities if he can defeat Satanael.
Upon gaining sufficient power, Renya travels to the Netherworld with Lilliel, having placed the Fate Revolution Circuit into himself rather than the other way around. While he is fighting, Mysiel, the angel who created the Fate Revolution Circuit and uploaded herself into the machine, erases most of his memories to increase his power levels. Ultimately, Renya is able to fight and defeat Satanael, but the "overclocking" causes him to perish. Lilliel sacrifices her angel powers in order to bring him back to life, although the Creator remarks that he could have easily saved Renya even if Lilliel did not. Renya and Lilliel settle down on Earth to live a normal human life, with both of them having lost all their special powers.
Development.
The game was originally revealed in Japan on July 11, 2012 as a 20th anniversary commemorative for Nippon Ichi Software. It was also developed largely by the same team behind the "Disgaea" series, while Noizi Ito worked as the game's character designer and Yōsei Teikoku composed the music. The game also has "Love Live! School Idol Project" idol group μ's as voice actresses for the main female characters, and they are credited under their character name.
Reception.
Bradly Hale of Hardcore Gamer gave the game a 4/5, saying "The Guided Fate Paradox is a niche game, but that shouldn’t scare off anyone who has a taste for Japanese RPGs. Its story does a balancing act of providing lighthearted fun and philosophical poignancy, while its gameplay is perhaps one of the deepest endeavors on the PS3 right now."


Chloe Lukasiak

Chloé Elizabeth Lukasiak (born May 25, 2001) is an American actress, dancer, author, model, producer, and reality television personality. She is best known for being an original cast member of Lifetime's reality television series "Dance Moms" during Season 1 through Season 4. She returned as a guest during the Season 7A finale and had a recurring role in Season 7B.
Early life.
Lukasiak was born on May 25, 2001 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Christi (née Zook) and Marc Lukasiak. She is the older sister of Clara Lukasiak. The family resides in Mars, Pennsylvania. She is of Polish, Scottish, German, and Italian descent.
Lukasiak began dance classes at the Abby Lee Dance Company at age two. At first, she did "the basics" such as jazz and ballet. But as she got older she started to do more styles and has trained in everything except ballroom. From the ages of five to thirteen, Lukasiak competed throughout the United States as part of ALDC, winning numerous titles at the regional, state, and national levels. Lukasiak competed on "Dance Moms" in many dance genres: lyrical, contemporary,musical theatre, ballet, jazz, hip-hop, acro, Spanish, and Bollywood.
Career.
2011–14: "Dance Moms".
In 2011, Lukasiak and her mother, alongside Abby Lee Dance Company owner Abby Lee Miller, other young dancers, and their mothers, were cast on Lifetime's "Dance Moms". Together they made up Miller's Junior Elite Competition Team.
After the Los Angeles national competition in July 2014 (filmed for an episode aired October 7, 2014), Lukasiak's mother decided that the environment of the TV show along with her own negative relationship with Miller was detrimental to her daughter and they decided to leave ALDC. The finale episode of Season 4 was their last appearance on "Dance Moms" because of Miller being unappreciative about the fact that Chloe was the highest scoring ALDC soloist at Nationals, beating Kendall and Kamryn. After the end of Season 4, Lukasiak left ALDC for good and switched to Studio 19 Dance Complex.
2014–present: Post-"Dance Moms" career.
After leaving "Dance Moms", Lukasiak became active on her YouTube channel, gaining over 260 million views and over 2.22 million subscribers as of March 2021. On September 17, 2016, Lukasiak started a vlogging YouTube channel, which garnered over 50k subscribers and 300k views; Lukasiak has not posted on the channel since September 2017.
Lukasiak's competition team from Studio 19 went on to win nationals in July 2015. She won "Choice Dancer" at the 2015 Teen Choice Awards and the "Dancers Choice Award" for "Favorite Dancer 17 & Under" at the 2015 Industry Dance Awards. She was nominated for a Shorty Award but lost to Misty Copeland. She was once again nominated for the 2016 & 2017 Teen Choice Awards "Choice Dancer" but lost to former "Dance Moms" cast member Maddie Ziegler.
Lukasiak became a spokesmodel for Just For Kix, an American dancewear company, in October 2014. With the company's partnership, she created an anti-bullying campaign called #NobodyisYOU. She was featured in several music videos relating to the cause alongside dancers such as Averee Jade.
Lukasiak has appeared in numerous music videos, as during the filming of Dance Moms she appeared in videos for artists Brooke Hyland and LUX (daughter of actor Ted Danson). In 2015, she appeared as the lead for Jess Godwin's song "Fool Me Once". Solveig Romero's "Turn It Up" and Bianca Ryan's "Alice", as well as "Wrapped Up For Christmas" by Forever in Your Mind and a promotional dance video for Just For Kix dancewear (titled "Lovely"). In 2016, Lukasiak appeared in AJ Lehrman's music video for his new single "Tongue" and an Ali J video for "Piece By Piece," which was featured on CNN. Lukasiak also recently appeared in a music video in 2019 for Barbie called "We're Taking Over."
Lukasiak began modeling for such fashion lines as Glitzy Girl and Sally Miller in 2012. After leaving "Dance Moms", she modeled for 90 Degrees by Reflex, Goodhyouman, Boy Meets Girl, and BCBG Max Azria (runway). In 2016, Lukasiak became the new face of StyleHaul. Lukasiak has modeled for many different photographers some of which are Jordan Matter, Lucy Helena and Ashley Roberts. Lukasiak has also modeled for many magazines including "Nationalist Magazine" (x3), "Inside Dance Magazine", "LVLten Magazine", "LowCountry Parent Magazine", "Cliche Magazine", "NKD Magazine" (x2), "Pulse Spikes Magazine" (x2), "YSBNow Magazine", "Afterglow Magazine", "Popstar Magazine" (x2), "Girls' Life Magazine", "Prune Magazine" and "A Book Of Magazine".
Lukasiak was cast as Gwen Murphy in the Lifetime TV movie "Center Stage: On Pointe". She was later cast as Savannah Stocker in "Cowgirl's Story" alongside former "Bridge to Terabithia" star Bailee Madison. Chloe has since been cast in 4 movies, two short films and a character for a story called Limelight in an Interactive app called YarnTexts. In 2016, Lukasiak partnered with Ownzones.com to launch her web series called "Chloe on Pointe". In 2016, Lukasiak collaborated with Playtex Sport and starred in their "Ready, Set, Play On!" campaign commercial.
On January 27, 2017, Chloe Lukasiak announced that she would return to guest star on "Dance Moms" for the Season 7 finale and Season 7B, first joining Murrieta Dance Project, but then left to form The Irreplaceables with Nia Sioux, Kendall Vertes, Kalani Hilliker, and Camryn Bridges. On April 11, 2017 Lukasiak announced that her book "Girl on Pointe: Chloe's Guide to Taking On The World" was released on January 23, 2018. Lukasiak signed with LifeTime in April 2017 to star in her own web series called "Chloe Does It".
In December 2017, Lukasiak began touring with Kalani Hilliker and Kendall Vertes on The Irreplaceables Tour.
On July 25, 2018, Lukasiak was signed to the Abrams Artist Agency and talent management firm Brillstein Entertainment Partners. In 2019, Lukasiak was then signed with United Talent Agency and the PR company, Coeur Communications.
On April 22nd, 2021, Lukasiak appeared in the Earth Day short, Earth Day! The Musical, with Bill Nye, Justin Bieber, Zac Efron and other celebrities on Facebook Watch.
Personal life.
In an interview, Lukasiak said she practices dancing four days a week except when she is traveling. She stopped competing in dance competitions in 2016 due to her growing list of commitments.
Outside of dance, Lukasiak makes time for friends including her former ALDC teammates Paige Hyland, Nia Frazier, and Brooke Hyland.
In an interview released on June 15, 2016, Lukasiak said she was grateful to "Dance Moms" because it showed her how much she loves acting and that she has a passion for it. In 2015, Lukasiak was diagnosed with silent sinus syndrome, and had surgery to correct the condition. In 2018, Lukasiak teamed up with Girls' Life to launch Chloe's Book Club. However, in 2020, the partnership was discontinued and the book club became Bestie Book Club. In 2019, Lukasiak was accepted into Pepperdine University where she is studying integrated marketing with a creative writing minor, and is on track to graduate in 2023.
In April 2020, Lukasiak revealed that she had been battling an eating disorder for the past few years by posting a poem that she had written about it on her Instagram account.
In February 2021, Lukasiak started back up her book club ran completely by her instead of a partnership.
Writing career.
During her second year of high school Lukasiak took a creative writing class. After that she began writing short stories and poems and decided to pursue a career in writing. Lukasiak signed with Bloomsbury Publishing in 2017 and the next year released her debut book "Girl on Pointe: Chloe's Guide to Taking On The World". Lukasiak also wrote, prepared and gave a speech at the 2017 UN International Day of Peace at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City, New York. In May 2020, Lukasiak created an Instagram account dedicated to sharing things that she has written with her fans.
Fashion career.
In 2017, Lukasiak began working on a fashion line in collaboration with Dazzine. That same year, after Dazzine unexpectedly folded, she curated the Rocking Ballerina shoe/fashion line with JustFab. and a Christmas fashion line through the same company. In 2018, Lukasiak became an ambassador for JustFab and released videos featuring her monthly shoe picks from the brand.


Steven Cordovano

Steven Cordovano is a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games.
Career.
In 1982, Stephan Michael Sechi, Steven Cordovano and Venie Taylor each put in $600 and formed the company Bard Games to produce their own "Dungeons & Dragons" supplements. Sechi and Cordovano's "The Compleat Alchemist" (1983) was the company's first product and presented a new character class: a magic-item maker. Due to personal and financial disagreements that arose in the wake of his completion of "The Atlantis Trilogy", Sechi sold his shares in Bard Games to Cordovano and left. Cordovano decided that he did not want to run Bard Games and solid it back to Sechi a few months later.


Kari Stai

Kari Stai (born 1974) is a Norwegian illustrator, graphic designer and children's writer. In 2012, she was awarded the Brage Prize for children's literature with her "Jakob og Neikob. Tjuven slår tilbake".


Jacques Rouxel (production designer)

Jacques Rouxel is a French production designer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film "Cyrano de Bergerac".


Perissone Cambio

Perissone Cambio (c.1520 – c.1562) was a Franco-Flemish composer and singer of the Renaissance, active in Venice. He was one of the most prominent students and colleagues of Adrian Willaert during the formative years of the Venetian School, and published several books of madrigals in the 1540s.
Life.
Nothing is known about his early life except that he was either from Flanders or the immediately adjacent French-speaking areas. Two competing mentions of his origin exist in the historical record, one naming him as French and one as Flemish, with the Flemish mention coming from the Venetian Senate; the latter is considered more reliable. By the early 1540s he had come from his homeland to Venice, probably to study with Willaert, who was renowned as a teacher. This was near the end of the period during which musicians who received their early training in the Netherlands and adjacent areas left their homelands, going to Italy and other locations where demand for composers and singers was greatest. Perissone became one of Willaert's students, and part of a close group which included Girolamo Parabosco, Baldassare Donato, Jacques Buus, Jacques Du Pont, and Cipriano de Rore; in addition he acquired a reputation as an excellent singer, most likely of high vocal parts.
During the late 1540s he was the most prolific composer of the group around Willaert, publishing a total of four separate collections of secular music. In 1548 he finally became a member of the chapel of San Marco di Venezia, on an unpaid basis, which was an extraordinary event; presumably this occurred because his singing was highly desired, but there were no formal job openings. The doge of Venice, Francesco Donà, intervened on his behalf and made him a paid member of the chapel shortly thereafter.
While Perissone's last solo publication was in 1550, he continued as a singer at San Marco and presumably a composer throughout the decade. He also sang in the Compagnia di San Marco, a group of musicians associated with San Marco who performed in other locations in Venice. In 1557 he joined the brotherhood of the Scuola di San Marco. Nothing specific is known about his further career, and he is believed to have died around 1562; after his death, poet Domenico Veniero wrote a sonnet indicating that he had died young, but the date is not known.
Music and influence.
Perissone was one of the followers of Willaert in the early time of development of the Italian madrigal, the period referred to by Alfred Einstein as the "madrigal's age of innocence". Even though he was a personal friend, he was not significantly influenced by fellow Willaert student Cipriano de Rore, the principal figure in madrigal composition in the 1550s, and whose style marked an extraordinary increase in expressive intensity of the secular vocal form.
In all, Perissone published four books of secular music by himself: a book of villanellas for four voices in 1545, a book of madrigals for four voices in 1547, and two books of madrigals for five voices, in 1545 and 1550. Some other individual madrigals appear in collections by others, particularly Cipriano de Rore, and Perissone wrote a dedicatory letter for one of Rore's books, but only in the alto part-book (Perissone was probably an alto). If he wrote any sacred music aside from a single five-voice motet setting of "Ad Te, Domine" (1549), it has not survived. While most of the composers who worked at San Marco in the 16th century left a substantial body of sacred music, Perissone was one of the few who did not.
Perissone was a versatile stylist, and wrote both light and serious madrigals, with a texture varying from the smooth polyphony of the Netherlanders to bright, largely chordal textures. Sometimes he anticipated harmonic developments of the 17th century, such as when he used the bass voice as a harmonic support rather than as an equal participant in the motivic interplay of a composition. He was also fond of false relations, as in his setting of Gottifredi's "Deh, perchè com'è il vostro al nome mio", a madrigal which also contains deliberately mis-accented text setting, a characteristic which distinguishes him from his teacher Willaert, who was more inclined to follow Pietro Bembo's strict advice on text setting.


Speed Freak

Speed Freak is a monochrome vector arcade game created by Vectorbeam in 1979. Along with Atari, Inc.'s "Night Driver" and Bally Midway's "Datsun 280 ZZZAP"–both from 1976–it is one of the earliest first-person driving games and the first such game known to use vector graphics.
Gameplay.
The game is a behind-the-wheel driving simulation where the driver speeds down a winding computer generated road past other cars, hitchhikers, trees, cows and cacti. Occasionally a plane will fly overhead towards the screen. One must avoid crashing into these objects and complete the race in the allotted time. The player can crash as many times as he wants before the time runs out and players were treated to two different crash animations. The first was a simple cracked windshield effect, the second was a crash where the car explodes into car parts that fly through the air.


John Bryan (art director)

Eric John Bryan Pratt (12 August 1911 – 10 June 1969), known professionally as John Bryan, was a British art director and film producer.
John Bryan was born in Kensington, London, England. He won the Oscar for Best Art Direction for the film "Great Expectations" in 1948. He was nominated twice more, for "Caesar and Cleopatra" in 1947 and for "Becket" in 1965. Bryan also won a BAFTA for "Becket".
In 1959, he was a member of the jury at the 9th Berlin International Film Festival.
He died from cancer at a hospital in Thames Ditton, Surrey, on 10 June 1969.


Noritsu

 is a holding company and former photo processing machine manufacturer based in Tokyo, Japan. In Japan it also makes and sells other products such as brush pen tips through its subsidiaries. It is the owner of AlphaTheta Corporation which owns the Pioneer DJ brand. It should not be confused with Noritsu Precision, a former division of Noritsu Koki that manufactured its minilabs, was sold off and is now an independent company. Noritsu America Corporation is a division of Noritsu Precision that is also in the medical equipment business.
Products.
The company began in 1951 as a manufacturer of photo processing equipment. The first minilab, the QSS-1 (Quick Service System 1) was introduced by Noritsu in 1976. In 1979 Noritsu released the QSS-2, which for the first time allowed for photo processing, from film development to color printing in just 45 minutes. In 2002 Noritsu introduced the first dry minilab, using Epson's seven color inkjet piezoelectric printing head. It was significantly cheaper than its
"wet" silver halide counterparts.
Noritsu printer-paper processors (called minilabs) are typically designated a model number beginning with "QSS" followed by a number which increases with each new model. As of August, 2019, the newest Noritsu minilab are the wet silver halide QSS 39 series, introduced in 2018. Noritsu film processors for both C-41 negative and E-6 slide films are typically designated QSF, followed by a letter/number combination. Noritsu made the QSF series of minilab film processors (small film development machines).
Noritsu does not produce consumer photographic products such as film, photographic paper, and chemicals. Because of this, Noritsu works with Eastman Kodak, which produces film, photographic paper and chemicals, but not photofinishing equipment. Some Noritsu models have been re-branded and sold by Kodak as their own equipment. More recently, Noritsu has sold their digital minilabs under their own name, but with Kodak's software (called DLS for Digital Lab System) providing image processing and a user interface, rather than Noritsu's own software. Noritsu sold and supported Kodak's "Picture Maker" kiosks when they were first introduced in the mid-1990s. Noritsu equipment works with different brands paper and chemicals including Kodak, Fujifilm, and Trebla.
Noritsu printer-paper processors are designed for color photographic prints but can be modified to print black and white.
Although Noritsu has typically produced minilabs that utilize traditional silver halide papers and photographic exposure systems, inkjet printing systems in partnership with Epson have been added to the product line since 2003. Noritsu refers to them as "digital dry printers".
In March 2006, Noritsu and Fuji announced a strategic alliance for Noritsu to manufactures all of Fuji's photofinishing hardware. Each company produces its own software.
In 2009, the wide adoption of digital cameras and thus a reduced need for photo processing machines, prompted Noritsu to reorganize into a holding company. 2015, it purchased JLab Audio. In 2016, it sold off its imaging business which manufactured minilabs and is now called Noritsu Precision. Because of this, Noritsu Koki moved its headquarters to Tokyo from Wakayama Prefecture, Japan the year before. Noritsu Precision still uses Noritsu Koki's logo, manufactures minilab printers and is headquartered in Wakayama.
In April 2020, Noritsu bought AlphaTheta Corporation, owner of Pioneer DJ.
North American subsidiary.
Noritsu America Corporation is the North American company that sells, distributes and repairs photo-processing machines designed and manufactured by Noritsu Koki. Founded in 1978, the American company has a dedicated sales, technical-support, and field-support staff based in Buena Park, California and supports operations across the U.S. and Canada.
Since 2010, Noritsu America has been expanding its product and service offerings to include new, non-photo businesses, including technical service, Pharmacy Automation, and Medical Imaging. In 2016 it was transferred to and sold together with Noritsu Precision.
Noritsu America Divisions.
Noritsu America currently supports four divisions servicing various markets in both the U.S. and Canada.
Noritsu Photo and Commercial Printer supports the sales and service of photo processing systems, both traditional silver halide and inkjet.
Noritsu Technical Service handles on-site support for Noritsu systems as well as support for a variety of other manufacturers equipment in the ophthalmic and x-ray fields.
Noritsu Pharmacy Automation carries an array of pharmacy automation robots, specializing in strip pouch packaging and medication detection systems for use in off-site pharmacies.
Noritsu Medical Imaging provide sales and service of x-ray and medical imaging equipment for both doctor and veterinary use.


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Dan Hornsby

Isaac Daniel Hornsby (1 February 1900 – 18 May 1951) was an American singer songwriter, musician, recording artist, producer and arranger, studio engineer, band leader & band member. Discovered talent as A&R man with Columbia Records, and radio personality.
Before career.
His father Joseph Todd Hornsby was a contractor and a part-time Baptist minister.
Dan Hornsby was born in Atlanta and later he was very proud of his first born son, Joseph Thomas, who attended North Georgia College. Earlier Dan at the age of 19 Dan worked as a painter with the W.E. Browne Decorating Co. in Columbus, Georgia when he met Louise Wise of Little Rock, Arkansas. She sang and danced in a road show and they met at the hotel, which Hornsby was painting. They married and had five children.
His oldest son, Joseph T., was a former US Marine pilot who married, Dorothea also a US Marine at Cherry Point Military Base in North Carolina. Joe then retired from military as a captain to work the rest of his life for the FAA Federal Aviation Administration US Federal government. They had children and a daughter Nikki Hornsby, who also became a full-time artist - singer, songwriter, musician, producer, arranger, and founder of CJP-NHRecords.
Beginning of career.
After the marriage Louise quit the stage, but Dan drifted towards show business although he did not have any formal musical training. However, he enjoyed playing trumpet, piano, and singing with various dance bands in Atlanta in the 1920s. Hornsby formed his basic group Dan Hornsby Quartet: Perry Bechtel (banjo, guitar and bariton), Taylor Flanagan (piano and high tenor), Sterling Melvin (guitar and bass guitar) and Dan Hornsby (lead singer and arranger).
The Atlanta Baking Company asked Hornsby to do a show on WSM Radio in Atlanta, Georgia. The group name was changed to Bamby Baker Boys and Hornsby became the first commercial performer of the WSB radio station, which started airing in 1922. His pleasant disposition and sense of humor earned him a nickname "Cheerful Dan" "the man with the two octave voice". He discovered a great deal of American music talent like Bessie Smith and many others of that time for Columbia. He was an engineer as well as producer of recorded music in Atlanta for Columbia Records being a popular singer songwriter and musician.
Main career.
Hornsby's performance on radio was noticed by Columbia Records - the oldest record company. His main role was a sort of talent scout, but he had many roles at Columbia Records during the 1920s and early 1930s, including production of his own recordings like "On Mobile Bay" and "I Want A Girl" “Take Me Out To The Ballgame” or with Young Brothers Tennessee Band: "Are you from Dixie" and "Won't_You_Come_Home_Bill_Bailey, Bill Bailey, won't you please come home", "Oh! Susanna", "Little Brown Jug", and other classic American songs including a few original folk songs he wrote & sang for Columbia. For example, Dan Hornsby was the first recorded voice of the "Arkansas Traveler" and was the producer of the first recording of "You Are My Sunshine". His vocal style was pop to Americana novelty.
Hornsby worked with Gid Tanner and his group Skillet Lickers. Hornsby appeared usually in the role of city slicker, judge or sheriff, and he used the nickname Tom Dorsey.
On 28 August 1928 a building collapsed in Shelby, North Carolina killing six people and injuring twice as many. Hornsby composed a song title "Shelby Disaster":
During the Great Depression this Hornsby song sold over 9,000 copies for Columbia Records. Together with Clayton McMichen Hornsby also wrote "History in a few words" published in 1931 by Shapiro, Bernstein & Co.
In 1931 he recruited Alton and Rabon Delmore (later known as Delmore Brothers) for Columbia Records.
Changes.
The Great Depression also affected the phonographic industry and Hornsby lost his job with Columbia Records despite selling over 9000 recordings of "The Shelby Disaster". He then went back to radio and worked with several stations including WGST, where his roles included announcer, continuity man and even a comic in programs like "Down to Unkle Zeke's".
For Bluebird Records, he sang with the big band of former Quartet guitarist Perry Bechtel, and he played Uncle Ned in a series of children's bedtime stories such as "Humpty Dumpty", "Wynkyn, Blynky and Nod".
In 1939 he appeared in the first television broadcast in Atlanta. Later he joined RCA Victor Records and then moved to other stations like WATL and WCON.
In 1986 Dan Hornsby was included into the Atlanta Country Music Hall of Fame, joining the names of some of his friends and associates: Gid Tanner, Clayton McMichen and Riley Puckett.
In 2013 Dan Hornsby was given a display in the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles, CA, for the year-long Columbia Records 360 Sound event where his grand daughter, Nikki Hornsby, was invited for a private viewing with CJP-NHRecords staff.
Bands.
During his career Hornsby both created or joined many music bands:


Gary L. Thomas (game designer)

Gary L. Thomas is a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games.
Career.
Editors Gary Thomas and Joe D. Fugate Sr. founded Digest Group Publications (DGP) in 1986 as a business that they ran part-time while working at other jobs. Fugate's work in "The Traveller's Digest" publication got the attention of Marc Miller at Game Designers' Workshop, who invited Fugate and Thomas to expand and revise the material for GDW; the result was "Book 8: Robots" (1986), which would be the start of a working relationship between the two companies that lasted several years. Thomas wrote the first-ever "MegaTraveller" scenario, "Lion at Bay", which first appeared in issue #9 of "The Traveller's Digest". Thomas later did some work for TSR, the last of which was in 1989-1991.
His "D&D" design work includes "The Book of Lairs II" (1987), "Monstrous Compendium Volume 1" (1989), "Monstrous Compendium Volume 2" (1989), "Monstrous Compendium Forgotten Realms Appendix" (1989), and "The Shadow Elves" (1990).


Sunset (video game)

Sunset is an indie first person game by Belgian studio Tale of Tales. It was released on May 21, 2015. In "Sunset", Angela, an African-American housekeeper, is working for Gabriel Ortega in the fictional country of Anchuria, which she is visiting.
Gameplay.
"Sunset" is played from a first person perspective. Angela Burnes, an American citizen who is visiting the fictional country of Anchuria, has to perform numerous housekeeping tasks an hour before sunset. As she performs her tasks, the player finds out more about the Civil War and the dictator that currently leads Anchuria. As time goes by, changes occur both within the house and in the city which Angela can see through the windows.
Development.
"Sunset" was announced by Tale of Tales in a March 2014 press release. The press release detailed the developers' collaborators, Austin Wintory would be providing the soundtrack, and Leigh Alexander and Ste Curran would act as consultants.
The ideas behind "Sunset" had been developing at Tale of Tales for many years prior to its announcement. Tale of Tales describe "The Apartment", a 2005 game prototype released as part of the developers 10 year anniversary bundle as "an early related sketch". "Sunset" was originally envisaged as a romance between the player character and the apartment's inhabitant. During the game's development, Tales refocused the game to explore how everyday life continues against the backdrop of war. Though war may not be as immediate to the player as it is in "Sunset", Tale of Tales state that "we are all living our lives while in the background a war is going on", ""Sunset" is about all of our lives, the lives we all lead: in our peaceful apartments while the world is burning outside."
The game was part funded by the Flanders Audiovisual Fund, and further funding came from a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign which began in June 2014, it achieved its $25,000 goal and raised $67,636 in July 2014
The increased Kickstarter funding allowed Tale of Tales to expand on the player character, Angela Burnes' presence within the game through additional art, animation and narrative.
Burnes was inspired by Angela Davis, Pam Grier, and Nina Simone. Tale of Tale's Aureia Harvey's experience as an American expatriate informed Burnes' character. The choice of the 1970s setting drew from Tale of Tales' belief that the period represented a shift, a time worth exploring when "Western culture morphed from an authoritarian civilization based on rules of decency and formal traditions to an egalitarian society that celebrates individual freedom above all". Tale of Tales spoke of recapturing a spirit of innocence, where belief in social change through popular revolution was still alive.
The apartment in which the game is set is based upon a design for the "ideal bachelor pad" from a 1970 issue of "Playboy"; its contents were inspired the contents of Yves Saint Laurent's Paris apartment. The game's central story, told through the interaction of a cleaner and the apartment inhabitant was partly inspired by the film "Chungking Express".
"Sunset" was released worldwide on May 21, 2015, for Microsoft Windows, OS X, and Linux.
Reception.
The game received a score of 65/100 on reviews aggregation website Metacritic based on 33 reviews, indicating a mixed response. Michael Thomsen of "The Washington Post" wrote, ""Sunset" creates a beautiful and sometimes-unnervingly artificial platform for the alienating role-play bound up in employer-employee relationships, staged against a backdrop of historical revolution that threatens to spoil it."
"Edge" awarded the game a score of 9/10, describing it as "an enormously affecting examination of the impact of war. Not on soldiers or politicians, but on everyone else - those who can only watch from the sidelines."
Joe Donnelly of "Digital Spy" rated it 4/5 stars and wrote, "It's a unique take on the war-based theme, and will evoke your inner voyeur, dazzling in its moments of exposition as well as its suggestive junctures." IGN awarded it a score of 8.0 out of 10, saying, "Taken slowly, Sunset is a beautiful, fascinating experience." Taylor Wilde of "PC Gamer" rated it 68/100 and wrote, ""Sunset"s themes, setting, and plot are plenty interesting, but the player's interaction with them feels incongruous." Writing for "Game Informer", Kimberley Wallace rated it 5.75/10 and said, "The story is fascinating, but the gameplay quickly becomes humdrum and the technical problems are extremely frustrating".
Tale of Tales characterized "Sunset" as a commercial failure, as it sold 4,000 copies in its first month of release, half of which were reserved for Kickstarter backers. Following this failure, Tale of Tales announced that they would no longer pursue commercial video game projects.


Shanghai Theatre Academy

Shanghai Theatre Academy () is a public university in Shanghai, People's Republic of China dedicated to dramatic art education. Its predecessor was Shanghai Municipal Experimental Theatre School cofounded by the famous educator Gu Yuxiu (). Its alumni include actresses Pan Hong, Li Bingbing, Xing Fei,Fan Bingbing, Dilraba Dilmurat and Zhang Yuqi, and actors Tong Dawei and Lu Yi.
Famous alumni.
Class year indicates the entrance year, not graduating year.


Tom Maibaum

Thomas Stephen Edward Maibaum Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) (born 18 August 1947 in Hungary) is a computer scientist.
Maibaum has a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) undergraduate degree in pure mathematics from the University of Toronto, Canada (1970), and a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in computer science from Queen Mary and Royal Holloway Colleges, University of London, England (1974).
Maibaum has held academic posts at Imperial College, London, King's College London (UK) and McMaster University (Canada). His research interests have concentrated on the theory of specification, together with its application in different contexts, in the general area of software engineering.
From 1996 to 2005, he was involved with developing international standards in programming and informatics, as a member of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) IFIP Working Group 2.1 on Algorithmic Languages and Calculi, which specified, maintains, and supports the programming languages ALGOL 60 and ALGOL 68.
He is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology and the Royal Society of Arts.


Ravi Deep

Ravi Deep (born Ravi Parkash; 30 December 1954) is an Indian theatre and television director, writer, and actor
Biography.
Ravi Deep started stage acting from his school days and got involved in modern theatre during college days at Kapurthala, a town in India. He along with Lalit Behl, Pramod Moutho, Satish Sharma and Harjit Walia made this small town a hub of modern theatre. He did his Masters in Dramatic Art from Punjabi University, Patiala in 1977. He did freelancing as theatre actor, director and writer. He wrote and directed short plays 'Rang Nagari' (The City of Colors), 'Kheench Rahe Hain' (Pulling On), 'Kaun Nachaye Nach?' (Who Makes Us Dance?), 'Satya Katha' (The True Story) and 'Mukti Bahini' (The Liberation Force). These plays won inter varsity contests for 4 consecutive years (1978–81). 'Rangmanch Ke Teen Rang' an anthology of his first three plays was published in March 1982. His plays are still being staged every year, mainly at University Contests. He also wrote & directed few children plays like 'Bagula Bhagat' and 'Bahurupiya'. His anthology of stories 'Bilav' was published in 2014.
Ravi Deep joined Doordarshan, the Public Service Broadcasting Organisation of India in April 1983 and shifted to programme production, writing and direction for television. He produced and directed TV Serials 'Buniad', 'Lafafi' and 'Parchhaven' besides a number of teleplays, telefilms, documentaries, and TV programmes. He won Doordarshan Award in 2008 in the Literary Adoption Category. He has four more nominations to his credit. He did Masters in Political Science (1980) and M Phil (1992). He has been the Programme Director of ABU Robocon India from 2007 to 2014.
Research Work.
Politics & Theatre in Punjab (Thesis for M Phil)


Anna Jewsbury

Anna Jewsbury is a British fashion designer and artistic director of London-based jewellery brand, Completedworks
Personal life.
Jewsbury grew up in the Pennines, UK and now lives and works in London. She is married to author and development expert Hassan Damluji with whom she has a son.
Education.
Jewsbury attended the same school as sculptor Barbara Hepworth, cited as an influence on her work. She went on to study Mathematics and Philosophy at the University of Oxford.
Work.
Jewsbury founded her brand Completedworks in 2013 and was invited in 2015 to design a piece for Christie's first contemporary jewellery sale as well as being one of 10 jewellery brands chosen by Stephen Webster to win British Fashion Council Rock Vault sponsorship the same year. She works from ethical materials such as recycled silver, fairtrade gold and reclaimed marble showing collections at London and Paris Fashion Weeks.


Kyle Cooper

Kyle Cooper (Born July 13, 1962) is an American designer known for his work creating title sequences for motion pictures. He has produced and directed over 350 visual effects sequences and main title sequences across a broad array of film and various broadcast mediums.
Early life and education.
Childhood.
Cooper was born on a Friday the 13th in Salem, Massachusetts. As a child, Cooper spent his days obsessed with sketching monsters. He was also fascinated by comic books, monster makeup books, and horror movies. Cooper stated in an interview with Revert to Saved that he had always wanted to be a film director, “I’ve always been interested in film and editing—more specifically, the juxtaposition of images in film or on a single page. However, I felt it more comprehensive to tell stories over time. Print design can provide great single moments, but I wanted to work with a sequence that had a beginning, middle and end".
Education.
When it came time for Cooper to go to college, he attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst, studying interior architecture. While on the brink of failing, he convinced his professor to let him pass by making a promise -- that he would never actually work as an interior designer.
Cooper then went on to earn his Master of Fine Arts in graphic design at Yale University in 1988. He studied independently with renowned American modernist Paul Rand during his time there. Cooper wrote his thesis on director Sergei Eisenstein, and was awarded the Mohawk Paper Traveling Fellowship to complete his thesis research in the then Soviet Union.
Career.
Early work.
After graduating with his M.F.A. from the Yale School of Art, Cooper went on to work at R/GA (then known as R/Greenberg Associates) from 1988 to 1996, first in New York City and then Los Angeles. During this period, Cooper created the title sequence for the 1995 American crime film Seven (1995 film), a seminal work which received critical acclaim and is credited for inspiring a number of younger designers for years to come. According to Cooper, at the time he made the title sequence for Seven, main title sequences were behind what was happening in print, music videos, and commercials. Cooper has stated he aimed to create main titles that would raise the bar creatively for future title sequences.
Founded companies.
In 1996, Cooper founded Imaginary Forces with Peter Frankfurt and Chip Houghton. Imaginary Forces went on to become one of the most successful creative agencies in Hollywood that came out of the West Coast division of R/GA. “We have spent a long time building and refining a brilliant creative and production team… Keeping this group together as our own company is truly exciting,” commented Cooper about the name change. Too involved by the business side of running a design company the size of Imaginary Forces, Cooper decided it was time for him to focus more on his creative work. In 2003, Cooper left imaginary forces and founded Prologue, a creative agency in which he works in a small team while concentrating on creating title sequences.
Influences.
Cooper has claimed his greatest influence in his choice of profession is Stephen Frankfurt’s opening title sequence for To Kill a Mockingbird (film). Cooper also pulls inspiration from William Shakespeare – his former production company, Imaginary Forces, takes its name from a line in the prologue of Shakespeare's Henry V (play). The idea to name the company after this prologue is based on the idea that opening titles often act like a prologue to a film. This of course can also be seen as an influence for his current company, “Prologue”. All that said, Wired (magazine) notes Cooper isn’t typically hired due to a signature “style”. He’s hired to "dig under the celluloid and tap into the symbolism of a film". This was a precedent he started with some of his earliest work, notably Seven (1995 film).
Awards and acclaim.
Details magazine credits Cooper with “almost single-handedly revitalizing the main title sequence as an art form”. Los Angeles magazine calls him the “Da Vinci of main titles”. He is “one of the top 50 biggest and best creative thinkers from the last 20 years of advertising and consumer culture,” according to Creativity magazine. Wired magazine states, “Not since Saul Bass’ legendary preludes … have credits attracted such attention”.
Cooper is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and holds the title of honorary Royal Designer for Industry from the Royal Society of Arts in London. He has seven Emmy nominations and two wins. In 2014, he was also the recipient of the lifetime achievement medal from the American Institute of Graphic Arts, recognizing him for designing title sequences for film and television with a “bold and unexpected style”.


Francis Tresham (game designer)

Francis Tresham (1936 – 23 October 2019) was a British board game designer who produced board games since the early 1970s. Tresham founded and ran games company Hartland Trefoil (founded 1971), a company well-known for its "Civilization" board game, until its sale to MicroProse in 1997. His "1829" game was the first of the "18xx" board game series and some of his board games inspired Sid Meier computer games such as "Railroad Tycoon".
Francis Tresham was the first to introduce a technology tree into his boardgames. This idea had a large influence on later board and computer games.
He was managing director of Tresham Games, which produced "18xx"-style board games. In 2013, he was one of the first inductees in the UK Games Expo Hall of Fame. He died on 23 October 2019.


YNKB

Outer Nørrebro Culture Bureau (YNKB) is a Danish artists group.
YNKB is an artists group based in outer Nørrebro, a former working-class neighborhood in Copenhagen, Denmark, which is home to a large percentage of immigrants. YNKB seeks inspiration in human interrelations in outer Noerrebro for activities involving the neighborhood, and wishes to relocate artistic activity to local communities. YNKB has hosted events including: video and film screenings, lectures, debates, and concerts. YNKB's space is also used for meetings and swopshop sessions.
YNKB has participated in: In-Tangible Exchange (Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, San Jose, Costa Rica, 2003); Utopia Station (Martha Rosler's pavillon, Venice Biennale, Italy, 2003); The Prague Biennial 1 (Czech Republic, 2003); and Kontoret for Jordforbindelse (The Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, Denmark, 2004).


The Sims Pet Stories

The Sims Pet Stories is the second game released in "The Sims Stories" series. Following "The Sims Life Stories" (2007), "The Sims Pet Stories" was released on June 19, 2007.
On December 17, 2015, Aspyr released another port of The Sims Pet Stories for OS X to the Mac App Store for OS X Mavericks or later. After the announcement of macOS Catalina dropping support for 32-bit apps, Aspyr removed the port from the Mac App Store on June 17, 2019 though it still remains available to play for users on older versions of macOS who previously purchased the game.
Features.
"The Sims Pet Stories" challenges Sims to care for and train pets, similar to "". Much like its predecessor, this game is optimized for laptops and features both story and free play modes. Players can also raise and train pets in the game like "The Sims 2".
In this game, two new stories are introduced, Best in Show and Midnight Masquerade. The first story features Alice, a woman who faces financial problems and is about to lose her home. So she enters her pet Dalmatian into a local dog show to try to earn enough money to save her house. The second story is about a successful executive chef named Stephen, whose world is turned upside down when an obnoxious cat comes to live with him.
There is a neutral town titled Arbor Falls, where you can play in Free Mode, and you do not have to follow a story line. In Free Mode, you can play as you can in the regular "The Sims 2". You can raise a family, buy pets, go out, and date, which was previously a feature on the expansion pack (2005).
"The Sims Pet Stories" also introduced new objects, such as games for pets and musical instruments, and building opportunities including new paintings and floor patterns.
As with the other titles in "The Sims Stories" series, "Pet Stories" is designed around the bare bones of the base "The Sims 2" (2004) game engine, making it more optimized for laptops and low-end computers. By default, the title plays in Windowed mode, but can be changed to play in regular full screen. It also features a battery bar to show how much battery you have left, if playing on a laptop.
Reception.
As with the other two titles in the series, "Pet Stories" received mixed to positive reception.


Cold Cave

Cold Cave is the moniker for the music of Wesley Eisold based in Los Angeles and New York City whose music is described as a "collage of darkwave, noise, and synthpop". A number of reviewers note the affinity with early 1980s post-punk and early synthpop, in particular Joy Division and New Order.
History.
Formation.
Cold Cave was founded in 2007 by Wesley Eisold, former vocalist of hardcore groups Give Up the Ghost (previously known as American Nightmare), Some Girls. and Heartworm Press founder. Cold Cave represents Eisold's first venture into instrumentation. Eisold was born with one hand which led him to electronic music.
"Love Comes Close" (2007–2010).
After initial releases on Dais Records, Hospital Productions, What's Your Rupture?, and Eisold's own Heartworm Press, he signed to Matador Records, who re-released his self-released debut album, "Love Comes Close", on November 3, 2009.
"Cherish the Light Years" (2011–2012).
In April 2011 Matador Records released his second album, "Cherish the Light Years."
In July 2011, Cold Cave remixed 'I Didn't See It Coming' by the band Belle and Sebastian. The song appeared on their 12-inch single 'Come On Sister' released by Matador Records and Rough Trade Records.
In April 2012, Cold Cave performed at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum between John Chamberlain sculptures as part of the museum's Divine Ricochet series.
In October 2012, Cold Cave performed at the Getty Center.
Singles series and "Full Cold Moon" (2012–present).
In September 2012, Eisold announced Cold Cave would be touring the US later in the year, he would be recording a new album and that the new live line-up included: Hunter Burgan (AFI), London May (Samhain), Jessie Nelson, and Cody Votolato (The Blood Brothers). This lineup was exclusive to this two-and-a-half-week tour and Eisold said performing with a full band was something that failed to materialize during "Cherish the Light Years" tours. While continuing to work on a follow-up to "Cherish the Light Years", and not under contract with a label, Eisold began independently releasing a series of stand-alone singles. Eisold wrote and recorded these new songs by himself similar to how songs on "Cremations" and "Love Comes Close" were crafted. He said they were created, "by myself, at a desk in my apartment. It was freeing and exciting in a way because I didn't owe anyone an album. I got to just make them to make them. The songs were minimal, honest, electronic and without help."
The first single in the series was "A Little Death to Laugh." The single was released in October 2012 through Heartworm and a music video for the song was released in March 2013. In 2013, Eisold released "Oceans with No End" (through Jacob Bannon's Deathwish Inc.), "God Made the World" and "Black Boots", for which Slava Tsukerman, known for his 1982 film "Liquid Sky", directed a music video. In October 2013, Cold Cave released a digital-only, fifth stand-alone single titled "Nausea, The Earth and Me."
On February 21, 2013, Eisold announced that Justin Benoit, a former live contributor to Cold Cave, had died.
In support of Cold Cave's new singles, Cold Cave embarked on an extensive tour of Asia, performing in Japan, South Korea, China, Thailand, Nepal and Hong Kong in April 2013; performed live with industrial/noise pioneer Boyd Rice in mid-2013; toured with synthpop artist Gary Numan in September 2013; and toured with Nitzer Ebb frontman Douglas McCarthy in October 2013. In January 2014, Cold Cave remixed the song "Running" by Nine Inch Nails as part of a remix EP "Seed Eight", to coincide with the launch of Beats Music. In May 2014, Cold Cave opened for Nine Inch Nails on their full European and UK tour. They were also invited to open for Nine Inch Nails and Soundgarden on their North American tour, after Death Grips, the band originally chosen for opening, decided to split.
Cold Cave began working on its third studio album and follow up to "Cherish the Light Years" tentatively titled "Sunflower" in 2013, and a release date in 2014 was originally anticipated. On what the potential sonic direction of the new album, Eisold said it would be a "mix between some of the bigger sounds on "Cherish" and more minimal stuff I'm interested in now, like Suicide or 39 Clocks." However tours in support of "Full Cold Moon" and the 2012–2013 singles series proved to be more fruitful than anticipated, and as a result, work on "Sunflower" was put on hold.
In June 2015, Cold Cave performed at the wedding of Tony Hawk and Catherine Goodman at the Adare Manor in Ireland.
In mid-February 2016, a single called "Nothing Is True But You" was released. In Spring, Max G. Morton, who played keyboards for a short portion of the band early days and also collaborated with Eisold on prose and publishing via the singer's own Heartworm Press, rejoined the band. At end of August 2016, the band shared another single, an almost cacophonic track called "The Idea of Love". In September, they embarked on a domestic mini-tour together with dark electropop act TR/ST.
In late September 2017, Cold Cave released a single called "Glory", a track with reminiscences of early New Order. The video accompanying the track revealed a full live band featuring, besides the ever-present Eisold and Amy Lee, steady touring member Max G. Morton, Nils Bue (bass/guitar) and Ryan McMahon (drums). The band kicked off a small U.S. tour before heading to Europe to support The Jesus and Mary Chain until mid-October.
In early April 2018, the band premiered another song, "You & Me & Infinity", and announced a 26-date North American Spring tour with Choir Boy and Black Marble. At the end of month, a new EP bearing the title of their latest single was made digitally available. In November of the same year the band headed overseas for a string of selected European dates, again with support from Choir Boy.
Contributors.
Cold Cave is essentially a solo project by former Give Up the Ghost and Some Girls frontman Wesley Eisold. While there have been other people contributing to Cold Cave either on tour or in the studio since its conception, Eisold doesn't consider any of them to be official band members. On the subject of band members, Eisold said in an interview, "I struggle with the word 'member' because there are no 'members' of Cold Cave. It's just me. I've collaborated with many people. Some were extremely worthwhile and others were extremely worthless, and I've come to the point where I'm more comfortable doing things by myself."
Discography.
Studio Albums
Compilations
EPs
Singles
Music Videos


Claude Comair

Claude Comair is the founder of DigiPen Institute of Technology and co-founder of the Nintendo Software Technology Corporation. While at Nintendo Software Technology, a subsidiary of Nintendo Co. Ltd. of Kyoto, Comair held the title of Chairman and CTO, and later, Chairman of the Board. Comair continues to be the President and CEO of DigiPen Institute of Technology to the present day.
Career.
Comair founded DigiPen Institute of Technology in 1988. Comair served as one of the founders of Nintendo Software Technology in 1996. At Nintendo Software Technology, Comair held the title of Chairman and CTO, and later, Chairman of the Board. At Nintendo, Comair additionally worked on games for Digital Eclipse Software, Inc., Intelligent Systems Co., Ltd. and Namco, and went on to releasing 12 video game titles and receiving 25 patents. At DigiPen Institute of Technology's Research & Development arm, Comair lead the development of an Artificial Intelligence system regarding human behavioral modeling and simulation, titled B-HIVE, for The Boeing Company and their Phantom Works division. B-HIVE and its associated patents were commended as Boeing's "Supplier Technology of the Year" in 2008.
Comair remains the CEO and President of DigiPen Institute of Technology to this day. Comair has established the university in 3 locations- Redmond, Singapore, and Bilbao, Spain, with over 2000 undergraduate and postgraduate students.
Education and early life.
Comair attended medical school in Lyon, France, but he returned to Lebanon out of worry for his home country's condition at the time (Lebanese Civil War, 1975-90). In Lebanon, Comair studied and received a degree of Engineering and Architecture at Université Saint-Esprit de Kaslik. While in Lebanon, Comair was offered to establish a computer based research group for the Japanese government in Osaka, Japan. In Osaka, he went on to receiving a Masters Degree in Environmental Engineering from Osaka University's Faculty of Engineering. Comair went on to becoming a faculty member at Osaka University in 1983.
Comair was born and raised in the hamlet of Tannourine, located in the Batroun District of Lebanon. Comair lived in Lebanon during a significant period of the 15 year conflict of the Lebanese Civil War, where approximately 15% of the country's population was either killed, permanently injured, or permanently displaced. Comair sustained a stab wound to his left eye as a young man, rendering him permanently blind in that eye. This injury resulted in Comair's loss of visual depth perception, which he claims inspired his future work in 3D computer graphics.
Personal life.
Claude Comair and his wife, Nissrine Comair, reside in Bellevue, Washington, a neighboring city to Redmond where DigiPen Institute of Technology and Nintendo Software Technology are headquartered. Comair has three children, Christopher, Alexander, and Lea Comair. Comair moved to the United States in 1998 from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, but continues to be a non-resident citizen of Canada.
Comair is fluent in 5 languages- English, Arabic, French, Japanese, and Spanish. Comair's native tongues are Arabic and French. Comair became fluent in Japanese when he moved to Osaka, Japan, where he also became fluent in English. Comair later became fluent in Spanish while establishing DigiPen Institute of Technology in Spain. Comair is an enthusiast of bicycle manufacturing, RC airplanes, and ceramics. Comair is a member of the Marymoor R/C Club (AMA Chapter #1610) and has personally designed and manufactured a number of RC airplanes. In 2004, Comair manufactured a bicycle of which he gave to all faculty and staff members at DigiPen Institute of Technology.
Patents.
Comair is credited for 29 US patents. Of these, Nintendo or Nintendo Software Technology are the assignees of 25, The Boeing Company is the assignee of 1, and DigiPen Institute of Technology is the assignee of 3.
Comair is credited on 26 US pending patent applications. Of these, Nintendo or Nintendo Software Technology are the registered applicants of 25, The Boeing Company is the registered applicant of 2, and DigiPen Institute of Technology is the registered applicant of 1.


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Chaos;Child Love Chu Chu!!

Chaos;Child Love Chu Chu!! is a visual novel video game developed and published by 5pb. for the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita on March 30, 2017 in Japan. It is a fan disc for the 2014 game "Chaos;Child", and part of the larger "Science Adventure" series. The story, which is affected by player choices, is set in Shibuya, Tokyo after the events of "Chaos;Child", and follows Takuru Miyashiro, who ignores the "Return of the New Generation Madness" events, instead choosing to spend time with women.
Gameplay.
"Chaos;Child Love Chu Chu!!" is a visual novel in which the story is affected by player choices: the player regularly uses the "Yes/No Trigger" system, in which they fill in "yes/no" questionnaires in the in-game magazine "Cool Cat Press", and the returning "Delusion Trigger" system, in which the player chooses whether the player character should experience a positive or negative delusion. The player's choices in these cause the story to branch, affect characters' reactions, and let the player experience different scenes.
Synopsis.
The game is a spin-off from "Chaos;Child", set in October 2015 in Shibuya, Tokyo. Bizarre events referred to as the "Return of the New Generation Madness" take place, but do not interest the protagonist Takuru Miyashiro, the president of the school newspaper club; instead, he wants to focus on "real-life activities", and spend time with women.
Plot.
In the beginning of the game, set after the events of "Chaos;Child", Mio Kunosato is contacted by detective Takeshi Shinjo, and taken to the hospital, where he shows her a Chaos Child Syndrome (CCS) patient who still exhibits the symptoms even though all other patients have been cured. Reading the patient's documents, they find a reference to the ability to change causality, as well as a report from Shuichi Wakui mentioning that the patient has been kept unconscious due to her ability, and that he plans to use it to change the outcome of events in "Chaos;Head". Looking up from the report, Mio sees not Shinjo in front of her, but Wakui. The patient opens her eyes, and the world changes.
Back in October, Takuru and the newspaper club discuss the "Return of the New Generation Madness" incidents which took place in "Chaos;Child" – but which have been altered, all ending non-fatally – but they end up deciding that the events are nonsensical and decide to find another topic to cover. Eventually they decide to try making a "yes/no" questionnaire like in the "Cool Cat Press" magazine; Takuru ends up taking the quiz from "Cool Cat Press", and the story branches into different routes depending on the result.
Development and release.
"Love Chu Chu!!" was developed by 5pb., and was planned by Chiyomaru Shikura, produced by Tatsuya Matsubara, and directed by Yusuke Matsumoto, with main character designs by Mutsumi Sasaki, and music by Takeshi Abo. The scenario was written by Masashi Takimoto, Toru Yasumoto and Tsukasa Tsuchiya, under supervision by Eiji Umehara. Risa Taneda, who voiced Mio in the original "Chaos;Child", did not reprise her role for "Love Chu Chu!!"; it was taken over by Asami Sanada after Taneda took a hiatus from her voice acting career for medical treatment. The opening theme, , was performed by the group Junjō no Afilia, and the ending theme, , by the group Iketeru Hearts.
The game was first announced by Shikura in September 2016, and was presented in "Famitsu" in November 2016, where its platforms and release date were revealed; at this point, development was said to be 30% finished. The "yes/no" questionnaire was added as a new take on the series' "trigger system" of determining story outcomes.
"Love Chu Chu!!" was released for the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita on March 30, 2017 in Japan, in both a standard release and a limited edition. The latter includes a pillow cover, a school calendar, an original soundtrack album, and other items; certain retailers also included a tapestry featuring a nude illustration of the character Serika Onoe. The cover art for the limited edition was based on that of the original "Chaos;Child" limited edition Xbox One release, featuring the same composition, but with the characters depicted in just their underwear. In March 2018, the PlayStation 4 version was added to the PlayStation Now cloud gaming service in Japan. Digital Touch released the PlayStation 4 version in South Korea on June 21, 2018. The opening and ending themes were released as singles on April 19, 2017 and March 29, 2017, respectively.
Reception.
"Famitsu" and "Gameshot" were surprised by the game, considering it seemingly uncharacteristic for "Chaos;Child" with its markedly different atmosphere, although "Famitsu" still called it a "heart-pounding" love story, and "Gameshot" appreciated how it still felt like an authentic sequel rather than just a fan disc, taking place after the original's main story. "Gameshot" did find some of the game's routes lacking, particularly calling the ending dissatisfying, but thought it felt more cohesive than previous side games in the series such as "Chaos;Head Love Chu Chu!" and "", and recommended it to series fans who like the "Chaos;Child" cast. "Famitsu" liked the limited edition Serika tapestry, describing it as "irresistible" for fans of the character.
The PlayStation Vita version was the 18th best selling physical game in Japan during its opening week, selling 6,240 print copies; meanwhile, the PlayStation 4 version did not appear on Media Create's weekly top 20 chart. The game's opening theme charted on the Oricon Singles Chart in Japan for three weeks, peaking at 6th place, and the ending theme charted for one week at 16th place.


Rogue Ops

Rogue Ops is a stealth-based action-adventure video game developed by Bits Studios and published by Kemco for the Xbox, GameCube and PlayStation 2 in 2003.
In "Rogue Ops" the player assumes the role of Nikki Connors, an ex-Green Beret whose husband and child are killed by Omega 19, a brutal terrorist organization. She then joins Phoenix, an almost as brutal counter-terrorism organization to seek revenge.
The game's minimal marketing efforts dealt mainly with the attractive appearance of its computer-generated heroine. Compared unfavorably to the more established "Metal Gear" and "Splinter Cell" series, "Rogue Ops" received mixed reviews from critics and did not fare well commercially.
Gameplay.
"Rogue Ops" is a third-person stealth-based action adventure title in the vein of "Splinter Cell" series. Many levels allow for a variety of tactics to be used, so often players may shoot everything that moves or simply sneak through entire missions. However, a few missions will require that no enemy alarms be set off, meaning players will have to dispose of enemies quietly and hide the bodies from detection. As in the "Metal Gear" and "Splinter Cell" series, a variety of spy gadgetry (fly cam, retinal scanner, etc.) and weapons (throwing stars, sniper rifle, remote-controlled mines, etc.) are used during the various missions, and hand-to-hand combat is involved during close encounters with the enemy.
Plot.
Two years ago during a trip to Istanbul, Turkey, Nikki Conners, a former member of the Green Beret, witnesses her husband and young child die in a car bomb explosion at the hands of Omega 19, a brutal terrorist organization. A short time after, Jacobson, the head of a mysterious counterterrorism group known as the Phoenix, reveals Nikki's deceased husband, Michael, was a member of Phoenix, and recruits Nikki as she seeks revenge for her family's death.
After two years of vigorous training, Nikki completes her final part with the help of Jonah. Her first mission takes her to a countryside in Spain to retrieve a journal that contains all the illegal activities Omega 19 has committed. However, the journal is stored in the villa of Henry Van Clief, an illegal weapons dealer and member of Omega 19. Once she arrives, she witnesses the death of a fellow Phoenix agent at the hands of Van Clief's men. Nikki plants three C4 charges (on the car, in the basement, and in the kitchen, respectively) and detonates them, alarming Van Clief. She gives chase to him to the basement of the villa, where Nikki kills Van Clief and retrieves the journal.
During a mission briefing, Jacobson states an infiltration team was sent to Uzbekistan to destroy an Omega 19 base, only to disappear and never be heard from again. The Uzbekistan government refuses to assist Phoenix unless they can recover an artifact that was stolen from them by the British Empire 100 years ago. This takes Nikki to a museum in England to steal the ancient artifact and replace it with a fake. However, as she prepares to acquire the artifact, she informs the team the object she sees is a fake, and Peter, Phoenix's intelligence expert, informs her of Omega 19 agents having acquired the artifact for their own purposes. Nikki kills the escaping terrorists and retrieves the artifact.
The team hands the artifact to the Uzbekistan government officials, and they reveal the last known location of Phoenix's strike team, at a military base near a silo. Nikki finds the leader of the missing strike team inside the silo, where the captive tells Nikki of a nuclear weapon Omega 19 plan to release, which is designed to release an electromagnetic pulse in space, wiping out all the computer systems in the United States, leading to an economic apocalypse. As Nikki leaves to stop the weapon from launching, the strike team leader is killed. She apparently kills Serena, one of Omega 19's top female assassins, and cause the missile to explode inside the silo, but this gives her 3 minutes to escape before the place explodes. She leaves the scene in the nick of time.
Hiding in a Phoenix safehouse in Hungary, Nikki infiltrates the Magyar Club in Budapest to interrogate and kill Augustin Varga, the Hungarian Minister of Defense, who is a key player in supplying Omega 19 with the doomsday weapon. However, the foreigner assigned to help Nikki was captured, but she kills them and rescues the foreigner. Nikki finds Varga, where he talks about the Stauffer Bank. She kills Varga, and escapes back to the safe house.
Nikki travels to the Stauffer Bank in Switzerland to obtain information on the connections between Stauffer and Omega 19. She enters the highly secured Bank via the sewers, where it is revealed $60 million is hidden in the bank, so she is ordered to remove the bonds. During the mission, Serena is alive and well, and this exposes Omega 19's collaboration with Stauffer. Nikki obtains the bonds, but is ambushed by Serena and her operatives. She incapacitates Serena once again and heads back to the States.
In San Diego, Nikki suspects a mole in the Phoenix organization, though Jacobson denies the allegations. She is commissioned to investigate Omega 19's current plans inside a shipping company and to find an agent with knowledge of Omega 19. She disguises herself as a scientist as a means to steal a security card from a technician and advance deeper into the shipping company. Serena reappears, and Omega 19 plans to use a nerve agent into a tanker. Nikki enters a lab, where she acquires a sample of the toxin, but as she does this, three technicians accidentally convert the toxin into a liquid form, killing them instantly. Nikki escapes certain death, and disables the tanker carrying the toxin. Angered by this, Serena reveals she was the one that killed Nikki's family. Nikki kills Serena once and for all.
Nikki makes her way to Siberia, where Jacobson tells her Michael was ordered to end an Omega 19 operation in Turkey, but pulled him from the mission due to Nikki and her child being present, but not before a Russian government official commissioned Serena to kill Michael. At a secret military base in Siberia, Nikki hands the vials to the doctor, who is revealed to be Peter, the mole in Phoenix the whole time. He betrays Nikki and she is imprisoned, but not before she got infected with a bio-virus. She escapes her confinement, destroys the remaining samples of the bio virus, and escapes Omega 19, passing out aboard the helicopter there after.
At an infirmary, Nikki is cured thanks to Phoenix separating the virus from her system and using her blood as an antidote. Much to Nikki's dismay, Jacobson sends a strike team to Omega 19's base in the Caspian Sea. Nikki knocks out Cody and she goes to the Caspian Sea to kill Peter and the Russian for good. Fighting her way through the base, she finds Peter and the Russian, whereas the Russian commanders a prototype android to finish Nikki. She outwits and destroys the android. On the helipad, the Russian programs a much larger version of the android to combat Nikki, but she outsmarts the Russian and destroys the android. The Russian begs for mercy, but Nikki kills him with a headshot. She tells Peter she is leaving Phoenix, but Peter reveals her daughter is still alive. Startled by this, Nikki shoots him in the leg, and as she prepares to kill Peter for betraying Phoenix, Jacobson arrives, and a Phoenix strike team surrounds Nikki, ending the game on a cliffhanger.
Reception.
Reception for the game has been mixed, with the Xbox version receiving the best reviews, the PS2 version mediocre, and the GameCube version receiving the worst.
On Metacritic, the game holds scores of 65/100 for the GameCube version based on 21 reviews, 61/100 for the PlayStation 2 version based on 26 reviews, and 63/100 for the Xbox version based on 24 reviews. On GameRankings, the game holds scores of 65.13% for the GameCube version based on 25 reviews, 63.16% for the PlayStation 2 version based on 33 reviews, and 62.20% for the Xbox version based on 37 reviews.
In 2009, GamesRadar included it among the games "with untapped franchise potential", commenting: "Though reviews were fairly mixed, "Rogue Ops" was surprisingly good, and even managed to add a little something to the "Splinter Cell" and "Metal Gear" dominated stealth genre."


David Levy (chess player)

David Neil Laurence Levy (born 14 March 1945) is an English International Master of chess and a businessman. He is noted for his involvement with computer chess and artificial intelligence, and as the founder of the Computer Olympiads and the Mind Sports Olympiads. He has written more than 40 books on chess and computers.
Life and career.
Levy was born in London and went to Queen Elizabeth's School, Barnet. He won the London Junior Chess Championship in 1965 and 1966. He won the Scottish Chess Championship in 1968. He tied for fifth place at the 1969 Praia da Rocha Zonal tournament, scoring over two-thirds and thereby obtaining the title of International Master. He played on Board One for the Scottish team at the 1972 Chess Olympiad in Skopje, Yugoslavia, scoring six wins, five draws, and seven losses (47.2%).
Levy became a professional chess writer in 1971. Several of his books were co-written with English Grandmaster Raymond Keene. Levy was married to Keene's sister Jacqueline for 17 years. He has functioned as literary agent for the escaped Great Train robber, Ronald Biggs and claims to have masterminded his escape from British justice.
In 1974, Levy together with Monty Newborn and Ben Mittman organized the first World Computer Chess Championship. In 1978, he co-founded the International Computer Chess Association.
In the late 1970s, Levy consulted with Texas Instruments on the development of the Chess module for the TI-99/4A Home Computer Project and went on to set up Intelligent Software to produce chess software and hardware for a number of companies including Milton Bradley. Intelligent Software would later collapse as a result of its involvement in the failed Enterprise home computer.
In 1997, he funded the team that won the Loebner Prize for the program called "CONVERSE".
The prize competition rewards the program that is best able to simulate human communication. Levy entered the contest again in 2009, and won.
From 1986 to 1992 and from 1999 to 2018, he was the president of the International Computer Games Association.
He was Chairman of the Rules and Arbitration Committee for the Kasparov vs Deep Junior chess match in New York City in 2003.
Levy once started a business called Tiger Computer Security with a computer hacker, Mathew Bevan.
Levy also wrote "Love and Sex with Robots", published in the United States in 2007 by HarperCollins, and in paperback in 2009 by Duckworth in the UK. It is the commercial edition of his PhD thesis, which he defended successfully on 11 October 2007, at Maastricht University, Netherlands. On 17 January 2008, he appeared on the late night television show "The Colbert Report" to promote his book. In September 2009, Levy predicted that sex robots would hit the market within a couple of years. He defended his controversial views on the potential future wide use of sex robots by the public, and also by sex offenders, in an interview with "The Guardian" newspaper in December 2015. Levy has also been working on a range of sexually erotic chatbots, which have been created by a team based in a lab in Malaysia. However his research into human-robot sexual relations has not been viewed favourably by the Malaysian authorities who ruled the 2015 Congress on Love and Sex with Robots, which was due to be co-chaired by Levy, as illegal following the organisers' attempt to imply the Malaysian governments' endorsement by using the Tourism Malaysia logo on their website. The Congress on Love and Sex with Robots was again cancelled in 2018. Initially committee members of the International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment (ACE) objected to plans to partner the two events in Montana and Springer Nature cancelled plans to publish the proceedings due to a lack of academic papers. Further controversy then arose over the invitation of Steve Bannon to keynote at ACE leading to both events being cancelled.
Levy was brought in to a new company called Retro Computers Ltd, by his friend Sir Clive Sinclair. This company was formed after a meeting with Sinclair and Paul Andrews who conceived the Sinclair ZX Spectrum Vega games console. This was backed by members of the public on a crowd funding site raising over £150,000 in 2015, and delivered successfully to backers that same year. A second portable console, the ZX Spectrum Vega+, was proposed, and crowd funded again, but two of the four founding directors (Paul Andrews and Chris Smith) left the company in April 2016 before the crowd funding finished. They left citing irreconcilable differences between them and the last remaining director Levy. Levy continued with the company installing two replacement directors, Suzanne Martin and Dr. Janko Mrsic-Flogel, both long term associates of Levy. The Vega+ console was originally intended to be delivered to backers in September 2016, but as of August 2017 the device remained unreleased amid claims of "infighting and legal battles". Despite condensed accounts being filed for the company at Companies House no information has been provided to identify the status of funds. In September 2017 the company's bank statements were released showing that by 2017 all money raised via Indiegogo had been spent by RCL with no product to show for it, but calls from the backers for Levy to explain why the company had previously told "The Inquirer" that the missing funds were "safe" and "ring-fenced" went unanswered. On 23 January 2019 a Petition to wind up the company was filed by Private Planet Limited, owned by Dr Mrsic-Flogel. Liquidators were appointed 4 April 2019 leaving backers empty-handed.
Computer chess bet.
In 1968, Levy and artificial intelligence (AI) pioneer John McCarthy were at a party hosted by Donald Michie. McCarthy invited Levy to play a game of chess which Levy won. McCarthy responded that 'you might be able to beat me, but within 10 years there will be a computer program that can beat you.' Levy suggested they bet on it, and Michie agreed to up the ante. Other AI experts signed on later, with the bet total reaching £1,250. In 1973, Levy wrote:
Researchers expected that a large network of computers would cooperate against Levy, until Chess 3.0, a program written by Larry Atkin, Keith Gorlen, and David Slate of Northwestern University, won the first United States Computer Chess Championship in 1970. Although Chess 4.0 in 1973 and 1974 achieved a United States Chess Federation rating higher than that of the average tournament player, until 1977 no computer program was good enough to pose a serious threat to Levy. In April 1977 he played a two-game match against Slate and Atkin's Chess 4.5, which had done well in human events, including winning the 1977 Minnesota Open, and had defeated Levy in blitz conditions. After Levy won the first game, the second was not played since Levy could not possibly lose the match. On 17 December, Levy played a two-game match against Kaissa; once again Levy won the first game and the match was terminated. In August 1978, Levy played a two-game match against MacHack; this time both games were played, Levy winning 2–0.
The final match necessary for Levy to win the bet also was played in August and September 1978 at the Canadian National Exhibition, against Chess 4.7, the successor to Chess 4.5. Levy won the bet, defeating 4.7 in a six-game match by a score of 4.5–1.5. The computer scored a draw in game two after getting a completely winning position but being outplayed by Levy in the endgame, and a win in game four—the first computer victory against a human master in a tournament—when Levy essayed the very sharp, dubious Latvian Gambit. Levy wrote, "I had proved that my 1968 assessment had been correct, but on the other hand my opponent in this match was very, very much stronger than I had thought possible when I started the bet." He observed that, "Now nothing would surprise me (very much)."
To further stimulate the growth of computer chess, Levy suggested to "Omni magazine" that he would offer $1,000 to the first program to beat him if they added $4,000 to this, for a total of $5,000. In 1989, the authors of the Deep Thought program won the prize when their program beat Levy.
In 1996, "Popular Science" asked Levy about Garry Kasparov's impending match against Deep Blue. Levy confidently stated that "...Kasparov can take the match 6 to 0 if he wants to. 'I'm positive, I'd stake my life on it.'" In fact, Kasparov lost the first game, and won the match by a score of only 4–2. The following year, he lost their historic rematch 2.5–3.5.
Rybka controversy.
On 28 June 2011, David Levy and the International Computer Games Association (ICGA) concluded their investigation and determined that Vasik Rajlich in programming Rybka had plagiarised two other chess software programs: Crafty and Fruit. According to Levy and the ICGA, Vasik Rajlich failed to comply with the ICGA rule that each computer chess program must be the original work of the entering developer and that those "whose code is derived from or including game-playing code written by others must name all other authors, or the source of such code, in their submission details".
In response to the suspension, Vasik Rajlich was interviewed by Rybka fan Nelson Hernandez, in which he responded to the ICGA's allegations in a statement and answered questions about the controversy and his opinions on it.
In January 2012, ChessBase.com published an article by Dr. Søren Riis. Riis, a computer science professor at Queen Mary University of London, was critical of Levy's and the ICGA's decision, the investigation, the methods on which the investigation was based, and the panel members themselves. ICGA President David Levy and University of Sydney research fellow in mathematics Mark Watkins responded to Riis' publication with their own statements defending the ICGA panel and findings, respectively.
In February 2012, ChessBase published a two-part interview with Levy in which he answered many questions about the ICGA's decision to ban Rybka.


Henri Lebasque

Henri Lebasque (25 September 1865 – 7 August 1937) was a French post-impressionist painter. He was born at Champigné (Maine-et-Loire). His work is represented in French museums, notably Angers, Geneva (Petit Palais), Lille (Musée des Beaux-Arts), Nantes, and Paris (Musée d’Orsay).
Education and artistic development.
He started his education at the École régionale des beaux-arts d'Angers, and moved to Paris in 1886. There, Lebasque started studying under Léon Bonnat, and assisted Ferdinand Humbert with the decorative murals at the Panthéon. Around this time, Lebasque met Camille Pissarro and Auguste Renoir, who later would have a large impact on his work.
Lebasque's vision was coloured by his contact with younger painters, especially Édouard Vuillard and Pierre Bonnard, founders of Les Nabis, a group of Intimist painters that first favoured the calm and quietude of domestic subject matter. From his first acquaintance with Georges Seurat and Paul Signac, Lebasque learnt the significance of a colour theory which stressed the use of complementary colours in shading.
Career.
Lebasque was a founding member of the Salon d'Automne in 1903 with his friend Henri Matisse and exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants. Two years later, a group of artists exhibited there including Georges Rouault, André Derain, Henri Ottmann, Édouard Vuillard, and Matisse. Lebasque also became friends with artists such as Raoul Dufy, Louis Valtat, and Henri Manguin, the last of whom introduced Lebasque to the South of France.
His time in South of France would lead to a radical transformation in Lebasque’s paintings, changing his colour palette forever. Other travels included the Vendée, Normandy, and Brittany.
Lebasque had some commercial success during his lifetime. He worked on the decorations at the theatre of the Champs-Elysées and of the Transatlantique sealiner.
Lebasque died at Cannet, Alpes Maritimes in 1937.
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